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Unfathomable - Complete	By : ColdSilence Category: Kingdom Hearts > Slash/Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 11972 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Author: Cold Silence
E-Mail: writer.coldsilence@gmail.com
Pairings: Riku x Sora, some Sora x Kairi
Warnings: AU, Yaoi, Het, Mpreg, mer/human sex. Does that count as bestiality?
Special Note: I swear to god that this is the very last time that I write a non-human fic with Kingdom Hearts. This story is purely a bodice ripper. I did it for the tentacle sex. And to do Mpreg at least once. God save us all.

Unfathomable
-Chapter Three-

By the time Riku reached the shallows, the moon was sliding down into the horizon. It had been a long swim and he was exhausted. The breaking waves were merciless as they crashed over the prince and Sora, inundating them in sea foam and the debris of the ocean. Riku’s tail dragged on the sand, and it was with pure arm strength and a little help of the ebb and flow of water that he managed to overcome the weight of the water-logged human and his own heavy body.

Riku’s gills were flaring as he panted. The reservoir of water in his tail was barely enough to sustain this much activity out in the air. He propped himself above Sora’s motionless figure, his hair a wet, clumped mess that fell over their bodies. His scales were starting to feel itchy from the bits of sand that clung to them. It suddenly occurred to the prince that this was the first time that he had ever made such a mess of himself. The feeling was dirty, yet decadent. He liked it.

Time passed, and he waited for Sora to open his eyes. There was a large purple spot on the side of the human’s head that was very disconcerting to see. The thought occurred to Riku that maybe Sora was too damaged to wake up, but the steady rise and fall of his chest assured him that the boy was alive. As long as Sora took breath, he was still a living being in an air-breather’s world.

Curiosity drove Riku to brush Sora’s face. His skin felt different. Wet, yet smooth in a way that was different than a mer’s slippery coat. The lips were soft, and they quivered as they were touched. The prince drew a line down the boy’s neck with barest pressure, careful not to cut the skin with his claws. He lightly squeezed the collar of his shirt and marveled at its texture. He never could figure out why humans wore things on their bodies. The dolphins used to joke that it was because they were so ugly without them.

Riku peeled the shirt collar down to try to peek beyond it, but the darkness made it difficult to see. He pawed at Sora until he found a place where the fabric gave easily and slowly lifted it, half afraid that he was skinning the human alive. There was no cry of pain and the fresh skin that he found beneath was reassuring, so he continued pulling the shirt up until it was bunched under Sora’s chin, exposing the boy’s abs, stomach and chest.

He had seen Sora’s bare trunk many times when he observed the human swimming, so it was no surprise to see the similarities between the top half of their bodies. Riku turned his head sideways and pressed his ear to the other’s skin, and half laughed when he heard soft thumping. For all the stories of humans being heartless creatures, his Sora definitely had a beating heart. It had a cadence that sounded lazy to Riku’s ears. In comparison, the heart of a mer was expected to beat as rapidly as the flick of a minnow’s tail swimming at top speed.

Riku wanted to see what other secrets humans hid in their clothing. He found an edge to Sora’s shorts and tugged them down, hissing a bit when they caught in the sand. Sora’s genitals became completely exposed, and for several long moments, the mer stared because he couldn’t figure out what they were. When it occurred to him that these were reproductive organs, he was appalled. How could humans live with their most vulnerable parts exposed like that? Any animal could come and bite them off. Riku’s own sex parts were well hidden and protected in his tail.

The prince’s insatiable curiosity led him to attempt to roll Sora so that he could look behind him, but the human was heavy and the mer had limited strength while he was beached. He ended up only jostling Sora, who moaned painfully in response. The noise caught Riku’s attention, and he immediately stopped what he was doing to watch the boy intently.

Sora did not look well. He grimaced as he raised both arms to cover his throbbing head. Nausea turned the world topsy turvy, and he turned sideways as he gagged and coughed at the same time. Then, with slow, agonizing movements, he pushed himself into a sitting position and held his face in his hands.

He remained that way for a long time, and Riku grew concerned. The mer tilted his head to try and see past the fingers blocking Sora’s eyes. Obviously the boy was too preoccupied with his own injuries to notice him just yet. As time went on, the prince started to feel affronted. This was the second time that he saved Sora and he was not going to swim away without some kind of acknowledgement. He leaned forwards, placing himself close to the human’s face, and for the first time tried to speak to him.

