Fool || Kimcinda Mermaid Tales AU

Prologue

The sky was clear, little white stars winking down on the sandy beach. The full moon shone down, illuminating the orange hair of a woman walking along the beach. She bore a coral pink dress with no shoes, leaving footprints as she walked. The breeze smelled of salt and was moist, the sand chilled her feet but she walked anyway. She looked over to a small dinky brown dock, dotted with bird poop and there was also a small and worn boat floating lazily on the side. She heard a splash and then all of a sudden there was a merman on the dock who had leaped up as quick as a whip. He had a navy blue long tail with a bare chest that admittedly made the woman blush.

"What took you so long Lucinda?" said the merman playfully.

"Ivan was following me, again" said Lucinda. Her ruby red eyes glittered with amusement. "But a quick hex took care of that."

"He should learn to quit, honestly it's becoming annoying." The merman stated.

"I think it's cute he cares, if he didn't care he wouldn't try so hard" Lucinda pointed out.

The merman snickered "More like he just wants to control everything you do."

Lucinda laughed and said "Ivan? No he wouldn't. He's sweeter than that, you know better, Tavari."

Tavari rolled his eyes "Whatever you say." then smiled at her.

They looked and the setting moon for a while, just staring. Sharing a moment of peace in the midst of a hard life.

"Have you made a choice yet?" Tavari finally asked after what seemed an eternity of silence.

Lucinda looked at him sadly then sighed. "Tavari, I love you. But I have a life up here, Hailey still needs my help and I can't run off and make her run the shop. Plus despite all the hardships of being a witch, I love it up here, I have friends and people who care about me."

"But I care about you too! Please come with me into the ocean, I even have the potion with me right now. We can live together, we can take over the mermaid kingdom and rule together! We can be together!"

"Is that all you care about? Potions and taking over a kingdom?" Lucinda said exasperated.

"You know what they did to me, they threw me out just because I practiced "dark" witchcraft! Just like they'll do to if you don't come with me." Tavari argued.

"I can't just leave my home" said Lucinda shakily "That is my final decision".

Tavari snarled "Where else am I going to get human hair?!" he immediately regretted it.

"Is that all you need me for?" Lucinda asked, her eyes widened in shock and then her gaze grew hard, small drops of tears formed.

"No, I really do love you." The look in his eyes betrayed him.

Lucinda stood up, her eyes shadowed. She swallowed the painful lump in her throat and began to walk away. "Goodbye Tavari".

"No! You will be mine!" Tavari snarled and grabbed her by the foot, making her lose her balance. She quickly reached in her pocket for her wand as she hit the deck but it had fallen out. Tavari was dragging her closer and closer to the ocean. Lucinda kicked out but his grip was pretty strong.

"Lucinda!!" there was a cry from the distance, Ivan appeared. Lucinda had never been more relieved to see him.

"Ivan help!" she called out but just as he reached the dock she fell over the edge into the dark ice cold water. She tried to keep kicking but her movements got weaker and her vision dizzy. The water was dark and she couldn't see Ivan anymore, then her vision went completely black as they went deeper and deeper. Ivan dove in after her but couldn't keep up with Tavari's speed. Ivan crawled out of the water shaking with cold and ran for the village, yelling for help, but no one believed him. In fact, there was proof that she had drowned. Signs of a struggle at the small dock proved that. Ivan was never found guilty, but never found innocent either. He ran around, looking for someone to help him look for Lucinda. He slowly went crazy in doing so, he swore vengeance on all mermaids.

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Hi! This is my first fic but I hope you like it!