I raised my hand to cut her off. Seela nodded at me to ask. "Where are the sea people now?"
"They're gone." She speaks. "They have been gone for a very long time. Remember that ship that sunk? I believe that it was called Titanic? The sea people attempted to help them, but they were capture and experimented on instead. Their Lord also died with them as well along with another Lemurian's who tried to save those who are captured. With the death of their Lord, the great sea creature that She raised started going berserk. It started to attack humans and ships, sinking it to the sea and risking the existence of our world."
"What kind of creature was it?"
"It wasn't clear, but it was mentioned that it resembles a giant sea serpent. It was said that only the Lord's strong communication ability can control it. But the sea people managed to lure it into a deep slumber somewhere far away, because of that, the sea people don't live with the Lamora anymore. Instead, they guard the place where the sea serpent sleeps. But before they parted ways, they gave the Lemuria's a prophecy. That in 2 thousand years the lord will return - reincarnated into a different body. No one believed it at first until prince Brinda was born."
"That person?" I raised an eyebrow as I remembered my first impression of her. "No offense but he doesn't act like a reincarnated demi god."
"She's still young. About your age. 19. She still hasn't matured enough to get the ability to communicate with the sea creatures. Well either that or she just doesn't concentrate enough and wasn't taking her lessons seriously. But I assure you, despite all that goofing off, she is powerful and skilled enough."
Tarun snickered beside Geeta. "You guys should have seen how prince Brinda kicked the general's ass here when she-" She stopped the moment Seela gave her a warning smile, daring him to continue. "You guys get the point." She finished.
"So the whole thing about her controlling the water earlier was..." Geeta swallowed as if the words itself was difficult to express. "It was all because she is the reincarnation of the demi god that once ruled the sea?" Geeta blinked as she processed the words from her mouth. "I'm sorry but the whole scenario of this lamora gene being superior is something like out of a science fiction, but now you want to add a slight hint of fantasy? I swear, if I hadn't seen him controlling the water I might laugh."
"Just laugh it off, sister. Just laugh it off." Jack says with a shake of his head and a slight smile. "It's not good to keep your emotions bottled up."
I jabbed my fork on a circular sphere plant and it popped, oozing some sort of purple liquid. I grimaced and moved it to make sure it doesn't touch the fish on my plate. "How did you guys feel when you found out about this?" I asked in an attempt to distract myself.
"Mmm!" Jack let out a pleasant sound as he ate that same green and purple sea plant that I just popped. "You guys are lucky." He said. His lips and teeth purple with the ooze from the plant. "The first time we heard of it was a week after taking a job. It's their way of letting us adjust to the whole situation of being...you know lemurine's' with enhanced genes. So anyway, William here started laughing."
"You're the one who laughed." William corrected him with a glare.
"Right. I laughed." Jack rolled his eyes at William. "I mean, I agree with Geeta, science fiction with a hint of fantasy. Come on! And I thought I was special." He chuckled and forked down another bite of the weird sea plant. "In any case. It was hard to swallow. But letting us adjust for a week really helped out a lot for us to easily accept our heritage. Are you going to eat that?" He said, eyeing the purple and gooey mess on my plate from the same plant that he was wolfing down on.
"No..." I grimaced and pushed the remainder of the vegetable towards him. "Ah ah!" I scolded him once he attempted to take the fish meat as well. "Just that weird plant. Not the fish."
He pouted, but respected my wishes. "It's good protein." He shrugged and transferred the plant to his plate. "It taste great too."
"I'll stick with plants that I am familiar with at the moment." I took a slice of fish and started chewing on it.
"At that rate you won't get stronger. How much weight were you able to carry for your starter?"
"I haven't."
"Ooh. You probably shouldn't say that in front of the general. Don't let him find out that you are slacking off." He pointed at Seela and chuckled as she took a bite out of the plants again.
"She wasn't. She was on the treadmill for 3 hours." It was Seela who answered. There was a smirked when she saw Jack chocking on his food. "With a steady heartbeat if I may add." Now it was William and Israr's turn to be surprised. Now they were looking at me like I was some sort of monster.
"Were you a runner back on land?" Israr asked the same question that prince Brinda inquired earlier.
"No." I answered. "Why? Is it really that uncommon?"
"Not really." It was Tarun who answered beside Geeta. "But it is uncommon for newbies with no training. And what's more is that your heart rate and vitals are like prince Brinda' when he started her training. But of course, not as impressive as him, but yours is still impressive. I could only guess that your prince Brinda gene is strong. It is even showing up on your physical appearance. Your hair, eyes and skin for example."
She gestured for my brown hair and with streaks of white covering my face. My purple eyes, the reason that I kept getting starred at and my very pale complexion. Well now I know where my genes come from.
But now that I think about it, my father doesn't have a distinct appearance at all so maybe my genes came from my mother. But if that is true then...
I started trembling. If my father doesn't have an Lemurian gene in him then is he even alive? As soon as the thought came I shook it out of my head. I saw a lot of people here with no distinct appearance. Maybe both my mother and father have the gene, but my mom has a stronger gene?
Seela suddenly got up and collected her tray. As soon as she did, the others followed except for Geeta and I. Then we heard a beep from our bracelet and I was about to ask what it was all about when Seela spoke. "Get up. It's time for your afternoon training, newbies."