Poor Unfortunate Soul Cursed by Love
This story is based off a dream I had, so sorry if it seems a little crazy. Making a few things clear:
Ursula is good; her magic is cursed so that to use it, she has to make people do something in a certain time frame.
Song suggestion: Reading this chapter listen to Poor Unfortunate Souls.
Prologue
In a dark corner of the ocean, where it was all black and quiet: a young mermaid quietly followed two electric eels. They were the only ones around, as every other creature avoided this place like the plague. But the eels and mermaid were here for a reason: to meet the sea witch, Ursula.
The mermaid asked, looking around because she felt scared, "How much further now?" Her deep blue eyes were full of fear and her voice shook slightly.
"Nottz much morezz," said one eel. Then an eerie light started to split the darkness. The mermaid was relieved to see something other than darkness, even if there was something eerie about it.
The Eel who hadn't spoken yet, said, "we're herez."
"Ursula lives here?" asked the mermaid in disbelief: who would want to live here? In the darkest and most horrible corner of the ocean?
The eels nodded; then without wasting a second, they went towards the source of the light which was coming from a building, of sorts. Not wanting to get left alone in this creepy place, the young mermaid quickly followed the eels.
As they entered; weird looking sea creatures tried to grab the mermaid, and she got very frightened because of these things attacking her. But, they didn't have really any grip to speak of, so as soon as the mermaid tried to shake them off: they slid off, much to her relief.
After what seemed like hours of endless tunnels with the weird sea creatures on the bottom; they finally came to a room. The mermaid stopped in the doorway, to take in this new area and everything in it.
After a few seconds, woman's voice said, from over near the mirror in the room, "Don't hang around doorways: it's rude. One might question your upbringing."
"Are you Ursula?" asked the young mermaid, going further in; to see an octopus-like woman doing her make-up in front of the mirror.
"Yes, I am; but who are you?" Ursula asked turning to the mermaid.
"Me? I'm Ariel," said the mermaid, Ariel.
"Nice to meet you, I guess. Now, the simplest answer to your problem is to become human yourself," Ursula said, getting straight to the point.
"What? How did you know that, when you didn't know my name?!" Ariel asked, disbelieving.
"I have my ways," Ursula said simply, but mysteriously.
"So, you can actually do that? Turn me into a human, I mean?" asked Ariel, sounding hopeful.
Ursula nodded, then said, "That's what I do, it's what I live for: to help poor unfortunate Merfolk, like yourself. However, there is one other thing: to have the use of my magic, you must complete a task in a certain amount of time."
"What do I have to do?" asked Ariel. She knew she was taking an awfully big risk here; but, she also knew she couldn't ignore the call of above. Ariel could feel her heart racing fast because of the excitement.
"Well, you must get Princy to kiss you in two weeks. But, not just any kiss, a true love's kiss. Do we have a deal?" asked Ursula charmingly.
"Yes, we do," said Ariel slowly. Then she silently prayed her mother wasn't watching.
"Well then, some spell brewing for me!" said Ursula, going to a cupboard and pulling out several deferent things. Then she started making them into the spell. Ariel didn't know if it was part of it or not, but the spell making caused lots of multicoloured smoke plumes.
A little bit later, Ursula handed Ariel a scroll and quill and said, "Now for me to give you the spell, you need to sign on the dotted line."
"Okay," said Ariel slowly, but firmly. She took the quill then signed the scroll; stupidly not reading it. Ariel was not one for reading things, for she believed everything would work out in the end.
When Ariel handed it back, Ursula used some magic to vanish the scroll, and then she started chanting. When Ursula finished chanting, the spell she had finished making hit Ariel like a lightning bolt, and changes started happening straight away.
Ariel screamed in pain as she transformed into a human. When it was over, no longer was there a red-haired mermaid: now there was a red-haired woman, wearing a simple, black dress. When the transformation was over, the pain went too; now there were only sore muscles.
Ariel quickly started to try and swim up, as she must have realised that humans didn't breathe underwater. However, not long after she started swimming, Ariel vanished, just like magic.
Ursula muttered, feeling confused, "How odd; she must have true magic to be able to vanish like that. I know I certainly couldn't do it. This is certainly something which needs to be looked up."
Then Ursula went off to look this up while thinking, "Good luck, little mermaid. Two weeks isn't long."
Prologue ends.
As you can see, I've tried to keep Ursula's personality, but she is a nicer person. And because I know it will be very different to Cannon, I am trying to keep the first bit with Ursula pretty close to cannon.
