I
"AH! I'm going to get you!" Kyoko shouted as she chased after Sayaka. Her fingers came just out of reach of the slick webby flipper at the back of Sayaka's tail when Sayaka suddenly pivoted to the side and changed direction, turning around and swimming right under Kyoko who reach down after her. She managed to just barely touch Sayaka, the tips of her fingers brushing across the small of her back and skirting across the top of her tail where delicate skin turned into smooth blue scales.
"Aaaaah!" Sayaka shrieked as she repositioned herself in the water and held her hands at her butt with her face glowing red. "Kyoko! You pervert!"
Kyoko's gritted her teeth as her own face reddened. Whether the redness was from frustration or embarrassment was unclear. "Look who's talking, dummy!"
"Oooooo, don't worry I get it," Sayaka snickered. She struck a pose with one hand on her hip and the other at the side of her head as she perked her chest out. Her upper body was only clothed by a pair of blue shells over her breasts, matching the color of her hair and scales. Her bare abs were tightening and releasing with the motion of her tail wading the water to keep herself in place. "There's a cute sexy Sayaka in front of you and you just can't keep your hands to yourself! Right?" she said with a wink.
Kyoko folded her arms over her slender chest, her head hunching down into her shoulders as her eyes glanced away with annoyance. "Yeah right, like I'd ever think that of you." Kyoko's own scales took on different shades of red, some of her scales were dark crimson while others were lighter shades of red, matching her hair and her own seashell bra.
Sayaka snickered and tilted her head forward. "Awwww, are you being a tsundere?"
Kyoko tensed with more annoyance as she said, "For that to be possible there would have to be something about you to actually like!"
Both of Sayaka's hands dropped to her hips as her face shrunk down into an angry expression. "Ah, Kyoko! That's going too far! You stupid jer- rrraaaAAAH!"
Kyoko suddenly kicked her tail, getting in a good strong stroke against the water and darting head-first towards Sayaka. Sayaka tried to swim upward to avoid the strike but before she could properly react Kyoko's arms were already wrapped around her midsection. "HA! Got you now! Dummy!" Kyoko laughed.
"Heeelllp!" Sayaka screamed as she swam around in circles with Kyoko's tightly hugging her tail. "I've been captured by a pervert!"
"Would you keep it down!" Kyoko shouted, still refusing to release her hold on Sayaka.
Nearby, Madoka and Mami sat together amongst a beautifully colored coral reef at the seafloor. Mami giggled as she watched the two of them spinning around in circles in the water up above and said, "Looks like they are having fun."
Madoka smiled and returned the laughter. "Heheh, yeah sure looks like it!"
Madoka and Mami were also dressed in the usual Mermaid fashion; bare stomachs and shell bras over their chests, matching the color of their hair and scales. Madoka sometimes wondered how exactly Mami managed to find a pair of shells that fit her, since Mami was so well endowed in that regard and Madoka was fairly certain she never saw any kind of clam or oyster quite that big before. Of course, that was far too invasive of a thing to ask so she kept that thought to herself. Still, Mami was one of the prettiest mermaids under the sea. The way her golden scales would catch the sunlight during the day was quite elegant, and she had such a cool mature personality to top it off; almost everyone looked up to her!
Madoka thought there was only one fish in the entire sea who was cooler than Mami… but... try as she might she could never seem to make friends with her…
Madoka watched as Sayaka and Kyoko continued with their seahorsing around, and sighed as she thought of those beautiful purple scales, the lovely white skin and lustrous long black hair which belonged to the mermaid who she really liked.
Sayaka eventually ran out of breath from dragging Kyoko through the water, and she began to sink, still laughing and giggling through her gasps for breath. Kyoko took advantage of Sayaka's unresistant state and flipped her body around so they were face to face. They softly landed on the seafloor with Kyoko's arms caged over Sayaka. "Heh, I got you now!" Kyoko sneered at her.
"Oh no!" Sayaka blushed and smiled seductively. "What are you going to do to me?" she asked as she brought her hands up and placed them on Kyoko's stomach. Kyoko blushed in response, her eyes glancing away nervously for just a moment as a fang poked out the corner of her mouth.
