Disclaimer: "Kim Possible" and all characters related to the series belong to The Walt Disney Company. Kim Possible was created by Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. Part of Your World(story) belongs to Berserkeroo. All rights reserved
A sea foam green she-shark swam about her room in a daze humming an enchanting tune with a smile plastered on her pace, she barely paid the shadows by the entrance of her door any attention. Her patience wore thin with the weak attempt of espionage in her doorway; a sigh escaped the young shark. Her relatives really knew how to ruin her mood. She swam behind the door to her room and swung it open, which surprised the six mersharks peering through the crack of the door. "What?" she asked, a scowl etched on her face.
The mermen shied away from the young female with their hands behind their backs, some looking in random directions as if they were just lounging in front of the entrance for no particular reason.
"Ugh, what are you bulls or pups?" the one female amongst the males gruffed, she cleared her throat to address her niece who simply eyes the odd behaviors of her family. "You're electrical chemistry has been... different these past few days. So tell your auntie Laura the truth." the mako shark asked, her voice saying it as if it were a request, but the younger knew it was a demand.
"What truth?" Shego asked, bemusement clear on her face, she honestly had no clue what her aunt wanted from her.
"See, I told ya sis was happy 'cause she's full for once. Swear she's a glutton." Wego #2 said, rolling his crimson eyes.
"No way, I said that!" Wego # 1 argued, bumping chests against his twin.
Laura rolled her eyes at her youngest nephews; sometimes she wondered how they managed to stay in one womb together without eating the other like normal sharks. Her eyes shifted back to her confused niece. "Honey, we're just curious if you're crushing on someone or if you're in love." she sighed, eyes fluttering.
Shego's eyes bulged out, she was an excellent liar, but excluding her late mother, her aunt scared her when she was caught in a lie. "How am I going to explain this?" she thought, biting her lower lip. "I, erm, no way. Me, the lava slinging mafia mershark, Shego. In love," she laughed nervously.
The slim mako shark knew that the younger mermaid was a terrible liar, at least she was a terrible liar when it came to women she respected. A fanged grin graced her face. "Oh, I knew it! Aw, so cute. Who's the lucky mershark?" she practically squeaked, embracing her niece.
Shego gulped, her earfins pressed low to her skull. A nervous fanged grin appeared on her face. "Who needs detail on such a trivial matter? Boring." she said, the latter a bit singsong clearly she was trying to drop the issue all together.
The electroreception in all the sharks could easily pick up on the increase in Shego's heartbeat. "Shego, we're family. You can tell us." Laura said, placing her clawed hand over her niece's for reassurance.
The young female looked down then back to her family, she muttered something that even their keen shark hearing could pick up on.
"Could you repeat that?" Hego asked, flexing his earfins to see if they worked properly.
"She's not a mershark," Shego muttered a little louder.
"Not a mershark!" the shiver repeated.
The brunette flinched at their response. "Surprise..." she said with a sheepish grin.
"T-, th-, then what is she?" Triburón stammered – he didn't know how to feel at the moment.
"A mermaid-lionfish." the mermaid replied, fiddling with her clawed fingers.
The mafia leader's jaw opened and closed with no words.
"Now dear, before you go and sink a ship let's remain calm. Maybe her instincts are confusing love and hunger?" Laura rationalized.
"Yeah, or maybe she's pulling a huge prank and laughing on the inside." Mego scoffed, his eyes shifted to his fuming uncle. The image made the amethyst merman wanted to flee the scene.
"It's not a joke. I'm dead serious." Shego snarled, slightly offended that her family was insulting her taste in a mate.
"Yeah right. I agree with Mego on this one this one." Wego # 1 said.
"Do you need you earfins checked? I said I'm not lying," the great white snapped at her younger brother.
"Prove it." Wego # 2 challenged.
