HI EVERYBODY! Welcome to the second chapter of my story The Mermaid Chronicles: The Beginning! Now in the last chapter we got into why Ariel was on land!
Yami: would you stop using italics now? You used them in three other stories and now I have a headache!
Ariel: Me too…
Me: Fine. Whatever.
Ariela: Wow, after a month you're FINALLY getting back to it?
Me: Shut it Ariela
Ariel: I just want to know what's going to happen next
Yami: Yes, For once, I am intrigued by the authoress's story plotline…
Me: You read it didn't you?
Yami: Maybe…
Me: Don't spoil it for people now!
Yami: Alright! Alr- where's Yugi?
Me: I dunno, look for him!
ANYWAY! On to the story!
Ariela: what did we say about using Italics?
Me: BITE ME BITCHES!
ONWARD ALREADY!
This is the Back-story for those of you who didn't read it last time…: Ok, Ariel here does NOT lose her voice to the sea witch; she gets a potion from urchin and turns human. Vanessa is a rival mermaid who is jealous of Ariel and succeeds in making her life a living hell by getting the same potion, turning human, and stealing Jim Hawkins from "Treasure Planet" away from Ariel. This is a continuation of a video by "PaleLittleGirl1" the video is called, "You that I despised." Not only that, this is what I think would happen if Ariel was given the chance to get over that and live out her dream to live as a human. ENJOY!
Key:
What Happened in the last chappie
/Flashback/
"Singing"
"Talking"
"Other line on the phone"
"Reading letter in/out flashback"
[Time Jump]
(Changing P.O.V)
Dream Sequence
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN Yu-Gi-Oh! OR The Little Mermaid
[Last time]
Ariel tore her eyes away from the sun as it completely left her view yet the orange and yellow color hovered over the mountains where the sun was once visible, blending in with the dark blue sky. She raised her hand from her glass, moving over to place it on the small handle of the window's cover, and, without hesitation…
Ariel pulled it closed.
[Now, 1 year later]
Ariel just sighed as she closed the door to her apartment. When she had said that she would do something with her life after him she didn't expect herself to have been in this situation; she lost this job because she wouldn't date her boss – Really? Ariel wasn't naïve, he wanted to have sex with her – but of course; her workplace wasn't in the best part of town anyway…
Annoyed, she threw her keys onto the kitchen counter to the left of her. What was it with people? You take a liking to one of you employees, then you make a move and when they reject your advances you just FIRE them? Greedy bastard; he wanted his caked and wanted to eat it too, like as if she would want to go out with the man anyway since he just oozed slimy-ness and just overall grossness. Not only was he a fat pig but he was married to an equally fat and gross wife.
Ariel opened the fridge and surveyed the contents. Half a jug of milk, some left-over Chinese, some questionable looking fruit, and moldy bread. With a grunt, Ariel grabbed the Chinese and was about to put it in the fridge when she remembered that it too was old and probably moldy. With a huff she took out all of the Undesirables out of her fridge and threw them into her trash can. 'ok, the stuff in the fridge defiantly had seen better days… maybe there's something in the pantry… hopefully.' Ariel opened her pantry and did a little victory dance when she saw she had a box of cereal left. Grabbing it she placed it on the counter and moved around the kitchen to grab the milk – after checking to see it was still good and to her relief, it was - , a bowl, and a spoon from the sink that had been cleaned and yet to be put away.
Ten minutes later and the mermaid's stomach was happily digesting the cereal while she laid down on her bed and contemplated what she would do now. It had been hard enough to find that job and since she wouldn't be able to use him as a contact because of previously mentioned information it would be hard to try to get another one. Yay.
Ariel looked to the envelope that had been inserted inside of her apartment door with the letters "KC" on it in bold blue and silver outline. She narrowed her eyes at it suspiciously, she didn't know whether she should have opened it or not, seeing as her luck was not satisfactory as of late and would hate to find out she was getting some kind of booty call from a play-boy billionaire that had somehow seen her face. KC… the initials rang a dim bell in her mind, Ariel swore she had seen them somewhere before but the answer of "Where" eluded her. Ariel let out a frustrated growl, when had her life become so complicated?
