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Unfathomable - Complete	By : ColdSilence Category: Kingdom Hearts > Slash/Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 11975 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter List
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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 beastiality?
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 Five-

Riku didn’t get a chance to confront Sora until the ship docked. The human had plaintively told him that they would talk in their secret place as soon as the first opportunity arrived. Until then, the prince kept a sharp eye on the boy from the water, promising retribution should he attempt to abandon him before he’d had his say.

As promised, Sora crawled into the hidden cavern and took his place at the edge of the natural lake. He kneeled on the hard rocks and peered into the shadows of the pool. Riku surfaced moments later, and the first thing he did was to send a punishing wave of water at the human.

It soaked Sora instantly, rendering him cold and shivering in the damp air. The sheer childishness of it nearly made him turn and walk away, but he stayed because he wanted to give Riku a piece of his mind as well, regardless if he understood or not.

“I get that you’re angry,” said Sora as he scrubbed the water from his face. "I shouldn’t have left you without saying goodbye, or at least explaining first. But you can’t seriously say that you don’t know my reasons. We can’t be together. I belong here and you belong over there. Land, and water.“ He gestured emphatically at the ground beneath him and the water that the mer inhabited. "What we did last time wasn’t right, and to be honest, I didn’t even like it at all. I tried to replace someone else with you, and it didn’t work. Do you understand that?”

Sora looked at Riku intently to discern if the mer had any comprehension of his words at all. In truth, the prince understood things partially; he gathered that his human was sending him away because he regretted their mating and that he was unsatisfied with it somehow. The word “replace” didn’t translate very well, but that didn’t matter to Riku. He knew enough to know where the boy was going with this.

The prince gritted his sharp teeth as he experienced rejection for the first time in his life. He could feel something painful in his chest twisting and breaking with the human’s every word. There was a kingdom full of mers that worshipped his every turn in the water, but here in the dry air, there was a creature that dared to defy him. His pride chafed and he ached with agony.

How dare he. How dare this human reject him! In a fit of anger, Riku surged forwards and dug his claws into Sora’s thighs. The boy responded with a yell of pain and a fruitless attempt to remove the talons by grabbing the mer’s wrists. His flesh was the leverage for the prince to rise up out of the water, his aquamarine eyes blazing as he sang in his native language:

“Why? Why do you turn away from me? I do not care if you are human. I do not care if this is taboo. Why are you not loyal to me as I have been loyal to you since the moment that I laid eyes on you!”

As soon as Riku finished hissing, he realized what it was that he just said. He sank back into the water slowly, stunned at himself for uttering those words. Am I confessing to this human? he wondered in horror.

He was. The pain in his chest told him the truth, and the realization dragged him down. Riku had fallen for his human a long time ago, perhaps even the moment that he first saw him. The prince always feigned loyalty, but it was never as real as the way that he faithfully sought after Sora. For the first time, there was something that he wanted that actually mattered, and it was sheer irony or perhaps fate that it was the one thing that was the most elusive.

The prince unlatched his claws from Sora’s skin. Red blood swelled in the places he’d gouged, mocking him with the reminder that humans were different. Riku’s own blue blood would never be as warm or bright. The mer folded his arms over the boy’s lap and lowered his head against his legs in despair.

Sora didn’t understand anything that Riku said. The angry swoops and clicks meant nothing to him, but the expression on the mer’s face was enough. When the prince released him and lowered his head, the boy exhaled the breath that he had sucked in to steel against the pain. With alarming clarity, he realized that a breakup was a breakup no matter what; that it hurt his friend as much as it would to any human.

The mer’s childish and violent reaction wasn’t a complete surprise. Sora knew that he was dealing with fire by daring to have relations with an unknown creature from the sea. However, the way that Riku buried himself in his lap reminded him sharply of how he felt when Kairi ended their relationship. It made him realize that somewhere in the mer’s selfish heart he might actually have real feelings towards him; feelings that he unintentionally hurt.

