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Sea, Foam and Dust

Flora_Winters

Disclaimer: I do not own The Little Mermaid and I’m not making any money here either. Well, technically, this isn’t The Little Mermaid. It is my rendition of the whole thing from a darker, more homosexual point of view. Hell, it could be called The Little Merman. Hell, I might even work next on Beauty and the Queer, The Lion Queen, or The Swan Fag. Hey! It’s okay. I’m gay. I can say that word. Only gay people are allowed to say that word just like black people are only allowed to say the N word. Well, yeah, you can say faggot, just don’t let me hear you. The last person who called me that met some mace and my heel across his pimply face in a graceful roundhouse kick. And when he screamed, I sprayed him in the mouth just for good measure because I’m thorough that way. I’ve been told in good humor that I fight dirty and without honor. That’s okay. I’m not Japanese. Honor is for people who always die at the end of the movie. At the end of my movie, I’m the one looking down from my gleaming ivory tower, laughing maniacally, scorching the invading army to ashes with my giant magnifying glass that is powered by all my evil wishes and darkest desires.

Summary: A young merman falls deeply in love with a handsome Two-Leg whom he saves from a terrible storm. But, a much darker, more twisted being feeds on the pain of love denied. MM, Language, OC, Violence, WIP

Prologue

There is a hidden world of sunken beauty far below the shimmering sunlit surface of the dazzling sea. It is an underwater realm of shadows and dreams that fly on fins of silver starlight and is forever forbidden to mingle with the two legged creatures who rule above.

But, that law is just a bout to be broken.

~*~

The cool breeze smelled of sea and the warm light from the yellow pearl above caused his pale locks to shimmer about his bare, slender shoulders like billowing sea foam. He was humming as the surf gently played against the rock he was lounging on. His lustrous tail glittered with colorful scales that resembled polished gemstones as it lapped at the gentle rolling waves of crystal blue.

It was finally his sixteenth birthday and his mother and father had finally allowed him to ascend to this fantastic World Above The Blue. Everything was so new and utterly amazing.

Chirpers flew through the air on wings like fish glided through the water on fins. They sky was so vast, blue, and endless. It seemed to mirror the great ocean. He couldn’t get over how wonderful and exciting it all was. It was just like his six older sisters had told him.

“Mommy, come quick!” A loud voice cried, causing him to squeal like a startled dolphin and flop into the water with an ungraceful splash.

He came up behind the rock, peeking up with wide green eyes, only to quickly duck back down. It was what appeared to be a little female Two-Leg.

A Two-Leg!

“What is it, Anna?” A concerned, older female asked. “It isn’t proper for a young lady to shout openly like that.”

“But, Mommy,” the little Two-Leg fussed, having a tantrum that was far bigger than she. “I saw a boy with a fish tail over there on that rock!”

“Of course you did, you silly child,” the mother chided, taking her by the hand. “You’ve obviously been reading too much again.”

“Reading?” A male voice boomed. “A woman will get nowhere by wasting her time with that rubbish.”

“Quite fight, dear,” the mother readily agreed. “Come along now, Anna. You have piano.”

Piano… What is piano?

“But, I saw him!” The little Two-Leg shouted angrily. “He was sitting there and he looked really pretty.”

Pretty?

Coeur felt himself blushing. Well, he was always being told that he was very easy on the eyes. He was still too young to know how to gracefully accept a compliment.

The family of Two-Legs vanished from sight and he sighed. He wasn’t supposed to allow himself to be seen by those with hairy and smooth legs. He felt bad for the little female though, but happy that nobody believed in his kind.

He kindly asked a wave to gently place him back on the rock and it happily obliged him. He thanked it as it rolled back out with a bubbly giggle. It had the mind of a playful guppy.

He lounged on the smooth rock, basking in the warm radiance from the pearl above, keeping a guarded lookout for more Two-Legs. He was waiting to see the silver pearl that his sisters had told him about. The shape of it in the blue above was never the same when the sky faded to black. They had spoken of how the darkness above had been littered with sparkling lights that twinkled.

Oh, he couldn’t wait to see it with his own two eyes.

“Excuse me,” he said to a crab that was scuttling by.

It looked up at him.

