The next morning, gazelle had a really hard time sleeping. He sat at the dinning table yawning away. His father was quite irritated by him. He yawned too many times during the past few minutes as the servants were preparing breakfast. Ten times to be exact.

"aaahhhh..."

correction, make it eleven times.

"sorry for the wait. Your breakfast sir." The servents said as they place the bowl of cereal in front of gazelle and the king. They left after they place the mini-basket of bread in the middle.

Another yawn came from gazelle. The king was actually ready to call his first hand guard, an octopus, to strangle his son, but he could not do that as gazelle is his son. He called off that idea and began eating his cereal. His wife was at the garden, plucking out ingredients for her cookies for tea-time. He specifically remembered her telling him to ask gazelle about his little adventure.

The king shrugged and asked gazelle, trying to hide his ignorance in front of his son and smiled, "son, how was up top? " That was quite well done.

Gazelle shoot his head up and stared at his father. His mind was blank. He could not tell his father that he talked to a human and mmaybe have a crush on him. Gazelle gulped and mumbled, "uhm...fun actually." Gazelle suddenly remembered about those shiny thingys he saw last night in the sky. "papa? There were little shiny thingys in the sky. There were a loy of them. What are they?

This time it was the king who had that shock look on his face. The king never actually had the chance to go up top. Ever since his was young, we was trained to learn how to be a future king. He never really had time to even though his father allowed. The king sighed, suddenly he remembered his wife went up top before and said, " Those were stars. They always show up every night."

"Really!" Gazelle face brighten up. He really love the stars. They were beautiful. It also reminds Gazelle about the night he met the human. Gazelle could feel his cheeks turning red, he quickly swallowed his cereal and swam back to his room.

Burn was in his room thinking about gazelle. Ever since that night, he could not stop thinking about him. He really wanted to meet him again. Burn place his hand over his chest where his heart is. He like that feeling. His heart was pumping faster than normal. He could feel his stomach flipped and his cheeks getting warmer.

Burn soon found himself falling in love with that merman or was it a mermaid? He didn't care. He was in love. Burn grin. That was the time hiroto, burn's rival, came into the room.

"What are you grinning about?" Hiroto asked burn from the doorway.

Burn turned around. He was caught off guard. He was so into thinking of gazelle that he did not notice hiroto coming in. Hastily, he said.

"n-nothing."

Hiroto smiled. This was the first time he heard burn stutter. He knew this have something to do with a girl. He giggled and left the room.

A few minutes have passed, but burn could not stop thinking about gazelle. He really missed him and wanted to see him right away. He stood up from his bed and ran to the beach.

On his way, burn past rean, an ophan who has a crush on him. She called him, but with no answer. Wanting to know where he was going in suck a hurry. She ran after him.

Same as burn, gazelle also missed him and quickly swam out of the palace. Not to forget telling his father about where he was going.

Burn finally reached the beach, with rean lost at a turn he made on the way here. He called gazelle.

"GAZELLE! I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE! COME OUT WOULD YA!"

Burn was lucky that the beach was deserted. All else he will look like a mad person sceeaming for no reason. It was also safe for gazelle to surface out of the sea. Burn breathe in deeply and shouted,

"GAZELLE!"

Gazelle was swimming at that point of time when burn shouted. It might not be clear but you could faintly make out what he was say. Gazelle smiled and popped his head out of the water.

"Ohayo!" Gazelle smiled at the human.

Burn did the same and said, "morning to you too. Gazelle."

Neither of them wanted to speak. Both were happy to see the other party. They both just stand or float there staring at the other parties' eyes. Out of the blue Gazelle remembered that the human did not tell him his name. He snapped out of it can found himself being stared by the human. He looked away. His cheek became warmer and warmer and his heart thumped faster and thumped faster. He stuttered,

"ano...uhm...p-please stop staring at me."

Burn snapped out of it too and apologized while he scratched his head,

"s-sorry about that."

"It's ok."

There was a pause.

"ano.., you never tell me your name."

"huh? O-oh yea, S-sorry again. Hehe..." He regain his posture and answered.

"My name's Nagumo Haruya. My friends call me Burn." Burn winked as he said that.

Gazelle could not help but blush. The hu- no Burn is winking at him, and he look sooo hot as he did that. He could feel his tummy as if something is inside it moving around. If he had a chance. He would ask burn what it is.

"hey?"

Gazelle look up at him wide-eyed.

"I want to spent time with you, but I can't as you have a tail."

"oh. You can't dive into the sea as well. We can't spent that much-" A thought appeared in his mind. There was a sea-witch in the ocean going by the name ulvida. She could help him. Gazelle look back up at burn.

"There's a sea-witch in the deep sea caverns. I'll go and ask her to help me."

