Leviathan

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.

Scales

The coming of winter didn't really affect the chill of the Depths. It was always took cold for comfort. It was why Dream was such a vital source of heat for the shiver. But it was quite unfortunate that there was only one of him. And that he rarely liked to stay still. The shiver tried to take measures to keep Dream close whenever the water was too frigid, and Dream was usually more than happy to oblige. But there were times when he couldn't. If Dream himself needed to be somewhere, or if the shiver split up... So they all sat around, each curled up in one of Nightmare's tentacles, ready to brainstorm ways to keep warm when the living heat source wasn't present.

"I say, Dream turns into his leviathan form and we all just cuddle him like that," Killer said, almost like he believed it was a good idea.

"Uh-huh, I hear you, but I'd rather not be boiled alive." Dust replied. Cross murmured his agreements.

"Wellll, we could just go up to the surface to soak up the sun. Or, I could. Just me. Y'know-" A large tentacle pinned Dream down mid-sentence. He huffed and got himself comfortable. His brother and the shiver were determined to solve this problem before Dream left to explore the reef. Which was quite unfortunate for the goldfish, as they had been discussing this topic for the better part of an hour.

"If it wasn't so time consuming, we could bring back the heated rocks..." A gigantic hand scooped some rocks and pressed them to the trapped mer. "It always worked when we were younger," Dream shoved the rocks away.

"But we're not. And cuddling with rocks  is sooo uncomfortable brother. Besides, I would need to heat them back up a lot more than the ones you used. It's colder down here,"

"Couldn't we just... use your scales?" Horror spoke up for the first time in a while. The shiver fell silent.

"A moment, please," Nightmare said before dragging Dream deeper into the trench. The sharks all gave each other questioning looks before curling up into a purring pile. Whilst nestled together, the water heated up considerably.

"𝒮𝒯𝒪𝒫 𝐼𝒯! 𝒢𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝓅𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒸𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓂𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊-" Dream's screeching could be heard from wherever he took Dream.

"Stay still. I know for a fact that this doesn't hurt."

"𝒴𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒! 𝐿𝑒𝓉 𝑔𝑜! 𝐼'𝓁𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂!" The sharks approached the place they last saw the leviathan twins and looked into the deeper darkness. The water was almost unbearably hot when they reached the edge of the trench.

"That is the worst lie I've heard all century," Nightmare deadpanned from the abyss. Loud, incomprehensible screeching words could be heard as the water started to cool once more. Nightmare emerged with his much smaller brother at his side and five glowing objects in his hand. He placed one by each of the shiver and gave a wide grin like he hadn't just plucked off what were clearly Dream's scales in his larger form. There were a few inquisitive noises from the sharks until they realized just how warm the scales were.

"Why didn't we do this sooner?" Killer asked, practically drooling as he cuddled the scale that was almost too large for him.

"Because it requires me being in my leviathan form. And Nightmare harassing me. Apparently."

Octopus

An octopus slowly crawled out of its cave. The shell of some unfortunate creature was held in one of its many tentacles as a shield. As though such material could protect it from the dangers that surrounded it. The world was dark, the moon high in the stary sky, making only a sliver of a reflection. A large shadow passed the tiny being and it sunk into the coral, switching colors to be as close to invisible as it could get. The shadow passed, leaving only a trail of bubbles in its wake. The octopus continued onward. Despite being to close to the surface and so far away from the demons lurking in deeper water, the shallow reef was far from safe. Suckers clung to the rocks and coral and it continued moving in search for... something.

Bubbly giggling could be heard and the cephalopod held the shell up in the direction of the noise.

"Aww," The thing cooed as it watch the octopus with great interest. "You're so cute!" It squealed. The octopus backed away, keeping the shell up as the only barrier between it and the creature. As it moved away, the water got warmer. "Don't leave, I just want to play~" The octopus did not understand the words and slipped itself into a crevice of the rocks. "You're no fun," The warm being whined before swimming closer and snatching the shell away from the suckers with multiple little pops. "You're really bad at hiding you know," And those were the last words spoken before the small warm thing turned into a giant, sweltering beast that dug its fingers into the rocks and broke them open. Escape was impossible, so the octopus changed its colors and sunk as far down into the remaining sanctuary as possible. The being was boiling the water around it and thus, the water the octopus was in. Living in such extreme heat was impossible, but that wasn't what killed it. When the being became small again, it shot its head forward and bit down with all the force of an ancient being.

Dream opened his jaw and let the dead creature float into his hands. Oh, this was going to be fun. The glowing mer sped off towards the depths, octopus in hand. The water around him got darker and darker as he left the sunlit zone and entered the trench. There was no light except the glowing scales of the goldfish as he went deeper and then- he stopped. A glowing cyan light suddenly appeared, bathing Dream in it's light.

"Nighty!" The goldfish chirped. "I brought you something, I think you'll like it," The giant beast, "Nighty" lifted and hand to take whatever his brother had brought back down.

"I don't like the look you're giving me," The kraken said as his brother drifted into his hand. The small and slightly deformed body of a tentacled creature. Nightmare huffed, the action causing the octopus to start drifting away if it hadn't been for Dream who quickly caught it again. "You're the bane of my existance" The leviathan deadpanned. Dream laughed, a warm, bell-like sound that Nightmare would have loved hearing if it hadn't been directed at him.

"Oh c'mon brother, it looks just like you," Dream said through his fits of giggles.

"No, it does not. It's tiny and pathetic and-"

"Literally exactly like you?"

"Shut up."

"No." Dream said, his eyelights glinting with mischief. Nightmare growled and pinned his brother down with one of his many tentacles. "Come ooooon Nightmare, it was funny,"

"It was not. Now stay." Nightmare pressed with the slightest bit over pressure, careful not to hurt his currently tiny brother. The body of the octopus drifted past the very stuck Dream.

"You can't just let it go to waste, at least it eat," The trapped mer complained- Before having his catch shoved unceremoniously into his mouth. Nightmare released his brother and tucked the tentacle back with his others.

"See, not waste. Happy?" Dream gave his brother an empty glare before ripping the octopus apart and eating it. He offered some to his brother, but the kraken declined. And no, it wasn't because it was "cannibalism," because it wasn't. He wasn't an octopus. He was a leviathan. His brother was just being ridiculous.

AHHH!! Why are people so nice and patient? I was playing Sky: Children of the Light and was in the music hall, my little squid brain trying to string together the right notes to play Undertale's Memory. It sounded enough like the actual thing for someone to figure out what I was attempting. This masterful person played the song beautifully! And then they proceeded to teach me?! Ehhh?! And they were so patient?? And repeated notes so I could understand?? I love them but I can't tell them. And they taught me another Undertale song which I already forgot the name of. But that aside, I now know how to play Memory and it's incredible. I will now be getting an instrument as soon as possible and only the dark dragons will be able to stop me.

If my new bestest friend somehow sees this, I love you more than words can allow and am forever in your debt. If you want a seasonal pass next year, you can bet all your candles and hearts that I will get you one. May the rest of your year be wonderful and grand, may you get to meet and pet many super cute dogs whenever you go out and may someone pay for your food at a restaurant or your drink at a cafe. May you find twenty bucks on the street, may you find that lost sock or earring, may whatever god(s) you believe in grant you luck and fortunes untold for helping one small and undeserving Sky kid.

He's honestly the most chaotic anything

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