Chapter 1: Amber

"Princess Amber, you know the King will not be happy if you roam to the surface of the sea!" Fate warned me.

Fate was my closest friend, and also my personal dolphin. He was a pet I found years ago, since then, we were always together, and not even my precious father can separate us.

"Fate, this is not the first time we had done this. You know we won't get caught!"

This had been going on since I was 10, I found this mysterious stick with tons of thorns sticking out, but weirdly, it doesn't hurt even though I poked my hand on it. So I tried to use it against my hair, and my hair looked neater than usual. Since then, I would go to the bottom of the sea to see if there's anything as cool as that.

"Hey, look," I squealed at the shiny object that caught my eyes. It looks like a teapot we have in our kingdom to pour tea. As it was dusty, I grabbed something that was called cloth to wipe it. The 'teapot' then started to shake vigorously in my hands. Caught by surprise, I threw the 'teapot' away with my strength.

Fog was surrounding me and Fate, which made it hard for us to see. I have to strain my eyes to see clearly, and saw a human shape forming in the fog.

"Eew, so you're the woman that summons me?" It talked, it spoke to me.

"Some… someone is coming out from the teapot!" I shrieked, swimming as fast I could away.

But my strength was not fast enough; the 'thing' was in front of me before I know it. The fog started to clear and I could see it very carefully. It had the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen, with bright yellowed long hair, he's quite handsome if you look at him carefully.

"It's really rude to stare." He spoke again.

Slowly, he looked at me, at Fate, then back at me again.

"What?" I glared at him, "What is your problem?!"

"Wow, what a fierce woman we have here! I see, you're a mermaid. Okay, let's ask you a question. Did you rub that lamb over there?" He said and pointed at the teapot on the ground.

"The teapot? Yeah, I did, I thought it was dir"

"Okay, that's all I want to know! So from today onwards, you're my mistress. That's not a teapot, it's a lamp. I'm a genie, not an 'it'. My name's Aad." He interrupted me.

"A what?"

"A genie, you stupid mermaid! Anyway, I'll grant your wishes till the day you die. Rub the lamp to summon me." His voice grew fainter and fainter as he slowly disappeared back to the thing he called lamp.

I looked at the lamp suspiciously before picking it up, no harm done. Having enough for the day, me and Fate went back to the kingdom. The sea is our territory, no one can do any harm to us, I guess.