Chloe opened the door to find her little boy was totally under the water in the bathtub, her heart was racing as she rushed toward him pulling him out of the water. His body was now much heavier then it should have been as she pulled him from the water, his lower body transformed into a long tail covered with scales. A lot of his new weight was focused on the tail.
“Mom.” Cried Nathan in an annoyed voice, a voice which was like whenever he had his computer tablet taken away from him.
“Nathan…what…” asked Chloe not really sure what to say, she had grabbed a towel from a hanger and quickly began to dry off her son’s legs praying that his human legs would come back.
It took forever in her mind but in truth it was only a couple of minutes and at the same time her husband had entered the bathroom to see his son as a merman Nathan began to change back into a human.
“Nathan…what did you do?” inquired Luke as he wrapped the towel around his son and stood him up.
“I was taking a bath and I became a merman, I could breathe underwater…” said Nathan in a happy excited voice “It was great.”
That was horrifying news to his parents, if just touching water long enough could transform their boy and likely themselves into merpeople that would make their lives much harder if not impossible.
“Chloe…” said her husband Luke’s voice full of concern as he pointed to a patch of scales which now covered Nathan’s right foot.
Freaking out Chloe began to rub that area hard with the towel in an attempt to dry it off but no matter how hard she tried the scales stayed there. Then before everyone’s eyes the patch of scales actually expanded.
“I…think it’s….” Stated Chloe to able to say the rest of what she was thinking. “I think he is becoming a merman for real, no changing back.”
“I think we all are.” Stated Luke, he had noticed when his wife was panicking trying to dry the spot that there was a patch of scales being her knees. He pointed it out as Chloe twisted and turned to get a look at it in the mirror while Luke took Nathan to get dressed. When he returned Chloe searched him and found a patch of scales just above his ass crack. Both of their patches of scales were much smaller than their sons.
“My God…that baby turned us into mermaids for real?” inquired Chloe “What do we do?”