Alverna: I'm back with a new story!
Yugi: She promised and here it is! The Little Merman 2.
Atemu: Alverna does not own Yugioh or The Little Mermaid 2. Enjoy.
Alverna: This is Blindshipping. HebaxAtem, NOT Atemu. Atem is a different character.
Chapter 1
Out on the ocean, soft singing could be heard from a ship that sailed. Inside the room of the singing, a young man with tri-colored hair and amethyst eyes, bent over the crib to pick up his three month old son and brought him to look at the view of the ocean out the window.
Yugi smiled as he looked out the window and held his son, Heba. He had truly been blessed in the last year. He had found his yami, his other half or soul mate, Atemu, and they had a child, a son that was a Hikari, like himself.
See, the unusual thing about Yugi was, he had been a merman, but had been changed into a human by his grandfather after one weird adventure of just trying to get to his Yami.
That was the special thing about merfolk, were the way mates were classified into two sections. There were Yamis and Hikaris. The Yamis were the more bolder and braver day to day. They were the type who were most popular in schools and often found there Hikaris. The Hikaris were the quiet and shy type, but had amazing hidden strength to do what they set their minds to.
The merfolk were often engaged and married to others, and if there partner died they could seek and take another if they so desired. But when they find their other half, their Yami or Hikari, it was for life. If they were currently engaged or married after finding their life mate, they could cancel the wedding or spilt from their current partner. After their soul mate dies, another mate would never be taken.
His friend Ryou had also been a merman and had changed into a human so he could be with his Yami, Bakura, and had given birth to their daughter, a girl with white hair and blue eyes, whom they named Kisara.
Ryou had carried a two weeks over term and Yugi had carried two weeks under. When it came down to it, Heba had been born a few hours earlier than Kisara, who had been born in the early hours of the next morning.
Yugi's friends Joey and Malik had also had discovered their Yami's, Seto and Marik. Both were human, but for some reason, the mermen hadn't turned to humans yet. Oh well.
As Heba began to squirm in Yugi's arms as some of the ocean spray hit the window. Yugi giggled at the action and began to sing.
"You are my world, my darling
What a wonderful world I see.
You are the song I'm singing
You're my beautiful Hikari."
Atemu came into the room smiling at the sound of his husband's singing. He had been really happy when Yugi had conceived their son, and was happier that Yugi's grandfather, the king of the merfolk, King Solomon, was holding a special ceremony today for his great-grandson.
"Darling, we'd better be going." Atemu said as he stepped into the room.
"Just look at him, isn't he glowing?" Yugi asked at their son's excited expression.
"He looks divine and you look exquisite, but look at the time." Atemu replied as the escorted the two out.
"It couldn't be." Yugi gasped as he looked to see how far from shore they were. "Is it?"
"The crew is awaiting your orders." High Priest Mahad smiled at the coupled as they came further onto the deck.
"We're sailing away from our borders." Dartz, captain of the Egyptian armada cheerfully chirped from the behind the wheel.
"Ahoy there!" Alister, another sailor called from the crows nest. "They're coming!"
"Trumpeters ready!" High Priest Seto, Atemu's cousin shouted to the soldiers. "Drummers, start drumming!"
Yugi smiled as he and Atemu walked down to the main deck, Yugi singing, one of his talents that he had inherited from his deceased mother.
"Down to the sea we go,
Down to a world I know.
There's never been, not ever before,
A child born of sea and shore."
The crew responded in song as Atemu, Yugi, and Heba approached Atemu's father, Pharaoh Aknankanon.
"Down to the sea we go,
Down to the world below.
A journey to bless a prince-to-be,
Under the sun and under the sea."
Thema, a Silver Fang that had been Atemu's longtime companion, and Kuriboh, a small brown ball of fur with purple eyes, peaked over the edge of the ship to see Joey and Malik jumping up next to the boat before diving back down into the ocean to alert the seafolk.
"Yugi's coming!" Joey called as he and Malik swam to the ocean, gathering the attention of fish, turtles, dolphins, and the merpeople. One such merfolk was Rebecca, a friend of Yugi's who for a long time thought she was his soulmate, but had found hers shortly before Yugi got married. Rebecca Hawkins and Leon von Schroder would be married in the next year, but right now, she was conducting the ocean band to play a hip-hop beat while she sang.
