Chapter 1: The Hero meets the Mermaid

The sea was nice and warm. Just how Kori liked it. She floated in the warm water.

SPLASH

She shot up. She was positive that she heard a noise. She looked down at her light purple tail. It was floating on the tip of the water. Oh. That's what made the noise. She brought her tail down. Then combed back her Bright red hair from her eyes. Though she never thought much of it Kori was the most beautiful mermaids in the sea. She had long red hair that went past her waist ,when it wasn't floating above her head from the water. Her eyes were a bright green, brighter than an emerald, and her skin was so smooth and darker than the colour of the sand. She was more beautiful than most humans though no one ever mentioned that for Galfore her adoptive father, hated humans for they killed his beloved wife. Now he treasured his two adopted daughters and son with all his heart. He forbid anyone from singing or talking about humans because that was what his wife would do and those 'things' as he would call them killed her.

SPLASH

There was that noise again. This time Kori was positive that she wasn't the cause for it. She looked around her. From what she could see the ocean was empty, not a single fish in sight. She heard a small giggling from behind her. She whipped around and saw nothing. "Strange...what could that be?" She thought to herself. Someone laughed again. She recognized that laugh though. She saw a end of a blue tail disappear behind some thick seaweed. She smiled and swam towards it. Which meant leaving the surface. Which saddened Kori. You see the surface was her 'most favourite thing in the whole wide world!' as she would put it. She loved the bright blue sky and the birds chirping and the light laughter and noises from the mainland. Galfore though forbid her from ever going to the surface. He hated the thought of her even thinking about those humans. She peeked though one of the floating leafs. Yep she was right. Her little brother. Ryan. His back was turned to her. Though she could recognize him anywhere by is bright blue tail that reminded her of the sea and his light blond hair that stood out in the ocean. His skin was darker than sand like his older sister, but his eyes were the most interesting. They were a dark blue like the deepest depth of the ocean that a mer-person dared swim to. His smile was also charming, he had had many mermaids fall for him in his lifetime.

"Hey Ryan, I didn't know you liked the top?" Ryan turned at her with a finger over his mouth. He grabbed her and pulled her in the bush.

"What's the deal we're-" He put a hand over her mouth. Which she wasn't to fond of.

"Keep quiet. Com is looking for you. I don't know what you did but boy is she mad!" Com was Kori and Ryan's older sister. She was beautiful too, but nothing compared to Kori. Coma had black hair that only went to the middle of her back and her eyes were a piercing purple that could scare a shark. Her skin was the colour of sand unlike Kori and Ryan. She felt hatred for Kori because everyone like Kori more than her. Coma or Blackie as some people called her because they thought her heart was black, wanted everyone to love her because she was to be the future ruler of their city. Kori looked at her brother oddly.

"I didn't do anything Ry, Com's probably just in one of her mood's you know-" Kori was interrupted by a loud scream. From her sister.

"Kori Anders! Get your butt here! Right now!" Kori sighed. She looked to Ryan with pleaded eyes even though she already knew the answer to her question.

"Oh no Kori! She almost bit my head off earlier when I asked her what was wrong? This is all you!" Kori sighed again. It's not that she was afraid of her sister, that was the least of her worries. She was just sick and tired of her sister's annoying bragging and taunting. She swam up and peeked out from the seaweed. Ryan poked her in the back. She turned to find his pleading eyes. He obviously didn't want to face the wrath of Coma. She pushed her way out of the seaweed to go face her sister's utter annoyance.

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BEEP BEEP BEEP

Robin opened his eyes. He hated getting up on Mondays. There was nothing going on today, he just hated Mondays. He sat up in his bed and looked around his barley full room. He really should get more things for himself.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

"Dude, Cyborgs making his gross bacon stuff and he wanted me to come get you on my way back to bed so you wouldn't miss it. Later!" The voice of Beast boy could be heard through his door. Grumbling about how gross meat was. Robin was surprised he wasn't awaken by their argument. He almost always is. He got out of bed and put hi cape on. He was already wearing his uniform from last night. He stayed up all night studying Slade. He walked out his door and headed to the kitchen. He could already smell the sweet bacon smell. But as fate would have it as soon as he walked into the kitchen the alarm went off. Robin grumbled while walking over to the control panel were Raven already was.

