Meeting New Members (Cascade)

In clear blue water

Entering the Silver Moon Inn was none other than the mermaid princess known as Aerwyna Salvatore, well, more like Princess Aerwyna, but that title was not to be discussed, the female has told absolutely NOBODY that she was a princess. But she has told everyone that she was a mermaid. In fact, Aerwyna turns into a mermaid quite often when it comes to being in contact with water (except when she was drinking the water). Walking in with the blue haired female was her pet toadstool known as Kinopio, Kinopio usually tells her everything that Aerwyna doesn’t know about the human world, and Aerwyna finds him very cute anyway.

“Aerwyna! Are you hungry??”

“Yes, Kinopio… Why do you think I am entering here?? I need food, and I can’t cook… I am still not used to being a human so I can’t do… well… human things.”

Closing the door behind her, she walked straight to the bar counter and sighed softly before she grabbed Kinopio and placed him onto the counter, just so she wouldn’t accidentally squish him while she was ordering.

“Excuse me.” she spoke regally, trying to grab the pink-haired male's attention. “I would like to order some food.” Aerwyna finished off her sentence with a nice smile. “Do you have any special offers on today??”

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“Ooh, oh, thank you!” The mermaid gleamed a smile towards the man, he was going to get her a drink! Wait… what was a drink?? She was sure he has heard of the word before but she has already forgotten. Her comprehension was limited because she didn’t really have the need to speak much in general underwater. Being in the land made her use her full speaking ability and sometimes that shown. She was then quickly handed something called emerald wine, something she has never heard before either, this was going to be fun.

“Pleased to meet you Gala, it is a pleasure to meet someone from the same guild that I have yet to meet!” Aerwyna admitted. She loved to meet new people because it made her feel like she had a bigger circle of friends to hang out with, friends were good. She couldn’t make many friends back in the mermaid kingdom.

She was then quickly handed something called strawberrice to go nicely with her emerald wine. She took a sip of the wine and took a bite of the rice. They both were very delicious and she was glad to be treated to such food.

Upon hearing Gala’s question, Aerwyna blinked a few times before she bit her lower lip nervously. “To be honest, I am a mermaid, and well… I wanted to try the air for once!” Aerwyna admitted as she took another sip of her emerald wine. “I love being up here so far, it is so different but it is so good at the same time!”

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“Oh wow.” Aerwyna couldn’t help but gasp in amazement at his comments and from the transformation he just shown to her. Even though she didn’t know what tanuki’s are, she knew fine well what demons were. The mermaids that she was with a lot of the time though were a bit… stereotypical. They seen demons as brethrens of heresy, always calling them idiots and only wanting power for themselves. Aerwyna didn’t think of such a thing about them, but it was clear that they cared about species more than they should have done.

Continuing to watch his bushy tail sway back and forth, she bit her lower lip before she then looked to the bartender once more. He spoke up, announcing that he doesn’t know her name. Silly her, she forgot to actually introduce herself. Oops. He also seemed to have touched her glass to apparently change its temperature, stating that she may have preferred it chilled and not the room temperature. Giving the wine another sip with its added chill to it’s taste and gave a nod of approval, it really was nice!

“Ah, urm…” She was stumped this time, she couldn’t just tell him that she was a princess. But she was sure that she could tell him everything else that didn’t associate with her being a princess. “Well, I am Aerwyna Salvatore and this is my pet toadstool, Kinopio. He helps me a lot!” She exclaimed before she hugged the toadstool who croaked out a shocked reaction in response.

“Aerwyna!” Kinopio flailed as much as he could until he was let go from the females grasp. He was able to breathe properly again and he placed his tiny arm to his chest. “Ohhh, thanks…”

“Sorry Kinopio…” She chuckled nervously. “Anyways! About me… urm… hmm… there is nothing interesting about me apart from the fact that I love dancing! Especially sword dancing! I also love to sing! But I hate people abusing fish as I am one obviously, YUUUUCKKKKK!” She stated. “I also love being around friends and company, I don’t like to be alone.” Aerwyna also had a few things going on that she would prefer others not to know about, but as always, she will definitely not be telling him about other… stuff.

“And well, urm, what about you?!” The female exclaimed. “That is, unless you don’t want to.” She quickly took another bite of the strawberrice, which was still as delicious as the last time.

