Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

How? How had she possibly gotten herself into this situation? The day had started out simple enough when she took her boat out into the water to do some fishing. It wasn't something Sera did professionally and she hardly ever caught anything but she loved the sea and found it impossible to stay away for very long. She had spent a good hour just floating lazily in the water with her net cast waiting for any large fish to be dumb enough to swim into it. Some of the fishermen around the area had been talking about seeing a very large fish around there lately with talks of it being a mutant bass or even a shark but she wasn't worried about it. Usually Sera counted herself lucky if she could even get a couple of minnows and preferred it more for the solidarity of the sea more then anything. Yet just when she was about to doze off in the warm sun she suddenly heard the net snap and a bell go off signaling she had caught something. The whole incident had taken about half an hour and she'd had to pull like crazy as the load strained against the net. Finally she had managed to pull it up before dropping it on the deck of the boat. At first it had seemed like she had managed to catch a couple of fish but there was something in there that she was not expecting at all. In between the smaller fish there was a very large tail connected to something that looked decidedly human. Sera had probably spent about ten minutes just staring at the thing wondering if she had gotten sun stroke or was still dreaming. After dumping some water on her head and pinching herself the girl had finally managed to convince herself that what was in front of her was real. Her first instinct was to toss it overboard and get the hell away from there. He was bruised and bloodied though and she didn't think it would be able to survive if she tossed it back. No, she'd have to bring it back home and see what happened. So that was how she found herself with a fish thing splayed out in her bathtub while she rambled on to herself trying to get all of this under control. Mika! Stay away from there. Emerald eyes turned towards the little calico kitten that had been trying to attack the tail since she got it here. Mika smelled fish and she did what any other cat would do, she was trying to eat it. Brushing back a strand of auburn hair she picked up the kitten and made her way down to the living room. It had been hell getting that thing off the boat and into her house without the neighbors seeing. Hell, Sera could only imagine what they would think if they saw just what she had caught. What am I going to do? The girl groaned as she took a quick drink of water to try and calm her mind. Could she call a vet and have them come over? Would anyone actually believe her if she told them what she had in her bathtub? Everything in her was telling her she knew just what that thing in her bathtub was but the logical part of her mind was telling her just how stupid that was. Those creatures existed only in myths about sailors being lured to their doom. Besides, weren't they only supposed to be women? She might not know much about this but it didn't look like that thing up there was wearing a sea-shell bra.