“Are you sure you want to do this David? I admit going caving sounds interesting, but you never really showed that much interest in it before.” Tyler said as he drove along the road. Sitting in the passenger seat was his friend David who was looking over some maps and brochure.


“It just seems like something new and interesting. I Could use a new hobby, and it sounded like a good idea.” He kept reading the pamphlet.”Also, doesn't this seem better than being cooped up inside playing games all day?”


“Hey I like playing games, it's a good way to unwind after working retail all day.” Tyler grumbled “Anyway, are we close to this park?”


David shot a look over at the GPS that was mounted on the dashboard. “Says we have about 15 more mins.”


“Good, my butt is starting to get sore.” He said and shifted a bit in his seat.


“Its only been 30 mins. How long do you spend sitting down and playing games?” David retorted.


Tyler blushed a bit and seemed nervous “Um, I plead the 5th.”


David gave a small chuckle at his friends nervousness ‘I’d figure you would say something like that.”


Tyler mumbled some nonsense, before giving a clear sentence, “So how did you hear about this place in the first place?”


"This advertisement just came in the mail one day. I have been looking it over for a while,and checked the website out. It's all legit, and free."


"Free is my kind of excitement. Well that and 1080P HD, surround sound..”


“Okay I get it.” David cut him off and sighed, “Look when this is done we can spend your next day off kicking back and having a couch day. Soda, chips, and greasy controllers in our hands, oaky?”


“Deal.”Tyler smiled as he saw the sign for the park “WE HAVE ARRIVED!” He laughed as the two men went into the parking lot and parked their vehicle.


“Seems we are not alone here.” David said as he saw a few other cars in the parking lot.


“I suppose they can warn us if any of the caves are inhabited by wild and dangerous animals. Who are just waiting to take a bite out of some guy named David for a tasty meal!” Tyler laughed and made a chomping motion twods David’s arm


David rolled his eyes at is friend's antics and then shook his head “Ha ha, very funny.” He got out of the car, then grabbed his backpack from the backseat.


“What did you pack?” Tyler said as he looked at the bag.


“Oh a jacket, some snacks, emergency knife, flares, first aid kit.” he listed


Tyler whistled, “Nice, nice. I just got this.” he said and turned to the side. He pulle dout a rather large hunting knife “Cool huh?”


David took a nervous step back as he looked at the blade. “Easy with that thing man.”


“Oh relax, don't be such a scaredy cat.” he sighed and holstered his blade. “Let's go.” he started to walk to the entrance of the park,


“Hey wait up!” David said and went after him.


As they passed through the gates, the would get a nice view of the area. Several large cliffs were stationed around a small clearing in the middle of the park. there were pathways leading up to various levels of the cliffside and numerous small caves would be visible along the side of the mountains.


“It’s...just a park.” Tyler said flatly as he saw a family having lunch at a picnic table “Not really what I expected.


“What did you expect?”


“Less gift shops.” he said and pointed to a cabin selling souvenirs “Perhaps more nature?”


“I wasn't up for going out into the untamed wilderness for a first time caving. We gotta take it slow. You REALLY want to wander into a cave and be chased by a black bear?”


“I have a blade.”


“Yeah, and I am sure it would suit you well after the bear has gnawed your right arm off.” David chuckled as he went to the stand and got a map.


Tyler snorted and rubbed his foot in the dirt annoyed “Whatever..” he grumbled


David gave Tyler a pat on the back “One day, once we both get some fire power, instead, let's just enjoy the park.”


“Yeah yeah, let's just go and try to enjoy this place.” He said and looked around, then at the map David had. “SO any good places for us to enjoy?” He tried to look over.


“Let's see, there might be some tough caves…”


“Tough caves? We are walking in a narrow, closed in area, on solid rock. I fail to see how a cave can be tough.”


“Well It says here, some caves have lights running through, some are dark for a more authentic experience, it says some have water and makes the terrain slippery.”


