•☆Golden Treasure☆• □//A Pirate Sunxmoon Story\\□

ch1

All Art drawn in this is mine, same as the cover

◇{Sun's Pov}◇

I swam with a school of fish this was my first time outside of the kingdom, it was for a good reason. Every mer that turns 18 is sent out of the kingdom to find their mate (a mate is someone your with for life, having kids with I guess it's like a husband or wife, I think that's what humans call it) but hey i'm 21, I guess my parents didn't want me to find them. But now I can? I was gazing around as the fish soon dispersed and swam in different directions.

There was pink, blue green and any colour of coral you name it- oh how much I love this. But at the same time, leaving my family alone? I knew I would miss them, but the thought of adventure just a few metres from where I now rested sent a shiver from my tailtip to my gills. Exitment could be around every corner or through every blanket of seaweed. I mean, it could even be above the line of water!

As i looked up at that thin barrier seperating me from the sky and deadly sun, I began to feel daunted by tomorrow's mission.

Looking for a mate was difficult and if you couldn't find them in a year you're doomed and I mean it, apparently it's bad luck and I don't want that! The thought of that was to scary but it's not to bad I guess cause I should be able to find my mate in like a month or two. I'm just to fast.

Oh I forgot to introduce myself to you reader. I'm Sunny or Sunnie however you wanna spell it, I'm a siren and well it's strange because I can't actually sing like normal ones do, apparently it's called a "defect" but I don't really mind it, my hair is golden in the front and bright orange in the back, my tail is long and slender, with colours ranging from red to yellow and even orange, my tail fin is in the slight shape of the sun and actually has a sun birthmark on it; Isn't that so cool!

Yet ironic isn't it? You'd think that my hair and tail would fit in with stereotypical siren / merpeople pallettes, but just as my lack of a melodic tune, i am also incredibly unique in the varieing colours of sunny yellow and bright oranges. But I've been told I'm a social butterfly at the best of times, if a little on the annoying side. Out here i can't see myself as confident, but hopefully as I gain my independance I should be able to interact with others better. That's the key in finding a mate. To be out of your shell and explore the world around you, even if at first it seems too massive to take in!

As I was drifting off to sleep, I kept thinking about my loneliness and I just couldn't drift off, what it is going on with me? I sat up from my clam shell bed it was comfy but the loneliness was keeping me awake,I should've be asleep now I've got a mission tomorrow, I need a lot of rest otherwise I'll be such a angry fish I sighed lightly feeling the silky bed I felt my eyes slowly closing as I gotten into a comfy position I drifted off in a deep sleep.

Shadows flitered across my eyelids and I awoke with a gasp. Bubbles flowed from my mouth as I breathed out a sigh of exitement - but also something else...

Was i nervous?

I reassured myself that i wasn't. What was there to be scared about anyway? All i had to do today was swim around for miles just to find a mate...

I sighed again. But nothing could stop me from today's adventure!

/Time skip\

Salty tears welled in the corner of my eyes, but not because i was sad, but more because i was exahusted. I have been travelling for days on end, only stopping to catch a few hours of restless sleep. My arms had long grown heavy and I imagined it to be two great white sharks perched on my shoulders. A consistent weight I would be forced to carry for many more days.

I curled up in a makeshift bed and closed my eyes one last time before drifting off into an uneasy sleep. But for once I did not wake up suddenly in the dark hours; there was a change in mood. Something forboding would happen tomorow, but I was not scared. In fact, I was eager to move on...