The Ocean's Song (pt. 1) (Going through edits)

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Naida squirmed a little as an odd feeling crept across her, like water was being pumped under her skin. Did that mean it was working? It must've because suddenly her legs were forcefully pulled together and the oddest sensation came over them, the bones inside, skin outside, and muscles around fused together as the entire anatomy of her lower half was reconstructed.

"Naida... you're breathtaking!" Lionfish gasped, moving his hand to his mouth. Ray and Shark looked her over in awe, but Mako looked upset.

"I totally thought she was going to turn into a human, somehow. I guess my brain thought since she is now a child of the ocean, it would've considered her a mermaid." Mako admitted.

"Well, change my tail and call me a whale, it worked." Betta chuckled in disbelief. "How do you feel?" She swam around her, surveying her new form.

"Really weird, but, how am I supposed to go on land in this form?" Naida asked, looking down on her new tail. It was a bright marigold color that faded to bubblegum pink and had three fins along the back. Splashes of bubblegum pink were splattered over the marigold and vice versa.

"Well, now I turn you into a human, and hopefully it'll work," Betta said and repeated the same action she had just performed, placing her fingers in the small of her back.

"It's like a better version of Krait's gift." Ray observed.

"Wait!" Lionfish cried and rushed over with an old beach towel he had found on their way here and wrapped it around Naida's waist as she changed back. What the others didn't realize was when her tail changed, the capris she had been wearing had come off because of her tail. "Y-you might want to put these back on." Lionfish suggested and handed her capris with one hand, while the other attempted to cover his blush.

"Oh!" Naida snatched them up and put them on under the towel, her and the other brothers blushing a little as well. "Thank you, Lionfish."

The capris and flowy white t-shirt she was wearing when she died was the only set of clothes she had the entire month she'd been under the sea. The capris were now pretty worn and the t-shirt was an ugly off white with multiple stains.

"I guess I'll have to grab some more clothes while I'm up there." Naida decided and handed the towel back to Lionfish.