Talk "Human", "Mermaid"

"Thought"


Chapter 9 - Return to the sea

In the early morning the four girls Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang had met up at the dock together and had taking a boat, which they stole away in the in the early morning (hello, Pirate!).

Paddling their way into mermaid waters, Blake heart thundering against her chest, while Ruby dipped her fingertips into the water and drew circles and drawing hearts in the water.

"Ready you girls ready to sing the song" Weiss said catching the rest attention

"Yeah!" Yang shout

"Alright let do this together" Ruby then follow on to Yang

"On the floating, shapeless oceans

their singing eyes

drew me loving into your eyes.

the song that forces men

to leap overboard in squadrons

even though they see the beached skulls

the song nobody knows

I'm grow weaker every seconds,

As I drowning, and you're stealing every breath

Take me away and

Hear the sirens call

Covering distance in the night.

The sound echoing closer —"

The girls stopped singing at the action of the boat rocking, turning their head around the open water they eye landed a the end of the boat were a merman that stared at them. With his skin sun kissed and burgundy scales there was one thing that came on the entire girls mind

"This is not the merman I was expecting to see"

"You're not the merman we were expecting," Weiss spoke first

Another mermaid emerged from the water as he propped himself up on to boat, tilting his head question he ask,

"Who're you looking for?"

"I looking for Roman" Ruby said first

"Neptune" Weiss said next

"Adam," Blake followed

"Mercury" Yang finished

Blake and the other didn't taking they eyes off the mermaids. The female broke eye contact taking a look at Blake and Weiss necklace around their throat and Ruby and Yang bracelet around their arm.

"Ahh you must be Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang right?" the mermaid voiced

Blake was torn her gaze away from blond one and looking at her and looking at the female with nodded. Mermen have attempted to grab her hand, which is when the girls all pull out their weapon in defence. He shouted at the shock of all four girls pointing their weapon at him. Blake pulled the safety off from her pistol, the nozzle of the gun pressing against his forehead.

"Don't make me pull the trigger," she warned nudging it against his scaled forehead Yang ask,

"So where's are they?"

The mermaid remained in the spot where she had surfaced, "They out in a scouting party that was sent out to check the northern broader, they should be due to arrive any day now."

The girls couldn't just leave and return later. So they huddle together to discuss what to do next.

"So what now?" whisper Ruby

"We could wait for them, but the problem is where?" Weiss answered

"Well that depend on if we spit up or we stay together in one place." Blake said

"I think we should stick together but where_," Yang said before turning to the two mermaids and saying,

"Hey guys do you know which is closer from here Mercury cave, Neptune spring, Roman waterfall or Adam cove!"

"I believe the cove is closer that the other three." replied the mermaid

"Can you take us there?" Blake ask

He shrugged and said, "You wouldn't make it," he taking hold of the boat again.

Blake rolled her eyes "why were men so difficult?!"She was about to say something when Weiss beat her to the punch by saying,

"Well if you bestowed some of that magic kiss of yours we would,"

Each of the girls has just about had it with this guy already as they had a base camp to set up soon. There was only a limited amount of sunlight to do it in and with sunset not far behind.

"Now let's get to that kiss so that it won't be dark and you don't get lost, That way we can start setting up camp." Yang said while raised a brow at the merman her

As the girls put their weapon away the blond mermen glanced back at the mermaid. Now laughing as if this whole thing was a source of amusement for her. She was able to wheeze out between her assemblages of laughter.

"You heard the girls, get to the kissing,"

The merman grumbled weaving a clawed hand through Blake hair first before pulling her into the water. Kissing this fish-boy and Adam was so very different. For one thing he lacked the timing between the moment she makes contact with the water and the moment lips met. Thank to that she had gotten a mouth full of water in the exchange before the pressure swept down her throat and into her lungs and belly.

"You are a horrible kisser," Blake told him once the goal was complete and everyone was in the water. At this comment the girls nodded in agreement while the mermaid quickly fell into another wave of hysterics.

"Shut up, as if Red or the rest are any better!" the blond flustered dragging her along as they took off towards the cove.

"He is. I've never inhaled water with him like I did you" said Weiss

"You should really work on that." Follow Yang

The girls were frustrated at blonde fish-boy for being a jerk earlier, which is why they all start to gang up on him. But considering who they were they should really of be a little... more concerned with what they say. But then again they are pirates and pirates weren't known for holding back.

...

"So, who was stupid enough to sing the Siren song?" Emerald said

Brushing her hair back before dipping her hand back into the salve and running it through her hair again. Neo reached over, dipping the tip of her middle claw and bopping on her nose. She grimaced, rubbing the goo from the face and glowered at her.

"Red, Mercury, Neptune and Roman mates," Velvet replied. The words hung over their heads for a moment before the group of Mer's jolted and one of them kicked off the coral they were seated on.

"Their mates are here!" Coco exclaimed cupping Velvet's face and stared in her eyes.

"What are they like?" ask Cinder

"Sassy," Sun replied rubbing at his head.

"They chewed out Sun good," Velvet said as he pouted causing the group to begin laughing.

