The first time you’d caught glimpse of a Zora was on the news. For weeks every news station had been flooded with reports over the extraterrestrials that’d crash landed in a lake a few towns over. The footage captured was fussy, but the tapes showed an aquatic looking alien race swimming out of the lake and onto land. Newscasters swarmed the neighboring towns, including your own, interviewing just about anyone for information. You didn’t mind too much. Excitement was welcomed in your otherwise ordinary life. Most people believed this was all some elaborate hoax but as time went on and the reports continued, many began to believe in other life off earth.
You had chalked this up to be a government conspiracy until you found a Zora swimming in your backyard pool. The red scaled, shark headed creature was resting in the middle of the water when you spotted him. The Zora, who you would later know as Prince Sidon, gave you a nervous smile before you promptly passed out. It would be hard to blame you, your life was well, boring. Nothing had prepared you to experience something so extraordinary. You awoke to an even more nervous looking Zora who was holding your head off the concrete. After an awkward name exchange, you noticed a large gun wound stretching over the front of his thigh. Sidon had escaped some local who had fired a shotgun while screaming that the Zoran Prince was a monster.
You had welcomed Sidon into your home to recover two weeks ago, his wound had now almost completely healed. You were happy that his wound healed nicely but…you’d be lying if you said you were happy to see him go. You had grown close to the intergalactic prince. If you were being completely honest, you’d admit to having a crush on Sidon. But he belonged amongst the stars and you were stuck with your dull life on earth.
“Y/N,” Sidon’s deep voice called you from upstairs. You made your way to Prince Sidon’s makeshift room where you found him sitting on the edge of a twin bed (absolutely eclipsing it with his height, the bed sinking in where he sat). The Zora cast you a kind smile and pat the bed space next to him. When you sat down he began again. “Y/N, I cannot thank you enough for welcoming me into your home and nursing my wound. You are one of the kindest people I have met, amongst Zoras and humans. But…I must know.” He paused and took your small hand in his massive clawed palm. “Is it alright if I ask for one more favor?”
“Yeah. Of course.” You nodded. What was it? Did he need to stay longer? You silently hoped that was the case.
He turned and gave you a hopeful smile, his sharp teeth shining. “Would you please come to the Zoran Domain back with me?”
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