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You had been given access to Octavinelle's pool, thanks to your work at the Mostro Lounge. This was the first time you’d seen it - and it was nothing like what you expected.
"Pool" was quite the understatement - this may as well have been a small lake. The water was still and dark, light twinkling in the shallow ripples on its surface. The lights on the ceiling had the appearance of distant stars - most likely magic.
The room seemed impossibly big, but it didn't echo. Besides the small stone area at the front, the entire room was water, and it stretched much further than any pool you had seen before. It could easily house a whale, at least - maybe several.
A thought crossed your mind - just how large were the mer-people's aquatic forms, actually? You’d never seen Azul or the twins in their other forms, though the intimidating height of the twins made you think ‘large.’ But…surely not this large?
You put your towel down on a small slab of stone and approached the water's edge. You swished your hand in the pool - the water was cold. Not unbearable, but definitely chilly. You shivered. Maybe the cold would get you to exercise a little harder tonight.
There was a small, metal stepladder at the edge, which you slowly lowered yourself down. The stone edge of the pool was slick with algae underneath the surface of the water, and slimy tendrils of the stuff tickled your feet as you descended. You wished you were wearing something better suited to the cold water - like a full wetsuit, maybe. You did your best to stop your chattering teeth and forced your body in, splashing a bit of the water into your face as you did. Salty - it was saltwater after all. Since the residents were mainly from the Coral Sea, it made sense.
You didn't know how far down the stepladder went, but you couldn't feel the bottom of the pool, and you certainly couldn't see it either. After your chest, you lost sight of the rest of your body under the water. You wondered how deep this pool was - could it actually be like an ocean below?
You looked to the other edge of the pool - which, from your vantage point, you couldn't see. I'm not getting all the way across, but let's try halfway.
You kicked off the algae-covered wall and started a smooth breaststroke, fighting through the cold that was starting to seep into your bones.
It wasn't until you were a little ways out when you stopped to take a quick break, and that's when you felt it - something brushed your ankle.
Your body froze instinctively, and you realized you hadn't thought of something more crucial - what else was in this pool? You couldn't tell what it was that touched you, but it felt like a large tailfin, thin and flexible like that of a goldfish - but much, much bigger.
You could feel your heartbeat speed up in your chest. Would Crowley keep monsters in the pool used by students? …you realized that unfortunately, he probably would.
You turned around - the edge of the pool you had started from seemed so far away now, but you had to move now, quickly-
You did not have time to think before it happened - a very large, scaly hand wrapped around both of your legs and pulled you down under the waves. The cold water on your face was a shock, but it was the least of your worries - you thrashed and struggled, but the grip on your legs was like iron, and whatever had a hold on you had no intentions of letting go.
You struggled to open your eyes underwater, and the salt stung a bit, but what you were able to see made your heartbeat speed up even faster. A wide grin and a set of sharp white teeth were visible, illuminated by a faint, greenish luminescent pattern running down a long, massive body. Two glowing eyes, big as dinner plates, one of them gold and the other…wait… is this who I think it is?
Before you could straighten your thoughts out, the giant merperson clutched you close to his body and rose quickly to the surface. You coughed and sputtered and gasped for air as your face broke the surface of the waves.
"I do apologize…I simply couldn't resist."
The voice was what made you absolutely sure that you were right - this was Jade Leech, the moray who you worked with at the lounge. But his size…
"H-how are you this big?"
Jade chuckled, and you could feel the rumble of his chest underneath you. You were still being clutched to his smooth body - you would be blushing if you were not still reeling from everything happening at the moment.
"I suppose my land form is much smaller, isn't it? This is my full size. I find it nice to stretch my fins every once in a while, so to speak." Jade flashed his sharp teeth as he spoke - each nearly as big as your hand.
The merman ran his large, webbed hand across your hair, stroking it gently as he spoke. “Are you simply out for a late-night swim? You ought to be more careful - there are some things in the water that would simply love a little snack like you.” He stopped stroking your hair, and you felt yourself tense at those words. You were quite familiar with the way Jade and his twin looked at you in your human form, and now, at this size…Jade’s gaze was even more transparent in its predatory nature.