"Well…" she brought a hand under Sayaka's chin and moved her forward. Their lips came closer and closer together with their cheeks bright with blush.
"Oooooo! That's sooo cute!" Mami cheered from just a short distance away.
Sayaka and Kyoko both jerked back, each of their tails giving the water a stroke and sending them softly drifting in opposite directions. "W-what are you talking about?!" Kyoko sneered at Mami. It seemed they both had forgotten that Madoka and Mami were sitting right there the entire time.
"Y-yeah, we weren't doing anything!" Sayaka said, crossing her arms over her chest in embarrassment.
Mami chuckled and said, "Oh, sorry! Please don't let me stop you! Though, maybe you should be a little more private with those kinds of things?"
Kyoko rolled her eyes, "Dunno what kinds of things you'd be talking about." She pointed a finger at Sayaka and said, "I just defeated that rookie in a serious battle!"
"Okay, if that's what you call that," Mami chuckled. Madoka also could not keep herself from laughing.
Kyoko's hands balled at her side as she got more and more annoyed. Then Sayaka swam over to her and said, "Hey um, I just remembered my mom wanted me to de-seaweed the coral bed back at my place… do you think you could give me a hand? Kyoko?"
"Do your own damn chores," Kyoko said, apparently not getting the message.
Sayaka swam closer, put her hands around one of Kyoko's balled fists and then drifted right up against her, letting her breast touch against the back of Kyoko's shoulder. Kyoko's expression tensed as her face reddened and Sayaka whispered, "Are you suuure you don't want to help me out?"
"Ah… r-right, I mean…" Kyoko scratched the back of her head and laughed, "I mean like, I wouldn't want you to screw anything up and end up getting in trouble, right? So I guess I can come help out for a little while!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just come on already," Sayaka said as she started swimming upwards, taking Kyoko's hand with her.
They swam closer to each other's sides and started whispering as they continued further away.
Madoka laughed and shouted, "Good luck! See you two later!" Then Mami and Madoka looked at each other and grinned. Madoka's humorous grin faded after a moment, however, and she started to frown.
"Madoka?" Mami asked, "Is everything alright?"
"What?" Madoka asked, shaken out of her thoughts. "Of course! Everything's great!" she said with a forced smiled.
Mami gave her a concerned look, glanced over her shoulder at Kyoko and Sayaka then asked. "Could it be that you are actually jealous of the two of them?"
Madoka instantly blushed and waved her hands, "No! No! Of course not!"
Mami gave her a soft smile and said, "Come on Madoka. Something is on your mind. I can tell."
Madoka's expression dropped, her whole body seeming depressed as her tail stopped wading and she allowed herself to drift down to the sea floor and sit on her butt. "Well… it's not that I am jealous of them… but… I just really wish I had what they have."
Mami drifted down and sat next to her. "Awwww, well don't worry about it. I am sure you will find someone you have that kind of connection with sooner or later." Madoka's eyes glanced away again as her frown deepened. Mami watched her, and slowly started to understand. "Wait… could it be that you already have someone you feel that way about?"
"Yeah…" said Madoka, with a rather sad tone of voice.
"Well that's great then!" Mami assured her. "So why do you seem so down in the dumps?"
"The thing is… I am pretty sure she actually hates me," Madoka confessed.
"Now, I'm sure that can't be true. Who is it?"
Madoka took a moment, then sighed and said, "It's Homura. She barely ever speaks to me even when I try to initiate a conversation, and it's like she is always trying to avoid me… I don't even know why… I can't help wondering if I did something to upset her, or if it is that she just flat out doesn't like me."
Mami thought for a moment and said, "I am sure you are just misreading her. She does have a rather aloof personality, after all. I bet you'd find out she likes you just as much if you were to simply confess your feelings to her!"
