Hello, everyone. :) Heres the new story I've been working on. Don't worry, I'm still not done with The Demon King, for those of you who read it. However, it doesn't seem to be very popular, so I'm going to be writing other stories too. Hope you enjoy this new story!
Peace and love,
~RedBird18~
I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
In mysterious fathoms below
Heave ho
Heave ho
Heave ho
Heave ho
Heave ho
In mysterious fathoms below
In the middle of the ocean a big storm was starting. The waves crashed down everywhere and the wind was blowing from every direction. There was a lone ship caught in this storm. There were many people on it, one being a blond, green eyed prince. Another the princes advisor and protector. He had long, black hair and grey eyes. The rest of the crew were singing joyously.
Fathoms Below!
Fathoms Below!
From whence wayward westerlies blow!
Where Shouma is King,
and his Merpeople sing,
in mysterious Fathoms Below.
"Don't you just love the ocean? The salty smell of the air... The wind blowing in your face. It's the perfect day to be out here." The blond prince mused as he closes his eyes.
His black haired advisor scowled at him slightly, "Yes, Sire. It's delightful." He said, distaste laced his voice.
"A nice strong wind, and the waves are pretty fine, too," One of the crew states as he ties down part of the sale. The blond prince goes to help him, "Yes, King Shouma must be in a good mood today, aye lad?"
"King Shouma?" Questions the Prince, curiously, after he finished tying the rope.
"Aye, that would be the ruler of the mer-people," stated another member of the crew. "I thought any sailor knew about him."
The kings advisor comes up to them and shakes his head with a glare, "Mer-people. Don't start with that nonsense. Sire, Mer-people are just a myth."
"It's not none sense! Mer-people do exist, they live at the very depths of the ocean I'm telling you!" The sailor yells. The princes advisor glares at him.
The prince stares out into the sea, wondering if they really were just myths.
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Yuuri Shibuya is a prince who lives under the sea. He was a kind and adventurous boy, with hair and eyes as black as night. Long ago, his father, King Shouma, banned all things having to do with humans and the lands outside of the sea. Personally, however, Prince Yuuri found it all to be completely ridiculous. You see, Yuuri was fascinated with all things having to do with humans. However, despite Yuuris constant battle with his father over the subject, he could understand his fathers hatred towards the humans. When he was very young, still a baby even, mer-people were free to go up to the shore. They still stayed away from human eyes, but the mer-people didn't fear it so much then. One day when the colony decided to go up there, for the sun and some fun, they were soon attacked. The humans came and killed many from their colony, including one of Yuuris older sisters. His sister, Julia, was only five years old. This turned the kings heart cold when even the subject of humans, or anything involving them, came up. He would just completely stop listening when that subject was reached. Yuuri doesn't remember any of that, of course. But he's still heard the stories. Despite this, he couldn't help but be fascinated by the humans. They were all so different than mer-people. How could he not want to know more about them? The outside world was filled with things he has never even heard of or imagined before. And Yuuri had a hard time believing that just because some humans did terrible things, then that meant they were all bad. Yuuri loves adventure, and his curiosity has almost gotten him killed on numerous occasions. King Shouma is completely against Yuuris 'ridiculous needs to endanger himself' and he is to never, under any circumstances, 'have any thing to do with those dreadful barbarians'. Of course, Yuuri never actually listens to him. This is especially to the disappointment of Conrad Weller. Conrad is King Shoumas advisor, or, as it turns out, Prince Yuuris 'babysitter'. Since King Shouma decided Yuuri needs someone to keep him out of trouble, he decided Conrad is the best option. Now don't get this wrong, Conrad adores Yuuri and would do anything for him. Yuuri also cares very much for Conrad, however he still has to listen to Yuuris father above him. And besides, Yuuri doesn't fancy the idea of having a babysitter. Especially a crab one. Did he mention that? However, Yuuri and his best friend, Murata, will still get into plenty of trouble, with or without him. Murata and him have been best friends since they were little, you frequently see the two in each other's company- most likely getting into trouble.
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"Murata! Over here!" Came the voice of an excited prince.
A merman with dark hair and eyes, and round glasses swam over to look at what his prince has been so excited over. Yuuri came to get him earlier and told him he had something really cool to show him, but refused to tell him what it was until they got there.
Murata looked forward and saw a ship, that looked like it sunk a very long time ago. It was worn out and completely broken down.
Murata gave his friend a look, "Whats so special about this?"
