Hello, I have a little project that I have done some work on, and have decided to share it. This is going to be a multi-installment piece, but I hesitate to call it a full blown chapter fic. Instead, I'm writing a story in the form of short oneshots. If that makes any sense. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, even though the oneshots do all link together as one story, and are being posted in chronological order, I want you to approach them as a reader more as oneshots.
I still don't think I'm making any sense, so let's say it this way: I missed Fiyero, and know I don't have the time or energy to work on a full length fanfic. I hope you enjoy the story, and please review!
"One upon a time, in the Mythical Sea, a mermaid princess-"
"What's a mermaid?" asked the six year old prince, fighting off sleep and stalling the story his long-suffering nanny attempted to tell him in an effort to get him to settle down.
She smiled. "The merfolk are the people of the sea. Part human, like you and I, part Fish. Anyway, this mermaid was the Princess of the Sea, sixteen years old and beautiful-"
"Beautiful? Is this going to be a girly story?" he grumbled.
She shot him a look. "It's a story about magic, Fiyero. Now hush or you can go to sleep now and not get any story, girly or otherwise." She gave him as severe a look as she was capable of, which still wasn't very intimidating. "Now shall I continue? The Mermaid lived in a beautiful castle, had many friends, and a loving family. But she felt something was missing in her life, though she didn't know what it could be. One day she and her friends swam near the surface, to find a shipwreck. Most of the men aboard ship were able to swim to land, but one young man was injured and drowning.
The other merpeople hid, afraid of the humans, but our Mermaid swam up to him, helping him to the beach. She watched him, curiously. She had never seen a human so close before. She tended his wounds, and he revived under her care. She hid when he woke so he never saw her, but heard her lovely singing voice as she tended him.
She learned that he was the Prince of the Land, as she was the Princess of the Sea, handsome and caring. She knew she loved him, and wanted nothing more than to see him again, but couldn't as the merfolk cannot live on land.
So the Mermaid approached a Sea Witch, and asked her to change her tail into legs. The Sea Witch agreed, but asked for one thing in return: the Mermaid's beautiful voice. The Mermaid was frightened, but agreed when the Sea Witch promised her she would regain her voice once the Prince professed his love for her.
So the Mermaid arrived on land and found the Prince's castle. She was lovely and graceful, so even without her voice, the Prince found himself enjoying her presence and was drawn to her. Unfortunately, the Prince was already engaged to another young woman. Although the Mermaid was tempted to take up against her, she found the girl to be pure of heart, as well as beautiful, and the girl was very kind to her, befriending her and chatting with her even though couldn't talk back.
The night before he was to wed, he approached the Mermaid and confided in her that he didn't love his bride the way he should, but instead loved the beautiful girl with a beautiful voice who had rescued him from the sea. He assumed that his friend could not have been the girl who rescued him, as she is incapable of speech. Furthermore, the Mermaid knew the human girl loved the Prince dearly, and did not wish to harm her.
Such, the Prince married, and the Mermaid died of heartbreak, throwing herself upon the Sea, where her body dissolved into foam. She became a spirit of the Air, watching over the world with a gentle eye, blessing her Prince, his Princess and their children."
Fiyero's eyes went wide at the end of the story. He couldn't ever remember hearing a story with such a sad ending. "She died? She's not supposed to die, the prince is supposed to realize he loves her, and is supposed to marry her instead. Then she could get her pretty voice back and they could be happy!"
His nurse tucked him into his bed. "I'm afraid we don't always get a happy ending, my darling."
Fiyero pouted, even as sleep took him. "If I were the Prince in the story, I would've married the Mermaid...way the story is supposed to go..." and he drifted off to sleep, dreaming of a fantasy world under the mythical sea.