Hey everyone! Sorry for the trouble but I had to go back and revise the witchs story and the next part of the story has a lot to do with that so pay attention.

"I would be honored," she turned in her seat so that she was facing Artemis and then moved a little closer to him. "Well unlike your story in truth Arial was at first a human- the Mud Men changed that part around to make it seem like fairy people wanted to be like them. Anyways, Arial was in love with the prince of her fathers' rival kingdom-much like a Romeo and Juliet situation- and when the two kingdoms refused to unite the young lovers looked to "new places" to find a haven for their love.

Arial had heard of a Witch who lived at the far end of the shore, deep inside a cave. Her and her prince decided to go there and ask her for help in exchange for anything she wanted, but when they found the Witch, she asked for one thing. She also said that she had been waiting for them since the day they had been born. She told them the stars had said them destined for each other," Zinnias' eyes glistened as she said this. "She told the couple that she had made a spell for them. She told them the sea would be theirs and that if they ever grew tired of the ocean they could leave but not to stay away to long because by accepting the spell they made themselves part of the sea. She told them that their children would be born the same as them.

So the couple traded the Witch. They gave her the part of them that bond them to the land and she gave them something that bond them to the sea.

Imagine their surprise though when they find that they are not the only ones of there kind. They find out that the Witch has made the deal before with other humans and that the reason why she took their land essence was because the Witch was an immoral creature and she was the only true mermaid in existence. After the rest of her kind had died out, she made her fist deal with a human couple. She used what she took form them to enable her to a human.

Sadly enough she searched for her love for hundreds of years but never found him. So she returned to the sea. And by the time she did all the humans she had made into mermaids had formed their own underwater kingdom. She went there and found a merman, who by the way was the prince at the time, and married him. She cast away her immortality. And with a heavy heart, she cast one last spell, that if ever one of her descendents were to find themselves in her situation that they would not have to settle for a love that was never whole but they would find true love with a Mud Boy. Like you!" she laughed and then sat back in her seat.

Everything fit Zinnias' account of the events, except the end. Artemis was quickly tangled in the swirl of words that filled his head. Surely, this wasn't the real story. Maybe Foaly had been wrong this time, because according to him, the sea Witchs' story was far more complicated than what Zinnia had said.

Not only had there had been two princes -one was good and one bad- but the witch had had a half sister who was ten years younger than her.

The bad son had tried to win the Witchs' affection but she ended up falling in love with the good bother and on the day of the Witchs' and the good brothers' wedding the other brother had tried to kill him. The kings had then banished him from Atlantis.

The couple had lived in happily, until one day the good prince and his young son went missing. Vanished with only a letter let behind. It said:

My injustice will now be rectified. And as I have been banished, so shall be he. From this day forth he and his son will forever be doomed to live the life of mud men. And her sister will one day bring back the kingdom to its rightful air.

Amd according to the story shortly after that the witch killed hersel, leaving the kingdom to her young sister; who later married and had childern of her own.

Well, Artemis thought as he replayed the story over in his head. He didn't know which story was less believable.