{"sf1_id":643963,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Aquata Cove - Chapter 4","author":"Mirron Tenshi","words":4910,"posted_at":"2014-01-06T01:22:00.000Z","tags":["Fantasy","Gay","Male","Mermaid","merman"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/643963-aquata-cove-chapter-4","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/643963","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=643963\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Aquata CoveChapter 4: Life At Sea  Over the sea's horizon, the canvas of deep blue gradually\nseeped through bleak orange. The warm aura soon birthed a bright yellow peak.\nThe light touched the trees, scanned the rock, and illuminated a vague rainbow\non the waterfall. The morning sun soon laid upon a young, burly, semi-hairy\nmale, with a soft, younger one upon his lap, both men under a blanket. As the sunlight lowered onto the two lovers, Adam's eyes\nsoon blinked awake. He squinted as the fiery, half-hidden orb ascended slowly\nfrom the edge of the ocean. The man closed his eyes again to shield his sight\nfrom the blinding shine. Still, it felt warm to have he morning light pour on\nhim and his lover. Adam took a deep breath, and then exhaled. His hands gently\nroamed under the blanket, feeling what would be the last while of the touch of\nthat incredibly silk-like skin.  Merrick stirred in his sleep as he snuggled closer to his\nlover, his cheek brushing against the hair layered on Adam's left pec.  \"...\" Adam nuzzled on the top of Merrick's blonde hair. The\nyounger male's eyes peaked open, feeling his man's hand rub his rump and back.\nThe shell slice on Merrick's necklace began to flicker. \"... Adam...\" He muttered. Adam nodded, tenderly hugging his\nboyfriend, \"... I...\" \"Yeah...\" Adam sat up, and held him close. Merrick wrapped his\narms around Adam in response. The two lovers rubbed their foreheads together.\nThe merman's lower lip trembled before he sniffled. Adam caressed him lovingly\nas soft whimpers could be heard from the younger male. \"I know, I know...\" He\nsaid softly. Droplets rolled down Merrick's cheeks as he pushed his\nforehead to Adam's chest. His hands held those shoulders as he sobbed quietly.\n\"I love you, Adam-m...\" Adam felt his own eyes moisten as his boyfriend cried. \"I\ndon't wanna leave...\" Adam held the back of his head as he kissed him, \"It hurts,\nevery time...\" \"I know, Merrick...\" He gently shushed him, like a sad child,\n\"It hurts me, too. I love you...\" The two held each other until the sun had left the wavering\nline of the sea. They both knew they were pushing their luck. They both knew\nthis has to end. This is it. It's time for them to part ways again.  Adam moved his hand to his hip, and tugged his boxers off\nwith his thumb. He put his arm behind Merrick's back, and under his knees, and\nthen pushed himself up. The blanket slid off of the naked males as the human\ncarefully made his way to the bank. Merrick held himself around Adam's neck as\nthey moved back towards the water, wanting to keep the touch for as long as he\ncan.  The man ignored the cold warp of the water as he stepped\ninto the subterranean pool. He took his time, steeping into the water as the\nlevel slowly elevated to his calves, then thighs, chilling his balls and dick,\nand then above his waist.  His brown eyes looked directly into Merrick's blue eyes\nbefore planting a soft, kiss upon the other. Adam's arms lowered the\nfair-skinned male into the cold water, the surface consuming his slowly\ndescending body. Once submerged, Merrick's legs melded together, and the\npeach-color deepened into silvery-blue, and the smooth plain became a scaly\ncoat, and the feet widening and feathering into one large fin. The merman felt himself start to drift away when suddenly,\nhe felt himself clung onto tightly, and then forcibly submerged in a large\ndive.  