WARNING: this was written when I was 11 years old, so most of the unedited chapters are a little bit cringy, but regardless i do hope you enjoy! ^^
Callie Hydale has always had something peculiar about her that separated her from normal folk. Her old townspeople would tell you it's because she was a freak, an anomaly, a strange being. But the ocean would tell you different. When Callie's wings spring free, when she escapes from the clutches of her abusive uncle and manipulative cousin, the possibilities she never dreamed of start. For instance, the shimmering tail that replaced her legs after she nearly drowned. As she's lured under the depths of the sea, she meets merfolk and mer-creatures, underwater kingdoms and schools for sea magic. Callie learns her true potential. Will Callie find her heart's greatest desires? Will she find friendship, rivalry, power, knowledge, happiness, and hate? What does the fates have in store for her? Will her friends find out her secret, her human form? But within the blue, placid sea, within Callie's new blissful paradise, a danger awaits, lurking in the shadows of the ocean. A threat, once thought gone, is rising once more. And Callie and her new friends are the new targets. What role do they play? Why are they, of all merfolk, being hunted? What secrets will be revealed to them, the truths and lies? Callie and her friends are going to find out, and they won't stop until it ends.
published: 12/1/20
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Tension between mermaids and humans had always been high, especially after the queen of the mermaids had been killed by humans, regardless that it was an accident. So many years later when Princess Muriel becomes curious about humans, she keeps it to herself.
Muriel lives in a castle with her father, sisters, and best friend, Percy. Some of her sisters blame her for their mother's death so Muriel avoids them when at all possible. She gains an interest in humans and trails after their ships. For humans, mermaids are bad luck so she knows that they won't attempt to harm her.
The first time Prince Philip steps foot on a fishing boat he witnesses the crew catch a mermaid. Although terrified, he moves forward to help untangle her as no one else is moving. He prays that she'll forgive him. Worry forms when she takes a lock of his hair. Was that a way of marking him? Regardless, he doesn't fight, not wanting to make it worse. Worry increases when she's spotted again.
Muriel begins to develop a crush on Prince Philip after he frees her from the net. When her sister's displeasure with her grows worse, Muriel seeks to avoid it. In a desperate attempt to do so she finds herself cave of the sea witch Minerva. Philip's kindness remains prominent in her mind when Minerva offers her a choice to be a human. Hesitantly she agrees, unaware of how different the human world from hers.
Philip's bodyguard begins to catch on that Muriel is different and Percy and the king quickly become desperate to find her.
My own version of "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Used to be called, "Mermaid Wish."
(Magic in this world works differently than in my series, 'Tèarmann Chronicles')