#yes mingi is a sunfish bc he always does that sunfish aegyo lol

[luvlysangi]

fins :: yeosang [𝕡𝕥. 𝟚]

╰─➤ ࿐ ˚ . ✦ 𝑖 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑

*.~ pairing: merman!yeosang x fem oc character

*.~ warnings: none!~ tis a cute tail 👀😂🧜🏻‍♂️

*.~ genre: action, adventure, fluff, romance, merman au

*.~ Wattpad

*.~ ost: you are my world by yoon mirae from legend of the blue sea

*.~ masterlist

*.~ part 1

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"Clam it!! I'm late!!" Yeosang cusses as he swims as fast as his fins could take him.

He slept through the morning after staying up all night with Marina. He was late to work and he wasn't sure how the king would take it.

Yeosang enters the castle and asks a staff member where the king was. But from the fear of their expression as they stared at the figure behind Yeosang, he gulped having a pretty good feeling who was behind him.

"Yeosang, you're late this morning," Seonghwa says sternly as Yeosang turns around and bows to him.

"Your majesty, I deeply apologize for my mistake! I'll see to it that it won't happen again!!"

"Rise."

Yeosang stops bowing and looks up at the disappointed king in front of him.

"Did you oversleep? What happened?" Seonghwa asks him raising his brow.

I was up on the beach all night with the most beautiful human girl ever. I didn't want to leave her and...she didn't want to leave me.

Yeosang cleared his clammy throat and tried to look brave, "Right. I um, you see, last night, I was up taking care of...my friend! Who got sooo drunk last night, he crashed at my place it wasn't pleasant. Haha, one too many tuna coladas in the club! I was so tired I overslept which, is bad on me because one should never sleep on a king. Hehehe..."

Seonghwa looks at Yeosang with a serious expression. Yeosang gulped knowing he'd go to hell for lying to a king.

"Alright, seeing as you took care of someone out of a good deed. I'll let it slide. But next time, don't be late. I won't tolerate it."

"Yes, your majesty." Yeosang bowed feeling relieved he fell for his lie.

"However, I must give you a small punishment as I did have a hard time without you this morning."

Yeosang looks back up at him in worry again.

"W-what would that be, your majesty?"

"Acrostic poem using my name," Seonghwa says with a smirk.

Yeosang groans, "Ugh! What again?! I-I mean, Yes, your majesty."

"Seong."

"Seonghwa is such a great and understanding king!"

"Hwa."

"Hwaiting!~ on the throne!~"

Seonghwa laughs finding the poem cute and Yeosang looks away cringing at his poem choice.

"Hahaha, you're so good at those! I feel better now, thanks Yeosang." Seonghwa says patting Yeosang's shoulder.

"Hehet! Y-you're welcome."

Before Seonghwa could swim off, Yeosang stopped him as he had a question in his mind. They decide to go somewhere to have the conversation in private so they swim to the castle sea garden where there's no one around.

"What is it, Yeosang?"

Yeosang takes a seat on the stone bench there, "Your majesty, um...what do you think about...humans? In general."

The king sighs and puts his hands behind his back, looking at the beautiful bright coral and sea plants around them, "I've never met one before and I never want to. I don't trust them. After all, they do eat seafood, what more our people? Merpeople? That's why I ban merfolk from going up to shore to see them. I do this for their safety."

He then turns and looks at Yeosang, raising a brow, "Why do you ask me this?"

Yeosang gives a nervous smile, "Hehe no reason! Just wondering! Erm but if you met one and they're nice and...you fell in love with them...then would you pull the ban?"

Seonghwa's eyes widen, "Yeosang you didn't-"

"No! Of course not, your majesty! Hehehe this is just a hypothetical situation! From your point of view!"

Seonghwa sighs and thinks for a minute. He then shakes his head, "No, I wouldn't. One person doesn't justify a whole population. I must still take precautions. Regardless of love or hate. And although this is a hypothetical situation, it's just impossible for a merperson to fall for a human or vise versa. It just simply isn't done, Yeosang. Just like the ban...it's not allowed."

Yeosang frowns feeling his sad heart after hearing the King's words. He knows that Seonghwa's ban is just for precautions because he cares about his people he wants to protect them. But Yeosang doesn't agree with his reasoning. About the impossibility of a human and a merfolk to fall in love. Yeosang fell for Marina and yet this ban is still going on. The ban never stopped him.

