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Long time no see- lil gift art for @naffeclipse “Eating Krill”
Nice lil break from writing essays n pretending Algebra has a purpose
“Your enemy now swims out there. You are sworn to each other with blackening bruises and rake marks.” - Eating Krill
Eating Krill au by @naffeclipse
Unbothered humpback y/n about to drown a fish
I'm curious, how different would the interactions between Humpback Mermaid and Orca Eclipse have been if he was the father of babys Orcas Sun and Moon???
That's a difficult scenario for Humpback Y/N. Of course, you want to fight him. You first lay eyes on him and You're already preparing to throw hands. You would never dare pull back from a challenge—until you spy two small orca siren children in Eclipse's arms. The only force capable of preventing you from initiating a brawl.
Of course, any siren would fight viciously to defend their young. You understand this, but where are the children's mother? Where is the rest of his pod? It's so strange and unnerving, and you feel no pride in hunting down a siren tending to his children, even if he is an orca siren.
So you lurk at the edges, observing the orca siren as if he might do something nefarious. You only need one excuse to fight the orca siren and gladly, you search for one. Perhaps he stole the children or maybe he's not a good father. You're not quite sure what to do in such a case that the children actually need a guardian to watch over them, but you don't worry about thinking that far ahead. You only mean to fight the orca siren on reasonable terms.
You patiently stalk and follow behind the orca siren, watching and waiting, and a moment arrives. The orca siren sets the two little ones down upon an ice floe and rushes off to hunt seals. You swim carefully up to the little ones. They're so small. You never realize how tiny they are until you pick one up in your hand and cradle his sweet little tail. Then the other begins wailing, crying out for a parent. You softly shush him, but a quiet splash echoes behind you.
You turn around slowly until you're face to face with the orca siren. His eyes are piercing and wild with a need to defend his tiny pod. You wonder if he might have lunged at you were it not for the baby in your hand. He orders you in a chilling voice to set down his child.
There's no glory in fighting a parent only protecting their little ones.
Slowly, gently, you set the baby back on the ice beside his brother, and then you swim away. The orca siren rushes to his children. You feel his stare digging into your flukes until you disappear from the ice floe, struggling with your own uncertainty and confusion.
But the orca siren is fascinated by the humpback siren who handled his babies so gently and didn't start thrashing him. He'll see you again. He'll make sure of it while he settles Sun and Moon back into his arms.
I wrote a little oneshot off of @naffeclipse 's fic, Eating Krill. I couldn't get the story out of my head, DEFINITELY go read it if you hadn't.
After your last experience with a human vessel, the two of you steered well enough away from it.
You’d made it very clear that that was the plan; you’d practically forbidden Eclipse from even looking at it, enduring his teasing about how you worried about him as a result. Truth be told, putting up with his goading was the most difficult part of the process, and even that wasn’t too bad; the ship came, stayed in one spot by the ice for half a day, and then left as quickly as it had arrived, leaving your waters peaceful and calm. In fact, it took almost a full week to realize that it had left something behind. A few somethings, actually.
“Little Krill,” Eclipse sang. “I have something to show you. Come.”
He laughed at the face you made as he scared away the school of small fish you’d been pursuing. Learning to hunt without your family has been… difficult. You couldn’t catch the type of things you were used to with such a small pod, was the simple fact of the matter. A fact Eclipse was infuriatingly thrilled about, practically jumping for the opportunity to bring you “real” kills. It would have been adorable if not for the smug look on his face every time you ate something he caught.
“Something to show me?” you challenged, raising an eyebrow as he beckoned you to follow. “What kind of something?”
Eclipse hummed. “I’m not sure yet,” he admitted. “You’ll have to wait and see.”
He was right, to a degree. What now sat upon the expanse of great white, like a drop of jet black blood in the snow, was some kind of… enclosure. You opened your mouth to question it, before Eclipse held up one hand to call for your silence. You very nearly bit him for the offense before you saw why; two figures, small and wrapped from head to toe in furs, exiting the enclosure. Grabbing Eclipse by the wrist, you yanked him beneath the surface with a quiet splash, hunkering down to speak where you were hidden by the shelf of ice.
“You will not go near them,” you ordered as soon as you surfaced.
“They have no nets, little krill,” Eclipse argued, his voice velvet against the shards of ice around you. “What could they do to something like me?”
“I have no intention of finding out,” you said hotly, making a point to tower over him. “Leave them be, do you understand?”
Eclipse laughed at you, tugging you farther down into the water where he could plant a kiss on your cheek. “You’re darling when you worry,” he told you.
Despite his taunting, he stuck to his word; the sea remained icy cold and still, and the two of you stuck far away from the humans.
Unfortunately, they were much less careful to steer away from you.
“They’re like hungry gulls,” Eclipse growled the third or so time you had to move away from them, flicking his tail. “Showing up every time we stop to have a meal.”
“They’ll leave before long,” you insisted, though you were growing uncertain. “How long can just two of them survive in this cold, anyway?”
“Last I checked, far shorter than they have,” he sulked.
Part of you was inclined to agree. More and more, these humans were starting to remind you of that young seal you’d once stolen from his clutches; ignorant and flailing, unaware of how you stood between them and their demise at Eclipse’s waning patience. And your own, if you were being honest; every time they stepped close to the waters edge your eyes narrowed, watchful for them to cast the nets that had stolen your father and almost stolen your mate from you.
