Crashing the Reef (Yaoi Strider and I)

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In the sea there dwells an ancient race alongside the various fish and fishermen. They are children born again when drowned in the ocean; clawed, bloodthirsty, enticing; their mother is the Witch. The Queen of Merfolk. But the Witch can't be everywhere at once, and with problems popping up on the other side of the ocean, one little clan of merfolk in a coral reef is having issues with pearl divers.

Not to mention teenage drama, as is present in every culture. Whether one problem is solved first or the other is up to the merfolk themselves: as vicious as some of them are, both are going to be major trouble in the near future.  

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Blood Frenzy in Open Water

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Nickname:

Frenzy

Age:

17

Skills:

He has an amazing sense of direction and can't get lost, even in low visibility.

Apperance Description:

Aside from the clawed hands, he has a long tail in medium blue with fins shading to a slight purple at the edges, similar to the plum tint in his hair. He also has scars, mostly along his upper arms, from where he brushed against the sharp coral and didn't notice.

Likes:

☑ hunting
☑ nighttime
☑ the colour blue

Dislikes:

☒ pushy vegetarians
☒ being embarassed (he can't laugh it off)
☒ the taste of mammals

Personality:

He's very brash and outgoing, but insecure about himself. He doesn't take teasing well. He makes friends easily, but tends to make enemies quicker, and says a few nasty things, so he learned to swim pretty quickly.

Biography:

Frenzy thinks his full name is stupid, but his guardian encourages it. He's always been the child of bloodthirsty hunters, and he inherited that taste. He just can't stand mammals - their taste, that is. He's rather good friends with a few dolphins and whales, when they aren't hunting him down. He hunts with a handmade dagger, but he had someone else make his spear for him. He was never that bored. He has always had to hunt for his own meals, so he's used to his independence. He's also one of the faster messengers in the community - at least at night.

Guardians:

His current guardian is a tiger shark named Avens. He likes to think his guardian's chosen name means something.

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[Cisala Elden]

One Who Sees All but Nothing

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Nickname:

Noth.

Age:

15.

Skills:

Noth is an exceptional hunter considering the fact that he is blind. By feeling the ripples, and vibrations in the water he is able to sense prey in places no one else would even look.

Apperance Description:

Well besides from the fact that he has a five foot long silver tail. He also, has three inch claws.

Likes:

☑ Angle fish.
☑ Sarcasm.
☑ Hunting.

Dislikes:

☒ People asking him 'did you see that?'.
☒ To much surrounding movement. It confuses his senses.
☒ Squealing.

Personality:

Noth tends to stay away from the other Merfolk due to his... Disability. He doesnt like it when people pity, or critisize him because of the fact he is blind. Putting all of that aside he acts just like any other teenager with the addition of him being a bit more tolerant of people's stuppidity.

Biography:

Like most Merfolk he became a Merman when his rel parents tryed to drown him with his older sister Fin. But, unlike everyone else his parents for some reason desided to blind him first by putting ammonia in his eyes. Why they had done this he didnt know. All he knows is that it has made his life hell.

Guardians:

An Angelfish named Angelica.

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Blood Frenzy in Open Water

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A warm current cut through the water above the merman. He looked up at the moving water distrustfully - the currents had been less and less reliable, what with those fishing boats coming out every other day or so. It was, after all, unsafe to run into the humans. Not that he cared. Avens didn't either, which was precisely why Frenzy didn't go after the humans unless he needed to.

The last human he'd killed... he had to think long and hard about that one. It couldn't have been more than two weeks ago, but that was such a long time for someone who had previously been encouraged to attack any and every human they came across. How times changed.

The thing was, he wasn't named after a blood frenzy for nothing. He liked the idea of attack, he liked the idea of pulling the intruders into his sphere of control, and he especially had liked to hunt alongside his previous guardians. This was his test period for Avens, to be truthful; he'd just changed guardians a month or so ago, and he was hoping this shark could accept him as the horribly contrary person he was. So many couldn't.

Frenzy voted against taking the current in past the reef and instead took the longer route, swimming fiercely as quickly as he could - which was pretty damn fast, if he didn't say so himself. As he passed a few homes of the other merfolk, he slowed and looked around. Some of them lived in a kind of community with the others, a mutual existence based on peace, prosperity, and the concept of despising the human intruders.

"Hah, he scoffed, not even realising he was broadcasting his words to the immediate realm around him. "Like they have the hearts to despise anyone. Idiots." If anyone despised the humans, he thought, it had to be the ones whose guardians were veritably hunted, the ones who had to live with the fact that they couldn't spend enough time with one fish looking after them. The ones who were told once a year that their guardian had been pulled out of the ocean by a hook in their jaw.

