This is my first multi chapter story and I hope you'll like it.

I'm not and english native speaker so I apologize beforehand for the bad grammar that might occur.

I don't own hetalia or their characters only the idea to this story.

Also Alfred does not wear any glasses in this story.

Arthur borrowed a trailer from his neighbor and drove to a dump to throw some stuff away which he and his family didn't need anymore. It rained a little and even if he liked rain, Artur wasn't keen on getting wet. That's why he wanted to throw the stuff away quickly and drive home.

When he got everything out off the trailer Arthur got distracted by his ringing phone. He reached into his jacket to get it out and looked at the ID. It was Gilbert one of his friends.

"Hey" Arthur answered the call.

"You won't believe what I gotta tell you!" Gilbert yelled into his phone.

"What is it" Arthur asked slightly annoyed by the loudness.

"We are in. In the competition!" he exclaimed.

"What? No!" Arthur said in disbelief "I thought we didn't made it"

"Yes, but one of the other bands got disqualified and the jury picked us to perform instead" he explained.

"This is amazing!" a smile spread across Arthur's face. "For us not for them" He let out a small laugh.

Their band the "Bad Touch" had auditioned for a national wide competition just for fun. It's being held every two years and many small and unknown bands want to particapate in this to go big. It was a great feeling being recognized and loved by many but it's a long and hard way to get there. First the audition and then you have to go through three more small performances 'till they finally focus a camera on you. It's rough but a lot of bands already made themselves successful and popular like this. Maybe they will too.

"Do Francis and Antonio know this already?" asked Arthur.

"Yeah, Francis even screamed" he laughed.

"When is our first performance?" asked Arthur.

"Next saturday. We don't have so much time since we got in late" he said.

"Let's meet tonight then?" suggested Arthur.

"No, we can't. Tony is not in town and Francis has a date" Gilbert explained.

"Again?" Arthur sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah but you know how he is" Gilbert said.

"Annoying?" nagged Arthur.

"Sometimes" Gilbert laughed. There were some loud noices in the background and someone yelling after Gilbert "Uhm.. I gotta go now. See you tomorrow. Bye"

"Yeah, bye" Arthur ended the conversation.

He went to his car door and was about to open it when he heard a faint calling. He froze and listened. The calling came once again. He stood at the door and thought that someone might pull out a prank on him but something told him that it wasn't and the person calling needs help.

"Help" came it again.

It's actually something he would never do but he followed the voice. He walked slowly watching were he went and trying not to make any noice. Arthur rounded a big pile of trash and on the other side of the pile was someone lying in a puddle.

Arthur started to walk a little faster. He could saw a person lying on their stomach. His lower body was covered in trash and he had a naked torso. Was he robbed, maybe? He looks injured thought Arthur.

The person heard his foot steps and looked up.

"Help, please" The person said in a tired voice.

"Are you ok, what's wrong?" Arthur asked and kneeled beside him.

"I'm stuck..and it hurts" he tried to moved but only more trash came rolling down.

"Try not to move too much. I help you" promised Arthur and started to take the trash off of him.

He noticed a rusted big metal pipe lying underneath. He lifted it with all of his strength and tried not to let it fall because of it's heavy weight. He let it roll out of his arms when he moved away from the man.

Arthur saw now some blue shimmery trousers peacking underneath the rest of the trash. He hold a hand to him and asked "Can you stand up?"

The man looked at him nervous "No"

Are you injured asked Arthur and saw how the man moved his legs but something was off.

Arthur watched how he tried to lift his legs up from underneath the trash and a blue tail emerged. Arthur's eyes widened. He did not expected this and he was loss at words. He just stood there and stared, tried to comprehend that what he sees is real.

A merman with a blue shimmery tail was lying in a puddle beneath trash. That's not a very common place for seafolk.

The merman looked at him "Please help me"

"I..I think I'm going to call somebody" he said. Arthur didn't knew how to help him but maybe the police will.

"Please dont!" the merman begged "They just lock me up again" He looked at him with pleading eyes.

