Riraito schreef:
The people on that ship were making a lot of noise, yelling at each other and running over the deck, sending vibrations through their ship into the water. It took Avyanna a while to figure out what exactly was going on, but then she could make out a figure in the water from the other side of the ship. Did one of those idiots just fall in?
Slowly she swam towards the ship, her curiosity winning it from being sensible and staying put. She did stay near the seabed, hopefully her hair and the depth she was at would be enough to keep her shielded from the human eye. And that was when she noticed the other siren. It was obviously a young siren out there -and probably one of the stupidest for getting caught- because her first instinct was to fight the harpoon that was stuck in her tail, instead of just ripping it out or starting to sing so the people that fired it were distracted. Those people were definitely pirates, she had never seen merchants with harpoons like that. Avyanna was directly under the ship now, so the pirates couldn't see her and she noticed that it was indeed a very young siren, maybe even younger than she initially thought. That explained why she retorted to fighting instead of singing. It was a big ship above them and her song wouldn't be strong enough to keep an entire ship busy. The older the siren, the more range and volume the song had and so more people would be affected, but a siren had to be above water to sing or nobody would hear it. If this particular siren went above the waves, she was done for.
It bugged Avyanna that she had to do something. Sirens weren't usually very sociable creatures, but they did protect their younglings. It was an unwritten rule, because it was a very difficult proces to create more sirens, so when they managed it, that siren would be protected. It meant that Avyanna wasn't going to leave without helping this little idiot. If she did and another siren would hear about it, she would be in big trouble.
She slowly swam back and then around the ship, so she had a good view of what was going on up there. There were a lot of pirates on the ship, but only one of them was holding the harpoon that had settled itself in the tail of that siren. He was leaning over the edge of the ship, perhaps to get a good look at her, but probably because he needed the rails to hold him from falling over. Perhaps it did help him, but even that rails wouldn't be able to save him from a fully grown, very old and skilled siren. Her.
Her body only needed a few meters to get up to full speed and when she was, she gracefully jumped out of the water, right near in front of the pirates. She could hear them scream and yell, they had been so busy focusing on the other siren, they didn't know there was a second one. A much bigger one. She had a normal human body, but during a sirens life their tail never stopped growing. Her tail was at least as big as an average men, if not more. Without hesitation she grabbed the guy holding the harpoon in the neck, buried her nails in him and pulled him overboard. When both of them entered the water, she ripped open all of his arteries and the water immediately turned red from his blood. She needed to be a bit more invisible to save that siren and his blood gave her the slight advantage that she needed.
@Demish