"Westron / English…"

"Sindarin… or Quenya… or Valarin…"

"Various Weird Dialects…"

Author's notes: Thanks a lot for those who gave me positive comments! Like I said, I am not fluent with english so if you see any grammar mistakes or even bad narrations, please tell me. Writing this is like a break for me but these past months I was so busy with work because I was transferred to another country. Thanks a lot to those who waited for my updates.

ClaireBergstorm - Hey there! Thanks! I think going to Arda is the biggest wish of every Tolkien fan AND THAT! is never a clichè for me haha! thanks a lot for reading my crazy story!

Daughterofthechief - I'll do my best to update as soon as I can! This is actually my first fanfiction story posted online. Most of my creations are novel type. You know the too cheesy type love stories that makes people puke? I am happy you like this! it really warms my heart!

SakuraHatsu - YES! You have to wait for it! the idea in my mind looks so hilarious it even makes me giggle just thinking about it. And aren't the sons of Elrond adorable? But here I will picture them as more mature type since I'm a sucker for serious type, tall guys with hair more beautiful and straighter than mine heeheehee!

Lloryn and HorrorFan13 - Thanks a lot for reading my story! i will try to update as soon as possible!

weeelll… it's a long note! but thanks thanks thanks for readers who I didn't get to mention. Your reviews makes me really inspired.

Also, my desclaimer to the very first chapter runs tru all the chapter of this fanfic. I'm just kinda not into putting it in all of my chapters.

RocknRoll!

-November

Chapter 3

THE FISH LEG

One thing that I am not used to do is to expose myself under the sun. I work in a place where I stay indoors and whenever I have time for myself, I prefered to stay inside our house and just laze around with a potato chips and a jar of nutella in my hand while watching movies. All after cleaning my room and while folding my clean laundry. Since my job is just a regular wage salary, I'm that someone who can never afford to go out and dine in fancy restaurants, eat fabulous steaks or hang around coffee shops sipping expensive stuffs. It isn't also my interest anyway. For a long time that is my lifestyle and I was so in love with the comforts of simplicity that even going out is not what I do regularly. Maybe this vacation was the only time I had treated myself.

And now as I drift into consiousness, I can feel the sun burning the skin of my back. I know the feeling of sunburn well enough to recognize it. Hard coughs hammered my chest as if air has refused to fill my respirarory system but I desperately gasp what air i can inhale. It's comforting and painful at the same time, like my body has rode a roller coaster for an hour and abruptly stop. Despite feeling like I was run over by a truck, I tried to focus on what's happening around me. I felt water splashing in my body and thankfully, it's coolness gave my back a small comfort. The waves of the ocean kept on shaking me but maybe i was too heavy to even be swept completely into the dry shores!

I opened my eyes slowly and blink as my sight adjusted to the bright, warm light. My face is down in a sandy shore but I'm struggling to raise it up because my neck felt restrained. Like I slept for a long time in a same possition.

I attempted to move my arms so I can roll around however, my head pounds as soon as I tried to lift myself up. Once more, I ended up sprawled on the water, coughing and groaning with dizziness. This very bright sun is not helping at all! How can people love going under it when it completely incapacitates me?! Sulking, I calmed myself and stayed still for a minute. I brought my gaze up and oddly, my not so very sharp eyesight felt sharper, clearer and more vivid that it made me dizzy whenever I look directly at something. My eye's adjustment gave me waves of nausea.

I tried to lift myself once more and rolled around to lie down on my back, that small achievement left me panting and weazing. I lifted my right hand to sweep away the hair on my face but that's where I notice - "What the heck is wrong with my skin?!" I exclaimed as soon as I saw the shiny, scally spots on my elbow and fore arms' skin. From there, my eyes travelled down into my hands where I found more scales AND WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY FINGERS?! They suddenly become longer! My fingers were plump and small! I was even told that they look like a hand of a child (a very ugly child)! Now my hands looked like hands of a woman who never worked for a day of her life. Have you ever heard of the phrase 'Know something like the back of your hand'-thing or something like it? I know my hands completely, I have them my whole life! Now my hands don't even look like my own hands!

I can feel myself start to hyperventilate as I freak out internally. I tried to move my legs so I can sit up (I can't even identify one leg to another due to numbness) but all I get was a loud flap and a splash in the water. That surprised me. And as I felt my head and my sight becoming more settled in the light I struggled to sit up again.

My jaws nearly fell down in the sand when I saw my supposed to be legs placed by fish leg!

My mouth remained open but no sound cane out.

Should I even call it a leg?! And it's blue! A certain body parts of mine is blue!

It's ridiculous to call it a tail. I refuse to call it a tail. This isn't a tail. Fish tail on a human is a myth!

"Okay… Calm down, Erika. Calm… it… down." I told myself loudly as I stopped myself from screaming the living shit out of me. Is this one of the effects of lacking oxygen on brain? Do scientists ever recorded deliriousness when body suddenly forgot how to take air in? Maybe I am just hallucinating. Not over five minutes ago I have my face in the water and sand with sight swirling and spinning. My brain might still be soggy.

