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Tails of Love
"and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth,
and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot
has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled
down"
-Plato (translation by Benjamin Jowett )
Introduction: Betrayal
Deep within the ocean, in the depths where humans haven't ventured lived a secret society. Once they were land
dwellers but when their sacred land sank to the bottom of the ocean they had to adapt to the conditions no other could. For
they were warriors and geniuses. They had found ways to fish easier, build flying vehicles, and even create a barrier that kept
in the pure of air in it. While on the surface they experimented with the fish that they had caught and were undesirable for
food. Slowly they had found a way to split the fishes cells low enough that the human body would tolerate it. It was just to be
an experiment but it seemed that would be the society's way to survive the huge storm that would take their ancient city and
drown it.
Many years would pass before these humans would make a pure race of what humans would now call mermaids and
mermen. The breeding was hard at first because not one of them seemed to have mutated the same way, but the scientists
seemed to find a way to do so. Taking their own people and experimenting on them. Procedures were often painful. Those
that had been chosen to take the fish cells did it without protesting, at first. One by one they were dying at a rapid pace which
is why the scientists had to hurry in the mutating of the cells.
It may of been their faults that so many died quickly but it would be because of them that the people of Atlantis would
survive what would of been their deaths. But it would be when the ancient land sank and the protective barrier cracked letting
in the water, that the scientists thought of a way. The breeding process would have to take place in the water, where the
female could release her eggs in to the water. It would be then that the male released his sperm to fertilize the eggs. From
there the scientists took them and made it to where they would grow rapidly.
The scientists were sure that they had perfected the species when the offspring that had survived the process
emerged. slender bodies that were able to make them agile in the water, gills that were hidden in the flowing hair of both the
men and women, and a strong tail that could crush rock or propel them through the water.
They did the unthinkable. They created a plague to kill off the remainder of the people and crowned the firsts of the
offspring as king and queen. The plague would be drowned with the ones that hadn't gotten infected with it when the barrier
burst under the pressure of the ocean's depth.
The merpeople were free of their tanks and swam into the waters before them. Without effort, they split up into two
different families but all still under the control of their king and queen. One with brilliant blue tails, the others would have dull
black tails. Within a month of their freedom, the queen would be pregnant of the first heir to the throne. Three months after
that, she would give birth to twins.
The other family, those that had black tails and wasn't in the king's and queen's underwater kingdom, found a way for
them to be in control. These were those that had been corrupted during the rapid aging process for they were still exposed to
the human sins and defiance. It would take the effort of only a couple that was the heart of the evil clan to steal the first of the
twins and raise him to be evil. Until his eighteenth birthday where he would return to his family acting like he was still of good
nature. But it would be him in fact that would kill his family and take the crown. Both families were then re merged and bred
together. That would be their downfall though. Through the breeding the human traits would diminish almost indefinitely.
They thought that their evil would corrupt the others but instead it would be them that would be changed. Their tails
slowly became a turquoise color, no longer the black that they loved so dearly. They had been wiped out...that was until a
merman was born with a black tail.