Ursula [A Poor Unfortunate Soul]

13. True Love, my Fin!

Morgana looked at her sister, crying. Ursula tried to catch her breath. Then she noticed, she could still breathe. As far as she knew, humans can't breathe underwater.

"What happened?" Morgana asked, tears in her eyes. Ursula then inspected her own body. Where her porcelain skin had once been, now a deep purple. She no longer had nipples at her breasts. Her body, breast down, was black. Her beautiful fin was gone. What replaced it were tentacles. Squid tentacles. Just like her sister.

"Oh, Morgana, I'm so sorry." Ursula attempted to hug her sister. Which Morgana snubbed. Not that Ursula could have anyway, six legs isn't as easy to work as one tail.

Then, the sadness in Morgana's eyes, changed to hatred. Her sister stumbled out of the carcass.

"Where are you going?" Ursula asked, trying to turn. Morgana didn't answer. She just kept going. Ursula kept watching her sister, until she couldn't see her anymore.

Ursula braced herself to look at the tablet, the legs spell was still shown. She silently read it, and realized that in her heist she forgot one thing.

She'd never specified how many legs. It could have been worse.

Ursula felt so foolish. She had lost her sister, because of one stupid mistake.

But she wouldn't lose Gaston. He would still love her, Ursula thought. He had to.

Finally beginning to get a hold over her new body, she swam to the surface. Waiting at their spot. Getting on the docks was even harder than with a tail. Though, she could use her tentacles to hoist herself up on the land.

Just then, her lover came walking toward her. She smiled at him. Where he just kicked her on the bottom, back into the ocean. "Gaston!" She called.

He stopped. He clearly recognized her voice. "Ursula?" He asked, very confused, kneeling down, but keeping his distant. "I tried the plan, but it didn't work." She explained.

"I can tell." He giggled.

"This is no joking matter!" She shouted at him. "I've lost my sister today, I don't need cruel jokes too."

"What do you need?" He asked.

"A kiss." She said, honestly. A kiss, she felt, would at least make her feel better. True love's kiss, she thought.

All he had for her, was a laugh. She looked at him, confused.

"I'm not kissing that!" He laughed harder.

"Its me!" She said, warmly.

Reaching for him, he backed away.

"Come find me, when you're beautiful again!" He said getting up, and walking away.

Ursula, with tears in her eyes, turned and descended below the waves.