In the time of old, there once lived a mermaid who resided in the of the lost city of Atlantis. There she lived freely in her mermaids grotto close to the palace where she served as Poseidon's personal singer. She was well known for her enchanting voice, beauty, and vibrant golden hair.
Far off in a new world high in the heavens, hidden among the clouds of Mount Olympus exists an Angel deemed the guardian of Aphrodite's mystical treasures, of which include her personal beauty mirror. The mirror amplifies and rejuvenates ones beauty with the glorious suns rays, however, when in darkness the mirror has a reversed effect by stealing ones beauty and youth.
Psyche approaches Aphrodite to request the use of her mirror, and for her own amusement, allows her knowing wheat the result would be. Psyche uses the mirror, yet the reflection she sees is not of herself, but of Aphrodite. Disgusted by the tasteful curse she tosses the mirror off the edge of the heavens plunging into the dark depths of the ocean, where sunlight fell ill. The only light came from the ancient crystals used to power the Atlantean technology.
Aphrodite is upset by this and orders the angel to retrieve her precious treasure back from where it had fallen. Loyally the angel promptly propels himself through the clouds gliding across the land and sea searching for a solar reflection from the mirror before nightfall.
The mirror ended up floating down into a hole in the mermaids grotto. The mermaid awakens from her slumber as if drawn out of her sleep. The mirror catches the glimmer on the several crystals along the inner cave wall, which also catches the mermaid's attention. She approaches as if a fish to an angler, and can't resist looking at herself in this heavenly mirror. She gazes into the mirror transfixed by her beauty, and just as a leach would, the mystical mirror saps the youth from her eyes, the sheen of her hair, and her radiance in her sculptured face. Appalled by her hideous appearance she then tosses the mirror down an undersea crevasse, and attempts to rejuvenate her features with various forms of kelp and seaweed, but to no avail. She then cloaks herself in a coat of kelp, and swims off to sing for Poseidon and his company.
When the mermaid arrives at the palace, she retains her mysterious garb as she plans to use it in her act. When she starts singing, her voice retains her luring tone, yet its muffled by the layers of kelp, which Poseidon demands she remove from the act. Reluctantly she reveals her grim state, to which Poseidon reacts with aggression, demanding the impostor be removed from his sights immediately, to which his guards swiftly react, expelling the mermaid from the palace. She sadly swims back to her home, crying freshwater tears.
When she arrives she immediately notices the mirror has returned to its original resting spot. Her sadness quickly turns to shock and shifts to anger. She grabs the mirror and furiously swims to the surface, so as to expel it from the ocean. Above the surface, the angel soars high over the clear blue ocean, resembling diamonds strewn across a blue blanket. As the mirror comes closer to the surface, it glimmers the suns rays, getting stronger and stronger with the accession. Soon the shine outshines the other glimmers on the surface which catches the angels eye, who darts toward the sight of this phenomena. The angel arrives just above the surface, yet dares not enter the water for if his wings were to get wet he would be unable to return to the heavens. The mermaid draws closer to the surface, the shine is almost blinding at this point. The mermaid sees that what is above is an angel, however the blinding light from the mirror along with her goulash appearance misleads the angel to believe that she is a sea witch. In an attempt to rescue the mirror, the angel swoops down into the ocean to slay the sea witch. The mermaid defends herself with the mirror while the angel struggles to obtain it. While the angel slowly kills the mermaid, she drowns the angel, as the both sink into the depths. They eventually turn to sea foam, which rises to the surface, carrying the mirror along with it.
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