{"sf1_id":1070713,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Aquata Cove - Chapter 75","author":"Mirron Tenshi","words":11648,"posted_at":"2016-09-12T18:33:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","Handjob","M/M","Mermaid","Otter","Snake","Story Progression","fish","merman"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1070713-aquata-cove-chapter-75","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1070713","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1070713\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\nAquata Cove\nChapter 75: Miscellaneous\n \n \n \nYuri's car drives around the\ncorner, into the parking lot of an apartment complex. She parks into a vacant\nspace, and quickly steps out. She runs up the stairs until she reaches Ryo's\ndoor. She knocks hard, and waited until Ryojin opens from the other side.\n \n\"Where is he?\" Yuri asked,\n\"Is he ok??\"\n \n\"He still asleep...\" Ryo said\nin a hushed tone as he lets her in, and walks her to the dimly lit living room.\nShe looks with pity at the small tan boy, tucked under a blanket with an ice\npack on his forehead, still unconscious. \n \n\"Ah no...\" Yuri said softly.\nShe kneels down by his side, and feels her hand onto his cheek. It's a little\ntoo warm. She opens his mouth, and examined closely, before pressing two of her\nfingers onto his neck to feel his pulse.\n \n\"I came home from taking\nFumiko to the airport, and he was lying face-down on the grass,\" Ryo explained.\n \n\"... I think he's just\ndehydrated.\" Yuri said, \"He has a delicate constitution that makes it easy for\nhis health to take a dive like this. This happens to Merrick from time to time\ntoo. He's going to be fine.\"\n \n\"Ok...\" Ryo took a seat next to\nthe couch, \"I brought him up here to help, and then I see someone broke in\nhere!\" He said, \"They took my television and a few lamps, and they broke a few\nof my dishes.\"\n \n\"What do you think happened\nto him?\" She asked softly.\n \n\"I don't know...\" Ryojin shook\nhis head, \"Maybe they hurt and rob him too.\"\n \n'What were you doing,\nArnaav?' Yuri thought, before sighing, \"Last time I saw him, he said he had\nsomething really important to do.\" They both silenced as the boy groans, and\nturns in his sleep, facing the back-cushions of the couch.\n \n\"Did he say what he was\ndoing?\" Ryo whispered.\n \n\"No. He just took off... With\nAdam's friends, Harold and Belinda, that is,\" She lied, \"I should have asked\nhim what he was up to.\" Withholding the fact that Arnaav had to go into the\nocean, \"I'm sorry this happened.\"\n \n\"It is alright.\" Ryo said\nsoftly.\n \nMoments pass by as the two of\nthem sat in silence, letting the boy sleep as they monitored is situation. Yuri\nlooks in sorrow at the bundled boy, feeling she is completely responsible for\nthis; this has definitely got something to do with Fumiko, the way he went\nrunning off like that. Was he hoping to catch her at Ryo's place just to try\nand talk to her? \n \nHow much trouble did Arnaav\ngo to just to try and speak with her? A wild guess tells her that maybe Arnaav\nwas the one who broke into the apartment - but how? He's just a small kid. And\nbesides, some of Ryo's possessions are gone, and there's no way Arnaav can\ncarry a TV and a few items on his own. At the very least, it seems Ryojin\ndoesn't suspect that Arnaav's done anything wrong...\n \n \nArnaav remains silent as his\nhalf-lidded eyes stare at the colored fabric of the cushion, with small tears\nrunning along and down his eyes, as he can pick up Yuri's scent, and someone\nelse's... His eyes close as he keeps himself quiet...\n \n \nYuri's train of thought\nsnapped back as she feels something on her hand. She looks to see Ryojin\nactually holding her hand, tenderly.\n \n\"Ryo, what are you doing?\"\nShe asks as she takes her hand away.\n \n\"Wh- Yuri...\" Ryojin looks at\nher with a hurt expression, \"I just... I been thinking... Of you lately.\"\n \n\"Ryo, don't you remember what\nI said? We're done, I told you.\" Yuri stated firmly, \"You hurt me, Ryo. You\ncrossed several lines when we fought.\" She shook her head, \"And I once told you\nthat I would not even think of giving you another chance until you apologized.\"\n \n\"Apologize for what?\" Ryo\nasked a little defensively.\n \n\"You're joking, right, Ryo?\"\nYuri said lowly to keep her voice down, \"For all of the things you said. What\nyou tried to get away with, what you insinuated, and what you caused.\"\n \n\"What are you even saying??\nAre you still angry about that?\"\n \n\"Yes,\" Yuri said, shaking her\nhead, \"You honestly think you've done no wrong here?\"\n \n\"I thought you knew this\nkid,\" Ryo said, \"I called you and he-\"\n \n\"I'm not talking about that.\"\nYuri said as she got up and walked a few paces away from him, \"You still think\nI'M the one at fault here...\" She growled. As old-fashioned as her family is,\nRyojin's clan is twice as archaic as hers.\n \n\"Yuri, why will you not let\nthis go??\" Ryo asked as he gets up, \"Why do you hold on to so much hate for\nme??\"\n \n\"Oh my God, I really, REALLY\nwant to refuse that you're this stupid.\" Yuri said as she drops her shoulders,\n\"I did NOT want to move in with you! That didn't mean that I didn't love you!\nIt meant that I wasn't ready! And the more you pushed, the more YOU despised\nME!\"\n \n\"I never despise you,\" Ryo\nsaid defensively as he gets up, \"You would not give me a real enough answer!\"\n \n\"And so you turned into a\ncomplete jerk.\" Yuri replied, glaring at him, \"Insinuating that I've slept with\nJamal, among other men, even asking if me and Adam were an item at some point.\nAnd the more I protested, the worse you got!\" Yuri shook her head, \"I really\nhad feelings for you, Ryojin. You have no idea how much you hurt me.\"\n \n\"And you do not think I am\nhurt too??\"\n \n\"And you don't even get how\nbad it was.\" Yuri leers at him, \"Do you know when we broke up, my grandparents\nwere actually MAD at me??\" She told him, \"They blamed ME. They didn't care what\nI said, it was all my fault that you insulted me and pressured me into taking a\nhuge step in my life that I wasn't ready to take!\"\n \n\"Why were you not ready??\"\nRyo asked, \"I still do not understand why you didn't want to be with me.\"\n \n\"...\" Yuri glares at him,\n\"Because I just didn't want to, and you wouldn't accept that.\"\n \n\"Yeah.\" Ryo shook his head at\nher, \"You can't even give me your own reasons.\"\n \n\"...\" A pause goes by as they\njust stood there and glared at each other, \"... You know what, I don't have to\njustify myself to you. You were raised to have a trophy wife of your very own, and\nI will never be her.\" She told him.\n \n\"What?\" Ryo gave her a weird\nlook, \"What does that mean-\" \n \n\"We both come from very\ntraditional clans. But at least my parents taught me to be anything I want, not\njust something my grandparents can have to reminisce about times gone by.\"\n \n\"Wha- Yuri-\"\n \n\"Thank you.\" She interrupted\nhim, bowing to him in formality, \"For calling me about Arnaav. I appreciate you\ntaking care of him before he got hurt.\" She walked back to the couch, and took\nthe blanket off of the boy, to find him bundled in a white sheet. She sighs as\nshe closes her eyes, \"I will bring the sheet back tomorrow. As you can imagine,\nI don't have any clothes for him right now.\"\n \n\"... Fine.\" Ryo walks away from\nher as Yuri carefully picks up Arnaav, and carries him away. Ryo holds open the\ndoor for her in eerie silence as she walks by, and closes the door behind her.\n \n \n()()()\n \n \nArnaav whimpers as he looks\nup to the large polar bear, next to the Noita otter, along with an orca mermaid\nwith several wraps of seaweed around her body. The black and white whale maid\ngently strokes the boy's head as she takes a loop of kelp away from his neck.\nHe reaches his little arms out as she drifts away from him.\n \n\"No, please no.\" He pleaded\nweakly as his soul feels an abrupt feeling of rejection and loneliness as soon\nas the seaweed was removed. \"I cannot understand, no...