"What's all the big commotion,
That's spreading through the ocean,
From sea to shining sea?
There is no hesitating.
Today we celebrating.
Yugi's little Hikari."
Rebecca bounced along to the beat as she and Leon shooed the sea creatures up to the surface.
"Today the sons and daughters
Are swimming through water
We gonna have a spree. Ha!
The boat is nearer now,
I think I hear him now,
Yugi's little Hikari."
Many of the merfolk began to sing as they swam towards the surface of the ocean.
"Up from the sea we rise,
Up to the world of skies.
There's never been, not ever before,
A child born of sea and shore.
Up from the sea we rise,
Up to the world of skies.
Forever to be, together as one,
Under the sea and under the sun."
Yugi walked to the edge of the ship, followed by Ryou who was holding Kisara. Gesturing to the seafolk bellow, the two merfolk turned humans sang to the infants.
"This is your world my darling,
One world, the land and sea.
My hope for you for always,
Is that your heart will hold part of me."
Everyone stopped and stared as guards came out of the water, welcoming the good King Solomon of the merpeople, who used his magic to hold himself up at boat level so he could see the happy infants. The crew and merpeople sang in echo with each other.
"Down to the sea we go, (Up from the sea),
Down to the world below."
Yugi smiled and sang happily with everyone else as he held an excited Heba in his arms. This was the first time since the births that he had been able to see his grandfather, and the first time for Heba to meet any of Yugi's family.
"Together we come forever to be.
Under one sun, the land and the sea."
Solomon smiled as Heba grinned at him, so he made a rainbow, much like the one he had made at Yugi's and Atemu's wedding. As the cheering behind him settled, he revealed the locket he had brought with him.
"Precious Heba." Solomon sighed as he held up the seashell locket with Heba's name engraved on it. "I'm giving you this locket so that you will never forget that part of your heart will always belong to the sea."
Opening the locket, a ball of magic swirled out and made a picture. It showed the underwater sea kingdom that had once been Yugi's home, with merfolk swimming around happily. A soft melody played, the same on that Yugi had sung a few minutes before.
As Heba cooed, Yugi smiled at his grandfather. It was perfect. Heba would remember he was of land and of sea with this gift.
As Solomon smiled back and placed the locket around Heba's neck, a long black tentacle shot out of the water and grabbed the baby prince right out of his mother's arms.
"Heba!" Yugi cried out as his child was carried out of his reach.
A tako, much like Pegasus appeared out of the water, riding on the backs of two manta rays, Rex and Weevil. Except this tako, was female.
She had blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair, and looked an awful lot like one of the palace servants, a girl named Tea.
"A party!" the female cackled as the rays carted her and Heba around.
"Pegasus' crazy apprentice!" Joey yelped as he dodged the crazy female.
"I didn't miss the cake and ice cream, did I?" the girl asked as she 'fawned' over Heba.
"Anzu!" Solomon growled
"Who?" Rebecca asked.
"Oh yeah." Malik shook his head. "You haven't learned about her yet."
"She's my twin sister gone bad." Tea explained. "She was banished from the palace for attempted murder on King Solomon, and Pegasus changed her into a tako and taught her everything he knew."
"Everything?" Bakura asked as he escorted Ryou and Kisara away from the edge of the ship. He didn't like the sound of that. Pegasus had been bad enough.
"That doesn't mean she actually can do anything." Joey replied. "99% of the time she messes up."
"Surrender the baby, or I'll-" Solomon thundered at the sea witch as his trident, which had strong magic and was used to keep the ocean in check, began to glow.
"Ah, ah, ah." Anzu tsked as she used her tentacles to climb the ship, save for the one that held Heba as her hostage. "Pegasus would have simply loved to have come... but something came up. Now-Now, what was it? Oh, yes. You all shish-kebabbed him!"
Yugi was starting to have a hard time breathing as he watched Anzu toss Heba up and down. Atemu quickly reached for his husband and held him close, planning the best way to cook the tako with his monsters and shadow magic.
