Best Friends Forever: Mazzy The Mermaid Princess

By Carol Eliassen

A mermaid fantasy story of a Princess who conquers not only a powerful spell cast on her by her Grandparents, the King, and Queen of Travestana, located under the Caspian Sea but her own fear of risking her life to save her best friend. Mazzy and Zulu, her best friend and a fish, were inseparable from day one but two years later Zulu goes on a month-long school trip to explore the underground caves and countries along the way to Norway. Mazzy is forbidden to go until Zulu is trapped and needs her help. Determined to save her friend Mazzy takes on a powerful spell and the most daring adventure of her life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Eliassen
• Release date: Oct 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370753093

Carol Eliassen

Carol Eliassen has always been passionate about creative writing, photography, fine art and traveling. She loves learning new things both professionally and on a personal basis. Her love of the outdoors in nature influences her creative writing and landscape photographs.Carol grew up in East Texas and graduated from The University of Texas at Tyler. She currently resides in Washington State with her husband Kurt and her cat Vanilla.

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BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

MAZZY THE MERMAID PRINCESS

2nd in Series of The Chronicles of Mazzy the Mermaid Princess.

Copyright © 2017 CAROL A. ELIASSEN

Published by WHIMS OF WRITING at Smashwords

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Acknowledgments and Disclaimers

© 2017 Carol A. Eliassen

1st Edition edited and Copyright renewed © 2019

Illustrations by © 2017 Mazzy Mercil

Artwork by © 2017 Stephanie Broker

Pacific Northwest Artist Stephanie Broker and her painting, "Mazzy the Mermaid Princess, inspired this story.

Figure 1: Mazzy the Mermaid Princess

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission of the author/publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the Author and no relation to anyone bearing the same names. Any resemblance to any individual known or unknown to the parties is purely coincidental. The city of Baku in Azerbaijan and many other cities and countries throughout the world named do exist except for a few that are fictional, and all are used entirely in this book for fictional characters, settings, and the overall storyline.

Special thanks to my husband Kurt who puts up with me daily and encourages me in all the things I love to do. I am truly blessed.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Best Friends Forever

Chapter Two: The Picnic

Chapter Three: Saying Goodbye

Chapter Four: The Adventure Begins

Chapter Five: The Earthquake

Chapter Six: Finding the Dragons

Chapter Seven: The Plan

Chapter Eight: The Rescue

Chapter Nine: Norway Bound

Chapter Ten: Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever

Artwork and Illustrations

Meet the Author

Chapter 1

Best Friends Forever

Figure 2: Mazzy meets Zulu (6 years of age)

Mazzy had a strange feeling something was terribly wrong as she slowly woke up from her nightmare. She dreamed that Zulu, a fish, and her best friend, happened to be in trouble. She had to help him and then suddenly she realized it was only a dream. She reclined back on her bed with her heart beating in her chest in rapid succession until it slowly eased. Zulu was safe. He was still in the Kingdom of Travestana.

Travestana is the underwater kingdom ruled by King Hapadula and Queen Eldora who happen to be Princess Mazzy’s grandparents. Travestana is located right off the coast of Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, deep within the Caspian Sea. All types of sea life live in harmony within the kingdom under the rule of Mazzy’s mermaid family.

Zulu told Mazzy the day before that he was going to go on an adventure with his school of fish to visit other countries throughout the underground channels that existed across the world. He would be leaving soon and wanted her to know he would be okay and only gone for one month.

Mazzy became so despondent after he told her he would be leaving. She had never been away from Zulu since she was six years old. He had always been by her side from the day they met and became instant friends. Mazzy who was six at the time had been sitting in an open clam resting after playing with her other friends that had just left. Zulu swam up to her as she sat alone and asked if she would