SDRA2 OTP Extravaganza

Forever Deep (Sannochieyomi/Mikado Sannoji x Setsuka Chiebukuro x Nikei Yomiuri)

Sidebloggable Prompt: "Kissing"

Tumblr Prompt: https://otpprompts.tumblr.com/post/693463262435672064/imagine/amp

"Your OTP are a merperson/siren respectively. OT3 bonus: Person C is a pirate."

Warning: almost-drowning experience

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"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest! Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!"

Nikei groaned as he heard the shanty again. "Emma, be quiet already!" he yelled down to her from the crow's nest. 

"Come now, it doesn't hurt to keep a cheerful mood!" she called back. "It won't be a while until we reach land anyway, we have to keep ourselves entertained somehow!"

Nikei groaned and leaned against the railing of the crow's nest. He was the captain of the Fortuna, yet he was on watch himself since didn't trust his crewmates not to mess things up, or worse, mutiny. 

His crew was small, only having three people working under him, but it was fine with him since his ship wasn't that big anyway. Hajime, Emma, and Iroha were all promised a share of the gold they earned from their hit-and-run tactics in the middle of the night when other sailors were tired, and that kept them all in line.

Nikei looked up from the railing and groaned when he saw large rockfaces up ahead, jutting out of the sea with land far in the distance. They looked like cliffs with caves within them, and there was a narrow passage big enough for at least two ships to go through. Even so, Nikei could see the sharp rocks positioned at the bottom of each 'cliff.'

"Hajime, heads up!" Nikei called down to the helm, which Hajime was commandeering due to his strength. "There are a lot of rocks up ahead, keep the ship moving straight! Mind the sides!" 

As Hajime adjusted the ship's position to fit it through the crevice, Nikei smiled with the satisfaction that at least one crew member wouldn't turn on him just yet.

The Fortuna began to pass through the gap between the rocks, and the crew went quiet as they either looked around at the rocks or focused on what was ahead. The sound of the wind passing over and through the rocks was eerie, but the ship continued sailing regardless.

Suddenly, Iroha began walking over to the edge of the ship. "Do you guys hear that?" Iroha questioned nervously. "It sounds like music playing...is that a harp or something? It sounds good. Really good..."

Nikei looked around in confusion from his position until he saw a figure at the top of the rocks. Sitting near a cave, there was a golden-haired man holding a lyre with a pair of dark blue wings on his back. His sides, arms, and calves were all covered in dark blue feathers, though his hands were bare and his feet had talons like a bird. He wore pieces of cloth tied around his waist for modesty and he eyed the ship as he played his lyre loudly.

Nikei immediately knew what the creature was, and though he was only playing a lyre, Nikei knew that the sound was just as deadly. "Siren! Cover your ears!" the captain yelled, plugging his own ears. 

He looked down at his crew, who were plugging their ears and trying to not succumb to the siren above. But to his horror, since they couldn't keep the ship moving straight while plugging their ears, it was starting to move towards the rocks.

Nikei was watching the crew get to a rowboat to escape while he was stuck in the crow's nest, when the ship suddenly hit the rocks and Nikei fell over the side. The pirate hit the water and struggled to stay above the water, but he didn't know how to swim in the heavy clothes he wore to maintain his image as the captain.