Aquata Cove Ch. 32

Merrick whirled around, soon figuring out where he MIGHT be - it's been too long since he was in this secluded den, tasting the naturally freshwater.

He looked at his webbed hands, and at his tail, concluding that he is back in a familiar world... A feeling of being what he really is... Just him and Adam... This feeling is both relieving, and heartbreaking.

Adam blinked and looked at him strangely as the merman turned and swam away, undulating his tail up and down as he disappeared into the cloud of white bubbles of the waterfall.

Curious, Adam swam forward quickly into the tickling suds storm, and into the dark tunnel. He paddled through the water in the darkness - he's been in this underwater carven so many times, he can navigate through it blindfolded.

As he swam, he began to notice that the water isn't warming like it usual. As a matter of fact, he can't see the familiar orange-pink glow of the crystalline cave. Instead, began to feel the water's temperature... Lighten, only a little. Not like a hot spring like last time. The water is also illuminated with a blue-green glow. Instead of a warm, orange-lit basin, the cove is now pleasantly cool with glowing teal crystals shimmering in the water and the rocky walls.

'That's odd...' Adam thought as he floated in the aqua-lit basin, 'Since when did these crystals change color?' Also noting the cooled temperature, he swam up, and climbed up onto the stone ledge. He peered, and spotted his fish-like boyfriend, sitting against the rocky wall.

"Hey, babe..." Adam said as he got up, "My trunks are still on... They're usually floating on the surface by now..." He said in a weak attempt at a joke.

"... It's not warm in here anymore..." Merrick replied, "It's changed..."

"I noticed," Adam sat down in front of Merrick, "Atarah did say she grows crystals in here... Maybe she's growing a different kind."

"... Adam..." Merrick said. The human can make out a slight, white twinkle around Merrick's eyes, "Am I a fool?" He asked.

Adam paused at the question. He sighed as he lowered his head.

"Even though we were bonded, I tried to leave you. After I nearly died, I revealed myself to the pod, and I got banished. It's just one thing after another with me. And now... I'm drowning myself on dry land..." He looked up at his human, "Adam... I don't know what to do anymore..."

Adam adjusted himself, and cleared his throat, "Merrick... We're all fools. Every one of us. We all make mistakes that have nasty consequences. We all tell lies. We all think we're doing the right thing, when it might just be the wrong thing. That's just the way things are." Adam explained, "The point is that we learn from our screw ups. When we do something wrong or bad, we may suffer for it, but it's worth it when we learn something."

"... But..." Merrick hesitated, "I was an Adra Triton... I'm not supposed to make mistakes like that... I'm supposed to know what to do, and what will happen from any actions..." He looked away, "To be a Triton, is to be absolute. Any mistake is unforgivable..."

"Is that what your father said?" Adam said. Merrick nodded, "If I didn't know he was strict, I'd say that's an unfair lesson to teach kids. Is that why you hate yourself, babe?" Merrick whimpered at that, "Sweetie... It's not fair for you to hate yourself when a decision doesn't work out well. That's life. You screw up, and you learn from it." Merrick sighed, and nodded.

"... You sound a lot like my Mother..." Merrick said, "When Father became angry at me, she would always tell me it will be alright... She said I will always learn from when I fail..."

After a brief pause, Adam moved closer to the merman, "Alright, Merrick..." He turned pseudo-fish to look at him, "It's my turn to ask a question." Merrick chuckled weakly at that.

"Why are you so scared to be in the ocean?"

Merrick's slight smile faded with that, "We've only been in the sea very few times since you moved in. Every time I want to go to the beach with you, you always never want to go, or otherwise you just stay out of the water," Merrick shied away slightly, "Are you banished from the sea too?"

After a moment, Merrick shook his head, "No..." His tail moved up onto him, "I am not banished from the sea..."

"Then... What? What are you so afraid of?" Adam asked. Merrick looked his eyes directly into Adam's.

"There's something out there..." Merrick said, his sapphires full of fear, "There's a creature in the ocean looking for me... And it won't let me be..."

"What? Is it the Ghost Whale?" Adam said. Merrick shook his head.

"... The Capricorn..." He said as he began to shake.

"The Capricorn?" Adam said, "You mean like, half-goat, half-fish?" The merman nodded, "What makes it so fearsome?"

"... In general, they're not supposed to be terrifying..." Merrick began, "They are among the most ancient creatures in the sea. No one truly knows their origin, only that they seek merfolk who have lost their way. When a Capricorn finds a lost merperson, they guide them to safety..."

