["He threatened to kill them! He threatened to kill our children!"
So that's it, then. When Adranus couldn't get what he wanted, be it Megami himself or Megami to fear him enough to agree to his demands, he resorted to targeting something that would make him comply...knowing full and well that threatening to do harm to Poseidon- another god of equal power- would have been something of a death wish for a god of fire.
All Poseidon can think about are his sons...no, their sons. Their six little twin mers sleeping sounding on a clamshell together, even at their age. He thinks about how they'd been visiting the island on their own to come see Megami, and it forces him to think about Adranus killing them the moment they came to shore, watching the water for them.
It makes him feel incredibly ill. In fact, it nearly drains all of the fight right out of him, thinking about anything happening to them.
Nearly. But it's not enough to dampen the growing amount of rage building in the god, a rage so powerful that even inside this little cave the waves can be heard roaring as they crash up against the sides of Megami's island. Even creatures beneath the surface will be feeling it, probably wondering why the sea is so treacherous this morning.]
No. ...No. I will not let that happen. He will not touch one single hair on their heads.
He will have to go through me first.
[He blinks, tears finally escaping and rolling down his cheeks as he grinds that out through gritted teeth.]
[ He wishes that would be enough to keep the boys safe. But he knows they'll come here without their father regardless of any threat and he... he can't...
He can't let that be...
But most of all he can't keep living like this. In fear and away from his family.
He breathes, trying to calm himself again, sniffling as he wracks his brain for a solution ]
[Megami will feel Poseidon's grip around him tighten. It's a subtle change, but noticeable all the same.
It is, admittedly, a solution he thought of when trying to think of some way to save Megami from his island prison. It would make sense, right? If he let the island sink back down into the sea...then the sea would be Megami's home, then.
The downside would mean that the island itself would be completely destroyed. Anything living on the island would die along with it.]
...you know that I cannot do that.
[His grip tightens further, and he leans forward to rest the side of his forehead against Megami's.]
There is no way to know what would happen to you...the island would surely die.
[ He buries his face against Poseidon's chest some more. ]
I don't care what happens to me or the island, I can't keep living here like this! Living in fear, with no way to escape, away from my family and unable to protect them if he comes back...!
[ All it would take would be binding and silencing him again and he wouldn't be able to do a thing... hell, he could even be used as bait that way, he knows their sons wouldn't be able to stand seeing their mother like that and try to help. And now that he knows Adranus would stoop so low to try and break him, he knows he'd be forced to watch them die, blamed for it... He can't accept that. ]
I can't do it another day! I can't do this anymore! Even if I die, it'd be better than this!
Please, my love...! Please! Please just let me be selfish this once...!
[Megami's begging cries claw relentlessly at Poseidon's heart the longer he listens. It isn't fair to Megami, having to live this way. It isn't like he can help what he was born to be, a spirit of the lake as opposed to the river or the sea...
He doesn't deserve the danger of possibly losing his life over this. But Poseidon fears the worst would occur if something isn't done. Not only is Megami in danger now, but their sons specifically as well. Adranus would not hesitate to murder their children in the name of petty spite. Poseidon has lived long enough to know this. He has lived through many a tragedy, some occurring to his own flesh and blood.
He draws away slightly from Megami, lifting a hand to use his thumb to brush away his tears.]
You must understand...if I do this, your island will never be recovered. It will be devestation for everything that lives on it.
[ He sniffles again, thinking about his poor beloved frogs and realizes he doesn't want them or anything else to die... ]
Then... I don't know what else to do...
[ He slumps against Poseidon, pressing his cheek to his chest. He looks like a marionette with its strings cut with how lifeless and utterly defeated his body looks.
His voice is soft and resigned as he only cries silently now ]
I wish I was a river god... like the rest of my brothers...
...My sisters live in lakes. And springs and such. But I always heard stories that suggested many of them could move freely... one was even Zeus' first wife before Hera...
[ Hmm.
And Megami had only ever been considered a "goddess" because he was always mistaken for one... ]
[For all intents and purposes, Megami should be a river god. He is not actually a goddess, he's just adopted the title after being...
...mistaken...for one.]
...it was a mistake.
[Poseidon suddenly- gently- pushes Megami away from him so he can hold him at arm's length.]
