A "Tail" of Two Mer-Kingdoms

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom of Mermaids.  Deep under the sea, not a sliver of daylight, they saw two sea castles and decided to live there:  The Castle of Flowers and The Castle of Light.

Princess Fairy Girl lives in The Castle of Flowers, along with her royal mer-court: a mer-baby, Mana, with blue hair, a green fin--she was born out of seaweed.; a mer-mommy named Gama; a mer-daddy named John; a mer-dog named Sara (she's gold with a blue fin and a blue tail); and of course Mer-Grandma and Mer-Grandpa!

Princess Angel Girl lives in The Castle of Light, along with her royal mer-court: A teen-mer, 16, named Celena, tall with red hair and a pink fin; a mer-friend named Ola; and a black mer-dog with a blue fin named Shroca; and a sea-daddy named Michael.

Both Castles were beautifully decorated with colorful furniture, sparkly and soft chandaliers, pillows, and of course, magical rugs!

The mer-people grew flowers everywhere in their kingdom (to keep the kingdom not stinkie, of course:)  The neighbors all love it and decided to move into this mer-kingdom!!

Celena, the mer-teen, is all grown up now, and about to be crowned queen and be married!  A glorious ceremony is planned!

But the BIGGEST bubble appeared and a voice called from it, "SHARK ATTACK, SHARK ATTACK!!!"  The worst-ever creature came to ruin the ceremony.  It scratched and tipped everything!!.  This was an invisible shark that sneaked up to ruin the ceremony and kingdom!  To make matters worse, a sea-girl-monster with sting rays appeared and used her flipper to pull Princess Celena over to the Bad Queen; the flipper pulled her up the latter and she was on top of the castle; and weird black sand filled the kingdom's backyard!

Everyone was so disappointed.  Sting Ray was so sad and mad.  "What happened to this wonderful ceremony?"  But then, Nice Whale brought the sword of light to save Princess Celena and the long-awaited ceremony.  And the mer-king, from his lookout, declared, "make the sharks and all the bad animals of the sea--DISAPPEAR!  And, by the power of the Flower Power Sword, make the sea-monster---NICE!"

The mer-kingdom had been saved!! Princess Celena had a beautiful ceremony, marrying the handsome Prince Triton, where they also were crowned King and Queen of the kingdom.  And of course, the mer-people lived happily, ever-after!





                            THE "TAIL" END!

 Note from the editor:


Our little homeschool is going to attempt to develop, build and write a story each week, complete with illustrations.  I will come up with a very simple theme, based on other things we may be studying.  For example, this week, I selected the theme of "water."  The girls will come up with the characters, the scenes, ideas and story development, and the illustrations.  Each week we will take four days to build our story.  The editor will attempt to take their mostly random ideas (at this point anyway); some based off stream of conciousness (for example, I had trouble fitting Little Red Riding Hood, who came up this week, into this particular story:)--and build some cohesiveness; yet at the same time, the editor will try VERY hard to keep the story theirs, by preserving most of their words; just adding a few here and there for embellishment.

  I'm sure you can see how valuable this "weekly exercise" can be; not to mention fun!  So, thank you for reading our first story.  We hope you'll come back for more!  (and my even bigger hope, that my girls are able to develop characters who aren't all mermaids:D