Aqua Maidens
Chapter 2: Meet Sakana
Disclaimer: I don't own the Ranma gang. I just wrote the fic. The mermaid's are mine. Not yours. MINE. Got that?
Author's note: sorry this is so late. I was done half of it then I went on holidays for a month and forgot to bring my disc with me. When I came back, I couldn't find the disk. So, sorry for the delay.
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Akane hit the ocean floor. Yep she was dead.
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When she woke up, she was lying on a table with about a dozen women standing around her. Half of them had strange color hair, like green, gold, pink and blue. The other half had blond, brown or black hair. They all had the same purplish tint to their skin.
"Sakana, she's awake!" A silver haired maiden said.
A young woman came over. She had seaweed green hair that was in a loose ponytail. The hair that couldn't reach the scrunchie, had a piece seaweed wrapped around it, one on either side, level with her eye, and another level with her earlobe. "Drink this." She said as she handed Akane a glass. Akane drank the purple liquid then threw up over the edge of the table. That is when she noticed that the room was half filled with water. And the women, they had long fishlike tails. They were mermaids.
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When all of the other mermaids had departed, Sakana sat down next to Akane.
"Where am I?" Akane asked.
"You're in the ocean."
"I want to go back to Japan."
"You can't. You're dead."
"What do you mean."
"You drowned. If you go back on land, you'll be dead. I'm giving you another chance to live."
"What do I have to do?"
"I'll tell you later. But first, get some rest." Sakana smiled sweetly and left the room.
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Akane woke up; she looked around, remembering where she was. Sakana came in with two bowls of soup.
"How are you feeling? I brought you some lunch."
She sat down in a chair and handed one of the bowls to Akane.
After they were finished, Sakana took Akane into the hall.
It was also filled up to Akane's waist. "This is the only wing that has air in it. All the other's are totally filled with water." They passed a door. "This is the castle's nurse. If something happens while you're here, you go to her." Sakana told Akane.
"What do you mean by castle?"
"You are in my castle. I'm the leader of this mertribe. Everybody lives in here. We all get fed by the cook. Seniors first, of coarse."
"How do you get the water to stay at this level?"
"Magic. A spell was put on this wing so only this amount of water can be in it. No more. No less." They stopped at a door and Sakana pulled out a set of keys, picked out the right one and opened the door. Inside were rows and rows of clothes. A petite woman stepped out from behind a rack.
"Another one, eh, Sakana?" She moved her white hair out of her face.
"Yes. Can you get her ready? The full moon's tonight." She turned to Akane. "I have to go, I'll be back soon."
Akane really didn't want her to go. But she agreed. The mermaid, whose name was Minik, started measuring Akane. Then she flipped through racks of clothes, and found the right size. She handed it to Akane, and told her to go into the dressing room and try it on. The outfit was a green skirt made entirely out of scales, and a tube top made out of seaweed that was woven together.
"It doesn't fit just right." Minik said
"No, it's okay."
"If you're going to wear it for all eternity, then we'll have to fix it." She pulled out a thin silver stick and said a few words. And the skirt changed its shape to match Akane's form perfectly.
"Can all mermaids do that?"
"No. Only some of the older ones and the royalty."
"You mean Sakana can do magic?"
"Yes, but she doesn't like to talk about it with new ones."
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That night, Sakana led Akane outside the castle, into a courtyard. In the courtyard there was a stone table. Sakana instructed Akane to lay on it. She sprinkled an herb over her; and Akane fell asleep. Mermaids gathered all around. They started chanting. Sakana's eyes rolled back and she started moaning. In a different voice, she hissed, "She is worthy. Let her change." Sakana fainted. She was limp on the ground. The mermaids' chant sped up. The moonlight shone through the water. Akane floated up. The water spun around her. Her skirt grew tighter, and sprung a fish's tail fin. Her skin changed into scales. She grew gills. Akane woke up. She let go her last breath of air. And she started to breathe with her gills. She gasped when she saw Sakana lying on the ground. She carried Sakana inside the castle, one woman showed her to Sakana's room. There, Akane laid her on the bed. Sakana woke shortly after.
"Geez. Good thing I don't do this all the time."
She took Akane on a tour of the castle. "Are you any good at cooking?"
Akane thought about every time Ranma made a big deal out of her cooking. "Not really."
"What do you like to do?"
Akane told Sakana about how her father owned the dojo. Sakana brought her outside and showed her the small group of fighters.
"Every other full moon; we have a small fight against another group."
"Why aren't there any guys here?"
"We don't take in the males. We feed them to the giant squid. An offering as a deal for him not to attack us. Anyway if we did take them in, our name, Aqua Maidens, wouldn't make any sense
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Well that's the end of the chapter. It's cut abit short, but the rest will be in the next, and last chapter!