The creature lunged out of the water and straight at Pitch. Pitch unable to move fast enough in the water to get away, did the only thing he could do; He punched it in the face. The creature obviously didn't expect such a simple move and let out a howl.
"My nose! What is wrong with you? You wouldn't like it if your food suddenly reached out and punch you in the face so why do you do it?" The voice was nasally and high pitched, definitely not what you would expect coming from the slimy dark green mer-man. Pitch looked incredulously at him before glancing over to make sure nothing had attacked Jack.
Jack, who had heard all the commotion from where Pitch was, was turning around to see what was happening. Pitch, in a moment of panic pushed the water spirit under the water. The spirit began to kick up a fuss and thrash around, making water spray up from every direction. Jack looked over in confusion.
"Pitch...What are you doing?" Although he had known the nightmare king well for over fifteen years, sometimes he was still surprised by the older spirits antics. Pitch flashed Jack a nervous smile.
"Oh nothing Jack, I'm just playing with the local wildlife. You know how much I just love making new friends." 'More like loathe' thought Pitch as he gritted his teeth together. He hadn't been forced to say anything as horrible as that since Christmas when he Tooth had made a fruit cake and Jack had used his puppy dog eyes to make Pitch say something nice about the flavored rock that he had to endure that dinner. Jack looked as if he was going to say something but a spray of water from further out distracted him. He looked over, only to see a rather large dorsal fin headed his way. Fast.
"Oh look a dolphin!" He exclaimed happily, he had read about them in some of North's national geographic books. However, Pitch, the one in the relationship who actually seemed to have some sense realized with startling alarm that there was no dolphin. That was a shark and it was heading right towards Jack. Pitch let go of the thrashing mer-man and used his shadows to get to Jack before the shark could, but not before the mer-man latched itself to his ankle. Pitch disregarded this for a moment as he grabbed a hold of Jack's arm and pulled them through the shadows once more.
They all landed in a heap on the beach and the sand clung to their wet skin.
"What did you do that for Pitch, I could have ridden a dolphin!" Jack shouted as he stood up, placing two stern hands on his hips. It was then that he noticed they weren't alone on the beach.
"Oh hi! Who are you?" His tone completely changed and he flew over to help the green tailed man up. Pitch felt a pang of jealously ring in his chest, this was supposed to be his and Jack's day, not his, Jack's and some random scaly man-eating monster from the ocean! Before the creature could answer Pitch did.
"He's just some random flesh eater from the water, just give me a moment and I'll have him back where he belongs." Though Pitch tried to keep his tone light he couldn't help the dark undertone that came to rest in his voice. It was the same darkness that promised that where the water spirit belonged was somewhere hot and dry and miles away from the sea and Jack. The creature curled his tail and used the end of it to keep himself standing. He allowed a smirk to cross his lips and something dangerous flashed through his eyes.
"Oh there'll be no need for that now that I see you two aren't normal humans. You see, my name is Poseidon. I am the spirit of the sea." Pitch was starting to think that Manny set things up like this on purpose.
"Well then, how about we get you back in the water?" Pitch's voice was as tight as his smile.
"You're the sea spirit? That's so cool, Pitch did you hear him? He's the sea spirit!" Jack was nearly bouncing on his feet, Pitch tried his best not to groan.
"Yes, I heard him Jack. Now how about we get you back in the water?" He asked once more. Poseidon smiled, revealing sharp teeth that were definitely not made for a vegetarian.
"Back in the water? What a great idea, how about I take you and Jack down to my underwater palace? It's so rare that I get to meet non-water spirits, how would you like to join me for lunch?" Before Pitch could decline Jack jumped forward with a 'That would be awesome!' and soon Poseidon was flopping back towards the water, the with an ice and shadow spirit following. Pitch felt something twist in his stomach and he hoped that his stomach wasn't as sentient as North's seemed, because if it was, the feeling in his stomach that something was about to go very wrong, wouldn't be all too wrong.
He curled his lip as Poseidon's webbed hands curled around both his and Jack's shoulder, the slimy fingers pushing an unwelcome cold against his grey skin. He would have told Jack that they were heading to their next destination right now and could go with the water spirit but looking at the personified snowflake he realized he wasn't going to be the one who willingly took that beautiful smile off of his future fiance's face. Pitch nodded at Poseidon and within just a few seconds they were speeding through the water at an inhuman speed, the water pressing against them heavily from all angles. Just before Pitch felt that he couldn't hold his breath any longer, (Which was odd seeing as he was an immortal being who really didn't need oxygen as much) they sprang up above the water. The couple took their time gasping for air before looking around at their surroundings. They were in a large throne room that looked to be built with see-through walls looking out into the ocean and the wildlife that swam around it.
"Now," Began Poseidon looking at them with a hungry expression,
"Which one of you shall join the lunch menu?"
AN- Oh look, another cliffhanger. Sorry I took so long in updating but hey, I did say I work by the 70 views rule and it took until this morning to get to 70 views. ( Which is surprising, seeing as the first chapter did it in a few hours) So just so this situation doesn't come up again I'll change it to 70 views or 3 reviews. Just so I'm actually sure that enough people are reading that I can actually go on to the next chapter. Oh and also, while you await the next chapter you might want to try reading 'To sleep or not to sleep' as this is kinda the sequel of that. And thanks to the two people who reviewed; NittleGrasper12 and kitchan