Madoka shook her head. "There is no way I could do that! Like I said, she doesn't even want to talk to me or acknowledge I exist…" Madoka looked up through the water to see the sun shimmering at the surface of the ocean. "Well, I think I need to get home now." She looked back to Mami and smiled, "Anyway, sorry for putting this off on you like that. Bye!" She then gave her tail a strong stroke to start off her momentum, then softly waved her flipper back and forth as she swam away. Before going too far she stuck a hand out to wave goodbye to Mami.
"See you later, Kaname-san!" Mami called after her as cheerily as she could.
Once Madoka swam out of sight Mami got to thinking. She did not know Homura too well, but she figured Madoka was most likely misreading the black haired mermaid's aloofness. Perhaps if there was just a way to get them together and force them to talk. A little forced alone time could be the perfect thing to get them to sort things out…
Mami put a hand over the bottom of her chin and thought. How could something like that be arranged?
Then, her lips perked up into a grin as a plan started to form….
II
Homura pulled the trigger of her speargun and sent a harpoon whizzing through the water, piercing a jellyfish familiar right through it's back and exiting out the other side. Black fluid spilled from the hole as it opened it's mouth (lined with teeth more appropriate for a shark) and let out a horrific echoing cry.
Homura held the weapon at her side as another magical harpoon appeared inside the barrel. She then closed her eyes and searched for the magical presence of the siren which this familiar belong to. This familiar was not powerful enough to be the type which had plans of going off on its own and becoming a siren itself. This familiar had simply lagged behind its master and got lost, which meant the siren in question could not be far away.
Her tail gave a strong push as she started swimming forward, her flipper then rhythmically stroking the water as she went. Yes… it was close…
"Homura!" she heard someone shout, and instantly stopped her progress and looked around. She saw Mami swim up from behind a mound in the seafloor which was decorated with various forms of underwater plant life. Mami had one of her long barrel harpoon muskets held in her hands with her flipper quickly waving back and forth in the water as she swam towards Homura.
"Tomoe, are you on the trail of this siren as well?"
"Yes! I saw it right over this way," Mami said as she slowed to a stop. "Come on!" She waved her arm to beckon Homura follow her, then quickly started swimming back the way she came.
Homura delayed for a moment, thinking it was unusual for Mami to seek help from her. Perhaps it is just that Sayaka and Kyoko were not around to give her a hand and she did not want to face this siren alone? Whatever the case, Homura quickly followed after her.
They swam over the hill, and started crossing a plane, weaving between other sea life like dolphins and schools of sardine as they progressed. "Over there!" Mami said, pointing towards a rocky area with a bunch of steep mounds and trenches cut into the sea floor. Not a moment after it getting pointed out they saw a giant tentacle rise up from behind one of the mounds and slam down out of sight again, with a murky cloud of dirt rising up from where it landed.
Then, they heard a loud scream - it was a mermaid scream! They looked at eachother and then started flapping their flippers even faster, swimming towards the siren as quickly as they could. Homura's eyes narrowed as she thought, that voice sounded familiar…
They swam upwards so they could approach the siren from overhead, each steadying their weapons as they rose above the mound, knowing the siren would soon come into view. Homura got a glimpse of the tentacles, then gasped when she saw them slithering across the crevices and trenches in the disturbed area of the seafloor… chasing something. It was a pink mermaid that looked tiny in comparison to the enormous tentacle chasing after her… pink...
"M-Madoka!" Homura gasped. The pinkette was weaving between rock formations, anxiously glancing behind herself with wide terrified eyes at the tentacles just barely touched the back of her flipper.
Mami and Homura both fired their weapons, getting two clean shots on the tentacle that was chasing after her and buying Madoka some time. There was then a horrendous screech which rang through the ocean as the creature that tentacle belonged to emerged from it's hiding place among the rocks.
It had an almost human form at its midsection, taking on the shape of a woman with tattered seaweeds around her chest. That midsection sat atop a nest of crawling snake-like appendages which seemed to slither around frantically at the fact one of their own had just been impaled. The creature's face was the most horrible thing about it, though. It had smaller tendrils all around it's head, wrapped under its chin almost like a beard and slightly longer ones off the back of it's head for hair. Two glowing red eyes appeared through the swarming mess that was this creature's face, and they were now burning with hatred as they stared at the two magical mermaids floating above.
