Me: sorry for the long wait, i hope i didnt lose some reviewers as they waited for an update.

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Chapter 2 Royal Mermen And The Gift


Atemu woke up around noon, hearing voices outside. Coming out backwards wasn't easy, but after having to live through this was easy for Atemu as he backed up from the cave and stretched his arms when he appeared. After he was done stretching, Atemu noticed that there were four royal guards, a tall merman with blue green tail, long blue hair, and one crystal blue eye and the other a bright yellow.

The strange merman was talking to Atemu's father and cousin. Wondering whats going on, Atemu swam up to them.

"What's going on?" Atemu asked.

"Atemu, this is Dartz, a member of the Royal Family, and he's come to take both you and Seto away to live in Atlantis." Atemu's father explained.

"What? Why?" Atemu couldn't help but ask.

"Because you're actually the son of the Merking, and your cousin is the son of the Merking's brother." Atemu's father replied.

Atemu shivered as he cried, "But that can't be! You're my father! I never even met the Merking!"

"You were in danger as a baby, so King Aknemkhanen had you go to a close friend to live with, Seto had to go with you because he too was in danger." Dartz explained.

"No!" Atemu shouted as he swam away as fast his tail could. The Royal Guards tried to follow, but the merman was too fast, only Seto followed his cousin. After all, Seto had an idea just where the opal tailed merman would go.

Atemu just swam wherever his tail would bring him to, and soon he found himself in the harbor of the humans. Above him was the many fishing boats tied to the piers. The merman began searching for a certain boat he saw the day before, the one called Heart's Pride. Finally, after ten minutes, Atemu found it. The big boat was a little ways from the piers but it was anchored near the shore.

Swimming around the ship to check if its the right one, Atemu smiled when he saw the letterings of Heart's Pride on the sides of the boat. Quickly the merman looked around, his search found him a big clam. Cooing to it, the clam opened to show a black pearl the size of an acorn, Atemu carfully took the black pearl out of the clam. The clam shut right after its years of making prized possesion was taken.

Smiling, Atemu held the pearl in his hand. Closing his fingers around it, Atemu surfaced to find the amythest eyes from yesterday looking right at him.

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Yugi woke up with a smile on his face. The little one was happy for a nice sunny day, humming to himself, Yugi got up and walked around deck. For some reason Yugi had the feeling to look around, when he looked over the harbord side he saw the familiar opal tail. Following it, Yugi noticed that it was circling the boat, then just like that it disappeared.

Yugi frowned, looking at the water suface desperately trying to find the opal tail. Something was telling the young teen to go towards the end of the boat where the engine is. Walking towards it, Yugi got on his knees to see if the opal tail would return.

A few minutes later, a teen with bronze skin, lovely crimson eyes, and hair like Yugi's but much wilder, surfaced. Yugi's eyes widened in surprise.

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Atemu stared at the human he rescued yesterday. He couldn't help but smile at the surprised expression that the human had. It was really cute really, the way the round cheeks are turning red as the most beautiful amythest eyes stare in shock. Since Atemu doesn't know how to speak above water, he lifted his tail fin slightly so that the human would recognize it.

The other gasped at the tail. Seeing that the human does recognize it, Atemu saw the human's need of wanting to touch it. Smiling, Atemu turned to his side, letting the other a better chance to touch it. The human moved his hand forward in a shy manner, but when Atemu kept smiling, the human's fingertips touched the beautiful scales. The amythest eyes widened as the owner rubbed the tail lightly, loving the way his fingers touch the smooth scales.

Then the human rubbed the other way and the scales cut his hand, leaving a deep cut as the blood began to flow, quickly taking it out of the water, the human gasped in pain. Atemu moved closer, taking the other's hand, and sucked on the cut, slowing down the bleeding as he did. The merman could feel the shocked gaze of the other on him, but Atemu ignored it until the bleeding stopped.

Pulling away slightly, Atemu licked the wound, the saliva worked wonders as it closed the cut and there on the human's hand, was no sign of a cut at all! Atemu watched as the human looked at his hand in wonder. A slight tug on his tail told Atemu that Seto is below, trying to take him away. Atemu just gently bumped his tail fins against his cousin's face, telling the taller merman that he needs only a few more moments.

Atemu held out the black pearl to the human, who looked at it in question. The merman had put a spell on it, that if the human wants to see him then the human transforms into a merman, while an illusion of the human is asleep. The human would then get to see Atemu wherever he is. But the human only gets three hours of being underwater, so when its time to go back, the human would be back where he was, black pearl in hand.

