Aquan is under the waterfall enjoying the feel on his skin, he always felt so at peace in water. All of a sudden his body tensed when he felt eyes on him. He assumed it was on of the princes and continues under the waterfall. Suddenly someone jumps in the water. He turns around to see someone swimming towards him. He dosent feel any magical abilities at all and tries to figure out which element this man is.
He is so focused on the mysterious man with black hair that he doesn't notice the other man behind him. The guy stabs him with something as Aquan let's out a scream before falling back into the mans arms unconscious.
Flamon is talking to Grasdon and Aerius when he hears aquan scream and run towards the waterfall. Grasdon quickly follows demanding that Aerius stay behind. Aerius is sitting there nervous when something hits him in the neck and his body starts to burn as he let's out a scream and falls over. Grasdon hears this and runs back to the camp to find Aerius gone.
Aquan woke up barely able to move, they must have injected him with something. He knew that only human blood has the ability to make an element temperarily lose his powers and strength, but humans have been extinct for a century. He looked up to a pair of gray eyes. The man had black hair, and fair skin. He looked to be no older than sixteen, but he was very muscular. He stood at about 6'4 and 250 pounds. He smiled as he lifted aquan up so that Aquan was on his knees and the two were face to face. Aquan could barely stay in an upright position as the man leaned in close, and spoke.
'Wow I've seen a lot of your kind, but never one as cute as you.' Aquan tried to stand up, but couldn't move. He looked at his captor and spoke with trepidation. 'W...what do you want from us?' He knew Aerius was in the hut with them, because he could sense his essence. 'Don't worry we won't hurt you, but you two belong to us know.' Aerius awoke to a pair of blue eyes staring at him intently. The man standing over him and had the same features and was the same size as his dark haired colleague except he had blond hair, and blue eyes. 'H...human' aerius said trying to sit up. The man just nodded as he lie on top of him.
'We've been watching you two since you stumbled into the woods. Two pretty little guys like you should be more careful you could have gotten hurt.' he said stroking aerius's face. Aerius was scared, but he felt a little better sensing that aquan was there with him.
'Please....just let us go' he said. Elements knew how destructive humans were, and how they seemed to destroy everything they like. Tears started rolling down his face, but he couldn't wipe them. He tried to turn his face away from the man, but was held in a firm grip.
'Dont worry my little angel we aren't gonna hurt you' he said. Aerius kept crying, but aquan was slowly able to gain his power. The were laying in the grass while inside the hut so he collected water from it to gain his strength. As the dark haired man leaned to kiss him he blasted him out of the hut, and into a tree.
He turned towards Aerius and shot the other man. He stumbled over to Aerius and attempted to pick him up. The black haired human had regained some stability ran and tackled Aquan into the ground. Aquan attempted to fight him off, but he wasn't strong enough. The dark haired man then made a small cut in his arm and held it forcefully into Aquan's mouth with more of his blood knocking Aquan unconscious.
By this time the blond human had gained consciousness and picked up the still paralyzed Aerius in his arms. He looked over at his dark haired friend still feeding the element his blood. `Hey! Hey! That's enough.' He said and the dark haired boy let go of the limp element and stood up. He then bent down to pick Aquan up. Before he could the two men heard rapid foot steps coming towards them. The two were too weak to fight so they retreated.
Grasdon and Flamon appeared after sensing Aquan before he fainted. They carried the two boys back to there camp and Grasdon shielded it with earth traps. After a few hours Aerius got movement of his body again, but Aquan showed no signs of awaking anytime soon.
Aerius walked over to his best friend who was lying on a bed of roses, thanks to Grasdon, and shook him. 'Aquan...please wake up!' He said shaking him. Too much human blood could do serious even fatal damage to an element. Flamon say Aerius and grabbed him, dragging him away from Aquan. 'Are you stupid grabbing him won't do anything but make the situation worse!' Aerius had tears in his eyes, and flamon immediately cooled down.
' I'm sorry I know you're worried about him and so are we. I didn't mean to yell so harshly.' ' It's okay' Aerius whimpered looking at the ground fighting back tears. Aquan had always been there to comfort him, but he wasn't now and Aerius felt alone. He wanted to be strong and masculine, but he couldn't stop the tears from falling.
Grasdon came and held him as he layed by aquan and sobbed. Grasdon glared at flamon and held aerius tight. Flamon looked a bit abashed, but he decided to give them some time. Around 8 p.m. Aquan started to come to.
Immediately Flamon rushed to his side. 'Are you okay? Do you need anything? Do you want some water? What hurts?' He said nervously. 'Yes, no, yes, and everything.' Aquan said with a faint smile. Flamon gave him a big hug which was very unusual for him.
