230 Sirens song 4

"After you left that summer, my mother found me. She said that sirens instinctively come back where they were birthed when they begin their transformation. She took me to meet my sisters, sirens can live for hundreds of years, but only men with strong energy can impregnate us. Mother said that my father lived for many years with her in the cavern. That his energy was enough to impregnate her with all three of her children and keep her for more than fifty years. There are not many of us left, very few in this area. She says that there are more across the sea in a different land. I never forgot about you; I have refused to mate as of yet. I do absorb the energy from the men, my sisters and mother enchant. Only enough to survive. After meeting you, I had hoped that I would not transform that I could stay human, but my hopes were dashed when my mother found me. The men in your house have strong auras and energy; my sister wants the two with you earlier. She plans to enticing them and using them before my mother awakens. My sister will drag them down to the cavern and use them till she is pregnant. Then she will use their energy to stay alive until they are dead. We need human life force to keep our powers. If we do not consume human men's life force, our powers will deplete, and we will hibernate for several years. My mother has been hibernating since the summer of my transformation. Since she came to find me, she did not hunt that year. She will awaken in a few days." Xiangin explained to him. 

Dude asks Xiangin 

"What happens if you lose your powers?" 

Xiangin looks at the water and explains it. 

" You do not need to use your song on me. I have been yours since our first meeting. As far as my family, you do not need to worry about them; you will need to worry about your sisters and mother. The women in my family are relentless when it comes to anyone who messes with what is theirs. For your family's sake, they need to not go after my family; it will be their end if they do. I would not want to have the end of your family be at the hands of mine. I don't want to let you leave me again, either. So what do we do?" 

Xiangin looks up at Dude, wondering what would happen if she were to just come on land and be with him. Would she die or just revert to being human. She had never thought to ask before. The dude thinks for a moment and tells Xiangin to meet him again the next day that he needs to check on a few things. Giving her a quick kiss, Dude heads back to the house where he can talk to the others. Xiangin returns to the cavern hoping her sisters are still sleeping. When she returns, everything is as it was when she left. She goes to her corner of the cavern so that they will not notice she had left. Closing her eyes, Xiangin drifts off to sleep, thinking of Dude. 

Everyone is stirring around, getting ready for the day, when Dude comes in. Aisling looks at her brother with curiosity. The dude asks her to please call Morrigan. He needs to find out a few things from her. Aisling is surprised by his request but calls Morrigan for him. The dude calls for everyone to come into the living room that they need to talk to. Once Morrigan and Uktena appear, Dude looks at his family and asks them what he should do. 

"Xiangin is one of the sirens; she is not like the others. She has never used her song. I met her in the summer. I came here with my friend's family. It was the year of her first transformation, and I never realized that I have been waiting for her all this time. The problem is that I don't know what will happen to her if she leaves the water and lives as a human. Morrigan, can you ask the father if he can spare her. She is innocent of the deeds that her mother and sisters have committed. They have a cavern in the sea, that is where the men they enchant are taken to. There they are used to try to impregnate the sirens. If they are not strong enough to impregnate them, then their life force is drained for them to live. Xiangin said that her father lived for fifty years in the cavern, giving her three children her mother before his life force was depleted. The sirens have targeted the men in our family. I don't care what happens to Xiangin's sisters and mother; I just want to be able to be with her. She is my soulmate; I know it. So can you go to as the father about her for me?" Morrigan smiles at him; she knew that he had fallen for the siren but had hoped their paths would not cross again. Morrigan knows she cannot refuse him, so she takes Uktena's hand, and they go to talk to the father. Everyone else spends the day in the house waiting for their return. 

Morrigan and Uktena call for the father. 

"Father, can we have an audience with you? We need to ask you about a fallen one!" They bow, waiting for the Father to appear. A moment later, they hear him call. 

"You asked about a fallen one which of my fallen children have your business with!" Uktena answers him. 

"A family of the sirens has targeted our line. The boy Dude fell in love with one a few years ago. The siren he loves has never used her song and only received residual energy. Dude wants her to stay with him on land but is afraid of the harm that will befall her. He asks that you spare her, for she is innocent of wrongdoing, that it was at the hands of her mother and sisters that the men had been hurt. " 

The Father gives them a deep blue stone with a silver star through it. 

"Fashion this into a necklace or ring have him put it on the siren. As long as she wears this stone, she will be human. Her powers will remain intact, but this stone will repress them. The others need to be eliminated and sent for judgment. So as long as the others are dealt with, they can have their life together. When their children come of the age of transformation, they will need to be given a stone as well, but that time is long in coming. " In an instant, The Father is gone. Uktena looks at Morrigan and shakes his head.

"He knew we would be seeking his help for this. So let's go and let the family know. Which should we make a pendant or a ring." Morrigan takes the stone and covers it with her hand. Thinking of the siren, when she opens her palm, a ring appears in her hand. It's designed is similar to a Claddagh instead of hands-on each side of the stone. There are a dolphin and a diamond. Going to deliver the ring to Dude, they leave the garden to appear in the living room.