The darkest part of the sea

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Chapter one: The surface

~The sea...

Beautifull light blue turns into dark blue almost black. Where fish in all colours swim mixed together, creating a colourful palet in the wather. Where creatures of all shapes liveWhere the different shades of blue float on the waves. It contains soft waves to sooth men and raging storm to fear. The one place upon this world where the deep blue still hindes secrets. Among those secrets lies the famous kingdom of atlantica, The sunken city.                                                                                                                             This is where one of the most admired mythological creatures live. The tail of a fish and the upperbody of a human, mermaids and mermen are often told to be fairytales to little children. Yet the turth lies within these walls.

In the city of atlantica, the capitol of the realm, lives the royal family. MY family. Yes.. i'm a part of the royal family of atlantica. Our family contains me ,the youngest of the kings children and the only female, my parents , King poseidon and Queen Amphitrit, and my five brothers. Our kingdom is at peace, but that doesn't seem to last long. For my five older brothers have denied the throne, i am the next in line to rule. And if you are wondering why that is a problem? well... i am a woman.

Appearently i can not rule a kingdom without a husband. Which ,may i add should NOT be the problem. If there were to be a problem, it should be my age.. You see i am 15 years old.. Well i am getting of track here. To solve this "problem" my parents have decided to wed me to some stupid, blunt, annoying nobel.. because some rich spoiled kid is going to help this kingdom any further than i will..

That brings me to my current situation: i am swiming outside the castle, well more like i am sneeking away from the castle. Since i am the princess i am not allowed to leave without supervision. Ha like that ever stopped me before. Eventough sneeking away is difficult with my fibrent red hair and tail, years of practice have made me very skilled. If you are wondering why i am telling you this story i will explain: This is NOT a love story.  And it will not become it either. i refuse to fall in love like a good girl, just because they said so. No. So i decided to make my story, truly my own story. You see i am curious. to the upperworld. The surface. The land. The green woods and blue with white skies. And the things called fire. The upperworld is taboo down here. Nobody speaks of it. Not a word is muttered. But the reason is unkown. But i want to know why. Why? What is so horrible about the surface? i want to find out. That is why i decided to turn my story into an adventure. To make sure i do not forget anything nor that if something were to happen to me my findings would not be in vain i will write everything down in this journal. If you are reading this, then either my quest has full filled or i have died trying.~

I stop writing and quickly close the little shell. I hang the little neckles across my neck as soon aspossible, afraid to lose it. I was surely lucky to get my hands on such a rare item. Journals are hard to get, since they have to be made by a handler. Handlers are most rare since almost nobody posseses the strength to handel magic. Suddenly i feel something hard hit my body. The pressure forces me to swim back a bit for pain was welling up after the hit. While i was thinking too hard i swam into the wall of the cave. I quickly swim out of the cave in order to insure something like that wouldn't happen again..

Sadly fate just hates me today, as i walk into a wall.. again.. I quickly close my eyes as the pain begins to get worse. Curse my stupidity today.. My grumbling quickly comes to an end as i hear a heavy voice ask me if i am al right. As i look up, i am suprised with the sight of one of the guards looking down to me..

Wait.............

Crap! i didn't walk into a wall, but into a guard! dammit dammit dammit!!! luckly the guard does not seem to find me suspicious. He must be new. 'Mis? ugg Y-Your highness?' the guards asks. Yes most definitly new. All the other guards know that i rather just be called me. Not that they listen.... ow no.. They have made up some stupid nick name for me that ,if it wasn't annoying enough, my entire family and even the kingdom have adopt. 'Don't worry about it, sit' i answer politely. The guard still seems nurvous. 'M-miss? the guest have a-arived and the ki-ing has asked me to escorte you to the ball room to meet them' Ow  just perfect... my future stupid fiancee has arrived. I just feel my face turn into a displeased frown when i realise that acting my anger out towards this poor guard is cruel. So my frown becomes a smile as i nod. As i start swiming towards the ball room, my hand closes arround the little shell. Strangely it gives me strength. It remindes me of my goal, my strenght. As i remember the last words written in it, a small smile appears on my face. Yess... This is indeed my story.. The story of the little mermaid...

-Hello reader! just too clear up some things:

~the thing written between these things are journal entries~

this is a diffrent take on the little mermaid so naturally i had to change some things

And the "journal" is a little shell neckles that (thanks to magic) allowes the writer to write under water! well i hope you all enjoyed it so far! comment to let me know!-