FALEC Oneshots [CLOSED]

❦ [Two Different Worlds: "I am more different that you think."] ❦

(okay, look, i know i promised. but you know what i've learned about promises? that i shouldn't have made them. i dont keep promises. so i'll stop)

"What is out there?"

"Why don't you try? You know, venturing the land of humans? You only have that power, don't waste it on the stories you hear about them, I'm sure not all the humans are the same."

That's what they all say to me. But I refused, I was too stubborn. I was too stubborn to listen to those people who all just meant happiness to me.

I was too careless, and listened to what the ignorant people told me. Which was what I shouldn't have done.

I lost my friends, I lost them. They spent their time trying to find out what was out there. When I was the one supposed to protect the people. Instead, they got themselves killed.

What a tragedy that I've caused. What a failure I've been.

While trying to protect the people, my mother had lost to the lightnings and to the thunders and is now resting in peace.

So what did I do? As the last member on what was left in the royal family, I escaped. I had used the sea crystal that my mother had given me and spawned on land.

My tail turned into legs and everything that I had as a mermaid heiress was gone. I had cursed myself to live with two long legs paired with feet.

I was long gone, hopefully to be forgotten. With the shame and embarrassment that I have experienced, I hope not to be remembered.

By my success or my failures.

"Are you perhaps okay?" I looked up to see a redhead with a concerned expression. I nodded and turned to scratch my head.

"Y-yeah, I just tripped." I uttered, trying to walk away from the redhead but he turned me around. "How did you get here?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, making the redhead look at me weirdly. "You are in our private venue, how did you cross pass the security guards?"

Oh shoot. That was what I hadn't known. So I bolted for my life, wherever I was I needed to escape.

I have heard about how the royalty handled tresspassers, even closing to death. Mermaids and humans had never had peace, had never had avoided conflict.

And it has just sent some shivers down my spine. Some guy reeled me to his direction. "Who are you? You've never went through this gate before, I don't remember you."

And that was the end.

---

I was pushed down to the bars. I have been deprived of food and my needs. My mind was so confused. But maybe, I have truly deserved this.

For leaving the people that I loved and had held close to my heart.

"Hey, eat this." I had turned to face the redhead. My head tilted to see his features better.

I turned away in shame. What is this? To the point that I was helpless that I had to be helped.

"C'mon, you look so weak, eat."

I shaked my head. I wanted nothing to do with any humans anymore. The redhead scoffed and pulled my hand out to give a piece of bread to me.

I just bit into the bread slowly, not further muttering any words. "Not any thank you's?"

I had just finished the bread and turned to him. "Thank you."

"Y'know? I think I've seen you before." The redhead started to babble again. "Yeah, you were in a ship." Was all that I could mutter, anything that I could've said would've drove him to kill me.

He was part of the royal family afterall. "What? You have seen me? How?" I nodded and turned to him.

"Yeah." I muttered, not saying anything any furthur.

---

That redhead came to visit me during the nights. Even when I was in slumber, or so he foolishly thought. He used to talk to me about his days of being a prince. How hard his practice was, or how he was already being forced to chose his future queen already.

One night, I decided to interrupt him. "Stop talking to me." His eyes widened. "Wait, you were actually awake the whole time?" I nodded, "Yeah, most times."

"So you hear about everything?" I nodded again. To this point, I knew that the powers of the necklace was about to wear off. It only lasted for two months before wearing off.

"Stop visiting me, I'm a nobody."

The redhead, which's name was Alec- I assumed since his impressions of his mother always included the name Alec which seemed to be always directed to him.

"You aren't a nobody. And besides I want to talk to you, you are the only person that I can talk to that can never judge me. Because you never reply anyways. And that's fine with me. I like that, I like you listening to me." Alec explained.

From all the people that he could've talked to, why me? "A prisoner as someone to talk to? Don't be foolish prince, you have many people to talk to, and aren't they looking for you?"

He shakes his head, "You are human. There's nothing different to talking to a officer and a prisoner because they are only the same. We all bleed red." He was right about the "We all bleed red" part but about me being human?

This is only a power, not a part of me. "You know your highness? I am more different than you think. I may bleed red but I don't think I'm the same as you. Everyone respects you, everyone gives you everything." I muttered, tears brimming in the sides of my eyes.

Besides, spitting the truth couldn't hurt me anymore. "But I am just a measly prisoner now. Nothing to value, nothing to live for, no one to live for because everything is gone." I whispered the last part.

"Once you rule, once you finally become king. You'll learn that the world isn't that small anymore."

---

Everyday he would still talk to me. But I wouldn't mind. I knew my days were coming up. Once he discovers that I was really a mermaid, he would neglect me.

"Y'know, Funneh, we're the same age but why do you seem much more wiser than me?" I shrug, munching on something that the Prince gave me.

"I just have experienced alot of things." I said while shrugging, the redhead sat beside me. "You know Prince, my time is near." Alec raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"That I'll disappear soon."

Alec grabbed for my hand. "Please, don't."

And that two words just seemed to break me. I knew what it meant. But I had to let go sooner or later, I had to. My fins were going to grow back in a few weeks.

Sooner than what I think.

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"Bye, Alec." I whispered with tears falling down my cheeks. My tail had appeared, and one of the guards that had came to check on me had seen. He had pulled me towards him and chuckled.

"So this was what you were hiding." My heart had pounded faster than I had anticipated. Everything that I had lived for was going to disappear.

But, truly the only person that I've lived for was Alec.

I was going to be executed infront of the royal family. I was going to be killed, but that thought never seemed to faze me anymore.


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"For tresspassing the royal territory, Funneh Selene Gaia, the next to be assumed ruler of the underwater shall be executed. For the punishable acts that she has commited." I heard the man announcing my name. As I shamefully glanced back at Alec.

Alec had looked at me with widened eyes. Yes, Alec, now you know, that even though I bleed red. I am not human. "Any last words?"

I nodded, "For I have commited a terrible mistake on tresspassing the island, I am terribly sorry. That was my mistake. But I have to say, that living on land I have learned that not the most fortunate people in the land are the most happiest, but are the people that are free with their will." I glanced at Alec.

The redhead was crying secretly, wiping his tears. I wanted to say 'I love you' for making me feel alive for once again, for making me feel human for once, I wanted to say 'thank you' a million times.

But I shouldn't be selfish.