The sunlight reflected against the clear blue water, the ripples of a fish's scales reflecting as the creature dove deeper into the water. Its little fins brought it deeper and deeper into the depths of the pond, bringing it through the cave that most of the bodies of water were connected to. Slipping through the six by six foot hole, it entered the realm of the life spirit demons in the area. The places where they lived could almost be considered castles, there were four and then there was one larger one. The four held at least fifty life spirit demons. The largest one was home to the King and Queen of the demons. It held one hundred servants and the four members of the royal family.

Inside the castle holding the royal family, the fish slowly swam towards the door that held the Princess of the Castle, Sela. It gently bumped it's forehead against the door, it quickly opened to reveal the young woman. She was slender, with big eyes and a tail that reached about six feet in length. Her hair covered her breasts, long black that eventually faded into a deep teal. Her tail was the same color as the teal, and her eyes were a dark purple.

"What?" She demanded of the fish, watching the creature as it opened its mouth, revealing a small scroll. Pulling it out of the creatures mouth, she hit it with her tail and watched it go flying down the hallway, where it eventually caught itself and swam away.

There were many different ways of sending notes to different bodies of water; the best way was through transport fish. The creature just had to pop its head up to the water and it would get a mouthful of whatever its counterpart had in its mouth. It used to be difficult for these creatures to survive, but with help from the demons that inhabited the same areas that they did, they had learned how to work it.

She unrolled it and sat at her vanity spot, reading over the message that had been sent to her by Yan. He was to be her future husband, in four months they were set to marry. She didn't know much about him, other than what was sent to her on a weekly basis from him. He seemed interesting enough, and it meant that two of the largest kingdoms under the land would be united; this meant big things for both of them.

After she had finished the letter, she set it inside of her vanity and let out a lazy sigh. The gurgle in her stomach woke her from her starting fantasy of her life. It had been fourteen hours since she had last fed, and she desired something a little more than just a nibble of fish.

She desired demon blood, and there was only one good place to get demon blood where she wouldn't get in trouble over eating a fellow spirit demon. The surface, a place where she was currently banned from going, like that would stop her.

Unlocking the opening to her bedroom, she swam out of the hole and headed straight up towards the hole. It was easy enough, and everyone was too absorbed in their own lives to notice that she had decided to make leave. One of the bright sides of being her species, most of them were just do damn vain, especially the over muscled guards that her mother hired.

Taking some time to pick which hole she would be leaving through, she slipped through the hole and headed so that she could see the surface. Her eyes scanned above her, but it was her hearing that caught what she was searching for. For some reason, people had a habit of singing when they were floating on lakes. This man was singing the story of the great fox thief.

She was instantly interested, making her way up to the surface. Her head peeked above the water, watching as the man carefully watched fished on the other side of the boat. Her beliefs were right, this man was older and he was certainly not a threat to her. The only down side to this was that older men tended to taste a bit rotted.

Scrunching up her nose, she was about to turn around and make leave for one of the other holes when the man turned around and looked at her. His nose was that of a pig, the only thing that made him different from a typical human.

"Ho, hello there miss." He said cheerfully, his dark black eyes scanning over the young creature. He was the least threatening land demon that she had ever seen in her eighteen years of being alive.

"Hello." She said politely, but not without sounding at least a little bit untrusting. He didn't seem to pay any attention to this as he brought his line out of the water and turned all his attention to the young spirit demon.

"I can tell that you're hungry." He said, giving her an all knowing wink as he smiled at her. "But I suppose I'm far too old for you to openly enjoy a snack out of."

She smirked a bit, and nodded her head. She used her tail to push her further out of the water so that she could hold herself out of the water a bit using the side of the boat. "You're smarter than I thought."

He just laughed at this and nodded his head, his eyes almost twinkling. It was either because he was genuinely a happy and good man, or he was coming up with something in his head. "What if I offered you a chance to get plenty of young demons? All that you would have to do is trust me until we get to the spot."

If it wasn't for the fact that Sela was practically starving, she would have thrown him into the water and drowned him right then. It wasn't that she trusted the mysterious man; she was just hungrier than her caring.

So she nodded her head. "Fine, I will."

He held his hand out to assist her onto the boat, which she willingly accepted. Once on the boat, it only took about four seconds for her long teal tail to turn into two pale legs. Considering she was entirely nude, the man slid a bag out and handed her a long shirt. It would have to do, in this world running around naked was a dangerous thing.

They remained in silence as the man rowed them to shore, helping her out of the boat and walking with her into the woods.

"So, what's your name, lass?" He asked, a smile coming on his face as they ventured deep into the forest. "I'm Cho."

"I'm Princess Sela." She said, clearly not ashamed of her title. She also wasn't about to hide it from anyone. She wasn't the type of princess to be trapped in a castle or to be looking for her prince charming. She was strong enough by herself and once she was married to the man she was set to marry, everything would be perfect.

"A real princess, eh?" He said, raising an eyebrow as he looked at her.

It was at that moment that it happened. All Sela saw was a sudden flash of silver, and the spray of blood that hit her body as the older man collapsed to the ground.