THE GREAT CITY OF AQUARIAL

Chapter: 6.

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The city of Aquarial was created thousands of years ago. Thousands of years ago, the sea creatures roamed the Seven Seas, causing havoc and ruins among themselves and those who would trespass under the sea and above. It was a chaotic disaster for tens of thousands of years. Until the Gods took pity upon the sea creatures and sent forth a Fire Trident. It fell and merged deeply into the sea mountain. It was the only mountain in all of the Seven Seas and it has seven apexes all connected to one base. The sea grew warmer, the fishes went away into hiding, famine struck the Seven Seas and for many years the sea creatures feared their fate until the Elder of Elders summoned all sea creatures and asked that each Elect within themselves someone they considered worthy to lead and be the ruler over the Seven Seas.

The sea creatures gathered, each having selected a worthy leader and thus the Elder of Elders led the seven leaders up the sea mountain to its apex. There he had the MerElves chosen to pull on the Fire Trident and the elf did, using all his strength and soulpearl but wasn't able to draw the Trident. The next was the Merdragon. Even he wasn't able to draw the Fire Trident. The Merfish failed. The Merfaires elected the most beautiful and powerful fairy but even she wasn't found worthy of the Gods to draw the Fire Trident.

Even the Merwitches and wizards with all their many tricks and dark powers couldn't draw the Fire Trident. The whispering Ghosts, with their powerful siren song, their tones of deception, capable of luring the most powerful of sea creatures to their demise, failed and at last, the Merfolks sent forth their elected and he came forward, forsaking his soulpearl, he placed his hands on the burning Trident and it's fire eased away into his hands, consuming the merman and without his soulpearl, he howled in pain and pulled with all he was worth. He was favored by the Gods and he became the first Neptune of the seven seas. All sea creatures bowed before him and swore an oath of worship and loyalty. The great event came to an end, Neptune was made ruler and he named the cities within Aquarial.

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For the Merfaires, knowing they preferred to stay hidden, away from other sea creatures, they only appear when there is an extreme need for them, for they were small and fragile and could easily be mistaken as never present and trampled underfoot, even be eaten by troubled wild sea beasts. They made the sea flowers bloom, they kept the fruits and vegetables nourished, and kept the wild sea beasts in check. The Merfairies were essential to all sea creatures and their safety paramount. To them, Neptune gave the city of Scytis and with their soulpearl they created a barrier to rise above the city, guarding it against wandering sea creatures and wild sea beasts and any form of impending danger.

Then next, King Neptune gave unto the MerElves the most peaceful, gentlest, and kindest of all sea creatures, and the most powerful in healing herbs and potions. To them were given the city of Ebilor. A place of healing, a place of peace.

Next, King Neptune called the Merdragons and to them were given the city of Riveri for its dwellings and surroundings were filled with iced streams, flowing rivers, and the lake of immortality.

To the dark soulpearls of Merwitches and Wizard, Neptune bestowed the city of Glasa, and once they made home within the city, their dark soulpearls energy filled the sea sky with evil aura it was so strong it began to sip into the neighboring cities and with the Fire Trident, Neptune sealed Glasa and other sea creatures were forbidden to go in contact with its dwellers. For they had no good in them but are filled with trickery and dark magics.

The city of Merlona was named and given to the Whispering Ghosts. It is daring to trespass into their abode for if any sea creatures are found wandering in Merlona and if they harbor any form of greed or hate within their heart, the siren songs of the Whispering Ghosts would suck their soulpearl and entrap them within the walls of Merlona until they too become a whispering Ghost.

Aquari became the capital of Aquarial and the Realm of the kings.

Atlaria was the city closest to the Seven Apex Sea Mountain and its dwellers where Merfish folks who were named the custodians of the Sea Mountain favored by the Gods and generation after generation once in ten thousand years a keeper is born and the current king will be called upon by the Gods and another will rise in his stead and for generations, the name Tide ruled and they were the watchers of the Fire Trident after Neptune only they were given the power to lift and wield the Fire Trident, it was forbidden that a Tideian shall lay finhands on the Trident unless the King couldn't wield his Trident.

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As years flew by, many Neptune died and so did Tideains the keepers of the Fire Trident and peace rained in all the Seven Seas. They prospered greatly and grew in knowledge, building their cities into a place worthy of the Gods themselves, using precious gems, golds, precious stones, and abundant sea treasures. It was a city never before seen. Until the day Atana the daughter of the fifth King Neptune went above the sea and discovered land dwellers. It was known that she fancied a certain mortal, helpless and weak human and she would often disobey her father for the sake of this mortal. Sea dwellers hated her for her poor taste in love thus she became the first to discover land and the humans who occupied her, the sea dwellers didn't see why she would choose a worthless mortal over them. But, Atana was strong-willed and nothing would break her away from her desires, not even Neptune.

She went to Glasa and took dark magic which gave her the disgusting things the mortals walked on land with and she became the first mermaid with the ability to switch bodies, once in the sea she changed into a mermaid, and on land she was like them, a mortal on two hideous legs. Her father loved her still, he couldn't hate his daughter for finding love. But, other sea creatures disagreed with Neptune. Many said he has gone soft for she was his only daughter and he was lenient to deliver punishment to his daughter.

But how could he punish her? She had found love. Even the Gods wouldn't punish a soul for finding love.

With the dark magic of Glasa, Atana discovered another dark magic that gave her human lover the ability to breathe underwater and she brought the two-legged mortal to Aquarial.

And he became the first man to discover the great city of Aquarial.

The first man to breathe and speak underwater like he was another sea creature. He promised the king great love and devotion to his only daughter and the king saw no reason to hate the weak mortal and so he gave his blessings. Since the witches of Glasa couldn't get magic to transform a mortal into a merman both Atana and her husband Duke went to live on the lands as mortals, but only Duke knew his wife was a mermaid.

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With time, the humans and the sea dwellers became acquaintances, their children were allowed to play with the merbabies even the fairies couldn't hate the humans and once in a while, they would appear to them. Granting wishes and making their younglings happy. The humans told many great tales of the sea dwellers and having witnessed and seen them first hand could make paintings of them to keep for their generations to come.

Neptune allowed it, but humans were weak and mortal and they aged and died in time. Atana wasn't mortal and it grieved her heart as she watched her husband age while she remained as she was. She never wanted him to die. And once again she visited Glasa. For her request, she had given up her most treasured, she had offered her soulpearl to the tricky witches so they could grant her the magic to make her husband young again and they, in turn, told her that there was only one way for Duke to obtain immortality and that was for him to drink of her blood. She hid this away from her father and her people and went back to the lands. She fed her husband a goblet filled with her blood and once he had recovered within a few days the people marveled and yearned earnestly that he told them the source of his sudden youthfulness.

His wife had made him promise not to tell another soul and another hundred years passed and neither did the human nor his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren aged neither did any die. They all fed from their mother's essence and the world couldn't take it anymore. They raged a war against Atana and her household, called them witches and vampires, and said they ate the blood of their neighbors and of their neighbors' children to keep young. It was a hard time for the poor mermaid and her beloved. She yearned to return to the sea, even to do as little as sending a soulbutterfly to give her poor father the news of her predicament but she couldn't for she had been tricked by the witches of Glasa and her soulpearl has been snatched from within her, leaving Atana nothing but as weak as the ones she loved and fought to protect.

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