Hurky: Hey, guys! I bet you weren't expecting a sequel to the hit fanfic The Little Merboy!
Sora: Question, Hurky! Kairi has twins in Dude, Where's Kairi's Sanity, but she has one kid here. How come?
Hurky: Uh, because I wrote only one kid in long before DWKS.
Kairi: And now, here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Hurky doesn't own Kingdom Hearts whatsoever and she doesn't own the Disney version of The Little Mermaid. She hasn't even seen the sequel to it, yet! Now please enjoy the story.
When Sora and Kairi were 20 years old, they got married after knowing each other since they were fourteen, just seven years after they met. A year later, Kairi gave birth to a baby boy whom she and Sora had named Skye. He had Sora's spiky hairdo (just at birth) and his bright blue eyes but his hair color was Kairi's.
Just five days after he was born, Kairi was released from the hospital and took Skye home. His grandmother, who was Sora's mother, a woman who was only 38 years old, was waiting there. She wore a long green sundress and slip on shoes. Her long brown hair was tied into a ponytail and she wore a seashell necklace and seashell earrings on her ears. She smiled as soon as Sora and Kairi walked in with their newborn son.
"Here he is!" said Sora as he set the baby down in a blue and white bassinet. He stood back and joined his wife and his mother to adore the squirming baby lying in the bassinet.
"He's just beautiful!" said Sora's mother with a smile on her face. She was happy. Her youngest son was finally a father and it made her a first-time grandma.
Sora and Kairi smiled.
"Hello?" called an all-too-familiar voice.
Sora turned around to find Riku, along with his fiancee, Namine, walking in. Namine immediately ran to the bassinet.
"OMG, is this Skye?" asked Namine, looking into the bassinet.
Sora nodded.
"Wow, he's so beautiful!" squealed Namine.
"That's what I said!" joked Sora's mother.
"I'm surprised that Skye wasn't born with a tail or gills." spoke up Riku.
Okay, here's the truth. Sora was born a merman and lived in the ocean as Prince of Atlantica until he was fourteen when his interest in humans led him to his rescuing of Kairi from a sinking cruise ship in a storm. After that, he made a deal with the sea warlock Ansem to become a human only if he traded his voice for legs. Without thinking, Sora gave Ansem his voice and joined Kairi on the surface. Riku was also born a merman and was Sora's best friend for the longest time but, as punishment for not keeping a better watch over the prince, was turned into a human by Sora's mother, the queen. So, Riku was forced to live life on land, which he thought was torture until he met Namine. When Ansem snuck ashore and used Sora's voice to disguise his own, he made Kairi believe that he was the guy who saved her and made her fall in love with him, but Riku and Namine exposed Ansem and helped Sora get his voice back, but he turned back into a merman when he failed to kiss Kairi. After defeating Ansem, Sora chose to remain a human but Riku waited about two years and became a human himself after that. Now, several years later, Sora and Kairi were married with a newborn son and Riku and Namine were engaged to be married soon.
"He's right," said Sora. "But there's nothing to worry about, right?"
"Actually," spoke up the queen in a serious tone of voice. "There is. Even though Ansem's been gone for several years, it doesn't mean that the threat has diminished. Sebastion has told me that there is a new threat under there. Another sea warlock named Axel has been making threats. We're doing all we can to keep him away from the palace or the surface. So far, the threat is minor, but I recommend that you keep a close eye on Skye when he plays in the water when he gets older."
Sora, Kairi, Riku, and Namine stood there in silence and shock. Finally, Sora looked up and grinned.
"Don't worry, Mom," he said. "We'll keep a close eye out for him."
14 years later...
Fourteen years have passed (Hurky: Duh!) and Skye grew up to look and even sound just like his father at that age, except his hair was auburn and he wore a blue bodysuit, but his feet were a lot smaller than his father's. He even grinned and pouted just like how his father used to. His parents still lived by the ocean, so there was a lot of swimming during the summer. Sora, who was now 35 years old, took his mother's warning of the new sea warlock seriously and only let Skye swim out to a certain point. Skye didn't care. He just absolutely loved the sea. He even thought about mermaids and mermen. He and his friends, Nicky and Rebecca, who were twins and Riku and Namine's kids, often read about them in books.