Yuuris eyes widened considerably, "Whats so...? This is from the humans!"
Murata raised an eyebrow at him, "Yes, I realize that. And?"
Yuuri sighs dramatically, "Just think of all the cool human stuff that could be in there! It'll be fun!"
Murata chuckles, "Oh, I see. You're talking about your collection."
Yuuri smiles back brightly, "Of course! Now come on, let's go!"
Yuuri then swam off as fast as he could towards the ship.
"Yuuri wait!" Murata yells after him as he hurries to catch up with him, "It could be dangerous, be careful."
Yuuri rolls his eyes at him, "Don't be such a guppy, Murata. What could possibly be dangerous here?"
Yuuri and Murata then made it to an entrance to the ship.
"I'm just saying. There could be- well, sharks for one thing. And I'm not being a guppy, I'm being realistic. But by all means, scream and swim around as fast as you can in a place you're unsure about." Murata gave a slight smirk in Yuuris direction.
Yuuri sighs, "Alright, let's just go in now."
Yuuri then swims inside the sunken ship and out of Muratas line of sight. Murata just sighs, as a bad feeling started to creep its way inside his stomach. Then he followed his best friend inside the ship.
Yuuri swam deep inside the ship, looking around for anything to catch his eye. He swam down towards the bottom of the ship to look at all the interesting human things. As he looked he went for something shiny that caught his eye. It was long and flat. It had 4 pointy things sticking out at the top.
"Hmmm..." Yuuri hummed, as he looked the strange object over, "I wonder what humans use this for?"
Murata swam over to meet with Yuuri and looked over the object in Yuuris hands.
"It kind of looks like it goes with those other long stick things you have with the rest of your collection. Do you think there all a set?" Questioned Murata.
"I would think so," Yuuri agreed. "But a set for what?"
"I have no idea," Murata answered, in thought. "Maybe we should go ask Gunter afterwards?"
Yuuri nodded as he placed the object in the bag he had, "That sounds like a good idea, now let's see what else we can find in here."
Yuuri continued looking around the ship. Before Murata got a chance to help his friend look around for the human things, he heard a slight bang sound coming from outside the ship.
"Yuuri..." Murata whispered, as he went stiff at the sound.
"Hmmm...I wonder what this is?" Yuuri asked himself, ignoring Murata. There was some sort of rock on it. A blue one, and it it was hanging on a long, skinny, hard...well, Yuuri really didn't know what it was. The long skinny thing was made into a loop, maybe it was some sort of decoration? Yuuri wasn't sure, but he's never seen a rock like it before, so he felt it was worth keeping. Could this be human jewelry, maybe? He placed it in his bag along with his other human thing. "Maybe Gunter will know."
Yuuri continued looking for other human things, oblivious to the sounds Murata was hearing. Speaking of which, Murata just heard it again, in fact, it was louder this time.
"Yuuri!" Murata hissed quietly, "I really think it's time to leave."
Yuuri rolled his eyes as he picked up another object to look at, "Relax, Murata. There's nothing here."
Yuuri looked at the new object in his hands, it was gold in color, with blue circles on it, there were also some strange carvings on it. It had a round top, but more like a short cylinder on the bottom, what could this one be?
"Yuuri!" Murata hissed as he started to pull on his arm, "I really think it's time for us to leave."
That's when Yuuri realized the top could be opened. "Just wait, Murata. We'll leave in a minute." Yuuri said as he opened up the box. There were little People inside. They were...
What was that word again?
Oh. Right. It was dancing. The two people were dancing.
"It's beautiful..." Yuuri whispered.
"Ya, that's great." Murata said, annoyed. "Now let's go!"
Yuuri rolls his eyes, "Murata, you worry too much. Nothing is going to-"
That's when the one side of the ship completely crashed down and the two boys found themselves face to face with a shark.
"Go!" Murata hissed, as he pushed the prince out of his shock and the both swam as fast as they could upwards. The shark tailed them swimming right through the floors of the ship. Yuuri quickly put the strange little box he found inside his bag as he swam. Then his bag got on a piece of the floor that was sticking up. Yuuri gasped as he turned around and saw his bag and the shark getting closer and closer. The teeth were just about to clamp over the bag when Yuuri swam down quickly to grab the bag just in time. Yuuri swam over to were Murata was and they hurriedly found a way out of the ship.
"Did you really have to go back for the bag? Yuuri, that shark could have ate you! He was close enough," Murata spoke frantically as they swam as fast as they could away from the ship.