He started swimming again, slower now, trying to pace himself so he'd get to work just after everyone else. Then he noticed a glimmer on silver - but what wasn't silver in the ocean? - that caught his eye. Looking to the side, Frenzy grinned maniacally and clenched one hand into a fist. He knew this one, this one other merman that had never seemed as boring as the rest. What fun this would be.

"Hey, you!" he directed at the younger boy. "You, yeah, you. You're interesting. Want to come to work with me?" Frenzy loved interesting people; not that he bothered using names at all, either. Names, he believed, were useless drivel designed by those who wanted to embarrass others. That was all his name was, after all, he thought.

Besides, work was boring. People at work were boring most of the time. Others, though, were... a bit of a mystery. Mysteries in themselves weren't interesting to Frenzy, but he could live with them if it meant finding someone with more depth to them than the colour of their tail.

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[Cisala Elden]

One Who Sees All but Nothing

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Noth refused to leave the safety of his 'platform'. His sense of direction could not be trusted with these ever moving currents It didnt help that he was kind of, sort of blind. Though he could always tell when his guardian was near. She always had such a kind and bubbily presence. "Yes Angelica?" He directed at the Angel fish that was currently debating whether to talk to the boy or not.

"Uh yes small fry... Are you ok? You look a bit sick around the gills." Angelica asked calmly as she brushed across Noth's hands to give away her general direction. She worried about her little fry. Of all the merpeople out there her fry had to be the blind one. He didnt deserve this. If anyone did it was that t**t Artica. Stupid fish always going on about how pretty her fins were.

"Im fine Angelica. Just a bit disoriented. I should be fine when the boats leave." Noth replied as he was startled by the sudden intrusion on his mind. He wasnt used to the others bothering him. It was just unheard of. As long as he kept to himself they left him alone. He didnt much like the others so he usually ignored them but this one... He had talked to this one before. It was something frenzy in... Oh he couldnt remember.

He was a bit surprised by the fact that this other male had asked him to go to work with him. "I don't know... The currents arnt very reliable today." He replyed calmly as tryed to locate the direction of the voice. He was a bit suspisious and didnt really want to go but Angelica being Angelica had managed to somehow 'hack' into his thoughts without his permission. She nudged his hand a bit to get his attention and was annoyed to find that he had just brushed off the offer.

"Oh no you dont! Get off of your lazy tail fin and go with this boy! Disoriantation or not!" The Angel fish snapped as she finally annoyed Noth to his limit and had his guardian lead him over to Frenzy. This pissed the boy off to no exstent. He hated how his guardian wormed her way into his thoughts when it should have been impossible. Though this thought was automaticy pushed out of his mind when vibrations in the water started to hit him from all angles due to the merpeople moving around. He wanted to swim back and stay on his platform where it was safe but Angelica had already stopped him when she had gotten Noth by Frenzy's side. "Have fun!" The fish glubbed before leaveing Noth with the Shark boy.

"Um... Hi." Noth thought rather akwardly. First of all he couldnt get a good general location of the other boy so he probably wasnt looking directly at Frenzy, and on top of that his senses were all out of wack which wasnt good for a boy who relyed on touch, and smell. Oh well he could get over a 'small' flaw like that. Wrong.

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Blood Frenzy in Open Water

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Frenzy grinned his deathly smile at the kid, even if the strange little thing couldn't see it, and rolled his shoulders loose. "So, your mama telling you to get along with the other children?" he teased. "Come on, it's not so bad. I'll keep you right by my side the whole time. I've seen you, you don't get out hardly enough, not like the rest of us."

He cast a look above at the softly-flowing waters near the surface. "Just..." He didn't want to betray his own uncertainty in these waters, especially not to someone who might take the chance to tear him apart. It was what he did, after all, his job, his terrain. Frenzy was usually the one tearing apart flesh, emotions, past. "Stick with me, kid. The name's Frenzy. Just Frenzy, please, nothing else." He interlocked his hands behind him and stretched back, popping his spine carefully. Didn't want to strain or stretch something that ought not have been put that way. Sure, stretching was good for a messenger who had to be lithe and lethal in treacherous waters, but any kind of overextension could put him out of service for a week or more.

"So, you're in, right? You've got a pretty guardian; it's a surprise she's lived long enough to get colour like that." He took Noth by the shoulder and faced him towards their destination, the hole-in-the-wall office on the edge of the actual reef. "The fishermen are out in full force lately," he said chattily, "so it's a wonder we've got any business at all, you know, especially since we're supposedly 'valuable'." He swam slowly towards the reef, making sure Noth was still there. "But listen, I'll keep you alive today. If only because we really don't need another clash with your little fishes."

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[Cisala Elden]

One Who Sees All but Nothing

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Noth glowered in what he thought was Frenzy's general direction. Great he had to deal with some snarky b*****d today when he could have been talking to Nena. "Oh really? My name is Nothing as well. But, to make things simpler just call me Noth." He replyed snippedly as he let the older boy lead him.