He smiled warmly. “How much longer will it be until the silver pearl comes out?”

The red crab held up a large claw and began clicking. He really should have studied his Crab more.

“I’m sorry,” he blushed, hiding his comely face in his palms. “Was that three clicks or was it four?”

The waves bubbled all around him. They were laughing hysterically. It made him blush pinker than the coral below him.

The crab patiently answered him again.

“In just a few more tides…”

The crab clicked.

“Thank you so much,” he said, watching it scuttle into the water with a near silent plop.

He looked out at the land that was a few meters away from where he sat. He began to wonder what dry sand would feel like.

He gazed up, beckoning for a chirper to come speak with him. A solid white one fluttered down, looking at him with liquid black eyes.

“I would like to lie in the dry sand,” he told it, admiring how it would move its neck, looking at him at all different angles. “Would you be so kind as to keep a lookout for Two-Legs for me?”

The little chirper chirped, nodding its feathered head. It made him smile and clap his hands happily.

“Thank you.”

He crawled out of the ocean’s comforting embrace, reveling in the warmth of the dry sand for the first time in his life. He stretched out and practically snuggled into it.

Oh, it was utterly delightful! It made him squeal.

His sisters had not been telling tales. Dry sand was so warm and inviting. He never wanted to leave it.

He closed his eyes, breathing in the salty air. It was so different from breathing underwater. It was lighter and quit stinging after the first few breaths.

He was safe. The little chirper was looking out for him. Plus, the waves would rise up and help him should he cry out to them. Friends helped and protected each other.

“I love it here,” he told the wave that tickled the tip of his shiny tail. “I want to see everything.”

It caused him to pout. He would never be able to see everything. It wouldn’t be possible with his tail. He couldn’t easily move about on land like the Two-Legs could.

A big wave suddenly splashed him, causing him to laugh out loud. He sat up, watching it roll back out.

“Don’t you roll away from me!” He yelled after it. “Come back here and say that again! I dare you!”

He squeaked, throwing up his arms in front of his face as it did just that. He quickly promised that he would never leave the sea. That seemed to satisfy the wave and the others.

“Now see what you did? You got my spot all wet,” he pouted, looking around. “Making me have to crawl all the way over here just to get comfortable again. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

The waves bubbled with foamy laughter at him. He gave up pretending to be angry.

He began humming as he basked in the golden radiance. His shell white flesh glowed.

~*~

When he next opened his eyes, he found the sky above to be just as his sisters had told him. There were so many twinkling lights all over the place. They were all looking down at him with such cool brightness.

That was when his eyes widened in pure adoration. It was the silver pearl. It was perfectly round. It was the most beautiful jewel he had ever seen. The light coming from it was gentle and soft. The yellow pearl had been bright and too harsh to even look at.

He couldn’t help but smile. It was so beautiful. There were so many wonders the two-legs got to enjoy.

His eyes suddenly widened again. He gazed out over the face of the dark ocean. The sky in the distance was being lit up with fantastic lights. The colors were brilliant and strange.

What were they? He crawled into the waves, gliding through the water with speedy grace.

~*~

He came upon what looked to be a giant whale with very strange wings, only it was unlike any whale he had ever seen before. It was some kind of Two-Leg device in order to traverse the great ocean.

What had his sisters called these kinds of things again? He couldn’t seem to remember.

A loud whistling sound filled his slightly pointy ears and he looked up to see pink lights fill the sky with a loud blast. It was the most amazing spectacle ever.

“Happy eighteenth birthday!” A bunch of male voices shouted from high above as blue lights lit up the sky this time. “Happy birthday, Prince Andrew! And we all wish you a hundred more!”

Coeur smiled. Two-Legs celebrated birthdays, too?

He asked a wave to lift him up so he could take a closer look. He grinned as the kind wave gently placed him on an extended wooden beam where he could sit comfortably without being easily spotted unless they were really looking for him.

Now that he could see the Two-Legs, they did look very strange indeed. They looked just like Mers in the face, but they had weird skin from the necks down. He had never seen such strange and bizarre flesh. It sort of frightened him how some looked so tight and others seemed to billow.

