Corine lead the four newly turned mermaids out of the large cove which had their hometown, it was amazing to Damon/Scarlett, Monica, Vicki and Jill as they head out to sea. With their new mermaid’s tail they where swimming faster then they could ever dream and yet it seamed as if they where power walking instead of moving so fast that the sea floor below them was a blur. It was amazing to see the sea floor, they knew that while it was shallow around the beach it dropped off right away and went even deeper off shore. Yet they could sea the floor and it was as their eyes could see in the dark with ease.
“This is amazing!” yelled Jill as the new mermaid did barrel rolls as they swam forward. “I never felt so alive.”
Vicki smiled and laughed at her girlfriend’s reactions as Damon slowed down a bit to swim beside Monica.
“You are concerned.” Stated Damon
“A little.” Admitted Monica as she looked at Jill and Vicki. “I am happy to be a mermaid; however we are going to be outsiders in a totally different society. We know nothing about where we are going and what the rules are?”
“Yes.” Confirmed Damon “Hell I don’t even know what to call myself?”
“Scarlett is a beautiful name and Damon isn’t really a name for a mermaid.” Countered Monica as she reached out and ran her hand through her girlfriend’s short red hair. “Besides Scarlett, a red tail and red hair mermaid fits really well.”
“Still it is strange.” Admitted Scarlett as she noticed her mother slowing down, the four of them followed suit. They hadn’t been swimming for long and according to her the nearest male of royal blood who was her half brother was a day’s swim away. “Is something wrong?”
“In a way, turning all four of your has taken a lot out of me, I need a rest.” Explained his mother “I am looking for one our shelters.”
“Shelters?” inquired Vicki
“Yes, we have set up safe locations where merpeople can rest outside of our cities without being found my humans.” Explained Carine as she came to a stop before pointing down. “There it is.”
It was actually a series of shipping containers which must have fallen off a cargo ship in the storm. There where four of them littering the sandy bottom and there where pieces of cargo on it.
“Follow me.” said Carine as they dove deeper into the sea, deeper then any of them outside of Carine had ever been, yet the pressure didn’t hurt them. They reached the bottom with ease as Carine came to a stop in front of one of the containers.
“You may not have noticed it, because it is clearly visible to our eyes but invisible to human eyes but do you see the symbol?” inquired Carine in a motherly teaching voice. There was some graffiti on the containers but then they noticed on the top of one of the containers was a large trident and same on the door. “The trident marks safe spots.”
Monica opened the door to show an mostly empty shipping container.
“Well kind of bare.” stated Vicki as Carine swam in and then swam down through a hole in the bottom.
“It’s just an entrees.” exclaimed Jill
“Yes, now follow me ladies and please close the door behind you.” Said Carine as they followed her in closing the door behind them. The Shipping container had a hole in the bottom which lead down into a large cave.
“It isn’t much but welcome.” said Carine as the four new mermaids looked around. There was a large central chamber which had a semi-natural look incase it was ever found along with side chambers for privacy. The ground was soft sand and glowing rocks was stuck to the ceiling giving it light.
“I’ll get you some food.” stated Carine as she swam off to a different chamber.
“Not what I was fully expecting.” admitted Jill
“Well this is basically a rest area, it isn’t suppose to be pretty.” Countered Vicki “But I was expecting something more classical Greece like or fantasy.”
“That is Atlantis!” yelled Carine from the different room. “to lesser extent the other capitals of the 7 Seas. See Atlantis is our main capital and rules over the Mediterranean Sea as you call it but there are six other capitals for the other seas, with other cities spread out between them.”
“So this is a rest area.” Said Jill as Carine returned where several fish, all of whom had seaweed wrapped around it. “Sorry I shouldn’t have judge.”
“That is ok, sorry I don’t have a lot for all of you. I left a bag of supplies here before I went to the coast and I was only expecting to feed myself and Scarlett.” Explained Carine
“That is fine.” Said Scarlett as all of them took their fishes, and after a moment they took a bite of the raw seaweed wrapped fish. Only to have the taste exploded in their mouths.
“Wow…this is so good.” Moaned Jill
“You have new taste buds.” Explained Carine “Now I need to sleep, there are coves for each of you but do not leave the area. You don’t know the dangers of the sea yet but feel free to do whatever you want within the coves.”
“Alright.” Confirmed Scarlett as her mother swam off to the nearest cove to the door and laid down on the sand.
“So what do you want to do?” inquired Vicki