So you and Hazel pointed your weapons at the mermaid and ordered her to undo the curse she had placed on the Sea Captain.
The mermaid protested that such a un-Cursing would be unwise
for the next while and pointed out that a)the Sun was really
cranking out the magical solar radion at the moment
b) Luna,aka the Moon was making one of its rare appearances
in the daylight right now and c0 all the female sea serpents
were having a public event down in the briny deep involving
writhing and dancing as their daughters got their Graduation Diplomas in Marine Engineering,generally a public event
accompanied by raging storms,thunder and lightening up in the
upper levels.
The mermaid broke it down in plain English
the unCursing would probably turn the Sea Captain
into a irritable magick wielding female sea serpent every now
and then if he was restored.
Hazel scoffed at that idea and cocked her pistol and pointed it
menacingly at the forehead of the mermaid
Sighing,the mermaid shrugged her shoulders and unCursed the
flopping fish.
Suddenly the ship pitched violently and you and Hazel got slammed against the wall as the storm,dark and wave whipped,tossed the ship about like a cork.
The lights went out and the groaning timbers of the ship suggested she was being crushed by invisible forces.
Suddenly you heard the banging of the cabin window sea storm
shutters and through the roiling clouds all you could see was
the pale face of the Moon poking through a dark brooding sky.
Suddenly the lights went back on.
Neither the mermaid or the octopus were in the cabin,having fled back to the oceans.
However Gomez was there,seemingly normal,but something was off.
He was not naked,as he should have been,but was garbed in
dark green womens clothes that seemed several sizes too small
for him.
And he had a pair of oysterpearl earings pierced into his
ears,a womans necklace draped around his neck and his hair was a long as a womans and seaweedy green,
Gomez stared mutely at the two of you for help but then doubled over and rolled onto the cabin floor as the next series
of changes swept over his body.
You and Hazel just stood there as the Sea Captains eyes
went from being totally human and blue to being totally
black and shiny like those of a sea creature from the depths.
Breasts and nipples swelled,hir hips widened,hir
waist pinched more narrow and her body was that of a woman.
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Basically Gomez had turned from Sea Captain to Sea Witch.
Though she looked seaweedy mermaidish human,her
hands were anything but human but scaly four digited webbed
sea serpent flipper-hands.
However the lot of you still needed to get you to the
City of Sorcerers.
And so the Sea Witch stayed hidden in her cabin and used her
new powers to summon the sea water and fashioned it into a
animus that looked roughly like her own human self,just
as long as you didn't look too closely or notice the pool of
water left behind by the animus as it squished about.
And so three weeks later the ship arrived at what should have
been the bustling world dominating cosmopolitan City of
Sorcerers.
But wasn't.
The City now lay semi submerged under five fathoms of sea water and the stricken Sorcers General had declared a
State of Magickal Emergency.
Besides the generally sogginess and submerged ruin of the formerly proud buildings
castles and libraries,there had been a inrush of mythical sea creatures
including the daughters of female sea serpents
and hordes of starving drak-crocodile urchins swimming about
in the cannals that had once been streets,begging cups and plates in their toothy long mouths.
It seemed the tidal wave of ocean that had swept in and flooded
the City of Sorcerers had occurred three weeks earlier
the exact same time the Sea Captain had transformed into a
Sea Witch.