This is my first story and I hope you like this story. To give you some background information, it is about a princess named Sophia of Ireland and a merman prince named Riley she meets and falls in love with. Italicized means someone is thinking.
I wish my father would just leave me alone about husbands. I don't need one to be happy and run this kingdom.
"Who am I kidding, I can't run a kingdom anyway, but I still don't need a husband", sighed Sophia hanging over the balcony looking over at the glistening ocean. She decides to go swimming into the ocean to play with some fish and notices a human figure, but with fins. "Hello", Sophia questions frightened. A human head of a handsome man pokes out of the water and his tail pokes out of the water.
This can't be real. Mermaids aren't real.
"Oh trust me, we are real. Real tail. Real gills. Everything's real on me", says the strange man…or creature. "How did you-" "Know what you said? I can read minds and I'm a merman by the way and my name's Riley. Yes, you can trust me", Riley answering all of her questions. "Stop reading my mind please", begs the confused princess. "Sorry, it's kind of fun", says Riley. "May I ask for your name?" "Sophia", explains the princess. "So, you like the ocean, Sophia?" "Yes, I feel like I'm one with the ocean." "A lot of scary stuff down here, but it's beautiful. My father rules and protects these seas", explains the handsome prince. "So…you're a prince?" "Yes I am…my father trying to marry me off, but I don't need a wife", Riley explains sadly and rather mundane. "My father's trying to do the exact same thing to me…it gets really annoying." "Ah, so you're the princess of Ireland, am I right", asks Riley. "Yes, but sometimes I wish I wasn't." "Same here." A larger figure bigger than the one she saw that was Riley's figure. The prince's face starts to look a little more terrified the closer it gets. "I'm not supposed to be at the surface." "Will I ever see you again", asks the scared princess. "How about tomorrow?" He quickly leaves while King Triton rises above the surface.
He was here…I can feel his presence. He better not be meeting this girl behind my back. Especially since she's human.
The king slowly descends down back into the ocean.
In Atlantica:
Riley quickly swims in the kingdom. "Where have you been", says a strange voice. "Please Amine. I snuck out. Please don't tell dad." "I won't okay", "Who is the human", continues his sister. "Her name's Sophia, she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen", says the prince with much excitement. "But she's human, how will that work out?" "I don't know, I will figure something out." He notices the king at the corner of his eye and swims to his room. The king follows him to his room. "Hello son", says the disappointed father. "You've been seeing that girl…haven't you", continues King Triton. "I just met her dad." "Do you know how dangerous it is to be up at the surface?! Humans are evil and always will be!!" "Dad!! Not all of them are evil!! You've had just bad experiences with them!!" "Don't you yell at me!!? I rule this kingdom, not you", yells the angry father. "I do not want you going up there again. The last thing I want is to have my only son be fish bait." "But she's-" "No buts Riley and I mean it", interrupts king Triton. "Then I wish I was born human", yells the angry Riley. King Triton then had a sad look on his face remembering his other son.
Flashback:
"Hey dad, I'm going to the surface today okay", explains Aiden. "Okay, I'm coming too." "Dad I'll be fine." "I just want to come and see above the sea." "Okay", says the king. "Riley, Amine, want to come along?" Both of them say, "No thanks." Aiden swims to the surface. Aiden notices oil on top of the water and looks at it frightened. "What is this?" "Oil spill", a man yells from a boat. The same man was smoking a cigarette and dropped it into the water. Aiden sees the fire getting closer and tries swimming away, but the fire is too fast for him to get away and our prince is burned to death. The prince is lost to us and his necklace falls next to his body at the bottom of the sea. The king worries about him and goes to where he said he was going and is terrified by the sight he sees. He picks up his necklace crying next to his dead body. From that day on, he banned any creature going to the surface again.