It was a common occurance to have others lead him since they all thought he was incompitant. This was the main reason he didnt like going to town. To many people to fuss over him. "Im not a child you know. I can get around just as well as the next person... Its just a little harder when the waters are so rough." He replyed defensively. Thats it when he got home he was so going to make his guardian pay for... Wait wait something that Frenzy had said bothered him.

"What do you mean? It shouldnr be a surprise that Angelica is alive... Unless you the one who has been eating the Angel fish." He thought almost accusinglly. But, he knew better then that. He would have know because something as big as Frenzy wouldnt be able to get through his little stretch of reef without him knowing. That depressed him. The Angel fish were dying off and he was supposed to protect them. Somee protecter he turned out to be.

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Blood Frenzy in Open Water

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"What?" Frenzy looked at Noth scathingly. "Me? Eat angelfish? They're stringy, you know. Haven't tasted one in years, certainly not around this place." He smirked and shook his head. "If I tasted any of your guardian's sisters, I'd be dead, trust me. My guardians don't let me eat anything they don't approve of, especially this new one." He rolled his eyes. "Come on. I do have to work today. They kind of need me." He lithely swam towards the reef, keeping half of his attention on Noth as much as he could.

Noth. Nothing. What kind of a short form was that? Frenzy scoffed at it; whatever it was, it had to be worse than his own, if that kid was hesitating to divulge it. In his moving around in circles around the segments of the huge reef, he'd met plenty of Dives and Currents and Reefs, but never a Nothing. Whoever would saddle someone with a name like that after their first guardianship was one hell of a monster. After all, making someone go by Nothing was almost like deeming them not more than just that.

But he had to focus. There was bound to be trouble between the messengers today - it had been brewing between a pair of males, two whose names Frenzy couldn't remember, an emerald-tailed jerk and a bronze-tailed one, for ages. The storm had to break soon, or someone would go crazy, and they definitely did not need to call the Witch out for a crazed merman. She surely got enough of those calls a year.

He glanced back at Noth and smiled softly, breaking it a second later to glance around in paranoia. If anyone saw him being actually kind and giving some blind kid the chance to get into society, like they'd dare throw him out with Frenzy around, his reputation as being very unprotective of anyone but himself would be ruined.

Besides, he wasn't really protecting Noth, was he? More like throwing him into even more danger by making him move about more. If anything, danger could always strike on a message run, be it storm currents or fishing boats. And if there were any nets on his routes today, he could be in serious trouble, especially if Blindy got caught up in them. He'd have to keep an extra-sharp eye out - his claws might be sharp, but they couldn't cut through the braided nets as easily as he liked. It would take him a minute or two, and the fishermen could react by then, pulling one of them up into the air and parading them as some sort of exotic catch...

Dammit, no. That would not happen. Frenzy shuddered and realised he'd stopped in the middle of a thought, then shook his head to clear it. Work to be done, work to be done. Once again he checked around for Noth, as he'd taken it at the kid's word that he could guide himself. Why did he always have to be the one saddled with the extra baggage? First a guardian change, now this. If Frenzy could sigh underwater, he would have. As it was, he settled for allowing waves of exasperated energy to roll off of him.

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[Cisala Elden]

One Who Sees All but Nothing

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So Frenzy eaten the Angelfish. But, that didnt calm him down any.He still wanted to know what was happening to the one he cared for. Just a few days ago one of Angelica's 'children' had gone missing. Children... Were fish supposed to know their children? Or was Angelica just that protective of her young. Noth didnt know nor did he care.

He growled mentily as he followed the other merman. It was diffacult work trying to find the vibrations of Frenzy's movements but he managed if only to prove to him that he could take care of himself. Though it probably asnt the best move to tell Frenzy that his name was Nothing. People tend to act strangely around him when he tells them his name. Of course it doesnt help that he doesnt state his whole name... What ever.

He was jostled out of his thoughts when someone bumped into him leaving the blind boy confused and feeling lost. He had just been knocked off corse. That wasnt good. Then again he could use this as an excuse to find someone who would take him back to the Angelfish... Wait then Angelica would scould him not being social. He was never social and he never would be social so why did she try so hard to get him into the mermaid sociaty?

Noth tryed to sense the vibration of Frenzy's movements thankful that the other boy carried himself differently then everyone else. He finally felt a slight ripple as if someone a few feet to his right had stopped suddenly. That was probably the snarky merman looking back to make sure he stayed out of trouble like the good little fry he is. Yeah right. He pretended as if nothing were wrong before swishing himself in what he beleved was the right direction.

Stupid jerk. Who bumps into someone without appolagizing. He thought calmly as something worriefd him. It was unlike anouther merperson to bump into someone. Even by accident. And what he assumed was a man didnt seem very happy either. Well it wasnt his problem so he wasnt going to worry about it. Simple as that.

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