"Is that all you wish to ask me?" Seonghwa asks Yeosang and he nods, bowing his head.

"Then, good day, Yeosang," Seonghwa says to him before swimming back inside the castle.

"Good day...your majesty."

Yeosang sighs and swims back inside the castle, going back to work.

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Water gets splashed between Yeosang and Mingi as they play on the shore of the beach. Yeosang splashes the fish with his fins and their laughter rings in the air.

"Mingi!! Cut it out!!" Yeosang laughs.

"Yeosang likes Marina! Yeosang likes Marina! Yeosang likes Marina!" Mingi teased and sang and avoided Yeosang's splashes.

"Shut up!!"

"No~ because it's true! And you two look cute together! I mean, a human and a merman, how cute!~"

Yeosang blushes hard and hugs his tail, "Ugh I hate you."

Yeosang knew how well Mingi knew him so of course, it wouldn't take long for the smart fish to find out about the merman's crush on the human. So even though Mingi teases Yeosang, he knew he was right.

As Mingi continued to tease his friend over his crush, three pirates came up to Yeosang from behind.

"Well! What do we have here boys?!"

Yeosang quickly looks behind him and fear fills his eyes as he sees the three pirates behind him. One, perhaps the captain as he wore a tricorn hat and a black coat, his hair white as the clouds in the sky. The second one, perhaps the first mate, hair black with a green streak in his bangs and a black eyepatch across his left eye. The third one, lilac hair and a smirk plastered across his face.

"Looks like a little merman, Captain Hongjoong!"

"Right you are San!"

"He's probably worth a lot of gold eh Captain?"

"Aye Wooyoung, a lot of gold. A lot." Captain Hongjoong says with a smirk while the other two pirates laughed.

Wooyoung and San took out a large net and threw it over a scared Yeosang, capturing him. The pirates laughed with joy at their catch of the day and made their way with the merman back to their ship.

Mingi had swum back underwater to escape the pirates but they had gotten his best friend. He knew he alone couldn't save Yeosang and he didn't think any fish could. Yeosang was stuck with sailors, pirates to be exact, the worst kind of humans a fish could be stuck with. Mingi knew if he was going to get help, he had to get help from a human and that human is Marina.

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Marina hums to herself as she waits in the cove on the sand for her merman. She giggles at the thought. Her merman. It was cute to think of Yeosang as hers since it is sort of true, Yeosang knows no other human but her. She's his only human in his life, and she's very happy about that.

If she didn't know any better, she'd say that after that night watching the biolume waves on the beach, she'd say that she's officially fallen for that fish boy. Marina knows their worlds are very different but that never brought them apart. Different worlds opened doors for learning which only brought them closer.

Marina swirls her finger around in the water, wondering what could be taking Yeosang so long. He's normally always here before her. Could the king be making him work some extra long tasks today?

Suddenly, she jumps startled when Mingi pops his head from the water.

"Oh! Mingi! You scared me! Haha."

The panicked expression on the fish's face made Marina feel worried on the inside.

"Yeosang was captured by pirates. You have to help save him! You're the only one who can do it!" Mingi tells her making Marina sit up on the sand with concern on her face.

"Pirates?! No wonder I saw a pirate ship not too long ago on the beach!!"

"We gotta hurry! Who knows what they'll do to Yeosang!"

Marina stands up, "Mingi, head to the boat dock on the beach! I'll meet you there!"

"Got it!" He says before going back underwater.

Marina runs as fast as her legs could carry her as she runs from the cove to the beach. Her heart pounding with fear for Yeosang and anger for the pirates that took him. Eventually, Marina makes it to the boat dock and Mingi is there in the water. The pirate ship had sailed into the ocean but they weren't that far from the beach.

Marina gets inside a rowboat and ties a rope to the front of the boat mast, dropping the end of it into the water.

"It'll be faster if we make this boat go together. Can you pull the boat while I'll use the ores?"

"Under the sea, they call me speedy sunfish Mingi! I'll swim as fast as my fins can carry me!" Mingi says and swims to the front of the boat putting the rope in his mouth.

With their teamwork, they got the little rowboat across the ocean and over to the massive pirate ship. Once they arrived at the bottom of the ship, Mingi let go of the rope in his mouth.

"Thanks, Mingi! I'll take it from here!" Marina says putting the ores back in the boat and getting out and onto the side ladder on the ship.

"Just be careful, Marina!"

"Thank you Mingi, I will!"