“Okay those last two sound a BIT better.” Tyler pondered


“It also says here, they patrol them every 2 hours to make sure nothing wild is making its home in there, doesn't seem like you will be needing excalibur after all, King Arthur.”David chuckled.


“Just pick a cave already.” Tyler snorted as he rubbed the sheathed blade


“yeah yeah.” he said and started to read the map over. “Seems like the best caves are on the lower level and over...there.” he pointed.


“So those are the tougher ones?” David double checked the map and nodded. “Good, let;s get going.” he said and walked over towards them.


“Someone is hasty to start.” David teased as he went to catch up with Tyler.


“The sooner we start, the sooner we can get this done with and head back home. I think I am allergic to sunlight.” He sneezed.


David gave him a pat on the back “I think it’s pollon, not sunlight count Couch Potato. At least you are not sparkling.” David laughed, and that got him a small noogie from Tyler. “Aw, someone is sensitive.” He kept chuckling, and bat his arm away. “Come on, enjoy a joke.” he looked at the map, as the walked “Seems this one is the tougher one...wait.” he said and looked at the mountain, then at the map, then the mountain again “That cave is not listed.” He pointed to one cave that was past the listed on the map.


“Not listed ey?” Tyler chuckled, “Must be a new one they are making. That’s the one we are heading for.” he quickly ran over to it.


“Um, maybe we should stay to the listed ones?” David said nervously as he now stood at the end of the unlisted cave “Maybe it;s an animal home?”


“Tyler snorted “Please, you are the one who said they clean them out frequently. Also, I doubt they would keep a dangerous animal in a park like this.”


“Well yes, I DID say that.” He said nervously as he took his backpack and opened it up. He dug around a bit and pulled up a flashlight. “Always come prepared.” He chuckled and shined the light into the dark recess. The light illuminated the cave a tiny bit as the back remained in darkness.


“Seems to be complete, they probably just did not mark it yet, So, take the lead david.” he steps aside “


“Me!?” he tried to not scream loudly to attract attention to them.


“Yep, you have the light, so it only makes sense for you to go first, here.” he took out his blade and held it out “I will even let you borrow this.” he chuckled.


David stared at the blade, “Um, no...no thanks.” He blushed


“Hey it was your idea to come here, your idea to drag me along, so it's only fair YOU get to travel first into the cave. Unless, you’re...scared?” He smirked


David gave a small groan as he took the knife from his friend “Fine..I’ll go first.” He snorted. and shot another nervous look into the abyss.


“Ready when you are.” he stood behind David and gave him a small push forward. “Come on David, let’s test your hobby.”


David stumbled a bit as he took a few steps into the cave “Hey, easy back there!” he snorted and gave a small growl. Tyler just smiled and gave a small wave, making David roll his eyes in annoyance. David turned his attention back to the cave as he looked deep into it. “Well, here we go.” He said and slowly started to walk inside the cave.


David;s footsteps echoed inside the cave as he heard the sound of some water dripping from the ceiling. He shot a look back at Tyler as he still stood at the entrance, “Aren't you coming?”


Tyler gave a nervous gulp “Um, I’ll just, wait here, incase something goes wrong then, I will not be in the way should you need a hasty escape so..” He waved, “Have a good trip, I will follow you once you make sure nothing is living in there.”


“Look if you really are scared, just say so.” David said as he looked back. Tyler just snorted again and kept watching from the entrance. David shook his head and and sighed “Fine.” he said and turned his back to Tyler, and proceeded to go deeper into the cave.


David proceeded to go deeper through the cave. The rocks sparkled with small crystals as David's light shone on them. He gave a small smile as he saw the beauty in nature “Tyler doesn't know what he is missing.” He chuckled as he kept going. The walls of the cave started to slowly get a bit more narrow, as he moved forward. He started to have to turn sideways, and remove his backpack to get through some of the tighter parts. “Good think I can suck i it.” he sighed as the ceiling seemed to be lowering as well. “Aw great.” he grumbled as he started to crouch as he moved forward. “Man this is so uncomfortable.” he grumbled.


