Thomas Sanders is a fairly normal guy, stable job he loves. Great friends. An obession of Disney. However something fairly fantastical happens after a certain beach trip, something that will alter his life in more ways than one.
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Below the depths, a whole new world lies. One where creatures only imagined by man reside. With tails of all shapes and sizes, color and types, in many different regions along the sea floor. They have appeared in historic artifacts and depictions, their stories told by caffeine intoxicated conspiracist and drunken fishermen who might've spent too long at sea. Creatures with half human, half sea creature bodies..
Merfolk
More commonly known as Mermaids or Mermen, although that refers to a specific gender at a time. Thomas loved the idea of these creatures actually being real, more than myths and folk tales. However now we must change perspective, to one of our other characters, a soon to be friend.
Crowds of Merfolk clapped and cheered, welcoming the approaching golden chariot led by two adult bull sharks. A young merman made his way out of the chariot earning an uproar of praise.
" Gentle Mers! Please control yourself! It's just a short stay! Aw your too kind! No keep clapping. I'm just kidding! " The young mer joked and continued waving to the crowd. He had a red frilled beta fish-like tail with dashes of warm oranges and specks of yellows. It was like flames dancing majestically and full of passion.
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An older mer swam up to the crowd favorite bowing respectfully in his presence.
" Welcome my prince, it is a huge pleasure to have you here. " The elder Mer spoke loud enough for the crowds to hear.
" The pleasure is all mine. "
The crowed chanted "Prince Roman" repeatedly, giving him the welcome he deserved as the soon to be heir to the thrown. King of the warmer Western waters.
" To accompany you on your sight seeing adventures, we the mers of this humble settlement voted on our most kind and loyal mer that will suit you best. " The old Mer announced making the crowds fall silent with anticipation as the boy swam up to the prince.
The Mer had a short light blue, white and black tail in the pattern of a clown fish. His face was dotted with freckles and adorned with a pair of cracked human seeing thingies and a big smile. His chestnut fluffy hair swayed in the water occasionally going in front his eyes.
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" This, my prince, is Patton Fortuna. He will be your tour guide and personal helper for the duration of your stay. " The elder mer gestured to Patton as he bowed for his prince.
" It is an honor to be in your presence your royalness! " He smiled face filled with excitement. Although the older mer was explaining his role to Roman, the prince was too busy internally gushing over his human seeing thingies albeit cracked and could be in a better condition they were still fascinating to him.
" We hope you enjoy your stay, your majesty. " The elder mer moved to the side allowing Roman to pass while Patton swam to grab his luggage for him. The young prince swam along the village path ways taking in the rural sights of the small town. This place was vastly different than he elegant castle home.
Patton swam right behind his prince. Eager to do anything with him, and most importantly hang out with royalty in general.
" What would you like to do first my prince? " The blue tailed mer spoke excitedly
" You do not have to do that, Patton, was it? " Roman looked back at the boy earning a nod in response.
" You may refer to me as Roman. The 'Prince' thing can get a bit too much sometimes you know? " He assured the mer with a smile before looking around more. " I think we should put the luggage down first before exploring the town! "
" As you wish m- uh.. Roman! Right this way! " Patton led the way to where Roman would be staying. On the way the young prince questioned several sight seeing attractions making Patton answer them, he knew a lot about almost everything it seemed, he answered all his questions with little to no hesitation. They entered the resting-quarters and the light blue tailed mer placed the luggage down while Roman gazed around at his vacation chambers.
" It's smaller than at home.. but I like it. It feels... cozy! Way better then being cooped up with those guards everywhere. " Roman swam around the chambers examining every crevice with fascination. While it was the best the town could offer it certainly wasn't the best. However Roman loved the idea of not having everything ridiculously bejeweled and refined, and the best part of all. There were no guards! Well not an access of them around him at all times.
Roman had always had large amounts of guards and protectors surrounding him, especially after... he...did.. his parents aka King and Queen of the western warm waters, upped the security out of fear Roman might do the same. However recently they were so kind as to lower the number to only 4 of the best trained ones never too far away, plus two extra that were to always lurk in the town.
" These resting quarters will do nicely later on. Come now Patton, we have sights to see! " The prince swam out the door immediately before turning back to the slightly older mer. "Where do you recommend we go first exactly? " Patton thought for a bit before having his light bulb moment.
" We could visit the Decorated valley! It's famous for- "
" For being covered in magnificent shells that can be found in all shapes and sizes?! " Roman finished his sentence for him as he had heard of the place once before from eavesdropping on a conversation his parents and their advisors had.
'Something something, Pretty shells, blah blah, close to a bay, blah blah blah boring decisions stuff.' Roman never bothered to pay much attention to it after that.
" Well yeah! You nailed it basically! Good to see our towns reputation precedes us! Come quick though! It's best to go before dark. Finding our way back can be scary in the night time. " The light blue tailed mer led the way eager to show off the location to his prince. Roman followed excitedly too, this vacation may not have been going on for so long but it was going great so far.
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Authors note (skippable):
Thank you for reading! Sorry this took longer than expected and its really short but I really wanted to get some pictures in there too and I was already behind schedule. (I drew the pictures myself ,yes) Again thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one! (metaphorically)
