The captain pauses as his crew pulls up the fishing nets. A good loot does make a team of pirates very hungy, and the best food on the tumultuous plane of the seven seas was fish.

Except the fish they had caught this time was extraordinary. The crew heaved as they lugged up the nets, hooting and shouting as they caught sight of an unconscious half-fish half-human being, a woman, who seemed like she was a corpse among the rest of the sardines they picked up in the brown nets.

"A mermaid! A mermaid!" One-Eyed Soap, the quartermaster cried. Everyone began shouting louder, and seeing as the girl showed of signs of life, brought a barrel filled with water near.

Captain Riley picked up the slippery creature with carefulness, and gently placed her in the water, at which contact she revived immediately.

".. the bleedin' 'ell are you.." he growled under suspicious eyes, a slight amusement lain deep in his brown irises.