Arthur felt the rain getting stronger. He looked at the merman and had compassion. He looked so scared and alone. Arthur couldn't let him here.

"Don't worry, they won't. I'll take you home with me"

It wasn't easy to get the merman into the bathtub at home. Arthur had to find something to lay him in and fill it with water that he got from a little river flowing beside the dump and all his strenght to put it onto the trailer. Not to mention his attempt of picking up the helpless merman who was kinda slimey. Luckily the trailer had a tarpaulin so no one could see the merman on the vehicle.

Arthur was thankful for the fact that his mother or his brother weren't at home, so they wouldn't ask questions or see him struggle to get the merman on the 2nd floor while this weird white, almost transparent slime slid on the floor.

Arthur let the shower head run over the merman and filled the bathtub while he cleaned the floor and changed his clothes because he got wet and got that slime on him, exactly what he didn't wanted to be.

Now Arthur was sitting on the small bathroom floor trying to wash out the slimey substance from his jacket with a wash cloth. While the merman was sitting in the bathtub and watching him.

The bathtub wasn't really big so some parts of his tail and torso were looking out. Arthur noticed that his scales went up to his torso and kinda merged together with his skin. Also he got gills on his neck and his ears were a little pointy. He had a lot more human features than Arthur had thought a merman would have.

"Thank you" came it quiet from the merman as he leaned forward against the bathtub in Arthur's direction.

Arthur looked up and stopped cleaning his jacket "Uhm, no problem" he said reserved.

"My name is Alfred and you?" he asked and smiled sweetly.

"I'm Arthur" he smiled back.

"I guess you might have questions?" asked Alfred .

"Yes, a lot actually" admitted Arthur "What happend? How did you end up at a dump? Why do you speak English and what is that wierd slime that you secrete?" Arthur pointed at his jacket.

"Oh ok, that's a lot" Alfred chuckled. "Uhm.. well.. to make it short. I escaped from a science facility"

Arthur blinked and asked curious "How?"

"There's this one doctor. His name is Dr. Smith. He helped me to escape by putting me into a water tank that would transport me back to the ocean but something went wrong I guess because I ended up were you found me" explained Alfred.

"Are we near the ocean?" he asked and looked expactantantly.

Arthur's face twisted "No, not all, we are actually pretty far away from the ocean"

"Oh" Alfred's face sadend.

"You must really miss the ocean, dont you?" Arthur asked compossionate.

Alfred shrugged his shoulders and looked down to the floor "I don't know, I don't really remember the ocean. I was in the facility since I can remember" He turned his gaze to Arthur "This is where I learned English and other stuff like math. They stuck some wierd stuff on my head so they could know if I understood anything"

"Have they done other stuff to you?" Arthur asked.

"Well.." Alfred made an uncomfy face "They made some other tests that were a little more hurtful and they stuck a lot of needles in my arm" He pointed to his arm.

"This is terrible, I'm so sorry" said Arthur.

"Why are you sorry, it wasn't your fault" Alfred said and tilted his head to the side.

"No it wasn't but people say that in situations like this" Arthur explained.

"Ahh, ok, I get it" said Alfred and a small smile slid across his face.

A couple of seconds neither of them said anything. Then Arthur looked down at his jacket again and remembered one of his other importend questions.

"What about the slime?" he asked.

"What slime?" Alfred asked back.

"The slime that comes from your body. It is all over my jacket and jeans"

Alfred thought for a second and said "I have actually no idea, that happens to me for the first time"

"I see" said Arthur and nodded.

Arthur stood up and took his jacket. He had to wash it in the washing machine next. Better safe than sorry. He put it into the laundry basket to his right that was staying beside the washing sink.

"Uhmm.." it came from Alfred.

"Yes?" Arthur looked at him.

"Do you have something to eat?" asked the merman nicely and with a shy smile.

"Are you hungry?" asked Arthur and Alfred nodded.

"Of course, I can bring you something" Arthur went out of the door and downstairs. He went to the kitchen and opened the fridge. He decided then to make some sandwiches. It was easy and fast to do.

He went back to Alfred and sat down on the closed toilet lid.

