{This was requested by: Rositabluemoon through my first published book. The scene is inspired by the deviantart artist Ribon95, but mainly
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^this^ picture was what gave me the idea for Melody's outfit. Happy reading!}
^Melodys' POV^
I swam down to the bottom of the ocean looking for shells. It was going to be my 20th birthday in a week, and I wanted to decorate the ballroom tables with blue and white shells. I had just finished filling my bag when I saw a small silver sphere stuck in the sand, I picked it up and poked at the round buttons and twisted it along the lines in a few different directions. Then I was surrounded by glowing red dots, and before I knew it, my coral tail was blue and my green shells had turned white. I swam to the surface to look at my surroundings. I saw many people flying over me, in boards, weird carriages without horses, and ships. I gasped and swam back down under the water.
"This can't be happening!" I shouted. I swam back up to have another look, but I ducked back in the water as soon as I had come up because I was almost hit by someone on a board. I looked around before resurfacing fully this time in fear I would be hit. I sighed and made my way towards the edge of the water. I opened my locket and looked at the mermaids swirling around before I grabbed the small vial filled with the pink liquid. I was about to drop the liquid on my tail.
"Who are you?" I jumped making sure not to spill any of the liquid, who knows how long I would be here. I turned around to face the person who scared me.
"My name is Melody Barnes. And you are?" I questioned the man who was about my age in front of me.
He bowed playfully. "Jim Hawkins at your service." He offered me his hand but I didn't take it. "Come on I won't bite." He leaned forward attempting to touch my shoulder. I swam away from him. He huffed and jumped in the water and grabbed my hand attempting to pull me towards him.
"Let me go!" I shouted at him. I tried to wiggle my wrist to get out of his grip. But he was stronger than me and wrapped his arm around my waist. When I kicked him his hold on my waist dropped.
"You're a mermaid?" I stopped struggling and looked up at him. "I thought they were all extinct." He whispered to himself.
"What do you mean? Where am I?" I looked at him confused.
"Well, you're on Montressor." I raised an eyebrow at him.
"When am I?" He looked puzzled at my question and answered slowly.
"May 17, 32419. Why?"
"I'm just curious. Hold this."
"Okay?" I handed him my bag and lifted my tail out of the water letting a drop of liquid fall on my tail. Soon my legs had formed, I didn't notice before that Jim was standing on a ledge so when I tried to touch to bottom I went underwater. I grabbed Jims' hand after he offered it and pulled myself next to him and kneeled on the ledge. 'This is something I forgot about.' I looked down at myself to make sure you couldn't see my bare legs.
