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"Dead fish! Dead fish! Dead fish! Dead fish!" The audience screamed and Akihito only wanted to squint his pretty blue eyes and believe so hard that was just a nightmare that the moment when he opened them he would wake up in just little and poor shell.
"Dead fish! Dead fish! Dead fish! Dead fish!" but they didn't stopped.
The Arena was full, hundreds and hundreads of mermen and mermaids chanting "dead fish" because it was gonna happen to him, a young and stupid mermaid that was there for a simple mistake.
He could see the big white sharks swimming around their big cells, and the people, his own people, grabbing the bars the bars that surrounded the ring craving to see a deadly battle: merman versus shark and it was going to be bloody.
They gave him a trident and Akihito smirked, that was ridiculous. Takato would say it was easier Akihito to hurt himself by accident holding that thing than kill forage fish by his own hands.
"And here is our criminal! His tail has a rare golden color and he has an unknown origin, he is barely an adult but he is really dangerous, folks! He was arested by smuggling and they say it was necessary four big soldiers to grab him! Takaba Akihito!"
That was bullshit, he had done nothing wrong. And he wasn't dangerous, he was harmless as fuck.
The crowd screamed "Dead fish! Dead fish!" and Akihito wished that a piece of seaweed enter through the cracks of their gills and they died suffocated. They could breath with their human noses but only on the surface and they were kilometers under water.
One of the sharks bite the metal of his cage and Akihito thought 'this is it, I am a dead fish'.
Everyone fell silent as the emperor made a gesture and Akihito windened his eyes when he noticed the imposing figure across the Arena.
Asami Ryuichi was holding his giant trident like Poseidon himself and the little merman frowned.
It wasn't always the emperor of Atlantis would watch the "games" that Akihito would rather call "execution" in the Arena, only when he was bored, they said.
'Well' Akihito thought, pouting with a irate expression that made the emperor raise an eyebrow, amused. 'I hope that the sharks scape and eat you alive you damn big and scary man!'