Chapter 22: Kai's true form

I got home and decided to relax in my bed for a bit until Rin came home. After awhile there was a knock on my front door. (Knock Knock) I went over to see who it was. "Oh hey Elias and Pisces. Come on in. Hey Gracie girl." I had them sit on the couch and I sat in my chair. "What's up guys?" "I heard what happened from Pisces." Said Elias. "Yeah pretty creepy right?" "Actually Its kind of cool. Maybe when you feel comfortable, we can take a ride on your back." Said Elias. "Like that will ever happen. How would I get comfortable in another body when I am human? I just can't do this! I'm sorry guys. I gotta go somewhere. I'll see you guys later. Elias watch the dog please." "Yeah."

I ran off trying to get away from this place and everyone I loved to they wouldn't get hurt. I finally ran to the field where no one was. Then I felt a presence. "I know you are out there! I need to talk to you!" The leader hopped down and said, "So what is your decision?" "I have an Idea. I will go for now. I just want to check it out for a little while. I am still in shock of what I really am. It will be like a trial run as you call it." "That's fair enough." "Although I haven't changed yet. I have been having stranger things happening to show I'm starting though. Can you guys make air bubbles?" "Yes we can. You should at least stay until you turn, or you won't know what to do." "Kaia Is there, but I agree. I will at least stay until I change fully. Then when I can turn human I will return back and make a decision. I don't know how long, but I will let you guys know." "Sounds like a plan. Lets go." We were somewhere close to the sea, so we dove down, and they put an air bubble around my face and we swam further down.

Once we got there, my head started hurting. "Argh! My head!" "Hang it there kid. Once you get inside hopefully you will be ok." "Dain! Grab Kai! I gotta let the boss know he's coming." "Yes sir." I wasn't feeling so good and was losing consciousness.

When I woke up, I noticed the air bubble was gone, and I could breathe. Everything around me was dry "Hello? Anyone there? Argh my head hurts again! Hmm. Shit!" "Woah there Kai. Breathe Relax." Said a young man. "The medic said he thinks your head hurts because you are remembering who you are now. It may have been years ago when you were 5, but your mom did tell you about what you were. She knew it was too early. She was going to tell you when you were 10 years old, but we lost you. Oh sorry. You probably want to know who I am. My name is Dain. I serve the boss here. You will meet the person in a little while." "OK? Why is it dry here? I though we were under water?" "We are. Why not go outside. Don't worry you won't need a water bubble. Its dry out there."

I went outside, and saw we were in a dome like thing. "Woah. This is actually cool! Can a full human come down this far with a bubble?" "If you are talking about a human living here, I guess they could. They would have to stay in the dome area so they can breathe. If they want to go out, they would need an air bubble. As you can see out there, there are many domes where us sea dragons live. We full ones can still turn human. We just can't fly out in the air like half ones do. Well I have to get going now. Enjoy it out here." I nodded. So I decided to walk around on the grass and I saw other people as well with their kids. Everyone looked so happy.

"Hello Kai." I turned around to see who was saying hello to me. "Oh hello. Who are you?" "You must have heard from Dain you would meet me." "You must be the boss here right?" "Yes. I am also your mother Kaia's Mom. I'm your grandma." "Nice to meet you grandma." I said. "Come with me Kai. I need to take you somewhere." So I followed her.

We went up to a strange place. "Oh I didn't tell anyone where I was going. Is there a way I can let Kaia know so she can tell the others?" "I'm sure she already knows, but I will let her know once I show you something. Now lets go inside." I followed her inside and I saw an older man. "Hello honey." "Oh hello my love. Is this the boy?" "Yes it is." "OK I will take care of him." "Don't worry Kai he won't hurt you. He is here to help. I will call your family and let them know where you are." "Y-yeah." "Hello there Kai. As you noticed I'm your grandpa." "Yeah I did when she called you honey." "Haha Yeah I guess so. Ok lay down right here." I did as I was told, and he said, "Ok I heard you have been having signs of changing. What signs have you had so far?" "Oh yeah sorry. I have had like surges of power, my head hurt on the way here probably from remembering my own people. My skin has been becoming itchy. That is all." "Ok if your that far, you will be turning in about a month." "A month! That's when my fiancé's birthday is. Hey would it be ok if I invite her back here?" "Yes. But you know she will need an air bubble to come down here right?" "Yes I do. I have a friend who is half Murloc. He can do it. His name is Pisces." "Oh I see. The prince." "Yes that would be fine. Maybe you can bring him as well. I haven't seen one of his kind in awhile." "Yes grandpa." "Ok since your this far along, I will have to do some tests ok? It may hurt others don't." I nodded. "OK let me do the ones that might hurt first." So he got a scraper to scrape a little of my skin and I flinched in pain. Then after he took a look at the piece of skin, he gave me a shot for the pain that I may have when I continue to turn. "Ok done with the worst parts. Now the ones that don't hurt." He moved my arms and legs to see how they moved. See if I can move the way of a Sea dragon yet. "Ok a few more things then I can show you a crowd you can as you kids say hang with these days." "Ok cool."

He did his last tests and said "OK done. Let me help you sit up." He grabbed my hand and I used my strength to sit up. "OK now let me show you to some kids your age that are half sea dragon as well. They recently turned as well." I followed him not far from where we were.

