I finally managed to write this chapter up! Yesterday, I went to see Evan Almighty (a funny movie!), ate a restaurant, and finished up the day with a little shopping. So I had no time to write. Now, I'm sick (if it's even possible to have a cold in ninety degree weather) and was half asleep writing this. Anyways, I don't own Yugioh or the Little Mermaid story I'm gonna mention here.
Yugi danced around his sister the morning after the festival.
She watched as he twirled, flipped, and somersaulted the whole time after he woke up.
Sonya laughed and commented, "The last time you were this happy was when I gave you a piece of chocolate I gave you to try."
"That was a good tasting treat," Yugi replied swimming over to her. "Besides it's a beautiful day, no?"
He grabbed her hands and began to dance around with her.
"What's up with you," she asked him still giggling. "You can't keep something this exciting to yourself, you know."
Yugi decided to try his luck, and tell her about Yami.
Bad idea.
"I met this wonderful human, Sunny," he told her dreamily. "He was so handsome, sweet, mysterious-"
"A human!" Sonya exclaimed. "I told you not to associate with any of them!"
"I know, but he fell off of the docks," Yugi explained, "and I saved him before he drowned."
"Yugi, you should have just left him on the shore, and fled," she said angrily. "You could've been caught, or worse, you might have gotten hurt!"
"Jou and I made him promise to keep our identities a secret," Yugi assured her.
"What do you mean 'our?'" Sonya questioned. "You revealed Anzu's and Ryou's identities, too?!"
"Not Ryou's," Yugi told her. "Anzu wanted to meet him."
"What were you thinking?" Sonya cried in fury. "I'm fine with Jou being your friend, but some strange, random human?!"
"Yami is different!" Yugi burst out. "Besides, you saved him a long time ago. That must count for something!"
Sonya's eyes grew when she heard Yami's name.
"The boy still remembers me," she whispered to herself.
"Yes, and he was so grateful for what you did, he's been spending most of his years trying to find and thank you," Yugi informed him. "Does that sound like a bad human?"
A smile graced Sonya's lips, as she remembered all those years ago, when she had saved him.
"He was so small," she laughed telling Yugi. "I thought he wouldn't remember me."
"Well he does," Yugi stated. "You wanna go meet him?"
Sonya looked over at her brother and asked, "You know where he is?"
"Yeah, he always hangs around the docks," Yugi told her. "If you want, we could go now."
Sonya shook her head and grabbed Yugi's arm. "I remember the boy, but that doesn't make me any less angry at the attraction you grew to him."
"But Sonya-"
"No Yugi," she interrupted. "I don't want you to end up like Kisara."
"What is the big deal about her?" Yugi asked in annoyance.
Sonya swam over to a large rock, and sat down.
"Come," she beckoned. "I'll tell you the story of this poor soul."
Yugi sat down and said, "Please, tell me the full story."
"Alright, our story begins a few hundred years ago, when kings and queens ruled the land, and the undersea folk knew little about them."
Story Time!
Kisara was a beautiful, young mermaid.
Her hair was a snowy white, and eyes were a radiant blue, just as the ocean itself. Her tail was a sky blue, and her heart was always in the right place.
The young mermaid, however, hid her true feelings in a mask of happiness. She had always longed for a life in the outside world.
Although Kisara had friends, family, and a place to call home, she felt trapped in the ocean.
"I can feel that there is something better in the world out there for me," Kisara told her friend, a dolphin called Flip. "I know it's not here in this prison, either."
Flip felt sorry for his friend and wanted to do something to keep Kisara happy again.
"Kissy," he told her. "I wasn't going to show you this until your birthday, but I have a surprise for you."
Kisara followed her young companion to an undersea cavern to find a large lump covered in a cloth.
"What is this?" she asked.
"Go ahead and take the cover off!" Flip answered excitedly.
Kisara did so carefully and gasped at what she saw.
It was the statue of a human! And by the looks of it, a human of great importance.
Although his face held a stern look, Kisara immediately feel in love with this figure.
"Oh Flip!" she cried. "This is so... amazing!"
"I'm just happy if you're happy," Flip replied with a blush.
Kisara danced around the statue, and she began to imagine living on the shore, with the handsome man as her husband.
"Oh, your majesty," she cried collapsing on his shoulder. "You shouldn't have!"
Flip smiled watching the mermaid play with him, but that smile turned to shook when she kisses the statue on the lips.
"Kisara!" he cried swimming over to her. "Why's you kiss him?"
Kisara just blushed and replied, "I was getting carried away."
A week had passed since the surprise, an the two friends kept the gift a secret.
