“A bottle cap?” Sonata asked, fingering the object in question.

“Yeah.” Dusk explained, resting on the flat coral rock next to her. “We use them to seal up different kinds of liquids of various flavors.”

“Fascinating.” She beamed, staring more intently at her new treasure.

Dusk chuckled. “Guess it be hard to explain since you have an endless supply of water?”

Sonata rolled her eyes. “I get the jist of it.”

After their little, examination, the two spent the remaining day freely asking the other questions about their respected worlds. It was nice. More than that! With nothing to hide, he found himself opening up to Sonata in ways few others had before.

“Okay,” she said, setting the bottle cap to the side and turning to him for her next question. “More myth exchanging time! Lets see.” She rubbed her chin. “is it true some humans can fly when they’re in danger?”

Dusk arched an eyebrow. “Define ‘flying’ Sonata. Because we have vehicles that take us in the air.”

Sonata stared in wonder. “Really? Well, I mean, we have stories about humans that can sprout wings to propel out of the water when in danger.”

Dusk thought about that, before thinking, “By chance any of those legends mention how colorful the wings are? Or if s there’s a fast moving boat not too far away?”

“Now that you mention it,” Sonata pondered, “the wings are described as very colorful. And there a few stories about how the human was trying to fly to the safety on a nearby boat that was racing away from the same danger.”

With that, Dusk started to laugh. “Sounds to me what you’ve been witnessing, are parasailers.”

She stared blankly at that.

“Let’s see, how do I put this?” Dusk snapped his finger once he came up with something. “You understand the concept of wind and even how sails work, right?” When Sonata nodded, he went on. “Same concept. Only the sail, or sometimes parachute, are large enough to create lift. Like a kite. Then, when you tie it up to a boat and travel fast enough, the lift is powerful enough to carry a person into the air!.”

Sonata stared dumbfounded. “That actually sounds kind of fun!”

“I’ll remember that for our next date.” He teased. As soon as he said it, the water became still.

“Anyways!” He cut off. “How about this for a mermaid legend? Is it true mermaids can’t,” he stopped when he noticed the water around them glowing orange. “Oh my. Getting kind of late.” He turned to Sonata. “Is being out at night a thing we shouldn’t be doing?”

Sonata focused her head towards the fading light and shrugged. “About the same, although not preferred by most. Maybe slightly less for someone like you.”

Dusk clicked his tongue. “Harsh.”

Sonata’s eyes widened. “What, no! I didn’t mean—

“Hey, Sonata, it’s fine! Makes me really glad I found you. Else I’d be a goner by now. Sure will make me appreciate being human again.” He laughed, then frowned at Sonata’s reaction. “What... Oh.” He cursed himself.

“So, how much film do you have left?” she asked plainly, looking to the camera still tied to his wrist.

Dusk lifted up the hand to examine it. “One.”

The remaining six having been divided up throughout the day. Three used on the family of trilobites Sonata had showed him, two with Lacey, Sonata’s pet monk seal, and he had even gotten, to Sonatas reluctant help, a decent shot of the plesiosaur from a safe distance. Which meant there was only one left, and he wanted to make sure he saved it for something special. Which was hard for him to decide what counted as special enough.

“In that case,” Sonata shimmied, laying herself down on her side, holding her head up with one of her hands and winking to Dusk.

“Um, what are you doing?” Dusk inquired

Sonata smirked at him. “I believe you would call it, posing.”

Dusk blinked several times before the gears aligned in his head. “Oh… OH! I mean,” his face flushed as he struggled with the camera. “Are you sure?”

The topic had come up when he almost snapped a photo of her playing with Lacey. When she dashed out of the cameras range, it told him all he needed. Neither of them bringing the subject back into the light until now.

“I mean,” he sighed. “Sonata, even if I swore never to show these to anyone,” a promise he would never be able to keep, “it would still be photographic evidence of your kind existence lying around my bedroom.”

“I don’t care.” Sonata said, wrinkling her nose, “I want you to be able to remember me. You know. For when you do go back home.”

Dusk nodded and brought the camera to his face. Lowering it when he realized just what she had said. “Sonata-

“Better take it before it’s too dark to see.” She said, resuming her pose. Although Dusk couldn’t when he saw that her face was getting puffy.

