Listening to stories being told was one of your most favourite pastimes. Your father, who was a fisherman, would often come home with a story about the sea for you. And you always listened intently.

You always wanted to join your father in these fishing tripes, but he never let you, deeming it too dangerous for someone as young as you. The closest you could get to the sea was... simply sitting at the docks and gazing at the waters.

Your father was on another fishing trip, this one going for at least a week. You made your ways to the docks, sitting down and letting your legs dangle over the edge. As you started to zone out, You noticed something. The shore of the ocean was littered with these boulders, and you noticed something sitting on one. A cookie. But this cookie was... different. She had a tail and no legs... upon closer inspection, you realised what you were looking at. A mermaid...?

Your father once told you a story about the mermaids, saying that deep in the ocean was a kingdom called Tearcrown, where mermaid cookies lived. And there, were five mermaid cookies called the Gem Mermaids. The Gem Mermaids were different from regular mermaid cookies, as they wielded immense power.

As you stared at the mermaid, she seemed to notice that someone was looking at her. She turned around, noticing you at the docks. You were a young cookie, so she didn't seem that wary of you. However, she was still distrustful.