I focused my eyes on myself -aside my legs- and it's weird because the last time I checked, my hair was short until my collar bones. Now if I stood, maybe my hair will reach until my thigh. They are so long, so thick, so dark and wavy as fuck. All those money to keep it straight was thrown away into nothing. How did it became so long anyway? Whatever serum has touched my scalp, balding men and women will fight with teeth and fingernails to have their hands on it. I found myself quite amused on that thought but never really absorb the joke. If I were in a normal situation I'd laugh on the idea but if you find yourself scally with a fish leg, who wouldn't freak out?

I took my hair away from my body and noticed that I'm naked. Great. My breast -no size changes, thank God!- are still there but with more scales at the side. I saw where my body and the fish leg intertwined together.

I can't just accept this into reality.

The blue fish leg, don't even looked like the clichè mermaid tail illustrations in movies, TV shows or even in the books where you can still identify where the knee and ankle are. The tail was quite long and it looks just as strong. To measure myself again, I think I would be like 7 feet long or more, all lenght contibution thanks to it. The tail itself took all the glory, it's wide and beautiful. The tail fin's side has deep ocean blue color and in its body are gradient ocean shades of light blue to green to beige. In my hips there are these hips fins or pelvic fins? They are quite soft when I touched it. There's also one at the back of the fish leg near the tail fin.

My freaking out was on hold as I wonder If I am really dreaming or what. The pain in my body, the stinging sun burn in my back, the breeze of the wind and the waves of water that flows in my body itself reminds me that all I can sense now are real. But all my eyes can see are quite unbelievable.

How was one supposed to know if what they are experiencing are not just mere illusions? In the novels, how were the protagonists accepted the fact that something in them has changed beyond normality. How did Harry Potter accepted the fact that he can talk to snakes? How can Bella accepted the existence of vampires? Was it because their minds are open to fantasy? Or was it because they are all fictional characters and makes it more easy for the author to state a fact that they had just accepted something we consider as mythical?

There was so many questions in my mind. With all the proof my senses can give me, waking up with these 'new body part' is something I can only consider as a dream. But dream, in my experience, is a hazy place that even when I am having lucid dreams, all my surroundings are cloudy. Blurred. Unclear. But now my eyes can see things so clear that I can't miss a single detail, every colors more striking than ever.

Because of that, I finally gathered the courage to look at my reflection into the crystal clear water. I took a deep breath and peaked.

That is where I finally let go of the reigns and freaked out.

-o-o-o-o-

Uinen shooked her head as she watch her spouse chortled in amusement when Ulumiel screamed after she saw her reflection in the water. Apparently, Ossë found her quite interesting after what the Lord Ulmo has done. He took the liberty of looking after her after their master decides they will observe who the lady is by sending her to Arda. After all, living in the dry surface is what she is used to do.

The poor girl's horrified scream could wake up all living and non-living things in all realms. Though it is their duty to watch over the young lady, the husband and wife Maia can't reveal themselves to the young lady. Uinen could only wish she could help and guide her but until they find a way to break the curse that is clinging into her fëa, they will not take her back into the realm of Ulmo.

Unless she wished for it.

For now, they will try to unravel who is she.

-o-o-o-o-

My eyes nearly popped out of it's socket. I strongly refuse to believe that what I saw was my reflection. NO. It was the water! Maybe it stinks with red tide?! Or a group of jellyfish just contaminated it with their deadly venoms? Or a whale just had orgasms and you know what it released to make the water become crazy?!

Both side of my goddamn face is filled with scales. And my ears aren't just normal HUMAN ears anymore. They have this scaly pointy-fin look that you can compare to the hard part of a fish's fins with almost 3 inches width. I tried to touch them and they are as slimy as they looked!

My eyes… my painfully chinky, Asian eyes has become abnormally big and round, almost twice the size of my normal ones. My iris, though the color is still the same brown, the black of my pupil expanded and the side of iris is unusually black. It almost occupied 80% of my eyeballs and that is what made everything weird, aside from the random scales that scatter around. My cheeks looked so hollow because of the cheek bone that suddenly shown itself after two decades of being covered in baby fats. The pores on my skin are gone. Litteraly. Like they just vanished. Skin color remained the same but i suddenly lost all signs of stress. The lines that build up on my brows whenever I scrunge them, the growing sizes of my pores from pollution, sleeplessness and aging, and even the smallest blemish. My lips and this stubborn small nose are the only thing that stayed the same.

As if all of me has changed. The body that I have for my whole life has drastically changed like I just replaced my old cellphone casing into a new one. It feels like all that made me human was gone.

How could I not consider this as hallucination? Everything is beyond normal and nothing made sense.

Maybe… Maybe I really am having a strange, realistic dream. I need to know what is happening. I need to know how I can wake myself up. But to do that...

Where am I going to start?