Under the water, Adam's mouth was pushed down harshly on the\nother as his arms held tight around the slender build of his love. Merrick held\nhis hands around and onto Adam's shoulders tightly as he exerted his own mutual\npassion into their joined maws. There they hovered, in the middle of the grotto, savoring\ntheir touch and fierce love for one another through the ravenous kiss. Their\ntongues clashed in a stunning embrace that as they clung to each other. Alas, this moment of last-minute passion too had to end.\nAdam's arms softened and slid very gradually from Merrick's back. Merrick's\nwebbed hands brushed gently down and away from Adam's thick chest. The kiss\nslowed down to a loving lap. The two lovers nuzzled each other one last time\nbefore the merman drifted oh so slowly from the human. His long fish tail\nreluctantly undulated as he swam through the darkened tunnel, away from the\nfloating man, and the fresh water reef.  Merrick can feel his lower lip tremble as he closed his eyes\nand swam. He took a moment to stop, and curl up inside the tunnel, sobbing\nsoftly as he held himself, wishing the arms wrapped around him were Adam's\ninstead of his own. His gills quivered as the shell around his neck vibrated again.\nHe took a deep breath of water, and then pushed forth, through the tunnel he\nswam, making a note to try and see if there is any other way into the grotto,\nas he always does. As he made his way through the narrow pathway, Merrick began\nto taste the salinity of the sea from the clarity of the fresh water.  Soon, he emerged from the opening of the tunnel, located in\na ragged array of reef rock, along with several bushes of dark purple coral.\nHis tail curled out of the tunnel as he drifted next to a fairly large giant\nclamshell. Before he could push it, a slimy, thick tendril emerged from\nthe darkness, and seized his wrist. He gasped as he squirmed, a blazing red\ntentacle not relenting at all as it tightened its grip. A second worm-like arm\nsnaked up, and over to the merman, and then a third. In the dark of the shadow,\nMerrick can make out a distorted maze of flesh and shape, distinguishing a\nlarge round head, with one fiery yellow eye glaring directly at him. Slowly\nedging across the broad shell, scaled a fierce, grotesque octopus, its ruby red\nskin flashing a threatening pattern that danced along its strangely scattered\nflesh.  As a tentacle reached for his other hand, Merrick's gills\nflared as his neck deepened. From the depths of his chest, the merman pulsed a\nstrange noise. Like a magnified heartbeat that sounded once instead of twice.\nAs Merrick made these strange gulping noises, that seemed to impact the water\nin the direction of the octopus, the creature's limbs trembled slightly, before\ncarefully retracting itself away from Merrick. As it slowly retreated, Merrick\nspotted a few strings of weird white seed-like objects, just an inch away from\nthe edged of the shell. When the last suction cup plucked off of his arm, Merrick,\nmoved slowly to the shell, still pulsing that threatening noise at the octopus\nin case of any further sign of offense. The octopus reluctantly kept at bay,\nits goat-like eyes starring daggers at Merrick as he slowly eased the shell\naway, and over to the hole to cover up the tunnel. It's when the entrance was\nsecurely blocked when Merrick ceased the noise, turning and drifting his way\nthrough the bushel of coral, allowing the octopus to hover protectively over\nher eggs.  Merrick floated gently around the branches of coral, careful\nnot to break or disturb the natural surroundings. He soon came to his\nbelongings; three pearlesent white scallop shells, decorated with elaborate\nsilver designs, attached with a chain of narrow mako shark teeth. The merman\npicked up one shell, and strapped the teeth chain over himself, placing the\nshell over his left shoulder, and then doing the same of the other, with the\nthird and shortest one onto his head, securing it just onto his gills.  