"I couldn't just leave this stuff! You know how much I love it and I don't even know what it is yet," Yuuri answered him back.
"Is it really worth your life, though?" Murata asked him, a slight scold to his tone.
Yuuri didn't answer him. He looked over his shoulder and saw the shark quickly catching up to them. He bit his lip, a nervous habit of his. It was obvious they wouldn't be able to out swim the shark. It was a shark!
Yuuri looked around frantically and then he gets an idea.
"Murata! This way!" Yuuri states as he grabs Muratas arm and pulls him in a new direction.
Yuuri pulls Murata into a narrow and deep cave and they swim until they reach the very back of it. They both turn around and see the shark swimming straight at the cave, all his big,white teeth showing and coming straight for them. They close their eyes, tightly.
And...
Nothing.
They open their eyes to see they are once again face to face with the shark. The head was the only part of the shark inside the cave, he was stuck. The shark frantically tried to free himself, but had no such luck. Grins slowly made their way onto Yuuri and Muratas faces. They cheered at managing to, well- not being eaten by the shark.
"We did it!" Cheered Murata, a smile on his face. Then he slowly started to frown, "But... how are we going to get out of here?"
Yuuri frowned at that.
Oh, right. The shark is blocking the entrance. He looked around the cave, looking for some sort of exit. Then, he noticed a small opening at the top of the cave.
A huge grin broke across his face as pointed at it, "There!"
Yuuri grabbed the bag from the sea floor, that he seemed to have dropped in all the commotion, and then they both swam to the top and out of the cave.
Once they left the cave, Murata said, "Well, I hate to say this, really. But I told you so."
Yuuri just sends him a glare, "How was I supposed to know there was a shark? And besides, we're still alive."
"Yes. And I really am so, so happy about that. Let's just keep putting ourselves in dangerous situations on the chance that we might survive." Murata answered back, voice laced with sarcasm.
"You never minded it before." Yuuri said, glancing back at him.
Murata sighs deeply, "You're right, I don't mind going on adventures with you, with the chance we may get in trouble. What I do mind is almost becoming shark food. Really Yuuri, are these human things really worth your life?"
Yuuris eyes narrowed, "Of course not. I already told you I didn't know there was a shark."
"And I already told you that I told you so. Don't you ever listen to anyone?" Murata questioned him, raising an eyebrow.
Yuuri just rolled his eyes at him, "All right. I'm sorry, ok? Your right, I should have listened to you. But at least I still got some really cool human things."
Now it was Muratas turn to roll his eyes, "You should remember that next time you try and ignore me. How am I supposed to advise you in the future if you don't even listen to me?" Murata sighs, "Well, I suppose it's time to visit Gunter isn't it?"
Yuuri grins, "Yes! I can't wait to find out what humans use these objects for. Come on!" Yuuri grabs Muratas arm and pulls him upwards until they reach the surface of the water. Yuuri looks around in search of a white seagull, as Gunter said that's what he was called. Yuuri looks up into the sky and sees Gunter flying in circles before landing on a rock not too far from them.
"Gunter!" Yuuri calls, swimming towards him, Murata not too far behind him.
Gunter looks over from his spot on the rock and lights up.
"Oh, if it isn't it the double black mer-prince. Yuuri, what is it I can do for you?" Gunter greeted, ecstatic to see the prince, as per usual.
When Yuuri comes up to the rock he smiles at him in greeting, "Gunter! You have to see all these cool things I found! I have no idea what the humans use them for, though. Will you help me?"
Gunter lights up, "Oh, my beautiful prince is asking for my help! Of course young Yuuri, anything you need!"
A bead of sweat drips from Yuuris forehead, "Er, thank you Gunter."
Yuuri could hear Murata trying to hold back muffled laughter. Yuuri tried to send him a telepathic glare. It didn't work.
"Now, let's see what you have here young Yuuri," Gunter said.
Yuuri nodded and set his bag up on the rock in front of him. He then pulled out the strange looking blue rock. He held it up so Gunter could see it.
Gunters eyes widened considerably, "Oh, yes. This is very valuable, indeed. Humans go to great lengths to possess these colorful rocks."
Yuuri stares at the rock in his hands closely, "Really? Why? I mean it is beautiful, but why is it so valuable?"
"People use these stones in many different ways. I don't understand it either, I mean it's still a rock. But there are very few of these, and to humans, the more rare something is, the more valuable it is," Gunter explained.
