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Ignite the Water

warning a head of time for injuries related to burns

I won’t get too graphic, but it will have some people getting badly burned

anyway this is for @sammywolfgirl siren au

this is just a random idea of something that could happen, just a fic bug that wouldn’t leave me alone

and maybe a way for Neon J and his boys to earn the trust of some more of the pod

I also need to stop picking on my May, but she’s one of my fave characters so 😔

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Mayday had learned her lesson a long time ago that not all humans can be trusted. And yet she couldn’t help her curiosity, though she was at least more cautious now; observing first and then trying to find out if they’re friendly.

It’s worked so far, given that Neon J and his boys were perfectly fine. Just stranded till they could all their parts for their.. radio was it? May had no clue what a radio was but it was clearly important enough to get them un-stranded. So while certain sirenfolk still avoided them, they did at least keep an eye for the missing pieces.

If only to get them out of here faster.

‘Well to each their own I suppose.’ Mayday though to herself as she swam towards the island the humans were on.

They were a fun group to talk to, and besides, she had found some human things. She had them wrapped in a bag she had found. She had no idea if it was any of the parts they needed, but might as well check. Getting close she decided to peak her head over the water to make sure no other humans were nearby. Upon seeing the coast was clear, she headed to the shore where she could see two of the boys, Eloni and Haym, wandering around.

Resurfacing once again with a small splash she called out to them. “Hey guys!”

The two turned around as got as close to the shore as she could. “I found these things. No idea if it’s any of the stuff you need but”

Haym took the bag from her outstretched hand and started rummaging through it. “Hmm, I’m not sure, a lot of this is so covered in algae it’s hard to tell what it is. I’ll take it to the captain so he can see.”

Haym walked off further into the island, leaving Mayday alone with Eloni. He was the more quiet one of the group. But May though he was fun once you got to know him.

“So any luck finding any of the pieces yourself?”

“Not really.” Eloni shrugged. “We did find some scraps of our ship we might be able to use on the radio, though the Captain isn’t sure yet.”

“Hmm.” Mayday couldn’t help but feel a bit bad for them.

She couldn’t even imagine what it would be like to be separated from pretty much everyone you knew like this, to the point where you couldn’t even call for help, much less them.

“Well, I’m sure you’ll get that radio thing of yours fixed in no time.”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Hey Eloni! Get over here the captain needs our help!” one of the brothers called from far away.

“Oh. Uh, sorry May I gotta go.”

“It’s fine! I’ll keep an eye for more parts.”

May backflipped into deeper waters and swam off under the sea. She had no desire to go home to Zuke yet, as she was quite restless and wanted to do some exploring. As she swam further out into the ocean, she kept looking for any pieces that may have drifted out this far. So far, no luck. As she swam further and further out, she began to doubt even more that she would find pieces. After all, they didn’t start having problems out this far.

Mayday was beginning to get ready to head back when a sudden sound caught her attention. Glancing around the ocean and straining her ears, she listened. again she heard the sound, and felt the vibrations. Straight ahead. She swam a ways out trying to see what the commotion was. There. A large shape was sitting on top of the water and, upon surfacing, May saw that it was a very large ship.

Keeping only half hear head above water to make her hard to spot she checked out the ship. She saw no fishing nets on this ship, so they weren’t fishers. No weapons like harpoons either so that’s good. A lot of boxes though, and the lower part of the ship itself was huge. Much bigger than a normal ship.

‘I wonder what’s in that part?’ May thought to herself.

“What are you doing out here?”

May startled at the voice and almost jumped out of the water. Glancing behind her she could see part of Sayu’s group behind her, Tila and Dodo, as well as Sayu herself.

“You have got to stop doing that.” May muttered. “And I was looking for more of their parts.” She gestured at the island behind her.

“Out here?” Dodo asked tilting his head.

“I got restless” May shrugged her shoulders “I was going to turn around when I heard something and found that ship over there.”

Seeing the looks are their faces, May had to bite back a retort. She couldn’t blame after what happened last time she was being reckless.

“I'm not going near it, besides I think they’re just carrying human stuff to others. I don’t see any nets or weapons so... What did Subatomic call them?”

“Cargo ships I think?” Tila supplied.

“Yeah I think that was it...but....” Mayday trailed off. “Should we tell the guys on the island? I mean if they can get those humans’ attention then they wouldn’t need to fix their radio right?”

“That is true but wouldn’t that be dangerous for us?” Dodo asked.

“Maybe if we just stayed really low under water they won’t see us?” Tilas suggested.

“I can go tell everyone underneath to stay down low. I’ll swing by the island first and tell that captain though.” Sayu said, and was off in a splash.

