It was like a completely different world she had entered. Ghostly shipwrecks littered the ocean floor with their decaying bodies. Like the fog above surface, there was a thick haze in the water that limited visibility greatly. But that didn't detour the young and adventurous Andromeda. Ever since she was old enough to swim outside of the kingdoms barriers, she ventured far and wide. Andie was forbidden to go to the surface or to have anything to do with humans. As was everybody else in the kingdom. From what her father told her and her sisters; humans are dangerous and murderous. That human's stop at nothing to get what they want. Even if it means hurting others in the process. But Andie didn't want to believe what her father was saying. To her, humans were wondrous and beautiful. They were as mysterious to her and she is to them. So in secret, her and her best friend, Nova, explore and collect things made by humans. Nova, who is a lot like Sebastian, isn't considered MerFolk either. She's very human like in appearance; she has two arms and two legs and even gills. But she does have a caudal fin, which is placed above her legs. She was actually dolphin-like. She was able to use echolocation effectively enough to actually talk with wild dolphins. Her family serves the kingdom and in return they get to stay within the safety of the kingdom walls. Andie and Nova grew up together and became close friends. She's the only person who knows of Andie's escapades. Today Andie has come across a sunken ship that she has not explored yet, and for good reason. Great White's patrol various ships closely and this one in particular.

"Nova! NovaNovaNova! There it is! Have you seen another more awesome before?" Andie questioned, trying to contain her excitement.

Sitting ominously on a ridge was one of the largest ships either of them had seen on the ocean floor. It had recently touched the bottom, about a month or two ago. So the wood was slowly starting to rot away. Shredded sheets of the sails still attached to the mast flowed with the current, creating an eerie and ghostly effect.

"Yeah sure. I guess. Look you know I hate being here, can we please just go? There might be sharks." Nova tried shrugging off Andie's enthusiasm; she was terrified of this place. Too many times they had been hounded and hunted by sharks.

"Oh come on! Why are you being such a guppy? Are you getting cold fins on me?" Andie teased.

"I am not a guppy. And no, I'm not. Why would you think that?"

Andie darted off in the direction of the ship and molded her body to the starboard side of the haul. The porthole glass was broken so it was a perfect opening for her to squeeze inside. Right before she did, Nova was beckoning her to come back out and leave.

"Come now, Nova. Look you can stay out here if you want and keep an eye out for sharks!" She joked, and entered the ship.

"Hah yeah, what a load of sharkshit, Andie. Like I'm going to stay out here and wait for a bloody shark to kill me." Nova announced to her friend.

Nova fitted her slender body through the opening but got caught by her legs and tail fin. She reached out and Andie pulled her arms and Nova's back end popped through the porthole. Andie swam ahead, her hands caressing everything they touched. The feeling of the wood beneath her fingers was unlike the feeling of rough coral. It was soft and hard at the same time. To Andie, the interior of the ship was absolutely beautiful, even though almost every ship had been in was the same, there were some differences that kept her smiling. This one in particular had more shiny objects then the usual. The portholes had been gilded with gold and silvers, even the guard rails had metal on them. Swimming farther into the depths of the ship, the two found a set of stairs that led to the very bottom of the haul, where many broken barrels sat rotting away with their contents. Being inside the ship meant that there was no current to push away the stale water. The stagnant water was very cold and unwelcoming. Andie felt the change, but didn't care since she was so used to it.

"This is so great, like I'm really loving this. Excitement, danger, lurking around ever cor-AHHHHHH!" Nova started out extremely sarcastic, then began screaming hysterically because of a creepy skeleton and backed up hard against a pillar of wood which easily crumbled under her strength. Causing the upper level to crumble open, debris fell hard onto Nova who swam out of the way and slammed into Andie's arms.

"ANDIE!" She screamed as the two collided. Andie watched as the upper level was now accessible.

"Oooh, are you alright Nova?" She cooed to her friend. Nova shook viciously in her arms.

"Yeah totally, just fucking great." She grumbled. Andie let her friend go and popped her head up to check the new floor.

"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh look, Nova, look!" Andie cried out.