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Kinopio just tilted his head the moment he was told that and he jolted straight for Aerwyna’s arms, causing the mermaid to fall on the back of her chair. He was so nervous and shy, he wasn’t used to others speaking to him apart from Aerwyna herself. In obvious pain, the mermaid quickly stood up and sorted out her chair before she sat back up and ready to listen to Gala continue with his chat. She was quite enjoying it, if she must say so herself. She hasn’t enjoyed such a conversation in a while, even if the best of conversations she usually gets are from Kinopio.

Aerwyna bit her lower lip the moment Gala mentioned that he would love to see her sing and dance. She was sure that he was just saying that to keep her interested, which Aerwyna quite enjoyed. She liked that fact, it didn’t keep her from looking awkward as such, nor did it keep her from being silent, maybe an ounce of conversation was all she needed.

Upon talking about himself, she was glad that she tried her best not to lie. She knew that she was hiding a pretty big secret herself, but she didn’t hide anything else. She felt like she can talk about her mermaid form freely in Black Rose because of what Gala stated earlier. It’s just other guilds that she would feel that she would have more trouble telling about herself to.

“Ah yes, that’s because I look completely human on the land, but if water comes into contact with me, I will turn into a mermaid, it’s why I don’t understand why drinking fluids is ok, hehehehe. On the bright side, you will know when I am around when you smell me!” She grinned as she chuckled to herself.

There was one thing that surprised her, the man was around 200 years and that was a very long time. Are tanukis always young looking?? Even her father was immortal age-wise and even he still looked like someone that could resemble an old man of sorts.

“I see…” She placed her hand on her chin once more, Kinopio jumped back onto the counter from Aerwyna’s legs and he sat himself down once more.

“I… must admit, I wouldn’t think you were over 200.” She spoke. “I would have thought you were closer to your 20s.”

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What he about her scent surprised her on a sense of irony, mainly because she was a dragon slayer. She was ready to tell him about her being a dragon slayer due to the irony of the scent and such. The female chuckled some more as she finally opened up her mouth. But before she could even speak out a single word the tanuki vanished. Aerwyna had to take a quick look around before she heard some scattering noises. The noises were very quiet first, but they got louder and louder with each and every second.

Suddenly, the female felt a paw on her leg and she couldn’t help but have to look down to see who was pawing at her. It was a creature that she hasn’t seen before in her life, it looked fluffy and cute. She was curious as to what it was. Before she could ask Kinopio however, she heard his croaky voice loud and clear.

“That Aerwyna, is a tanuki!”

“Oh my… they look soooo cute!” The mermaid exclaimed, trying not to fangirl at her first sighting of a cute ball of fluff. She stood up from her chair and she kneeled down to be eye to eye with the animal. So this was Gala’s tanuki form?? Well he looked very cute as a tanuki then!

“Oh my, you are soooo cuteee!” Aerwyna commented once more to the Tanuki, stroking and fussing him. She never thought she would see such a little cutie. “Hehehehehe, so adorable.” Eventually, Aerwyna picked him up and smiled softly at him.

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“Aerwyna, shouldn’t you put him down now??”

“Awh, but I don’t want to… Fine, I guess I will… He doesn’t seem to enjoy it after all.” Aerwyna took note of his cute little yap and placed him onto the countertop. The tanuki did seem incredibly cute as he stared at the female with his yellow eyes that Aerwyna couldn’t seem to drift away from, they looked like they were ready to suck in the mermaid princess, she was going to be honest now. She could see all the wisdom that was within his eyes and so she believed his age moreso now. This also made her want to show off her mermaid form to the man, but she didn’t like her mermaid form and she kind of wasn’t really ready to show off her form to the male at the same time, what would he think of her anyway?! Pfft.

Placing her hand on him once more, she fussed him over. She couldn’t get over just how adorable he was.

“Hey… Kinopio, why don’t you pet him…?”

“N-no… I think I will be fine…” Kinopio answered shyly.

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Aerwyna was having lots of fun with Gala. He seemed so sweet and she cannot get over just how cute he truly was, but there was one question that popped into her mind ever so effectively, all land animals are cute as tanukis right?? All the animals that belonged in underwater were extremely cute and graceful, but there were also some animals that were highly dangerous like sharks and piranhas, of course, Aerwyna payed no heed to them whilst she was underwater except on a few occasions, she was half fish after all.

