# Aquata Cove - Chapter 62

Author: Mirron Tenshi
Tags: Homosexual, Mermaid, Otter, Story Progression, Turtle, fish, merman


Aquata Cove
Chapter 62: Wild Attack
 
 
 
Triton Samudra stares intently into the dark abyss. He
signals once, and he can feel something large slowly coming towards them. The
entire pod has halted as he tries to decide what this strangely approaching
phenomena coming to them. Arnaav holds onto Merrick's hand as they waited for
any update of this suspenseful foreboding.
 
"Samudra?" Vanora says, "Should we not hide?" 
 
"..." Samudra signals again. The upcoming entity is... No longer
large... It's several, "We need move. Now."
 
"Alright," Vanora turned to the pod, "Keno-"
 
"Now! We must flee!" Samudra commanded. The Capricorn herded
the pod like a running flock of sheep as they turned and began to swim as fast
as they could.
 
Behind them came several devilish screams and roars.
 
Arnaav yelps as his paws tightens on Merrick's hand as he
was yanked harshly as they started to jet forth. Merrick whipped his head
around, and sees a rushing Shachihoko wildly bucking for them.
 
A Shachihoko? That shouldn't be such a big threat. They're
mostly related to the lions and tigers of the lands. Sure, they're wild
animals, and if you're careless around them they can be a problem, but it's
unheard of for them to even attack prey at this time of day. But this one looks
enraged, overwhelmed, even. It roars out as its large, thick flippers kick into
the water, its diamond-like fangs shredding the sea as it flaps its powerful,
bleeding tail-
 
"Oh Sea Mother!!!" Deilan exclaimed as a huge set of razor
sharp fangs dove for the Shachihoko, narrowly missing it by mere inches before
the injured beast howls ahead. A giant began to swim closer, or perhaps it's
three monsters? Three colossal, grotesque creatures hiss and grumble as some of
their many eyes locate the Kenovani Pod.
 
'Just as Father said,' Nerissa thought, gasping, and quickly
snatching up her baby brother from a hooking projectile - a strange, rock-solid
hook seeping with a dark mist of poison, 'I did not want to believe it... But as
he said, the Capricorn cannot always protect us...' She looked fearfully onto the
trio of humongous Cecelias growling and looking over them, like three menacing
dragon-like freaks about to disembowel them. Adra Hecalt cries uncontrollably
as he clung onto Nerissa's chest. "Hold tightly, Brother!" She said before she
twirls and speeds away.
 
Cecelia. One of the biggest dangers of the entire ocean -
considered to be one of the ocean's most malevolent creatures, almost as evil
as the Nalcious Eels. Legend says that the Cecelias descend from a Holsien
Noita who wanted to create a more suitable Guardian than the Kraken, so she
warped and twisted an early animal before it could mature, and her magic
destroyed the animal's stability, and it turned into a monster. Nature and
breeding took its course, and now the Cecelia is a part of the ocean's deepest,
darkest secrets.
It has four muscular legs that can tuck onto its body to
make it able to swim easily through the water like a shark, can produce
poisonous barbs that is able to launch from its nostrils, and has ten eyes along
either side of its body, for a very wide field of vision.
 
The Shachihoko roars pitifully as it swims as fast as it
can, but cries out as it can sense one of the large, cage-like claws about to
descend upon it. 
 
"RRAAAGGHH!!"
 
A sharp, three-pronged force raced through the air, and
knocked the Cecelia's claw back as it sank into it, inducing a resonating roar
of pain as Samudra goes to his weapon to fend off the monster. He grunts as he
gives a loud array of signals and screeches to the half tiger/fish he had just
rescued, before he allowed the Shachihoko to escape with its life. 
 
"GO! NOW!!" He commanded. The second Cecelia blurrs around
the first, and opened up its jaws. The crab merman turns and screams in terror
as a pair of buzzsaws snap him up, and crushed his hand-made flippers as it
drove him up in the water.
 