Yuuri nods slowly, comprehending, "So what is this rock specifically used for?"
"Well, this rock is used more for decoration; around your neck. The humans call it a neck lace." Gunter tells him.
"Neck lace?" Yuuri questions, and then slowly puts the long string around his neck, "Like this?"
Gunter nods frantically, "Exactly!"
Yuuri grinned as he looked down at his new favorite human thing. Then he went into his bag and took out the stick thing with four points at the top.
"What about this one?" Asks Yuuri, holding it out so Gunter could see it clearly.
"Ah, yes." Gunter says, as he takes the object out of Yuuris hands and examines it. "Now this is what people use for their hair."
"Their hair?" Murata chimed in, "Are you sure? How exactly do they use it?"
"Well, young sage, they put it through their hair, like this," Gunter answers, as he starts running the object through his feathers. "And yes, I'm one hundred percent positive that's what this is for."
"Really." Murata spoke skeptically. "And what's this one called?"
"The humans call this a hair broosh." Answered Gunter, in a matter of fact tone.
"A hair broosh." Yuuri said in a fascinated tone as he took the object away from Gunter and back in his bag.
"Okay. Here's the last one," Said Yuuri as he took the small box out of his bag and set it on the rock in front of him. "There's little dancing people inside," Yuuri added.
"Hmmm...oh, yes. I have seen this before, a long time ago. It's been a while," Gunter spoke as he took the object to Get a better look, completely fascinated.
"Well?" Yuuri asks, curiously, leaning in.
"This is an object people put their valuables in to keep them safe. They call it a jelly box, if I recall correctly. They take these with them everywhere, but keep them completely hidden. So when they are in deep discussions, no one will see it and think they could take advantage. Hmmmm...am I missing anything?" Gunter zones out, deep in thought.
Yuuri blinks, "Discussion? Oh no! The meeting!"
Murata looks over at Yuuri, startled, "Meeting? That was today?"
Yuuri nodded his head frantically, "Dads going to kill me!" He panicked as he took the object from Gunters hands and put it in his bag, "I'm sorry Gunter! But we have to go, thanks for your help!"
"Of course! Anytime, my prince." Gunter answered pleasantly.
Yuuri and Murata then swam beneath the water and swam as quickly back home as they could. As they swam, they didn't notice the two eals watching them.
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Out in the wasted waters of the ocean, is we're the banished and exiled would reside. The one plotting revenge against King Shoumas Kingdom, but especially King Shouma, is Sara. However, most people call him the Sea Witch. Sara once lived in the castle but was later exiled, for, as expected, doing all sorts of dark magic. Over the years Sara has been revenge driven and filled with resentment for King Shouma and his kingdom. Now, he will do whatever it takes to take the kingdom for himself. Sara has long blond hair, and looks fairly feminine in many ways. However, don't be fooled, he's not as innocent as he seems. His eight tentacles in place of a tail assures that.
Sara walks over to his magic ball and sees the youngest prince and his friend swimming home as quickly as they can.
"That's right, swim home as fast as you can, Prince Yuuri. We wouldn't want you to miss your fathers special meeting, now would we?" Sara stated with envy.
"Well, King Shouma can continue with his duties as he pleases, but I'll give him one like no other. Floatsom! Jetsom! Keep an eye on that sweet young prince. He just may be that one thing that will lead to Shoumas undoing," Sara stated with a smirk on his face, a plan starting to form in his mind.
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As they reach the royal castle they see all the nobles, kings, and sages from the other kingdoms leaving.
"Oh, no," Yuuri groaned. "Fathers never going to forgive me for this."
Murata had the same look on his face, "Neither will mine."
They give each other a look as they swim into the castle to meet their fate. Yuuri swam into the throne room and his head bowed in shame when his fathers eyes met his.
"Where were you?" His father said in the same stern voice he always used. But this time Yuuri could hear the underlying threat taking over his voice.
"I-I..." Yuuri gulped and then said, "I'm sorry father, I didn't mean to miss the meeting, I-I just forgot." He bites his bottom lip when he realizes that was probably the worst thing to say. But what else could he do when the other option was to tell the truth? And that would obviously make things worst.
And just as suspected, his father snapped and yelled in his strong voice, "You forgot? What kind of king do you expect to be if you keep forgetting the important things? Going off on those ridiculous adventures of yours. It needs to stop."
