The Mating Habits of Mermen

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Demonize the Enemy: I've decided to take a small break from my other stories to bring you this. I got the idea from 'Tears that Burn' by KuroSakura-chan and 'When I Heard Your Voice' for a FF8 fic, but I'm sorry I don't know who the author is. Enjoy.

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The Mating Habits of Mermen.

Chapter 1.

Deep below the blue expanse of the ocean, dwelling in the colorful fathoms of the great reef, lived one beautiful mermaid… Excuse me, Merman, named Vincent.

Vincent was a beautiful sea creature with long flowing black hair, pale skin and the most mesmerizing red eyes you have ever seen. And as all Mermen he possessed a long fish tale, which began at the waist down, in place of where his human legs aught to be. But contrary to all his kind Vincent didn't have their blue coloring, which was the most common amongst them, but an obsidian one with splotches of crimson scales adorning it at numerous places. Not only that but the fins on his tale end were long and ethereal and hued with crimson same as the rest of his body.

All in all Vincent was the most beautiful sight your eyes may ever lay on.

And to top it all off, he was a carrier. This meant that he was capable of bearing children.

In the Mermen society there were no females (Just because I say so) and therefore it was up to the males to continue the species. Not all were carriers. In their species only a few were capable of bearing and these were evident by the shape of their tales. If they possessed medium regular tales they were incapable of bearing only seeding (Anorexic Whale: What a horrible way of putting it. Lol. Get the idea!!!). And if they had long luxurious tails they were carrier.

And Vincent was a carrier.

And it was mating season. But unlike all the rest of his kind Vincent had no interest in finding a mate.

He much preferred being alone and swimming freely in the endless blue without some domineering, snob partner breathing (Anorexic Whale: You forgot they have gills and don't breathe) down his neck or hindering his movements.

But alas there was the expected endless parade of suitors trying desperately to win his hand in marriage.

Every morning when he woke up from his nest, he would descend down to the lower chambers of his father's manor (imagine an underwater mansion. I know it's difficult but try) to see males trying to offer presents so as to gain his father's favor. Only his father, respecting his son's wishes, and being very fond of him and his happiness would toss them all out and receive his son's grateful hugs.

That is why now instead of scouring the reef for a mate Vincent was frolicking (Anorexic Whale: Can you do that underwater?) in the aquatic haven the reef has to offer instead of hanging out on the congregation field were all the Mermen dwelt.

Vincent loved the reef. It had much to offer. From the colorful tapestry of the underwater landscape, to the abundant life that dwelt amidst the aquatic botonic life. He found their presence far more tolerable than some of his own kind. It was also the solitary isolation with its quiet calm that gave him opportunity to think and contemplate his thoughts, as he was doing now. Lying among the Sea Anemones with his tail gently curved, his long fins being swayed by a gentle tide and his eyes at half mast with one hand on his hip and the other under his head as he gazed at the sun breaking along the waves.

Lying like this under the warm rays of sun, which still managed to reach to this depth, with not another soul around Vincent felt slightly sleepy and was soon deep asleep.

So under was he that he never felt the other presences around as they watched him.

TBC

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