"That doesn't sound so scary." Adam said, "They sound helpful."

"They are... It's when they find a Coshiton that I fear..."

"Oh..." Adam said, "What do they do to Coshitons?"

Merrick looked up at Adam, with his eyes framed with terror, "They guide them to a merciful death."

Adam gasped as his stomach purged with fear, "No..." The merman shook from saying it.

"To be Coshiton is to be an outcast. The ocean is a cruel, beautiful, unforgiving world, Adam. Without a pod, a merperson will only last for so long all alone. So the Capricorn finds them, and delivers them from their misery..." Merrick's eye's began to shimmer as he began to cry, "That Latolcus... Belinda... She said she only seen one in her life, and it has never shown itself to her again..." His breath started to quicken as tears rolled down his cheeks, "But me... Everytime I go into the ocean... Whenever I bathe in the waters that used to be my home..." Merrick cried as Adam reached for his hand, "When I dare to enter the sea... I feel its presence..."

"Oh, baby," Adam said as he moved in, and put his arm around Merrick. The cold, wet merman huddled up against him.

"Even when I am not alone... It comes... No matter where I am, it will hunt me down... If I go into the ocean Adam, it will take me away..."

"Have you tried signaling it? Maybe you can reason with it, tell it to leave you alone."

"I tried!" Merrick replied as he struggled not to sob, "When Sister attacked you, it came to me when she tried to kill you... I signaled it, I begged it to leave me be, but it wouldn't leave me alone!" The merman cringed as he wept, "Sister paralyzed me so I couldn't stop her from trying to end you, and I was helpless..." Adam softly rubbed him, "If Belinda didn't come when she did... If she was not in the sea when I called her to save you... Both of us would have..."

"Shhhh," Adam softly hushed him, "It's ok... You're safe here, Merrick..." He said as he Merrick struggled to calm himself, "This is a freshwater area... It won't find you here..." Merrick whimpered as he snuggled up against Adam, "Maybe we can go to Atarah? Maybe she'll know a trick to repel the Capricorns from finding you."

"I did," Merrick replied, "I tried asking her if she knew a way to keep the Capricorn at bay, but she said it's one thing that she was never able to figure out. She said the best idea she can offer is to not be on my own when I go into the ocean, but it still comes for me, regardless."

"Alright..." Adam said with a sigh, "So, we'll just keep you out of the ocean then. I won't give that thing a chance to touch you." Adam vowed as he tightened his arms around Merrick.

"... I love you, Adam..." Merrick muttered weakly as he cuddled up to him, "I miss the warmth here..."

"Heh. I love you too, Merrick." Adam replied as he kissed his lover.

After a while of sitting there, in the cool-conditioned, teal-glowing cave, Merrick's body is partially transformed - now that the cave is not a hot spring anymore, he's drying off a lit slower than usual. Most of his body is still pearly-silver with a blue sheen, though his tail had turned to legs, and his feet retained a hint of fin.

"So..." Adam said, "There's something I've been kinda wanting to try with you."

"Hm?"

"The scale Atarah made..." Adam said as he dug in his pocket, and fished out the necklace with one of Merrick's scales on it - the one that was enchanted to prevent the transformation from the water. It is almost completely transparent, with a bit of blue still gleaming on the edge of it, "From the looks of it, it's only got one use left."

"... What are you suggesting?" Merrick asked.

"Well... We've only used it for showers..." Adam said, "I've been wondering... Would you wanna try and swim like a human?" Merrick scoffed as he looked at him.

"Why? Humans are such slow swimmers," He said with a smirk, "It would take me forever just to swim to one place."

"Aw, come on, babe..." Adam insisted, "Besides..." Adam's hand smoothly side down Merrick's back, and cupped Merrick's tender butt. The merman eeped, and giggled as Adam's hand rubbed and fondled Merrick's buns, "I've always wanted to try underwater sex..."

"Hmmmmm... Ok!" Merrick said with a smile, "But lets do it OUTSIDE the cove. It's a little cold in here for what WE do~" He said. Adam smiled as he put the scale in his pocket.

"Ok... Just stay calm when I put it on you." Adam said as he and Merrick moved from the crystalline cave, and dipped into the chilled water.

Merrick once again transformed into his true form, as a Piscien merman while Adam can in, and took Merrick's webbed hand. Merrick wrapped his arms around his human, and glided them along the teal-lit basin. Adam padded his legs, but with Merrick's strong tail waving up and down, there's hardly any difference.

