Seven Kingdoms: The Mighty Mermaid
Under the sea in Atlantis
Under the sea, Aria the Mermaid swims along with her father’s golden trident. Her fishtail glistens in the dead of night heading for the Queen’s chambers.
Aria stops short and gazes at her old fish friend Marlin.
“Aria, you need to stop!”
“Get out of my way, Marlin. Don’t make me do it,” she says quietly.
“What are you gonna do? You defied your father and you-you almost killed the prince! Now… You’re gonna betray your people! You’re gonna help the witch! You have to stop!”
“She’s not a witch!” Without thinking, Aria uses the trident as a golden flash comes forth from its four spears glinting in the murky waters. It zaps Marlin as he flails, his fins melting, his eyes glue to his skull, and his brains burst. Fish bones are the only thing left.
“I’m sorry, old friend. You left me no choice.”
Hurrying fast Aria swims to the Octopus Queen’s lair. Her two pet eels come slithering out laughing wickedly.
“Oh, good, she has brought the weapon, Mistress!” The gray giant eel says slimly.
“Yes, she has done well,” the other black eel says. The Queen makes a booming roar as she sits upon her dirty piranha-teethed throne.
Ten tentacles all writhe and swim in the watery air. A black crown sits upon her scaly head. Her two sunken giant black eyes see the golden trident with four hooks shining in the pearl-light lair. No mouth nor ears are on her squid-like face but only a deadly plan she holds in her treacherous mind.
“You have done well, daughter,” the Octopus Queen smiles deceitfully. “Now, we can complete the curse.”
The trident flings out of Aria’s hands into the Queen’s. She holds it in her sharp and creepy hands. Her long fingers stretch further as she fingers the deadly weapon with delicacy and piety.
“With this trident, I will complete the curse so that you may be with the prince of Charul and rule the Seven Kingdoms as Princess and then I shall be the Queen of the World!”
She raises the trident as Aria fears her own mother.
But she understands and empathizes with her because her father, the king of the sea abandoned the Octopus Queen for his now wife, descending her into a wrathful path. The Octopus Queen had become a vengeful foe against Atlantis. Now with the help of her birth daughter, Olga the Octopus Queen will have her day.
“Sing, dear daughter,” the sea witch demands. “I need you to sing, to open the curse. To open the bleeding wound again.”
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Tales from the Deep to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.