Keep going
“Let’s keep going.” You asked, looking deeply into his eyes.
“Deeper into the cave?” He asked. Your eyes lit up, you knew exactly what he was thinking and you couldn’t stop thinking about the only thing you wanted to do with him from that point on. Just like earlier, you led him deeper and deeper into the cave, somehow, even disregarding the promise you made to him earlier. It just felt like time stopped whenever you and him were around each other and whenever that happened it you couldn’t seem to tell how much time had passed.
“Yes. Please… Let’s go deeper.” you said, as you turned around occasionally, dragging his flipper further along with yours before turning back around again and leading him deeper, deeper into the cave.
Deep enough for nobody to even know that anyone was down here. You obviously missed some of the markings around there walls and whatnot but you just wanted to get to a more private place so you could do exactly what you wanted to do from the moment you first saw this royal stud.
“Here, let’s stop here." he said, staring deeply into your eyes. His massive body towered over yours but you were still large enough to be comparable to him. You were far larger than the typical seals and maybe that was what was so appealing to him. To your own pleasure, it just meant that what you were going to do next would be just that much easier.
The Pack Leader leaned in, eyes closed, lips puckered and nose wrinkled. He didn’t even see it coming when you knocked him out with the first thing you could get your arms on. It was a bit hard for you to move his knocked out body and tie him up with some makeshift rope you found nearby.
“Oh yes!” You think to yourself. Knowing that after this coup, you would be able to finally take over, at least half of the pack. That’s still enough for you to take over the whole pack, then somehow you could win the game. At this point, your mind had become corrupted with power.
So corrupted in fact that you didn’t seem to realize that when you had returned alone, the others found it a bit strange.
“Oh? Where did the leader go?” They asked almost immediately.
“What do you mean? I haven’t seen him.” You lied, once again. The others cut their eyes at you and whispered to each other. You could see even the single mother without a kid speaking with the others secretly- yet still directly in your face. Before long, everyone started getting riled up.
“Why are you acting like everyone didn’t just see you two swim off together?” One of them called out.
“Yeah she’s been acting a bit weird.”
“Maybe she did something to him?” They converged. Before long, the leader of the other group stepped up and started to calm the others.
“Halt! Something’s wrong.” His other members started gathering around and they were all talking for a moment, everyone else was around and shooting suggestions to each other like rapid-fire politics. “Someone’s just found the leader tied up somewhere!” He announced. Everyone turned to you and suspiciously started to close in.
“She’s bad news. She has been ever since she’d come here. She’s unlucky and she’s making everyone else unlucky. We need to kick her out before anything else bad happens!” The conglomerate of voices came together and explained, voices finishing sentences one after another.
Before long, they were upon you, they were all chasing you out, nipping at your tail until you were out in the middle of the ocean all alone. Even then, many of the others followed you for miles and miles out, taking turns chasing you down and zeroing in on you. After some time, you were so battered and bruised, left out in the wilderness. They made sure that you wouldn’t be able to come back by the time you were very very far away.
You knew this was it for you. The world around you started glitching out as you reached the bounds and you could feel your energy rapidly declining. You could feel your game starting to reset, and as you returned back to the start, you couldn’t help but think about how many poor decisions you had made.
Written by Drifting Dragon on 17 October 2023
The end (for now)