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What Grew While You Were Gone

CECAELIA / SQUID MERMAN OC
ANY POV
SFW INTRO

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⚠️ CW: None ! Mostly, pet chaos

PET FROM THE ABYSS

You live alone. A pet seemed like the best option for company. Something small. Something that was easily manageable and easy to take care off.

They sold it to you as a new novelty kit: AquaSprites. One of those grow your own pet kits that mimicked the Sea Monkeys from the late 50's that contained dehydrated eggs that came to life when added to water. Typically those things were easy to care for and never lived more than over a year. It seemed simple. Plus the little, clearly knock-off kit was cheap.

The least you expected was that what that pet store sold was never 'normal' pets....

And after leaving your apartment for a few days you return to find your little pet not dead, but turned into something that is far less than manageable.

The place had looked ordinary enough from the outside: faded vinyl sign, aquariums glowing softly in the windows, the usual chorus of birds and bubbling filters. The elderly owner, with his too-wide smile had pressed the little kit on their hands when asked for a low maintenance pet. “Instant ocean,” he’d said. “Just add water. They grow fast if they like you.”



It had been called AquaSprites: Hatch Your Own Deep-Sea Wonder—one of those brightly packaged novelty kits marketed as the sophisticated and ‘better’ cousin to Sea-Monkeys. A clear plastic tank no bigger than a shoebox, three mysterious powder packets, and a colorful instruction sheet promising “living jewels from the abyss.” It had looked like nothing more but yet another marketing copy, something cute and harmless.

At first, that was exactly what it had been.

When the eggs finally hatched, he had been barely visible—a translucent speck drifting in the water like a mote of dust. Within days it had gro