Breathing Underwater

by cottoncandyofthejungle

Allura never really liked humans and she thought she never would, until she meets one. Shiro knew that humans weren't alone in the universe but he never knew that what was actually out there was underwater. After meeting one another, they begin to see life very differently and begin to wonder what it would be like to be a part of each other's world.*Mermaid AU- Shallura*

1. Sleeping with the Fishes

Breathing Underwater

Chapter 1

*Allura's pov*

Allura sat up quickly in alarm. Something had fallen onto her face whilst she was sleeping. She glanced around suspiciously trying to see if she could see any of the shrimps that loved to bury themselves in her curly white mass of hair while she slept. Then with a jolt of anger, she spied a soda float downstream. Allura had been so used to waking up from a nap to see bits of trash float to the seabed, but not float onto her head.

Over the decades more and more litter began to pile up. Though she couldn't understand why? Maybe the humans believed that they were doing the mermaids a favour by offering better food for them to eat and plastic wrappers to make new clothing. All in all, Allura disliked these 'offers' as much as the fish and the sea creatures disliked digesting them. Just the other day, Allura had to fish a plastic soda wrapper from out of Coran's catfish's, Whiskers, mouth. She raged and raged to Coran the rest of that day about the irresponsible over landers and their wicked ways. Coran attempted to convince Allura that not all of them were attempting to wipe out the sea life and make fish stew out of the merpeople. She didn't believe him every time he went onto the same old same old speech of "Humans are friends. Not enemies", even when they emptied into the seas every year, rubbish and waste oil. She would attempt to swim to the surface every time she glimpsed a figure after some rubbish fell into the water but Coran would always mysteriously pop up to warn her not to. Allura smirked, "How comes I can't tell our 'friends' to quit bombarding us with their ever so kind 'presents', huh Coran?" "Just no, Allura I've told you many times before, the humans agreed centuries ago to stay out of area cause of their outlandish fear and the big agreement."

How could she ever forget about the 'big agreement'? Her father, Alfor, had been away on land for months trying to persuade the human ambassadors to agree to avoid the merpeople due to their new warmongering weapons of nuclear bombs and acids. The merpeople feared that despite being neutral in the overland politics and battles, their homes would be in danger of attack due to the humans' selfish and violent decisions. Allura didn't mind the humans too much previously. That was until they took the life of her mother and father during a battle between their humongous war vessels.