A pounding headache, an aching back and the odd feeling of being in water and confusion was what greeted George that morning. Turning onto his side to continue sleeping, he soon realized that his comfortable bed up in Gryffindor tower had become very stone like.

Extending a hand out but keeping his eyes closed, he realised that his bed was indeed stone and felt wet to the touch, but as if you were touching a stone still underwater. He finally opened his eyes and looked around.

This wasn't the boys' dorm at all. In fact, he couldn't even remember going to bed at all.

George tried to sit up, but was met with the sight of an astoundingly large blue fish-like tail that seemed to be attached to his entire lower half of his body.

He wanted to scream; he really did but he knew better.

Trying to move his legs, all he did was watch the abnormally large tail flop in the absence of his legs. He didn't know how long he just sat there, watching the tail — his tail — just move around when he wanted it to. He even poked it and withdrew his hand at the scale-like sensation, poking it a few more times just to make sure he wasn't dreaming this whole scenario in his mind. He could feel his finger, that much was real at least. Scaly and slightly slimy, he really wasn't surprised that his tail was like trying to grab a fish with his bare hands.

He finally sat up and looked around. The room was plain enough, light from outside coming in, though the only colour it gave off was a blue-ish hue. From the bubbles coming from outside, all rising up, he easily deduced that he was indeed underwater.

At that moment, the memory of a white beam hitting him, Fred and Hermione and promptly disappearing, resurfaced and he groaned. 'I'm in the movie, aren't I...' he finally tried standing, though it was a lot more difficult than he thought at first. He had to really try to stay afloat instead of sink down to the floor. He looked out the window after pulling himself up with his hands and watched the merfolk in the distance, studying how exactly they did it so easily. 'So it looks like swimming...but with one leg...' George imitated the movement with his own tail, trying to figure out the mechanics of it, quickly finding a good technique.

"Now, to find Hermione." He decided, after having practiced with his new extension for a few minutes by swimming around the room.

"Hermione!" Hermione turned abruptly and froze at the sight in front of her. George was under the water with her. And he, too, had a tail. "Oh, thank Merlin I'm not the only one…" He mumbled before swimming closer to her and dragging her off to a secluded pillar. Barely leaving her enough time to talk, he immediately got to the point. "Where are we?!"

"Er…" Hermione hesitated to say anything before seeing George's no-jokes-right-now expression he was shooting at her.

"Hermione. Why do I have a tail? Why do you have a tail? Where. Are. We?" He crossed his arms over his bare chest and seemed to try and read Hermione's mind.

"We may or may not be in the fictional city of Atlantica…" She mumbled. "And we might be inside the movie Gin and I were going to play."

"Oh, so you know the plot line then. Perfect. Now where's Fred?" George moved onto his inquiry. Hermione simply just pointed up. "Up there?"

"Further." She said.

"Like… On land ?"

"Maybe..." She whispered

"You mean you're not sure, right?" George crossed his arms expectantly over his torso, unimpressed. "God, is this how you feel when Ron and Harry are being prats and don't listen?" Hermione snorted as she nodded her head.

"He's probably up on one of the ships." She said, pointing to the surface. "If we follow the plot correctly, we should be seeing him tonight partying with some crew members." Hermione told him.

"So what do we do in the meanwhile?" He asked her.

"Well, I do want to visit the grotto."

"Grotto?" he raised a brow as she began swimming towards the exit of the city, he followed her anyway. Beyond the walls, there didn't seem to be much, only the ocean floor covered in smooth grey-ish sands, colourful corals and many large rocks. Many schools of fish swam by them as they moved further and further from the city.

"Oh it's this wonderful place the main character has! It's full of old things she finds in shipwrecks and-"

"She basically has a muggle obsession."

"Yes but it's wonderful! Come on!" She swam off, suddenly excited to see the cavern full of artifacts. George followed her just for her sake and he knew this place would probably come back sometime later in the plot.

"I thought you were bringing us to a — what was the name?— a grotto?" George asked her as they got closer to what seemed to be a sunken ship graveyard. "Not to be a killjoy or anything, but this doesn't seem entirely saf-"

"Shut up and just follow me." Hermione huffed and swam into one of the portholes.

"I don't even fit in those." He mumbled as Hermione just fit through the small window. "You forget one of us isn't as small as you are, right?" He motioned to his broad shoulders and radically bigger tail.

"Just break the wood. This boat is so old and moldy you could probably rip it apart." She told him as she sat on the deck, her tail folded beneath her primly. George pursed his lips and took a hold of the wood and pulled, hearing it crack, he pulled harder and ripped off the wooden circle and continued to rip parts of the wooden planks to make himself space to enter.

When the hole was big enough, George manage to slip in, not without immense difficulty that is due to his bigger stature, and popped into the dark and moldy ship basement. "This place smells rancid" He commented as Hermione excitedly swam throughout the levels, leaving George in the basement to listen to her ramblings. "Hey, I just thought of this..."

"What is it?" she popped her head below deck and looked at him,

"Doesn't the mermaid and her fish encounter a shark here or something?" He asked, worry now growing in his stomach as he watched the realisation show on her face. "You forgot?!" He all but shouted.

"Whoops." She muttered as she swam down. "Let's get out of here then."

"Hey, we're here for a reason, we're staying a little bit longer." He grinned, suddenly shooting off to go discover the ship himself. "Maybe I'll find some money or something."