I love mermaid AUs so much! It's a bit odd, though, the amount I like them. I love drawing them, too (but this is a writing thing for me, so I've settled with a mer!Danny drabble instead).

ellameno: Oh gosh, I doodle all the time. You should see all the notebooks I have! :D

V.I.Y.H: Mmmmmhmmm~ Thanks for reviewing!

Pokeshadow55: The sound I made while reading your review was inhuman! XD That series though, it's so great. Manga's better. You find out more about Lag, and Niche finally grows up! I love it! I would love to write a crossover, but I'm drawn back by time and the fact it wouldn't get many reviews because, to be honest, the TegBach fandom is tinyyyyy.


7th May: Favourite AU

Danny always loved to hear the stories of the time when the people of the land and sea were together. They were such a long time ago, so far back in history. Not even the oldest of the merfolk had been alive to experience or remember them. Neither their parents, neither their grandparents. The tales came from books in ancient text the historians had managed to decipher, and eventually they were released into the public. He'd got them for his seventh birthday, and there has never been a day when he hasn't glanced at at least a few words or lines.

He also believed that, amongst his people, that he was the only one that knew what human beings actually looked like. Sure, there were descriptions in the passages of their strange lower body and how it enabled them to 'stand', upright on the flat surface that was the land.

When he was thirteen, he'd had his first glimpse of them. He'd been out exploring the reefs, swimming amongst the coral and such, when a great shadow passed above him. He looked up to see what he would later find out was the base of a boat, and swam upwards towards it. No fear was evident, only curiosity. He surfaced, closing his gills to keep the water in. In the texts there were chapters about how the merfolk could indeed breathe above land, and many had tried and succeeded – Danny was yet to do so.

The boat was a rather spectacular thing – it was unlike anything he'd seen before. For a short while he floated there and wondered if it was perhaps an animal (a new type of whale?), but then these things began to come into view, walking out onto an outside bit of this thing. At first he thought they were mermaids and merman, but it didn't take him long to realise that this was not the case. He watched in awe at theses merfolk-like creatures, speaking a strange and fast language, and he worked out that they were actually humans; the land people. His eyes widened. He actually saw some!

But they shouldn't be able to see him – the reason the two species lived apart is because the humans broke their pact and actually caught merfolk in their fishing nets long ago, using their tails and fins for strange medicine and food. If they saw him, there in the water, they'd kill him!

With an open mouth and a quiet cry, Danny fled back down beneath the waves.

That was a few years ago now, and the boy wouldn't exact like to admit that he saw this beings almost every day. It wasn't that long a distance the coast if he swam fast - a three and a half hour round trip, he'd guess. On the way, he'd always be sure to collect items or hunt for fish to eat to decrease suspicion. What he was actually doing was lying on the rocks (after having learned to breathe with air, of course) – ones titled away from the beach – just in the view of the humans. He'd found it strangely interesting to watch them play on the shore. Their life was so different! Everything seemed a whole lot less organised. The young were allowed to just run free, and they would often injure themselves. It was so rare for any of the merfolk to fall ill or become wounded; only ones that went to war were the ones that came back scarred. Of course everyone should be careful. Spilling blood into the water that you and others breathed was dirty and disgusting. He hated the medical caves.

One day, a female human showed herself for the first time on the beach. She was dreadfully skinny, and seemed so sad whenever he caught sight of her face. She was with another human, a male, the kind with the darker skin that he sometimes saw. He left after a while, maybe to go and get something because she gave him a sort of fake smile and a nod.

Danny just stared at her. And stared. And stared. And started.

He nearly screamed when she looked back.

He jumped, sliding himself off his rock back down into the water, hoping that was the end of that.

Danny didn't want to leave (he wanted to see her again), so he sort of stayed there in an awkward position for a little bit. When nothing happened, he sighed to himself and pulled his body up onto the rock again…

…Only to come face to face with her.

She looked at him in shock, eyes travelling past his face and down his body, following the natural line of his silver and black scales, all the way down to the large ribbed fin at the end. Her mouth seemed to hang permanently slightly open, blinking rapidly every now and then.

All he could think of to do was blush and shrug sheepishly, before sliding over a little and tapping the surface of the rock with a grin.

He didn't think she was going to hurt him.