\"\n \nThe mighty white bear man\nweeps as pieces of a broken weapon drift down from his large paws. He bows his\nhead and looks to the side, clenching his eyes shut as he hears the cub's\nlittle cries.\n \n\"But why...\" Arnaav cries,\nshaking all over his body as he looks to the three elders of the pod, \"Why is\nit so wrong???\" He pleads, \"I did not say anything!\" A mid-sized, cream-colored\nbear with white swirls on her body holds her face as she sobs, behind the three\nleaders amidst the pod.\n \n\"Son... You needed to listen...\"\nThe Triton sobbed, \"Why did you not listen...\"\n \n\"I do not understand! I did\nnot touch or-or-or... No, please, no...\" Arnaav cries as he sees his mother's palm\nglowing with light, \"Mother no, please do not do this!\" He cries with terror as\nshe comes closer, \"I am sorry! I will not do it again! No!\"\n \n\"I love you, my child...\" The\notter said with deep remorse, her eyes clouded with glittering mist, \"If I do\nnot do this... They will come...\" \n \n\"Who! Please, Mother, no!\"\nArnaav begs as his furry back pushes into the sand and reef rock, almost\nscreaming with hysteria, \"I am sorry! I am sorry!\"\n \nArnaav glances, and sees the\ncream-colored bear mermaid beside him. He whines and cries as she takes his paw\ninto hers, as she too cries with him. He squeaks as his tiny paw squeezes her\ntightly.\n \n\"We are out of time...\" The\nNoita wept, \"I can sense one of them coming... If I do not mark you, you will\nend...\"\n \n\"MOTHER NO!\" Arnaav screams.\nThe Noita's hand pushes onto the left side of the Adra's chest. \"EEHHHEEEEAAAA\"\nThe boy shrieks with agony as searing pain pours onto the spot, slowly ripping\ninto his flesh as she pushes her energy onto him.\n \n\"STOP!! PLEASE STOP!!! IT IS\nBURNING MEEE!!\" Arnaav cries out, thrashing into the sand as his sister reaches\naround his torso.\n \nA pair of thick, strong,\nfurry arms scoop around the three of them, gruffing with heavy sobs as one\nmermaid tearfully brands the flesh of her baby, the other mermaid holding as\ntight as she can, and the meryin shrieking with despair and agony. The Triton\nholds all of them close, desiring with all of his heart to rob his son of every\nounce of pain and fear that he is spiraling right now... And as well as that of\nwhich is to come, after his poor one is forced to leave...\n \nEverything suddenly\nilluminates in a flash of yellow and white.\n \n \n()()()\n \n \nTwinkling drops roll and drip\nfrom under Arnaav's eyelids, as he slowly started to awaken again.\n \nYuri's car zooms along the\nfreeway, with Arnaav safely buckled on the passenger's seat, wrapped up in the\nthin sheet. She glances to him as she hears some quiet sniffling beside her.\n \n\"Nh... Ffnh... I'm sorry, Yuri...\"\nComes a soft whimper, \"I'm sorry...\"\n \n\"For what, honey?\" Yuri asked\nsoftly.\n \n\"I made you so mad... You had\nto be with someone you hated...\" Arnaav whines.\n \n\"Oh...\" She winces, \"You heard\nall of that?\" \n \n\"Mhm...\" Arnaav sniffles, \"You\nhad to fight because of me...\"\n \n\"That's not true, Arnaav.\"\nYuri turns a curve, \"Ryo and I had problems long before this. They have nothing\nto do with you, it's not your fault.\"\n \n\"I still ended up there... You\nhad to come and find me...\"\n \n\"Don't think about it,\" Yuri\nsaid softly, \"Just get some sleep, ok?\" The car turn along the wide curve of\nthe road, right next to the coast, \"I have to go back to the hospital, where I\nwork. I can set up a little cot for you and give you some water in my office,\nok?\"\n \n\"Mnnhh...\"\n \nArnaav rustles in his sheet,\nand fumbles a little. Yuri's peripheral vision catches a colorful flicker, so\nshe turns her head to the kid. Her eyes widen as she sees a jeweled butterfly\ntrinket in Arnaav's fingers, glittering from the orange flashes from the\npassing highway light posts. \n \n\"Where did you get that?\"\nYuri asked with a slight touch of suspicion, remembering exactly where she's\nseen that small accessory before.\n \n\"It belongs to that girl... The\none I want to... Talk to...\" Arnaav answered weakly, \"I found it on the day we\nplayed those games with the eggs and rabbits...\" His eyes remain moist as he\ntilts the butterfly slightly to make it sparkle.\n \n\"Why were you keeping it?\"\n \n\"It's... Beautiful...\" Arnaav\nsaid, \"And it carries her scent... I really like her... Having it made me feel she\nliked me, after I was told she loved Merrick...\" The boy whimpers, \"And then\nMerrick made her cry... She doesn't like him anymore...\"\n \n\"Oh no...\" Yuri can already see\nwhere this is going.\n \n\"I was trying to find her... I\nlooked everywhere... Belinda showed me where she belonged...\" Arnaav sniffled as\nthe butterfly shimmered, \"And she wasn't there...\" He closes his eyes as he curls\nup tighter in the sheet, \"She wasn't there, and I fell...\"\n \n\"Oh no... Dammit...\" Yuri sighed\nas the car came to a stop at a traffic light. \"Dammit... Dammit...\" She softly hits\nher head onto the steering wheel a few times. \"Arnaav, I am so sorry...\"\n \n\"For... For what?\" \n \n\"There's something I REALLY\nshould have told you...\" Yuri sighs as she turns her head to the child, \"Arnaav,\nFumiko lives on the other side of the world.\"\n \nArnaav looks up at her with\neyes of horror and despair, \"Wh... Whaaat?\" \n \n\"She only comes to these\nislands a couple of times a year to see her brother...\" Yuri ignores the green\ntraffic light above, \"And I don't even know exactly where she is...\"\n \n\"I... I...\" Arnaav's chest swells\nand deflates as he starts to cry. All of this... Every ounce of hope he put into\nthis night... All of his excitement and joy... It was all for nothing...\n \n\"A-Arnaav, it's ok,\" Yuri\nhastily said, \"M-Maybe we can talk to-\" She gasped as the passenger door opens\nas the small boy leaves the blanket, \"Wait, what're you doing?!\"\n \nArnaav cries as he stumbles\nout of the car, and runs away as fast as he can.\n \n\"Arnaav! Wait!!\" Yuri springs\nout of her car, and whips after him, \"Stop! Where are you going?!\" She jogs\nafter him, \"You're going to collapse again! Come back!!\" But he won't listen.\nShe can hear the poor boy sob loudly as he sprints away from her, towards the\nocean.\n \n\"ARNAAV!!\" It's too late.\nArnaav dives into the ocean before she can even reach him. \"Dammit, what\nhappened...\" She groans as she shakes her head and gently rubs her forehead, \"No,\nno, no, this isn't good...\" She tells herself as she retreats back to her car.\n \nHer eyes catch a twinkle as\nshe comes to the unfurled sheet, \"Ohhh...\" Yuri squats down, and delicately picks\nup the butterfly, \"What the hell... Here I thought I was a little better than\nyou, Ryo...\"\n \n \n~~~\n \n \n\"Mnnghh\" Adam moans as he\nwrithes on his bed, his eyes feeling almost as heavy as his own body, and gravity\nseems to have increased on him to begin with. He feels a soft, furry ball\nagainst his neck, which he can already deduce that it's little Skyler curled up\nnext to him.\n \n\"Morning, baby.\" Merrick said from beside him, leaning on his elbow on his\nside.\n \n\"Ohhhrrrr...\" Adam whines as he\ntries to roll over, \"My head feels like a rock.\" He wriggled around on the bed...\nHis anus feels weird, and his package feels painfully pressed. He looked down\nand scoffed in exhaustion.\n \nHis penis and ballsac is\nbarely being contained by a shiny gold and sapphire blue thong that clings\ntightly to his manhood, that is also giving a bitch of a skinny wedgie, \"Fuck,\nI don't even want to know where I got this...\"\n \nMerrick giggles as Adam pulls\nthe thong off of him, and kicks it off the bed, somehow without snapping it.\nSkyler wakes up and stretches on the bed, before hopping onto the windowsill.\n\"I think we may have gotten carried away last night at King Tut's.\"\n \n\"Ah fuck...\" Adam huffed, \"What\nwent down...\" He tries to remember.\n \n\"You had a bunch of shots,\"\nMerrick smirked, \"Off of a guy's body. He was some hot Italian guy, he had some\nreally thick muscles.\"\n \n\"Think I have bits and pieces\nof that...