He then drifted to an unusual cluster of sea urchins, the\ncrest of his chest deepened again, as a strange, wiry noise came from his\nmouth. The bed of spikes slowly edged away in opposite directions, soon\nrevealing they have been lying on top of a gap. When the sharp points were at a\nsafe enough distance, Merrick reached in, and drew out a sharp, wooden shaft,\nabout a little over 4ft long, with a large, white conch shell stuck on the\nmiddle as a sort of hand-guard, a lower jaw bone, carved to a sharp edge of one\nside at the top end, and a stingray barb tied onto a small curved piece of the\nstaff with tightly wound fishing line on the other side, with three tiny\nglowing crystals from the cove tied, dangling on the opposite end of it. With his shells and trident in hand, Merrick carefully swam\ntowards the edge of the reef. Before moving out, he took a glance around. He\ndid not need to see anything before he sensed the presence of two other\ncreatures. He hid behind a fan of coral, and peered upward. Drifting leisurely, were two human-shaped figures, their\nforms mostly black, with what looks like a large, flat eye and a pair\ntube-worms coming from their mouths and staying over their shoulders, and long,\nlarge fins on their feet. Not to mention that they look like they're carrying a\nlarge, metallic egg on their back, while issuing a large amount of bubbles. Adam said those are called Scuba Divers. They're supposed to\nbe humans wearing some items to let them explore underwater, but they hardly\nlook like any human Merrick has ever seen; then again, Adam's pretty much the\nonly human Merrick has ever seen him up close, and he's hardly seen him wearing\nthese things he calls 'clothes'. He has seen Adam wearing such a glass eye\nobject before, and those weird fake fins one time or another; a human's\ninvention to adapt to water, Merrick presumed.  Their figures are still human-like, so he is to stay out of\nsite at all times. He blinked as he saw that they were headed in his direction!\nPresumably, if he stays put, they won't see him, but still. His head shifted\naround, looking to see any room or gap he can hide in. There isn't any! Merrick\nbegins to send sonar waves from his forehead, blinking in any animal that can\nhelp him. He's in luck! He deepened his neck muscles again, and\nsounded a slightly screechy call a few feet beside him. Just as the divers were\nabout to come to Merrick's position, a moray eel wriggled right up to them,\nopening its large mouth threateningly as it jetted straight for the divers! The\ntwo humans panicked, and quickly kicked away, swimming quickly as the eel chased\nthem away.  When the divers and eel were at a long enough distance,\nMerrick slipped out from the reef, and swam his way downward, descending along\nthe reef of various fish and coral, reaching the darker portion of the area. He\ncontinued until he reached the sandy bottom. Looking left to right, and\nscanning the vicinity for any aggressive creatures, Merrick swam forth, and\ncontinued on, until he came to a dip in the floor. He swam further down,\nsending quick scans there and again, mapping out everything around him in his\nmind.  Merrick began to 'hear' numerous voices ahead of him. His\nsonar began reading into several other signals in the dark blue around him. He\nkept sending his own signal over and over again until he could visually make\nout other figures.  Upper torsos of humanoid shape, lower bodies that of\nfish-like qualities - of cool color schemes between blue, green, violet, and\nblends between, along with webbed hands, crests of scales on their chests, side\nfins on their arms and along their backs, with flare-like gills on the sides of\ntheir heads, holding various weapons or items, though wearing nothing else\nother than a sling or pack. Merrick has arrived at his pod. A few of the other merfolk turned to see him arrive. They\nmoved aside, forming a path, and bowing halfway to him as he swam. As he swam, he would approach the only merman who possessed\nan unusually elongated grey tail below his waist, with dim smudge-like dark\npatches on his arms, back, and fanged face, over his grey skin. There are many\ntiny hook-like appendages along his tail, holding net strings, holding numerous\nfractured seashells. The grey man wore a whole conch shell around his neck,\nalong with several others on his shoulders and arms, all which glimmered and\nglowed the same as the shell sliver around Merrick's neck. Merrick came to a\nsteady stop before him. Denizyr; The razirah of the pod. It is the razirah's task to\nsummon and assemble every member of the pod when it is time to depart,\nexcluding any unfamiliar merfolk.  