Long ago there was an ancient race that lived within a city a hidden deep within an underwater mountain. This city prized itself in its impenetrable walls giving its citizens a safe and cushioned life where everyone can be at peace with each other. This ancient city wanting to keep their citizens protected from the watery world outside their fortress, kept their residence within the mountain. Like any civilization, this kingdom had its fair share of trouble makers, who would often sneak out the guarded borders of the city. One of these trouble makers was named Froth, whose have had descendants that were as tricky and as much as an agitator as he was. He often escaped from the city to find adventure. Froth would often find himself in dangerous situations when he left the mountain. But he had learned to fight and was able to keep himself safe due to his ability to wield a trident. His first trident was a simple wooden stick with sharpened shells at the end. However he wielded his simple weapon with mastery over the years. One day, he was bored of the surrounding waters but he heard of a dangerous place called the Great Deep.

Wanting to further test his bravery and fighting skills, he swam to the Great Deep. He came across vile creatures that he fought off with ease with his mighty trident. Monster after monster he fought as he continued further into the Great Deep. Finally he reached the furthest of the deep and found a cave with veins of beautiful blue stone that he felt contain strong magic. He took note of the glowing blue veins and continued further into cave. The veins glowing brighter and growing larger the more he advanced into the cave. The halls of the cave twisted and turned and split off into many paths but he continued to follow the veins of blue. He soon found himself in a large opening with oysters scattering the sea floor of the cave. He noted that the entire cavern walls were completely created by the blue veins of magical sea stone. The walls glowed so bright that it made it difficult to see.

For some reason he felt his attention being pulled to an oyster that was in the middle of the room. It looked no different from an ordinary oyster but he picked it up and opened it. He saw a pearl that gleamed with the same magic that was enforced in the walls of this cave but it didn't look like any other pearl. It was much bigger, especially for the oyster it came from, it also gleamed with an eerie red glow. Something caught his attention, a low hiss coming from the exit. A massive eel, slithered from the only exit. It's teeth were sharper than anything he had seen before, it also glowed blue just like the walls. It charged at him , he barely dodged it. Froth grabbed his trident from his back and began to fight off the giant eel. After an hour of fighting he was able to slay the eel and tore a tooth from the mouth as a prize for his victory. In the center of the chamber there was a rumbling and an opening formed in the mysterious stone. Froth very curious, swam down the opening and found himself in another chamber, the walls show ancient writing that he never seen before. It's beauty was breathtaking, he must take some of this writing with him. He grabbed his trident and attempted to plunge it into the rock but it shattered almost instantly. Taken aback from the sheer strength of this stone, an idea sprouted in his mind, he grabbed the eel's tooth and drove that into the wall and carved out a good chunk of the stone. As soon as he finished he felt yet another presence.

"What are you doing here?! This is a sacred place only meant for Tidecallers!" shouted this mysterious aquatic woman.

"A little far from home aren't you, little Marai?" Froth smiles and fiddled with the eel tooth in his hands.

"You're calling me small? You're half my height!"

Froth chuckles and ignores the Marai and scans the rest of the room, he notices another oyster and he swims towards it.

"Hey! What are you doing! That oyster contains the abyssal pearl! I need that for my people." she growls.

"Oh?" He gets close to the oyster and it spits a clear pearl at him that shines with all the colors of the ocean.

"Give me that!" She shouts angrily raising her staff.

Rapid currents force Froth against the wall of the chamber. The pear falls from his hand and slowly slips to the floor then rolls to the Tidecaller. He instantly realizes that her power comes from that staff of her's. He quickly picks up his broken trident, only the stick and some seaweed rope is left of his weapon. Froth ties the eel tooth to the stick and attacks the Marai and grabs the pearl.

"If you want this beauty you're gonna have to fight me for it" He chuckles excitedly thinking that this was all a game to him and she was so much fun. He holds up the pearl and smiles playfully. She charges at him using her magic, they exchange blows over the course of ten minutes.

"Alright little Marai, I'm getting bored lets finish this." Within seconds Froth knocked her staff from her hand and pins her to the wall with his spear.

"I have to admit , you fought well. Here." He removes his spear from her neck and tosses her the pearl before tying the stone he carved from the wall to his back. He begins to swim off.

"Oh, the name is Froth" he says.

"...Futto" She glares at him.

"Pleased to meet you Futto" he smiles charmingly before leaving.

