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Challenge of the Month IV: February
The Villain. Some villains may be innately evil. Others may be the product of unfortunate circumstance. Still others may simply be misunderstood - heroes willing to do the unsavory, but ultimately necessary deed. Tell the tale of a villain. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
stjones

The Lady of the Sea

The lady of The Sea

said “Sing to me”

on that fateful, tragic eve

because revenge was all that she could see.

Her Purple tentacles wrapped around the potion

that held a voice that would put her plan in motion.

She drank the concoction in her hands,

and transformed herself to go up to land.

now Her voice mimicked the girl that had been frightened,

the youngest daughter that belonged to King Titan.

“A King he will be no more,

until I get the crown Back, this is war,” cried the lady of the water, speaking her pet eels, flotsam and jetsom,

”For she won’t find true love before the sun sets,

without a word to speak, how could she have even met,

the prince she’s been so longing to see. No I’ll make him fall in love with me. My olan is almost too easy,”

the lady of the sea laughed,

now that her spell had been cast.

she wasn’t always such an evil witch,

she rmemebered the days when the roles were switched.

She had fallen in love a long time ago,

to a merman from another kingdom that was now unknown.

They both had planned to be wed,

But the secret she buried that she never said

was she first in line for the throne,

but the merman was a king of his own part of the sea,

so she left and soon after was married.

while she spent her time ruling a dying kingdom in seas far away,

King tritan became ruler of Atlantis that day.

The lady of the Sea and her husband came to overthrow,

the younger brother ruling all of the land below.

when she came back, claiming they should share the kingdom equally,

Tritan told her to go rule her part of the sea,

when the lady of the sea tried to steal his tritan away

her king merman also fought Tritan to stay,

when Tritan tried to zap him away,

he accidentally died that day.

the lady of the sea, took just one look,

promised that day she’d do whatever it took,

to be the queen, ruler of Atlantis forevermore

and now her she was, read to begin her was.

Since King Tritan killed the man she loved,

she would send his youngest daughter to the land above.

The time has come and she would Use the name Vanessa

and Look much pretty in her fancier dress.

she could hardly wait to cause a mess.

After all, Ursula was the lady of the sea, it was time for this octopus to be the queen she was made to be.

THE END