Tentatively, Sora wrapped his arms around Riku’s shoulders and leaned over him. He pressed his cheek on top of his friend’s wet platinum hair and said soothingly, “This is my fault. I started this. I was so lonely that I used you. I’m sorry Riku. I’m sorry that I hurt you.”

They stayed huddled against each other until Sora had to leave. He gently slid Riku’s arms away from his legs and gave him a sad smile as his companion sank back into the water. No promises were made as to whether he would return to visit the prince or not. Every time he looked at the dried blood on his legs, he felt apprehensive about everything.

Relief flooded the boy when he crawled out of the secret place and began the journey home. It made him feel better to remove himself from the situation. Once he put a good amount of distance between himself and the ocean, he stopped to look over his shoulder. He could see Riku’s figure perched on a rock a couple kilometers from the shoreline. Sora implicitly knew that the mer would always be watching for him there, and his feelings of reprieve turned to guilt.

Indeed, his friend found the highest perch over the water so that he could see where his human was going. He shouldn’t have put himself so far out in the open, but in that moment he didn’t care. The prince wanted to show Sora that he was brave enough to be there, and he silently challenged the boy to do the same.

While Riku peered intently at the shoreline, Splash swam close by. She circled the rock as she clicked to the mer, “I am growing worried about you, prince. Your fondness for that human is growing without restraint. You must abandon him soon; you are growing much too old to be chasing fantasies.”

The prince didn’t spare the dolphin a look. He kept his gaze fixed on the horizon as he sang, “If he were a mer, I would have him. It wouldn’t matter which kingdom he was in or how dangerous the alliance would be. If he were in these waters, he would be mine.”

Splash was stunned by the prince’s declaration. She blew water from her air hole to indicate how absurd Riku’s words were. "You can not! You can not love him Riku. Not a human. Your heart will be broken.“

The prince did not listen.

{{———————————————–}}

"So you played into the prince’s hands,” sang Terra with a touch of amusement.

Aqua kept fanning the ridged fins that decorated her arms open and shut; the old habit betraying the agitation that she felt. "I’ll admit, my pride chafes over it. He’s as slippery as an eel.“

Terra curled his fingers under his chin in thought. The fact that Riku wasn’t interested in any of the mermaids that he invited to the palace was a good thing, but it was still disturbing to think that there could be one other that they did not know about. "All we need to do now is find out who his lover is and then we can finally get you out of that castle.”

“I have tried following him many times,” clicked Aqua. "I always lose him when he swims through the kingdom.“

"Leave it to me,” sang Terra. "Tracking is my specialty.“

Riku may have been adept at shaking off pursuers, but Terra was good at following retreating enemies to their hiding places in order to fully eliminate them. Together, the couple bided their time for an opportune moment to follow the prince, and it wasn’t long until their patience was rewarded.

As always, Riku stole away while everyone in the palace was asleep. Aqua and Terra carefully shadowed him through the water, but there came a point where he simply vanished from view due to the complicated twists and turns he made through the underground caverns and flora. Instead of continuing on blindly, Terra shook open a seaweed pouch at his side. A tiny clownfish floated out of it and stretched out its fins.

"Nemo, can you track him?” Terra asked the creature.

The young clownfish waved his fins to direct the water into his nares, and then he answered enthusiastically, “Yes, I can smell the prince. This will be easy.”

“Let’s go then.”

Although Riku wasn’t visible, the trio were able to follow his winding route through the city of Alantica; a trail which eventually turned into an upwards course towards the darkness above. Higher and higher they ascended, pressing on despite their rising concern over the direction that the prince was taking. The ocean water around them became pierced with ghostly plumes of light, and eventually they reached the barrier between water and air.

“I’m scared,” clicked Nemo. "His smell leads all the way up.“ Unwilling to go forwards anymore, the fish swam back into the pouch at Terra’s side.

