AN: Disclaimers are Standard. Yet another Meme fill someone wanted done to the song Mordred's Lullaby and apply it to Kaldur. I have two different scenrios.

Perfect Soldier

(Aquaman)

Guileless son, I'll shape your belief,
And you'll always know that your father's a thief,
And you won't understand the source of your grief,
But you'll always follow the voices beneath

-Mordred's Lullaby by Heather Dale

Orin watches Kaldur with something of a grim satisfaction. The boy had proven to be remarkably well adapt to battle situations, if the reports from those land dwellers were something to go by. Turning, he walks away from the training grounds where the boy sparred with others who were more magically superior than he was.

That was fine. Orin didn't need Kaldur to be a great sorcerer for what he wanted to be done. What he needed was for him to follow whatever orders Orin gave. That meant he must keep the boy close. Closer than his own kin.

Though, he reflects slightly with a bit of guilt creeping in as it so often did these days, it was not exactly the boy's fault for his mother's poor choice in men. In reality he had nothing really in common with that man other than DNA.

But that doesn't matter. Not really.

As long as Kaldur was loyal to him, his plans would fall through and he would be free of that annoyance called Black Manta forever.

His lips twist slightly at the thought. He wonders if Black Manta would appreciate the humor of the situation. After all, Orin became the 'Father' to his son. Orin had become everything to the boy the moment he left his mother's side to attend the academy.

With that loyalty and unadulterated love the boy showed for his king, Orin did not doubt that the boy would follow him to the gates of hell itself, if he so ordered it.

However, a memory flashes before his mind of Cadmus and the three other boys-there were more members now- and how that had changed things. Before he had been assured that Kaldur'ahm would do as he commands. After that, though, he began to question it.

Even now, he wonders if it was such a good idea to let him around the others. They were changing him, he could see that.

Orin didn't care much for this change. Which is why every time Kaldur'ahm was scheduled to return home, Orin often was there to escort him. To treat him like the son he never had.

All he had to do was make sure that Kaldur'ahm's hate for Black Manta was nurtured and fester underneath that exterior. It helps, of course, that Black Manta often attacked his kingdom. Harassed the people but more to the point. It helped that Orin showed his disdain for the man as well. Dropping hints and snippets of history in his conversation.

Even now, if that villain wished, he would never get his son back.

Because Kaldur'ahm belonged to King Orin.

And Orin was going to make sure that Black Manta knows this the moment he dies.