Lovino struggled against the ropes, trying to reach the knife he had in his bag next to him. He glared at Benjamin who was lighting a fire and humming as if everything about this was casual to him.
"What the hell do you want?" Lovino said, not letting up on his glare.
Benjamin shook his head and sighed. "God, you're impatient. " He sat down next to the fire and hummed happily at the heat. "I want to ask you questions."
"Like what?" Lovino muttered. "Why should I answer any questions of a kidnapper?" He spat out at him.
Benjamin tsked at him. "Because you are suspicious and I need to protect my family from suspicious characters."
Lovino frowned deeply but didn't say anything.
Benjamin poked the fire a bit. "Now, I don't believe you're just an innocent adventurer. What are you after? Riches and treasure perhaps?" He rose and eyebrow at Lovino. His question was answered with more silence from the Mediterranean merman.
"You're from the Southern Waters, are the people finally getting mad over the war?" Benjamin asked.
"There's a war?" Lovino said, very confused.
Benjamin stood up. "How the hell do you not know about it? I have to live every day of my life on high alert because of it!" He moved closer to Lovino. "Who exactly are you?"
Lovino looked down. "I am Prince of the Roman kingdom." He muttered.
Benjamin jumped back as if he had been burned by Lovino's words. "The devil kingdom sent its own Devil son right to our doorstep? And he is a weak and pathetic… I should kill you now just to save my family from any more trouble."
Lovino looked at him with a scared look.
Benjamin shook his head. "I won't though, that would just create more problems and I just want the war to end…" He sighed deeply.
Lovino looked back down at the sand. "So what are you going to do with me?"
Benjamin shrugged. "I could always send you east. If you cooperate I'll loosen the ropes and maybe show you around."
Lovino scoffed. "You're an idiot. Why would I want to be around you and more than I have to?"
Benjamin hugged. "Well you don't have any choice so you might as well."
Lovino pouted down at the sand. "I hate you." He spat out.
Benjamin smirked. "And I hate you."
The northern merman started cooking on the fire while Lovino watched. The Mediterranean wiggled around a bit and Benjamin sighed and loosened the ropes a bit. "If you run I'll catch you." He was told.
Lovino sat and twiddled his thumbs together. Only to look up when a plate of food was pushed in front of him.
"Eat." Was all Benjamin told him.
Lovino picked up the food and started eating. He'd never had cooked food so it was weird, but he was too hungry to care.
"I guess I'll show you how to walk so I can make you go to the human town." The Germanic said.
Lovino looked up in surprise. "The human town?"
Ben nodded. "When we have legs like this there is no way for them to tell us apart from their own. We'll be safe and we can see what they're doing."
Lovino looked down at his new legs and stretched them out a bit, the he reached down and ran a hand along his toes. He thought that maybe he could get away from the other in the human town. He nodded to the other, trying to show he was cooperative.
Benjamin spent most of the day showing Lovino how to walk and Lovino was starting to pick it up quickly. He could move in a sort of waddle but he still had balance issues. He made a frustrated sound when he fell down for what felt like the millionth time.
"You'll get used to it." Be told him. "Let's just go back to the water for now. I know a cave we can sleep in until morning so the humans don't find us sleeping on the beach."
Lovino nodded. So much walking practice tired him out. He just wanted to curl up and sleep until late the next day. He groggily followed the Northern merman back into the water and watched as his tail came back very quickly. He swam to the cave and passed out from exhaustion as soon as he was in.
Authors note: So this took a bit longer than I would have liked but it's here. Thank you to those that reviewed! It definitely gave me more energy to keep working on this!