What if you are not a lake god? Who is to say you are not a river god like the rest of your brothers? There is no mention of any lake gods, only goddesses- and regardless of what you have been called all this time, you are actually a god!
[Okay, if this theory is actually correct, that's pretty endearing. A river god falling in love with the sea...it makes perfect sense.]
There is no way for us to know for certain, but...what if it is? That would mean you were always meant to be free to traverse from your lake to the ocean...through your river.
Adranus has chosen to make this personal and has harmed my family, making this officially my problem. As the god of the sea, I will use every ounce of my power to create a river on your island. And provided that is successful...
[He looks over at his dropped trident in the sand.]
You will remain in the sea with our sons until I take care of Adranus myself.
[Poseidon fixes Megami with a sad look before pressing a lingering kiss to the crown of his head.]
Stay here, okay? If...if something goes wrong, I need to know where I can find you.
[He doesn't plan for it to, but...this is going to be extremely delicate work. He has no idea what will happen once he starts carving into Megami's otherwise untouched lake.]
[That's...hard to think about, but he understands it all the same. Megami is a lesser god, after all...and doing this is going to exhaust Poseidon of all things. Who knows how it will treat Megami.]
In that case...
[He grips Megami's hand a bit tighter, leaning in to press a brief kiss to his lips.]
I love you too. No matter what happens, I will keep you safe. And I will wait for you.
[ He presses their foreheads together for a moment after the kiss ends, wanting to enjoy what could very well be their final moment together for a while (or... ever...). ]
Thank you...
[ And then he separates from him and releases his hand. ]
[It's hard to leave him like this...curled up in the corner of this cave, covered in injuries and surrounded by the remnants of something precious to him. But Poseidon has work to do, and it could take him a while to complete. So after lingering as long as he can, he picks up his trident and gets back up to his feet, forcing himself not to look back as he exits the cave.
Once his feet hit the sand, he starts to run towards a rocky outcropping on the edge of the island. He uses that to leap from and dive headfirst back into the ocean, his trident splitting the sea ahead of him to quicken his descent. In the same instance, he grows in size and shifts back into his mer form, blue bolts of energy swirling and crackling around his body as he grows bigger....and bigger...and yet bigger still.
And Poseidon doesn't stop growing until he towers over the tallest point of the very island itself, having become larger than the mountain. The amount of energy coursing through him is astronomical, so much so that his eyes glow so bright that they're pinpricks of light looking out from his face down at the island below him. He will need that level of energy to actually do this, not only manipulating the course of Megami's lake, but also reshaping the land while keeping it intact at the same time.
Megami will be able to see- and feel- when it starts. The entire world seems to light up blue, like a flash of lightning that never stops. It fills the little cave that Megami hides in as a spear of energy shoots from Poseidon's trident, lined up to strike the edge of one of the far sides of Megami's lake. Luckily, all the frogs left with Poseidon and stayed in the grass near where Megami had ended up, sparing them from being unintentionally fried in the process. Because the energy coming from his trident is molten hot, strong enough to split the earth and rocks and send the water rushing into the trough he creates, widening it and making it deeper as he goes.
He has a long way to traverse, and the lake itself only has so much water it can fill. But if it was always meant to be a river, and has remained the lake it is for this long...then Poseidon is confident that it will survive the shift.]
[ The bright light catches Megami's attention and though he has to shield himself from it, he feels compelled to watch it.
But as the water begins to flow through the trough being created, he feels... different. Something inside him seems to resonate, this feeling of "finally"... just, "finally". Somehow things are clicking into place. Somehow something feels right.
He doesn't even realize the green colour his eyes and fingertips have begun to glow. ]
[Tirelessly, Poseidon continues to work. He lets his anger towards Adranus fuel him, as well as his desire to bring Megami fully into their family. The river starts to slowly take shape as he makes his way down the island, water rushing in towards the opening as fast as Poseidon creates it. It leaves the lake half the depth it was and shrinking all the time, so he hopes that the frogs will be okay in the newly created river for a while...
Half an hour passes as he blasts away chunks of rock and starts getting to the sand of the beach with the ocean itself in sight. By now, Poseidon can feel his strength beginning to wane, but he has to remain his massive size to actually be able to do this. So he keeps working, watching as the river becomes wider and longer still...until finally, he reaches the shore proper, hollowing out the mouth of the river so it can flow directly into the sea.]
