Ariel Ever After...
Chapter 1 - The Chinking of Cans
So what if I'm a mermaid? No biggie. I just suppose that the cliché name and hair is what makes people stare. It's not my fault my dad read a story, saw a stupid film and decided I would be her flesh and blood. I hate it sometimes. We don't get to wear shoes or dresses or get to go dancing! (One night when I snuck up to the surface, I saw a girl wearing a knee-length red dress with white strappy heels. She was holding a guy's hand and they kissed! It was so romantic!)
My tail is the most beautiful out of my friends and I'm quite proud of it. It's smooth strong and pale green (to go with my sky-blue eyes!) and my hair is waist-length it's also an amazing pure red colour. Just so you know, lobsters don't sing and my best friend is not a blue and yellow fish. I have real friends and I'm not a princess. Out here in the deep blue sea its really fun me and my friends love taking risks and heading out of to see the sun but just one thing the sea dangers of are sirens. They are cruel, they are spiteful and to be honest, they are truly horrifically simply ugly. No doubt about it.
One day, my friends dared me to head up onto the beach... on the sand. So, like any of my friends would do, I headed up, hauled myself up onto the white sand and glared at the beaming sun beating down at 6:30 in the morning. I didn't need to worry, nobody's ever on the beach this early. I dragged my tail up with me and flopped down on the cool beach towel and bathed under the umbrella. I sighed. It's not fair, I didn't ask for this stupid tail.
I was deep in my thoughts when I suddenly heard the chinking of cans and the shuffling of bare feet on sand. I almost screamed (but tried to stay calm) as I turned around saw a tall silhouette of a boy about my age(18). He was a tall (ish) and had brown beautiful curls that bounced just bellow his ears. His eyes were pale green and thankfully he hadn't seen me... yet.
I smiled at him but then started to panic. Oh god, oh god! Please, please don't see me! I tried to pull the sunshine-yellow towel over my tail but it was far too late...
He dropped the bags of rubbish and they fell to ground the rolling towards me. He fell on his butt and tried to scramble away from me. I reached my hand out towards him but then drew back. The boy stood up again and took some steps back. I never should of come! I thought to myself, He's going to tell everyone!
I gazed at the boy with a sad look on my face and started to cry. I've never cried before, most mermaids haven't, mainly because our tears burn our skin. But I just couldn't help it. I only let one fall but it was so painful, like having a red-hot poker smacked across my face. I wiped it away with the towel and tried to pull myself back into the ocean. I couldn't. I wasn't going to let the tears fall again so I kept trying and trying. It was no use... I was stuck.
I bent my tail and rested my face on it where my knees would of been if I had legs. I was about to start weeping until I heard a kind voice, "Um.. a-are you ok?" I snapped my red-hair covered head around and searched for the owner of the voice. My gaze finally landed on the boy. I thought he had left? He slowly started to walk towards me but stopped when he was a couple of metres away. I smiled a pathetic smile and replied, "Yeah, I um... think so."
"Cool," he said in a relaxed tone but it seemed forced, "I'm Harry, and if you don't mind me asking... Erm, who, I mean, what are you?"
"I'm um... Ariel and I'm a uh..." I may as well him the truth, I thought, He's already seen my stupidly annoying tail!, "mermaid." Harry's eyebrows shot up and his eyes widened, calmly Harry smiled at me and scooped me up bridal style. He held me tightly along with my wet hands holding onto his neck whilst I rapidly started blushing. I bit my lip and smiled at him but I couldn't manage to look him straight in the eye, so I looked at the banana in the fruit shop instead (LOL, Random!). He didn't let go until he was waist-deep in the salty water. Harry's hair was a bit messy so it looked even scruffier than usual. He let me go and I started to swim away slowly. "Hey, Um... Ariel is it?" He said a bit nervous, "Will you meet me here tomorrow at the same time?"
"Yeah," I replied grinning my heart out, "Bye Harry!" I dove down under the waves but I just managed to hear him say, "Wow, She is something else!" I grinned and swam towards Katie and the rest of my friends.
"OOOOO!!" Jaz -short for Jasmine- squealed, "I know that look! What's his name?"