“Um…heh heh…” You forced a small laugh, but it was quite obviously strained. “...d-do you think you could help me get back out of the pool? To, uh…make sure those things don’t get me?” You did not have much choice at this point - there was certainly no getting away from the giant moray, even if you managed to wriggle out of his solid grip. You were held close enough to his body to feel a faint heartbeat, but mostly, all you could focus on was Jade’s sharp, white teeth - fitted in a mouth large enough to swallow you whole, and grinning a little too widely.
“Why, of course. I am supposed to be looking after you - it’s a part of our contract, after all.” Jade let go of you - you had no plans of trying to swim away, you weren't stupid - and twisted his body so that you could hang onto the fin on his back. You couldn’t differentiate between the icy cold water and the frozen feeling of fear anymore as your movements stiffened. You didn’t like the chuckle you could feel rumbling in Jade’s chest as he sped away towards the edge of the pool.
It was only seconds before they arrived at the edge - Jade swam much faster than you had even imagined previously. You carefully let go of him and started to swim towards the ladder, but, almost predictably, Jade moved his huge body in between you and your only chance of escape. He placed his arms on either side of you, trapping you against the cold stone edge of the pool.
Jade did not say anything; he simply stared at you with his huge, hungry eyes, still grinning and showing a hint of his teeth. You considered screaming, but you sincerely doubted your voice would even come out now. You felt like a mouse - a very small, terrified mouse shaking under the paw of a huge cat.
As if to drive the point home, Jade ran a large tongue over his bottom lip and added a sheen of saliva to his teeth in the process. You felt your heart drop all the way to your toes and a shiver of fear curl over your skin. Your voice begged to say something , but what should you say?
“J-Jade, the water is getting kind of cold…”
“I know of something that could help with that, little human.” With a devilish grin, Jade moved his body closer, pressing you even more against the stone wall of the pool. More than just his heartbeat now, you could feel something else - a faint rumbling in what you guessed could only be his…stomach. He lowered his head next to your ear, his warm breath tickling your frigid skin. “Would you like me to show you?”
Against your best instincts for survival, you felt something else then - a wave of pleasure that pricked sharply down your skin. You hated it. You decided not to speak, for fear you would say something stupid.
In response to your silence, the large moray ran his huge, wet tongue over the side of your face, leaving little room for speculation now.
“T-the contract!” you fumbled. “Y-you can’t hurt me, the contract-”
“I have no intention of hurting you, little human, not now,” Jade crooned, stroking the other side of your face with his huge fingers. “This is simply business, you see. We decided it would be best for you to get a taste of what a breach of contract would look like - Azul thinks you may not be…sufficiently motivated.” The moray’s eyes narrowed as he grinned. “And as it happens, after today’s shift I could use a snack.”
You were at a loss for words - if Azul was in on this, then screaming really wouldn’t do anything, would it? Had he set this up, by suggesting you should visit the pool after your shift today?
“B-but-”
Jade put one webbed finger over your lips, silencing you. “Don’t worry - I won’t keep you long. This will only be a…short demonstration. I do apologize for any inconvenience.” The eager flashing of his teeth did not help his attempt at sincerity - neither did the continued rumbling of his stomach, pressed firmly against your body now, as if growling in anticipation.
Jade bent his head over and placed his lips gently on top of your head. After a few seconds of painful silence, without warning, he enveloped your head between his lips. You screamed now, but your pleas were lost in the giant tongue that moved back and forth over you, coating you in a sticky saliva. You could feel the faint prick of his huge, sharp teeth, which was a good incentive for you not to struggle, though it was a hard instinct to repress now.
Jade helped your efforts to keep still by holding your body tightly between his hands, both of which were large enough to wrap all the way around you. He held your torso in his mouth for a while, running his tongue back and forth along your bare skin as if to savor your taste. Slowly, he lifted your body up and began pushing you further into his maw, letting his tongue guide you in past his teeth.
Were it not for the overwhelming fear and disgusting feeling of being covered in saliva, you would have been able to appreciate how warm it was inside the eel. That momentary comfort was interrupted by the breath being pushed out of your lungs as Jade used his tongue to press you against the roof of his mouth, moving the muscle back and forth over your chest and face, the tip of it teasingly brushing against your feet outside his mouth.
