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This one just popped into my head one time, so I've decided to finally post it!
I hope those who read it like it a lot!
Ultimate Prize
There was a mermaid with a tail that had two sets of fins on the end, her scales of the purest gold. She had hair the color of the darkest night, but eyes of deepest depths of a volcano. The sailors of the parts she dwelled told many stories of her, some truth, some lies. Some said she was a demoness who made all men wreck their ships at the sight of her fiery gaze. Others said she was an emblem of good luck to the sailor who saw her shining tail in the sun.
But there was a story that seemed common through every sailing ship: she was the daughter of an impossible union, a beautiful sea maid and a sly Incubus. She had powers over fire and water, burning ships then sinking them if they transgressed her laws, such as polluting the sea and poaching its creatures, she could transform into a human with tiny black wings on her shoulder blades. If she so desired, she would choose a man to prey on, dragging him into the ocean and eating his heart, which she would steal with her beauty and soft words. But if a man was able to take a scale from her tail, good luck would dwell with him for as long as he had it. But if it fell back into any type of water, it would dissolve and the man would be as if he'd never had it, or worse, cursed with bad luck.
And every sailor knew this: if a man should snare her and take her heart, she would be his forever. But no man had ever been close enough that hadn't been killed by either her powers or the mermaid herself. Not even the most fearless of pirates would ever dare to try for her. Although it was said that she lived in a trove of endless treasure that had been lost at sea that she'd recovered herself. She was the ultimate prize: a beauty far beyond any man's wildest dreams, good luck for the rest of a man's life, and treasure enough to make the man who caught her richer than any king.
But who would have the courage to attempt such an impossible feat?
That is where the story begins.
This was the prologue, so don't worry, things'll get going after this!
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