“Is everything ready?” inquired Katie as the twenty-four-year-old woman finished putting on her water proof make up. She and the eight others in her little group had all gathered at the top of one of the larger tanks of this aquarium. They were back stage or as she called it top side. They where at the very top of a large tank that went covered three stories at the very entrees of the aquarium.
The aquarium was doing a fun raiser of some kind and wanted something special so she and the others came in. Five women, three men made up the group which would be taking turns diving into the tank with mermaid or merman fins on and pretending to be merfolk to entertain the guests below as the fundraiser for the aquarium.
“Are the air lines down?” inquired Katie as she walked around to make sure everything was in place. Multiple air lines where spread out over the area so they could breath, the bubbles also added to the movement within the tank. Still just in case two of their numbers would be going down in regular scuba gear and not in fins. The fish which called it home was too small to be of any real concern.
“We are good.” Confirmed Lucy one of her fellow mermaids for tonight as she slipped into her fins.
“Alright everyone lets get ready.” Mike confirmed as he and Olivia lowered themselves into the water, the two of them in regular scuba and being the safety team for the 1st half of the night. That left Lucy, Fred, Chris, Britney, Violet and herself as the mermaids and merman.
Katie slipped into her own tail and one by one the slipped into the water not knowing that soon they would all have real mermaid or merman tails and they would be the 1st documented cases of the mermaid virus as they transformed before a packed room full of people.