As the 4 men were examining their new feet, they suddenly felt strange.
They suddenly had an uncontrolled urge to take off their clothes, so they did. They stripped down to their birthday suits, naked as the day they were born.
There they saw it.
More scales forming on their bodies. and on their backs, webbing was forming enormous dorsal fins. and the cracks where their butts were began to disappear.
Almost immediately, their legs and feet blended together, and they could no longer separate their legs. They had joined together and become as one. the changing men all fell face down onto the sand.
"Oh me goodness!" Samuel exclaimed. "We be turning into fishes!"
Indeed. The separation between their legs continued to close like a zipper and merge into a single column, taking with them, all of the men's last chance of being able to stand up again.
They watched as what had been their legs extended another full meter beyond where their feet should end, and fish tails unraveled themselves. Scales appeared along the tails, thousands of them, tinged different colours. And they felt their privates recede behind a flap of skin, so it looked as if they had never existed.