Sorry for the wait!

While I was traveling I broke the screen on my laptop and it took a while to fix, but nothing else was damaged so the next episode shall be published by next week depending on how long it takes to finish building the rest of the sets. Hopefully I will be able to resume my plan of posting every Saturday.

Chapter 1: Adamaris

I have lived in the depths of the ocean my whole life, never venturing to the surface. Unlike other sirens, I can't sing songs which lure countless people to their deaths. I don't know what makes me different. All I know is that I'm missing something. Something far more important than my voice, but I have no idea what that could be.

It leaves me empty and cold, nothing more than a fragment of what I'm supposed to be. I swim along with the other sirens, but when they leave at night to go to land I swim along the ocean floor, searching. I search for what I am missing, what can make me whole, but I don't have a clue what I'm looking for.

One night as I am searching I catch a glimpse of something familiar, though I know I haven't seen it before. A dagger buried in sand and covered in kelp, only noticeable by a faint gleam of light illuminating it. I pick it up, examining it. It looks really old, but there isn't a bit of rust on it.

I dig up a sheath buried nearby. Its covered in ancient writing that I can't decipher much of. I slide the dagger into the sheath and swim out of the kelp patch only to see a woman of a species I've never seen before, with the tail of a shark.

"Hello Adamaris," she says in an ethereal voice. "I am the sea witch and I'm here to tell you how to find what you're looking for." Something about her seems familiar, like she's given me something before. I nod slightly and she smiles, "Excellent. First, you'll be needing this back." She holds out a bottle with a faint glowing light in it and I'm suddenly struck with the thought that it's mine. "After all, you need a way to speak don't you?"

Prologue

Many years ago, in a small island nation simply called The Isles, there was a mermaid named Aurora. The scales of her tail shimmered like the northern lights, and her hair glowed like the Sun. Mermaids had no way of walking on land, and as such they spent most of their lives underwater. Aurora, just like the others, had no interest in the surface world until she saved the prince of the country from drowning. She became the first, and only, mermaid to love a human. As she lamented the impossibility of her love she met the sea witch, who agreed to grant her legs in exchange for her voice. "However," she said, "should the prince ever marry another you shall return to the ocean as sea foam, and your life will end." Aurora swam to the service and was discovered by the prince, who reluctantly granted her shelter. Months passed and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't win his heart. He instead fell in love with a village girl and they decided to get married. As the prince and his bride said their wedding vows Aurora stood by the railing of the ship and watched the sun set. Her sisters held a knife out to her, begging her to kill the prince in order to save herself. She ignored them, and continued to watch the sun's light vanish as she faded to sea foam. The spirits saw her sacrifice and granted her a soul, leaving the sea foam passed. A thousand years passed and both the prince and the mermaid had been forgotten, yet still The Isles remained. And just as all sirens are formed, a siren was created from the sea foam remains of Aurora. A siren named Adamaris.

Welcome to my new story!

I haven't been able to post for the past 6 months due to a combination of being really busy and really lazy. This time I'm starting a series that I'm writing beforehand, and I'm going to try to focus on posting weekly. The first post will be the prologue, which will be this week or the next depending on if my computer cooperates. Further posts will be a mix of chapters and character descriptions once those characters have been introduced so I'll be able to plan a few chapters ahead. I'll post on my other stories when I manage to successfully balance this one, however Blood Eyes requires custom content that I won't always have room for so those postings will be sporadic. I really hope you enjoy my take on The Little Mermaid! :)