The larger merman nodded to Merrick. {Merfolk speak in a complex, untraceable language network\nthat works in very complicated ways. Some species are able to communicate, and\nsome are not. They once learned to speak by learning from whales and dolphins,\nand time has divided and refined methods of communication between species of\nmerfolk, and most have evolved to a point where they are born with the ability\nto communicate and comprehend the sounds and signals of others and difference\nof their kind. To the human ear, merfolk communications vary, depending on the\nspecies; from clicks to moans, from squeaks to gurgles, from growls to\nscreeches. Some more evolved merfolk are even able to speak human speech above\nwater.} \"Welcome, Adra Merrick,\" Said Denizyr. \"Acknowledged, Razirah Denizyr,\" Merrick replied. \"If I may submit a request, Adra Merrick,\" The stern razirah\nsaid. \"I can accept.\" Said Merrick. \"Adra Savarna has yet to arrive. I fear her shell is off of\nher body. I respectfully request for you to locate her, and bring her to the\npod.\" \"I acknowledge and accept, Denizyr. In what direction is her\nshell located?\" Merrick asked. Denizyr pointed to his right. \"I feel her shell resonating in that direction. Please\nhasten. Young mermaids make easy prey.\" \nWith that, Merrick turned and swam forth.  Savarna giggled as she placed the her shells into her pouch,\nmaking a small mountain of shells and even a few rocks that out-sized her bag.  The small mermaid wears a string of pearls over her chest\nand waist, and draped over her short arms, with a frilly, white membrane\ncovering her chest, and the sides of her tail. A band of seaweed is strapped\naround her head, above her short, flowing, platinum hair. As she swam about, plucking up more small shells, a Humboldt\nsquid lurked nearby. A little bigger than herself, the creature hovered closer\nand closer towards the small female, before it lurched out. The mermaid saw the\npredator in a split second, and let out a started screech. SHINK! In a flash of a moment, the squid jerked aside, with a\nthree-pronged weapon is its side. The creature writhed horribly as it was\nslammed into the nearby reef, a dark veil seeping from each of the puncture\nwounds. A webbed hand then placed itself onto the squid, before another cranked\nthe shaft down, and ceased the squid's movement, before ripping the trident out\nof it.  \"Sisterrrrr.\" Merrick uttered as he turned to the small\nmermaid. \"Brotherrr!!\" The mermaid bolted, and hugged the much bigger\nmerman. Merrick smiled as he padded the small one. \"You know you are not to come this far from the pod,\nSister,\" He then took a tucked, spiral shell sliver from one of the teeth belts\non his chest, \"And you know you should ALWAYS have THIS.\" Just like the shell\naround Merrick's neck, the one he is holding is glowing and vibrating. The mermaid blinked, as she looked at the slice. Her tiny,\nwebbed hands darted to the seaweed band around her head, feeling particularly\nat the middle. Her orb-like eyes looked up at him, before snatching it up, and\nhastily tucking the shell slice into the slimy green band.  The merman chuckled as he rooted his trident to the sand,\n\"You know Denizyr desires you to wear your shell in a different fashion than\nputting it on your head.\" Merrick then leaned in, and adjusted Savarna's shell\non her head, making it a lot more secure. \"Brother, YOU know it is forbidden to hunt in the time of\ngathering.\" The mermaid said.  \"I am not hunting. The squid wanted to eat you, and it was\ntoo late to make it change its course.\" \"And what of the squid, Brother?