The Little Mermaid; Novel Version
A/N: Reboot of the old version I suppose. Edited.
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Prologue
Once upon a time under the deep sea, lived a Sea King by the name of Triton who was the grandson of Neptune. King Triton had seven daughters. Their names were Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, Alana and last of all, the youngest was Ariel. Our tale casts Ariel as the heroine who bravely pursued her questions and curisoties that eventually led to her happy ending and a new beginning for merfolk and humans alike.
Ariel was an extremely pale girl compared to the humans on the surface, due to the lack of exposure to sunlight. Her tail was bright seaweed green color complete with the scales, eyes a blue with hints of green and grey. Topped off with flame red hair that shone brightly even in the darkest waters of the sea. Her seashells were always the same, lavender purple.
She was a beautiful creature. Swimming through the seas, playing with the many fishes was the daily fun. The youngest princess of the ocean knew the seas like the back of her hand; however what truly captured her interest was the surface world. Where beings with 'legs' that walked on land. Their completely different world that was so close to hers. Like parallel line so close together but could never touch. She had always wondered why everyone didn't want to join the human world and let them be known.
But there were the haunting stories of human on the surface. Stories like the humans were savages that killed the merfolks for their meat. Stories that contained a legend that said that if you ate the meat of a mermaid you would live eternally. Legends that made no sense to the merfolks under the waters but the story was paired with the law forbidding merfolks to be revealed to the humans above.
Ariel was told many times not to go to the surface. The chances of her being seen by humans were very likely and the youngest princess to be slaughtered by the humans was something must absolutely not happen. However that did not stop the young princess from wondering about the surface world. The more she was told not to go to the surface world, the more she went. She wanted to become a part of the surface world. But she was not expecting to go through so much conflict on the way to her goal.