“Sora.”

That caught the boy’s attention. Sora pulled his hands away from his eyes, and at first only stared. He didn’t realize that there was someone with him, and somehow he recognized the stranger’s face. Slowly, he lowered his arms as the dredges of memory called up a platinum haired boy that once saved him from the ocean. "You.. you are..“ he murmured, recognition now coloring his expression.

Riku nodded with enthusiasm. Yes, it was him. He was the hero.

"No way. Everyone told me that you were just a dream,” said Sora in disbelief. "Maybe I am still dreaming. I hit my head.“ He clutched at his temples again and flinched at the throbbing that he felt.

"Riku,” rasped the prince insistently. He gestured towards himself and repeated “Riku” in hopes of teaching the human his name.

Sora’s headache felt awful. He stood up because sitting still seemed to make the feeling worse. His shorts tangled at his thighs, and he grumbled as he pulled them back up. Flashing the guy that saved his life was not the best impression to make. "Sorry – what are you saying?“ he asked in a daze.

The boy wondered why the stranger wasn’t standing up. He looked down at Riku and for the first time beheld that the mer did not have any legs. At first, Sora thought that it was a trick of the light. Perhaps his savior’s feet were stuck in the sand, or they camouflaged in the sea spray, or maybe he simply had that bad of a concussion. Whatever the cause, he was transfixed on the oddity of seeing a long tail extending beyond Riku’s torso.

It suddenly occurred to the prince that appearing less than presentable was not the best first impression to make. His pride chafed, but he flicked his hair over his shoulder and puffed up his chest anyway. The wing-like dorsal fins on his back fluttered; underwater they would have fanned marvelously, on land they merely twitched subtly. Despite being beached and dirtied, he was not going to show weakness to this human.

"You…… Have a fishtail,” said Sora flatly. Then he laughed ruefully as he turned away. "I must have hit my head so hard, I’m hallucinating. My dad is never going to let me ride a jet ski again.“

Sora was using words that Riku couldn’t process. He had done his best to learn his language, but it was far from perfect. It seemed that the boy was noticing his tail, which Riku flicked impatiently. This wasn’t the reaction he expected. Where was the wonderment? The questions? Surely this human had not seen a mer before in its life.

The prince reached out to curl his clawed fingers around Sora’s ankles. This made the human draw his attention back to him. He gestured towards an outcropping of rocks on the distant shoreline. "When sky fall, you see Riku there.”

“What?” said Sora cluelessly. "You want to meet there?“

Riku nodded, and then he began inching back into the ocean. If he stayed on land any longer, not only would he get sick from lack of water, but his absence would be noticed back at the palace. When the next wave came, he rode its ebb back into shallow waters.

"Wait!” cried Sora in alarm. He rushed into the breakers, but Riku was faster. The mer was already in deep waters by the time the boy was submerged up to his knees. He had the misguided notion that Riku would drown if he swam out there at this time of day. Then he remembered that the guy had a fish tail.

It had to be a hallucination. However, if that fish boy wasn’t real, then who saved him just now?

Sora cupped his hands over his mouth and yelled “Thank yoooou!” just as Riku’s white tail disappeared beneath the waves. Then he simply stood there and tried to process everything that happened to him in the last couple of hours. The memory of Kairi caused a fresh ache in his heart, and it was compounded by the fact that he lost his jet ski, and once again, no one was going to believe him when he said that he was saved by a platinum haired boy who lived in the ocean.

He sighed. There was nothing else that he could do but make his way out of the water and trudge his way home.

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What a weird human! Not only did Sora nearly get himself killed twice, but he looked at Riku as if he was a lantern fish trying to lure a shark. Were all of them like that, or did he just happen to pick the one that was a few coral short of a reef? Riku thought that he knew Sora like the back of his fin, but after speaking to the boy he realized that there was so much that he had no clue about.

Even so, he turned in the waters with excitement. The fact that there was still so much more to learn was exciting. He looked forwards to meeting with Sora again.

As he hurriedly swam into the depths of the sea, he didn’t notice that he was being tailed.

