Desharow Mermaid - Chap 49

“They were waiting for what?

With full of doubt, I looked down and saw the mermaids popping out their upper bodies. I was surprised to find out that they were all male mermaids, standing tall with sturdy chests and facing upwards.

Beside me, Agares leaned out of the hole and suddenly stretched out his arms, hugging me tightly. He lowered his head, revealing thin lips and a somewhat proud expression as he let out a deep and resonant growl, like a horn used to signal in naval battles, deafeningly loud!

I was shocked, and saw that the mermaids below seemed to have received a divine call. Suddenly, they became excited and started jumping up towards the moon, turning into countless arcs of interwoven flashing lights. They emitted short and long, rough and high-pitched, and fast-paced calls, blending with the sounds of the sea breeze and waves, as if forming a breathtaking symphony of fate. My eardrums were pounding, and my nerves were pulsing. This was the legendary singing of the mermaids?

I have to admit that it was nothing like what I had imagined. There was no charm or seduction, but instead it was like a raging storm, full of primitive and wild power.

This singing made me imagine these fierce and beautiful creatures moving through the vast and deep ocean, chasing and fighting with their enemies in storms, hunting in the waves, and even attacking human ships.

But what were they singing about at this moment? Was it because Agares brought me here?

Was this the so-called “ceremony” of the mermaids, celebrating their leader “marrying” a spouse?

This was too absurd!”

My brow furrowed as I thought about what was happening. Suddenly, all the merpeople stopped their jumping, and some of them went to the bottom of the cave, their eyes shining like ghostly fires as they looked up at us. The others leaned against the large and small rocks on the surface of the sea. I wondered what they were doing when I saw pairs of merpeople on the rocks embrace each other. Then, their tails intertwined with each other and they began to move rapidly, with one merperson pinning the other to the bottom with their body while moving their tail quickly. Before I could react, the sound of their tail fins slapping against the surface of the rocks echoed through the entire sea, and their heavy breathing and moaning mixed together, creating a boiling pot of sound that echoed through the entire ocean.

Looking around, all I could see were tangled pairs of muscular bodies. I suddenly felt as if I was at an ancient fertility festival, or in some kind of decadent underground gay club, watching an explicit performance.

I realized that these merpeople who were mating had spouses, and the ones below were obviously a group of hungry bachelors. Perhaps like dolphins, merpeople heavily relied on sexual behavior to build their social relationships, and this was one of their social “rituals.”

However, who told me why all the participants here were male? Even if it was a “ritual,” there should be females involved, right? Could it be that merpeople were really a race that reproduced through same-sex mating? This was too incredible!

I felt very embarrassed but also intensely curious, so I stuck my head out a bit. At that moment, I was stunned because I saw hundreds of male merpeople below me, all lifting their bodies, looking at me with anticipation, yet hesitant to jump up.

Moreover, I even saw the red-haired merman at the nearest rock. He had his wounded tail pressed against a smaller male, but he had turned his body towards me, deliberately exposing his genitalia. His narrow and sinister eyes were fixed on me, and it was not hard to imagine what he was thinking.

I couldn’t help but shiver with goosebumps.

　”These bachelors were clearly afraid of the powerful Ageres as their leader, but their gazes were devouring, as if they wanted to tear apart my body, dismember me, and devour me inch by inch.

That wasn’t appetite, but another kind of desire.

My goodness!

I swallowed hard, trying to imagine what it would be like to fall down, a chill rising from my feet, making me shiver uncontrollably.

Those eyes were just like Ageres’ when he was in the deep-sea laboratory…

I clenched my fists, my palms full of sweat, and just as I looked to my side, I unexpectedly met a pair of bright eyes. I was startled by his expression. Sweat covered his forehead and nose, his veins bulged out from his neck, and the dark color of his congested eyelids made him look like a junkie in an extreme state of excitement. Damn, this expression was so familiar to me!

