It took Prince Damon a while to take in the fact that he was in the ocean but once he realized that he was now a merman in a new home, he smiled.
Almost immediately, Prince Damon flicked his tail and swam out to the open waters of the sea. The male mermaid was eager to explore his new habitat.
The water felt amazing. With a fishtail making up his lower body, his scales reacted well to the coolness of the water. Even though he was a human just a few minutes ago, he swam as if he was in the water his entire life.
As the merman proudly moves throughout the water like a torpedo, his mind started to reflect back on his human life. As liberating as it was to be a merman, there were aspects of his life on land he was going to miss. His delicious morning breakfast, the cute girls that gave out compliments to the prince, and the amazing feeling of running across a field with the wind blowing against his hair.
As Prince Damon reminisced about his past human life, his smile turned into a frown as his mind suddenly remembered the servants that prevented him from traveling beyond his castle, the constant repetitive lessons on “proper prince etiquette” by the old hag royal instructor, his three older siblings that prevent him from ever being able to take the throne in the near future, and the annoying foot cramps that always seem to haunt him after taking a good energetic run.
The more Prince Damon thought about it, the land he lived on was beginning to suck as this salt water was beginning to rule in comparison. Even the occasional underwater boot or piece of toilet paper was more visually pleasing to Damon compared to the stuff he saw on the surface.
A piece of toilet paper isn’t the grey cloud that would rain and force Prince Damon to stay in his castle all day. A boot isn’t the old bedroom wall that Damon’s laid his eyes upon for almost all his human life and remind the prince of how stagnant his life was. It was no wonder Damon snuck out of his castle to meet with the witch, life on land was just lame for him - even as a prince.
Damon put all of his thoughts aside. His human life didn’t matter now. He wasn’t Prince Damon anymore, he was Damon The Merman. The sea was his home now. The all-too-familiar overprotective servants and nagging teachers were nowhere to be found. There were no royal expectations to meet or a crushing debt to society to be paid - Damon was free.
The new merman grinned and jumped up from the surface of the water like a dolphin. Damon slept in flawless arcs as he showed his new body triumphantly to the world and laughed in joy.
After a particularly good strong splash, Damon relaxed and let his body float down the bottom of a lake floor, admiring his new aquatic body and scales.
Damon wondered what to do next. The possibilities were endless. He could explore sunken ships for lost treasure, maybe woo a mermaid, or maybe even swim to a new kingdom where his half-fish kind was welcomed.
Damon pondered his next move.