“Sonata, I,” he set the camera down and got to her eye level.. “Well, I mean, this doesn’t have to be the end.” He brought himself to her eye level. “I like you. A lot. Like, a lot lot. Which, I know is probably just the hormos talking after only knowing you for a single day. Still, I know one thing; Out of all the incredible things I’ve seen today, well, it’s not really that much of a contest about has been my greatest discovery.”

Groaning, Sonata asked. “And that would be?” She blinked. “Oh… Oh!” Her face reddened instantly. “It wouldn’t have to do with that fact I’ve saved your life several times?”

He playfully bopped her on the noise. “A part of it.”

She giggled and gave his a quick kiss. Then sighed. “I just don't want to get my hopes up too high. I don’t want whatever we seem to have to ended after today either.” She closed her eyes. “But you can’t say that’s a certain.”

“I… No, you’re right.”

The two remained quiet, the sun setting ever more behind them.

“So… Are you just going to pass the opportunity to photograph a willing and, not just a beautiful, but a probably re-write most of you known history, model?”

Dusk’s grinned in bemusement. “Oh Sonata.” He gave her a kiss. “I really, really hope this won’t be the end for us.” Nevertheless, we swam back to his camera, took aim at the lovely mermaid in front of him, and snapped his last photo.

With that, Sonata lifted off of the rocks, swam over, and sat herself down onto his lap. Holding onto each other, two spending their last moments of that day watching the underwater sunset

“Hey wait a minute,” Sonata inquired as the night fell. “I don’t think you told me how you ended up like this.” She ran a hand upon his tail for emphasis.

“Oh right! As a matter of fact, where it happened isn’t too far from here. Would make a nice place to rest for the night. Um, that is, if you don’t mind. Not that I’m sure you don’t have-

She silenced her nerd with a kiss. “Come on! I want to see. Now!”

With that, hand in hand, the two swam to the grotto where Dusk had undergone his transformation, . Leading Sonat right up to the mermaid statue, he explained all that had happened.

“And you can’t change back at will?”

Dusk shook his head and place a hand on the pearl. “Nope. Not for lack of trying. Actually, do you guys have a written language?”

“Yeah.” Sonata nodded uncertainly.

“Well, there’s an inscription at the base that looks like a form of what's called Latin in my world. However, when I tried to read it, I couldn’t make out more than a few base words.” He led her down to the inscription to show her.

“Well it’s definitely atlantean.” she confirmed. “Although a bit of an older dialect than what are use to nowadays.”

“Can you read it?” He asked with bated breath.

“Yeah, I think so” She ran a finger across the words, before perking up. “Just don’t mind if I get a few words wrong.”

“Of course,” he assured by rubbing at her back.

Eyes sparkling, she read over the text a couple of times before her face life up. “Oh! It’s basically a condensed version of Atargatis!”

Dusk squinted. “Who what now?”

Sonata blinked at him. “You never heard of,” she looked down at his tail. “Oh right! My bad.”

“It’s okay.” he said, giving her shoulders a squeeze, and her check a kiss. “Actually, something about the name sound familiar.” He nervously chuckled. “But why don’t you tell me the mermaidized version, dearest?”

Sonata giggled at the nickname. “Right away, Dusky!” She kissed him on the noise before explaining. “The long and short of it is; a human maiden by the name of Atargatis falls in love with a merman. The only problem, aside from the obvious, she was already married. From there the story various on on if the marriage was abusive or not, and how badly. And while many say her husband was a drunken, anyone who cares to look it up will tell you that was defiantly an addition to further demonize humans. You know how myths and legends go.” She paused as the two of them looked at each others lower torsos.

“Anyways,” she blushed and pointed back to the writing. “To be with her merman lover, she killed her human husband, and then the two found a way to turn herself into a mermaid so they could be together.”

“Well!” Dusk said, stunned. “Sounds a little extreme there.” He rubbed his chin. “Then again, some human legends I’ve heard about would make that tame by comparison.” He shook his head and looked to the statue. “So I’m guessing this is what transformed her?”