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Braig made certain that the prince did not notice his presence, although he didn’t need to put much effort into it. Riku was so lost in his own world of human fantasy that he did not realize that someone was stalking him. It amused the orca to no end to see the interaction between mer and man. The excitement that the prince radiated was particularly eyebrow-raising. Just what was Riku up to?

Xehanort was thinking the same thing. He was observing Riku’s movements from within the comfort of one of the palace guest rooms. Braig’s right eye was enchanted, and upon the removal of the shell patch, the king of Noctis could see everything that his cohort did.

“Good work Braig,” praised Xehanort. Although the room was empty and his servant was far away, he knew that his words would carry to the orca through the spell. "Spurred by the rebellion of youth, the young prince is flicking his tail in forbidden territories. This information will be quite useful. Keep a close eye on him. I want to know his every move.“

"Looks like I’ll have to get used to being high and dry,” sang Braig in amusement. He was certain that this wasn’t the last time that he would be following the prince to the distant surface.

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When it came time for the mers to wake, the prince was nowhere to be seen. Since he stayed up so late, Riku was loathed to remove himself from the comfort of his seashell bed. He would have stayed there for an entire cycle if Sebastian didn’t dig a small hole past the boulder that served as the chamber’s door.

The crab made a soft ptooie! sound as it coughed up bits of sand that managed to get into its mouth. Someday, the mers would realize that doorways made of heavy stone were not conducive to small crustaceans such as himself. He rattled his body to shake off stray sand, and then drew himself up with dignity. Sebastian walked over to where Riku lay like a giant, lazy whale, kicked his little legs so that he could swim up to the seashell bed, and then skittered close to the the prince. He cupped his claws over his mouth and clicked as loudly as he could:

“GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP.”

Riku shot his head up at the rude awakening, and then hissed at the little crab on his bed. "What is WRONG with you!“

"I shud be asking you dat question!” clicked Sebastian imperiously. "You ‘ave twenty female maidens floating at da breakfast table alone without da guest of honor. So I came t’ find you, an’ what do I see? You looking a mess, sleeping like dere isn’t a care in da world!“

Riku flared his gills with a note of chagrin as he rubbed his face. He forgot all about the mermaids that were vying for his attention in the castle. Sebastian was right; it really didn’t look good if he slept in while the girls ate alone. "Son of a codfish,” he cursed. The prince immediately swam off the bed and went to the vanity that was in the room. He quickly attempted to tame his hair and sweep the sand off his scales in preparation for showing himself in public.

“Dun you start using dat bad language, you are da crown prince!” admonished Sebastian. He swam over to where Riku was desperately preening in front of the volcanic glass. A natural shelf that had been chiseled to house several trinkets served as the prince’s dresser. Sebastian landed on top of it and used his claws to fetch items that he thought Riku should wear. "I do think dat you will look dashing in dis. Now dun forget, mind yo’ matters, and above all. Be a gentlemer!“

"Whatever,” answered Riku in a low note. He used a string of pearls that Sebastian offered to tie his hair into a ponytail.

“You bettah take dis seriously, I will not 'ave you embarrassing da whole kingdom!”

“I got it already!” sang Riku in irritation. He swam towards the door and pulled back the boulder so that he could rush out into the hallway at a fast swim.

“Da tides save us all,” clicked Sebastian worriedly.

Riku nearly sent the servants careening fins over head from the wake of his fast swim. He didn’t stop until he made it to the grand dining room, which had been decorated with beautiful underwater flora and filled with music. There was a long stone table at the center of the chamber, and on either side of it all twenty mermaids that the prince had invited to stay in the palace were floating.

They had been polite and refused to eat until Riku arrived. Judging by the smell of food and the look of relief on their faces, the mermaids had been kept waiting for quite a while. The prince straightened up his spine and floated to his place at the head of the table. "I apologize for my tardiness,“ he sang formally. "There was an emergency that I had to attend to.”

The lie seemed to be taken well. All of the mermaids bowed their heads in acceptance, and then they happily partook of the food that was waiting to be consumed.

“Excuse me, Prince Riku!” sang a voice from the opposite end of the table.

Riku paused in the middle of bringing kelp to his mouth. He looked down the line of mermaids to see who was brazen enough to talk directly to him like that. Somehow, he wasn’t surprised to see Aqua waving at him. "Yes?“ he sang to her in a clipped note.

Aqua held up her stone plate, revealing that there wasn’t a single item of food left on it. "I finished my breakfast already, may I be dismissed?”

