{ Disclaimer } I do NOT own DRRR! Or the plot of The Little Mermaid!
A/N::: Sorry for the long wait; please review! I've got Chaos to deal with so forgive the delay!
Night soon fell to the depths of the sea. The water cooled but it never became freezing. The water surrounding the palace became a much darker blue than when it was day. Kida swam slowly, dragging his tail along the stone floor.
"Why did I open my big mouth?" He mumbled, cursing himself over and over for his stupidity. "I shouldn't have to baby sit Izaya; but no. I had to suggest keeping him under close surveillance. Damn me and my inability to keep my thoughts to myself."
As the blonde swam down the hall, cursing himself, he heard Mikado and Izaya whispering. They weren't in the palace but they were near all the same. Izaya held a pinkish red colored sash in his hands, peaking inside it before swimming away, motioning Mikado to be quite as the shyer fish followed.
"Where the hell are they going?" Kida wished he could just pretend he hadn't seen them and go on with his afternoon normally. "Shiki would have my head." Kida tapped his head against the pillar in front of him four times before taking a deep breath.
"I guess I haven't got a choice."
The blonde took off after the other two, making sure to keep distance between them so he wouldn't be detected.
Not that he was confident in sneaking. Izaya was a smart guy. He isn't the type of fish to be swayed easily or the type to have the wool pulled over his eyes. If he didn't notice Kida then it was be a miracle.
Kida slowed for a moment as a shadow passed over him from about. A ship. Looking at the disappearing forms of Izaya and Mikado; Kida all but prayed that the adventurous, human loving teen hadn't noticed.
I don't need to forcibly drag him from the surface…I don't think I could…
The blonde soon realized the other two were swimming faster than he was and he found that he was losing them. This was not good. Panting by the time be was a yard away from them; Kida allowed himself to fall onto his chest on a flat rock.
Brown eyes widened as the boy looked up.
Before him was a large cove that stretched high, only a few hundred yards away from the surface it seemed, yet hidden openly by being part of a large underwater cliff. A large bolder the size of an octopus stood in front of the, what seemed to be, the entrance.
Izaya moved to the left of the bolder; studying the rock for a moment before pushing it at a directed point; Kida assumed the boy had a smarty trick to move the large, heavy object easily.
Why couldn't the red eyed fish use his mind for something productive? No. Instead the prince had to waste his life and love on humans and human objects.
Kida realized the opening was closing and swam faster than he ever had in his entire life just to make it inside; but his fin got caught.
Kida bit back a yelp of pain and turned, wrapping his hands around the end of his tail; pulling until he fell back, free from the trap.
"Itai…" He whispered; damn Izaya! If my tail is injured - ! His thoughts stopped suddenly as his fuming gaze locked onto an amused crimson gaze.
Izaya, with a smirk firmly in place, floated in front of the blonde. Mikado's face was clearly nervous but he helped Kida off the ocean floor. Izaya swam over to the blonde, wrapping an arm around the others shoulder.
"Following me now I see~!" Izaya giggled as Kida pushed his arm away from him. "You could have just asked to come along you know~!"
Kida snorted as he turned from the brat and his sing-song voice. "I'm not here because I want to. Your father told me to keep an eye on you at all times."
Izaya's crimson eyes narrowed. "Tell him of this place," Kida glanced at the other from over his shoulder "and you'll be dinner for the next passing shark. Got it~?" Izaya's voice was cold and unemotional, yet he sung the final two words in a happy light tone.
Kida shook visibly; Izaya was really scary when he wanted to be.
Dozens upon dozens of naturally made shelves were carved into the stone cavern from bottom to top; at the very top was a large hole which allowed sunlight and moonlight to filter in; on those shelves held millions of things, that sparkled from the setting sunlight, that Kida had never seen before.
He was amazed. And concerned. All the things belonged to humans.
Kida watched Mikado and Izaya in silence. The red eyed teen just set an item on a stand that had three stems that two already held two matching silver items like the one Izaya just set down.