“Eh,” Sonata stammered. “It’s actually never touched on most of the time. Most tend to focus on the why rather than how. If you know what I mean. The few who do more commonly source a magic sea witch or goddess rather than a magical statue.” Actually, she never heard of one that said it was a magic statue, but that was besides the point as she kept reading. “Now, according to what I can make of this last bit of text, I think it says, word for word;

“For how cruel it was that our ancestors did not take the same path? So we found a way to be, if only for a day. Not till... our love is true? I think that’s what it says. Not until our love is true, could we be forever. Fearful that this magic could force me back, but wishing not to deny the happiness I’ve found to others, hidden here it shall stay. Only to be used for those with no other way.”

Dusk scratched his head once Sonata had finished. “Sounds like one heck of a Romeo and Juliet story.”

“A who story?” Sonata quizzed.

“Eh… A popular human romance couple.” Dusk explained, looking nervous. “Didn’t exactly end well for them. The sum of the story is it’s about two rival families kids that falling in ‘love’ and deciding to kill themselves rather than be torn apart by their bickering houses.”

Sonata whistles loudly. “And you call mine extreme.”

Dusk shrugged. “I don’t disagree. Personally thou, dispute how romanticized it is, I think its more about what happens and cautions parents when they try to sexually oppress and control their kids’.”

“Huh. I guess you can say the same for Atargatis.” Sonata lifted off the cane floor, unintentionally touching the pearl as she pulled herself up. “Although Atargatis wasn’t so much about anyone separating them, as it was, GAH!” Sonata cried out, body arching backwards as the same green light from before started to emanate from the pearl.

Dusk sprang up to try and help! Pulling her with all his might, and even foolishly attempting to break the statue, but to no avail. As they kept fighting, as before, the water around them started to swirl into a whirlpool that grew faster and faster. Upon seeing a a second vortex form around Sonata’s tail, and realizing there was no way to stop this, Dusk dropped the rock he was using to try and smash the statue, and swam by Sonata’s side so he could try and comfort.

Sonata opened her eyes, a sense of relief filling her up as he wrapped his arms around her. However, it wasn’t enough as a bolt of energy surged from the statue and into her body, casing the to clasps onto her stomach with her right hand

Du… Dusk?” she heaved, holding onto him tightly with her right arm. “What’s... What’s happening to me?!” The mermaid screamed.

“It will be over soon!” He promised, one hand tucked under her chest while the other rested on the one Sonata held to her belly.

Before Sonata could ask what he meant by that, the worse pain of all raced through her torso. Her tail started to violently trash about, and in a flash, split in two. Fallowed by an additional series of lights to each new limp, each letting out a crack as, in the place of her tail and finn, out popped a knee, ankle, leg, and then a foot. After one final flash, the magic started to die down, and once the pearl released its grip on Sonata, the merman raced the girl to the surface to get her metaphorsized lungs the air they now needed.

“Wha... what was,” Sonata asked between serval coughed once Dusked hauled her onto the dry grothos floor.

“Well, see for yourself.” Dusk said, as he placed her on the stone floor. Happy to see his belongings were where he left them before focusing his concerns back to whatever reaction Sonata would have.

Wiping her eyes, she looked down to her tail- No! Sonata realized, mouth agape. Lifting one of her feet, she stared at it for a moment in disbelief. Wiggling her toes, for conformation, she let out a glee filled sequee.

“A little mermaid, are we there?” Dusk mussed.

“Not anymore!” Sonata smiled. Oblivious to the human cultural references they had both just made. “This is incredible!”

Dusk raised a finger to point the reference out, but focused instead on, as he always did, the facts of the moment. “Incredible indeed.” He pulled himself out of the water to sit next to her. “But why did it work for you and not for me?”

“Maybe it’s only one way?” Sonata guessed. Her smile vanishing. “What if we misread the writing? And what if, instead of turning back in a set time, we’re stuck like this forever?”

Dusk looked to his tail. “Well, I guess we won’t know until,” he began, before noticing that Sonata had pulled her legs to her chest. “Hey, it will be alright.” He placed his hand onto her knees.

Sonata smiled meekly at the action. “Well, yeah. But what about you? I’d hate to think I ruined your life because of me!”

