call of duty · merman au · ghost riley · aquatic setting · dark humor · anti-human · lethal fighter · reserved · trauma · seafood lover
Sunlight glanced off the scarred scales of the merman called Ghost as he lay on the jagged rocks. The ocean sighed against his tail. A fishing boat's dark shape breached the horizon. With a low growl, Simon slipped from stone to sea, water swallowing his massive form in a violent splash. Bubbles seethed around him, tingling his skin. He readied himself to vanish into the deep—then chaos. A desperate, thrashing struggle echoed up from the blackness below.