Chapter 2: The Ocean that Always was (part 1)
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Ocean.
Ocean as far as the eye could see. No noticeable landmarks, nothing floating on the water, just... Ocean, that and a featureless block of stone stationary in the ocean for some odd reason.
A violet portal opened up in the sky above this featureless ocean and Kaila came hurtling out of it. "OH COME OOOOOOONNNNNNNNN!" She screamed as she fell from the sky and onto the block of stone with a cartoonish plop. "ooooowwww..." She squeaked in pain.
She pulled herself off the ground and groggily looked around. "What the hell?" She muttered as she saw nothing but ocean around where she standing. "Great, I'm in the middle of an ocean." She muttered but then realized something.
"Wait, that makes sense, M'arrillians love the water so it would make sense for things to be in this type of condition." Kaila theorized. "But even so, how am I supposed to get some scans if I can't even breathe down there?" She wondered.
She looked around for something, anything that could maybe help her out, but as luck would have it she found something on the other side of the stone she was on, and she could she it clearly from this range.
It was bracelet that looked comparable to a Torrent Krinth, only that it had a silver coloring, and the side of the bracelet facing her had a blue gem imbedded in it.
"Damn, curiosity is murdering the cat today." Kaila grimaced as she slowly walked up to the bracelet and reached for it. "If I pick this thing up, who knows what could happen." She muttered before doing so.
She examined every inch of it before thinking of slipping it on. "I'm really going to regret doing this." She muttered with hesitation in her voice, but she put the thing on her wrist.
Nothing notable happened at first, but then, a blue wave of energy washed over her entire body, draping her figure in light blue energy. "What the heck?" She yelled out.
She wondered what happened, as she didn't feel too different. "I'd better get a scan of this thing." She thought before getting her scanner out and scanning the bracelet. When she finished scanning it, she noticed the effects and raised an eyebrow. "Tachagil, equipped creature gains Waterproof 10, wait, can this thing let me..." She looked to the water around her and decided to do something very crazy in hindsight, until a voice spoke up from behind her.
"And who exactly might you be." Kaila rightfully jumped at the hearing of the voice and turned around slowly. To see a sight that... baffled her.
It was a creature, a woman to be precise, she had yellow scaly skin and two seemingly normal arms, and a light-green mermaid-like tail, a large light-green chest plate over her entire upper chest that wrapped around her neck and went to her back, and on her back there was a luminescent cape that glowed an ominous yellow. She had four yellow tentacles flowing from her head, frills on the sides of her head that acted as ears, light-blue lips, and a light-green visor over where her eyes should be with a eye of yellow sclera and light-blue iris in the center that made her look familiar.
Kaila stood completely still at the sight of the strange creature until it spoke again. "I'm not going to ask again, who are you?" The creature asked.
Kaila snapped out of her stupor and answered. "Um, it's nice to meet you, I'm Kaila Narukami." She said introducing yourself.
"Kaila, what an odd name, for one with an odd appearance as well, for one of our kind as well." The creature noted.
"Wait, you've never seen a human before?" Kaila asked with her eyes widened.
The creature backed up a moment before speaking up again. "Human? Is that what you are?" The creature asked again.
"Yes." Kaila answered, before realizing that things are different here then they are in Perim. "I'm guessing you've never seen humans before?" Kaila guessed.
The creature put a hand on her chin before answering. "No creature I know of has ever even heard of the existence of humans." The creature asked.
"That's certainly interesting." Kaila responded, then noticed something. "Oh I've never got your name, by the way."
"Oh how rude of me, allow me to introduce myself." The creature held her hands to her side and bowed as she said her name.
"My name in Milla'iin, a chieftain of the M'arrillians and a good friend of the M'arrillian leader, Aa'une."
Kaila's jaw hit the stone she was standing on as she was desperately trying to come to terms with the info she received. "Mi- Milla- MILLA'IIN!?" She shrieked.
Milla'iin tilted her head in confusion. "Is there a problem with me being named that?" She asked.
"But you- you're a-" Kaila stopped stuttering when she remembered. "Right, alternate dimension." Kaila reminded herself.
"Alternate dimension?" Milla'iin repeated.
Kaila stopped dead when she realized that she might have screwed up. "Oh right, I didn't tell you." She said rubbing her temples.
The eye in Milla'iin's visor shrunk, as if it was zooming in on her. "I think it might be best if you come with me to see Aa'une." Milla'iin told her.
Kaila was close to fainting the moment she heard that. "Aa'une, the M'arrillian leader?" Kaila managed to say. "She's not going to br- br- brainwash me, is she?" Kaila nervously asked.
Milla'iin was confused by the question. "Why and how exactly would she would she do that?"
Kaila practically gave up on all reason and decided on the best course of action and sighed. "I think I ought to explain the story to Aa'une, if it would be alright with you." Kaila suggested.