"That foolish prince,” sang Aqua with a touch of unbidden awe. "He’s been surfacing all this time.“

"Let’s not stop here,” clicked Terra. "I want to know how far this mystery goes.“ He reached out for Aqua’s hand, and with a shared look of trust, they both broke through the surface of the water for the first time in their lives.

The light was breathtaking and warm. Creatures they had never seen before swam overhead in a blue expanse and wind quickly dried their faces. Aqua clung to Terra’s arm as the waves jostled them with force.

"Look,” clicked Terra. He pointed towards the distant shoreline. Aqua’s eyes squinted, and when she saw what her chosen was looking at, she flared her gills in alarm.

There was a human standing on an outcropping of rocks. Riku was over there, scaling the side of the moss-covered stones to meet with him. Once they were together, the prince reached up to tenderly touch the boy’s face.

The mers dived back underwater after bearing witness to that private moment. A stunned silence stretched between them as they processed what they had just seen.

“I used to think that humans were just fairy tales,” sang Terra after getting over his shock.

“This is a travesty,” clicked Aqua. "No one will want to mate with the prince when they discover that he’s consorting with a human. The power of the Trident will vanish with King Triton’s death. Noctis will surely overtake Atlantica at that moment. It took all of the king’s life to sire even one male mer, it’s next to impossible that he will have another.“

"He is just a foolish youngling after all,” mused Terra.

“Terra,” piped up Nemo from his bag. The clownfish nosed its way partially out of the sack. "I smell an orca.“

That immediately put them on guard. Terra searched the vicinity and found what Nemo was talking about: There was an orca floating at the surface, his tail lazily swishing back and forth to maintain his equilibrium. He gestured for Aqua to follow him and take cover behind underwater rocks where they could both hide and observe.

"He’s spying on the prince,” sang Aqua in quiet notes.

“More than spying. Gaining leverage,” added Terra darkly. "They’ll have the prince under their thumb with this kind of information.“

Aqua blew out her gills in exacerbation. "Why is the prince such a fool? He has everything that any mer would desire at his fins. Is his life really that unsatisfying?”

“The same could be said for you,” answered Terra. He turned to look at Aqua directly. "As a lady, you have a comfortable life that any mermaid would give their dorsals to have. Wealth, beauty and power are your birthright. Yet instead, you choose to learn how to fight and defend the kingdom at your own risk. Was your own life really so unsatisfying?“

"You keep bringing up this conversation as if it is going to change my mind about my decisions,” clicked Aqua coolly. "I am going to fight beside you whether you like it or not.“

"I’m only saying that you and the prince have a lot in common,” sang Terra with a touch of amusement. "Both of you are stubborn, unsatisfied hammer fish.“

Terra narrowly dodged a swipe of Aqua’s claws in response to the comment that he made. Aqua did not like being compared to the spoiled prince, but she had to grudgingly admit that she could understand his feelings somewhat. "Do you believe that he truly cares for that human?” she sang quietly.

“I don’t know,” answered Terra. "We’ll have to keep playing his game to find out what the orcas are up to. You’re in the best position to counter any blackmail they may cause.“

Aqua flared her gills with a huff. "The only person that I feel sorry for in this situation is that human.”

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In the end, Sora broke up with Olette. He didn’t want to cause her the same grief that he caused Riku. She was sad because of it, but it was better than letting the relationship progress to the point where it got physical. The boy was determined to remove the complications in his life, so he resolved to remain single for a while. That included spending less time at the shoreline so that he could gradually drift away from the friend that he had in the ocean.

It didn’t work out that way. Guilt kept drawing him back to the water, where he would find a very available and very willing Riku. There was no doubt in Sora’s mind that the mer wanted him badly, which was both flattering and tempting. Their dynamic had changed since the day that the prince showed his true feelings. Now, the mer was more gentle and attentive. He showed through his actions that Sora’s needs did matter, and little by little, the human was drawn to that promise of companionship and pleasure.

