The ship is long gone by the time they've decided to attack it. Luckily another ship is nearby and they head towards it at a speed faster than Anne had thought possible.
"In order to find your ship we'll need information" Marie says "we can either sing them down or crash their ship"
"I don't want to drown them" Anne frowns "they haven't done anything to us" there's a ripple of laughter and her frown deepens
"Anne my child," Marie says in a calm voice "we will let them live if you can honestly tell me that they would not throw you or any other woman overboard if given the choice" Anne opens her mouth to tell her that she believes that, that not all men are as cruel as the men who threw them overboard but she closes her mouth. They all trusted men like these before and look where they ended up.
"Let's sing" Marie smiles as Anne backs down a small groups of them, Marie and Anne included, swim up to the surface the other wait below them circling the ship like hungry sharks.
The five mermaids open their mouths and a bittersweet note emerges form their lips, they don't sing with words but with music. Anne is surprised at how easily it comes to her. Slowly faced start to appear on the railings of the ship the men gathering to look down at them. One of the mermaids jumps out of water so far up she manages to caress one of the sailors faces. That's all it takes, within seconds the men are jumping into the sea.
The other mermaids grab the men and start taking them down to their sisters, slowly far below her the water starts to tinge red. Anne grabs one of the sailors and pulls him away
"There was a ship" she starts and is surprised at the new tone her voice has, it has a new husky undertone that she didn't use to have "this ship had a blind woman as the figurehead and red sails" she coughs, speaking out of water is harder than she had thought, it's starting to burn. The sailor in her arms stares at her his eyes glazed
"The ship!" She snarls and he blinks surprised, he looks around and pushes Anne away, panicked he starts swimming back towards the ship but Anne catches up easily
"The ship sailor!" She growls
"I don't know" the man stutters his eyes wide with fear
"Then you have no use to me" Anne says and dives underneath, she grabs his ankle and starts pulling, the man screams and struggles against her. Anne let's him go and he coughs up sea water
"East" he coughs "the ship went east"
"What's in the east?"Anne asks pleased to have gotten information
"A trading island" the man shivers Anne smiles
"Thank you" the man nods and starts to swim away, a sudden animal instincts takes over Anne and her hands turn into claws. She sinks under the surface and swims after the man, she leaps from underneath and crashes into him dragging him under to where her sisters await. The man struggles but her grasp of firm, her nails dig into the mans skin and drawn blood. The smell is intoxicating and before Anne realizes it she's sunken her teeth into the mans neck, with a satisfying rip the man stops struggling his head drifting down to the ocean bed.
It takes the mermaids a few hours to reach the training island and mere seconds to surround it. The ship isn't there but after some investigating it turns out the ship has just left. Fueled by the proximity of her revenged Anne swims faster than before, she along with three others swim at the head of the group.
In minutes the outline of a ship appears. Anne emerges to take a better look. Red sails, they've found it.
She nods to Marie who lets out a sort of battle cry that sparks the other mermaids into action. They race to the ship and once they've caught up they slam themselves into the keel. The mermaids slam themselves at such a fast speed that the thick wood starts cracking in mere seconds. The mermaid frenzy has also started to create sea foam.
The sailors among the ship have started barking orders and hastening to secure cannons and equipment. At last the keel breaks. The hole drinks up the sea water and the ship starts leaning sideways. The mermaids emerge from the sea and stare at the panicked sailors that are scrambling to stay on but the ship is heavy and is sinking fast.
"Captain in the water!" One of the sailors yells and soon they're all staring at the mermaids who smile at their future victims
"Shoot them down men!" The captain yells grabbing his own pistol and firing into the water. The mermaids sink back into the water and start launching themselves at the deck which is now at such an angle that the sailors cannot stand upright and must hold on to the opposite rail or ropes.
The mermaids pick the sailors of the ship with ease. They pick them off like the insects they are. Screams fill the air as they start to disappear. Claw marks decorate the hull. Anne snarls the captain and launches herself at him. The mermaids still as she flies through the air. The captain loads his pistol and aims.
The gun shot rings in the mermaids ears as they stare at the ships deck waiting to see what happened. The ship is now on its side and has started to sink under. Anne grins viciously at her sister, her teeth stained red. Her tail sits in the growing pool of the captains blood, his head nowhere to be found.
The mermaids scream victoriously and sink back into the depths. They swim away satisfied by their carnage and with full bellies they search for somewhere to rest.
A sudden shudder alerts them as they lie on the ocean floor as of sunbathing. Their heads perk up at the sound in a unison movement.
"What is that?" Anne asks
"It's happening" Marie says sadly
"What is?"
"The transformation" the white haired mermaid says, Anne is confused for just a few seconds before it sets in. Another woman has been thrown overboard
"Come" Marie says shaking herself free of the sand in her hair "we have a new sister to meet"
