Darkness. And then, a drop of water fell from somewhere…
Plip.
The platform rippled, as if it were the ocean's surface. But it couldn't possibly be, because it's under the water.
As the drop broke open on the strange surface, a creature of some sort emerged. A girl, with a bright red tail like that of a fish, hair tied back in a large ponytail, lay there. She had some scars. A white barrette, carved from shell to look like a simplistic wing was clipped in her hair. A shell pendant, red in color, glimmered in the dim light. Could it be…?
"Where…is this?" she wondered, waking from her long sleep. "How long have I been here?"
Her questions were not answered. Instead, the surface faded, as did the starry, sky-like space around it, into deep ocean, a trench. Here, in this abysmal place, time had no meaning. The dark, cold remains of the Panthalassa clan's castle were frozen in time, crumbled to pieces, now inhabited by strange water demons and creatures of the deep. They wandered through the ruins, all seemingly in awe that a mermaid was to be found beneath the seal, and alive, at that. The demons had never seen a mermaid in its true from all their lives. They led the girl to the room which Gaito had died within. To the mermaid's shock the orange pearl princess, Sara, was there, long since gone, with him.
Clenching her fists, the red mermaid felt a portion of her sleeping memories awaken, and old wounds were reopened. Anger pulsed through her body. "So," she grimaced, "Although I have never known you, you have suffered my same fate, orange pearl princess. The other mermaids are always searching for someone to look down on, are they not?"
She swam away from the ruins as quickly as she could, then looked back one more time.
"Rest assured…I will not forgive them!"
And someone mysterious awakens!
Thus ends the prolouge to Shinju no Chi.
I do not own Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch or Pure or any of their characters.