Kisara didn't want to share her prince charming.
On the way to the cave, Kisara noticed a bunch of lights flashing above her.
"Something's going on up on shore," she told Flip. "Let's go see what it is."
The two popped their heads slowly out of the water and noticed a ship a few miles away.
"Look," Flip said in awe. "They're having a party on that boat."
"Let's take a closer look," Kisara told him swimming off.
"Wait for me!" Flip cried diving after her.
Once they got closer, Kisara took a peek inside the ship, to find all sort of people dancing, laughing, and having a good time.
"Wow," she whispered. "Look at all of the variety human come in."
"Attention everyone!" a tall, skinny man announced suddenly. "May I introduce, his royal highness, Prince Seto Kaiba!"
Kisara gasped as she saw the tall, regal brunette appear.
His icy blue eyes held a familiar stern look.
"It's him," Kisara told Flip. "The statue man!"
"He still looks as hard as a statue," Flip commented.
"No, he looks ever more handsome," Kisara corrected dreamily.
Flip was no fool and could tell Kisara fell hard for the human.
Kisara watched on as the man rejected each and every girl that wanted to dance with him, ignored anyone trying to strike up a conversation, and walked off into a secluded area.
"He looks so sad," Kisara said worriedly. "I hope he'll be alright."
Just then, a storm began to approach the ship, and when it did, it hit it hard.
"Oh no!" Kisara cried. "The ship!"
The ship was in a blaze, before it finally stopped its fight with the ocean, and sank.
Kisara cried for the loss of her crush, before she noticed a lone figure struggling to stay onto a plank of wood.
"My prince!" she cried swimming over to him.
Mermaids always have the instinct to help anyone in danger, be it human or not.
She saw that he was unconscious and grabbed him off of the piece of wood.
Swimming as hard and fast as she could, Kisara managed to get through the raging storm and onto land in one piece with Seto.
Once on land, she tried to wake up the prince.
"Please, wake up," she sobbed. "Don't die, please don't die!"
She caressed his face gently with her hand, pearly tears dropping down her cheeks.
"Please... don't leave me," she whispered.
Leaning down, she placed her lips on his for a chaste kiss.
She was interrupted by the sounds of other people's voices.
Quickly, Kisara jumped into the water, and watched from afar.
A young lady with long black hair and green eyes leaned down beside Seto.
"Please wake up, my prince," the lady begged.
Seto did wake up and looked around dazed.
"What the hell just happened?" he asked.
"You've experienced a shipwreck," she informed him. "Let me help you get back to the palace."
Seto had fainted from exhaustion after the first thing the lady told him.
Kisara felt both relieved that Seto was okay and jealous of the other woman.
Flip went up to her and asked, "Are you alright, Kissy?"
Kisara wiped up the last of her tears and said quietly, "Yes, I'm fine."
She had lied though. Her heart ached for the man who took her breath away.
The next morning, she had decided to visit the sea witch, who everyone knew for her astounding powers.
She was also known for her hard bargains.
When Kisara found her cavern home after some help from a friendly school of fish, she entered apprehensively.
"Hello, can you help me?" she called into the darkness.
"Yes my child," answered the sea hag covered in old rags. "The question is, what will you risk for it?"
"Anything," Kisara answered bravely. "I wish to be a human."
"Hmm, to capture the heart of a dear prince, no?" the witch asked.
"Precisely, can you help?" Kisara asked once more.
"Quite a gift you want," the hag replied. "However, it can be done... for a price."
"I 'll give you whatever you want!" Kisara exclaimed. "Jewels, gold, anything!"
"How about that pretty voice," the hag suggested.
Kisara froze at the response. "M-my voice?"
"Yes, I'd love to have that pretty voice," the hag told her. "What do you say? Voice for a pair of legs?"
"But how would I reveal my love to Seto?" she asked.
"Charms, pretty looks, you'll think of something," the hag answered. "So we have a deal?"
The hag presented her wart filled hand for Kisara to shake.
Apprehensively, Kisara grabbed her hand.
"Glad to hear it," the woman cackled. "Before we get some magic going, there are a few things I should mention to you."
"Alright, what are they?" Kisara asked.
"First, you'll feel the pain of a thousand knives whenever you walk. Next, no one will question you, or where you came from. Third, if your prince is to fall in love with another, the day after their marriage, you will be turned to sea foam!" she exclaimed laughing.
"Sounds fair enough," Kisara replied.
The sea witch grabbed a silver bottle from out of a cabinet.
"Here you are, dear," she said handing the bottle to Kisara. "The potion which will make your legs go bye-bye."
