*Seeelaaa - Roaaane* the black seal cried out as it swam over to Elatha, terrified as the human child was being ensnared within a summoning spell.
Elatha, however, was unable to move as what was once human flesh and solid bone had all transformed into brilliant starlight as he felt his very essence flowing directly into the ocean, becoming entangled with the saltwater, marine life, and the unseen magic of the world.
Somehow, either the cold ocean was rapidly rising all around him, or he was sinking into the abyss!
With a final gasp of air, he felt an unseen force pulling him under the motionless waves. Disorientation flooded his senses as his eyes could no longer see the little seal or even his own body, for only shimmering particles of blue-green light were all that remained.
Flowing rapidly downward towards the abyss, Elatha watched the surface world gradually slipping away. He should have been more terrified, filled with utter horror and disbelief. However, his mortal eyes gazed upon an enchanting sight that whisked away all sense of distress. For the glimmering surface, like the sky above, was interwoven with many beautiful variegated bright colorful patterns of sacred geometry. Ever flowing and constantly changing, just like the aurora borealis.
'Did mom and dad also see this?' he wondered, feeling sleepy, and then pondered a far more pressing question that renewed the fear in his heart 'When was the last time that I breathed? How long before I drown!? How bad will it hurt?'
He found that his struggle to keep his eyes open was failing as he gave in and closed his eyes for only a moment to calm the tension in his heart.
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"How in the seven seas did this even happen, my Queen!?" Taholah asked, looking down at the little human pup resting upon a soft bed of green slimy sea kelp.
Her piercing blue eyes stared in disbelief, still holding the memory of when this human had picked her up and returned her back to the ocean. She gently touched the inflamed bite wound that she had inflicted upon him.
"Something must have gone horribly wrong with the teleportation spell, my Queen!" Cyrene added, swimming over to examine the sleeping child "It should not have been possible for the human hatchling to be spirited along with the princess. Not to mention, being bonded as one!"
"What has been done, has been done." Queen Selene comments, gently cradling the child's partly webbed hand in her own "All we can do now is make her comfortable and keep her safe until the Alban Hefin."
"Mmm...?" Elatha groaned, slowly awakening as she was greeted by three people who gave her such a terrible startle!
They appeared as human beings; however, they also appeared to have been claimed by the sea! Two of the older ladies attending to her had mermaid-like tails: one of grey scales and one like a harbor seal. Whereas the younger maiden had a pair of legs with webbed human-like feet.
"Who...?" Elatha croaked, her voice distorted by the water "What in the world happened to me? Why am I a girl!? Where am I? Who are you people!? Why am I here?"
"Please, calm yourself, my child." Queen Selene softly said, sitting beside Elatha who was beside herself "What is your name?"
"Elatha." she answered while observing the underwater world that she had awoken in.
The guest room that she had awakened in was beautifully made of pastel pink and seashell white coral. And just beyond the window-like opening she looked upon the shimmering crystalline towers shaped into glowing pillar-like buildings that produced melodious song as the currents flowed on by.
Forests of swaying green kelp, soared as high as deciduous trees, thick amongst the deep green seaweed hillsides where mermaids busily farmed.
In the sky far above, the brilliant blue-white starlight shimmered upon the submarine rocky barren mountains. The sky took on many ever-changing variegated patterns of beautiful interwoven shapes of color. And even though the surface world appeared so close that Elatha could reach out and touch it, she was well beyond the depths that any human body could survive.
"Elatha?" Queen Selene called forth the young maiden's attention from the deadly surface.
"Where am I? Am I dead?" she asked the mermaid queen.
"You are quite alive; that I assure of you." Selene smiled, gently cradling the child close to her side as she tested her limits of being accepted and trusted by the otherworldly visitor "Welcome, Elatha, to the underwater Kingdom of Ayanasu. Your new home."
"Ayanasu?" Elatha pondered about the revelation, then asked her "Are you, uhm ... mermaids?"
Queen Selene just smiled as both Taholah the seal and Cyrene the seabass both giggled, amused.
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Elatha And The Selkie's Skin
FantasyThis story contains gender-transformation and mermaid transformation themes Elatha, a young human boy, has already lost so much of his happiness. With the death of his parents and being kept prisoner here on Saint Catalina Island by his abusive uncl...
