A/N: Well, here's yet another story that I have decided to make. This one however, is based off of the Little Mermaid, but it's Hans Christian Andersen's version, but I do plan on mixing in some things from the Disney version too. Now yes this is another Bleach and Cat Returns crossover. However, the pairing for this story is going to be Lune x Orihime, which is kind of funny (to me) because she is the same age as Ariel. Anyway lets get started shall we?
I don't own anything.
Beauty Of The Sea
Deep down under the sea there lived a young mermaid who was of sixteen years of age. She had long flowing orange hair along with purple eyes. Her name was Orihime and she had a lovely voice. However, for all of her life the mermaid had lived alone. One day though while she was swimming around a bleak area of the ocean she let out a sigh as she said, "I wish I could find something interesting that would catch my attention. It's just been so boring lately. I need some excitement."
A few seconds after saying this though the orange haired mermaid stopped swimming when she saw a sunken ship which caused her to let out, "Hmm, maybe that ship might have something interesting for me to look at."
The orange haired mermaid then swam towards it. And when she found a way inside she continued on her way down the inner parts of the ship. But while she kept swimming she was a little shaken when she saw a few skeletons up against the walls. When she was thinking about turning back around though she saw an object in a open doorway which had caught her eye as she thought, "Hmm, I wonder what that could be?"
When she had gotten in the back room of the ship she let out a gasp as to what she was looking at. There in front of her was a marble statue of a half cat dressed in some sort of attire as she let out, "Wow, it's a statue." And when she had gotten a closer look she went on with, "But I wonder who it could be?" She then put a hand under her chin as she continued with, "I wish I could bring this back home with me, but I know that I can't lift this by myself." She sighed as she began to swim back the way she came as she ended with, "Oh, well I guess it can't be helped."
After Orihime had exited the wrecked ship and started swimming home a large shadow had gone over her which caused her to quickly look up to see the bottom of another ship. And when it had passed her she thought, "Hmm, I was going to go home. But maybe I can see what kinds of people there are that live on the surface."
The mermaid shook her head in a yes fashion making her decision confirmed as she then swam up towards the surface. Once her head was out of the water she then dove underwater again and when she came to an iceberg that was a little bit away from the ship she climbed up onto it and laid her tail towards the edge of it. When she looked up at the ship she was little bit surprised that there were many half cat's aboard it. But from what others had told her it seemed that these types of people were the only ones who lived the closest to their part of the sea. The purple eyed mermaid then looked to her left and saw that a lavender furred half cat with one blue and one red eye wearing a white uniform she let out a gasp as she picture the both the statue and this half cat together in her head. And when she realized that two had, had the same type of attire she stated, "I-I can't believe it he looks just like the statue that I saw a few minutes ago."
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Lune walked towards the back of the ship letting out a heavy sigh along the way. The Cat Prince had enjoyed the party that had been thrown for his birthday, and yet after a while the half cat wished that it would just come to an end already. However, when he leaned over the edge of the ship and looked out in front of him he saw a long orange haired mermaid sitting on top of a iceberg as he thought, "Is that a mermaid?"
The blue and red eyed noble was brought out of his thoughts though when someone asked, "Is everything alright, Your Highness?"
Hearing this caused the prince to turn slightly only to see one of his advisors walking towards him as he replied, "No Baron, everything is fine. However, I believe I just saw a mermaid on that iceberg over there."
the orange and cream furred advisor followed the prince's gaze over to the iceberg where the mermaid was said to be. But when he looked the half cat saw that nothing was there as he let out a sigh and responded with, "I think all of this celebrating for your birthday as caused you to start and see things, Your Highness."
"Perhaps you are right, Baron..." Lune let out, as he turned away from the edge of the ship. While in his head however, the half cat asked himself, "But I wonder could I really have been seeing things?"
The half cat prince was quickly brought back to attention though when one of the members of the crew shouted, " Hurricane!"
The mismatched eyed prince thought quickly as he ordered, "Baron, please make sure that everyone can get to a lifeboat in time before this ship sinks!"
"But what will you do, Your Highness?" The advisor asked, as he gave him a somewhat stern look.
"Don't worry Baron, I just have to go retrieve something." The lavender furred half cat replied, as he then ran off .
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Orihime peered out from beside the iceberg that she had hid under when she had seen the prince look in her direction. When she realized that a storm was coming she quickly dove underwater and swam towards a nearby rock which was a bit further away from the ship. The mermaid then noticed that a few smaller boats were being pulled done by something from the larger ship, but since she was so far away she had no idea what it could be. She covered her face when a large wave went over her as she thought, "This storm is really bad. I-I need to get out of here."
But before she dove back underwater again a huge explosion could be seen from the ship as a voice shouted, "Lune!"
The orange haired mermaid looked over at the boats and realized that the lavender furred half cat was not on any of them as she exclaimed, "Oh, no if he isn't on any of those then that must mean..." She then went under the water again and as she swam towards the wracked ship she mentally added, "Don't worry, I'll save you."
A/N: So there was the first chapter and sorry for the starting the story off the way I did. But since I'm making Orihime live by herself (like what she does in the anime) I just figured that this would be the best route to go.