Her inner shark came to the forefront, a sinister grin on her face. She refused to back down to a challenge. "Fine..." she said, her eyes drifted to dark sea out of her window, it was nighttime meaning Kim would be asleep by now. "... tomorrow. She's probably asleep by now." the she-shark said, a since of affection cast at the outlines of the reefs that held her Angelfish captive.
The large bull growled as he ferociously swam away, his mate hot on his tail in an attempt to comfort the agitated male.
Malachite orbs switched to ruby, sapphire, and amethyst orbs. "Speaking of sleep, I'm getting some. Nighty." she said, pushing her bewildered brothers out of her lair. Shego went to her seabed to meditate. "What do I do when or if I can get her here?" the huntress thought, turning to her side. Her eyes fluttered then snapped open, she like many other shark sleep with their eyes open.
The next day, the young mafia princess lays in wait in the shadows of the school for her mate to come out. Time slowly ticked away until all the students went to their homes. "Where is she? Oh sea snakes, what if someone nabbed her?" she thought with worry filling her slitted eyes. The mermaid swam through the school walls until she passed the gym. The sound of a familiar voice stopped her search. The mermaid-eater peered into the gym to find that her Angelfish was cheerleading.
"Go Stingrays! Go, go stingrays! Go Stingrays! Go, go stingrays!" Kim chanted with her fellow cheerleaders.
Shego swam to the open bleachers to observed the routine, her eyes specifically on her mermaid-lionfish. A different sense of hunger filled her eyes.
As the cheerleaders formed a straight line, Crystal noticed a shadow in her peripheral. She turned her head and let out a scream. "She's back! The mershark will kill us all!" the merbarb squeaked, frenetically backing away into the other cheerleaders, toppling them over.
The other squad members screamed and hid behind Kim.
Kim looked at her panicked squad members and let out a sigh. "She's not going to eat you," she groaned, scolding eyes shifted to her chuckling mate.
Shego swam down to Kim – the cheer squad instantly backing away in fear of being with in eating range. The young predator circled the redhead as if she were prey before she lunged at the girl.
The cheer squad screamed and either closed there eyes or looked away.
"This is why you can't trust a mershark!" Marcella cried, turning to look at the gruesome sight. "Huh?" she replied, the squad looked at the confusing scene.
The she-shark hugged the smaller mermaid in a loving embrace; she wanted to be gentle with something she could easily break in her grasp. "Hey Kimmie. Miss me," she asked, giving a small nip on Kim's cheek.
Kim giggled at the soft racking against her cheek. "Stop, that tickles." she laughed, though she made no attempt to pull away.
"I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it. I'm here and I still don't believe it." Tara gaped, her eyes on the strange predator-prey love scene before her.
Shego's eyes slit like needles as they lazed over to Tara. "Got a problem with it?" the shark woman snarled in a voice as cold as the arctic waters.
"Me? No, never." the blond cheerleader said, clinging to Bonnie.
Kim pulled on Shego's earfin. "Will you quit it," she scolded.
"Ow, come on! I can actually feel that." the mershark whined, trying to pull away, but the redhead had a stern grip. "Okay, okay." she promised, her girlfriend now letting go of her earfin. The huntress shook her head. "Oh, I remember why I came up here." she said, smacking her fist in her open palm.
"Aw, and here I thought I could feel special that you just wanted to say hi." the younger said in false disappointment.
Shego rolled her eyes. "Well, you're coming with me doy. We need to see your folks so I can take you to the Coves. My folks want to meet you," the mafia princess said, pulling Kim into a bridal style hold and swam for the door.
"But I have cheer practice." the lionfish said, a blush creeping on her face.
Shego looked back at the squad. "Do you mind?" she asked with a smile filled with rows of deadly sharp teeth.
The squad shook their heads as they watched the mershark carry their cheer captain away.
The mafia shark stopped as she pushed the door open. "And if I hear that Kim is having a hard time at school because someone couldn't keep their mouth shut I'll hunt them down and eat them slowly." the mermaid laughed, taking her leave.
