Homestuck x reader

Metamorphosis (Eridan x reader) part 2

(Warning: naked Eridan and near death by drowning)

When you got over your initial shock, you tried your best to heave Eridan onto the couch. After minutes of struggling to get your beanpole boyfriend on the sofa, you examined him.

His tanned skin had turned gray. His brown waves had turned jet black with a streak of brilliant violet through the front. Large, orange horns protruded crookedly from the top of his head. His nails had grown sharp and tinted yellow. You hesitantly reached over and pulled his lips apart. His teeth were unsettlingly sharp. Like a sharks. The rims of his ears had grown spines with purple webbing and on his neck were slits that resembled gills.

You were quick to withdraw your hands, then wondered at your fear. If this was still Eridan, he wouldn't hurt you... would he? Whatever this change was, you hoped it hadn't affected his mind. Specifically, you hoped it hadn't made him more hostile towards you.

~~~~~

2 hours later, Eridan groaned and opened his eyes slowly. You were sitting in an armchair opposite him, reading a book. As his eyes opened, you noted silently that his sclera had turned yellow.

"(Name)?" he croaked.

"Hey, Eridan."

"Ugh... I just had the worst dream..."

"Really?"

"I had gray skin... and horns... and... and..." he trailed off.

As Eridan had spoken, he'd raised his hand to rub his eyes and now stared at his gray hand.

"Oh... fuck..." he sat up and examined both his hands then lifted them to the top of his head. He brushed against his horns and there was a sharp intake of breath.

"What happened to me?" he asked, his hands dropping from his horns. He was taking this slightly better than you thought he would.

"How should I know? You scared the shit out of me before you passed out! Scratching at the windows, screaming at me and chasing me into the house! What I wanna know is what you were doing outside before all..." you gestured at all of him. "All of this happened."

"Hm..." he paused, "There was... a meteor. That hit out on the beach... I went to go check it out... There was beepin', light, then nothin'. That's all I remember clearly."

You'd heard about this sort of thing happening in books and movies and stuff. To think that it had actually happened to your darling Eridan...

"Tomorrow, I'm gonna go check out the meteorite. For now, why don't you go take a shower, 'kay?"

Eridan nodded absently, got up and went for the stairs. You followed him up. When the bathroom door closed, you set your book on the nightstand, crashed on the bed and let out a breath. You hoped this wasn't going to turn into the X Files or something, where the FBI came to your door and took Eridan away for experimentation.

Your thoughts were interrupted by a girlish scream from the bathroom. You sprang off the bed and dashed to the door. You rattled the doorknob, finding it to be locked.

"Eridan? Eridan, what's wrong? Are you hurt?!"

"DON'TCOMEINDON'TCOMEIN!" he yelled back. You did the only thing you could think of; you stood back, raised your leg and kicked the door with all your leg strength. You didn't actually think it would work, seeing as you thought of yourself as a limp noodle, so when the lock broke and the door flew open, you were slightly surprised.

Eridan was naked, but holding his shirt down over his privates. His head whipped around to look at you, eyes wide.

"DON'T LOOK AT ME! I'M GROSS!" he wailed. You couldn't help but look.

His nipples and belly button were gone. 6 long, purple markings were on his abdomen, 3 on each side. His body hair seemed to have disappeared.

"Eridan... you look-"

"FREAKISH! I KNOW! NOW GET OUT!"

"No, you look neat!" you said. "What do those things feel like?"

You started towards him, arm outstretched to touch the markings. He stumbled back, tripping over the rim of the bath tub and falling on his ass. In his surprise, he let go of the shirt and it dropped to the floor, showing what you think made Eridan scream so loud.

His wood and grapes were gone. In their stead seemed to be... lady parts? It was a vertical slit with a lump underneath it.

"NO! STOP LOOKIN'! GET OUT!" Eridan yelled, his face going bright violet(?). He scrambled out of the tub and hastily shoved you out of the bathroom.

"What? Eridan, wait!" you protested.

Eridan slammed the door and you stood still as it slowly opened again of it's own volition... or because you broke the latch.

"OH FUCKIN'-! YOU JUST HAD TO BREAK THE DOOR, DIDN'T YOU?!" he snapped at you as he dropped down on the edge of the tub, his head in his hands.

"Fine, then. Stare at my freakishness. Make fun of me for not havin' a fuck wand anymore. Go ahead."

He really seemed to be taking this hard. Then again, if you'd had a dick, you'd be pretty surprised if it vanished out of the blue.

You entered the bathroom and sat beside Eridan. He didn't move as you put an arm around him and drew yourself close to him.

"Eridan, do you really think I love because you had a schlong dongadoodle? That'd be pretty shallow of me." You rubbed his back comfortingly.

He looked up.

"A... what...?" he asked slowly, his lips tightening.

"Wood? Donger? Whoopie stick?"

There was a tiny, muffled snort and Eridan suddenly burst out laughing. One thing you were good at was coming up with weird synonyms for dick.

"A... a fuckin'... schlong what-fuck-doodle?" he wheezed. As his laughing subsided, he glanced down at his genitals and his smile melted. "But seriously, what even is this?" He poked the lump on his crotch hard and winced. "Ow."

You stood up.

"Well, I'll get you a chair or something to keep the door closed, alright?" you kissed his forehead and exited the bathroom. After fetching a chair and putting it in the bathroom for Eridan, you crashed on the bed and this time, fell asleep. You didn't see Eridan get out of the bathroom, climb into bed beside you, kiss you on the cheek then fall asleep on his back, his arm cradling you.

