It was a foggy grey day at sea. The fog made it somewhat hard to see what was ahead. But a good captain could always see where he was going.

This captain especially. The captain's name was Raphael, he was the captain of the RMS Millennium. He was the best captain out of the kingdom and was currently steering the ship back towards the kingdom. He smiled as he heard his crew singing to pass the time as they did their jobs. Like any sailor on the sea would do.

"I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

And it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho

Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you

In mysterious fathoms below"

As the crew sang, one man stood out amongst the rest. He was dressed in a pair of black pants, a white shirt with his sleeves rolled to his elbows, brown boots on his feet and a red belt around his waist. The man had tanned skin, brown hair, and blue eyes like the ocean. A smiled grazed his face as he took a breath, inhaling the scent of salt water. Beside him was his dog, Blue.

"Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face . . . a perfect day to be at sea!" he said, Blue barking in response. On the side of the ship, a man was leaned over the side of the ship. This man's name was Coran. He was dressed in black pants, a blue shirt, a black jacket with thin long sleeves and brown knee length boots. The man had tanned skin, orange hair and had an orange mustache.

Now usually Coran was all for sailing, but today his stomach didn't agree with him being on the sea. "Oh yes . . . delightful . . . ." he leaned back over emptying his stomach once more.

On the deck, a sailor was pulling a rope and seemed to be struggling a little with it "A fine strong wind and a following sea" Lance jumped down from his spot and helped the sailor with the rope. "King Shiro must be in a friendly-type mood" Lance turned to the sailor "King Shiro?". Another sailor who was an elderly man spoke up picking fish out of the net. "Why, ruler of the merpeople, lad. Thought every good sailor knew about him".

Coran had joined them once his stomach settled "Merpeople! Lance, pay no attention to this nautical nonsense" Lance pouted "but I've always heard the stories about King Shiro" Coran scoffed. "Like I said it's nothing but nonsense". The sailor popped up behind Coran, fish in hand. "But it ain't nonsense, it's the truth! I'm tellin' you, down in the depths o' the ocean they live" the sailor" he flung the fish up to Coran's face, the fish slipping out of his hand.

The fish's fin slapped Coran's face a few time before plunging back into the ocean.

"Heave. ho. Heave, ho.

In mysterious fathoms below"

Once back in the water the fish let out a sigh of relief. The fish began to swim home, passing by beautiful colored reefs and eventually came to a castle. This castle was made of beautiful gold walls and stood tall and proud, right in the middle of the kingdom. This kingdom's name was Altea.

At the moment the castle was very busy, merpeople and sea creatures alike were gathering in the castle to watch a performance by the king's 6 daughters. And making his first concert appearance was his youngest child, his son Keith.

As everyone got settled in a fanfare began to play gathering everyone's attention. A small orange sea horse appeared and cleared his throat. "Ahem . . . His royal highness, King Shiro!" the crowd cheered as Shiro entered in a carriage being pulled by two dolphins. With his triton in hand Shiro lit up the chandelier at the top of the room and gold dust fell down to the crowd.

The seahorse spoke once more "And presenting the distinguished court composer, Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Slav!" the crowd cheered as Slav entered next. He was a green crab with a light beige head. He was being pulled in a shell by two orange fish. He pulled up next to Shiro who smiled. "I'm really looking forward to this performance, Slave" Slav nodded in response "Oh, Your Majesty, this will be the finest concert I have ever conducted. Your children - they will be spectacular!" Shiro nodded as he parked in his spot letting go of the dolphins. "Yes, and especially Keith".

Slav nodded "Yes, yes, he has the most wonderful voice. . . ." as he moved towards the stage he muttered under his breath with a roll of his eyes. "If only he'd show up for rehearsals once in a while. . . ." the crowd settled once more as the lights went down. Slav pulled a music book out of his shell and waited for the orchestra to be ready as the songs started.

Behind a bubble curtain, three shells raised up and opened revealing two daughters with each opening shell.

"Oh, we are the children of Shiro

Great father who loves us and named us well

Allura"

Allura had tanned skin, blue eyes with purple. Her tail was a light blue with pink fins, her bra matching her tail. Her brown hair(1) was tied up in a bun with a golden crown keeping it in place.

