Hey guys, so it's been a while i had lost my inspiration with this fic as life was being busy, but i am back, i am redoing the chapters as they were not as i liked. i am sorry if the spelling or grammar is not good, i'm afraid that having moved countries when i was young means i did not learn the great english grammar. so if anyone would like to be my beta reader for this fic, don't hesitate i would most appreciate it. i should update the nest chapter soon, so i hope you guys enjoy this story of the deep. xx

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She glided through the beautiful ocean, her birthplace, knowing that she could go anywhere, well not to the shark infested areas of course, that was just asking to get oneself killed, but she could laugh and swim with the dolphins, sing along to the wales songs, dance with the other merfolk, watch the unsuspected human ships crash through the waves above. And discover the treasures left behind when a ship went under, to fragile against the great oceans force.

She was lucky her parents let her swim off so much, trusting that she would watch out and keep her self safe, and always return home. But that morning she had left in a huff, as her mother and father had spoken at breakfast about how she was soon to come of age to find herself a potential partner to settle down with and have offspring. She was not against this, like most mermaids she could not wait to have children of her own to show them the wonders that lay under the sea, but she believed it to soon still for her.

She knew that when she had a partner, he would be the one to provide for them and she would be the one to look after their young, meaning that she would not be free to search the seabed for shells or go further out and find human objects in old coves and ships. She would have to sit and stay and wait for his return. And she was far from ready for that.

She was a curious mermaid, living for the moments when she discovered something new. That was why she found herself at that moment searching the deep blue waters below her for any sign of long forgotten ships. She had gone further than ever before, far past the perimeter of her home city, but that was where the best finds were to be found.

She eventually came to a stop, and her eyes lit up with excitement, as she gazed upon the old sunken ship just in-front of her. She approached cautiously passing her keen sight over the hollow vessel. It appeared to be an old cargo ship, a great find to investigate. Its wooden mask broken and laying across the deck, sea life clamming it as its home.

She continued to scout the shipwreck, keeping an eye open for danger around her as she approached a large hole on the left side and started to swim in, a shoal of colorful fish of different varieties swam by skirting around the intruder. Coral and sea urchins clung to the old wooden frames of the sunken ship.

She admired it all with lively mesmerized eyes. She approached the damaged cabins, looking at anything that could be useful. Collecting, scattered lost human objects that could be sold or exchanged back home. she noticed upon a wall sum-thing shiny. She moved the seaweed and found herself looking at her blurry reflection. She took a cloth from her little satchel around her hips and rubbed it against the mirror. Her blue belle eyes lighting up and a happy smile spread across her lips as she took in her reflection more clearly. It was a shame it was so big, she would have loved to have it hung on the wall of her room. Mermaids loved what the humans called mirrors, so they could gaze upon themselves.

She admired the carved markings adoring the exterior of the large mirror and as she looked one last time towards the middle of the mirror, she gasped in surprise, at the dark figure she saw floating behind her, half covered in shadows. She turned around with a start to see what the other being was that had crept up behind her. It's vibrant green eyes the only thing she could make out. Until it swam towards her, she backed up against the wall and hit the mirror with her back, watching anxiously at the young merman in-front of her who couldn't have been but a few years older then herself fixed her with an intensive gaze, tilting his head to the side in a curious gesture.

She could feel her heart beating so fast it hurt, she had been in dangerous situations more then once, be it a close call with a human vessel and nets, or sharks looking for lunch. But this was something else, mer people were usually civilized but they could still be dangerous, and unpredictable when unknown. Different merfolk coexisted but were some could be friendly others were very dangerous, lone merman usually meant trouble.

He approached her cautiously, and she was sure her heart was trying to jump out of her chest. Her eyes watched him, but would flick every few seconds this way and that to see an escape route.

She was cornered, the exit was a bit away. She berated herself, at being such easy prey. But just as he was closing in on her, there was a loud bang from above and they both looked up towards the ceiling, making the most of the distraction she took the chance and shot past the merman to the next hole. Quickly looking around before shooting out the ship, hopping to take cover in a cove nearby out of sight.

But she found herself being pulled back against a hard surface, she tried to look over her shoulder, realizing in her panic that the merman had taken hold of her and held her tight against his broad chest and had put a hand over her mouth to keep her quiet as he tried to listen out for the commotion going on above them. She tried to struggle, but he held her secure. Just as she was contemplating biting him, a bright light skimmed just over their heads and he let up on holding her body but kept a tight hold on her wrist and pulled her down with him to the seabed were the ship was wedged in the sand.

They looked up in union and seeing as they had not been spotted, the merman pulled her along after him. She had never been so afraid of being with another mer as she was at that moment. He was pulling her along not giving up on her wrist till they came to a stop, and feeling his hold loosen she ripped her hand from his pulling it to her chest and rubbing it gently as it stung with a little pain.

His curious vibrant green eyes looked her over. As she did the same, she had come across quite a few merfolk when she was young that would sometimes passe by her home town either to simply swim threw or to trade their goods, and being the curious mermaid she was, much to her parents dismay, she had cataloged all there differences, be it the color of their skin or the shape of their tails, yet this merman was like nothing she had ever seen, she was curious of were he was from, but also apprehensive. His tail was thicker than hers, it was black with a green shine to it, his skin a little sun kissed, his scales covering more of him like his elbows and up the side of his body, extra fins on his forearms and hips and what appeared to be pointed black ears covered by soft blond locks and she noticed the sharp claws on his webbed hands that could surely do great damage, feeling relieved he had not cut her with those. He looked like a hunter mer, one of the more dangerous merfolk.

He came closer and circled her making her jump as his flesh would skim across hers as he got to close. Making her try and swim away to keep their distance but he seemed set on being as close as possible. She could feel her gils working over time as she tried to get oxygen in her systems, but it seemed a lost cause when she felt it all leave her as he took her face in his hands tilting it up so that she was forced to look into his deep green eyes, and before she knew what was happening, she felt the press of lips to her own and then nothing just a darkness surrounding her.