One of it's tentacles suddenly shot up from its base, and Mami and Homura darted off in opposite directions to avoid it. The distance it covered in such a short time was incredible.
"Homura!" Mami shouted as she tossed away her spent musket and made a new one appear, already with a fresh harpoon loaded inside it. "Go make sure Madoka is alright! I can handle this until you get back!"
"Right!" Homura agreed, then instantly dove down, heading right for the pink mermaid who was weaving through the rocky seafloor and frantically swimming for her life. The siren turned it's focus on Homura, raised a tentacle as if it were preparing to strike, but then stumbled back a step when a harpoon slashed through it's face; severing a few of the tendrils, and it instantly returned its focus on Mami.
Homura only looked back once as she swam closer to Madoka to see Mami ducking and diving out of the way of multiple tentacle strikes. "H-Homura!" Madoka shouted when she saw the dark magical-maid coming towards her.
"Keep swimming!" Homura shouted at her and aimed her weapon at a jellyfish familiar that had taken it's master's place in chasing after their prey. She nailed it to a rock with a single shot, but then noticed three more were trailing not far behind it.
Homura dove down and grabbed Madoka's hand. "Come on!" she shouted, then suddenly changed course, leading Madoka down into another trench and disappearing from the remaining jellyfish familiars sight for just a moment.
Madoka blushed as she looked at Homura's hand around hers. She kept her flipper flapping as quickly as she could, trying to keep up. Homura was much faster than her, though, so it kind of felt like she was being dragged by her. It was okay though, she felt safe now and when her eyes went up to Homura's bare back as she led the way Madoka felt her face becoming hot.
"W-what are you doing here?" Madoka asked.
Homura looked through the corner of her eye as she continued to pull her forth. "I am a magical-maid, dealing with these creatures is my duty," she said. Then suddenly: "Duck!" She used her free hand to aim her weapon behind her, and Madoka obeyed her command, ducking her head down just as a harpoon whizzed through the water right over top of her. She glanced back to see a second familiar get impaled before letting off another one of those horrible screams.
Madoka looked back to Homura's intense expression. Oh no, she looks annoyed, Madoka thought, sulking. She is probably going to dislike me even more now for causing her trouble like this…
Homura kept leading the way, firing shots behind herself whenever she had a spare moment. She missed a couple times, but within five shots the remaining two familiars met the same fate as their predecessors.
Homura's pace slowed and she looked around, still tightly holding Madoka's hand. Then she spotted a cavern. "Over here," she said. "Hide out in there while I go help Mami defeat the siren."
"O-okay!" Madoka agreed, and allowed herself to be pulled over to that hole against the wall of a rather large rise in the sea floor.
Inside it was quite spacious, but rather dark. That is, until Homura focused her attention on the soul-pearl embedded on the back of her wrist and used it's magic to make several bubbles full of light appear which floated upward and separated to fill the cavern with light. She let go of Madoka's hand and looked around, perhaps making sure this area would be acceptable. "You should be safe in here." Homura said.
Madoka sighed with relief, then swam in front of Homura and looked her in the eyes with a smile. "Um, thank you for saving me!"
Homura flinched back, her face making an awkward grimace as her eyes shot away and refused to meet Madoka's. "Y-yes. You are welcome…" she glanced over her shoulder. "I better go help Mami." She then turned and started swimming back to the caverns entrance.
Madoka's arms fell limp at her sides and her tail stop treading the water as she started to sink a little. She won't even look at me… she thought with a miserable frown appearing on her face. And she is so quick to get away from me too… I knew it! She really does hate me!
She watched Homura as she swam away, her slender back and beautiful purple scaled tail were mildly illuminated by the light from her bubbles. She's so cool and so pretty, Madoka thought. Of course she wouldn't want to be friends with someone like me. She is nice though… at least she saved me.
