Two bodies flicked together under the waves, both bodies had deep green skin, mottled and striped with brown. The female made a high pitched keening noise as she threw herself against her mate.

Both creatures were robust and tall with long limbs, and long, thickly webbed digits. Their hair was thick and somewhat stringy as they curled it around each most unusual features on both creatures were the gills visible on their necks and over their ribs.

Both were clad in clothes made from sea kelp and shells but the male creature clipped his hair back while the female let her's flow and curl in the salty waves of the Great Sea, as they called it.

The result of this ceremony was a small infant male with kelp-colored green hair and wide, dark slitted eyes. His small mottled body was wrapped in underwater plants. Both creatures were delighted by their son and they named him, Orwaiion Falaelwa. They thanked their God soon after. They called her, Deep Sashelas.

Orwaiion's family lived around a place the Sea Elves called, the island of Evermeet. For that's what they were, Sea Elves. Brothers of the Wild Elves from the surface. His father's name was King Elashor, he was the ruler of Evermeet and the rest of the Sea Elves. While his mother was called, Queen Aluraina.

Orwaiion was going to be a Prince, a proud ruler of the sea creatures. Sea creatures that believed that certain things were sacred. These things were, only themselves, their clan, and their rulers. They only trusted those three things for a reason. They hated being betrayed. Traitors in this race were often executed.

But traitors of their own race were not the only dangers of their world. They were creatures that hated war, yet war liked to follow them. When Orwaiion was only a few days old, their enemies attacked. The Sahuagin and Merfolk were their enemies, and they were ruthless. They attacked when they heard of the birth of a new prince.

Let it not be said that the Sea Elves did not fight back because they did. They fought back as hard as they could but to no avail. The Sahuagin were lizard-like creatures and Savage fighters, the sahuagin asked for and gave no quarter.

When swimming, a sahuagin male would tear with its feet, striking with its talons or a weapon. Spears and tridents tended to be their favored weapons. About half of any group of sahuagin that attacked were also armed with nets, to catch and beach their prey.

The Sea Elves would have been helpless at the talons of the Sahuagin alone but they also brought the Merfolk with them and that could've killed them all. The Merfolk were bloody and violent fighters, at least the males were. They wanted to end the Sea Elves and instead of killing them, it turned into a kidnapping mission. With Prince Orwaiion as the target.

They ended up stealing him away from his homeland and his people, a symphony of high pitched keening wails of the Sea Elves following them. The Merfolk were much more magical and humane then the Sahuagin were. So they decided that they wouldn't kill the baby prince but that they could produce a glamour to cover and shield him, to make him look like he was a mortal.

A blond haired circus boy had snuck away from his caravan to look at the sea when he saw it. A small moving bundle near the ocean, it was covered in sea kelp. But the boy hurried over anyway and was shocked by what he saw. A human baby with blond hair and wide sea green eyes, the child made a gurgling noise and reached a pair of chubby arms out to the boy and he smiled.

"H-Hiya! My name's Barney Barton!"

The boy said happily as he scooped up the baby and began to carry him back up the sandy embankment. Barney smiled as the baby boy gurgled and giggled.

"You can be a circus boy like me! My own baby brother!"

Barney laughed as he darted back to the caravan, not noticing the pair of sea-creature eyes that followed him from the ocean. The eyes soon ducked back under the salty water moments later, that day became the birthday of an orphaned circus boy, named Clint Barton, the little brother of Barney Barton.