Riku flashed his teeth in a shark-like smile. Apparently, all the mermaids had waited for his arrival before eating – except Aqua. So she wanted to play that game huh? Fine, the prince was more than happy to spin her tail in a loop. “I’m glad that you finished. Now you can come and float next to me.”

This caused some of the mermaids to grit their teeth and flutter their gills in consternation. Aqua was the rudest one, why did she get to float next to the prince? Some of them even started eating faster in hopes that finishing early would likewise give them a chance to get some quality time next to Riku.

Aqua hid her annoyance behind a cool façade. She lazily swam over to the head of the table and dutifully took her place beside Riku. "You look very tired, my prince. It must have been quite the emergency last night,“ she sang coolly.

"I very nearly didn’t make it this morning,” answered Riku. "But I didn’t want to leave all of these beautiful maidens alone. They all have a special place in my heart, after all. You included, Lady Aqua.“

The prince’s words sent the mermaids swooning. Aqua, on the other hand, was trying her best not to burst out laughing. She didn’t know if it was her age or experience with mermen, but she could spot the bald faced lie coming out of the prince’s mouth from a fathom away. "Oh Riku, you’re very flattering,” she simpered. "Here, allow me to do a maiden’s duty.“

Aqua picked up a piece of oyster meat from Riku’s plate and practically shoved it at his mouth. It was an underhanded attempt to get him to shut up. To her surprise, not only did the mer open his lips for her, but he caught her entire finger in his mouth. She held back a gasp as she felt the sharp pinpoints of the prince’s teeth digging into her flesh, not enough to injure but enough to warn. Then his tongue delivered a long, lingering swipe of her digit before he allowed it to be released.

"Thank you Aqua,” sang Riku after swallowing the morsel. His aquamarine eyes narrowed to a predatory slit. "You’ll make a good mate someday.“

Aqua’s cheeks colored purple with embarrassment. The prince was more formidable than she thought. Who knew that King Triton was capable of raising such a shark in peaceful waters? I’m not going to lose my composure here, she thought to herself. He’s just a youngling for clam’s sake.

Still, she could see why so many maidens from different kingdoms were vying for Riku’s attention. Even without the power of the Trident behind him, the merman was a force to be reckoned with. His devastating good looks hid a cunning that Aqua was only just starting to glimpse. She truly was frightened for the mermaid that the prince would eventually choose as his mate.

Riku continued to calmly eat his meal and hold casual conversation with his guests. Every now and then, he would flash a smile and flirt with a maiden or two, all while mentally plotting how he was going to cull this herd later.

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It was several days since Sora had his accident out at sea. As expected, his father was furious at the fact that he had lost a vehicle that cost thousands of dollars. Sora was grounded for a week, and only now were his parents allowing him to leave the house again.

Against his better judgment, he decided to try waiting at the outcropping of rocks at the far end of the beach. He still wasn’t sure if the fish boy was a hallucination, and he was starting to wonder if maybe he was a little crazy after all. These thoughts circled in his head as he waited for hours. Eventually, the sun began to set and the water swelled with high tide.

The time alone made him think of Kairi. He tried to call her with his cell phone, but he got an automated message stating she was out of the service area. By now, she was already on the other side of the world. Sora knew that he shouldn’t call her, but he wanted to hear her voice. He wanted to tell her about what happened the night that they parted ways.

There wasn’t anyone else that would hear him out the way that she did. The day that they first met, he was throwing a bottled message into the ocean. When she asked him what he was up to, he told her the story of the mysterious boy that saved him as a child. Everyone else who heard the tale believed that he had become temporarily delusional because of a near death experience, but not Kairi. If Sora said that it happened, then she believed it without a doubt.

For the first time in his life, he met someone who took him at face value. It was hard not to fall in love with her. At the close of summer, he had stopped sending out messages in a bottle because he found someone who not only heard him, but actually answered back.

The sound of a wet thump drew Sora’s attention to the edge of the rocks. He gave a start when he found his savior hanging from one of the boulders. Riku had leapt out of the water and used his claws to gouge into the stone and maintain himself out in the air. Once he had Sora’s attention, he gave the human a handsome smile.

