"I won't tell you again Gray! Put your clothes back on!" Silver Fullbuster demanded as he tried to force his son Gray back into his shirt and pants which he had taken off.

"But it's so hot! i can't breathe!" The eight year old boy complained.

"I don't care we're in public! You do not walk around in your boxers especially in front of your mother and other women!" It was a struggle but he finally managed to get the squirming boy back into his pants. "Now why don't you try to catch some fish with your brother?"

"Fine!"

It was summer time and Gray, his parents, and his older brother Lyon were taking a boating trip to Magnolia for some family fun but for Gray it was no fun at all. For one thing he couldn't swim so if he fell off the boat he was a goner and another thing was this boat was so crowed with people that he could hardly breathe. That mixed with the sun's intense heat it was enough to make him suffocate to death so could his father really blame him for stripping down? He went over to the edge of the boat where his ten year old brother Lyon was. He was fishing for something but it definitely wasn't for fish. He was dropping coins and bending over to pick them up so he could sneakingly look under the skirts of the unsuspecting girls standing near his coins.

"Lyon what are you doing?" He asked.

"Nothing just checking out the sights." He said peeking under one girl's skirt.

"Lyon don't do that! That's so creepy!"

"Shut up! If Mom sees me doing this she'll kill me."

"Lyon!" Their mother Mika cried when she saw what her oldest son was doing. She sized him by his ear and pulled him away from the girls. "Silver talk to him!"

"What's going on?" Her husband asked.

"Lyon is being a peeping Tom."

"Again? My boys the pervert and the stripper. Oye, where did I go wrong?"

"It's not what you think Dad! I dropped something! I was only picking up my coins I swear!" The boy protested.

"Sure you were. Come here, I'm gonna have a little chat with you." Silver said pulling his son aside.

"Creepy pervert." Gray mumbled.

He turned his gaze back to the sea. When he looked at it, it made him both nervous and fascinated. While on one hand with one slip up the ocean could take him straight to a watery grave but on the other hand the sea was very beautiful and full of different kinds of plants and animals. He wished he knew how to swim then he could see some of the beautiful things underneath the water but he was too afraid of drowning to learn. Then suddenly he saw something, something under the water. At first he thought it might be a fish but it had hair. Fish didn't have hair. When he leaned in closer the thing swimming under water splashed him.

"Hey!" He cried out in annoyance as he rubbed the salt water out of his eyes. He heard a giggle. Fish didn't giggle. When he opened his eyes again he couldn't see whatever was swimming in the sea was gone. His eyes began to scan the water for it but he could see nothing. He didn't know why, in fact he was pretty sure that he had lost his mind at the moment because without thinking he just jumped right into the sea.

"Gray!" Mika screamed horrified when she saw her son's head go under. "Help! He can't swim!"

She, her husband, her older son, and the rest of the people on the boat raced over to the edge to see what was happening. Under water, Gray just kept sinking and sinking until he came face to face with a little girl about seven or eight years old with short blue hair the curled on the ends. She wore no shirt but her breasts hadn't developed yet so there was nothing shameful about her appearance. Around her neck was a gold chain that held that held a gold sand dollar pendent and a white pearl. He smiled at her, she smiled back, he reached out to her and their hands joined. Just then Gray's face started to turn blue due to being without oxygen for too long. The little girl quickly pulled Gray into a kiss, it was his first kiss and it made turn red all over but once her lips left his he found himself able to breathe underwater. He couldn't believe it, he could breathe. He could actually breathe underwater like a fish. He was about to ask her how that was possible when he felt the strong arms of his father grab him and pull him out from the water and place him into the warm arms of his mother who had a towel waiting for him.

"Gray are you alright honey?" His mother asked full of worry.

"I'm fine Mom."

"You're so cold and wet."

"Are you crazy? You know you can't swim! You could've drowned! What were you thinking?" His father scolded.

But Gray wasn't thinking about his near drowning experience. He was thinking about that girl. Who was she? Where did she come from? Was she even real? She looked real and she felt real but still there was still the doubt that she was actually there. As his parents dried him off he looked back to that the girl had poked her head out of the water and was watching him. Tears filled her blue eyes and slid down her cheeks as she watched the boat take her new friend away. Their eyes met and she gave him one last sad look before diving back into the sea, revealing an aquamarine colored fish tail that was unseen by anyone else.