I almost forgot that the impact of the scenes before me was unimaginable to me, but to Ageres, it might be just like watching a real-life adult video…

I shrank my body back, almost falling out of the hole, and was pushed back to the rock wall by the claws behind me. Ageres stared deeply at me, his throat rolling as he made a loud swallowing sound. Then he stuck out his tongue and licked my neck heavily. The thick, tough fish tail under me squeezed between my legs, and the thing below his belly was already as hard as a rock. A big one was pressing against my crotch, rubbing and bouncing against the thin layer of my underwear, impatiently trying to break through.

“Damn it, don’t do this! Get away!”

I panicked and quickly pushed his chest with my elbow, shouting loudly.”

As a man, I couldn’t bear the shame of being violated in public, especially by a male beast, and in front of his own kind! But my protests were useless against Ageres’ brute strength; he easily captured my hands and pinned me down beneath his hard chest.

My head was forced down onto the ground with savage force, exposing my neck.

His lips pressed against my Adam’s apple, fiercely nibbling and biting like a hungry vampire. His muscles tensed like steel, and I could even feel his blood pressure rising rapidly, his blood boiling just beneath the surface of his skin. His long silver-grey hair cascaded over my face, and the intense scent of his hormones overwhelmed my senses, causing me to feel dizzy and panicked, shuddering with sensitivity all over my body. I admit I desired Ageres, but I would never expose my most secret acts in such a situation!

As his webbed claws reached for my underwear, I almost screamed at the top of my lungs: “Ageres…Ageres, I beg you! Damn it! I’m not one of you; I don’t want to go through this strange ritual! If you do this to me, I swear I’ll hate you forever! Let me leave this damn place!”

As soon as I finished speaking, Ageres’ movement actually stopped. His head remained buried in my neck, and he took a deep sniff, before hoarsely uttering a few words: “Desharow…I need…prove…”

“Prove what?”

His breath made my neck tingle, and I immediately turned my head and screamed in a hoarse voice, like someone about to be choked to death. I struggled to free my hands and grabbed hold of his two wing ears, trying to lift his face away from my neck.

Ageres also suddenly raised his head, his face almost touching mine. I stared at him, holding my breath, his deep-set eyes burning with a flickering flame, and the whites of his eyes almost entirely covered in bloodshot veins. This was the only evidence of his remaining shred of sanity and struggle against his instincts. I was stunned for a moment, and my heart relaxed slightly: although Ageres was in heat, at least he could control himself now, unlike the other merfolk below.

“Or…” He glanced at the merfolk below and pressed his webbed claws against the back of my neck, his wet lips brushing against my nose, exhaling an undercurrent of desire: “You will be in danger…”

What did he want to prove?
　
I hesitated for a second before realizing what Agares meant. He wanted to prove to these merpeople that I belonged to him, otherwise, I would be in danger of being taken by his competitors. He needed to publicly mark me with mating in order to completely eliminate the other merpeople’s covetousness.

Fuck, this is terrible. Can’t he use another way?!

I didn’t dare let go of Agares’ ears with my hands. I was so anxious that I spoke incoherently: “Can we wait a bit…” I looked at my chest, luckily I found that it really had cracked open a bit, and the thin membrane that had just healed was bleeding again. Obviously, his action was too forceful. But I felt a bit of relief and even wished that more blood would come out, hoping to make him think that I was almost dead. I coughed and whispered: “Hey…it hurts here, so can you spare me today because of my injury? Otherwise…when I’m healed, you can prove it to them…”

As soon as the last syllable was spoken, my legs became weak. Agares didn’t respond to me, he just silently lowered his head and licked my wound. But I clearly felt his webbed claws restrain themselves and not tear my underwear again.

The lustful moans in the air stimulated my eardrums, making my brain buzz, as if a seductive sound was urging me to feel hot all over and my breathing became uncontrollable. Agares’ strong back made my blood boil even more. God knows what kind of mental test it was to be in this situation with the object of my sexual impulses! I forced myself to look away and dared not look at what was happening below. I just looked at the rocks above my head and silently thought that I would never allow myself to fall into such a situation. I didn’t want to be watched while mating with Agares. God, please let me get through this time!