What had his sisters called them again? Oh, feet. Their feet looked strange and made loud sounds as they walked.

“Ah, Andrew,” a male said, slapping a tall, broad shouldered Two-Leg on the back. “Happy birthday, my boy.”

Coeur had never seen a face so aged before. It was remarkable. His father was over three thousand years old and there wasn’t a line on his face. Just how old was this Two-Leg? A million?

Coeur gasped when the Prince of the Two-Legs turned around. He had stopped breathing all together.

He had never seen a masculine face more stunning. The Two-Leg was so handsome, he was beautiful. His heart was racing like a dolphin after a shark.

The prince’s facial and neck skin was dark, almost like the brown sand he had been sleeping in earlier. His shaggy hair was almost the same color as the yellow pearl that had been in the blue sky. He wished he could see what color his eyes were.

“Thank you, Reggie,” the prince smiled with perfect, white teeth. His voice was deep and very charming. “But, don’t you think this is all a little much?”

Coeur gasped for air as he looked away from the handsome Prince of the Two-Legs. He put a trembling hand to his chest, feeling disoriented and highly allured.

He could suddenly smell something and it smelled delicious.

“It is time to feast!” A loud voice shouted, making him look. More voices echoed in celebration.

He watched the prince eat, listened to him talk, and was drawn even closer when he danced to music. Two-Leg music was so different and magical than that under the sea. It made him want to put words to it, but he kept silent.

The prince was even more stunning when he smiled or laughed. He was so kind to all the people he was with.

A sudden wind blew through his long, pale locks and a loud noise boomed across the sky. He looked up, expecting to see more of the colorful lights, but there were no lights to be seen.

He blinked. What was this? Where was the silver pearl and the twinkles? What was going on?

A streak of light split the dark sky and gave a growling boom that echoed. Coeur trembled as the wind picked up. He held onto the side with both hands as some Two-Legs shouted.

The music died. Everything came to a sudden halt.

“Storm!” A Two-Leg yelled down from a great height. “Neptune is angry, lads!”

Neptune? How did these two-legs know his father’s name?

The vessel lurched and he looked down at the waves. They looked very angry. He looked back up at the sky. It did, too.

What was this? What was going on? His sisters had never told him anything about this.

The vessel jerked violently and he lost his balance, falling over backwards into the waves with a splash. His back stung from the impact. He floated below the surface on his back, sinking ever so slowly. He was too stunned to move. Not one of the waves had tried to catch him.

He slowly came to after a few minutes, swimming back to the surface. The waves were huge and crashing all around him. The vessel was being lifted up high and brought back down with violent splashes that didn’t look fun at all. He could hear the Two-Legs yelling orders and shouting in fright.

He tried to calm the waves, but they paid him little mind. They wouldn’t listen to him. Something was very wrong. Was his father angry? The ocean obeyed his every word. Had his sisters done something? Had he? He didn’t understand why this was happening. There was nothing he could do but watch from a distance as the vessel was being tossed around like a starfish between dolphins.

“Abandon ship!” A voice cried out in alarm as bright lights filled the night. There were things that reminded him of bright flickering lights that escaped deep vents down on the ocean floor. They seemed to spread and dance out along the ship, outlining Two-Legs dashing back and forth like dark shadows. “The explosives!”

Explosives?

A large wave suddenly lifted him up, tossing him like a tiny clamshell. He cried out just as the Two-Legs were doing. He hit the face of the water with a splash, screaming as the vessel above him exploded with a bright flash and loud noise.

The prince!

He swam up, dodging flotsam, hearing Two-Legs shouting from their smaller vessels. They were no bigger than small dolphins. The prince was not with them.

“Andrew!” The Two-Leg named Reggie cried out in despair. “Oh, my prince! No! Andrew!”

Coeur swam, fighting the waves, looking for the prince. Where was he? Had he been caught in that terrible light?

He heard a faint cough and spun around. It was the prince! He was holding onto something that was floating in the water. It was round and shiny.

A wave hit the Two-Leg, dragging him under. Coeur panicked, diving down after him.

He took hold of the prince under his arms, pulling him back to the surface with a sharp flick of his strong tail. He kept the Two-Leg’s head above the water, swimming back for the shore, fighting with the turbulent waves as the other two-legs kept shouting.