"Do you like those?" he asked.

Alfreds eyes were wide "I never ate anything human"

"What?" Arthur said in disbelief "What did you eat then? fish food?"

"I dont know, I ate some small grey looking stuff, they said it's what I should eat. Oh and fish"

"Well then, you are going to try this out now. No more grey stuff" Arthur said and smiled at Alfred.

He gave Alfred a half of the sandwich first and Alfred took it. He examined it first and asked. "Is it fish?"

"No," said Arthur "It's meat"

"Hmm..ok I try it" said the merman and bit into the sandwich.

After the first bite Alfred's eyes widened "Woah, this is amazing" he said with a full mouth.

Arthur giggled "Do you like it?"

"Yes, I love it" Alfred said and took another bite.

"Wow be careful, not so much you have to chew properly" Arthur chuckled a little.

"Sorry" Alfred said and chewed.

Arthur took his phone out and looked at the time. His mother would be coming soon from work and he doesn't know how she would react. Probably it's the best if he wouldn't tell her in the first place. Luckily there would be no problem with the bathroom because she has her own downstairs.

But the problem would be his brother because they share this bathroom. Arthur needs an excuse so Alistair doesn't use it. Good thing he has one more day to think about it before he comes tomorrow.

"I like the round thing in your eyebrow" said Alfred.

"What?" asked Arthur. He didn't understood the merman because of his full mouth.

"The small shiny thing in your eyebrow" he pointed at it "I haven't seen anyone wear something like that before. Only in the ears like you do too" he said and took another bite.

"Thank you" Arthur smiled a little "It's called a piercing"

"Looks good on you, I like it" Alfred said with a full mouth again.

He looked at Arthur curious and asked "How old are you?"

Arthur looked at him "I'm 20 and you?"

Alfred's eyes widened "Really?" a smile spread on his face "We almost the same age. I'm 19"

"That's nice" said Arthur and smiled back at him.

Arthur's phone started to vibrate and he saw a face time call in his group chat with the band. He stands up and hands the plate with the other sandwich to Alfred.

"Here, take it, I'll be back" and with that he disappeared behind the corner into a room.

Alfred looked after him and then proceed to eat the second one.

After a while Alfred began to get curious on where his rescuer has went. He heared his voice and someone else talking but he couldn't see what was going on. He put the plate onto the washing sink next to him and leaned over the bathtub edge. He wanted to know if he could see into the room where Arthur was but he only saw the doorframe.

As he leaned further, he touched the floor with his hands and could see a part of picture with a lot of different colours on his wall. To get a better look he crawled with his hands further while trying not to get out with his tail too much. But he didn't calculated the weight of his tail and it fell with a big thud to the floor.

Alfred shriecked out and panicked for a split second. He tried to turn his body back so he could climb into the bathtub but it was harder than it looked. For one he wasn't used to move without water, so when he tried to use his tail it was without a progress. And second, some slimey substance came from his body that made the floor very slippery. He literally looked like a stranded fish.

Arthur came around the corner looking worried and saw him struggle on the floor. "Wait, let me help you"

He made a couple of steps in Alfred's direction and almost slipped on the wierd slime. He took Alfred's hands to pull him upright but he stopped in his tracks and looked down at Alfred's.. legs?

The slime was sliding off Alfred's tail and let human legs appear while the rest of it created a puddle on the floor.

Alfred's eyes were in shock. "What have they done to me!" he moved his legs a little to see if it's real "No!, no no no, please no!" he panicked "Make it go away!"

Arthur who still held Alfred's hands saw how the merman started to freak out, his grip was getting harder and his face looked horrorfied. Arthur then got out of his own shock stare, grabbed Alfred by the waist and yanked him into the bathtub. With a splash Alfred was back in the water.

"Please, come back" Alfred said desperately while holding onto his legs. Slowly a white layer has started to build itself upon his legs and shimmery blue scales begann to appear.

Alfred let out a big shaky sigh of relief. Arthur slid on the floor and felt like he pulled a muscle on his back only to realize that he is once again wet and full of slime. But now they knew what the white slime was.