The clamshell slowly opened as light reached your eyes, you wince as you sit up only to bump your head onto the still opening shell. A now much different hand, a much softer and gentler hand gripped the point of pain.
On the outside Alex watched not sure what would come out, he was far from disappointed as a mermaid of extreme beauty emerged from the shell.
She was sitting down, her long and graceful tail wrapped around her, it was a deep beautiful shade of purple. That was a rare color among merfolk, while not the rarest color that remained gold, silver and onyx, purple most of all that shade of purple was extremely rare. Her long golden locks fell around a beautiful face which could take the heart of any man or women, her eyes a shade of purple as well was still coming into focus.
While all that was a boon, Alex didn’t care, he had fallen in love with him while he was a man and now that he was a mermaid he would love her until her dying day no matter the color of tail.
“What…what happened?” you inquired
“It’s alright, I will explain everything in time.” Explained Alex as suddenly his mate tried to stand up only to basically trip coming to a crash in the soft sand as she wasn’t used to a single limb and her mind hadn’t fully learned how to control everything yet.
“What happened?” you inquired again as Alex came to sit beside you.
“You’re a mermaid now….I am a merman sent to find a mate and our magic lead us together and you to your new form.” Explained Alex with warmth and caring in his voice “This is what you would have been if born under the sea.”
“Mermaid….” You inquired still in a daze, your mind not fully working.
“We better get her back home.” Said a new voice you hadn’t heard before as you turn to see a couple of strange mermaids and merman dressed in what kind of looked like roman style armor with spears and spear guns.
“Yes, that is for the best, she will need at least a day or two to get fully used to her new body to the point that she can swim for any real distance.” Explained a mermaid in less armor and more robes as she threw over what seamed to be a blanket made from weaved seaweed.
As Alex along with the mermaid helped you up and placed their heads under your arms and started to carry your dead weight. It was almost like carrying an extremely drunk friend home from the bar making sure he or she didn’t pass out, only instead of upright, you were all swimming horizontally with someone holding onto your tail so it didn’t drag across the ocean floor.
You don’t remember much, you remember many more flashes of stuff. You remember a sunken ship which looked like it was an old cargo ship from World War 2 or the like. Then one of the mermaid guards moved some metal around the ship to show a hidden tunnel. Then more hidden doors within the tunnel you can’t remember how many.
Then you came into a large “cave” no this was no cave, but it had to be, the ceiling was stone but yet it was giving off a glow like daylight.
There were other mermaids and merman there, off all ages who came up to you.
“Welcome sister!” some said
“You will enjoy it down here.” Others said.
“I remember when I was turned, know this you are safe.” Added a few others.
Others where speaking to Alex.
“Congratulations Alex, what’s her name?” inquired a merman
“She hasn’t decided yet, she was a man earlier.” Explained Alex as the crowd who where following you nodded in understanding.
“Wow….she is a beautiful, lucky SOB.” Added a mermaid “A purple tail, rare.”
You do notice a couple of others with purple tails, most however where either red, blue like Alex or green with green being by far the most common.
“Here, we are home.” Said Alex as you focus on what looked to be a building of some kind, a building made out of coral. You are carried inside to what seamed to be a merman’s house, or at least until recently a bachelor merman’s house. It wasn’t that different then your own studio apartment.
You are lied down on the bed, some kind of foam of some kind and before you know it you are fast asleep, not fully aware how much your world has changed.