Far of under the shore, deep within the oceans heart.

you could faintly recognize the color of death.

The color that lingered in

the depths of the human fear.

The color of blood.

Explosions erupted under the water,

Burning the ears of the life that lived under.

An older man stood above the shore

Eyeing all that was occurring and began to think…

Remembering back then…

Fifty of years ago, people that had extraordinary DNA were brought to the Otori Company for experiments. These experiments went against all the odds of ever being possible, yet they continued. Finally after many years they had created the perfect specimen, also known to us as the mermaid. Their plan was brilliant, if people were on the verge of dying, they would inject them with the formula.

And then they could live for thousands of years under the water.

But something went horribly wrong.

When one of the scientists was working after hours monitoring the progress. He became enchanted by the beauty of one of the mermaids.

But they played back the video camera over and over again to watch.

The man had been possessed and released the latch on the tank, freeing all the species to do whatever they wished. They tore apart machines, smashed DNA bottles, and went on rampage. Fires soon began to erupt from the secret experimental plant.

But when reinforcements arrived.

It was too late.

The lab was empty.

Mermaids scattered under the ocean, fleeing from the explosions!

"Those damn humans! Another destroyed village!"

A blonde haired man slammed his hand down against the coral table.

"If this keeps up, we'll have to evacuate the area!"

"Father there's nothing we can do…" his son began to speak, however a young girl whipped open the door

"What the hell do you mean we can't do anything!" she snapped her brown eyes narrowed.

"We are stronger than these dumbasses; we can't just stand by and let them destroy everything!"

"But haruhi! It was an accident!" the younger blonde spoke up, blushing slightly at his crush.

"This was the third time one of these blasted Japanese oil plants have contaminated the water!" she shrieked

"In my opinion we-"

"QUIET ALL OF YOU!" Mr. Souh shouted,

"Before we make any straining actions, we must consult the emperor before we do anything!"

They bowed their heads.

They were going to die.

A small ship bobbed up and down on the waves. A black haired man sat lazily on the edge of the mast, jotting down the recent damages in his notebook.

Snapping it shut with a sigh he stood up, mumbling to himself

"two hundred billion yen.." he uttered out, bringing a hand to his squinting forehead.

The small crew scuttling around, cleaning and tying loose ropes.

Why did his father have to send him out here.

He knew he hated water.

Koyou's eyes trailed down the ships side, down to the thick black waves.

He didn't get sea sick he just really didn't like water.

He dispised it.

Princess Haruhi, rested her small frame on the bottom of the ocean shore, while her friends darted around trying to catch each other.

"haru!" one of the orange haired twins yelped, swimming behind her, as the other dove for him.

"you won't escape me karou!" he shrieked

Haru let out a short giggle; she swept her tail around her protectively. Her hair floated around her back, as fish swam around her shadow. She let out a sigh of bubbles.

Curse those stupid humans for destroying her friend's home.

Curse them.

"Hey haru…?"

Karou interrupted her thoughts

"yes karou?" she asked

"well you know ummm I kind of uhhh" he twiddled his fingers nervously, a faint blush tainted his cheeks

"common karou you don't have to be nervous around me" she closed her eyes in an angelic smile.

"well I-"

"hey look!" hikaru shouted, as he ran into karou, lifting his fingers to point at the shadow that was moving slowly across the ocean floor.

Haruhi looked up, recognizing the shape.

"it-it's a ship." She stuttered out

"Well should we…. Pay them back for what they did to our home." Hikaru chuckled out, cracking his knuckles.

Haruhi nodded

They have to pay

The three of them swam quickly to the surface, gripping onto the nets that laced up the sides of the boat.

"I'll take the one on the front, you take the others…"

she muttered out, she kept her grip on the net, pulling herself against the current of the water, making her way around the side of the boat.

You could say that haruhi and the others were rebels of some sort; they were born under the water, and didn't know a life above. They never knew that humans were the ones who created them. They were just born to hate the humans for destroying the earth. The water was becoming polluted. And there was nothing they could do about it. However these three had fighting spirit. And they would fight for what they believed in.

Finally she reached the front of the boat, pulling herself up the side, to sit along the railing.

Her fingers quickly reached for an arrow to hook into her bow. She twined the arrow and lifted it up to point at the human, the bow stretched back, but she stopped when he turned around.

His white shirt was open, revealing his chiseled stomach. His black hair swished around his shocked eyes, he stumbled back a little bit when his gaze moved across the weapon she had pointed at his chest.

He stuttered out something, but was fixed by her beauty. They both stared at each other until he broke the silence.

"w-what are y-you?" he managed to ask, she was snapped from her trance.

And she looked around, ready to escape if needed. He took a few shaky steps forward.

"Haruhi!" the twins called down from the bottom of the ship

"What's taking so long?" they shouted out

When she didn't answer

"were coming up haru!" their voices echoed up

She began to frantically look back and forth, they would for sure kill this man. And besides that they would think that she was weak for not being able to handle a human.

"what is he still doing alive." They said in unison, sitting on the railing next to her.

She was about to speak when karou pulled out his bow, aiming at his heart.

"well whatever the reason it won't be long."

"wai-" she was about to speak however the young man cut her off.

"hello, my name is Koyou."

Karou, stunned, lowered his bow, slightly shocked at his reaction.

"maybe he knows about the oil spill… and better yet…. He can stop these humans." Haruhi uttered out blindly.

"Actually it was my father-" he pushed his glasses up "that was at fault for the incident."

"I suggest that we take him with us, maybe the king could find a use for him." Karou said slowly.

"but how are we going to get him down there?" hikaru said through narrowed eyes, he didn't like the way this guy was eyeing haruhi.

"all he has to do is, hold his breath for five minutes until we reach the castle. There's air in the castles room, he'll have to stay there."

"Five minutes..- it's almost impossible!" Koyou stuttered out.

"then I guess you'll have to make due." Hikaru smiled wickedly, as he jumped off the railing and into the water. Karou followed. Haruhi looked over at Koyou and gave a small smile.

She held out her hand to him

And he took it.

And they dove underneath the water

Together.

authors quicki note:

i realize that the first chapter of almost every story is always very awkward sooooo bare with me k?

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~alexis