Mermaid for a Day

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The area around me was both beautiful and bizarre in its inspiring image as I realized that I was on a remote island. The waves crashed smoothly against my sapphire sandpaper scale skin with the feeling of water droplets trickling down the radiant razor edges of talon-tipped V-ended tail as I began to discover that dazzling diamond raindrops were dripping right down from the sky above me. I was about to say, "What the hell", but my mouth went mute like a muzzle had been mounted onto my lips.

I wanted to scream, but even that justice was seized by my soul my as jewels spun around me in a streaming tempest. My body was being drawn up from the sand while a crystal tunnel formed around me led the levitating force around me to a cloud in the almost vacant sky. My mind was evaporating as I rose to the heavens with no choice to comply. A door appeared in the middle of mesmerizing mirror wall made from millions of metallic gems in the center of the towering tunnel spire. A ledge was forming from the edge of the elegant entrances frame with a mysterious force of light appearing at its base.

A figure formed from the luminescent life force in front of me. In a way, it looked like an angel made of the purest crystals and metals crafted and messed to look like a human body with the face and features of a female with a bounty of blessed beauty. She gestured to me as if she asking me to follow her into the door that was being opened behind her. She singled subtly with her benevolent blue eyes, which sparkled with sweet, simple, sentient sapphire irises, to enter from the ledge of light. Interested by the inquisitive situation, I tried to reach the ledge but with no gain in going forward or down I was then dragged to the door by the amazing angel.

As she touched me, my skin and scales turned into clear crystal while my hair was morphed into heavenly metal strands of platinum and gold. As I left the sparkling spire with the benevolent beauty that was in front of me, I enter a wondrous world that seemed to be made of every rare crystal and metal of value which shines with heavenly virtue. The angel guided me to an illuminated mirror made of living liquid metal which began to mold into a mirror image of my momentarily immaculate immortalized image. I was stunned.

I already knew I was beyond speechless, even though I was currently mute. Still, what made me most amazed was it not only morphed into how I was as of now, but into multiple mirror images of me from my past. There were two of them I knew right off the bat. One was of me when I had a pristine sapphire mermaid tail. The second and third each had a scarred tail, one with a memorably sawn off tail fin and another with it a fully healed fluke.

I saw myself before my magical meeting with ancient aunt. It was like stepping in time. I saw me from when I was three to when I was thirteen. I saw myself when I was going Goth for a whole two years. Then there was an image saw that left me wanting to cry. It was me prior to dad "dying". My family was still in Aquaria and I was here in Heaven. Was this really heaven I thought?

I turned to face the angel who knew by my expression what I was thinking. She was facing me with a now solemn face. In a voice like a flute she sang to my truth. I was dreaming and dying. I was in heaven, but not entirely. I wasn't really in Paradise. I was actually in Purgatory. So, what really happened to me?