Mermaids of Ying and Yang

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Chapter 12

Princess of the Red Sea and The Savior

By: ArcticWhisper

“Oh… did I frighten you, princess?” coyly asked the demon-woman.

Izuna’s surprised expression drifted from her face as she thinned her eyes with displeasure.

“Points to you.” Izuna muttered, not opening her mouth much to utter her words. Her eyes shimmered with a simple expression as she blinked her eyes, her long black lashes whisked under her pale cheeks.

“Points?”

“Correct… since you trespassed through my personal space I will give you double the punishment… but…” Izuna yawned. She then turned her back on the woman, pulling the covers over herself as she closed her eyes.

“Hey! Hey! Don’t turn you’re back on the enemy!!” The woman howled before calming herself and giving a dark smirk. As if lifted by a pulley, she slowly lifted her arm, the dagger glaring at Izuna’s sleeping face dangerously. She swung her arm down, her eyes widened with her pleasure.

Then, she froze. An unbearable prickling crawled under her skin…

“What?! What is this?!” the woman screamed.

Izuna opened her eyes and lifted her upper body, stepping off the bed. She stared straight forward and then slowly turned to glare at the woman. Dark fingers slithered down the woman’s back as she got the chills… those eyes frightened her.

“You make me sick. I tried to ignore you… ” Izuna muttered, she then looked up and grabbed the demon-woman by the neck. Izuna’s long nails gently pawed her flesh. The woman, still frozen by an unknown force looked into Izuna’s blank eyes and gulped... her purple eyes were now black and life-less…

“Time is stopping forever. Betrayal… Vanish, disappear, and dissolve… With out any trace… Till there is nothing left… I will smile in the Darkness with fangs stained red… then I will toss you aside…” These evil notes were surprisingly drifting from Izuna’s mouth. As she freely uttered the words of the wicked melody a dark aura wrapped around Izuna’s hand and the woman’s neck. The woman flinched as the dark air pawed her skin. Izuna then forced her eyes closed with pain and knelt to the ground, her legs folding beneath her.

“Why are you inside me?” Izuna whispered, struggling to utter her words. She felt a dark spirit latching its claws around her soul…. Trying to take control…

The demon woman, now free from Izuna’s grasp, held out her arm and swung her arm-dagger down. As it did, Izuna was engulfed in a moon-like aura that reflected a calm light. Izuna stood up and glared at her with black eyes once more. She took a step forward and wrapped her fingers around the woman’s neck again.

Izuna was fighting something wicked that lay dormant inside of her…. It was…

“Demon!” Izuna yelled as a surge of wind pushed the woman against the large window. The clear shards exploded from the window frame as the woman crashed through and landed on the lawn behind the wall like a lifeless-puppet with no master.

The fragments of glass cut the woman and Izuna, but Izuna ignored its prickling pain... she simply glared down at the woman who lay on the floor beneath her. With a flick of her fingers, Izuna summoned her staff… but she was not rested well enough to summon it completely, so all that formed in her grasp was the golden base of the staff.

The staff’s holy aura frightened the woman… but Izuna’s eyes and facial expressions were not those of an angel… or a goddess who would fit that the place of whom would hold that staff… that is what frightened the woman the most.

“Stand up and fight!” Izuna ordered as she pointed her heavy staff down and lifted the woman by the top of her dress.

The woman coughed as she was raised to her feet. She staggered backwards.

“As you wish…” she giggled, catching her breath. Suddenly, a red wind spiraled around her. It lifted her hair and made the fabric of her dress flap with its sharp gusts and hands.

“Ruby pearl voice!” The woman screamed. As soon as she did, a locket appeared around her neck and opened with a flash of red light. It released a red, sparkling pearl.

The woman’s outfit then began to change. Her short, fitted, black dress shortened and from underneath the fabric protruded red ruffles that were longer in the back of the skirt than the front. Black gloves started at her fingertips and slithered black fabric up her arm- stopping below her shoulder. Her red hair that was held up by a unique, cylinder head piece started to grow… locks of her hair spiraled gently, and two tendrils brushed past her tan cheeks. She opened her eyes and smiled, her cat-like teeth slipped over her bottom lip that was colored with dark red lip-gloss.

She licked her blade and grinned at Izuna.

“Ready, Princess?” she asked, smiling. She took a slow step forward, lifted her other leg to take the next step and then… she vanished, her silhouette blurred out as if she was moving too fast for anyone to see.

“What?” Izuna cried as her eyes grew large with surprise and regained their chilling purple color. She realized her staff and vanished without her. “What am I doing here?” she then whispered, casting her eyes downwards.

Suddenly something at the top of her eyes caught her attention… she gazed up and saw the figure falling towards her, her arm back… ready to swing and slice through her.

Slowly, the demon-woman’s sword swung dangerously close to her neck… and as it did Izuna’s eyes narrowed and they regained their serious nothingness…

She held her right arm above her head and mumbled a few ancient words. She the smirked and gripped something invisible in the air. She then swung it towards the other’s sword and held it. As she moved the weapon, the space around it tugged around its edges.

Frustration shimmered in the demon-woman’s red eyes as their weapon’s clashed. She let out a quick grunt and pushed off of Izuna’s weapon. She jumped and landed delicately in the near distance as if the wind held her and gently put her down. She then disappeared again and appeared behind Izuna. The woman held Izuna’s hands behind her back and brushed the blade against her Izuna’s neck.

