A/N So TheScoundrelCookie and I came up with this idea this past week and because I've had time on my hands I started writing it. Eve, I blame you for this~

Pair: Zexalcest between Zexal I and Zexal III (First/Third)

Sweet little mermaid, alone in the sea. Never found a friend, lost in the sea.

Attention!

/Over a dozen people are reported missing, said to be snatched up from their very homes that stretch along the coastline.\

/Under all matters do not go to the beach!\

First sat on a blanket laid out on the clean, white sands of the coast. The sun was moments from setting, and the twilight painted a beautiful scene in the sky. First sighed.

"I don't want to be here." He said, looking at the waves that came and went. He talked to himself for everyone that would have been there was gone, either moved or snatched away by whatever was taking them. He fell back with another sigh.

"What the hell am I supposed to do? I'm not hunter, I'm just an apprentice." He groaned. "And I can't even track anything if my life depended on it."

The night wore on. First found himself drifting further and further off into sleep.

"No...I have...I have to watch." He said, drowsy. He tried anything he could to escape sleep, from making a fire to just sitting up but nothing seemed to work because before he knew it...he had fallen asleep.

The next thing he realized was his clothes were damp.

'Okay, what the hell happened? Did the tide move in?' He thought, pushing himself up. The ground was cold and damp which confused First further. Slowly he opened his eyes and found it hard to see at all.

"Wait...Where am I?" he said as he frantically looked around. There was practically no light at all but somehow, there was a dim glow that lit up whatever he was in. He stood on his feet and tried to feel his way around.

"Hello? Anyone around?" He asked, not really sure if he would get an answer or not. There was a splash, and it caused him to freeze in fear. The splashing continued, and he started to settle down.

'I guess it's just the water...' He thought relieved. '...Wait, water?' Well that made sense to at least why he was damp and why everything seemed to be permanently soaked.

'Well maybe if I can find some light or something I can get out of here.' He considered, 'I mean it sounded reasonable, right?'

He continued to stumble around, the lack of light not helping matters until he heard something...unsettling. There was another splash, something he had gotten used to, but then a weird slushing sound, as though something was getting out of the water. He turned to look in the direction that the noise was coming from, and he was met with something that was horrifying.

Seeming to pull itself out of the water was something that could be described as, humanlike. Though it was easy to tell it wasn't human, because the outlines of fins on its arms could be seen as the the dim light illuminated it from behind. It looked up to First, and he nearly screamed. Even with the lack of light, the creature's bright yellow eyes seemed to glow. He was terrified, so much that he blacked out when it started to hiss at him.

Once again, he awoke, only he was drenched. He wrapped his arms around him and started to shiver.

"Okay, was that a dream, or did that just really happen?" He asked himself as he looked around his surroundings. He was on the beach again with the sun just starting to claw its way up in the east. The water of the morning tide was just touching his toes, and after a bit of some searching, he managed to find the blanket he had been sleeping on earlier a bit higher from where he awoke. He retrieved it and walked back to his home.

By the time he had made it there, the sun had fully risen with the sounds of morning birds filling the atmosphere. He walked in, slammed the door shut and went around, closing very bind he had in his house so he made his own artificial night. He peeled off his wet clothes and climbed into bed.

"Hmph, first failure tonight out of who knows how many more." he grumbled. He knew he wasn't suitable for the job, just why was he chosen? He started to drift off to sleep, the sounds of the creek in his backyard making the most calming sound at the moment except for the unusually loud splashing he heard coming from it.

'Probably...Just my...Imagination...' he thought as he drifted off to sleep.

A/N Yep, so this is just an intro. chapter, nothing much going on but I hope you enjoyed and I hope to post the next chapter soon~ Yami Gir signing off!