"Lemme go!" Kaito yelled. He had recently been kidnapped by some sort of men in black. Now, since they had learned he couldn't swim, and since they had gotten the ransom, they were going to drown him in the ocean. "Stop!" he yelled, tears in his eyes. He tried to free himself from the rope he was tied in, but failed. "Heh, sorry, but you saw our faces. Have a good time in heaven!" One of the men yelled as he pushed Kaito into the ocean.

Kaito freaked out. He was going to die, right here and now. He opened his mouth to let out the last of his breath. Suddenly, he saw a golden light. "You don't want to die here, right?" The golden light said in a soft, female voice. "Of course you don't. I can make you live longer, but on one condition. You will no longer be human. You will not be an animal, but you also will not be human. Do you accept?" The golden light asked. Kaito nodded with the last of his strength, and then fell unconscious and continued sinking. The golden light shined brighter, and Kaito's body also glowed gold.

When Kaito woke up, hours later, and he was still underwater, but he was breathing. 'What happened? Am I a fish?' He thought. He looked at his hands. They were still normal. Then he looked at his legs. "WHAT THE…" He yelled. Where his legs once were, there was a brown fish tail! He also noticed he was shirtless. "So I'm a merman now. Creepy." He said, still a little confused. He saw people swimming on the surface. "Huh," he murmured, "Maybe there'll be a snorkeler. I should stay here, near the bottom." Then, he saw a little girl flailing her legs. He also heard cries of help coming from the surface. Surprisingly, no one came to the little girl's aid. She began to sink.

'Oh no!' he thought, 'I can't let a little girl die like this!' He quickly swam and caught the girl. Then, he swam to the surface. There were shrieks of, "Where's Angela!" coming from a woman, obviously the girl's mother. He swam to the shallowest spot he could, and place the awakening girl in it. The girl had woken up enough to see a merman, slipping back into the sea.

Kaito felt pleasant inside. He had saved a life. All of a sudden, fear struck him. What if the girl had seen him? In fact, he was sure she saw him.

"Maybe I should hide for a little while?" he wondered. He began swimming out into deeper waters.

Once into pretty deep waters, he felt safe. Just about nobody would swim this deep, and not many people owned boats. "Wait a minute, what's that sound?"

TO BE CONTINUED…