Ursula [A Poor Unfortunate Soul]

12. Never Alone

Morgana, who was feeling better, examined their new home. Ursula could tell she didn't like it much, though she didn't say anything. It wasn't much. It was literally a rotting corpse.

"I hope you grow to like it, because I won't have time to". As soon as the words left Ursula's mouth, she knew it wasn't the right time. But it was too late.

"Why?" Morgana asked, turning and pushing her long hair away from her view.

Ursula reminded her sister of her lover, his two supports, and lack of gils.

"Right." Morgana looked hurt. Ursula could tell her sister felt abandoned.

As well she should, her whole life people have been leaving her. Their father, friends, old flames, their mother.

"Why can't you join me?" Ursula asked her sister. Then Morgana perked up. They smiled at each other, and Ursula went for the tablet.

"What's that?" Morgana asked, sitting back away from it. "I found it." Ursula didn't feel like relaying everything that happened while her sister was unconscious.

"Supposedly its a magic tablet, that will grant what ever you wish." Ursula sugar-coated it.

Morgana still seemed hesitant. Ursula tried to ease her. "Who knows? Perhaps you'll see Natalia again. Up there."

Natalia, the mermaid that drove Ursula's sister wild. She was kidnapped by a Pirate from Athena's former home.

"You think so?" Morgana regained her excitement.

"Almost anything is possible." Ursula almost shocked herself. She usually wasn't this peppy. It must be from the thought of really being with Gaston. That thought.

With that, Ursula sat the tablet in front of her. "Legs." She said simply, and there it was. A spell was written to turn a mermaid's tail into legs. Again, written in that dead language.

Ursula read the title, then the dead language turned from the dead, to the current.

"Wow." Was all Morganna could say. 

"Hold my hand?" She asked her sister. Morgana took her sister's hand. When their palms met, they illuminated the dead animal corpse.

Bubbling with anticipation, Ursula began to read the spell. Though no longer in that dead language, the words were hard to read.

When she finished, what they saw before them, had to be the most un-holy sight ever witnessed.

Ursula threw the tablet to the ground.

What looked like demon's hands reaching for them, from the golden tablet. Morgana tried to swim away, but Ursula's hand wouldn't let her. Ursula had never been so scared in her life.

Pulling them in, wrapping itself around them. Pulling them away from each other. As they tried to reach for each other, they were stopped by a scolding pain in their fins.

The two sisters screaming in pain, the eels swam into their hiding places in fear.

What felt like burning fire ran up their arms, and ran all around them.

The thing threw Ursula around, and flung her shells off her body and onto the ground. She wanted to open her eyes, but Morgana's screaming was so powerful. Ursula couldn't bare to look.

Just then, Ursula felt her tail split. Which felt as if someone had cut her in half with a knight's sword.

And just as quickly as it started, it was over. The thing threw them on the ground, and retreated back into the golden tablet.

Tears in her eyes, Ursula opened them. And lays eyes upon her sister, and jerked back at the sight of her.