Damon was loving her mermaid body. She loved how her long red tail reflected from the sunlight, her scales looked beautiful and Damon was awed by her lovely new body.
Damon had always wondered what it was like to be a girl, but it seemed impossible, but the existence of the genie's magic made her little desire come to life.
The new mermaid was swimming around her new ocean home. The flicking of her tail felt much better than walking on feet all day. As she closed her eyes and swam passively to enjoy the moment, she felt her head bump against something.
"Oh!" Damon said as she paused and raised her body to see what she bumped against.
Turns out what she bumped against wasn't a "something", it was a someone. Damon looked up to see blue eyes staring back at hers.
"Oh, sorry." Damon said as she turned around when she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder.
The hand spinned Damon to face the figure she made contact with. Damon looked up to see the figure closely.
The figure was a merman - a powerful looking one at that. Short blonde hair crowned his hair like a soft yellow beam of light. Below that, his blue eyes gave off a mischievous glint. Damon noticed an extremely sharp snaggletooth hanging from his mouth. His lean body gave off a cocky vibe as he had large gold braces around his wrists and a shark tooth necklace hanging from his neck. He seemed cute, Damon could admit, but trouble could definitely be brewing if she talked to him.
Damon tried to swim away again but she couldn't. The mermaid looked down to see that her slender red tail was being coiled by the merman's muscular blue tail. Just by looking at the strong muscles on the merman's tail, she knew that escape was futile.
"I'm sorry for bumping into you." Damon said as she tried to unwrap her tail but the merman seemed to tighten his tail's grip further. "Please, let me go. I promise I won't bother you again."
The merman chuckled as his mouth formed a small smirk. "It's okay. If anything, I should be the one sorry for getting in your way."
The merman extended his arm and stroked Damon's cheek. The mermaid reluctantly moaned as she felt the merman's touch being surprisingly gentle and soft.
Damon closed her eyes and purred as the merman's hand caressed her face. The merman's tail softened its grip a little, but Damon was slowly losing his desire to get away from him.
When Damon finally opened her eyes, she saw a confident smile on the merman's face. "What's your name, Princess? I haven't seen you around here before."
Damon blushed lightly, "Princess? Oh no. You're mistaken. I'm nothing like a princess. In fact, I just broke up with someone not too long ago." A laugh rumbled from the merman's stomach.
"It's quite bold of you to assume I care about something minuscule like that in any way, shape, or form. Besides, you look like a princess anyways. The fool who broke up with you made a major error against such a lovely mermaid like yourself." the merman flirted. As much as Damon appreciated the compliment, she still felt a bit uncomfortable being with him. Something about him seemed off.
The merman took Damon's hand, she felt a bit uneasy about revealing her masculine-sounding name to a merman. "I don't feel too good talking to you. Would you mind saying your name first?"
The merman smiled and nodded his head. "Sure, of course. I'm Prince River. I come from a bloodline of powerful warriors. There used to be a thousand merfolk kingdoms that filled the sea, but my kingdom managed to conquer a couple hundred of them while most of the rest fell in their own petty little wars. Nowadays, only about 50 merfolk kingdoms remain, with my parents the proud rulers of one of them. Pretty cool, right?"
Damon's eyes widened. She was not only with a merman, but a merprince whose kingdom was terrifyingly successful in conquest and bloodshed. It was no wonder that River had such a lean build and his hair crowned his head, he had a literal crown on his hair.
Prince River noticed Damon's worried look and softened up his expression. "Listen, I know it's a lot to take in. My apologies if I made my kingdom's history look grim and bloody but humans aren't that much better. Such dirt treaders barely even have kingdoms anymore, their surface is filled with ugly box buildings while merfolk still have the intelligence to preserve our beautiful architecture. Trust me, you're in good hands, miss mermaid." River gently kissed Damon's hand. "You're safe with me."
Damon felt a bit calmer but she wasn't sure what to do next. She was once a male human not too long ago, seemingly everything the merman disliked but she wanted to be honest.
Damon pondered her next move.