"So... What are you thinking to do tonight?" Catherine, Clara's best friend, asked. Clara shrugged, her shoulder length brown hair flickering gently in the breeze
"I don't know... probably stay in, as I usually do" she answered, looking over at her noticably more attractive friend. Catherine had waist length dirty blonde hair, with bright blue eyes and flawless skin. Clara, however looked like a mess. She has shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes and freckles. "Ive gotta go home now" Catherine said and hugged Clara quickly before running off. Clara sighed and looked at her watch. 8PM. It was late. She knew her dad would go mad if Clara wasnt home soon. She started walking in the opposite direction to Catherine started to go home.
"We have the perfect experiment" a shadow said in the bushes. Clara continued walking down the street, her house nearing into view. The shadow suddenly jumped out of nowhere. Clara screamed and then there was silence.
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Clara groaned, sitting up.
"Wh-Where am I?" She said and stood up. She appeared to be in a lab, the walls were surrounded with information, sketches and notes. Clara was in a glass tank. She banged on the glass
"L-Let me out!" She screamed and put her hands on the glass.
"The subject is awake, sir" A woman said and walked over to Clara
"Let me out!" Clara said, on the verge of tears.
"I'm afraid not, girl" The woman said and smirked before walking off
"Wh-What do you mean?" Clara shouted and banged on the glass again "hey! Come back! Let me outta here!"
Suddenly, blue smoke rose from the bottom of the tank. Clara let out a final scream, her legs feeling weaker and weaker. She fell to the bottom of the tank, trying to pull herself up, but couldn't. She felt a pain on the side of her neck, 3 slits appearing on each side. She screamed out in helpless agony, willing the transformation to stop. Water began to fill the tank, and Clara attempted to stand up, to escape the water, but found out she couldn't. Her shoes had fallen off and her toes were growing longer and longer, her feet becoming flatter and flatter.
"Make it stop!" She screamed at the woman. Underneath her skirt, scales were starting to appear. They were gold, white and silver, almost like beautiful princess gown colors. Clara screamed in agony again as skin stretched between her toes, creating a fin. Her legs started to fuse together underneath her skirt
"Wh-What's happening to me?" She called out, as the water reached her neck. Her legs were now fusing together faster, the golden scales reached further and further down them. Clara screamed out and then clasped her hands over her mouth. She couldn't breathe underwater... or... she took a deep breath. She was breathing underwater
What was she?
Clara watched in horror as her legs soon disappeared entirely, into one beautiful tail.
"Oh god... I'm a freak..." Clara said underneath her breath.
"Phase one. Completed" A robotic voice called out.
"Phase one?" Clara said and looked down at her tail. She felt the gills on her neck.
"At last... a mermaid" the woman said, admiring Clara's tail.
"Phase two. Initiated" the robotic voice said. The tank began to grow bigger, into the size of a good sized aquarium tank. Clara felt an itch in her scalp, then a strand of her short brown hair fell in front of her face. She felt it crawling down her back, first it was the length of her waist, and then it continued growing to the end of her tail, then started trailing on the tank floor. Clara screamed out
"What are you doing to me?" She banged on the glass, her hair getting longer and longer by the second.
"Phase two. Completed"
Clara looked back at her hair and gasped. It was about half the length of Rapunzel's, but still quite long. Clara gulped
"Ah, now for the final phase" The woman smirked.
"Hey! Turn me back to normal!" Clara shouted
"I should give you some privacy" the woman said and Clara watched the woman as she disappered. Clara felt something on her head and took it off. It was a beautiful, elegant tiara, with blue and pink gems in. Her ripped skirt began to fix itself, its color scheme matching Clara's tail. It grew to about 3/4 of the length of her tail. Her baggy t-shirt shrank a little, revealing Clara's thin, yet beautiful, figure. It became a pale gold color.
"Phase 3. Completed" the robot voice said. The woman walked in, admiring her work
"Now, we need to initiate the breeding programme. And for that, we need a mate" The woman said and put her hand on the tank
"Breeding programme?" Clara's eyes widened. The woman flicked through the screens
"Ah, this boy seems to like you" The woman said
"No... please don't hurt him..."Clara said "No...No... no...."