"W-wow,” said Sora in disbelief. His entire body melted to the ground with the shock that he had not dreamed after all. "I really did see you that night. And.. and before!“ Even though he knew in his heart that the boy from the ocean was real, the reality of his existence hit him like a stone wall. Slowly, as if in a trance, Sora crawled over the rocks to get closer to the merman, as if afraid that a sudden move would make him disappear.

Finally, Riku was getting the reaction that he wanted. It probably helped that he looked decent this time. His hair was tied back with pearls, and he made sure that his scales were polished so thoroughly that light refracted off them as strongly as they did from the Trident itself. "Riku,” he said to Sora with a gesture to himself. Then he pointed his claw at the human. "Sora.“

"Oh I get it, you’re trying to tell me your name,” said Sora in realization. "You don’t speak my language very good, do you?“ Curiously, the boy leaned over the edge of the docks just to confirm that Riku did indeed have a tail. He gaped at the long appendage that stretched out behind the mer. "I can’t believe it. You really are a fish.”

Riku flicked his tail to send a punishing splash of water at Sora’s face. He knew the word ‘fish’ to mean the tiny, squirming animals that humans caught on their hooks. The prince didn’t appreciate being compared to a lower life form. "No fish,“ he said sternly.

Sora recoiled with a soft "hey!” at the splash of water. He rubbed the wetness from his face, flinching from the sting of salt in his eyes. "Alright alright, so you’re not a fish. Are you a mermaid? Merman? Geez, this is like something you’d read in a fairytale.“

His words only made partial sense to Riku, but the mer was already too busy with the next interesting thing to care. He reached out and grabbed the boy’s ankle without warning. The prince was attracted by the sandals that the human was wearing; he tugged Sora’s leg up and removed his shoe without asking for permission.

This nearly caused Sora to fall off the rock that he stood on. He landed on his bottom with a cry of alarm. "Watch it, you could hurt me!” he scolded the merman.

Riku was barely concerned with the tone of Sora’s voice. The human was his plaything, after all. He placed the sandal to the side and began picking at the the boy’s toes. This was the first time that he actually got a chance to touch them. What a strange, deformed fin. He wondered if Sora was aware of how weird he looked.

The spot that Riku was prodding was ticklish. Sora retracted his feet, which the merman tried to grab again. This time, he managed to keep out of range of Riku’s claws. The boy gave a nervous laugh. "Will you quit that! It’s feet. Toes.“

Riku stared at the human.

Sora rolled his eyes, and then pointed at Riku’s tail. "Fin.” Then he pointed at his legs. "Feet.“

"Fin. Feet,” repeated Riku. His voice sounded breezy; a result of having to fill his body with air and force it out to make noise.

“Yeah, these are my feet, and those are your fins,” explained Sora. He smiled a bit as he realized that he was probably the only person in the entire world to hold a real conversation with a merman. "Man, when my dad finds out about you, he’ll totally flip. He’ll say that you’re the scientific breakthrough the century. He’ll want to meet you and –"

…And probably want to dissect Riku. Sora could see it in his mind’s eye. His dad would capture the merman and lock him in a giant pool, keeping him captive until he died. Then he would slice Riku up in hopes of figuring how out how such a creature existed and evolved.

Sora’s shoulders slumped. On one hand, it would have been nice to have his father’s praise and attention for once. However, it wasn’t worth the price that it would come with. "Heh. Nevermind. My dad doesn’t need to know everything.“

"Dad?” repeated Riku curiously. "What dad?“

The mer wanted to know what the word meant. Sora’s dark lashes lowered as he tried to think of a way to explain what his dad was to him. He remembered his father’s thunderous voice from several nights ago. The man had ranted and raved over the loss of the jet ski, but never once mentioned the fact that his son had nearly died out at sea. In the end, Sora said, "Never mind. It’s nothing really that important.”

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From then on, Sora and Riku always met on the far side of the beach. Sora taught the merman about his world and helped him to learn the human language. Riku was always an avid listener, but he was still an impatient mer. He was always flitting from topic to topic, wanting to know what this or that was. The prince grabbed at anything that he wanted, even if what he wanted to touch was Sora.

In the beginning, his behavior made Sora feel unsafe. He learned to be careful around the untamed mer and often kept his distance from him during their meetings. Riku found this fear of him amusing, and he bided his time until he managed to catch the human off-guard and drag him into the water.

