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I know what your thinking. (Don't mind her, let someone else reveiw her) well obviously you ALL
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Eternal Destiny
::Chapter Three::

Unmei swatted at the hands that where trying to drag her under deaper. Unmei soon
realised that they kept going down, even when they should have hit the bottom. Suddenly a hand
grabbed Unmei's and tried pulling her up, but the other person was stronger, and soon the other
person's hand slipped out of her hand. Unmei began to squirm in the strangers arms, keeping her
eyes clamped shut. Unmei really neaded air, and was gonna drown soon if she did not get any soon.
Finaly when Unmei thought she would pass out from lack of oxygen, she could breath. Yet they had
never swam up wards. Cautiously, Unmei opened her eyes, and saw she was not in Crysta Lake any
more.

The first thing she noticed was that she was still in water, but now it was salty, and
it was in some sort of cave, that led down to a river. The second thing she noticed was that
a young, very handsome man with aqua colored hair was holding her by the waist, and was pulling
her down the river.

'Where am I?' she thought, loungs to tired to talk. The person pulling her down the lake
could not be human from his hair color, unless it was died with many different berries. 'Probably
a mystic, how else could we get here?' she pondered. Suddenly the cave ended, and he swam under,
bringing Unmei with her.

Unmei gasped. Underwater too. She could now breath, and not only that, there was a whole
beutiful coral looking city under the water. Unmei felt a fish brush her leg, and looked back and
noticed it was not a fish, but the 'legs' of the man. 'Typical, a merman.' Finaly Unmei got her
voice and said,

"Where are you taking me?" she asked. He looked back at her and smilled, but said
nothing. Unmei gave up, knowing that if a mermaid did not talk to you, it would not no matter
what you did. Unmei was scared. Though mermaids little interested her, and hardly ever read about
them, she had read in one of her books on the history of mystics that a curse had been set upon
the royal line of mystics that the first born daughter would be kidnaped and wed to the first
born son to the mermaid royal line. Scince then, they took habbit of picking mystics when
swimming in any lake at all, and would either anslave them or wed them.

Yipee.

'Now what?' she asked herlself. Quickly she looked at the head of the merman who was
dragging her closer towards the city. Above the aqua hair, was a small coral crown.

'Dammit! Of all times! He couldn't have picked Crysta, could he, hmm?' They reached the
city and many mermaids and mermen swimming around stopped and smilled at her. The merman that
held me swam to what was obviously the castle. When we got to the door shapped things the front,
he stopped and out came an elderly merman and mermaid, both with crowns on their heads.

"Welcome back, Urchin. It has been a couple of waves, and we where wondering when you
would find a girl. Wait, this girl can't be human." the Queen said.

"No, my dear, she is a mystic." the King answered her unasked question.

"She is very beutiful, is she not? She would be a great queen." the obviously Prince
Urchin said. Unmei was pretty pissed they where talking as if she was not their, and just asumed
I would marry this prince. She did have a life you know!

"Excuse me, but I would like to go home now after being so rudely pulled away from my
friends and nearly drowned!" Unmei said angrily.

"You will be wed to our son, Prince Urchin of Atlantis. You should rejoice." The King
replied.

"I'm sorry, but I am greatly neaded at my village-"

"Don't worry about the land walkers, you are now a mermaid, soon to be my queen!" Prince
Urchin decalared.

"I dont WANT to marry you! I wanna go back on home, go to my friends, and live my
thousnd or so years on land!" Unmei yelled hottly. Big mistake.

"You will marry Prince Urchin the twelth in five waves, and at the celebration, will
become a mermaid and be the knew queen!" the Queen said angrily and she and her husband swam
away. Unmei grew scared at the thought of wedding this prince and becoming a mermaid. She hoped
that Oaken, Saykio, or even Kiro would find out and save her.

