In an island far away in the middle of the atlantic ocean,was a village. It was a rather lovely village, the skies were vast and the ocean was enchantingly blue. The people lived in peace as they believed a god had placed them on the island for protection.
The god,had a chosen maiden who was to remain untouched in order to maintain the purity of the god. But alas, love,the greatest human weakness you never know how it will find you. And our dear pure maiden happened to fall in love and deeply she fell to a point of pregnancy.
"Quick,we have to run before they catch us", she said as she desperately tried to convince her lover to run away with her. " Why, we did nothing wrong they'll understand", he says. She gently caresses his cheeks with her soft cold hands," my love, you don't understand I'm the vessel of the god, no one is meant to touch me or they shall be killed and also our baby shall be thrown away to the ocean for the god to reclaim him".
" No way,they can't do that, besides you are almost due darling",he remarks. "It's okay, I've spoken to my friend and she has promised to get us a boat,we can't take any chances we just need to go", she says looking deep into his eyes. He agrees, after all, he too was deeply in love with this woman,ever since he first saw her dancing on the beach in the moonlight.
They sneak out into the night running arm in arm towards the beach. As they approach the boat left for them at the beach,she hears a huge thud and splash drops her lover into the water. His head bleeding out into the water, she screams and goes to reach for him but she is grabbed by the village warriors and and kept away from him.
"And where did you think you are running to?" says the village elder emerging from the darkness " you can not defile the god and bring bad luck to us, if my daughter, your friend,had not informed me in good time, you would have brought a calamity to us we wouldn't be able to fathom". " Please just let us go, you can always choose another pure maiden and as long as we are not here nothing terrible will happen" she says tears in her eyes for her lover who is losing a lot of blood.
"Let you go? Never, you have sin-...." " Aaaaaah! " our maiden screams,poor thing the worry for her lover has caused her baby to come early. She lays on the ground as the soldiers and elders stand around bewildered. Her friend tries to run from her father's side to go help her, "no one help her, this is the price she has to pay for her crime" the elder bellows and walks away, leaving our maiden lying on the ground in pain. He lover crawls towards her side and holds her hand. " You need to push my love, push I'm right here beside you." he says in a low croaking voice. With all her last bit of energy she pushes and pushes and pushes and finally her baby cries in the softest voice.
Her lover reaches his hand into her dress and slowly pulls their baby up to his lover's chest. " Look honey,she looks just like you, beautiful." He whispers falling by her side in exhaustion from blood loss. " She does my darling, she has the kindest eyes just like her father," she says tears streaming from her eyes. She looks into her lovers eyes and with his final breath kisses his true love one last time and dies.
The maiden, gets up and slowly walks towards the boat she rips her dress's lower half and wraps her child in it. She looks to the moon and prays to it to guide, protect and give her daughter the ability to survive the ocean. The moon,shines a beam onto the child and she glows. With one final kiss on the forehead, the maiden pushes the boat and the ocean gently takes the boat with it's wave almost as though it was helping the lovers as well.
The maiden then returns next to her lover's side holds his hand and slowly dies exhausted. The next morning,the villagers take their bodies put them in a stone casket together and bury them in the ocean as is tradition. Hopefully they get a chance in their next life to live happily ever after. As for the child, the villagers assumed it was carried by the waves and is probably dead.
The baby, was not dead ,she was however really hungry and cold and was relentlessly crying and it was attracting many predators. In the distance a shiny silhouette was swimming very fast towards the boat. It arrives slowly circles the boat and a beautiful medly can be heard which actually calms the baby and out of the water appears, two beautiful mermaids.