The experience was frightening for Sora; he believed that the creature meant to drown him. Instead, Riku showed him how he could wrap his arms around his neck and join him on ocean rides. They skimmed the top of the water as easily as any speedboat, and they dived deep for brief periods that Sora was able to handle. Sometimes, Riku would shoot to the surface and rise into the air in an arc, treating the boy to an exhilarating ride that no human contraption was able to replicate.

It was wonderful and fun. Sora got used to holding onto Riku’s slippery skin, especially when they were way out in the ocean with nothing to remain afloat but him. His trust grew, and the pain of losing Kairi became more and more distant as he learned about this new and exotic stranger that literally swam into his life.

The weight of living a double life became more difficult for the prince once he began to interact with Sora. He was always tired; between his duties in his kingdom and the time spent at the surface world, he hardly slept. In an effort to relieve some of the pressure, he quickly unraveled his plan to pit the mermaids against each other so that they would disgrace themselves and leave the palace.

It was a simple matter of planting rumors here and there, and occasionally stealing an item and placing it in another person’s room. Soon enough, accusations of thievery and cavorting with servants would fly, and after very public screaming matches, those mermaids were dismissed.

Riku managed to whittle down the number of maidens to ten. Among them was Aqua, who he kept around for the sake of torturing her. In fact, he made it seem as if she was his favorite of them all, which earned her the ire of the remaining suitors. She was subjected to daily stares and snide remarks from the other mermaids, and it vexed her that she had to play these stupid games when she already had a chosen.

Despite Riku’s cleverness, he couldn’t keep up this pace for long. Eventually he made a mistake; he forgot that he was supposed to meet with his father after dinner. When servants were sent to his room to fetch him, they found the chamber empty. Foul play was suspected and the entire palace came awake to search for the prince. The kingdom was placed on high alert for the Riku’s whereabouts, but he was nowhere to be found. No one knew that the young mer was at the surface waters, frolicking with Sora as he did at every high tide.

When he returned from his trip, he found that his father was waiting for him. Triton demanded to know where Riku had been. The prince was at a loss for what to say. He obviously needed to lie, but it had to be one good enough to convince the king.

Then, he was unexpectedly saved.

“I apologize, your majesty. Prince Riku was spending his time with me. I do hope that our time together didn’t cause you an inconvenience,” interrupted a third voice.

Riku turned to see who it was that decided to stick their tail out for him. It was the female from Noctis, Larxene. Out of all the mers he selected, she was the most aggressive one of all. She was always sneaking to his room to catch him alone or challenging him to a spar. The prince turned her advances down, but Larxene never took no for an answer.

Now, it appeared that he was in her debt. Riku grit his teeth momentarily, and then sang with a touch of defeat, “I am sorry father. I was embarrassed to tell you the truth.”

“Oh,” sang Triton with a look of shock on his face. It didn’t surprise him that Riku had been out with one of the maidens, but the fact that it was one from Noctis was very disconcerting. He flared his gills briefly as he tried to collect himself. "Of course, it’s quite alright son. I guess I shouldn’t have stuck my fins into your business eh? Well then, carry on.“

King Triton elbowed Riku knowingly and then swam away, leaving his son to deal with the wily Larxene on his own. For now, he would let things be, but if it appeared that his son was going to choose a maiden from Noctis, then he would definitely have to intervene.

Once alone with the prince, the mermaid swam a lazy circle around Riku, her well muscled, black and white tail flicking lazily. She laughed derisively as she sang, "So who were you really cavorting with, my dear prince?”

“That’s none of your business,” clicked Riku with displeasure.

“It’s my business to know who the competition is. Why else would I be wasting my time here,” she sang with a gesture to the surroundings.

“If you don’t like it then you can leave,” sang Riku flatly. He began to swim away.

Larxene followed the prince with a knowing smile. "Could it be the Lady Aqua? No, of course not, she is already betrothed. You’re just toying with her. The other mers, they’re so smitten with you that they are boring. There’s hardly a challenge there. The one that you are sneaking off to see couldn’t possibly be them. You don’t like mermaids that worship you, so the one that interests you won’t be Atlantian. But considering how every maiden in the ocean thinks of you, I suspect that the one that you are courting might not even be a mer.“

Riku stopped swimming. An icy chill dropped down the length of his spine all the way to his fins. He wasn’t courting Sora, but that wasn’t what was important. The fact that Larxene talked as if she knew about the human was alarming. The prince turned a venomous look at the orca. "If there was someone that I wanted, I wouldn’t have any reason to hide them. Everyone in the kingdom will know who I choose regardless.”

