++Smooth Criminal++

[Rikku_Feline]

"Wait!" she cried, stumbling out of the cave and snatching up the skin, still weak and clutching at his cloak that was wrapped around her. She knew she couldn't catch up to him in her current condition on land, so she quickly tossed off his cloak, carefully to set it where it would not be harmed and slipped into the pelt that she was gripping in her white knuckles. Instantly, the pelt seemed to fuse with her skin, fitting her somehow like a glove and resulting in a small seal sitting next to the river. It quickly dove in, swimming as fast as possible until she was ahead of him then beaching on the river's edge. She quickly slid out of the pelt, the fur pealing off of her like a second skin, revealing the woman beneath. "Kette, wait!"

[DemonicFox99]

Kette backed up watching her completely dumbfounded. "Wh-what are you!?" He backed up slightly looking a little pale.

[Rikku_Feline]

She cocked her head to the side curiously, wrapping her pelt around her like a cloak. "You...do not know of the selkies?" She took a step forward, holding her hand out. "Do not be afraid. We are peaceful creatures..."

[DemonicFox99]

He wasnt afraid of her and if he was he couldntve been for long. "No I havent..." He paused for a moment blushing a little and looking off in an odd direction after noticing for a second time she was naked.

[Rikku_Feline]

"Selkies are water fae," she said, steppin closer to him, hooking the shell shaped clasp around her neck so it would hang from her shoulders. "You are one too, correct?" She asked, pressing a hand to his cheek. "We must carry our skins with us for if anyone were to ever steal it..." She looked down, pressing her fingertips to one of the bruises from her previous attack, "We must obey them..."

[DemonicFox99]

"So thats why he was.." He pointed off back towards the beach indication the circumstances of their meeting when he paused. "wait..." He looked back at her wondering, "what makes you think im a water fae?" He seemed to be slightly offened and held up his hand to call for fire to his palm. "I'm a fire demon.. nothing like your water fae kind." He wasnt talking down to her, he didnt think he had the heart to.

[Rikku_Feline]

She jumped back, gasping at the flame and drawing her hands away from him. "O-oh...There's just...something about you...that's drawn to the water..." She looked away, taking a few steps backwards. "Perhaps I am wrong..."

[DemonicFox99]

He quickly hid the flame trying to act like he wasnt sorry for scaring her. "Dont worry about it." He nodded to the fae and turned his back to her. "We're all wrong every once in a while." The words seemed to ring with pain that he desperately tried to control his bangs casting shadows over his eyes as he walked away.

[Rikku_Feline]

"Kette...I'm sorry for Casticus's behavior," she whispered, fiddling with her fingers, not looking at him. "I feel as though I owe you. You saved my life...and I want to thank you. I understand if you are too busy though. I do not wish to be a hinderance." She did not move, simply watching as he left.

[DemonicFox99]

Kette felt her innocence peirce through his emotional walls. He balled his hands into fists inside his pockets. "Of what service could you possibly be to me?" His voice was barely a whisper as he looked back at her his voice sounding annoyed. "What makes you think I can be trusted? I could be no better than that sorry excuse for a male from earlier." Her pure innocence was shaping his voice more than he realised and soon he was sounding like he was scolding her more than anything.

[Rikku_Feline]

She withdrew, seeming startled before saying, "Because...you saved me...and you are giving me a chance to leave. You cannot be bad..." She looked down saying, "If I can be no service to you then I shall depart..." She turned, slipping back into her skin and then into the river.

[DemonicFox99]

Kette watched her as she swam against the current of the river slowly making her way back up to the cove. He began to walk back towards the ocean when he noticed a dark shadow cruise by him quickly in the water. He watched it for a moment then became horrified when a brown angular fin rose to the surface slicing its way through the currents followed by a sharp tail fin. "s**t!" He swiftly turned and ran alongside the bank keeping up with the fin as it cut through the current like air. After racing with the creature for only several minutes he saw the shape of the selkie in the water having a little more difficulty swiming against the currents. At the same time he saw her so did the dark shape in the water, and with a swift flick of its tail it sped forwards causing its back to rise out of the water. Panicing Kette racing faster to get to her first. The shape got closer and closer mouth agape ready to snatch the unsuspeciting seal from the water and rip her flesh from her to swallow whole. Kette finally reached her and screamed her name before diving into the water and dragging her to the bottom barely missing the four hundred teeth that belonged to the bull shark. He watched holding onto the seal as the shark loomed over head casting a shadow over the two. It caught sight of them again and charged at them. Kette held out his hand the water began to shimmer slightly around his hand. The shark began to squirm and wriggle as all the oxygen was sucked from the water around it, causing it to sufficate. While the monster was distracted, Kette drug the selkie from the bottom, somehow being an expert swimmer, and tossed her onto the shore lifting himself out. The spell released the shark and it, with an empty stomach, swam away. Kette kneeled next to the seal panting and dripping wet, the streak in his hair turning a strange aqua color. "You ok?"

[Rikku_Feline]

The selkie slid from her skin, gasping trying to catch her breath while watching the fin swim away. Her eyes went wide before saying, "You are a water fae. Or at least you have water fae blood running through your veins." She reached out touching the previously red streak in his hair, finding that it had turned a vivid blue. "But how could you be part water fae part fire demon?" She was still shaking from her second near death experience in a day.

[DemonicFox99]

The soaked fire demon rested his forehead on his knee panting. "Yes..." He sounded slightly defeated, "I am... half water fae.." He looked up at her as she touched his hair revealing his now aqua left eye and his right eye that remained blood colored. "My mother was a water nymph." He blushed from her being so close to him and not having any clothes on but he never looked away from her big brown eyes.

[Rikku_Feline]

"Why do you deny it then? You are unique." She smiled slightly in an attempt to lighten his gloomy mood. "Special." A look of discomfort once again crossed her face as she pondered. "But fire demons can't stay in water for long. How could that have worked?" She turned her head to the side as she often did when confused and bit her lower lip. "I have never met anyone like you, Kette."