"Hira"

Hira had tanned skin and light blue eyes. Her magenta hair was cut in a pixie cut. Her tail was white with light blue fins, her bra matching her tail. A brown pearl necklace around her neck.

"Ecxa"

Ecxa had tanned skin and dark purple eyes. She had dark brown hair with her bangs loose and the rest tied in a high bun. Her tail was purple with light indigo fins, her bra matching her tail and a black pearl necklace around her neck.

"Ezor"

Ezor had tanned skin, teal eyes and light blue hair which was tied in a ponytail. Her tail was a dark teal with lighter teal fins, her bra matching her tail. She had a golden high choker around her neck and diamond shaped gold earrings.

"Shay"

Shay had lightly tanned skin, green eyes, and brown hair in a bob cut. Her tail was green with light green fins matching with her green bra. A golden three long chained necklace around her neck.

"Narti"

Narti had dark peach skin, light green eyes, and dark blue hair which was lied into a ponytail her curly bangs loose. Black spikes poked out of her tail was dark indigo with blue fins matching her bra. A golden high collared necklace around her neck and a gold armband.

"And then there is the youngest in his musical debut

Our youngest little brother, we're presenting him to you"

A shell raised up and the sister swam around it smiles on their faces.

"To sing a song Slav wrote, his voice is like a bell

He's our brother Kei... "

As the shell opened, it was revealed that Keith was not in the shell. The crowd and everyone else gasped all turning to the king. Shiro growled his grey eyes flashing purple and his triton glowing in anger. "KEITH!".

Meanwhile in a deserted graveyard of ships, a merman stared at a sunken ship in awe. The merman had pale skin, black hair, and violet eyes. His tail was a light red with lighter red fins, around his shoulder was a violet bag. This was Crown Prince Keith.

Beside him was his friend Pidge. She was shorter than him and a couple of years younger. She had light brown hair that was chopped to her neck, brown eyes that were blocked by a pair of glasses. Keith never understood the glasses, she never needed them, but wore them anyway. Pidge had a dark teal tail with green fins, she wore a matching teal top and a teal headband in her hair.

"Keith, Pidge, wait for me!" the two turned around and Keith gave Hunk a smile "Hunk, hurry up!" Hunk ended up beside Keith and sighed as they took a break. Hunk was Keith's other friend, he younger than Keith by a year. Hunk had lightly tanned skin, brown hair tied in a ponytail with his bangs lose, and brown eyes. Hunk's tail was orange with golden fins.

"You know I can't swim that fast" Pidge rolled her eyes "poor excuse, you can swim faster than your guppy form can". Hunk glared at her "I'm not a guppy" Pidge rolled her eyes. Hunk and Pidge were shapeshifters, they could change from animal to mermaid/man. Pidge's form was a small teal dolphin with green on the underside of her body. Hunk was a tropical fish orange fish with yellow fins. "There it is. Isn't it fantastic" Keith said as he pointed towards the sunken ship. His friend turned and Hunk chuckled nervously "Yeah . . . sure . . . it - it's great. Now let's get outta here" Keith snickered.

Hunk went to turn away but Keith grabbed his arm and pulled his friend back. "You're not getting cold fins now, are you?" Hunk shook his head as Keith started to swim down. Pidge followed along with Hunk behind her. "Who, me? No way. It's just, it, err . . . it looks - damp in there" Keith shared a look with Pidge as Hunk continued to mumble on.

"Yeah. And I think I may be coming down with something. Yeah, I got this cough" Hunk said as they approached the ship. As if trying to fool Keith, Hunk forced a few coughs. Pidge rolled her eyes and leaned against the side of the ship, which Hunk hadn't realized they had reached. "Yeah, some cough you got there Hunk" Hunk nodded, "I think it might be contagious, maybe we should go back".

Keith poked his head through one of the small round windows and then turned back to his friends "All right. I'm going inside, Pidge can come with me, and Hunk you can just stay here and - watch for sharks". Pidge swam inside, followed by Keith. Hunk nodded not really hearing the plan Keith had just stated. "O.K. Yeah - you go. I'll stay and - what? Sharks!" Hunk's eyes widened as he repeated what Keith told him.

