Wide Awake

Mermaid? Or Something else?

In a cold room I stay, frozen in a small box. I start to crack the ice with my finger, when I was free, I noticed my once aqua blue hair was a red blazing color. My tail faded away to reveal two long legs like the humans had. I swam around but all I could do was stay there. Like I was still frozen. My vision swirled in and out of light until no kind of hope remained. I started to breathe heavy. I got scared. Until my vision was returned and I heard a voice saying over and over, " Merylina, come back!! My baby! Come back with my baby girl!! "

I bolted up. I gasped for air. My tail was still as indigo as it was before. My hair was the same. I got up and swam to my closet. I slipped on a lilac color top and emerald ribbon around my tail. My hair was as much a mess as it always turned out to be. My ears poked out of the sides of my blue layers of hair. I brushed my hair down. I sat at my vanity. I applied the specific makeup colors my mother specified that I had to wear. My maid swam in unnoticed by me and scared me when she spoke.
"Darling Merylina, you seem to need some help with your hair!"
"Fiona! You scared me half to death! No! I don't need help braiding my hair! I am doing perfectly fine thank you!" Fiona is alway so formal! I wish she was more carefree. My mother walked in a couple minutes later. She was wearing a lapis colored dress and her dark emerald hair was over her shoulders surrounded in green ribbon. Her outfit shimmered in the rays the sun shown through the salty waters.
"Merylina, you look radiant this morning's dawn. I hope you are using the makeup I specifically asked for you to wear?"
" yes mother. I even wore the emerald ribbon around my tail."
"I am very interested in the speech you have prepared for your birthday into the open waters. I hope you put alot of time into it." She said coldly. I really never thought about it. I finished it in a week. I even had time to explore the shipwreck again. My room was filled to the brim with collection after collection of treasure from the sunken american ships. "Very well Merylina, it is time to start your preparation. We must head down to the ballroom for your birthday gown I ordered to be made in fine silkworm thread from the Jerenize empire around China." We headed down to the ballroom and I was stood up on a podium. After an hour, my tail was getting tired of just swiming in one place. I started to lose balance and I fell. When I did, I saw what I had seen in my dream: legs.