AN: I couldn't help it! I think I'm on my way on writing only angsty stories. Don't worry. I always track off and make them really funny. At least I think so.
So I thought Disney made this one a really angsty one. Too bad they shortened the version. In the REAL 'The Little Mermaid', the prince actually marries another girl. The sea witch, Ursula if you insist, gave the mermaid's sisters, Ariel's sisters if you insist, a dagger. If she plunged that dagger into the prince's heart while he was sleeping with his new wife, she would be returned her fins. That had to happen that very night, and if she didn't, she would be the one to die. She doesn't kill him, and instead becomes an angel, which was what she wanted to truly do. Become an angel. Mermaids don't become them, they just... disappear into the waves, becoming one with the ocean.
Cool sounding, but she wanted to fly, be in the forbidden sky, and soar throughout the clouds. Yeah. Something like that.
The real version is posted here. It's the fourth 'chapter'... so can people stop e-mailing me for the real version...?! (Especially since something's really wrong with my account right now...)
She immersed herself into the water. The glory of swimming, such as this. Holding up an arm, she reached out to grab at the air, but closed her fist, pulling her hand painstakingly back towards her body.
"No. I musn't. I promised. Never again." And she sorrifully turned her head and swam slowly back towards her home, the kingdom underneath the waters.
Atlantis.
Mermaids
Chapter One
Breaking the Rules
By: blue sakuras
Don't ever let them see you.
Don't ever stay up there too long.
Don't ever fall in love.
Don't ever touch one.
The four most important rules for a mermaid. If you ever passed the test of human transformation, then you could see the land above. But if you were to disregard the four most important rules, then you were forbidden to return to the soil. Forbidden for contact with humans and demons alike.
Kagome had broken all four. She was banned to transform for 400 years. To become a human, to have two legs, to be able to walk around, and to breathe air. She was forbidden for 400 years. After those long years were over, she could once again go to see, to see the land, the rich, firm soil. But what would it be for? Why should she go if the one she had loved up above was no longer there? After all, he was only human. And humans don't live that long.
Why should she go back to a place that would only break her heart even further?
She had broken so many rules, that getting a pardon would be impossible. Not hard, but impossible. There was no hope for one. She had broken the four most important rules, and many others. But the four rules she had broken, would cause her enough grief. That was why they had let her live.
If the grief the situation caused her were not much, they would have taken her life And she would have become one with the waves, one with the ocean that she loved so dearly.
But she had chosen to forsake the waters, and be on land. And even more, she made a choice to be on land, to stay with the human she loved. The mortal.
"Mermaids are immortals and MUST remain separate from those who take the normal way of life. Death." Rang her mother's stern voice, the memory of her talk with her mother evident. Kagome smiled sadly at the memory.
"Why?" a little Kagome had asked, curious to know why mermaids couldn't be friends with humans.
"Because, in the end, only grief will come." She answered with a sad tone.
"What about youkai?"
"No, because, even though they live a much longer life span, they also suffer from the ageing of time."
"But why can't we still be friends? And mermaids still die too! Isn't that what happened to Papa?"
Her mother looked down at Kagome sadly, almost painstakingly. "Yes, but that was for other reasons."
"But-"
"Hush, and go to sleep. I'll explain more when you're older."
'But you never got to.' Kagome thought bitterly, 'Because a week later, you died too. You left me all alone, just because of your grief. You didn't love me enough to bear the pain with me.'
Closing her hands into fists, Kagome swam towards her room, ignoring Kaede's call.
"Do they really exist?"
"Yep. And they can crawl out of the sea," and the man talking pantomimed crawling in a creepy way, "And go to your room," pointing at the young boy, "And eat your fleeessshhh.. Shippou... your fleeessshhh.." Inuyasha grinned.
"Ew. You're disgusting." Rin pipped up.
"Yeah, well, YOU guys are the ones that wanted me to tell you about them." Grinning like the moron Sesshoumaru thought he was, he strolled towards the water, the tide barely touching his toes.
"Uncle Inu! I wanna know! Do they REALLY exist?" a cute voice pipped up from behind him, a tugging on his shirt. Turning around, Inuyasha saw that it was Koharu, the little maid girl from the kitchens. Kneeling down, he took her hand and nodded solemnly.
"Did you hear what I told Rin and Shippou?" And with a nod from her, he continued, "Well, that won't happen to you, if you're a good little girl. Now, did you get the goods?"
Grinning, she pulled the hand from her back and showed him the bowl of ramen.
"YES!" Grabbing the bowl, he shouted his thanks to the girl and started running.
"INUYASHA!" a deep voice barked out from the cliff up above. "GET BACK WITH THAT RAMEN!"
Grinning, (He seems to be doing a lot of that ne?) Inuyasha turned and started running backwards, just so he could flip off Kouga, the cook.
"FUCK OFF!"
::cough:: Sorry, it's just that I was sorta getting tired of getting e-mails to e-mail somebody something that was already posted here... ::sigh::