“Hey! Sonata, this isn’t your,” he blinked. “You aren’t worried about yourself?”

Sonata bit her lip. “Well, you make it sound like you have much more of life up here than I ever had down there.”

Holding her hand, he looked down and their lower limbs. “Wasn’t always like that.” He trailed off, his gaze drifting to Sonata’s leg. An action that was not lost upon the former mermaid.

“Like what you see?” Smiling, she stretched her foot onto Dusk’s tail.

The action caused the poor merman’s pelvic to stretch out of its hold.

“Hey, I said I take it as a compliment.” She wiggled her toes on it, as if giving some approval. “Go ahead.” Sonata offered, hand now cupped into Dusk’s as she blushed back. “I already let you, examine, my tail earlier.”

“Well, that was,” he started to protest, but the infectious smile from Sonata made him lost for words. So instead, he took her foot into his hand and ‘examined’ it.

As his erection hardened, his mind freely wandered to the smoothness of her new limbs. It seemed to indeed be a perfectly normal pair of human legs. If he hadn’t seen the transformation himself, he would never have guessed that a moment ago, they were conjoined. As he traveled upwards, by the time he was about to reach her hips, he soon realized a very critical detail. He jerked away at that. Face redder than it should have ever been.

“What? Don’t tell me now you’re getting shy.” she teased.

He nervously grinned. His eyes unable to stop staring as Sonata up and down. Her human form arousing him more so than before, he surprised her with a sudden kiss. The former mermaid letting out a surprised squeak, but in no way protested as she cupped his neck, and lead him down to the floor with himself on top. They kissed passionately for several moments, eventually finding themselves rolled over onto their sides. Dusk‘a merman member poking Sonata’s leg causing them to stop.

“Um,” Dusk rubbed his neck. “Maybe… another, examination, is in order?”

Sonata cooed. “Or,” she pushed him onto his back, sat up, and scooted her hips in front of his erection.

“Whoa, whoa!” Dusk started to protest. “I thought we were going to take this slow?”

“Oh,” Sonata sighed. “I mean, well, if you really don’t want to.” She twiddled her thumbs. “I was just thinking, well, maybe this could be an opportunity to... see wheatear or not mermaids and humans would or wouldn’t be genetically compatible.”

Dusk stared blankly at her. “Did you just make the argument for having sex by theorizing that I might not even get you pregnant because we’re different species and then saying that there’s only one way to find out?”

“Um, more or less.”

Grinning widely, he sat himself up and pulled his girl in close. “Do you have any idea just how turned on that made me?”

“Probably a considerable amount.” she tried to say nonchalantly.

He answered her with a kiss.

When they broke, she, more legitly, asked, “So, I mean, I really want to. But if you honestly don’t want right now, that’s fine!”

Truthful, that did sound preferable. He considered himself a smart enough man to know all the risks of unprotected sex on a first date sex. But honestly, even he had meet Sonata in any other way in his old life, he probably would have said no. However, after the day he just had, and with everything they accomplished, the best of it now sitting on his lap, along with the smart way she had put things,

“You know what,” he reached his hand down between themselves, lining himself up with her. “I think that would be the perfect last scientific discovery to end this day on.”

Grinning ear to ear, Sonata reached her hand down with him, helping him to enter her without breaking their embrace. Both letting out a loud gasp as the two became one.

“You… You okay?” He breathed, feeling his heartbeat quicken.

“Ye... yeah.” Sonata nodded, turning her gaze back to him. “Very, very okay.” The two stared at each other with bedroom eyes. More than happy to just stay there, together, joined, before Sonata leaned forward to then resumed to make out session. Dusk all to eager to wrap his arms around her back as she held onto his head.