"KARKOS!" Syrinx yells as she stretched out her arm as the
Cecelia ate him, "NO!" She gasps as a third set of teeth began to swim for her!
She screams out before a forced knocked the third Cecelia off-course. Deilan
and an octopus mermaid, along with several other random octopi began to whirl
about in a strategic formation, as a black cloud of ink began to form around
the Cecelias.
 
The Capricorns circled the pod as they began to leave while
the others fought them off. Another Cecelia roars as it shoots for them.
 
'We've lost Karkos,' Razirah Ebba thinks as one of her
shells lose a link, 'At this rate, Triton Samudra must summon Guardian Kraken.
If not, perhaps Merrick can call upon Guardian Leviathan!' Ebba gasps before
she dives down, just dodging a poison missile. The Cecelia's tail thrashes and
strikes part of the pod, before they were scattered about. Mermen signaled for
every direction for another Capricorn, or any other large animal that can
fight. Mermaids whip and swim in many directions, trying to strike with their
weapons and arrows just to keep themselves alive, while a few others try to
swim for safety.
 
Arnaav screams before Merrick's arms tighten around him and
flies in a loop. Merrick screeches as he lets his harpoon shoot through the
water, and into the Cecelia's throat, and saw a silver spear jut out of the
beast's neck. The demon bellows in pain, but it does not relent.
 
'No time!' Merrick took a deep breath, about to call the
Leviathan, before he yelped instead as a claw flew out at him and Arnaav. The
otter merman screams before Merrick's arms tighten around him and flies in a
loop. Merrick screeches as he lets his harpoon shoot through the water, and
into the Cecelia's throat, and saw a silver spear jut out of the beast's neck.
The demon bellows in pain, but it does not relent, and now it surges for the
two of them.
 
'No!' He whips around, and swims as fast as he can, easily
sensing that the Cecelia is now chasing him, 'I must protect Arnaav!' Merrick
thought as he raced into a large trench, wincing as he can hear the Cecelia
roaring behind him, his keen intuition commanding him to ascend up, just before
twin poison barbs could hit him.
 
'Dammit!' He thinks as he looks back, and sees his weapon
glinting from the Cecelia's neck, 'Not like my weapon can help anyway, if
sending it into its mouth couldn't stop it, it looks like I can't kill it with
just a well-thought strike.' Merrick huffs as he became a flash of blue and
silver along this cold, dark trap.
 
He growls as his eyes looked side-to-side at the barren
walls of rock 'It's too cramped for Guardian Leviathan to appear here. Even if
I did call it, it can't help me if it can't reach me here, let alone battle the
Cecelia.' He snarls he holds tightly to Arnaav as he swims faster than ever
before. 
 
'I can outrun it for now, but at this rate, it's either
going to catch me or strike me down with its poison barbs.' He winces as he
feels Arnaav crying and holding tightly, 'There's no where to hide..." He thinks
as he takes in his blurring surroundings, 'I think these are the Tower
Trenches. It doesn't matter, there is no where for me to hide here, not without
being spotted anyway.'
 
Merrick dives into a tight spot, and then jets up at the
last moment so the Cecelia becomes momentarily stuck. He turns, and frowns as
the crazy beast writhes in rage, breaking the narrow rock way before he swims
faster.
 
'Those rock fragments were too flimsy. Could I possibly...'
Merrick glances at the bedrock and structure of the trenches, 'No. Those there
thin enough for it to slow it down, but every where else is too hard to be
knocked back with enough force to break and trap it.' 
 
Merrick kicks his tail hard as he feels a force of water blow around him, just
missing the Cecelia's head. 'I'm running out of options here!'
 
