Mermaid for a Day

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The demon was charging right at us and the ocean was right there. What sucked most of all was my tail was still in two pieces. I need some time to bond with it again if that was even possible at this point. My tail had shed most of its beautiful shining sapphire scales as I spent my time out of the water and without the V-shaped end of my tail. In other words, my tail was dying without water and a fin.

The flaming fiend ran at Damien while back was, but, as if he could sense it coming, he stepped to the side letting the fiery freak hit the ocean which made his flames disappear as fast as a birthday candle being blown out with gusto. The demon's rage made the water around him boil but his flames seemed conquered by his jump into wet wharf's giant bubble bath of the supreme soapy salt sea. He trudged through water making it to shore in a display that would have made a nudist shout hooray.

But the look on his face said he was far from a joyful cheer, but suddenly electricity shot through the air. I thought might have been my brother but the thought reminded me of his corpse laying of street a hundred feet from me. Then my gaze shot to the water looking at my straight into my father's eyes with his face as red as the flames that seemed to no longer exist on the demon dying literally from shock.

My father's tail with its dark azure emitted a strange energy that surrounded the demon's body. My father was angry with an expression that could have scared every evil known from every city that saw the aggravated nature of his facial expression contort the currents of air and sea in a matching feeling of hate within his temper. My father looked to the demon focusing on it which made the infernal thing laugh hysterical.

"Oh the king of the sea has me, but my king has your beloved. What you are doing to me does not even compare to the pain she is feeling from her not delivering the promise of another merchild for Hades." the demon cackled with pain stricken glee. His eyes shot to me as grin crept on his face like spider crawling on my fingers with idea of biting me.

"Oh the daughter of she and ye would make great tinder for kindling flame of eternity. He will be pleased when Hades has her soul in his hand to reap." he said with almost utter insanity in hi twisted voice that had a sound of strange sincerity. My father's face flamed as the demon chuckled from his thunder shocks.

"Why do you torment my family, demon?" he asked angrily which entertained the fiend silently.

"You know why. Don't play the fool, heir to the god Neptune, or else you will lose." the demon said in utter delight as the electricity made his body sprawl like a mat on slick floor. He eyes rolled back as veins and arteries in the span of his neck, arms, and legs rose like puppet strings ripping from his skin like paper. The body danced an amusing jig as voice spoke out of it.

"This is just a body you fool, and you cannot stop your daughter's demise no matter how long you delay. The day will come when she will die one of two ways, even if it must be forced by the hand of death today only to your dismay." the body said with an unearthly voice speaking through like a loud speaker. The body began to burst into flames as the voice continue an incantation which finished the rest of its conversation. The voice something towards the end that I could understand as my mind translated into English. The words something like: "Poseidon heir and heir of Hades come and go with us into the infernal fire of eternity."

The body dropped from its levitated state to the ground in ashes which for a cloud of soot and sand as it collided with the beach's soft surface. My father looked to my tail in its disfigured and signaled to Damien to bring me to the water closer to him. His grasp comforted me making the shocking hearing all this so soon made me scared of how in the world I got tangled in with Hades, the God of the Underworld.

My dad took hold of me as Damien slowly and softly passed me into my father's arms in the water. The water felt great where my tail had been sawn off, as I soon noticed threads of skin stretching in the water searching for something, and then I thought instantly about my tail fin in now melted ice sack. Damien saw the display of that urgent call pulling like a rope at my soul. He took out my tail fin, which appeared dull looking compared to the first time I saw it after I took the potion Armana gave me before sunrise, but the item seem withered in its current state.

Damien laid my fin in the water, and in a fraction of a second, the threads attached to my fin pulling it into the stump of my tail, which began to swell like a watermelon as the scarred skin began to bubble with pain shards stabbing me from underneath. A knife seemed penetrated my skin from within me, but the knife was a bloody cut bone now running out of my body. The tail fin's skin stretched as the fiber pulled between the two severed parts of my tail binding them together. My bones from both parts met in concord bonding in the burning, blinding pain as my tail became whole.

The pain I felt dissipated as the feeling of my scales rushing out of my newly form skin came as a calm hush without noticing. My sapphire sheen was restored when the radiant fullness of my scales and tail fin returned to me. If only Jacob had seen happen, then maybe we could all escape together but my brother dead on the pavement and I was no longer a finless mermaid. I was just a mermaid on the shore who just so happened to get a death threat from a demon sent by Hades who I was alleged related to. But how in the world was I related to Hades?

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