\" Adam rubs his eyebrows, \"I can't remember much... Bunch of blurs and\nmusic, I think I remember holding onto a hard metal pole.\"\n \n\"Hehheeh,\" Merrick grins, \"You got so drunk, you actually got naked for about a\nminute!\"\n \n\"Oh my freaking God.\" Adam\ncovers his eyes, his face feeling hot and prickly.\n \n\"You got spanked so many\ntimes, your butt was glowing pink and red~\" Merrick snickered, \"You were so\nsexy and funny! By the time we put something on you, you had a throbbing\nhard-on.\"\n \n\"Oh fuck...\" Adam rolls onto\nhis front, and stuffs his face onto a pillow. \"I can't ever go back there\nagain.\" He said, muffled by the pillow.\n \n\"Oh why not??\" Merrick gives\nAdam's butt a spank before climbing onto him and sitting himself onto Adam's\nbottom, \"Everyone loved you last night!\"\n \n\"RRRRrrrr!\" Adam grabs the\npillows from both ends and covers his head with it, not even paying attention\nto his naked lover's genitals rubbing on his rump.\n \n\"Oh cheer up, Adam.\" Merrick\ngnaws on Adam's hair playfully, \"At least I didn't tell you about the part\nwhere you thought Nick was me, and you started making out with him while\nsqueezing his package. That's why you were wearing his thong just now.\"\n \n\"OH MY GOD, STOP!\" Adam\nyelled into the pillow as bits and pieces started to resurface.\n \n\"Whaaat? It was hot!\" He\nkisses and nibbles on Adam's neck, \"Thinking about it... Kinda makes ME a little\nhot~\" He said as he started to grind his soft member into Adam's warm, fuzzy\ncrack, \"I REALLY wanted to fuck you right there in the bar~ Pound your ass\nwhile Nick sucks your cock...\" Merrick bites his lip as his own dick is starting\nto get hard, \"But apparently, we can't fuck in public.\"\n \nAdam grunts pitifully as he\nturns his head to breathe, while Merrick wraps his arms around and under him as\nhe continues to dry-hump against Adam, \"Ffffuck, I wanna ram you so bad...\" \n \n\"I am not in the mood.\" Adam\ngroaned, \"I have enough pounding in my head right now...\"\n \n\"Awww, come on~!\" Merrick\nbites Adam's ear and tugs on it, his dick fully hard now. Adam whimpers as he\njust WISHES his head wasn't weighing the same as a ton of bricks. Adam shivers\nas Merrick's tongue licks over Adam's earlobe and groves his pelvis in rolling\nmotions, \"You were so freakin on last night~\"\n \n\"At the moment,\" Adam\nresponds, \"I am down right off.\" He can only groan as his fiancé plays around\nwith his limb body.\n \n\"Awwoo...\" Merrick pouted. \"How\nabout you just lay there and I can have my way with you like this?\"\n \n\"No.\"\n \n\"I can eat your ass or suck\nyour balls?\"\n \n\"No.\"\n \n\"How about I flip you over\nand suck you off? Come on, Adam,\" Merrick slaps Adam's butt a few times.\n \n\"If I get turned on, I'm just\ngoing to get a bigger headache than I already have.\" Adam moaned, \"How about we\njust take a shower?\"\n \n\"... With the suction-cup\nfleshlight or dildo?\" Merrick quipped.\n \n\"Oh for God's sake.\" Adam\nmuffled again as he buries his face into the pillow.\n \n\"Ghhh, I'm kidding, Adam.\"\nMerrick giggled as he climbs off of Adam, and spanks him again, \"C'mon, let's\ngo wash up. Your musk is driving me nuts if you want me to stay off you.\"\n \n\"Mmmgghhh...\" Adam whines as he\ndrags himself out of bed and slumps along the side, feeling dizzier than\nbefore. Without even thinking, he just walks ahead without thinking of grabbing\nsome shorts to cover himself like usual, and just drones out of the door and to\nthe bathroom. \n \nMerrick holds onto Adam's\nshoulders to keep him from flopping over as they go. \"Oh, shh...\" Merrick hushes\nlowly, looking at the living room, and seeing Arnaav wrapped up in the blankets\non the couch, \"Arnaav's still asleep.\" He whispered. Adam only sighs as they\nmake it to inside the restroom.\n \nMerrick turns on the shower\nfor a hot temperature, and takes Adam in. Adam presses his forehead onto the\nglass wall of the shower as he keeps his eyes closed, letting his arms dangle\nfrom his shoulders as Merrick closes the glass door.\n \n\"Hahahah, are you REALLY that\nblown out?\"\n \n\"Aren't you?\" Adam asked.\n \n\"Not at all. I don't know\nwhat humans find so big and trying about alcohol.\" Merrick said as he lets the\nhot water pour down on Adam's back. \n \nAdam groans as he waits for\nMerrick to do whatever, hardly caring one way or another what comes next - not\nwhile his head is still swimming with concrete. Merrick hugs him from behind as\nholds him tight. \"Mmmnnnhhh...\" \n \nMerrick holds him from behind\nand rests his face on the back of Adam's neck, pushing his lap onto Adam's\nbottom as they both get soaked and wet. Merrick loads two large scrub pads with\nsoap, and starts to knead Adam's shoulders. He circles the broad shoulder bones\nalong his back. \n \nHe pushes against the small\ndip just above the waist, before Merrick grins as he scrubs Adam's ass. Adam chuckled\nas his lover gets thorough with cleaning his butt, using just one of the pads\nto circle around one cheek, dipping into his crack and sliding over to the\nother. Merrick kneels down and firmly scrubs onto the back of Adam's thighs,\nand down to hid calves, down to his feet.\n \nHe stands up, and turns Adam\naround, pushing his back onto the wet glass. Adam groans as his head slumps\nback, and rolls on his right shoulder. Merrick chuckles as he leans in, and\nkisses Adam's chin. \n \n\"Mnnnhhhh...\" Adam closes his\neyes as Merrick pushes the scrub pad around onto Adam's neck, and rubs in\ncircular motions, into the divide of his chest where the layer of fuzz is\npressed with the direction of the soapy pad. Merrick scrubs softly along Adam's\nfront, and smiles as he feels along Adam's sides, and and rubs around the\nsubtle round area of Adam's stomach.\n \n\"Gettin a little round there,\nbabe~\" Merrick said as he pats Adam's belly.\n \n\"Shuddup.\" Adam smirked in\nhis daze. \n \n\"Hehehe, didn't say it was a\nbad thing~\" Merrick said, \"We both know chubby guys give the best hugs and\ncuddles.\"\n \n\"I'm not faaaat.\" Adam\nwhined. Merrick chuckles as he scrubs Adam's muscular arms, as well as his soft\nbelly, then down to his genitals. Merrick grins and blushes as he kneels down\nto Adam's pelvis. He gently pushes the pad along Adam's limb dick, and sneaks\nthe pad to under his testicles.\n \n\"Have I ever mentioned that I\nlove handling your penis and fondling your balls?\" Merrick said as he carefully\nmassages Adam's soft member with suds, also caressing his nuts.\n \n\"It's come up once or twice.\"\nAdam answers with a smile, sighing with fatigue as he feels that keen tingle in\nthe center of his manhood again, though really not feeling like getting\nstarted.\n \nMerrick washes down Adam's\nlegs, circling the pad around his inner thighs, before smirking he sees Adam's\nthickened cock floating half way above his sack, \"Hah, and now you're getting a\nchubby. Guess you're not too hung over after all.\"\n \n\"Not my fault.\" Adam groaned,\n\"You're the one trying to pull cum out of my balls while cleaning me.\"\n \n\"Ahahaha.\" Merrick presses\ndown the pad onto the top of Adam's feet, before patting onto his leg, \"Hey.\"\nAdam rolled his head down to look at Merrick, \"Come down here. Sit with me.\" \n \nAdam chuckled before huffing\nand grunting down to Merrick's level. Merrick scooted up to Adam, before\nclimbing up a little, and sitting on Adam's lap. Adam smiles as he puts his\narms around Merrick somewhat, while Merrick puts his arms around and onto his\nlover. He tilts his head as he presses his face into the other, and pushes his\nlips onto Adam's.\n \nMerrick kissed Adam softly,\nand then a second time. Adam nuzzles Merrick's neck before planting a kiss onto\nhis soft flesh, his eyes resting closed as he laps his lips along Merrick's\nneck.\n \n\"Mnnn...\" Merrick's legs coil\naround Adam's waist as he tucks himself into Adam's hold. He licks Adam's\nearlobe, and then along his cheek. Adam grins as Merrick's tongue glides over\nto the side of his nose, before he kisses him again. \n \nAdam closes his eyes again as\nMerrick uncaps the shampoo bottle, and squeezes a dollop of it onto his palm,\nand rubbed it into Adam's dark hair until it started to lather with the white\nfoam. Once rinsed off, Adam sighed as he lies back as Merrick cuddles him some\nmore, almost prowling like a seductive feline as he kisses his lips again. \n \n \n~~~\n \n \n\"I feel a lot better.