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["He threatened to kill them! He threatened to kill our children!"
So that's it, then. When Adranus couldn't get what he wanted, be it Megami himself or Megami to fear him enough to agree to his demands, he resorted to targeting something that would make him comply...knowing full and well that threatening to do harm to Poseidon- another god of equal power- would have been something of a death wish for a god of fire.
All Poseidon can think about are his sons...no, their sons. Their six little twin mers sleeping sounding on a clamshell together, even at their age. He thinks about how they'd been visiting the island on their own to come see Megami, and it forces him to think about Adranus killing them the moment they came to shore, watching the water for them.
It makes him feel incredibly ill. In fact, it nearly drains all of the fight right out of him, thinking about anything happening to them.
Nearly. But it's not enough to dampen the growing amount of rage building in the god, a rage so powerful that even inside this little cave the waves can be heard roaring as they crash up against the sides of Megami's island. Even creatures beneath the surface will be feeling it, probably wondering why the sea is so treacherous this morning.]
No. ...No. I will not let that happen. He will not touch one single hair on their heads.
He will have to go through me first.
[He blinks, tears finally escaping and rolling down his cheeks as he grinds that out through gritted teeth.]
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He can't let that be...
But most of all he can't keep living like this. In fear and away from his family.
He breathes, trying to calm himself again, sniffling as he wracks his brain for a solution ]
Poseidon... my love...
You... you must sink my island.
Please.
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[Megami will feel Poseidon's grip around him tighten. It's a subtle change, but noticeable all the same.
It is, admittedly, a solution he thought of when trying to think of some way to save Megami from his island prison. It would make sense, right? If he let the island sink back down into the sea...then the sea would be Megami's home, then.
The downside would mean that the island itself would be completely destroyed. Anything living on the island would die along with it.]
...you know that I cannot do that.
[His grip tightens further, and he leans forward to rest the side of his forehead against Megami's.]
There is no way to know what would happen to you...the island would surely die.
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[ He buries his face against Poseidon's chest some more. ]
I don't care what happens to me or the island, I can't keep living here like this! Living in fear, with no way to escape, away from my family and unable to protect them if he comes back...!
[ All it would take would be binding and silencing him again and he wouldn't be able to do a thing... hell, he could even be used as bait that way, he knows their sons wouldn't be able to stand seeing their mother like that and try to help. And now that he knows Adranus would stoop so low to try and break him, he knows he'd be forced to watch them die, blamed for it... He can't accept that. ]
I can't do it another day! I can't do this anymore! Even if I die, it'd be better than this!
Please, my love...! Please! Please just let me be selfish this once...!
[ He doesn't know what else to do anymore. ]
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He doesn't deserve the danger of possibly losing his life over this. But Poseidon fears the worst would occur if something isn't done. Not only is Megami in danger now, but their sons specifically as well. Adranus would not hesitate to murder their children in the name of petty spite. Poseidon has lived long enough to know this. He has lived through many a tragedy, some occurring to his own flesh and blood.
He draws away slightly from Megami, lifting a hand to use his thumb to brush away his tears.]
You must understand...if I do this, your island will never be recovered. It will be devestation for everything that lives on it.
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Then... I don't know what else to do...
[ He slumps against Poseidon, pressing his cheek to his chest. He looks like a marionette with its strings cut with how lifeless and utterly defeated his body looks.
His voice is soft and resigned as he only cries silently now ]
I wish I was a river god... like the rest of my brothers...
[ 3000 sons... why was he the one in a lake... ]
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Then...he stops.]
...they are all river gods?
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That's why... their tails are like a serpent's... because it symbolizes the river itself.
My sisters were more like our children or had legs...
[ So then why is he...
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... ]
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...are you positive that you are the only lake god of your entire family?
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[ Hmm.
And Megami had only ever been considered a "goddess" because he was always mistaken for one... ]
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...mistaken...for one.]
...it was a mistake.
[Poseidon suddenly- gently- pushes Megami away from him so he can hold him at arm's length.]
What if you are not a lake god? Who is to say you are not a river god like the rest of your brothers? There is no mention of any lake gods, only goddesses- and regardless of what you have been called all this time, you are actually a god!