You almost didn’t notice as Jade began to tip his mouth back even further, and with just the faintest hint of light coming in from his open mouth, you could see the back of the moray’s throat illuminated dimly, the muscles stretching greedily in anticipation.
You could not scream - you didn’t have the air in your lungs to do so. Instead you pleaded weakly as your head dipped past Jade’s uvula. “Jade…please…”
You felt a small moan escape the eel and seem to envelop you as you were eagerly taken in by the moray’s throat, your plea either unheard or ignored. Your entire body was now inside of Jade, and you could feel his lips close over your feet as he pushed them in with his finger.
The movement down his throat was painfully slow - while Jade was large, his throat still had to work to accommodate you. Even after the threat of his sharp teeth had passed, you could not struggle in the vice grip of the throat that pushed you down, squeezing you tightly as you made the descent towards the stomach. You thought you could feel something massaging you from the outside, as if Jade was aiding his throat by pushing you down with his fingers, tracing your journey downwards.
The last of your body was taken into his throat, your bare feet slipping against the edge of his tongue before they were sucked into the esophagus. Just as you thought you would suffocate, your head breached the end of the throat as it opened up into the stomach cavity. It was completely dark - you couldn’t see how large of a space awaited you, nor could you see what else was in there with you, if anything.
As more and more of your body escaped Jade’s throat, you found yourself pressed against the stomach’s walls, which undulated hungrily around you. Once your arms were free, you desperately tried to reach out, feeling for the size of the space, trying to readjust your body so that you could remain upright. While the feeling of saliva was omnipresent, Jade’s stomach was not as…full as you had imagined. There were no digestive juices - that you could feel - though the stomach walls were slick and wet. You had imagined being immediately assaulted with acid, but even with all of your exposed skin, you didn’t feel any pain - just a bit of discomfort from your cramped position, your arms wrapped tightly around your knees.
You were much closer now to the rumbling, hungry sounds of Jade’s stomach, though, which served you no comfort. The walls of the stomach contracted around you, pressing against your skin, as if desperate to bring you further inside the moray, where the sounds seemed to emanate from…
You felt the stomach press you even firmer as Jade placed a hand over his stomach, feeling you through his skin. You could feel him sigh in contentment.
“You were even more delicious than I had anticipated. It has been so long since I was this full…now, listen, human. It would be an easy thing to digest you now, but as I said before, I have no intention of doing so…this time. I trust that this is a sufficient demonstration for you, yes?” He chuckled darkly, and the sound vibrated through your bones. You were keenly aware of the walls of the stomach all around you, and how quickly their innocent massaging could betray you, treating you as nothing more than food.
“Yes, I…I understand…can I…come out now?” Your words were a struggle to get out, between the limited air in the stomach and your almost fetal position. You squirmed, trying to sort your limbs out into a more accommodating position. To your dismay, this movement seemed to elicit another moan of pleasure from the moray.
“Mmm…not quite yet, little human. I’d like to savor this for a little while longer. After all, if you don’t break the contract, I may not get to taste you again…how unfair.” You felt an odd sensation as Jade began to move - below the surface of the water, it seemed, until he finally stopped. The stomach squeezed tighter around you as Jade seemed to be lying halfway on his belly on the bottom of the pool.
“You’ll have enough air for the rest of the night.” Even underwater, Jade’s voice could be heard clearly. “I think I’d like a short nap. It would be best for you to sleep too - we both start work early tomorrow, don’t forget.”
You wanted to know how you were still able to breathe - not well, but you didn’t seem to be suffocating - not to mention how Jade could seemingly choose not to digest you - but you did not think you would get the answers you wanted, certainly not from here. You felt the moray’s breathing slow, and could hear his heartbeat’s rhythm decrease into a steady thumping that ended up being almost hypnotic. The fear had had time to ebb, and it had drained you of all of your remaining energy. Almost reluctantly, you allowed your eyes to close, hoping that you would be able to open them again in the morning.
Jade was lulled to sleep by the taste of the human lingering in his mouth and the feeling of a full belly, knowing that he would be so reluctant to let them go in the morning. He rubbed the bulge under his chest, barely making out the shape of the human underneath.
He half-hoped the human ended up breaking their contract after all - what a delicious meal they would make.