"Hey kids. This is Kai. He is my step daughter Kaia's kid. He hasn't turned yet, but he will be full in a month or so. If you guys can hang with him that would be nice." "Yes sir." Said the leader of the group. Then he left. "So I'm the leader of the group as you know. You have met me. I'm Dain. I am actually 21. I didn't just turn, but the rest of these guys did. The most recent one that changed is named Ansom." "Yo. Nice to meet ya." "Then there is Kimi and her brother Arson. That is all of us in the group. The best one to get closest to until you change, would be with Ansom since he was the recent one who changed." So all of us guys and girl hang out.

Something was going on inside my body that felt strange. "Ah! Ha..Ha… I thought I wasn't supposed to change for another month?" "Ansom. Stay with Kai. I'll go get the boss." "Yeah." "Why does this hurt so much?" "Its ok Kai. I had to go through this too. Trust me it feels like your dying and might pass out but you will live." "Ha. That's reassuring. Hmm!"

I was holding my stomach when gramps came. "Woah hang on Kai. Lets take you into my lab and check on you." Gramps picked me up like I weighed nothing. Then we finally got to his lab.

"You ok now Kai?" said Gramps. "Not so much." "Ok Let me take a look at you." He took my shirt off and saw my skin. "Well it looks like you are turning quicker than expected. Hang on a minute. Let me get one of my people here and get my wife. I will be right back." I closed my eyes and eventually fell asleep.

When the grandparents got there, they were worried Kai had passed out. Then he checked Kai and was relived he was ok. "OK honey. Look at his skin." "What about his legs? Are they changing as well?" They lifted his pant legs and saw he was changing there as well. "Ok then I really hate to do this to him." Said grandma. "Yes I know but it has to be done." They gave him a shot to quicken his transformation. Then Kai woke up in pain. "Argh. Hmm. Argh! Ahh!...." After a few minutes, Kai really did pass out. "When he wakes up, he will be one of us." Said Gramps. "Yes he will."

I finally woke up feeling weirder than normal. I looked at myself and said, "Woah! What the hell!" I started freaking out and gramps came in and said, "Woah Kai. The best thing you can do now is calm down. You and the other kids are the only ones who can breathe on land and water now. Even if a lot of us here are half, we don't have big enough lungs in our forms to do that. Your grandma is calling your mom to come by and bring your brothers father and friend Pisces." "Oh God. This is going to be weird." "Yes it probably will. You should probably go swim in the ocean now. First timers need to go into the water for about an hour. If you don't go in by a half hour of just changing is can be critical." "Ok I will see if Dain and the others want to join me." So I carefully walked in my Sea dragon form to the others.

"Hey Dain. Its me Kai." "So I see they had to force you to change huh? They did that to me too. The others changed naturally. Hey Everyone. Time for a swim. Lets go." So all of us went out, and I held my breath out of instinct for starters, then I breathed my first breath cautiously and I was fine. Dain and Ansom stayed with me so I can get the hang of how I move. "Hey has any human rode on any of us yet?" "Oh all the time. Our human friends stay in the domes. When they want to join us we put an air bubble on them and they can ride on us or swim with us." "I have a fiancé I was thinking about taking down and having visit. I was going to see if she would want to move down here in the future." "Yeah that would be cool. Oh and once you get the hang of this, you can go back home to the surface." "Can't wait to be human again." So I did what they told me and got most of what they told me to do. "Ok if you want to be human all you have to do it will yourself. I would do it once you go back in the dome though."

An hour later, we were able to go inside the dome. I noticed Kaia and my brothers were there. "Hey Kaia. Hey brothers. Pisces good to see you." "Woah you are a cool color. Black with blue spots." Said Aiden. "How was your first swim Kai?" "It was ok. Dain here helped me. Ansom too." "Is that Dain? My have you grown. Hey aunt Kaia and uncle Cliff." "Wait. You didn't tell me that you're my cousin." "Oh yeah sorry. All of us here are your cousins." "That explains why gramps had me hang with you." "OK Kai now you need to will yourself human." Said Kaia. I closed my eyes and thought of Rin's beautiful face, Elias my idiot brother, my parents and my dog. I finally willed myself human. "Good job Kai." Said Gramps. Everyone clapped for me.

I went over to Kaia and the others and said, "Can I go home now to the surface?" "That's up to my stepfather if its ok. He was the one watching over you." "Yes its ok to go to the surface. Remember though every hour you need to go into the water for a least 10 minutes or more ok?" "Yes sir." So I turned into my water dragon form, and all of us left up to the surface.

We were getting to the tip top, and something was going on with me. I couldn't breathe. Kaia saw and rushed to my side. "Hang on. We will get you on the surface soon." Finally we were on the surface, and I coughed up water. "Cough cough What happened Kaia?" "I don't know. We need to get to my ship and check you out fast."

We got on Kaia's boat, and she checked me out. "They quickened your transformation, didn't they?" "Yeah they did. They gave me a certain drug. It was painful but when I woke up I was in my dragon form." Kaia sighed. "I told them it was a dangerous drug. I told them it doesn't work for everyone." Kaia sighed. "Well I would continue doing what my stepfather said, but I don't want you going down there until my stepfather checks on you. Let me give him a call. You will be staying on my boat until you get checked out." "Yes Kaia."