Hello, this is a disclaimer:

I don't own anything.

So I've noticed that there is quite a lack of the "silly" AUs, like coffee shops, space races, mermaids, and college kids.

I'm fixing the mermaid one.

Her hand floundered around in the darkness, she was still clinging to sleep, and was too groggy to do anything more than make directionless swatting motions in the general direction of where she presumed her oldest charge to be. When several attempts proved fruitless she sighed and rubbed her eyes open.

The violets of her eyes shrank in the gloom as she took in the familiar shapes lining her cave. It was small, and more of a personal den than the mysterious lair her friends liked to tease.

Feeling a gentle pressure at her side, Raven looked to her left, and two small shapes stood out from the shadows of her belongings and a quiet smile momentarily graced her face. She watched them twitch in their sleep for a moment, with a bubble of contentment in her chest.

They were curled up next to each other, likely having passed out as they usually did, with Timmy and Teether fighting over who would get to sleep in Teether's security shell, despite Timmy no longer being able to fit in it properly. A ripple of amusement spread through her muscles along her spine and she propped herself up, images of such past scuffles flickering through her mind without any real purpose.

And then she felt her gills flare with unease, and her tentacles began weaving themselves in knots beneath her as she realized that while the two boys were sleeping peacefully beside her, they were the only other occupants of her cave.

Melvin was missing.

Raven fought down the spike of panic threatening to send her tearing through the reef in a mindless fury and took a deep breath.

She used the tentacle closest to the boys to spread a blanket of sand over their bodies to keep the evening chill out of their bones, taking care not to let her spines or suckers catch on their scales and slipped out into the reef.

It was still really late, to the point of being very early, and though the water was brightening slowly, it was still by minute degrees and the reef was colored in various hues of unflattering grays.

Her two fins pulsated, keeping her in place, and Raven glanced around the surrounding reef. She closed her eyes, and focused on the reef as her two velar filaments slid out of their pouches and as they unfurled into the ocean before her, the only signals of mer movement they picked up were from the children behind her. She sighed and withdrew them, as they were far too sensitive to keep in the densely populated reef for too long. Sensing every fish and crustacean in a ten fathom radius gave her a headache.

It was a shallow hope that she would find her oldest charge hidden amongst the coral and in no general danger, but now that it was beached Raven found her unease beginning to naw at her flesh anew; if Melvin wasn't near the cave, then she had gone off to find Bobby, her imaginary whaleshark who lived past the Drop Off.

There was no time to sound an alarm, it would take far too long to awaken her pod and every second she wasted was a second sooner that the little girl could die.

Cursing the figment with the entirety of her being, and her own actions for fighting with Melvin about his existence so often, Raven shot off as fast as her body could propel her, barely dodging the corals and plants interrupting her path.

The fish at least had the decency to get out of her way.

As an author's note,

Mer!Raven is based around a Vampire Squid, and if you haven't goggled them before I highly suggest taking a look! There's not too much on their wiki because there isn't a whole lot known about them, but they are pretty cool. I've tried to keep as much of the "real" abilities of the animal as I can, because honestly speaking they mashed up better than I ever could have hoped, but I did take liberties on the coloration and the number of her tentacles, which is a result of her father being a kraken, and as you very well know, something like that is going to mess with your genetics.

Jinx is loosely based around a catfish and an eel. There is no such thing as a Cheshire Catfish (to my knowledge) so I made her roughly how I thought her abilities would translate over into being as a mermaid.

Beast Boy is a mimic octopus, Starfire will be based on a few different things, and Cyborg will have prosthetics that some human scientists gave him after getting into a horrible boating incident that happened when he was younger.

I don't know how long I'll make this but I think its a fun idea anyway.