My Flaming Beauty

Every morning at 7 I would watch as a delicate figure walked along the shore. Her head of flames trailed behind her, the wind caressing each strand like a meistro playing a masterpiece. I never knew where she was going or why she would travel this way, yet every morning at 7 I would hide under the dock just to catch a glimpse of her majesty.

However, some hands don't know how to hold such beauty.

On a winter morning, the darkness hid a mysterious figure. I still watched my flaming girl walk the beach at 7 when suddenly a large fisherman (I had seen him a few times on a boat) jumped out of some bushes and barreled towards her. Her screams filled the air only to be silenced by a gruff hand. I dove into the water trying to get to shore as fast as possible. My immediate instinct was to rush after her, yet my physical body kept me from doing any good. My flaming beauty bit this huge figure and made him yelp, kicked him in the middle place where legs connect to the body (and it seemed to have a strange impact on this man) and proceeded to sprint. Yet he was unperturbed by this, and once again caught hold of my precious gem, pinning her to the sandy shore.

I swam faster and faster, hoping I wasn't too late! As soon as I was at the edge between shore and waters I began to hum an old siren tune I had heard my fellow friends sing a while back. The man immediately stopped his motions and seemed mesmerized. The girl squirmed away from him as fast as possible. He began to stand and walk towards me. I hadn't been prepared for this moment (I'm a mermaid, I don't eat humans) so I continued to sing and pull him towards the water with my voice. The girl stopped abruptly as well and looked towards me.

Her piercing eyes took my breath away. My voice gave out as she continued to lock eyes with me. Before I could resume my tune, the fisherman grabbed me with his arms and began to walk me towards the land, heading towards green grounds. I tried to scream and yell, but once again my voice was silenced by his gruff hand covering my mouth. The girl sprinted towards us and spoke in a language I couldn't understand, yet he seemed to have control over her.

She beat at his hulking figure with her small fists, still yelling in their native language. Eventually he set me down so he could take care of her. As soon as my body hit the green surface, my fins disappeared immediately, leaving me with the two legs the humans had. A cold set upon my body I had never known. The girl ran toward me and seemed inquisitive, yet I couldn't understand her. She took off a layer of her skin and laid it on my bare chest. Sometime through this the man had departed, yet all I could focus on was the girl.

She was also slowly no longer speaking, and we just stared into each other's sparkling eyes.

I tentatively reached out my hand and gestured towards her flames. She seemed to chuckle and pulled it toward me, where I finally felt the texture of flames. There were soft, long, luscious strands my hands got lost in.

She then reached her hand towards my ears and touched them, beginning at the sharp tip and then trailed down to my neck.

At some point we had each leaned closer and closer to one another, until finally she took the plunge and our lips began to lock in a way I had never felt before, along with new feelings that came along with new legs.

Oh shit I thought, as she leaned me back onto the cool green surface. I realized that this was the beginning of love.