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Blackrose: I've watched and read so many different versions of the story, and it always ends sad. Not this time! I really hate sad endings to movies, and that kind of stuff. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. There is MAJOR Fluff XD. All VB20's doing!
VB20: XD yeah, different huh? I thought it would nice to write it a little differently. All right unto the chapter!
Coka Cookie Cola: Haha, Yamitude...I'm totally going to start saying that XD.
Kender20: I think Selene is going to feel the pain when she walks, but Yami is going to have a bit of a twist ^_^.
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Plot:( Based on The Little Mermaid) Mermaids are mythical creatures that only exist in fairy tales and myths. A kiss from a mermaid or merman is the most powerful thing in the world. Once they are bonded, the love between them never fades. Yami is a merman prince who rescues a human princess named Tea from almost drowning, and falls in love with her, as she does with him. Even though they are from different worlds, they are willing to risk everything to be together. No matter what the cost. YamiTea JoeyMai SetoKisara
By Night One Way, By Day Another
By VampiressBeauty20 and BlackRoseDragonCK
Chapter Seven
"Come on Sel, let's get out of here," Yami said, the strange ominous feeling was still somehow lingering inside the creepy lair. There was nothing but complete darkness, as the ocean was silent as glass. She nodded slowly, placing the glass viles into her brown sack so that they wouldn't get lost. They once again traveled through the hallway of serpent statues, their fangs still glowing brightly with the strange green light. A golden door sat on the end of the tunnel, Yami quickly opened the door, and they swam out it shut quietly behind them.
"That was undeniably creepy, and I normally do not say that," Selene's voice echoed from the far corner's of her brother's mind. He blinked a couple of times, as heard her words clearly as a star filled midnight sky. "What?" her ocean eyes stared at him strangely. "Did you just say that?" he asked confused. The princess rolled her eyes and snorted, "Yes in fact I did," she responded.
Yami smiled and shook his head, "Well at least you have a way of communicating." She smiled, "Come on we have to get to the surface soon, Tea should be waiting for us." The darkness seemed to linger on forever, but soon it began to lift from the dark ocean water.
The journey back to the palace was long and silent. The whirlpools had calmed down, and the waters were calmer. Squid and fish darted back and forth.
The dark crystal waters of their home were silent, as they swam through the water without a word, as they came upon the palace grounds, everything was quiet, the lights extinguished. Beside the gate waited three familiar figures. It was then that the prince and princess's monsters came bouncing excitedly to meet their masters. Kuriboh leaped into Yami's arms, nuzzling against his chest, while Revival Jam swirled and warped around Selene, emitting ghostly moans of happiness. Selene giggled and ran her hand over the ghost's wispy head while her brother fondly scratched Kuriboh's fuzzy head.
"Hey there..." Yami held the fuzzball up and smiled at him. Dark Magician slowly came towards them, his blue eyes shining with happiness, he placed a hand on the prince's shoulder. "Where have you two been? We've been so worried, it's good to see you back safe," he said. Revival Jam made a silly face at Selene, sticking his tonuge out, while pulling a black eyeball down. Selene bit her lip to keep herself from laughing, but she couldn't hold it back and as she opened her mouth, no sound came out.
"What's wrong Selene? Why aren't you laughing?" the ghost asked in a worried tone. Selene's ocean eyes filled with sadness, as Yami sighed. "She can no longer speak because she gave her voice to Dartz so that we could become human." The magician's eyes softened, "I see, and that means you are leaving us forever?" he asked.
Yami shook his head, turning towards his most trusted friend, "No not forever, I was going to ask you if you could come with us. I don't know much about the human world, I need to learn as much as possible," he said. Dark Magician smiled, "I would be honored to join you I promise to protect you the very best I can from any danger." Kuriboh squeaked in delight, he was excited at the thought of exploring a brand new world. He nodded bouncing in the merman's arms while Revival Jam rolled its eyes and snorted. The ghost turned towards his friend.
"You've been my best friend since the day we met, and you didn't think I was creepy or scary. I promised you whatever decisions and choices you made in life, I would stand by you through it all. So I'm coming too."
Selene's eyes lit up as she hugged the plasma ghost tightly. He hugged her tightly plasma arms encircling her tightly. "Hey you two, I didn't realize you were still up," a voice said from behind them. Yami and Selene turned to see a young mermaid with dark lavender hair, bright light blue eyes, and a light purple tail with white and purple streaks came swimming towards them. A light pink seapony followed closely behind her. It's mane was dark pink and it had white wings.
"Blaze hey it's nice to see you," the merman greeted their friend. "It's nice to see you too, what are you guys doing up so late?" she asked, a giant yawn escaping her lips.
"Just going for a midnight swim I couldn't sleep," he said. Lying wasn't the best thing for Yami to do, but he didn't want to her to worry about them.
