Thank you all SO much for the reviews, follows and favourites! I just love that people are actually reading this and I hope this chapter is okay, its defintely longer than the first one anyway.

Inspiration's Wonderer : Well that first questions answered pretty much right away, and yes, all of them are mermen or whatever they should be called, along with a couple of other suprise characters later on x)

Disclaimer: I still don't own yugioh, if I did it wouldn't have been nearly as awesome as it was.


Chapter 2:

Yami always loved the beach, he tried to visit it every day but high school life made that difficult. More homework, his friends constantly wanting to hang out with him, now he was lucking if he made it twice in one week. But today was the weekend and his 17th birthday, so while he wasn't exactly at the beach per say, being on the water was just as good. For his birthday, Seto had offered to take him and his friends out on his new boat, and so here they were fishing on the ocean just a little out from the beach itself, or rather Yami tried to fish while Bakura tried to bait him into letting him throw explosives in the water.

"Bakura, you are not throwing explosives in the water!" Yami yelled for what seemed like the 100th time.

"Well what else am I suppose to do with them?" Bakura asked as he waved the box in Yami's face. "Blow up some boring warehouse?"

"That's really not much better Bakura, you can actually get in trouble from that sort of thing," Yami pointed out. "You're not invincible."

"As if anyone could catch me," Bakura scoffed, dropping the box on the ground and went to lean up against the rail. "Can't you just see it though? All that water flying into the air in one big explosion, probably make some foofy rainbow for you even."

"You're not blowing anything up, and I don't even want to know where you got them in the first place." Yami leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes. "There's more to life than destruction and stealing, Bakura."

"Like what?" Mariku asked as he leaned on the back of Yami's chair.

"Like this," Yami said, signalling to everything around them.

"Which is why we wanna blow it up!" Bakura yelled, throwing his arms into the air.

"Your friends are weird," Seto muttered as he walked over. "Why do you like them?"

Yami honestly didn't know why, he just sort of became friends with them without realising it. When he first came to High School he wasn't really friends with anyone but Seto, Bakura and Mariku were both new to Domino, Mariku from Egypt and Bakura from Britain.

It was the first day of school and Yami ran into trouble with some bullies, he could handle himself against a couple of guys but it was 5 on 1, that's when Bakura stepped in, purely because he liked causing trouble, and they both managed to scare them off. Bakura and Yami became friends simply because Bakura couldn't stand people and he found Yami tolerable. Mariku was a different story, after only a week at his new school Mariku decided to make himself a reputation as a troublemaker and a prankster, this was when he though it would be a good idea to pull the fire alarm and wait for everyone to go outside before releasing several rather large farm animals in the building. Yami and Bakura were the only ones still in the building because Bakura had wanted to check out the fire if there really was one, which he was sad to find out there wasn't, but he was pretty excited when he found Mariku releasing animals in the school, so he helped him. Yami didn't know what to do so he just stood watch while he waited for them, and after warning them of a teacher and getting out of there before any of them were caught, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship of covering for Bakura and Mariku while they caused trouble.

The four of them weren't exactly what you would call friends, it was only because they could tolerate each other that it seemed like that, at school they hung out together but they didn't talk all that much like normal friends would, they mostly just sat in silence while they each did their own thing, it worked for them.

But why Yami decided it would be a good idea for all of them to go fishing, he had no clue.

"I honestly don't know," Yami said, he stood up from his chair and went to check his fishing rod, but still nothing. Fishing wasn't exactly exciting, but that wasn't really why he wanted to come out here, it was simply because he loved the water.

He looked at the sky and saw the clouds starting to turn grey. "We should go back, there might be a storm coming," he said and turned to look at everyone else but no one was paying attention.

"Mariku you prick, come back here!"

Yami raised an eyebrow when he saw Mariku being chased around the boat by a shirtless Bakura, he didn't really want to know, but he supposed he should help. "Mariku, give Bakura his shirt back!" Yami yelled as he walked over.

