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The fishermen and the young Mer

Warnings: mentions of death.

The Request: [Could I request a bad batch saving a mermaid!Omega please? She is trapped in a stormy ocean and she lost her parents, forever. She's scared of them at first, but they seem really nice and they adopt her. They travel to an uninhabited planet that has forestry and lots of water and space for her to swim around in. They make it a home and look after Omega, Hunter raising her like a daughter.]

A\N: This was requested by @ahsokatano-thetogruta on tumblr, I hope you like it!! I changed it from the original request a bit.

Omega swims through the stormy sea, afraid for her life. She only lost her parents a short time ago, she's still too young to swim through the ocean on her own, she has no idea what to do in storms, or where she can go. She's being pushed around by wave after wave until she finally sees it, a boat! Omega knows the stories, how humans are dangerous, but she doesn't see any other option. So she swims towards the boat, bringing her head above the water every few minutes to make sure she's going the right way. She swims as hard and as fast as she can, the most she has swam in her life. Until she finally is able to grab onto the bottom of the boat.

"Help!!" She screams, as loud as her small lungs can go. She can hear bumping on top of the boat, and with hope flowing through her, she screams again. "Help!!!!" She then sees someone pop their head over the edge of the ship, he has long hair and a bandana around his head. His eyes widen when he sees her, and Omega feels fear fill her when he leaves, then there's suddenly a splash behind her as the man jumps into the water.

He swims over to her and pulls her close, then he climbs back up onto the railing of the ship as a few more men help him up. He holds young Omega close, and as she starts to warm up, the edges of her vision goes black, and she promptly passes out.

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Hunter stares at the young girl in his arms, as his brothers do the same. None of them know what to do, especially seeming as she has a red tail, with blue fins. "Is... Is that a Mermaid?" His brother, Wrecker asks. Everyone stares wide eyed at her, and Tech shakes his head. "Can't be, they don't exist." Hunter looks over at Tech. "Well, for something that doesn't exist. She feels pretty real to me." Tech doesn't say anything more, he doesn't know how this could be possible. "What do we do now?" Echo asks quietly, he's a newer addition to the team of fisherman, but he has also become like a brother in the year he's worked with them.

His prosthetics creak as he walks over to where Hunter is still kneeling on the deck, the rain pounds heavily as he brushes the hair out of the little girl's eyes. "We'll take care of her, at least, for now, we need to get her inside." Hunter stands up as he holds her close. "We can't just keep her?! She needs to be in the water." Hunter falters. Then turns to Crosshair and gives him a glare. "What do you want us to do, Cross? Throw her back in the stormy sea! After she was afraid and called for help!" Crosshair flinches at the yelling. "No no, I didn't mean that at all. You know that I like kids, what I mean is that we need to keep her in water, and then we need to find her parents. We can't keep her forever." Hunter sighs, he knows that Crosshair is right, he then turns to Tech. "Tech, you know about the legends, is there a way to keep her safe from drying out?" Tech think's for a moment as the rain pelts them, then he snaps his fingers as an idea comes to him.

""We can wet one of our scarves and place it around her neck, keeping her gills wet, then we grab a towel and do the same, placing it on her tail. She should be fine then." Hunter nods. "Okay, Tech, go grab my scarf. Cross, grab my towel, it's small enough it won't cover her fully." Both nod and run to do that, Hunter waits where he is, as Echo and Wrecker look down at the girl. "I didn't even know Mer existed." Echo whispers, making Hunter smile. "Neither did I, I always thought the legends were just that, legends." The three of them turn as Crosshair and Tech run back out with a towel and a scarf, a few minutes near the side of the boat, with the huge waves and they are both soaked. Then all five of them run inside.