The prince had purposely changed his behavior because he made up his mind that he was going to seduce Sora. Riku wanted his human to desire him completely. It was a true courtship unlike the farce that he presented to his own kingdom. This was the first time that he ever put his effort into something wholeheartedly, even at the risk of the damage that it would cause his own heart. Thoughts of the boy consumed him to the point that his lovesickness was noticeable. His people believed that it was because of Aqua, but they were all completely wrong.

Winning Sora’s trust wasn’t an easy task. At first, the human avoided meeting in the secret place. He would only speak to Riku at the less intimate docks, much to the prince’s frustration. Many tides passed as he struggled to rebuild their friendship, and once that was established, he worked to fan the the boy’s lust. There were caresses, touches and kisses that made his friend breathless, yet he would not come into the water or hide away with the mer to continue what they were starting.

Riku finally broke Sora when he discovered that his feet hid the most sensitive points of his body. Kissing the spot in the middle of his arch made the human jump and inhale sharply. Nibbling each toe with light enough force to prevent his sharp teeth from breaking the skin had his friend glowing red in the face and squirming with one hand over his crotch. After many failures, the mer found the sensual leverage needed to coax Sora into the cave.

Luring the human back to intimacy was Riku’s crowning achievement. He swam circles in excitement before entering the secret place and waiting at the lake’s edge. Sora approached the water with intentions to consummate, but he was so reluctant that he could barely gather the strength to take his shorts off. The prince made the decision for him as he eagerly pulled himself onto the stone shelf and roughly shoved his human’s pants down to his ankles. He wrapped one of his clawed hands around the boy’s cock and wheezed a playful “I learned” as he jacked him off.

Sora fell completely under Riku’s spell and sank to his knees with abandon. All the worries of daily life vanished into blind pleasure, just as it had been when Kairi claimed him. He said yes to so many things that she wanted, and he found himself saying yes again as Riku extended his long dick from his tail. The boy even sat down on his bottom and opened his legs, inviting the prince to do as he pleased.

Although he was willing, the appearance of the prehensile member made Sora apprehensive. He hoped that this time Riku would reciprocate his needs. The boy touched his friend’s face and pawed at his well-toned chest, pleading with his eyes that this time the mer would satisfy him. It was a look that pleased the prince; that desperate, wanton lust assured him that he was still the most handsome and powerful royal in the entire ocean. Riku had every intention of sating the human so deeply that he would never desire another creature.

His long member wrapped itself around one of the boy’s tanned thighs like a smooth pink rope. Sora licked his lips, believing that it would rise up to his mouth again just as it had before. This time, however, it curved over his cock, forming a question mark shaped loop whose end pointed at the mushroom shaped head of his penis. Its tip segmented open and the delicate, paper thin tendril with a small bulb halfway down its shaft revealed itself.

Riku was now working very carefully. The frustration of mating a human was in not knowing where to properly place his seed or take his pleasure. Sora’s mouth had been adequate for him, but his friend was dissatisfied with that experience. Every creature had a way to give and receive, and he was determined to map the secrets of the boy’s body and reap its treasures. There had to be a place where Sora received. He would not accept that it was impossible. The mer’s strong drive to dominate his human shoved reason aside and rejected the thought that a union was completely impossible.

  There. Riku would try there. He carefully dipped his tendril down into the first hole that he found, directly into the head of the boy’s cock. The reaction was instant: Sora inhaled sharply and shouted “Wait!”, his hands immediately moving to rescue himself from an unnatural penetration. Unfortunately, the mer was faster. He snatched the human’s wrists and held them firmly to prevent interruption. It was sheer ambrosia to have this sensitive and intimate part of his body slowly feeding into that small channel, until the bulb popped past the head and slid a few inches inside.

This wasn’t the first time that Sora experienced something like this. Kairi was not the type of girl that only liked to receive. She had reaped his virginity with sounds and dildos, to the point that he felt that there was nothing else to give and nothing left to learn. He let her have all of his body willingly. Now, for first time the boy saw that there were still new adventures to be had; that there was still trust that could be forged and shared. Yet it was very difficult to give Riku that trust.