\" The young mermaid said as\nshe picked up the strap of her pouch. \"Hunting is forbidden right now. An easy meal for a shark or\nanother squid.\" Merrick said as he pulled his trident from the sand. He looked\nas Savarna pulled at the overloaded bag. The mermaid's short tail wiggled\nharshly as she endeavored to lift the bag. \"Sister, you have done this in the\npast. You're too little to carry so many shells.\"  \"I can carry them this time!\" Savarna grunted and squirmed\nas she barely made it sift. She strained as she pulled at the heavy sack\nrelentlessly. \"Sister, I know what is going to happen. The bag will rip,\nthe shells will fall, and you will weep. Just like the last year. And the year\nbefore, and the year before.\" \"No, I will not!\" The mermaid irked stubbornly, \"These\nshells are too pretty to leave!\" \"Sister,\" Merrick smiled and shook his head, before looming\nonto his sibling, and then grabbing onto the bag, just as the straps tore away,\nand threw the mermaid out of balance. Savarna whirled about, and scrambled to\nsee her webbed hands holding the ripped strap, and her brother holding together\nthe bag, so that the shell pile remained intact. \"Sister, why not make this your...\" He hesitated for a\nmoment, searching for a word, \"Sea Spot?\" The girl quirked her head. \"Sea Spot? What is that, Brother?\" \"It is... Um...\" He pondered for a moment, before coming up with\nANOTHER idea. He then started remove the shells and rocks from the pouch, and\nstarted placing them around the reef base, and on the sand, \"It is a place\nwhere a merperson chooses to locate,\" Savarna watched curiously as Merrick\narranged the shells in a crescent-moon shape bigger than himself, \"A spot where\nhe...\" He glanced at his sister, \"Or SHE,\" He then took the bleeding squid, and\ndrifted it aside, where a nearby grouper darted, and swallowed up in one large\ngulp, almost casually. Taken aback for a few seconds by the sudden large fish,\nMerrick got back to explaining his invented term, \"Arrives, and resides in as\nthey desire,\" Sarvarna looked with intrigue as Merrick explained, \"They can\neven bring items they find from other places to the spot, and even bring\nfriends to play at the spot too.\" Savarna swam in, and picked up the pouch, \"You mean I can\nput anything I want here??? And when I have friends, we can come to my Sea Spot???\" \"Uh, yes, yes!\" Merrick said hurridly, picking his trident\nback up. \"... What if someone tries to take my items? Or try to destroy\nmy Sea Spot???\" Merrick shrugged. \"You um... You make it hard to find. Or you can rebuild if it\nis broken,\" Merrick then took the empty sack, and put a heavy rock onto it,\n\"When Mother teaches you, you may even be able protect it while you are gone.\" \"Alright...\" Savarna said. She put the strap in front of the\npouch. She then followed Merrick, and swam right beside him, \"... Brother, do YOU\nhave a Sea Spot?\"  The merman hesitated, his eyes darting to the side, and back\nagain. \"Uhh... No, I don't.\" \"Huh? Why not? It sounds fun!\" \"Because... I just don't want one. Unlike you, I do not feel\nthe urgency to collect every shell in sight.\" Savarna giggled as she swam above Merrick, and held onto his\nshoulders, \"Why not? They're all so pretty!\"  \"I grew out of it, actually. I used to collect items from\nmigration, but Father told me it was best to stop the habit of collecting\nitems.\" \"Ok...\" Savarna looked back as they slowly moved away from the\nrock-post at the shell-line crescent. She smiled as they went \"I can't WAIT to\nfind more items to bring to my new Sea Spot!\" Merrick smiled wryly as he felt\nhis sister hold onto him. 'Come to think of it...' Merrick thought, 'I DO have a Sea\nSpot... Funny, and I just made it up... A special spot of my own, where I bring\nthings to... Where I get to share time with Adam...'  ---One Year And A Half Ago---  Merrick swam eagerly through the narrow tunnel. His\nequipment hidden and stored in the reef behind, the 'naked' merman made his way\nthrough that water. The salt in his gills soon changed into freshness as he\ntransgressed into the grotto, seeing filters and waves of bright sunlight dance\nin the pool. He peered from the tunnel, for any signs of the human. His eyes\nquickly spotted a pair of those strange feet waving back and forth from the\nsurface. Grinning mischievously, he placed the thing he brought with him to the\nside, and swam close to the sandy floor, and onto the rocks. Adam sighed as he leaned his head back, sitting in his\nswimming trunks, leaning back as he kicked his feet in the water, \"Maaaan. He's\nALWAYS late,\" He said to himself, \"Just once, it'd be nice if HE was the one to\nbe here fir- AHH!\" Out of nowhere, Adam felt himself get yanked down below!\nBefore he knew it, his whole body was sunk into the cold water, and felt\nhimself pushed down until his back dug into the sand. He grunted bubbles as he\nheard the strange, foreign laughter on him, smiling and squirming at the\nmerman. Just as suddenly, Adam felt his butt grind against the sand. He looked\nand chortled as the pseudo fish was yanking at his swimming trunks. Adam kicked\nhis legs as Merrick eventually pulled his shorts off, exposing the rest his\nbody to the water. Merrick then swam up to him, nipped at his chin playfully.\nThe human swam to an upright position, grabbed his blue and shiny koi trunks,\nand kicked off from the sandy bottom. When he reached the surface, he climbed\nout, and plopped his saturated trunks onto the rock. He smiled as he stepped\nback onto a submerged rock, and hugged his merman just as he swam up to him. \"What took you so long, Merrick?\" He said. \"What do you mean, Adam? I just got here!\" Adam scoffed as\nthe merman kissed him. \"Look, I don't have all day, Merrick. I have to go by\nsunset.\" Merrick pouted at that, but Adam smiled, \"I'm sorry, sweetie. I'll be\nback in a couple of days.\"  \"Ok...\"  \"Aww,\" Adam put his hand onto Merrick's face, \"Don't be like\nthat. Besides, I got something for you.\" \"Ooh! Me too!\" Merrick quipped, suddenly in a better mood.  \"Ok, I'll go get it.\" Adam got up as Merrick dove down\nbehind him. He quickly swam to the entrance to the cave, and picked up the item\nhe brought with him, and quickly swam up back up. When Merrick swam back up, he\nsaw Adam walk back with a strange, bright red box with green designs on it, and\na shiny white ball of points on top. \"Here you go, Merrick,\" Adam said as he held out the\npresent, \"Merry Christmas!\" Merrick blinked as he saw the weird object.  \"Uh... What?\" \"Merry Christmas,\" Adam repeated. He looked, and then smiled\n\"It's something that humans do; it's called a holiday.\" \"Holiday? What's that?\"  \"Holidays are special events that humans do to celebrate a\ncertain something in that happened in the past in different ways. Christmas, in\nparticular, is a holiday where friends and family give each other gifts to show\ntheir love and thought for one another.\" \"Oh umm...\" Merrick said. This idea does seem intriguing, if\nnot totally strange and foreign. \"H-Here, I brought you this!\" Merrick said as\nhe held up a large seashell. It appeared to be a cross between a conch and\nwhelk shell, with many curved spikes that resembled teaspouts. The coloration\nis deep purple with streaks of silver and pearl-white playing across the spikes\nand chutes. \"Huh,\" Adam put his gift aside, and carefully took the\nshell, \"Wow, never saw any shell like THIS before,\" He turned it around,\nexamining it closely. \"It belonged to an octopus slug,\" Merrick said, \"They're a\nrare find on the ocean floor; the Holsien merpeople hunts them a lot, but I\nfound this one and managed to bring it back in a hunt. I was hoping you'd find\nit... Interesting.\" \"Yeah, I love it!\" Adam said as he tilted the shell in order\nto make it gleam in the light, \"Octopus slug? I never even heard of that...\" He\npicked at the holes from the top of the spikes, \"Did ink come out of these?\" \"They're also known as Black Clouds. Octopus slugs are known\nfor being dwelling in the sea bottom; a black mass comes from a single slug in\norder to hide itself from hostile creatures.