\" Adam\nsaid as he puts on his uniform shirt and his casual jeans.\n \n\"Better enough for a blowjob,\nmaybe?\" Merrick asked as he gets his own uniform together. Adam scoffs as he\nrolls his eyes.\n \n\"Love to, but no time. I have\nto get to work, and so do you.\"\n \n\"I work in a sex shop, they'd\nunderstand.\" Merrick said. Adam turned around, and chuckles as he looks at his\nfiancé.\n \n\"Merrick, are you sure you're\neven allowed to wear shorts THAT short?\" Merrick's uniform Lovers shorts reach\nonly to halfway up his thighs, just as he pulls on his shirt, and picked up his\ncap. The shorts really show off his bottom, as well as the girth of his\npackage.\n \n\"It's a legit choice of\nuniform. Nick used to where them like this before he became the manager.\"\nMerrick defended, \"Besides, it attracts customers.\" He said with a grin and a\nwink.\n \n\"You're supposed to be MY\nslut, bitch.\" Adam said after coming close, and placing his hands onto\nMerrick's hips. His fingers trace along the side, before they pass over\nsomething else along Merrick's hips. Adam sighed and dropped his shoulders,\n\"Alright, what's this now?\"\n \n\"Just my underroos,\" Merrick\nsaid as he lifts his shirt a little, and shows a green strap showing above the\nwaistline. Adam scoffs as he rolls his head, leans in, and gives Merrick a soft\nspank.\n \n\"What am I gonna do with\nyou?\"\n \n\"Love me. Feed me. Never\nleave me.\" \n \n\"Gheheh. 'Right, Garfield.\"\nAdam pats Merrick's hip, and turns to get his phone. The two of them leave the\nbedroom and enter the living room. Merrick snickers as he looks at the couch,\nand sees Roxas perched on top of the small mound of blanket upon there.\n\"Speaking of which.\"\n \n\"Heh heh heh,\" Merrick goes\nover and pets the cat, he puts a hand towards Arnaav, but stops, \"... Might as\nwell let him sleep.\" He mumbles, \"He's going to need his rest, he needs to go\nback soon.\"\n \n\"Yeah.\" Adam said as Merrick\nwalked away, and left through the door. Underneath the covers, Arnaav sniffles\nas he grips the thick blanket. He doesn't care that he feels so hot from being\nhidden and bundled on the couch for who knows how long, coated in dried salt\nand sand. He feels so stupid... \n \n\"Wasted so much time... She\ndoesn't even want me...\" He despaired as he curls tighter.\n \n \n---Several Hours Later---\n \n \n\"Thank you for your\npurchase,\" Merrick said as he puts a vibrating fleshlight into a black plastic\nbag, \"All sales are final, no returns or refunds, and you have a nice day.\" He\nsaid with a smile.\n \n\"Thank you.\" The customer\nsaid before leaving. Merrick ponders as he stands at the clerk top, before he\nturns to Sasha, who is placing purple laced lingerie up on the rack.\n \n\"You know what would be\nREALLY hardcore?\" He asked.\n \n\"I can't begin to start.\" She\nreplied.\n \n\"If someone were to buy a\nfleshlight, and then shove it into the other's ass or vag.\" Sasha coughs at the\nrandom and graphic suggestion, \"And then fuck the toy while it's still in the\nperson.\"\n \n\"Oh my God, are you mad??\"\nShe asked with a very estranged expression.\n \n\"Hey, you humans are already\ndoing all kinds of weird shit in the sack - it's not that far off from fisting.\nNot that I would want to try it - I'm not THAT kinky.\"\n \n\"That reminds me, something\nI've been meaning to ask.\" Sasha says as she adjusts the suspender harness\nholding a mannequin right in the middle of the store, \"How DO mermaids have\nsex? Do you come on land and wait to you look human before getting this hot and\nbothered?\"\n \n\"Some do,\" Merrick said, \"Not\na lot of merfolk would go on land at all though, given the fear of surface. But\nif we don't sense anyone nearby on some beach or island, some merfolk do mate\nin human form.\"\n \n\"I like that bit,\" Sasha said\nwith a grin, \"So what about when they do it all fishy and such?\"\n \n\"Depends on the species.\"\nMerrick said, \"Some merfolk lay eggs and have them fertilized, others don't.\nSee,\" Merrick gestured to his crotch, \"In our true forms, our genitals are a\nlot more subtle than humans. Mermen like me can mate with a mermaid in a\nconjoined way, and if all goes well, the mermaid gets pregnant, and soon lays\nan egg after a couple of moons or so. That's how I was born.\"\n \n\"So, what? Methods are like\n50/50?\" \n \n\"In a way. Like I said, it\ndepends on the species. All merfolk are able to conceive human-style, but it\nvaries for others.\" Merrick leaned back on the clerk, \"That said, it's also\nworth noting that we merfolk find it VERY difficult to breed at all.\"\n \n\"Are you serious?\" She raises\nher brows, \"How difficult could it be?\"\n \n\"On average, a healthy pod\nonly turns over about 2 babies in a year if we're lucky. If a pod gets too\nsmall, or if both leaders of a pod were to die, then that pod would have to\njoin with another pod. Syrinx said that's what happened with her pod before she\nwas banished.\"\n \n\"Sounds interesting... And kind\nof sad, really.\" Sasha comes over to the clerk opposite to Merrick, and leans\ndown on it, \"So what about you?\" She smiles, \"You and Adam plan to have any\nkids?\"\n \n\"Kids?\" Merrick blinked, \"I\nuh...\" He scratched the back of his head, \"I never really thought about it\nactually...\"\n \n\"Oh what? You're kidding.\"\n \n\"No. I'm gay, Sasha. Two guys\ncan't make a baby.\"\n \n\"So?\" She scoffed at him,\n\"Lots of gay couples have kids. They either adopt or get a surrogate. In fact,\nwe all thought you and Adam were going to adopt that small brown boy following\nyou around.\"\n \n\"Who... Arnaav?\" Merrick asked,\n\"No, he already has parents. And besides, he's more of a brother to me than a\nson. It would feel kinda weird even if he or I would be for it.\"\n \n\"For it?\"\n \n\"To tell you the truth,\nadoption is... Sort of a foreign concept to merfolk. It's weird for me to wrap my\nmind around meeting some kid, and then deciding I'm going to be his parent from\nnow on. Arnaav told me that Adam's mother asked if we were going to adopt him,\nand he actually told me that he felt a little offended when she suggested\nthat.\"\n \n\"No kidding?\"\n \n\"It's just a principle that\nmerfolk aren't that familiar with, and it's a safe bet that we're not\naltogether open to it.\" Merrick takes a drink from his water bottle before\nshifting the subject, \"What about you? Don't YOU want to have kids?\"\n \n\"Me? Naw. I'm not a fan of\nkids myself.\" \n \n\"Hah, why not?\" He smirked.\n \n\"Well, first off, I don't\nexactly have a parental lifestyle. With all the men I sleep with.\"\n \n\"How so?\"\n \n\"You know me.\" Sasha gets a\nlatter to climb on - one of the bolts holding the suspended mannequin doesn't\nlook right, \"I'm almost like Isabella from Dragon Age 2. But it's like,\" She\ngestures with her hands, \"I almost need at least 2 men at a time when I'm in\nthe mood.\"\n \n\"Two men? Why not just the\none?\"\n \n\"Because Man-on-Man action is\nhot!\" Sasha says while adjusting the straps, \"Have you ever put on a strap-on\nand have your way with three or even four blokes?? All over each other while\nhaving lots of goes at me?\"\n \n\"Um...\" Merrick quirked his\nmouth, \"I happen to be a man. A strap-on would be a bit obsolete in my case.\nAnd I haven't had that many horny guys going at it around me since the cruise a\nfew years back.\"\n \n\"Whell,\" Sasha huffed as she\nclimbed onto the back of the posed mannequin to test the weight limit, \"I'm a\nborder line man-whore when it comes down to it. Gay sex is just damn amazing,\ndon't you know?\"\n \n\"Even for a woman like\nyourself? Are you REALLY that into homo stuff?\" He asked, genuinely curious, \"I\nkinda figured straight woman WOULD think two men sexing would be alluring, but\nit's not the case for Yuri, Syrinx, Donna, and pretty much all the other women\nI know.