Note: Hello everyone! I've wanted to do a mermaid story for a while and I watched the Little Mermaid a couple days ago so I figured, eh, why not. So here it is. Please let me know what you think! xxxx
Chapter 1: Roan the Mermaid
I am a mermaid. Not one of those mermaids that trick you with their beauty and lure you to your death, no. Those are called Sirens, and I try to avoid running into them down here in the sea. I belong to an underwater kingdom unknown to humans called Glaciara. Contact with the human world is forbidden, and if you are caught interacting with the human world, punishment awaits you. But, the human world is an unknown beauty that calls to me and I can't help but want to discover more about them. My name is Roan, and this is my story.
"Cora, are you coming?" I shot back to my best friend as we swam to our usual spot we do every day here in the depths of the sea. Cora and I traveled in our free time to a cave that was filled with treasures. Not the normal jewels, gold and riches treasures are known to be. These were human treasures from the actual human world! For as long as I could remember, the human world and its treasures sparked my interest until the point where I became addicted to discovering more about them. I couldn't believe what wonders their world held compared to mine, which was just full of water and fish and well, mermaids. And it doesn't help that I'm the daughter of King Hindon, ruler of all of Glaciara. If he ever found out about my little human addiction, I don't even want to think about what he would do to me.
"Roan, I'm trying! I told you I wasn't up to human adventures today!"
Sometimes she can be so grumpy. Well, I wasn't about to put aside my desire for the human world because Cora was going to be a grump. I stopped swimming and turned to her. "Cora, if you don't feel good, just go back home. I will be okay on my own. Besides, you can go cover for me even more." Cora wasn't as keen as I was about finding out more about the human world, but she was very supportive of it.
"Okay, I'm sorry Roan."
"Don't be. It's okay." She swam off, her peach colored fin-tail disappearing into the blue waters. I continued to swim towards the cave, visions of new human treasures filling my fantastic thoughts. I finally reached the mouth of the cave, its dark abyss waiting to be entered. I swam inside, taking out my light stick from my kelp bag. Light sticks are enchanted wands almost that are forged back in the kingdom. I guess that's all the mermaid world is good for, magic.
The cave is filled with various treasures from sunken human ships and boats that were wrecked near our shoreline. To keep mer-folk form discovering anything about the human world, my father sends out his guards to dismantle the boats and hide what's inside them in this cave. Sometimes the boats will be huge and vast, made of the strongest metal that looks indestructible, and then sometimes they are just small "fishing boats" as they are called on land. But whatever they are, they bring such wonders with them. I come here every day, hoping that something new will be hiding in here for me to discover. Unfortunately, no new ships have ship-wrecked near out shores, or have sunken near Glaciara. Yet, somehow I can still spend countless hours down here admiring random objects that I know nothing about from the human world. Yesterday I found a square shaped object that opens, and when you open it, sound comes out! It was so wonderful and filled my soul with such excitement. I have no idea what the name of this object is, but it still made me so content. I bring most of my findings to my friend Suina, a professor back in the kingdom. She understands the beauty of the human world and helps me sneak objects past my father. And today, I wanted to bring her something amazing.
I looked around the cave, seeing many objects that looked particularly interesting, but, not amazing. Suddenly, my light stick flickered over something rectangular. This object was not here yesterday. It was small, yet very intriguing. I swam down to where it was and picked it up. I was a black object and had one single indentation near the bottom. I ran my finger over the indentation, applying the slightest bit of pressure. The object illuminated with the same light that the stick provided. I eyes opened with wonder. How wonderful! I looked at the object more closely and noticed that I was not just any ordinary light. This light had something inside it. There was a human! A human inside the object! I yelped and dropped the object. I stared at the object, itching to pick it up, curious to know why there was a human trapped inside the light. My hand shaking, I picked the object up and turned it over, but the light was gone. I snickered, confused. I pressed the indentation again and the human appeared once again. It was a boy, very young, no older than I. He had bronze hair, what looked like green eyes and a very nice build, nicer than any mer-man down here. His chest was bare, no clothing covering it, his skin tempting my touch. As I went to touch him, the light faded and vanished. I shook my head feverishly and pressed the indentation once again to make him re appear. I smiled faintly when he did, but this time I noticed something I hadn't before. He was holding a massive silver fish in his right hand.
Character Prnounciation:
Roan- Ro-Wen
Hindon- Hind-On
Cora- Core-A
Suina- Swi-Na
Hope thats helpfull haha xx