Alright, so hey! Just a note, but if you haven't noticed, there are two stories that have used this idea first, so I credit them to giving me the idea to take my spin at the concept 8D Hopefully you guys like it and keep reading!
ALSO, if you noted, I DID write Jack as the male farmer, but it was a mistake, so just pretend it said Mark? Yeah? Thanks.
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN HM.
CHAPTER 1: Setting the Trap
Denny hadn't slept a wink since yesterday. He was too busy planning things out to sleep! As soon as his closk struck 6 in the morning, he ran out of his house, Kuu doing it's best to keep up. The young fisherman ran all the way to Marks farm, nearling tackling him down when he got to him in his fields. Mark yelled in surprise and nearly punched Denny.
"Mark! Bro! You gotta help me, and quick!" Denny panted with excitement, and the farmer only gave him a weird look before nodding for him to continue. "It's Wednesday, and Gannon's place is closed! So I need you to make me a really nice mini pool for my house and it has to-"
"Okay, wait wait wait." Mark cut Denny off, only to recieve a pleading look from the fisherman. "First, I'm not that good at building. I only remade my storage shack because I didn't have the money at the time to fix it. Second, a mini pool? Denny, you have the ocean! That's enough a pool for you. But..." He looked confused. "If I did make it, why a pool?"
Denny didn't have time for this. He brought out some money and shoved it into the farmer's hands, telling him that he would return around 9 to pick it up. With that, he ran off again. Today was sunny, so he was sure it was the perfect weather to bathe in the sun. He hadn't even noticed that Kuu had been on his shoulder the whole time, until he shut the door. "Oh, hi Kuu. Good morning!" His drawers were searched, for some kind of bait.
...What made good mermaid bait? Surely not men's boxers or socks. Another search through his bottom drawer of his nightstand, and he stopped when the neat piles of purple bandanas were in his gaze. He liked his purple bandanas... "Oh!"
On the other side of his small house was the Beauty Box that Lanna rejected when he thought he liked her. She said she had her own, that it was even Goochey something or other. He didn't really care as he looked through it. "Aha, here it is!" He pulled out a plain, red bandana, the one his grandma gave him before he left to become a fisherman.
When he finally made it outside again, it was 8 in the morning. Denny made sure that the boulder was seaweed free. The mermaid had said to clean it, so he cleaned it. The expert fisherman finally set his trap, a simple yet strong net over the boulder, and he left the bandana folded neatly on top, as well as a pearl necklace, also a gift Lanna rejected. "I hope this works, Kuu..." The bird only cooed briefly, upset his master had finally started to notice him. The fisherman only smiled at him, and petted him once before he returned to Mark's farm.
"Well, Denny, I made it, but... I wasn't sure what kind of pool and I assumed it was for fishes, so..."
"I don't care! C'mon, help me get it back to my house!"