Chapter 266: The Initiation
"Then it's never, let it be never, please... Let it be never, please I beg you, leave my some for me, he is all I have, please let go of him, I will die if I lose my only son, friend, and brother, please leave him for me, we love each other and will rather stay forever, you may ask him, he never wants it down there, he never wishes to go to that sea of yours, he is ok with his mom." Mom said in her knees with tears gushing out of her eyes she spread her hands like one surrendering to the corps. She was so confident that I never wanted to go down there, truth be told, I will love to go down there, get initiated, and become a true merman and Dad's heir to the throne, but definitely not now, not today, and not to go forever, I want it in a way that I will only be visiting the sea, and I will always be with my sweet caring mom. Dad never paid attention to what mom was saying all he did was call on me, he didn't do the physical call, it was what he did the first day we met at fake dad's house. The call was a mind call, and once he did that, I kept feeling this attraction to him, it was the attraction of a metallic object to a magnet. Before I knew it I had started coming to him, I walked like a zombie without a mind of my own, mom tried to hold me back, even fake dad who had been calm all the while tried to help mom but was struck me one of the guards and he fell to a corner. It was very apparent that dad does not like fake dad. Mom tried to drag me back, but the force pooling me to dad was stronger than both me and mom. So, as soon as I came to dad, he stretched his hand to my head like he was going to bless me, and that was it. This great beam of light flashed and illuminated the entire house, mom had to leave me and cover her eyes because of the harshness of the light. But for me, as soon as the light went down, I was no longer with mom, I was not on earth anymore, I was in the deep sea, in the sea with other mermaids and mermen who chanted a song of victory at the sight of me.
Looking found, there was nothing familiar around, I just saw sea creatures, dolphins, seals, jellies, octopuses, and many more creatures, and there were also mer-people all over. I became so terrified that my only source of hope was that it could be a dream, but it sure wasn't a dream, I remembered vividly that I was with mom and fake dad when dad came with his entourage, Dad brought me here, he did it against my will, I was abducted.
"No, no, no..." I cried out as all the sea creatures swan around me, I thought of Cynthia, I had asked her to get ready and wait for me, and God knows that I just can't keep her waiting, I looked around and I saw dad sitting up in his gigantic throne, I wasn't sure if he could even hear me from up there, my heart races in fear and panic, as I tried to run to dad's throne and see if I could talk to him and see if I could at least go and have my date with Cynthia then come back later for the initiation which I wish to do, but as I walked with my eyes focussed to his throne I stumbled on a rock and fell before these dreadful-looking sharks with razor-sharp teeth, sharp and big enough to cut me it two. My heart almost freeze from fear, I thought that was my end, but the sharks were actually chained and were being taunted by these little mer-children who used a long tinny metal to poke these mega sea monsters. These little mer-children laughed at me as they saw the visible fear in my face when I fell, a group of mermen dressed in gabs of war came to me and raised me with their head bowed down, I looked up to dad and see him nodding at me like he was greeting. Who needed his greeting, all I needed at the moment was him to climb down from that throne and talk to me, I need some explanation and I will also need to know if I can go home now and get done with my date with Cynthia.
I beloved that he heard my thought because I immediately saw his throne growing shooter, it reduced in length till it took the size of a normal chair.
"I know you have questions. But calm down son, there will be ye for all your questions, there is no time for that now, what we need is that you get initiated. This is very important because only when this process is over will you fully have the right to this great ancestral throne of yours, yes, I call it yours, because yours it is, and a son of a king is a king, and you are the only begotten son of Goldrich the Aquaking of the entire Atlantis, the one true King, Poseidon gave me the authority to this throne, and so did he to you, in all the air to the thrones, unlike ordinary princes and princesses, there is always one or more special traits of Poseidon in them. This is very important and urgent even more important than that date you have with that land walker. Here you belong son, and with your people should be your loyalty. And my sister will soon bring the legal war to the throne, and if in five days which makes our sea week, the process of your initiation is not complete, then, forget it, I have failed and you too have lost your birthright."
