Fourteenth Key

[optimistickey]

[Cambot's still at the water-filled nature deck, keeping an eye out for Sora. Eventually, he surfaces and swims towards the Cambot, looking a tad confused.]

I thought this place down here looked a lot like Atlantica, but...

[Cambot pulls back a little bit to reveal that Sora isn't wearing any scuba gear anymore. Sora glances behind himself, and a blue dolphin tail flips out of the water and splashes. Sora mostly sounds embarrassed...now he doesn't know if he can even leave this deck.]

I guess it's more like it than I thought. I didn't even realize this had happened until today...

Comments

[beforethemoon]

Uh. How long were you in there?

[optimistickey]

I dunno...a day or two?

I mean, not an ENTIRE day or two...

[beforethemoon]

How do you not realize that happened?

[optimistickey]

I did now! I was just swimming as normal and I guess I fell into old habits.

[sailoryup]

[Howdy Sora, you're being joined by a dark red seahorse with a pony's face. Big Macintosh's face, in fact.]

[optimistickey]

Oh! Hey there, Big Macintosh... [He realizes that Mac has a couple of fins himself.]

I didn't realize you were here this long! Guess you got the tail too, huh?

[sailoryup]

Eeeeyup.

[optimistickey]

Go figure! [He splashes with his tail a bit.]

So...ever had this happen before? [He doesn't recall Pinkie or Rarity ever mentioning seaponies...]

[skysmirror]

[Curious Xion is curious, and she makes her way to the dock to make talking easier.]

How did this happen?

[optimistickey]

[Sora swims up to meet her...she's probably got that memory from the first time he was at Atlantica, right?]

I dunno...last time I tried to get out again, I just realized the tail was there.

[skysmirror]

[She does remember something about Sora being a merperson there, yes.]

Strange. Did it happen to anyone else?

[optimistickey]

I saw it happened to Big Macintosh. Maybe others, too.

[cleverkit]

[Wilykit looks somewhat thoughtful, like she's weighing the pros and cons of a decision.]

Hey, Sora? Is it hard, learning to swim like that?

[optimistickey]

[Sora shrugs.] Nah, it's not too hard to get the hang of! But if you don't keep up the practice, it can be easy to forget it sometimes.

[cleverkit]

Yeah? Because I was kind of thinking of giving that a try, to tell the truth. It probably beats growing super-long hair, anyway.

[optimistickey]

You mean getting a tail on purpose?

...I guess, if you wanna! It is pretty fun, although I don't think it's possible for me to move off of this deck now.

[wavesinherheart]

[After a moment or so, Aqua surfaces next to him. By the looks of it, she's ended up a merperson too.]

I suppose we really shouldn't be surprised though.

[optimistickey]

Maybe not, with how things usually go down here.

[Then he remembers what she said earlier...] But you've never swam with this kind of tail before, huh?

[wavesinherheart]

Not before just now, no. It's not as easy as you might think.

[thirteenth_brat]

... Sora? How do you not notice something like that?

[For his part, Roxas seems to be playing with... a footrest. Which is behaving like a friendly little dog. Yeah.]

[optimistickey]

I was just swimming a lot...you get used to it, and you don't notice right away?

[Sora notices the moving footrest.] Hey, what's that?

[thirteenth_brat]

It was probably a dog at some point. There's other things moving around on this deck that shouldn't be. Kind of like the stuff in the Beast's Castle.

[And he's still playing with it. Its friendly playfulness is his main reason for assuming it was a dog.]

[salvagedlight]

...You didn't notice growing a tail? [Ven's not sure how that can even happen.]

[optimistickey]

Well...not right away? I was mostly focused on the swimming and exploring part.

[salvagedlight]

[Well you didn't get that from him, Sora.]

Can you get out at all?