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Plot:( Based on The Little Mermaid) Mermaids are mythical creatures that only exist in fairy tales and myths. A kiss from a mermaid or merman is the most powerful thing in the world. Once they are bonded, the love between them never fades. Yami is a merman prince who rescues a human princess named Tea from almost drowing, and falls in love with her, as she does with him. Even though they are from different worlds, they are willing to risk everything to be together. No matter what the cost. YamiTea JoeyMai SetoKisara

By Night One Way, By Day Another

By VampiressBeauty20 and BlackRoseDragonCK

Chapter Four

"Oh thank God you're safe! Father, Grandpa and I were so worried about you!" Ishizu's dark blue eyes were full of worry and relief as she swam towards her was the eldest sister and she was often seen as the most beautiful. She had long, black hair that reached all the way down to her waist and tanned skin like their father's. Her form was slender and she wore a golden shell shirt that revealed her slender waist and accented a dark blue tail flecked with golden scales.

The mermaid moved gracefully through the grand hall that led into the throne room. The dark blue and golden coral of the walls made her scales shimmer, as did the few bands of light peeking through skylight windows on the tall ceiling. Ishizu smiled when she met Yami and Selene, placing her hands on both their backs and propelling them down the hall toward the throne room. She said nothing else...because the rest was rather self-explanatory. There was no use in denying the storm of a lecture that would inevitably follow upon meeting their father.

After a few minutes of silent swimming, the trio finally arrived in the throne room. Yami squinted his ruby eyes and had to resist the urge to rub them. This room was so shiny with its mother of pearl flooring and golden coral walls. He wasn't crazy about it. The relentless glint gave him a headache when he had to stay in there for too long...but the building was an ancient, historical building of Atlantis so they were forbidden from redesigning it.

Solomon was floating in a corner, his wise violet eyes scanning over an undersea scroll. He glanced up briefly and smiled when he saw his two grandchildren. He inclined his head toward the throne and gave a knowing raise of the eyebrows. Yami knew all too well why.

Aknamkanon sat on his throne, his eyes closed and his head slightly bowed in a regal way. If one did not know him well, it would seem that he was asleep...but the agitated swishing of his tail told the prince and princess otherwise. He was waiting for them to approach him. Yami shared a look with Selene and saw the same grim anticipation in her eyes that he felt.

She placed her hands on her hips and arched a single eyebrow at him, an obvious refusal to go forward. Yami crossed his arms over his chest and narrowed his blood eyes, making it clear that he was not about to take the brunt of the verbal onslaught either. After all, she was the one who had suggested they sneak out to the graveyard first.

Selene sighed, rolled her eyes, and held out her hand. Realizing what she was proposing, her brother clenched his teeth, held out his own hand, and a game of rock, paper, scissors ensued. Yami was the loser.

The princess placed her hand over her lips to stifle a laugh as her brother growled...and slowly swam toward the throne.

"Father...?" he said and winced as the king slowly opened his eyes.

Aknamkanon's gaze slowly wandered to his son's, those piercing irises of gray sending a chill through him. He always felt as though his father could see through his flesh all the way down to his soul. Yami gave a sheepish smile...and his father did not return the expression. Instead, the king's eyes narrowed and Yami sighed, hanging his head in defeat.

"How many times have I told you two..." Aknamkanon began, his voice rising with outrage. "...the ship graveyard is perhaps the most dangerous place in this kingdom and you are forbidden to go there! Yet you deliberately disobeyed me!"

"Father, I..." Yami started, but the king waved a hand, effectively cutting him off.

Aknamkanon glared at his children for a moment longer before sighing and running a stressed hand over his forehead. "I know that you two are hungry for adventure...that you want something other than a mundane life around the palace...but you cannot gamble your lives on a whim. You have your futures as the rulers of Atlantis to think about. You cannot risk your lives foolishly by playing in dangerous places...and the shadowed areas of Atlantis are as perilous as the humans with whom we share this world."

