Friends, and someone special.

“A young mermaid with wavy bright red hair, followed by a strangely triangular yellow fish with blue stripes, yelled to a small red crab “Come on, Sebastian, hurry!” and it yelled back “Wait, Ariel, don’t leave me behind!” Then they almost crashed into you three, scaring the fish and the crab away, but the mermaid motioned them to calmth “Relax, Sebastian, they don’t look like they belong with those other creatures. Right, Flounder?” The yellow fish appeared from behind Ariel’s back and softly said “I don’t know. They look kinda strange to me.” You wanted to say “Not as strange as you do”, but instead said “Uuhhm, what do you mean?” Ariel came closer and swam around you for a closer look as she said “They do seem a little strange…” While she did this, you got a better look at her too. You noticed she was quite the looker, with her cute face, clear and curious eyes, petite breasts covered by seashells. Then as her lower part past you by you noticed a vertical slit opening and closing just under her belly in the fish part of her body. It was barely noticeable, but the edges were slightly swollen and had a darker tint than the green of her tail, while you could see,at the few times it opened, that the inside of the slit had a light, almost pale, tint of green. As Ariel swam by, you felt a slight jolt in the strange tentacle you had dangling between your other tentacles.

You didn’t know if she noticed that or the awkward looking of yours, but you quickly responded with “We are not from this ocean, but from one far away from here, so, uhm, we don’t really know how to move around here.” Ariel smiled and said “oooowwwwww, but that’s no problem. Sebastian can teach you how we swim around here.” Sebastian’s eyes shot open wide as he heard his name and said “Ariel, king Triton will not like it when he hears about this.” Ariel sighed and rolled her eyes, then pretended not to care, saying “O, father won’t hear about this. Besides, it’s not a big deal, right?” Sebastian said with a worrying face “That's easy for you to say.” But he still helped you out by teach you and letting you play a game of tag with Flounder until you got the knack of confidently moving in the ocean’s waters.

Just as you were nearing the end of your training, you heard Ariel yell “Sebastian, there they are again!” when a group of jellyfish Heartless swam into the cave. As Ariel escaped into another tunnel, Sebastian swam by, saying “Class dismissed. Good luck!” and hid with Flounder in a clam shell. You took down the small group of Heartless that made their way towards you, getting in some underwater fighting practise and then knocked on the shell as a “coast clear” sign.