Aquamarine : Daughter of Fire [On Hold]

CHAPTER 1

Hey guys! It's my first ever story so I don't know if it sucks but I would appreciate if you share it. The story is fictional. Hope you like it.
 
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I lay on my bed unable to sleep. I sit upright and get off the bed and walk up to the window to stare at the moon. Feeling the light on my face brings me peace, especially on days like today. Unable to sleep, I decide to go and swim. Water is my life and I am one of the luckiest to be able to control it.

I wrap a cloak around myself and jump - yes jump out of the window. In a blink of an eye I am surrounded by water and floating in mid air. While pointing my finger towards the North the water teleports me to my destination which is a small lake.

The people of Aquatatia carry the powers to teleport themselves wherever they want. The theory behind this is that we control water that is moisture. Thus, we are able to teleport ourselves to places with moisture.

The lake is surrounded by thick forests and it is difficult to negotiate the area. Thus, hardly anyone comes here. This is one of the few places where I can be myself and don't need to show any manners and decorum here, neither am I scared that someone is judging me. I feel at peace here by not carrying the burden of being a princess.

This place is very close to me since I was a kid. I was expected to be like my mother and do wonders like her. I was expected to be PERFECT. I still hate that word. Girls of my age used to play with dolls and  me - my only best friend was a sword. There was no one I could speak to, there was no one I could confide in.  It felt so suffocating. 

But within a period of time I learned that I could be my best friend, I changed myself to a person I never wanted to be, a person I never dreamt of being. I never let anyone close to me because I knew I would end up getting hurt, just like my mother did.

She was so stupid to fall for a man and get herself pregnant with me. He left my mother and disappeared forever. I know he's alive and my only motive is to destroy that bastard for the pain and suffering he gave to my mother.

Even though my mother was the one who made me like a stone but I know she did it for a reason, A reason I am well aware of . She never wanted me to get hurt. I love my mother beyond limits.

While I am lost in my thoughts, I strip  myself and close my eyes. I think of my mermaid form and mutter the spell under my breath. "Transconfy"!
A blue light surrounds me and I start to transform into a mermaid.
My legs change into a blue tail, my skin starts to shine and my chest gets covered in different types of shells, joined by colourful corals. My ice blue eyes start shinning and my red hair look like fire. Being from the royal family I have the ability to transform into any organism that survives in water. While others can transform into only their spirit animal. I feel that my spirit animal is a mermaid because I never felt any pain while transforming, while it's painful to transform into any other organism.

I dive into the lake gracefully and go deeper and reach the bed. I find shells, collect them and go back to surface to catch my breath.
After keeping the shells on my clothes,  I start swimming and lose track of time. I notice the horizon and watch, as the sun dressed in robes of Orange rises.
Dawn is my favourite part of the day. It feels like the sun has finally won the battle against darkness and like a warrior has risen up again with his head held high.

But then I realise something. "Crap!  The maids shall come any minute to wake me up.  If they don't find me the guards would come looking for me.
I come out of water and say 'Transconfy' and change back to my human form. While putting my clothes on, I repeat 'Teleportatio' thrice. White light surrounds me and I find myself in my room. Thank Aquatatia! I reached back in time.
But to my utter horror I hear a familiar voice behind me -

"Welcome back princess. Would you mind explaining where were you?"
I hear my mother's commanding and angry voice.

No, no. I hope against hope it's not my mom.
Slowly I turn around and find my mom sitting on the couch. Her face is blank without any expression and it's difficult to make out if she is angry, disappointed or maybe both.

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