"It's by the sea. Slade. Called Aqua-lad for back-up, but I don't know why he hasn't responded yet." Robin nodded. Then turned to the other two on their team.

"Teen Titans! Move out!"

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"I still can't believe you did this! Who put it in your head to destroy the main hall decorations!?" Coma was yelling at her sister while trying to clean the main hall in the palace. Kori sighed. She was about to explain this for the fifth time.

"Com, I didn't do this. It was some kids playing with turtles. I saw it with my own eyes. They were playing tag and things kind of got out of hand. They-" Coma started to yell again.

"Well what kids did this?! Huh! If you saw it then you know what kids did this! So who! They need to be taught a lesson!" Kori sighed. Coma was ending her time with the towns-people. Everyday Kori would go down to the town for a couple hours to spend time with the mer-folk. This was one reason everyone loved Kori more, Coma would never think about going down to the poor town full of 'dirty poor sick people' as Coma would put it.

"Coma, the kids don't need to be taught a lesson. They already apologized and gave the palace their allowance for the week. Just get some help from the servants and everything will be back to normal in an hour at most!"

With that she quickly swam away, ignoring Coma yelling at her. She quickly swam faster down to the town. When she got there no one was around. That was odd. Usually everyone was waiting for her arrival. They were so excited to see her. But now not even a shrill was swimming around. Kori was getting uneasy. She swam towards a door and peeked in a window. There were three mermaids being hugged by a merman huddling in a corner. They looked at her and started making motions with their hands. It looked like they were trying to say..swim away. Kori looked around. Was everyone hiding in their homes? She swam into the middle of the town when she started hearing buzzing. She spun around to see a very very large contraption. It looked like it was sucking up something. But what. The water wasn't moving, nor any of the plants. The contraption was a large metal thing. It had many buttons, it looked like it was man-made. A human contraption. Amazing! Kori swam closer to it. She had to touch it. She just had to! She was just inches away from it. When pain struck her body. She fell on the sand. Holding her stomach.

"What? What is happening..to me? This only means..." That's when Kori realized it. This machine was sucking the salt out of the ocean. No. Mer-people needed salt to survive. She slowly swam up. One of these buttons had to do something. There were so many. Kori fell forward. She grabbed the side of the machine to stop her from falling. The buzzing stopped. Did she do it? She stopped it. The machine started moving upwards. What? No! Let go Kori! For some reason she couldn't let go. Is that what this machine was for? To capture her? Take the salt from her city? She wouldn't let it! She had to find a way to get the salt back into the ocean. The machine was lifting her higher. Towards the surface. Then all of a sudden it stops. Then it starts to move in a certain direction. Where was this thing taking her? She pulled herself higher. So close to the surface. One more pull. There her head was out of the water. She was also at the very top of the machine. She looked in the direction it was headed. The mainland. No no no. Kori had to leave. She tried pushing herself off. The pain her stomach spread throughout her body. She groaned.

"No. Be stronger. You cannot be withing a mile of the mainland." To late. The machine was fastly moving and was only a half-a mile from the land. She slunk into the water heavily. She knew she could let go of the machine but she had to get the salt back, for if she didn't her people would die. The machine stopped. Kori looked down. She saw a sub. Crap.

Kori knew humans knew that humans were real, but no one has seen a mermaid since the 1800's when a foolish girl fell in love with a human man. He used her for treasure and cheated on her. She killed herself because of the heartbreak that was brought upon her. The sub floated closer. She could see a figure through one of the windows. It was a man. She couldn't see his face for it was covered with a black and orange mask that only had one eye on the orange side of his mask. Those were the only things on his mask. No nose, no mouth. His uniform was black and silver. She couldn't see his body to clearly but just by the look in his eye she knew he was evil. The man nodded his head and walked off. Kori couldn't see anyone else. She started to move closer. Still nothing. She waited for a good 10 minutes. She decided to leave it be. Then a large explosion went off that sent Kori flying off the machine and all was black for her after that.