 
~~~
 
 
Samudra growls as he can feel the thick barrage of sensation
brewing deep in his gut. He's almost ready to summon the Krakon. The Cecelia he
is fighting currently has him pinned down to the ocean floor. Luckily, his
outer shell is heavily protective, so he can endure even the ravenous fangs
that scrape from the Cecelia's jaws.
 
"Ennngghh!" 'Vanora can mend the scrapes,' He thought as he
continues to gather his inner strength for the summoning. "Hhhgggg!" He glances
to the others fighting. Two other merfolk have been eaten by the second
Cecelia, despite the large ink cloud. Most of the pod is gone, however. In a
fit of panic, a few of the other mermen managed to gather four more Capricorns
to hide the pod's perception away from the Cecelias.
 
"Grrrrrrr," 
Samudra growls, 'It is true about the Guardians...' He grunts as his
trident snaps in half, while still holding himself in a defensive position,
'The older you are... The longer the calling takes to come to you...'
 
"SAMUDRA!!" Vanora calls out, seeing her mate forced and
mangled into the sea ground.
 
"I am fine, Vanora!!" Samudra roars back, "YOUR RIGHT!!" The
Noita gasps as a sea of fangs and thorns came rushing to her, with the shreds
of her fellow Coshitons still clinging to its mouth, "VANORAAA!!!"
 
Just as the jaws closed down on the lionfish mermaid, she
turned about, as several ribbons of power whips around her. Spikes of yellow
light jab at the Cecelia's jaws as she spun in a spiral. Her power appears as
harsh spires of spotted light that inject a very bitter taste into the
Cecelia's mouth until she turns into a whirlwind of illuminated spears, as if
enveloped by a madly spinning urchin of irritable lightning. 
 
Noita Vanora keeps herself spinning faster and faster,
extending her body of power into a spiky tornado that juts out into cage-like
branches of energy that shoots out randomly at any incoming poison barbs or for
any of the Cecelias' limbs can attempt at the other Coshitons.
 
 
~~~
 
 
Merrick continues to flee as fast as he can, 'Dammit, why is
it only chasing me?? Aren't I proving to be more trouble than I'm worth??'
 
"Getting closer!!" Merrick yells as he races through. The
Cecelia behind him has stopped clawing around at the Tower Trenches, and tucked
its limbs into its body to make itself a very agile torpedo. Poor Arnaav simply
whimpers harshly as he pushes his face into Merrick's chest, completely unaware
of his surroundings, and solely relying on Merrick through these blinding
speeds.
 
'I'm losing ground!' He clenched his teeth as he dips and
swirls to avoid another poison launch from the monster. Arnaav's paws dig onto
him as Merrick carries the both of them through spectacular maneuvers.
 
'Anywhere!' He thinks as his tail is burning with
exhaustion, 'I can't think of any counter-measure!' He glances back, and growls
as he sees his weapon is still sticking out of the monster's neck, 'Is that
REALLY not hurting it?!' Merrick seethed as he kicks his tail onward, 'I threw
it into its throat, and it's stuck on it's neck! It's not even going to slow it
down for me?!'
 
His eyes lock forward, spotting something that appears to be
a large foundation of giant spiral shells "THERE!!" He zooms forward.
 
'If I can hide there...' Merrick quickly thinks, 'Agghh... It
probably won't do me any good,' He glances back at the smooth-sailing Cecelia,
still on his tail, 'Cecelias have a total of 20 eyes, they can see ANYTHING!
It's almost like that Dragonology book Adam has, something about a dragon having
9 optic nerves, or the Byakugan from - RRRRGH! Stop thinking about that!' He
huffs and zips over a few rocks, before hearing the sea-behemoth clash with
them from behind. 'If it sees me hide into those shells, it will keep attacking
until it finds me... But what if...'
 
Merrick grimaces as he feels himself beginning to tire out.
As hard as he's swimming, it's only a matter of time before the Cecelia catches
him.
 