Now, both being inexperienced in sex, but somewhat knowing the basic idea, they soon wanted more than to sit still. The bigger problem in their case, was that one of them had a pair of legs, while the other had a tail. In theory, the easiest way they could have done was to have Sonata sitting on top of him, cowboy style, while they did it. However, neither of them really wanted to let go of each other as they kissed, so lying down, the two of them started by moving their hips. Which was slow going, and even caused them to slip out of each other more than once. This would cause a laugh before they put themselves together, and eventually found a pattern that worked. Which ended up being fine for what it was as they were more interested in love making opposed to lust filled sex. Sonata lifting herself up, as Dusk arched his back to meet back with her. He then came down just slowly enough to not come out of her, as she slide back down at pace to help keep that from happening until Dusk’s tail rested back on the floor. Repeat while their hands started to explore and play around with their upper halves. Dusk at some point uniting Sonata’s seashell bra and tossingit to the side. Allowing their chest’s to press together while he rubbed at Sonsta’s bare back. Sonata, meanwhile, ran her fingers through his smooth black and purple hair before moving downwards her well. Feeling up with own side and chest while keeping their love making going. Leading to his stomach as she started to finger around, and even into his belly button.

Dusk shivered delightfully at that, and returned in kind as he placed a hand between their chest to feel up Sonata, now very firm, own. This caused the girl to break apart for a moment to breath. Leaving Dusk to worry for a second if he had done something wrong, only for Sonata to take in the hand that had been groping her for assurances. When they returned to their kissing, Sonata had moved one of her hands around his neck, as she used her other to feel up his back. Leaving Dusk free to move his arms up and down Sonata’s waists and new formed human hips as their love making continued.

As they got more comfortable the longer they went on, the quicker and graceful the pace became as well. As they felt like the end was in sight, the pair had to stop kissing all together. Opting instead to lay their heads on the others shoulder at the beginning of the end., Marveling at the feeling neither could of ever achieve when they had tried to please themselves alone in the past. Dusk felt a sudden spark that informed him of the approaching and impending end. Realizing he wouldn’t last much longer, he was about to ask Sonata how close she was. That and, with a momentary clear head, he had every intention to pull out despite the earlier conversation. He was about to say so out loud, when he noted how he still felt very tingly down below. Not just in the way a guy would normally feel just then, but in a way more in line to everywhere below his navel building up to a climax as he wiggles his—

“What the?!” Dusk shrieked.

Lifting up his reforming toes, he found that the rest of his tail was splitting down the middle

“Son, So... Sonata!” he cried out as he saw his knees flex back to life.

“Ye… Yes?” she asked. Tongue hanging out and lustfully oblivious to the transformation.

“St… Sto,” he said weakly, a strong tingle running down his reforming hamstrings. “I’m… I’m chan… Oh,” he moaned out, the sensation as the transformation started to effect his midsection. “No we… we should…. Should…

Eventually, Sonata realized what was happening to Dusk. Looking behind her, she let out a surprise gasps as Dusk’s legs were returning to their more human skin tone. She sat herself up, and started in aw as more and more of Dusk started to become human beneath. Which somehow, made thing even sexier for her. Go figure she would have a transformation fetish of sorts. Meaning, there was no way she wasn’t going to ride out this fantasy taking. Well, that was, if Dusk would be okay with it. That said, she would certainly try to make a case for finishing

“What if.... What if sex, needed?” She spoke quickly. Letting out a moan as the morphing skin around his crouch began to tingle her own. “To change back? Or else not? Need do right? Inside?”

Dusk thought on it for only a second. Surely that wasn’t the cause of the transformation despite the coincidence. It had to be because the day had ended and that’s what the stone meant. As opposed to a literal twenty four hours he first thought. Even if they had already witness the sun setting earlier. Then again, it could have meant the day had to completely end, not just—

“Ple... Please?” Sonata asked. A tone of sadness in her voice. “But... might not be too.”

With only seconds left to decide, the girl of his dreams asking him to finish inside her, Dusk wrapped his arms tightly around Sonata midsection. Creating a firm hold that wouldn’t allow for a sudden slip up for the next few seconds even if he tried. Not that he wanted to anyone.

The feeling of Dusk’s arms tightly around her, along with the vibrations she felt of Dusk’s shaft as it pulsed with transformation magic inside of her, pushed Sonata over. Slamming down upon him once more, their hips pressed tightly together, she screamed and came into her first human orgasum. Which in turn, forgetting his worries and fears, only happy he had made her happy, Dusk too came to his own climax. Holding her close, screaming out each other names, they felt Dusk’s merman lower digit spazzing once, twice, while Sonata squeezes on him more tightly as she felt her innards warm up. Then upon his third ejectculation, the pair of them felt his shaft shift to the magic. As on his fifth blow, the two of them let out an ear piercing scream as it fully change back into a human part, cumming for a sixth, seventh, and even eight time. Three more small sprouts later, the pair of lovers collapsed onto the floor, panting heavily.