"Yes, that would be the best course of action." Milla'iin floated to the edge of the stone and turned back to Kaila. "Follow me." The M'arrillian ordered as she jumped in the water.
Kaila ran to the edge and looked down, seeing the ocean water. "Well, I've got to test this theory somehow." She muttered looking at the Tachagil, she backed up a bit and than ran to the edge.
"CANNONBALL!" She shouted.
She plunged into the ocean and began to sink slowly as she tried to take in a gulp of air, and it worked, she opened her eyes and saw that her clothing barely got wet too. "So I was right, this thing can let the one who wields it breathe underwater, and my I don't think my clothing is getting wet either." She noted.
"If you're done examining your personage." The voice of Milla'iin said from behind her. "Let's go." Kaila saw Milla'iin float by her and went down, when she looked down though, she found a breath-taking sight.
A little ways away from her was a large city in a dome, giving it the appearance of a fish bowl; the buildings were constructed with rock and different forms of coral springing out from the rock. Trees made of coral, what looked like children running around having fun, while bigger creatures were communing with each other and a giant castle made up of rocks, boulders, and coral overseeing it all. Kaila turned and saw that the stone she standing on before was actually an enormous monument of sorts springing out of a mound of rock at the ocean floor.
"Whoa..." Kaila said amazed by the sights around her.
"HELLOOOOO!" Milla'iin called out to her. "Come on, we've gotta get to the dome before nightfall." Milla'iin told her.
"Why's that important?" Kaila asked.
"It's dangerous to be in these waters during the nighttime." Milla'iin told her. "You never know what could be out here." She explained looking around, while swimming on ahead, and Kaila hurried after her.
Once they arrived at the dome, Kaila noticed a group of feminine humanoid crustaceous creatures with teal hides, four crab-like legs, and a single blaster-like claw on their right arm guarding the way in that it looked almost alive in a sense. "M'arrillian Khr'all fighters?" Kaila wondered and grimaced.
"Calm down and let me do the talking." Milla'iin told her.
The Khr'all fighters noticed Kaila and Milla'iin and got on guard. "Halt." They ordered, making Kaila and Milla'iin stop in their tracks. "In the glorious name of Aa'une the Oligarch, state your identity and purpose for being here." They ordered pointing their cannon-like protrusions on their arms at them.
This got Kaila to be nervous while Milla'iin wasn't fazed by the threat at all. "I am Milla'iin, M'arrilllian identification no. 1390297. Former title: fourth chieftain over the M'arrillian dome no. 22, Dome Gammalon. Current title: third chieftain over the M'arrillian dome no. 0, Dome Primusala." Milla'iin said with a hand over her where a human heart would be.
The guards looked at each other before asking a question. "And how many solons is it?"
"Four thousand forty." Milla'iin answered.
"And the one following you?" They asked again.
"This one claims to be a being from another world, I've brought her to this dome with the intent of having her psychological dexterity determined by Aa'une herself." Milla'iin explained.
Kaila knew this was false, but kept her mouth shut, while the Khr'all fighters looked at each other again and nodded while lowering their arms. "Very well, you and your acquaintance may enter." They said moving to the side a bit, making the gate to the inside of the dome.
"Good, follow me." Milla'iin ordered Kaila.
"Ri- Right." Kaila said following her, leaving the two guards alone.
"She look like any M'arrillian you've seen up till now?"
"Nope, not in my entire existence."
(Inside the dome...)
Kaila and Milla'iin walked into the dome and Kaila noticed that there was a barrier of sorts up ahead. "Um, Milla'iin, what's that up ahead?" Kaila asked nervously.
"Don't worry, it just what we use to keep the water out of the dome." Milla'iin informed her.
This made Kaila do a double take. "Wait, why would they want to keep water out of the dome, don't M'arrillians thrive on water?" She thought she thought as she kept walking.
She finally reached the barrier separating air from water and walked through it, it almost felt like stepping out of water in a sense. She saw the city the dome was in and was amazed again. "Wow, the view from up high has got nothing on this." Kaila remarked.
"Tell me about it, it amazes me so much how far we've come in matters of biotechnology." Milla'iin said.
Kaila was wondering what that meant. "Wait a sec, what do you mean 'mastered biotechnology'?" Kaila asked.
"We mostly have it all figured out." Milla'iin awkwardly said.
After they walked for a little bit, Kaila noticed something that surprised her. "Are those..."
There was a building with a see through window on the front of it, through the window Kaila could see teal eggshells containing fish-like beings inside of a small pool of water.
"Ah, the M'arrillian egg incubation chamber of this sector." Milla'iin said, making look her.
"Incubation chamber?" Kaila repeated.
"Of course, all M'arrillian eggs are required to go to an incubation chamber some time after they're laid." Milla'iin told her.
Kaila looked at the eggs before one of the beings inside began to open its eyes, and look at Kaila, the two locked eyes for a moment before Milla'iin smiled.
"Looks like one of them is just about ready to hatch, but we need to get moving to castle." Milla'iin started moving on ahead.
