Korrasami: The Little Mermaid

Ch. 3: The Allure of Humans

Asami was swimming through a ship graveyard. Her green eyes matched perfectly with her red mermaid tail. Her almost black hair is long and beautiful, the envy of many mermaids. She swam with her best friend, Kya. Kya has long brown hair that brings out her blue eyes. "Asami, not to sound like a pain or anything, but I think we should go back. This place gives me the creeps. I feel like a shark could pop out any minute." Kya said warily hoping Asami caught onto her uneasiness.

"Oh come on, Kya. Nothing bad is going to happen to us, so just relax. How about this, we will only check out one ship instead of all of them okay?" Asami compromised. She really wanted to go exploring the ships to find anything from the human world. The human world always fascinated her with its foreign objects and mysterious ways. What probably made her love it more was the fact that it was forbidden to merpeople. That was made it so much more enticing to her. The thrill of adventure pulled her in and took her away from the dreary world of royalty. Kya nodded at her friend knowing that was the best deal she was going to get.

The duo came across an old royal ship that had sunk at least thirty years ago. Asami went through the porthole with relative ease and Kya followed. As soon as they were in the ship, Kya got into the whole collecting-human-objects thing that Asami was into. The two girls enjoyed collecting things and putting them into Asami's orange bag. Kya looked out the window and saw a huge shark with what seemed like rage around his eyes. So she did the only logical thing to do when one sees a shark. Scream. "SHARK!" Kya swam out of the way as the shark crashed through the window with its massive strength. Asami looked over at her friend and began frantically swimming away with her friend. "He is still following us! I told you we shouldn't be doing this!" Kya yelled as they were being chased by the shark.

"Just shut up and try to lose him!" Asami yelled as they swam for their lives.

"None get away from Shark!" The shark yelled with death in every word. Asami and Kya began swimming faster. Asami pointed towards a giant anchor and Kya followed her. The two girls easily fit through the loop on the anchor, but the shark got half way through before getting stuck. Asami let out a soft chuckle as Kya swam up to the shark.

"Ha take that you big bully!" She yelled as she stuck out her tongue at Him. The shark tried to chomp her head off, but Kya quickly swam away towards Asami who rolled her eyes.

"Quit being such a guppy, Kya."

"Am not a guppy!"

"Ha ha, whatever, let's get this stuff to Iroh, and see what he says." The two began swimming towards the surface to find the seagull, Iroh.

Up at the surface, Iroh was sitting on his little island sitting on his look out perch when he heard a melodic voice call his name.

"Iroh! Hey, Iroh!" Asami called out to the seagull. The seagull pulls out his telescope, but looks at it from the wrong end making Asami and Kya seem very far away.

"Mermaids off the port valve! Asami, can you hear me?" Iroh yelled at the two seemingly far away mermaids. Kya pulls the telescope away from the seagull revealing their actual closeness to him. "Wow you guys are fast!" He exclaims. Asami giggled softly as Kya rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Alright you, Senile Seagull, tell us what this stuff is! Show him, Asami." Kya answered slightly annoyed. Asami grabbed the orange bag and held up a fork.

"Well this is a dinglehopper. Humans use it to style their hair. You just stick it in there and give it a twist and behold a gorgeous hairdo." Iroh said as he demonstrated for them. His white feathers on the top of his head poofed out like an afro. The girls giggled as Asami took back the "dinglehopper." She pulled out an old fashion pipe. "Humans invented this to past the time because back in the day they would just sit around all day and stare at each other all day." He got into Asami's personal space when he said this, but continued anyway. "So they made this Snortblat in order to make music all you gotta do it blow and..." Iroh took in a deep breath before blowing into the pipe. All that came out was seaweed and sea water.

"Oh music! The concert! Oh father is going to kill me!' Asami yelled as she gathered her stuff from the coughing Iroh.

"That's today?" Kya questioned, but knew that her friend was right.

