The sea king scowled, crossing his powerful arms over his chest. It was at this point that Kevin first noticed the merman had sharp fanged teeth at four points, almost like the mythical vampires did, although had to concede vampires were probably
also
real, given what he knew now. "The Merlin did this? He has caused much consternation to the kingdoms of the sea over the millennia."
"Yeah, well, he ain't always done so hot up here either," Kevin told him. "We really should probably turn the engine speed up, Miriam, otherwise the king's subjects are going to start to overtake the boat. Sorry, your kingship, didn't catch your name."
"King Vihantian of Bistrania," the giant man told him with what seemed like an unflappable amount of confidence. "And you are?"
"Kevin Bishop, of Los Angeles," Kevin said, not entirely sure how to indicate who he was beyond his city of origin. He'd not spent a lot of time with royalty. "This is my bodyguard, Miriam, and her companion, the dragon Strazo. We've both sort of had our lives heavily tampered with by Merlin, so we know how powerful his magics are, and learned to respect them a long time ago."
"No matter how strong the magician's lures are, they will not overcome my subjects' need to respect my dominance over their lives, Kevin Bishop of Los Angeles," the king boasted. "A king's dominion is all."
Normally Kevin would be entirely respectful of such claims, but he'd seen the effects of Midas Day firsthand twice now and knew exactly how ravenous women could get the longer he tried to avoid them, and the king's confidence only entertained him more than he knew what to do with, so he felt like he was almost obligated to give the man a little tease. "You willing to make a wager of some kind, your majesty?"
"What could you possibly offer me?" the king chuffed, although he seemed at least a little interested in Kevin's proposal. One thing Kevin was learning about mystical beings - they did so love novelty and newness in their lives, so if he could provide that, it would make them more amenable to any bumps that sprung up along the way.
"If you're right, and if we can slowly get from here to shore without any of your subjects boarding the boat, I'll write a song for you and do my best to make the name of King Vihantian something renowned around the world," Kevin told him. "Don't worry, I'll keep it proggy and mystical so it'll sound like I'm just talking about a long-lost legend, or someone I made up, so humanity doesn't come looking for you. But if I'm right, what can you offer me?"
The king seemed to consider for a moment before nodding. "We have a magical artifact that might be of some use to you, especially if you're encountering more and more mystical influence in your life these days. Do you consider this a fair wager?"
Kevin extended his hand, which the king took and shook. "You're on. Miriam, set the ship for somewhere between five and ten miles per hour. That should be plenty of time."
"You sound remarkably confident that I do not have my subjects in check," the king grumbled, sounding almost a little annoyed by how unshakable Kevin seemed to be in his assertions. "Do you have such little faith in my ability to instill fear in them?"
"Not at all, your lordship," Kevin chuckled. "I just know Merlin's magic will not be stopped by time nor tide. The man is a force of nature unto himself, unnerving just in his very presence, and his magical workings are terrifying in their power."
"More powerful than a subject's faith to her king and kingdom?"
"Having seen what I've seen, your majesty, I'd said maybe even more powerful than the urges of self-preservation," Kevin told him. "I wish I could tell you I was exaggerating my claims, but I assure you, I'm not."
"Then we will soon see, will we not, Kevin Bishop of Los Angeles?"
Kevin wondered how long it was going to take, as even he wasn't sure of how fast Merlin's magics would affect other people, but he could see there were a handful of women pacing back and forth on the beach, although a few had even started swimming towards the boat. He could also hear boats approaching in the distance and saw there were even a couple of paragliders dropping from their gliders as close as they could to the boat. He wondered if they were going to get to the boat before Merlin's spell broke through the resistance of the seafolk that were swarming around the bottom of the boat like eager piranha.
He was starting to weigh the odds in his head when three forms leapt from the water and landed on the boat with heavy shaking. They were dark skinned, powerful looking merfolk women, beige flesh with small pink flaps at their necks, dressed in straps of some kind of aquatic leather, although they only covered around their hips, and even then didn't seem to fold down, functioning more as skirts than anything else. Their proud breasts were on full display, heavy sepia toned mounds of flesh with thick chocolate nipples atop of them, although Kevin's eyes were more drawn to their muscles. Each of the three women were quite strong, their physiques that of warriors accustomed to constant physical exertion daily. Kevin was certain any one of them could probably bench press him with just one hand, and that meant putting up any form of resistance would be useless.
