Atlantean Doctrine Book 6 - The Mermaid's Egg (TG/TF Story)

The Therian's

Jessica

As I work on controlling my body...they have to give me credit! I have only been a Cascadian mermaid for the last 24 hours! I look at the surviving collection of sea creatures that make up the Atlantean Empire here in the 4th Dimension.

I look up to the queen as I have not even been properly coronated yet, not sure what to do as she looks down at my young, 18-year-old body, as I was just amazed and curious by this mysterious world. She touches me gently as I look up at her.

[I am sorry to thrust you in to all of this so rapidly and unprepared, but Syreni is busy with Atlantean affairs and cannot delegate with me. And Sequana is far too young; and I need your wife, Myra, to attend to the sick Surface Dweller in transition.] she explains as a battle-scarred fish warrior looks over at Sedna and speaks in a gravelly voice.

[What Surface Dweller?] he asks.

[King Ricou...it is nice to see you again in good health!] she says as she tries to explain. [It would seem that there was an incident with your daughters and a Surface Dweller on the mainland...my medics are attending to her.]

[If you like, we could take her to Oceanid for further medical attention.] Rina, a beautiful fish maiden had said. She was the Queen of her people, and the mother to an extensive line of Oceanid daughters including Scales, Saline, and Meara.

[I will most certainly consider it.] Sedna comments as High Queen Oceamera addresses us.

[My kings and queens of Atlantis...thank you all for coming with me on such short notice to address the threat of the Surface World. Together, we now make up the surviving Kingdoms and Pods of Atlantis: Oceanids, Amphereans, Potamoians, Aycayians, and now Cascadians. As of late, civil unrest has spread across the Surface as the Atlantean Satellite had activated once again last night...] she looks to the Potamoian representative, commenting [...Council Leader Veridia.]

[Thank you, my Queen,] Veridia swims into the center with her golden scales shimmering like mountain-copper as she gently swishes her orange caudal fin, slowly flaring out her dorsal.

She looks somewhat like us...but most certainly wasn't! For starters, she lacked gills and webbed fingers.

[Last night, the Atlantean Satellite in our care had activated of its own volition as it sparked global panic across the planet.] Veridia informs us [As you may remember, the last time it was activated, it elevated this planet in-between dimensions, making it subtle for portals to form between worlds. We are aware of many portals opening on the surface and a few into the sea.]

[And where do they go?] Kiera, Queen of the Amphere, asks as she gently flutters her flippers.

[Until today, we did not know...only a handful of portals were open, including the portal that took one of my sisters to the mythical world of the Syreni.] she says as I look at Sedna as she knows there will be a lot to explain when we go home. She continues,

[One has been open upon the surface in the land that the Surface Dwellers call Oregon.] this catches my attention as Oregon was only 150 miles south of where I live [For a while, nothing was sucked into it...until today.]

She produces a data crystal and activates it as a picture comes up with a young sea-maiden reporting to the Mermaid Council.

'...I do not know what is going on here. But a second wave of energy has engulfed the region and the anomality that I have been investigating has expanded to critical levels.'