The human took the black pearl, and then looked at the merman, who pointed at himself.

"Atemu." Atemu said as he pointed to himself.

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Yugi took the black pearl in wonder, even if its black he loved it. The teen looked at the merman, who pointed a finger at himself. Yugi blinked.

"Atemu." the merman said. Yugi caught on what he was trying to say, the merman's name was Atemu! Yugi smiled as he pointed to himself.

"Yugi." Atemu smiled back, obviously glad to know the other's name. Then with that, Atemu went back under the surface.

"Wait! Atemu come back." Yugi cried, but it was too late. Atemu was gone.

'Well not exactly, he must've given me this black pearl for a reason. What ever the reason, I'm glad I got to know my savior's name, Atemu.' Yugi thought as he got up and put the black pearl in his pocket and went back inside to get some breakfast.

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Atemu swam back to the coral reef with his cousin by his side. So far there was no critisizing form the taller merman, no questions, no comments, not a word. The merman wondered if his cousin is alright, but then Seto does seem shaken up that they have to leave the coral reef they've always known and grown up in to go and live in the palace of Atlantis.

When the two reached the spot where Dartz and his Royal Guards are waiting with Ahanu(1), Atemu went up to the merman he grew up with and hugged him.

"I'm sorry for not telling you and Seto that you were royal blood. I tried to tell you both but it never worked out for me, I started looking at both of you as my son's even though you weren't." Ahanu explained.

"It's okay. No matter what, you're still a father to me." Atemu whispered before pulling away to join Dartz and his Royal Guards. Together with Seto, Atemu swam off to follow Dartz to the merfolk city of Atlantis.


Me: there's the end of the chappie!XD lol, never mind. i don't wanna stop here so here's the rest! and yes i'll stop talking now.


It's been about a week since Atemu and Seto came into the city Atlantis, and it was no surprise that right off the bat the merfolk knew who they were. The merfolk came out of their homes and into the streets to cheer for their long awaited arrival of the merprince and his cousin. Many of the mermaids squealed upon looking at Atemu and Seto, for to the eyes of the mermaids the two princes are as handsome as anyone else in the world.

Atemu met the council, a total of seven members, including King Aknenkhanen. Each of the members of the council held a Sennen Item, the king wore the Sennen Puzzle, an upside down golden pyramid. Mahaado, a merman who specializes magic, has the Sennen Ring. Karem, a merman who's strong and wise for his age, holds the Sennen Scales.

Isis, a mermaid who has incredible knowledge and speaks in riddles in some cases, holds the Sennen Tauk. Aknudin, an old merman who's Aknenkhanen's brother, holds the Sennen Eye. Shada, a bald merman with markings on his head, holds the Sennen Key. And last but not least, is Ironheart, an older merman who specializes with spirts, holds the Sennen Rod.

Atemu's family members are(excluding his father,uncle,and Seto) Mokuba, younger brother of Seto. Mokie is small for the age of twelve, but he gets around it. Mokie has long raven hair, grey eyes, and seems to be happy all the time. And not to mention that Mokie loves to play, now that his older brother is here he can finally have someone to play. To Atemu's surprise, Seto opened up to his younger brother right on the spot, even though they never knew each other and yet Seto still opens up to Mokie, which is very rare for Seto to be like this.

Another member of Atemu's family is Dartz, now Dartz is a distant cousin since his father, Ironheart, is cousins with Aknenkhanen and Aknudin. Dartz already has a daughter who goes by the name of Chris. Chris is younger than Mokie, but she's good with giving speeches. Chris has pink hair, and a matching pink tail.

The friends of the family are of course the royal court, but mostly Mahaado and his apprentice, Mana, a mermaid with brown hair, green eyes, and a pink tail with blue fins. Mana is very energetic, she may get some spells messed up but she still tries. And as Atemu, who mostly frowns or not talk much when he's somewhere new or met new people, started to hang out with Mana, she entertains him with funny jokes or doing something funny.

Atemu learned in about a week or two, there will be a celebration festival for the return of the princes of Atlantis. The young merman smiled, he couldn't wait! If Yugi comes up before then the Atemu would tell him about it, and tell Yugi to come on that specific date at night, the time where the festival will be held. Atemu tries his best to be patient as he waits for the human to come.


Me: well i hope this satisfied all of ya!

1) Ahanu means 'Laughter' in a Native American language(i don't know which language)

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