Page 110 of Galaxy Circus Act One

The three of us sit through the next couple of acts, which I have already seen—Magenta and her silks, and the Nengh clowns—before we finally get to the part I haven’t seen yet. Once the clowns clear the stage, a hush falls over the arena as smoke starts to drift across the audience. Where it’s coming from, I really can’t tell. I’m sure Xavier is working his mojo somehow.

“That’s Xavier’s mist. It has people getting a little foggy on the details regarding the pool’s arrival. It’s convincing them they are watching the floor open up and a pool rise out of a hidden hatch underneath,” Eric whispers quietly as the three of us, unaffected by the mist, watch the pool beam down. It’s huge, almost as big as the arena itself, and it rises just enough to be sticking up from the floor. There are glass panels all around so we can see what’s going on under water and a platform in the middle of it. Flashes of pastel-colored shapes swim back and forth too fast for the eye to see. Standing in the middle of the platform is Nixie in her human form. She’s wearing a wetsuit, but the skin we can see is still pastel blue. She has on a headset, and she’s waving to the crowd.

“Hello,” she greets everyone with her musical voice, “and welcome to the wet portion of the show. If you are sitting in the first couple of rows, there are plastic ponchos under your seats. Now would be a good time to put them on if you would like to stay dry.”

She gives the crowd a few moments to do as she asked. I reach under mine, but there isn’t one. I look at John and Eric, and neither of them have one either, so I don’t stress about it.

Nixie continues to talk, weaving a magical story about mermaids, dolphins, and true love that mesmerizes the crowd as the five pastel-colored dolphins leap and spin and perform when given instructions from her. They balance balls, tail walk, and launch Nixie into the air when she gets into the water with them.

She asks the crowd to again look under the chairs, and if they find a colored hoop, to stand and hold it up high. I play along, and sure enough, there’s a pastel green hoop under my seat. Picking it up, I stand and wave it high as requested.

“Now I’m going to send the dolphins to collect them. They need to get the one that matches their color.” She’s facing me when she says this, and when she winks, my heart drops in dread. Fuck, I have a feeling I should have looked harder for something to cover me.

Quick as a flash, the dolphins speed for their colored hoops. All of them slow as they reach the person who has theirs—except mine. Nope, it does the dolphin equivalent of drifting, and I watch as a wall of water comes flying toward me. I get soaked, and the crowd around me starts to laugh as I glower at the stupid animal. He nods his head up and down and even blows a couple of fountains of water, which also hits me. Water drips down my back and into my underwear as I look at both my grandpas who are bone dry and grinning at me.

“What better way to get to know the show than by being a participant?” John remarks as Eric snickers. How the fuck did they stay dry? I bet they used some of their Skarrian magic. Assholes.

“Oh my goodness, are you okay?” Nixie calls to me, not even trying to hide her grin. “I’m so sorry Nikos got a little enthusiastic. He must like you very much. Why don’t you step closer, hand him his hoop, and give him a pat?” she suggests, and I hear mischief in her voice, but it’s not like I can refuse infront of thousands of people. So I step forward and lean over to drop the hoop over his nose, but before I can, he lunges.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Nikos

Ifinally have her in my grasp. She got away from me last time, but I’m hoping now that she’s in the water with me, I can convince her to stroke my fins. My beast has the same idea, and he and I wrestle for control. If he takes over, the crowd will get a show that is not appropriate for children’s eyes, so I keep him buried deep down.

Lila tumbles headfirst into the water next to me, and I hear the crowd laugh and cheer around us. When she resurfaces, she’s trying to fix her beautiful brown hair, and when she does, all I can see are her bright green eyes glaring at me as she splutters quiet obscenities.

Ah, so she wants to play hard to get. I can do this too.

This act must be for the crowd. She happily wore my seed on her skin the other day, after all, so she must be interested in mating with me. I also have her mark on my shoulder in human form, so maybe this is a form of courting for humans. Well, I am intrigued and up to the challenge.

“Oh goodness me,” my sister scolds, swiftly adapting to the small change I made to the act. “Well, I guess you should bring your prize over here, Nikos. Would you all like to see him tow his new friend through the water?” she asks the crowd who, of course, answers enthusiastically. I swim around Lila a couple of times, trying to get her to hold onto my fin, beyond excited to feel her grip it in her hand. Our fins are directly connected to our sexual organs, and it’s going to take all my control not to get an erection in the pool. The Adams brothers would probably castrate me if I did, so when she does, I speed as quickly as I can back to the platform where Nixie helps her climb out. The crowd cheers and I do a quick lap of the pool in celebration, splashing all the smiling children as I go. I love children and hope to have many of my own one day.

This has me thinking. Lila is already with child, so I know she is not opposed to breeding. If I can convince her to breed with me, then she can’t ever get away.

Nixie continues on with the scripted part of the show, telling everyone she’d like to introduce us. This is where we change into our mermaid form and surprise the crowd by launching ourselves up onto the platform like that. The other four Aquilians in the troupe have recently become a family pod, so I think this will be the last stop on Earth for them. They will get off when we pass Aquilia. Joaquin is already showing signs of being with child, and they will want to be in our home waters when they give birth.

I hear the cue, and the five of us dive deep, the other four changing shape before leaping into the air to the oohs and ahhs of the crowd before splashing back down. We all swim over to the platform and use our tails to get out, but the audience can now see I’m still in my dolphin form.

“Oh no,” my sister cries. “Nikos must be cursed like the mermaid in our tale. We all know what fixes a curse, don’t we?”

“A kiss!”

“True love’s kiss.”

“A wizard.”

The children all shout.

“Yes, that’s right, do you think that maybe our audience member here can give Nikos a kiss and break the spell?”

The crowd cheers, and Nixie looks at Lila, who rolls her eyes but crouches down. I must remember to buy my sister something nice as a thank you for helping me out.

“You’re going to pay for this,” she growls at me before she places a kiss on the end of my nose, and with a flash of lights and smoke, I change my form before grabbing her and sealing my lips to hers. She squeaks in surprise and holds onto my shoulders to steady herself before sinking into my kiss. I’ve been very careful not to cut her with my jagged teeth, but I do manage to draw blood, and it sears my very soul as it races through my system. Oh yes, this is the woman for me. Her very essence sets my whole being alight, and again, I struggle to keep my cock within my sexual slit. My beast is smug as he crows his triumph in my head.

“It worked!” Nixie cheers, and the crowd applauds loudly as Lila pushes me away and hisses at me. I ignore her and roll so she can see my tail, wanting her to see how shiny and sparkly the green and gold scales are. It’s always been something that has attracted females in the past.

That was my problem the other day. I should have shown her my tail underwater, and maybe then she might have let me put my cock in her breeding hole. I don’t care if it’s the one in human form or the one when she’s in half shift. She’s sexy either way.