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Robin was on his R-Cycle riding down the road next to Cyborg and Beast boy in the T-car. Raven was flying above them. He could see the ocean coming into view. It was beautiful. The sun glistening of the water, the waves gently moving. It was one of his favourite sights. Though today he could see a tip of a large metal contraption sticking out of the water. He also saw a sub near it from his bikes computer.

"Slade." He said under his breath. What was he doing in the ocean? As an answer to Robin's question some fish rose to the surface. A lack of salt can make a saltwater fish waterlogged and cause it to die. That's it. Slade was taking the salt out of the ocean. But why? Slade wasn't usually one to build a machine to get something. Though in this case he had to. Robin pushed on the gas and drove faster. Cyborg close behind him. They stopped at the docks. Waiting. Nothing happened. Then they heard a voice.

"Hello Titans. Nice to see you came. I am finished here. You can do whatever you want with it." Robin stepped toward him ready to fight.

"What about the salt? I know you took it? What are you planning?" Slade smiled under his mask.

"Robin. I was merely tying to get some nice fresh salt. Nothing bad." Robin huffed.

"Please Slade. You're not one to go to the ocean to get a snack." Slade eyes widened. He remembered the mermaid that was on his contraption.

"Robin. You have always been interested in the sea." Robin stiffened. How did Slade know that.

"There is something very interesting down by my machine. I would check it out if I were you. Oh and it is living thing. That will need to be helped in about one minute." With that a large smoke-bomb went off in front of the titans. When it cleared up Slade was gone.

"Crap! He's gone! What was he talking about? Cyborg can you see if anything is really down there?"

"Ya, one minute. Yep there is a living thing, right next to the machine. It seems to be holding on to it. It's..a fish?" Robin sighed.

"Slade what were you talking about! It's just a stupid old-"

"No Robin," Cyborg interrupted him. "It's also human. I think what's down there is a mermaid. I'm getting strong fish and human signals." Robin sighed again.

"That's impossible. That last mermaid sighting was over 100 years ago! It can't-"

"But it is, and Robin I'm also getting another signal. A bad one." Raven asked this time saving Robin the trouble.

"What? A bomb?" You could hear the sarcasm dripping from her voice. Cyborg nodded.

"Ya. It's a bomb, a big one. And if that..whatever doesn't leave in thirty seconds. It might be done for." Robin ran to the edge of the dock. He couldn't see anything. Even though the water was clear you couldn't see anything for a mile down. Though Robin knew she was there. If it was a she.

"We need to tell her somehow." Beast boy put up his hand.

"How do we know it's a she? It could be a guy?" Robin sighed. Ignoring the comment.

"We can't if we try to go down we could be endangering ourselves. We could go down after and try to see if she is okay, but for now. Nothing." Robin hit a nearby pole.

"We can't just stand here and do nothing while she-" He was interrupted by a loud explosion. Robin spun around and faced the water. There were heavy waves and pieces of metal floating around.

"No." He said quietly. He hated when some innocent soul died. It pained him inside. Though nothing could compare to the loss of his parents. No. He pushed the thought out of his head.

"There's still a life form out there. Near us. Barley anything though. Whatever it is won't be able to hold on much longer." Robin nodded. He looked out into the sea. He saw a faint outline of a body. He couldn't tell if it was a guy or a girl, or even a human for that fact.

"Get a first aid kit or anything that could help it. If it is a mermaid, get a stable place nearby full of water. Salt make sure it has salt." Raven stopped him.

"Were are you going?" Robin pulled off his cape and set it on the ground.

"I'm gonna go get her."

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There! First Chapter of my new story done! Yay! Oh ya just saying I do not own teen titans! Blah blah all that stuff. If anyone tries to sue me I have this chapter to prove that I did say I don't own teen titans! Hah!

Robin: Help! We're stuck in-"

Me: Shut-up! I'm in the middle of saying something here. (Stuffs him back in closet) There, now that we- (loud blast come from the closet. Turn to see Starfire with green eyes.)
Star: You little -

Me: Woah watch the language! We are on the...internet! (She looks at the ground)

Star: Sorry...would you like to be my new friend!
Me: Sure! Why not!

Other titans: STARFIRE! NO! STUPID! (Me: shut the door on their faces. Bug grin on face)

Me: Ya so I do NOT own the teen titans television show. Or the actual people...later!