THEME:  A wish


    FLASHBACK


    IN THE MERWORLD


    ROYAL GRAND BALL ROOM


    The room was full of spectators, noblemen, royal families, sea leaders, travelers from other kingdoms and sea and citizens of Merivi kingdom. They watched Maeve and her maids performing as they entertained everyone with music and dance.


    I am a bold mermaid,


    Singing under the sea,


    With a crown of gold on my head.


    I would sing the whole day,


    I would fill the sea halls with voice of power,


    And I would roam abroad and y,


    With the mermaids in and out of the rocks.


    They all pped when the performance ended. Titan  Oceanus stood up from his throne and swims to the centre of the room.


    “Noblemen and citizens of Merivi Kingdom, today is my daughter’s eighteenth birthday. And we are all gathered here to celebrate our princess of great Merivi kingdom! A special mermaid born with extraordinary powers granted by the sea. She is Ade, the daughter of the sea, one who praises the sea with powerful spell songs one could hardly interpret. As you all know, every eighteenth birthday of any mermaid and merman in Merivi kingdom, the celebrant is given a chance to make a wish.”


    The citizens of Merivi kingdom all hummed responses to what Titan Oceanus just said.


    “So I bring to you, Princess Ade of Merillia kingdom.” He said and began to p.


    Ade swims to the centre of the room and she hugged her father before he returned back to his throne.


    “Thank you.”  Ade said and the pping ended abruptly.


    “I am happy to see you all and my deepest gratitude goes out to you for honoring my invitations. It is time to make my wish but I would like to sing a song before making a wish.” She looked back at her father for permission.


    And he said. “Go on, Ade! It’s your day!.”


    “Thank you father.” She bowed.


    Her maids or other music band didn’t join her to sing because she wanted to connect to the sea in the strongest way and only few would understand and be able to interpret the words in the spell song even though she would sing in a general menguage.


    Princess Ade began to sing.


    Oh great sea


    A cheerful and mysterious deity


    Nothing of him that doth fade


    So rich and strange


    I would kiss you often under the sea


    I would kiss you again under the hollow hung ocean green


    Soft are the moss bed under the sea


    We would live merrily.


    Oh Great Sea


    Today is my day


    So grant my wish


    I am a fair mermaid


    Singing alone under the sea


    In a golden curl


    With a starry sea bud crown on my head


    I would kiss you again if you grant my wish


    Oh great sea.


    Ade connected with the sea and she sensed it wasn’t happy with the wish on her mind. Then she felt the shock of wave of power in the sea.


    “Why do you want to leave?”


    She heard it clearly in her mind, it was from the sea as the wave grew higher. They all felt the power radiating around the sea, the air shimmered with the force of the sea.


    Then Ade began to sing to calm it.


    You are like a fountain of gold


    Springing with a shrill inner sound


    So rich and strange


    Oh! What a cheerful deity!This content ? N?v/elDr(a)m/a.Org.


    And it calmed, Ade reopened her eyes slowly. It was time to make her wish. Today she was going to betray her own people and the entire Merworld. They would surely hate her for her wish, they would turn against her and say bad things about her. But she was ready to take it all as long as the sea grants her wish.


    The calmness of the sea after the connection signified that it would grant her wish no matter the sacrifice or atonement to reverse the wish. The Merivi sea saw her pains and agreed to her wish.


    “I, princess Ade of Merivi kingdom wants to make a wish which would surely be granted by the sea.” She paused.


    Ade turned and looked at her father, mother, ten brothers and their wives. “I am sorry father and mother, please forgive me.” She said to herself and bowed to them.


    “Go ahead Ade!” Her family cheered her.


    “My wish is to -” She stopped.


    Ade swallowed hard to get the important words pass the lump that formed in her throat.


    “Say it, Ade.” Oceanus said with a smile on his face.


    Ade nodded and closed her eyes and raised her hands up. “Oh great sea grant my wish.” She chanted three times.


    She was surprised at the tightness in her throat. “My wish is to leave the merworld to experience human life.” She said finally.


    They all gasped in shock, some covered their mouths, some jumped to their feet, some tensed up and some covered their faces with their hands.


    “What?!”


    “Unbelievable!”


    “Is she really the princess?”


    “Is she truly the special mermaid?” Many handfulments came from those present.


    Soon Ade felt someone shaking her and she opened her eyes. na, her mother was there in front of her.


    “Are you okay Ade?” Queen na asked.


    Ade shook her head. “Yes mother.” She answered in a tight whisper.


    There was generalmotion in the room. “Silence!” One of princes barked and the room was silent.


    “Are you serious about your wish?” Queen na asked.


    “Yes mother.” Ade replied boldly.


    Queen na was shocked. “Take it back!” She ordered.


    “No mother.” Ade grounded out.


    Fury crashed over na as she raised her hand. “I said take it back!” She pped Ade.


    Tears streamed down her cheeks. “No.. I am not taking it back! That’s my wish! I want to leave this world!” Ade screamed back at her mother.


    They murmured among themselves with disappointment on their faces.