His lips moved over yours in a continuous flow. Not rough but soft, soft like the surface of a pond. He reached up and gently clamped his hands on your cheeks. Pulling you in even closer. You hesitantly reached up and grabbed his wrists in response. Clinging onto him as he was to you.

He groaned slightly and shifted his body. Pushing you down into the sand and leaning over you. Your breath hitched when he did this, but he made no move to climb on top of you so you let him continue to kiss you.

You could feel the emotions behind his kisses, much like how you felt them when he went inside your head. You were surprised that he was not being more aggressive as he had been waiting what felt like a year now for this.

You felt the need they brought with them. How much he wanted to do this, and would probably do all day if he could.

You started to get a little uncomfortable though when he pushed his tongue into your mouth. It was long and slim, not like a humans, but more like a tentacle, and you had to keep yourself from gagging.

You squirmed a little underneath him, trying to move your head to the side to break the kiss. You were surprised when a small part of you whispered to stay where you were and let the moment go on. However, things were starting to escalate, as Hoolans breathing started to get more ragged and his kisses quickened.

You moved your head to the side, but he simply followed it, refusing to break the kiss. Panic started to well up in your chest, was he too far into the mood to stop? was it a mistake to kiss him?

He seemed to sense your panic however because he pulled away and rested his forehead on your collar bone, breathing heavily. You could feel a small bit of saliva dribble down onto your chest. You were breathing a little heavily yourself, not really sure about what the heck just happened.

After a minute he lifted his head and looked at you with a big smile that was all teeth. It was a little scary, but you were mostly used to it by now.

" You kissed me polyp." He said with his eyes half-lidded. You blushed madly.

" Y-yeah, I... just wanted to thank you for giving me my leg back." You said, getting even more uncomfortable under his gaze, as he was still slightly leaning over you. He chuckled a little.

" You kissed me back." He replied. Your eyes darted to the ground. He was right, after you kissed him and he started kissing you back, you continued to contribute to the kiss.

You did not reply to him this time. Instead, you started to lean back up. He moved away so you could sit up again. Your eyes immediately went to your leg. You tried to make it stretch, and it did! You stretched it out and dug your toes into the sand. Feeling its grains dig into your skin.

The only thing you noticed that felt off was that whenever you moved it would twitch badly. Probably a side effect of regrowing a whole freaking leg. You looked over to Hoolan who was watching you closely.

" Can I stand up?" You asked. It had been forever since you had stood. Without your leg, you could only really sit up and squirm around. The only way you got around the beach was when Hoolan carried you.

His eyed glanced over to your leg with a look of uncertainty in them. He bit his lip in thought for a moment before looking back up at you. He gripped your hands tighter. You didn't even notice that you were still holding on to each other.

" It may be a little too soon, but I don't know. It would not hurt try though...I guess." He said. He stood up while leaning down slightly, grabbing your sides with his hands to help steady you. With his help, you were able to wriggle around so that you were now on your knees.

You had not yet put any weight on your new leg. Moving it slowly, for it twitched really badly when you moved fast. You waited a second before putting any weight into your leg. Unsure of everything. Eventually, though you lowered it to the sand and balanced your weight in both of your legs. Or... at least you tried to.

The second you shifted to your other leg it fell out from under you and you would have collapsed face-first into the sand if Hoolan did not have his hands on you to hold you. You let out a small groan, you guessed you shouldn't have been expecting so much.

" It's ok Polyp, it will just take time!" He said reassuringly to you. You nodded to him, Looking down to the sand with determination. So you let Hoolan help you up, and you repeated this process again, and again and again.

- -

Eight hours later, and you were finally able to stand on it. You could not really walk yet, but you were able to sort of hobble about as long as you did not put too much weight on it for too long. Those hours were long and hard, with you almost giving up a couple of times, But Hoolan was there to catch you every time you fell.

This was all understandable of course, after all, you were sure that you had not been able to stand for about two and a half months now. There was the time when Hoolan first injected his venom in your leg, leading to your near-death experience in the cave, you did not know how long you were like that down there but it was quite a while.

Then after he had removed your leg he brought you up to the beach, and you had been up here for about a month and a half now.