Soon the ceiling became s loo the the only way for him to proceed was to crawl on his belly. He bent down and looked through the opening, giving a small sigh as he saw it opened up again on the other side of the obstacle. “Well, why not? Already made it this far.” he sighed and took off the backpack, and sliding it through the opening. David then got down on his stomach and proceeded to crawl through, getting his shirt rather dirty “Ug, gonna have to do laundry when I get back.” he sighed as he got up and tried to brush off the dirt.


David looked around and gave a sigh of relief as he saw how much bigger his path had gotten. “I wonder how deep this goes?” he kept moving forward and rounded a corner. David’s response was quickly answered as he was met with a dead end. “Aw crap, did all that for nothing.” He grumbled. “Well now I can go grab the coward and show him there is nothing to worry about,” he chuckled and then started to turn back. Suddenly a loud creaking echoed in the small chamber “What was that?” he froze as his voice reverberated in the room.”I should...go..” he said nervously as he went back to the entrance. However before he could make it, the ground gave way under his feet, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” he screamed as he held on to the sides of the pit.


David panicked and tried to pull himself up. “OOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD!” he panicked and squirmed, trying to pull his body up onto the ledge. the sided of the pits were rather smooth and hard for him to get a grip on. his body twitching as he tried to get a leg up on the ledge.

“TYLER!” He screamed “TYLER HELP ME!” He shouted as long as he could. David;s fingers were slipping more and more, his grip was almost gone “TTYYYYLLLLLLEEEERRRRR!” David cried as his grip gave way and his body started to fall down the pit.


His body fell a bit along the wall and then landed on a slant. His body started to roll downhill. His body grunted and groaned as he was rolled and spun around as he descended the slope. David seemed to lose track for how long her was rolling for as he mentally whimpered and hoped his body would survive the descent.


“If I make it out of here alive, I am never gonna leave the couch again!” David screamed as his body landed on the ground with a small flop.He lied there for several moments as he slowly tried to compose himself. “OW..” He whimpered a bit. His whole body ached in pain. He hoped that nothing was broken, and that Tyler would eventually get worried, and get help. David inhaled deeply and finally decided to push his body up. He tried to feel around in the darkness for his flashlight. “Where is that stupid thing.” He groaned as his arm ached while he tried to move it “Well fingers and arms are functional, that;s good. “ he gave up the search and sighed. Luckily for him his backpack stated attached to him. he unsized and felt around inside it. “Good thing I brought these.” He reached around and felt the cylinder item.


“Fire in the hole.” he said and pulled the end off the flare. A bright, red light suddenly filled the cavern. He looked around a bit and saw he was in a rather vast cavern “Wow…” he said in aw. He looked down at his body, and was rather relieved to see there was no blood or broken bones protruding out of his body. He inhaled deeply and tried to stand. “Ow ow ow..” he winced as the pain hit his body. “Wait, the first aid kit.” he set the flare down on the ground and went back to the backpack. He brought out the familiar white box with the red cross on it. ‘GOod thing I came prepared.” he said and opened it. He took out a small bottle of painkillers and took a few of them. Next, he reached back into the bag, and took out a canteen, getting a refreshing drink of water “That hits the spot.” he sighed again


“So, where AM I?” He said as he felt the painkillers taking effect. he slowly stood up again and took a few steps forward. “Hope there is a way out of here, or Tyler is already making preparations for a rescue party. Might as well get a look at my temporary dwelling.” he slowly moved forward and started to look around the vast cavern.


“Let;s see...huh? What;s this?” he said as he noticed that there was something on the wall. ‘Is that a picture?” he moved the flare in closer. “Yeah, it looks like a...horse?” he pondered “Huh, I must have discovered some ancient cave paintings.” He grinned “Oh man I am gonna be famous for finding these, I wonder if there are anymore?” he moved along the wall and looked “Oh yeah, let's see: a sun, a moon, I think that is a star with several stars, some butterflies? Apples? Those crystals? some sort of colorful bolt and...BALLOONS!?” He snorted “Balloons? This must be a joke or something.” he grumbled and keep going. More and more drawings started to litter the walls. “Just what IS this place? Did I accidentally stumble into the preworks for the kiddy room?” he growled.”Perhaps this means there is a way out of here.”