That made Yami's jaw clench in anger. He hated the Atlantean prejudice against humans, the beings he found so wonderfully fascinating. Still, there was no use in bringing up that argument. He had tried it many times before and it was like debating with a solid coral wall.

"Anyway..." Aknamkanon was saying. "I won't drag this out. Today is your birthday, after all. You're dismissed. Go get cleaned up so you will be ready for the party in a few hours."

Yami and Selene both bowed their heads briefly before swimming back toward the hall leading out of the throne room. Yami pumped his black, red, and purple tail quickly, eager to get out of that room and its oppressive responsibility. All his life, he wanted nothing more than the adventure...freedom away from this boring, royal life.

Selene's chocolate hair flowed behind her as she struggled to keep up with her hurrying sibling. "That wasn't so bad..." she said, trying to cheer him up. She knew that he hated being assaulted with duty and lifelong commitments. "It could have been a lot worse. At least we won't have to listen to him anymore at the celebration tonight," he said with a grin. She smiled, "I know I can't believe your sixteen already, that means you can go visit the surface just like Ishizu can."

Her words were true, when a member of the royal family turned sixteen, they could visit the Realm above for the first time in their life. After that, they were free to visit when they chose to too again and again. Anytime their heart's desired.

Yami's eyes instantly lit up, "I've been practically dying to see it, would you please go with me?" he asked. "I already asked Father a few days ago if I could tag along with you and he said it would be fine, as long as we stay together and don't cause any trouble," she replied. He smirked at his younger sister, "Trouble is my middle name."

"Come on let's get you ready for the party tonight, I have to make sure you look your best."

She swam over to a hallway where a large room sat with a couple of large clams with thin veils of coral covering them. A mirror/vanity sat in the corner, with an assorted arrangement of brushes, make-up tools, and hair accessories. Yami followed his younger sister towards and he sat down. "I promise I won't do anything crazy," she said

Yami raised his ebony eyebrows in a quizzical manner. She had to give him that comfort because, for his thirteenth birthday, she had tried adding a special potion to his hair that was supposed to enhance its sharp colors of blood and black. Unfortunately, she had left the mix on too long, and its yellow color absorbed into his hair, turning it orange, brown, and lemony yellow. Selene had been barred from playing "hair stylist" for the next year until she finally proved herself capable on his fifteenth birthday.

The girl grabbed a jellyfish from the vanity and squeezed it until a translucent, purple gel that was heavy enough to hold itself together in the water oozed onto her open palm. She rubbed it onto both of her hands before setting to work on her "client's" hair. She rubbed the stuff onto the spikes, shaping them with skilled, nimble fingers and nodding when she was satisfied with their finished look.

Selene swam back a bit, then frowned, shook her head, and moved back to the vanity. Yami gulped, not liking the looks of that at all."You know I hate it when you do that..."

His sister chuckled and went back to work, this time scrubbing his biceps with a rough sponge. "You have crud all over you..." she muttered, narrowing her blue eyes in concentration. "Just because you fought a battle that could have killed you doesn't mean that you have to look like a wreck on your birthday..."

The prince smirked but let her continue. His blood eyes began to wander around the room. The walls made of some turquoise coral substance that was heavily textured. The massive clams, such as the one he was sitting on, were made especially for undersea makeovers. It wasn't like he wasn't looking forward to the party, just he was longing to see the human world so badly. Tonight was going to be amazing and life changing for them.

"All done, take a look," she turned her brother to face the mirror. A warm smile overcame his handsome face, he had to admit she actually did a great job. His tri-colored hair shone brightly the black and red colors enhanced by the gel. As a special touch, she added two golden spiked earrings, two golden arm bands, and a golden crown with the Sennen Eye in the center. "Thank you, Selene," he said giving her a warm hug.

"No, problem." She had braided her hair and wove white small pearls and a black butterfly clip into the top. A couple of silver bracelets hung her arms, she chose to not wear too much jewelry for the occasion. "Come on let's go before we're late," Yami said, as they swam out of the room.

