10 Years in the past
A 5 year old Karkat sat on the docks swinging his small legs over the edge. He smiled watching the cool waves swish as the water glistened from the sun rays. It was a surprisingly warm day in the nearing autumn. A lot of recreational activities were currently taking place on the nearby beach. Karkat though didn't take part in them due to his small size and lack of skill. Plus the fact his neighbors and friends scared him with the weird sizes and shapes.
He enjoyed being alone in his small peaceful world. He continued to watch the waves and the clouds until he spotted a shape in the water. "Hm?" Karkat began to stand up enable to get a closer view of whatever was out there. A small hand reached out of the water that had a violet razor like fin attach to the left side of it. With shock Karkat called out, "Who-who's there?" The hand went down. The surface was once again still for the longest of time. The 5 year old sighed. "I hope it was just my imagination…" He sat down again and continued to watch the sky in bliss.
10 more minutes passed by and Karkat was about ready to leave and go eat lunch with his father and mother. As he began to stand up for the second time he fell down once a hand tugged at his ankle. "Ow! What are you doing?" Karkat said face down on the wood. He tried to roll over as he started to be tugged into the water. "STOP! STOP IT! HELP!" The hands pulled harder to avoid getting caught and hope that the other creatures would not notice.
Eventually the wet set of hands achieved its goal and successfully hand the black haired human boy under the water. He observed the panicked face of the boy in wonder. "Wwhat evver could be your problem?", the small merboy asked. Karkat tried to respond but his lungs would not allow him. He frantically started pointing to his mouth. "Wwoww I encountered such a wwierdo." The fish-boy mumbled to himself.
Karkat gave up on reasoning with the creature and forcefully swam up to the surface in a great gasp of air. The merboy saw that the chance of having a companion literally start to swim away so he propelled upwards too. After Karkat regained his composure the other lad piped up. "Wwhat's ya problem? It's like ya nevva swam before!" The purpled hair boy exclaimed. "What's your problem! You poophead dillynuts dragged me underwater!" The human raged.
The company started to pout. "I just wanted to have a friend wwith me. I saww ya up there n' I thought it would be cool if we could go n' hang ya know." Karkat calmed down see the fish's loneliness. "Well you know you could've asked farmstink. Anyways my name's Karkat! What's yours?", the small boy inquired. "I'm Eridan Ampora. Wwanna be my friend?" Karkat glanced uneasily to the side pondering what would happen if he were to accept. Eventually after pushing the past situation aside he turned to face Eridan and gladly accepted.
The two proceeded to have the best swimming fun in mythological space history.
After enjoying each other for 2 hours Eridan stated that he had to go now. "Well I hope to see you tomorrow. Maybe we can meet again at the same ducking spot and time as today?" Eridan smiled with a nod of a head. The fish waved goodbye and dived underwater. Karkat stayed in place till he saw the last of the boy's tail and began to head home. "Tomorrow I'm gonna show Crabdad Eridan!" Karkat then pranced off back to the cottage and proceeded in having his afternoon lunch.