It was June 10th, 2000 and on this day a beautiful baby girl was born, but she wasn't an ordinary girl, she was a mermaid princess: with a human mother and a merman father. This was an important day as know there was a mermaid heir to the throne of the sea world.

"So what shall we name her? " the mother smiled down at her beautiful baby.

"Well we have Neptune, what about Ocean?" the father chuckled.

"I love it" the mother's eyes showed kindness "I just hate the fact she won't stay with me…"

"We will visit whenever we can, I promise" he said kissing her forehead and taking the sleeping merchild out of her mother's arms. Since Ocean was a merchild, she would not survive very long in the human world so needed to be in the salt water in order to stabilize her. "Goodbye, my love" he smiled but his eyes showed sadness before diving back into the sea taking his child back to his kingdom.

A couple of years later when Ocean was 2 and still too young to remember anything, they went to visit the other half of their family. In the arms of her mother, like she was a normal child. (are there different ways of holding a child other than "like a normal child"?Oceans not normal tho) Just a normal day until Neptune came home from playing with some of his questionable friends.

"I HATE faunus!" He shouted as he entered the house. "I HATE them! They are bad people!" Neptune only being 3 himself didn't really know the true meaning behind the words he was saying. For him to only grow up to regret what he said as one of his best friends is a faunus.

"Neptune!" His mother was shocked that her own son would say something like that. "That's not a very nice thing to say."

"Neptune" the man sighed, "You do know your sister and I are faunus?"

"Yes and I hate you!" He screamed again, now outraging the king.

"Neptune!" He raised his voice.

"You're not my Dad! I hate you and I hate her!" Neptune had been playing with some friends from school who ended up teasing and picking on a faunus. So in order for Neptune to fit him he decided he too didn't like faunus to please his friends, this mean tearing their family in two.

With that Oceans father picked his daughter up. "While he has that attitude, I don't want my daughter to be near him."

"But, she's my daughter too!" The mother was shocked her baby was going to be taken away. Ocean made a few cute baby gurgles before being carried out by her father.

"I'm sorry." He said before taking his daughter back to Oceania where Ocean was kept away from her mother for the rest of her life.

She was brought up believing all humans were bad and all they wanted was to see faunus suffer and skin mermaids to make dust. As she grew older each year, her hatred for her brother became stronger. She wanted nothing to do with him as much as he wanted nothing to do with her.

Oceania was the underwater kingdom of the merpeople, ruled by the Sea King; Adamaris and his only kin who was Ocean. Oceania was just off the coast of Menagerie and both civilisations drew close due to their faunus heritage and hatred of humans.

Every year since Ocean could remember her people of the land faunus would have a celebration and her people would always put on water shows and tricks while the others performed land tricks.

This had always intrigued Ocean, what it would be like to walk on two legs, eat dry food, see the sunrise and set over her home, see animals and the trees. As she got older, she cared less and less for her father's claims about humans. She would be able to just fit in, after all she could look like just a normal human and no one would know she is a faunus. Also they had the white fang to look after them!

After a few mermaids went missing to the hands of humans, Adamaris decided it was time to team up with the White Fang. This way, if any mermaid did venture out beyond the kingdom's walls or decided to rome the human world, he knew that would be looked after.

One year, it was going to be Ocean's debut, her coronation as the princess as it were. During the celebrations she was going to put of a small singing concert for everyone.

As her people began singing a big clam surfaced from the water, everyone was waiting and as it opened it turned out it was empty.

"OCEAN!" King Adamaris bellowed as he was fuming his daughter had skipped out on her occasion.

Meanwhile Ocean had followed one of the Menagerie fishing boats that were docking in Mistral. She pursued under the boat not knowing that her friend was following her. She wanted to see the world ad today was her chance. Everyone was busy with the show so no one would notice if she slipped out.

Once at Mistral Ocean waited for a while before spotting a willow tree that was overhanging the cove. Seeing this she decided to swim over there and transformed into her 'human' look.

