Chapter 5 Triton

‘Who has the gift to talk to the sea creatures?’ The Sea king continued to ask. When I looked at the others, it seems to appear that only Trei and I were able to understand him.

‘I do.’ I responded with my mind.

‘Ah, the female. A pleasure to meet you, my lord. My name is Grukren. And in your past life, we were acquainted.’ He says.

I met Byron’s gaze and saw that he was looking at me in confusion. He has probably guessed by now that I was communicating with the leader of the sea people.

I raised a hand to Byron and gestured for him to wait. ‘Grukren, was it? Is there a way for Byron to hear your thoughts as well? If it is something that you need to tell me, then it is only right that my brother gets to hear it as well. After all, he is a demigod too.’

‘A good question. He has to intake a small droplet of my blood so he would be able to understand me. Ask him if he is willing.’ 

To be honest, after hearing that, I almost barfed and did not want to even tell Byron what he has to do in order to understand him.

I waved at my twin to get his attention. Once I did, I made a gesture of a bubble. Thankfully, he seems to understand as he began to gather all the air bubbles in the area and placed them over my head so I can talk. “Byron, he says that you have to take some of his blood for you to understand their language. He was asking if you are...willing?”

I saw Byron’s face scrunching up in disgust that he tried so hard to hide as not to offend the leader of the sea people.

The bubble left my head and he placed it to his instead. “Is what he’s going to tell us going to be important?”

I looked at Grukren. He nodded. ‘It is about the birth of your past life.’

I looked at Byron and gave him a nod. Byron pouted before he let out a resigned nod. “Alright.” He grumbled under his breath and bit his tongue before he could even curse.

Grukren glanced at Trei and gave him a short nod. ‘Give him the pill.’ He told him. 

Trei fished something out of his pocket before swimming towards Byron. When he was in front of him, he held out a small red pearl in his hand,

‘The pill has a small dose of our blood. He has to bite and swallow it. Once it is in his system, he will be able to understand us for two hours only. But don’t worry, I don’t think that I will be keeping my lords for that long.’

Byron must have sensed that the leader told me something because he then transferred the bubble over my head so I could translate it for him. “He says that the pill will work for two hours. All you have to do is bite and swallow the pill.”

I feel like he was hoping for some good news when I saw him giving me a deadpanned look and moved his lips to the side. He took the pill from Trei’s hand and I watched him swallow it.

My face made a disgusted look when I saw his jaw moving to bite the pill. Then his adam’s apple moved as he swallowed it.

When Byron looked at me, he looked like he was going to go sick or even cry. 

I don’t even want to ask him what it tastes like.

‘My Lord, can you hear me?’ I heard Grukren speaking.

Byron’s head perked up in surprise before he looked at the sea king and nodded excitedly.

‘Grukren, why can’t I hear Trei, but I can hear you?’ I asked.

‘My grandchild doesn’t have that kind of ability just yet. Since his sea blood is lesser than that of his human blood, his abilities are taking a long time to develop.’

I looked at Trei just then and saw him giving me a hopeless shrug. I gave him a small comforting smile before I looked back to Grukren.

‘What is it that you want to talk to us about?’

‘There was another extension of the prophecy aside from the demigods being reincarnated.’ He says as he moved back. ‘It is about Silisk. The sea serpent you raised in your previous life. The extension of the prophecy states tells of his awakening. We, the sea folks, were the ones who assisted Meruem’s son to imprison the serpent on a faraway secluded island. But because of how limited our powers are, we used Lord Meruem’s scepter to enhance his son’s ability. We were successful and were able to put Silisk to sleep and trap him within a storm.’

‘Trapped in a storm? Well, isn’t that great? Even if he awakens he-’

‘It is not that simple, young demigod. As soon as he wakes up, he will be momentarily weak. But once he regains his full strength, he will break out of it.”

Byron and I exchanged glances then. One thing we know about the prophecy is that we are already living in one. And we know that it is not a simple matter that we can just ignore.

I looked back at Grukren. ‘How much time do we have?’

I saw how Grukren glances at Trei. His grandson gave him a solemn nod. Grukren’s gaze faltered as he addressed us. ‘Not much time I believe. Last I heard from my son, one of our spies has been exposed and captured. They did something with his...mind to gain intel of what we know.’

‘Hold on!’ Now I was getting nervous as well. ‘When you say intel, please don’t tell me that it’s about the sea serpent?’

‘No, my lords. It is not.’

Brandon and I sighed in relief. 

‘But he was able to obtain more valuable information. You see, the story doesn’t end there. As soon as we trapped the serpent, the triton broke into three parts and scattered in three different locations. Most of the humans have experienced chilling sensations when crossing it. And you can easily see where they all were.’

‘The Bermuda Triangle.’

‘Correct.’

‘But I thought that the phenomenon is because it is the commonplace where the Atlanteans kidnap people?’ I thought about the plane that I rode when and how my abduction happened just above the Bermuda Triangle.

‘Weird phenomenons have been happening in that place long before the Atlanteans started to make their move. They were simply using it as a cover-up to divert people’s attention.’ Grukren says and lets out a sigh. 

‘You said ‘where they all were’. What does that mean? You used a past tense.’

‘You’re pretty sharp for your age.’ Grukren says. ‘And you are right. Through the years, the parts have started to scatter and moved to different locations because of the abnormality in that area. But a few years ago, my people have found the exact location of where they were. Or just suspicions because we never really saw it for ourselves because of the hazardous environment. But the aura that we felt is there. For people like us, we can hear it sing when it is nearby.’

Byron swam close to me and held my hand. We both already know where this is going. And it won’t be good.

‘The information that Ylgarr has. It’s about the locations, isn’t it?’

There was a long pause, but seeing as how Gruken’s face fell down only confirms our suspicions. “Yes, it is.”