Froth goes home and rests up for a bit before further carving the magical blue stone into a new trident. For the center prong of the trident he uses the eel tooth he had won. The hot headed Marai named Futto found her way into his mind. While carving the staff part of his new weapon , he can't help but to think of the Tidecaller's dark seagreen scales and her pearly white skin. He pulls out the red pearl that he had been attracted to. It had the same ruby gleam as Futto's eyes. After he finishes putting together his new trident, it's sturdier than any stone or metal he had ever come across. He gets some rest for the next day of adventuring. Over the course of the days he found himself dreaming of the strange Marai that he met. This caused him to travel back to the Deep Abyss where he had met her. He looked around the chamber filled with oysters, he found that the passage to the secret chamber had been sealed. He attempted to open it by driving his trident into where the entrance once was , it just bounced off like it was protected by some magical seal. He sighed and just started opening random oysters that were spread across the floor. He strung them together to make a necklace with the red pearl in the center. He sighed and just tossed it to the side of the cave. He traveled back home but he frequently visited the Great Deep despite the dangerous creatures that lurk there. He wasn't sure why he kept revisiting but one day as he was just opening more oysters he heard a voice.

"You know if you keep opening them up like that there won't be any left"

He lifted his head to see Futto and he rose immediately, she chuckled.

"What are you doing here?" Froth asked

"Well I was on my way to my home to deliver the moonstone. I thought maybe you might be here, I guess I was right" she blushed slightly then shrugs off the reddening of her cheeks with a loud "Hmph."

Froth chuckled at this, "Well I shouldn't keep you from your journey back home but…"

"But….what?" she eyed him.

"Maybe I should come with you. I mean I'm obviously the superior fighter" He gloated and tried to hide the fact he was actually caring about this Marai. Futto scoffed "whatever" before waving her hand , gesturing him to follow as she started to swim away. He smiled excitedly. They exchanged idle chit chat as they swam back to her home. She presented the moonstone to the leader of her people. It was unlike anything Froth had ever seen, it was more stunning and beautiful than the abyssal pearl.

Afterwards they often visited each other , becoming close friends and perhaps even more than that. Years have passed but one day when he came to visit he found that she was nowhere to be found. A bit panicked since this wasn't like her, he searched the ocean for her. Froth finally found her in the chamber filled with oysters deep within the Great Deep. She was holding an egg and looked up at Froth, her eye's filled with doubt and fear. Concerned he swam next to her, she handed him the egg. No words were needed for him to understand where the egg came from nor the strange half breed that grows inside.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He glances up to her.

"I don't know, I was afraid. If people knew we were more than friends, I'd be an outcast in my kingdom" Futto sighed.

"What should we do?"

"...I must destroy it. With my people's magic and your people's brute strength and natural skills, it's too dangerous to let live"

"No. I won't allow it, Futto. There must be another way"

"We could seal it up. Prevent it from hatching. Put it into a deep hibernation of sorts"

Froth sighs "Well if it's the only thing we can do.."

"We can't see each other after this. We live in two different worlds, I can't keep sneaking around. I still have duties as the Tidecaller"

Froth's heart sank but he understood so he nodded slowly.

"To seal it, my staff doesn't have enough magic in it, I must use your trident"

He slowly hands his trident to her, she casted the spell to seal the egg deep within the walls of the cave. They sealed up the cave that laid within the Great Deep. They never spoke to each other after that. Froth had a son and while he was on his deathbed he left his seastone trident to his offspring. And it has been passed down from generation to generation.

Within recent events there was a trickster who often snuck out of the ancient city within the mountain deep beneath the sea. But something mysterious happened, when he came back to his home, everyone was gone. Like magic. He took his sturdy blue trident and swam off.

The strange event stirred the cave of the Great Deep and not soon after the disappearance, another Tidecaller swam to the depths and reopened the sealed cave, causing slight tremors. But just enough to awaken the egg. The tidecaller went in, found the abyssal pearl and left. The egg glowed deep within the wall. Over the centuries it had grown a decent size and as it grew the seal slowly weakened. Until the disappearance of an ancient race along with the constant reopening of the cave every hundred years finally wore down the spell enough that the creature within was able to break free from the confines of her egg. The first thing that caught her eye was a shiny red glimmer at the side of the cave. Moss has almost grown over it but when she picked it up, it was a beautiful pearl necklace with a red eerie pearl in the middle. She put it on and adventures out of the cave. She had nowhere to go though. She was something that never existed before, a half breed between two great aquatic kingdoms.