The blonde had no clue as to what half this stuff was; and he assumed Izaya didn't either. "I don't get him;" Kida's ears perked at the change of silence to noise. "I don't see how humans and human things could be bad."
Kida had never heard Izaya sound so unhappy. The teens eyes weren't even as crimson has the normally were. Izaya lay on the sand, his tail moving slowly back and forth. Mikado looked up at Kida; both didn't really know what to say.
Taking a breath; Kida decided to swim in; "Izaya…humans are dangerous." Red eyes watched Kida without blinking. Izaya was expressionless. It was kind of scary for Kida. "Please; Look at this stuff!"
The blonde looked over to Mikado who looked back; then they both looked at Izaya. "What about any of this looks dangerous?" Izaya swept his hand through the water to indicate everything.
Kida looked around; nothing looked any more dangerous than anything in the sea; but he couldn't tell that to Izaya, now could he?
"No. Not really." Mikado shrugged. Well damn. Kida didn't have to.
Kida got an idea once he looked back at everything again. "Your collection is complete now! Right?" The blonde asked, swimming over to Mikado who was sitting on a large stone. Please say yes…
Izaya laughed; and not a creepy laugh either, it was like he was laughing honestly. "You would think."
Mikado smiled nervously at Kida's glare. "I want more."
Kida didn't like where this was going.
"I wanna be…where the people are." His voice was soft, like and unlike a woman's. Mikado couldn't help but smile. He doubt Izaya realized he had begun to sing. It was something merpeople did. It wasn't something they thought about.
"Wanna see em' dancing…"
Kida really didn't like where this was headed.
"Walking around on those…" Izaya looked over to Mikado; "What are they called again?" His singing momentarily stopping.
Mikado lifted his fins up towards his face. Izaya laughed. "Right. Feet."
"Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun…! Wondering free…wish I could be…part of that world."
Kida was afraid of that.
Pulling a book from a high above shelf; Izaya flipped a few pages. He couldn't read it though. None of them could.
"I'm ready to know, what the people know." He showed the book to Mikado who tilted his head at the small, smudged letters. "Ask them my questions and get some answers!"
Kida looked around the cavern while he backed up. Hitting something that fell onto his head. He could see out of it but he couldn't get it off.
Izaya and Mikado didn't notice. The red eyed teen swam over to a painting of a woman by a light. "What's a fire…and why does it…what's the word…" now his singing didn't pause for the question. "Burn."
Kida managed to pull the thing off of him; falling to the floor. Izaya was back up near that hole.
"Wouldn't I love; love to explore that shore up above!…out of this sea…"
Kida heard the change. He would rather Izaya be happy and a pain in the butt than sad and depressed. But there was nothing anyone could do.
"Wish I could be; part of that world." After a moment, Kida and Mikado were sure the boy's song was finished. "Izaya; this is insane. You belong down here. Not…up there." The last two words were spoken as if Kida was trying not to throw up.
"Come on. Let's get home and forget this human nonsense and…"
"What is…" Izaya pulled his hand from Kida's as he moved to the exit.
Kida heard muffled explosions and a shadow passed over him. "Oh no."
Mikado peeked his head out from the water. Izaya was already above; his red eyes fixed on the lights exploding in the sky. They were coming from that ship.
Night had fallen a good time ago; which he assumed that that was the reason for the exploding light now rather than in the sunlight. Izaya couldn't help but feel the curiosity of what was happening growing.
Kida took a breath as he reached the surface. "Izaya! We can't be up here! We'll be seen! Get down." Kida hissed, trying to push Izaya under the water.
Slapping his hands away, Izaya dove back under the water only to swim closer to the humans on the large ship.
If Kida didn't know any better; he'd say Izaya was almost hypnotized.
"We have to stop him!" Kida hissed to Mikado.
"How? Even if we go up to the ship; arguing with him will make a scene and then we will be seen." Mikado hissed back, honestly he was just afraid to swim closer. Even with Izaya there already.
