3. Strange Queen
You realize the castle isn't as far as you first thought, then you realize this is actually the back of the castle and that the color you saw was just the garden, a coral rife filled with life, you see a few merfolk in the distance, probably tending to it, it's beautiful nonetheless
The inside of the castle was just as colorful as the outside, mostly because the windows were made of tinted glass, but also because of the decoration, there is nothing too fancy yet you think the castle back in Alternia pales in comparison, even though you didn't exactly have all that much time to look at it when you were there
The throne room is the place you like the most, the windows seem to be telling stories, but besides from the throne there's nothing of luxury here, yet it was full of beauty, on the throne sat a mermaid far younger than what you had expected, the moment you see her you realize what Terezi had meant whit "smells like corals"
The mermaid in front of you is a ginger and her scales share the orange-y color, her eyes are however a bright violet, which you guess is the reason why the ruler of your ex city even talked to her in the first place, her eyes widened when she saw you and then swam to you a smile forming on her face
"Magic!" she said
She was grabbing your hands then and pulling you with her much to your surprise as she beamed
"I can't believe it, my potionz getting to Alternia? That'z juzt too good" she said
The merman cleared his throat and she stopped swimming much to your relief, then she let out a laugh and let go of you
"I'm zorry, I got a little exited there, my name iz Robin Arezta, queen of the Atlantic kingdom" she said
You bow at her and she lets out a huff of bubbles, she's still smiling though
"Ah, I'll never get uzed to that, I'm nothing to bow at… let me guezz, zinsse you have the two red zoulfizhez you muzt be Karkat" said Robin
"How did you know that?" you ask
"Newz zpread fazt on water, I alzo waz expecting your arrival" said Robin winking
"Why?" you ask
"Well, you zee I'm the type to believe in mythz, mostly becauze I helped create zome of them, and I'm alzo the type to help thoze looking to create more, but there'z a prophecy involved thiz time zo I had to wait to make my move" said Robin
"Robin" said Benedict
The violet eyes rolled and she glared at him
"My bane wantz me to keep zecretive when in prezensse of thoze who aren't involved, zo I zhould deal with your friendz first" said Robin
Violet eyes then moved to the other two mertrolls in the room and the smile turned into something more proper and polite, a smile more fitting of a ruler than the one she had given you while speaking
"Zollux Captor and Aranea Zerket if I'm correct, zorry for butchering your namez, can't deal with the lizp" said Robin
Apparently you were right with the assumption that the blue blood reminded you of someone, she was obviously related to Vriska in some way, probably in the same way other trolls were related to each other merfolk or not
"Well, welcome to Atlantiz, let me zhow you the actual ssity, ok?" said Robin
She started swimming to a different door than the one you all entered from, you followed her first still curious about her and what she had been talking about, you slowed your rhythm when you saw the merman approaching her, something told you it wa best that you left the two alone, this gave Sollux the chance to catch up to you
"Thireouthly KK, when diid you become miithter popular?" asked Sollux
"You heard as much as I did dimwit" you say
Sollux rolls his eyes and looks at the queen
"There'th thomethiing thtrange about her, liike thhe hath thiith hiidden abiiliity or thomethiing" said Sollux
You feel that two, you remember her saying she helped create myths and wonder just how old she is, she doesn't look a day past 9 sweeps, but you know for a fact that the merpeople have been in the Atlantic for just as long as the Pacific's mertrolls, if not longer and you hadn't heard anything about a previous queen so that assumption might be wrong, you have no idea how she'll react if you ask her so maybe you'll wait a little
==Stop being Karkat