"What about my voice?" Kisara asked politely.
"Once you drink that, your voice with come to me, and your legs will appear," the witch assured. "Now get going, the potion will expire by midnight."
"Thank you," Kisara called to the hag.
"You're welcome, dear," she said with a crazy smile.
That night, Kisara went up to the shore where she had last left her beloved prince.
She placed the bottle close to her heart and whispered, "Soon I will be with you, my Seto."
Without a second thought, she drank ever last drop of the potion.
Her throat burned, making her want to cry out in pain. When she did, a faint ball of light escaped her mouth and dove under the sea.
She shut her eyes tight, when a horrid pain appeared down in her lower abdomen.
It felt as though a thousand knives were stabbing her, and she could only let out a tear of pain silently.
When she opened her eyes, she looked down to see the thing she never dreamed of seeing in her life.
'Legs,' she thought wiggling her toes.
"Hey!" a male voice called. "Who's out there? Do you have any idea what freakin' time it is!"
Kisara smiled when she saw her Seto come closer.
Once he looked into her clear blue eyes, he felt all his anger dissolve.
"Hey," he said in a quieter voice. "what are you doing here?"
Kisara only continued to smile at him.
'She looks seems so familiar...' Seto thought.
"Can you speak?" Seto asked confused why she didn't answer.
The young girl touched her throat with a sad expression and looked up at him.
"I'll take that as a 'no'" Seto sighed. "Well I can't leave a girl here all alone, now can I?"
It was then that he noticed she was naked in the dark and covered her up with his cape.
Picking her up bridal style he told her, "You'll be safer in the palace."
Everything was blissful for the next month, and Seto treated Kisara with warmth and love. A rare sight to see in the kingdom.
One day, however, all of Kisara's happiness was crushed, when a familiar face appeared.
Kisara knew those green eyes and black hair from a mile away.
Seto, unfortunately, did, too.
"Aqua," he whispered her nickname, "it's the girl that saved me from the shipwreck."
Kisara's spirit sank when she heard that.
'No, Seto,' her heart cried. 'I'm the girl.'
"I owe my life to her," he told Kisara. "I owe my heart to her, too."
Kisara ran off, when she saw Seto kneel before the girl.
She ran off to the ocean and collapsed in the water, from both the pain in her feet and in her heart.
Flip appeared before her and said, "You can still save your life."
Kisara looked at him with red, puffy eyes.
"Just pierce his heart with this," Flip told her, handing her a special knife. "I asked the sea witch to make it for you."
'Kill my beloved prince?' Kisara asked herself. 'Could I really do it?'
During the night, right after the wedding, Kisara was fighting with herself on what to do.
She quietly entered Seto's room, and raised the knife towards his heart.
'Flip told me I would be a mermaid again,' she thought. 'But, am I willing to risk your life.'
Kisara closed her eyes and dropped the knife to the floor.
A small smile graced her lips, as she watched her love continue to slumber peacefully.
'Your happiness, shall be my happiness, as well,' she thought leaning down to kiss his lips. 'Good-bye, my prince, my Seto, my love.'
Kisara made her way towards the ocean, and watched for the sunrise to appear.
Looking back one last time at the palace, she made her way into the ocean.
End of Story Time
"She dissolved into sea foam," Sonya told Yugi. "However, because of her strive for eternal happiness, she gained a soul and went to heaven."
"She gained a soul?" Yugi asked.
Sonya just nodded before sighing. "You see why you can't love, Yami? It'll never work out."
"But I'm not Kisara, Sunny," Yugi argued. "Yami's not prince Seto."
"He's still a human," Sonya replied annoyed. "And I forbid you to see him."
"You're not the boss of me!" Yugi shouted. "I'm old enough to make my own choices."
"I won't stand by and watch you kill yourself," Sonya shot back. "Please, don't make the same mistake."
"You don't understand," Yugi cried. "You'll never understand what I feel for him."
With that, Yugi swam off as fast as he could.
Sonya knew he was heading off in the direction of his friends, so she didn't try to stop him.
"Oh Yugi," she cried heartbroken. "Why did this have to happen to you?"
She looked towards the direction of the puzzle box and saw it was missing.
Do you know how hard it is to write up the entire story of the Little Mermaid in one chapter? I hope I didn't forget any detail, or drag it on, or something like that. I know I said this chapter was suppose to have Ryou's explanation of what happened on the surface between himself and Bakura, but that would give me headache from writing so much, and a super long chapter for you to read. Still, I would like to get some reviews for this, if you want to criticize. Until tomorrow, see ya:-)