Jessica's Point of View
Today is my last day off. My day with Demyx. I made the mistake of making the last day the worst. I make my way to the Grey Area, surprised to see that Demyx was awake and not strumming on his sitar. He greeted me with a wave. I waved back and approached him. "Hey. How are you coping?" Demyx asked. "I don't think it'll ever stop hurting, but I've adjusted. I guess now I don't have to worry about visiting my mom anymore." I chuckled. A tear trickled down my face. "Hey, do you like fish?" Demyx asked. "Um... I guess so." I replied, wiping my tear away. "Let's go to Atlantica. Vexen recently made form changers. They can change our appearances to suit various worlds. You could be a mermaid." Demyx decided. "A... mermaid? Can I really?" I asked. That sounds amazing. Like a dream. Demyx opened a dark corridor and we went in. When we got to the end, he put on a bracelet and put one on me.
"It will activate once you're out of the dark corridor." Demyx explained. I went out and was enveloped in a blinding light. When I became aware of my surroundings, I had a blue tail and had a pink fabric around my chest and I was underwater. I struggled to hold my breath.
"You can breathe underwater silly!" Demyx laughed. He had a blue tail and was shirtless. I tried it. I'm doing it! I'm breathing water!
"This is amazing!" I shrieked. It felt a little weird breathing through water and having a tail, but it was really cool.
"Alright! Why don't you try to swim around." Demyx suggested. I did, though I wasn't very good at it.
"Hey, that's okay. You'll get better." Demyx encouraged. "Why are you so good at this?" I asked. "Well for starters, my element is water. Also, I've been here once before." Demyx explained. "Cool. Do you like it here?" I wondered. "This place is the best! I really feel like I belong here, you know what I mean?" He smiled. "I can see why you like it so much." I giggled. "So I heard that the King and Queen of this world have their anniversary today and anyone who wants to come is invited to celebrate with them. Would you like to go check it out?" Demyx asked. "Yeah!" I cheered. That sounds like fun.
"Okay. Let's go." Demyx said. We started swimming to the surface and then to the location. We finally got there and I was amazed to see so many merpeople.
"Go play with some kids or something." Demyx suggested. It's been a long time since I've played with kids. I swam up to a group of mermaids around my age.
"Hey, can I play with you?" I asked. "Sure. I haven't seen you around here before. Where are you from." A mermaid with brown hair that was up, beautiful green eyes, and an orange tail with a matching top asked.
"Far away from here. I don't exactly know where." I explained. "Neat. I don't know if you know any of us, but I'm Princess Attina. These are my sisters." The mermaid smiled. "I'm Jess. Nice to meet you." I greeted. "The brunette in blue is Aquata, the blond in pink is Andrina, the blond in red is Arista, the brunette in yellow is Adella, the black haired one is Alana, and my youngest sister, the red head, is Ariel." Attina introduced. "Wanna play tag?" Adella asked myself and her sisters. "That sounds like fun! Tag, you're it." Ariel smirked, tagging Adella. We scrambled. Attina was tagged and she made a bee line for Andrina who tagged Alana after she was tagged. Alana looked around and started to swim to me. I'm still not a very good swimmer, so it wasn't too hard for her to catch me. I tried for a little bit, but I couldn't. Finally, Ariel touched me and swam after her next victim.
"Girls, come here!" A merman with long brown hair, brown eyes, and a green tail said. "The seven sisters swam over to him. "Who's your friend?" He asked, noticing me. "That's Jess." Arista piped up. "May I speak with her for a moment?" He asked. "Hey Jess, our dad wants to talk to you!" Ariel said to me. I slowly swam to the king. The girls had swam away, going back to their game of tag.
"I'm sorry for pulling you away from your game, but you look like someone I know." He said. Come to think of it, he does look sort of familiar. A beautiful mermaid with long orange hair in a ponytail, green eyes, a green tail, a purple sea shell bra, a gold crown, gold earrings, and a purple seashell necklace swam over. "Darling, is that..." She trailed off. Wait, I remember them now. They're King Triton and Queen Athena, friends of my mother, Queen Serenity.
"Oh, I remember you now. Yeah, I am Princess Serenity in a way. I am the reincarnation of Princess Serenity. I do remember my life as Princess Serenity." I explained. "Queen Athena gave me a warm smile.
"What brings you here?" She asked. "I'm with a friend. Congratulations by the way." I said. "Well it is good to see you. You are welcome to come and visit anytime. You may go back to playing now." King Triton smiled. "Thank you." I thanked, and then I swam off to the girls and we played for a little while longer. Suddenly, a ship approached.
"Go!" King Triton shouted. Everyone started to swim under the water. I was about to, but I saw Attina trying to get her fin out from a rock. Queen Athena and I helped her. We dove under the water together. Attina and I caught up with the rest of the girls. "Where are Mommy and Daddy?" Ariel asked. "I don't know. Mommy helped me get unstuck from a rock and I haven't seen her since. I don't know where Daddy is." Attina replied. "We should go home." Aquata suggested. "Yeah." Andrina agreed. I looked around and realized that I didn't see Demyx. We must have gotten separated.
"I can't find my friend who took me here." I said. "Would you like to come with us?" Alana offered. I took one more look around. "Yeah." I nodded. Maybe Demyx would show up somewhere along the way.
"It's this way." Attina said, swimming off. I followed the girls. We came to a beautiful golden underwater castle. I hadn't seen Demyx at all. Maybe I should head home.
"I'm going to see if I can find my friend." I said. "Okay. If you can't find him, you can come back and tell anyone who tries to stop you that Princess Attina sent for you." Attina smiled. "Thanks." I thanked. I swam behind a rock and held my arm out to summon a dark corridor. Nothing. I tried again. Still nothing. I swam back to the girls.
"Hey guys, wait up!" I shouted. The girls turned around to me.
"On second thought, I don't want to get lost." I said. "You can stay with us until you find your friend." Alana decided. They took me to their room. The girls were all worried about their parents. After hours of waiting, King Triton came into the room.
"Daddy!" Ariel exclaimed, swimming to her father and hugging him. He noticed me. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "I got separated from my friend and they invited me here." I explained. "And you have no way of getting home?" King Triton questioned. "No. If you need me to go, that's fine." I replied. "No. If you don't have anywhere else you can go, you should stay. Unfortunately, I can't promise you a pleasant stay. There's something I need to tell you girls. Your mother... she's dead." King Triton said. The room was silent. No one said a word. Ariel, Alana, Andrina, Adella Arista, and Aquata started sobbing, although the only way you could tell was the whimpering sounds they were making because we're underwater. Attina swam past her father out of the room.
"Attina!" King Triton shouted. Attina just kept swimming. I remembered what happened to Attina at the surface. She must blame herself. I swam after her. She stopped outside of the palace. Attina was sobbing.
"Attina, I'm here for you." I said. She turned around, surprised to see me, but the surprise wore off fast.
"And what would you know Jess?! My mother is dead because of me!" She snapped. "So is mine." I replied. She looked away, ashamed of her mean words.
"Sorry." She apologized. "That's alright. I'm... getting through it." I said. "Jess, will you go back with me?" Attina asked. "Of course." I agreed. We swam back inside the palace together. When we got to Attina's room, the rest of the girls were all asleep.
"Hey Jess, do you think you could sleep in my bed tonight? I'm scared." Attina asked. "Of course. I'll be right by you." I smiled. We got in the bed and fell asleep together.
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