[@Classpet]

Kayn laughed uproariously at the mermaid before him. [color=ed1c24]"You think you can take us little fish? We will use your bones as toothpicks!"[/color]
When the sharks started attacking Kayn roared and lifted his hand, giving the signal to end the useless traitorous animals. They were not worth allowing to live. Several of his pack got bitten badly but he had not trained them to give in to wounds. He raised the female he held in front of the foolish one and shook her harshly. [color=ed1c24]"Once I show this female to the Shellborn to thrust their failure in their faces, I will skin her and use her scales to decorate my swords. And you,"[/color] he added, tossing Arys to one of his men to hold. [color=ed1c24]"I will drench my skin in your blood."[/color]

[color=7bcdc8]"Aquawlad! Run!"[/color] Arys gasped out, clawing at the merman's hands. [color=7bcdc8]"Leave her! I will go without fighting! Just leave her be!"[/color]
[color=ed1c24]"I hunger for blood... flesh... and screams,"[/color] Kayn said, ending in a roar as he charged at Aquawlad. When he finally managed to get his hands on her, which wasn't easy, he reared back to deliver a blow that would have snapped her neck like a piece of coral.

But he made the mistake of looking into her eyes.
He froze. Couldn't move.
He couldn't deliver the blow.
There was something there... something in her eyes... something familiar...

His pack eyed him warily, wondering why their ruthless leader had frozen.
"The mer-witch has bewitched him!" One of them shouted and raced forward, jagged spear in hand ready to strike. Before he could reach her a roar sounded and Kayn grabbed his pack-mate, landing several horrid blows before ripping his head from his shoulders.

[i][color=ed1c24]No one would touch her! They had to go through him first![/color][/i]
Kayn froze again, the corpse of his former pack-mate in his hands and the others looking on in shock. He roared again, this time in confusion, shaking his head fiercely. What were these thoughts?
[color=ed1c24][i]He had failed her before! He would never fail again![/i][/color]

He glared darkly at the female before him. [color=ed1c24]"What kind of spell have you cast on me witch?!"[/color] Kayn demanded in a furious growl. 
He waved a hand at the remaining pack. [color=ed1c24]"Taken the little female to the Shellborn as planned. Show her to the leader and then kill her before him."[/color]

The pack hesitated a moment before another snarl from Kayn had them swimming off. Kayn blocked the female from following.
[color=ed1c24]"Who are you little witch?"[/color] Kayn demanded again, his teeth set in a snarl.