A Sea of Mysteries

[Katara]

Her father had been a great sailor. Then he fell in love with a woman. A woman as harsh, as changing, and as untameable as the sea. She gave birth to a strong boy, and two years later, a beautiful girl. Then she left. After a great quarrel with her husband, she left, obeying her wild nature.
After that, the man feared the sea. He took his two dear children and fled inland. He supported them well. They grew to be a great help to him in his work. His strapping son looked dashingly like him, but his daughter, his beloved young lady, she was the spinning image of her mother. That is what worried him. But, ignoring that, they lived a happy life. Until a sailor came into town, looking to trade good from the town's many fertile farms. His daughter, enchanted by the young sailor's stories of the vast blue sea, she snuck away with him. To the ship called his home.
The spray of the sea jumped up on the ship's side, and into the young woman's face. The young sailor helping her with the sail rope laughed as she sputtered water.
"Gotta get used to that, mate," he said.
"I'm perfectly used to it," she protested.
"Whatever you say," the boy said, locking the rope into position.
Katara ignored Matis's comment, he was not as kind to her coming as his brother, Kenshin was.
Katara walked over to the prow of the ship, where Alan was standing, looking over the crew. The sea was clam today, no need for any hard labor.
"Awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard, even a young one..." the superstitious Alan muttered.

[Katara]

Katara, Kenshin, Alan, and Matis all sat under a starry sea sky. Matis and Alan had started to warm up to Katara after they had seen her pulling her own weight on the ship. The three boys listened to Katara's soft voice humming a soft lullaby.
Suddenly, another pair of footsteps could be heard. The boys stopped and stood up, but Katara didn't notice and kept on humming. The footfalls stopped, and a deep voice said, "And how is our new deckhand doing, boys?" the man had a strange accent, saying his s's as z's and pronuciating the last letter in some words.
Katara looked up and saw him. He was a tall man with shaggy black hair and warm features. She stood up and said in her singsongy voice, "Working hard, sir."
"Captain Lumino. It sure is a change to see a beautiful face at sea, instead of looking at all these ungodly mugs," he laughed, nudging the boys.
"How would you like to hear a little sailor's tail, miss Katara? Oh, and you three as well. I have't told this on in a while."
"That would be great, Captain," Katara said. She and the boys sat down across from Lumino.
Lumino light a fire in a stone bowl. "It begins with another tale, one of the sea. There was once a woman, one who could bend the waves, tides, and winds to her will. She was known as Lilain, Goddess of the Seas. She frequently made great storms to show her anger and depression about her lack of love. She had never met a man she could love with all of her heart. Then, in one of her bad storms, a man, unconscience on a piece of wood, floated to her layer. She would have normally sent him to the locker of Davey Jones, but she saw something in this man. She nursed him back to health, singing her haunting lullaby. Even before he awoke, she fell in love with him. The seas calmed while her rage turned into love. The man awoke, and he decided to stay with the woman, for he too felt love for the woman who saved him. He only had one condition- his son be brought to him. The woman panicked- he had a son, that meant he had a wife. He told her she had died, along with many others due to a plague. The man brought his son, and to his dismay, found that he had contracted the plague. The woman used her powers over the sea to heal him, a skill she never knew she had. The two lived together, until... well, the rest is for another day," Lumino said.
The four were mesmerized by their Captain's story.

[Katara]

After Captain Lumino left, the four went to their bunks and tried to sleep. For some reason, the memory of the story kept them up. Then Katara interrupted the silence when she started to hum a lullaby while combing her long, blue hair.
The three boys listened to her humming, the haunting melody making them drift off to sleep. Katara finally felt the call of slumber and succumbed to it's pull.

A silhouette of a female sat in a chair, waving it's hands back and forth. Outside the window, a huge wave brewed. A male silhouette entered the room, holding the female's hands down.
"Why must you do this? The earlier one killed hundreds!" the male roared.
"It is my job... I do because they tell me to..." the female said airily.
"Well it's wrong!" said the man.
"You have no right to tell me what is wrong and right in this world!" the woman said, standing up.
"But all those people, imagine if that was our own son or daughter!" said the man.
"Then that is the way it was meant to be," the woman said.
"Then I'm leaving. And I'm taking our children with me!" the man said back.
"No!" the woman said, showing much emotion, "not my daughter! Not my child!" she screamed.
The man paid no heed to her, leaving the room.

A small boat rode on the high waves of the raging storm. The man held his children close, the son of two mortals, and the daughter of a sailor and a woman with the power of the sea.
That boat was the only boat on the sea that survived the storm that night. It was the woman's rage and dismay that made tho storm, but her love that saved the dingy.

Katara woke up the next day to a little wind and no waves.
"It's been like this for years it has. The woman of the sea was to affected by her love taking their children, she made a few wrathful storms for a few months, then nothing. That is the end of the story," Captain Lumino said to the four friends, who were sitting with nothing to do.

[Katara]

Alan got up and pulled his shirt off. "I'm bored. Who's up for a swim?" he said.
"As long as you take a longboat, and one of you stays in it, you can go," Lumino told them.
"I'm on it!" Katara said, running to the bunks where the other crew members stayed. She found a particularly bored crew member, Kraft, who was up to watching the longboat.
The five sailors lowered their boat while their captain tied a long lifeline to the bow of the longboat and the mast of the ship.
Katara threw off her coat and jumped in the water.