Izaya was already to the ship now too. Kida was so dead.
Climbing the ship was not an easy thing with a tail but Izaya managed, seating himself on a ledge where he could see through a carved hole. He guessed it was meant to be there due to there being ones around the ship from what he could see.
He saw a dozen humans so far, all in white and black clothes. The humans were dancing and none of them too attractive. They were all different heights and sizes, most were fat but no over weight and some where more fit than other.
Some had something to their mouths that sound came from. Music. But the instruments they used were different from the ones Izaya had seen under water.
A Grey and white fluff with four legs bounced around the ship making an odd sound Izaya hadn't heard before. He guessed the creature was an animal instead of a human, due to it looking nothing like any human he had even seen or heard about.
It stopped its noise and lifted its nose in the air. It turned to Izaya.
Izaya flinched back towards the shadows. Not good if he was seen. He didn't understand the beast but humans just might. This is bad. Its tail wagged wildly as he raced over to where Izaya was. Its tongue hanging from its mouth.
Izaya moved from the sight of the hole; pressing his back to the ship wall. The thing wasn't barking and it didn't sound like it was near. Izaya slowly turned to look back though the hole only to jump back slightly at the sight of the fluff.
It looked like it was smiling though. It was on its stomach and didn't seem prepared to attack. Izaya still wasn't sure though. The thing then leaned closer and ran its tongue across Izaya's face.
"Gross…" Izaya muttered after the fluff ball pulled away. The teen smiled though. Red eyes widened as he heard a whistle. Three short, quick sounds.
"Max!" New voice. Those where the two words that registered in both the dog and Izaya's mind first. The animal, Max, turned. "Here boy!" it, he, raced off, forgetting Izaya was there.
Izaya watched the beast run away. It didn't get far. A tall man with blonde hair that spiked every which way knelt down to pet him. The dog licked him too, the beasts front paws on the mans chest.
The man was dressed in a white long sleeved V neck shirt, dark pants tucked into knee high boots. The man had on glasses, Izaya recalled Saki calling them, they were colored purple though.
Izaya pouted slightly. He wanted to know what the mans eyes looked like. He couldn't tell though the colored lens covering his eyes.
Izaya kept his eyes fixed on the tall blonde, he was talking to the animal but he didn't look like he was having a conversation. The beast only made that sound again.
"Hey there Izaya!" said teen looked up to see a white seagull and pulled her down by the beak. Said bird squawked from the surprise and after a brief glow of white, Saki sat in place of the bird, a yellow dress over her body instead of the blue sun dress.
"Izaya, what are you here for?"
"Saki! Keep quite!" The brunet hissed, looking back though the hole. No one appeared to have noticed the seemingly loud party crasher.
Her eyes widened and she nodded atheistically. "Right, Right, Right!" She giggled. "Enjoying the party? The fireworks are amazing."
"Fireworks?" Saki nodded and pointed to the sky. "Fireworks. Explosions of light in the sky."
Izaya stored that away in his mind. Right now he wanted to focus on that human. He was dancing now. In a goofy manner but they all were.
"Saki." Izaya whispered, his eyes never leaving the mans face. "Do you know anything about him?"
Saki's eyes followed Izaya's gaze. Too bad her eyes met with the dog. "Um…Humans call them dogs I believe. When I was always a bird I had a few run-ins with them. Barking and teeth and big paws that can crush…Why?"
Izaya rolled his eyes. "Bird brain. Not that one. Him." Saki now looked at the blonde man with the purple sunglasses.
"I've seen him at the palace." Saki pointed off towards where the ship was heading. "He's the prince and right now everyone is trying to find him a girl but that's all I know." Saki paused for a moment before she squealed loudly.
Izaya slapped a hand over her mouth as she slapped her own two hands over her mouth. They kept quite for a moment but the music never stopped and no footsteps were heard coming towards them.
