AN: Okay this is a chapter written by NatashaPavlova because we are collabing! :D This tells more of Nixie!
Nixie, which means Water Sprite in her native language, German, was swimming along in complete boredom. She'd just had a terrible argument with her parents about going with on of her friends to the nearby beach. She was pretty sure she won the argument with a big dramatic exit. Now she was just bored. She wondered how long she had to wait before going back home when she saw a cute little merdog. He was really hyper and happy to find someone and Nixie picked him up in her arms with a light laugh.
"Hello, little guy," she said rubbing his head and ears, "Who're you?" the merdog licked her cheek and she giggled at him. She rubbed the merdog's back before deciding to take it home since it most likely didn't have an owner. She was almost half way home when she realized how far she'd gone. She knew she wasn't supposed to go so far from home because of all the large sea animals like whales and sharks.
She looked around cautiously as she led the merdog toward where her home was supposed to be located.
"What shall we name you little merdog?" she asked it. She knew it wouldn't answer her back, but she didn't care. It barked at her and swam around her in a circle. Nixie frowned at it and took it in her arms again, "You stop that. You're making me dizzy," she said wagging her finger at it's nose. It barked and squirmed out of her arms.
Nixie was too late to understand it. She saw it too late to do anything. The merdog barked and she brought it into her arms again and closed her eyes. Darkness surrounded them and Nixie was breathing hard. the merdog licked her cheek again and she looked at it through the darkness.
She was swallowed up by a whale, and all she had with her was a hyper merdog. She looked around the inside of the whale and sighed, "Well I definitely have a name for you now," Nixie said to the merdog as if it was the good news next to the bad news of being eaten by a whale, "You'll be called Zale, because it means Sea Strength and you will help me get through this and I'll help you too." The merdog barked and licked her cheek happily and Nixie felt a smile creep across her face.
For two whole years she stayed in that whale with her sea strength. When suddenly one day, they found a way out. Nixie was sure it wouldn't work, but in order to get out she had to try.
She held tight to Zale and when the time was right, they escaped. I don't think I can go into detail with how exactly how they did it, and Nixie wouldn't want to relive the experienced either.
As soon as Nixie and Zale were free, she surfaced and looked around for anything familiar to her. She didn't have much luck with that. She knew she had to get home to her parents and explain what had happened to her, and maybe they'll forgive her for storming out like she had.
She went back into the water to Zale and sighed; "Well, Zale, as far as I can tell we aren't anywhere near home." he whimpered and they started swimming in the direction Nixie thought best.
Before she knew it she was swept up in a net. How could anything get worse in her life? She struggled to free herself from the net, but that only made things worse. She heard Zale barking and hoped he was going to find help. When she thought she was doomed to labs and experiments something cut her free.
She looked at whoever cut her loose and was more than grateful. It was another mermaid. she had golden blonde hair and bright sea blue eyes that made her look happy.
"Bon Jour! I'm Mishell! And you are?" she asked kindly. Nixie wasn't normally one to just jump into conversation like that, but she didn't have much of a choice, this mermaid saved her life.
"Um...Hallo...I'm Nixie.." She said shyly. Mishell caught her German accent and mentioned it briefly before changing her expression and saying; "ARE YOU DAFT!? GETTING CAUGHT BY A SAILOR! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU!"
Nixie was caught off guard by this, and was very confused until she changed back to being nice; It's okay. It happens to the best of us I suppose." Mishell said smiling. " Look at you and your fins! Who knows what could happen if somebody saw you! You need some legs! Like me!" She them took off one of her rings and put it on Nixie middle finger and she watched as her fin split and turned into long slender human legs. Nixie's mouth dropped open and she kicked her new legs fondly.
"Hey thanks," She said still very stunned, "How's you do that?"
Mishell laughed and went on to tell her about how she was royalty basically and Nixie was even more amazed than before. She liked this Mishell.
"I guess I just made you royalty too by giving you that ring. That thing holds all sorts of power!" she said smiling. Nixie smiled back.
"Gee thanks I've never been royalty before!" she said with a light laugh. Mishell looked thoughtful for a second before saying; Say! You wanna be my Best friend!"
Nixie looked at her, "But didn't we just meet?" she asked. Mishell shrugged that off.
"Why not? we're the only mermaids left in the ocean." she said with another shrug. Nixie heart dropped for a second.
"What? No there are other!" she exclaimed trying to convince her.
"I thought the sea disease killed off the mermaids." Mishell said thoughtfully.
"Sea disease?" Nixie asked with a frown. Mishell frowned and told Nixie of the sea disease that wiped out all the merpeople in the ocean. Nixie had no chance of seeing her parents again and she had no chance of apologizing for the way she'd acted two years before. Nixie explained what happened to her to Mishell and she was very sympathetic toward her.
"Aw it'll be alright! Say! What's your Merdog's name!" Mishell asked trying to change the subject.
"Oh, that's Zale," Nixie said with a small smile, "It means Sea strength." Mishell nodded.
"He's adorable!" Mishell said rubbing between Zale's ears, "Hey you wanna go to land and try out your new legs?"
Before Nixie knew it she was putting on a bathing suit and going up to the surface to the nearest beach. Nixie smiled and looked around. Her legs were a bit wobbly, but so far she hadn't fallen on her face. Nixie and Mishell were standing on the beach and looking around when a man approached them.
Mishell made something up about being pro swimmers or something while Nixie looked at the group of boys running around on the beach. She giggled quietly to herself at their silliness. She stared at one for a few minutes, unaware she was doing so. He seemed to hear her giggle from where he was running around and stopped.
He looked over at her. She was caught off guard by his features. He had dark eyes that looked as if you would fall into them if you looked too long and equally dark hair that fell over his forehead and nearly into his eyes. He was tall and skinny, and he smiled crookedly at her with a wave in her direction. She blushed and waved back with another giggle as Mishell looked over to her and suggested they leave.
She caught the eye of one of the boys too, and she waved to him as they walked away. The two girls were silent for a few minutes before Nixie got up the courage to ask where they were going.
"We're going to my house for a few minutes." she said smiling. Nixie nodded and walked slightly behind Mishell. When they got to Mishell's house, Nixie followed her in and they went into her bedroom.
Mishell tossed articals of clothing at Nixie and she made a face at them; "What're these for?" she asked.
Mishell smirked at her, "They're clothes. You can't just walk around in a bathing suit." she said pulling out clothes for herself. Nixie cocked an eyebrow at her new friend.
"Why not?" she asked naively. Mishell rolled her eyes.
"Because, Nixie, then you'll get stared at." she said handing her some underwear and shoving her into the bathroom to change. Nixie huffed and quickly put on the clothes. She looked at herself in the mirror and bit her lip. Everything looked normal for a human except her out of control hair. In the water it always flowed around her nicely but on land it was wet and stringy. She ran her fingers through her red hair and looked for something to pin it up with. Mishell knocked on the door and opened it a crack.
"Are you alright in here, Nix?" she asked.
Nixie opened the door the rest of the way and Mishell helped her pin up her hair quickly, "OK, so where do you want to go first?"