Selene nodded, while Pinkie Pie giggled in delight. "Hello Pinkie, you look so healthy and well, has she been feeding you well?" Yami asked. Pinkie Pie swam up to him and nuzzled his cheek, her light blue eyes shining brightly.
"I hate to do this but I have to get back home, my parents will be so mad at me for going out this late," Blaze explained. "Come on Pinkie Pie, we have to go home." She gave both of her friends a warm hug, so did Pinkie Pie. "See you guys around," she said. They waved to them before disappearing into the darkness.
Yami at his sister before he said, "You ready?" She nodded, as they made their way towards the darkened ocean felt as if he was rising into the heavens, as they swam slowly towards the surface, it was finally their turn to see the world that they had always wanted to.
Yami gasped as he broke the surface of the water, shaking his drenched hair and sending tiny, salty droplets everywhere. The night was beautiful...the sky ebony and dotted with stars...the moon round and glowing...and the ocean looking like liquid obsidian. The air was cool, adding brisk relief to the warm seawater. Kuriboh danced excitedly in the air, his eyes taking in the land that was right before the shoreline. Revival Jam breathed in the fresh cool air of the human world. Dark Magician held his staff carefully.
Running a hand throw his wet, unruly locks, Yami turned to look at his sister. Selene was floating beside him, her blue eyes averted her hand resting on her neck. A pang of guilt ran through the prince's heart when he remembered that she hadn't said anything on the way here because she no longer had a voice. He reached over and lightly brushed her arm, a sincere smile twisting his lips.
"I owe you a huge thanks, Selene..." the merman murmured. "You've given up so much for me. Thank you for always being there at my side when everyone else tells me I'm crazy."
Selene smiled brightly and nodded, then turned her gaze toward the shadow-blanketed beach. Her eyes crinkled into a smile, making Yami turn. When he saw the figure standing there on the sand, waving and beaming at the two merpeople...a grin lit up his own face. It was Tea.
The girl was dressed in a light blue, off the shoulder dress that belted at the waist, her chocolate hair blowing gently against her face. Her ivory skin glowed in the moonlight, making those eyes of pure sapphire also had on a pale shawl.
Yami's heart began to pound even harder and he all but flew across the onyx waves toward the waiting arms of his lover. Tea laughed and lifted the hem of her dress so that she could wade into the water shallows...but she soon gave up on keeping her clothing dry and ran until she was waist deep in the ocean. When she reached the prince, Tea threw her arms around his neck and hugged him as if she hadn't seen him in years. The monsters followed him closely.
Yami wrapped his arms around her waist and buried his face in the crook of her neck, breathing in her intoxicating scent mixed with that of nighttime and sea water. In that moment, every doubt about his rebellious actions vanished...and he knew he had made the correct choice. The prince pulled back and gazed into his lover's eyes, fire clashing with ice.
Tea beamed, then surprised him by pressing her lips gently against his. Yami couldn't resist the urge to tangle his wet hands into her soft hair, further deepening the heated kiss. She wound her arms around his neck, striving to pull him closer...but the green stone, the object Dartz had given him, pressed into her collarbone, making her squeak in surprise and pull back.
The merman gave her a sheepish smile and turned his head to look at his sister as she slowly approached. Selene smiled at Tea and gave her a slight nod in greeting.
"Selene!" the brunette grinned at her. "I'm so glad you came!"
Selene smiled and hung her head, making Tea blink in confusion. "Have I...done something wrong?"
Yami shook his head and placed a gentle hand on his sister's shoulder. "It's not you, Tea. It's...well...Selene decided she wanted to go with me on this journey and become a human as well. In order to do that...she traded her voice with Dartz for the potion."
"Oh..." Tea's azure orbs went wide with shock and she stared at Selene. She then reached out and grabbed both of the mermaid's hands in hers, squeezing them tightly. "You've sacrificed so much so that Yami and I can be together...thank you, Selene. I hope we can repay you someday."
Selene's cheeks went pink and she smiled, bowing her head in acknowledgement. She then turned back to her brother and slowly reached into her bag and held up the crystal potion bottle.
Kuriboh slowly went up Tea, his eyes studying her carefully as Revival Jam and Dark Magician the princess smiled, "Oh are these friends of yours?" she asked. Yami smiled, "This little fuzzball is Kuriboh, he's been with me since I was born, and the ghost is Selene's pal, and that's Dark Magician."
"It's nice too met you all," she said. Dark Magician took her hand into his, "It's an honor to meet the woman who captured my master's heart."
Yami's blood eyes locked on the ominously swirling green liquid, a pang of anxious anticipation stabbing at his already over-excited heart. He glanced backward, drinking in the sight of the obsidian waves gently dancing beneath a pallid moon and star-strewn sky. He looked back toward the land filled with rolling dunes of soft sand dyed silver by the night. The prince had gone one long enough in the world below. It was time for him to get a much desired taste of the world above.
