Tails of Love
Chapter One: New Discovery
I have been outcasted for my whole life because of this damn tail. I didn't ask for it. Why must I be hated for it? If
they don't like me why do they tolerate me? Why are they afraid of me?
Azikiel asked himself as he ran a knife down his veins putting little pressure to it. He hated himself but yet he couldn't
end his own life. Something in him told him to hold on for a bit longer. So for now, he just cutted deeply enough to draw blood
and attract his prey. It was his day to hunt for the family that hated him so, but asked for his life to be spared.
He rose his head, his black hair floating just seconds behind him. The water didn't even add a hint of color to it. It was
as black as his tail and eyes. His arms flexed as he gripped his fifteen foot spear as the great hammerhead swam his way
towards him. Azikiel scanned around him and noticed that there was more than the hammerhead. It seemed that blue sharks
had followed the taste and smell of his blood as well.
He was going to have to watch them very carefully. They were faster than the hammerhead, but not as tasty as it. He
wondered if he could out swim them with his prey.
Why can't I have any luck? Everything in my life doesn't go right!
He swung his arm forcefully, cutting through the water. He released the spear that entered right between the
hammerhead's eyes where he couldn't see the spear coming.
The spear went through and through at an angle where it speared a blue shark that had been swimming around the
hammerhead.
Dammit! I might lose him now. Too much to try to drag through the waters.
Azikiel flicked his tail getting momentum to shot past the blue sharks that were already swimming towards the killed
sharks. Swimming as quick as he could, he grabbed the spear's tip just below the wrapped knife that was fastened to it. He
flicked his tail harder and was rewarded with more speed allowing him to drag the sharks.
The blue sharks snapped at his prey and his fins as well trying to get a meal. One shark was even bold enough to go
for his head, but Azikiel simply fisted the beast on the side of it's head knocking it motionless. Not even that swayed the
others to get off his tail instead that drove them to increase their speed.
Azikiel spotted a hole where he may hide. The blue sharks were catching up and nipping pieces of his caudal fin
which was adding more blood to the water. Azikiel forced the spear and it's captives to go before him in the cave-like hole.
Then himself went in. He couldn't loose his prey. His family and him were very hungry and living outside the Sapphire
Kinkdom. His family was on their own because of him. He owed them his life and he was willing to give it up so that they
could have some food.
The blue sharks circled the entrance of the cave before one by one they went for the attack.
YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY CATCH! NOT NOW. NOT EVER!
His eyes were wide open with anger. He pushed his hands out in front of him expecting to take the bites of the
sharks, but instead a huge piece of the top of the cave broke off and shot towards the sharks. Killing the ones that were first
on the attack and injuring the others. All fell to the bottom of the sea floor where Azikiel was sure that they would be the feast
tonight for the bottom dwellers.
What happened? Is this why I'm feared?
His hands were trembling on their own accord. He placed them over his face trying to relax himself.
Have I figured out why I'm here? This power can be helpful.
Black eyes stared out from between his fingers.
He threw in his catch to his parents who were looking very skinny. They hadn't ate in a week and it was showing.
They had to swim very slowly to conserve the last of their energy. Their son, on the other hand, seemed to have energy no
matter what.
His parents stared at it greedily as their nails became claws and their seemingly herbivore teeth changed into a
carnivores set. It was his father that took the great hammerhead as his mother tore into the flesh of the blue shark.
As his reward, he only took what he would need to last until the next time he hunted for his parents. His nails weren't
black like every other feature of him, but they were dark blue. It was when they grew, the new part of his nail was black. It was
those nails that reached in between his mother and father to take a handful of the hammerhead's flesh. When he got that he
retreated telling his parents not to bother him, but he doubted that they would anyway.
Azikiel headed for his head waters. No one dared to enter the deep dark waters. It was here that he felt the most
welcomed and the most hidden. He gulped the last of the meat and wondered how he was going to use this new power of his.
His stared down into the darker waters below him, the water where no light reached it. The only light that was visible
was from the fish that created colorful rays to get the attention of their prey. He focused on a red squid that was decending
even further down into the dark waters. He raised his hand and fisted it.
Instantly the squid exploded into tiny bits of it's flesh that floated to the sea's floor.
" What was that?!"
Azikiel heard a female's voice from above him. Looking up he saw the silver-blue tail of a mermaid. He had never
known any merperson to swim outside of the kingdom.