"Saki!" Izaya hissed, pulling his hand away from her. "I'm sorry…um…Izaya-sama…do you…like the prince?"
Izaya gave a moments thought. "I'll only tell you if you keep quite." Saki covered her mouth with both hands and nodded. Her eyes large and puppy like.
"Well, I - "
"Gentlemen! Gentlemen!" Izaya was cut off. Saki and Izaya looked to see a dark skinned man, his hair in thick clumps that resembled a spider or octopus legs. "In celebration of Prince Shizuo's birthday! I am honored to present him with gift from the entire kingdom!"
Izaya smiled. He had a name.
"Jeez. Tom. You shouldn't have and you really didn't have too." Shizuo laughed, slapping the other man on the back. Tom winced and Shizuo smiled an apology.
"I know. But the kingdom felt it best I resent it to you." The gift was large and covered by a brown gray tarp. Shizou stood, walking towards the hidden object.
A man in a white and black shirt pulled the tarp from the large item with little difficultly, revealing it to be a statue. Of Shizuo. "Happy Birthday Shizuo." The man, Tom, wished as Shizuo looked the stone over.
"Ah."
Izaya made a face of displeasure while the dong growled at the statue. It wasn't that it looked bad. But the statue showed Shizuo kneeling with a shield and sword in hand. Along with the face he was dressed in puffy, puffy knight clothes with a cape and what looked to be a skirt over his pants. Not the best look for the man…any man.
"Wow. Tom. This is…it's…" Shizuo coughed. "Its really something." The blonde didn't want to hurt the mans feelings.
Tom walked closer to the blonde. "Yes. I designed it myself."
Izaya rolled his eyes. Work harder next time.
"Although. I did have the hopes of it being a wedding present." Tom hissed as Shizuo rolled his eyes and laughed, taking the telescope from Tom's hands.
"I knew this would come up sooner or later!" The blonde laughed without humor. "Don't start Tom! I mean; are you seriously still sore that I didn't fall for that princess?"
"Its not just me. The entire kingdom wants to see you settled down happily with the right person!" Tom walked over to Shizuo who now stood near where Izaya was hidden. "If woman are not what you are seeking, the kingdom is ready to seek out princes."
"Oh please. Tom. I'll settle when I find who I'm searching for."
Tom looked hopeful. "I can help as can the kingdom! Describe the girl…or boy…that you are looking for! They will be found in moments!"
The blonde laughed louder this time. Izaya pressed himself further to the ship's wall. Shizuo was sitting on the ledge and if he happened to look down. He would see him.
"We'll be seen." Saki murmured. Izaya held his hand up to her. Indicating for her to shut up.
"I don't know who. I just know I haven't met him yet." Shizuo sighed, looking out towards the waves.
"Good! You know you're looking for a male!" Tom praised. Woman out of the equation. "Once we return to the kingdom, I will set up some meetings with eligible men."
"Don't." Shizuo groaned. Izaya didn't like the idea of Shizuo meeting others, but he didn't know why. The two of them haven't even met.
"I must! As you right hand and best friend. It is a must!"
"Tom. When I meet him, believe me. I'll know it."
Thunder boomed just above them. Lighting followed a second after. Immediately the wind picked up and the sea began to shift angrily.
"Hurricane coming!" Commands broke from many different ways and everyone rushed to get everything secure. Izaya held onto a rope near by. Saki, in panic, transformed into her bird form. Shizuo and Tom rushed to help the crew.
Ran poured down like ice and Izaya couldn't help feel afraid. The sea was always calm underneath with a storm like this hit; but he didn't want to abandon the humans…at least not Shizuo.
The mix of rain and sea water made it impossible to see anything clearly. The crew was tying something as the sea rocked the ship violently and without care for the lives of the humans.
The dog was in panic, searching for Shizuo. Izaya's grip on the ship faltered for a moment but he never fell, although he was sure he would be safer in the water.