Both came to a halt, Bakura shooting death glares at Mariku. Mariku waved Bakura'a shirt in the air. "It's not my fault he left his shirt unattended, I don't see it being my problem if it somehow ended up the water."

Yami walked over to Mariku and snatched the shirt out of his hand and tossed it back towards Bakura. "And I thought you were the thief," he muttered as he walked past Bakura and went over to where Seto was sitting in a chair typing away on his laptop. "Don't you think it's getting a little too grey?" he asked as he took the seat next to him, hoping to talk to someone he dubbed sane.

"It'll be fine, I've seen worse," Seto said without looking up from his laptop.

Yami sighed as he looked at the storms clouds that were coming closer. It wasn't until they heard thunder booming that everyone else on the boat decided to listen to Yami.

"We need to go back," Yami said once everyone was finally paying attention. Everyone else agreed and Seto got out of his chair to go turn the boat around.

Yami put on a raincoat as it started to rain slightly, he pulled in the fishing roads and threw them onto the deck before heading over to Bakura and Mariku who actually looked genuinely concerned about the storm, neither were particularly fond of the water, ironic considering they were on a boat.

"Put on your coats if you don't want to get wet," he said, pointing to the raincoats that were sitting on one of the chairs. "If you two hadn't been running around like children we might have avoided thi- Woah!" The three of them were all tossed aside as a wave crashed into the boat, Bakura grabbed onto the railing while Mariku and Yami were thrown to the ground.

"Where did this storm come from?" Bakura shouted as he straightened himself out and glared up at the sky. "It wasn't like this before."

"Seto!" Yami yelled when he finally managed to pull himself and Mariku up. He walked around to where Seto should have been but couldn't see him anywhere. "Seto, where did you go?" he shouted over the storm.

"Yami, he's down there!" Bakura shouted, pointing over the side of the ship.

Yami leaned over the edge to see Seto struggling against the current. "Dammit," he growled as he threw off his coat and climbed over the edge, sitting there for a few moments while he prepared himself to jump.

"Yami what are you doing?" Bakura yelled as he pulled on his own coat to avoid getting any more soaked.

"Seto needs help," Yami replied. He pushed off from the boat and was plunged into the freezing water. Pushing away the water as he forced his way to the surface. "Seto!" he yelled as he looked around, trying to avoid getting pushed around by the waves.

"Look out!" He heard Seto yell from wherever he was and turned around to see Bakura and Mariku fall off the side off the boat as was hit by a large wave, throwing it off balance as it toppled over. The four of them were all plunged into darkness as the boat pushed them under the water.

Yami dived down and swam away from the boat, trying to ignore his already aching muscles and his soaked clothing. "Bakura, Mariku, Seto!" he coughed when he broke through the water. His wet hair clung to his face, making it difficult to see anything. Another strong wave crashed into him and he went under again. He still couldn't see his friends anywhere and he felt himself growing tired as his eyes started to close.

'Help us,' he thought as his sight went black and he fell unconscious.


"Yugi I'm not sure about this," a white haired boy whispered as he looked around nervously at his surroundings.

"It's alright Ryou," Yugi said, gazing at everything as he rested his arms on a rock that stuck out of the water.

"I never would have guessed it when I first met ya Yugi, but you're actually quite a trouble maker," Joey said as he swum up next to them. "You know we're not allowed on the surface."

"Yugi's obsessed," Malik muttered when he finally caught up to the rest of them. "He can't last a week without going up to the surface .

Yugi hit his friends on their arms and gave them a stern look. "I'm right here you know."

"We realised that," Malik said, smirking when he saw Yugi get more annoyed with him.

"I can't help it, ever since I got this I always feel drawn to the surface." Yugi held the puzzle in his hand as he remembered the day the boy gave it to him. "Humans are so different, they're interesting to watch."

Malik splashed the surface with his tail as he spun around to rest his back against the rock instead. "Humans are weird, they're never happy with what they have and always want more. They're so violent and greedy, I don't see why you'd want anything to do with them."

"They're not all bad," Ryou whispered as he peered over the rock to where he could see 2 little children playing on the sand much further away. "Human kids are actually rather cute."