"One minute you're on top, the next you're sushi." Anzu continued, not paying any attention to the glares she was getting, and pulling Mahad closed for two seconds. "Now, is that fair? I ask you. But then, whoever said we had to play fair? Oh, Keith!"
The back fins of a shark cut threw the water. It was Bandit Keith. He had once been a merman, but had been banished for stealing from the treasury. Keith had been one of Anzu's successful experiments. He now had a shark's tale and could change into a tiger shark at will.
"Make way, little mershrimp!" Bandit Keith bellowed at he plowed threw the seafolk. "I'm coming' through!"
Rearing upright on his tail, Keith opened his mouth as Anzu held Heba right over, barely holding on. Yugi gasped in horror at the sight.
"Now hand over the trident," Anzu demanded, "or your precious great-grandson, will be shark chow!"
"You can have anything you want." Solomon surrendered. "Just don't harm little Heba."
"Well, well. I get the trident." Anzu looked pleased how things were going her way. "Avenge poor, unfortunate Pegasus, and gain all the powers of the ocean! And it's not even 10:00. Not a bad morning."
'For you maybe.' Yugi growled in his head as he grabbed the dagger he had one his waist and cut the line holding a piece of the yard up.
"Hit the deck!" Atemu shouted as he dropped to avoid the piece of mast, which hit Anzu right in the stomach and knocked her off the ship.
But this also sent Heba flying, right towards Keith's open mouth. This time, Solomon could use his trident, and shrunk the shark to the size of an orange. Atemu had grabbed a rope and swung out to catch his son just in time.
"Heba!" Yugi gasped as he took his son back into his arms.
"What have you done to me?" Bandit Keith screeched. "Look at me! I'm an anchovy!"
"This isn't the end, Solomon!" Anzu sneered as she began to cast a spell. "It's just the beginning!"
"After her!" Solomon shouted, and the sea guards raced to stop her, but it was too late.
"You'll never find me." Anzu's voice rang as she, Keith, Rex, and Weevil disappeared in a spell cast ink cloud. "But I'll find you... and your precious great- grandson!"
"We shall not rest until that madwoman is vanquished!" Solomon declared. "Find her! Find her!"
A few hours later at sunset, Solomon, Joey, Malik, and Rebecca met Yugi, Atemu, Heba, Ryou, Bakura, Kisara, and Pharaoh Aknankanon at the ocean shore.
"I'm sorry." Solomon sighed with a heavy heart. "There is no sign of her. She's vanished. We'll keep trying."
"No sweetie, no." Yugi gasped as he picked up Heba, who had been crawling toward the sea. "Oh, we've got to keep Heba away from her."
"Yugi's right." Ryou agreed. "Anzu may try to go for Kisara next time."
"Until Anzu is found, Heba can't go in the sea." Yugi took a deep breath and voiced the painful choice he had made should the search fail. "And neither will I."
"But Yugi!" Rebecca gasped, Joey and Malik wearing similar looks of shock.
"I'm sorry, guys." Yugi shook his head.
"But if Anzu is anything like Pegasus," Ryou picked up "she'll never give up."
"This is the only way." Yugi continued as he took off Heba's locket and gave it back to Solomon. "Heba and Kisara can't know about merpeople or Atlantica... or even you, Grandpa."
"Very well, Yugi." Solomon sighed, conceding as Yugi turned back into Atemu's arms as he softly cried. "You're right."
Turning, Yugi, Atemu, and the rest of the human's walked back to the carriages that would take them back to the Egyptian Palace.
Solomon and the merteens turned back to the ocean, watching as the locket with Heba's name on it was dropped to rest at the bottom of the sea.
One thing I completely forgot to explain in 'The Little Merman', how Pegasus got the Millennium Eye. High Priest Aknadin was attacked by Pegasus when the ship he was on sank. Pegasus got the Millennium Eye, and Aknadin left the box that contained the Millenium Puzzle on the sinking ship. The same ship Yugi, Joey, and Malik were exploring in the first chapter of 'The Little Merman'.
And no, Joey and Malik won't change into humans because of the separation. I need them in the plot future.
Alverna: Why does the first chapter have to end sad?
Bakura: Who cares.
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