You were surprised again when he pulled out a self-made crutch, and you remembered that he had been working on one when you were first brought here. With this, you were able to go from a hobble to a graceful hobble. Hoolan, of course still stayed very close to you.

You looked up at the sky and noticed how low the sun had gotten. The sky was starting to turn orange now. You sat down and closed your eyes to listened to the waves crash on the beach, feeling true peace for the first time in a long time. Hoolan must have noticed how late it was too for he stood up and tilted your face up to meet his eyes.

" I'm going to get us some dinner Polyp, I will be back in about an hour." He said. An hour? why would it take him an hour when there was a Reef right over there? You voiced that thought to him. He smiled down at you as you asked your question.

" I want to get you some open water fish too Polyp." He said, and you made and O shape with your mouth and nodded. He chuckled at you and suddenly leaned down.

You knew what was coming, but you made no move to stop him, for, you really did not want to stop him. He gave you a quick kiss, much like a husband would do before leaving for work. You watched as he walked off toward the beach, the orange light of the sky making his dark body seem more like a bronze color.

" Please don't come back naked!" You called out to him jokingly. You saw him turn his head and smile mischievously at you before walking into the water and disappearing.

As soon as he was gone you struggled to your feet, using your crutch to help you stand. Once standing up you limped your way into the treeline. You had a job to do, one that you had been wanting to do for a while, you just had to find the right spot.

It was good to walk again. To feel the dirt and grass under tour feet, even if you were poked every now and then by some sticks.

It was also a little irritating because of how much your leg twitched. Sometimes it would move like something robotic glitching. It did not hurt though, so that was a good sign. As said before it would just take a while to get into function.

You walked deeper into the trees, not too far from the beach, but still a good ways away. You walked and looked around until you found a small clearing.

The first thing you did, was start looking for materials to make some graves. Of course, there would be no bodies in them, but you felt that you should at least make some for the friends that you lost in the underwater base.

You gathered enough sticks and stones to make six small graves. One for Hubert, Jack, Paul, Maria, Robert, and even one for the General guy.

The Graves were small, really only small tributes to the people. For every grave, you used vines to tie sticks together and make crosses for each. After that was done you looked to see if you could gather flowers for the graves, which would not be hard considering there were flowers growing everywhere. They were giving off good aroma's too, a nice jungle scent mixed with the sea air that was blowing inland from the beach.

You tried to gather different colored flowers for each grave. You layed a couple of white flowers on Roberts grave, with some violet flowers on maria's grave next to his. You set Yellow flowers on pauls grave and pink ones on Jack's. Only the General guy got pink flowers too, as you did not really know what to give him.

You saved Hubert's grave for last. Trying to find some red flowers to place there. Those ones were special to you, as you remembered him giving you a set of underwater flowers that were red when you were watching Hoolan.

You limped around the clearing, trying to get as many red ones as you could, there was not a lot of them in the area. You hobbled to a tree that had a small bunch and started to pick the red blooms.

By now the sun was almost set. The trees cast dark shadows all over the clearing. Light that was orange like fire filtered down through the trees and cast bulbs of light all across the ground. Making the graves almost glow.

The air was so cool too. Not cold but not warm either, like the water when Hoolan pulled the raft through the reef. You knew it would get cold soon though. You should probably get back soon before Hoolan comes back and finds you gone. That probably would not go well.

You remembered the last time something like that had happened. Back in the Abyssal cave where you climbed into the tunnel for some alone time. When Hoolan came back and found you nowhere in sight he almost destroyed the cave looking for you.

You did not want a repeat of that event, especially since Hoolan was doing so good at being kinder and less monster-like. If that happened again you did not know what would happen.

You shook that thought out of your head, refusing to bring back bad memories. That was all behind you now. So you put a smile on your face and continued to pick the ruby red blossoms.

Your breath hitched when you picked one and something moved behind it, it was just an Iguana though, and you let out a small sigh in relief.

It was a big Iguana, almost as long as you were tail included. It was bright green with places of dark emerald green and even Saphire blue around the body and snout. With almost black scales creating markings along the body. The spines were long and tipped with the dark blue color.

"I'm sorry, I didn't se-." You went to apologize to the creature but gasped when it turned to look at you. Looked at you with pure deep blue eyes.