Berwald walked along the beach in his daily walk when he saw a figure stumbling slightly in the distance. The Swede walked a little faster and found the figure to be a person. When the person collapsed Berwald moved to a run. As he got up next to the person he was able to see it was a boy, soaked. Yet his clothes, which was only a very large t-shirt that went down to his knees, were dry as a bone.

Berwald didn't hesitate on his decision to take the boy home to nurse him to health. The Swede carefully lifted the boy and quickly took him to his small house by the ocean.

… (Back track)

The merman, with short light blond hair and amethyst eyes and a small light blue marking by his right eye, couldn't believe what his father had just said, "Papa…Y-You can't be serious…" The Finnish merman's light blue tail almost stopped from his disbelief.

"I am son. You are to marry Ivan of the Russian seas." Tino opened his mouth to protest when the king held up a hand, "It is my duty the safety of the merpeople of the Finnish seas. And this duty, being my only heir, also falls on YOU! So you are to marry him!"

"But father! I do not love him!" Tino just about yelled.

His father was taken aback for a moment, "Love? There is no meaning of that in our world!"

The prince's eyes filled with hurt but he quickly opened his bag and took out a book, "But it should be! In all the stories I read…It's the most powerful thing of all!"

The king snatched the book, "And this is why I also must marry you off! You fill your head with this stuff HUMANS write!" Tino tried to take his book back but his father pulled it away, "Thus! I forbid you to ever touch one of these…books! Ever again! You are stay with the scrolls your mother gives you!"

Tino gasped and backed away at his father's harsh tone. He felt his eyes sting and he turned and swam out of the room, passing his mother. The queen looked at him in shock as she herd him begin to cry. She swam up to her husband, "What happened dearest?"

The king sighed and shook his head, "My dear Nori…Tino…didn't like the news…"

Queen Nori swam closer to her husband, "What news Nalu?" She paused then understood, "He doesn't want to marry Ivan?"

Nalu shook his head, "No…He talked of this 'love' again."

Nori thought a moment then her blue eyes shined, "What if you give him a chance to prove this 'love'?"

Nalu nodded, "I will send him to the surface with the humans and prove love…But he will only have 2 weeks before I marry him to Ivan and proclaim there to be no such thing as 'love'…"

…

Tino gasped awake and found strange things…clothes! That what they must be, he read about them. He woke warm and comfortable; he certainly wasn't in his coral bed. Where was he? Last he remembered he was in his room. No he last, faintly, remembers walking…walking? YES! He had been walking with LEGS, his heart leaped at that word, on a beach in the sand. But then there was something else. Arms? Yes. Someone carried him.

The prince finally decided to open his eyes to look around. His eyes opened and right away he began to scream. Next to him was a towering human with a stern icy glare holding a bowl of something. Tino continued to scream as the human's face seemed to turn to surprise.

A/N

Ok admitting time. I took the idea of Nalu and Nori from Barbie Mermaidia…And I got this story idea FROM that movie…No judging because it's also from Aquamarine…Sort of. I wanted to write a more fairytale story because I love magical stories and my stories recently, including ones not even started to type and are just on paper, aren't fairytales or magical. So this is a kind of story I wanna try.