It was then Captain Al Bertram discovered something strange happening to him.
"Ooh, I be feeling something in me bones." He said.
It was then he saw his clothes - they seemed to be disintegrating; turning into bubbles, and floating off of his body, underwear, hat, and all.
"Well, blow me into a mud pit!" Captain Al Bertram said incredulously. "Me clothes be going away!"
he saw that his legs now joined halfway down his thighs, hiding his genitals.
Refocusing his attention on his feet, he found that he could not longer reach them, his legs were now considerably longer. The feet became webbed, and then, the smallest, outward toes were now the longest, and stretched the membrane between them and the other toes further. While he watched, individual toes faded away, leaving only the webbing surrounded on the outer parts by flesh.
Trying to move, he noticed the joints of his knees were no longer definite, and bent in any direction he chose. The separation between his legs continued to close like a zipper and merge into a single column.
Hundreds of goose bumps bulged on the skin of his legs, flattened, and pressed together, forming rough ridges. The scales mostly retained the old skin color, though they were tinted slightly a purpley-blue. His hair changed colour, from black to a purplish colour.
For the first time he saw his modified legs all at once. For the first time it shocked him to discover that they were a fish's tail.
"Well, shrink me booties, clothes, and me head! I've got a tail!"
After a quick inspection he found that the upper portion of his body was unchanged. Intuitively this led him to look at his midsection to discover exactly where man met fish. The transition was surprisingly difficult to find, it was gradiated between several inches.
he saw his bare chest as it blended into the tail. He seemed like a single unit, there was no longer any distinction in his eyes. The tail was a part of his torso and his torso was a part of his tail.
"You're one of us now!" Ryan laughed.