Sayu, like May, was one of the fastest swimmers around here. She’d have the word spread in just a few minutes.

“I guess we should leave too” May started to follow Tila and Dodo when some movement caught the corner of her eye.

Turning around she saw another boat this one much smaller.

“What is it?”

Mayday answered Tila “There’s another boat now.”

Tila and Dodo glanced over her shoulder to see the small boat moving along the waters towards the larger boat.

“Huh. Where’d they come from?” Dodo questioned.

“And what are they doing?” May asked.

This boat was odd to say the least. It was moving around slowly, staying behind rocks, and using the deep fog bank that had rolled in to stay fairly hidden. If it weren’t for that fact siren’s had good hearing and could feel vibrations in the water, they probably wouldn’t have noticed it. It putted around till it finally started to get much closer to the ship.

“....you two head back home. I’m gonna spy and see if I can’t figure out what they’re up to.”

May then dove into the waters with a quiet splash and began to move closer to the two vessels. Keeping enough of a distance she watched from below to find a safe place to surface. She was able to find a bunch of rocks that would fully conceal her, but still let her see. Peeking just above the water, she could now see the small boat better. It was just a basic boat, though it had a strange large container on the back of it.

She watched as the two humans on the boat pulled on a hose attached to the container and lifted it up to the big ship. The end had a sharp bit on the end. Mayday tilted her head in confusion.

“What are they doing?”

Again May found herself jumping at Tila’s sudden appearance. The young siren had a terrible habit of sneaking up on others. Not that May was better mind you, at least according to Zuke.

“I told you to go home!”

“No.” was Dodo’s only reply.

May raised a brow at him and sighed. “then stay down and be quiet, I don’t know if they can hear us from here.”

“Get that thing ready, and be quiet! We don’t need them up there seeing us.”

“You got it boss.”

The human then heaved the hose thing up to the side of the ship, and the sharp bit began to spin. He pressed into the side of the larger ship, until it sunk completely in. It was hard to see what he did next, but whatever it was kept the hose of the side of the ship without having to be held there.

“We need to tell someone I think.”

May nodded to Dodo. “How fast do you two think you can get to hat island to tell Neon J and the others?”

“What about you?” Tila asked.

“I’m gonna keep an eye on them, would rather have you two away from here though.”

The two hesitated, before reluctantly giving in and sinking below the waters. Mayday turned her attention back to the two suspicious humans, still confused on what they were doing. She could see something moving from the hose to the containers but hose wasn’t sure what.

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Tila swam with Dodo as fast as she could to the island, hoping Mayday would stay out of sight. The two swam so quickly they didn’t notice the blur that swished past them, nor did they notice it stop and turn back around. The two surfaced near the shore of the island and saw Neon J with all five boys.

“NEON J!”

Said man turned at Dodo’s shout “Yes...um Dodo was it?”

“Yeah but that’s not important, it’s about the ship.”

“Ah yes! Sayu already told me, we’re working on a flare to get their attention.”

“That’s not we want to talk to you about.” Tila inputted.

“What are you two talking about, I though you all would have gone home.” Sayu swam up behind them, having turned around when she saw them going to the island.

“We saw another boat out there, and spied on it.’

“Tila, Dodo.” there was a worried tone in Sayu’s voice.

“Mayday might have told us to go back, and we might of...not listened?” Dodo sheepishly shrugged his shoulders.

“Anyway she’s still out there watching them, but they snuck up to the big boat and stuck something to the side of it.” Tila continued.

This had Neon’s attention. “What did they do next? What was it they attached?”

“Like, some kind of hose, and it was also connected to a containers. I think it was pulling something out of the ship but I don’t know what.”

Neon J seemed to think for a moment before answering “Oil thieves.”

“Oil?” Sayu asked with a head tilt.

“It’s a human fuel source. Listen one of you definitely needs to warn the sirens to stay low, and another needs to tell Mayday to get out of there. If they mess up and spill that oil, it would be very toxic to you.”

Sayu turned to Tila and Dodo “You go home, and warn the pod. I’ll get Mayday, and this time you do need to listen, do you understand?”

Tila and Dodo nodded, and dived down towards their home. Sayu quickly swam back to where May was to warn her.

Rin turned to Neon J “Captain? what do we do now?”

“Play it by ear soldier. If Sayu and May can get out of there in time we’ll be fine to alert them, but we also don’t want to startle those thieves into spilling the oil.”

Rin simply nodded, while the others exchanged worried glances.

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Mayday watched as more of whatever was in the ship was moved to their boat.