Murata finally tries to cut in, "Your Majesty, Yuuri really didn't mean any-"
My father looks over at him and interrupts with, "And is this how you choose to advise the future king, young sage? By going along with his every whim? Missing special meetings like this?"
Murata gulps and cowers back slightly.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will deal with my son personally." Daikenja, the kings sage and Muratas father, said sternly.
"See that you do, and I will deal with mine." Said King Shouma.
"No. Father, please, it wasn't Muratas fault." Yuuri tried to tell his father.
"It does not matter Yuuri, it is his responsibility, as this was yours, you both have a lot of growing up to do right now. You are the future king and he is to be your sage, you shall start acting as such," King Shouma scolded his son.
"But father- It was an accident. We got chased by these sharks, and then there was Gunter, so-" Yuuri tried to explain to his father.
Shouma snapped out of it and shot his son a look, "Gunter? As an that seagull? You went up to the surface again didn't you Yuuri?"
Yuuri gulps. Oops. "Father- nothing happened. We are fine."
Out of the corner of his eye he sees Murata sending him a glare.
"Yuuri, how many times must we have this same discussion? You could have been see by one of those barbarians. One of those humans!" King Shouma berated him.
"They are not barbarians, father!" Yuuri defended.
"They are dangerous! Do you think I want to see my youngest child killed by one of them again? Have the same thing that happened to Julia happen to you?" King Shouma answered back sternly.
Yuuri glares at him, "I'm sixteen! I'm not a child anymore!"
"You are not to have that tone with me! As long as you're under my ocean, you live under my rules!" Shouma tells him in an angry voice.
"But- but father, if you would just listen to me," Yuuri tries to plead with him.
"That's enough! And you are to never go to the surface, or have anything else to do with those barbarians. Ever!" Shouma yells back sternly.
Yuuri opens his mouth to say something else, but nothing comes out, so he turns around and swims as fast as can towards his chambers, bottom lip trembling.
"Yuuri." Murata whispers in worry as he starts to follow him.
"Murata," Daikenjas angry voice stops him. He turns around to face his father.
"You are not to go to Prince Yuuris chambers. You are to go straight to your own. I have duties I need to attend to, but we will be discussing this once I return," The Great Sage tells him sternly, a glare on his face.
Murata nods slowly, "Yes father." Murata answered as he turned to leave.
"Oh, and Murata," The Sage started as he waited for his son to look at him. "You better be there."
He nods and quickly leaves to see if he can go find Yuuri. He catches up to him and puts his hand on his arm in a comforting gesture.
Yuuri sighs deeply, "He's never going to forgive me for this one." He looks over to Murata apologetically, "I'm sorry I got you into trouble, this ones on me."
Murata sighs also and shakes his head, "No, it's my fault too. This isn't the first time and it won't be the last. And besides, I think we both know we are not going to be the king and sage are fathers expect us to be."
Yuuri smiles at him, "Yes. But I don't think that's a bad thing." Yuuri shakes his head, "We should probably go back to our rooms before we get into more trouble."
Murata nods and looks over at him with a smirk on his face, "Just remember to come and get me before you sneak out tonight and go you-know-where."
Yuuri looks over at him, shocked. Then a slow smile comes onto his face, "Promise. See ya later!"
Yuuri then takes off to his room as he hears Murata chuckle behind him and say, "Just don't let your father hear you talk like that! 'I will see you later!'" He mocks.
Yuuri rolls his eyes at that as he leaves the throne room and then enters his room. When he got there he went under his desk to grab the bag and then put it on top. While he was digging inside his bag, he didn't notice someone come up behind him.
"Yuuri?" Said the voice.
Yuuri jumped, turned around quickly, and placed his bag behind his back.
He then saw that it was his mother, Queen Miko.
Yuuri let out the breath he was holding, "Mother." He greeted, quite lamely.
She raises an eyebrow at him, "Yuuri, what are you doing?"
"Er, nothing mother," Yuuri lied, biting his bottom lip.
She smiles, "We'll just pretend you didn't just lie to me." She turned away and Yuuri quickly threw the bag back under his desk, "And we will also pretend I didn't see that."
Yuuri stutters, "U-um..."
She turns around to smile at him and says, "Yuuri, I know how much humans fascinate you, but your father..." She shakes her head, "You really need to...well...slow down a little, for your fathers sake. And at the very least not go up to the surface. You know how your father worries, and after Julia..."
Yuuri sighs, "I know mother, I'm sorry."