Taking a deep breath of the brisk night air, Yami took the bottle from his sister and popped the top off of it. A bitter-smelling wisp of something swirled out of it, making some vague shape in the air as it rose. The prince thought, as he watched it swirl and dissipate...that the shape almost looked like a skull...but he didn't take the time to contemplate it.
The merman's knuckles whitened on the bottle's spout and Selene placed her hand over his for support. "We'll swallow it together," the prince said and she nodded.
Finally, Yami raised the potion to his lips and took a sip, holding the liquid in his mouth as he handed the bottle to Selene and watched her do the same. It tasted bitter like a horrid medicine...or perhaps poison. The brother and sister locked gazes, nodded...and simultaneously swallowed the mystical brew.
As the empty vial left their lips, each of their eyes snapped open, while letting out a sudden silent gasp. Yami let the vial escape from his fingers as he clutched at his throat, like he was choking. Selene also began to hyperventilate. It wasn't long until the pain started to expand throughout their bodies. They could feel the agony spreading quickly through their very beings, as the siblings began to thrash on the dry sand.
To say that the potion was painful would have been a severe understatement. As soon as the liquid slid down his throat, Yami felt as though he had just swallowed a red-hot dagger of some kind. Agony suddenly scattered throughout his body, making him double over at the waist in horror. He let out a shriek of agony, for nothing but pain and fire existed in his mind, blinding and deafening him to all his surroundings. He watched in horror as all of his scales began to burn away, leaving small trails of blood that ran down his body. Even his tail didn't seem to be functioning correctly. It felt like it was in two sections and not one...and he wondered of the burning dagger had split it in two.
Ugh it felt as if she had swallowed fire! The insides of her mouth began to burn, like the red scorches of the red lotus on a beautiful sunset, tears began to fall from Selene's eyes as the burning sensation crept down from her stomach to her waist, as if someone had poured a jar of scalding fire or acid unto her tail.
The prince wished he had made his sister stay home, made her stay a mermaid because now he knew that they without a doubt were having the same, gruesome Dartz had tricked them...maybe he had given them some ancient poison instead of a potion to turn them into humans. They both gritted their teeth at the pain.
Sel couldn't even scream. Her scales began to fall away. Soon one after another they began to burn away, their scales beginning to shoot out in a faster, quicker pace, brand new skin forming where those scales used to be.
The scales located below his stomach fell away, and when Yami finally looked down, a thick cloud of blood suddenly burst through the top of his thrashing tail from the very front to the back. More blood flowed. It honestly felt as if a sharp double-edged sword had cut his tail into two. Selene let out another silent scream while as her tail stretched like elastic and ripped into two separate pieces slowly forming into something else. Her fins slowly snapped themselves off forming into two five small stumps on each side.
After a few more horrifying moments, the feeling began to fade away. As his senses slowly returned, Yami realized that he had his face buried in someone's soft neck, his arms wrapped around a slender waist. He looked up and saw Tea staring down at him, her cerulean eyes wide with worry, as she cradled him in her arms. The prince glanced to the side, and saw Selene sitting up in the shallow water, breathing heavily.
Selene's head pounded like a furious headache, as she struggled to regain consciousness, her arms shook a bit, but Revival Jam wrapped himself around her. She slowly turned her eyes toward where her dark blue mermaid tail had once been, but to her surprise, it was no longer there. Her once beautiful mermaid tail had been transformed into two long, slender human legs. Dartz wasn't lying, he had told the truth, her fingers ran over the smooth, pale skin which felt like living marble. Tears slowly began to form in the mermaid's eyes, as she struggled to hold them in.
Shock ran through him and he glanced down, squinting in trying to make his groggy vision penetrate the water. He could barely make out the form...of legs...his legs. They were long and beautiful, just like Tea's. His fingers touched the soft pale skin, which felt amazing compared his tail. She smiled at him, blue eyes shining with happiness. "We're no longer separated, we're together," she whispered as he pulled her in for a kiss. Her fingers ran over his tense muscles, as the sun began to rise over the ocean water.
Kuriboh bounced around them happily, as Tea wrapped her shawl around his body. He accidentally caused them to face back into the water, a huge splash emanated around both of them. Selene started laughing, as Revival Jam joined in. Tea looked up at him, a slight flush on her face. He was lying on top of her, his legs between her's. They kissed deeply for a long time, and soon they were both gasping for air.
A wave of relief washed over him. The deal had worked. They hadn't been cheated. Yami sighed and returned his face to the soft, safe haven of Tea's neck. She placed a hand on the back of his drenched hair, drawing him closer and Yami's blood eyes slowly closed. He was here now...he was finally where he belonged. With that consolation insulating his ever-fading mind, the merman-turned-human relaxed in his lover's arms...and finally allowed the world of unconsciousness to consume him.
A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed!
VB20 and Blackrose