Meanwhile, on the deck, the pirates were too busy bullying the tied up merman on their ship.

"Hey!! Sing something!! Don't merfolk sing?! Or was that just the little mermaid?"

"Careful Jongho he might out sing you!" A tall brunette pirate laughs.

"Shut it Yunho! No one out sings me! And if this little merman does he'll regret it!" Jongho says looking at Yeosang with a glare.

Yeosang felt too many emotions inside of him, he felt fear, wondering what these pirates were capable of and planned on doing to him. He felt anger, anger that nobody ties him up and treats him rudely like this. And he also felt understanding, understanding the king even more for why he felt the way he did toward humans. He wanted to prevent exactly the kind of situation Yeosang was currently in.

"He's not talking! I say we make him talk by pounding him into a fish cake." San says with a smirk and cracks his knuckles.

Yeosang closes his eyes and looks away in fear, not wanting to look at them while they beat him.

"Stop right there pirates!! In the name of the queen!!!"

Yeosang opens his eyes and sees Marina on deck as she grabs a sword nearby her and she starts taking on the pirates. He felt relieved seeing her here to save him. His heart pounded in his chest as he saw how strong and brave she was for taking on the scary pirates.

Marina quickly comes over to Yeosang and cuts the rope off of his chest and around his wrists. They briefly hug for a bit before letting go.

"Yeosang, hop off this ship as fast as you can! I'll cover you!"

"Wait! Marina what about you?!"

She gives him a reassuring smile, "Don't worry I'll meet you down there just go!"

Yeosang nods and begins making his way off the ship and back into the sea. Marina continues her sword fight with all 5 pirates, letting her adrenaline take over.

The captain growls, "that's enough out of you!!"

He hits Marina at the back of her head making her go unconscious. The crew tosses her overboard and she goes into the ocean.

Mingi and Yeosang reunite and share a small hug, "Yeosang!! You're okay!! Where's Marina?!"

Yeosang lets go of Mingi and swims up to the surface. He sees the rowboat empty and the pirate ship beginning to sail away. He goes back in the water and his eyes widen as he sees Marina's body sink fast in the ocean.

He quickly swims over to her and catches her in his arms.

"Marina, no! Please...don't be dead."

"Yeosang?!" A familiar voice calls out to him.

Yeosang looks up and sees King Seonghwa swim up to him.

"What in Poseidon's name are you doing with a human?!?"

"King Seonghwa, please!! Help me save her! Look!"

Blood streams from Marina's head and Seonghwa takes a breath.

"Any minute and she is the shark's concern now. Not yours, not a merman's."

"No, your majesty! She is very much my concern!" Yeosang argues.

Seonghwa furrows his brows, "What could she have possibly done for you, Yeosang?!"

"She's changed my life. Yes, I've disobeyed your ban and I've broken the law and met with this human, but that was the best risk I've ever taken in my life! I've been open to a whole new world and I'm happy!! Yes, some humans are horrible and they care about nothing but themselves. I don't deny what you told me that day in the garden about that because pirates captured me and I could've died. But however, there are humans like this girl who does whatever it takes to protect the ones they care about and this girl did exactly that for me. She saved my life. I've been in love with this girl and I love her even more for what she did for me. So, I must save her. But with your help."

Seonghwa rubs his temples frustratedly after listening to Yeosang's explanation. A pretty good explanation at that. He sighs and looks between Yeosang and the human girl in his arms. This girl is in this state because she tried to do a good deed out of her own good heart to save one of his people. After all, Seonghwa was a king of righteousness and he truly believed in it. Maybe Yeosang is right...there are righteous humans after all.

Seonghwa sighs then put his hands on Marina's head. With his powers, he begins healing her. He lets go of her when he finishes and the blood stops running from her head. She's still unconscious but she was healed.

"She'll be fine now, but you must hurry and bring her back to shore."

Yeosang smiles and bows to him, "Thank you so much, your majesty!!"

"No...thank you, Yeosang," Seonghwa says with a smile before swimming away.

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Marina immediately sits up as she coughs up water from her system. She feels gentle patting on her back to calm her coughs down. She turns and sees Yeosang sitting next to her, his familiar sweet smile on his lips.

He chuckles, "Do you snore when you sleep or something?"

"Hey! I do not!" She exclaims.

They laugh for a bit before pulling each other into a hug.