Once Dusk had caught his breath, he rolled Sonata off of him to confirm his transformation. Lifting himself up, pulling in his legs and pelvic area.

“That was something,” he commented, wiggling his toes. Still at a loss for breath.

Sonata took a bit longer, replaying the memory of what had just happened over and over before picking herself up to look as well. “No kidding.” She smiled as she leaned next to him, staring at his legs. “So, this is your human form, huh?”

“Well, yeah! I mean, it’s not that great, I know.” He blushed

She silenced his fears with a kiss. “Honestly,” she commented, placing her legs next to him, “they make you look even more adorable.”

He chuckled, pulling Sonata into an embrace as the pair stared at their new lower halves. The implications of what this could mean sinking into the pair of them.

“So, if the love making was what caused this,” Dusk pondered. “And not the fact the day ended, does this mean if I want to turn you back into a mermaid, I’d have to turn myself back into a merman, and then have sex with you again?”

“I’m in no rush!” Sonata spoke a little fast. “I mean, we could wait to see what happens. Besides,” she pushed off him in an attempt to stand up. “I figure, fair is fair. I got to show you around my home, only fair you do the same.”

Dusk quickly leapt to his feet as he saw Sonata already starting to wobble. “Easy there!” He instructed, more experienced in walking. Holding her by her waist while she used his elbows for balance while learning how to stand up. He made sure she got the basic idea of walking before allowing her to try so one her own.

One step, then another, then another. Each made easier as Dusk assured Sonata that, really, all humans did when they walked was falling forward, with style. Seeing this was true, she continue on until Dusk felt like she might have it.

“Right,” he said, reaching up to her own elbows. “Ready to try on your own?”

“No,” she nodded in a way meaning, ready or not.

“Don’t worry,” he smiled reassuringly, “I’ll catch you if you fall.”

Filled with his confidence, she took a breath as Dusk let her go and took a step back. Arm’s stretched out for balance, several seconds passed before she was sure she wouldn’t fall over by standing still. Now she just had to do that while walking. Tentatively, she inched her left foot forward, her Dusk just within arm’s reach if she needed him. She then tried with her right foot, taking a bigger step, and a bigger one after that.

“I think I,” a bit overconfident, she held her foot up on the next step for a bit too long and started to fall forward.

Dusk, as he promised, reached out and caught her and she wrapped her arms around his neck for support.

Pulling themselves up, the two of them locked eyes and found they really didn’t want to let go. So instead, as Dusk pulled them up straight, Sonata brought her boyfriend into a kiss.

“So,” Sonata began as they pulled away. “Does this mean we’re, you know… a couple?”

Dusk grinned at his girlfriend. “What made you think we wouldn’t be? I mean, you do want to be, right?”

Sonata nodded and said yes several times, then brought her man in for a kiss, as if sealing the deal. The two continued to stand there and hold each other, when a very familiar presence interrupted them.

Looking down between them, Sonata giggled. “Well, sure doesn’t take a lot to get you excited.”

“I…” Dusk began, Sonata already reaching between them. “Wait! I,” he paused at her look of disappointment. His heart racing. “I mean, well…

Did it really make any difference now? Just because they were both human. While we was sure his conscious would have a stern talking to himself in the morning, his hand moving down to meet her’s told him he could just explain how pills worked in the morning.

Elated, Sonata giddied as they joined together once more. She let out a squeak as Dust lifted her up, and pinned her to the wall of the cave. Once there, he brought her back into a kiss she eagerly returned. With that, the two went right to work, bodies intertwined, moaning loudly, rocking back and forth, lost to any reason. All that mattered to them was who they were holding on, and were connected. They didn’t last long, finishing one after the other almost as soon as it began. Standing there, naked and exposed to the evening air lips brought together as they slid back down to the cave floor. In no hurry to get anywhere as they reflected, while their limbs intertwined into a beautiful mess, of a singular body.

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