The celebration lasted until evening finally arrived, where it came time for Yami to travel along with Selene to the human realm above. Ishizu, Yugi, Solomon and Aknamkanon were outside of the palace waiting for them, they wished him good luck on their special trip.

"I'll miss you while you two are up there, have fun and be careful," Solomon said giving them both warm hugs. Selene nodded, "We will Grandfather," she replied with a smile. Aknamkanon placed his tanned hand upon his son's shoulder, "Yami," he said, "Since you are now of age, you are now free to come and go as you please. Since Ishizu and Yugi will be going with you, all of you have fun and enjoy yourselves, but make sure no harm comes to any of you."

Yami smirked, "Of course we'll take care of each other, Father, I give you my word," he promised, this made their father smile. They said their goodbyes to everyone before swimming away from the palace. All four of them stopped for just a moment, Yami turned towards his siblings, "Well, are you guys ready for this?"

"Ready when you are," Yugi replied, his amethyst eyes glowing with excitement. Ishizu nodded slowly in agreement, "I haven't up there in ages to be honest with you and I feel like seeing everything again." Selene grinned, "Hell yeah let's do this!" she said.

He laughed, "All right let's do this," he shouted, as they began swimming towards the dark crystal surface. It took them all only a couple minutes to reach the water's edge, just where the water sat peacefully above felt as if he was rising into the heavens, as they swam slowly towards the surface, it was finally his turn to see the world that he had always wanted to.

"Why is it so dark up there?" Yugi wondered aloud. "That's because it's almost sunset, wait till you see everything in the daytime, it's so much more exciting," Ishizu said. Each of them burst through the surface, their lungs taking in the fresh cool air of the human world for the first time. The sun was just beginning to set over the dawning horizon, orange and pink warm streaks filled the once blue cloudless sky. There were trees and sandy beaches that aligned the shorelines as the waves crashed back and forth into the dark rocks that stood in the shallow water.

"It's absolutely beautiful up here, and the air is so fresh and warm," Yugi whispered, as a warm late summer breeze caressed his bare skin. Yami's eyes took in the wonderful sight before him, as did Selene, her ocean eyes wide at the beach and dark rocks in the distance. "It's like a dream come true, to see all of this," he said. Ishizu smiled, "It certainly is, you should see everything in the winter."

They heard dolphin's and other creatures splashing sky turned darker and a few stars twinkled like pearls above their head's. Yami faced the sun as it sank behind clouds building on the sparkling horizon.

It was all so overwhelmingly beautiful and Yami did not know where to look. The stars began to vanish into darkness mostly caused by the thickening clouds. It proved disappointing, as they had hoped to spend more time gazing at them. Little did they know that those clouds would signal the moment their lives changed.

They all swam around for a while, playing and splashing in the dark waters. Yami floated gently among the waves, it was all just like his mother had described it in every single detail. He had the gorgeous dark blue ocean waters below him, and the light of the orange, red, and gold streaked sky above his head. The little puffy white clouds floated along, not bothering to block out any of the twinkling stars. He took some of the ocean water into his palms and laughed when he felt it tickling his skin. It felt like caressing fingers against smooth living marble.

Selene dove back into the water, her blue tail slapping against the surface, as she leapt into the air, her ocean eyes caught every inch and detail of the lands surrounding them before she resurfaced a moment later. The lush green forests surrounding the large castle in the distance, hearing animals and creatures that she never knew existed. She saw vast green hills covered with beautiful vines; palaces and castles lined the shore, adding a nice touch to the landscape. Dolphin's jumped joyous out of the crystal waves, and the whales spouted water from their spouts, like a hundred fountains were playing all at once.

All of a sudden, a loud boom echoed from somewhere in the sky causing all of them to jump. "What was that?" Yugi asked, his heart was pounding like a jackhammer. Ishizu's dark eyes began to look around sounded like a loud unnatural screech, as another loud noise replaced it. Bright red and yellow lights clustered together into the shape of a flower opening its petals for the first time in the few moments of spring.