Yeosang rubs her back, "Thank you for saving me from those pirates. I'm sorry I couldn't fight back to save you from the pirates too. It's moments like those I wish I had legs like you. Legs so I could stand up and be a hero for you."

"Yeosang, you don't need legs to be my hero. You swam all the way to bring me back here to the beach. That's using your fins! That's just being you! So, thank you, My hero. And as for those pirates, I had to stop them. Nobody messes with the people I care about! And I'd do anything for you. You'd better believe I put up a good fight when you left!"

Yeosang lets out a light laugh and let's go from the hug to look at her. He puts his hand on her cheek and gently rubs it with his thumb. This girl is so amazing in every way. He loves her so much.

A familiar little sunfish pops his head up from the water and swims closer to the sand, "Woah! Sorry! Am I interrupting something?"

They both turn and see Mingi in the water next to them.

Yeosang blushes and immediately lets go of Marina's cheek, "What?! No! Of course not!"

Mingi chuckles, "okay!~ if you say so. But are you both alright?"

"Yes, we're okay! Thank you again for helping me get to the ship! Yeosang! You should've seen him. Mingi was pulling on the rowboat's rope and swimming very fast!"

"Hey! They don't call me speedy sunfish Mingi for nothing!" Mingi says with an overconfident smirk.

Yeosang rolls his eyes, "Nobody calls you that, you clownfish."

"Hey now! Don't kill the dream, fish boy!"

Marina laughs at the two's bickering again, "I'm so happy to be back together like this!"

"Me too! And now that we're all back together, Yeosang can finally confess what he's been wanting to tell you, Marina!" Mingi teases and Yeosang blushes madly.

"What the?! No, I do not!"

"Haha c'mon! Tell me!~"

"Yeah! Yeo! Tell her!"

Yeosang pulls his tail up to his chest and he hugs it, "Mingiii!! It's not easy to just say it."

Marina smiles and puts a hand on Yeosang's wrist, "if you can't say it then, express it."

Yeosang lets go of his tail and he bites his lip nervously. He knew what he wanted to express but he was nervous about Marina's reaction to it. He looks at her, her expression soft and patient as she waited for him.

He takes a breath then closes his eyes and leans into her lips, giving a kiss to Marina. He pulls from her lips feeling his face get red again. Marina puts her hand on his cheek and pulls him back to her lips and this time she initiates the second kiss. They smile in this one feeling overjoyed about how they feel for each other.

They pull from the kiss and Marina's smile never fades from her lips, "Aww, I'm glad you felt the same! Hehe!"

"Hehe! You too!"

Mingi claps his fins together for them, "Finally the ship has sailed!!! Ayeee, I told you Yeosang!!"

Yeosang hits the water with his tail, splashing Mingi. The sunfish quickly evades the splash and returns underwater while Marina laughs at the two of them.

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Several months later, things have changed for the better since the beginning of our tale. King Seonghwa and the queen of the kingdom on the land met each other and decided to form an alliance. The first-ever alliance between the kingdom of the sea and the kingdom of the land. Sea trade became safer and greener and now merpeople and humans were free to meet each other.

This especially meant our two characters, Marina and Yeosang were now free to meet each other without having to break any more laws.

Marina sits in the sand, playing the small Kalimba instrument in her hands. Yeosang laid on his side on the sand, smiling and watching Marina lovingly as she played a pretty song. Both, happy they can love each other freely without keeping it a secret anymore.

Yeosang closes his eyes and listened to the sound of the ocean waves as they crashed upon the shore, giving it a background to the chiming tunes from the Kalimba his lover was playing. It was very pleasing to his ears.

She finishes the song and cheers her.

"That was beautiful! You should teach me!"

"Sure! Come here!" Marina says with a cheerful smile.

Yeosang smiles back and scoots over to her, taking the seat on the sand between her skirt. He rests against her chest and Marina wraps her arms around him, holding the instrument in front of him. She starts teaching him the tabs to the song she played.

After a while, Yeosang got the hang of the keys and was able to play the song just as Marina taught. He looked up at her and saw the proud smile on her lips. She leans down to sweetly kiss his lips upside down, giving him a warm hug afterward.

They watch and listen to the waves crash against the shore.

"Yeosang?" Marina speaks up in the silence.

"Hm?" Yeosang looks up and asks her.

"I'm glad I've met you."

A smile crosses Yeosang's face, "I'm glad I've met you too, my love."

:~.•༄ The End :~.•༄