Your head was pounding as your eyes began to adjust to what happened. The last thing you remembered was gathering together with your wives’ friends as well as your own for a group photo at a pool party. Your wife, Kim had wanted to theme the party and had found a discount on some mermaid/merman tails, and everyone had gone along with it. It had helped that all of you were college friends and a few beers made everything funny.
Then at the photo, the pool had turned into a whirlpool and pulled all of you down into the water and then you don’t remember anything else.
You open your eyes having to blink multiple times as you look up at a large piece of wood only a couple of feet above you. You begin to look around, the room was dark with only real light coming from below a large pool of water which seams to cover the whole floor.
The walls seamed to be rows upon rows of bunk beds made out of simple wooden planks and the air smelled of salt water. The whole room had the vibe of an old sailing ship turned upside down so that the haul of the ship was the ceiling.
“Where am I?” you ask as you sit up, your legs not wanting to move, they where still bound together by the stupid mermaid/merman tail. You attempt to pull at it but for some reason your fingernails will not slip under the gap between the plastic tail and your flesh. Heck it didn’t even feel like plastic anymore.
“What the fuck!” yelled your wife’s voice from a row beside you as your head snapped toward her. She had woken up just like you and just like you was confused as hell.
“I don’t know….” You answered, “Just remain calm.”
It took a couple of minutes but soon all your friends who had been at the pool party began to wake up from their “beds”.
“What the hell is going on?” inquired all of them, some were doing so with fear in their voices others with confusion or anger.
“I can explain that.” A new voice came as a figure surfaced in the center of the room. It was a rather beautiful women, with long impossible emerald, green hair and a rich chocolate skin tone. Her eyes where also an impossible green but the real stunner was the neon and emerald green mermaid tail which moved under the water. “Welcome you all to your new home, you are confused for sure, see the tails you bought are real and have fused with your body. Over the next couple of hours, you will transform into mermaids and merman. Given some of the selections you made, some of you will be changing genders as you become one with the sea. This is done to help replenish our population after you humans hunted us down. Now sit back and relax and enjoy your change and welcome to your new home.”
With that the mermaid disappeared below the water leaving you and everyone else confused and stunned at what was just explained to you.