Once upon a mermaid

Where smell is extinct, where breath is scarce, deep in the sea lives a young lovely mermaid princess, Aurora. The daughter of the merfolk traitor, Marina, the hybrid daughter of the land and sea. Her mother, princess marina fell in love with a human, exchange her tail for legs and went on land to get married. As it was for the merfolk, only the royals has the ability to transform into human but only for a limited time once they get on land but they are forbidden from doing so unless it's mandatory.

No one knew there was anything called the human world, none of the merpeople knew except for the royal family and aged subjects. It was told that the world above the surface of the sea is full of horrible monsters. Playful marina swam around the kingdom picking seashells, clams and pearls and went out to where a strange light shone, curiosity got the best of her as she swam towards it with speed.

The moment her head was lifted above the surface of the sea, she saw women and little children playing at the shore, she got so excited and thought to herself "what are these creatures, they look like me but have no tails, are they giant frogs?" she swam closer and felt sharp pain rush through her, she was nervous, "two hands, two tails, I need to look." The closer she got to the beach, the more she felt pain.

A little human girl looked at her and screamed, "Mummy look at a mermaid!" Marina was frightened, she looked up and saw a red hot pearl(sun), as she looked at it, she felt sharp pain on her body, she dived back into the sea and swam away. "I'll come back here, papa is calling me" She reached her underwater kingdom and she was back in shape, she couldn't stop smiling at the adventure she just encountered. "what the shark was that? what was the big red pearl up there? it's so strange! why can't I go any closer? is anything wrong with me? I need to find out!".

Marina swam to her paternal grandmother mother who was slowly disolving into sea foam, she sat on a rock close to her and stared at her in surprise."Grandma what is this?" she asked. "I'm slowly getting out of existence, this is how we die under the sea." she answered and shut her eyes. She could see the future, "We mermaids have no soul unlike humans, I knew you went on land, I see you love adventures," she paused and looked at her with tears in her eyes for the first time, it turned into pearls and she gave it to her. "you are destined to marry a human but things will turn against you for a while, you will be the first to gain a soul when you get married."

The princess got confused and frowned "Mamita! what's a soul, what's a human? How do I get a soul?" she said as she saw her grandma disolve in half, her tail has disappeared. "The creatures you saw earlier are humans of different kinds and a soul is like a spirit that goes into the glorious celestials after death! we are not privilegded to have a soul according to nature, it's the ability to live again even after death, it's seen as rebellion against the merfolk, they will turn against you once you gain it but it's fair enough as we live 300 years and the humans are short lived at most 100 years. When you fall in love with a human, your emptiness cry out to him and if he loves you back, part of his soul goes into you, making you a living soul too".

Mamita couldn't speak anymore she is gradually reducing to nothing, marina couldn't bear the pain, her father came to pay his last respect as he must be with her in her last moments "My son! promise me you will protect Marina! promise me!" King Euphorion gave her his words and shut his eyes and held her hand.

Marina swam off to mourn her grandmother, she will move on soon. She swam up to the surface and cried to the moon in form of a song, she sat on a rock singing to the moon when she spotted a handsome man from afar, he looked sad, her heartbeat increased and she felt drawn to him by a strange pull

She heard her father call out to her and she dived back into the sea to answer her Father's call. Then she noticed something shiny, she swam towards it and took a shiny Ruby crystal. It was like blood filled it's insides, Marina took it and follow the pull of her Father's energy, she swam with high speed so as to get to him quickly! He didn't want him to know she has been to the surface. Then she bumped into a wall. No! it was her father's chest. "papa what are you doing here?" she asked nervously. "I should be asking you that, I've been looking everywhere for you. What's that in your hand?" he asked nosily.

Marina showed him innocently, but king Euphorion panicked, snatched it from her and flinged it off, as far as he could into the darkest sides of the water. Meanwhile, jasmine was watching, she is the daughter of the late queen's maid but she Is being treated as a princess because her mother died while protecting the queen who also died when a fight ensued between king Euphorion and the dark sorcerer.

Adegal's Stories.