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It is known by all sea life. For thousands of years, Sirens and Mermaids have been foes; the two have never gotten along. The two were highly prohibited to be together, and any who did were banished from their pods.
An even worse penalty would result from a mermaid and siren having a child; they would either be exiled or sent away. Among the unlucky was Jongho.
Though hybrids were born, he was called an uncontrolled demon child. He tore through his mother's womb, killing her at exactly the instant that he was born.
He was born with beautiful eyes and glowing skin like a mermaid. He also had darkened scales all over his body, but what made him even more different was that his scales were way darker than any other siren had ever seen. Jongho's cries were so loud that many pirate ships had crashed that day.
Jongho's father passed away a few days after he was born, and neither side wanted him, but an unkind old woman decided to take him in.
Even though she kept him, no one, not even the old grandma, was ever courteous to him. The old woman verbally and emotionally assaulted him. She would curse him and beat him for being part siren.
Others would mock his physical appearance and singing voice. Jongho had always felt lonely and had never received adequate love in his nine years of life.
Every night since he could remember, he wished to discover individuals who truly loved him.
His life got much worse on his tenth birthday since it was also a lunar moon, which was when all the sirens went on a feeding frenzy. He never encountered sirens because he grew up with mermaids and only saw them on rare occasions.
From the minute he was woken up, Jongho had felt weird, and he couldn't explain it. He felt hungry as if he needed to hunt for prey; the feeling had never left even when he did eat; Jongho felt like it wasn't enough to satisfy him.
Jongho tried to just stick with doing his regular routine, but the feeling of hunger never left. What made it worse the smell of the merpeople the sent they gave off just made him want to rip them to shreds. He just couldn't get over it as much as he tried to.
"Jongho were have you been, " the old woman had yelled when he returned home, but he ignored her, which earned him a slap. Jongho hissed, showing his fangs, which caused him to get slapped again."Don't you dare hiss at me, you hybrid demon," said as she started to beat him, but Jongho couldn't take it anymore so slapped her hand away.
Jongho didn't notice, but he scratched the old woman, which caused her to bleed a little. The slight smell of the old woman's blood made Jongho go mad. His how demeanor changed his eyes and scales darkened, he's showed his fangs, and his fingernails grew longer. Jongho made a loud, screeching noise.
He lost all his senses and began to attack the old woman. She screamed at him to let her go and snap out of it, but Jongho wasn't listening one bit. His mind was clouded with the thought of getting a taste of flesh. He didn't come to until the merpolice busted in " you hybrid devil are under arrest," they said.
Jongho looked at the police then hurt the old woman. He felt so scared and ashamed he didn't mean for that to happen.
"I'm sorry it won't happen again," he said in fear. Still, the police didn't have it " I should have never taken you; I should have fed you to the sharks," the old woman said harshly.
Jongho started to tear up, and at the same time, the merpolice were trying to take him away, but Jongho was quick to getaway. They were shouting at him to stop as he swam away from the farther he swan the lest he could hear the shouting for him to stop.
" Why did I have to be born like this," he thought to himself as he began crying and continued to swim even farther away from his pod. He was by a school of fish when something large had caught him and the fish. Jongho tried to get out but failed.
He was brought up to the surface, along with all the other fish. Jongho had taken a big gasp of the fresh air as he was brought up from the water.
A few more seconds had passed before the net fell on to a hard" Well, look what we have here,"
Jongho heard someone say. He slowly looked around as the net was taken off him. "It looks like I found my ticket to big coin," the voice said.
Jongho finally met eyes with the human who was talking. The human was tall, large, and smelt really bad. Jongho had never felt so helpless in his life, but he guessed this is his fault for being born the way he is.