DarkPriestess66: A year is not much for a story to be non-updated, if it were three years from now, get worried. but i have a tiny problem with this story...i can't figure out how to make Merliah a human but still be a Mermaid.
The next morning at breakfast, Celeste made her announcement to the children.
Harry looked excited to spend more time with his friends, while Merliah set down her coral-made knife and fork, and politely excused herself, and swam out of the room.
Harry felt something was wrong and follows her out of the room.
Merliah sat facing her vanity, combing her hair with a coral brush, looking distance, she didn't know why she felt this way, her dream was to go to the surface for a day, but a whole year away from Atlantica?
"Mer, you there, whats wrong?"
"Nothing, just leave me alone." Merliah states, as she set her brush down and went over to the window, overlooking the kingdom.
"Mer, please tell me, I can feel something wrong and i want to help." Harry said from the door.
"You can not help. There is nothing that needs you. You are excited about returning to the land, did it ever occur to you, this world is all I've ever known? Yes, I wish to be on land, but not for a whole year." Merliah states
Harry was stunned in his excitement, he did forget about his sister's feelings, he slumped down on the floor, he remembered how it was for him when he first came here; how it was strange and confusing.
"Mer, yes, I'm excited but only cause I get to show you, my old world to you and share part of my life with you." Harry folded his fin under him "You and mum and Nereus showed me so much of this world and help me become part of this world that i want to show you the other part of my life, I want you to see what i saw and be part of my world as I'm part of yours."
"But I will never be truly part of your world, for I do not think the same as you." Merliah replies
"Well i don't think the same as you or anyone other merperson. I mean adapted but i still think like I'm on land sometimes."
"Now you see my point, a day, sure but a whole year from my beloved ocean? I mean, I know that mom might be planning on some serious magic to ensure we stay aware that we are merfolk, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around seeing many things, and getting a few of my personal questions answered."
"Merliah, if you don't want to do this just tell me and we wont go; i don't want to see you like this and feel you like this either."
Celeste swam into the room, "You must remember, you're only twelve years old, any other child human or no, would be scared of leaving home for the first time." she swam over, and took a seat beside Merliah, who looked at Celeste, her mother in all but blood. She moved a little before nestling in Celeste's embrace.
Harry slowly swam over as well "Merliah, when i first left to go to Hogwarts, truth was i was terrified, here i was leaving home, even thou i hated it, for the first time and leaving for a while year."
"That place was never a home, a home is where parents care for their children, sing songs, like mom used too when I was little." Merliah states
"Okay, home was not the right word to use but it was the only place. I knew till I went to school then here, so i can understand a little of what your feeling, Mer, you're going to somewhere new and strange and you don't know the rules of the place yet." Harry replies
Merliah nods, "And the fact that someone might try to use me as a means to get to mom, since she has a powerful magical object that allows her to control the Seven Seas."
"Yeah that too hell either one of us could be fishnapped and use to make mum give up the trident."
Celeste took her hand and lifted Merliah's face to look at her, "my little one, you have been learning at my side for the past eleven years, you know when to use your power as a princess and when not too. Yes, you're scared and unprepared for the whole world, out of the water. But you are being given a great opportunity, I have much trust and faith in your own judgment, when it comes to our kindom and its people, you will be my eyes and ears on land, and in the magical world. You will be my Representative of the Mer-Crown."
Harry was silent waiting to see see what his sister wanted to do he would stand by herside no matter what so long as she was gapped with her choice.
Merliah looked out the window, overlooking the other merfolk, her people missed the surface world, they all heard tales of merfolk interacting with the humans, since Princess Ariel married her human prince and united the two worlds. "If Princess Ariel could overcome her challenges of being on land, then so can I."
"And you won't be facing them alone you'll have me by your side as well as Hermione and Ron to help you in anyway possible. " Harry went to her side and grabs her hand as he did the first day he came to the ocean.
"Now the question, is how should I place the magic on you two to allow you to be human again." Celeste states
"Well it has to be something we'll always carry and won't be noticed." Merliah thought.
"It can be noticed. A seashell necklace, or bracelet, something that won't cause much of an uproar." Celeste responds
"I got it the bracelets, I won at the sea carnival last week those might work, right mother?"
"Let me see them." Celeste states
Harry rushed over to his room and comes back with the bracelets. "Here you go mother."
Celeste looked them over, and nods, "Yes, they might work. Its better then laying the magic on you, but since the condition, I placed on the magical humans might still work."
