Ballad of a young Mermaid

Young one, would you like to hear a story? A story about a girl and the sea? Young Zara was an average girl. She had never met her mother and her father was always drunk. He had simply found her on the sand as a baby and decided to raise her. She had grown up fending for herself and she was anything but popular at school. One day, some boys from school kidnapped her and hurled her over a cliff into the ocean. As she hit the water and began to sink, she wondered to herself: What did I do to deserve this? As she lost consciousness, she feared for her father. Would he be okay with no one to take away his alcohol? With no one to tuck him in at night?

She woke up in a cave and soon realized she was surrounded by water and wasn’t breathing. She panicked and sat up on the rock she was laying on. A merman swam into the cave. She began to realize what was going on. Somehow, this merman had saved her. Maybe here, she didn’t need to breathe?

Young Zara tried to sit up and put her feet on the ground. Little did she know… she didn’t have any. Over the next week, the merman had taught her to swim. That was when royal guards showed up at this blissful cave. Young Zara was taken from her new home and was forced to swill thousands of miles along the ocean floor into the palace of the mermaids, where she finally met her mother. The queen of the mermaids. “My dear daughter, how have you been faring on the surface?” She asked. Young Zara refused to answer and only asked questions of her own. The mermaid queen told her who the men were who dumped her in the ocean. She told her how her father was only pretending to be drunk and how she had sent people to ensure her father's safety. They were too late. The evil humans wanted the world to themselves. Half of the humans on earth were intentionally polluting the oceans, trying to drive out the mermaid race. Trying to kill the mermaid princess and queen. The humans who had kidnapped her were trying to save her. They knew a merman lived below the surface. They knew they had to act. They had to save her right then, before it was too late. In a fit of rage, Young Zara escaped that night. SHe went back to her home, to where she and her father lived but inevitably got lost in the waves.

When she had all but given up hope, a blinding light appeared. She looked towards it as the light turned into two figures.

“I am the fairy queen. I can save you father, but in turn, I ask that you give me your soul when you die,” said one wearing pink, white, and gold.

“Please! I’ll do anything! Please save him and the rest of my race! And then you’ll haemy soul!” Pleaded young Zara.

“Then so it shall be,” the woman snapped. The pollution was filtered from the oceans. The evil humans disappeared from the world, to be condemned to eternal suffering. Young Zara’s father was turned into a merman, to live in the oceans. For the rest of her time on that earth, Zara worked tirelessly to unite humans and mermaids. Humans on the coast would meet with mermaids, become their friends, finally. Young Zara’s work was done. Only when she was old and grey did she believe that she did not have to fear the humans. The land belonged to the humans and to the mermaids, the sea. Finally. She had her own happy ending, and she left the world better than she left it. In harmony and in peace. Forevermore. And then she re-awoke. A slave to the queen of the fairies. She lived an eternal life, constantly watching over those below.

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