"But won't it be dangerous! She's a witch!"

"Don't you want to spent time with me!"

Burn looked away from gazelle with anger in his eyes. He did not really trust this sea-witch person, but he really wanted to spent time with the sliver hair merman.

"argh! Fine! You can go, but come back safely." He looked at him with concern.

Gazelle nodded, dived down and swim to find Ulvida.

Come back safely gazelle. You got to.

Gazelle was nearer and nearer to the deep sea caverns. It looked eerie with the darkness casted by the shadows of the rocks. Gazelle was frighten by it. He could hear his heart pounding, and it's not caused by burn. Gazelle stopped as something past him. It was just a seaweed and he continued swimming.

Ulvida was in her cave deep in the caverns. Looking through her cystal ball with gazelle swimming in it.

"uhm? A customer from sea kingdom?" She smiled, "neon, gluro." she called her trusty minions, eels in fact.

"hai...Ulvida-san..." They mourned her name in unison.

Ulvida smirk and ordered, "We have company. Lead him in. Make sure noone knows about this."

"Wakata. Ulvida-san." They bowed and swam away.

Gazelle could see the cave in front of him. That should be Ulvida's home. Gazelle feeling a bit braver. Swam faster. Suddenly, two eels swam in front of him, causing him to back away frightened.

"wow...a mermaid." Said one of the eels.

"No, it think it's a merman." the other corrected him.

"w-who are you?" Gazelle place his hands over his chest. He was afraid of them and back away slowly.

"oh...don;t be afraid of us." the one who was called neon said.

"oretachi wa anata mo nakama na desu.(1)" His brother, gluro, comfort Gazelle.

Gazelle still back away. He could seens that this creatures are not on his side. Must be Ulvida's. Gazelle thought. Then I should not be scared. Slowly, he calm down and asked them,

"ano, You guys know where Ulvida is?"

The eels look at each other. As if talking telepathically.

"Ulvida-san is in the cave over there." Neon said as he turn his head at the cave in front.

"We're hereto guide you there." Gluro said.

Gazelle smiled. So, they're on the good side. Feeling calm, he followed the eels to Ulvida.

"I've brough the merman as you've asked, Ulvida-san." The eels said in unison again.

"Good work. Now, please leave us alone."

"Hai." They swam away.

Gazelle stared at the sea witch. She's really pretty. Gazelle thought. Ulvida was wearing a black strapless dress till her legs and holding a long black wand with a purple jewel at the tip of it. A black veil is hanging over her face.

"Morning, Merman. What brings you here to the deep sea caverns and in front of me?" The sea witch asked.

"I-i want human legs instead of a tail." Gazelle said. Ulvida smiled at what the sliver hair boy said.

"For a human boy huh? Well then, I'll do your request."

Gazelle face brighten up.

"demo, My magic is not that strong as compared to the sea king's. I can give you only one month to get married to that human boy. All else, you will turn to foam"

"Tsch."

"Do you accept it?"

Gazelle did not know what to do. He was trap in a dilemma in whether his should risk his life for the sake of being with the one he loves or decline the offer and not able to spent time with burn. A tsch came from his mouth again. No, he didn't care about his father's rule. He will spent time with the humans. He will marry burn, and they will live a happy life together. Gazelle look up at Ulvida.

"I accept."

Ulvida was shocked. This merman would risk his life just for a human being. She smiled. It reminds her about the times she spent up top with the boy she loved. In the end, he got married but not to her. To another girl who was her best friend up there. Ulvida used to be a mermaid, but her promise lead her to become a sea-witch herself. She promised that sea-witch that she will become her daugther if she could not get married to the boy. In the end, that sea-witch got her wish.

Ulvida's eyes got watery. She wiped the tears that were rolling down her cheeks. Before she did the spell, she begged him, "Please don't follow my footsteps." With that, she rised her wand and a purple light covered the whole place.

Gazelle opened him eyes and saw himself Near the surface of the water. He look at his tail and it's gone. In it's place are two beautiful long legs. He jumped in the water.(I don't know how he did it) but found himself unable to swim as he did not know how to use his legs. Oh man! Gazelle cursed under his breathe All this way just to get legs and he doesn't even know how to use it. He tried to swim but could only struggle.

Burn was still waiting for Gazelle to come back and walk on the shore to him, but he had waited more than one hour and still, Gazelle did not come out. All of a sudden, Burn heard familiar cries and saw someone struggling in the water.

"h-h-he-lp!"

"Gazelle!" Burn took off his shirt and dived into the water.

(1): We are your friends.

Thank you Flo for your review! This came to my head. When I wanted to write a one-shot for Burn x Gazelle. Thank you soo much! The plot came from a manga I've read a two years ago. Thank you again for reviewing!