Chapter 1

Far away from any shore there lived a beautiful mermaid by the name of Mariel.

She was the daughter of a shipwrecked pirate captain brought back to life by the kiss of the famous underwater member of the royal family, Princess Elinora. This well-loved underwater royal highness was to become Mariel's mother.

When she was just a small girl, Mariel was told many stories of the dire consequences of intermarriage between land-bound folk and the residents of the underwater kingdom. Her grandfather, the wise King Gallipolli, never held her land-bound heritage against Mariel. He loved her even more than his other full-watered offspring and never refused her a single request.

Mariel had just reached her Eighteenth birthday and would soon be forced to remove herself to the land-based society for her mandatory year of "decision orientation".

She was a bit nervous about this process because she had never been outside of the safety of her underwater kingdom. She had only sighted the land-folk vessels from a safe distance and from under the distorting protection of the foamy Ocean waves.

The permanent development of her gill system and the customary swishing tail of an accomplished mermaid would not be hers until she had gone through the decision orientation. Once she had given the final approval after 365 days on land, she would be a full-fledged part of the Oceanic world.

Mariel had already done some "things" with the handsome mer-males that frequented the royal compound.

She was happy that they could experience a completion of their mating cycle even though she had an inferior land-based body with long legs and strange lower body systems with large circular fleshy mounds in her posterior and a long hair-matted slit between her muscled legs. The whistling sounds emitted by the men-males as they copulated with her filled her with wonder and she was so happy she could give them pleasure even though she was incapable of achieving her underwater release until she was fully equipped with mermaid mating systems.

She had to admit she came real close one night when the twin brothers, Cedric and Hardwicke sandwiched her in a mer-male threesome. She could inhale the scent of their emissions and see the telltale cloud of pollination surround her unworthy land-based body. Her best friend Ellie who was a full watered mermaid was so jealous of her that she spanked Mariel's rounded bottom with her very strong tail.

Mariel never told Ellie the truth about her spankings because she was ashamed they made her feel all a quiver inside her tummy and she wanted to kiss and thank Ellie so bad after each one. She just pretended to be humiliated and promised the beautiful mermaid she would be a good girl from here on out. She truly believed she was perverted in some sense because of her intense feelings aroused by the punishment from a full-grown mermaid's tail.

She would always comb Ellie's hair after the beautiful mermaid spanked her. Mariel would let her hand slide down to touch the beautiful mermaid's breast as she stroked the long black hair with a loving touch. Ellie never objected to Mariel's tender touch. In fact, she would smile and swing her tail slowly emitting a sensual mating scent that attracted nearby schools of mer-males.

Down here in the Oceanic kingdom there was no such thing as female to female or male to male sexual attraction, so poor Mariel did not understand why she had such feelings.

She was very sad to leave the kingdom, but rules are rules and she used her human legs to grip and ride the back of a splendid dolphin all the way to the shore of the land the underwater denizens called "Floridiana". The dolphin signaled her that he was not getting too close because they sometimes captured his kind and kept them in captivity in a strange place called "SeaWorld". He had no intention of falling prey to that kind of existence. Mariel sensed that the male dolphin was excited to have her legs gripping him tightly and he took great pleasure in demonstrating how powerful he was as he sped through the choppy waves.

Mariel had donned the bottoms and top of a cloth fabric used by the land-folk when they go into the water. Her mentor, King Gallipolli's cousin, Doctor Emmanuel warned her it must be worn or she would be noticed by the land-folk as being "different".

She asked Ellie to trim her extra hair "down there" so it would not be visible outside her cloth fabric. Ellie was very adept with the sharpened seashell and Mariel trusted her to tend to her hair removal without any fear of being cut by the finely honed tool. She thought Ellie took an awful long time fixing her up and she seemed to be very interested in how her long slit worked. Mariel placed her hands on Ellie's shoulders and opened her legs wide for Ellie's inspection and exploration. She noticed that Ellie was breathing rapidly and her mating scent was so strong that several mer-males started circling closer and closer.

Ellie told her to turn around and she inspected the cord like strand of fabric that was buried deep between her twin globes of rounded flesh.

"There's no hair back here, Mariel. I am just going to clean you real good with my fingers."

The touch of Ellie's fingers sliding into her little waste hole was strange and exciting. She reached back and spread her globes wide to allow her friend full access. A feeling of complete satisfaction blossomed out from her tummy and ran into her slit and down her long land-folk legs.

Ellie was so good to her.

"That is really super, Ellie! When I get back I want you to brush my hair and I will brush yours. I like the way I feel when you are close to me."

Mariel was close to the shore now.

She swam hard to beat the riptide and tried to stay underwater as much as she could until she got into the area where the land-folk were laughing and playing like small children.

The young half-mermaid was very careful to blend in with the other land-folk but she noticed that most of the males were staring at her like she was creature from another world. Mariel looked down at herself and she did not see anything out of the ordinary. Of course, she had those ugly long slim legs that ended up just below the horrible round globes in the back sticking out like twin peaks of feminine flesh. Perhaps it was the size of her two breasts that jutted out and stuck up pertly into the air. The cold air aroused her nipples very prominently and they pushed against her fabric thing like hideous little nubbins of desire.

She bent over at the waist and swung her long hair in the breeze to dry it out. Mariel noticed that several of the males were now congregating directly behind watching her swaying motions with concentrated intent.