A river god.
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[ A... mistake...? ]
You... do you really think so...?
[ But now that he's thinking about it... ]
I... suppose with 6000 children... a mix up isn't unreasonable... And...
[ He freezes, realizing something important ]
Rivers are always... drawn to the ocean... that's why they flow into the...m......
[ O h ]
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There is no way for us to know for certain, but...what if it is? That would mean you were always meant to be free to traverse from your lake to the ocean...through your river.
A river that simply does not yet exist.
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But... how are we going to make a river? It can take ages...
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Adranus has chosen to make this personal and has harmed my family, making this officially my problem. As the god of the sea, I will use every ounce of my power to create a river on your island. And provided that is successful...
[He looks over at his dropped trident in the sand.]
You will remain in the sea with our sons until I take care of Adranus myself.
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My love... thank you...
Please... hurry...
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Stay here, okay? If...if something goes wrong, I need to know where I can find you.
[He doesn't plan for it to, but...this is going to be extremely delicate work. He has no idea what will happen once he starts carving into Megami's otherwise untouched lake.]
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[ And then he clasps Poseidon's hand weakly, to keep him fro going just yet ]
Poseidon...?
[ He has a few things to say before this all happens ]
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Yes?
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[ He doesn't see how this could end with him dying but... he still doesn't want to die without saying this. ]
A-And... sh-should I pass out... and not wake up for a long time... like I warned you before that I might... I want you not to worry.
No matter what happens or how long it takes... I'll come back to you.
I promise you that.
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In that case...
[He grips Megami's hand a bit tighter, leaning in to press a brief kiss to his lips.]
I love you too. No matter what happens, I will keep you safe. And I will wait for you.
[Forever, if that's what it takes.
...though he. Really hope it doesn't...]
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Thank you...
[ And then he separates from him and releases his hand. ]
I'll be right here...
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[It's hard to leave him like this...curled up in the corner of this cave, covered in injuries and surrounded by the remnants of something precious to him. But Poseidon has work to do, and it could take him a while to complete. So after lingering as long as he can, he picks up his trident and gets back up to his feet, forcing himself not to look back as he exits the cave.
Once his feet hit the sand, he starts to run towards a rocky outcropping on the edge of the island. He uses that to leap from and dive headfirst back into the ocean, his trident splitting the sea ahead of him to quicken his descent. In the same instance, he grows in size and shifts back into his mer form, blue bolts of energy swirling and crackling around his body as he grows bigger....and bigger...and yet bigger still.
And Poseidon doesn't stop growing until he towers over the tallest point of the very island itself, having become larger than the mountain. The amount of energy coursing through him is astronomical, so much so that his eyes glow so bright that they're pinpricks of light looking out from his face down at the island below him. He will need that level of energy to actually do this, not only manipulating the course of Megami's lake, but also reshaping the land while keeping it intact at the same time.
Megami will be able to see- and feel- when it starts. The entire world seems to light up blue, like a flash of lightning that never stops. It fills the little cave that Megami hides in as a spear of energy shoots from Poseidon's trident, lined up to strike the edge of one of the far sides of Megami's lake. Luckily, all the frogs left with Poseidon and stayed in the grass near where Megami had ended up, sparing them from being unintentionally fried in the process. Because the energy coming from his trident is molten hot, strong enough to split the earth and rocks and send the water rushing into the trough he creates, widening it and making it deeper as he goes.
He has a long way to traverse, and the lake itself only has so much water it can fill. But if it was always meant to be a river, and has remained the lake it is for this long...then Poseidon is confident that it will survive the shift.]
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But as the water begins to flow through the trough being created, he feels... different. Something inside him seems to resonate, this feeling of "finally"... just, "finally". Somehow things are clicking into place. Somehow something feels right.
He doesn't even realize the green colour his eyes and fingertips have begun to glow. ]
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Half an hour passes as he blasts away chunks of rock and starts getting to the sand of the beach with the ocean itself in sight. By now, Poseidon can feel his strength beginning to wane, but he has to remain his massive size to actually be able to do this. So he keeps working, watching as the river becomes wider and longer still...until finally, he reaches the shore proper, hollowing out the mouth of the river so it can flow directly into the sea.]
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