Kingdom Hearts fic: Step Right Up - Chapter 1

[mistressofmuses]

Summary: Sora has always wanted to believe in mermaids, longing for there to be something more and exciting out in the world. He's been disappointed by supposed mermaids before, the costumed models never living up to the one genuine sighting he believes he had.
When a carnival advertises their "Real Live Merman", Sora goes to see him... and is horrified to discover that the carnival does have a merman, the one Sora saw once before, and worse, he's clearly being held there against his will. Then a mermaid comes ashore, bent on rescuing the one held captive, and Sora decides that he'll do anything he can to help them both.

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Can you write an AU of your own AU?

In my previous mermaid AU, Scales, there's a brief line about what Kairi would have been willing and ready to do if Riku had come ashore and been found by someone less good and kind as Sora. So here's a version in which that happened. Written in part for whatif_au, Challenge #49: "Triple Threat" (using "supernatural", "ocean", and "stranded".)

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( Chapter 1 )

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