His mother knows a lot more about his fascination than his father does. But she still doesn't know the full...extent of it.
She nods, "He worries about you, that's why he gets so angry."
Yuuri frowns at that, "Mother...you don't have to keep reminding me about Julia...I know what happened. And I know he worries, I can understand that...because of what happened. It's just...I can't believe that they're all bad. Not just because some humans do terrible things, it's not right to blame all of them for that."
"I understand were you are coming from, Yuuri. However, can you please give your father a break? He worries for you constantly," His mother answered.
He sighs, "I promise to try, Mother."
She smiles and turns to leave, "Oh and Yuu-chan?"
He blinks, "Yes?"
"Call me Mama!" She yells back as she left the room.
Yuuri smiles and rolls his eyes. His mother was really strange sometimes.
He turns around to get the bag out from under the desk and swims out the door and out of the castle. He swims towards the sages personal chambers and then to Muratas window to his room.
"Murata?" Yuuri asks.
"Yuuri? You're here early." Murata says as he swims towards his window.
Yuuri nods, "I don't want to risk someone finding these in my room. My mom already saw." He tells him as he holds up his bag.
Murata nods, "That's probably a good idea. Your lucky it was only the Queen."
"Come on! Let's go!" Yuuri said as he swam out to his special place were his collection was. Him and Murata were the only ones who knew about it.
Him and Murata then made it to the entrance of their secret place, not noticing at all that someone was following them. They pushed the rock over that was covering the entrance to the small room and went inside.
Once inside, Yuuri sighs and sinks to the ocean floor. He pulls out his bag and takes the neck lace out to put around his neck and stared at it.
Murata frowns as he looks down at him, then he sinks to the floor next to him, "Yuuri? What's wrong?"
"Why do we see things so differently? Where I see amazement and fascination, he sees destruction and danger. I just can't see how a world that makes amazing things like this...could be so bad." Yuuri explained himself as he looked up towards Murata.
Murata frowns in thought, "Well, after what happened, I think he's entitled to have some blind spots when it comes to them. Personally, I think they are more like us than we may think. There are some good and some bad. It just depends on the person."
Yuuri frowns, "Well, I understand all that but-"
Yuuri was interupted by a loud crash. Yuuri and Murata jump as they look over to see all of the human things falling over.
Murata blinks as he sees someone in the mess on the floor, "Conrad?"
Yuuri glanced over and sure enough- it was his fathers advisor and personal protector.
"Conrad!" Yuuri squeaks.
"Yuuri." The crab stated as he tried to untangle himself, "What is all this?"
"We-well, it's my-my collection," Yuuri manages with a nervous laugh and rubbing the back of his neck.
Conrad stares at him, calmly contemplating how to handle the situation, "Your collection?" The crab questions, "When your father sees this he's going to-!"
"You're not going to tell are you?" Murata asks quickly.
"Wait. That's why you're here isn't? My father asked you to babysit me again." Yuuri stated angrily.
"He is just worried about you, Prince Yuuri. And of course I'm going to have to tell his majesty about this. Don't you realize-?" Conrad started scolding.
Yuuris eyes widened, "Oh, please Conrad! My father won't ever understand this, you can't tell. Please?"
"I'm sorry, My Prince, but this is simply too big for me to keep it from His Majesty. And besides this infatuation could put you in danger and..." Conrad started to explain.
Yuuri wasn't paying attention to him. A dark shadow just passed them from above the water.
Yuuri looked up and blinked, trying to figure out what it was.
"What do you think... that...?" Yuuri started to ask as he swam to the top of his little secret room and out through the top.
"Sire! Where are you going? Get back here right now!" Conrad called after him frantically.
"Yuuri?" Murata questions as he follows his best friend out.
"Young sage! You stay right here! No!" Conrad grabbed on to Muratas tail with his claw and held on tight, "Why don't these two ever listen?"
Yuuri reached the surface of the water, a storm was just starting. Yuuri noticed that the big shadow was a ship. His eyes lit up, he's never seen one, still on top of the water, so close before. Yuuri became even more happy when he realized there would be real humans on the ship.
Murata finally made it to the surface, right next to Yuuri. Then Conrad came up and saw the ship right away.
"Oh, no. No. No. No. Yuuri get back under the water right now. I mean it. You must stay away from..." That's when Conrad noticed that Yuuri was already swimming towards the ship. "The ship!"
"You didn't really think you were going to stop him did you?" Murata questioned him, "This is Yuuri and that's a ship, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen."