...

The fire was flicking behind her as she waded into the surf, the sand squishing between her toes. Sinking into the water and ducking her head under before she surfaced again. She sighed felting good to be back here. Her own little paradise she share the Adam.

The sun had just set when they made it to the cove with the fog was rising from the water. The girls had quickly set up camp with Ruby and Weiss going in to the forest to find some food and Yang near by collecting more wood for the fire.

She skimmed the surface of the water with her palms and stared at the gem hanging from her neck. The light was flickering more than normal—glowing brighter. Clenching her eyes closed at the intensity, but when she opened her eyes again the flicker was back to normal, if not slightly dimmer then before.

...

"What in hell gates were those things?" Mercury hissed

Pulling out a tooth from his arm and stabbing it into his attacker head in a 'you can have your tooth back fashion'. The only ones not sporting injures were Adam as his hide was tough and he was familiar with these types of monsters so his lack of injuries was to be expected.

"Viperfish, a common fish up in Dark North waters. Nasty tempers," Adam explained before continuing to say,

"Their hides are tough and it makes it difficult to combat against,"

Which the group had become well aware of this fact after the scrims. The only Mer that seemed to have no problem cutting through the monster of the deep was a side from Adam was Fox.

Who had destroyed some of the fish that were floating around them, with initial wound to the chest cavity, which became a gaping hole once the merman began pulling scales, flesh, bones and organs from the thing. Pieces of it were floating around him in a cloud of red.

Although he had injured himself sometime during the first moment of attack and tearing the Viperfish apart from the inside out. But no one questioned the injury, not after the orange-scaled tiger shark had snapped at Saga.

"It's nothing but a small flesh wound beside we're only a few days out from home. I'll live," was what he said before swimming away.

The party had agreed to eat the kill, wouldn't make for great carrying but the meat will not be wasted. It was a wreck of the fight between Saga and Fox had merfolk concerned growing. It wasn't common for friends to actually argue but this fight was different as Fox was showing outright hostility and that was what starting to worry Adam.

He needed to separate Fox from the group as soon as possible, get him back to Velvet and Coco, anywhere that didn't have Sage sending him concerned looks. And now he was injured and refusing medical attention and if Sage wasn't going to push Fox for it, then no one else could.

The party set out toward the sun as it was dipping into the horizon, their catch towed behind them as they swam onwards.

...

Blake and the girls had met up with a group of merfolk during their second stay in Adam's little cove. They come to the shore dragging the girls back to the city that they call their own. It was beautiful there were mineral that decorated the buildings. And the scales the colours and styles of them were just lovely, and there was even a mermaid with purple scales!

Coco had said that Glydna was one of the testy elders. Coco being former human had taken the girls under her... umm fin. Taking it upon her self to show girls around the world of the sea to the best of her abilities.

"I was a pirate once," she explained in English

At this moment girls were sitting in the swallows with Coco, Emerald and Neo as the mermaid explained how she and Velvet had turned into a mermaid.

"I don't understand why she couldn't grasp this concept, you guys understand though right? You get your hands on a nice booty and you just have to chase after it!" Coco said as the girls laughed at story.

"And then that girl went and seduced a merman. How does someone even do that? I mean one day we were stuck on that island, she got frustrated and went for a walk and then BAM! Next thing I know I'm following after her one day and she has her tongue halfway down a merman's throat!"

The water slashes around as everyone was laughing with Emerald and Yang laughing the hard.

"I staring at both of them and I said, 'if this she joins your fishy ass in the sea you better make room for me too. I've been protecting this booty for years now and I'm not through yet!' it was a good thing the Yatsuhashi being used to it because of his friend Fox cause that point he smiles that sharp-toothed grin and says, 'then what are we waiting for?'"

During the week that Blake and the girls had been in the little cove for, she had learned quite a bit—about Adam, about Merfolk culture, and about the changes between human and Merfolk culture.

"I want to try something," Coco voiced sometime later leaning into Blake's personal space

"Sure," Blake replies without hesitation.

Coco's eyes narrowed with concentration as she cups Blake's face in her clawed hands, knowing already what comes next she closed her eyes. The tug of water with her press of lips against hers was met without any qualms. It was everything after that forced Blake to return to the surface spluttering and coughing up water.

"Oh shit I fucked up, sorry," Coco apologised as soon as she surfaced.

"Never tried to before and I thought... well, it looks and sounds so easy to do!" she exclaimed

Blake waved her comment off "Maybe it was a born merfolk thing?" Neptune and Sun didn't have any problems with delivering the mermaid's kiss.

"You're still a better kisser than Sun," Blake joked with a grimace, her throat tender from the sudden intake of water.

"Oh why thank you I try," Coco grinned

Pushing away from the human woman and swimming out into deeper waters. Velvet and Sun breached the water's surface, their fins flared.

"They're back," Sun's voice rang out loud and clear.

Coco turned to Blake and held her hand out for the woman to take. Adam was back she'd finally see him again. She couldn't fight the grin from pulling at her lips as it threatened to split her face in two.