David saw the two sides of the rooms started to narrow into a hallway. “This feels like the way out.” He said and kept going. He stopped for a moment and gasped with excitement as his eyes took notice of a large gate “YES!” he quickly limped over to the door. “YES A WAY OUT!” He cried as he made it to the gate and looked it over.


It was a rather massive door. It seemed to be made out of the same stone that lined the walls, as if the gate was carved right out of it. It stretched to the top of the cavern, on both sites there were two horse heads, each one had a long horn growing out of its head. “Are, those...Unicorns? Why would there be statues of unicorns here?” he rubbed his face in disbelief. “First the balloons, now mythical creatures? THis place gets weirder and weirder.” he sighed. “Now let's get this stupid gate open so i can finally get home.” He went and pressed against the door, trying to open it “Come on, come one!” He groaned as he struggled against the massive stone weight. David sighed as he stopped pushing “Damn, can't open a stupid door.” He kicked it annoyed, but that just resulted in him hurting himself. “OW, OW, OW!” he cried as he held his foot. “Not the brightest thing I have ever done.” He groaned and held his foot. “Stupid rock door.” he put his foot down and tried to inspect the door more closely “Maybe there is a switch here or something?” He said and started to rub his free hand over it, “Has to be something here.” he said as he started to brush away some dirt. “Hello..” He smiled as something was reviled “What have we here?” he brushed more dirt off the door. “And we have a...horseshoe? Man they are really upping the horse motif here.” He simply sighed and pressed the horseshoe. It sunk into the door. and gave a small click. “Bingo.” He grinned


The doors started to shake a bit, making the whole cave rumble “Oh no, no please don't cave in while I am so close to freedom!” He panicked as ome small stones fell from the ceiling. “OPEN! OPEN!” he cried as the door shook more. A grinding noise was heard as before David’s eyes the doors started to slowly open “YES, YES, YES, HURRY!” He panicked as the rumbling increased in magnitude. The doors would reveal a bright, white light. David shielded his eyes as the doors opened wider. Larger rocks started to fall from the ceiling and landed behind David. “No..almost..NOW!” he screamed and jumped through the gate and into the white light


The light would be overwhelming, and blinding to David. He felt himself floating in the air “What? WHERE IS THE GROUND!” he thrashed his arms and legs as the made no contact with solid earth. “WHAT’S HAPPENING!?” he panicked as he tried to open his eyes to look, but suddenly he blacked out.


David lied on the ground for quite some time. His body stirred a bit as he slowly started to awaken. “OH man, what happened?” David groaned as he slowly got up. he rubbed his eyes efire he opened them and slowly looked around. “THE HECK!?” The sight of his environment jolted him awake.


There was no color in the world david was in. THere was only gray everywhere; trees, the grass, even the sky; all was a shade of gray. “I feel like I am in some sort of coloring book, that no one started.” he reached down and felt the “grass” that was under his body. There was no real texture of the grass. David rubbed a single blade between his two fingers, but is was as if it was not there, he could only feel this fingers rubbing against each other.


“Weird.” David said as he grabbed both ends and pulled them apart. The grass gave way easally without any resistance, or even the sound of a snap. He dropped both ends and they silently fell softly to the ground and landed.”Where the heck am I?” David looked over to the tree and moved towards it. Curiously he placed a hand and ran it up and down along the trunk. “I can't even feel the wood. It;s like is solid, yet, empty at the same time.” He pressed against it and it would not budge. “Still feels heavy, like a real tree, just...lifeless.” He sighed. “I better try to see if I can find some sort of civilization or something.” He looked around some more “Wait, where did the gate go?” The massive stone gate that David went through was gone. All there was was more massive grey fields, and trees. “Okay this is REALLY not good. I need to find help, fast.” He looked around again and saw a hill near buy. “Hopefully I can see something from there.” David turned to the hill and ran.


