A Mermaid's Tale:
Chapter 1:
It was early morning and the merfolk in the kingdom where getting ready for the day. It wasn't a normal day though. It was their princess' sixteenth birthday. Today would just have to be a normal day though since tomorrow was the celebration.
Inside the palace Serenity slept peacefully in her bed, to much surprise. Everyone thought that she would have been the first one up. Her four friends entered her room to wake the slumbering princess up. They all knew that a sixteenth birthday for a merperson was a big one. On the sixteenth birthday a merperson could make a wish. No matter what it was it came true for the entire day.
Serenity groaned as she felt someone shaking her. When she shaking wouldn't stop she sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Huh?" She mumbled. "What are you guys doing here?"
A raven-haired mermaid with a red fin smiled. "It's your birthday Serenity." She informed her friend, knowing that the princess might've forgotten.
Serenity looked up at her friends and gasped. That's right. It was her sixteenth birthday. Otherwise known as the day of a wish. "I forgot that my birthday was today." Serenity told her friends as she got out of bed and swam over to her vanity made out of coral.
A blue haired mermaid with a light blue fin giggled as Serenity began to brush her hair. "We figured that when you weren't the first merperson up this morning."
When Serenity set down her brush she turned to her friends. "After breakfast is when I receive the wishing pearl." Serenity told the other four as they left the room to eat.
The wishing pearl is a white pearl that possesses magical powers. Every family receives one once they have a child. The wishing pearl however only has enough magical powers for the wish to come true for one day. There were certain laws against the wish. You couldn't wish anyone dead or to be royalty, but other then that any wish was fine.
Queen Darya smiled as Serenity and her friends swam quickly into the great hall. The queen had once had blonde hair. Now her hair was turning silver with age. Her fin was a golden color. On her head was a simple sliver tiara. "Good morning mother." Serenity said as she hugged her mother.
Serenity was a younger version on her mother. Her hair was the same color as her mother's had once been. Though the princess most of the time wore her hair in buns with flowing tails. Her fin was the major difference though. Instead of gold it was pink.
"Good morning Serenity." Darya greeted her daughter. "Good morning Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina."
"Good morning your highness." The four mermaids greeted the queen.
Serenity took her seat next to her mother at a long table. This morning for breakfast in honor of the princess' birthday they were having her favorite food, sea berries. As Serenity began eating the little green berries she looked up and down the table before turning to her mother. "Where's father?" Serenity asked.
The queen looked up from her plate and over at her daughter. "He couldn't be here today. I'm sorry."
Serenity sighed heavily. Her father was always busy, but she hoped that tomorrow he would be there for the celebration. She understood though that he was king and as king he needed to take care of his kingdom.
When she was done she and her friends followed her mother into the jewel room. Once they were inside the Darya picked up an oyster. "Here you are. Your wishing pearl."
Serenity took the oyster from her mother and opened it. She took the pearl into her hands and smiled. All her life she had been thinking about the wish that she would make. Last year she had finally decided on what she would wish for. Today it would come true, though only for a day.
She closed her eyes and the pearl began to glow. It was time to make her wish. 'I wish I was a human.'
With the wish made her body began glowing and her pink find turned into a pair of legs. A white dress then appeared on her body. The dress went down to her knees. The top had spaghetti straps. On the back of the dress was a small white bow and on her feet where a pair of white sandals.
Raye and Lita raced over to the princess. They each grabbed an arm and helped her swim up to the surface. Am and Mina followed them to make sure Serenity was alright. Darya watched the four mermaids help Serenity up to the surface. Her only hope was that Serenity was going to be alright on land for a day.
