Poseidon Choice of mates

** Chapter one**     Growing  up not knowing what mates were. I only believed I was a full merman. It was like having a ship smack me in the face.  Boy was I wrong !  As i looked around my world, I wondered how my mother could do this to me. My whole life, I have asked who my father was.   My whole life was a lie. I am the prince of the ocean, my mother is the queen, and my step-father is the king. Today, on my 18th birthday, I learned I am a cross breed. Today, at 4:32pm, I am to be taken to the shore to meet my father, the Lycanthropy  king Lucifer. Crossbreeds are forbidden in both worlds, so how am I alive? The question is playing over and over in my head as my world spins. My mother sits beside me with long blonde hair and emerald eyes that sparkle like the ocean,skin so pale she is almost transparent.   Today is the day I  get to hear her story of how I was created. Too bad I can't hear over the drums beating in my ears, the blood rushing through my veins, my heart beating so loud that it sounds like it's going to beat out of my chest. I tried to listen, all I saw was  tear-filled eyes and tried to understand what could have happened. That she was with a werewolf, really a freaking werewolf come on mom. I feel the sting before I realize what is happening or what I might have said, that she has just smacked the living blowfish out of me. I see her mouth move and her hand go to her tail and I know I'm in deep sponge fish. “Poseidon, are you listening to me?  Can you hear me? Have you lost your marbles today, son? I'm pouring my heart out. I'm giving you all the answers you have been asking since you were old enough to swim and you want to space out and forget who you are in a matter of  seconds. Fine, if you don't want to  know, we will let it be on your shoulders, son”.   I can't help but laugh as my mother stares out at me. She stands there and shakes her head like this is my fault, like i am the one that created the hybrid son. That it's me who thought today of all the days was the one day to tell the truth to your 18 year old son  who you have lied to his whole life. As my hearing starts to come back and the sting from my cheek is going down, I start to listen to the words as they spill from her mouth. “ Son I was young, I was in love. It didn't matter to me he was a wolf. “ I shook my head cause I can actually hear and I didn't like anything she was saying but I listened. “ I had just turned 16. I left the water without your papa knowing I wanted to see the world outside of the ocean ”. I just stare at her, my beautiful mother who has always forced me to battle every battle, fight every championship, make good grades and be the best no matter what. She always had to outshine all the other merman kids. Was this why because I was a hybrid ?    I try to pay better attention. I know this is important. “ We met on the night of the full moon. He just turned 18 years old “. I looked into her eyes and saw the tears running down her cheeks. I take my hand and wipe away the tears as they fall. I'm not trying to hurt her by not listening or laughing. Cann't she see I'm trying not to scream? I'm trying not to show emotion like I was taught. “He was so handsome in the moonlight, so full of life, I never dreamed I would fall in love at first sight”. I keep staring at her as she talks and tells me about the man that i have wanted to meet since I can remember. “ He told me I was his mate.” I turned at her and turned my head from side to side. What is a mate? I wonder, she sees my face and starts laughing at me now. “ Son, only Wolves have mates”. How did she know what I was thinking? She has done that since I was a kid, always pulling the words out of my head like I say them out loud.”Mates are kind of like what we have here but you guys have arranged partners from the gods of the sea”.      I have had an arranged marriage since I was 12 years old. I remember the day it all happened, but that is a story for another time.” I didn't know what mates were, but I had the most amazing pull to him. It was like lighting on my flesh when he touched me”. I shake my head, still not using my words. I can't trust myself to talk to her. There is no telling what I might say to  get me slapped again.  She keeps talking, so I listen to her  “ I made love for the first time that night the human way”. Wow wow please kill me now. I cant hear this MOM. I scream real loud and I  jump up like I have been hit with a electric eel. Sounds of laughing make their way to my ears. “ Awe my sweet merfish, one day soon you will know the pleasure of the flesh, my sweet boy”. I stare at her and the shock pleasures of the flesh  she can see it written all  over my face dear Zeus kill me now.  Sweet laughter floats to my ears. “ Son there is nothing wrong with what me and your father did, it was natural”. Mother, there is nothing natural about your story. She looks at  me and smiles. “ One day soon  my sweet boy, one day soon”.   She stands and reaches for my hand and stands me up and says it is time I looked down and see she is right.  We swim through the caves out towards land. There is no one with us, just me and her. I look at her and wonder where the royal guards are. She is never without them. It dawns on me she has not had her guards all day. It's me and her. I stop midway and say mom she stops, looks at me and just smiles, only saying come we can not be late. All I can think is why was i not listening? I'm swimming to catch up with her as our heads go above the water to see the most amazing  view I have ever seen on the beach stands a man that has to at least 6’7 long brown hair piercing blue eyes the color of the ocean.  He just nods to  my mother and she smiles and swims forward. I swim after her and think about what will happen now.  The closer we get to the shore, I can not help but stare at the man standing there, who looks just like me. We could be twins. It's amazing. I never imagined seeing my father and I knew I didn't look like my mother, but this is crazy. I was always picked on for my different color eyes and dark hair and tan skin. They called it sun kissed I was always blamed of going to the surface and tanning by the elders. Every week they had palace guards following me everywhere like I was lying. So I made a game of it. Until who I though was my father caught me one day and throw me in the cells in the deep for 3 days till my mother came with tears in her eyes and told me she was sorry id did not understand how my father could do that to me that was the day I learned the truth.