He'd never felt more cornered in his entire life.
The king, on the other hand, looked personally offended. "My own royal guard has betrayed me? Sophilia, Elendria, Maxillia, how dare you contradict my standing orders?" He pointed at them with a finger. "Back into the water with you!"
"We are sorry, my king, but we are compelled and there is no resisting the force that is being exerted upon us," the tallest of the three said. "We will endeavor to make our betrayal as swift and painless as we are able. Maxillia, help me hold our lord back while Elendria claims her prize."
The one that had spoken and the next tallest rushed over to grab the king's arms, moving to restrain him as the shortest of the three merfolk women, the one named Elendria, started approaching Kevin. "Listen, human," she said to him, her voice affected by an accent similar to the king's, "we can do this with or without you resisting. I would rather you simply lay down and enjoy it, but I can and will restrain you if necessary. I am Elendria of Bistrania, and I am offering you the chance to surrender willingly now. I will make no such offer a second time."
"I understand," Kevin said, grabbing the only towel he'd found on the boat, laying it down in what little available free space he could make. "I will offer you no resistance, Elendria of Bistrania, as long as you and your colleagues do no harm, not just to me and my protector, but to those attempting to siege the boat."
"Once we've begun, they'll know to back off," Elendria said, hiking up her leather skirt, revealing her pussy, dark curls of inky black hair in a trimmed but still generous patch atop it. "I will be the first seawoman to bear an amphibomorph in centuries." She licked her lips as she moved towards Kevin, and he worried that the scent of her was going to put him off a little, but there was something entrancing about her yellow eyes that made his resistance melt away immediately. She wasn't as large and intimidating as her two compatriots were, and somehow also a little more feminine. Her black, braided hair didn't have anywhere near as many adornments, and her skin bore less of the tribal tattoo work that the others had. "Get those pants off, landwalker, lest I rip them off in my eagerness. I am not usually so forward, but it seems I am hardly myself on this day."
Kevin nodded and pushed his loose-fitting pajama bottoms down to his ankles, pausing a little as he heard three gasps, looking up to find shocked faces. The confidence that had been all over Elendria's face had been replaced with a sense of shock and almost intimidation, an expression Kevin saw mirrored on the two other merfolk women. "Ye gods, human, are you abnormally blessed in genetics, or are all landwalkers similarly equipped?"
He tilted his head in confusion, glanced down and then looked up with a laugh. "Are you asking me if I've got an oversized cock? I mean, it's not small, but I certainly wouldn't say it's anything outside of the norm. Why, are merfolk men not as large?"
The king glanced over and shook his head, even from his restrained position. "Perhaps half as you, Kevin Bishop of Los Angeles, and that is those of us who are well-equipped for our kind. Perhaps we have taken on differences for our aquatic needs over the years."
"If you feel uncomfortable, sister..." Sophilia said.
"No!" Elendria said, raising a hand to signal back at the others. "No, I will make this work. All passion comes with pain, as our great poet Yarncy once wrote. But I will ask that you lay down, landwalker, and allow me to control my own tempo."
"Of course, Lady Elendria," Kevin said, moving to get down on his back atop the boat's deck. The merfolk woman didn't wait, and moved to straddle him almost immediately, rubbing the length of his cock against her slit, and Kevin could immediately see why she was concerned. Her snatch seemed smaller than a human's would be, and he worried that he might not fit inside of her, although the merfolk woman seemed determined. "You don't have to-" He couldn't finish the sentence because she had aligned the tip of his cock with her cunt and then pushed herself down onto him, letting out a loud shout of pained pleasure, at which point the sounds of people attempting to scale the boat stopped, and Kevin could vaguely hear people swimming away from the ship, although it was more than a little difficult to focus.