Date: September 29, 2016

Whoo boy. This chapter though. This was a random prompt, I found it on the internet, so here we go:

Warning: The ending might? be considered T, so yeah. I'm paranoid.

AU Fisherman catches mermaid in net

Gray sighed, feeling the icy water lapping against his ankles. He threw out his nets once more.

"Come on," he grumbled. Looking back at his small hut on the beach, he saw the small pulsing fire by the entrance.

"I've got to get dinner!" However, nothing happened. Disheartened, he started to pull in his nets. Something stopped him.

A flash of scales, and then his nets started to twist and tangle. He started to fight the fish with his nets.

A shimmer of blue was met with a violent pull.

A translucent tail was soon dragged under with more force.

And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. Gray cursed, and then started pulling his empty nets back to shore.

But then, as he pulled his nets to the sandy beach, he saw the face, torso, and arms of a girl, followed by the blue scales of a... tail?

A mermaid! He internally gasped. Merfolk had been said to live in the deep blue, but Gray had never seen one.

He stopped gaping when he noticed the angry red welts on her skin where the net's taut strings had cut into her pale skin.

Quickly, he released the end of the net, causing the mermaid to roll into the shallows.

Her sea-blue eyes blinked open, and her mouth open. Starting to speak, she then choked, and started gasping for air. She dove into the water, and the last Gray saw of her was her sparkling blue tail fin.

He started trudging back to his hut, empty nets behind him. "Looks like I'm going hungry today."

...

The next time Gray saw the mermaid, he was on a small skiff, hoping to catch his next meal.

She wasn't choking this time, but she still looked slightly frightened by his presence. He sighed.

"Look, I'm not going to hurt you, ok? Last time was an accident, I'm sorry." She mutely nodded, and Gray noticed her cheeks puffed up.

"You can't talk, right?" She shook her head. "Hey, do you know where I can find some fish for dinner?"

She dove under the surface. "Well, I guess that ends that," he grumbled. However, she soon surfaced with a fish caged in her fingers. She silently offered it to him, and he thanked her.

Blushing, she swam away. He waved, before heading back to his small hut on the beach.

Gray was visited by the blue haired mermaid constantly over the next few years. Constantly bringing him fish, together they designed a system that allowed them to communicate.

He had learned her name was Juvia, she lived in a undersea castle with her adopted family, and she was especially close with her adopted brother Gajeel.

Together, they had lived in harmony, until that one fateful night.

...

Gray knelt by the black ocean, caging Juvia's hand in his. She weakly smiled up at him, but Gray could see the pain in her eyes.

Due to a recent oil spill, their small corner of the ocean was flooded with the poisonous liquid. Juvia reflected the water like it was her life force.

Black stains spread across her skin, dousing her cobalt blue locks in a midnight shade, rendering her right eye useless. When she opened her mouth, Gray could see the black spreading across her tongue. He shook his head. This wasn't Juvia, he thought.

But he knew, in his heart, that this mermaid was the one he knew and loved. Whether it was the fading twinkle in her eye, or the fair skin that so glaringly contrasted the dark stains, he knew that this dying mermaid was Juvia.

She coughed, black oil flying from her throat. "G..gray-sama... Juvi... juvia... is sorry..." He pressed his forehead against hers, and murmured, "No, Juvia, stay with me. Please!"

It was too late. The formerly blue-haired mermaid, now being overtaken by shades of black, coughed out one last "Gray-sama..." before falling back into the oily tides.

"Juvia!," he cried, falling to his hands and knees. A shadow rose from the water, the toxic waves breaking when a merman swam through the surface.

The merman was in the same state as Juvia. Gray could see it through his jerky movements, and the discolored skin upon his body.

The rusty metal piercings indicated that it was Juvia's brother, Gajeel. Juvia had always described him as bold, brash, and crude. He seemed none of those things now.

With lowered eyes, Gajeel silently pulled Juvia's body down below the waves, and he swam beneath the deep. Gray stood up. Tears streaked down his face, as he watched what remained of the merfolk disappear, never to be seen again.

Lesson: Don't pollute. Aaaaaaaaah… My first angsty fanfiction. Wow. I honestly wasn't going to make it angsty, but… FEELS! I feel bad now…

So this is the first installment of my 5 part fantasy drabble, but DON'T WORRY! I don't plan to have any angst for the next few parts! (Hopefully) Also, sorry if this seems a little short, I had to type it up on my phone, and it seemed a lot longer there.

That's all for this chapter, if you liked it, hated it, or just want to drop some constructive criticsm, please click that review button!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a fabulous day!

Smile, Sparkle, and Stay Strong! ~ CleoKat