"That was not a wise thing to do. Forever my mother will now have a hate towards you
and be disgusted with everything you do till her death bed. Come, I will show you to your room,
where you will stay till our wedding, he said smilling, playing with a lock of her pink hair.

What was with her and strange things happening all of the suddon? First Kiro, Saykio,
Oaken's weird insident in The Meeting Room, and now this. Unmei sighed out loud as the Prince
led her up to a circular room with eight doors, each one marked with a different rune but one.

"This is the princess' rooms. I have seven sisters. This room was made for you before I
left. You can fix it as you like." Unmei looked around and noticed a spell must have been
enchanted on the whole city as to make sure things where not whipped away by a current. She
turned when she heard her door shut at Prince Urchin leaving.

"God dammit, why me!" she yelled to herself, or so she thought.

"Actually, you really are quite lucky, the prince is a very handsome and kind merman."
a mermaid said, swimming out of a smaller room connecting to the one she was in.

"I'm sure he is and all, but I have friends and family at home." Unmei said to this new
mermaid. She would have swam away, had she any idea where she was.

"Just like all the others. But don't worry, you'll enjoy it soon enough and feal so
greatful for your beuty that Prince Urchin would choose you." she replied, with a dreamy look on
her face. And this had started out with matters as important as saving the world from the dark
king, Norshin.

"Oh! I'm Coral, nice to meet my future queen." she giggled, bowing. Unmei smilled. These
people where rather nice, except for kidnapping her.

"Unmei of the Stars." she introduced. The young mermaid gasped.

"No way!" she asked, looking totaly shocked. What was wrong with her name? If Destiny
of the Stars was like some bad omen fraise, which was what her name translated to, then
why was she so shell shocked.

"What's wrong?" Unmei asked, skrunching up her brow.

"N,nothing. Good night, your mejesty." Coral bowed, then swam out the door.

"Strange." Unmei said. She then swam around the room, looking around. It was so weird,
swimming instead of walking. Unmei wished more than anything to go home, even though it was a
nice place, when she remembered something important.
She was a mystic.
Being a mystic Unmei could cast spells, and one very important one was teleportation!
Unmei quickly began chanting a spell she had used hundreds of times.

"Mana Kesless!"

Nothing.

"Mana Kesless!" she mumbled, more urgently.

Zilch.

"Mana Kesless!!!" she screeched, one more time, breaking into sobs, realising that
they also enchanted Atlantis so the mystics could not teleport away. She swam over to the bed,
noticing that at once below the cannopy of the bed, some strange artifitial gravity pushed her
down on her bed so she could sleep. After an hour or so, Unmei fell asleep from crying,
giving up all hope of ever returning home.

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The next morning, Unmei woke and sat down on her bed. She felt strange, as if she had
been enchanted.

'Probably so, kowing mermaids. Wonder what?' Their was a soft knocking at the door, and
cautiously, Coral came back in.

"Good morning your higness. You are expected to go downstairs after you have eaten, and
join Prince Urchin, and his royal parents." she informed, obviously calmed after last night.
Unmei wondered where, and what you would eat under the sea. She was very hungry.

"Pearl will come by soon enough with your food. I will see you later, your higness." and
then, Coral left. Unmei saighed.

"If the rest of my life is going to be like this, than I realy pity all those other
nystic princesses." she said to herself aloud. Unmei swam around the room for awile, enjoying
the feal of nothing holding her downm till a small hand ratted against the door. Unmei opened
the door to reveal a young mermaid with red hair holding a small tray.

"Hi, I'm Pearl! Here, I brought you some food!" she said, bowing. Unmei laughed,
enjoying everyone bowing to her.

"I'm Unmei, come in." she said, allowing the youne mermaid access. Pearl swam across to
a small table and set down the tray and lifted the top to some seaweed and fish. Unmei ate the
fish, but looked at the seaweed curiously. Pearl giggled.

"They said you might not take intrest to the seaweed. Just like humans need water, if
you are to live down here, you will need to eat it." she said, sitting down next to Unmei.

