People may not read this, but I'm going to write it anyway. Name pronunciation: Kira: (K- ear-ah). ~ Imagineer
This is the story of a mermaid named Kira and how she fell in love with a pirate captain.
Different. That was what she was, that was all she would probably ever be, even amongst her own kind. Kira had inherited her great, great, great grandmother's magic and ability to have legs and walk on land whenever she wanted. But she was alone. Her mother had died protecting her from a shark when she was ten; so she grew up on her own. She loved the land and the sea, both were her home and the wildlife and creatures were her friends.
I sat on the beach as I waited for my fairy friend to arrive I looked down at my tail as it disappeared and was replaced by a pair of legs. My dress reached the middle of my thighs, and under that skirt I wore a thin white skirt that was a little shorter than my dress skirt; it was made of different types of soft moss with seashells and flowers tangled into it and one thin strap on my right shoulder. I ran a hand over my head to check if my braid had come undone, it didn't, like my dress my braided hair also had flowers and seashells tangled in it.
"Kira!" I heard my named called. I stood up and turned to see Tinker-bell driving a little wooden cart being pulled by Cheese the mouse. I picked them up and placed them on a flat rock near by and kneeled down next to the rock.
"Hello there Tinker-bell."
"What did you find today?" she asked with excitement. I chuckled and brought out my satchel.
"Here you go Tinker-bell, these are all of the objects from the Main Land that I could find today. I'm sure the current will bring more in tomorrow or this evening." I assured my little fairy friend as I placed medallions, coins, nails and other sinkable objects in front of her.
"Thanks Kira." She replied and then began to put all of the things I brought her into a tiny wooden cart.
"Your welcome. Have you finished fixing that music box that I found?" I asked.
"Yeah, the only thing it needs is a new coat of paint, do you want to come to Pixie Hollow and paint it with me? I know you wanted to change some of the designs." The little fairy added.
"Wonderful. I would love to." I replied. I had visited Pixie Hollow many times before. It was nothing new to me or the other fairies for that matter. I carried Cheese, the cart and Tinker-bell to where we needed to go for there was no point in following her on the ground for I knew Pixie Hollow like the back of my hand.
"So what colors do you want to use Kira?" Tinker-bell asked as she got out her brushes, paint powders, and water.
"I don't know yet; hold on a moment." I said and took out two of my own paintbrushes from my bag, one thin, and the other only slightly larger.
I looked at the figurines on their platform, two dancers, one male and one female, both only one color: porcelain white. The man held the woman up by her waist and looked up at her watching her as she spread her arms and raised them up to fly, like a dove.
"Tink, we are going to need these colors: light violet, gold, dark brown, black, and ocean blue for their eyes." I informed her.
"Got it. Do you also want a little dark shade of light violet for the designs on her dress and apricot for their skin?" Tinker-bell asked.
"Yes for the first, and no for the latter." I said.
"Why not?" the little fairy asked confused.
"I do like the porcelain white for their skin color, it makes them seem more elegant and enigmatic." I explained gently.
"I guess you're right." She agreed and then set to work with preparing the paints.
By the time we were finished Rosetta, Silvermist, Fawn, Zarina, Iradessa, Vidia, Clank and Bobble came to visit.
"We saw that you were in the neighborhood and decided to stop by." Iradessa said as they all landed near the music box.
"I see you two finally got this music box looking brand new. It looks absolutely gorgeous." Fawn gazed in awe.
"They look so life-like." Rosetta said circling around.
"The lady looks just like you miss Kira." Clank looked at the woman's face.
"Really, I haven't noticed but I guess you might be right. Thank you Clank." I told the little sparrow-man who in return blushed and bashfully kicked the dust near him.
"Yes, yes very fine paintwork misses Bell and Kira." Bobble complimented.
"Yeah its alright." Vidia said in her usual nonchalant tone.
"Oh come on Vidia, even you've got to admit that it's beautiful." Fawn nudged the fast flying fairy gently with her elbow.