"Yugi thinks the same for all humans," Joey teased, earning himself a further bruised arm from Yugi.

"Humans are just interesting is all, I mean look at that boat over there, they live on land and yet they still want to be close to the water. Why don't they jump in? Why do they just stand up there looking at the water when they could be in it." Yugi pushed himself away from the rock and dived under the water, resurfacing just a few metres away. "Why don't they just take what they want rather than looking at it?"

"From what I've seen some humans do do that but they are generally just stealing from another person. Humans are not creatures of much sense," Malik said as he watched the boat as well. "They sit around doing absolutely nothing from what I've observed."

Ryou's chocolate coloured tail vanished under the water as he dived under and resurfaced next to them. "Not all of them are like that, some have good hearts. Haven't you ever seen the family's spending time together on the beach, they seem genuinely happy to me."

"Man Ryou, you're just as bad as Yug' is. I'm gonna go back," Joey muttered as he prepared himself to dive back into the water.

"Wait, look over there!" Yugi yelled, pulling on Joey's arm and pointing at the boat. The pressure of the waves had knocked somebody out of the boat.

"Maybe we should go take a look?" Ryou whispered as he watched another male jump after the first.

Malik grabbed Yugi and Ryou's arms and pulled them back slightly. "Sometimes people fall out of boats, it happens, they'll be fine."

The four of they stayed silent as they watched the scene from afar. None of the moved until they saw the boat completely tip and 2 more figures fell from it.

"I don't think they can fight the current, they need our help," Yugi decided as he swam forward ignoring Joey and Malik's protests, Ryou nodded and followed him with Joey and Malik slowly trailing behind.

Yugi signalled for the others to help while he himself tried to find one of the people he'd seen fall from the boat. Through the dark water he just managed to see a spikey haired figure slowly falling to the bottom of the ocean. Yugi swam towards him, grabbed his arm and pulled him up to the surface. It wasn't until they were back in the light of the sun that Yugi realised who he'd just saved. Yugi brushed the bangs out of the unconscious boy's face and looked closely at him. 'He looks just like the boy I met on the beach all those years ago..'

Yugi looked over his shoulder at his friends and saw each of them carrying one of the unconscious boys from the boat. Yugi nodded to them and then began to swim towards the shore, but further down the beach where it was deserted. The four of them came up to a little cave that the water ran into and collapsed onto the ground of the cave, each dropping the people they were carrying on the ground as well.

"What if someone saw us?" Malik snapped as he pulled himself over to Yugi, but no one was listening to him, they were all too focused on the people they'd just saved.

The cave was located at the far end of the beach, a pool of water sat in the centre of it, it was mostly closed off except for the river that flowed into it and the slight opening to the left of that that lead to the beach. Each of them sat on the floor of the cave with their tails hanging in the water, the people they just saved lay in front of them.

"What do we do now?" Ryou asked, concerned for the people they'd just saved.

"Well they're breathing at least.." Joey offered, poking the side of the one he'd saved, a young brunet wearing a drenched silver coat.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Ryou asked as he looked over the white haired boy in front of him for any injuries.

Yugi looked at the tanned boy in front of him and held the puzzle he was wearing in his hands. "He's the one who gave this to me," he whispered just loud enough for the others to hear.

"What? Are you sure?" Malik asked, staring at the boy in amazement.

Yugi had told them about the first human he met, the mysterious boy named Yami who gave him the millennium puzzle. They weren't sure what to think because Yugi had been seen by a real human who could have revealed his secret, but Yugi had insisted to them that they could trust him, and seeing how much the puzzle grew to mean to Yugi, they decided to believe him. And seeing that the boy was here in front of them, they weren't sure what to say.

Yugi nodded his head and turned to look at his friends. "Yami, that's definitely him."

Joey looked at Yami for a few seconds before turning to the rest of the people they saved. "I wonder who they are?"

"That one looks a lot like you Ryou," Malik said, pointing to the white haired one lying next to Yami.