Homura was just about to leave when there was a sudden loud rumbling noise that felt like an earthquake. "Get down!" Homura shouted, and instantly turned around and dove on top of Madoka, pinning her to the floor and using her own body to shield her as the cave rumbled.
"W-what's going on!" Madoka asked.
"I don't know, just stay down!" Homura said, glancing over her shoulder. The rumbling eventually slowed to a stop and they both sighed with relief.
Madoka opened her mouth to thank Homura again, but her words ended up catching in her throat and she gulped. She realized Homura's chest was right over her face with the shell-bra just inches away from actually touching her. Her eyes glanced to the side and realized Homura's hands were on her bare shoulders as well. Plus she basically had her pinned pinned to the floor and it felt like a rather compromising position.
"I suppose it was just a minor earthquake, or at worst some backlash from Mami's battle with the siren. Anyway, are you-" Homura looked back to Madoka and her own face grew bright red. She instantly let the small pinkett go and kicked her tail to swim away and open some distance between them. Madoka stayed plastered to the floor, too shocked with her heart fluttering too rapidly to move.
Homura coughed into her hand with her eyes glancing around like they were not sure where to land. "A-anyway. If you are okay then I had better go check on Mami now. Wait here until we return."
"O-okay… um…" Madoka looked past Homura, towards the exit… or, where the exit should have been. Homura froze, as she came to the same realization and just stared at a giant boulder blocking her escape. "Um… looks like the earthquake blocked the exit," Madoka pointed out.
Homura glanced over at the pinkette who was still on the floor where she had left her. She flinched nervously then looked back to the boulder blocking her exit. "Eh, y-yes… well, it's no problem. I'm sure I can just push it out of the way." Homura swam over and started pushing against it with all her strength, but it soon became obvious to Madoka at least that it was not going to budge an inch.
Madoka frowned and let her eyes sink down. Great, if she didn't have to save me we wouldn't be trapped here right now… this is probably going to make her hate me even more now!
III
Madoka sat patiently on the other side of the cavern with her hands folded at her stomach and her tail wading the water. She watched Homura's vain attempts at moving the boulder which blocked their escaped. She tried simply pushing it for a while, then moved on to looking for something to wedge under it and use as a crowbar, but did not have much luck with that approach either. She even tried shooting a harpoon at it, which did nothing but send the tiny spear flinging right back at her.
Madoka sighed. I know we need to get out of here, but why does it feel like she is trying so hard just to get away from me?
"Uh-um… Homura?" Madoka asked, carefully.
Homura glanced back at her.
"Why don't you take a break? I am sure Mami will realize we are missing and come looking for us."
"Well…" Homura eyed the boulder for a while, then looked back over her shoulder at Madoka but quickly looked away again when they made eye contact. Just like she always does.
Madoka sighed, once again feeling really sad that Homura felt that way about her. But maybe… I can use this as a chance to at least get to the bottom of why she doesn't like me?
Madoka figured they were stuck here anyway, so she might as well try. "Um, do you want to come sit over here with me and just take a break for a little while?"
Homura cleared her throat, her eyes darting around nervously. "Well, I really should be trying to figure out how to get us out of here."
Of course she would say that, Madoka thought with another sigh.
"But… On the other hand I suppose you are right," Homura eventually said, and Madoka instantly perked up. "I suppose it would not hurt to take a break for just a few minutes, and think of another way to deal with this."
"Okay!" Madoka said, then swam over a little closer to her. Homura flinched away as she approached, but then swallowed and came over to wade the water beside her. "Um… I am really sorry about this," Madoka said, trying to break the ice. She knocked herself on the head and tried to give a good humored laugh. "I mean, I was pretty silly for getting caught in that situation. If you didn't have to come rescue me… well, we wouldn't be here right now…" Homura raised an eyebrow at her as Madoka twiddled her fingers and stammered nervously. "I-I guess… you really hate me now, don't you?"
"No! Of course not!" Homura said back instantly. "And it is not your fault that we are here… actually, I am the one who suggested hiding in a cavern, so it is more my fault. Um… for that I apologize." With that, Homura bowed her head apologetically.