"Princess Ocean!" A boy like voice called from the water. Ocean slowly turned around and looked down at her friend. "What do you think you are doing here?!"

"I want to see the world Cove! I want to see the trees, the flowers, clothes, food! I want to see it all!" She stated.

"No, you can't. Not alone" he huffed.

"Then come with me? Then I won't be alone!" she smiled knowing what she was doing as she watched her friend sigh and follow her.

To everyone they just looked like normal kids, Ocean with her bright blue eyes and hair, she wore pink shorts, a plain white tee and white trainers. Cove hid himself in his dark green hoodie, black jeans, beanie and trainers.

As they walked along the beach Ocean's eyes were looking everywhere, she was so happy to see the surface world but neither made any interactions with anyone else. As they looked around they saw a lot of white fang members.

"This place may not be so bad if they all seem at peace" she whispered to her friend before coming to a halt.

"Ocean? What's wrong?" He asked, worried that his friend seemed to be staring into space. He followed her eye line and saw a group of girls around this one boy. "He's just a human"

"He's beautiful" she whispered. She wasn't wrong, the boy she was staring at was very handsome: emerald green eyes, scarlet red hair with a small tattoo to his left eye. However he was human and she was supposed to hate them, so why was she drawn to him.
"Ocean? Hello?" Cove waved his hand infront of her face to snap her out of her daze.

"Mh? Oh yes… Just a hu...man" her voice became cold and her gaze went from soft to mad. Next to the boy that caught her eye was other two males, one with green hair and dark skin the other, blue hair like hers.

"Is that?"

"Mhm" Ocean clenched her fists. There was so much she wanted to tell her so called 'brother'. She knew what he looked like as her mother tried to keep in contact by sending pictures in plastic wrapping via dolphins. "I hate him"

"Let's go Ocean" as Cove tugged on her arm her blue hair caught Neptune's eye, they were now looking at each other before he huffed and looked away.

Walking away from the boys and the flock of girls that had surrounding the 16 year olds, a White Fang member seemed to attack a human for no reason. "W-what?" Ocean was confused. "Why are they doing that Cove?"

"No clue, let's go" he didn't care for humans, they could die for all he cared.

"But-" and just as she began to talk again the White Fang seemed to attack every human on the beach, and with chaos came Grimm. People were screaming as Cove pulled Ocean away.

"We LOOK like humans! We have to go!" Ocean nodded to his claim and they jumped into the sea along with a few humans. "Great, now the sea dragon will turn up." he sighed.

Ocean swam up to see what was going on and as she did she saw her red haired boy holding onto the claws of a Nevermore before dropping into the sea. She immediately decided she couldn't let an innocent human die for something a faunus had started.

"Ocean?!"

She swam down and quickly got him out of the way of the sea dragon, whom seemed more keen on the humans near the shore than her. She dragged the boy's unconscious body away from mistral and ended up on the island near her kingdom.

"Please wake up!" She shaked his body until he started coughing, he sat up scaring Ocean making her scoot back away from him as he spit out water.

After he was done coughing he looked at Ocean and his eyes opened in shock at what he saw. "W-who are you?"

"The girl who saved your life" she scoffed, annoyed he hadn't thanked her yet.

"Well, where am I?" he asked.

"Off the coast of Menagerie" she replied.

"What?! I can't be here!" he exclaimed.

"Oh? Is it because we are faunus and you humans think you are better than us?!" she spat.

The boy paused for a moment. "I'm sorry, where are my manners. Thank you for saving me beautiful, but I can't stay here. My friends and family are probably worried sick about me"

She blushed "Oh… Well…"

"It has nothing to do with you being a faunus, I think your kind is cool" he smiled.

"I have a boat you could use to go home"

"Thank you…" he looked at her clearly wanting her name.

"Ocean…"

"Scarlet" the boy smiled before jumping up and walking towards the boat he could see. She watched him begin to sail away before hearing her father shout:

"The concert!"