Yet, they never did. Though they lingered far longer than was wise, they didn’t cast anything into your waters for weeks, and when they did, it wasn’t a net.
Eclipse's eyes narrowed at the metal rod that sank just a few feet below the surface, held there by a cable the humans had tossed out. You caught his eye to shake your head at him; whatever that was, you would be the one to investigate. As much as you loved Eclipse, you didn’t trust him not to make rash decisions.
You swam closer, waving him off to linger back (to his obvious displeasure). As far as you could see, it wasn’t much; just a metal rod with a black dot on the side near the end, as harmless as it was confusing.
And then the dot lit up red, and the water sparked with electricity.
The scream that tore from your throat robbed your lungs of oxygen, leaving you seeing stars and immobile in the water. Something wrapped around your fins and tail, leaving you to gasp at open air as the net slowly, gruelingly pulled you out of the water and struggled to shove your weight onto the ledge.
It was the first time you’d seen humans up close, much less these ones. They were… small. Far smaller than you’d expected. The furs they wrapped themselves up in accounted for the vast majority of their bulk, you couldn’t imagine how lithe and skinny they must be without them. In front of them, a few feet away from the edge, sat a wiring box of metal, groaning in effort as it wound up the cable of the net to draw you closer. They looked calmer than you’d expected, despite the fear behind their eyes. Grim, even.
And then Eclipse burst out of the water, and their expressions melted into cold shock.
His claws hooked into the net, tearing you away from the edge with strength the shock had stolen from you and back into the water. He snarled as he held you above water, his face a mask of bloodlust and rage.
“You insolent fools, have you not taken enough?” he spat, throwing the rod with enough force that the taller of the two humans had to throw himself out of the way to avoid being hit. “Your blood will spill for this, daring to attack what is mine.”
“Eclipse,” you rasped. Even to you, your voice sounded pained, your vocal cords feeling dry in your throat. “Leave them.”
His face changed, lighting at the sound of your voice but darkening with confusion and frustration. “Look at what they did to you,” he snarled.
“Leave them,” you insisted, looking up at him. “I mean it.”
For a long, tense moment, he hesitated, torn between loyalty to your word and to your honor. And then, he ducked you both underneath the waves, carting you away to snap off the lengths of net one by one.
“I don’t like this,” Micheal muttered, leaning over Vanessa’s shoulder. The light of the computer was near blinding in the dark room, flipping over and over between photographs of their encounter from the camera he’d had hidden in his jacket. “You told me the books said orcas and humpbacks were natural enemies.”
“They did,” murmured Vanessa, stalling on one of the pictures. “So either they were wrong, or this is a special case.”
Micheal made a face. “I don’t like either of those.”
“It doesn’t matter what you like, it matters what’s happening,” she argued. “If two of them are here, it’s reasonable to assume they have a larger pod, possibly with more of both species. So, we prepare.”
Micheal took a deep breath, handing her a cup of cocoa. “I don’t like this.”
“No,” she agreed, staring for longer at the last picture. It was of you, held aloft in Eclipse’s arms, the moment before you’d told him to leave them be. “No, I don’t like it either.”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Eating Krill
Chapter 1: Fish and Sharks and Whales
Orca!Eclipse x Humpback!Y/N (SFW)
You are a humpback siren. You are large, powerful, and untouchable, but one rivals you—an orca siren. The lone siren challenges your might with his very presence, refusing to flee your waters nor concede to your superiority. With blood and pride, you will sink him.
Word Count: ~4,100 Warnings: Violence, threats of death, fighting, injury, and blood
A/N: Welcome back to more of my self-indulgence! This time, it's Orca Eclipse with a reader who can and will fight him. The reader is also a humpback siren! Whoo! I'm so excited for this little fic and I hope you are, too! What's better than rivals? Rivals who get so mad at each other that they have to make out.
Please make sure to read the tags/warnings and enjoy!
I'm writing the humpback reader fic and it's a delight as Eclipse has a moment of "Why do I hear boss music?" except it's an angry humpback siren coming to fight him and he just
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Eating Krill
Chapter 2: Pretty Teeth
Orca!Eclipse x Humpback!Y/N (SFW)
You seek out the orca siren to continue your battle alone and interrupt a hunt for a seal with delight and vengeance. You celebrate a moment too soon.
Word Count: ~4,400 Warnings: Violence, threats of death, fighting, manhandling, and mentions of death/drowning.
A/N: I can't tell you how happy I am to read so many comments excited about Orca!Eclipse's return! He's so near and dear to my heart and I'm glad you'll come along with me on another little indulgent fic!
Let's get back to the quarrelsome couple, shall we?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Eating Krill
Chapter 4: Courting Gesture
Orca!Eclipse x Humpback!Y/N (SFW)
In the arms of your nemesis, you slowly regain your strength and mull over what this means for your rivalry.
Word Count: ~5,300 Warnings: Violence, threats of death, fighting, manhandling, mentions of death/drowning, blood, injury, and near-death experience.
A/N: This chapter went through editing while I was sick, so excuse any mistakes. I wanted this out before the weekend ended. I hope you enjoy it regardless!