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Title: Blood and Fur and Salt-Water – The Merboy Walking the Shore

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Disclaimer: All rights to the remake reserved to DreamWorks, Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos, and to the original to Toei Animation. This fanfiction on the other hand is entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.

Warnings: polyamory (m/m/m), ABO-verse, vampires, werewolves, witches, merpeople, demons, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, mating, explicit intercourse, anal, oral, knotting, m/f

Main Pairing: Shiro/Keith/Lance

Side Pairings: Hunk/Shay, Lotor/Allura, Rolo/Nyma, Sam/Colleen, Zarkon/Haggar

Voltron Characters:

Merpeople: Lance Charles McClain, Nyma, Rolo, Plaxum, Queen Luxia

Werewolves: Keith Kogane, Hunk Garett, Krolia, Kolivan, Acxa, Zethrid, Sendak, Zarkon

Vampire: Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane

Humans: Katie 'Pidge' Holt, Matthew Holt, Samuel Holt, Colleen Holt

Witches: Allura, Coran, Lotor, Haggar

Demons: Shay, Rax, Narti, Ezor

Summary: Lance is a merboy, who wants to explore the human world. Shiro is a vampire, who was held captive by the Galra pack. Keith is a werewolf and part of the Galra pack - until he frees the vampire-prisoner and runs away with him. Pidge is human and living with her best friend Hunk, who stumbled into the supernatural world by being turned into a werewolf. Now the two of them are looking for a roommate - and end up with Lance, who they assume to be a regular human and who assumes that both Pidge and Hunk are human.

Things get messy when Keith and Shiro move to their island too... being followed by members of the Galra pack sent to capture them.

Blood and Fur and Salt-Water

The Merboy Walking the Shore

Prologue: Departures

Keith was a lone wolf.

He had been a lone wolf for as long as he could remember. His mother had died when he was just a baby and his father... he'd rather not think about him, if he was being honest. When he was a teenager, his heritage manifested. Turned out one of his parents must have been a werewolf.

Turned out his mother had been a werewolf. Krolia of the Galra-pack. Keith learned that when he ran into his mother's old pack. For a brief time, Keith thought that he had found a home and a family. Someone who was just like him, who accepted him. A place to fit in.

He was wrong.

He was really, very wrong. The pack wasn't good. They were cruel and vicious people. The Alpha, the leader of the pack, was a nasty man named Zarkon. Keith felt uncomfortable for a while, but he definitely knew that he had to get away when he found out about Zarkon's favorite sport.

Werewolves and vampires had a long history of animosity between each other. But Zarkon took it to a new level. He kept a vampire prisoner, forced the vampire to fight in the arena like a gladiator. Zarkon's champion. Imprisoned against his own will.

Takashi Shirogane. A tall, broad and well-trained alpha vampire, who was being kept as a pet and a slave. For a while, Keith sneaked into the dungeons, to observe. He had never seen a vampire before, after all. He started to talk to Shiro. They became... friends.

Everything about all of this was still new to Keith. Changing into a wolf, having a pack, being an alpha – supernatural creatures apparently had a classification of being either alpha or omega, a secondary gender of sorts. It was all so overwhelming and he felt so... alone with it.

Shiro made him feel less alone, for the first time in his life. Shiro made him feel understood. And, very slowly, Keith was falling for Shiro. He couldn't allow for Shiro to be kept a prisoner.

The werewolves hated vampires. And a werewolf being in love with a vampire...? He would end up in the dungeon right next to Shiro. There was only one course of action he could take. He had to free Shiro and they both had to get away from this pack.

They knew they'd be on the run, for a very long time. They knew it was risky. But what was the alternative? Leaving Shiro in captivity, living alone in a pack that made him feel not welcomed?

"We have to move. Now", whispered Keith as he supported Shiro.

Shiro was weak, but he nodded as they sneaked out of the mansion in the deep of night.

/break\

Lance was a dreamer. He had always been a dreamer. Dreaming of the endless horizon and the vast lands. The dry sands and rich woods and curious cities. Lance's heart longed for the human world.

"I wish you wouldn't have your head in the clouds so much, Lance."

"I'm sorry, my queen", sighed Lance and ducked his head.

Queen Luxia looked at him gently. She was a good and fair leader, the Alpha of their cove of merpeople. Lance was loyal to her, he was grateful that he had gotten a job at the palace. His mom had both hands full with all of Lance's siblings, so as soon as he was old enough to move out and get a job, he did so. He found his way to the palace and got a job in the kitchen.

"There is no need for you to be sorry, Lance", argued the queen, resting a gentle hand on his shoulder. "I can't tie you to this place, Lance. You're not happy, stuck in the palace like this."

"No, no! You've been so generous-", interrupted Lance wide-eyed.

"Lance", sighed Luxia, eyes warm as she looked at him. "If there is a call in your heart, then you should follow it. It's the way of our people. We explore the sea and the depth, the land and the islands. If there a place that calls to you, then you can not deny it."

Lance bit his lips and looked down at his hands. "There... is an island. It's very pretty. I visit the shores with Plaxum and Nyma all the time. It's... a beautiful place with sun and warmth and green nature and humans and... and... I want to... see more than just the shores."

Smiling at Lance, the queen grasped Lance's face and pressed a soft kiss to his forehead. "You have my blessing to go and to... explore. But be careful, humans can't know about our existence. Stay in touch, please. It's dangerous in the human world."

"I... I won't. Thank you, Queen Luxia", nodded Lance with large, grateful eyes.

The queen smiled as she watched the young merboy swim away. Lance was a force to be reckoned with. He brought laughter and warmth to every place he went and he had a way to make people love him. But lately, the warmth and happiness he radiated had been dimming, overturned by the longing for the human world. Seeing him grow more sad and look more caged, Luxia couldn't stand to watch it. Lance had only recently presented as an omega and he was still... itching. It was normal. When the second nature truly bloomed, things changed for every guppy. They needed to grow comfortable in their own scales again and if Lance needed to travel and explore for that, then Luxia couldn't stand to hold him back. He was a good boy with a good head on his shoulders.

She just hoped that he would really be fine. He wasn't exactly naive, but he did believe in the good in people. And humans, they were different from merpeople. Not to mention all of those other creatures, supernatural beings that Lance had only ever heard about in stories and the classes about the magical world. The surface world had a lot to offer to Lance. Queen Luxia just wondered whether or not it was ready and could handle Lance...

Author's note: This is going to be a slow-burn. It's going to be a while before things between them actually develop; or before they even meet. For now, next chapter is going to establish Hunk and Pidge and have Lance meet them.

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