“Your quite the talented one, aren’t ya?”

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A teenage girl gradually emerged from the water… her light green scales slowly faded into her new human legs. She slowly fingered her silky smooth skin that was adored in sea liquid-beads, shimmering.

“Meril, you all right?” she asked, her voice was tender and caring. She gently glanced over her shoulder; her hair that was a light green at the top and then faded into a darker green towards the bottom gently brushed against the sides of her cheeks. Two thick locks of her hair were tied in loose buns and the rest of it bounced to her shoulders.

“Yeah… I’m all right…” Meril answered, pouting. She was about five. Her small honeydew-colored hair was held up in high, wavy ponytails that were tied with two large orange bows with heart buttons in the middle. She looked up,

“Do we have to go?” she whined.

The green girl smiled and placed an effectuate hand on Meril’s head.

“Yes… we need to aid the future queen.”

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Jingling weaved through the salty air of a surf-shop that rested on a heap of sand in the far dunes. The shopkeeper looked up with lazy eyes for there hadn’t been a costumer all day and he was become quite bored of this job. His eyes then widened as he saw two girls walk in though the open doorway that had beaded shells hung from the frame.

“Hello Sir, I would like to trade you for two beach dresses, please.” The older girl asked, the child went to go look at the dried sea-life that was on display on a shelf for sale.

The man chuckled.

“I hope you’re planning on trading money for the items… Little lady”

“Well I was actually going to trade…” the green girl murmured. She then lifted a large, round object that she had been holding on since she left her Mer -Kingdom…

She then slammed the sphere on the counter he was leaning on, he jumped and sat up straight. Now laid on the table was a soccer-ball sized pearl that glimmered with a luminous, colorful shine.

“…this for them!” the girl then finished her sentence.

The man blinked as his mouth dropped past his chin. “This is real!?”

The girl smiled and cocked her head to the side, waiting for a more servant-like reply. The man rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The little girl, Meril stared at the dried starfish.

“Hmm?” she muttered, her lips pushed together innocently. She then held out her chubby fingers and rubbed the starfish’s bumpy stomach. Suddenly, as if by magic… the starfish came to life. It slowly moved its arms, smiling at the girl, but also struggling to breathe. The little girl giggled to herself. She then began to touch the rest of the dried sea life… one after another… like playing a musical instrument.

“So… what about this green dress and this little orange one?” she asked, smiling as she pointing to the dresses behind her.

The man jumped, his words broken up.

“Y-y-yes—M-mam!!” he yelled. He leaped from his chair and dashed to the rack of dresses. “H-here Ms.” He then said, quickly grabbing the two dresses and handing them to the girl, his hands shaking.

“Thank you!” she smiled as she gracefully took them and stepped into the larger one. It hugged her waist perfectly.

“Meril? Please come dress.” She asked, he little girl skipped over and stepped into the dress. She giggled, “It feels funny.”

“Now then, shall we go assist her majesty?”

They then left.

The man then walked over to the counter, hugging the large pearl .

“Those were two strange girls…” he muttered. Then, something wiggling caught his attention.

“What the--?!” he then yelled, his dark brown eyes twinkled with confusion as they locked onto the now alive starfish. He then screamed as they wobbled off of the counter.

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“What’s wrong, princess…? Oh... why won’t you fight back? It’s rather disappointing…” the red-demon-woman pouted. She lifted her blade that was stained with blood and flicked her arm to the side, the air licking her blade clean.

Izuna lay on the grass in the near distance. She tried to lift her head, but she quickly found her head being hugged once more by the itchy grass. She smiled with shaking eyes, “Why is this body of mine so week?” She mumbled pathetically. She knew that she could no longer summon her staff let alone any other power that lay dormant within her.

“You must think me a fool, mother… Am I pathetic in your eyes?” she uttered, her light-violet eyes watering. She tried to hold them back with a smile, but the edges of her mouth began to shake uncontrollably.

“Get up!” the woman yelled, mocking Izuna from before. She took a step forward and pointed her blade at Izuna. As soon as she did, the blade grew from the tip until it was several feet longer. She lifted Izuna’s head by the bottom of her chin, Izuna grunted softly. A lock of Izuna’s silver-violet hair slipped over her ear and hung over her pale face.

“Carnation Pearl Voice!” yelled the familiar voice.

Izuna lifted her shaking head and forced her tired eyes open… There she saw a tall silhouette adored in small black skirt and a long sleeve, pink kimono top, decorated with black pearls and sea flowers. Izuna’s vision was fading, becoming speckled with dark veils.

Her long, pink hair was perfectly spiraled and was held up in a crown of sea flowers and pearls. In the back of her head a large portion of her hair was held and the ends gently cascaded to her knees in long tendrils. Two large starfish hugged the sides of her head, her pink hair looped over them and gently swayed against her bright cheeks and pale face. She opened her colored lips and reviled pearl white teeth, lifting her head and starring at the woman dangerously. Anger shimmered in her purple/ pink eyes.

“Step away from my sister...!”

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ArcticWhisper: Wowie. This was a long chapter. A lot has happened… and I’m sorry for the slight turn in the story—it isn’t going any where. I was currently busy with schoolwork and my novel and such. I just finished the cover art for it! And hopefully it will be released to the public before 2008. So if you enjoy my stories please pick up a copy and I will sign it for you at a book signings. XxX ArcticWhisper.