'No, even in human form, that thing will still eat me and
Arnaav. My best bet is to pick a shell and escape quietly from there!'
 

~~~
 
 
'...' The bugle inside of Samudra is just about ready. He
watches as his amazing mate turns herself into a fury of spiking tendrils,
flinching as one such strike of light hits the claw pinning him, but doing
nothing to remove it. His eyes look over the sight of everything.
 
'... One... Two... Wait...' He continues to gather strength as he
takes several signals, 'There were three Cecelias... One of them would not have
simply went away...' He growls as his eyes narrow, 'Has it chased the other
escaping members??' He grunts as his throat begins to stiffen as his eyes
dilate, 'Then I must end this. Vanora cannot keep this going, or else she might
strike one of the others...'
 
"KKKRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
 
Letting his head out, Samudra unleashed a loud, long,
ravenous roar. The Cecelias screech back at him in retaliation.
 
 
~~~
 
 
-DNNNN-
 
Merrick gasps silently as he feels a sudden pulse far on the
lower right direction. He yelps as another poison barb just BARELY skims his
arm, before racing forward, just reaching out of the Tower Trenches and into
the open!
 
"Eaaahh!" He turns fully around and screams as a large shape
looms over him. The Cecelia opens his jaws of infinite teeth, about to dive
down upon the boys. "NOO, PLEASE!" Merrick shrieks as he huddles on Arnaav, who
is beyond petrified now.
 
"RAOOUURRR!"

"HOOUUH!"
 
"GEEHHHEENNN!" The Cecelia roars after two other loud
clashes and shouts. Merrick opened his eyes, and gasps in awe as a pair of
large, healthy Shachihokos sink their crystalline fangs into the Cecelia's
body! 
 
The monster seethes and snarls as it thrashes the sea
felines away as they pound their tailflippers harshly, before a third
Shachihoko bore down on the beast from the top, this one with a large wound on
its body, the one that was commanded by Samudra.
 
A fourth Shachihoko bravely attacks the tail as the Cecelia
stretches out its limbs and crashed into the large piles of huge conch shells.
Merrick swims out, filled with terror and surprise as he feels the sea around
him wave and become insane as a huge, massive mound of slime came up out of
nowhere! Merrick hangs tightly onto Arnaav, before his back slams into
something solid! He whips around, and then quickly swims up!
 
 
~~~
 
 
"KHaaaahhh!" Samudra cries out in pain as the armor of his
body finally cracks under the Cecelia's grip, inducing a hard, sharp pain on
his abdomin!
 
"FATHER!" Adra Nerissa cries out as she swims out to him.
Vanora gasps as she sees Samudra's torso fractured.
 
"NO!!"
 
"RrrrhhhhhHHHH!" The Cecelia opens its large maw, before an
invisible force pried its jaws open. Its head is pulled back as one claw lifts
from Samudra's body, while the other one flails about. Nerissa stares as one
leg of the beast ceases to move, and somehow glues itself onto its side in a
jagged position. It twitches as it seems to become paralyzed as it starts to
float up on its own.
 
"It comes..." Samudra grunts weakly.
 
"Samudra!!" Vanora calls out as the storm of spikes subsided
so she can tend to her mate. A threatening roar shouts at her as the Cecelia
dives for her too! Just as she started to scream, an unseen entity forces the
gigantic monster against a large structure of rock!  
 
Adra Hecalt gasps on the sand as he watches a very
complicated system of thick tubes start to manifest out of nothing! The Cecelia
that was fighting Samudra is now entangled with a mass of rubbery tethers,
binding it extremely tight while it still struggled in the strange grip.
 
The second Cecelia snarls loudly as it thrashed under its
own ties, before it launched a pair of poison barbs at the new creature.
 
Before the barbs could hit their target, two swift tendrils
knock the barbs into an instant halt, spinning them in mid-water, split into
pieces, before racing to force the Cecelia's head down into the sand, burying
its maw into the seafloor. The Cecelia writhed wildly as it clawed into the
sand, unable to free itself.
 
Noita Vanora's healing hands immediately place onto
Samudra's ruptured stomach, pulling him away as the tentacles tightly
constricted the giant monster.
 
Guardian Kraken wraps its many tentacles around the beast,
forcing its body to straighten, and- 
 
KKRRRGGG!
 
"AAAARRRRRNNNNNGGG!" The Cecelia cries out in pain as the
Kraken's hidden beak drilled into its back, cracking into the armored shell and
digging into its insides to let a dark red mist seep into the water. The beast
couldn't move, both by the constriction, and the immense damage being dealt to
its backside. It persistently snarled in defeat, even as the Kraken further dug
the hidden barbs in its tentacles into the remainder of the Cecelia.
 
 
~~~
 
