The Ocean's Song (pt. 1) (Going through edits)

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"Dang Naida, I didn't know you could be so fierce, respect." Shark complemented, impressed, and lightly elbowed her playfully. Being the giant Shark was, and how tough he appeared, for her to have his respect made her swell with pride.

Ray led the way to the food reef, but Krait stopped them before they entered. "Sea horses are off-limits." He said sternly. "And jellyfish. All species and variants of both seahorses and jellyfish are off-limits, ok?"

"Aww, but jellyfish are some of the sweetest ones! Why are they off-limits?" Ray whined.

"Absolutely no eating or killing them. At least not until I've moved the current ones out of the reef and replaced them. I accidentally became attached to the food, again..." Krait blushed a little and looked at his tail.

"Krait! We talked about this!" Ray chastised. "No getting attached to the food! You have plenty of other animal friends, do you need to befriend the ones that we eat?" Ray folded his arms and glared at Krait.

"They're not friends! More of pets..." Krait muttered, pouting a little.

Shark swam up behind Krait and smacked him upside the head. "Get 'em out of there, I'm hungry and need food." He said in his smooth deep voice and entered the reef. The other brothers followed after shark, looking around at the numerous types of animals bound to the reef and an inevitable fate of being eaten.

Naida swam up to Krait, shyly offering her hand to him. "If it's any consolation." She smiled, blushing a little. She didn't know what it was like to have the threat of your pets being eaten, but she once had a cat that died after being the best companion a cat could be for thirteen years. It broke her and she mourned Frizzy, the cat, for months. She couldn't imagine getting a new pet, only for your brother to eat it a few days later.

Krait blushed, staring at her hand in awe. He looked up at her with disbelief, unable to move or speak. He didn't think she'd trust him or even like him after he told her his gift.

Growing impatient, she took his hand and pulled him into the reef with her. It was surprisingly difficult to pull him, as she only had legs and her slightly underweight body to tow a young man with a large what looked to be an eel tail, even though it was a sea snake tail.