"Do you mind if I ask you a question?" Pearl suddenly peeped up.

"Sure." Unmei replied.

"I used to live on land to as a human, but when I was five, while I was swimming, I
suddenly got pulled down and brought here," Pearl began.

'So she was kidnapped to become a slave.' Unmei thought sadly.

"and they turned me into a mermaid. I don't remember much of my life on land, I
beleive it is because of an enchantment they place on you. I guess soon you will forget too. So
before you do, I wanted to ask you what it is like on land." she continued. Unmei felt bad
that she would forget her seventeen years on land. She knew she felt weird that morning. Unmei
pushed those thoughts back, though, however. 'Prehaps it will be for the best.' she thought.

So Unmei told Pearl all she could remember of land, the trees, flowers, animals, the
clouds and sun, and anything else. Whe she had done, Pearl just sat their, drinking up all she
had heard, then sighed.

"I wished I still lived on land. It sounds wonderful! Now when you forget, I will be
able to retell you, so you will always remember. Oh, if I could, I would go back." Pearl said
sadly. "It is so dark and bleak here, and I always after care for the seven snoby princesses."

"Don't worry, Pearl. Maybe someday we will get out of here." Unmei said.

"If anyone will, I'm sad to say, it will be me. Once you marry to the prince, you will
be binded to the sea for ever." Pearl muttered. "Your so beutiful, with your pink hair, you
never find someone as pretty as you down here. And kind. Even if I get the chance, I would
never let you alone down here." the young mermaid said, hugging her. Unmei's heart sunk at this,
but felt happier that this girl would do so for her.

"Calm down. We will talk again later. I mujst go see the prince." and with that, Unmei
left Pearl on her bed, and swam down to see Prince Urchin.

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Unmei swam down and saw Prince Urchin waiting for her.

"Good morining, Unmei." he said. Unmei said nothing, angry at this merman for making her
life a total hell, ignoring the fact that he knew her name as well. He grabbed her arm and led
her to a room with his father, mother, and other important looking mermaids and mermen.

"Good evening Father, Mother," he said, bowing. "Counsel." he continued bowing to the
others. He led her to two empty seats and sat her down in one, and him setting in one next to
hers.

"On my trip, I searched all lakes, but found no girl who I thought to take up my mothers
place. After three waves, I gave up and desided to return, but decided to try the lakes on my
way home. I found one inparticular lake, and inside I saw Unmei, swimming around, looking for her
ring she had dropt, when she got her feet entangle in some seaweed. I desided I would choose
her, and grabbed her after her feet got loose, and brought her here. Since then, I found out
Unmei is a mystic, and a very powerful one at that, considering her teleportation spell she
tried last night nearly worked."

Unmei glared at the young prince and said nothing.

"Well the matters we have are important, and I know tradition is five waves, but we must
change it to tomorrows third current." one mermaid said.

"Yes, you are right, so at todays third current we must change her to a mermaid." the
Queen said.

"No!" Unmei suddenly spoke out.

"And why not? Still have your memories of land, but you will love the dark ocean to that
wretched land." a merman said.

"Good, then at the third current have the ceremony ready. The the wedding will be the
third current tomorrow? Good. Lets get ourselfs prepared." another merman said, and all got up
and began talking to the king and queen. Prince Urchin grabbed Unmei's hand and pulled her out
of the room.

"At the third current, or one and a half hours from now, you will become a mermaid! It
will take one day for the spell to become permanent, so in one day, we will marry!" he he said
happily.

"No!" Unmei yelled, and she ripped her arm from Prince Urchin and swam back up to the
room she was currently staying in.

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Hey! I know I said the next would be out Sunday, but I changed my mind, and wrote this
for all of ya. Hope you are enjoying it so far, and I'm not even going to ask you to reveiw
because if you do, you do. I'm writing this anyways. Well, the next one hopefully will be out
soon. Till next time!
Moon Shards