Ariel blinked as she looked around her surroundings. She was in the lagoon again, the water calm and the birds twittered in the distance. Jim sat across from her in the row boat she was in; deep into a story about one of the high-seas adventures of Captain Flint who was the most notorious pirate known where Jim grew up. Everything seemed surreal, Ariel felt at home but there was something nagging at the back of her mind…
Now, she was walking towards the dining room, dressed in the coral pink dress given to her by the residing duke there for her to wear that evening. It accented her hips and the sleeves clung to her arms. The dress flowed as she walked down the hallway, her shoes clicking against the marble floor. When she arrived, Jim was awestricken; he couldn't take his eyes off her. Again, something nagged at the back of her mind…
Ariel looked up at the commotion going on below her window, seeing a group of people carrying someone, another survivor perhaps? No, it wouldn't be… Wait isn't that…
Ariel woke up in the guest bedroom she resided in, the morning sun winking at her through her opened window, she got up and went to the window to breathe in the morning air as the birds sung in the trees. As she went down the stairs from her room she caught Jim with that… she-devil Vanessa latched onto his arm, talking to the butler. Jim comforted her from time to time when she broke down in a fit of tears; Ariel knew this had something to do with her…
Ariel's eyes prickled at the corners, Somehow Vanessa had convinced Jim that Ariel had attacked her a fortnight ago, saying that it was un-provoked and brutal. She tried to tell Jim that it wasn't her, she never attacked Vanessa because she was in her room that night but he didn't care and it didn't help that Vanessa had swooned Jim earlier when she was still in her mermaid form. He made Ariel pack up her things and sent her away in a carriage with Vanessa at his side, smirking at Ariel as she was taken from the castle…
Ariel sat straight up in her bed as she woke up from her nightmare, drenched in sweat and tears running down her cheeks. Her time with Jim and the fallout had become reoccurring nightmares; haunting her day and night as she tried to forget those memories… She looked around her room; her dresser had minor trinkets and the envelope on it, her desk neat, and her floor clear. The room was bare and cold. When had she'd fallen asleep anyways? She jumped as someone banged on her front door.
Ariel wrapped arms around herself as she shivered; cold chills ran down her spine as she sat her feet down onto the cold hardwood floor. She wrapped her blanket around herself as she got up from her bed, shuffling out her bedroom door and down the hallway towards her front door where the banging came from.
"Hang on! I'll be there in a second." Ariel called out as she made it to her door and undid the many locks on it, she got the final lock undone and opened the door to see a man who was 5"10, wore a black suit and tie, and black sunglasses.
"May I help you?" she asked timidly,
"Does an 'Ariel' take residence here?" He asked gruffly,
"This is her, How can I help-" Ariel yelped as her arm was grabbed by the man at her front door and dragged through the doorway, "What is the meaning of this? Let me go!" she struggled as the man hand-cuffed her to the door and went throughout her apartment, gathering her clothes and trinkets in a bag that he had picked up in the hallway closet. When he was done gathering the items her grabbed Ariel's keys, took off the handcuffs, cuffed her to him, and went out the door locking it behind them.
"I demand to know why you are taking me from my home! Let. Me. GO!" Ariel raised her voice in anger as she tugged and pulled at the handcuff that kept her attached to the burly man, wanting to be freed from them and go back to her apartment. Before she knew it, Ariel was outside and down the front stairs when a limo pulled up. She struggled more as the man went towards the limo, dragging her along. Ariel was then shoved into the limo. The door shut, and the limo sped off towards god knew where, and somehow her other hand was cuffed to an armrest while the man un-cuffed his hand from hers and attached hers to the other armrest. She struggled for a few minutes until she stilled, knowing that she wasn't going to be freed from her bonds anytime soon. The burly man was in the seat across from her when a phone went off. He picked up the car phone to the side,
"Hello? Yes I have your package right here in front of me. She put up quite a fight but I managed to get her in the car.-"
"What the hell do you want with me?" She cried out, "What is the meaning of this! Let me go before I report you all for kidnapping!" the man chuckled,
"- And as you can see, she keeps yelling at us to let her go." the burly man switched the phone from one ear to the other as the voice on the other side spoke gruffly, "Yes, she isn't harmed in anyway unless you account for the minor bruising around her wrists from when she fought with me." The voice thanked the man and hung up. Ariel had a feeling the fate had dealt her another unwelcome experience as the man in front of her gave her an once-over. "We shouldn't be arriving for a long time, so relax and take a nap. You're going to need it." The man said as he made himself comfortable in the car seat.