"Right." Kaila said as she waved goodbye to the technically yet to be born creature.
(At the dome's castle...)
The two of them finally reached the castle, and Milla'iin explained the situation to the Khr'all fighters stationed by the front door. "All right then, you both may pass." The guards said.
Milla'iin was about to pass them before the guards spoke up again. "By the way, we've got a message from Kriz'ula." Hearing this made Milla'iin noticeably sigh.
"Let me guess, 'see you tonight, my eternal love', am I right?" Milla'iin guessed dramatically, making Kaila gasp.
"Yep, pretty much." The guards responded.
Milla'iin sighed. "Come on, let's get this over with quickly." The M'arrillian told Kaila.
As they were walking Kaila asked the question floating around her head at the moment. "Sooooo... who's Kriz'ula?" She asked bluntly.
"I was hoping you'd not asked that question." Milla'iin grimaced. "Kriz'ula is... my step-sister." This got Kaila to stop walking. "And she's got a gigantic crush on me." This sent Kaila Careening over the moon.
"WHAT!" Kaila shrieked.
"I know, right." Milla'iin sweatdropped.
"But- I- uh- HOW!?" Kaila stuttered out.
"I wouldn't bother askin-" a creature jumping at her cut off Milla'iin.
"MILLY! Oh how I missed you!" The creature said as Kaila got a good look at the figure that jumped Milla'iin.
It was another female creature, with red skin-like scales adorning her body, blue eyes and lips, and frills on the sides of her head. She had a golden ring-like metallic chest guard covering her breasts, and was held together by a string of golden metallic beads wrapping around her back, and a golden metallic band wrapping around her waist with a yellow loincloth. Her appendages consisted of two tentacles acting as legs and two arms that looked like they were made up of three muscular tentacles held together by golden bands on the wrist parts.
"When your scouting of the water surface took longer than you said, I thought something terrible happened to you." The creature told her.
"UHG, Kriz'ula I told you not to call me that when we're surrounded by other beings." Milla'iin said blushing.
Kaila saw that and was shocked. "A M'arrillian blushing, never thought I'd live to see the day." Kaila thought blushing herself.
The creature, named Kriz'ula noticed her and zoomed up to her face, she was examining Kaila closely before speaking up. "Milly, are you cheating on me with this whore?" She asked in half-sadness.
This got Kaila noticeably steamed. "THE HELL DID YOU JUST CALL ME!" Kaila shouted, so loud, it got the attention of everyone in the castle, including a certain someone.
"What in the name of the Chothica was that?" That someone asked.
"You heard me, you're trying to take my destined one away from me." Kriz'ula cried hugging Milla'iin.
"All I'm doing is taking her to Aa'une." She protested.
Kriz'ula gasped. "To have her personally imprisoned, you love me that much." She said before she puckered up and tried to give her a kiss on the cheek.
"Kriz'ula, get off." Milla'iin pleaded.
"Hey, I'm not done with you yet, you big jerk." Kaila shouted, roping the two M'arrillians in a comedic dust cloud fight.
"Hey, that's my ear."
"That my tail!"
"BE STIIL AT ONCE!" A commanding voice ordered, making the fight stop, and cause all three t look up at the one who owned it.
"AHHH! We're sorry for our impudence, your majesty." They both said bowing in hopes for forgiveness.
The figure would have facepalmed had she not seen Kaila. "Odd, who might you be?" She asked.
"She's a human, who claims to be from another world, your majesty, I brought her here to tell you the whole story." Milla'iin informed her.
Murmurs were echoing across the hallways, signaling that other creatures were present and hearing in on their conversation, the figure looked at Kaila and asked a question. "What's your name?"
"My name is Kaila Narukami, your majesty." She said inhesitantly.
The figure backed up and chuckled. "Very well, then permit me to give you my name, I can see the confusion in your eyes." Her backing up gave Kaila and opportunity to get a good look at her.
She was obviously a female creature; but she was covered from top to bottom in azure scales, she wore a giant golden chest plate over her upper body that covered her breasts and shoulders, plastered with eight eyes, four on each side, and a golden belt with a triad of spikes running over her crotch. For limbs, she had four arms with five fingers that were made up of smaller tentacles, and were held together by golden bracelets, and eight tentacles acting as legs below her torso. Her head had five tentacles acting as hair, with one having a fish-like tail, red eyes, and yellow skin underneath her scales that acted like a mask.
"I'm Aa'une, the oligarch of this ocean and queen of all M'arrillians." Aa'une introduced herself.
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Just to let you lot know, I've wanted to do a Chaotic fanfic for the longest time, and I'm hoping that this does good despite there not being any action as of late, but don't worry, that drome match will be coming up in two (three at most) chapters. I hope you like this chapter and the premise behind this fanfic and I'll see you lot next time, when the alternate M'arrillians learn about Chaotic and the knowledge our standard issue heroine has to offer.