A Little Mermaid’s Under the Sea Adventure
A Little Mermaid’s Under the Sea Adventure
By Anne Spackman
Copyright 2012 by Anne Spackman
Smashwords Edition
Once upon a time in an underwater kingdom of the deep blue sea there lived a little mermaid princess named Lily. Lily was the youngest of three mermaid sisters. At 15, Lily was just getting old enough to swim out of the Merman Palace by herself. She had never been around in the ocean all by herself before and was eager to go off on an adventure!
The day after her 15th birthday, Lily decided to go with her dolphin friend Cory out on their little adventure. Lily had been waiting for Cory to show up all morning and finally retrieved Cory from his sleep. Cory, who also lived at the Palace, had slept until noon, but he was now ready to go on their adventure under the sea. So Lily and Cory carefully swam past the crusty crab guards outside the palace doors. Lily was a little afraid still of going anywhere on her own, so she was happy that she had Cory to go with her.
The two of them swam very fast at first, past ocean beds of seaweed and little sea horses and leafy sea dragons drifting along in the ocean currents. They saw sea anemones and small fish swimming to and fro, of all the bright colors of the rainbow. They escaped from a long-armed octopus’ tentacles as they swam past him quickly. Lily liked the strange floating white jellyfish and stopped to have a good look at one. But she dared not look too closely, for the jellyfish had a stinger that could sting her. She also liked the big sea turtles swimming past.
“What do you think he is going to do?” Said Cory all of a sudden, pointing towards the big dark grouper hovering among the seaweed. “I hope he doesn’t want to take a bite out of us.”
“Certainly not,’ laughed Lily. “He isn’t anywhere near as big as a shark. He’s not going to eat us, but he looks scary, doesn’t he?”
“Well, just to be safe, let’s get going,” suggested Cory, and the two of them swam fast away from that part of the ocean.
In a few minutes, Lily and Cory swam past a coral reef and towards a bit of dry land. There were mussels and clams strewn along the ocean floor towards the shore. The two of them carefully crawled up onto the beach of a dry island.
“Feel that heat on your face,” laughed Cory, who still had his back fins in the water. But Lily had crawled all the way onto the shore.
“Yes, it’s a very bright sun in the sky, such as I have only heard of in stories my grandmother told me about.”
“Let’s go back under the water,” said Cory, who was fearful of dry land and anything they might encounter there. But Lily looked about, noticing the trees far ahead of her on the horizon and wondering what they were. Birds called in the air above her head, and a few wild sandpipers scuttled past her on the beach, making little noises as they ran past.
“It’s beautiful up here,” remarked Lily, “but I suppose that we should go back towards home.”
“Yes, let’s go,” agreed Cory, and the two of them made their way back under the water.
As they swam, they ran across an injured fish that was leaving a trail of blood.
“Help me,” gurgled the big orange-colored fish who was an orange roughy. “I have been speared by a fisherman and only just escaped.”
“We had better do something to help him,” said Lily. “We can take him back to the merman palace and have him taken care of.”
“But we will only attract sharks!” protested Cory. “The blood trail this big fish is leaving will attract sharks towards us, and we could all be eaten.”
“We must take the chance,” said Lily. “We can’t just leave him here to die.”
“All right,” said Cory. We’ll take turns pushing him along faster and hope we make it home again soon.”
And with that, the little mermaid Lily and her dolphin friend Cory pushed the big orange roughy fish back towards the Merman Palace. At one point, Lily and Cory heard a strange noise of a bunch of bigger fish following them, who were trying to get to the injured fish to eat him! So Lily and Cory sprinted away quickly, pushing the little injured orange roughy to safety.
They were all relieved when at last they had sight of the Merman Palace.
“We have made it!” cried Cory in happiness.
With that, Lily took the injured orange roughy fish to the Palace Nurse, a kindly old dolphin who cared for all injured creatures at the Palace.
“Thank you, Princess Lily,” she said. “He will live thanks to your kindness.”
“Cory the dolphin helped me. We barely escaped from a group of bigger fish,” she said.
“Then he is also a hero. Take care, Lily.”
The nest day, Lily and Cory decided to sleep in. But you can be assured that they were off on another deep sea adventure before too much longer.
The End
Anne Spackman, A Little Mermaid’s Under the Sea Adventure
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