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Cursed Waters: The Rise of Black Mermaids
Scenario:People without love turn into black mermaids
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Elara Thorne
reluctant leader, friends with Aiden and rivals with Mara, long black hair, sharp green eyes, resilient and strategic.
Mara Voss
skilled antagonist turned ally, initially rivals with Elara and later becomes a trusted ally, silver hair, cunning and resourceful.
Aiden Locke
loyal protector, friends with Elara and secretly in love with her, rugged with short brown hair, compassionate and brave.
Chapter 1
I was ten when my mother died.
She’d been the first to change, and she’d gone willingly into the sea, never to return.
My father had followed her a year later, leaving me and my little brother alone in the world.
We’d been lucky, I suppose.
Most of the time, when one parent changed, the other killed them before they could go into the water.
But my parents had loved each other too much for that.
So my mother had gone into the sea, and my father had followed her soon after.
I remember standing on the beach with Aiden, watching as our parents disappeared beneath the waves.
We watched our parent’s bodies disappear beneath the waves, and I remember feeling like my heart was being torn in two.
They were gone, and we were all alone.
The wind blew through my hair, carrying the sound of the crashing waves with it.
I wanted to run after them, but Aiden grabbed my hand and held me back.
"They’re gone," he whispered, tears streaming down his face. I didn’t want to believe him, so I just shook my head.
"I know," I said, staring at the water until it was too dark to see anything at all.
I never forgot that day.
It was like a dream that wouldn’t end, and even now, years later, it was still as clear as if it had just happened yesterday.
My father turned to us before he went into the water and smiled sadly.
"I love you," he said, his voice barely a whisper over the wind.
"Remember me."
And then he walked into the sea and disappeared into the darkness below.
Aiden’s parents were the first to go, two years after mine.
His father changed first, and his mother killed him before she followed him into the sea.
But our parents hadn’t been so lucky; they’d both died before we could stop them.
We knew that one day it would be our turn to change.
The curse didn’t care how old you were; it could happen at any time, without warning.
And there was nothing we could do to stop it.
All we could do was wait for the inevitable day when we too would be dragged into the sea by some unknown force, never to return again.
We tried not to think about it too much, but sometimes it was hard to ignore the fact that one day we would become monsters like our parents.
We still went to school and did all the things normal kids did, but our lives were always overshadowed by this dark cloud hanging over us, threatening to take everything away at any moment.
It was during those years that I realized how much Aiden meant to me.
I asked, leaning into his chest.
It was nice to be held by him.
He felt so warm, and I knew he would never let anything happen to me.
There were times when I wished things could go back to the way they used to be.
Before our parents had been taken by the curse.
Before everything had started falling apart.
I missed my family, but Aiden’s strong arms around me made me feel safe, like nothing bad could ever happen to me as long as he was there.
"No," he said with a sad smile.
"It’s too late for that now."
I nodded in agreement.
Aiden's parents had tried to fight it by leaving town, but they’d been pulled into the ocean before they could get away and killed by their own son in self-defense.
"It’s not fair," I whispered, feeling a tear roll down my cheek.
"I know," he said quietly, running his fingers through my hair in a soothing gesture.
"I wish there was something we could do."
"There is nothing we can do," I whispered.
"Everyone is doomed; it's just a matter of time."
"The only way to break the curse is death. We're all going to die."
I shuddered at the thought of what would happen if I changed into one of those things.
My family had been taken from me by this terrible curse, and I knew that it wouldn't be long before it came for me too.
" I don't want to go," I said, more tears streaming down my face.
Aiden hugged me tighter and pressed a kiss to the top of my head.
"But there's nothing we can do. The only thing we can do now is try to enjoy the time we have left."
I nodded, but it didn't make me feel any better.
We were just kids, and yet we had already lost so much.
Our parents were gone, taken by the curse that turned people into black mermaids.
And soon we would be too.
Aiden's brother Nathan had been the one to kill his parents when they tried to change and go back into the sea.
It had been hard on him; I knew how much he loved his parents and how much it hurt him to take their lives like that.
I opened my eyes and found him looking at me with so much pain in his eyes that it almost broke my heart.
He still hadn't said those three little words, but I knew he loved me; I could feel it deep within me whenever he looked at me.
It was the same for me-I loved him more than anything else in this world-but neither of us had ever said it out loud.
Maybe there wasn't any point now since we would probably be dead soon.
My heart ached as I stared into his warm brown eyes, wishing there was something I could do to make this all go away.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, his voice barely audible over the crashing waves.
"I'm so sorry."
"For what? It's not your fault. You've been my rock through all of this," I said, wishing there was something I could do to make him feel better.
He shook his head, looking as if he wanted to say something more but couldn't find the words.
I knew how he felt; we were both trying so hard to stay strong for each other, but the weight of our impending doom felt too heavy for us to carry on our own.
Then out of nowhere, I felt an intense coldness seep into my body, starting at my feet and moving up toward my chest.
Elara
It felt as though something was sucking all of the warmth from my body, leaving me feeling numb and frozen in place.
I had never felt anything like this before, and it terrified me to my very core.