Adam shivered as they moved, until he could make out the glow of daylight from the entrance. Merrick carried him into the waterfall's fizz, before both of them felt the aura of warmth from the sun shining down on the subterranean pool, as opposed to the shaded and cold water from inside the cove.

The merman let go of Adam, and swam around the pool. He smiled happily as he felt the water all around his scales and fins, feeling the freedom of his form all around - a sensation he has almost forgotten.

Adam smiled with glee as he watched Merrick glide and loop around him. He can't tell whether it's because it's been ages since he saw Merrick's true form, or if it's his happiness, but Merrick has an air of brilliance all around him - his fins and body seems to glimmer in the bright, rippling sunlight.

Merrick swam up to Adam, and softly floated right up to him. Adam put his arm around the slick body, and held him close. The merman nuzzled Adam's neck, as he reached his hand into the pocket of his swimming trunks.

"... Mmf!" Adam suddenly felt his trunks get yanked on. He grunted and irked as Merrick yanked at his shorts, and roughly removed them from Adam's body. Adam grinned as he felt his naked body exposed to the water and sunlight, as the merman swam gracefully around the pool, waving his trunks like a victory flag.

Adam laughed as he swam for Merrick, as if trying to get his trunks back. Merrick giggled as he would swim away, barely letting Adam get close enough to touch him before swimming in another direction.

The human meeped and swerved as he would feel Merrick's hand grab his thigh, before a current of water rushed behind him, followed by a tailfin slapped his butt. He grinned, and turned to just where Merrick was about to go.

Adam whirled, and then took Merrick's neck with the chain of the enchanted necklace. The merman gasped as his tail immediately shrunk, and split into two appendages, which instantly morphed into legs. The fins on his head shortened and turned into a field of blonde hair. The webbing between his fingers disappeared as his blue and silver sheen turned into a peach-colored hue.

The swimming trunks drifted out of Merrick's hand as he squirmed and grabbed helplessly in the water. He whimpered as his body suddenly felt foreign exposed, yet he is still able to breath, but this handicap on swimming is really throwing him off. His hands can no longer pull the water around him, his legs won't move him forward!

Merrick eeped as he felt a strong pair of arms move around him, felt Adam's manly form press up against him. He blushed heavily as he can feel his human's soft manhood rub between his soft, round cheeks. Never before has Merrick felt so naked and vulnerable than he is now: in human form underwater, where he is in a familiar world in a totally different form. Merrick's feet drifted back and forth as he tried to sustain some level of control, but quickly felt himself submit to Adam's touch. While Adam is still holding his breath that will never be distressed, Merrick is still somehow able to breathe through invisible gills.

He blushed and moaned as he felt this hands wonder and drift to his lower region, "Ohh...~" Merrick cooed as Adam grabbed his soft balls, rolling them around in his palm as they floated in the middle of the water. The immune merman closed his eyes as he felt Adam's other hands slide down and started fondling his tender buttcrack. Merrick's back curved as he pushed his lily white bum into Adam's tan hand, feeling so aroused from being touched so. Adam moaned quietly as his hand dipped down between Merrick's cheeks, rubbed up to grind his fingers against that pink star, to gripping one of those fine mounds.

Merrick's penis became hard rather quickly. He loves feeling this way - so vulnerable, suspended in a world he thought he knew, yet in a form that keeps him from being his usual leverage. He is at the mercy of both the water, and his lover, and the very idea of him being as helpless and naked as he is now excites him exceedingly.

He gasped when he felt Adam's hands let him go. Before he could beg his human to stay, he saw Adam swim down and below him. Merrick felt himself pulled down just a little as Adam situated between his legs. Merrick's face turned hot when Adam opened his fair legs, wrapping his hands onto his thighs, and moving his face onto his lap.

Merrick gasped and moaned as he felt Adam's mouth close in on his throbbing dick. The two had drifted to a nearby rock in the water, here Adam found stability in pinning Merrick to the spot, and pushing his head down onto Merrick's manhood.

The blonde gapped and as Adam's tongue attacked his dick. Merrick pushed his head back as Adam bobbed his head back and forth. He put his legs around Adam's sides as he hands dug into Adam's short black hair. He moaned as Adam's lips pressed down onto the glans of his member, and licked around the top of the head, brushing firmly back and forth onto the underside of his head, and sliding his mouth down onto Merrick's smooth pelvis.