Liz looked at her fellow cheerleaders. "Did we see anything?"
"Nope." Hope said.
"Nu-huh." Crystal said.
"I'm not even here." Joy said.
"Good. Now let's just, get back to it girls." Bonnie said as she clapped her hands.
Shego placed Kim down so that the young mer could fish out her keys.
"Kimmie you're home ear-. Oh," Anne said, a smile going towards the happy pair.
"Shego said she wants to take me down to the Coves. Can I go?" Kim asked.
"Th-, the Coves! Kim you know there are sharks and mersharks down there. You could get killed!" James said sternly, his eyes shifting from his newspaper.
"I'll be with her. What's worse than ticking off the mershark mafia family? Those punks won't mess with me or anyone that looks like they're in my company. I'm a breed of mershark that will eat another mershark in a heartbeat just for kicks. They try to look at her hungrily and they'll have no eyes," she growled, gritting fangs. The very thought of some unfortunate idiot trying to touch or harm her Kim sent her to a primal rage, her eyes started to roll to the back of her skull, the urge of wanting to lash out at something, anything rising to the surface.
"Easy, easy. We're not saying she's not safe with you, but that it's somewhere you shouldn't make a habit of taking her. We don't want her getting hurt, but..." Anne said, looking to the floor.
"Wait, are you saying I can go?" the younger lionfish gaped.
James clasped his hands together to form a "V". "Have her back no later than ten or I'll have you chained to a torpedo straight for land," he warned.
"Will do Mr. Possible." Shego said, shaking her previous thought out of her head. She took Kim by the hand and swam for the Coves.
"I'm proud of you James." Anne said as she watched the outlines of the pair from the window.
James folded his arm, a pout clear on his mug. "Only this one time for my Kimmie-pup." the merman sighed.
Kim swam close to Shego as they entered the heart of the cavernous seabed. A shiver of tween mersharks brushed by her arm, which made her practically cling to her mate's waist. "That could have been my arm!" she mentally shrieked, her eyes doing a thorough examination for damage.
Shego grinned. "That was lucky. Got to find a way to pay those kids." she though, tightening her grip on her nervous girlfriend. "Relax, there just some kids," the carnivore said, pressing her nose into Kim's red hair.
"Sorry. Never really been outside the Reefs before. The Coves are quite lovely though." Kim said, looking around in fascination.
"Heh, then we'll have to change that," she said as she kissed Kim on her crown.
Kim smiled at the idea.
They continued their swim until they reached the Go cavern, where a shiver of mersharks – a hulking male bull shark, a female mako shark, a bulky blue tiger shark, a lanky violet lemon shark, and twin blue sharks – lie in wait for the green great white shark and her supposed mate.
The mermaid-lionfish took a sharp breath.
"You ready?" Shego asked, offering her hand.
"Ready as I'll ever be," the redhead replied, taking her girlfriend's hand.
The two mermaids swam to the door to unlock it. They made their way in the den where they saw the shiver waiting.
"Hello." Kim greeted, trying to sound casual and calm.
"Oh Poseidon, she wasn't lying," the twins said in sync, both sharing dropped jaws.
Hego swam up to Kim in a predatory circle. He leaned in and took in her scent as a form of inspection.
"Get your naris out of my girl's personal space!" Shego hissed, roughly shoving her brother's mug away.
Triburón almost broke down. "Shego, how could you do this to me? Haven't I given you everything you wanted? What will other mers think of me, of the Go mafia? We'll be the laughing stocks of the seas," he wailed.
"Dear, pull yourself together." Laura said, trying to support the emotional wreck.
"Oh, so it's about your image?" Shego said with folded arms.
"Shego understand what kind of look that would give our people. The merdolphins will think we're big pushovers and try something bold like attacking the Coves. Innocent blood might be shed over this." Laura said, her amber eyes shifted to her niece.
