"He cannot love. It is part of the riddle of his being" -Captain Hook
Disclaimer:
I don't own Peter Pan, I'm obviously not J.M. Barrie.
The day Peter Pan brought that awful Wendy girl to Neverland is the day, for the first time in my life, I feel completely alone, and that maybe looks weren't the most important thing.
Let me start at the beginning. Peter Pan had brought many girls to Neverland. He always loved how they fawned over him. But Wendy was different. He fell for her. Hard. He may have even been in love with her. Not sure why, she was wretched and most certainly not as pretty as me. She was the one who ruined everything. The only thing that girl ever did was batt her eyelashes at Peter and he did whatever she wanted. All she ever did when she was here was stare at him, she couldn't do a thing without him, and she was always talking about her mother. And she took away our time with him! How pathetic.
Long story short, she left Neverland. Wanted to go back to Mummy I'm sure. Peter was broken hearted, but us mermaids were exstatic. That wench can no longer disgrace Neverland with her presence and take Peter away from us. This is when it all started going downhill.
A few days after she left, I was sitting one one of the rocks at Mermaid Lagoon talking about that mortal with Calypso. She has long black hair and brown eyes. Mermaids had more angular features in general, our eyes, our face shape, our cheek bones, everything really. She was pretty, even prettier than most mermaids. Not me of course. Naturally, I was the prettiest. But, she was my favorite of all them.
"I can't believe that Peter brought that horrid girl to Neverland! What about us? Why would he ever need any other girl? Besides, he could have at least brought a pretty one. She was so ugly." I said, wrinkling my nose in disgust.
"Exactly! She was wretched. I don't see why we couldn't drown her, it's not like anyone would miss her or anything. She's so ugly it's hard to look at her. " Calypso complained
"She was so pathetic. I heard she cried when she saw Hook. Typical mortal girl." I scoffed
"Oh please Nerissa, you swim the other direction whenever Hook is mentioned" I turned around to see Morena smirking at me.
"At least I'm not afraid of the fat pirate(Smee)" I said smirking. She sneered at me and started running her fingers through her dark brown hair. You see, unlike you lowly humans, brown hair is a rarity in mermaids. You'd be lucky to see on in a lifetime(a human lifetime that is). That's why Morena thinks she's prettier than everyone else. But the thing is, she's not. I'm the prettiest one in Mermaid Lagoon. Her dull, hazel eyes are nothing compared my my light blue ones. And her skin is dark and tan, how ugly compared to my creamy white pale skin(1). Just because her hair is brown, and mine is black means nothing. It makes her a freak.
"At least I'm not as dimwitted as a human" She replied, sticking her nose up in the air.
"Even if I'm dimwitted, at least I'm prettier than you" I said smirking.
She shot daggers at me with her eyes. "Excuse me? Do you have brown hair? No, you have ugly limp black hair," I unconsciously started running my fingers through my hair,"If you're so brave and beautiful, why don't you go sit on the beach, away from the water, for 10 minutes. It was dead silent for the first time in Mermaid Lagoon, for everyone was gapping at the request Morena just made. Despite popular belief, mermaids hated beaches, or land at all for that matter. We can barely even stand sitting on the rocks, we only do it just incase Peter comes around. Being on land dried up our scales, it made them dull and hideous. It takes nearly two months before they're back to normal. Also, the crabs like to eat them so they always pick them off. Do you know how long is takes to grow them back?! Much, much longer than two months. And lets not forget the worst part of land, if mermaids stay on land for a long period of time(1-5 minutes) animals start to smell us. Mermaids are very desirable and delicious from what I understand, so many animals take advantage of mermaids who swim ashore. And if we're away from the water, it's hard for use to escape. So now you understand what Morena is asking me to do.
I started bitting my lip in deep thought. After a minute, I had come to a decision.
"Fine, I'll do it" Morena smirked for she knew she had won.
"Nerissa," I looked to my left to see Calypso touching my shoulder,"You don't have to do this, we can just put sea slug in her hair when she's sleeping or something.
"No, I need to prove that I'm better than her in every way, that I'm not just prettier than her."
"Okay, good luck then" she said sadly smiling at me. All I could manage was to nod at her in response.
"Go on then," Morena said shooing me away with her hands. I just glared the fiercest glare I could muster and swam to shore.
I got to land and I hesitantly looked at the beach, then pulled myself ashore. When I was away from the water I felt on edge. My senses felt heightened. Every little sound, every twig that snapped, every bird the chirped, gave me goosebumps. I started nervously runnning my fingers through my hair. So I sat there, waiting for my end to come.
It had been about eight minutes but it had felt like hours. So far, nothing had come and tried to eat me, I did have to flick away a few crabs though. I was still terrified. I had tried extremely hard not to scream at every little thing and it was getting more and more difficult.
I was starting to worry about my scales though. I didn't want them to dry up, imagine how awful that would be! So I started touching my tail so feel my scales when my world came crashing down. I looked at my tail in horror as I felt my scales shatter on my fingertips. My mouth dropped when I saw skin under the spot I had touched.
CLIFFHANGER! Sorry it wasn't very long, I promise it will get longer when we meet Peter. But what did you guys think? I don't think there's a story like this out on fan fiction so I really hope you enjoyed it. I alway appreciate reviews and constructive criticism.
Also, in my point of view, mermaids are vain and rude, so that's why she is too! they are also very beautiful. I'm not trying to make her one of those Mary Sue's who thinks she's better than everyone and is always rude, honestly that's just how mermaids acted in the movie. Try to bear with me, it's hard to write her now, but it will get better and hopefully she won't be as Mary Sue-ish by the end.
1. In Korean cultures, paler skin is a sign of royalty, so Midori thinks she's better because she's paler. She's not Korean, I just thought she's think that too.