This choice: Nate becomes an Atlantean. • Go Back...Chapter #5Nate becomes an Atlantean. by: Unknown Nate knew instantly that something was wrong. The skin on the sides of his neck and ribs felt as if they being torn open from the inside.
The pain continued until he could feel air flowing through them. What the...?
Nate tore off his shirt and saw rifled red strokes of open skin covering the sides of his torso between each of his ribs. Touching them, he realised they were gills! The same on the sides of his neck, where there were 3 pairs.
Nate was mesmerized.His wish had actually been granted! With gills, he could breath underwater indefinitely. He was ecstatic and terrified at the same time.
But he was also confused. How was he breathing right now? Touching his chest he could feel his diaphragm still expanding as his lungs were inflated and deflated with oxygen where he breathed through his mouth, but with a slight aircurrent between his fingers as he held his rib-gills.
Nate didn't have time to ponder this as he suddenly felt his entire body shudder when an explosion of pain from head to toes hit him. And with the pain came further transformations. Nate started writhing on the grass like dog trying to scratch an unbearable itch. It looked like someone was experiencing an epilepsy.
The pain wasn't excruciating or like a torture. Instead it was like rubbing off a particularly irritating scab.
Nate could see the skin between his fingers grow and stretch until he had webbed appendages similar to those of frogs. The same for his feet, only his toes started splitting halfway from the ankle before they grew webs between them.
Next Nate felt as if his nose were being rammed back into his face with a baboon-spanner until he had flat snout with 2 splits for nasal openings in them. With it however Nate could suddenly experience scents and smells as he had never before. His sense of smell was now so acute that he could actually see (or so he swore) the aromas being eminated from the flowers in the garden.
Following up, Nate could feel his very spine being pulled out of his back. As if some surgeon on crack and with a twitch were trying to extract his marrow. Feeling his back for the cause ,Nate felt a dorsal fin starting to jut out. It was growing from his spinal column between his shoulder blades.
After that, Nate next felt like crying as rump was overcome with agony. Just above his butt, from his sternum started growing a long slender, cylindrical tail half as long as he was tall. From the tip of the tail sprouted beautiful vertical fins.
Next in line, all Nate's body hair on his skin was sucked back in as if by a vacuum cleaner. His skin turned a grey-blue tint, then became scaly and pointed. A marine camouflage.
The hair on Nate's head lengthened and became sleek and silky, and held a green-blue colour like seaweed. They then fused into pencil sized braids hanging from his head like a Jamaican-hairstyle. Or perhaps like medusa's head-snakes, only with the back of the snake's tails.
Finally his face. His ears retracted.
And his eyelids fell off. Repeat: fell off. This made Nate go ballistic, as he was unaware that his eyes had turned into the ever unblinking cat-eyes that was associated with fish.
Lastly his jaws pushed outward as his lips shrank and became flat. His teeth grew into twin sets of razors, fitting perfectly like 2 bear traps within one another.
At long last the agony started to subside in a throbbing afterglow, Nate felt like he just ran a marathon. Whist on fire. He crawled to the pool to see his reflection. What greeted Nate was both amazing and horrifying.
The blue-skinned thing with unblinking yellow eyes staring back was humanoid in shape and right there the similarities with humans ended. It was amphibian in nature and sharklike in appearance.
Webbed hands and feet, gills on the sides of its ribs and neck, a powerfull slender tail and a shark-shaped dorsal fin made it obvious the thing was adept at swimming.
It only had openings where ears should have been and a flat snout with 2 diagonal slits for nasal openings. Green-blue tendrils, thick as pencils, hanged from its head and acted as hair. Like a sea-anemones tentacles they wormed around with a life of their own.
Most striking of all was the twin sets of razor teeth protruding from the thin inward lips, indicating for all the world to see that the creature was without a doubt carnivorous.
Nate had turned into an ancient human-hybrid adapted for life at and within the ocean. He was now an Atlantean. A citizen of the doomed and sunk city of Atlantis. They were well-known for their ability to breath above and below water.
Of course Nate didn't know this; all he saw was this fascinating and fearsome creature staring back at him.
In total, utter shock his first words were...
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