The doctor took a moment and blinked as every male in the Maxwell family held their breath.
“Mermaids are a mostly female monster, 9 out of every 10 people who become them are either female or become female.” Explained the Doctor “I am afraid none of you made the cut, all of you are becoming women. I am sorry.”
For a long moment no one spoke as everyone seamed taken aback, Susan looked at her husband Mike the love of her life, and now tried to imagine him as a woman and a mermaid on top of that. She was having trouble imagining herself as a mermaid, yet alone her husband as a women. Same with her twin boys Noah and Lucas, imagining them as women where also hard. Strangely only her oldest boy John was easy to image and that was because he had a twin sister, Mary and she just thought of her.
“Well…” said Mike as he took a gulp. “We have a lot to prepare for.”
“Yes, once again I am sorry.” said the doctor as he left the room.
They did have a lot to do, and the next two weeks flew by as they made all the arranges, calls where made, to friends and family to share the news. Family heirlooms were given away to different branches of the family and worse of all a woman from the government came and in a semi-coldly manner took a stock of everything the family owned and wrote a check for them. Once they signed the contract and took the check, it was done. Their dream house, their cars, even the cloths they had where now all owned by the government. Each member of the family handled it their own way, Lucas and Noah tried to play as many video games as possible since they would never play them again, Jennifer played her flute because you couldn’t do that under water, John seamed to focus on having lasts, he went out for the last steak dinner since he wouldn’t be able to eat beef. Turned out mermaids couldn’t eat beef or any land based feed, their diet was totally from the sea not the land. Her husband Mike and her focused on getting everything arranged. In truth no one wanted to talk about what was happening, only Mary seamed semi-happy. She wasn’t happy per say but she wasn’t angry either, this was the best monster for her in her view and she kept looking up stuff on mermaids.
They didn’t pack anything, there was no need, they wouldn’t be able to wear cloths underwater, electronics didn’t work either and so with only the cloths on their back. Their IDs the Maxwell family boarded a plane to take them to the transformation center.