“We should be done soon. Make sure you have that patch ready, we don’t need them to know we were here.”

“Understood.”

“Mayday!”

The whispered shout got May to spin around, and she found herself face to face with Sayu.

“What are you doing here? I thought you were going to warn the pod.”

“I was when Tila and Dodo told me and the humans what was going on. So I sent them in my place, and I’m here to get you.”

The two sirens were so focused on their conversation, they didn’t notice the human getting ready to remove the hose.

“Get me?” Mayday asked, confused. “What do you mean?”

The hose slipped out of the human’s hands, as a black substance spilled in the water. They two didn’t notice when the other started berating the other’s mistake.

“Neon J says they’re...oil thieves? And that if it spills in the water we’ll be in trouble we need to get away from here!”

The human that dropped the hose fell back, knocking the lantern they had on the boat into the water.

“YOU IDIOT!”

This had the sirens’ attention, and they turned back just i time to see the lantern hit the now black water. It happened in seconds.

“FIRE!” Sayu screeched, as the ocean surface was set ablaze. The two quickly let their rocky alcove to try and run, only to find the oil had spread all over, and so had the fire.

“Oh what do we do?” Sayu asked panicked.

“We gotta find a safe way out! Do you see anywhere where there’s no fire?”

The two looked around desperately, the heat of the fire making their scales out of the water dry up.

“There!”

May looked to where Sayu pointed, where there was a thing, but fire free path out to the ocean. Unfortunately it was only one siren wide and also unfortunately, those humans had drifted over trying to escape the blaze themselves. the two looked at each other, knowing they were going to have to be cutting this close to not only escape the fire, but remain undetected.

“Let’s go”

Sayu nodded and the two dove forward. It wasn’t safe to go underwater nay more, there was so much oil underneath, and May could feel it coating her scales. She pushed Sayu in front, wanting her to get to safety first. The two had to go under briefly to avoid being seen by the humans. The water was thick and murky, breathing it in hurt her gills and eyes, but she pressed forward. Peeking over the water she could see not only were they on the other side of the boat now, but the humans were too focused on the blaze to notice them.

She tapped Sayu and motioned her forward, and the two went to keep moving. but something went wrong. May has no idea what happened, it went so quickly but oil suddenly spilt out from the humans’ boat and soaked her.

May grimaced at the feeling of the thick gross substance, and it was likely why she didn’t notice the fire creeping closer. At least not till her body was in agonizing pain, the oil on her body letting the fire travel up it with ease. She thinks she screamed, not caring if the humans heard her. It hurt. It hurt so bad. The ocean had to much oil in it to put her out.

The next thing May knew she was away from the fire on the water, she thinks Sayu pulled her out before she was shoved under the surface. It took several times before the fire was out, she thinks. It felt lie she was still on fire though, so much of her body burned.

Mayday shook and found her body locking up form the pain, and once again Sayu had to tug her forward. She doesn’t know how long Sayu dragged her. Her eyes and gills stung from the oil, her back and tail hurt so much that the water brushing over it sent spikes of pain along her body.

“WHAT IN THE OCEAN HAPPENED TO YOU TWO?!”

That voice sounded familiar, and May weakly lifted her head to try and see who was approaching. But the oil in her eyes made everything too blurry, and she was just trying not to pass out. She felt hands on her face, and squinting she could vaguely make out Yinu’s mother. The child was no where to be seen as much and Mayday could tell, but it was probably best she didn’t see them like this.

Glancing over she could see Sayu covered in just as much oil, her eyes red and black from the substance. Her gills were black too, and May wondered if that’s what she looked like. A sudden brush against her raw back and her jolt back and writhe in pain.

“I’m sorry but you need to hold still so I can look at you.”

“c-can’t, don’t touch, h-hurts.” May thinks she might have been crying but with so much oil in her eyes it was hard to do.

“What happened here?!”

Oh. That was Tatiana. She had been more or less avoiding the pod after what happened with.... So this was awkward. Or at least it would be if she wasn’t just trying to stay awake.

“T-there was a ship, we went to tell the people on the island so maybe they could go home.” Sayu gagged and coughed. “The-there were bad humans though, tr-tried to steal the oil? its what Neon J called it? I-i went to get May so we could leave, and it go into the water and then there was a fire.”

“and when we were swimming away, Mayday got oil spilled on her, and then the fire touched her and”

A coughing fit, she thinks she could hear Tila and Dodo talking now, likely filling in on the details that Sayu missed. Black filled the edges of her vision, though not from the oil this time. Her head grew heavy and she thinks someone was shouting for her to stay awake, but everything just hurt too much.

