Cheviot Beach: A Fictional Narrative

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“You said you wouldn't kill him,” said a peculiar unsteady voice.
On the gusty afternoon of 1967, a group of five adults arrived at Cheviot Beach and strolled beneath the warm Australian sun. Harland Holt took off for a swim, he could not foresee that when he stepped foot in that warm sizzling water. What if an underwater world full of creatures were real?

Harland turned around hesitantly with his chest heaving with emotion, not knowing what he would face turning around.“You said you wouldn't kill him, our master wanted him alive, he ruined us” Harland overheard as he fearfully stayed still as if struck with death and, he was startled to what he was going to be facing.

Harland stared at these ravishing creatures. The first thing he noticed was their luxuriously foamed bronze hair.They were lying on the side with their dolphin tails pointing towards the sunrise. Their neck looked dangerously long but seemed as soft as the heartwarming touch of his mother. They had smooth skin on their back, and feathers as fragile as a glass.
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One of them came closer to Harland as he started to pull himself up, he felt his heart beating out of control he felt like it jumped as if prompted by an electrical surge.
“W-h-o are you, w-what do you want with me, I thought mermaids were just an odd tale” he tried pushing his body up, and he trembled moving backward to avoid being close to them.
“We are are undoubtedly not Mermaids,” she said as she glared at Harland noticing his movement, she begins moving herself closer.
“ We are Sirens, you are in a submerged underwater island called “Sirenum Scopuli”, you demolished us, we lost our voices, it was the only thing we