Into the Deep: The Prophecy

Part Six:

Water. Water everywhere. Down my throat, blurring my eyes, all around me there was the dark water choking my lungs with a burning sensation. My legs refused to move, dragging me deeper, and deeper, and deeper.

I tried to open my eyes, and got blinded by a glow so bright I turned as far away as I could and glued my eyes shut to block it out.

My hands hit sand, and the glow disappeared
I slowly opened my eyes, and let out a small scream. The bubbles shot upward with an amazing clarity I'd never witnessed through the normal blur. I turned, my hair bobbing around with me, and I caught a glimpse of something red and scaly disappear from the corner of my vision. I turned some more, and it spun with me. I felt it tickle across my calf, and I looked down. Then despite our theory, I was still shocked.

But who wouldn't be, when your legs were no longer and instead there was a fish tail flicking about.

I gasped, letting out a huge stream of bubbles. Meaning I had just depleted my air supply. Combined with the ever-present pressure, I was suffocating.

I tried to kick, but it didn't do much. Remembering Faith when she swam in her monofin, and even that one time she forced me to swim in it, I tried to mimic her dolphin-kick.

I kicked two times.

My tail responded, sending me flying through the water and into the air. I rolled mid-air so that my hands would cut through the water when I landed. I cried out happily, then swam into the shallows.

Here, Jaymie was sitting in the water with Lindsay, who were both staring at their tails with a sort of awe-disbelief-and-fear look that we probably all wore.

Lindsay had a tail with all the cold colors on them. Metallic blue had green shimmers un the right light and melted into a metallic purple with blue tips, and silver-tipped scales drew faint swirls and patterns everywhere. It sort of reminded me of a colorful peafowl.

I swam up beside the two, and pulled myself onshore. We stared at one another, sizing up our tails. We all had the same flukes, not like the ones from H2O or Mako Mermaids, the Little Mermaid, or the ones from Aquamarine. Instead, they had their own unique shape.

My tail was a ruby red, with a darker almost black shade of red down my spine. Gold rimmed the edges of my scales, thicker in some parts, creating swirling designs in gold pp

Our flukes looked a lot like that of the Canadian large-mouth bass, only longer and more pointed. They had more fantastic designs to it, making it look closer to a piece of art than your normal everyday fish.

I flicked it, sending a few drops of water flying into my friends and my face. I sputtered, wiping my face, and looked to my friends' faces. "Oops..."

They rolled their eyes and backed up a bit, using their hands to try and dry off their tails, as our towels were further up the beach and we were temporally handicapped. I sighed, deciding to follow suit, when suddenly I realized something.

"Um. Where's Faith?"

They shrugged in unison. "She disappeared around the time you went under."

I turned to go back in the water and help my friend, when she broke the surface, leaping into the air like a dolphin. She whooped and dove back in, hitting the water with a crash. A few seconds later she surfaced near us, and kicked to shore.

"This," she panted, "is epic."