Ch.4 Poor Unfortunate Souls
Miles away, in an abandoned underwater amusement park named Devil’s Pier sat Ursula. The pier fit perfectly for the creature who occupied it: half squid and half mer-folk, the unmentioned sister of King Triton sat exiled. She had been exiled centuries ago when she had tried to steal her brother’s trident and was banned from Atlantica.
“Triton’s youngest has found a human friend, has she? I knew she was always above us poor merfolk; always wanted what was better, what was never.” Ursula sulked, swirling her tentacles around her. She hadn’t always been this way. She had once been as beautiful as Triton’s wife, Athena, but after she had been banned and turned into a squid, she well, let herself go.
After she had been exiled, she had decided to set up shop, so to speak, out of Devil’s Pier. Desperate merfolk or the “poor unfortunate souls” as Ursula preferred to call them, would swim the three days journey from Atlantica and so forth to come to her for her “help/
Most of them wanted the usual: beauty, to get the girl, strength, speed, blah blah blah…But those who couldn’t afford the abnormally high price that she asked, was turned into a wriggling sea garden work. Unfortunately, and coincidentally, Ursula didn’t have a reverse spell to change them back.
“If this human friend of hers want to be a mermaid so bad, why not help her out a little?” Ursula said to her two lackeys; two eels by the names of Flotsam and Jetsam.
*A/N Sorry it's a short chapter, it's my Ursula introduction and really didn't need a whole chapter on it, but it's quite important.. Please comment vote and feedback is appreciated!!!
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