The man had been right; it had been a good five hours before they had made to their destination, Ariel's body was stiff all over from staying in the same position for over two hours. When it came time for the man to un-cuff her she stood still, waiting for her chance to escape as he undid her bonds. The second the cuffs came off she bolted out the car; the door had been opened and the driver was too slow to catch her as she let her long legs carry her through the streets, nearly getting hit as she ran through the crosswalks when the lights had turned green for the cars and red for her. Somewhere behind her she heard a car horn and some well-placed curse words….
When Ariel did finally slow down she realized that she had no idea where she was. Ariel knew that she had been taken out of the bad part of town and was probably taken to the richer district by the limo before she had bolted. She looked around as she sat down at a fountain, her legs were like rubber and she gasped like a fish out of water – she internally chuckled seeing as she kinda was a proverbial "fish" out of water – as she breathed in precious oxygen. After a few minutes Ariel found out that she had ran into the middle of the city without stopping, the thought of running for miles for so long had made her rub her legs as they started to hurt; fear wormed its way into her heart as she began to think over the current predicament… she had nowhere to stay. Ariel couldn't walk home, the walk back would be too dangerous as she had learned that lesson the hard way a couple weeks before when she had to run away from a couple of thugs, she didn't know anyone in the city and her cell phone was with her stuff which that crazy rich guy's agent had.
Ariel moaned as she dropped her head into her hands, kicking herself as she knew that she should have stayed with the crazy rich guy… Although, that could have been a worse situation yet because if the man was willing to send his cohorts to her apartment, hand-cuff her to a car seat, and have her taken to his home- what if he wanted her to be his little "Pet" that he gets to play with on the weekends? What if he wanted her as a… "Stress Relief"…. So many what ifs ran through her mind as she contemplated which situation could have been worse- Her staying with the guy or doing what she did and bolted for it? After a few minutes she came to the conclusion that both situations were equal in standing… Ariel shot her head up as she heard an evil cackle... Her head shot from left to right but didn't see the source of the sound, and from the looks of the wacky-haired male a couple of yards away he heard it too. His eyes trained on hers and a silent understanding flowed between them.
"Greetings duelists," The booming voice had made Ariel jump and look at the big screen monitors on the building closest to her, "Welcome to the town of Domino. But, more importantly, welcome to my tournament. I see you each received your private invite to Kaiba Corp.'s very exclusive Duel Monsters tournament and you had enough brains to show up here tonight." The crowd around Ariel and the strange male began to shout angrily at the comment; She slowly stood to her feet and stood beside the… strange man. Wait, "private invite"? Was that piece of mail that was sitting on her desk at home? KC… it finally clicked; Kaiba Corp! Ariel mentally smacked herself, how could she have forgotten that?
"Being that you are all elite duelists I've added special rules to my tournament just for experts. For example; you will duel using these new and improved duel disks." The crowd Ooh'd and Aww'd at the new equipment, "Another new rule I designed for the tournament is that before each duel both players must anti-up their rarest card and the loser of the duel forfeits his card to the winner." Outrage was voiced again,
"Forfeit my Dark Magician?" The man next to Ariel said, surprising her with the intensity of his deep voice. He narrowed his eyes at the monitor,
"That means even losing one duel can ruin my deck!" the blonde to his left said,
"My competition will make Pegasus and his duelist kingdom tournament look like a joke." The man on the screen stopped for a moment as if waiting for something. Ariel turned around when the wind picked up behind everyone and a Kaiba Corp. helicopter came into view with the man hanging out of the cabin as if he did this on a regular basis,
"Kaiba." The male next to her growled, so, this was the famous Seto Kaiba? Huh, Ariel expected him to be… shorter.
"Don't forget to register and pick up your duel disk because exactly one week from today, my battle city tournament begins."
"You're on, Kaiba." Ariel raised an eyebrow; apparently someone had a grudge against the guy.
A roar swept through the small courtyard. Her eyes widened as it hit Ariel like a ton of bricks, the evil laugh she heard earlier was those rare hunters she had been hearing about and now they're out and on the prowl, and her deck was in her pocket along with her best and most rarest card; Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus…
And Ariel was target Number One because of it.
6/29/2016
Okay, I know you must be confused on why this is only a few chapters long, a "Completed Story", and leaves off on a cliffhanger. For the sake of brevity, please check out my profile for an important announcement. Thank you.