Episode 1 part 1 Mermaid Sisters
I sat in the water that came up to my waist, my silvery purple scaley bottom on a rock.
Splashing water on my tangled curls and detangling with my fingers. Moonlight watched over me, shining into the sea otter's den, from above in the dark sky. Otters splashed around me, unmindingly. I had taken over their home, but where else was I to go. The queen was selfish. She would be nothing without my mother and she knows it. Banning the Andrines from the Queendom will not keep her secret safe. Her poor husband. That poor man.
My two sisters and I were kicked out of our own Queendom. We had no choice but
To track down our oldest sister, who wants nothing to do with us or the Queendom, or her
former life as a mermaid. An angry back and forth with her had lead me here to this place.
Cold moonlight touched my bronze skin. Feeling lightheaded I swayed to the side, but kept my balance. Woah. What was that? Moonlight. It has been doing something to me, lately.
The annoying sound of human laughter got on my nerves. I bit my lip until it hurt.
Nemaya made me so angry. The things she said... She doesn't deserve her tail.
Its good that she gave up her powers. She doesn't deserve them. And poor Neeko, my niece,
Will never know what its like. Never.
A loud splash and more laughter was the last straw. I hoped off my rock and left the den, ducking under the surface I came up to see a group of teen boys in school uniforms leaving the beach, loudly laughing. I shook my head. " Good riddance."
I ducked back under the surface, feeling a strange pull. I wasn't alone. I heard a beating heart and turned around in the water. Sinking was a schoolboy. His arms and legs not even flailing. My gosh! I pushed my body toward him and wrapped my arms around his chest. Swimming like lightning shooting through the water, I pulled him in the direction of my new home.
I propped him up near a rock and hoped he wouldn't slide under. I had to transform my tail to human legs so I crawled out of the water. Panic kept shooting through me, but I stayed calm as I waited for my tail to dry. I kept my eyes on the boy. I pumped his chest with my fists, at the same time not wanting him to come to while I was still a mermaid. He had cuts and bruises all over. He had been fighting and got beaten up. Those other boys were looking pretty rough as well.
The boy coughed up water and I jumped back on two feet. His eyes opened. Naked, I ran to hide behind another rock. Peeking out, I watched him. He kept coughing and looking around. His loud husky coughs bounced off the rocky walls of the grove. He coughed up blood and stared at it on his fingers. " Fuck," He laughed, then got up stumbling. Seeming fine now, he got out of the dense pool and headed for the moonlit opening of the den. I waited until I couldn't hear his life source anymore, then I came out from behind my rock.
I hadn't gotten use to walking. The bottom of my feet hurt. Sharp pain still shot up my legs from each and every step I made. Nemaya was crazy. Who would choose to have legs!
I dove into the water. The sea otters scattered and made loops around me. I knew I couldn't just hide away and give up. The Sirens were in power again and they only need one thing to rule Andara. And that one thing is Nemaya's magic.