"Like that's a big deal. If they want to bring the heat, I'm always packing!" Shego practically shouted – her hands coated with lava to emphasis her point. "For crying out loud, you act like you're afraid of those pricks. I got jumped by ten and turned out fine," she snarled.
"You got what?" Mego snarled.
"Those punks thought they could take me and tried an ambush. I held my own until that damned rock slide happened and scared those wusses off." Shego grinned.
Triburón let out a loud cough, which instantly got everyone's attention; a sigh escaped the older merman. "My decision is final Shego. You can't be with her. She isn't a fit mate!" he said dismissively.
"But uncle Triburón..." she complained, her eyes full of hurt.
"No! She's just a mermaid-lionfish. She isn't fit to be a part of our world. She'll just be dead weight and proves no use to us." the bull shark huffed.
At that moment there was no creature in more misery than the green mershark. "Yes un-" Shego said in a depressed tone until Kim stepped in.
"And what if I pull my own weight?" Kim challenged.
The bulls in the shiver simply laughed at the challenge.
"You... you think you can..." Wego # 1 laughed between words. "... beat a mershark. You're nuts." Wego # 2 laughed along side his twin, both of which fell to the ground in hysteria.
"Anything is possible for a Possible." the lionfish snorted at the annoying twins.
Shego put a comforting arm on her girlfriend's shoulder. "Don't say stupid things like that. It could get you killed here." she warned, a sign of concern in her eyes.
"I saved your tailfin twice!" the young maiden practically huffed.
The great white shark looked at her lover as if she grew a second head. "Huh?" she said as if the statement made no sense.
"Once was with the you know what and the other was the rock slide that crushed those merdolphins who tried to kill you. If it wasn't for me you would have probably died," Kim huffed with folded arms.
Hego scrunched his forehead. "How in Dave Jones' Locker did you cause a rock slide? Unbelievable from such a puny mermaid." the tiger shark snorted in disbelief.
A scowl crossed the small mermaid's face, but not long after a wicked grin replaced it. She took a large breath and looked at the shiver "Like this." the redheaded maid drawled out, her voice hitting a high C note.
The room started to rattle; things began to roll around the room. In other parts of the Coves, rocks were gyrating and crumbling. Large rocks began to fall from the large sea walls.
"At this rate she'll collapse all of the Coves!" Laura shouted – her hands placed over her earfins in attempt to block out the noise.
"Stop, dear Ægir stop!" the bulls yelled over the lionfish's voice.
Kim stopped with a cocky grin on her face.
"So you can mess up a few merdolphins. Doesn't mean you can handle a mershark though. Just because we're at war with merdolphins doesn't mean we don't get into it with out own kind. We're a lot stronger than them," Wego # 2 said, removing his sharped hands from his earfins.
"Please don't give her any ideas you idiot!" Shego prayed.
"Then I'll take on a mershark. Who has more mafia fighting experience?" Kim asked.
"Shego," Mego answered.
"Ugh, who has the most battle intelligence?" she asked.
"She-" Wego # 1 half replied.
"I get it." she interrupted, her eyes showing disgust.
"Shego can't fight her. She might let the lionfish win." Hego huffed.
"I wouldn't fight her even if my life depended on it moron!" Shego shouted.
"Not even if our relationship depended on it?" Kim asked, determination in her olive eyes.
The response had Shego in silence.
"What if Shego's in a frenzy? Not even she can control her frenzy that well." Wego # 2 suggested.
"Hell no! Damn it no! I flat refuse to be dragged int-" Shego ranted until a familiar pout crossed Kim's face. "No! Stop it! Okay!" she replied, hiding her eyes behind her hair.
Out in the open waters in the Coves, a shiver of sharks watched the green mershark sway about frantically.
"I can't do it, I won't do it! I'll throw punches, no lava, won't be so tricky. Can't afford to be careless. One slip and she's dead. Oh Poseidon! Why?" the predator panicked, she couldn't stay still to save her own hide.