One sunny afternoon, Skye walked on the beach, thinking about a dream he had the night before. In the dream, his father told him that he was really a merman-turned-into-a human (really the ending to the first Little Merboy, but then I decided to make things different)...
Skye, Nicky, Rebecca ,and their parents decided to take a walk on the beach. Sora and Riku took the time to tell their offspring what they once were.they and their parents decided to take a walk on the beach. Sora and Riku took the time to tell their offspring what they once were.
"Skye,do you ever stare into the ocean and wonder what's out there?" asked Sora as he walked next to his son.
Skye shook his spiky auburn head. "Not really." he replied, sounding like Sora from KH1. "Why?"
Riku laughed. "Well, have you ever heard of mermaids?" he asked.
"Yeah, we have, Daddy." said Rebecca as she adjusted her glasses. "They're people who are half human, but they have a fish tail instead of legs. They're also fictional. I've read about them in tons of books!"
"You would read about them, you do read a lot of books, nerd!" said her twin, Nicky, who sounded just like Riku at that age.
Rebecca stuck her tongue out at her brother, who just snickered.
"Guys..." said Riku impatiently, a little tired of listening to his kids bicker all the time. "Sora and I are trying to tell you that mermaids are not fictional."
"They're not?" asked Skye.
Sora nodded.
"Was it because you saw a mermaid when you were a kid, Dad?" asked Skye, feeling both very curious and interested.
"To tell you the truth, what we're trying to tell you is that..." said Sora.
"Your dads were mermen." spoke up Kairi from behind Sora, who was walking with Namine.
"NO WAY!" said Skye. "You gotta be kidding me!"
Sora and Riku shook their heads.
"Does this mean I'm half-mermaid?" asked Nicky.
"Merman," corrected Rebecca. "Unless you're a girl."
"Not really." replied Namine.
"Then how come you have legs?" asked Skye to Sora.
"Because your grandmother turned me into a human after I dealt with an evil sea warlock named Ansem." said Sora. "When I was your age, I had become very interested in humans, and I..."
And so, Sora told the story about how he became a human to his son and his best friend's kids...
Skye thought it was a weird dream. He also thought that there was no possible way that his dad or Nicky and Rebecca's dad were mermen. But come to think of it, Sora never talked about his childhood to his son. Skye thought that maybe he could find a good time to ask him, now that he thought about it.
He ran to his house, ran inside, and found a tall man wearing a blue polo shirt and black pants helping a woman with the same hair color as Skye wearing a long, pink dress with dinner. The man always wore blue shirts.
"Hey, Dad," said Skye. "Is this a good time?"
The man, who was Sora, looked up from the carrots he was cutting up. "What?" he asked. "Oh, uh, sure!"
Skye pulled up a chair and sat down. "What was your childhood like?" he asked eagerly.
Sora stopped cutting carrots and just stared at them for a little while. No. I can't tell him. I have to protect him.thought Sora. He looked up. "Uh, I have a really fuzzy memory about that time of my life. I can only remember up to when I was thirteen." he lied.
Skye pouted. "Really?" he asked sadly.
Sora sighed. "I'm afraid so." he said. "Now why don't you go watch TV or something?"
Skye didn't say anything. He slid out of his chair and walked out of the kitchen.
"How come you didn't tell him?" spoke up Kairi as she turned on the pilot of the stove and turned to Sora.
Sora shook his head as he watched his son go into the den and walk upstairs. "I can't tell him anything about my life before I became human." he replied. "Remember that we vowed to never tell him?"
"Well, what if he finds out one day?" asked Kairi skeptically as she crossed her arms. "He's bound to find out what you once were."
Sora ran his fingers through his spiky hair and sighed. "I don't know." he replied. "Maybe we should just tell him, but then he'll want to go into the ocean to find my mother and my brother."