"And Yami there looks a lot like Yug," Joey pointed out. "The insane one looks like you Malik," Joey said, smiling cheekily at Malik.

Malik threw a dirty look at his friend before turning to looking at the crazy haired blonde in front of him. "I guess," he said, resting his chin in one hand, "If he tamed that psycho hair a little."

The four of them sat discussing the people they saved for a few minutes until they heard coughing and all turned to face Yami who had just woken up.

Yami struggled to sit up and rested him head in one hand, probably having a pounding headache after what happened. His crimson eyes widened the moment he noticed them all sitting around the edge of the water, but he moment he saw Yugi he nearly choked. He looked down at the puzzle that sat around Yugi's neck then back up at his face. "Yugi?"

"You remember?" Yugi whispered, noticing how much older Yami looked since they met 6 years ago, but there was no mistaking it was him, not many people shared their hair and certainly no one he'd seen had eyes that could look quite so cold and inviting at the same time.

The corner of Yami's mouth turned up in a small smirk. "How could I forget?"

"Yugi we should go," Malik said, starting to panic at the idea of being around so many people, especially since the second one started waking up.

"Yami, what happened?" the white haired boy growled as he sat up. It wasn't until he opened his eyes properly that he saw Yugi and his friends sitting there. He took a look at their tails and immediately looked puzzled. "What kind of joke is this? It's not very funny," he muttered, running his hand through his hair to try and fix it up a little.

"Bakura, this is actually happening," Yami said, not entirely sure how he convince his friend it wasn't fake.

"Yeah right," Bakura muttered, shoving blonde next to him. "Mariku, wake up and check out these weird costumes." Bakura leaned over and poked Ryou's tail, freaking him out and making him fall backwards into the water, splashing everyone in the process including the 2 still sleeping. "Felt pretty real," Bakura said sleepily, wiping his eyes and taking a second look at Ryou who was now trying to hide himself in the water.

Joey and Malik had both pushed themselves into the water, only Yugi was still sitting up there. The other 2 males woke up and looked at Yugi as though he were insane.

"It's not Halloween yet kid," the brunet commented while he straightened out his hair and clothing.

"I'm 16!" Yugi snapped, not noticing the looks his friends were giving him as they tried to get him to get out of there. "And it's not a costume."

"Yami, didn't you use to have a puzzle like that?" the brunet asked, just notching the puzzle hanging around Yugi's neck.

"I gave him the puzzle," he explained. "Several years ago actually."

"You know him?" Bakura asked, now curious as to where this was going.

"Yugi!" Malik snapped, pulling on his friends arm trying to get his friends attention.

It wasn't until he saw all 4 of the people they'd saved staring at him that he realised how dangerous it was for him to be talking to them. Suddenly Yugi plunged into the water and swam out the entrance to the cave, quickly followed by the rest of his friends, Ryou throwing a terrified glance at Bakura before he left.

"You have odd, odd friends Yami," Bakura sighed, standing up and brushing his clothes off. He took a look around the cave and narrowed his eyes. "How did we get here?"

"Don't you get it?" Yami said as he stood up as well. "They saved us when the boat tipped over."

"Then they really were..." Bakura mumbled, trailing off as he looked at the ground and tried to add the facts up in his head. "The wave hit he boat and we got thrown over.."

"You're saying they really are mermaids or mermen or whatever? You really must have hit your head Yami," Seto said as he stood up, frowning at the loss of his laptop and briefcase.

"I hope it was real!" Mariku shouted excitedly after being silent the whole time. "That would mean other magical things might be real too, a whole nother world out there."

Yami raised an eyebrow as he looked at his, well, insane friend. "I didn't know you were into that sort of stuff..?"

Mariku nodded his head rapidly. "Imagine, there could be dragons! And plenty of other destructive things too!"

"Why would I have expected anything else," Yami muttered, plopping himself back down on the cave floor and looked out to where they had left. 'I hope they come back soon,' Yami thought as he trailed his fingers in the water, 'there's so much I want to know about them..'


I have homework to do.. so til next time!