Mermaids

Crossover: Harry Potter x the Little Mermaid

Spoilers: Little Mermaid II.

A/N: Thanks to those who reviewed! This fanfic was written for the Crossovers100 (LJ Community) challenge for Prompt #51: Water.

Disclaimer: Don't own anyone or anything.

- Chapter 3 -

"Do you have to go?" Eric asked, holding onto Ariel.

Ariel laughed, "Hermione will need someone she knows and trusts down there. Besides, I can visit Flounder and my sisters again. I don't exactly have to go, but I want to. I wish you could come."

"I do too."

"But you can't. You have a kingdom to run. Take care of Melody; I'll be back before you know it. It should only take a few days or so." Ariel said, kissing Eric once again.

A few feet away Melody rolled her eyes, as Hermione looked at the two happily married couple with some envy. She hoped she would have that soon after Hogwarts.

"I better go, goodbye!" Ariel stated, moving towards Hermione and Melody. Turning her attention to her daughter, she sniffed. "Be good for your father, I'll be back in a few days. Love you."

Ariel brought Melody into a hug and kissed her forehead. "Love you too mom."

"Ready?" asked King Triton. Both Hermione and Ariel turned to him and nodded. They walked closer to the beach, and entered the ocean from shore. They swam closer into deeper water. King Triton gently laid the trident on a wave in the ocean and a sudden white glow came from it, crossing the ocean towards Hermione and Ariel. It surrounded them and when it finally faded, both Hermione and Ariel were mermaids.

Hermione stared in surprise as she looked down at her tail. It was green colored, almost exactly like the dress she had been wearing earlier that day. It was much darker then Ariel's light green. Her hair also seemed to be less crazy as it usually was and her bra was of sea shells, almost exactly like Ariel's except light bluish green.

"I'm… I'm really a mermaid!" Hermione cried completely excited that it really worked. That for who knew how many days she would spend being a mermaid. She was ecstatic. Without another word she dove into the water.

Underwater she saw tons of fish and underwater plants. They swam around her as she got closer, never scared that she would hurt them. She smiled and then realized that she hadn't been holding her breath. She laughed happily as she emerged from the sea. "I can't believe this… this is a dream come true even if this is temporally, thank you so much!" Hermione shouted before waving Melody and Eric good-bye. As they laughed, she dived back underwater.

Ariel smiled at her antics, as she swam near her father. She turned and faced her beloved family. "I love you! I'll be back soon! Take care!"

"Good-bye mom! Love you!"

"I love you!" Eric shouted waving until both Ariel and King Triton went underwater and followed Hermione. "Please come back to me safely."

-

"What I don't understand, in my world or future or whatever, mermaids don't look anything what you two look like. Or me for that matter now. Nor have they ever loved a human." Hermione stated, swimming next to Ariel as she showed her around the ocean.

"What do they look like?" Ariel asked, curious.

"Well, I've never saw them before, but my best friend Harry saw them in a lake and said they had grayish skin and dark green hair. And their eyes were bright yellow." Hermione explained, Ariel frowned realizing who she was explaining.

"You mean the selkies? You mean no one else knows about our type of merpeople?" Ariel asked.

"Well, the magical world back home knows only of two kinds, selkies and the sirens. The non-magical world believes merpeople are legends and myths. Not many actually believe they exist." Hermione stated and Ariel nodded softly. She was worried that something might have happened in the future which would be why they – her father's kingdom weren't known.

"What happened to us?" Ariel asked sadly and in a whisper. Hermione almost hadn't heard her.

She stopped swimming, which brought Ariel to a stop as well. "I really don't know, Ariel. All that I've heard of Atlantica was that it was a myth. Even witches from my time don't believe it actually existed. Regular people are always looking for the lost city though hoping to find the legendary place."

Ariel tried to cheer up, "Well, maybe we're still all alive – we just never made contact. Before I met Eric, my father banned us ever surfacing to the surface especially to show ourselves to them." Ariel stated, explaining. "But the human world interested me too much. I couldn't keep myself away from collecting anything and everything from them from their shrunken ships. And then one time, a storm hit a ship and I fell for the Prince that was on it. I saved him and well… here I am."

"I would really love to hear you and Eric's story. I'm sure it was romantic." Hermione stated with a smile. Both she and Ariel started to swim again.

"Your right, it was romantic and very much an adventure I would do all over again if it ended up with me, Eric and Melody." Ariel said with a large smile.

"The water feels wonderful… and I'm so getting use to the idea I won't end up a wrinkled old prone after awhile. And it's so easy to swim. I really do love this Ariel, you have no idea how much I wanted to be a mermaid when I was younger."

"Probably as much as I wanted to be a human. I understand perfectly, Hermione. And I'm very glad that you were able to get your wish."

"Thank you Ariel. I really appreciate everything you and your father are doing for me."

TBC.

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