insisted.
Amelia
turned away. “You can’t just ask me that.”
“Please
come to me.” The blonde begged. “I can’t bear to be away.”
The
redhead sighed at those words and walked towards Melody, leaning against the
window where the mermaid rested.
Melody
leaned into the princess, reaching out and running a hand over the redhead’s
hair. “I love you, Amelia. Do you love me?” She whispered at Amelia’s ear.
The
princess sighed again but raised her eyes to face Melody’s. She smiled sadly
and reached out to kiss the mermaid. “I do.”
“That’s
all that matters.” Melody replied.
“No,
it isn’t.” Amelia shook her head. “We can’t run away. I can’t live on the sea
and I doubt you can live on land. It’s impossible.”
Melody
opened her mouth to reply, but Amelia kept going.
“People
would come after us, I’m promised to a king. I’m sorry Melody, but there’s no
way we can be together.”
“I
will find a way.” Melody promised, kissing Amelia once again.
“It’s
impossible.” Amelia said, smiling sadly.
“We’ll
see.”
With
those words Melody gave the princess a last kiss and jumped out of the window,
splashing hard into the water. She needed to talk to her sisters, and then she
had a princess to rescue.
Chapter 3
“I
just need to know where to find her.” Melody begged Aria, tears leaking from
her eyes and losing themselves in the ocean blue water.
Her
older sister looked uncomfortable. “It’s dangerous Melody. The Sea Witch is
cruel, you don’t know what will happen if you go ask her for favors. She might
kill you.”
“Please,
I have to try.” Melody replied, trying to convince the older mermaid. “She
might be the only one who can help me have Amelia.”
Aria
shook her head and made to leave, but Melody’s hand coming to rest on her
shoulder stopped her. She resisted the urge to shake off the younger mermaid’s
hold, and simply lowered her eyes.
“I’ll
tell you where you can find her.” She mumbled under her breath, looking
crestfallen.
In
contrast, Melody’s face brightened and she smiled, wide and happy, at her older
sister.
In
less than a minute, Aria explained where the younger mermaid could find the
witch, and then watched as Melody swam away, hopping from the bottom of her
heart that she had done the right thing.
Melody
had to travel for most of the day to arrive at the witch’s hideout and then she
stilled, outside the cavern where her sister said the witch resided, uncertain.
Eventually
she inhaled deeply, a mouthful full of water entering her lungs and then
exiting, leaving behind the oxygen the mermaid needed to function.
She
moved forward, slowly, entering the cave. It took her a few minutes to roam the
long rocky tunnel, but at the end of it she found a chamber that she could
climb into.
Melody
looked in surprise, wondering how the water hadn’t filled the huge open space.
There was light in the cavern, provided by luminescent fungus that clung to the
walls.
The
mermaid let her eyes roam around herself uneasy. She could feel something in
the air, some kind of presence that unsettled her.
“This
is a surprise.” A voice said from behind.
Melody
turned, fast, looking better at a place she had gazed at a few moments before,
wondering how she had missed the woman that spoke.
The
Sea Witch was tall and pale, with long black curly hair that almost reached the
ground swaying behind her figure. Her smile was cruel and indecent, visible
even to Melody’s innocent eyes and her smiled was full of pointy teeth.
She
was human.
That
was what startled Melody the most; she had always though the Witch was a mermaid
or some kind of sea creature.
“Mermaids
usually have better sense than to come to me, but maybe you’re just that
desperate.” The raven haired woman continued.
Melody
leaned back; her tail’s twitching resonating with her nerves. “You’re a human.”
She blurted out the first thing that came to
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