Merrick rolled his hips against Adam's head, his cock flexing inside Adam's warm mouth as the human sucked him nice and easy. Adam's hands moved along Merrick's thighs, and along onto both of those perfect buns. He rubbed his hands on that tush in circular motions as he lolled his tongue and lips with that dick, digging his fingers into those soft mounds while digging his face into Merrick's crotch.

Merrick's toes curled as he tried holding back his orgasm while Adam nursed his rock-solid cock. He gasped and huffed softly when Adam pulled back, and his member was confronted with the chill of the water from the warmth of Adam's mouth. Adam pushed Merrick, up, and tucked his head into Merrick's undercarriage. The blonde's hand squeezed on a rock as he felt Adam's tongue press on his hidden button. His tongue would then lick up between his thighs, and pass on his testicles. Merrick groaned out as his cock convulsed, and streamed out several thick, white spurts.

Adam looked, and smirked as he saw his spent boyfriend, panting as a cloud of white spunk floated from Merrick's penis. Adam playfully took Merrick, and moved away from the rock. He moved in to kiss Merrick, and the merman just swallowed Adam's tongue. Both males moaned as they kissed passionately as they stay suspended in the water. Merrick rubbed his hands on Adam's shoulders as the human's hands held at his sides.

Adam guided the both of them to the soft, sandy bottom. He stroked his own hard, floppy cock in his hand as Merrick pressed his back onto the warmed sand. Adam swam down, adjusted himself so that his dick lined up with Merrick's anus. He looked to his lover, who nodded in anticipating approval, before pushing himself inward.

Merrick moaned as he felt Adam slowly enter into him, forcing his asshole open, and lodging his hard dick into his tight entrance. Adam grunted as he put his hands onto Merrick's hips, while the other male moved to wrap his legs around Adam. With his hands firmly onto Merrick's sides, he rolled his hips inward, eliciting a moan from Merrick, before moving back, and pushing his cock deep in again. The merman's back arched as he groaned out in pleasure.

Adam moaned as he pressed his fuzzy patch against Merrick's soft rump, mushing his pelvis up and down against Merrick's supple rear, before pulling back, and moving in again. Merrick moaned even more from Adam's attack on his tender bum, pushing against his human's cock and trying to open his legs wider to get more of Adam's raging manhood inside of him.

Adam moved himself lower to put himself above of Merrick looking into his merman's blue eyes. Merrick moaned weakly in the water, before Adam moved his head down, and pressed his lips down onto Merrick's mouth.

Merrick closed his eyes as his mouth joined into Adam's for a lip lock of bliss. With his ass full of cock, he nestled himself on the sand, putting on hand onto Adam's neck, while the other rubbed along Adam's back. Adam's jaw rolling along to push his lower lip against Merrick's mouth, as he pushed his lower body back and forth to slowly hump into Merrick.

Merrick moaned weakly as his tongue pushed and rubbed along with Adam's mouth as he felt his human's dick push in and around inside of him. Every once in a while, Merrick gasps when Adam's cock pressed in on a pleasant nerve. Adam's hands tried not to grip Merrick too tightly, but his member is coming up on his climax. He stopped kissing Merrick for one moment, and planted his hands into the sand.

The human grunted and moaned as he straightened his back, and dug his hard weapon deep into Merrick's anus. Adam shifted himself up and down on Merrick's ass, really stirring and grinding into Merrick's insides in one place, before Adam let out a few large bubbles from his mouth as his cock exploded inside of Merrick! The merman moaned as he felt Adam's member gush inside of him with his seed, filling him up with hot, sticky love.

Adam grunted as he held his breath again, feeling like he needs to pant, yet he can't do so underwater. All in all, this was a bit of an awkward method of fucking, but it's a different experience.

As he pulled his softening cock out of Merrick, the last spec of color faded from Merrick's necklace.

Merrick felt a strange sensation crawl up on him. His skin transmuted into blue and silver once more, his blonde hair turned into an array of sharp fins, his hands became webbed, his legs combined into a long tail once more, and his ears flattened into gills.

The merman moaned pleasantly as he can still feel the afterglow inside of him, even in his true form.

Adam smiled, and moved in to kiss Merrick, when the merman stopped him, "Hm?"

Merrick's gills twitched before he gasped, "No..." The Piscien whirled around, suddenly showing a phase of horror as he looked at the concave shadow which connected the grotto to the sea, "{Not here too!}" He said, but in his own language, which Adam did not understand.