Disclaimer: how many times do I have to say this…….I do NOT Gundam wing…
A.N: I Hate Exams and school in general………..it's taken me ages to do this chap….
Dawn rose over the horizon, lighting up the ocean in an orange glow, as the waves gently lapped on the silent shore.
In the depths of the sleeping sea where the light had not yet reached, among the floating seaweed a dark rock ridden cave sat nestled in the sand, it's door like opening covered with barnacles, anemones and other sea creatures.
Inside the cave near the back at the sandy centre slept two fish tailed boys. One with long chestnut hair that floated lightly around his slim frame and about his neck was an old silver cross. The other was a little different; his face was solemn as he slept with the chestnut haired in his arms. He has short dark brown hair that also floated gently with the movement of the ocean far above.
The chestnut haired stirred from his sleep sending up a cloud of bubbles, he stretched…then tenderly removed the dark one's arms from around his waist so not to wake him, the dark haired stirred and turned over staying asleep with little sound.
A crooked, lopsided grin filled the chestnut haired one's face he glanced at his lover kindly, then turned his attention to the cave mouth.
So… the sun finally found us…
He thought while he swam out of the cave, the sunrays reflected off his silvery blue tail and his cross pendent shone like crystal.
He swam around in circles doing back flips and rolls among the schools of small coloured fish making them scatter in all directions.
Once he had finished stretching out and waking himself the grin returned as he scratched his chin and pondered over what to do next.
Now lets see…uurrr…what shall I do now?…
His stomach growled loudly and with a laugh he snapped his fingers
Of course how could I forget…Food First!…yeah and I can get Heero some too, he won't wake for a while yet…so I may as well…..
He firmly nodded to himself and with one last glance back at the cave he turned and swam in the direction of the surface and shallows near the beach.
* * * *
Early that morning Quatre was to meet Trowa down in the yard where they would make there way to the beach.
Quatre woke up at sunrise; he got dressed in plain clothes and left a note for his mother because his farther hates Trowa.
He ran silently though the castle and down to the yard where Trowa stood brushing silencer's mane.
"Morning Trowa!" Quatre called
"Sshh!" Trowa whispered with a smile "Quatre its first light remember no one is awake yet"
"Oops" Quatre said timidly then looked a round listening for the shouts of people he'd woke but no sound was heard, Trowa dropped the brush he had been using grabbing Quatre in the process pulling him to Rose's stable then running back to get silencer.
Quatre stood there a little shocked but still he retrieved Rose and soon they were on their way to the beach, galloping at full speed down the dirt track at the back of the castle.
* * * *
In the shallows of the water a round the large boulders the chestnut haired was looking for some thing to eat but there seemed to be nothing except maybe a jelly fish hear and there but there not edible and don't taste very nice.
As he searched rocks and seaweed he thought to himself
Ironic isn't it theirs nothing to eat and I'm starving…
He slumped back against a large boulder with his head above the water swishing his tailback and forth making loud waterlogged splashing sounds. After a few minutes of doing this he started to hear the sound of voices and hooves, being a curious merboy he swam around to the side of the boulders to see who was there.
* * * *
Rose and Silencer both came to a halt at the edge of the water, Trowa and Quatre were laughing but then Trowa noticed the boy, climbed off silencer and by the time he looked back the boy was gone.
"Trowa?" Quatre questioned
Trowa turned around in surprise like he'd forgotten Quatre was here
"Umm?" he said
"What's wrong Trowa?"
"Sorry Quatre but I"
Trowa was cut off when they both heard a loud splash, scream of pain and laughter.
Quatre quickly climbed off Rose and ran with Trowa to the other side of the boulders where came face to face with a fisherman holding a very large fish.
"Fishing is not allowed at Topaz cove!" Quatre yelled at the top of his lungs, the man dropped the fish then ran.
Trowa walked up to the fish with Quatre at his heels then Quatre gasped, it wasn't a fish it was a merboy with violet eyes and chestnut brown hair. Trowa walked nervously up to the unconscious merboy and pulled the net gently off his head put him in the water and backed away towards the dry sand, he sat down on the sand near to Quatre who also sat down to wait for him to wake.