  Is it because of him? thought Sora to himself. Or is it because of me?  Either way, he didn’t want to hurt Riku again. He didn’t want to make someone that he considered to be his friend angry or disappointed. So he resigned himself to the situation, and when he did, the first jolts of pleasure began firing a path from his cock to his ass, leaving his legs as weak as jelly. It feels good, was his last thought before he was taken to a place of pleasure that he believed only Kairi could send him to.

Riku continued to sink into Sora’s body until the open ends of his member swallowed around the human’s penis. His eyes closed as natural suction tugged at Sora’s short shaft in search of a mer counterpart, but due to the difference in their species, that was not going to happen. The boy was definitely enjoying it; he had stopped fighting their union and was now bridging his entire body for more. Inside of their connection, Riku was feverishly stroking his bulbous wet tendril up and down inside of the urethral shaft that he found. His human’s screams were so loud that he was sure even the dolphins could hear it; a thought that gave the prince a vicious sort of satisfaction.

Although it was pleasurable, this act did not bring Riku to the crest the way the boy’s mouth had. He craved that culmination again, and he was as envious of Sora’s throes as he was proud of himself for causing them. It was unexpected when his human suddenly let out a guttural grunt and jerked involuntarily. Riku felt his sexparts become flushed with liquid, and he immediately detached his member from the other’s due to his surprise.

Pearlescent white liquid arched from Sora’s distended urethra in a fountain that sprayed his stomach and dribbled down his shaft and balls. It left thick globs that clung to the slim thistle of Riku’s cock. The orgasm had been so intense that the boy turned on his side and curled in on himself with a whimper.

The human seed intrigued the prince. It was beautiful and pure. The mer brought his own member to his lips so that he could sample the taste of it, and once the flavor touched his tongue he nearly consumed himself with the eagerness to have more of it. Like his friend’s tears, this essence was addicting and delicious. When Riku could find no more of it on himself, he prowled over the boy’s body and laved at the places where the ejaculate fell.

Sora’s skin felt so electrified that he could not take more stimulation. He pawed ineffectively at Riku to push him away, his toneless arms doing little more than to softly bat at the hungry prince. The mer pried his legs apart and licked his balls, making the boy jump and attempt to turn out of his side-lying position to draw away. There was little he could do, and Riku eventually engulfed his softened cock with his mouth and sucked deeply until there was nothing left.

“N.. no more,” pleaded Sora. His dick was hardening slightly, but he felt tired. He placed his hands on the mer’s bobbing head, trying to get him to stop. "Please..“

Riku released Sora from his mouth, but only because there was none of that delicious seed left. He licked his lips as he looked up at his human with hungry eyes. The prince wasn’t done taking his fill yet. His friend had reached his end, but he did not. This was not going to be over until the mer had what he wanted.

The boy shivered with cold and a sudden feeling of emptiness. He missed Kairi. Sora missed the way she loved him. "Can you hold me?” he asked quietly.

“Hold?” wheezed Riku. The word was foreign to him; the human had never used it before.

“Hold me,” repeated Sora almost desperately. His strength returned as a different sort of need moved him. He reached for Riku’s arms and pulled them up around his waist. The boy wiggled down so that the mer’s face was snug against his chest instead of against his crotch, and he embraced his friend. "Like this,“ he whispered.

The prince did not understand how a simple hug would bring either of them pleasure. Moreover, his human seemed to be winding down from his high and settling into contentment. That was all well and good, but Riku impatiently wanted to reach the same state. Despite his thoughts, the mer obliged Sora and held him close, but his tail gave a little flap for every long minute that he was kept bereft. Finally, he gently scratched his claws at the edge of the boy’s mouth and hovered his cock nearby, indicating that he was ready to finish.