“What the heck? Even my footsteps don’t make any noise here?” He said as he silently sprinted towards the elevated land mass. “No colors, no sounds, not even and smells. THis place is so quiet my own heartbeat is echoing loudly inside my chest.” He sighed as he reached his destination on top of the hill. “Made it.” he winced as his body still ached from the fall earlier “Damn it, i got too carried away.” He winced and held his body. “Hope I can find more first aid too. Now, let’s see what we have here?” he started to look around.


“Grey forests, grey cliffs, grey everything..” he facepalmed, groaned, and then shook his head. “I am going to die in the void. makes me wish I stayed in that cave in. At least then they would eventually find my body and put me to rest. Here I will just fade away, and never be found.” He sighed, then tried to look again.


David gasped as he spotted something in the distance, “BUILDINGS!” he smiled as he had a glance of civilization. “Body don;t fail me now!” he quickly ran down the hill and went full speed ahead to the buildings. “PLEASE LET THERE BE SOMEONE THERE!” David hoped as the buildings got closer and closer. “HELLO! HELLO!? CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!?” He shouted as he ran across a small bridge over a river. He ran into the center of town and panted heavily as his body ached more “COuld I get some he...lp…” his heart sank as he realized what had happened.


Several of the builds were delaptated. Only a few of them remained standing, while several other had close to have of them destroyed. “HELLO!?” he called out again. David clung on to a small bit of hope, desperately wishing if there was still someone staying in one of the standing buildings.


David fell to his knees in defeat. The place was abandoned, no other soul came to his aid. “Great, I get eternity alone in this void by myself. I am gonna go crazy and start talking to a beach ball for companionship. No wait, not a beach ball, a statue! I will call him Terra and he will be my friend!” He said as his eyes noticed a stone statue. “What the heck is that thing?” He walked over and tried to understand the strange creature the statue was representing.


“Weird, it’s some sort of amalgamation: Bird claw, lion paw, long serpentine body, goat leg, bird wing, bat wing. and deer antler? This is one strange chimera. Also, it seems to be...crying?” she saw the form was hunched over, and the two different “hands” were covering the face. “Okay this better not be a freaky weeping angel, then again I would welcome that at this point.” David inspected it more then saw something written near the base of the statue. “What have we here? Latin?” He pondered as he tried to make out the words. “St...i̱n….arc...hí̱ ypí̱...rx...e to Cháos?” He pondered and tried again ,“Sti̱n...archí̱ ...ypí̱r...xe to Cháos. Can't say I ever read this language before.” He sighed, “One more time, sti̱n archí̱ ypí̱rxe to Cháos !” he said as suddenly the statue began to shake and rumble. David took a few nervous steps back as he did not look away “What's going on?” he whimpered as the statue started to break apart and shatter before him


“HHHHEEEELLLPPP MEEEE!” David looked around in fear as he tried to determine where that voice came from.


“WHO SAID THAT!?” he panicked and looked around, the statue’s remains broke apart leaving nothing but rubble. From the remains a black mist started to rise out from the stones “WHAT’S THAT!?” He said as he kept looking at the black mass.


“SSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE THEMMMMM!” it cried again and suddenly it flew right at David. David tried to run away, but the black wisp was faster then him and tackled him right in the back. David screamed in agony as the specter went right into his body.


“AAAAAAHHHHHH!” he cried and held his chest. his entire body started to feel like it was burning intensely. He started to breath heavily as he felt a strange feeling in his right arm. “WHAT NOW!?” he panted


David stared at his right arm and gasped as he saw tan fur slowly starting to grow out of his arm. “THE HELL!?” He took his other hand and slowly started to rub it along the growing fur that overtook his darken skin. “WHAT!?” he said as he kept looking at the arm. It slowly started to thicken up with more mass and muscle. David flexed it a few times, feeling the strength run through it. Though he stopped as he looked at his fingers. His middle and ring fingers slowly started to merge and fuse together and form one single digit. David gasped and the few remaining fingers started to shrink in length, becoming more stubby as the fur covered his hand. His nails seemed to vanished indied the new paws as the formed into a pair of retractable claws. A pad formed on david’s paw as he stared at his new lion paw arm.


