The year is 2045, global warming has made the waters rise and it looks like it's not going to stop. In the United Nations building in New York City, the United Nations come together to help solve this problem.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you today with a solution to this problem," says Dr. Rebecca Sweet in front of the leaders. "We all turn to the sea."
All of the leaders in the room start talking to each other and finally someone asks, "What do you mean Mrs. Sweet?"
"It's simple, my friends we all become mermaids," Rebecca responds.
Everyone in the room laughs. Another leader then speaks, "I'm sorry Mrs. Sweet but mermaids don't exist."
"They don't, have you ever seen a mermaid?" Rebecca asks.
"No, I have never," the leader responds.
"What if I told you that a mermaid is here right now?" Rebecca tells them. The leaders in the room start talking to each other looking around. Rebecca starts talking again, "I would like to introduce to you my friend here, Maya," Maya rises in here chair. Maya is a beautiful 20 something with long black hair with a blue highlights in her hair. "Maya is from Atlantis, an underwater city in the middle of the Atlantic Oceans. There the mermaids have come up with a solution that will make any human into a mermaid."
Then Maya takes a glass of water sits on the floor and pours the water over her legs. Within seconds a beautiful blue fish tail appears where her legs once were. Everyone in the room gasps at what they saw, and they start talking to each other again. While they were talking Rebecca hands Maya a towel to dry her tail off and soon her legs reappear. The leaders that were able to see this gasped again and talked some more.
After a minute of talking to each other a world leader asks, "How do we know if this will work on humans Mrs. Sweet?"
"Thats a good question, I was a little styptic myself. But I wasn't born Rebecca Sweet, I was born Raymond Sweet and have taken the drug myself," right then Rebecca reaches up grabs her blonde hair and pulls it off to reveal that she was wearing a wig and now has blonde hair with pink highlights. She then sits down on the ground pours a glass of water on her legs and within a few seconds a beautiful pink tail appears where her legs once were.
The whole room goes into shock and the leaders talk it over. Rebecca grabs the towel and dries herself off and walks back to the podium "Ladies and gentlemen, I know this is a lot. But if most of our world turns to the sea, we will all be happy. I am 50 years old, but I look like I'm in my 20s. Maya here is over 100 years old. Mermaids can live to 300 years old. Think of the possibilities and as you can see, we can walk on land. All I'm asking is for you all to pass a law forcing people who live in these areas to either choose to live in the sea or move out of the areas and into the areas that are not," Rebecca shows a map of the world with red lines showing where people should choose and where they don't have to. "Then we will be one happy family under the sea," Rebecca then grabs Maya's hand, and they kiss and walk off, leaving the world leaders to decide.
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"Wow," was all I could say as both myself and my wife, Rachel, sat on the coach to watch the presentation.
"Honey! Mermaids exist!" is all that Rachel would say for the next hour.
"I know," would be my response.
"I want to become one. You know that I've love mermaids ever since I was a little girl."
"I know honey. But that lady on the screen say that she was a guy and now she's a woman. It doesn't sound like there are mermen. Let's see if they pass this law first and then we'll talk about it."
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Days later the United Nations did pass the law. We lived in Florida so there was no argument about whether we were going to change. We went online and scheduled an appointment for our change, we flew up to New York City two weeks later to have our change as it is the only Becoming a Mermaid Center open in the US as of now.
We got in late at night the night before our consultation with the doctor. Then two days later we will go back in for our transformation.
The next morning, we got up and went downstairs and hailed a cab.
"Where to?" the cabby asked us when we got in.
"The Mermaid Center, please," Rachel told him.
Within a couple minutes we were at the center. We walked in holding hands.
"Can I help you?" the receptionist asked us. The receptionist had to be a mermaid, she had brown hair with yellow highlights in her hair. But she didn't have a tail she was wearing a yellow dress showing off her D cup breasts.
"Hi, we are Mr. and Mrs. Carlson here for our consultation with Dr. Seaton." Rachel tells the receptionist.
"Ah yes, Mr. and Mrs. Carlson. Welcome, please take a seat and the doctor will be with you both shortly."
We took a seat in the waiting room. In the room there were three couples holding hands and three women alone and two men. One of the women look at us and asks, "Are you here for your transformation or consultation?"
"We are here for our consultation. What about you?" Rachel asks her.
"I'm here for my transformation. What about you all?" she asks everyone in the room.
"Yeah transformation," they all respond.
Suddenly the door opened, and a nurse came out. "Mr. and Mrs. Carlson," she said calling out our name.
Rachel and I got up and followed the nurse to an office. She opened the door and we both went in and were met with the doctor.
"Oh my god you are her!" Rachel said as she saw Dr. Sweet sitting in the chair behind the desk. "I thought we are meeting with Dr. Seaton."
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Carlson. Welcome have a seat and I'll explain some more," she said as she got up and met us and shook our hands. "Dr. Sweet is my land last name, Dr. Seaton is Maya's last name, and I took it when we married, and I became a mermaid."
"Oh ok," Rachel said and I sat there quiet.
"So, Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, you have come here to become mermaids, am I right?"
"Yes, we are," Rachel said.