S.H.I.M.P.

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"Where do you suppose we are?"
"Well where do you think?"
I heard voices ring from the beach below me. I crawled and peered over the cliffs edge.
"Humans?" I whispered to myself
"Let's go check it out!" I jumped as I saw them get out of the water and head to cliff to climb it.
I watched as they fantasized around. Jumping from ruin to ruin, running their fingers along touching everything.
I was curious about them. They had very few appendages. I had 11 in my boldest form, they only had four.
I soon found the fourth human, a man with blond hair and beautiful eyes. He was very beautiful. I started to stare at him as he glanced around, squinting whenever he tilted his head up to the sky.
"I wonder who lived here." The older girl asked after picking up some shiny object
"Hey, that's mine from my chess set."
"Which chess set?" The beautiful man asked
"I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley did I?"
Finchley? I asked myself with a head tilt.
I stepped one foot forward but accidentally made a sound. The four humans quickly looked in my direction but I concealed myself as well as I could.
"Who's there?" The small girl asked "we won't hurt you."
I didn't know if I could trust that but I walked out anyway.
"Who are you?" The raven haired boy asked.
"I'm y/n." I mumbled
"What are you?" The older girl asked me
"I'm a Shimp."
"A shimp?" The small girl asked with a furrowed brow. Everyone looked at the raven haired boy.
"Don't ask me. I have no clue!"
He must have been the smart one
"Well weve been around for twelve hundred years so it would be a surprise if you didn't know what I was."
"Do you mind explaining."
"I'm a Sprite, Human, Iara descendant, Mermaid, Pixie. Or a Shimp."
"Who's Iara?"
"A female water spirit."
"Are you out here alone?" The older boy asked.
I nodded and smiled with a slight blush
"Are you... narnian?"
"A-are you... narnian?" I asked with a quivering voice
"High Queen Susan." The older girl asked
I gasped when I realized who I was talking to.
"I'm so sorry. I've been incredibly rude. You guys are legends!" I bowed
"You don't have to do that." The raven haired boy, I now recognized as King Edmund, said to me
"Oh... sorry."
"It's alright. What is this place?"
"You don't know?" My voice was a hushed tone
They shook their heads
"It's Cair Paravel."
They all looked shocked
"It was destroyed a while ago."
"How?" Lucy jumped in
I didn't want to say.
"Let's get moving further into the woods. I don't want to be seen out here." I know they could sense my tension.

We walked along the inner forest beach to cross the river. I looked out and saw a boat.
"Look!" I warned.
"Who are they?"
I didn't respond but Susan pulled out her bow as a dwarf was about to be thrown into the water to die.
"Drop him!" Susan commanded
They threw him overboard and I screamed as I saw him splash in. The two boys ran into the water and caught the dwarf.
When he was taken out of the water and the ties were cut he spit out copious amounts of water and stood
"Drop him?! Is that the best you could come up with?"
"A simple thank you would suffice."
"They were doing fine drowning me without your help."
"Why were they trying to drown you anyway?"
"They're telmerines, it's what they do."
My heart started to race
"Telmerines? Here in Narnia?" Edmund asked
"Where have you been for the last fourteen hundred years?"
"It's a bit of a long story." Lucy shyly answered
I saw the dwarf look at the hilt of Peters belt
"Beards and bedsteads. Your it. Your the kings and queens of Old."
"High king Peter, the magnificent." Peter held out his hand to shake but the dwarf just gave him a look
"You could have left off the last bit."
The dwarf laughed and answered with a "probably".
"And uh... who's that?" He asked with a wave of his finger towards me.
"I'm y/n."
"You a shimp?"
"Yes."
"Well my Aslan, there aren't many of you lot left."
I nodded and smiled
"You're a beautiful one if I've ever seen it."
"Thank you." I blushed.
"Have you seen your final form yet?"
I nodded and he smiled
"Beautiful innit?"
"Yeah, I felt powerful."
"Well you are. Being one of the most multi power creatures in all of Narnia."
"Final form?" Peter asked looking at me
"Our final form is when we are finally able to activate all of our heritage at once."
Peter just nodded and we walked along. We were now planning on going to the narnian base.

When we finally made it it was still mid day.
"I'm going to go play in the field for a while." I told Lucy as I waved goodbye. She also waved and let me off.
I bounced around and my wings poofed out of no where to stay behind me.
"Go away!" I grumbled trying to push them away and back into invisibility
"Why push them away?" A voice asked. It was Peter.
"I don't like them very much. They are so large and in the way."
"I think they are beautiful. Can I look?"
"Sure." I let them come back up to a spread out position and Peter walked to the back of me and gently touched them. They twitched at his touch and he apologized quietly.
"It's alright."
"So what else can you have."
My wings poofed away and out came three white tails from behind me.
"Tails?" He smiled
"Yeah, less beautiful, but really comfy when I'm tired."
I could control those manually. My wings not so much.
He looked at me in my eyes as my skin started to shift to a blue green shimmer. Some scales appeared on my cheek bones and forehead but I still had a human face.
I looked at him. His skin was so smooth, so... normal. His eyes were shiny and bright. His hair was so perfectly blonde. And lastly his lips looked soft and warm. I reached up and touched his lips with my thumb gently.
"You're very beautiful." I whispered
"Well thank you. You're beautiful too."
I rested my hand on his cheek and looked at him still
"Your eyes are very shiny." Peter complimented with a blush
"Yours are too."
He grabbed my hand that was resting on my face and held it in his own
"We should probably head back in for the night. The suns going down."
I nodded and he turned to face the How. He looked back and reached out his hand for me to take.
I reached for it and felt his soft hand engulf mine
He smirked and chuckled as he pulled me back to the base
"We don't want to lose you out here."

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