A massive cruise ship over 1,500 ft long and with just over 5,000 souls onboard sat on the sandy bottom of the ocean floor. The ship sat titled on the side with its bow about a quarter the way buried into the sand.
Normally this would mean that the whole ship was totally underwater, and everyone onboard would be dead. However instead something which should have been impossible was happening.
The entire ship was surrounded by what looked to be a pocket of air, with ocean water being held back by some unseen force.
Everyone was confused, scared, and wondering what was going on.
Then a booming voice came from seemly everywhere.
“Attention humans. I am Queen Aquaris, Goddess of the Sea and the mermaids and Merman who once called it home. I have awoken after thousands of years to find my kind whipped from the world by human hands.” proclaimed the voice as the water began to glow. “I will restore them to this world, you will all become my new subjects. The waters surrounding you have been infused with my magic, they will transform you the moment they reach you. Do not resist and embrace your new life in the ocean as my subjects.”
Then the water above them began to fall like rain onto the deck of the ship. Those who were on deck almost instantly became soaked. They instantly began to change, everyone who was over 40 began to rapidly get younger as other changes began as well. It wasn’t just physical, some people who began the process of transformation began to rush into the dry parts of the ship and like some horror movie drag people out into the “rain” to be transform.
The waters around the side also began to move in toward the ship covering the distance quickly until the bubble which surrounded the ship was only slightly larger than the ship. Then it began to slowly move over the ship, it was moving at only a foot or two every 30 seconds or so, but it was an unstoppable march. It would past every attempt to stop it and there was no way to hide from it. It would be a slow process but everyone all 5000 souls onboard would become merpeople and subjects of Queen Aquaris.
That was the situation onboard the cruise ship, which had became almost like a horror movie as people attempted to run/hide from the transforming waters and their former passengers who had become merpeople.