"No, no!" Madoka started waving her hands with a deadpan expression on her face. "Y-you have nothing to apologize for! This is really all my fault! A-and I am grateful for you saving me! Um…" Madoka's eyes shifted down as her voice took a more uncertain tone. "Um… When you showed up to save me... well, you were so brave and you seemed really cool! I could do nothing but swim away and put your life in my hands, and I am so thankful you showed up when you did… and… and… Um, Homura?" Madoka looked back up to see Homura was all the way on the other side of the cavern, as far away from her as she could have gotten with her back turned.
Madoka couldn't see what she was doing, but Homura was huddled against the wall with her hands over her face, trying to stifle the giddy laughter she felt bubbling up inside her. Madoka just said I was cool! And besides that, the expression on her face right now is so cute! Aaaaah, I really need to get out of this cave! I can't take it!
Homura regained her composure and coughed into her hand, forcing herself into her more usual stoic demeanor. "Ah yes, well… you are welcome. I was just doing my duty as a magical-maid, you know. N-now then! Back to clearing this exit!" Homura then instantly swam back over to the boulder and started examining it from top to bottom with her back facing Madoka again.
Madoka's fists balled up at her sides. Why? she thought, why does it have to be like this!? She could clearly see Homura was just doing her best to avoid her. All she wanted was to be friends with her, and have some nice casual conversations from time to time, but whenever she tried it would always end like this. Even now, trapped together and all alone in this predicament… even now Homura was doing her best to avoid her.
She tried to stiffen her face, and keep her emotions back, but suddenly it was all becoming too much for her. All those anxieties she felt ever since meeting this mysterious, cool, beautiful girl! It was so hard, because it was not just that she wanted to be friends with her… she actually loved her, but…
I'm such an idiot… she thought, her eyes glassing up. She wants nothing to do with me! Why do I have to feel this way about her even though I know she would never return these feelings?… Why?
She tried her best but could not hold back a soft whimper from escaping her mouth. No! Don't cry! Don't cry! she told herself.
Homura heard the soft sound of her voice and looked back at her, seeing the distress plastered all over her face. "Um… M-Madoka?"
Madoka wiped her eyes with her hands and without thinking about it just blurted out what has always been on her mind: "Homura! W-why do you hate me!?" she bawled out. "I-I know to you I probably just seem like a silly girl. I-I know I'm not brave, or strong, or smart, b-but…" she shook her head, frantically trying to wipe her eyes on the backs of her arms. She knew she looked like a mess right now, but she couldn't help it! "I-I don't understand why, but all I want is to talk to you a-and be friends… but…" she sniffed. "W-what did I do to make you hate me so much!?"
Homura could barely get a word out, she was stuck just stammering like an idiot as she felt her heart sinking. "I don't! Really! I d-don't hate you!" Homura said.
Madoka couldn't stand being seen like this, and tried her best to hide her face behind her hands. She felt so stupid for just abruptly dumping out all these feelings like this. "Y-you don't have to lie!" she whimpered. "I can tell you always are trying your best to avoid me, and whenever you are forced to talk to me all you want to do is run away as quickly as you can. I-I just want to know why! W-what did I do to make you feel that way about me!?"
Stupid, stupid, STUPID! She thought to herself. Forcing Homura into a corner like this… now she thinks I'm unstable on top of everything! Now she REALLY will never want to be my friend! Why did I have to open my stupid mouth?
"I don't hate you!" Homura passionately screamed at her. "I-it's the opposite! I swear!"
Huh? Madoka's hands dropped away from her face and her eyes widened. The opposite? She blinked to clear her blurry eyes, and saw Homura with her hands tense at her sides, her own face clearly showing her own inner struggles.
"W-whenever I see you, I just feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest! M-my mouth goes dry, and I can't think straight! Then, all I can think about is that I don't want you to think less of me, but I know if I stay around all I'll do is make a fool of myself! Th-that's why…"
Homura shut her eyes tight, gritting her teeth and feeling completely horrible with herself. She made Madoka cry! She didn't mean to… she just…
"H-Homura? Is that true?" Madoka asked, swimming over towards her.
