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The sea had always been kind to Sun, the little sunshine of his pond.

So it was decidedly, absolutely, categorically unfair he couldn’t find that rock !

Sun was a mermaid, a diva of his kind if you may, and this wonderful persona had currently spent his entire afternoon looking for a pebble he had been playing with in the morning.

But it wasn’t any rock, no no ! It was his rock. And that made it particular.

His friends always told him « by the gods Sun, you can’t just get attached like that to the first thing that falls into your sight ! » but, but ! He just had a big heart, what could he do against that ?

So, when that pebble had flew away, he naturally followed it, without even thinking if the others would be worried sick.

At first, it had really been about finding it.

Then, he looked around, and realized he was in the corner of the sea no one really ever visited. The abandoned land field, also known as the backstage of their sea.

Full of ships carcasses, it was usually where the garbages and food leftovers would be thrown at.

The ambiance was cold, devoid of sounds aside from those of the rare seaweeds surviving there. Gee he felt like an adventurer !!

And Sun had very rarely visited it before : he was a little prince mind you !

So.. what would be the harm in dipping his scales a bit ?

He giggled to himself before graciously swimming from shipwrecks to shipwrecks, some of them no longer looked like their past selves, a simple rotten big piece of wood. Others still had some of their dignity left.

He slowly reached the biggest one, a seemingly golden plaque, and traced the name carved on it with his palmed fingers.

‘A..F…T-O-N ?’ ,He muttered in wonder.

What could that means ? It’s like that one word shook him to his core.

A small, subtle sound was the thing putting him put if his transe, looking around to see where it came from. That sound wasn’t usual at all, it almost sounded like.. someone breathing.

« Ah ! »

He heard it again !! He swear !! Sun swims towards the direction of the noise, realizing it comes from the inside of a smaller, broken down boat.

The golden-reddish mermaid boy slowly entered his sun shaped head into one of the hole of the ship, widening his eyes in the dark.

As his light blue eyes adjusted to the black surrounding him, he began to see the traits of something, a lump of shadow, forming. Another sound came from it !

Sun mouth gaped as he wiggled his body into fitting inside the sharp cave hole.

Once inside, Sunrise could feel his excitation bubble up in his chest, but not fear. This was like a new game ! Oh but he definitely should be afraid ! Except he wasn’t.

The golden merfolk leaned over to the seemingly asleep figure, the thin sun ray hitting the floor and making of the lump something clearer made a oddly, very oddly similar person appears in front of him. Seeing the tail, they were a mermaid too !!

Sun hands quickly were shook as his eyes widened, fist floating up and down in the water.

« Wowzer !! »

The other merfolk let out a small whine, rolling onto the other side of the homemade bed.

It must not be very comfortable.

He hunched over to the mermaid face, tracing his finger over the traits forming under the touch. They were frowning, and seeing their face more clearly..

They were so pretty ! Like a small little round ball !

Sun tickled the other face with a bright smile as a hand weakly slapped in his face.

He was afraid the other had woke up and was mad, but the moon shaped individual was still into the dreamscape.

The diva used his mind to think about what to do. Let’s see, let’s see !

First, this place definitely stinks. Very bad smell too ! Second, this merperson was a treasure !

And you don’t let a treasure hang around the dust, do you ?

Sun gently wraps first his fingers around the mermaid’s waist, then his hands, and then his arms, successfully holding a pretty shiny gold coin in his hands ! How lucky !

Now, to get out of the ship.

He looked at the bigger hole that has been behind him, grinning. There was his free pass to the way out !

Sun gently rearranged the merman position.

The pretty mermaid he was holding oddly had a night-cap, which floated nicely in the water, with blue marine and golden stars decorating it.

Sun quickly swam through the water, having completely forgot the pebble.

Once far away enough from the backstage, he turned back, pupils scanning the sea.

Quickly turning away he went to the much more luxurious part of the sea.

It was a beautiful place, although just a facade to hide allll the ugly stuff behind it.

The corals were a bright, warm colour gently undulating. Meanwhile the bottom was covered in sand, a lemony colour Sun always liked to compare to his own fins.

The water was clearer here too, a turquoise colour.

Sun reached a place he found comfortable enough and sat the night capped individual there, wrapping their body in algae, like a blanket.

He watched as the chest of the mermaid calmly rose, up, down. Up, down..

It was almost mesmerizing, at least to Sun.

Now, he just had to hope Freddy and the others wouldn’t be too mad !

He wouldn’t be mad.

The asleep merfolk suddenly let out a whine, trashing around like a fish caught in a net.

Sun quickly shushed them, finger on their lips, looking around nervously.

He swore he had heard movement in the water, and his name being called. Fred !

“SUN !!!”

‘Oops’ sun muttered, concealing his new treasure behind seaweeds.

He waved at Freddy who was aggressively swimming towards the sunny guy.

“Heyy Freddyyy ! Oh, my good pal !! My friend !”

He brightly smiled, innocently blinking as he tilted his body left to right clasping his hands together.

“SUN !! Oh for- Sun, you can’t just keep running off like that.”

Freddy, as that was the creature name, not so gently let out a small hit in the back of Sun’s head, making the diva shriek like a fish with a throat slit.

“I’m sososo sorryyy !!!” , he whined, gripping onto Freddy.

“I promise i didn’t mean to !! There was this very shiny rock - oh yes very shiny rock - and I couldn’t help it Freddy !”

Freddy sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, he raised his eyes towards Sun, who looked like an absolute apologetical mess, sight which he had seen more than enough.

He sighed,

“You have to be more careful sunstar.. the show can’t go on without you, and neither can we.”

Sun now definitely felt bad, about to open his mouth to act as some sort of drama king again before something, someone moves behind the seaweeds. Gasp, no !

Sun immediately rush to hide his new friend, waving his arms around and twirling like a madman.

‘Look at me’ his behaviour screamed.

Freddy wasn’t impressed, looking over to the seaweeds, hands on hips.

“…Sun, sunny sun, what did we say about bringing animals home ?”

Seeing as Sun was still waving around like a dying fish fighting for its last breathe - when he could be so elegant - he took forwards to check over to the seaweeds.

A hiss was heard.