Mermaids, the legendary creature of the deep. Many a tale has been told of the fishy fiends, some good some bad. Some tales tell of mermaids luring sailors to their doom with their sweet singing, while other stories tell of them as caring and loving beings of intelligence, but which tale is the true tale? Can any of them be held to a real standard? Well that's what we'll find out about in this story as we take a trip in a mermans eyes and his journey into a world unlike his own.
Now before I actually start to tell you this strange story I have to give a bit of background on these creatures of the deep don't i? Well let's begin with the most fascinating feature of merfolk, their appearance. All merfolk have five sets of fins. Wrist fins, pelvic fins, tail fins, dorsal fins, and ear fins. These fins help them balance, move, turn and navigate in water. Their upper bodies look just like humans but their backs, lower arms, and shoulders are usually covered in small glittering scales. As soon as you reach the pelvis though that's where the tail starts. The tail usually varies from merfolk to merfolk but it's always in the same place whether scaly, slimy, slippery, or smooth.
Now Merfolk hold themselves in two species essentially. There are the surface merfolk, and the deep sea merfolk. Deep sea merfolk are the most common and are a rare sight these days only a few coming out of chosen hiding places to hunt or claim territory. Most of these merfolk prefer to live in the deeper calmer more remote areas of the world, heck most of them had never even breathed the clean light fresh waters closer to land. As such these deep sea merfolk have dark colored scales and sometimes give off bioluminescent glow they are built heavily and muscular to deal with the heavy sea pressure and have longer more powerful tails to swim with. Their eyes glow in the dark to better see prey and only come to the surface during storms to feed.
Surface merfolk however are very different from their deep sea cousins. Surface merfolk are even rarer than their cousins hardly being seen at all, though you'd wonder how you missed them with how brightly colored they are. Some surface merfolk live in salt water while others live in fresh water but either way they're tails and fins are littered with the colors of the rainbow. Bright stripes of orange tangle with bright blue with splashes of pink or silver mixes with yellow in dots and patterns. If ever you see a surface merfolk you can't help but stare at it's brightly colored tail and odd colored hair and eyes.
Whether deep sea or surface all merfolk have a common goal in mind, don't let a human catch you out and about, or you'll suffer from the same fate this young merman did.