"Yes… Madoka… the truth is…" Homura opened her eyes and made real solid eye contact with her for probably the first time ever. "The truth is I love you Madoka! I just… don't know how to deal with it, so I guess I always just end up clamming up… I never meant to hurt your feelings, or make you suffer…" her eyes fell to the side. "I… I have been such a fool..."
Madoka's hand went back to her face, but this time it was to hide a giddy smile. Homura looked so incredibly cute right now! Pouring out her feelings like this - it is something Madoka never thought she would see happen! She knew she loved Homura before, but now seeing this new side of the mysterious dark girl only made that love grow even more.
Madoka grabbed Homura's hands, forcing her eyes to come back up and meet hers. Madoka had an adorable smile and bright red blush on her face. "Um… I know this might sound a little greedy but…" she grinned awkwardly, shyly sinking down into her shoulders a little. "Do you think you could say that to me one more time?"
Homura's eyes widened, thinking the way Madoka just asked for that sounded so cute. Homura's own face brightened up and she smiled and softly said, "I love you, Madoka!"
Madoka instantly started squealing, her flipper flapping in excitement as she pulled Homura in closer and wrapped her arms around her. "I love you too Homura-chan! Oh! C-can I call you Homura-chan?" she asked, nuzzling the side of her face against Homura's shoulder as she hugged her tightly and could not help shaking her around in excitement.
"Yes! Of course you can!" Homura said back, pushing her own face closer towards Madoka and returning her embrace.
They stayed like that for a while, rubbing their faces together and giggling like a couple of unashamed fools while holding tightly to one another.
"H-hey Homura-chan?" Madoka asked as they slowed down a little, holding each other at elbows distance. Madoka blushed more as she made her next request. "A-as long as I am being greedy… um… d-do you think you could give me a kiss?"
Homura instantly flinched back, still holding onto Madoka but her face filling with color and becoming even more red than it already was. Homura's reaction was so cute Madoka couldn't help herself from giggling.
"A-alright!" said Homura. The way she was trying to make herself sound confident made her seem even cuter. "Um, close your eyes."
"Okay!" Madoka cheered with another small laugh, and then closed her eyes in response to Homura's request.
She felt Homura's hand leave her shoulder and then carefully come up under her chin. Madoka's lips reflexively parted, leaving her mouth open just a crevice as she felt Homura lean closer. Her touch was so gentle, her fingers carefully placing themselves around her chin as if regarding her as a delicate flower. Madoka then felt the warmth of her breath and her heart started racing, consumed with the anticipation of what was to come.
Slowly she felt something warm and wet touch her lips, gently, as if just softly testing it first. Madoka's lips parted a little more, and she did not stick out her tongue as much as she just let it fall out naturally, and she soon felt a distinctly foreign but welcomed texture against it.
They both recoiled a little, Madoka giggling more and peaking her eyes open just enough to get a glimpse at Homura's cute shy expression. When Homura started moving forward again, Madoka closed her eyes again. This time their tongues found each other much quicker, as if that small taste had given them a craving to reconnect. Still, it progressed slowly, carefully poking at each other, Madoka squirming with that wonderful sensation from each small touch coursing through her body.
She felt Homura's had adjust against her chin, taking it more firmly as Homura leaned forward and those soft gentle pokes of her tongue turned into something more like dancing. Madoka let herself lean back, letting herself dissolve in Homura's hands as this mysterious girl who she had loved for so long brought their mouths fully together.
Oh my neptune! Madoka squealed inside her own head, feeling Homura's tongue dance around, exploring all corners of her mouth as she instinctively allowed her own tongue to follow and guide it around, sometimes poking it back to softly tease it.
Madoka let a soft moan came from the back of her throat, she felt a little embarrassed by it but after Homura's response it only excited her more. Homura's own voice came out, more of an "mmmmm" sound as if she had just tasted it, and Madoka felt herself melting deeper and deeper into the bliss of Homura's embrace.
