Authors' Note: ...It's 12 midnight. Jeez, you guys know the deal. Proudly presented by Snowdolphin and rainbow-dolphin, this is complete crack. Read, enjoy, hammer us if you feel it necessary... *yawn*
Romeo was happily prancing in the waters, newly excited by the realisation that this whale could swim above water, when all of a sudden, a long shadow appeared below him.
He looked at it in confusion. Was the big whale sending its baby whale to play with him? The idea excited him immensely, and he paused his swimming around of the ship to move towards the shadow for a closer look. Why was the whale dropping its poor baby, he should try to catch the poor thing-
"OW!" he chirped loudly as the longboat crashed onto his head and dorsal fin, sending waves of pain through his simple mind. Squealing, he thrashed about and hastily dived, reeling from the sudden impact; that baby whale was bad! Bad whale!
Above the water, the longboat tilted dangerously and finally turned over, dumping an extremely pissed off princess into the water.
An extremely pissed off princess who could not swim.
Juliet's last coherent thought as her head went under was "Friars and pirates - I hope a hot merman comes save me."
Then panic took over and she began thrashing wildly. But her stupid dress was dragging her down and she couldn't even swim, dammit, the palace staff would never let her near a sizable body of water if they could and even with all her sneaking away to play in lakes and stuff she had only learnt how to doggy-paddle at best. And the water- why was it- why was it so salty-
She choked on the water, struggling to control the impulse to breathe in. Her chest burned. Just as her vision was starting to blur and turn dark, she saw the hazy shape of something approaching from under her - and then a soft, pointy something nudged at her back, and then...
...Octopus?
...why was the pretty octopus not moving?
She was a very pretty octopus...
How did the baby whale become an octopus?
...the octopus didn't die, did it?
Oh no, he'd better get help! Um- um- uhh-
Romeo swam around in a confused circle. The pretty octopus sank past him into the water.
Uhhh- oh, he should get the octopus back to the whale and its baby! They'd know what to do!
Romeo quickly dived and tried to drag the pretty octopus back towards the surface, but it was very, very heavy! And then the octopus opened its eyes - such pretty purple eyes! - and grabbed onto his fin.
Ow! Bad octopus! Romeo flailed under the sudden weight, but then he remembered the poor octopus needed help. And he was the Dolphin Prince! Surely he could do better than this! With a burst of determination he shot towards the surface, launching himself out of the water and into the air beautifully. Juliet took the moment to quickly gasp for air and cough out the water she had inhaled, while Romeo simply had his default reaction to such a stunt.
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!"