 
As the Shachihokos ripped and bit down onto the butchered
Cecelia, it still would not give up its quarry, even as it's being attacked by
a total of six aquatic tigers. 
 
Even with the numerous predators preying upon it, now there
is a huge mass of groaning gunk rising up from one of the enormous shells! A
cloud of sea-dirt and grime kicks up as the shapeless blob rose up to address
the struggling horde of beasts.
 
The Cecelia looks up, and sees what appears to be a naked
human scale the giant shells. It roars feeblely as it pushes forcefully towards
the humanoid, as if it's downright determined to end this elusive, small
creature.
 
Merrick huffs as Arnaav clings to him. He's just about of
energy, no doubt from all the swimming he's had to do. At this time, to look
back is to give himself to death, even if the Cecelia is being slowed down
significantly. He wears his necklace to nullify himself of water in order to climb
on the shells, just like when he and Yuri, and some of her friends went
rock-climbing once.
 
Three of the Shachihokos immediately swim away from the
impending cloud of old poison, as well as the groaning slime coming their way.
Upon release, the Cecelia charges at the shells, and aims for that small foot
leaving the surface. The monster was instantly grabbed by the dying amorphous
blob just as it crashes into the mountain of conches.
 
 
~~~
 
 
"Whoa!" Merrick wobbled as he felt the entire mound of hard,
jagged spiral and conch shells shift and rise. He quickly dries off on the hot
sun as he climbs with utmost haste up the many empty shells, trotting and
running when he can along them as they shoot up, rumble, rise and fall. 
 
He clasps his hand onto one such broken shell as it suddenly juts up into the
sky, still holding the shaking bundle of fur in his arm as he protectively
carries him.
 
Merrick pants as he pulls himself and Arnaav up onto the
large, broken, old conch, taking off his necklace and stashing it in his pouch,
and plants his hand onto the hot shell he sits on.
 
"Hhh... Hhh... Hhh... Are... Are we safe...?" He asks quietly, hearing
only the sound of the ocean around him, as well as the resonating rumbles and
waning quakes from beneath.
 
 
~~~
 
 
The other remaining Shachihokos let go of the bleeding
Cecelia as it burrows into the wall of empty shells, while a shiny spear is
forced out of its neck, and drifts onto the sandy bottom.
 
They retreat as parts of the monster is currently being
consumed by the living slime, pulling it in slowly as it thrashes and digs into
the massive white objects, crashing, juggling, and rearranging them as it
refuses to lose, even as it's being buried alive by its own avarice, while also
delirious from the poisonous cloud kicked up by the moving wall of gunk. 
 