~~~~~

The next morning, you did indeed go down to the beach to look for the meteorite, Eridan joined you, saying that perhaps if he triggered it again, he could turn back into a human. But when you got down there, Eridan began screaming and cursing at wherever the meteorite had come from. Because it was gone. All that was left was a large dent in the sand with grains of black sand in it.

"GOD FUCKIN'- FUCK YOU- GO SUCK SO MANY DICKS YOU DIE- FUCK YOU!!!" Eridan growled at the dent, giving it the middle finger about 50 times.

"Sugar, calm down!" you said, trying to quell his rage. "Maybe there's something buried around here."

You got down on your knees and began to dig at the dent, while Eridan stormed about 15 feet away to calm down. You kept digging and digging for a good 5 minutes. There was nothing left there.

You sighed and wiped your sandy hands on your pants.

"Alright. Let's head in, Eridan."

There was no answer.

"Eridan? Cutie pie?" you turned around.

He was gone.

"Eridan? Where'd you go?" you called out. Then you saw something. Out in the ocean, you saw a head dip down under the water. The last thing you saw before they disappeared were orange horns.

"Eridan! What the hell are you doing?!" you yelled. You made a dash for the ocean, jumping into the water. You began swimming towards where you saw Eridan go down. But when the water became chest-deep, you felt a pull around your entire body. A fleeting realization went through your head, and before you had time to cry out for Eridan, you were sucked under the water.

You were being swept along by a riptide. It kept trying to fling you lower and lower from the surface. At one point, you had no idea how, but you got your head above the surface.

"ERIDAN!" you screamed and sputtered. "HELP ME! HELP-" you were pulled under again, cutting you off and your throat flooding with salty water. You reflexively coughed and only inhaled more ocean. As you were pushed farther out and deeper underwater, your thoughts began to get fuzzy, disoriented. Your eyesight was beginning to grow dark around the edges. Your lungs were itching to cough up the water and screaming.

The last thing you saw before things went dark was something rather long swimming quickly towards you. You saw the flash of teeth as it opened it's mouth and closed it.

'Awesome...' you thought foggily. 'I'm gonna... be that... one person who gets eaten... by a shark... every two years...'

~~~~~

Eridan couldn't believe what this alien ability was. He could breathe underwater! As he went farther out into the ocean, he ducked underwater. He could swim so much faster than he could before and he could see everything just as well as on land. Eridan felt the slits on his neck pulsing and it seemed no different than air pumping into his lungs. He watched all the tiny fish who swam by him, their little silver bodies shimmering like stars in the water.

He swam up to the surface, eager to tell you what he could do. This was one thing that he actually enjoyed about his new form! But when he reached the surface and scanned the beach, you were nowhere to be seen. Then he spied your shoes, tossed haphazardly on the shore. Where had you gone?

Then he heard something that made his heart skip a beat.

"ERIDAN! HELP ME! HELP-" he whirled about and saw your (h/c) hair before you went under. Eridan recognized the oddly moving water. You were caught in a rip current!

Eridan dove underwater and shot towards the area where you had been. There! He spied you fading out of sight, being whirled about like a rag doll. He cut through the water like a torpedo and saw you reaching the end of the current. The two of you were in very deep water now and as he got closer, he could see the bubbles leaking out of your mouth slower and smaller. You floated limply, your eyes barely open.

He opened his mouth to call your name, but remembered that sound doesn't travel underwater.

Eridan reached your body, took it in his arms and charged for the surface. His legs propelled him up faster than he expected and he broke the surface, launching up into the air like a breaching manta ray. Eridan gave a surprised cry before falling back to the water, you still in his arms. He kept both your heads above the surface as he sped for the safety of land.

