King

The morning breeze caresses their faces as Dean slowly navigates the yacht. Bella has already changed into her diving suit as she scans the water underneath. Few kilometers away, five dolphins suddenly flipped over the water. He slowly turns the yacht in that direction, soon she could hear Mr. Fin's voice in her mind.

"My queen! Where here! Look in this direction!" Bella laughed happily at the dolphin's antics.

"Good to see you, Mr. Fin! Is Queen Bubbles with you?"

"No, my queen, these parts are too shallow and boats could easily spot them so they are waiting in that direction."

Mr. Fin flips in the air, showing the way. Dean understood, so he started the yacht and drove it to where the dolphin went. As they go further, the other dolphin flips above water so they know where to go.

"We've arrived, my queen!" , "Dean!" He slowly stopped the yacht. Looking around, the surface seems to be calm, but they knew underneath lies a surprise. Adelle and Drake stayed at the boat and will communicate through the couple's new headgear he took from the base.

The couple dive, when the bubbles from the impact were gone, they were stunned. Fish, whales, and other aquatic animals surrounded the boat. But they didn't see Queen Bubbles.

"My queen, please take them first, I already informed her highness and currently leading her people slowly to this place. Bella nodded, he squirted and everybody slowly swam to them.

He already saw the same scene, but right now it's still amazing to see so many of them in one place.

The couple on the boat was stupefied when they saw a disturbance in the water, but calmed down when they noticed a white whale disappear a few meters away from the boat. It means she's on the move. They weren't idle, with the telescope, they monitored the water around for passing ships or boats in the area. This yacht is equipped with modern cameras above and under the boat so he took the memory drive, making sure not to record this event erasing also their tracks. Being in the military for years, he can do it in a minute.

After an hour, they can see more are coming, so Bella informs Mr. Fin to stop for a while so they could change their tanks. When they dove again, more of them arrived, so Bella waved her hands and they continued to move.

They did this for four hours then when the couple dove again after changing the tanks, dots of shadows coming in front. Adelle knows something big is happening because the waves are higher and rock the boat.

Queen Bubbles were leading a group of mermaids. Behind her was another golden mermaid, but seemed taller and had a bigger upper body. Slowly, the dots everywhere were clearer and could see thousands of them swimming slowly. Their appearance was the same as the princes' they saw the last time. Green scales all over. The golden mermaid stopped far away from them while Queen Bubbles holding the duffle bags swam to them.

"Nice to see you both!"

"Hello, Queen Bubbles!" Dean only nods. His attention is on the other golden mermaid because his instincts tell him he's dangerous.

"Hahahaha, I should say Queen Bella!"

"Nah, I'm not used to formalities, call me whatever you like." Bella was waving her hand like it was nothing.

"As you wish, by the way, I want to thank you for giving us the special water. It cured my husband's illness inflicted centuries ago. Although we used ten bottles on him, he's health means a lot to our kind. I gave the remaining to my people. I'm shamelessly asking if you could give me more? A lot of my people are left behind because they won't survive the long journey."

"Of course, you don't need to be polite." Bella moved the bags into space. The golden mermaid moved a little, Dean saw it and tightened his clutch on Bella's hands. Queen Bubbles saw this small movement. She facepalmed.

"How rude of me, I was excited to meet you, I forgot to introduce my husband." The Queen waved, the golden mermaid together with the two princes swam to them. The couple now sees he's huge! He's like the height of a basketball player. His muscles on his upper body are bigger and scales are mixed in red and gold. Behind his head is a clump of red coral looking like a crown.

"Greetings humans!" His deep manly voice was pleasant, but it was so loud she gasped and shook a little. Queen Bubbles saw Bella puff a lot of bubbles. Her eyes turned sharper and looked at her husband who's slowly swimming, chest in front, his aura leaking as if a general ready for battle. He stops beside his Queen while the princes behind them. Queen Bubble's eyes are still locked on him. His chest was up, but inside he's shivering inside from her dagger eyes. It looks like he did something wrong! Bella saw this, his body was frozen stiff but his eyes were on Queen Bubble not losing face contact on him.

"What the ******* in fish was that?" Queen Bubbles shrieks loudly.

"What did I do?" The imposing mermaid now has his back slouch and his hands clasp together.

"Why were you so loud, you scared them!"

"But I wasn't trying to scare them, I wanna give a good impression!"

"Good impression my *****, you scared the hell out of them!"

"But you're scaring them more with….your…..loud voice." His voice shrank and finished like a murmur.

"What did you say?!"

"I said I'm sorry!" He lifts both his hands like he's surrendering. Dean saw the prince on the left facepalm, the other shoulder's dropped as he sighed. Bella chuckled.

"Dear I'm sorry if he scared you." She sighed.

"No problem."

"He's my husband, King ********"

"Cough, ehem, Nice to meet you human. Sorry if I scared you." He tried to lessen the volume of his voice.

"It's nothing, I'm Isabella Chen, call me Bella."

"No! You're supposed to be our leader, how can I call you casually?"

"It's alright, I don't mind."

"Oh, okay." He shrugged his shoulders like whatever she says is good.

"By the way, I don't understand your name."

"You can name me too, it's fine by me." Bella looked closely, although his scales are golden, there are red scales on some spots. On his back is a soft blackfin and behind his arms. His color looks like a….

Excitedly giggled, holding her chin, "I know, I'll call you, King Koi!"

King Koi's eyes twitch a little, "As you wish." He turned around and faced his people.

"****** ****** ****** ***** *******!!!!!" Then everybody raised their left hand on their forehead, shouted something, and bowed without removing their hand. King Koi turned around, nodding.

"Alright let's begin. Oh, by the way, we prepared a castle for you and houses for the rest. We only made them based on structures found on land, I hope you won't mind. Looking at them, I don't think it's enough so for the next few months we can build more and make changes for your convenience."

King and Queen were frozen. She looked at his King. Their eyes were soft like they were talking without words, then they embraced. It looks like they were...crying? Oh, no! What did she do?

They stopped hugging, and faced the couple. Held their left hand on their forehead.

"******* ******* ******* ***** ******!!!!!" and bowed. The couple shouted, then everybody copied them, even the princes. It dumbfounded the couple, Dean looked at her, she shook her head saying, she has no idea what happened.

They rose and explained the situation. Deep in the north, there's a human city sunken in the sea. It's not large and is only one of many around the globe, and it existed before they were born. It was their home, along with the caves dug from the reefs and rocks underneath. When they decided to follow her, they were ready to start from scratch. Some of them didn't want to leave because they were afraid to live in the open, so they stayed together with the sick ones.

They didn't expect her thoughtfulness of preparing their dwelling. It moved them, their sincerity, and wholeheartedly accepted them as their savior, their new Queen, and King. They announced that Bella and Dean's words were above them.

Bella wasn't expecting this reaction but was thrilled they appreciate it. She first moved the couple in front of the castle underwater, after informing the others of course. But what Bella didn't expect is that they gazed at the castle, embraced each other but didn't enter, instead they inspected the houses around it and the apartment buildings made from magma.

When the Queen and King disappeared, the other mermaids looked shocked and started moving everywhere like they were gossiping. Other's couldn't wait and surrounded the princes like they were discussing something.

Dean looked around while still holding her hands and saw some beautiful coral reefs underneath them. Bella noted it and will ask Queen Bubbles if it can be moved. More sea life came from everywhere, so she continued to move them to space until they called.