\"\n \n\"See, I'm what most people\nwould call a 'Fag Hag'.\"\n \nMerrick spat as he hunched\nover, snickering as water dribbled all over him, \"E-Ermbl! Gheheheh! What in\nthe world does THAT mean??\" He wipes himself up \"A Fag Hag??\"\n \n\"It's a pretty common\nexpression in the LGBT crowd.\" Sasha answered, \"Typically, it's a straight\nwomen like myself who is EXTREMELY fascinated and involved with gay men, or\notherwise the LGBT in general. It adds to know when most of the men F-Hags go\nout with on dates turn out to be gay. You know Debbie from Queer As Folk?\" She\nasked, \"She would be considered a Fag Hag. Or that freakin blonde chick from\nthe Eating Out movies?\"\n \n\"Hahaha, Timothy Van Slut?\"\nMerrick smirked.\n \n\"No, Tiffani Von Der Sloot.\"\nSasha corrected, \"Close though. She is also considered as an example of a Fag\nHag.\"\n \n\"Ok, I see. Aaand what does\nthis have to do with having kids?\" Merrick asked with a raise brow.\n \nSasha shrugged, \"I got bored.\nI wanted to talk about man-fucks.\" Both of them chuckled as she climbs down the\nlatter, \"Besides, I have like, 3 brothers and 4 sisters. All of them married,\nso I almost have a dozen nieces and nephews to see and coo all over. So I am in\nno hurry to pop out a blighter of my own.\"\n \n\"But you're not opposed to\nit?\"\n \n\"Hmm.\" She smiles as she\nthought for a moment, \"I suppose not. I like kids enough, when they're not\ninsane and screaming all over the bloody grocery market.\"\n \n\"Hm... I'm not sure how Adam\nfeels about it... I believe he likes kids too. But, I'm not sure I'm really ready\nfor baby-planning yet.\"\n \n\"Hey, neither are half of\nAmerican parents, and yet they continue to breed, eh?\" Sasha smirks.\n \nMerrick looks down at his\nring, and smiles as he adjusts it. It never needs to be adjusted or moved... He\njust likes to see the small diamonds twinkle as the light shines along the\ncurved metal. \"... Hey Sasha?\"\n \n\"Yes?\"\n \n\"In a human marriage, isn't\nthere supposed to be two rings?\"\n \n\"Yes. Why?\"\n \n\"Because since Adam proposed\nto me, I'm the only one with the ring. Am I supposed to propose to him too?\"\n \n\"No,\" She answered, \"I don't\nknow too much about weddings, but typically, the man is supposed to propose to\nthe partner with a ring, and then later, him or both of them get a second ring\nfor the man.\"\n \n\"Hmmm...\" \n \n\"And by the way, didn't your\nshift end like 10 minutes ago?\"\n \n\"It has??\" Merrick checked\nthe clock, \"Oh yeah! I better go then.\"\n \n\"Right, see ya.\" Sasha said.\n \n \nAfter Merrick has changed and\nleft the shop he looks at his ring as he strolls down the sidewalk. It really\nis beautiful; the partial swirl leading to each diamond is so thin, but it\nhasn't chipped or dented at all. It looks so delicate, but so strong. He takes\na moment to look up to the sparkling ocean in the noon sun. Today has been a\nshort shift - only 9-3.\n \nHe picks up his phone and\ndials up Syrinx's number before holding it to his ear, \"... Hey, Syrinx? Hey, are\nyou off right now? ... Ok, cool. I'm gonna get a hold of Belinda in a sec.\nThere's something I want you guys to help me with.\"\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nYuri sighs as she unlocks the\ndoor to the house. Just as she got back to the hospital last night, there were\nseveral victims in critical condition. It went from a long night to a longer\nmorning. \n \nExhausted, she enters into\nthe house, and sees Arnaav on the couch, with the blanket having been dropped\ndown from his little body. She frowns as she sees the trail of sand and dirt\nleading from outside to the couch. She is going to have to take the cushions to\nthe cleaners...\n \n\"I know you're there...\" Arnaav\nsaid after Yuri took one step. She sighs again as she comes to him, brushing\noff the dry sand and sitting down beside him.\n \n\"I wondered where you went. I\nthought you might've gone back to the Kenovani.\"\n \n\"I don't want to.\" He said\nstubbornly.\n \n\"I know... But you're going to\nhave to go back eventually.\" She said softly, \"What about your health?\"\n \n\"What's the point... What do I\nhave to live for if I can't even be allowed to see her...\" He whimpered.\n \n'Oh lord.' Yuri thought as\nshe rubs her eyebrows, 'I do not have the energy for a romantic preteen\ntragedy.' She feels her neck as she rolls her head a little, 'Keep it together,\nYuri.'\n \n\"It's not like I can even\nspeak to her.\" Arnaav said with a small whine, \"She speaks a different language\nthat I cannot understand. I don't understand, why does she not speak the\nlanguage that I do??\"\n \n\"It's complicated,\" Yuri\nhuffed, \"A lot of humans speak different languages that we need to learn. Isn't\nit the same with merfolk?\" \n \nArnaav doesn't answer. Yuri\nglances down, and sees him hugging his Mochi pillow, cringing tightly in his\nposition. She gives yet another tired sigh as she leaned back.\n \n\"It's Japanese.\" \n \n\"Huh?\" Arnaav looks up.\n \n\"The language Fumiko speaks\nis called Japanese. Otherwise known as Nihongo.\"\n \n\"Japa... Nihongo?\" Arnaav asked.\n \n\"Nihongo is just how it's\nsaid in Japanese.\"\n \n\"I don't understand. What are\nyou talking about?\"\n \n\"Fumiko mostly speaks in\nJapanese, and she isn't very good speaking English - English is the language\nyou and I are speaking right now.\"\n \n\"I don't care anymore...\"\nArnaav turns back down, \"It's not like she really likes me either... She kept\nrunning away from my on the day of Easter.\"\n \n\"Well if might help you if\nyou knew Japanese. At least you'd be able to communicate.\" She said.\n \n\"...\"\n \n\"That's the language that I\nspeak, anyway.\" She added. Arnaav gasped lightly as he hears that. Yuri can't\nhelp but smile as he tries to make himself get up, \"I am way too tired right\nnow, but if you want, I can teach you how to read, write, and speak Japanese\nwhenever you come over.\"\n \n\"You can teach me another\nlanguage??\" Arnaav asked, his eyes gleaming with renewed optimism as he still\nclings to his Mochi.\n \nYuri looked over to him, \"Sore\nwa tadash?desu.\" Arnaav's eyes widened, \"That means 'That is correct.'\"\n \n\"You can really teach me\nthis?\"\n \n\"I better warn you though,\"\nYuri said as she adjusted in her seat, \"Japanese is a very complicated\nlanguage, both written and spoken - it's just as, if not more complex than\nEnglish is. I can teach you the basics in my spare time, but I also think you\nshould practice it with assignments I give you. Depending on your rate of\nlearning, I think you might be able to know Japanese in a couple of years or\nso.\"\n \n\"I'll do it.\" Arnaav said\nwithout much time for thought, \"I wanna learn this Japanese!\"\n \n\"Good. But, I need to sleep\nright now.\" Yuri says as she gets up, \"I've been working practically all night,\nand I need a rest.\"\n \n\"O-Ok, Yuri...\" Arnaav nods,\nslightly hesitating. Yuri chuckles as she notices this.\n \n\"I guess if I'm going to be\nteaching you, it's respectful to refer to me as 'Yuri-Sensei'.\"\n \n\"Yes, Yuri-Sensei!\" Arnaav\nquipped up. Yuri smiles as she goes into her room for a nap. After closing her\ndoor, she went to her closet, and brought out a box with bunch of hold\nnotebooks and texts, as well as several various supplies.\n \n\"Good thing I kept these for\nlaughs.\" She muttered as she blew off the dust and peered into the box to see a\nglimpse of kanji on a hardcover. When she was in high school, Yuri picked\nJapanese to be her required Foreign Language class, partly because she wasn't\ninterested in learning French or Spanish, and partly to get a kick on how\naccurate or inaccurate her teacher was in high school, who was Caucasian. \n \nNeedless to say, she's had a\nfew giggles as well as a huge advantage; along with a few spare school supplies\nshe finally has a use for now.\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nBelinda spirals through the\nwater along the reef, over several miles away from the shore. She signals here\nand there, along the sand and into the cultured rocks. She leers around at the\nmany small creatures darting and swarming about in and out of the reefs, until\nshe finds a target. With a knife, she stabs into the rock and thick lab of\nsolid matter behind a flayed clam.