Wow! I guess it is all or nothing with this girl! Madoka thought, somewhat humorously yet completely enthralled. She understood, Homura had been holding back her own feelings all this time as well, just as she had, and now that the floodgates had finally been let down they were each just pouring everything they had out of themselves.
Madoka's hands crept away from Homura's shoulders and found themselves at her stomach. She flattened her palms, feeling Homura's tight trim body as her fingers slowly started inching upward. Above her abs, to the bottoms of her ribs and then she felt the hard shell-bra at the very tips of her fingers.
Madoka moved her head back a little, their lips not completely separating but just far enough for Madoka to squeak out. "C-can I?"
"Yes!" Homura exhaled, and turned her head to lock her lips around Madoka's once again, forcing Madoka to arc backwards as the pinkett let another moan escape her.
Given the okay, Madoka's fingers went underneath, and she felt that extra warm, soft, flesh between her fingers. Homura let another "mmmmm" escape into Madoka's mouth as she felt her new lover squeeze her breasts. Homura then repositioned her own hands. She brought one gently around to the nape of Madoka's neck, the other drop down to her backside and returned the pressure, gripping the slick scales at the very top of Madoka's tail where it was the softest and holding her firmly.
I'm happy! Madoka thought, with her entire body giving in to the pleasure of the experience. This is so AMAZING!
IV
Mami, slowly swam around in circles, just softly moving her flipper so she could pace around while she waited. She looked up to the ripples of waves at the top of the ocean, took note of the sun's position, and grinned.
"Okay, that should be long enough for them to have settled their differences," she said to herself with a smirk. "Guess I had better go let them out now."
She took a moment to examine her work. A net of yellow ribbons held firmly to the giant moss covered boulder over the caverns entrance. She had the idea to find a way to get them together ever since Madoka confessed how she felt about Homura, but she had not expected things to work out quite this smoothly.
She had managed to defeat the siren rather easily, then once it's grief-scale was collected she had quickly gone to catch up with Madoka and Homura to tell them the good news, and make sure they were okay.
Things really could not have worked out any better for her. She had been on her way to go meet up with them when she noticed a soft light coming out of a single cavern at the bottom of a mound in the sea, she knew that it was them, and then quickly put together a plan to make her move. It was just a simple matter of using her arpione finale at the top of the mound to break some rocks away, then bringing her ribbons into play to guide (and then seal) one of the larger boulders over the cave's entrance. In just a matter of minutes she had had them trapped in the cavern together, gave herself a pat on the back, then waited around for a while to give them some alone time.
I just hope they were not too frightened, she thought as she put her hands at the top of the boulder and then dispelled her ribbons. Once the ribbons that were holding it in place were gone, it rolled quite easily. She pushed it to the side just enough to leave a portion of the cavern open, just large enough for a couple mermaids to swim through.
"Okay!" she cheered to herself, "Lets see how they are doing!"
She swam to the opening, poked her head inside and put up a hand to give them a friendly greeting, but instantly froze with her mouth dropping open at what she saw.
First, she saw two shell bras float by, and was not able to make sense of it until two soft moaning voices managed to register in her brain. Her eyes widened at the sight of Madoka's bare back, Homura's hand gripping her pink scales at a rather invasive position, and as they turned she realized they were locked together, mouth to mouth, with their eyes closed, fully lost in each other's embrace. She slammed her hands over her own mouth to stop herself from screaming, then pivoted around and exited the cavern.
She plastered her back against the side of the hill, right next to the entrance with her face instantly filling with color.
A hand raised to her own chest and felt her heartbeat. "Oh my…" She peeked around the corner one more time and watched Madoka's hands moving along Homura's pale slender body before turning away from the cavern once again.
She grinned and thought, looks like my plan may have worked just a little too well… Oh well, I suppose I can let them go a little longer.
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed it! There will be at least two more installments to this fic in the future.
This story was commissioned to me by JackStripesII.
Credit for cover image belongs to PrincessxMisery.
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