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“Hey! Hey don’t pass out on me!” Yinu’s mother felt May’s body go completely limp in her arms.

“We need to get her help now.” Tatiana spoke.

The siren’s body was in bad condition, her gills were black with this oil substance, that also completely coated her underside and her eyes. Her back was burned red, with hardly any scales left, and some still flaking off.

“I don’t know what this oil stuff is though, it wont come off!”

She swiped a hand on the gunk and hardly got any off, as the rest clung stubbornly to the young siren’s scales.

“M-maybe Neon J could help?”

Yinu’s mother couldn’t help but growl at the name of the human.

Tila flinched but continued “I know you don’t trust him, but please. He knows what this stuff is, so maybe he could get it off of them?”

She looked to Tatiana who looked just as conflicted as her. The woman let out a sigh and flicked her tail in irritation.

“Very well. but someone needs to go up with them to watch over them.”

“I’ll go” Yinu’s mother volunteered, and hse then turned to Tila and Dodo. “One of you should go tell Zuke.”

Dodo’s eyes widened “oh, shoot!” And he swam off to where the young siren lived with Mayday.

The larger siren cradled May to her with one arm, and took Sayu in the other, swimming to the island. She surfaced after checking it was safe, and could see the humans on the island. They startled at her appearance, as she was a good sized siren and they hadn’t seen her yet.

Good. She could use their unease to ensure the two sirens weren’t hurt.

The oldest of the group, who she assumed was Neon J, spoke first. “He-hello? I don’t think we’ve met yet, can we help you?”

She lifted herself out of the water more, showing the two injured sirens.

“OH MY GOODNESS! QUICK BRING THEM HERE!” RIN AND ZIMELU GO GET THE RAGS AND SOAP WE HAVE, PURL HEW GET THE MED KIT!”

She watched as the three boys ran off further onto the land. She hesitated before heading over to the shire, she set them in the shallows, Mayday whimpering as she was put down. At least she wasn’t completely out cold anymore, but she definitely wasn’t out of danger yet.

“I will be staying here and watching you.” Her voice was low and sharp. “Don’t try any funny business.”

Neon J simply nodded at her as his boys came back with his supplies. “I will do everything I can.”

A splash caught her attention, and the next thing she Knew Zuke was by her side.

“Wh- MAY! SAYU!” Zuke’s voice was frantic. “What happened?!”

“I need to know that as well.” Neon J asked as he had some of those rags with a foamy substance on them in his hand. She watched as he began to gently wipe off the oil from May’s scales with the young green haired one, while some of his other boys worked on Sayu.

“According to Sayu those humans that were stealing this.. oil stuff, spilled it into he water and it caught fire. When they were running away, Mayday got oil spilt on her before she was set on fire.”

The human winced “Yes, that would explain these horrible burns.”

“Will they be okay?” Zuke asked him.

“Right now we need to get this oil off them, this soap should help, and then well need flush out their systems with some water to get it out of their gills and eyes.”

“...and....her burns?”

The man paused and sighed. “I need to know if you all have anything that you use to treat burns, or something that could keep it in place so the water doesn’t wash it off.”

“uh yeah?”

“Then can you please get it?”

Zuke hesitated for a minute before she spoke up “I will stay with them, please. Go to our pod and get the supplies.”

He hesitated once more before diving away, and she turned back to him with a questioning look.

he glance at her before speaking. “I will treat her burns as much as I can, but you need to prepare her for the fact that some of these burns will never go away, and that it is likely some of her scales won’t grow back.”

She sighed “I was afraid of that.”

It was sometime later that they managed to clean the girls completely of oil, and Zuke had returned with medicine. He spread it carefully over Mayday’s back and tail, before wrapping them up.

“They’re going to be weak for a couple of days, if they start coughing up oil bring them back to the surface so we can flush their system again.”

By this time May had woken up, wincing every time he put the medicine on her and as she was being wrapped up. The girls looked exhausted, especially May.

“They should be good to go back now. They’ll need to take it easy for a while.”

“What about the humans?” Zuke asked.

“The people are mostly gone, and now there’s only a clean up crew. But we won’t be trying to signal them, too risky that they’ll find you all. The two criminals have likely been arrested.”

“But you won’t be able to go home now?” Zuke had Mayday leaning on him, while Yinu’s mother held Sayu.

“It’s not worth the risk to you all.”

As they left to return home, she turned back and gave Neon J a nod of thanks. He proved himself helpful in treating the girls and wasn’t willing to risk their safety just to leave. She may not fully trust him, but he was shaping up to not be a bad human after all.

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