' I'm so glad you're okay I thought you might...' he started to choke back tears. Aquan placed a hand on his face and said. 'Dont worry my friend. I'm okay.' Aerius and Grasdon had fallen asleep wrapped in a bed of flowers because the temperature drops drastically at night. Aquan started getting really cold.
'F...Flamon I'm...v...very cold...could you make a...fire?' Flamon could have made a fire, but he lie in front of Aquan and wrapped his arms around him. Aquan's body was so cold that Flamon's body temperature temporarily decreased. Flamon placed his hands on the small of aquans back and pulled him close.
'Th...thank you' he said. Aquan wanted to place his head on flamons chest, but he didn't want to make him too uncomfortable. He knew that Flamon was slightly homophobic so it shocked him that Flamon held him in the first place. Suddenly Flamon lifted Aquan off of the ground, rolled on to his back, and placed Aquan on top of him. Aquan had to lay his head on his chest now, and the extra warmth quickly put him to sleep.
Grasdon awoke the next morning with aerius asleep in his arms. He wanted nothing more than to kill whomever was responsible for hurting him. He gently pressed his lips against his sleeping angel's. He tried to fight his feelings at first, but when aerius gave him a kiss thanking him for letting them tag along it released a completely new set of feelings.
Aerius awoke and looked into the eyes of his first boyfriend. He and Aquan often kissed, but they were just best friends. He rolled on top of Grasdon and straddled him. He leaned down and kissed him. As they kiss grew stronger the wind started to blow, and flowers quickly started blooming. They were so focused on each other that they didn't even notice that their powers were being activated. They stopped when they heard Flamon awake. Aerius giggled when he saw that he was making the wind blow greatly and saw all of the flowers that had bloomed.
Flamon had opened his eyes to his sleeping beauty still lying on top of him. He gave him a gentle squeeze of affection causing Aquan to sigh contentedly. Aquan awoke soon after that and realized that he was still lying on Flamon who was also awake.
Grateful that Flamon had allowed him to rest undisturbed, even if he was uncomfortable with having another man on top of him. Thinking of this Aquan reluctantly got off of flamon. He was still very weak from all of the human blood and tried to get to his feet, but to no avail.
He could barely sit up, and his eyes were struggling to stay open. Flamon grabbed Aquan by the waist and placed him back on top of his chest. Aerius smiled at this. He wanted so badly for Aquan and Flamon to have a relationship. Grasdon smiled a knowing smile at Flamon, this seemed to give him enough courage to speak.
'Aquan.' he said with a bit of trepidation. 'Yes?' Aquan asked while readjusting his head on Flamon's chest. Because Flamon was a fire element his body temperature was much warmer than the others, and because Aquan was a water element his was much cooler. 'I really like you...a lot and i was hoping you would be mine?' Aquan paused before answering and Flamon took this as a bad sign.
'Flamon could you take me to the lake?' Flamon was curious but obliged. Aerius knew what aquan was doing, but grasdon didn't have a clue. Aquan and Flamon went completely under water, and what Flamon saw shocked him. Aquan was a mermaid, but not the beautiful ones he had seen and assumed that they all were.
His once ebony skin was now completely gold, his nails and teeth grew elongated and menacing, his dreads started to devlope sharp points and the end, and his tail was more like a serpent than a dolphin. If Aquan weren't in his arms Flamon might have drowned from shock.
'Flamon i would love nothing more than to be yours, but this is who i am. Can you accept me?' Although Aquan was in his true form he could still barely move so Flamon had to hold him. Flamon gently pressed his lips on aquans and held him there as he slowly exited the water. Aerius and Grasdon had arrived and saw Aquan true form. Honestly it scared Grasdon a little. He knew all of the water tribe were mermaids, but none were gold, or looked as menacing.
They returned to camp and packed up. As they were packing Flamon and Grasdon started asking questions. 'Who attacked you the other day?' Grasdon asked. 'Humans.' Aerius replied. 'What?!' Flamon exclaimed. ' It's true they shot us with there blood.' Aquan concurred. 'How many?' Grasdon asked. 'Two, but the way they fought makes me think there are more' said Aerius. 'They were trained by an element.' Aquan said struggling to sit upright. They all looked at him.
'Humans didn't even know about elements let alone our weakness.' Grasdon agreed as he thought of who would possibly find and help humans. 'Elder kai!' He said. Elder kai was one of the first elemental elders. He believed that elements should train humans, and keep them as pets. The other elders said that he was insane and exiled him from all tribes.
'If there are anymore humans he's definitely controlling them all by now.' he was exiled right before world war three erupted and hasn't been seen since. They pack up all of there supplies, and continue there journey. Flamon had to carry Aquan , who still did not have control over his body. All the while elder kai and his two human proteges watch from afar.