"Keeeith!" Hunk yelled as he turned into his fish form and ended up getting stuck in the window."Keith . . . I can't . . . I mean-Keith, Pidge help!" Keith laughed as turned around and grabbed on to Hunk's fins.

"Keith, do you really think there might be sharks around here?" Hunk whispered, unknown to the trio, a shark passed by and eyed the little fish. "Hunk, don't be such a guppy" Pidge and Keith whispered in unison. Hunk pouted as they finally pulled him through. "I'm not a guppy".

The trio moved throughout the ship(Hunk now back in human form) and ended up swimming down to the lower quarters. "This is great - I mean, I really love this. Excitement, adventure, danger lurking around every corn-" Hunk turned his head and ended up coming face to face with the skull of a pirate. Hunk screamed and backed up, right into a pillar.

The pillar, which was holding up the weakened roof came crashing down along with the roof. Hunk yelped and swam towards his friends. "Keeith!" the trio slammed into the ground. "Hunk, are you okay?" Keith asked as the trio stood themselves back up. Hunk nodded, despite his shaking "Yeah sure, no problem, I'm okay . . ." Keith smiled and glanced up.

"Shhh . . ." Keith swam up to the where the roof collapsed and ended up in a different room. Pidge and Hunk followed and glanced around the room. In the center of the room something silver caught Keith's eye "oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Keith swam towards it and his friends slowly followed. "Have you ever seen anything so wonderful in your entire life?" Keith asked holding the object up to his friends.

Hunk nodded "wow, cool! But, err, what is it?" Keith shrugged. "I bet Matt would know!" Pidge said with a smile. Matt was Pidge's older brother. He to was a shifter, but he preferred to stay above the sea. Keith nodded and placed the object into his bag. Outside the large window, the same shark swam by, shaking the window slightly.

"What was that? Did you hear something?" Pidge sighed "I'm sure it was nothing Hunk, now come on" Keith swam towards another object and picked it up. "Hmm, I wonder what this one is?" Pidge shrugged as she continued to search.

"?Keith.." Hunk wined trying to get the prince to listen to him. "Hunk, will you relax. Nothing is going to happen" as if his words were jinxed, Hunk turned around and came face to face with a giant shark. The shark's jaw opened and crashed through the window, Keith and Pidge turned with wide eyes as Hunk changed to fish form again and swam out of the way.

"AAHHHH! Run! Run! We're gonna die!" Hunk crashed into Keith's arms and they hit the wall. The shark chomped his way over to them. Keith gripped Hunk in his arms and swam out of the way. The shark following close behind.

The trio swam out of the room and down the hall, Keith glanced behind them to see if the shark was coming. Without warning, the shark burst through the floor and Hunk screeched to a halt before the shark could comp down on him. The bottom half of the shark's mouth was beneath the floorboards.

That, however, didn't stop him from chomping his way towards where the trio was trying to escape from. Keith's bag ended up getting stuck on a raised piece of the floor. Keith stopped and turned back to see the shark fast approaching.

Taking a risk, Keith swam back for his bag and grabbed it before the shark could chomp down on it. Keith swam up and the shark followed, forcing his way through the little escape route Keith took which ended him back at the porthole. Pidge had swam out fine, but Hunk had gotten stuck once more.

Keith pushed Hunk while Pidge pulled on his fins, Keith exited the ship, just as the shark broke through the weakened ship walls. The trio ended up swimming round and round a half-destroyed mast. The shark following their same path. As Pidge and Keith swam by, a piece at the top of the mast ended up hitting Hunk in the head knocking the fish down.

Keith turned and dove down to grab his friend. His bag dropping to the ground, but Pidge was quick and grabbed it in her arms while she slowly made her way down. The shark was fast approaching Hunk and before it could chomp down Keith grabbed Hunk through the hole of a large dropped anchor and pulled back just in time. The shark was too big for the hole and his head ended up getting stuck in the hole.

Keith gave the shark a smile and started swimming up to the surface with Pidge. Hunk stuck his tongue out at the shark with a glare "you big bully" Hunk blew a raspberry at the shark and when the shark went to chomp pulled his tongue back just in time and swam shakily up to his friends, now in his human form. "Hunk, you really are a guppy" Keith said with a laugh. "I am not" Hunk protested.

