"Shishishishi! Thanks Poseidon!" Joy Boy says happily as he stares at his little hut, "You been a big help!"
"..." Poseidon watched as the tall lean black haired human walk around his little island, over the passed couple of weeks she learned a lot of the man. He came from beyond the red mountains that was the known as the Forbidden Sea. He escape the of his people trying they were betrayed and came to be here.
"I'm right under their noses too!" Joy Boy says grinning in the direction of the red mountains where the prince lived, "Bet they're never think to look have! Shishishishi!"
"Joy Boy..." Poseidon spoke up softly giving the man's attention, "Are you a bad evil person?"
"Be being born to my race is to human..." Joy Boy says out with a sigh a walks to the root where she hid herself, "I seem to be the only one left of my people... oh well guess I get married to a normal human and have hundred children!"
"Hundred children! Can bore that many?!" Poseidon cries out in shock at the number, there must be billions of humans somewhere in this world.
"Errr... no...humans live for about 100 years," Joy Boy said thinking about it as he flops down and kneeing and then sat on his feet, "But if I have hundred wives, there I can get hundred babies!"
"Human live only for 100 years?! And you can have more than one wife?" Poseidon asks quickly before Joy Boy forgets, after getting to know him better she knew he would not stay of the same topic very long before he starts thinking about something else.
"100 years is about right," Joy Boy replies with a smile as he saw the girl leaning up from the water, "Some humans live for 180! But their ages kept dropping with every 1000 years...and how many wives a man have depends on what apart of the world their from."
"Mermaids can live for 300 years!" Poseidon suddenly said causing him to frown, realizing her mistake she clapped her hands over her mouth and stared at him wide eyed.
"Really?!" Joy Boy said clearly impressed, "My kind and lived for 500 years if not killed off...," while he spoke she slowly lowered her hand away from her mouth, "of course I'm going to breed with humans now, so that will proper go down..."
"Mmmmmm... Joy Boy..." Poseidon said aloud cutting him off, "Do you know..." She stops becoming tearful, "...do you know that I am..." her voice began to shake.
"A mermaid." Joy Boy said simply with a tilted to the head, "Yeah I noticed."
"But but but but but but but u-"Poseidon said over and over, she paused and stared him in the eyes, "Do you..."
"Poseidon you're very annoying today." Joy Boy says with a pout, "If you want to say something to me come right out and say it."
"I am a mermaid!" Poseidon shouts out loud crying, "I have a tail and no two legs, I live in the water and not on land..." She took a deep breathe, "...will you still be my friend?!"
"What are you saying Poseidon?" Joy Boy says frowning along with his pout, she cried loudly at his words, "We are already friends!" he said over the cries, making her stop and stare at him in pure shock and disbelief, then she smiled.
"Thank you!" Poseidon says as she cried out again this time from being so overly happy.
"I should be thanking you," Joy Boy says as he watching a small bubble forming next to him, "You gave a lot of dry earth to build up my little plot and seeds to grow, I surprised you managed to get everything I asked for."
"My sisters helped," Poseidon says with a smile as she moves closer to the man, "They sing to sailors over by the red mountain and are given a lot of stuff from them."
"Wow they're nice sisters!" Joy Boy says with a grin, "I have … I mean had two sisters..." he sighed loudly before smiling once more, "I want to have a couple of girls and name them after them."
"That is lovely!" Poseidon said with a half joyful half sorrowful sigh, "I hope you find lots of great wives!"
"And I hope you get on with that Prince of your!" Joy Boy says grinning madly at the mermaid, "I'll be leaving soon, be sure to go after my mangrove while I'm gone! I'll leave them in your care!"
"Of course!" Poseidon cries out happily as she watches the man grabbing a large box, it had been there since the beginning but she never asked what was inside, "What is in there?" She at last asked the question.
"Seeds." Joy Boy said simply smiling at her, "Very strange seeds that bare even stranger fruits. Remember I asked for that soil? I am going to leave these to grow, they should be done by the time I get back."
"Fruits? Will you be eating them?" Poseidon asks as she watched her friend grabbing a shovel and turning the ground over.
"No no." Joy Boy replies grinning as he worked the earth, "These fruits can over be eaten once and by one person. These are my people's treasure and cruse, they were never meant to be grown nor even eaten."
"Then why are you growing them?" Poseidon said with a small frown as she continued watching the man work.
"To destroy this world." Joy Boy says not showing the young woman his face as he bent over he heard her gasped, "I and my children those bearing my people's spirit and wills, we shall rock this world at it's core!"
"But but why?!" Poseidon cries out in fear as she lowered herself down into the water, "I don't understand! You are such a nice man you seems to love this world! So why?!"
"Shishishi!" Joy Boy snickered as he carried on working, "You are young, you know nothing of my kind. We are the ones that were but never will be again!"
"What does that mean?"Poseidon asks shaking.
"When a member of my race dies, their will waits and joins with a life." Joy Boy explains as he drops the shovel and walks over to the box, "Births and deaths are rare thing as we live so long, if there are two deaths and only one being born the two wills form as one, the one being born will carry these wills inside. That one will be stronger than one merely with one will."
"You are confusing me." Poseidon admitted as her head began to spin, merfolk was different from his race.
"I am the only one left," Joy Boy said softy as he pick up a small black bag from within, "Normally when we are about to die we leave our wills to a trusted friend. And their will will be born from that friend. However..."
Joy Boy stops and glances up into the skies above, Poseidon also looked up but saw only clear skies.
"However," He continued brought his head back down and kneed to the ground, "I am only one who can pass of their wills. But there are so many so them that they are forming together as one!"
"Huh?" Poseidon mumbles as she quickly looked to the sky back to him and than to the sky again.
"Before the main wills are lost I am the have some offspring," Joy Boy said softy as he drops the first seed into the ground, "Maybe then they'll settle down."
"Is there anything I can do?" Poseidon asks as she calms down, she could feel her friends sadness coming off him in waves. And even though she heard him say destroy the world, she was unafraid suddenly.
"Keep taking care of my garden," Joy Boy said with a smile, "But be warned. These fruits are something the kingdoms are after. Once they are grown fully I am going to scatter them around these waters."
"Oh..." Poseidon says staring as he drops another seed in the earth, "Will they bare fruit else where when scattered?"
"No." Joy Boy said with a laugh, "These will bare fruit one and will not grown again until the person who has eaten it died."
"That sounds odd..." Poseidon said as she rest her chin on the root, "I thought they would grown from the seeds from the fruit."
"Normally," Joy Boy sighed as he glanced upwards again, "This is somewhat similar to my race, the fruit has a will of it's own. Or so I am told... Poseidon if the fruit grows fully without me here pick it back and hide it away."
"Yes." Poseidon said firmly it was not every day that the princess was given a task that was why she was happy to help her friend.
"Shishishishishi!" Joy Boy laughed as he continued his work of planting the things that were never meant to be planted. He glanced above himself, he knew that one day that all the wills ever born would form into one child...he hope that day never came.