Sooo... another fic. This times, I'm taking you underwater. And guess what- it's a genderbend story. Yep. Lovino and Feli are girls here, but that's just about it. I know, I know. It's just that in my headcanon, Feli is a girl, and Lovi usually is too. So, I hope this won't put you off from reading!

Feli and Ludwig had no idea what was wrong with Lovina. It was two weeks that she kept disappearing for an hour, and in that hour, no matter how much they looked for her, they just couldn't find her. As if she vanished from the sea for an hour every day.

And since Nonno Roma, aka Neptune, King of the Oceans, had noticed too, he had given them both the task of finding out what his eldest grand-daughter was up to.

Ludwig sighed in resignation as he and Feli took a short break.

"We're never going to find out what she does. She's just not here."

Feli scooted closer to Ludwig and entwined her green tail with Ludwig's yellow one.

He blushed a bit, but was secretely happy of the contact. As long as the King didn't find out...

"Ve, if I didn't know it was impossible, I'd just say that Lovina goes to the surface when we can't find her..."
Suddenly, Ludwig stiffened and took Feli's shoulders. "... what did you say!"

Feli looked a bit taken aback, but she shrugged and said "... ve, just that it looks like Lovina goes to the... OH!"

They looked at each other for a second before swimming very fast upwards. Ludwig cursed under his breath all the while. If Lovina really was on the surface, it would spell big fucking trouble. Really big and really fucking.

Lovina swam hard to the surface. Today that guy would show up again on that floating device. Probably his stupid friend would come along for the ride, but who cared. As long as she could see him... not that she really wanted to! It's just... it was so warm, and dry in the surface...

Lovina thought there was something very wrong with her. Of all the merfolk she knew, it seemed that no one had problems living in the water. Of course, why would they? They were merfolk. Born to be in the water. That was their house.

But Lovina always, always felt so cold, and wet, and uncomfortable, and in the dark. She could never remember a day where she had felt actually warm. She just didn't fit in with her kin. That was why she had decided to come and see what the surface looked like. At first, she had been completely terrified at the thought of her nonno finding her out, but then...

… then the sun was shining so bright, and it was so warm on her skin...

And when that human happened to be there too, her heart would stubbornly beat so fast that she felt like diyng.

But also very happy.

She finally broke the surface, and perched herself on her favourite rock, that could allow her to see without being seen.

And there he was. His windswept dark curls, his sunny smile...

Lovina leaned a little more to her rock. It had just been two weeks since she saw him first, but from the very first day she had started going to the surface everyday, just to get a glimpse of him.

He was so beautiful. So heart-wrenchingly beautiful.

Lovina shook her head. She could admit that he was beau... cute, but he was also oblivious. And always smiling like he hadn't a worry in the world.

Lovina sighed. Just watching him would be enough. She just hoped nonno didn't find out about her surface escapades. Or she would be in a sea of trouble.

"Look what I found today when I was going through my old stuff!"

Antonio, who was simply liyng in the sun on his boat, looked up. Francis was holding something in his hand. A picture.

"Hey! This is such a cool picture! It's from when we started working here for the summer! How nostalgic..."

Antonio took the picture in his hands. It was a black and white picture of him, the day he had started working as a life-guard at the beginning of summer. He smiled and pocketed it.

"Gracias, Francis. I didn't even know I had one! Pictures are so difficult to come by!"

Francis gave his usual smouldering smile. "I know, I know. But it's cool to have a picture taken once in a while. Or esle how am is the world supposed to remember how gorgeous I look now when I'll be old?"

Antonio laughed and shrugged. He looked at the sky. His merry expression morphed into a worried frown.

"We shouldn't stay out too much today, anyway. Look at the sky. There's going to be a storm today, that's for sure..."

Francis looked up and frowned. "Don't worry, we just have an hour anyway. Lunch break is too much of a blessed time to spend it right in the workplace, right?"

Antonio shrugged. Alright then.

"So, Antonio. I saw you getting all snuggly with Belle yesterday night..."

Antonio blushed. "You got it wrong! It was her that was getting so close! I told her to stay away, but she wouldn't listen! For a moment there I thought she was gonna rape right on the steps!"

Francis laughed out loud. "iMon ami, you could have let her. She's cute and everything! It's true you guys broke up, but if she wants you so much still, then just go along with it!"