Above the surface, Matt, who was in seagull form, was busying himself with a telescope and humming to an unknown song. "Matt!" came a familiar voice, his sister's. Matt sat up and looked through the telescope, only, he looked through the wrong end. The group seemed to be far away, when really they were up at the rock. "Whoa! Merpeople off the port bow! Keith, how you doin' kid?" Matt yelled. He lowered the telescope and jumped back in surprise.

"Whoa, what a swim!" Matt said in surprise. Pidge rolled her eyes "maybe if you were looking through the right end of the telescope Matt" Matt rolled his eyes "I know what I'm doing sis". Keith pulled his bag on to the rock "Matt-look what we found" Hunk nodded.

"Yeah - we were in this sunken ship - it was really creepy" Hunk said as he pulled himself on to the rock beside Matt. "Human stuff, huh? Hey, lemme see" Matt said as he dug into the bag, he ended up pulling out the silver object. "Look at this. Wow - this is special - this is very, very unusual" Matt said. Realization hit Pidge on where she had seen that object before.

"What? What is it?" Keith and Hunk asked in unison as Matt studied the object closely. "It's a dinglehopper!" Keith leaned in closely as Matt swung to object around. "Humans use these little babies . . . to straighten their hair out" Matt stuck it into his hair and twirled it around. "See - just a little twirl here an' a yank there and - voila!" Matt pulled and his hair was yanked out of the object and became a fluffy mess. "You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!" Pidge sighed "Matt I actually think its used for-".

Pidge was interrupted by Keith who pulled the dinglehopper out of Matt's winged grip. "A dinglehopper!" Pidge rolled her eyes knowing it pointless at this point. At smart as her brother may be, his brain wasn't wired to human stuff. "What about that one?" Hunk asked pointing towards the pipe Keith had found.

Matt picked up the pipe next and gasped "Ah - this I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous - snarfblat" Matt said as he held the pipe out to the two. Pidge rolled her eyes as she tried to keep what it actually was to herself. "Now, the snarfblat dates back to prehistoric times, when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day".

Matt dipped the pipe into the water and then held it upside down, a small jellyfish falling out. "Got very boring" Matt said as he went close to Hunk's face. "So, they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Allow me" Matt said as he blew into the pipe. Seaweed and sand popped out the other side, no music came out.

Keith's eyes widened as realization hit him. "Music? Oh, the concert!" Hunk's eyes widened "Oh my gosh, my father's gonna kill me!" Keith said he pulled his bag over his shoulder. "The concert was today?" Hunk said in surprise.

Keith grabbed the pipe from Matt who was mumbling to himself, as well as the dinglehopper. "Maybe you could make a little planter out of it or somethin'" Keith gave Matt a smile as he backed up a few feet. "Uh, I'm sorry, I've gotta go. Thank you Matt!" with that, the trio dove back down and swam towards the palace.

Unknown to the trio, two eels were watching them. One was dark violet with black fins, the other was the opposite, with black with dark violet fins. One eye was normal, the other had a purple tint to it. This was present to both eels.

The two eels were hiding inside of a small cave, They slowly brought their eyes together, which formed an image for showing their master what was happening.

Not so far away in a cave a woman spoke out through the darkness "Yeeeeeees, hurry home, little prince. We wouldn't want to miss old daddy's celebration, now, would we?" the woman chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Huh! Celebration indeed. Bah! In MY day, we had fantastical feasts when I lived in the palace" the woman sighed and crawled out of the small cave she was hidden in.

The woman had purple skin, white hair to her shoulders, and yellow eyes. She was half Altean and half octopus. Her tentacles were dark purple with black on the underside. Around her waist was a black metal belt, and around her neck sat a golden seashell attached to a thick black string.

"And now, look at me - wasted away to practically nothing - banished and exiled and practically starving, while he and his flimsy fish-folk celebrate. Well, I'll give 'em something to celebrate soon enough" the woman turned towards the image of Keith, Pidge, and Hunk. "Sendak! Ladnock!"

The two eels flinch as the woman's voice yelled in their minds. Ladnock hit her head on the rock and rubbed it gently with her tail. The two listened to their master's instructions. "I want you to keep an extra close watch on this pretty little prince of his. He may be the key to Shiro's undoing. . . ".