So I love THE PRINCESS BRIDE and this is more based on the movie then the book because even though I have been trying to read the book for two almost three years I have yet to finish because I want to jump to my favorite parts instead of just reading it straight through
Chapter one How she came to be
The Mermaid Bride
Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chase, escapes, true love, miracles you name it its here.
Rikki was raised in a small trailer park on the gold coast. Her favorite past times where riding a dolphin and tormenting the local rich boy, his name was Zane. But she never called him that. Nothing gave her enough pleasure like picking on him and all he ever did was smile and nod. That day she was amazed to discover that each time he smiled and nodded at her he was really telling her he loved her and even more amazing was when she discovered she loved him back. Zane's father did not approve and he was sent to Europe for college. It was a very emotional time for Rikki. Standing on the beach as they said good bye "I fear I will never see you again" she sobbed into his shoulder
"Of course you will" he told her with out hesitation
"But what if something happens to you" Rikki said still worried
"Here this now I will always come for you" Zane interjected hoping to calm her down before her powers got out of control
"How can you be sure?"
With a simple smile on his face he announced "This is true love, do you think this happens everyday?" However, Zane didn't reach his destination his plane crashed onto a island that nobody traveled to because a band of pirates called it home and they did not hold captives
When she got the news Rikki dove into the sea for days she only surfaced long enough to check on her father. It was weeks before she finally came out on to land with a vow to never love again.
Chapter two How it came to be
FIVE YEARS later the mercity of Shelton was preparing for the great prince Walus to make the announcement of who his bride would be. Shelton along with the other mercitys appeared as a cruise ship that allowed for people to live about there lives away from the prying eyes of outsides. The people onboard look like the average person but all of the passengers had a special gift some by being born to a set of merfolk or others like Rikki and her friends by swimming on the night of a full moon in the waters located in a cave create by a comet crashing to earth near an ocean. Walus and his family along with the other royal families are descends of the original merfolk and thus being granted with special powers above all others.
"A month from now our city will have its 5,000 year anniversary and on that day I will marry a woman that was once like you, a commoner," He shouted from the top deck, "we have traveled here to Australia to bring her aboard. Would you like to meet her?" with that the crowed cheered from below and out on to the stage set in front of the crowed walked a women dressed in a simple outfit of a red tank top and black pants with a starfish headpiece. Even standing in such a crowed area Rikki still felt alone as she gazed around the deck up to the man she would be marring and then back to the shore where the small café that was owned by the man that had been missing for five years but still owned her heart had named after her. And although it was no longer open she still visited it in hopes to find him there in the office as he once was. And although the law of the sea gave Walus the rights to choose whatever mermaid he desired as his bride she would never come to love him instead. Despite his reassurance that she one day would. The only solace she would find was in her daily swim.
One day when she was sitting at Rikki's café in hopes that her true love would return a group of men approached and asked "we are sorry to disturb you but when will the café be opening?"
"I am sorry" she started "this place has been close for years nobody but I come in here any more."
"Good" said one of the men as the other two grabbed her "then nobody with see us take you" the two men carried her out of the café and into a boat. The third man stayed behind to stage the scene. He wanted to make it appear as if one of the other mercitys had taken her, the peaceful mercity by the name of Gulden.