"Looks like fireworks, human's use for celebrations and special occasions," Ishizu replied. Yami and Selene smiled at each other, these things that their sister called "fireworks" were amazing to look at. "Hey, what's that?" Yugi said pointing into the distance. The three turned to see a large ship floating in the dark crystal waters. It was as big as the waves themselves, as it sat there in the water not moving.

"If I'm not mistaken, that's a ship and where there's a ship, there are sure to be humans aboard," their older sister replied. Yami's crimson eyes lit up, "Humans? We've got to get a closer look," he said. "Yami want to get a closer look at that ship?" Selene asked, her dark eyes locked on the enormous ship in the distance. He nodded, "Why not, I've never seen humans up close before," he said, to her.

Selene slowly raised her arms above her head, and dove into the crystal waters with a huge splash and vanished from sight. She resurfaced a moment later and waved to him, as they slowly made their way towards the giant ship. As the siblings drew closer, they heard laughter The four mer-teens noticed a few ropes hanging from the lower part of the ship, they looked pretty safe and sturdy.

"Come on let's climb these ropes," the tri-colored merman suggested. "I want to get a closer look them, what if they're ugly and hideous looking like Father described," Ishizu said. Selene rolled her eyes, "I doubt they're ugly," she retorted."Those like fun," Yugi giggled taking one of the loose ropes into his hand. Each of them carefully pulled themselves up and out of the water, scaling the large vessel like a mountain. Music and laughter seemed to be coming from the vessel. "Yami," Yugi gasped, "All I can say at the moment is…whoa! No wonder the ship is so big!" It was right at this moment that Selene came up on the side of the deck where the platform was and lifted her head.

"Whew, what a climb!" she panted, as her ocean eyes widened,"This ship is packed…" Soon Ishizu also joined her siblings along with Yugi."Hey, you guys, check it out!" he said."I don't believe this!" Ishizu whispered in shock."I had no that a ship is capable of holding so many humans, from my calculations it wouldn't be impossible," she said.

"You guys have to see this," Selene whispered. All four of them gazed into the small hole on the side of the ship. Yami gasped in surprise at what he saw. There on the deck were a large group of humans men and women, both young and old. Wonderful sounding music played from a group of musicians. A large table was set up with many different kinds of the foods. Meats, fruits, sweets, and drinks sat neatly arranged together. The guests were dressed in all sorts of bright colors dancing and playing games. A couple of monsters very similar to their own were enjoying the festivities.

"Wow, I've never seen humans this close before," Yami whispered, as he looked around at the guests, the beautiful decorations, and all the different things. Selene smiled,"I know pretty amazing, isn't it?" she said. Yugi nodded in agreement as well, "I must say they are very interesting creatures," he said. Ishizu herself even had to admit it all was a wonderful sight to see. "I don't believe it," she whispered. "I had no idea ship this huge was capable of holding this many humans."

Selene pushed a piece of her brown hair that was hanging in her face, her eyes wide as she too looked around at the guests, the beautiful decorations, and all the different things on board,"I know pretty amazing, isn't it?Plus I must say they definitely have awesome taste in decor" she said.

Yugi nodded in agreement as well, "I must say they are very interesting creatures and the music is awesome," he said, as his tail swayed back and forth to the music."Yeah and the atmosphere is really festive, it has to be someone's birthday look the fireworks are going to be starting soon, anyone want to go check it out?" Ishizu asked."That's an awesome idea, let's go to that side of the ship to get a different view of the festival!" Yugi squealed as he tugged his sister's hand. Likewise, Selene had her eyes on the food and she decided to get a closer view at what those humans feasted on.

"Yami, Selene do you want to come with Ishizu asked. "No thank you," Yami answered politely, "I'd rather stay here for a while. I'm interested in watching the humans dance." A large looking gray sheepdog danced around with many of the human's on board who were enjoying the party. The dog suddenly stopped for a moment from jumping around to sniff at the night air. He caught the scent of something interesting and began sniffing around the various areas to find out what exactly scent belonged too. His nose led him towards the ship's opening.

