"Mommy, tell us a bedtime story!"

"Yes Mommy, do, do!"

A pair of twin girls sat in their own beds in a small cosy room, their big, bright eyes looking expectantly at their mother. Bedtime stories were the best part of the day, at least their five-year-old brains thought so. Lessons were rather boring and difficult, but bedtime stories by Mommy? Never.

Mommy rolled her eyes and sighed with a smile. How could she refuse her beautiful daughters' request? Besides, she enjoyed reading stories to them, while they were still this young, innocent and simple-minded at least. Before long, they would have grown up right in front of her eyes and she had wished they were this little and this keen to listen to her storytelling sessions.

"Alright, alright. Mommy will do so." Mommy had already planned which story to tell them tonight. In between her daughters' squeals of delight and the flipping of pages of an old notebook in hand, Mommy said,"Eda, Emily, have you both heard of the love story between a man named Noah and a mermaid named Luna?"

"No..." Eda and Emily shook their heads.

"Good, because Mommy will tell you their story tonight..."

***

When I was alone as one,
my eyes were as blind, I know.
Sky brilliant with blue elegance,
I couldn't behold.

A little mermaid sang, her eyes closed. It was a beautiful song, one that she'd learned after pressing a few buttons on a strange device left by a human by the shore. The human probably lost it but...finders keepers, isn't it? She, Luna, the 11th princess of King Lir and Queen Adella of the Bluefin royalty, had found the device so it belonged to her now.

And it was a wonderful device she must say. To think those human creatures had brilliant minds in creating such a small music box that could store so many beautiful songs. The only caveat was she couldn't risk keeping the music box in the deep ocean since it was a man-made item, she doubted any item the humans make could last in the ocean waters. She could only hide it beneath some rocks, far away from human sightings yet close enough for her reach whenever she wanted.

When I was alone as one,
My heart was as ice, so cold.
Wind whispering sweet melodies,
I could not behold.

This was her favorite - not that she could read the squiggly writings on the music box when the song played. Then again, it's not as if she had to put a label to the song's title. As long as she could remember the tune and how the song is sung, that was enough.

"Sight to my eyes,
and warmth to my heart,
Your love has been such to me.

Pull closer now,
And strengthen my leaning,
Toward love to heal all my wounds...oww!" Luna squeaked as she felt a sharp pinch on her arm. Who was brave enough to mess with the Bluefin princess? She was ready to whack the offender with her tail when she caught sight of Krabby.

"Stupid crab, stop pinching my arm before I turn you into Krabby patty!" Luna rubbed her bruised spot. "What brings you to the shore? Wait...have you been tailing me all along?"

"What else, My Lady? You know I have a duty towards the King and Queen. If anything happens to their precious Princess Luna, the Krabby patty is going to be a real thing." Krabby rolled his crabby eyes. "Anyway, I'm here to tell you to leave. Saw me some ship by the beach a few miles off, a pretty huge one that is. Reckon there's gonna be lots of humans coming out of it, not gonna do me and Your Ladyship much good if any one of them sees us here. Unprotected that is," Krabby frowned. "Lesgo, Princess."

Luna did not budge. Instead, her crystal blue eyes shone with excitement. A ship! Humans! The creator of the wonderful music box thing! How many more items must they have created apart from the music box? It would be interesting to take a look at the ship and find out.

"Umm, Princess? Time to go...?" Krabby pointed both his claws towards the ocean, his crabby eyes questioning. Luna crossed her arms and smiled mischievously.

"Well, Krabby, nope, not heading back just yet until I've checked out the human's ship."

"But, Princess! What if them humans see you?" Krabby smacked a claw on his eyes in exasperation. Why was he ever assigned to the 11th Princess? Why not the 2nd Princess or the 5th? When will he ever live in peace instead of babysitting a disobedient mermaid?

But Luna already made up her mind. Before Krabby could protest further and pinch her into submission to his will, Luna quickly swam in the direction of the ship.

Noah Gray stood on the bow of the ship called The Gambler's Deceit. It was late afternoon and the rest of the crew was resting or taking it easy blew deck. Noah was alone for now. He looked out towards the sea and raised his voice in a favorite shanty;

I thought I heard the Old Man say
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her"
Tomorrow ye will get your pay
And it's time for us to leave her

Leave her, Johnny, leave her
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her

Oh, the wind was foul and the sea ran high
Leave her, Johnny, leave her
She shipped it green and none went by
And it's time for us to leave her

Leave her, Johnny, leave her
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her

I hate to sail on this rotten tub
Leave her, Johnny, leave her
No grog allowed and rotten grub
And it's time for us to leave her

Leave her, Johnny, leave her
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her

We swear by rote for want of more
Leave her, Johnny, leave her
But now we're through so we'll go on shore
And it's time for us to leave her

Leave her, Johnny, leave her
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her
For the voyage is long and the winds don't blow
And it's time for us to leave her

Noah looked back at the quiet ship. Maybe it was time for him to leave the ship. He's been on the ship a year or so. He's seen many ports of call. But things were getting old hat now. Maybe it was time for a new adventure. He looked to the distant shore. Could he make that swim? If he dived off the ship right now, could he swim to the shore? What new adventures would he find/ Who would he meet? He was tempted to dive off the ship. But he has never been a rash man. He thought things out before acting.

He looked to the nearest life boat. If he lowered it, he could row away... He stood at the bow of the ship deep in thought, thinking of how he could get off of the ship and not drown and not alert the rest of the crew. He watched the ocean as he thought of his plan.

