'Wait! No please, don't do this!' Amelia struggled against the rope tying her hands to the tree. The men around her slowly chanted words that she didn't know. Blue light crackled in their hands, aiming at Amelia. She struggled some more, trying to get away. The men finally chanted their last words, and Amelia was swallowed by the blue light. Her legs started to tingle, and her body started to shake. She felt as if water was surrounding her, when the light disappeared, she noticed her legs were gone, and replaced with a tail. She screamed.
Amelia's eye snapped open. That nightmare has being replaying over and over for these past nights since it happened. Bubbled rose around her.
Amelia casted a wary glance down. Where her feet and legs used to be, is now a long, beautiful blue tail. She wore a light blue top that was able to cover her chest area. When she was turned, her hair had somehow grown longer, and wavier.
She was in a large glass bowl, filled with clean water. So clean she can see everything so clearly. If the water becomes dirty, she won't be able to live in it.
She slowly sank to the bottom, but her tail got caught in her floating hammock, causing her body to turn over. The hammock was tied to both sides of the opening at the top of her bowl.
"Stupid bed," Amelia mumbled as she untangled her tail, even after three months she couldn't get used to her new body. I guess this is what Mr. Zelgadis felt like at first.
*knock*knock*
Amelia turned to see a young boy, about ten years old, smiling at her through the glass. She swam to the opening. She splashed out, draping her arms over the edge.
"Aaron! Good Morning!" she said cheerfully
"Good morning Miss 'Leah," the boy replied.
"Are you doing your morning chores?" she asked.
"Mhm, that's one of the reasons I'm here, I bought your breakfast," he bent down, then held a big plate filled with warm food. Before, she only eats what she needed, but now being a mermaid chimera she eats almost as much as Lina and Gourry.
"Finally!" She grabbed the plate from the boy, placing it on the make shift table connected to her bowl. She also took a fork from Aaron, and started to eat. Her breakfast usually consists of three eggs, scrambled, five smoked sausages, 6 slices of bacon, 2 pieces of toast with jam and butter, and some sort of fruit, usually an apple or an orange, but today it was a banana.
Swimming burns up a lot of calories, almost like using black magic. As Amelia gulps it all down, she turns to look at her small friend.
"So did we travel over night? This area doesn't look familiar," she muttered as she took a look around. Tents were put up; people were walking around carrying stuff, setting up for the show tonight.
"Yup, we're in Heims, it's a pretty big town Miss 'Leah," he replied with a smile. Heims…that's a five day journey to Seyrunn.
"HEY!"
Amelia's and Aaron's head whipped to the side at the sound of the voice. Standing near them was a tall wolf man.
"Ah, hello Dilgear! What's up?" Amelia asked nicely.
"Miss 'Leah, Nothing really, I was-" for a moment the wolf man looked happy, but caught himself and stared at the young boy, "Aaron! Stop talking to Miss 'Leah, and get back to your chores!" he snapped.
"Alright, I'm on it, no need to shout," he jumped away from the glass bowl and scurried away to do the rest of his chores.
"Did you really have to yell at him?" Amelia asked, her tail swishing through the water.
"You know how he get's Miss 'Leah, he gets distracted at one point, and forgets about everything else," he replied. Amelia sighed.
"I know,"
"Well I'm off, the show will begin in two hours so get ready," he took the empty plate and fork away. Amelia watched him walk off to a bright purple tent, which is the kitchen. She let herself sink to the bottom again, waiting for the crowds to come and gawk at her.
Miss 'Leah….they call me they didn't hear me say 'Ah-meal' in my name and only the 'Leah' part rang through. Maybe I shouldn't have said it in the water, oh well.
"Finally!" Gourry exclaimed, running to the nearest restaurant, "Food!"
"Gourry! Wait for me!" Lina yelled, running after him.
"Those two," Zelgadis sighed as he followed the two in. they were already ordering food when he came in, "well after a few days of walking we're finally in Heims,"
"Mhm," Gourry nodded his head in agreement.
"We should a plan in case we actually find Amelia in this circus," Lina said, eyeing the waiter as he brought their food, "We should go in disguise,"
"Disguise?" Gourry asked, flinching away from Lina's fork as she stabbed the meat in front of his face, "Hey! That's mine!"
"In case the whole troop is on the plan, and they might recognize us," Zelgadis said, sipping his now arrived tea.
"Exactly Zel!" Lina said with her mouth full. Zelgadis grimaced at the sight.
"But the one thing I wanna know is, why kidnap a princess and not offer a ransom?" Gourry said, picking many pieces of food of the plates. Zelgadis nearly dropped his cup, and Lina choked on her food, they were surprise at such a direct question from Gourry.
Lina pounded on her chest, "great question Gourry, guess you can't be jellyfish all the time," Gourry gave her a quizzical look, "What if they didn't know Amelia was a princess, and thought she was just a random civilian?"
Zelgadis thought deeply, "picking a random person off the street won't get much attention as a princess," he agreed to Lina's theory.
"Mhm," Lina took a huge bite of a leg of lamb, "So about our disguises…"
-An hour later-
"Lina…" Gourry said slowly, "are you sure about this?"
"Of course!" Lina exclaimed happily.
"How do you always wind up to be charge of our disguises?" Zelgadis asked.
Gourry had his hair in long pigtails, he was wearing a long pink dress, fruit were stuffed in his chest area to look like he has breasts, and he wore semi-heavy makeup.
Lina looked almost like Detective Wiser; her hair was put up in a hat. Her black headband still showed.
Zelgadis wore a simple gray outfit with a black cape, the hood went over his head to let the darkness cover his face. He also wore white gloves.
"We look ridiculous," Zelgadis said.
"Don't be so grumpy Zel, we look great, no one will recognize us!" Lina marched forward, "now, which way to the circus?"
"It's at the outskirts of town," Zel replied.
"You know, I never been to the circus," Gourry said, as the three started walking.