She quickly swam over to the shiny object. It had a handle and a head; the head had three smaller long parts. One of which was bent to the side. Andie recognized the object. It looked similar to the other two she had.

"Have you ever seen something so amazing in your entire life?!"

"Hey cool! Buuut what is it?" Nova asked.

"I have no idea! Maybe it's used to brush your hair?"

Nova noticed that there was a shadow looming in the area. She could hear the current move in an unusual way. Her senses were on high and she was weary.

"Did you hear that?" Nova asked. But Andie was too caught up in another discovery. This time a dark object that looked like a piece of bent coral that got bigger on one end.

"Hmm. I wonder what this one is."

"Andromeda!" Nova called out, her voice shaky. Her back was turned away from the large clear window.

"Nova will you relax?! Nothing is going to happen!" Andie said, annoyed.

That's when she heard it, the rushing of water over an object. The kind of sound the ocean makes when it's washing against something. Nova turned her head slightly around and there racing towards the window was the largest shark she had ever seen, its mouth gapping open to kill her. Nova shot forward towards Andie.

"SHARK! SHARK! WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIE!" She screamed as her body rammed into Andie's.

Now that Nova had her undivided attention, all they could do was swim away. But at every turn the shark still was able to stay a fins length away. Somehow the two retraced their steps and found their porthole entrance.

"Oh no!" Nova exclaimed. But she thrashed through the small opening, suddenly feeling sharp pains on her thighs. Andie pushed her feet and they both popped out of the porthole into open water.

"Nova you're bleeding!" She screamed.

Sharp jagged metal had cut into Nova's legs making her bleed badly. The scent of blood now lingered in the water and their hunter just got a little hungrier. Nova bleeped out in a high pitched sound over and over again. The two darted into a coral forest. The sharp thorns kept them safe from the jaws of the shark. Nova continued to bleep out in calls for help. A nearby pod of dolphins heard their calls for help and all six of them started ramming their noses into the shark's body. To the shark it was like being stabbed with a harpoon over and over again. Soon the beast moved off and the dolphins gave them safe passage back to the kingdom boundaries. Andie and Nova then made their way to the surface; they could see the sun shining down from above them. The warmth getting better and better. Andie and Nova broke the surface of the water and made a leap into the open air. A little further out from them was a tiny, lone island. On the island was a lonely little palm tree and one half of a mast with a small crow's nest filled to the brim with dead grass and trash. There a seagull sat looking out before him.

"Hello, Gull!"

The seagull perked up at the sound of the familiar voice and once he saw her he jumped from his perch to greet his friends by the shore.

"Why hello there, Andromeda. What brings you to my beach today?"

"We found some new things from a creepy ship!" Nova said happily.

"Ahhh, human stuff huh?! Lemme see that!" The gull exclaims.

Andie leapt out of the water onto the hot beach sand. It sticks to her skin and fin. Oh how the warm sand feels so good. A luxury that she rarely gets to experience. The feeling of the soft yet grainy material was wonderful. She rubbed it all up and down her arms and fin. Giving her breasts a nice and even coat over her bra. Nova couldn't join her on the island; her gills just wouldn't allow it. The gull was pecking through the makeshift bag and dragged out the two items she found.

"Wow look at this…I see these all the time! They use them to eat I think? I believe the humans call it a dinglehopper!"

The gull was ecstatic with the metal object.

"Wow!" This came from both Andie and Nova. "A dinglehopper! It's so awesome!"

"What about that one, Gull?" Nova pointed to the dark wooden object from that water.

"Oh this! Well this…this, this is rare! This is a banded, bulbous, snarfblat!"

"Ooooh" The two mumbled in awe.

"Humans use these to make beautiful music with!"

And then it hit her like a rough wave.

"MUUUSIC?! Oh man my father is going to kill me! I can't believe I forgot that the concert was today!"

"Oh fuck! The concert was today?!" Nova shouted.

"Shit, I got to go! Thanks again, Gull!" Andie shouted and dove back into the cool water.

"Anytime, sweetie. Anytime!" He shouted back.