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Whumptober Day 4

Prompt: "You're a monster." Rating: Teen Characters: Multiple OCs Other Tags: Mermaids, Ocean fauna, Angst, Lots of angst, Hurt no Comfort, TW: Murder, TW: Child Murder, TW: Animal Death, TW: Blood.

"Nem, I need your help with something,"

"It's the middle of the night, Moray. Let me sleep,"

"Help your older sister won't you? Come on, it's important, and bring your vampire squid lantern,"

The purple skinned mermaid swam away from her brother's room, and out of the lair entirely. He sounded grumpy, but this was important. Because Moray messed up, she messed up really bad. Normally, she wouldn't care, but this time- her deed was punishable by death.

It didn't take long for Nem to join her outside, lantern glowing a bright blue that almost matched his scales. Good, he was able to wake up the glowworms. Quietly the two of them swam away from the settlement and towards an underwater shipwreck. It was old, and it would have completely fallen apart by now if it wasn't for the coral and seaweed holding the planks together. An octopus camoflaged into the wood as they drifted past, and Nem gave a small wave to the intellegent creature.

Inside of the shipwreck was darker than it was outside, minus a few sleeping cuttlefish flashing their colors in their dreams. Human skeletons littered the boat, especially where they entered. Some of them still had clothing on, expensive clothing too. Moray swam over to one of them, taking off a jacket and putting it on herself instead, and then grabbing an arm bone before it hit the ground. With a quick snap she broke the bone in half, and sucked the marrow out of one peice like she was drinking out of a straw.

"I thought you said this was important?" Nem asked with a yawn.

"It is. This will give us a bit of extra energy, here take it," She extended the bone out behind her, holding it in front of his face. The boy rolled his eyes, but took the peice of bone none-the-less, eating the marrow out of it himself. He dropped the bone when he was done, as did Moray and they continued up to where the mess hall would have been.

The mess hall was, well, a mess, to say the least. It was filled with both shiny and rusty objects, most of them sharp to the touch. It reeked of rotting plants and meats, things not even scavangers would want to touch. Swimming through, Moray picked up what would have been a meat cleaver to humans, but was just another object to mermaids. The tools wasn't why she was here though, although they where most certainly helpful, she was hear to prepare her kill.

Tied to a reletively large table, was a dead baluga whale. It had slashes all over its body as if it was bled. The body's eyes and mouth were open as if there was a stuggle and it met a painful end.

It was horrified in it's last moments, the look plastered on its face.

Nem almost screamed at the sight, meanwhile Moray handled this like it was the average day. The mermaid looked over at her brother, and huffed a sigh. "Shut your jaw before a shrimp crawls in there," She told him in a monotoned voice, pulling him along to the table.

"Moray this- you- your a monster! This is too far!" He yelled once he saw the poor thing up close. "This could have been someone's pet for all you know! What parts would you even need from this poor guy anyways?" His eyes didn't leave the dead animal's, but he could see in the corner of his eye his sister swimming around him.

She patted the squishy bit on the baluga's head, before snapping her fingers in her brother's face. "I needed it's electroreceptors. I'm hoping if we mix it with electric eel slime we might be able to stop heart attacks before they happen!" Her face was filled with excitment, the exact opposite of Nem's.

"You never- wait. This... Moray this is ours isn't it..." The boy's face paled in realization, choking on a sob. "You- You killed Urch! What the hell, Moray! He trusted you, he loved you! You ARE a monster! I'm going to get Mom!" He began to rush off, but was stopped by Moray grabbing him by the hair.

"You aren't going anywhere!" She hissed at him, shoving him into the table in a panic, his head hitting the corner of it. Hard.

The boy's hand went limp, dropping the lantern with a light thud. It's light dimmed, as did his eyes, staring up into his sister's. "Nem? Nem, wake up, I didn't mean to yell! Wake up!" Moray shook him, wailing at him to wake up over and over, before she finally went still in shock.

"Brain tramua... eels won't help with this," She said to herself, running a hand through his bloodied up hair ever so gently. She had to hide him. Oh, she just dug herself a deeper hole. The mermaid took of the jacket she stole, and wrapped it around her baby brother. Carrying him wasn't difficult, he was always as light as a jellyfish.

Out in the reef, she searched for any crevous large enough to fit the preteen. It didn't take long to find one, with how big the reef was to begin with. Carefully Moray set him down into the hiding spot, being watched by some fur seals and reef sharks. She didn't care. Her brother was dead, and it was her fault.

That was all she cared about.

She hovered there for a long while, some eels poking their heads out of the reef after a long while. Moray shot a glare at her namesake, but was distacted when a large shadow slowly covered the reef. Looking up, she could tell pretty easily it was a human ship. It didn't move like a whale, after all.

In a moment of desperation, she swam as fast as she could towards the ship, breaching the water and landing on the deck.

Everything went dark.