"Sorry, Iroh, we got to go! We'll see you tomorrow!" Asami yelled as she and Kya dove deep under the water leaving Iroh behind to continue whatever it was he was doing before they came, but he couldn't remember what that was...

"Asami! How could you? This was a very important concert!" Hiroshi's voice boomed throughout the underwater palace. Kya was with Bumi listening in on the conversation right outside of the throne room.

"I'm sorry, Father, I just forgot." Asami truthfully replied.

"How could you forget?" He was about to continue with his tirade, but Kya came in to her friend's rescue.

"It wasn't her fault sir. We were exploring together...and then this shark came...yeah he was all like 'You can't get away...and we were like 'Ah'...then we got away...then the Senile seagull was like this is this and that is that." Kya explained while acting out the whole thing.

"Seagull? Asami, you went to the surface again didn't you?" Hiroshi boomed with anger causing Kya to back down and meekly smile at her friend that she just caused more problems for.

"Nothing happened." Asami replied attempting to keep her cool under her father's overpowering rage.

"You could have been seen by one of them; by one of those barbarians!" That was the last straw for Asami.

"Daddy, they are not barbarians!"

"Doesn't matter you are forbidden to go to the surface or have anything to do with those humans!" His rage was too much for Asami. She swam away with Kya trailing close behind her. Bumi swam up to the distressed Hiroshi who now slumped on his throne. "Do you think I was too hard on her?" Hiroshi asked genuinely concerned.

"No, King, sometimes you just have to put the children in their place. You did fine." Bumi answered. The king was not as sure as Bumi was.

"Could you just check up on her for me?" He asked pleadingly. Bumi could not deny the king's request and went after the hurt princess and her friend. Bumi was on his way to Asami's room when she saw Asami and Kya with an orange bag heading away from the palace. Bumi, being the loyal subject that he is, decided to follow them to wherever they were going. The two girls led Bumi to a large cave with a rolling rock in front of it. The two girls rolled the rock aside with ease and slipped into the cave. Bumi followed closely behind, but his tail got stuck on the rock door. He tried to pull his tail free, but was failing miserably. He decided to take a break from trying to free himself in order to look at his surroundings. He was surrounded by Asami's collection of human trinkets. There was so many things that he had no idea what they could possibly do. He looked towards the center of the cave where the two girls sat. Kya had a comforting hand on Asami's shoulder.

"He just doesn't understand. How could anyone who made such wonderful things be bad? He doesn't see how much I long to be part of the Human World. I would give almost anything to walk on the land. It would be so nice to lay on the warm sand. I know it sounds silly, but I would really love to do that. The human world just seems so magical." Asami said with a bit of longing in her voice. Bumi's heart really went out to the girl. Wanting something that you could never have, must be horrible. He thought as he finally freed his tail, but in the process knocked over some of Asami's collection.

"Who's there?" Kya yelled as she got into a defensive position. Asami looked and saw that it was Bumi.

"Bumi, what are you doing here?" Asami asked with kindness evident in her voice. Bumi looked up at the girl and smiled lightly.

"Your father just wanted me to check up on you, Princess Asami." He answered with just as much kindness in his voice. All of a sudden a black shadow covered over the three. All of them looked up through the skylight of the cave to see that a ship sailed by. Asami's curiosity was peaked and she swam towards the surface with Kya closely behind. "Hey you two! Get back here! Your father is going to kill me if he finds out you are going to the surface!" Bumi's command fell on deaf ears. Both girls already broke the surface and were staring at the multiple fireworks going off around the royal ship. The two girls stared in awe of the whole scene. Bumi broke the surface as well. "Come on you two let's go." He said.

"Bumi, look at the ship! You gotta admit that is pretty cool!" Kya said referring to the fireworks. As soon as she finished that sentence Asami swam towards the ship and climbed up its side so that way she could see in the ship without being spotted. When she looked at the deck of the ship, what she saw took her breath away...