"Thats great mum, and you thought me picking them was a bad idea." Harry stuck his tongue out to Merliah.
"now, now." Celeste states, she took the bracelets, and slipped out of Merliah's embrace, she had work to do.
The Queen left the children, and went to her throne room, she looked at her family heirloom, the Trident. She took it and set down the bracelets, on her throne. She formed her idea of what she wanted the bracelets to act as, and allowed her will to direct the trident's magic to the bracelets. The bracelets glows as the magic settled in them then they returned to normal as harry had given them to her.
Celeste went and took the bracelets, and sat down on her throne, placing the trident back in its holder, she thought about what could happen, when both of her kids were up on land, worse they fall in love and chose that person to be with or they decide to reject the land and make the ocean their forever home. A third, that some people of the magical world would willingly give up their magic to join the merfolk, now that hasn't happened, but it was possible and the only one who could turn them into merfolk was the Queen.
Harry and Merliah sat in one of the gardens on the palace grounds. Just watching everything floating by not really talking.
Merliah listened to the musical current of the ocean, everything sounded so melodic.
Harry laid his head on her shoulder enjoying the calm. "I wish i could hear the currents like you do to me its still like a jumble of notes."
Merliah sighed, as she thought of everything that was different between her kind and the people beyond the shoreline, she started to sing softly.
There are ways we're not the same
When it comes to running games and races
Nobody calls my name
And you don't swim as fast as I can
There's really just no use in trying
No, you'll only feel slow
I hear the music playing
That's when I come up to watch you dancing
How do you move that way?
And I know that your schools aren't like my schools
You have recess, we have tide pools
Yet, I'm willing to bet
That dreaming is something that we both know how to do
You wish upon that evening star and hope that it comes true
Dreams connect us even when we're far apart
'Cos dreams come from inside your heart
I found a golden ring
And I don't know what it's purpose is
This curious, shining thing
And when you wish what do you long for
What's right for you might still be wrong for
Me, but we might agree
That dreaming is something that we both know how to do
You wish upon that evening star and hope that it comes true
Dreams connect us even when we're far apart
'Cos dreams come from inside your heart
I know I'm not really part of your world
But deep in my heart, I'm like every other girl
And dreaming is something that we both know how to do
You wish upon that evening star and hope that it comes true
Dreams connect us even when we're far apart
'Cos dreams come from inside your heart
Harry sniffed and snuggled closer to Merliah "Your voice can calm a storm and your heart is so vast the palace would fit in with room to spare. Thank you Merliah for being in my life. "
"no problem, I call it a family trait, Princess Ariel was said to have a lovely voice as well." Merliah replies
"Well still I'm glad you are, you think something made us both the at the lake that day?"
"I don't know, maybe our birth mom was directing us? Because that was the first time i've sat on the dock, other times, I just hid under it and watched the humans." Merliah answers
"Yeah and most time I'm never there either so i think your right." He smiles as he leans back on the low wall.
Nereus entered the garden area, and swam over, he looked nervous about something.
"Hey Nereus, what's got you so jumpy? you think someone got you tail in a hook." Harry states
Nereus didn't answer at first, he just laid down on one of the coral benches, and placed a arm over his face. "More like my heart, and its all your fault, Merliah!"
"How is it my fault, i don't play match maker that's Carmen's game not mine."
"Yes, it is. With your obsession with the surface world, it it weren't for that, I wouldn't be in this mess." Nereus states
"My obsession one, it was never an obsession, two you're the one, that follows me every time, so you got your self into this mess, i have no control with who your heart choose to fall for."
"It chose a human no less, one I can't be with unless I abdicate my crown and beg mom to turn me human." Nereus groaned as an image of the busy haired temptress of his dreams flashed before his eyes.
Harry leans in closer to his twin " He really fell for hard like off the deep end bad."
"You do know that if Nereus ever did abdicate, I would be the next in line?" Merliah questions
"Yeah, i know."
Nereus looked up, "That's why I asked mother if I can stay in the Black lake for your school year."
"Really the whole year but won't you be bored or are you going to be like romeo and Juliet and just pine away for her heart."
"I'm not going to kill myself, but I will try my hardest to win her heart as well, she might just decide to abandon the human world for our world." Nereus states
"I sure hope you succeed in that endeavor Ner but a word of advice if you want to give her a gift one word."
"Books?" Merliah questions
"You bet your last clam shell on it, lots of them, the older, the better."