I rapidly blushed again. Agghh! I hate that Jaz can read my face! It's really... REALLY annoying! "Phhhh! Yeah right! It's soooo not about Harry!" I managed to reply.
"Who's Harry?" Ever chirped in, "We never mentioned a Harry!"
"Oops!" I said. Katie was giggling her head off. Aww those god damn fudgestick merpoodles! Ever swam up to the surface of the glimmering waves and the dove back under just to pull every one up with her, "Hey guys! There's this real cutie just sitting on a rock looking real gob-smacked! Come on!" Everyone went up except me.
"Hey Ariel!" Katie said, "Come up and see him!"
"No!" I shouted, wishing I could freaking disappear or evaporate or whatever that freaky awesome Cheshire Cat does, "I don't care how wavy his hair is!"
Jaz answered this time, "Who said anything about wavy hair?"
"Oops" I repeated, exceedingly annoyed. They all smiled an evil smirk and dragged me up to the surface to see my reaction about this boy. As I broke the surface my cheeks turned red and became boiling hot. As I gazed into Harry's beautiful brown tree like eyes. I could feel the acid like tears starting to burn in the corner of my eyes. My friends began what I thought was a mean chant and I went a little bit like this 'Ari loves a Land boy,Ari loves a Land boy' I suddenly started wheezing and gasping for air. Just then my hearing became weak my my breathing became useless. My whole body felt helpless,I felt like my heart fell into my stomach. I suddenly felt like I hade a 60kg tail. "I love him," I couldn't help it ,it kinda just poured out of my mouth. Everything was going too quickly. My vision blurred and the world around me shook and started to blackout.
Suddenly I began drifting in and out of a deep sleep and as I became light, it felt like my heart crumbled like bread when just that moment I began swiftly drifting down into the big blue ocean. As I got deeper, I fell into a sirens nest and crashed my head on a coral rock and was spark out. As I finally began swaying down deeper and deeper and I slowly found myself falling into a black huge, cave. The last thing I head was millions of shouts from my friends piercing my ears and into to the deep blue sea...
I woke up to hear a cruel beautiful laugh teasing me and laughing at me. I screamed. It was a siren. A cruel ugly heartless siren. Her tail was long and grey. Her smile was smug and dark. And her eyes were dark brown. "Well, well, well, look what the tide dragged in!" She glowered at me and laughed, "Let me get this straight, my name's Nyla. Learn it well, for it will soon be your worst nightmare." Nyla smiled smugly and drew a long sharpened coral branch from behind her back, "You mermaids, you think you're so perfect! Get ready for this little missy 'cause when I'm done you won't be so perfect after all!" With that she tensed her fingers and threw me up in the air with her 'magic powers!' and dropped me from 10 feet up. I collapsed on the floor and was thrown into the air again, but this time against a wall. The siren grabbed two strong reeds that were drilled into the wall and tied me up by my wrists. I dropped my head down and sighed. I wasn't going to be escaping any time soon, "Do your worst," I mumbled.
"Oh honey-pie... I intend to do much much more than that!" Nyla grinned evily and brought the blood-stained coral to my hair and wiped it clean with it. She then took my hand and stabbed my palm. Nyla then smelt the tip if it and mumbled, "Oh fresh young blood, how I've craved it!" Slowly, carefully, Nyla brought the coral blade up to the left side of my jaw and dug into the top part of it, "Such a pretty young face... such a shame to ruin it..." She smirked and drew the thin knife down the edge of my left-side jaw slicing through the flesh. Again I screamed. "Oh don't worry sweetie... I've only just begun!" From the out-side of the cave, I bet all you could of heard was my voice, hoarse from screaming...
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OOH! CLIFFY! SO WHAT DO U THINK!? ELLIE'S GONNA KILL ME FOR PUBLISHING THIS, BUT AH WELL! I CAN DEFEND MYSELF PRETTY WELL! GOODBYE MY LEETLE FRIENDS! :P
PS LUV YA'S ALL ME READERS PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON THIS STORY OR I'LL TEAR MY MINIVAN CALLED REX APART AND THROW EACH BIT AT EVERY READER!!!!!!!!!
