Because my reviewers have made me realize this was shit, I have rewritten 'Artic Shatter'. I hope it doesn't suck again.. I shall take all the advice given! So please, don't hesitate to tell me it's stupid. I'll rewrite it if anything is badly written.
Noel watched the other mermaids look for her, hidden in the darkness of a cave.
"Noel!" Lucia called, kicking rocks around and searching in every possible place.
Noel stared quietly at the pink mermaid out in the water. She would never understand. Lucia was too happy, to know what she was feeling.
"Noel."
"How'd you find me?" Noel asked, not bothering to look up at the younger girl.
"I just figured I should check," Lucia replied softly.
Noel stared at the ocean bottom. "Just.. leave me be."
"Why should I?"
"Because you should."
"Why?" Lucia repeated.
"Because.."
Noel happily swam towards her palace. A visit home, to see her maids, friends, and family...
Noel realized something was tugging at her locket's opening.
Looking down, the deep blue princess found a black seahorse with pointed red fangs, and slitted eyes.
It snapped he locket open, which Noel promptly closed.
Open. Close. Open. Close...
Open.
The pearl flew out. The seahorse grabbed it.
Unknown to her, the seahorse hid the real pearl and held a glass orb that Noel lunged for; it shattered upon impact with a sharp rock.
"It.. broke? The mermaid pearls aren't supposed to break," Lucia commented with confusion.
"And the deep blue pearl is one of the only two pearls to be encased in hard ice." Noel's voice was tinted with sorrow.
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Meanwhile, a certain seahorse was smirking at Noel's stupidity. Mermaid pearls didn't break under any circumstances, and the deep blue pearl was encased in hard ice too. What, a rock could do that much damage?
"Master."
"Yes?" A shady voice emerged from the shadows.
"I have what you want."
A gigantic seahorse, black with the sharpest, most silver fangs and a crown perched on his head hovered out.
"Good work, Anko.