\n \nMerrick was specific about\nwhat he needs, not to mention very explicit about using another ability that\ndoesn't belong to her. He needs Belinda to use the signals, but he will not be\naround to hear her sound it.\n \nBelinda hisses and grunts as\nshe worked the short, sturdy blade into the reef until she managed to pry the\nduo shell off of the rock. She then sheathed the knife, and tucked the oyster\ninto her pouch, adding to a handful of other bivalves she's collected thus far.\nShe seals her pouch once more, and looms forward.\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nMerrick runs the towel\nroughly through his hair as he sits on the sand, rubbing under his neck and\naround his body. He turns his head, and sees the tan, pink-haired colleague of\nhis wade through and out of the water as it washes on the sand. \n \n\"How many did you get?\" He\nasked.\n \n\"I could barely fill half the\nbag,\" Belinda answered as she opens it to show Merrick, \"I covered at least 5\nmiles.\"\n \n\"Agh.\" Merrick winced,\n\"That's kinda more than I was able to find. Why can't humans just breed oysters\nin the wild? Why do they need to keep them all in buildings??\"\n \n\"I do not know,\" Belinda said\nas she shook her head, \"I'm still trying to figure out how and why they let\neverything else happen.\" \n \n\"Ok...\" Merrick said as he paws\nthrough his bag, \"I'm pretty sure rounded clams don't have pearls, do they? I\ndon't know for sure.\"\n \n\"They do not.\"\n \n\"Right.\" Merrick stands up,\nand slings the wet pouch over his shoulder, \"Lets head out and meet Syrinx at\nher coffee shop. Hopefully she's had better luck than us.\"\n \n\"Yes.\" \n\nBoth merfolk walk along the warm sand, bodies moist and exposed to the entire\nbeach. Merrick glances and purrs silently as he sees a couple of tan,\nattractive men playing volleyball nearby, while also trying to ignore a few\nladies here and there. \"Really like how Syrinx lives in an apartment near a\nClothing-Optional beach.\"\n \n\"Why can't all beaches be\nthis way?\" Belinda asks as she browses a couple of naked humans as well, \"This\nis nature, after all.\"\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nStill wearing her Mana Mocha\nuniform, Syrinx carves out the shell of an oyster, and pries it open. She\npresses her finger into the meat, until she feels a tiny lump. She digs into\nthe raw filling until she pushed out a bead of gleaming white with a touch of\nteal in color. She plucks the pearl up, and examined it shortly.\n \n\"Round.\" She said before\ndropping it into a bowl with a small pile of white and tinted pearls.\n \n\"Round.\" Belinda said as she\nputs yellowish pearl into the pile. She squirted a lemon wedge into the oyster\nshell she has, and slurped the meat down.\n \n\"Natural.\" Merrick said as he\nplaces a misshapen black pearl into a different bowl with only two other oddly\nformed pearls.\n \n\"I swear, humans need to\ncompensate EVERYTHING.\" Syrinx grumbled. \n \n\"Here, Syrinx,\" Said a coworker in the coffee shop, \"I got your Caramel\nMacchiato.\"\n \n\"Ooh, gimme gimme gimme!\" She\nsaid as she takes her beverage. She sips through the straw, and rolls her eyes\nup as she leans back, \"Mmmmnnnh! God, these are better than sex.\"\n \n\"I heard that.\" Said Kevin as\nhe comes walking in, wearing his Checkers pizza uniform, \"Hey, Merrick,\nBelinda. I didn't know you guys were coming over today. Where's Adam and\nHarold?\"\n \n\"Not here.\" Merrick answered,\n\"We're doing something, and I needed Belinda and Syrinx's help.\"\n \n\"Merrick wants to make a ring\nfor Adam before the wedding.\" Syrinx said, \"So we went out to get a bunch of\noysters, and we're tying to find the right pearls to make it.\"\n \n\"Uuuuh, ok, and...\" Kevin\nlooked over to the two bowls, \"I take it that these aren't enough?\"\n \n\"There's a difference between\nnatural pearls and man-made pearls.\" Belinda said, \"I have been to several\nplaces where humans sell and extract pearls. These round ones,\" She tapped onto\nthe small mound of many round beauties, \"They do not feel right. Humans\ndeliberately implanted something into an oyster to make a pearl. Only strange\nones like these,\" She picks up one of the pebble-looking pearls up, \"Are the\nones we're looking for.\"\n \n\"Ooook?\"\n \n\"Think of it like this,\"\nMerrick said, \"What's the difference between a hotdog that's been boiled, a\nhotdog that's been grilled.\"\n \n\"OH ok! I get it now.\" Kevin\nsmiled and nods.\n \n\"Ghh.\" Syrinx rolls her eyes,\n\"You were the dumb jock in high school, weren't you?\" \n \n\"Heeey!\" Kevin smirked as he\nreached for Syrinx's macchiato, before she grabbed onto his wrist, \"Ow!\"\n \n\"Bitch,\" She said with a\nleer, \"I will eat your hand off.\"\n \n\"But baaabe, sharing is\ncaring~\" Kevin taunted - he likes her a little mad.\n \n\"Anyway,\" Merrick said after\nhe sips his water, \"There's only a couple of natural pearls here. I'm not sure\nif that's going to be enough to make a ring.\"\n \n\"Aren't you going to just\nhave one of them mounted?\"\n \n\"No, I need them in their\nentirety.\" Merrick answered.\n \n\"Ok, so,\" He shrugged, \"Why\nnot just use the Mother of Pearl in the shells then?\"\n \n\"Are you crazy??\" Syrinx said\nwhile slapping his arm hard.\n \n\"Ow! Heey!\"\n \n\"What the hell is wrong with you, Kevin??\" Merrick scowled.\n \n\"Even I wouldn't do that!\"\nBelinda hissed.\n \n\"What? What'd I say??\"\n \n\"Mother of Pearl is sacred to\nus.\" Syrinx answered, \"Years ago, Mother of Pearl were thought to be the\ndroplets of the Sea Mother's soul. While that might not be the case, as our\nancestors used to think, it's still considered hallowed. Messing with it in\nanyway is considered sacrilege.\"\n \n\"The Kenovani recently took\nin an Adra Noita who was banished for trying to turn a Mother of Pearl into a\nsort of tattoo,\" Merrick said, \"Even Noita Vanora is having a hard time\nforgiving that one.\"\n \n\"And yet you people have no\ntrouble taking the pearls of an oyster.\" Kevin said with a quirked brow.\n \n\"Pearls are considered as\ngifts from the Sea Mother's grace,\" Belinda said, \"It is not the same as\ntampering with Mother of Pearl.\"\n \n\"Whatever, I gave up on\nchurch stuff years ago.\" Kevin said, \"You ready to go, babe?\" He asked as\nSyrinx had already drained her macchiato, and is now scooping up the\ngold-drizzled whipped cream, \"Assuming you've already had your daily O.D. of\ncoffee?\"\n \n\"Hmm...\" She looks over the\ntable, \"We're still not finished with the oysters.\" Syrinx said, \"I'm gonna\nneed two more of these.\" She said tapping her cup, \"Martha! Can I get another\nvente Caramel Macchiato, please??\"\n \n\"Sure thing, honeh!\" Said\nSyrinx's boss.\n \n\"Wow, you sure do like\ncoffee, Syrinx.\" Merrick commented.\n \n\"Oh you have no idea!\" Syrinx\nsaid, \"I wish I can make coffee my bloodtype, it's so damn good.\"\n \n\"Yuri sometimes drinks coffee\nwhen she needs to work late, but you seem to drink it like water.\"\n \n\"We have like, 5 different\ncoffee makers at home, including an espresso machine,\" Syrinx says, \"One for a\ndifferent kind of coffee.\" With that, she eats a sliver of oyster meat. \n \n\"Ullgh, oh my God!\" Kevin\ngagged, \"Honey, how can you EAT oysters?? And when it's raw?!\"\n \n\"What? It's hardly different\nfrom what merfolk usually eat.\" Belinda said.\n \n\"I like them with a spritz of\nlemon juice.\" Merrick said with a smirk while he picks up a shell, and squeezes\nthe lemon wedge on it.\n \n\"Oh my God, please fuckin\ndon't,\" Kevin whines as he watches Merrick bring the flayed shell up to his\nlips, and slurped it down, \"ULLGH, I'm gonna be sick!\" \n \n\"Scchhlrp!\" Syrinx audibly\nsips down more of the oyster, \"Mllmmhh, aw yeah that's good.\" She said as she\npicked up her second macchiato, \"I think I'll wash it down with this.\"\n \n\"Ulgh, are you serious?!