Also a short chapter, but I didn't have more to feed onto their conversation, so I cut it.

I do not own Yugioh! or any of the characters, Except Elishia Aquamarina


"Are you dead?" Elishia looked at the boy she had just rescued. Her hair was still wet from the water and she sighed "then I was too late it seems" she closed her eyes when she heard him groan. She looked down at him in surprise. He gurgled and she smacked herself in the forehead "you have water in your lungs!" she pumped his chest, trying to help the water out.

He coughed a huge amount of water up and jerked up in a sitting position, coughing up the rest. He breathed out loudly and thanked whatever god had rescued him and looked to his side. Then he noticed the beautiful girl sitting next to him. He backed a little away from her, as she was literally in his face, their noses even touching.

"You okay?" she asked leaning a little forward.

"I nearly drowned!"

"But will you be okay?" she tilted her head to the side.

"G-guess I will" he said confused.

"Great!" she said happily and smiled "Then I actually saved someone!" she swung her arms into the air and fell backwards, slapping him the face with her tail "I am so sorry!" she got up quickly and looked at the boy, who had fallen over by the impact of the blue tail.

"Just what are you?"

"A mermaid" she said like it was the most natural thing in the world. "why?"

"Mermaids do not exist" he said with a hint of anger in his voice.

"You can say that, even after I slapped you with my tail?" she smiled and spun around on her butt, making her a tail lie in front of her. "see?" she brushed off some dirt and mumbled some weird words he didn't understand. Her tail disappeared and was replaced by two legs.

"Magic? You can do magic?" he said and looked at the two legs.

"No… but I can do transformations! But only with my tail…" she sighed and stood up. "My name is Elishia Aquamarina. What is your name?"

"Why should I tell you my name?" he also got up, not facing her with his entire body.

"Because I just told you my name silly. Or maybe you want me to call 'Drowning boy'?" she said and giggled.

"Atemu! My name is Atemu"

"Atemu? Are we friends now?" she asked with a hopeful tone.

"Eh, sure"

"Great!" she laughed loudly and spun around. "I got a new friend! The aqua princess got a new friend!" she laughed more and started to dance.

He stood and studied the scene in front of him with mixed feelings. He thought about what she had just called herself.

"Aqua princess?"

"Uh-oh… did I say that out loud?" she stopped dancing and looked at him. "whoops…"

"What do you mean by 'Aqua Princess'?"

"Well… I am the mermaid princess. Aqua means water you know" she said and straightened her back, with her arms down her side.

"I knew that! But are you a princess?"

"Hai" she smiled and walked out of the cave she had carried him into.

"Hey wait! Where are you going?"

"Home, I heard some guards just before entering the cave. If you yell loud enough, they'll find you and take you home to the palace, prince Atem"

"Atemu"

"I'll call you Atem, whether you like it or not" she smiled and jumped into the water. "Bye Atem!" she waved and went under the waters, leaving Atem standing alone on the small bay.

"Well she will be hard to forget" he said while looking down into the waters. He was only 7 but he thought he might just have found the girl he wanted to marry one day. She would be a good wife, as she would be carefree. He started to call the guards, and soon enough they came to get him and take him home.