~~~~~

When the water reached his waist, he stepped across the sand, carrying you bridal style. When he reached the dry sand, he set you down, panting from how fast he'd had to swim.

"(Name)!" he shook you. "(Name), wake up!"

He put a spiny ear to your chest. There was an extremely slow tha-thump.

"Alright," he coaxed himself. "CPR, don't fail me now!"

Eridan took your jaw, parted your lips and performed mouth-to-mouth. When that didn't work, he began pushing on your chest. After 10 pushes, he went back to mouth-to-mouth.

You coughed, water spurting out of your mouth and into Eridan's face. You took ragged gulps of air and your eyes opened, unfocused and wandering.

"Don't scare me like that!! What the everlovin' fuck were you doin'??!!"

"Thought you were... drowning," you said, voice raspy. "What were... you doing out there? Are... you insane...?"

"I can breathe underwater! Enough of that. Don't EVER scare me like that again!" he shook you. "Understand??!!"

You gave a weak chuckle.

"Can breathe underwater... huh? Guess you're... an alien merman... now."

"Shut up." Eridan said.

"You're... crying." your hand went up to Eridan's cheek and came away with violet tinted liquid staining your hand.

"Shut the hell up." he picked up your upper body and hugged you tightly.

"Sorry for scaring you." you said softly into his shoulder.

~~~~~

1 hour later~

You were rather embarrassed about the Eridan-having-to-save-you ordeal. You were quite embarrassed of the fact that you had forgotten that Eridan could swim incredibly, having been on swim teams his whole life, so he would've been able to take care of himself. You had risked your life for naught. Eridan was still slightly angry over the fact that you had scared him so badly.

That night, as you lay in bed, he held you tighter than usual.

"I really am sorry-"

"You've said it 13 times already."

You grimaced in shame.

"Good night, handsome... I love you."

"... I love you, too, beautiful."

Eridan propped himself on his elbow, turned over and kissed you before turning over away from you and closing his eyes. You quietly reached for the light on your nightstand and switched it off.

Your eyes were closed, but... there was a purple glow. You opened them and gasped. Eridan turned over and looked at you.

"What?"

"You're glowing."

Eridan had had freckles all over him before his skin turned gray. Now, in the dark, the exact places where the freckles had been glowed purple, as if Eridan's skin were a night sky. Not only that, his irises glowed as well, and his gills and the abdomen markings. And, as the blanket slipped down as he sat up, his genitalia was as well.

Eridan examined himself, turning his hands over and rolling up his shirt sleeves to look at the freckles on his shoulders.

"Whoa..."

"It's so beautiful," you breathed. "Imagine going to a rave."

Eridan's gaze snapped up to you. He then flung himself back to his original position.

"You ruined it," was all he said.

"Aw, loooove!" you whined. "I think it's kinda sexy."

"Too late. I'm now a giant fuckin' glowstick. You ruined the moment, (Name)."

You pouted and lay down, snuggling close to your glofish boyfriend. As you wrapped an arm around his waist, you felt his hand take yours and gently rub his thumb over your knuckles. You also shifted your leg and wrapped it around Eridan's leg, feeling his naked ass press against you (and it was a nice one).

~~~~~

The next morning, you woke up before Eridan. You lay awake, wondering what would happen to you two if this was permanent. Would FBI show up to your door?

You sat up and slipped out of bed. It was 7:09 AM. Normally you would go back to sleep, but your mind was active from contemplating the possibilities of the future. It was a scary thought. You resolved that if anyone rolled up to your house to take Eridan away, you weren't going down without a fight.

