Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28718853-20180407111639/@comment-33398500-20180622080638

I had a feeling something like this was going to happen.

It wasn’t exactly a surprise that some manner of sea mamono might live around here. After all, the order couldn’t exactly sweep the seas to find them with their technology, and a large group of mamono living near a place of power of the order was actually an amusing irony to behold.

However, I had known in advance for a different reason. Shortly after I had gotten to the castle, despite cautionary tales about the sea below, I ventured down to the rocks by the coast shortly after arriving. Getting some quiet time sitting and looking out into the sea as it rippled gently toward the shore. The calming waves only broken by a small ripple near the surface.

As my eye was drawn to the rippled surface, I caught a glimpse of what looked like someone’s face staring out at me from the water, their light red eyes seeming to ripple slightly as they looked at me, before the face disappeared back under the waves. However, there was no sense of danger, either from the eyes, or the person vanishing beneath the waves. It was some kind of water mamono... but a non-aggressive one at that. From what I was told, an aggressive one would have tried to scoop me up right from the rocks there.

A short while later, once actually at the party, dad’s arrival wasn’t exactly a surprise, though the fact that it was him who was there was somewhat unexpected. “Umm... dad... your new friends seem to be ruining the party...” I commented, watching as groups of mermaids and mersharks began scooping up order guards from the castle wall.

“That’s right!” Mother responded, snapping across at him. “Now get your friends, and your whore, out of here!” his ‘new wife’ not having appeared yet, but she had no inclination to tolerate their presence as she drew her weapon.

“Come now, Victor... come and see my new place!” he then offered as the kraken also beckoned me toward the water.

“Umm... dad...” I started, simply pointing at my neck to demonstrate a clear lack of gills or any means of breathing underwater.

“Ah, right... no big deal!” he then answered calmly. “Just let one of the girls bring you down with them, they’ll help you breathe!”

“That’s an awfully non-chalant way to drag him into the body of a monster!” mother then responded angrily. “Didn’t I tell you to get to safety, already!?”

“I don’t think they’re dangerous... I mean, if they were, the first one would have...”

“The first one!? You mean you saw a mamono in the water and didn’t inform anyone!?” she then immediately answered, plainly outraged.

However, as she spoke, another jet of water streamed up, one more water mamono landing quietly on the stone floor, her tail not changing into legs. It took me only a moment to realize she was the one I’d seen earlier. “You?” I then asked simply, earning a nod from her.

“Come with me~” she beckoned to me, before starting to flop on the floor. “I may need some help to get back into the water, though...”

“Come on, Mizu, just transform your tail and jump back yourself...” dad then commented shaking his head a little.

“You know I won’t do that!” she then responded proudly, continuing to flop. “As a priestess of Poseidon, I will not alter that form which was given to me!”

As my mother advanced on the fallen sea bishop, I found myself rushing forward “No! Mother, don’t harm her! I’ll put her back in the water, there’s no need to fight!”

“Son, they’re monsters! Don’t tell me they’ve gotten to you!?” she started, as I picked up the admittedly rather slippery sea bishop and walked her to the edge of the wall, ready to drop her back into the sea before she grabbed the back of my neck, leaning back, her weight throwing me off to the point where I fell into the sea with her.

Now in the water, I found I couldn’t see without pain from the salt water, and barely managed to move after my limbs were struck by the surface of the water. “Oh, dear boy...” the sea bishop then started, now speaking more clearly than before “...I am so glad you did not disappoint me...” after saying this, I felt her pressing her form against me. “...I was hoping you would be a good enough person to aid the girl in need... but now... you must partake in our rituals so you might be able to breathe... normally, this is overseen by me as two others mate, so that the husband does not drown... but... today... I will be your partner...”

A mere moment after this, the sea bishop entwined her body around mine, and she began the ritual. However, until a certain point in it, my body did not process the sensations well underwater, so I only became a participant late in the ritual. After it was done, my apparent new wife escorted me down to visit dad’s new home, and, according to Mizu, mine as well now.

A birthday in more ways than one, it would seem...