Inspired by this post: https://dinklebert.tumblr.com/post/177564564637/uuhh-piratelevi-and-mereren-au-anyone
Levi was not your typical pirate captain. He didn’t revel in slaughter, and he wasn’t overly demanding. Unless it came to cleaning. Then he was a hard taskmaster. His ship had to be spotless, pristine. On those times that they had to shed blood, he insisted it be cleaned right away before it soaked into the wood. He hated dirt, gore, and grime with a passion.
Maybe that’s why he liked the sea so much. The water was ever moving, so it seemed to him that, even with everything that lived in it, it was constantly self-cleaning. Plus the sea was full of salt, so that certainly kept it even cleaner.
He knew that all sorts of creatures lived in the sea, and it was rumored monsters resided beneath the waves, but he wasn’t certain he believed that. Oh, some of his crew swore up and down that they’d seen strange things in the dead of night, but pirates were a superstitious lot, so they could just be imagining them. He didn’t completely dismiss the notion, but he himself had never had such an encounter. Until one fateful day.
They’d left port and been out to sea for five days. The sea was calm, the sky clear as the sun began to slip below the horizon in the west. Levi was leaning on the railing looking down into the clear waters, two of his crew with him. It was unusual for pirates to have a female on board, but Petra was very useful. She was rather adept at medicine and cleaning, and enjoyed helping the cook.
“Look Captain, a mermaid!”
Her voice broke into his musings, and he realized he’d been focused on nothing. Looking where she pointed, his breath caught in his throat. The mermaid was male, his top half naked and pale as the moon. His dark hair looked fluffed from the slight wind and small droplets of water still clung to it. Levi couldn’t tell the color of his eyes, but his tail and fins were the most beautiful blue-green he’d ever seen. It was his first time seeing any of the creatures his crew spoke of, and ‘monster’ was the farthest thing from his mind. He heard Oluo commenting on how dangerous they were, but tuned him out, simply enjoying the view of such an exotic creature.
Eren was the prince of a mermaid kingdom that lived deep in the depths of this part of the sea, still untouched by man. The only time humans got to see it was briefly, if they survived long enough on the trip down there.
Mermaids fed on other fish….and humans when they got the chance. They were a delicacy.
Eren was taught growing up that all humans were garbage and destroyed the beautiful Earth they lived on, they were only good for food. If they didn’t eat them when they came around, they would surely destroy their ocean eventually. So, he felt no sympathy in dragging humans under.
It helped that all mermaids had some kind of power over them, humans couldn’t help but chase them. Sometimes they snapped out of it and struggled, but mostly they happily accepted their deaths at the hands of a beautiful mermaid.
Eventually Eren caught sight of the humans staring at him from the ship. He couldn’t really see what they looked like from here, but it didn’t matter. They were all the same. He simply flaunted himself for a moment, knowing he looked good. He was complimented and flirted with all the time, it was hard not to be confident at this point.
He thought of ways he could lure them over to him. Anything would work honestly, he could sing, swim over to them and flirt, etc.
He felt like being lazy today and simply smirked before winking and making a kissy face. Yes, even that should work on them.
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