You headed downstairs and set up the coffeemaker. As the juice began to drip, you rummaged through the fridge for breakfast.

"Aw, hell yeah!" you hissed as you pulled out a tube of Pillsbury Cinnabon cinnamon rolls. Eridan absolutely adored cinnamon rolls and so did you.

Once the rolls were in the oven, you went to the living room and switched on the tv. You flipped through channels, finding nothing of interest. There seemed to be a lot of feminism on tv as of late.

"- Anti feminist for many of the same-"

Click.

"- Remember that men should never-"

Click.

"- Individuals have come into contact with meteors-"

Click.

"- Should not be such an expensive item-"

Click.

"- Dream is to one day make-"

You suddenly had to flip back through channels, back to the one that mentioned meteors. A Latina reporter was speaking.

"- seem to change physiology of those who come into contact with them. Individuals skin turns gray, grow sharp teeth, orange horns of different configurations, and, more interestingly, different blood colors. The blood colors seem to be in rainbow colors, ranging from reds to yellows, to blues, to pinks. While the physiology of the affected individual may be drastically changed, the mentalities do not seem affected.
"Concerning one that crashed near a government facility, a small box has been discovered inside one of the meteorite. The box revealed a hologram of one of these beings. The hologram spoke of a dying planet many light years away from earth. A dying species who's last attempt to save themselves was by sending meteors filled with the technology and chemistry to change carbon-based bipedal life forms into beings of their own kind. More on this at 1."

So Eridan wasn't alone.

You heard a beep from the coffeemaker, signaling that it was done. A minute later, the oven timer went off and the smell of cinnamon confections wafted through the house. As you hurried to turn off the oven, you heard heavy footfalls on the stairs and Eridan entered the kitchen, clad in backward sweatpants, hair messy, yawning.

"Morning, Eridan."

"..." Eridan lumbered over to you. "M'rnin', dear." he mumbled as he leaned down to kiss you.

You poured some steaming coffee into a mug as Eridan plopped down in a chair, head lolling sleepily. You placed it in front of him. He took the mug and swallowed the contents in one gulp. You stared at him, the icing you held dribbling in excess onto a roll.

"What?" he grunted.

"That was 115 degrees F. How are you able to talk normally?"

"I do not give a fuck. If it's coffee, I'm drinkin' it, regardless."

"... I can't decide whether that's badass or stupid."

"It's..." he saw what you were doing and his face lit up. He looked like a kid at Christmas. "We had cinnamon buns and you didn't tell me?!"

"Oh, yeah. Sorry, I forgot we had them."

Eridan leapt from his chair, picked you up and kissed you hard. "I love you so much right now, (Name)!" He plucked up an iced roll and took a bite.

"Oh, yes." he closed his eyes contentedly. His spiny ears fluttered like birds wings for a few seconds. "Oh, fuck yes!"

You couldn't help but smile at him.

"So," your smile faded. "I was watching the news a little while ago. It seems like you're not alone in this."

"What do you mean?"

You told him about the news report, about the dying species. When you finished, he was quiet for a minute.

"You do realize they're technically conquerin' us, right?"

"What?"

"Think about it. If this were a war strategy, it'd be a very interestin' one."

You gaped at him. "Eridan, their species is dying!"

"I know, I know," he put his hands up in defense. "I'm just sayin'."

"Well, what matters to me right now is that the government isn't going to take you away from me." You pecked him on the cheek.

"They might."

"Why do you say that?" you asked.

"Like I said before, some people might view this as an invasion of sorts. And what if some of those people were higher-ups in the government? And what does the government do when it fears a certain group of people?"

You went pale.

"I-I won't let them." you said, shakily but sternly.

"Whoa now, it was only a theory!" he said quickly, trying to cheer you up.

Eridan was right. Hopefully, the majority of the governments would decide to help preserve the alien species. If not...

You shook your head. It was too early in the morning to worry about such serious things. You decided to focus on finishing the icing on the cinnamon rolls. Eridan snuck about 3 more off the tray before you finally said no more for that morning. He whined, but you were firm.

You began to feel a bit better, but the thought still nagged at the back of your mind.

If anyone tried to take Eridan away... they were going to have to kill you first.