Dad said.
"And mind you. Five days to the mer-people is approximately two years to the land walkers, so you are staying not less than two years down here." He added. When he said this, my heart even ran faster, I felt myself sweating, then u began to wonder what kind of water that was. Yes, I know that I can breathe underwater, I realized that back then in school, I also knew that I can talk underwater, but what I do not understand was why I would be in the middle of the sea, swimming around and beating water, yet, my body is not getting wet, and toped to It, I even sweat, the possibility of that was what I do not understand, but yet, I knew that nothing is really impossible, at least not these water creatures. If I can actually do blood bending, then I believe that everything is possible, after all, "the word IMPOSSIBLE is spelled as I'M-POSSIBLE".
" Two years? No! What about? What of my life? What will I be doing here for two years, no dad, no, I can't do this, you know I can sue you for kidnap, and I am sure you know that kidnap is a criminal offense that the government frowns at." I said to him but he only laughed
"What? Sue me? In what court? I am the law in Atlantis and no one will take you seriously in your world when you talk about my people, we are just made myths." Dad said and laughed at me, I really only realized how stupid I was for saying that I will sue him. Grill, to which court, in the Nigerian court or ECOWAS court, I will just be seen as a mad boy, and no one will ever take me seriously.
"But dad, can't I just go and come back tomorrow and start this thing?"
"There is no debate on this son, there is definitely nothing to discuss this, look over there." She said pointing toward my right, and I turn to see these groups of mermaids very beautiful looking, they were all with baskets walking towards a place that looked like a temple where a huge statue of a giant merman stood with a trident, the man who was built as that statue mist be a very important person, maybe the president of the Atlantis, so I thought. There was this old mermaid who danced found the statue like a priestess.
"There is no president in Atlantis, there are only kings, but among all kings, there is only but one true king, and that is your father, the king who sits on the gold-plated throne. I am Goldrich the true heir of Poseidon, and so are you too. You will be King Damian Poseidon, the king of the whole kings of Atlantis, very soon the kings will be coming to pay you homage, but that will be after your initiation, those mermaids are taking the materials needed both for sacrifice and your inspiration, and that status you see there is no one but your ancestor, your first and only true Immortal king, Poseidon, the one that will never die. All of us will surely die, one day or the other, we only leave longer than you half kind, but for sure, one day we will either and die, but Poseidon and his siblings will live forever." He is a father and god to we mermaids, just as we are gods to most of you humans." Father said. Now I fell to my face and started crying, I thought of mom, fake dad, and Cynthia, I might never see them again, listening to dad's talk, I see no guarantee of my leaving this place, and even if I do leave, it will be as an old man, if five days in the sea means two years, then I might be leaving here in twenty years, that is if I left early. So I thought but when I raised my head, I found that I have been crowded yet again, many mer-peopled clustered around me, and placed me in a circle, like the last dream I had, they closed the circle gradually, giving me this crazy scary look. I was so scared that I turned around if I could see dad, but I only saw him on his holder throne whining upwards, he looked down at me again and nodded and he watched the crowd throng around me. As they came closer to me, one tried to couch me, he somehow looked scared, and he made visible his mandibles in such a scary way like an angered wolf, I was scared, so I grinned back at him, when I did this, √they all drove a step or more backward, it seemed like they wanted a fight with me but was scared of what I could do to them. I looked up to dad to see how he was so comfortable with what was about to happen, how can he bring me here to be killed by this creature. And he only smiled and said.
"My son, defend yourself, this is the first phase of the initiation." I just don't understand what he was saying the first time, what kind of initiation is it that has to do with me fighting for my life? Is it some sort of street cult initiation? Now, I charged at them, they were apparently scared of me, I think someone must have been telling them about my doings on earth. As I charged, I raised my hand towards them and this blue light appeared to be emerging from my palms, it was like electricity, or a teaser because it got the mer-people shaking and convulsing when it touches them. I managed I take down almost all of the mer-people, they just lie down there in the ground feeling weak due to the power in the light from my hand