Mermaid Resort

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Aphmau's Pov

Sitting at the bar stool with an annoyed look I glare at Aaron as he joyfully mocks me while eating my pancakes,

"You did say anything" he justifies pointing at me with his fork between mouthfuls of my.... (what I assume to be) delicious pancakes,

"Yo Aaron, Aphmau what are you guys doing just sitting there" Dante questioned behind us, turning around I gave him and a unhappy looking Lucinda a bewildered look,

"you're supposed to be getting ready to go on the water slides today" Lucinda responded clearly unhappy, I wonder what's up with her?

"What's up with you?" Aaron questioned taking the words right out of my mind,

groaning unenthusiastically she dropped her head before bringing it back up and answering "We were supposed to be on vacation....But this doofus mustn't of got the memo and woke me up at seven with his loud mouth, Seven APHMAU, SEVEN!!" She exclaimed,

Laughing on the inside I gave her the signal to go back upstairs and sleep to this she nodded and smiled drowsily already going into sleep mode, after all this is Lucinda we're talking about, the infamous witch who is the champion of cat potions and holder of the title for sleeping in the longest (that and snoring, but you never heard a word from me...k'pesh),

"HEY, Where are you going?" Dante called as Lucinda disappeared up the stairs,

turning back towards us he began blabbering on "you two love birds better get ready soon...blah...blah...blah...I don't want to wait forever...blah...blah...blah...most of the group are already...blah...blah...blah...blah...we all really want to try out the new waterslide, they say it goes straight to the ocean and you're no excuse...blah..." blah...bl- Wait WHAT I mentally freaked out I can't go in the water if I do....,

I'm gonna have to think of an excuse "Sorry Dante, Aaron but I can't go on the water slides because uhhhh.....I've got to contact my Aunt Flow it's vacation rules" they were absolutely dumb-founded,

"Umm...Aph there are no rules on vacation" Dante responded

"Yes there are just talk to the girls they'll vouch for me" I sassy hairflipped and casually walked up the stairs and out of that hilarious conversation like nothing strange had happened at all,

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Sighing and falling face first into my bed dramatically, I groaned at the lack of activities there were for me to do while the others were out having fun on the water slides,

"I'm sure it won't hurt if I just went out for a little while" I say trying to justify my ridiculous idea,

"I'll just walk around and maybe find myself by the gift shops" grinning maniacally to myself I push up grab my purse and keys before locking up and beginning my way down the neatly sloped pathway,

Reaching the main road I slow down taking in the sights and smells of the truly beautiful Love~Love Paradise, the calming salt breeze, the peaceful Fawna, the smiling couples,

"BUY MY T-SHIRTS THEY'LL PROTECT YOU FROM THE CURSE" a unusually hyper voice with a strange accent cut through my thoughts,

Trying to locate the source I turn to find on my right the same man that I had seen yesterday when we arrived in the exact same spot, dressed in the same odd clothes with a red bandanna around his head, now talking to some kids and attempting to sell his merchandise,

"Don't worry about that weird fella he's harmless, just a superstitious weirdo if you ask me" a male voice cut in from behind me,

Turning to my left I was greeted to a man a few feet taller than me wearing a generic Hawaiian top and blue shorts, with black hair and a neatly trimmed beard topping the look off, following his gaze I found him looking upon the same man,

"What is this curse he keeps talking about?" I question,

"Probably just some propaganda to sell his souvenirs........speaking of curses I better be heading back before my wife puts one on me for being late" hearing shuffling beside me I mumble a quick goodbye without losing eye contact of the strange man, who had now scared off the kids with his screaming,

"BUY MY T-SHIRTS THEY'LL PROTECT YOU FROM THE CURSE" the strange man yelled again in his odd accent,

I wonder what sort of accent that is?.....NO Aphmau, But what's the curse he's talking about?......WHATEVER it is it doesn't sound good Aphmau, Those shirts look really comftable......APHMAU DON'T,

Just like that I my curiosity had won and I found myself cautiously making my way over to the odd man,

Five more steps.....

Four more steps.....

Three more steps.....

Suddenly the strange man was gone, stopping in my tracks I scanned the area he had just been in and nothing, I hadn't even blinked and he had disappeared without a trace,

"HELLO THERE, BUY THIS SHIRT NOW ONLY 49.99" the strange man suddenly appeared in front of me pushing a souvenir shirt in my face and shouting,

Taking a step back and pushing the souvenir shirt out of my face I open my mouth to speak but am cut of by the strange man shouting again,

"HOW ABOUT THIS GENUINE MAGICAL BANDANNA, IT'LL PROTECT YOU FROM THE CURSE" he finished shoving a red bandanna like his own in my face as well,

"Um...no but sir-" I began but was cut of again by (surprise surprise) mr odd accent guy shouting and shoving things in my face,

"HOW ABOUT THIS THEN, ANOTHER GENUINE ITEM THAT'LL PROTECT YOU FROM THE CURSE-"

"HEY" I shouted back at him finally managing to cut him off and get his attention, he had stopped in his place in a funny position staring at me in full attention while clutching his merchandise in his crossed hands,

"Look I wanted to ask what this curse is that you keep blabbering about?" I finally said,

Dropping all his merchandise it landed with a thud of the concrete "AHHH.....so its information you're after"

I was about to reply when he suddenly disappeared again only to reappear holding hundreds of love~love paradise pamphlets, brochures and printed out reviews,

"What does this have to do with the curse you were talking about" I said peeking at the sheets of information on the resort,

"Everything, everything, but first you have to buy something" he stated pulling the stack of sheets away,

"Okay fine I'll buy something" I stated, I just needed to know what this curse was, plus I was bored,

"GREAT" he shouted and shoved the stack of papers into my hands, almost toppling over I managed to recover and give the man a questioning look,

"That's the guide book" he said as though it was painfully obvious which it totally was, not obvious but defiantly painful because gosh dang it this paper is heavy,

"So what is this curse about if it needs an entire guide book?" I stated,

Looking around cautiously the man leaned in and whispered a single word, a word I hoped and would never hear again especially on this island,

"Merfolk"