"Fawn has a point Vidia." Zarina said, I noticed that her wings did not have the sparkle that the pixie dust usually gave them.
"Zarina are you out of pixie dust again?" I asked; the little fairy turned to me. I noticed that she had been staring at the man as if he reminded her of someone she new. I wondered if there was a sparrow-man in her life that she wasn't telling us.
"Yeah, I was on my way to get more but then I saw that you were here and so I just had to visit." She laughed.
"Well then my little friend I won't keep you for very long for I know how much you love to fly." I giggled.
"See you later everyone." said Zarina as she began to walk away.
"Bye Zarina." All the other fairies and sparrow-men cheerfully replied. Clank then turned to me with excitement in his tiny little eyes.
"Can we watch you perform your preservation spell on your music box miss Kira?" he asked. I smiled, he always loved to watch me cast the preservation spell and restoration spell on all the books that I found and brought to the shore to dry the pages with the wind and sunlight with Vidia and Iradessa's help.
"Of course Clank." I answered. I then began to recite the spell in my head and the music box became incased by the blue glow of my magic. The little fairies and sparrow-men gazed in awe at my power as they usually did. Then as slowly as it began it was over in a very dim flash as usual. My work was done, the music box, like all of my other possessions, would never age, deteriorate or parish in my corral reef home beneath the waves.
"That never gets old." Iradessa sighed; of course she would appreciate the blue light the most, the others around her murmured their agreement.
"Well, I'm sorry I must leave but I must be on my way. Farewell my little friends." I told them as I stood up.
"See you later Kira!" the fairies and sparrow-men called, waving goodbye. After waving back I began to walk back to the beach. I walked waist-deep into the water before swimming further away from shore, my legs turning back into my beautiful shimmering iridescent pearl-white tail this was the original color of my tail but I am able to camouflage my tail to the color or colors of my environment when I need to.
My home was the reef, the way it was formed made it seem like it was a sunken castle from the land above. All of the different colored corrals blended beautifully with one another. There was a section of corral that acted as my library, the different corral forms were similar to book holders, I could leave the book there and when I needed to search something quickly I could just open the book and another piece of corral would hold the book open; this always was useful when I was multitasking.
My bed was made of sponges and the top half where I would lay my head was surrounded by corral, this corral acted as my shelf where I would place all of my belongings that I wanted to keep close to me, like my grandmother's journal, my ancestors' spell book, and the jaws and teeth from the shark that killed my mother.
This is where I wanted to keep my music box as well. Close to my head, I hoped that the soft music would help me fall asleep and stay asleep; I wanted peace, I did not want to have any more nightmares about mother's death. When she died she took the shark with her, so I took its jaws in remembrance of her and how strong she was and how much she loved me. Not a day goes by that don't miss her. I placed the music box there as I blinked my tears away, I haven't cried since her death and there was no way that I was going to start now.
I went to my library to finish reading up on an animal that had the same camouflage abilities as I did, the reptilian creature was called a chameleon, it made me wonder if we had creatures like these on the island. When I finished reading I told myself that I would go searching for this creature tomorrow, maybe the fairies would help me, especially Fawn, I'm sure that she would love to see this little animal.
I decided to leave my reef and go swimming around to see if I could find anything interesting. Living underwater does not mean that every day is an adventure one does get bored sometimes. The sun was setting on the horizon, I went up to the surface to see it, all of the colors amazed me; the different shades of blue, orange, red and yellow formed different colors as they blended with one another in perfect unison.
'No artist could possibly recreate something as beautiful as this.' I thought with a sigh. As the sun was just about to leave my world to the possession of the moon and stars I saw something that I thought I would never see in Neverland a pirate ship.
Well I'm going to leave you with a teaser, tell me what you think about it, do you like it, should I continue? BTW this is my first Tinkerbell related fanfic I never thought I would write one of these but here I am! PLEASE REVIEW!
~ Imagineer