The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid is a reverse story.

Synopsis
It is a reverse story in that, instead of a mermaid who wants to explore the human world, the protagonist is a human who wants to explore the mermaid world.

Plot
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there lived a King who was a single father who lived with his two children named Melody and Henry. Melody dreamed of one day living underwater and thus collected stuff from there. She often asked her paternal grandmother (her father's mother) about mermaids. One day, Melody asked her grandmother about a mermaid's life after death. Her grandmother told her that mermaids turn into sea foam when they die, while humans have an eternal soul. Now Melody had a positive view on death and didn't view turning into sea foam a bad thing, so she turned to a witch for help. The witch had her drink a potion that turns her into a mermaid, but the potion had a side effect: When her legs turned into a tail, they felt as if they had been banged together, but Melody didn't mind. She swam around until she found a merman prince named Alex. After spending time together, they fell in love, but Alex had been betrothed to a REAL mermaid princess. Desperate for Alex's love, Melody attended the wedding, shouted "I object" and confessed her love for him and Alex her in return. At that moment, she turned back into a human and swam back to shore. She confessed to Alex that she was BORN a human. Alex still loved her however and he had his father turn her back into a mermaid. He and Melody married and lived happily ever after. Now Melody can be happy both in life AND death, because she knows that she will dissolve into simple nothingness which, in her eyes, was much more peaceful than an afterlife.