Conrad sighs deeply, "Yes, I did realize. Come on, let's go after him before he gets into any more trouble."
Murata rolled his eyes and started swimming towards Yuuri and the ship, with Conrad latched on to his tail.
Yuuri reached the ship and went towards the small opening on the side and looked inside.
He smiled as he saw all the happy people on the ship- dancing and singing happily. He wished he could do that, too, with real people. A scaly creature was jumping around with them; excited.
Yuuri watched the strange creature, fascinated. The creature had wings, like Gunter, but no feathers. He also looks like he has claws on his feet and hands. He was purple in color and had yellow eyes. What kind of creature was this? Yuuri thought he was adorable, and if Yuuri guessed right, he must still be a baby. The cute creature suddenly looked straight at him. Yuuri gasped and hid behind the wall of the ship. He bit his bottom lip. Did he just get caught? He slowly turned his head to look back into the ship, but came face to face with the creature instead. And then he licked his cheek.
"Pochi!" Came a voice that sent shivers through Yuuris spine. The strange creature quickly ran towards the voice. Yuuri smiled as his hand touched the cheek the creature just licked. He turned to look inside the ship and saw the human that called the creature.
This human had blonde hair and green eyes. He was dressed in all blue. Yuuri smiled as he saw the way this human played with the creature.
"Pochi," Yuuri whispered as he remembered what the human called him.
"Oh, young Yuuri, is that you? What are you doing out here? You do realize a storm is coming don't you? You shouldn't be-" Gunter said as he flew towards Yuuri.
Yuuri interupted him, whispering, "Gunter! Be quiet, they'll here you."
Gunter flies down right next to Yuuris head and starts whispering, "Ok. What's going on? Are we undercover? I always wanted to go undercover."
Yuuri shakes his head, "I just wanted a closer look. He's very handsome, isn't he?"
Gunter looks over to see what Yuuris looking at, "Well, he seems furry and a little young, but I suppose if you like that sort of thing."
Yuuri shakes his head rolling his eyes, "No, not Pochi. The other one." Yuuri grabs Gunters beak and says, "The one holding the jelly box."
"Really, Prince Wolfram, if you wanted a dragon as a pet, you should have at least picked a better name," The grumpy looking advisor said.
Wolfram rolls his eyes, "Don't you think I tried, Gwendal? You know how Mother is."
"If you say so, Sire," Gwendal answered, hotly.
"Aye, what exactly are ye doin' with that box there lad? Got a special girl back home, maybe?" He wiggled his eyebrows towards the prince.
The other members of the crew chuckled at that.
Yuuri, however, frowned at that.
Wolfram glared at the crew, "You all know very well it's for my mother, and I do not appreciate being laughed at, so the next one of you to make a joke or laugh directly at me again, I promise not to feel any guilt for working you to death." He snapped at all of them.
The chuckling quickly stopped and the crew continued with their work. They are not ones to take their princes threats lightly.
Yuuri smiled when he heard there wasn't really a 'special someone' for the prince.
"Now, sire, you have a birthday present from your uncle, he said he was hoping it would be a wedding gift, however..." Gwendal informed.
Wolfram rolled his eyes, "What, exactly, is this present?"
Gwendal nods and leads Prince Wolfram over to a large object covered by a tarp. He then directs to of the crew members to remove it.
"My nephew, I give you this to you on your birthday, hoping it would be for a much bigger celebration. However, I still hope you enjoy this gift that has been expertly hand crafted, especially for you. Happy Birthday. Your Uncle, Stoffel." Gwendal read off the letter and the men removed the tarp. It was a large statue of Prince Wolfram.
"Yes...well, I'm defiantly going to have to thank him for this..." Wolfram started, not really sure how to feel about this present. It's a little too extravagant for his tastes, and it doesn't even feel like him, anyway.
"Now, Sire, I'm never one to agree with Stoffel on anything, however he does have a point. Aren't you even going to consider settling down with a nice princess? We've introduced you to plenty," Gwendal tried to persuade him.
"Now, Gwendal, you know how I feel abou trying to be set up. And besides, non of those girls were right for me. When I meet the one, I'll know, but it hasn't happened yet," Wolfram said.
"Aye, and how exactly do you know his 'the one' is a girl?" Said one of the members of the crew.
"Well, I suppose a well known prince would be fine, too," Gwendal said with a frown.
