In Love With A Fishman

Here is chapter 3, I hope you all enjoy and please review.

Chapter 3: Parent Problems

He walked down the hallway as quietly as he possibly could, being extremely careful not to make any noise. Once he reached the steps he crept down them and headed for the door. He slowly turned the knob and eased his way out and shut it quietly, as soon as he turned the knob back in its place he bolted. After a few minutes he was at the surface and walking towards the house and knocked on the door. He soon heard small footsteps on the other side of it and then the door opened.

"I knew you'd be coming back for your hat…and you brought company." Ivy said with a smile then as she looked behind him her face fell slightly.

Hody was scared to look behind him but he knew he had no other choice. He turned his head only to see his mother giving him a murderous glare with her arms folded over her chest. Hody groaned and hung his head low then turned back to Ivy.

"I brought my mother with me since she was so keen on meeting you." Hody said through gritted teeth and a forced smile. Ivy couldn't help but chuckle at him.

"It's very nice to you. My name is Ivy." Ivy said to Hody's mother.

"It's very nice to meet you too, Ivy." His mother said with a smile as they entered the house.

"I'll be right back; you two can make yourselves comfortable." Ivy said then went up the stairs.

Hody was standing near the couch minding his own business when he suddenly felt a strong jolt of pain on his ear as he pulled almost half-way to the ground by his mother.

"You better cross your fingers and hope that when you get home I don't chain you up in the basement and beat you to death." His mother hissed.

"Why do you always have to make death threats? I didn't go to the lawless zone when I met her I just happened to be swimming near and I heard her scream while she was running away from the Celestial Dragon, so I wanted to help her." Hody said as he tried to pry his mother's hand from his ear.

"Oh really, then tell me why are there wanted posters of you all over Sabaody Archipelago?!" His mother asked harshly. Hody's eyes grew as wide as saucers.

"Here it is you left it on the kitchen sink." Ivy said as she came down the stairs and handed it to him when she looked up at his face she saw that he was frowning.

"Is there something wrong?" Ivy asked as she looked to his mother who was glaring at her.

"Yes there is, it seems that when my son saved you he made himself a target for the marines." Hody's mother said. Ivy frowned as she looked down.

"That's why my friends told me to stay away from certain zones on the Archipelago. I didn't know anything about this, I'm so sorry." Ivy said and just as Hody was about to say something his mother interrupted him.

"I knew that I should've been following you when you used to leave the house. You've come here and helped her and now you're being targeting. Let's go Hody, we're leaving and we're not coming back." His mother said as she walked to the door.

"Mom you just can't blame this all on her, I'm the one that decided to help her." Hody said.

"I don't care! We're leaving, while we're here we're at the hands of these humans but on Fishman Island they can never touch us." His mother said angrily.

"What about Ivy?" Hody asked.

"What about her? She'll be fine after all these are her people, so I'm pretty sure if they did find her the only thing they would ask her about is helping them catch you." His mother said.

"Well they wouldn't be too happy with me then because I would never tell them anything." Ivy said bravely.

"So if you had to trade my son in for your freedom you wouldn't?" His mother asked.

"Of course I wouldn't, whether he saved me or not I'm not gonna turn him in just so he can be abused for sick entertainment just because he's different than me." Ivy said.

"I highly doubt that." His mother said.

"Whether you believe me or not isn't my problem but I will tell you this that woman in that picture over there risked her life to save me and she didn't have to but she did because she saw that I wasn't like everyone else with their ignorant and prejudice ways. I would never hate someone I don't know just because their different than me because without differences in the world everything would be the same and knowing that we both races may not have even existed in this world because we weren't the first beings here. Nothing would be right in the world without everything being different so why is so bad that you're both different from me." Ivy said then pointed to the picture of a fishwoman with light blue skin and black hair hugging a little girl with orange-red hair.

"You were a slave?" Hody asked noticing the slave mark on the woman's left shoulder and one on Ivy's leg. The marks had been covered up with a full moon and a fairy that was holding the sun in her hands.

"No I was a noble but I hated every minute of it which is why I was always in trouble. I was an only child because my mother couldn't have any more children after she had me. One day they went out and bought a slave who was a fishman and I heard some of the maids talking about fishmen. I had always heard so many bad things about fishmen and merfolk and I wanted to see if was all true. So one night I stuck into the basement to see them all for myself and what I saw was nothing like I had heard.

They were at least 10 of them down there, they were all adults and they were hurt pretty badly, they all looked so scared and it made me cry. One of the fishmen that was down there begged me to let them go, the other ones had begged for him to stop asking me before they all were punished. I walked up to him and held his hand and told them that I'd set them free but they have to promise that they'll come back for me, even though I knew that they wouldn't I still let them go. A week later my parents went out for the night and left me alone in the house with the nanny, I saw that as my chance to free them all once she went to sleep. Once I let them all go free and helped them escape the island I ran back to pretend like I had been sleep when they all escaped.

When my parents found out they were furious that they all got away but they knew that there was nothing they could do about it, a few months later they bought a fishwoman. I was given a new nanny by that time so I had to be quick and clean or else she'd know it what I was up to. When I managed to get down to the basement to see her I was shocked at how pretty she was, the fishmen that I had let go the first time were mixed with fish-like and human-like looks but she looked human, well at least human enough. She had black long flowing hair that stopped to the middle of her back and light blue skin with smoke grey eyes. I told her the same thing that I told the others but when I let her go she did something that I would have never thought I'd see.

She told me to run away with her and that she would take care of me and protect me. I asked her why and she told me that if I was such a bad person I wouldn't have went through so much to help her so she feels like she should help me too. I went with her and from then and on I was never sad again. I met a lot of people on Fishman Island and I never wanted to leave but once I got older she made me move back on land so that I could get used to being on my own, I knew something was wrong I just didn't know what. I was visited by one of her friends three weeks later and she told me that she was killed, she had left me all of her possessions but that still didn't help me get over the fact that somebody took her away from me." Ivy said close to shedding tears. Hody was shocked and his mother was smiling.

"Well then I have misjudged you but that still doesn't help the fact that he is wanted and he has to hide in order not to get caught." His mother said.

"Well then I seems like you'll be going back to Fishman Island a little earlier than you thought." Hody said as he peeked out of one of the windows.

"Why is that?" His mother asked.

"Because the marines are already outside waiting for us." Hody said with a grin.

"What?!" His mother asked astonished.

"Come on, I have another way we can get away from them." Ivy said as she ran up the stairs with Hody and his mother following close behind.

Ivy opened the hatch to her roof and crouched down low as she walked to the back of her house. Hody smirked dangerously as he saw what she wanted them to do and quickly hoisted Ivy onto his back and jumped into the water with his mother jumping in after them. While in the water Hody made a bubble and put it on Ivy's head so she could breathe as he swam. Soon they reached Fishman Island; Ivy smiled widely as they neared her old home.

"I've missed this place so much; it's just as beautiful as I remember it." Ivy said with a big smile.

Tell me what you think and if you guys see any errors please tell me. I'm a bit sleepy from being up all night, I couldn't sleep for some strange reason. See ya next chapter. XD