"You think you can flee from me, little child?" The goddess's eyes narrowed, moving to pursue but was halted by Bakura who lashed out with a blade that was the manifestation of his dark energy. She growled lowly as it caused the smallest of scratches to appear upon her flawless pearlescent skin. "You best have a reason to prevent me from following, dear son of mine."
His lips lifted into a snarl. "I am the one hunting that human so it shall me, not you, who will claim her heart as a trophy!"
"I must see to lose ends and I will not allow her insults to go unpunished." Her tongue darted out to moisten her lips. "It would be rude to deny your dear mother, the one who gave you life, a proper meal after she has been sleeping for so long."
The Siren King rolled his eyes. "Come now, the last meal you consumed was not even three decades ago so it doesn't even count as a power nap for someone of your stature."
"I was not aware of just how cruel my own son was," she sighed, a proud smile lifting her lips in the corners. "I truly could not hope for better."
A lump formed in his throat. Ever since he and his sibling had been young, it had always appeared that neither of them could please their mother no matter how hard they tried. For centuries they had done whatever she asked in hopes to hear those very words come from the towering ethereal being and now his wish had been fulfilled? His lips lifted in the corners, forming a smirk, as he rolled his shoulders. Hesitation caused his next words to stall within his throat but his pride had already grown several sizes and clouded his better judgement. "If that pleases you, mother, than you'll be pleased to hear that the prophecy was false."
Her hand had lashed out so fast that he had no chance to brace and grunted as her fingers threatened to break a few of his bones, flames of anger sparking within her duo colored eyes as she raised him from the water so that they were eye-to-eye. Icy clouds came from between her lips as she hissed lowly. "Are you referring to the one of the cursed twins?"
"The very same." he croaked. "It stated that the twins, born under the formation of Pisces, would be ever locked within the pursuit of balance, but it was proven false while you were asleep. The twin born with the Cor Amorim et Lucis was swallowed by the twin born with the Cor Tenebrae et Odium."
The waters grew still, like the surface of a mirror, as her breath caught. So the prophecy she had seen before the birth of her child being split in two and forming the new balance that would tilt the world itself…was wrong? "Explain."
"I will while we search for the human wench, she managed to slip away from us again." It was only when the goddess's head slowly scanned the. Shoreline that he maneuvered so that her still tight grip wasn't crushing him as much and so that he could converse without feeling the need to relieve his still wounded chest. "We were the only one's you birthed, I'm sure you can recall at least that much, did it never strike you as odd when more and more sirens or merfolk came into being without you noticing?" Her gaze followed his to where her glittering fin waved in the air behind them, her lip curling when she spotted a few clusters of scales missing. "Yes, my dearest sister, your daughter, stole them from your sleeping form and created a whole pod that scattered across the world! I hunted every single one of them down but several had already birthed families and their offspring were creating even more."
"And what of you?"
His chin rose. "I remained diligent in ensuring your location was always kept secret from them as I hunted every single scale she had stolen from you. There was one though that forced me to overexert myself. That wretched head of the royal line who sits upon the throne of Atlantis forced me to retreat." Bakura's eyes narrowed as a shadow within the mansion farther up on the shore moved. The goddess too must have seen and readily released him when he hissed lowly. She too knew the thrills of a hunt, one of the few things she relished, so this human girl was to be his prey but that didn't necessarily mean that she couldn't partake in the after feast.