\"\nKevin cringes. His stomach turns upside down as he sees his girlfriend drink\nthe coffee just after swallowing the oyster meat, \"Fuck, you people are SICK!\"\n \n\"Oh!\" Belinda points a finger\nup, before sticking out her tongue, and picking off a black, jagged pearl from\nit, \"I missed one. Silly me.\" With that, Belinda takes her current lemon wedge,\nand sucks it tenderly.\n \n\"Oh fuck, I'm so out of\nhere!\" Kevin groaned as he staggers around and leaves.\n \n\"But waaaiit! You didn't get\nto see what we're gonna do with all the round pearls!\"\n \n\"I don't wanna know! YOU'RE\nSIIICK!!\" Kevin yelled back from afar.\n \n\"Hah. Joke's on him, we're\njust gonna sell'em.\" Merrick smirked. Belinda and Syrinx cackled as they\ngrabbed one of the few remaining oysters.\n \n \n---NIGHT---\n \n \n()()()\n \n \nThe gate to the throne opens\nbefore Adam walks into the marble room of the Gods, wearing his blue-jeweled\nmantle, and billowing sash around his waist, with a lewd, white-sheen pouch\nholding his manhood bundled as well as covering his bottom with tasteful\nsubtlety. \n \nThe erotic deity walks to the\nmiddle of the bright, circular throne room, before he knees down on one knee,\nbows his head down, and plants his fist to the dead center of the floor.\n \n\"Ah. God of Manhood.\" Comes a\ndeep, mighty voice from the bright light in front of him, at least 50 feet up\nin stairs from where Adam is kneeling. \n \nXerxes sits on the large,\ngold and white throne in loose, glamorous robes with one leg over the other,\nwith his head resting on his fist propped up by an arm of the throne. His body\nshows that of a very muscular build draped in his robing, partially exposed.\nHis white hair cut short under his gilded crown, with a fine layer of facial\nhair along his jaw as his platinum eyes look down upon one of his brethren, \"I\nbid you welcome in anticipation of a request.\"\n \n\"Lord Xerxes,\" Adam said, \"I\nindeed have a request.\" Adam stands up, and looks to his king, \"I wish for my\nKey to my Gate.\"\n \nXerxes raises a brow, \"Have\nyou lost your Key? Or...\" Xerxes narrowed his eyes, \"You wish to just give away\nsuch an artifact.\"\n \n\"The latter, my lord.\" Adam\nanswered, \"I wish to find a mortal worthy of having a Key to my gate.\"\n \n\"Hmph,\" Xerxes shifted in his\nseat to lean forward, \"You already keep mortals in your stead. A harem of suitors\nto fill not just your desires, but that of your brethren as well.\" Xerxes\nleaned back, \"You do not need another Key.\"\n \n\"Those men I keep are merely\nslaves,\" Adam said, \"They are simply toys to me, which I return to the mortal\nrealm, unharmed when I see fit.\"\n \n\"For when you grow tired of\nthem, you mean.\" Xerxes said.\n \n\"Nonetheless, they have no\nplace as my property, and I return them in the timeframe of which they were\nfirst taken to my chambers.\"\n \n\"And yet now you say you want\na mortal for your own. What difference do you hope to accomplish by taking a\nmortal from the land and taking a mortal for your gate?\"\n \n\"That, I do not know,\" Adam\nsaid, \"I hope to find out by doing so.\"\n \n\"Hmph.\" Xerxes leers down,\n\"And what makes you so certain I may just give you this second Key? When I feel\ninclined to deny you such.\"\n \n\"I am entitled to such a\nright.\" Adam replied sternly, \"Sol was given one to let his lover have. Zephyr\nwas granted such too to grant access to his mortal ally, and Damia as well to\ngive access to the Titania of the Forest. I have as much as right to a Key as\nany of our brethren. And it is not like these Keys can fall into the wrong\nhands - no one but the one designated for the Key may ever use it.\"\n \n\"I am not claiming that you\ndo not deserve the right to your Key, Adam.\" Xerxes said, \"I am merely stating\nmy reasoning. I do not see why you feel you need another Key at this time.\"\n \n\"Nor am I asking for you to\njust give me the Key. I understand the others must give you something in return\nfor a second Key.\"\n \n\"Yes. If one wishes to obtain\nsomething, I require a fair exchange. So...\" Xerxes gave a skeptical smile off\nthe corner of his mouth, \"What are YOU prepared to give, where I to give you\nanother Key?\"\n \nAdam smiled as he held his\narms open, \"The same as the others have given you - that of which I am.\"\n \n\"Oh? And what item or favor\nwould you trade? The finest specimen of a man you can create as a servant? Your\nown seed for some purpose?\"\n \n\"I am to give a favor.\" Adam\ngrinned.\n \n\"Hah,\" Xerxes smirked, \"I have\nbedded few times with you before, Adam. You have already impressed me thus far.\nWhat would you have to offer me what I have already seen?\"\n \n\"Would you like to find\nout~?\" Adam's mantle disappears in a slow fading cloud of gold and blue dust.\nXerxes chuckled as he crossed his arms and leaned back on his throne.\n \n\"I am willing. I will be fair\nin my decision.\" Xerxes said.\n \n\"I am grateful, my Lord...\"\nAdam's sash too crumbles into heavenly glitter, leaving him in only his\nrevealing undergarment. Adam waked to the flight of stairs and placed a single\nfoot onto the flight.\n \n\"Not discarding everything?\"\nXerxes asked glancing at the round bulge between Adam's thighs. Adam smiled up\nat him.\n \n\"I am not offering my seed,\nLord Xerxes.\" With what seems like a blur, Adam stands before the king of the\ngods - this time, Xerxes is completely naked, without so much as moving a\nmuscle to strip to nothing in a blink of an eye. Xerxes chuckled as Adam sat on\nhis lap, and kissed along his strong neck. \n \n\"You know you never must\nbargain bed with me,\" Xerxes mumbled as Adam cuddled him, closer as Xerxes'\nstrong hands felt along Adam's perfect body, cradling and hugging him gently,\n\"I still see no point in this request, or the trade itself.\"\n \n\"Out of respect for you, my\nlord.\" Adam said, \"I have always held back what I can do.\"\n \n\"Hah, oh?\" Xerxes asked.\n \n\"You have only had my mount.\"\nAdam said before giving a tender kiss onto Xerxes' lips, \"You know how I like\nto say I turn men into boys? Hahaha, as if I actually revert their age.\"\n \n\"Do tell, God of Manhood.\"\nXerxes said, playing along as he held from rolling his eyes.\n \n\"To be more precise...\" Adam's\nhand dipped down, and held Xerxes' fat, heavy balls. The larger king inhaled,\nand hugged out a small cloud as Adam's hand tingles richly within his divine\ntesticles, \"I make them feel like virgins... Forget everything they ever knew\nabout making love or bedding with another...\"\n \nAdam's hand rolls and\nmassages Xerxes' huge smooth, large nuts, cupping them firmly and pulling them\ncarefully. Xerxes moans as he rolls his head back as his mighty penis started\nto rise. Adam smiles as he glides his hand up the underside of that huge cock,\nleaving a trail of light from the touch that followed Adam's hand.\n \n\"Oh! Hoh!\" Xerxes gasped as\nsheer intensity ran along the underside with Adam's palm.\n \n\"As if someone is touching it\nfor the first time... And I take it to a higher plane.\" Adam said as he gives\nXerxes' soft member a firm squeeze, before rubbing his hand onto the swelling\nglands and fondling the mushroom head like he was polishing his member with\nlight itself.\n \n\"AHh... Nnhhh~\" Xerxes moans\nwith his legs spread out as his own godhood stands fully erect, while Adam rubs\nthat divine rod with both hands, giving a thorough massage to that massive\ncock.\n \nAdam grips that huge rod with\nboth hands, his energy pouring into it like the finest oil human money can buy.\nXerxes sighs and relaxes, before giving a gasp and a moan as his erect, golden\nshaft started to curve in stance, rays of light beaming around the throne,\ndancing on the platform of the stairs as Adam caressed that heavy god-log with\none turn, and then racing his hands up and down with the other.\n \n\"Cradle my balls...\" Xerxes\nrequested. Adam nibbles on that thick, hard neck as he moves his hands downward,\nand cupped onto each of the king's testicles - both orbs filling Adam's palms.\n\"Oooohhhh!