Hurky: Wow, I got some reviews! YAY! Thanks, guys! But I noticed some of you said for me to be a bit more descriptive. So, I decided to do just that! Now please go and enjoy this chappy!
Sora: Wait! Some of you also said that I would be offended to be called a merboy, but that would only be in Hurky's funnier fics (the ones marked humor/parody). Here, it's no prob.
Hurky: Are you sure?
Sora: I'm positive!
Riku: Little boy.
Sora: I heard that!
Hurky: And one more thing. This is the revised version of the chapter. After I read a review after I put the original, I realized that there were a few things I forgot to put in this chapter. Thank you Bara-Minamino, for letting me be aware of that!
Riku was asleep in his grotto (you know, like the one Ariel has? Sora has one, too, just so you know...), when Sora swam in.
"Hey, Riku!" he said as he nudged Riku for him to wake up.
Riku didn't budge.
"Riku!" said Sora. "I have to tell you something! This is extremely important!"
Riku stirred.
"RIKU!" cried Sora. He took out the fork and poked Riku on the shoulder with it. That's what got him up.
"OW!" cried Riku, sleepily as he rubbed his shoulder. "What? What is it, Sora?"
"Riku, remember how I told you that I wanted to be with the humans?" asked Sora.
"You've been telling me that for as long as I can remember!" said Riku. "It's mutually impossible for you to become a human."
"Well, last night, I went to the surface, and-" said Sora until Riku cut him off.
"Sora, you know that you can't go up to the surface after dark!" cried Riku, sounding more awake.
"I know, but you know I'm really nosy!" cried Sora. "Anyway, there was a dance on one of those cruise ships, but there was a storm and this girl fell off."
"And?" asked Riku.
"I rescued the girl. She couldn't swim." replied Sora. "She passed out and I took her to shore. I gave her CPR and she woke up and saw me, but it must have been too sunny. Then, I heard her friends calling her and I left."
Riku shook his head. "Sora, you're going to end up in big trouble with humans one day." he said.
"Geez, Riku, I know you hate humans, but..." said Sora. "Anyway, I think I'm in love!"
"WHAT?" cried Riku. "Let me guess, the human girl?"
"Exactly!" replied Sora. "They have better personalities than mermaids. Most other mermaids are weird. Remember that one mermaid who kept stalking me?"
"She stalked you to get to me!" said Riku.
"Well, I think human girls are better." said Sora. "Since you'd rather be a merman, they won't be going after you."
Then, without another word, he swam out.
"Sora, you're one weird merboy..." said Riku and then he went back to sleep.
While Sora swam home, he was trying to think of the pros and cons of human girls.Sora neverreally had crushes on mermaids because they were all basically the same. Dullor creepy. And they always talked about boring things or used him to get to Riku. Who knows? Human girls could be the same, but probably not as creepy. Sora decided to check Kairi out. He didn't bother to tell Riku her name because he would have justmade fun of it.
So, instead of going home, Sora swam up to the surface. Luckily, he found Kairi, just walking along the beach with a blonde haired girl. They were talking, and since Sora had good hearing, heard some of their conversation from behind the rock he hid behind.
"...I'm telling you, Namine, that boy who rescued me...he had spiky hair, and it was brown and it was so gorgeous!" said Kairi.
"Are you sure you're not falling in love?" asked Namine.
"Namine, all around here, there are guys with long hair. I hate guys with long hair!" said Kairi.
"Hey, I love long haired guys!" said Namine.
"You would." said Kairi. "I like guys with short hair and especially, spiky hair. All the guys used to look good with their hair all spiked up until long hair got 'in.' Then they all made themselves ugly." (No offense to guys with long hair!)
"Kairi!" cried Namine.
"And the guy had these sparkling blue eyes..." said Kairi dreamily. "They were the color of the ocean!"
"Well, what about Tidus?" asked Namine. "He's got blue eyes, 'like the ocean,' as Selphie likes to say."
"But this boy's eyes were the bluest I've ever seen!" said Kairi. "It makes Tidus' eyes look like blue dishwater! I just wish I could see him again! He also had the cutest voice! He told me that everything was going to be OK, or something like that."
