All American Mermaid

Part of that World

Megan

"If you want to, you can come back with me when I go back to the human world. You can stay with my bodyguard!" I say, eating cooked fish.

"I'd love to. But that would mean having to find a way to make sure nobody from Atlantis follows me," Raven replies, taking off his shirt.

"You can always sneak away during the night. Remember, I live in Florida, USA. The part of Florida I live in is closer to the Gulf of Mexico. Here's my phone number. Call me when you get to the surface," I say, getting ready for bed.

****

When I wake up, it's the middle of the night, and Raven is shaking me up.

"Get up! We have to leave now! They found us!"Raven exclaims, locking the windows.

I get up and follow Raven as he swims through an opening on the ceiling. We get to a dry part of the ship, and I run to the top of the ship, carrying the naked Raven because he doesn't know how to walk.

"Princess, wait!" Some brown-haired man with a crown screams as he uses his arms to crawl himself up the ship.

I jump off the ship and use my powers to make ice appear on the water wherever I step so I don't become a mermaid again. I look back and see the army of tails behind me, and I create an ice speed boat. I jump onto it with Raven, and we speed off to Santorini island. Once we reach the island, I melt the speed boat and take off to the nearest tourist gift shop so Raven can have clothes. I take out my phone from my pocket and call my friends, letting them know I'm alright, and stop whatever plan they have to rescue me. Raven wanders into the bathroom while I look around and see no one coming up from the sea.

"I'm ready to go back to the United States!" Raven exclaims, giving me a bright smile. "Also, how do you walk on these weird two flippers?"

"They're called feet, Raven. Just do what I do, and you should be fine when it comes to walking," I answer, flagging down a taxi so we can go to Thira International Airport. "You don't happen to have money, do you?"

"Nope. Though I do have coins. I got from the ship. I think they're Spanish doubloons," Raven answers, pulling out a small pouch full of golden doubloons.

******

"I didn't know measly coins from the ocean could be worth so much money," Raven says, amazed.

"Me neither...damnit! We can't get a flight back to Florida either way! We don't have our passports with us!" I yell in frustration. "I guess we have to swim our way back home."

"Actually, I know enough magic to open a portal back to your home!" Raven responds.

"Why didn't you say that earlier?!" I yell, hissing at him.

"I was going to mention it, but the Atlantians came after us so, I got sidetracked. I think Red Beach may be a good spot. After all, we obviously can't go to Kamari beach because we just came from there."

****

"Ok, so, once I put this seashell down, a portal to your home should show up!" Raven says, rubbing his hands together as if they are defibrillators.

Raven puts the seashell down and lets the magic do its work. A whirlpool burst into life and sucks us inside, transforming us both back to merpeople. The whirlpool kept its grip on us until we land on a person with a black suit.

"Hi, Holland," I say, rubbing my back.

"Nice to see you're back," Holland groans.

"Megan, you're alive! I'm so sorry we couldn't pull you out of the portal in time!" Adrienne cries.