The big ship loomed just ahead and Luna happily swam forward, not bothered by Krabby's words of warning. She had heard it was huge but not this huge...not even the biggest blue whale could win in terms of size. She wondered how many humans the ship could acarry, and it was interesting that it could stay afloat all the time. Not even the blue whale could stay afloat for that long. Interestinggggg...

Luna moved closer to the ship while being as quiet as she can. She was naughty enough to ignore Krabby's pleas to stay away from the ship but she was at least sensible enough to know she should hide from the humans. Nobody knows what the humans will do to her once being caught. One of her sisters told her humans love to eat mermaid meat, treating their flesh as exotic food of sexy flavors, whatever that meant. Luna didn't quite buy her story - she immediately thought of her father and she certainly didn't consider him to look like a sexy mermaid at all with his crew-cut blue hair, flabby tummy and smelly scaly tail.

Perhaps only her mother thought of him to be sexy, but it could be human error since her mother wasn't mermaid to begin with. Her parents, King Lir and Queen Adella, met on the shore, fell in love, and her mother married into the sea. Mermaidcraft granted her a mermaid's tail and the ability to breathe and move in the water with ease, but not without a price, or so Luna heard. Except Queen Adella kept it a secret from all her sons and daughters; only King Lir knew.

"Hmm, I can't see anything here, no human treasures, nothing. Looks like I would need to be on the ship to find anything interesting," she mused. A random mischievous thought came up in between - what if she transformed her tail into a pair of legs? It would take a while since Luna didn't pay much attention during her Transformation lessons but she could try. If she could blend in with the humans, then she would be sexy food no more! They might even treat her as one of their kind and teach her about their wonderful gadgets. It would be a thousand times more exciting than her lessons in the sea by Tutor Krabby Senior talking about the sea ecosystem or how fugly Lady Octopus was with her forever-purple fashion sense. Both the father crab and his son were the same - rigid, judgmental, cannot walk straight and their claw pinches hurt like crazy.

"Here goes!" Luna stayed beneath the water's surface and closed her eyes. Concentration is key to a successful transformation - one stray thought and the result would be disastrous. Why, one of her brothers was punished by Father to be confined in his palace room after he transformed his tail into a giant penis. It took him three months to undo the transformation but by then, his reputation was far beyond the point of salvation, and from then on, he was nicknamed the Prince of Penis, a lesson that would scar him for the rest of his mermaid life. Luna would and must fare better than her ridiculous brother.

Luna thought and concentrated. She smiled as she could feel her tail transforming into human legs. But she gasped when she realized her bottom was growing in size. It was growing to a ridiculous size. She nearly panicked, but was able to keep in concentration. Her bottom shank back to it's normal size.

However, as her bottom shank back to size, her breasts started to grow. As her ass got smaller, her tits got bigger. They had gotten so big, Luna started to float towards the surface. She closed her eyes and willed her breasts to return to their normal size. Now, her shapely body was back to it's normal size and shape except now she had legs and not a tail.

In alarm, she grabbed her throat. Did she just lose her voice? Would she have to kiss someone to get her voice back? She squeezed her fists and concentrated some more. She felt a slight tickle in her throat as she regained her voice. She sighed with relief. She had her body back and her voice as she swam to the surface of the ocean. She was sure somebody one the ship would pick her up.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, Luna?? Or should I call you Princess Whacko now???" Krabby scurried to the princess having finally caught up to where she was, cursing his fate for having to serve the 11th princess and follow through her silly adventures. His crabby heart almost died from a brief heart attack as he witnessed Luna transforming in the waters in an attempt to grow human legs. He was halfway catching up to her as fast as his little crabby limbs could propel him forward, fervently praying that her transformation would turn out well. He wouldn't dare think what His Majesty and His Queen will say if Luna failed in her transformation...Krabby gulped in fear, the vision of him being manhandled around as Krabby Patty waiting to be served on some hot round buns running through his crabby brain repeatedly.

Fucketty fuck, Krabby screamed internally as he watched Luna's bottom doubled and tripled in size.

Holy Hades, Krabby gasped while he continued swimming forward urgently, as Luna's bottom shrunk but her breasts inflated to the point they looked like balloons, in which her balloon-like breasts made her float towards the surface.

Bless the Goddess, Krabby sighed when Luna managed to fix her misshapen body back to original size, now with a pair of legs replacing her beautiful mermaid tail, at least that's what he saw as she tried to stay afloat with her newly grown limbs. Good, good, a fine pair of...wait a minute, hairy blue legs?? Did she even know what she had done?

What the flying fish... and Krabby even ran out of curse words to use.

Krabby pinched Luna in the arm, earning a sharp yelp from her. "My Ladyship, are you aware of the pickle you are in now?" Krabby tried to keep his voice down despite the already risen panic. He couldn't be sure which nickname was worse in the Bluefin legacy - to have the 10th Prince be called Prince of Penis, or the 11th Princess to become Princess Hairy Legs. At least Prince of Penis has a nice, catchy ring to it...wait, that wasn't the main point, was it?

Krabby knew Luna must not have realized from the blur look she gave him. He pointed both his claws at her manly blue fish legs...if there's even such a term for them. And just when Krabby thought nothing else could go any wrong-er, his crabby eyes almost popped out of their sockets in extreme shock when Luna finally spoke, and a macho manly voice came out from her mouth, saying, "Hey Krabby, what's wrong?"

Noah heard a rumble of sorts aft of his location. Perturbing at this hour, but not regardful for spare thoughts. Like what could of happened? A Dolphin jumped at the ship? It likely bruted away by now but Noah still went to the edge to see.

When there he saw an unpanicking woman, by the looks of her solemn casualness floating in the water. No matter what she was a natural- but that voice! So beastly! He had to quest it- he spoke to see if he hear right-- "Was that You?"