\" \"This is nice, sweety,\" Adam said with a smile. He leaned\nin, and kissed Merrick affectionately, \"I love it, thank you.\" Merrick blushed\nas he nuzzled Adam. The human backed up, and then plucked up the red box, \"Ok,\nyour turn!\" Merrick looked at the box quizzically, taking it, and looked at it\nstrangly. \"Uhhhh... What IS it?\" Adam chuckled at him. \"Babe, you have to unwrap it. Ummm... You have to take off the\nred thing on it.\" Merrick blinked as he fumbled for a crease, until he plucked\na flap off of it. He pulled on it a little more, before he gasped when the\npaper tore. \"A-Adam, I'm sorry!\" Adam laughed and patted the merman's\nshoulder.  \"It's ok, Merrick, you're SUPPOSED to rip it.\" \"Heheh, ok,\" Merrick said. He then started to pull and rip\nthe paper off, until he uncovered a cardboard box. Merrick opened it up, and\ncuriously picked up a purple thong. \"Uhh, what is this?\" Adam irked as he\nsnatched it, feeling suddenly flustered.  \"Wh-What the hell?! I didn't buy this!\" Then, a folded piece\nof paper fell from the skimpy bottom, onto the wavering water. Adam plucked it\nup, unfolded it, and read it aloud, \"~Very funny, yo. Now here's a REAL gift for yo BF, homie. J~\"Adam rolled his eyes as he tossed the thong to the side,\n\"Damn hornball...\"\"What?\" \"Nothing, just one of the humans that lives with me trying\nto be funny. Look again, my gift should still be in there.\" Merrick dug into\nthe box, \"I wasn't sure what to get you, so...\" Merrick then Picked up a figurine\nof a bird. Made with real, soft, brown and black speckled, white, and red\nfeathers, it is a bird-like model of a creature Merrick has never seen before.\nThe merman turned it about in fascination, looking at the open wingspan of the\nfigure. \"Adam, what is this??\" Merrick smiled as he studied the\navian object, \"I've never seen anything like it, is this a creature from land?\" \"Sort of. It's called a Red-Tailed Hawk. It's a bird from\nCalifornia that flies high in the sky.\nOf course, this isn't a REAL hawk. It's just an art sculpture made from\nfeathers, Styrofoam, and a few other materials.\" \"This is... This is so cool!\" He looked up at the human, \"Do\nALL birds look like this???\" Adam smiled and chuckled. \"Yes and no. Most of them come in that shape, others don't.\nAnd they call come in different designs and colors.\" Merrick smiled wide as he\nwrapped his arms around Adam. \"Thank you, Adam~!\" He looked over, and moved towards the\nviolet thong. \"But... Adam, what's THIS thing, anyway?\" Adam looked, and\nchuckled. \"THAT, Merrick, is called a thong. It's a type of clothing\nhumans wear to feel and look... Kinda... Heheh, sexy...\" \"Um...\" Merrick hesitated, \"Can you... Put it on?\" Adam blushed,\nand chuckled. \"Heheh... O-Ok...\" Adam said as he got up, and picked up the\nlittle thong. He bent over, stepped his feet through the straps, and pulled it\nup between his legs. This is strange, because ever since he's known Merrick,\nhe's always made it a priority to remove his clothes. Merrick watched, and blushed as he saw Adam's package in the\nred fabric. \"Do I... Do I have it on right?\" Adam said as he turned round,\npulling at his thong from the back. Merrick blushed heavily as he watched Adam's\nfuzzy rump on that purple straps. \"A-A-A-Adam???\" Merrick sputtered. Adam turned around.  \"Hm?\"  \"C-Can we g-go into the waterfall now???\" He blushed even\nmore. Adam slowly grinned as he picked up his octopus slug shell, and a plastic\nbag to take the hawk in, and dove into the water, still wearing his purple\nthong. Merrick swerved into the water after him, wanting to have his human-form\nas soon as possible.  ---One Year And A Half Later---  'I have my own Sea Spot before I even knew it...' Merrick thought\nwith a smile, 'Not that anyone can ever know...' Soon, Adra Merrick relocated to his pod, with his sister,\nAdra Savarna, to prepare for the Time of Departure.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/477784-aquata-cove-chapter-3.json"}