\" Xerves moans as he tilts his head back, scooting his godly ass down\non the gold cushion as he spreads his legs as his dick bobbed from the\nmovement, \"Please do not stop...\"\n \nAdam nuzzled the god's cheek\nbefore planting a kiss there, his hands rolling those mighty, tender orbs\naround in their sack, veins of light radiating from Xerxes' cock as a halo of\nsheen illuminates from the mushroom head.\n \n\"Ahh... Ngghh...\" Xerxes grips\nthe handrails of his throne tightly as he undulates his lower body to curve his\nmember up and down, his head turning side to side as those hands' power spark\nand surge into his testicles. Adam can feel those heavy balls grow tighter as\nthey try to elevate up, so he puts his magic hands onto those almighty thighs\nas he lets those nuts settle down.\n \nAdam then kneels down, and\nnears his face to the throbbing, meaty scepter of his king, and gives a single,\ndeft lick on the underside of the head.\n \n\"AHHH!\" The entire throne\nroom explodes in a massive flash of light. Xerxes roars with weak and strong\nsatisfaction as shining milk surges from his cock! His moans shake the nearby\nheavens, his member shooting splash after splash of his majestic essence.\n \nIn the short moment of divine\nintensity, Xerxes can hardly pant as Adam licks around the still erect cock,\ndrinking every drop of the heavenly seed, \"Delicious... Finished with me already,\nmy lord? I felt like doing a little more.\" Xerxes pants gently as his large member\nsoftens quickly, looking down as Adam fondles and massages the massive muscle.\n\n\"I was perhaps wanting to worship your rear, Lord Xerxes.\" Adam says as he\nhandles that large, kingly meat, \"Or use some Oil of the Muses to give your\nback the kneading it deserves. Or else I could kiss you for 7 days without-\"\n \n\"That is enough.\" Xerxes said\nsternly. Adam looks to him, \"I have made my decision. I did say I would be\nfair...\" \n \nAdam blinks as he stands up.\nHe furrowed his brow as he moves his hips around a little, before looking down\nat his crotch. He digs into his heavenly pouch, and smirks as he peers in. Tied\naround his penis and the base of his balls alike is a glittering chain, along\nwith a shiny, angelic key nestled under Adam's heavy scrotum. \n \nHe giggles as he takes the\nkey with one hand, and begins to uncoil the divine platinum around from his\ngenitals. \"You have my gushing gratitude, Lord Xerxes.\"\n \n\"You had better not make me\nregret giving you this Key.\" Xerxes says, \"I still do not understand your want\nor need for it, but I've kept my word.\"\n \n\"Thank you.\" Adam gestures\nrespectfully, and turns to walk away from the throne, to find himself at the\nbottom of the stairs in a blur. As he walks, his royal attire manifest in a\nflurry of blue, white, and gold dust around his body. He quirks and tosses his\narm to make the chain whip around his wrist, before the key flies around\naccordingly, and settles on the overside of his hand as a bracelet.\n \nHe exits the throne, and\nleaves with his determination to find whatever it is he is planning to find...\nWhat will that golden boy with sapphire eyes have to offer?\n \n \n~~~\n \n \nMerrick sits on his bed as\nthe ship rocks gently. His eyes stay fixed on the hidden plank of the floor,\nwhere he stores his quartz rod and a small bottle of oil, as well as a new\ncloth. His gut swims with dread-traced nothingness.\n \nHis body is encased in\ntightly tied clothing, crushed velvet vest with a silken shirt and pants, also\ncoated in a regal robe of silver and blue. \n \nHe touches the jeweled shell\nbrooch at the top of his shirt, the old talisman of protection his mother gave\nhim when he was a child. Once again, he returns home, and all he can think\nabout is going back to the volatile promise of the ocean's attitude. Why can't\nhe stay a young boy forever? How has it come to this? Coming of age, and forced\nto take orders...\n \nWhy does he...\n \n \n()()()\n \n \n\"Hhhhhh... Nnn...\" Adam inhales\ndeeply as his eyes pull open slowly. His body stretches forward a little as he\npeers into the bedroom faintly illuminated. The lamp behind him has been\nswitched on. He turns around and rests his face on the pillow. His first\ngreeting is that of Merrick's beautiful, perfect bubble butt. He hears some\nclicking as Merrick adjusts an armlet girded with several scallop shells.\n \n\"Lessee... Ok...\"\n \n\"Babe?\" Adam said weakly, prompting Merrick to look behind him.\n \n\"Oh Adam. Did I wake you?\"\n \n\"I guess...\" Adam turns around\nand lies on his stomach as his eyes grow heavy again, \"Why are you getting\ndressed up in that?\"\n \n\"I gotta take Arnaav back to the\nKenovani pod.\" Merrick answered, turning back to equipping his sharktooth\ncrossbelts.\n \n\"What time is it even?\" Adam\nwhines as he crawls to the nightstand, and look at his phone. \"It's 4AM.\nMerrick, come back to bed.\" He said as he reaches up to tug on his lover while\nresting his eyelids.\n \n\"No, Adam, I have to take him\nnow.\" He said.\n \n\"For God's sake, why?\" \n \n\"I got up out of bed because\nI heard some noise, and I found Arnaav trying to do some kind of homework. I\nfound that he was sweating, though. He's out of time.\"\n \n\"Take him in the morning...\"\nAdam said half-muffled, \"He'll be fine.\"\n \n\"I can't take that risk.\nBesides, I've got business to attend to, and it can't wait.\"\n \n\"Mmnnnnn.\" Adam moaned\nstubbornly.\n \n\"Here, I was gonna leave this\nfor you to read.\" Merrick said as he picked up a rose and a piece of paper, and\ngave it to Adam. Adam groans as he sits up, and takes the note.\n \n\"... 'Adam, I'm taking Arnaav\nback to the sea - he's starting to sweat, and that's not good. I'll be back in\na few days or so, please tell Nick I won't be in for work for a while. Love,\nMerrick'.\" Adam turns onto his back, \"'P.S., I'm only kidding, you'll find me\nbuck naked and splayed out over the table, tied up so I can't move while you\nfuck my ass over and over again'.\"\n \n\"What?\" Merrick turns his\nhead, \"I didn't write THAT.\"\n \n\"I know, I'm putting what it SHOULD say.\"\n \n\"Ghh,\" Merrick chuckles as he\ngets up and walks around the bed, \"This is merfolk stuff, Adam.\" He kneels\ndown, and looks Adam in the eyes, \"I'll be back as soon as I can.\"\n \n\"Mnnn ok.\" Adam complied as\nhis eyes remain 90% closed, too tired to argue.\n \n\"Can I have a kiss?\" Merrick\nasked lightly. Adam smiles as his eyes close again as he puckered his lips.\nMerrick kissed him once, twice, and a third time, \"I love you.\"\n \n\"Love you too...\" Adam trailed\noff. Merrick glances, and then spots a band-aid on Adam's shoulder. \n \n\"What's this?\" He asked while\nsoftly feeling it. \n\"Hm?\" Adam looks, and then slumps his head back, \"Oh, just something from work.\n \n\"What happened?\"\n \n\"Nothing. Just stupid\nbusiness.\" He mumbled.\n \n\"Ok... Goodnight, babe...\"\n \n\"Good nigh...\" Adam digs his\narm under the pillow, and tucks back in. \n \nMerrick gets up and turns off\nthe lamp. He takes his harpoon, and leaves the bedroom. He walks in, and sees\nthe small lamp on the kitchen table, with Arnaav slumped over the mahogany with\na pencil and a paper journal, still trying to practice writing the letter 'A'\nand the letter 'I' in Hiragana. \"Are you ready, Arnaav?\"\n \n\"Almost. I have a few squares\nleft on 'I'.\" He said, trying to focus. His equipment has been hastily put on,\ncrooked and misaligned. Merrick comes over, and looks at the page.\n \n\"Arnaav, your writing is\ngoing outside the print. You're too exhausted to write.\"\n \n\"I-I can't stop, please...\"\nArnaav groaned, his hands slumping the pencil.\n \n\"It will be here for you to\nstudy when you come back.\" Merrick said firmly, \"You need to go back into the\nocean, or you won't last much longer.\"\n \n\"Orrrhhhgggg,\" Arnaav whined\nstubbornly as Merrick guides his arm away from the table.\n \n\"There we go, come on.\" He\nsaid, \"Off the chair, on your feet.\" With a half-sleeping otter boy being\nsteered to the glass sliding door, Merrick makes his way back to the sea...\n \n","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1057201-aquata-cove-chapter-74.json"}