“Ok, we are doing the family bundle.” Said Mike Anderson as he looked at his three kids who where sitting in the back of the van in the parking lot of Mythical Heath.
“Do we have to?” inquired his oldest daughter Sarah as the 17-year-old looked up from the phone which was almost always on her.
“Yes, it’s cheaper which means we can come here more often.” Countered her mother Mary who was sitting in the passenger seat of the van.
Mythical Health had a family bundle, two adult drinks at full price and as many youths or child drinks at ½ cost. This meant for them as a family of five they could get 5 drinks for the cost of 3 and a half which made the already cheap drinks even better. The only requirement was that all the drinks had to be the same, one could not order Mermaid Diet and Dragon Blood at the same time with this deal. They had to order the same type of drink.
“Would you rather not come here?” inquired Sarah’s 15-year-old brother Nathan as he sat beside her, behind them was their youngest sister and their parents surprise baby Elizabeth or Liz for short. She was only 5 compared to her much older brother and sister.
“No.” answered Sarah as she crossed her arms over her chest.
“So who’s turn is it to pick?” inquired Mike.
Once that their drinks where decided he went inside and ordered and within a few minutes he had gotten everyone’s drink and was back in the van.
They where about home and almost everyone was finishing up their drinks when the news broke.
“What the fuck?” inquired Sarah, as she looked at her phone.
“Sarah!!!” yelled her mother, but before she could scold her daughter all their phones began to buzz like they would with an Amber Alert. As everyone aside from Mike who was driving and Liz who was too young for a phone looked at their phones.
“Attention, this is not a drill, a wave of energy is transforming people into magical creatures and based on limited data it appears that people are transforming into the type of creature their last drink from Mythical Health is named after.” Read the message.
“Is that a joke?” inquired Mike as he pulled into the driveway of their house.
“No.” said Nathan as he pulled up images from multiple news websites which showed mythical creatures in the streets and people turning into creatures.
Slowly all the adults and teenagers looked at their drinks, if this was true then whenever this wave of energy reached them they would transform into….