Wolfram frowns also, "See. That's the problem isn't it? I'd have no problem with it being a boy, but..." He spoke as he went over to the ships edge, "What I do have a problem with is marrying solely for status and convenience. When I do marry, it's going to be for love, nothing else."
Yuuri looks up towards the blond prince from his spot on the side of the ship. A slow smile spreads onto his face at the princes words.
Suddenly a large roar of thunder and lightning spread it's way through the sky. The water started moving wildly, as did the ship. The crew went crazy trying to control the wildly rocking ship. Then lightning struck the ship and that's how the fire started. Yuuri quickly jumped off the side of the ship and into the water. He was pushed deep under, tumbling in circles as he went. When he finally slowed down he went right back up, looking around frantically.
Yuuri then spotted Wolfram passed out above the water and quickly swam towards him. Right before he got there, Wolfram sank completely under the water. Yuuri went straight after him under the water. After he swam a few feet down he finally caught up to him and grabbed him, pulling him above the water. Yuuri struggled some to keep Wolfram above the water, but still managed somehow pulling him to the shore.
Once Yuuri pulled Wolfram safely to the shore, he started to panic because Wofram was still unconscious. He bites his bottom lip as he looks down at Wolframs face. He really was a beautiful human.
"Yuuri," Came a whispering voice.
Yuuri looked over and saw Murata pulling himself up onto the shore close to Yuuri.
"Murata, he... He's ok, isn't he?" Yuuri asked in worry.
Murata frowns as he looks over the prince, "I'm not sure, Yuuri...I don't know much about...oh! Wait, Yuuri, he's breathing."
Yuuri looked down at the prince and realized Murata was right. He smiled brightly, ecstatic the human was ok. Yuuri then brought his hand up and placed it on the princes cheek.
Murata frowns as he sees it.
"I've never seen a human...so close before. He's beautiful," Yuuri whispered. "Wolfram."
"Yuuri...this isn't a good idea. In fact, it's a really bad idea, we should..." He then gets caught off by Gunter as he flies in.
"Shhhhh..." Gunter says as he puts his wing over the young sages mouth, "You're going to ruin it."
"If there is one thing that I want...then it would be to be a human. Now my new dream is wondering what it would be like to be human... With you," Yuuri was saying, hand still on Wolframs cheek.
That's when Conrad washed up on the shore with them. Once he looks up and sees the position Yuuri is in with the human, he gasps. He starts to speak, but Gunter takes hold of him and covers his mouth. Conrad wiggles around, but Gunters grip is too tight.
"If I was a human, do you think you would like me?" Yuuri whispered. "I've never met anyone like you before. You're interesting...I-I would give anything if you would actually look at me. If you could actually see me. You have no idea how much I want to know you."
As Yuuri strokes Wolframs cheek, a hand creeps up to hold his. Yuuris hand freezes. And suddenly green eyes are opening, looking right into his.
"Wolfram," Yuuri whispers as he sees Wolfram looking up at him.
Wolframs eyes widened at the sight of him, but otherwise doesn't move, they just keep looking at each other.
"Wolfram! Sire!" The voice of Gwendal called.
Yuuri sucked in a breath and took off into the water, his friends close behind him.
Wolfram sits up just in time to see a splash in the water. Who was that? Those eyes...he's never seen anything like them before.
"Oh, Sire...are you alright?" Gwendal said as he came up next to him and helped him up.
Pochi came up to him and started to jump up and down, happy to see him again.
"There was...this boy," Wolfram said as he went up to his feet. "He saved me...his eyes...they were so black. Beautiful...I've never seen anything like them before."
Gwendal looks at him in concern, "I think it was just your imagination, Sire. Boys with black eyes just don't magically come out into the middle of the ocean to rescue people."
Wolfram shakes his head frantically, "He was real, I know he was, he..."
Wolfram stumbled as he started to get light headed.
"Careful. Come on. Let's get you back to the castle." Gwendal said as he helped his prince walk.
Pochi followed them enthusiastically.
Yuuri then looked out from the rock he was hiding behind towards the spot were Wolfram was walking away. He smiled as he watched him.
"Conrad, you are not going to tell anyone, especially the king about this, got it?" Murata stated, looking down at the crab.
"Actually, that's probably a good idea; not to tell anyone," Conrad said with a frown. "However, Yuuri, this can't happen again. You are to stay away from this human, alright? Yuuri?"
Yuuri wasn't listening to them. He couldn't seem to stop thinking about green eyes and what he was going to do to see them again.