Chapter 3

Far away from the main palace, Alice was swimming around the shores of the Human World. She was a pretty young girl. As a mermaid, Alice had blonde hair, and a red coloured tail. Her seashell top was a dark shade of blue. She also wore a necklace that once belonged to her mother. She was so preoccupied with thinking about the Human World, she had completely forgotten about the concert, and had no idea that merpeople were looking for her.

This is where I belong

Beneath the clear wide blue here!

I feel completely new here in the world above!

She couldn't see how different this place really was. The only difference was that instead of tails, it was legs.

It's like my life was wrong

And somehow, now, at last I'm in

My own skin

Up here in the world above!

Alice couldn't explain it, but ever since she was little, she'd been fascinated by the Human World. Even though of course, her mother had been captured by a human, and from the fact that she never came back, was...She stopped herself, she had only been nine when it happened, but it still brought a tear to her eye. Still, she couldn't help but be extremely intrigued by this whole new world.

There's so much light here

Light and space!

The sun's so bright here

Upon my face!

It feels so right here

Warm as love...

Life seems to be

Almost calling to me

From this strange new world above!

As she was about to close her eyes and relax, she heard two familiar voices.

"Alice!" The voices said at the same time. She looked and saw a young merman. Beside him was a mermaid, and they both had the same worried expressions on their faces.

"Alice!" Amelia said again. She was her cousin, and she had wavy blonde hair. "What are you doing here?! Do you know what Uncle Francis will do to us if he finds us here?!"

"Not to mention the fact that there are humans here!" Toris said angrily. He had brown hair and green eyes.

"Oh," said Alice. "You're just scared of humans."

"I AM NOT!" Toris insisted.

"Oh, look!" Alice said urgently. "It's a human!"

"Eek!" Toris screamed as he jumped into Amelia's arms.

"See?" Alice said mischievously. "Deep down, you two are just little guppies."

"Don't call me little!" Amelia insisted.

"Okay," Alice replied. "No need to yell at me."

"And I'm not yelling at you!" Amelia yelled.

"Now you are." Alice said smiling. "Anyway, you wanna see something I found in this old ship I passed on my way here?"

"What is it?" Toris asked. "Treasure?"

"Yup!" Alice said proudly, and she held up an odd thing. It looked like it was made of silver and it was glowing in the sun light. It was long and thin for the most part, but the top widened to a large oval shape. It then split into four extremely thin parts that ended in points. "I wonder what it is."

"I can tell you that." Amelia said, jokingly. "It's a miniature pitchfork."

"Funny, Amelia." Toris replied, smiling slightly. "Still, I wonder what this is."

"I'll bet Toni will know." Alice said smiling. She then swam off to where they usually meet Antonio.

"Hey, wait up!" Amelia yelled.

"Yeah, wait up!" Toris yelled as well.