Just when I was in a panic, Agares suddenly hugged my waist tightly, and then his fishtail arched up. Before I could react, he had already jumped into the pit filled with seawater in the cave, and we plunged quickly into the depths of the unfathomable darkness. I thought I would drown because I didn’t have time to hold my breath, but strangely, I didn’t feel suffocated or uncomfortable with water in my lungs. My ears hurt from the pressure, and it seemed that there were two small openings that had opened up, allowing water to flow into my nose and mouth, automatically filtering out the air for me to breathe and then out of those two small openings.

They were gills.

Here is the English translation of the text:

“But how could I have grown gills? No, this can’t be possible! How can I explain that I can breathe freely underwater?”

I opened my eyes in the darkness and quickly descended into the ocean’s pressure. The pressure squeezed my brain, causing my thoughts to become chaotic. I even felt like I was still dreaming and hadn’t woken up yet. But Aegir held onto my arm so strongly and realistically.

I opened my eyes and looked around in the deep blue sea, amazed. I saw a huge sunken ship’s tail embedded in the island’s landmass. It hung there silently, burying its secrets, which had become part of this place over the years. This might be a trace left by the ancestors who explored Mermaid Island.

Where did they go? Did they sink to the bottom of the sea together?

As we descended, the sunken ship came closer and closer. I gradually saw that it was a steam-powered ship from the last century, with broken wheels on the outside, and the window style belonged to the East. There were some Eastern patterns on the ship’s surface. I guessed that this ship might be from China or Japan. Could it be the ship of Mr. Zhenyi’s friend, the old woman who lost her son and had a shipwreck when she was young?

As I thought about it, I couldn’t help but want to explore it.

“Aegir! Take me to see it!”

I tried to speak in the water, but I only spit out a large amount of seawater. He swam in a different direction from the sunken ship, and the pressure of the seawater decreased as we went up to the sea surface.

Vaguely, I could see the moonlight shaking above my head. Aegir took me like a fountain shooting towards the sky, as if we were flying straight towards the unreachable moon. Suddenly, with a loud breaking sound, we jumped into the sky. The airflow on the sea surface swept in like a tornado, and the huge moon pressed down towards us. I almost felt my nose touching its surface, and my breath stopped for a moment, making me exclaim in surprise, “Ah!”

The sound dissipated as our bodies fell back into the sea, but immediately we soared back into the air, this time jumping higher and farther than before. Aegirius even flipped several times in the air, causing waves and splashing water droplets to swirl around us. I realized he was taking me on this amazing leap. Nervously, I held onto him, amazed by everything I was experiencing, and he suddenly pressed his lips onto mine, tightly embracing my waist, as if he wanted to fuse us together.

The moonlight looked like blurry glass bottles in the water, and I felt dizzy from this flying leap, yet I also experienced the ultimate freedom of my soul leaving my body. Like a true alcoholic, I uncontrollably kissed Aegirius back, a sweet fragrance fermenting in my heart, completely intoxicated.

Damn, I don’t know how to describe this feeling right now, is it novel, thrilling, or…romantic?

I don’t know, because I’m not a girl who has any longing for love, but I’m sure that this moment may be the most unforgettable memory of my life. Even if I leave this mermaid island in the future, I won’t forget it.

I seem to have a little bit of (of course, with my remaining reason, it is highly likely that it is an illusion caused by the adrenaline rush) – falling in love with Aegirius.

But this feeling passed quickly, and when Aegirius put me on a reef, I suddenly noticed my hands, as if they were struck by lightning. There was a thin layer of webbing between my fingers, reflecting the wet light in the moonlight. However, this time it was not a dream or an illusion, because Aegirius was holding my hands tightly, and the strength was real.

“Aegirius, what did you do to me…”

I pulled my hands out, staring at my fingers in shock, and suddenly everything went black.

“The first change…will be.”

Before losing consciousness completely, I felt his webbed claw stroke my cheek, his narrow eyes staring at me, his mouth open, murmuring softly.