Notice: although Apollo is referred to as he or him. He is however a siren which means he has no real gender but whichever you want him to be. In every day life he has masculine features but with a very feminine overtone. He is genderless but for the sake of convenience he'll be referred to as him.

Another notice: sirens and the drowning protocol has been added to the Vocabulary and background chapter.

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"Mind if I join you?" Apollo asked before discarding his silk robes.

The water king who had been surrounded by women of his kind looked up from his position. Apollo's pale slender body enters the water.

The water king scans him, soft looking arms down to his soft toes as well.

"You always seem to invite yourself so why not."

Apollo smiles, motioning for the pretty mermaids to disappear from their sights. Mermaids were terrified of sirens that much was always very clear.

"I see you're throwing yourself a ball again." Apollo said his smile turning into a smirk.

"Asuka, why are you here?"

"I told you I don't go by that name anymore. It's Apollo now."

"Asuka is far prettier." The king of the water said and Apollo frowns looking away from the man.

"Sometimes flowers have to die for something prettier to be born." The siren says looking at the patch of flowers on the walls of the cave growing from the sunlight and muddy stones.

"What do you know about rebirth?" The water king asked and Apollo turns to him.

"I know that whatever's left after something dies is the strength it's leaving behind."

"I think you've lost me."

"I may have lost myself as well." Apollo said with a cute giggle before swimming closer to the male in front of him.

He comes out of the water leaving his skin glistening with the remains of the crystal blue liquid.

"I wish I could live here with you." The siren said placing a hand on the king's jaw. Nesting his head on the King's neck. He smirked feeling the the king's icy cold body instantly heat up.

"Sirens have to feed on others in order to survive. I can not subject my people to such things." The king said and Apollo lifts his head off the king's shoulder to look at his grey eyes.

"You used to tell me I wasn't one of them." Apollo said letting his fingers trail down from the royalty's chest to his torso.

The man was melting under his touch and Apollo wasn't even releasing any pheromones yet. The man grabs Apollo's small wrist bringing the tiny thing up to his shoulder once more. He lifts the smaller being until he is making eye contact with him.

They stare into each other's eyes. The years of longing by the Water king for this creature was astounding even for the king himself.

The one night many years ago, The siren had come into the hot cave, and had stripped from his robes ever so seductively as the king watched from under the water.

That was more than many years ago,

And yet the king's body was still almost in a feverish heat just by looking at the siren in front.

The siren leans forward connecting their lips. The king is raddled, his body shakes unsure of what was happening. Just as he shakes the water begins to swoosh slamming harshly against the sides of the cave pool.

The siren turns to look, chuckling before attempting to get out of his grasp but the king only holds him tighter. The siren's freezing skin finding comfort in the water king's surprising hot one.

"I've wanted you for so long, every time you leave me a fool. Why must you make me suffer?" The king asked eying the siren's plump lips.

"You mustn't blame your suffering on me- I'm here my king, I've presented myself for your ravishing and yet you are the one hesitant to take what you so desperately claim is yours."

"You are mine." The growl that left the king was echoed in the cave. His eyes glowing blue after his growl.

The siren moves his long hair out of his face to get a clear look at the king.

"Father?, are you here?" A small boy's head emerged from the water. His forehead was adorned with blue glasslike crystal that seemed to be penetrating his skull.

Apollo had never seen such a thing and never heard anyone call the man in front of him father.

"Skarsgard I'll be outside momentarily, leave us alone." The king said to the young boy who replied.

"Yes father." Before turning and revealing his emerald green tail as he departed.

"Father...?" Apollo asked moving backwards away from the king.

"I had to prepare an heir-"

"All this time, I thought you were genuine about only wanting me." Apollo said pulling his body out of the water.

"Asuka, wait.." The king said putting his hand on the stone ground.

He wanted so badly to stand and go after the being his heart longed for but the fear of his tail touching the earth's property was beckoning.

"I told you I don't go by such a name." Apollo said tying his robe tightly around his small waist before leaving the cave.

The king's heart pangs, he leans back against the pool. The temperature of the water was getting increasingly hot as he lays there.

Soon the bodies of some fish were poking out of the water.

Some still struggling while others floated with open mouths.

Apollo enters his home. An abandoned vacation palace for the current king.

Many sirens resigned there and had somehow accepted him to be the leader. They all agreed that because his pheromones where they strongest he should be the one to lead.

They were many sirens who weren't under Apollo's control, those sirens were under his mother's the first made siren.

"You're finally home, I was afraid I'd miss the feast tonight waiting for you." Apollo's mother Serena says sitting on the throne in the middle of the room.

"Why are you here mother?" Apollo said wanting nothing more than to fill and sink into a bath.

"Where are you coming from?" Serena asked but it was very obvious that the answer was already known. When Apollo didn't reply, Serena stand ups and walks towards him.

"When did you start visiting the water king without conversing with me first." Serena said taking hold of her child's long black hair and twirling it in between her dainty fingers. Her long cat like nails combing through the strands.

"Why must I speak to you firs-."

Serena wraps the hair in her hand and tugs the younger siren into her space.

"You don't run anything Asuka. I am the queen, you go through me before you pull anything like that again. Do you understand me."

Apollo stares at Serena blankly.

"I'm not under your control mother." Apollo said with a clench jaw.

He felt something scaly crawl around his ankles. He looks down to see a green eyed mamba tightening him.

"You think just because your pheromones are strong that you have power. Making deals with the moon without my permission.. you're nothing but a child." Serena said gripping the black hair even tighter in her hands.

Apollo jolted as two fangs entered his legs, venom shot through his being. He stumbles, he feels scales climbing up his body. The venom inside his body holding him still.

"All he has to do is take a bite of your neck and all your power is mine." Serena said. Apollo gasped as the snake starts circling his neck squeezing gently as it continues to wrap over and over.

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"The king woke up saying that he smelled a scent that no one else was smelling. Could his powers be awakening?" Michael asked his council member.

"Where did he say the smell was coming from?" The man in the red hood asked.

"He said Akia, that the sun king was in trouble and was looking for help."

"Do you smell anything?"

"It's faint but I smell sulfur and mercury."

"Is it coming from that girl?"

" I believe so." Michael answered, the man in the red hood turned.

"You must save her-" the red hood stopped looking outside at the moon.

"She's being poisoned."