CALLUM


You wake up, and the first thing you notice is your bleeding leg. You sit up, groaning as you see the ocean. You freeze, momentarily distracted from your pain, and ask yourself, "Why am I on a beach?"

The waves crash on the shore, as if in response.

You look down at your pant leg. Below the knee is soaked with blood, but it seems to have stopped. Something is painfully protruding from your leg, and you know what it is almost instantly.

It's your bones. You're right leg has been broken.

Groaning, you try to stand, looking around for anything that could be used as a splint. You see nothing but beach stretching for miles, and only jungle behind you. You wince as you move forward, hopping on one foot. Eventually, that fails, and you end up on your back, pushing yourself down the beach with your good leg. The sun, high in the spotless sky, beats down upon you and you eventually collapse, exhausted from both the pain of a broken leg and dehydration. You fall, closing your eyes as you try and regain whatever strength that you have left.

An undetermined amount of time later, you open your eyes to discover that you're no longer in pain. The sun has barely moved from its position in the sky, so… you're confused. How much time has passed between passing out and right now? You lean on your arms, looking down at your legs, and you freeze.

Your feet have changed. They look… similar, but slimmer, and… furry? You gingerly move your pant leg up a bit and see soft yellow fur growing on your legs as they slim down and became feminine. You watch with amazement and fear as your broken leg cracks and heals, not even leaving a mark as the changes spread up your legs and up your thighs, out of sight. You put a hand on your groin, fearing… you give a shout as you feel your testicles pull in towards your body and your penis inverts into a slit in your crotch. Another series of cracks occur and your hips widen, and you lift up your shirt to see your waist shrink, giving you a fairly curvy body. You shift uncomfortably as a tail grows out of your backbone, a tail you recognize as canine. You feel a pressure on your chest as two breasts grow, and you gasp as you feel your vocal cords changing, hearing your female voice start to appear. Your face pushes out and your ears turn canid, moving to the top of your head. You roll over, gasping as the changes moved inwards, your organs rearranging themselves to fit your new body. You lay back, exhausted once more.

"Why?" You ask to the sky. Sighing, you stand. You figure you'd better find others like you, others who were changed. You stand a little unsteady on your new legs, but you're thankful because at least you can walk again. You realize you don't have any shoes, or socks. What happened to them? You wonder. You walk down the beach anyways, getting used to how your body behaved.

You see smoke rising about fifty yards away, and you start to run, wondering if there's a fire. Soon enough, you find the source of the smoke, and you stop, horrified.

It's a plane.

As you stare at the smoking wreckage, you remember, this is your plane. You must've crashed… and, just as suddenly, you remember the crash. The shaking, the tearing sounds as a wing fell, the rushing sound of the wind…

You advance, careful to avoid flames from around the plane. Bodies litter the ground, unmoving. You note that the plane landed on its side, a scorch mark on the earth. The tail section has separated from the rest of the plane, but it looks like it happened upon impact, the ceiling completely torn off. Corpses occupy the remaining seats. The one remaining wing hangs in the air, the ceiling of the fuselage torn and the open cabin facing away from you. You could touch the underbelly of the plane if you wanted to.

You don't want to.

You continue moving forward, trying not to throw up as you see people hanging from broken airplane windows, many of them mangled and torn from the impact. The cockpit and front of the plane is completely smashed, obviously that's the part of the plane that hit the ground first and absorbed most of the impact. You know none of the pilots survived. Quite frankly, it's a wonder that you survived. You turn, staring at the rest of the plane, and fall to your knees.

"Everyone's dead," You manage to chock out, and then, light, thunder, heat, and an unseen force throws you towards the jungle, away from the crash site. You land, dazed, and you realize: That was an explosion. Everything starts fading to black and you think, I'm going to die.


You feel someone shaking you and you weakly open your eyes.

"Are you all right?" A muffled voice says to you. "Can you hear me?" A blurred figure moves in front of you, and you blink, trying to focus. You hear voices in the background, at least two others. Your eyes begin working again, and you see a young girl, maybe ten years old. Your mind tells you she's a kitsune, suggesting that she had also been changed. You reach out a hand, trying to sit up. The kitsune girl turns and yells, "Hey! I found someone!"

"Holy…" You hear a voice say. "What… what happened to our plane?" Someone rushes over.

"Don't worry, I'm a doctor," A cat-woman says. "Can you hear me?" You nod.

"Who are you?"

"Doctor Leland," She tells you. "And no, I'm not a real doctor."

"Did you… did you crash here too?" You ask her. Leland nods.

"Unfortunately," She says. "I suppose the four of us should consider ourselves lucky we survived." Leland quickly glanced over her shoulder at the wreckage. "I doubt we'll find many other survivors."

"Four?" You ask, sitting up.

"Me, Lost, you and Keegan," Leland reports. "So far we're the only survivors that we know of." You nod sadly It doesn't surprise you, and you wonder what might have happened if your plane crashed in the water.

"Should we search the plane?" The kitsune girl asks. "For water and food?"

"Good idea, Lost," Leland agrees, helping you to your feet. "We should salvage all we can before the plane burns up from the explosion. It looks fine now, though."

"Everyone! Quiet!" An anthro tigress (Keegan, you assume). "Just, be quiet for a moment, okay?"You all fall silent, waiting. Your ears perk up as you hear something that makes your stomach feel cold with fear and your heart soar with hope simultaneously.

There is a girl's voice coming from the wreckage. You look at Lost, shocked.

"There's someone in the wreckage!" Keegan shouts, running around the exploded airplane engine towards the broken tail section. "Someone in the plane is still alive!"