Sora then went underwater and swam home this time, where he found his mother sitting at her throne. She was the queen of the sea, and Sora was the prince. His father, the king, was killed by sharks when Sora was little, so his mother raised him by herself and with Sebastion. It was also why the queen was so overprotective of her son.
"Sora, where have you been?" asked his mother. She was a very pretty mermaid. She had long brown hair and ocean blue eyes, like Sora. Basically, she looked exactly like Sora, except that she wore shells (you know, like how Ariel does?), a necklace around her neck and she carried a trident (like King Triton's!).
"Sorry, Mom, I spent the night at Riku's." lied Sora.
"Well, I was worried. You left right after your birthday party." said the queen. "I can't believe that you're fourteen now...you're growing up. And soon you will one day rule the sea, just like your father."
But I don't want to be like Dad, thought Sora.
"But you've also got Ethan." said Sora. Ethan was his older brother. He was three years older than Sora, and he loved the pick on Sora and call him a shrimp.
"Well, yes, he will rule before you get the throne." said the queen.
Let Ethan have the throne. I'd rather be on land, thought Sora.
"Mom, why are humans so bad?" asked Sora.
"Because they are very dangerous." replied the queen. "Why do you ask?"
"No reason." lied Sora. "Well, I'm going to go hang out with my friends. We're going to go throw seaweed onto the shore and scare the little kids walking on the beach!"
"Make sure they don't see you." said the queen.
Sora left and did not go hang out with his friends. He didn't really enjoy throwing seaweed onto the shoreline. Riku did, though. Sora didn't even know why he hung out with Riku. Maybe it was because they've known each other since Sora was five and Riku was six, but their interests grew different as they got older.
Sora decided to go see Ansem, the sea warlock. He was originally a merman, but he turned his tail into tentacles because he couldn't deal with just a tail. Ansem also had the power to turn anyone into anything. Sora's mother disliked some of the things Ansem believed in, but she trusted him with asking for advice. But what nobody knew was that Ansem secretly wanted to take dethrone Sora's mother and take over the sea. Anywho, Sora thought that maybe Ansem could turn him into a human. He finally got to Ansem's lair, where he found him working on a potion.
"Uh, Ansem?" asked Sora.
Ansem looked up. "Oh, hello, Sora." he said. "What does your mother need to know?" Oh great, he thought. Another dull question from the prissy queen.
"Um, actually, I wanted to know something." said Sora. "You know how I've been real interested in learning abour humans for a long time, right?"
Really, now? "Yes, I am aware of that." replied Ansem.
"Well, I rescued this girl and I think I might be in love with her..." said Sora. He felt hesitant and very nervous at the same time to ask the question, but what the heck? "What I really want to know is...can you possibly turn me into a human?"
"Of course I can!" replied Ansem. "I've turned myself into one several times. I'll do it, but it will cost you."
"Cost me what?" asked Sora. He hoped it wasn't something that he found and put in his grotto.
"You'd have to give me something in exchange." replied Ansem. He thought for a minute. Suddenly, a plan hatched in his head. "Let me think...hmm...how about you give me your voice?"
"My voice?" asked Sora. "I like my voice, but how will I be able to talk to Kairi?"
"I don't know, perhaps learning sign language?" asked Ansem. "Well, don't bother with that. Not too many people that I know really know how to do that...but you can remain a human for three days. If you kiss the girl by sunset on the third day, you will remain a human forever."
"What happens if I don't?" asked Sora.
"Then you will become a merboy again and you will be mine. I can use a good boy like you to do some deeds for me." replied Ansem. Some evil deeds. Nobody will suspect you of anything if you become my son! You are a well mannered merboy.
"Let me think about it, and I'll let you know in a few days." said Sora. The deal sounded really great, but that was a big consequence. Losing his voice...
"I'll be waiting." said Ansem. And make this quick. I have a sea to take over.
They said their goodbyes and Sora went to go tell Riku about the deal Ansem had offered him. Sora knew Riku wouldn't like it, but this was a chance for Sora...
Hurky: That's it for now, but I'll try and update soony before you go loony! Lol, I'm just kidding...but I have other stories to update, so there probably won't be an update of this until next week or a little later.