SUN AND MOON DUO SHOWDOWN - QUATER FINALS

SUN AND MOON DUO SHOWDOWN - QUATER FINALS

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Shamura just trying to document their baby bro when the worm decides to take matter into his own hands. I love him so much💙

Shark

Horror was lazing around, curled up in one of Nightmare's many tentacles. He had insisted on hunting, but Dream took it upon himself to bring back something for everyone. It had been a long time since Horror could rely on someone else to take care of him, so he hesitantly allowed it. The two twin leviathans were far from the shiver he had lost, but they were still caring and loved him, so he could deal with them spoiling him if they wanted to.

As they waited, Horror was tangled up in one of the many gargantuan tentacles Nightmare had. Shortly after Dream left, Horror made the request to snuggle with the much smaller octopus form that he had only seen a few times from the leviathan. He was, grievously denied and Nightmare, though he apologized, still felt the need to make it up to him. So here Horror was, tangled up and enjoying the feel of the large suckers carefully caressing him. It was some mix between grooming and petting that the great white didn't care to place.

The peace was slowly chipped away as the water got warmer, uncomfortably hot, even. And Horror found himself squirming deeper into Nightmare's hold where the tentacles were still just a bit colder. Moments later, a massive, glowing beast entered the Depths. Nightmare didn't grace it with a reaction, so Horror stilled himself.

"𝒪𝒽, 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇!" Dream's familiar, yet endlessly louder, voice chirped. And the mer in Nightmare's grasp felt rather silly for forgetting that both his datemates were leviathans, not just Nightmare. "𝐼 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝑜𝒹!" The goldfish swam up to his brother, forcing Horror to stay in the tangle of tentacles lest he be boiled alive. The golden brother noticed the discomfort and quickly returned to his normal, huggable form, letting the water start to cool.

"Great. Enough for everyone, yes?" Dream nodded his head enthusiastically causing a swarm of bubbles. Nightmare laughed and took the catch from his brother, dividing it equally among the group present. Horror got the smallest portion, due to his non-leviathan status, and Nightmare had- Was that a...

"Nightmare?" Horror asked softly, and though he was quiet, Nightmare heard him and turned his attention entirely to his smallest mate. "Is that a shark?" Dream flushed gold as he realized just exactly what he had caught and the possible implications such a feast might have.

"Goodness, Horror, I am sooo, sorry. Brother, I'll go right now and get you som-" Horror scooped up Dream who was already on his way out of the Trench and brought him back to Nightmare, who was pushing the carcass away from the rest of his food.

"Apologizes Horror. I did not realize-"

"It's fine, both of you. I'm not a full shark. Just... surprised." Nightmare gave a small smile and gulped down the shark first, just so Horror wouldn't have to look at it any longer. Horror, on the other hand, was quite flustered that both of these deadly, ancient beings, were worried about being disrespectful to him, a tiny mortal.

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Ah, yes, a wonderful chunk of fatty tuna. Dust was purring away in Horror's arms as he ate his meal. The pilot fish were swimming around nabbing whatever crumbs they could pick up from Dust's admittedly messy dining habits. Nightmare was also eating, his brother perched on his shoulder, tentacles wrapped around his shiver of two. It was quite the feast the twins had in front of them. A ray, crab, and a hammerhead, and that was only what was left from everything. Dust paid no mind as his more fishy, not-mer cousin of the ocean was devoured by the kraken that he loved so dearly. He did, however, notice that Dream had been watching him for a reaction on said meal. And that was quite amusing to the whitetip.

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The shouting and hollering that echoed around the trench alerted the two leviathans to the return of their tiny shiver. Killer, the source of the noise, was the first to dart back into the Depths, bragging with his chest puffed out. He was so proud of who-knows-what that Dream just wanted to scoop him up and kiss him. But, that could wait. The bull shark grabbed Dream's hand and led him over to where Horror and Dust were still dragging back their kill, all the while chattering about just how very impressive his hunting skills were. Nightmare allowed himself to emerge from his part of the trench, following his brother and their newest shark out to greet the others.

Horror branched off from Dust and made his way over to the behemoth that was one of his mates. He settled into Nightmare's palm before offering up a carcass that looked just a bit too much like three of the mers present. Nightmare hadn't noticed that Killer had stopped prattling, his eyes staring directly at what Horror had just given to Nightmare. Dream had noticed, thank you very much. And was gently shaking Killer's shoulders, really hoping that when he returned, he wouldn't be hostile or afriad.

"YOU EAT SHARKS?" He asked rather boisterously, as he did everything. Nightmare finally turned his attention to Killer and ducked his head in a way resembling shame. "Oh shi- That, sorry Night. Didn't mean it like that- I just-  didn't.... Expect it? I mean, you and Dream have three of us now and- uh..." It was a pitiful attempt at backpedaling, but it was just amusing enough that Nightmare let out a small laugh.

"Worry not Killer, I just didn't want you to fear Dream or myself"

"Never," Killer said as he pulled Dream to Nightmare and snuggled into the both of them.