"The fight is simple. You last more than ten minutes or make Shego submit then you win. If you don't make it... well then you'll be mershark chum," Triburón said with mirth. "Everyone cover your naris. There will be no interfering," he instructed, now cutting into Kim's arm.
The shiver swiftly covered their naris and left Kim to fight with Shego.
"She's a brave idgit." Mego commented with a hint of respect towards the mermaid.
Kim swam to her frantic mate.
The mershark covered her naris well before the mermaid came within scent range. "Not going to eat you. Don't want to harm you," she constantly chanted.
"Shego, I'm pretty sure they can see you and I want to prove that you don't have to always protect me." Kim said, slowly removing Shego's protesting grip over her naris.
The blood drifted into the she-shark's nose. Emerald eyes dilated to a pitch black, a fanged grin etched on her face. "Angelfish... time to play." she growled, lashing out to her lover as if she were prey, pinning the redhead to a seawall with relative easy. Her clawed hand grazed Kim's neck, barely missing a fatal point on the teen by a hair, but managing to leave a clean wound.
The girl's blood heightened the frenzy of her lover, her hands covering the gash in her neck. A second strike that would have clearly severed her head was avoiding by the young mermaid quick movements. She managed to gain leeway by extending her arms in order to keep the mershark's fangs at bay.
The pale shark lashed about with the intent on ripping off a limb, her claws managing to make significant scratches on her girlfriend's face. "Come on Kimmie, I just want a little love-bite," she snarled, biting a few strands of Kim's hair. In the back of her mind she didn't want to harm Kim, but she just couldn't think straight. A strong swing of her tail weakened her lover's center of balance, giving her leverage in the fight.
Kim struggled to keep the mershark out of reach; her predatory girlfriend gaining leverage in the fight was a sign for her to do something, anything. "I've got to do something or I'm screwed..." she thought, pain filling her heart at the plan devised in her head. With a sharp breath she stuck out her spikes adorning her back and struck Shego's thick shark hide; no poison was injected, but the thought of it should be enough to snap her girlfriend back to her senses, no creature was immune to the panic of their life being in danger.
Shego's eyes shot open, her black eyes becoming slitted emeralds once again. She looked downward where her wound was pouring out her blood into the ocean; she shook her head out of its daze. "Kim what the fuck?" the great white shouted, covering the wound defensively. It didn't hurt much, but it did hurt that someone she cared about attacked her with intent to kill or so she thought.
"Well..." Kim replied weakly, wanting to defend her actions, but found no words.
"I don't need an excuse." Shego huffed before swimming away from the lionfish at the high speeds that her kind was known for.
Kim looked at the retreating features of the clearly upset mershark. "Shego, wait..." she said, reaching out to only grasp open waters. "Great Kimberly. She hates you." the maiden self scolded. Her shoulders slumped at the realization that 'she' beat her girlfriend. "What am I going to do know?" she asked the open waters.
"You could go follow her dear." Laura offered, a few inches from the smaller mermaid's earfin.
Kim lashed forward now noticing that the shiver of mersharks was behind her.
"What are you waiting for an invitation? Go to our sister." Hego said with a smirk.
"Wait, does that even count?" Wego # 1 asked.
"Yeah, Shego swam aw-" Wego # 2 said before Mego smacked both of his younger brothers in the back of their heads to keep them silent.
Kim's eyes fell upon Triburón. "Does it count?" she asked.
The shark leader turned his naris to the open seas. "She retreated. Therefore, she lost... You may go to her," he snorted, swimming back to the Go family's cavern.
"Welcome to the family." Laura said, a look of acceptance in her amber eyes, she followed her upset mate.
The adolescent mermaid decided not to linger in the shark infested area and decided to look for her upset mershark. "Now where would she be?" she muttered, a large shadow looming over her. The little mermaid-lionfish turned to see a large shark behind her. She swam as fast as her tailfin could go, barely staying out of the shark's reach. The teen hit a dead end and saw that the shark was a mere yard away.