The dog seemed to catch their scent, as he approached the area where the two teens were hiding from. Both of them gasped and jumped away from the small opening. Selene bit her lip for a moment pressing her back against the wooden frame before she slowly turned around to look back to see if the scary creature was gone. The sheepdog of course was still there, he gave her and Yami each a slobbery wet kiss against their cheek before it suddenly took off running back into the crowd of humans as soon as someone called its name.

"Eww gross now I'm covered in dog slobber," Selene moaned while her brother looked at the guests curiously.

"Why do they cover themselves in such layers and colors?" Yami questioned of them did not know the answer either.

It was common within the mer-kingdom. To them, there was no shame, and nothing to hide. But the two-leggers often wore colored garments over their entire frame. The only parts of their body that was nude was their faces and sometimes their hands.

"Huh that's really strange," Selene said.

Yami was curious at her words, "What's so strange?" he asked his sister.

She pointed to a corner of the ship where a figure stood alone looking at the sea. His younger sister tapped her ivory fingers against her chin, "I swear I've seen her before maybe I'm wrong."Her eyes became wide, as she gazed on the upper deck with wonder, a sparkling I had never seen in her eyes before. She smiled, as she continued to stare at the upper deck. "Selene, what are you staring at?" he asked, his voice curious.

"Look up there, you'll see," she said, her eyes were not coming off the thing she was staring at. He slowly raised my eyes and glanced up at the upper part of the deck. Yami's heart almost froze at what he saw. It was a human girl, she was standing near the side of the ship, gazing out at the sea, and her sapphire blue eyes seemed to be looking into the very heart of the ocean. She had shoulder length dark brown hair that down her face in tresses. Her skin was an ivory color, she wore a long pink sleeveless dress that was off the shoulders.

"She's beautiful," he breathed. Never in his life had he seen such a vision of beauty. She was so beautiful and enchanting, that he felt his heart start to skip a beat. He couldn't take his eyes off her. The girl happened to lean over the side of the ship and glance down in his direction. Her ocean eyes stared into his dark crimson ones, as she caught a glimpse of his tail.

His dark eyes were so warm and kind, Tea had never seen eyes as warm and beautiful as his, he seemed to be so lonely and sad; but what exactly was bothering him? His heart seemed to be searching for something, something beyond the stars in the sky, a heart that wanted only to be loved and cared for.

Tea couldn't take her eyes off the gorgeous creature that was sitting on the lower part of the ship. He had the strangest looking hair she had ever seen, shaped like a starfish, red, black, and yellow were dyed into it, with purple dyed at the end of each tip. Blonde spiked lighting blot bangs stuck up in three directions. His eyes were the most beautiful. She was even more amazed at his tail which was black with red, gold, and lavender streaks. The ending fins were black as well.

A girl with dark brown hair and golden highlights was sitting next to him, her eyes were a bright ocean color. Her tail was a deep blue color, shimmering scales of a deep azure gleamed, and the ends were a dark blue. Beside her was another woman. She had long, black hair that reached all the way down to her waist and tanned tail was the color of a golden sunset. Another young man was right next her, He had black, red, and yellow hair shaped like a starfish. Blonde bangs framed his youthful face along with beautiful innocent purple eyes. His tail was a beautiful dark lavender with streaks of gold and black running along the sides, the ending fins were a beautiful shimmering purple.

Tea knew exactly what they were sea creatures known as merman and mermaids that lived below the ocean waters. She thought they only existed in fairy tales and myths. Legends of these creatures were told in many different kinds of stories passed down from generation to generation. Some say that they are sirens of the sea, with beautiful singing voices, that not any form of earthly music can imitate it. A real sailor might tell you differently. Men had searched endlessly for these amazing creatures, but not so many have succeeded.

Destiny had already been set in motion...

A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed until next time.

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