“We couldn’t space out the humans better?” complained a busty older mermaid as six humans, four females and two males where brought into the outer medical area. They where laid down on stone slabs which where much longer then their bodies. Already her staff was getting to work, taking out knives as they cut away their cloths, this was done for two reasons first to make sure their was no hidden weapons and second that human made clothing didn’t last long in salt water. They did leave the women’s bras or in this case swimsuit tops on just to give them time to adjust to the change.
“These humans did take a fall over a cliff into the water.” Explained another mermaid as the head doctor nodded her head and moved forward, water gathering in her hands began to glow a bright blue. She ran her hands over each of the humans with the water magic telling her of any major injuries. All of the humans had bruises and injuries, a broken bone here and there. She ignored the injuries in the legs, the broken leg and ankle. The transformation would take care of that for her.
She did heal the bite wounds to one of the male’s shoulder and a broken bone on the same men. One of them, a woman had a rather bad concussion, likely from hitting the water. Other women had a badly bruised rib.
“Overall, not bad.” Said the doctor as she went over to check the merging, all their tails where properly placed, and the merging was going well. It would be at least a day before these six would wake up.
With that done they transported the six new merpeople to the healing chamber, the healing chamber was actually exceptionally large being able to hold 24 people at any one time and merpeople where larger then humans, the tails being at least double the length of a normal human legs. It was large because back in the day they would have whole sailing ships full of people transform at any one time. Most of the healing chambers where dominate because the average group change was between 2 and 4, having 8 humans turning at once was odd.
The room was pentagon shaped with four bunks on 6 of the walls, the two other walls led toward a bathroom area and the door leading out. They opened the door to see that the first four humans where still out of it, their fusing almost a day a head of their friends.
“Put them in separate bunks.” Ordered the Doctor as she made the rounds to check on the other four former humans. The merging was going along very well, already she could see slits beginning to form on each of them. The slits would become gills once the creature fully modified their lungs, it’s own set of gills would harden over with scales as the two became one.
“Doctor we may have an issue.” Said the newest nurse, a merman who like she had been was born a merman. She swam over to the young nurse and was confused and then she saw it, the women with long blonde hair…Taylor according to what was overheard had started to change a little. A few strains of her hair where now impossibly blonde to the point they would almost be considered gold.
“That is nothing to worry about, changes like that are common.” Explained the Doctor “I am sure you have seen people with green, blue or different color hair.”
“Of course, but these are humans…” started the young nurse
“Doesn’t matter changes like that happen here as well, we can expect large and small changes.” stated the Doctor “Hair, eye color for sure could change, breast and muscles sizes change as well. I even have seen an obese human become a thin as an eel so be ready for anything. Now get some rest, it will be an interesting couple of days for us.”