Sora laughed softly and took hold of Riku’s squirming penis. He bit down his apprehensiveness and trusted that his friend wouldn’t hurt him, just like the last time. The boy opened his mouth to grant the appendage entry, and it immediately surged inside and moved in a controlled frenzy against his palate and tongue. His eyes watered, but thankfully Riku didn’t go down into his throat. When the mer’s fruity seed burst forth, he swallowed what he could before coughing and spitting the excess amounts that he could not hold in.

Riku’s gills fluttered soundlessly when he finally received his satisfaction. His aquamarine eyes became lidded and his movements turned lazy. He retracted his member back into his body; now he was ready to embrace his human. The prince swept his tail between Sora’s legs and curled it around his bottom so that his tailfins were flush against the boy’s midback. He crossed his arms around his friend’s torso and curled his claws in, threatening to gouge into soft flesh if Sora decided to leave before he was given permission.

The boy sighed at his predicament, but he was too tired to do anything about it. Besides, it was nice to be treated as if he was wanted. Sora eventually closed his eyes and dozed off, too sated to care that his face was against the hard stone of the ground or that Riku had him in a near death grip. What mattered in that moment was that he didn’t feel alone.

When he next opened his eyes, the sun had already set. Flood waters were filling the cavern and Riku was slinking his way back into the pool. Sora watched the mer disappear into the depths, but before his companion went too far, he was suddenly inspired to ask:

"Hey, Riku?”

The mer resurfaced upon hearing his name. He looked at Sora expectantly.

“Do you know what the word love means?” asked Sora. “Does it exist where you live?”

“Love?” wheezed Riku. "What love?“

"It’s..” Sora struggled to find a way to describe it. Love was both wonderful and consuming. It was an emotion that made his heart beat fast and get weak in the knees. He felt full when he had it and crushed when it was gone. "It is.. something that people feel with each other. A special feeling.“

"No understand,” answered Riku. His limited vocabulary prevented him from comprehending what his human was trying to say.

Sora was disappointed, but he forced a smile despite that. “It’s alright. Maybe someday you’ll know what I mean.”

Riku braced his claws against the rocky outcropping and used his upper body strength to pull himself out of the water. He met the boy’s lips in a brief, chaste kiss, and after a long lingering look, he sank back into the depths and swam away. Sora was left to stare at the empty pool, and then he began the lonely task of cleaning his body and gathering up his discarded shorts and underwear. He checked his penis to make sure that it had survived their coupling and found that it was no different than when Kairi sank her sounds into his body.

Even though she had given him her blessings to find love again, Sora couldn’t help but feel as if he was betraying her. He realized that in that very moment, she may already be with someone else and sharing the same pleasure that she had with him. By releasing him from his fidelity, she was doing the same for herself. That thought made him sad.

  I am doing everything you wanted me to do, but it’s not making me happy. What am I doing wrong, Kairi? Why can’t I be like you? Why can you be happy without me?

With a heavy heart, Sora made his way home.

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The palace was quieter without the horde of maidens taking up all of the guest chambers. With Larxene gone, only Aqua remained as a suitor. She expected Riku’s taunts and overbearing flirtations to increase tenfold, but it quickly became clear that the prince had lost his taste for it.

Riku’s mind and heart were gone. They existed on the surface waters, far and away from the responsibilities of his kingdom. Meeting with the prince was a waste of time; even though they floated at the same table and shared the same serving of kelp, Aqua might as well have been invisible. It was obvious that her host had no care for her company whatsoever.

Instead of attending to Aqua, Riku wondered why Sora didn’t share his sexual appetite. Although he managed to claim the human, there were times when he was denied access to his body. His lover kept asking to be embraced and that seemed to satify him, but the mer wanted to mate more. He wanted to seed Sora and drink from the nectar of his body. The prince craved that taste, and sometimes he would surface for the sole intention of taking the boy into his mouth until he was thoroughly milked. The finest food of the kingdom was spread out before him, and yet it all tasted like silt from a sulfur vent compared to the flavor of his human.

