(A/N: I'm very sorry I could update this sooner than I have. I hope you can forgive me. This chapter was actually written with lots of help from a friend, of whom I am very thankful to have.)
Chapter 2: Falling, Drowning, in Your Arms
They wrapped into each other's embrace; their bodies were anchors to squeeze as reality blurred into a dizzying fantasy. Every lustful breath in between soft butterfly kisses and playful lip nibbling, whispers of unparalleled desire. Neither could hide their smiles nor cover their blushing as they continued to play with wandering hands caressing on the other's sides.
The wind started to pick up; an unexpected heavy gust of wind tussled Cooro and Husky and heavy clouds as black as Cooro's wings descended quickly across and over the landscape, choking off the life of day, dense as night. Cracks of deafening thunder sounded as if the mountains nearby were being ripped apart from the earth by a titan's unrelenting power. Sheets of torrential rain poured down, running in streams along the lengths of their tender bodies as weakness consumed them both.
Cooro desperately weaved through the spires of wind, narrowly dodging pillars of devastating electricity. Bolts of lightning lit up the sky like fireworks, the many tendrils of electricity ever reaching for Cooro as he wove and spun. Husky's alarmed cries were powerful, yet barely heard as his head was buried in deep sorrow in Cooro's chest.
Cooro was blasted by a sudden gust of wind, throwing him off course, and close to the roiling waters below. As he struggled to regain altitude, Husky gripped tightly to the front of his tunic with both hands, nuzzling his face into Cooro. Cooro stroked Husky's hair with the tips of his left hand, as he tenderly kissed the top of his head.
"Daijoubu." Cooro whispered.
A bolt of lightning exploded in front of him, searing his feathers and blinding him, throwing him tumbling into the waters below. With a powerful muscular surge, Cooro forcefully flapped his wings to partially cushion their fall: merely inches before violently striking the surface of the water.
Husky slipped out of Cooro's arms as Cooro continued to fall; his black wings retracted into his back. Cooro reached up with one arm towards the water surface, panicked as his breath of life escaped him in the form of air pockets that rose to the surface. He could feel his consciousness slip to darkness, but a shimmer of dazzling beauty shone through; Husky transformed from his human form into the mermaid who had snatched his heart away at first sight. His body had become more rigid as gills formed around his stomach; the scales that covered the transformed bottom half of his body shone in dazzling rainbow colors. Husky's tender hand reached out towards Cooro's. Cooro's exhausted body remained standing, suspended in the water, as Husky hurriedly swam so they were reunited at eye level. Husky's eyes drooped as Cooro's face brightened with a solemn smile. The mermaid instantly reached across and pulled him directly into another loving embrace, kissing life into Cooro's sweet, moist lips. Cooro's eyes drooped, and closed. Once reunited in love's embrace in a perpetual kiss as their lives held in the balance, Husky hoisted Cooro's right arm over his shoulders and used his strength to reach the surface of the water and swam towards the nearby shore.
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