 
~~~
 
 
"By the Sea Mother..." Samudra moans as he feels his stomach
mend itself under the hands of his mate and daughter, lying against a reef wall
as the two Noitas tend to his severe injury.
 
"Do not speak, Father," Adra Nerissa said, "You were close
to death because of that thing. You must save your strength." 
 
Triton Samudra glances around the aftermath of this battle.
Guardian Kraken pulls the Cecelia carcasses away from the area, entangled by
its many, many tentacles into the depths below. The atmosphere is still sore
with a lingering dark mist in the water from the summoned squid and octopi,
mixed with a tinge of blood from both the Cecelias and merfolk.
 
Deilan groans as he picks up the remains of the broken
weapons, along with a few other merfolk who stayed to fight. Several Capricorns
have escorted the rest of the small pod away from the struggle, hopefully still
intact.
 
Once dealt with, the enormous, mythical squid Kraken looms
away, ordered to hunt down the third Cecelia that has strayed from the pod.
 
"Four of our own have been lost on this sun..." Ebba reports
sadly, "Karkos, Myles, Ehecatl, and Inciro have perished in the fight..." She
sighs, "Everyone else is still alive, and connected."
 
"We must regroup as soon as possible," Noita Vanora says,
"We must be sure that we are all together."
 
"Yes. We still do not know where the last Cecelia has
vanished. If we do not know, it might-"
 
"That is not my concern at this moment." Vanora said, "If
the third Cecelia was still in the midst of battle, we would still be hearing
it right now."
 
"It is fine..." Samudra moaned, "I am sure the others will be
safe."
 
"No. You do not understand," Vanora said, "At this time, we
must hope upon hope that no one must go above the surface. We must recount
everyone as soon as possible!"
 
"Mother, what are you saying??" Nerissa asked, becoming
quite bewildered.
 
 
~~~
 
 
Merrick gently sits down and tries to situate Arnaav as
well, "Arnaav... Are you ok?" He asked drearily. He feels so tired.
 
"Hhhnnnn..." Arnaav groans as he sways a little on the spot,
opening his mouth for a yawn, and whipping his head a little afterwards, "Hmm?"
He looks up with half-lidded eyes.
 
"We escaped... We're alive..." Merrick mumbles. He grunts as he
rubs his eyes a little, "God, that chase really wiped me out."
 
"Cha... Chase?" Arnaav swerved, before catching himself, and
groans as he stretched out, "Wh-What chase again?" 
 
"The Cecelia... It came after us, and we were barely able to
outrun it."
 
"Ok... I cannot really think right now..." Arnaav yawned as the
warmth of the sun comforted his wet fur, yet quickly drying him, "Can we take a
nap though? I feel like I have not slept in so long..."
 
"No. We need to get back to the pod..." Merrick yawned too,
"Errff, why am I so drowsy?" 
 
"You just swam so fast for a long time," Arnaav lays down
and starts to curl up, "You're probably tired and..."
 
"Yes, but I can... Keep going..." He mumbled, slapping his own
face lightly to wake himself up, "We can't stay, we need to get back, find out
what happened to the others." 
 
"Mmmnnnn..." Arnaav succumbs and falls asleep. Merrick sighed
as he sits against one of the large shells, crossing his arms as he decides to
let the young Amnien sleep.
 
"Damn..." Merrick's eyelids are so heavy, he takes a moment to
rub his palms on his face, "Where are we anyway..." The air smells really weird
here. And these shells feel strange - they don't have a smooth or natural feel
on their surface, besides the fact that they're 100 to 1000 times as big as any
other shell. 
 
"God, it's so hot..." He silently whines, feeling his arms on
his bright peach skin. He looks at his legs, just barely noticing that he's
dried up completely now. His tired eyes look over his pseudo little brother
before him, keeping a watchful eye over him as he slept.
 
Merrick groans as he closes his eyes. Oh, an entire world of
temptation pulls and sings to him as those lids cover his sapphires, before they
very reluctantly open up again. Merrick looks ahead out to sea, and sighed in
content as he sees a small bit of shade up ahead.
 
"Thank God... Looks like a cloud's coming." He smiled weakly
in his drowsy state for a moment, before letting his lips settle back down, as
the effort of smiling seems so bothersome. The merman takes another long,
exhausting, agonizing blink, and smirks a little to see a smooth belly quickly
appearing on Arnaav's front side.
 
Merrick tilts his head up a little to look up to the sky. He
groaned as he sees no such cloud to mask the blazing sun, but still, he spots a
small spot of darkness over the water. 
 
His eyes squint as he peers up to the sun; to a slightly
incomplete sun, with an invisible depletion on the lower side of the brightness
of the sky.

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