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~Myrre
Juvia watched from a distance as the humans came down. In the ship covered with plants and mold, nobody would find her, she would be safe from all madness, she would survive.
In a heavy scuba diving suit, the man jumped into the sea, in the kingdom of the Atlantic Ocean, or Atlantica- as the mer call it- which beholds the Queen Gaia's shipwreck, as the name was carved on the side of the structure. The ship is split in two, a large, messy rip in the bottom, and one in the deck. Coral and bacteria grow, and fish that are brave enough to venture through the dark, empty vessel float in and out of it. The rest are scared away by the man's sudden leap.
The man holds a weapon. The weapon was a gun which shot even through the dense water, sharp and as swift as land guns- and Juvia's parents began to swim, trying to dart away from the water. They were trying to attack the human and distract them away from their beloved child.
"Mama, Papa!" the girl shouted, swimming away from the shipwreck. She pushed them away from the bullet before it reached her parents.
"Juvia," her mother says as her voice trembles, "you must go! Go and hide! Me and your father will take care of this man!" Both of them did not falter and continued to evade the bullets.
"But mama!"
"Go!" Juvia's father yelled sternly.
"Mama! Papa!" Juvia looked back, hands clutched to her quick-beating heart, then realized she was only in the way. So she scrambled out of the area, but the human man had already aimed at her. She gasped as she realized too late.
"JUVIA!" shouted her father, pushing her out of the way. But the bullet had came too late- it hit her father's heart, and he spurted out crimson blood from his deep wound.
"PAPA!" Juvia yelled, swimming frantically to his side.
"Escape...my death must not be all for naught..."
"Papa!" Juvia wrapped her arms around her father, but she was now just hugging a corpse...he was gone, his spirit washed away by the water currents. Clutching the empty body, she wept to herself, each breath racking her small body.
Juvia's mother looked back from her escape away from the gunshots. And when she saw her husband, she was heartbroken and furious, her eyes widening in fear.
And the human took that time in order to kill her.
And he did it. With a loud BANG! the gun goes off, and collides with her mother's skull, and with that, she was dead as well.
"Stop! Stop!" Juvia shouted, but the human didn't listen, and continued chasing Juvia. All my fault, thought the young mermaid. It was all my fault...how did this come to be...I can't ever forgive myself, I...
Juvia put her head in her arms, shrouded up in a cage of oblivion. Her heart was empty- no, it was thoroughly shredded off. She sat in shock, weeping as the human finally killed off the young mermaid. Kill me...I can't suffer like this...
But perhaps, he had found himself seeing the illusion of the girl.
Weeping, crying, Juvia put her head in her arms, sitting down on a rock. The rock was hit by the bullet but not Juvia herself. The bullet bounced off, swept up and away by the furious water currents now emitting from the small girl's body.
"What..." The man blinked and looked at Juvia again, and he shot the young mermaid with perfect aim, but the bullet went right through her body as if it were water. "Hurry here! I've found an abnormal!" screamed the diver.
Water. Then the man became frightened, worried what she would do next. Uncontrollably she shed tears, and then a bright blue circle appeared above her.
It was a magic circle.
A water magic circle.
An orb of water built from the ground and shot up, exploding into a large form right on the edges of the magic circle. A huge amount of energy was given off as the girl wept, hearing both rage and silence roaring in her ears.
As it slowly spun, a great force of water collides into the man, sending him backwards, his head hitting the shipwreck. Then from above, a ship retrieves him from the water and started to make a rumbling noise that scared away nearby fish. Its motor and power was on, ready to escape the area.
But one of Juvia's huge waves chases its tail, and brings it down. A huge whirlpool is created and further damaged the ship. A thunderstorm flashes on the sea surface. The ship had traveled less than over the water before it sank into the sea.
But as Juvia's desperate yells became louder, the storm became darker. Nothing then could content her heart, not even the quick revenge her magic has given her.
Juvia had stopped the men on that ship from hurting any more of her people, but there were more warships elsewhere. And she didn't know where her magic came from, but she indeed did use it.
She thought it was a dream, that nothing like that ever happened. She tried to wake up, but she couldn't.
She had to face reality- her parents died and she must accept that. She swam over to her mother and father, laying sprawled over the sea floor, blood floating in the water.
Biting her lip, Juvia carried her mother over to her father so they would be together. For several hours, Juvia let them have their last daylight.
She went into the shipwreck for safety, and lay down in the wooden cabin below.
Juvia wept until she passed out, her emotions entangled with fear, anxiety, anger; but most of all, melancholy.
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"Humans..."
A nine-year-old Juvia Lockser sits in front of a grave. The words engraved on the stone slab tore at her heart, more hurtful than any other words. It was the aftermath of the war between humans and mermaids, both of her parents were killed and buried.
Hunters had still went around looking for mermaids to kill, for profiting. Daring fishermen went down to the sea to kill and sell them, hanging them up in museums, the strange and exotic half fish, half human creature attracting tourists and curious people. Though the war had ended, the merpeople were forever reminded of the terrors of human beings- and especially poor Juvia, whose parents were killed in less than a single minute.
She sniffled, a tear falling from her eye, the freshwater and saltwater mingling into one, and the currents swept Juvia's long blue hair to the side.
Mama, Papa, thought the young mermaid as a prayer of apology, Juvia is sorry to have interfered and not listen to your commands... Juvia wishes she could get revenge on the humans- the mermaid gritted her teeth and shook her head- but... Mama, peace is what you've taught Juvia to do everything with, to be as peaceful as possible... Juvia will accept your wishes...but she is lonely now, Juvia is...
She wept again, wiping away the tears from her eyes.
Juvia is sad...she wants someone to love her and give her warm hugs like you do, Mama.
Juvia wishes to not be lonely again... she wants to be with Mama and Papa again... Juvia will come up from the sea every night and find a star to wish upon...
The girl looked up from the bottom of the ocean, a bit of light reaching her rose-gold tail. She swam up to it, and the blunette's head reached the cool air above in the night, the stars shining down on the water.
Juvia hopes the stars grant her wish...
She put her right hand up to touch the light, trying to feel the warmth she had with her mother and father from the stars.
That feeling didn't come. It didn't come at all, the light had only felt like an abundance, a living mockery to her, flooding Juvia's emotions even more. It only brought back painful memories of her with her parents. She felt as if her parents had abandoned her and their spirits didn't even come back to look after her, and now the joyful glow of the night stars are teasing her losses.
A few months after being orphaned, and alone, Juvia's once lively soul was dead. Her spirit, once free and running, her curious, large eyes, and a dashing tail behind her, had turned into one that was captured by the pain of horrible memories, her childhood ruined.
Those eyes, the once crystal-like blue filled like little shining stars, deep and vast like the sky. Those eyes once lively and dancing. Now they were dull and dead. The blue was beautiful and sparkling at first, but then it grew into ashes, dull and gray. They still behold a flicker of light within, but the light was not going to revive itself on its own.