Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away lived a young prince with the rare emerald green eyes. He was the king's prized possession. The wise king had no doubt he would be a great ruler when he grown up.
The year he turned three, he visited the summer castle for the first time. While the servants were getting ready, he went and had a look of the beautiful sea. He couldn't go too far away from shore, so he sat down on a big boulder and threw some small rocks in the water, watching they bounced on the surface.
Then suddenly, something caught his attention, a beautiful flower was flowing his way. Changing his position, the boy reached his hand out. The moment he touched it, a hand emerged from under the water.
Surprised, he lost his balance and fell. Under the cold water, he saw a young boy around his age with the most beautiful eyes there could be. His clothes was strange but that wasn't the thing that was attracting his attention. Instead of legs, the boy got fish tail.
He opened his mouth wanting to say something, but the water rushed in. He quickly covered it but by this point, he had lost all air. Seeing that, the mysterious boy hugged his waist and brought him up to the surface. Since the tide was rising, it got much deeper.
Once he was safe back on the boulder, they have a little chat.
The boy introduced himself as Ryoken, a merman from Atlanta. He didn't really have a chance to introduce himself as the little merman started to ask him a bunch of questions. Turned out, Ryoken always played far from shore since his father doesn't like he going anywhere near humans. From what he was taught, humans were cold blooded creature that killed off many of their kinds. And he always listened to his father. But today, when he was playing around with his fish friends, he was hypnotic by the unique color of the flower and ended up following it all the way here.
"If we humans are as bad as your father said, why did you save me?"
"I don't know. My body just moves on its own."
Their conversation came to a hold when Ryoken heard someone coming their way. He jumped in the water while the young prince was deeply confused. That was untill he heard the maid's vocie coming from behind. The meal was ready, so she came to get him.
Telling her he would be right there, he turned back to say goodbye to young merman who was hiding behind the blouder and left. The next day, when he came out to play again, he saw Ryoken was waiting for him.
Ever since then, every time he came to the summer castle, the young prince would spend all of his day playing with his merman friend untill it was time to go back. They were really happy together. But all fun must come to an end.
Like always, on that same day every year, Ryoken came and waited for the prince. But he didn't show up that year and the year after that. Before he noticed, seven years have passed. Yet, he kept on waiting just for another chance to see that person again, a chance to tell him how he really feels.