Chapter 1

In the beginning

I swam as fast as I could, heading towards the suface. Bubbles yelled behind me. "MERCY-CHAN! WAIT UP YOU SARDINE!"

I broke the surface and waited, breathing in the salty air as Bubbles surfaced. She looked pretty mad.

"MERCY! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT BEING LATE! YOUR OWN SISTER'S CORONATION IS STARTING AND YOUR LATE!"

I growled at Bubbles. "Go back home if your going to be like that." I used my tail to propel myself towards the Coronation of my sister.

As I swam, I saw Red and Gold Mermaids alike singing and laughing. They waved and bowed to me as I passed.

I nodded and continued on to the middle of all the commotion.

I saw my sister, Peace, siting on a rock above all mermaids, her ceremonial blowing in the warm sea breeze.

She started to sing Legend of a Mermaid, later everyone joined in, including me.

The clouds cleared from over the moon and moon's beams hit Peace's tail, making it glisten.

I smiled lightly.

As I swam to my kingdom I was in deep thought. A fish swam by me, saying good afternoon to me as it passed.

I nodded and continued swiming till I got to the gates of my kingdom. I swam in and headed to my room.

After I had brushed my long hair and taken the bows out I laided down in my bed.

I wonder... is it time for my sister to to visit the human world? I have already been up there once or twice. It is something all mermaids do... but bad things have been happining lately... Like Sara-chan's kingdom and all her followers were completely demolished... Was it because of Gaito? Or another evil being out after us all... Oh welll... But the human world isnt bad... I remeber when I was little...

FLASHBACK

I smiled, my giant red bows in my hair blowing in the wind.

Bubbles looked at me, smiling. "I told you it is quiet up here. The human's reach is far from here."

I nodded then I heard something, a scream. I looked ahead, squinting my eyes at the figures that ran in the forest.

One was small, probably as small as me, the other was really tall and hissed.

Bubbles dives under, hoping I would follow. I didnt, I stayed and watched in curiosity.

The man attacked the yound boy, biting his neck. The boy screamed in agony, falling off the side of the cliff into the dark waters below.

The man glared at me, his peircing yellow eyes stared at me. I got scared and dove under.

The man ran away, leaving the beach.

I broke the surface and looked at where the boy had falled. I swam over there in a hurry, I looked under water and saw him, wrapped in Octopus' Seaweed.

I swam down and grabbed him, pulling him to the surface.

I put my ear to his mouth to hear if he was breathing.

"Please dont be dead. Please."

My eyes started to water, I touched my necklace and it opened, my red pearl shined.

I took it out and placed it where the boys heart was.

Red mermaids were great medical mermaids, I was taught to heal.

The boy coughed up a little bit of water and opened his eyes slightly.

"W-who are you?" he said obliviously.

I looked at him happidly, crying with tears of joy.

"P-please miss... Don't cry..." his voice fadded.

He closed his eyes again. I set him down on the warm sand, away from the water.

A rose appered on his chest as I swam away. A sign of the Red Mermaid.

I didn't notice but I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I had left my pearl behind.