Of Land And Sea

Becoming human

Third person's P.O.V

"Can you tell me what this is about?" Melody asked of the dolphin, entering the secret trove.

"It's a surprise," Delphi smiled, stopping just inside.

Melody saw what new thing was brought and got excited.

"Oh my gosh! You're the best!" she hugged Delphi and swam around the picture that was painted of Alice.

"It looks just like her! It even has her eyes!" Melody observed the painting.

"Oh, Alice. Run away with you? This is all so . . . so sudden," Melody talked to the painting as if it was Alice. She giggled.

Queen Serenity floated in the hallway, and caught the attention of the two.

"Mom!" Melody gasped.

Spirit hid behind a rock, spying on top of it, while Delphi hid on the other side of the trove.

"I consider myself a reasonable mermaid," Serenity shook her head, coming into the light.

"I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed," she continued.

"But, Mom, I-" Melody protested.

"Is it true that you rescued a human from drowning?" Serenity demanded.

"Mom, I had to!" Melody defended.

"Contact between the human world and the mer world is strictly forbidden. Melody, you know that! Everyone knows that!" Serenity stressed.

"She would have died!" Melody cried.

"One less human to worry about!"

"You don't even know her!"

"Know her? I don't have to know her! They're all the same! Spineless, savage harpooning fish eaters! Incapable of feeling-!"

"Mom, I love her!" Melody yelled, cutting Serenity off her rant. She hid behind the painting, and Spirit held her hands to her mouth.

"No," Serenity breathed.

"Have you lost your senses completely? She's a human! You're a mermaid!" Serenity pointed out.

"I don't care," Melody said from behind the painting.

"Melody, I'm going to get through to you, and if this is the way to do it. So be it."

Serenity's scepter pulsed with a glowing gold light, and she pointed it at Melody's different objects, destroying them on contact.

"Mom!" Melody screamed.

Serenity didn't listen and continued on.

"Mom, stop! Please!" Melody cried.

Melody swam to her mom and tried to pry the scepter away.

Serenity pointed her scepter to the last object in the trove, the painting.

"Mommy! Don't!" Melody yelled.

The scepter shot it's beam to the painting, destroying it.

Melody sobbed, laying face down on the rock.

Serenity looked down at her daughter. She just wanted Melody to be safe.

She left the trove, which was now empty of its human objects.

"Melody, I-" Spirit said.

"Just go away," Melody cried.

Delphi and Spirit left the sobbing blue mermaid alone.