He dragged the unconscious prince onto the battered beach a tide later near some high rocks, collapsing beside him in exhaustion as the sea slowly calmed down. He closed his eyes and began to hum, hoping it would soothe the sea faster.

~*~

He could hear the gentle surf and felt the warm light of the yellow pearl on his slender back. His luminous green eyes snapped open and he sat up, finding the Prince of the Two Legs still beside him. He blinked several times in awe.

He was lying beside a Two-Leg. His father would have a whale if he saw this.

He suddenly noticed how the Two-Leg’s skin had been torn from his chest. The colorful skin was in tatters, revealing the same color skin as the two-leg’s handsome face and neck.

He looked to see that the black skin on the Two-Leg’s feet were gone, too. The prince had the funniest looking feet. Each foot was large with five digits. They looked similar but very, very different from hands. It was so strange. They twitched every now and then.

He very gently began pulling the tattered skin away, revealing that it wasn’t skin he was pulling away at all. It was some kind of material. Two-Legs must wear this second skin in order to protect their real skin.

He found that very strange. What were they protecting it from?

The prince’s broad chest was slowly rising up and down and it was muscular like his father’s almost. He looked below the waist, seeing a large bulge inside the second skin. He decided to ignore that and studied the prince’s face.

His brown skin was so smooth and soft. He was even more handsome in the light. He had a cleft chin, a square jaw, an aquiline nose, very prominent cheekbones, and his brow was just as smooth as his own.

He began playing with that golden hair. It was so soft and shiny. He gently rubbed some dry sand from his cheek.

He started humming. The hum soon turned into words as the waves sang against the shore at his tail, bubbling furious apologies.

Feels like, I’m floating in a timeless dream
Of light mists, of pale amber rose
Feel’s like, I’m lost in a deep cloud of heavenly scent
Touching, discovering you

Coeur suddenly trembled, realizing the words that were spilling from his crimson lips like water from a fountain in his father’s court.

I’m in love. I’m in love with this two-leg.

He ran his fingers through that golden mane, gently caressing a smooth cheek. The two-leg slowly opened his eyes, smiling up at him, looking all dazed and confused.

You’ve got, the most unbelievable
Blue eyes I’ve ever seen

And it was the truth. They were so very blue.

A loud noise startled him and he looked up, seeing a large, furry thing running right at him on all fours. A wave rushed over him, pulling him away from the prince who coughed and sat up gasping for breath.

“Andrew! Oh, Andrew!”

Coeur watched from the rocks, smiling as the old Two-Leg and a frantic female fussed over the prince. The white thing made noise, bouncing around their feet, making more noise.

“Did you hear?” The prince asked, looking this way and that, walking around as if he didn’t know how to walk. “Did you hear that beautiful voice?”

“Andrew?” The female asked, taking him by the arm as Reggie did the other. “We thought you dead. You look like a drowned cat.”

“It was so beautiful,” the prince smiled, pulling away from the two of them, nearly falling to his face. “A voice and face unlike any other.”

Coeur smiled as he watched the two Two-Legs look at each other in puzzlement.

“Saved me,” the prince said, letting them hold him up. He was dragging his large feet, smiling. “…saved me…”

The Prince of the Sea watched from the rocks, smiling as the two of them helped the prince away. The white thing followed, making even more noise.

You’ve got, me almost melt away
As we lay there, under a blue sky
With pure white stars
Exotic sweetness, a magical time

A wave splashed around him, pulling him away as the prince turned just in time to see a splash with his topaz-blue eyes.

Coeur swam home. The organ in which he was named after was warm and singing within his breast.

~*~

A chuckle filled the deep scented gloom with bubbling malice. Shadows played in the flames of deepest violet, crying and clawing for freedom that would never come.

“Well, well, well,” a deep voice chuckled with wicked amusement. “Won’t this be fun, babies?”

Snickering hisses filled the purple darkness.

“A merman and a man…”

The hissing continued.

“You know this is simply going to end badly,” the voice snorted. “Let us make sure that it ends even worse.”

To Be Continued

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Note: The song lyrics used above belong to Donna Lewis.
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