Suddenly, the tanuki version of Gala seemed to react to something that was happening in the inn, he then transformed back to a human and announced that he would be right back, Aerwyna didn’t know why the customer seemed to be getting so angry. This was an inn and you get what you’re given, so what was so bad about that?? Unless they were angry about something else… which Aerwyna doubted.

When the customer tried to insult Gala, Aerwyna got up in a panicked state, picking up her emerald wine while she was at it. She was going to teach that customer a lesson for being so rude! But it was too late, Gala seemed to inflict some sort of magic into them. Aerwyna was shocked at the power that the tanuki possessed, it wasn’t beautiful or graceful like hers... it was fearless, like he had the power to crush anyone within his wake… of course, Aerwyna wasn’t scared of him because they belonged to the same guild, but if she got on his bad side then she would probably be in a lot of trouble.

“Oh, it’s fine!” The female answered as she took a seat down once more while she took the last sip of her emerald wine. “I just hope no more trouble show up.”

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Aerwyna nodded understandably. She knew the situation all too well, especially when she was living in the palace with her mermaid family. Her father’s guards always had to kick out people who disrespected his authority in any shape or form. Of course, Aerwyna disagreed with this heavily which was one of the main reasons why she left the palace in the first place. That, and she was extremely bored being a princess, she wanted HANDS ON EXPERIENCE of doing stuff that she has never done before.

Listening to Gala’s query slowly, the mermaid princess shook her head before she glanced over to her glass once more, taking note of it’s empty contents. “Nah, I feel lightheaded…” She admitted, she really did, that was only her first time at such a drink. Wait, what did alcoholic even mean?? She didn’t understand but she was sure that she would learn in time. She felt awkward having to ask what ‘blow’ was when she done her modelling job, she better not ask what ‘alcoholic’ was. Of course, she didn’t know she was slightly tipsy either due to her lack of knowledge of what alcohol even was.

“Oh, well… I don’t cook at all, unfortunately. I usually hunt! Which… probably wouldn’t go down well on land, would it??” The mermaid princess chuckled at the thought of herself being in some sort of weird hunter gear with a harpoon being held in one of her hands while stabbing every living animal she could get a hold of. Of course, that doesn’t happen in the land of the sea, but she heard of how humans ‘hunted’ so it just gave her a few funny thoughts.

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So that was why she felt tipsy in the first place, alcohol has that certain effect on you. Of course she doesn’t know about the full effects of alcohol but the wine she had run down her throat was really nice and yummy. She really did want more, but if Gala suggested that if she wanted to drink more and take it slow, then she doubted that she should have another glass, she didn’t want anything worse to happen if something was to happen after all.

Gala wrote something on a piece of paper for the mermaid princess and then instructed her to come by his house tomorrow. In reality, she had a real big struggle reading it but she wanted to prove to Gala that she could read properly! However… when she started to read the address, she was making no sense whatsoever, instead of saying what the number was, she said “Weird symbol urm… urm…” She then said some more mumbo jumbo to the point that Kinopio just snatched the note off her and shook his head, indicating that she was reading all that wrong. Before Aerwyna could react however, she spotted a human sit next to her, but the human looked a little different from what she would call a human. Unlike her and Gala who could change their forms, the humanoid was introduced to her by Gala himself. Aerwyna couldn’t help but also give a small nod in return.

“Pleased to meet you, Pair.”

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Aerwyna looked to the human bird thing as they spoke out about having something called ‘ingredients’. If the man didn’t have this strange word known as ingredients then she will feel really bad, considering the same exact sentence involved her herself. Of course, the female fell silent when they both spoke about then having some food. Looking down the empty strawberrice bowl that Kinopio must have eaten all by himself when Gala left the area. She couldn’t help but look to the humanoid bird who seemed to be sitting there casually and all by himself.

“So, how are you today, good sir??” Aerwyna asked regally as she gave off a soft, friendly smile. Smiles are good after all and it can brighten someone's day!

Not long afterwards, Gala came back with ruby crab legs and even placed what resembled rubies in the hands of the mermaid princess, Aerwyna nodded in thanks as she placed them beside her plate of crab legs and started the eat the crab legs with glee… “This is delicious!” The female announced.

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