The Little merMarik (Yu-Gi-Oh! WA 2017)

5: Melvin the sea...........thing

no offense to anyone named Melvin who is reading this.

"Uh...I..." Marik quickly hid the knife behind his back. "This is...um..."

"Hyoo-maayan tings? Billy, yOu'rE not allowed to intErAct with de hyoo-maayans!" Marik's father was furious.

Marik could feel the tears well up in his eyes. "I just-"

"Billy, is it twoO you rEscued a hyoo-maayan?"

Marik was shocked, and saw Ishizu cowering behind her father.
"...I...Ishizu...? You....."

"I'm sorry, Marik." She couldn't face him. "It was for the best..."

"ISHIZU, YOU SWORE!!!"

Marik's father yelled, "BILLY! DID YOU!?"

Marik gulped. "He would've died!"

"So? I see no prOblem with dayat!"

He crossed his arms, hiding the knife. "I did what I had to! I don't regret it!"

"But whY dId you-" he was cut off by Marik saying the unthinkable:

"Because I LOVE HIM!!!"

There was a silent pause, and Marik let what he had just said sink in. No, it was spur of the moment, right? It had to be.

"Billy! YOu weRE collECTIng hyOo-mAayan tings behInd my back, and weRe even seen bY one! You shOuld be ashAmEd! You must obey de ruuulles Billy!"

He held a whip in his hands. "You wIlL be pUnIshed for this, Billy!" He cracked the whip and Marik quickly moved away, and the whip hit one of his collectibles and broke it (Because whips definitely work underwater).

Marik kept the knife clutched in his hands, not daring to let it be seen and taken from him.

"YOu tWO!" He pointed to Odion and Ishizu. "GaThEr eveRythIng in dis rOom! We're gOiNg to thrOw dis into de abyss!"

Marik let out a gasp. "No!"

"QuIet BIllY! YOu're not AllOwed to hAve hopes AnD drEAms!"

As they left with everything but the knife, Marik threw himself onto the rock and cried. "IM MARIK." He sobbed.

Out of the silence (aside from Marik's obnoxious sobbing), and eerie voice with two tones spoke out.
"Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy guuuuuuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyssssssssssssssssss.."

Marik sniffled and looked up to face a faceless octopus with its tentacles wiggling around.

"Guys?" Marik asked. "It's just me!"

"Okay, guys."

"Why are you here? Can't you see this is the scene where I wallow in sadness and despair and then some eels lead me to the villain's lair and I make a horrible decision?"

"Well, first of all, SPOILERS much? And second, we're on a tight budget. We don't have eels. There's just me."

"Oh. That explains the fact I have Bakura's knife instead of a statue of him, and that we're throwing my stuff into an abyss instead of destroying it."

Haha. Very funny. Can we please stop making fun of how uncreative I am and get on with the story?

"Why don't you just go away? Leave!" Marik told Slendy.

"Oh come on guys, I just wanna be in the fanfic. Can I be in, the fanfic?" The slenderthing asked.

Yeah sure. Whatever.

"Thanks guys!" Slendy would've smiled if he had a face. "Anyway, if you'd like to have your problems solved or something, come with me."

Marik wiped his tears and smeared his eyeliner. "Seems legit." Marik forced his fins to move and follow the slenderthing.

Ishizu and Odion caught sight of Marik as he left the cavern, with that strange creature they've never seen.

Ishizu asked, "Marik...! What are you-?"

"None of your business."

"What?!" Ishizu frowned. "You can't just...!"
When Marik ignored her and kept swimming, Ishizu ordered, "Get back here, or else..."

"Or else what? You'll tell father?" He frowned, and kept swimming. "Go ahead. You're good at that."

The cavern had a black, creepy exterior. The water was strangely still and cold as he approached it.
Marik had shivers sent down his spine. He clutched Bakura's knife even tighter.
Without a second glance behind him, Marik entered the cave.

It was eerie on the inside, with utter silence as the sound. There was a faint glow up ahead, colored mostly green.

Marik gulped and inched closer.

There he was: a creature with the bottom half of an octopus, and the top a man. He looked almost exactly like Marik, only his hair was more poofy and he was more...odd.

His double toned voice said, "Come in, Marik. It's not polite to stand in doorways. It's very rude."
The moment Marik got closer, the creature said, "I'm Melvin. Perhaps you've heard of me?"

Marik shook his head, and before he could mention how ridiculous of a name Melvin was, Melvin said: "So, your collection of human items was destroyed. Then, you throw yourself onto a rock and cry like a little b*tch about it. So now you're here, hoping I could grant you some kind of wish like a fairy godmother to solve all your problems?" He grinned evilly, and Marik was somewhere between hopeful and creeped out that he knew all this.

"Well, how can my problems be solved? Seriously like, EVERYTHING was taken from me, my own sister BETRAYED me, I'm stuck with a faceless creep and now I'm talking to you! I don't even know what I want anymore." He thought long and hard. "I might want some ice cream though...."

"The only way to get what you want, is to become a human yourself." Melvin stated with a wicked grin.

"...ice cream?"

"No! You want your MAN. You want to live with the HUMANS."

"No, I'm pretty sure I want ice cream."

"BAKURA!" He threw his hands in the air in frustration. "YOU WANT YAMI BAKURA!!!"

"NO, I want ice cream! Also, I'm NOT GAY!!!"

At this, Melvin smirked. "Really?"

"Of course not! I'm as straight as a ruler."

"Perhaps a bent ruler?" Slendy suggested.

"OH SHUT UP!"

"No one blames you, Marik. Bakura is quite a catch." Melvin snickered evilly as he saw Marik blushing. "Seriously, he's got more fangirls than Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner combined!"

"Seriously?!" Marik's eyes sparkled.

"I haven't the slightest idea. I don't doubt it, though."

Marik sighed. "You said something about making me human? Can you actually do that?"

Melvin sneered. "Angelfish, that's what I live for."