Antonio shook his head. "No. I can't keep seeing her if I don't love her."

This time, Francis laughed. "Oh Toni, you really should get all that romantic thoughts out of the way, so you can have a nice roll in the hay before you decide to tell Belle that you weren't meant to be!"

Antonio was going to reply with something, when the boom of a thunder made the two friends look up at the sky.

"Well, merde."

Lovina was still hidden behind her rock when a storm came. She looked at the boat. N-not like she was worried about that Antonio guy or anything...!

Suddenly, a strong wave made her fall from her rock. As she tried to swim back to the surface, she saw Antonio fall in the water and hit his head hard against the hull of his boat before fainting and be at the sea's mercy.

"ANTONIO!"

Shit, shit! Antonio had fallen overboard! Francis turned around frantically to see if someone could help them, but there was no one...

He took a deep breath. He had to dive. He had to look for Antonio!

Francis dived, albeit shakily. The sea was too agitated, but he couldn't leave Antonio! He went deeper and looked for Antonio until he noticed that the sea current was claiming their boat. Without it, the both of them would simply drown. He had to swim back to it, or they would all be dead! Then once on the boat, he could anchor it and keep looking Antonio safely.

Lovina didn't waste a single second. Before the other guy even realized that Antonio had fallen in the water, Lovina had reached him and had swam him as fast as she could to the shore, which was thankfully empty, and dragged Antonio ashore.

Feli and Ludwig were still struggling a bit with the underwater currents caused by the storm, but what they saw in front of their eyes was something that they could never forget. Lovina had reascued a human from drowning.

Lovina had rescued a human from drowning.

Lovina had rescued a human from drowning.

Lovina had rescued a human from drowning!

Ludwig was already starting to look for excuses to come up with for his Majesty, whereas Feli's jaw was touching the bottom.

Lovina stayed at Antonio's side for a while, just looking at him. He was plain gorgeous. He was so beautiful. He looked so amazing.

He was breathing, but since water wasn't all that good for humans, she decided to sing for him. The mermaid's songs had different powers, and one of them was healing. Without thinking twice about it, she started to sing to him. A song about how much she'd love to be able to leave the cold water behind and live in the sun, by the side of someone with dark curls and green, green eyes.

Antonio felt like someone had smashed his head forcefully against the ground. And his throat was completely raw, and he didn't have the strength to even open his eyes. It was then that he heard a girl sing to him. But it was not just any song. It was... otherworldly. A kind of voice that could not be described...

he felt a hand on his cheek. He instictively reached for it with his own, and opened his eyes. He couldn't focus on anything... but in front of him, there seemed to be a girl... but the sun was just behind her, so he couldn't tell what she looked like...

But then he heard Francis' voice call him in the distance.

As soon as she heard the voices of his stupid friend, Lovina looked one last time at the half-fainted man in front of her before silently slipping back into the water.

"Your Majesty, how could you do that! Are you crazy!"

Lovina jumped out of her skin. She turned around and what she saw made her think just one word.

Fuck.

Her sister and their guardian, Ludwig, were there. And by the astonished look on their face, they had seen her crime.

Feli, her sister, looked on the verge of tears. Ludwig looked like he couldn't find words big enough to match his thoughts. But he tried nonetheless.

"Princess, this is a crime! No, a sin! When your grandfather hears about this...!"

Lovina's breath caught in her throat.

"You bastard! You're never telling nonno what I did! It's a secret!" then she added in a more pleading tone "I won't do it anymore! I swear!"

Feli was now crying. "B-but ve, Lovi, you have saved a human! From drowning! How could you, ve! That's... that's just... and you've been coming to the surface! Oh God, ve, if nonno knew, he'd kill you, then us, then he would have a stroke! Ve!"

Lovina swallowed. "...if I promise to never return to the surface, will you bastards just get off my case?"

Ludwig was ready to start a long, long rant when Feli cut him off. "Ve, yes! But you have to promise! You have to swear!"

Lovina looked at the bottom in defeat. "...fine."

Because I have been wanting to read something about mermaids, but the hetalia fandom doesn't have a lot, so I decided to write a story. I hope you'lllike it. Again, it's already finished, and it will update once every three or four days. It's also pretty loosely based on the Disney version. Enjoy!