Swimming up to a sunken shipwreck was a young mermaid with a red tail, a matching strapless bra, and sky blue hair with a red flower in it. Her skin was as perfect as a pearl, her cheeks were as pink as spring roses, and her eyes were as deep, calm, and blue as the sea itself. Frida truly was beautiful and very curious. She was once again out in the sea looking for lost human things.
"Frida! Wait for me!" A small fish said swimming toward her.
"Davi, hurry up!" She said irritated with his slow pace.
"You know I can't swim that fast."
"There it is." She said pointing to the sunken ship. "Isn't cool?"
"Yeah it's great. Now can we go?"
"You're not getting cold fins now are you?"
The swam toward the ship.
"You know I think I'm coming down with something and I have this cough." He faked cough, Frida raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
"Alright I'm going inside." She said. "You can just stay here and watch for sharks."
She swam into the ship.
"Yeah...sure...you go in and I'll stand- What?! Sharks!" He swam in after her. "Frida!"
"Oh Davi." She giggled.
"Frida, do you really think there might be sharks around here."
"Davi don't be such a guppie."
"I'm no guppie."
They swam around the ship looking for human things. "Hey, take a look at this." She said picking up a fork.
"Cool but what is it?"
"I don't know but I bet Chapi will know." She put it in her bag and then found a smoke pipe. "Hmm...I wonder what this one is."
"Uh Frida I think I heard something."
"Davi, will you relax. Nothing is going to happen."
Then a shark came crashing through the ship window.
"Shark! We're gonna die!" Davi shouted.
It chased the two of them around and around the shipwreck until Davi and Frida tricked him into getting his head stuck in an anchor.
"You big bully!" Davi said. The shark snapped at him causing him to swim away in fear.
"Davi, you really are a guppie." Frida laughed.
"I am not!"
The two of them swam toward the surface to find Senor Chapi. A parrot who claimed to know everything about human stuff but he was actually not that intelligent.
"Chapi!" Frida called.
"Whoa! Mermaid off the port." He squawked. "Hi Frida, what brings you by?"
"Look what we found." She said taking the fork and pipe out of her bag. Chapi grabbed the fork.
"Oh this! This is very special."
"What is it?" Frida asked.
"Humans use these things to straighten their hair and this." He said grabbing the smoke pipe. "This is instrument that humans use to make music for entertainment."
"Music?!" Frida gasped. "Oh no! The concert! Ugh! Oh my father's gonna kill me!"
"The concert was today?" Davi said.
She grabbed her bag and put her things back inside. "I have to go Chapi." She said swimming away. "Thanks Chapi."
"Anytime sweetie, anytime." He said.
Frida and Davi swam underwater and headed back to the sea castle where her family lived unaware that they were being watched by Django and Che. The undead grandchildren of the wicked skeleton sea witch Sartana of the Dead. Now if King Emiliano hated anything more than humans it was Sartana. Years ago she was once an official on the royal court until she tried to raise the dead and take over the sea. So Emiliano banished her to a trench.
Now she spends her days in the dark, preforming black magic and spying on people through the eyes of her grandsons. "Yes hurry home princess." Said a hideous skeleton like woman in a green, scaly dress, with a purple seashell around her neck. "We wouldn't want to miss old daddy's celebration would we? Ha! Celebrate indeed, bah!"
She stuck her hand in a bowl of frightened shrimp and popped one in her mouth. "In my day we had fantastical feasts, when I lived in the palace." She popped the shrimp into her mouth and chewed it up.
"Now look at me, waisted away to nothing." She groaned. "Banished, and exhailed and practically starving. While he and his fishfolk celebrate. The nerve of that man! Sending me to live in these God forsaken trenches! Well I'll get my revenge on him soon enough. Django! Che!"
"Yes Nana!" They said.
"I want you to keep a close watch on that pretty little daughter of his, she may be the key to Emiliano's undoing."
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La Sirenita
FantasyThe classic tale of a beautiful mermaid and a brave a human who are willing to do anything to be with each other.