Once upon a time.

By Lafeedeslilas

Once upon a time. Once upon a time there was a maid. A mermaid. But the mermaid fell in love with a prince.

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"Chrona" Medusa stood coldly behind of her daughter "Chrona" She called again and the girl lifted her head to respond with a shaky voice

"Y..Yes?" The witch's golden eyes stared at the trembling back and hunched shoulders that had just responded. She smirked.

"You are going to die" said she. Chrona didn't respond but her trembling worsened. With obvious hardship she managed to ask to her mother in between stutters.

"Wh..why?"

"Because the life that I gave you is consuming your soul." the woman paused "No, let me correct that. The blood I gave to you to make you live is eating you up. You will turn into a rain of ugly black blood." Medusa walked a few steps to locate herself face to face with the sword wielder. "Do you want to die Chrona?"

Chrona felt an enormous wave of fear swell in her chest. She shuddered and cast her eyes on the ground in search of a nothing that might calm her. In between gasps she answered

"N..No"

"What? I cant hear you Chrona"

"NO!" Medusa smirk widened and she let her serpents tongue slither her lips. The woman moved her head next to her daughter's ear and hissed

"Then kill him" Medusa complemented her instruction "Kill Shinigami's Son"

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Once upon a time. Once upon a time there was a maid. A mermaid. But the mermaid fell in love with a prince.

So the mermaid went to the witch and asked for a new life. A life on the earth. The witch acceded and gave the mermaid a potion which would allow her grow legs.

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She didn't wish to die. How odd. She had always wished she had just died. But since she had entered Shibusen in order to "spy", she suddenly didn't wish she had died. Suddenly she didn't want to leave the new world she had been introduced into, the new world where she had friends that called her and cared for her. Rather she wished she had not been born. Like that she wouldn't have to feel the pain she was feeling right now. She wouldn't have known that the sky was painfully and breathtakingly blue. That feelings of depression and obscure loneliness was not all that existed within her. She wouldn't have known them. She wouldn't have to kill him. She wished she had not been born.

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"Wh.. why..y must I ..K..kill him?"

"Because a shinigami's heart can pump even a demon's black blood. You need his heart to live; therefore you must kill him before the day of your death: Tomorrow's dawn"

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Kill one more. She repeated the phrase as if it were a jinx. Simply hear the dying scream of one more. One more. He was just one more being killed by her hands. It was ok, it was simply one more scream.

Chrona pale eyes wandered around the door of Kidd's room. In the other side her target would be taking his usual sleep of the hour. She knew he never woke up in his sleep time. Not even if black star crashed through his ceiling he would twitch an eye. Chrona gulped and tightened her grip around ragnarock and entered the room. She just had to kill one more.

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So the mermaid went to the witch and asked for a new life. A life on the earth. The witch acceded and gave the mermaid a potion which would allow her grow legs.

However the witch had a condition. If the mermaid couldn't do what she had gone to do in the land, she would turn into foam at the end of a certain time. She would die.

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As predicted, Kidd was sleeping peacefully. Chrona stepped nervously nearer to the body and raised her blade on the body. She was ready to descend the sword to the neck of the sleeping death god's son. She closed shut her eyes. Just one more. Just one more movement and she would be saved. She would live. She wouldn't have to leave this world.

Her blade would get smothered by blood like always. The person under the tip would shriek and die instantly like always. She would just have to do it like always. But then… why wouldn't her hand strike? Her hand wouldn't move a single inch.

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However the witch had a condition. If the mermaid couldn't do what she had gone to do in the land, she would turn into foam at the end of a certain time. She would die.

But alas, time is merciless. Her seconds had ran out. The mermaid didn't wish to die. So the witch told her that if she stabbed the human, she would live and not become lifeless foam.

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Her shoulders shook violently but her grip didn't loosen. He hands kept still. Chrona panicked. The sun had begun to rise and had began to engulf the horizon in a warm red color but the black of her dress absorbed it and made it into nothing. The demon sword wielder tried to encourage herself but it was no use.

"It's me or you" Although her body was trembling, strangely her voice sounded firm for the first time; even she was surprised at the feat she had just achieved. "It's me or you. I shouldn't have been born. I was going to die anyways, I was a failed experiment. But I lived because at the last moment I was injected with black blood" The girl finally lowered her sword and clutched it towards her heart. She knelt next to Kidd who still slept contentedly "I never got to tell you before but the when you patted my back that time…" Her grey eyes suddenly felt unknown liquids invade it. Tears were swelling up "… was enough to make me feel… safe for a first." She wiped her wet cheeks with her free hands and kissed his lips. She gave a shaky smile mingled with sweet sadness "It's me or you. So.. It's you."

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But alas, time is merciless. Her seconds had ran out. The mermaid didn't wish to die. So the witch told her that if she stabbed the human, she would live and not become lifeless foam.

So the mermaid went with her human form to the sleeping prince. She raised the dagger high in the air in order to save her own life. But the mermaid's will faltered the moment she saw the human's peaceful face and without bearing the sight of it nor the thought of killing him, she turned around, ran to the sea and threw herself to the water with the melting sun.

The mermaid became one with the foam.

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Chrona left quietly as she had entered. As if she had never been there in the first place. Dawn covered her hair and she extended hands in an innocent attempt to catch the light that was engulfing her. She smiled again. This time a smile of pure bliss.

"I never knew I could glow." Whispered she

She was not scared of death anymore, she was going to accept it; she was going to die for it, for him. And so Chrona faded together with the wind leaving behind four shy words.

"Kidd, I loved you"

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The mermaid became one with the foam.

And she was no more.

Yes, it was once upon a time. Once upon a time there was a maid. A mermaid. But the mermaid fell in love with a prince.

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"Chrona! Where is Chrona!" Maka shouted at every person that had crossed her path "She is not in her room! She is not anywhere! I can't find her!" She explained helplessly; this time to Kidd.

"Maka calm down." The shinigami's son said "She couldn't have disappeared into thin air. You'll find her."

"I'll.. I'll try to search for her again…"And Maka went off with Soul running behind her. Kidd sighed and looked through one of the ample windows of the school.

It was pouring clear crystal rain.

End

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Author notes: The Disney movie of the little mermaid is not the original. The one written by Christen Anderson doesn't end with the mermaid marrying the prince, so sorry…

The story happens a little bit before Chrona's disappearance episode ok?

** note: Personally, I think that the ending is not sad at all. I know that Chrona dies and all that , but you see, Chrona was destined to become black ugly rain (as medusa had said), however the ending says otherwise. I say she has freed herself from her enslavement and fear. She dealt and decided her own future, and has overcame it by changing it. So please dont be sad, fellas~

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