“I do apologize, dear prince,” cooed Larxene. "I only wanted to see how you would react to my words. Perhaps, if you pay more attention to me, I will say less unsavory things.“

She touched the end of Riku’s nose and then swam away with a laugh. Riku glared after her, his gills fluttering angrily. Larxene had just threatened to let his secret out if he didn’t court her. It could have been a bluff, but there was no way to be certain as to how much the mermaid actually knew.

This was bad. If his father knew about Sora, there was no telling what could happen.

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Aqua was floating past the hallways of the castle, distracted by her work as always. Things were becoming more peaceful as Riku masterfully chased the other mermaids away. Fewer suitors meant that there were less snide remarks and stares that she had to deal with. Now if only the prince would allow her to leave the palace, then she could return to her life and forget that this ever happened.

As she passed by one of the columns, a familiar voice sang, "I heard that your tastes are leaning towards the younger merman nowadays.” Aqua whirled around, and her face lit up when she saw Terra floating there with his arms across his broad chest.

“What can I say,” she sang back. "The more tender the meat, the easier it is to swallow.“

"That’s a really dirty thing to say,” sang Terra with amusement. He unfolded his arms and swam closer to Aqua. The general of Lumina’s army was a very handsome mer with tan skin and a tail of gold. His hair was cropped in short layers as per military regulation, and several permanent black stains in the shape of tiger fish stripes ran down his left arm, marking his status. "Mind explaining to me why you’re wriggling yourself before the prince of Atlantica?“

"Believe me, it wasn’t my idea,” sang Aqua with consternation. "The prince is a spoiled mer who thinks that he can swim all over whomever he wants for the sake of his entertainment. I told him that I already had a chosen and he still forced me into this mess.“

"If he’s looking for a fight, I’ll be glad to give him one,” clicked Terra with a note of promise.

“The last thing I need is two merman fighting over me as if I was the last mollusk left after a red tide,” sang Aqua in flat notes. "Besides, Lumina needs this kingdom on their side.“

"I know,” Terra sang somberly. "In fact, that’s why I’m here. I have a message from the king. He says to keep a close eye on the prince and remain in the palace.“

"What?” Aqua flared her gills with disbelief at her current situation. "If I have to spend another moment with that insufferable youngling, I will go mad!“

"Don’t forget that the king of Noctis is also here,” sang Terra gravely. "He’s up to something. We should find out what it is and report back to King Eraqus as soon as possible.“

"Aren’t you the least bit worried that I might actually take a liking to the prince?” sang Aqua, even though she already knew the answer to that question. She had known Terra ever since they were younglings; the merman knew that her heart would never stray from him no matter what kind of fanciful things were dangled in front of her face. It was the high amount of trust between them that kept the merman from dashing off to teach the royal brat a lesson.

“I’m more worried about the prince taking a liking to you. If he has any ounce of taste in him, he’d realize that you’re no guppy.” Terra affectionately touched Aqua’s cheek. "If he bothers you, I’ll just cause a scandal. It’s your honor that’ll be tainted, after all.“

Aqua had raised her hands to gently cup on top of Terra’s, but upon hearing what he sang she pushed him away. "Merman,” she spat at her chosen. "Only thinking about their egos.“

"Among other things,” sang Terra with a wink. He began to swim away. "Don’t make a blowfish out of me before we’re mated. It’ll be a bad start to our life together.“

Aqua swatted at Terra with her tail, but missed. Of course she wasn’t going to cheat on him, there was no way that it would ever happen. Terra couldn’t care less if mers were saying bad things about her because of the current predicament, he knew the truth and he was going to mate with her regardless. It was Aqua who couldn’t stand to see her chosen loose face because of baseless rumors caused by the rude prince of Atlantica.

Now she was stuck spying on Riku until this entire fiasco was over. She hoped that the prince would just pick somebody and get it over with so that she could return home to Lumina. As long as the mermaid he chose wasn’t an orca from Noctis, then there was nothing to worry about. Surely even Riku wasn’t in such bad taste.

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