It neared Kim slowly, a look of mystery in it's eyes.
"Come on you don't want to eat me. I'm all small and you're so... big." she muttered.
The shark gave no response, but still neared her.
"Stop already." she shouted in panic, her eyes misted over.
The shark halted its motions.
"Huh, that was weird." she thought, her eyes flickering. The teen decided to take the opportunity to move away from the shark.
The shark gradually followed her.
"Oh come on! Stay away." she almost screamed, a twitch in her spiked spine.
The shark stayed where it was.
"Okay now this is getting higher on my awk-weird scale." Kim muttered, slowly backing away from the still shark until she bumped into a fairly large muzzle. She placed her hands on it to get a feel of what it was. "Twenty sea shells says there's another shark," she mentally whimpered.
It wasn't a shark behind her; there were seven.
"Oh great. Goodbye Central Reef, goodbye cruel ocean." the mermaid whined. The largest bumped its muzzle against her hand. For lack of better interpretation Kim cautiously rubbed it's muzzle. "Urm, good shark." she murmured, stroking the slick muzzle.
The giant shark rotated upside down in a suspended state. The other sharks including the one in the distance encircled the mermaid-lionfish playfully and bumped against her lightly, a sign that they accepted her as their own.
She gradually stroked all the sharks and even played with them a bit.
In the distance Shego swam by the display of a massive shiver surrounding Kim.
"Oh damn it. I can't leave her alone can I?" she muttered, her eyes began to glow as she commanded the sharks to leave the girl alone.
Kim was surprised that the sharks soon dispersed for no reason. "Uh, bye." she whispered to the departing sharks, waving them off. She caught the faint outline of a familiar mershark. "Shego!" the mermaid called out.
Shego's outline swam in another direction.
"Shego, talk to me." she asked, looking in the direction she saw the shadow retreat. The outline of the mentioned mershark became visible to Kim.
"And why should I?" she quipped.
"Because I love you." Kim replied.
"Pfft, yeah right. When it came down to it you put yourself over me. I tried my damned best to avoid the fight, even tried to cheat, but you wouldn't let me. And what do you? You try to kill me! I'd gladly put my life on the line for you without hesitation, but it's clear to me you don't feel the same. To think I just saved your life," the older mermaid snorted, turning her back to the lionfish.
"Saved my life? From what?" the lionfish muttered.
"From wha-? Hello! Those damn sharks were surrounding you."
"We were just playing. They were very nice to me." Kim said as if she didn't get why Shego was so infuriated.
"Un-freaking-believable!" Shego said. "Well if you're safe then I'm outta here. Get out of the Coves." she said dismissively and began to go to her home.
"You're still upset... I would never hurt you. I didn't inject you with anything. I thought that a little poke would make you snap to your senses if you thought your life was being threatened. Any creature has an immediate fight-or-flight mechanism, which I was praying that you would run instead of see me as a threat and attack me." she responded, her auburn hair covering up most of her face.
Shego turned her head slightly to peer over her shoulder. "I'm still mad at you," she muttered – slightly impressed over the clever tactic – still feeling the aftershock of the fight.
Kim grinned happily as she hugged Shego from the back. "If I sing for you will you that make you happy?" she asked.
Shego's earfins went erect. "Maybe." she purred.
The two rested on a fallen rock. Kim sang a completely different melody to her lover who made herself comfortable her lap. Shego listened intently to every octave that seeped from her mate's voice.
In the distance, two shadows spied on the two lovers.
"What do you think the boss is going to think about this?" a scrawny merdolphin asked his mentor.
"I think he'll be most pleased to see an interesting development with this little mermaid. She may be... one of them." a buff merdolphin grinned, eying the sight of Kim playing around with Shego's hair, rubbing his hands together greedily.