Kida watched in horror along side Mikado as the sea turned violent. A bird flew above them. "Saki! Where is Izaya!" Kida demanded while trying to stay above the water. Thunder boomed and Saki's animal fear took over, she flew away and fast at that.
"He'll be okay…right?" Mikado asked, fighting the waves. "In the water, He'll be fine…But if not…"
The ship dipped sideways and then stood upright again, giant waves crashed into the large vessel, knocking the captain from the wheel and some crew members off their feet.
Shizuo caught the rapidly spinning wheel and tried to turn it while keeping his feet. The wind was strong and the rain and water never let up. Izaya lost his grip, falling into the sea hard enough to sting.
Coming back to the surface, the chaos continued. Lightening then struck the ship and fire burst from the wood. Orange and red flames grew from the mass and the curtains of water did nothing to stop the life of the heat. The boat was drowned in a tidal wave that knocked everyone from the ship into the sea. Izaya wanted to help. Swam closer to the humans even, but know not much could be done on his part.
Izaya pushed a smaller wooden boat out towards them, they saw it but not him. He was pushed under the water by another large wave, he watched the humans climb into the smaller boat. That man, Tom, didn't appear to know how to swim. He was bobbing and flailing wildly until Shizuo pulled him from the water.
He was strong. Izaya made it to the surface again just in time to hear Shizuo call the name of the dog. The man jumped back into the water, swimming towards the ship now almost completely swallowed in flames.
"He's an idiot!" Izaya couldn't help but panic. Shizuo climbed onto the ship, calling for the dog repeatedly while trying to avoid being burned.
A log fell from the sail and crashed onto the ship, Shizuo narrowly avoiding it. The dog barked again, he was a level up from Shizuo and the blonde knew he wouldn't have time to climb up there and down again and still have time to spare.
"Come on boy! Jump!" The dog stepped back and looked around as if not going to. "Come on Max!" Said dog raced forward, flailing in the air until he landed in Shizuo's arms.
"Alright. See?" Shizuo coaxed as he ran up a flight of seven steps toward the ships edge. The weak wood snapped beneath his foot and he fell, Max falling from his arms overboard. The dog landed near the boat, three men struggling to get the furry thing on the boat.
Izaya moved closer under water and pushed the beast, it falling into the boat more easily. Izaya kept underwater until he was away from the boat. "Shizuo!"
"Not good." Izaya muttered, crimson eyes scanning what he could see of the ship.
Shizuo continued to pull on his leg, it was stuck in a jagged crack and even with his strength he was having difficultly freeing himself. "Damn it." He muttered just as he fell back, free. Leaning over the edge where Tom had called his name, Shizuo moved to jump when the fire reached the gun powder on board.
Izaya's eyes widened as the waves knocked him underwater. He surfaced, swimming over to the wreckage looking everywhere frantically. He didn't have time to try to figure out why he wanted to save this particular human only.
Izaya turned just in time to see an unconscious Shizuo fall beneath the waves. "Shizuo!" Izaya dove underwater, swimming faster than he ever had to reach the blonde. Izaya moved in front of him, he was out cold. Izaya muttered idiot to him before wrapping his arms around the blonde's waist.
Izaya struggled to get the blonde back up to the surface. "You're heavy…" Izaya complained, he wasn't weak but Shizuo made him feel that way. "Come on stupid, work with me here." Izaya knew the blonde couldn't hear him but it made Izaya feel better and they were getting closer to the surface.
Finally they were above the water and Izaya's panic lessened an inch. He heard the dog barking in the distance but couldn't risk being seen, he pulled the blonde towards where Saki has said his kingdom was.
"She better not be wrong…" Izaya muttered, the glow of the fireworks less than pretty to him now.
A/N::: I didn't think Izaya calling Shizuo a caveman or monster worked here because his strength isn't really shown and Izaya has only seen Shizuo's stupid side.
Also, I did cut the song. I did that because I picked out what seemed best for the chapter.
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