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// Chapter 3 
// Story: The Hippogriff and the Mermare 
// by Creativa-Artly01 
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At the sea shaman's, Pearl Crystal prepares to make a deal with the shaman.

"What can I give you to get hooves and wings?" asks Pearl Crystal.

"Let me think, let me think," says the sea shaman, "what I want, I want your first child you have with the prince." 

"No!" shouts Pearl, tears forming in her eyes. "There must be something else." 

"Okay, the alternate choice, the Crystalline Imperial Pink Pearl," says the shaman.

"Deal!" replies Pearl Crystal, "I'll get your pearl." A few hours later, she returns with the pink pearl, hands it to the shaman, and he gives her her wings and her hooves. Seeing her new features, she bursts through the water to the surface and heads to the hippogriff kingdom to find her Rubius. Once she lands in the hippogriff kingdom, she goes and finds Rubius sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean. She then sits down beside him and he recognizes her immediately. 

"Pearl Crystal, is that you?" he says with a smile. He then embraces her in a hug.

"Yes, yes it is me," she replies, happily hugging him back. He then lets go of the embrace and takes her to meet his father. 

In the castle dining hall, Rubius, Pearl Crystal, and his father sit down to dinner. The three talk for hours. By the end of it, Rubius's father agrees to let him marry the pegasus Pearl Crystal. They're both thrilled. They immediately start planning everything for the wedding. 

Three days later, the two are wed with Rubius's father being kept in the dark that the pegasus he just wed to his only son is actually a merpony in disguise. He'll never know it, though, because the shaman's spell made it so as soon as she marries the hippogriff prince, she immediately becomes a pegasus forever. 

A few days after the wedding, the two go on their honeymoon. The two sigh and smile as they look into each others' eyes. They are glad to finally be together and they're glad it's going to be for the rest of their lives. Pearl Crystal, even though they did an alternate trade, can't help but worry that the shaman may still come after her first child. She crosses her hooves and hopes and prays that he doesn't. She hopes he doesn't back out on his word. After all, there is a reason her kind don't usually trust the shaman because he tends to be a black faced dubious liar. Unfortunately for her, he may have just hood winked her and that thought leaves a bad feeling in her stomach.