Meeting Kai
Credit and big thanks to @deckofaces for inspiring how Kai and Y/N met! (Note- y/f/c= your favorite color)
Y/N swam between schools of fish, looking for anything out of the ordinary. Any magical object, maybe something to wish on; she wasn’t sure what to look for, but she was desperate enough to look anyway. Since being cursed, she would turn into a mermaid anytime she touched water. That included a shimmering, y/f/c tail, webbed ears, and little scales peppered sparsely across her body. Her mer form was beautiful, but it was a hassle at best, even if it did include the ability to breathe underwater.
Y/N was so focused on treasure hunting that she didn’t notice the shadow forming over her until it was too late. Y/N looked up just as a net descended beneath the surface. Her and the schools of fish began to swim in evasive patterns. Their efforts were in vain, however; the fish were caught immediately, and Y/N with them. Y/N struggled to get out of the net, but her tail and arms had gotten tangled in it during her efforts to escape. Y/n could do nothing but struggle and wait for the net to get hauled up out of the water.
Within moments, she was hauled on deck of a pirate ship. The fish around her flopped helplessly in the net. Y/N got smacked in the face several times by their fins.
“Good work men,” a voice echoed, “we’ll be able to fetch a fair price for these at port.”
Fishermen. Hopefully they were the benevolent type.
Y/N yelped as the net was dragged across the ground.
“Wait,” the voice said, “what is that?”
The net stopped moving, and Y/N was uncomfortably aware that she was being watched. A young man stood over her, a grin on his face.
“Hello there,” he said, “what have we here?”
“Um, hello,” Y/N said sheepishly.
Y/N tried to wave, but the net tangled around her arms made that difficult.
“Hehe,” Y/N laughed nervously, “I was just passing by when your net caught me. I don’t suppose you could…?”
Y/N looked down at the tangled mess for emphasis. The fisherman blinked, then laughed.
“Of course, little fish,” he said, “hold still.”
The fisherman dragged Y/N to the center of the deck, then pulled out a knife. He cut through the ropes, being careful not to hurt Y/N.
“Thank you,” Y/N said, “thank you very much.”
“It’s no trouble at all,” the fisherman said, “my name is Kai, what might you be called?”
“I’m Y/N,” Y/N answered, “now if you could just throw me back, I’ll be out of your hair.”
Kai smiled. He wordlessly slid an arm under Y/N’s tail and another behind her back, lifting her up in a bridal carry. Y/N tried to ignore how Kai’s men gawked at her as he carried her, not to the ship’s railing, but to the captain’s cabin.
“Wait, where are we going!?” Y/N asked, “you have to throw me back!”
“But we’ve only just met, little fish,” Kai said, “it would be rude to leave without getting to know each other first. Not that I’ll be letting you leave, but the point still stands.”
“What!?”
“As captain of Calypso’s Wrath, I am responsible for managing all of the treasure we collect. And you are certainly the finest addition to the collection.”
Calypso’s Wrath? That did not sound like a fisherman’s ship.
“Y-you,” Y/N gulped, “you’re not a fisherman, are you?”
Kai looked down at Y/N and laughed out loud.
“What a naïve little thing you are,” Kai said, “I am Kai Nelson, the captain of the most feared pirate ship this side of the globe.”
As Kai spoke, he set Y/N down in a large, glass tank filled with water.
“I was going to use this to house rare species of fish,” Kai explained, “but you’re more valuable than anything else I could catch.”
“Please,” Y/N said, sitting up so that her upper half poked out of the tank, “let me go. I haven’t done anything to you, I’m nothing of value-”
A backhanded slap tore across Y/N’s face faster than she could perceive it.
“Nothing of value?” Kai said darkly, “I’ll be the judge of that. I don’t want to hear you talk about yourself with any lesser treatment than you deserve. Understand?”
Y/N nodded with wide eyes, rubbing the side of her face.
“Alas, little treasure, I must leave you for now,” Kai said, “the men get rowdy without instruction you know.”
Kai left the room, closing the cabin door behind him. The reality of Y/N’s situation sunk in and tears welled in her eyes. Y/N would cry for a good long while before the beginnings of an escape plan would form in her mind.
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