"Hey!"

I snarled as the book was lifted out of my hands. The girl responsible laughed at my response.

Wild one.

So that's what I was to them? I didn't mind. I had assumed something like this would happen, maybe not in this fashion, but I knew enough about the animal kingdom to know that every food chain had it's acme and this must have been the Slytherin's.

Dominance is a big thing in the natural world, I spent years studying it without even realizing it. Every time a new predator or prey is introduced it must fight to survive, to prove its dominance amongst the others.

A creature's dominance determines if it will live or die in the wild. I had hoped that Hogwarts would be a little more civil since it was full of humans, albeit wizards, and not wild animals but I guess we all still have a primal instinct in us somewhere.

This one's was in her power over the other students, her dominance.

I watched two black snakes fight for dominance one time back at home. While I was still studying creatures back on the island I caught a rare sight. There were these two black snakes who had each stumbled upon a defenseless rabbit at the same time and they both wanted it, of course but they couldn't both have it.

I watched as the snakes went right past the unsuspecting rabbit and intertwined with each other, wresting and trying to destroy the other. With one final blow, one of the snakes sunk its fangs into the other and then devoured it whole before doing the same with the rabbit.

Nature is cruel.

"Let's just see what the wild one was reading- if she can read at all!"

The girl said, flipping through the pages of my book. She stopped and her eyes landed on a page.

She looked from it to me and her face fell. Her wicked grin became resentful.

"You're just as bad as Nerida."

She snapped and threw the book down at me, it nailed me in my chest. I didn't know who Nerida was but this didn't seem like a compliment. In fact it seemed like it made her like me even less. If it was even possible, I had descended farther on the food chain.

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Chapter one, Blue Bloods

Blue bloods is a slang term, coined by early wizards and witches who studied Sea Magic. It means any ocean dwelling person or creature that could practice Sea Magic.

Mermaids and Sirens are typical examples of blue bloods, but it is not limited to just them. The Kraken and Loch Ness Monster are also blue bloods.

Blue bloods heirs from the fact that all of these creatures have just that, blue blood. Being that these creatures live in the ocean their oxygen intake is significantly less than those of humans or land dwellers and since oxygen, air, is what makes blood red, as a direct result, theirs is in fact blue. And thus they hold the name blue blood.

The most common blue bloods, as previously mentioned, are mermaids and sirens. Mermaids are known as being the better side of a siren, mystically beautiful and ever charming. Society has regarded them as princesses of the sea for a long, long time.

But sirens? Sirens have always been dubbed as monsters due to their ability to lure unsuspecting victims in to their doom just with their voices.

I have always believed that sirens are not the monsters here and that it's the mermaid's you have to look out for, but that is discussed in a later volume: "Sirens, a study in blue".

In this book I will just discuss history and theory, nothing too rich. The wizard community isn't quite ready for that conversation I think.

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Someone knocked my shoulder as I walked to the great hall and sent the book flying out of my hands as I tripped over myself.

There were a few giggles as I looked up at caught the eyes of the girl from before, who I had learned was named Imelda. She smirked at me as our eyes met and kept walking.

"Better watch where you're going, wild one."

She called over her shoulder. I sighed. Well this was great. I didn't even know what bullying was, and here I was, already a victim of it.

I reached down for my book but someone else beat me to it.

"Imelda giving you a hard time?"

Sebastian.

Where had he even come from? I suppose I had been a little too invested into my book earlier, I didn't even notice him. I shook my head.

"No?"

He asked, a brow raised.

"That's not what it looked like to me." He added. "She's that way with all the first years, I guess to her you aren't much different."

He said and looked down at the book, my book, in his hands.

"What were you reading anyways? Must have been real interesting you didn't even hear her coming." He said as he read the title and looked back at me.

"Sea Magic?"

He asked.

"What do you want with Sea Magic? You know this is the stuff of mermaids right? Blue bloods? It's forbidden for wizards, like dark magic."

The way he talked about it made it seem like he didn't care one bit that it was forbidden, he talked about it like it was some kind of forbidden treat that he wanted desperately. There was a glimmer in his eyes.

"How interested are you in this stuff?" He asked. I shrugged. "Well, should you want to know more, I know where they keep the books on Sea Magic in the restricted section of the library. I was interested in it too, once. But once I found that I couldn't read any of the spells or incantations I gave up. They're all written in some sort of ocean language unique to blue bloods." He continued.

"I've only ever been able to read the books professor River wrote. Like this one."

He gestured to the book in his hand, my book. Wait, Marina wrote that? Did she know more about this than she was letting on? What did she know exactly? What did she know about me that she wasn't telling?

Sebastian handed me the book.

"Would you like to sit with me and Ominis at breakfast? I know you're still new, I figured I would ask as a courtesy." asked sebastian. I nodded.

"Ah, I need something from you first,"

Of course. There was always a catch.

"You know my name but I never learned yours."

Oh. that was it? Really?

"Sereia."

I told him. He smiled.

"Ah she speaks!"

He teased me with a grin. Was I- was I blushing?

No.

I wasn't but I felt like I might if he kept this up.

"Sereia is a lovely name. Come on, our table is this way."

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"Sea Magic?"

I lowered the book and looked across from me. Sebastian and his friend Ominis had asked me to join them and Sebastian was filling him in on everything.

However, Ominis' tone did not sound like he liked where this was heading.

"You do know that's forbidden right? Both of you?" however, it seemed as if this question was directed more towards Sebastian than myself.

What was his fascination with forbidden magic?

I began to wonder about him. What leads someone to become fascinated with something so proscribed? I had no experience with such a thing, at least not a fascination.

Pressure, though, pressure leads people to do things they later regret... I would know.

"It's not forbidden just discouraged for wizards to practice." Sebastian countered with a grin and a roll of his eyes.

"Sebastian, no. I will not have this. Sea Magic is dangerous. Dark magic is dangerous. If I get any word of you practicing it I will not hesitate to alert the headmaster."

Sebastian gasped, teasing his friend. He didn't seem to be actually surprised.

"Ominis you wouldn't!" but Ominis hesitated.

"Well... no perhaps I wouldn't but I would go to professor River who would give you a lovely earful about how certain magic is forbidden for a reason." "Ah, yes, rat on me to the professor who wrote most to all of the books we have about forbidden magic that I am practicing said forbidden magic."

"River would know better than anyone else that it's dangerous, Sebastian! Now, no more of this! I won't stand it." the table fell silent. Ominis sighed.

"Sereia, is it?" He turned to me and I looked up at his glassy eyes.

"Tell us more about your home." They wanted me to speak? I shifted uncomfortably in my seat and opened my mouth to speak but before I could get a word out-

"There she is! The Wild One!"

Imelda.

She marched over to where I sat and snatched my book.

"This is mine now!"

She snapped and made off with the book.

"Imelda!"

Sebastian shouted. But it was no use. Imelda certainly wouldn't be listening to any kind of reason as she strolled off with my book, my last gift from any family.

"Sebastian."

I said, turning to look at him.

"Give me one of your books."