Hours went by but the merboy finally woke and opened his violet eyes to see himself siting in the shallows with the two humans he had seen before starring at him.
His eyes widened and the rumble in his stomach was now bothering him.
Then Trowa spoke.
"Oh….uuurr….your awake….feeling better?…Whats your name?"
And
Trowa held out his hand but still he was a little unsure.
The boy now felt threatened he snarled and hissed
Trowa withdrew his hand quickly then Quatre spoke in a more gentle tone.
"Hello…….my name is Prince Quatre Rebarba Winner….. pleased to meet you……"
He took a bow then said
"What's your name?"
The boy stopped hissing and a blank look fell across his then he said shakily
" My name is Du…"
He trailed off then turned around to see his best friend and lover Heero starring at him wide eyed then Duo shouted
"Heero I…" then Heero dived back in to the water, Duo forgot about Trowa and Quatre for a second, diving in after him and pinned him on the reef to explain
"Heero please don't tell Wufei he'll have my head, you know he hates me!!!"
Duo pleaded but Heero glared at him and said in a muffled voice
"You know very well your not allowed to go in land plus you promised me you wouldn't go near another human after what happened last time…."
"But Heero!!" Duo moaned
"These ones seem ok and besides they rescued me from a fisherman so I'm begging you please don't tell Wufei because he'll tell his farther and we'll get banished"
Duo looked at Heero with soft eyes that seemed as if they were going to cry, then Heero said
"Ok duo but I refuse to talk to them"
Duo's eyes brightened
"Thanks koi I owe you big time and anyway I talk enough for both of us so that's all right"
And with that they swam back up to the surface where they found the two humans still siting talking.
Duo now had a large smile on his face and before Quatre or Trowa could say a thing Duo blurted with
"I'm Duo and this is Heero, I know your Quatre but who are you?"
He looked at Trowa with one eyebrow raised
"My name is Lord Trowa Barton commander of the moghannac army"
"Oohh…cool and you're a Prince aren't you Quatre"
Quatre gave a friendly smile at both Heero and Duo then said
"Yes but" Quatre gulped
"But what??!!" Quatre pointed directly behind them.
Duo looked and realised he was in trouble, a grey fin was swimming towards them at some speed, on the fin there was a dragon shaped scare, the type of which Heero recognised it was Prince Wufei Chang heir to the Merfolk throne.
Duo jumped out of the water and on to a rock pulling Heero with him, Quatre then thought that Duo looked very different than he was 5 minutes ago and it confused him but he thought oh well get back to the situation.
Wufei had swam and reached the rock where Duo and Heero sat then gave a smug smile
"Your in a lot of trouble this time Maxwell…Yuy, my father will have your heads for conversing with humans you know very well it's illegal in our world…."
Duo and Heero glared down at Wufei from their rock and Heero slid into the water pulling Duo with him
"HEY!" Duo said with surprise but Heero ignored him.
Wufei pulled an odd face at Duo and Duo stuck his tongue out
"Shows what you know… Hee-chan will protect me so there Chang!!"
Wufei raised one eyebrow and said smugly
"Oh really…What's he going to do throw kelp at me"
Heero's mouth formed a snarl at his strength being challenged, Duo grabbed hold of Heero's arm to try and stop him biting Wufei's head off while Quatre and Trowa stared on with the utmost interest, they had never seen such strange creatures in their lives.
Quatre whispered to Trowa
"What do you think they are Trowa?….."
Trowa shrugged slightly
"I'm not sure Quatre…..they seem to be half fish and half human, they also seem to be very intelligent…"
Quatre nodded as he glanced at the fighting Merboys, then looked back at Trowa as he slid his hand into Trowa's.
"Maybe there is more to the ocean than we both thought koi…"
To be continued…..
A.N: jeez!…this chapter has taken forever as well as my exams and other stuff…..Sorry it has been ages.
Many Thanks^_^ to Crystal Rain, Nixipixi and anime hyena for their reviews…next chap very soon hopefully.