Monsters and Men

Chapter 5: Welcome to Portorosso

After Ercole lands into the warm summer sand, Guido be and Ciccio Immediately pop there heads out to see if he was okay. Seeing that he had not transformed into a human yet, Guido, thinking he was right all along says "Ha! See? I told you your "smart" idea wasn't gonna wo-" then in a matter of minutes, they watched as Ercole's scales, tail, and sharp claws start to fade away. And he was officially the "land monster" they fear he'd be, with dark brown slicked back hair, brown eyes, and a little bit of hairs above his lips, which felt weird to the touch. "mother of pearl" Guido said in shock "it...it..." Ercole, shocked as well and looking at his new form "worked" he said, now observing his new surroundings, feeling the gentle breeze on his face, the warm bright sun beaming down, and the distant sounds of seagulls flying high in the sky. Now realizing that his "theory" worked, he starts to jump around, shouting happily "It worked! It worked!" Then suddenly fell over and realized that he needed to learn how to walk first. "Oh yeah, I forgot, I need to walk like a human huh?" Guido and Ciccio both nodded, seeing it be the obstacle they need to get over. So not trying to think about too much, Ercole carefully took slow steps and after falling a few times, he finally was able to walk like a land monster. Ciccio cheers for him, seeing that he is able to walk on two feet, but Guido unfortunately wasn't celebrating, instead he smiled, but was sad. Ercole noticing this, stopped in his tracks and now concerned says "hey Guido, what's wrong?" Guido seeing that he noticed he was sad, says "hm? Oh it's nothing, it's just..." he continues "what if it doesn't work for us? I don't want you to go to the town by yourself " Ercole reassuring him says "don't worry Guido, it will work, I promise. You just have to trust me" Guido, still not sure says "I'm scared" Ercole answered him in a comforting voice "I know, but it's gonna be okay. as long as I'm here." Guido looked at Ciccio then back at him, took a deep breath and grabbed Ercole's hand and came out of the water. Once he was out, the change started to happen then out of nowhere, he was having a panic attack, yelling frantically, touching his body as if ants were crawling all over him and without hesitation, Ercole quickly pulled him to an embrace. Putting one hand on his head and the other wrapped around his back "hey! it's okay, it's okay, you're okay, just breathe...breathe" Guido closed his eyes and steady his breath slowly. He opened his eyes to finally see his new surroundings and the breeze of the air and the sound of the waves calmed him down, looking up to Ercole smiling at him "see? you're okay, I'm here like I said" putting his hand to his face for comfort. "Yeah you're alright don't worry" Ciccio adds Guido chuckled and hugged him back, then it was finally Ciccio's turn to transform so he grabbed his hand and came out of the water and started to change into a human as well but luckily didn't freak out as much as Guido and was rather fascinated by it and they were both officially land monsters. Guido had brown hair, that was the style of a bang slicked to the right, brown eyes and freckles, Ciccio had yellow curly hair, brown eyes with freckles also. Now seeing, they both jumped for joy and hugged him, now that he won't be alone, but they still needed human clothes in order to blend in, so they snuck around trying not to get caught, all while trying to find some clothes. And finally, they found some that was hanging from a wire, but before they yanked it off, Guido asked Ercole "what about our seaweed clothes?" He was aware of this, but did not know what to do with them so he just said "put the human ones over it, we're only here for one day so we should be fine." He reassured them, and when they put it on, The clothes that they found were plain, but simple. Ercole had a red polo shirt with one white line that went across, and navy blue pants. Guido wore an orange shirt with strips going down, and dark brown pants. Lastly, Ciccio wore a green shirt, that had no pattern, but he liked it either way and had dark green pants. They couldn't find any shoes to wear, but that didn't matter as long as people don't look down at there feet. It felt weird to be wearing these clothes but they had to get use to it, just for one day.

Right?