“My God.” Said Jennifer as she held the mer baby in her arms, she had no way to tell if it was a boy or a girl and since the baby couldn’t be more then a week old there was no way to tell by the human parts of the body. Its tail was a lime green with golden scales mixed in and it’s hair color was about the same as her own golden brown but being so young it likely would darken to something else.
Suddenly the baby clapped it’s little hands together and a wave of energy shot out and for a little bit the air was full of energy. The air was literally alive with energy for a moment and then it was back to normal, the smell of the salt water and the crashing of waves.
“What was that?” inquired Jennifer as she looked around, then she felt light headed and her legs seamed to get heavy. She pulled the baby down and towards her protecting it as she spun around before falling backwards hard against a large rock which was about her shoulder height. She had run past it thousands of times and used it as a distance marker. She knew a lot of people who did, but the rock while smoothed from years of erosion but it wasn’t perfectly smoothed. She felt it bite into her skin and there was a ripping sound as it caught her sports bra ripping it off as she fell. Her hair also became loss as her honey brown hair fell down over her shoulders.
Jennifer winced in pain as she slid down the rock before planting her ass in the sand. She could tell she had broken the skin and there were bound to be multiple small cuts and friction burns down her back now. She was about to scream in pain when she noticed that she could not stand up or really feel her legs. She turned her blue/green eyes down toward her legs to see that her long legs were getting longer and merging as they went. Her running shoes had been forced off her feet by the changes happening to her legs and her socks had split.
“My God.” Said Jennifer as her legs merged at the ankle but then expanded outwards by what had to be an extra foot or 18 inches before two thin strips shot outwards becoming a large tail fin. It was flesh color but the parts of the flesh between the main body of her legs and the tail where semi-transplant.
For a moment she had a tail from the ankles down but not for long her legs where pulled together and flesh grew over them making them smooth and as no matter what she tried it kept advancing upwards, to her knees, her calf muscles and finally as she looked down it ripped her shorts apart and destroyed her underwear.
“I am a mermaid?” inquired Jennifer as she looked at her flesh covered tail. As she did the flesh began to change, it turned first into flesh-colored scales before darkening. It took her a moment to realize that the same color of her running shorts, dark navy blue was becoming her new tail color. There were even a few patches of gold here and there just like there had been gold trim on her shorts. Small side fins, kind of like a shark began to grow out of the main body but they where no bigger then 2 inches and were covered in the same Navy Blue/Gold scales.
She was so focused on the fact that she now had a dark navy-blue tail that she failed to notice other changes, her strong core which she was ever so proud was got even stronger as she grew a little bit taller as well, this was to help her swim better in the water. Every little flaw in her skin disappeared as it changed to protect itself against ocean salt water. Her hair also changed as it became heavier so that it would fall down in the water and not float up and to protect itself from the salt water but it stayed the same golden honey brown. She didn't get slits for gills instead her lungs changed to take in water and air at the same time.
“MY GOD!!!” yelled Jennifer as she looked at herself wondering how this could have happened. Then she felt a pull on her breast, she looked down to see that the baby merchild she had found was now suckling on her nipple like it she was its mother. Then she felt some milk leave her, she was breast feeding a merbaby, it made some happy noises and kept feeding it must have been very hungry but somehow, she now could feed this baby without given birth to this baby. On some levels she could not blame this child, if he/she had caused this he/she was too young to have known what was going on.
“What the fuck am I going to do?” inquired Jennifer, she had become a bare breasted mermaid when minutes ago she had been jogging down the beach.