Screaming and calls for help broke the morning air as Rose snapped awake, being a future doctor, she rushed toward the sound of the screams and broke into Monica’s and Stacy’s room to find Stacy holding onto Monica who was struggling to breath.
“Rose help!” yelled Stacy as she moved back allowing her to get close. She did a quick scan and it looked almost like Monica was choking but she wouldn’t have eaten anything in her sleep. Then someone turned on the bedroom lights and Rose noticed slits on her friend’s neck. Slits which hadn’t been there the night before, she moved her hand toward the slits and saw that they where uniform style.
“Gills.” Whispered Stacy as she turned to see everyone of her roommates in the doorway.
“Hurry, we need to get her into the water.” Ordered Rose as everyone seamed confused. “She has the monster flu and I think she has gills now.”
Reacting fast, with fear of their friend’s life and not their own safety they carried her into the upstairs bathroom. Stacy started water and let the bath tube fill with water. They put Monica into that water and almost instantly she started to breathe. After taking a few breaths of water she tried to move her head above water only to gasp again for air. She pulled her head back under the water so that she could keep breathing.
“Someone call the CDC and Monster department; we are likely all infected and Monica can’t stay here.” Announced Rose as someone made the call. Due to the fact that Monica had gills and couldn’t breath above water made them a top priority.
Rose sat on the toilet beside Monica who lied in the bath tube to make sure she was ok, when they arrived. A group of men and women all in haphazard gear arrived, four of them carried a long tube full of water. Rose watched as four men carefully put Monica into the tube, one of them pulled out Monica’s hand and took a blood sample. He carried a small computer and put the sample on a pad, within a few moment it beeped.
“Mermaid strain…” announced the doctor, as the other people in bio-hazard gear nodded their heads as they began to take her out the door and out to a waiting truck.
“Where are you taking her?” inquired Rose
“To the airport and then fly her to the mermaid transformation center for mermaids and merman, I think the nearest one is in Florida.” Answered the Doctor as he pulled out a fresh needle. “I need to take your blood as well.”
Rose held out her arm and after a small prick the doctor had his sample. There was a long pause before the doctor looked up.
“Get a few things, you have it to.” Announced the doctor as Rose’s heart dropped. “You a the mermaid strain.”
“So I am becoming a mermaid?” inquired Rose
“You have the strain, this is a field tester I can’t tell you what type of mermaid or even if you will be a mermaid or a merman.” Explained the doctor “Now please go get your stuff, we need to get going.”
Rose lowered her head and went to her room to gather a few things, mostly her phone and some other personal stuff. Within a few moments Taylor walked in.
“You have it too?” inquired Taylor
“Yes, mermaid strain.” Answered Rose as Taylor nodded her head in confirmation.
Within half an hour all six girls where loaded into the back of a truck, Monica strapped down in her mobile tank and headed toward the airport to fly them toward the center. All six of them where on their way toward becoming mermaids.