As Riku mulled over his love interest, Aqua covertly watched him. Then she let go of pretense and outright stared at the prince. She wasn’t noticed at all, so she hummed through her gills to get the mer’s attention, and when that didn’t work, she sang his name.

“Riku.”

That broke the prince from his trancelike state. He shifted his eyes over to his forgotten guest. "More food?“ he inquired distantly.

"How long do you plan to keep up this act?” asked Aqua plaintively. "You have as much desire for me as you do for a bowl full of live jelly fish. This is insanity.“

"Shall I send you away then?” sang Riku with boredom.

“That wasn’t your plan,” chided Aqua. "You wanted my chosen to fetch me so you would appear emotionally wounded and put off your mating indefinitely.“

"Then you should be asking your chosen what’s taking him so long. If he values your fidelity then he should show his face,” answered Riku dryly.

“He won’t,” sang Aqua, “because if I leave, then the orcas will make their move against you. We know, Riku. We know what it is that you do when the castle sleeps.”

The prince suddenly went very still. His eyes gained an edge of anger as he regarded Aqua. Riku was infuriated that someone managed to break through his bubble of privacy and know his most intimate secret. "You,“ he seethed.

"I am not against you,” sang Aqua quickly before the prince could finish his thought. “Nor am I for you. Riku, you are the crown prince. Don’t you care about your own people at all? The Trident will forsake your bloodline if you do not bear a son.”

“That’s none of your business,” answered Riku coolly.

“It became my business when you dragged me into this charade,” clicked Aqua tersely. "What are you going to do about the orcas? Surely you are aware that they are watching you.“

"They’re enjoying the show as much as you are,” sang Riku. "Do you want to know what I am going to do to the human next?“ His lips twisted into a leering smile.

"Riku!” Aqua scratched her claws against the table for the sake of not doing the same to the impudent prince. "Stop behaving like a stray youngling with no birthright. What you are doing is madness. You can’t possibly believe that a human would ever love a mer. You have no future with him!“

Riku’s leer faded into an indescribable expression. He turned his face away from Aqua to allow his freely floating hair to obscure it. "I don’t need the love of a human. I am only playing with his body,” he answered neutrally.

“Is that true?” sang Aqua in quieter tones. "Are you really that careless, or is your heart truly that dark?“ The mermaid closed her eyes in her attempt to rein her emotions in. She was angry, appalled, and so very disappointed. "If this is the real face of the one and only son of Atlantica, then all was lost the moment that you were born.”

Riku reached across the table and gently, but firmly, tipped Aqua’s head up with the crook of his finger. He boldly looked into her eyes as he sang, “If you want peace between the kingdoms, then you will declare yourself as my mate.”

Aqua jerked her face out of Riku’s grasp with a hiss through her gills. "How dare you! That will not solve anything. The orcas will reveal your secret regardless of who you are pretending to be mates with.“

"Without proof, it’s just a baseless rumor. Who would believe that the crown prince is consorting with humans? That’s the stuff of fairytales. The orcas will be the laughing stock of the ocean,” sang Riku. "What mers will believe is that their favorite royalty has stolen the heart of a noble mermaid away from her chosen. That is a story that will keep their imaginations tamed for cycles to come.“

"I refuse!” clicked Aqua loudly.

“Then the situation with the orcas can’t be helped,” sang Riku airily. "You can stand up for your kingdom or you can stand up for your chosen. You decide.“

With that, the prince swam away from the breakfast table, leaving Aqua to mull over the terrible choices that were left to her. Terra could storm in and steal her away, leaving Riku to appear jilted but open to blackmail by the orcas, or she could go along with the diabolical plan and pretend to be his mate, but tarnish her chosen’s reputation and potentially hurt his trust.

  Dangerous, she thought to herself. This game is too dangerous, Riku. Gambling with the hearts of others will only lead to sorrow.

To be continued.
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