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"Hey, um... Has Nightmare ever... How do I say this..." Cross said, stumbling over almost every word. "We're not on the menu, right?" Horror made a humored sound as he looked at the familiar tail of a shark disappearing into Nightmare's mouth. Killer made no attempt to hide his maniacal cackling at the question. Cross flushed purple. "It-it's a good question, alright!" He tried to defend himself. "We're tiny and he could easily swallow us,"

"Wouldn't that be nice," Killer said through his insane-sounding laughter. Cross somehow got more purple.

"It's fine. We're good. He only eats normal sharks," Dust explained, handing an anchovy to Cross as he sorted through their latest hunt.

"Cool... That's good." The poor thresher said before gulping down the fish he was given.

"It is funny how all of you react to the same situation," Nightmare mused as he scooped up the shiver.

"Very much so. You mortals are all so silly!" Dream said, darting around and giving each shark a quick peck. 

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Seaweed Nest

Cross was running his hand over the soft nest that he and the shiver had been sleeping in since he arrived. It was soft and plush, warm and safe. But it was starting to fall apart. He would have repaired it himself. If he knew how. There were quite a few nests hidden in the Trench. At times Cross saw the others working on theirs. It was amazing how everyone, everyone except him, knew how to weave these special nests that were all so comfortable. He wasn't jealous per se, but he certainly would love to learn.

"Whatcha doing Cross?" Dream swam up and curled himself around the thresher. He gave a small hum at the warmth.

"Just thinking," Cross received a bonk for his response. "How do you all make these nests?" The leviathan gave a squeal and darted away from Cross. Had... had he said something wrong. Just as the poor mer was about to leave, Dream swam back in, kelp in hand. He dumped the seaweed on Cross and sat next to him.

"Ooh, I've been wanting to teach you this!!" 

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"Baha, oh my gosh Crossy-" A certain bull shark mer burst out laughing at the sight before him.

"Shut up," The mer glared at Killer for even thinking about teasing him. "It's Dream's fault."

"Don't blame me! I was just trying to-"

"Brother, you don't even know how to make a nest,"

"I do! It's just... Different is all," The goldfish pouted. Nightmare allowed himself to fall into his smaller form. Once a reasonable size, he untangled his brother and mate from the mess of seaweed they had made.

"Don't do this again. Horror will be happy to teach you both," He gave both of them a pat before leaving to dispose of the knot of kelp.

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"This is nice," Cross murmured as he sunk deeper into the newly made nest. Horror only purred in response. Dream was still off sulking somewhere, though, it was likely Dust was with him as the whitetip had mysteriously vanished some time ago. "Thanks for the lesson," Cross got a kiss for his words.

Leviathan

"It's a seal!" Reaper cried out, tail thrashing in agitation.

"It was in mine territory. And not every seal falls under the protection of you and ink-for-brains over there,"

"Hey!"

"I mean, he's not wrong," Error said, arms crossed.

"guys-"

"I don't think it matters if it was in your territory or not. Lay off the seals," Reaper growled.

"Guys-"

"Ah, yes. Because you're allowed to control what me and the shiver decide to eat. It's not like we eat them regularly."

"Seals should be off limits. We really don't need selkies to think we're a direct threat to them,"

"Why on earth would they even think that? We eat all sorts of things that have mer variants and I have yet to see a rebellion of anything against us,"

"Guys!"

"It's a valid point, sure, but you don't see us going around eating sharks,"

"Because, none of you even like eating sharks. And I've eaten them before. You think if anyone wouldn't, it'd be Dream and I."

"𝒪𝒽 𝓂𝓎 𝑔𝑜𝓈𝒽, 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝒮𝐻𝒰𝒯 𝒰𝒫!" The water warmed instantly as Dream fell into his larger form. "𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝒾𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝐼𝓃𝓀, 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒩𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉'𝓈 𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎. 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓉. 𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓅 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓃'𝓉 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈. 𝐼𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓁. 𝒮𝒽𝓊𝓉 𝓊𝓅. 𝐸𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇. 𝒴𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓎 𝑒𝒹𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓃. 𝒲𝑒'𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝓎 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓌𝒶𝓁𝓀𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓏𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓎𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓎." Dream allowed himself to shrink back down. "We know not to eat anyone that's been claimed by a leviathan. All other prey is allowed."

"But-"

"No buts! Geez," Dream threw up his hands and started to swim away. "Deal with this amongst yourselves. Just- don't tear any boats or cities apart. Thanks," He spat sarcastically.

"Are they always like this?" Cross asked from his place beside the shiver.

"Unfortunately." Dream growled. The four sharks, two selkies, and one goldfish continued to watch until finally, the leviathans ran out of things to argue about. And thank goodness for that. Any longer and someone was bound to get hurt.

Nightmare broke off from the rest of the group to scoop up his shiver and brother, returning to the Depths as quick as he could.

"I can't believe you were even bothering to argue with him,"

"It's not my fault they don't know when to meddle,"

"Oh my goodness. You're not allowed in our cuddle pile tonight,"

"I never am," Dream looked at the shiver.

"Who wants to find some nest away from Night for this evening?"

Ink and Error grabbed Blue, swimming off to their own territory.

"That was a pretty stupid argument. Let them hunt what they want," Blue said from within Ink's grasp.

"But Blue, what if they get ideas?"

"Then I'm safe with you guys. But I don't want you having petty squabbles over something like this,"

"Seriously? Seals? That's what you're arguing about?"

"I-"

"No, stop. Lets just get back home." Reaper made a dejected sound and carried his upset selkie away.