“Oh no oh nonononon!” He whimpered as he looked at his lion paw. A pain in his left arm knocked him out of his stupor “Oh what now!?” he said as he stared at it. Dark brown fur started to sprout up near his shoulder and slowly move down his arm, and went slightly past his elbow. Unlike his lion arm, this arm stayed thin and did not gain mass. Just beyond the elbow, davis could feel his arm started to get itchy.He was just about to scratch it with the other hand, but then stopped as he accidently unsheathed the lion claws. “Um..” He said nervously and tried to relieve the itch by rubbing it against his torso


“THIS IS NOT HELPING!” he cried as he tried to rub it more. he rubbed the other arm over it to try and help, but that was not very effective. David could feel the bare skin drying out more and more. The fur would start to detect rougher patches forming on the skin, david pulled the arm back so her could get a better look at what else as happened to him. He would see bands of yellow scales slowly moving up his arm, and going right for the hand. Similar to his right hand, david would start to feel discomfort in his left fingers. “OH NOT AGAIN!” He winced as he looked at the scally gauntlet his arm now was. David’s middle and pointer finger started to burn as they were pulled together by some unknown force. As they made contact there would be a loud hissing, with a mild burning feeling, David tried not to look as his other fingers fuses, but the hissing kept him visualizing the effects.


The hissing and burning finally ended as david slowly opened his eyes to survey the damages. He brought the new arm closer to his face and flexed his four, scaly fingers. The felt a bit thicker and stiffer compared to his normal skin. He could still move them, but he struggled a bit with the increased resistance. he moved in and took a closer look at his fingers. Th scaly gloves on his hands seemed to end in a small point. he carefully taped it against the lion arm and was somewhat relied it was not that sharp “Yay..” he said flatly.


“These look like the...statue's arms.” he said as he kept looking them over. A sudden pain in david’s gut cut him off as he held his sides. “OF course it..wasn't over..” he moaned as a warmth spread throughout him. David rubbed his arms as he tried to shift his body around. Something was under his shirt and making things uncomfortable for the poor, changing human. david struggled to try and get his shirt off, but whatever was growing under it, was causing some issues getting it off, “Um come off you stupid thing!” he growled as he used his lion claws to cut the shirt off. He inhaled deeply as he was free from the restrictive garment “Much….” He stopped himself as nothing could really be “better.”


He looked down on the chest to see what was now happening to him. he winced as he saw the same fur that covered part of his left arm was now growing in and forming a thicker coat that covered his entire torso. He quickly shot a look behind himself, only to see the same fur was thickening up and forming a coat back there as well.


“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” he screamed again. His head was in agony from his mind going haywire, trying to comprehend all the changes that were happening. David's breathing started to increase rapidly. Sadly this would not help what was going to happen next to poor David.



There was a loud cracking form his back. David fell to the ground in agony and landed right on his back. he Grit his teeth tightly and hissed. he body squirmed and he rolled side to side for any relief of pain.. Unfortunately there was another crack coming from his back, forcing him to give another spasm. “JUST END THIS ALREADY!” He cried, a few tears escaping from his eyes. ‘Pain..pain pain..PAINKILLERS!” David quickly sat up. His eyes caught sight of the backpack that held the first aid kit. he quickly leaned forward to try and grabbed it, but gave a surprised cry as he somehow overshot the length, making him fly over the backpack.


“What the heck!? HOW DID I..” he stopped as he realized the newest changed Dils body was now longer than it was before. His feet were further away. ‘Oh..no..” he whimpered as there was another pain passing through his central nervous system. This time david caught a look at his body as the pain came. He could see that his feet were moving further away. David looked down at the furry torso , and realized how flexible he now was. he could easally lean in and look at his feet, he could even look at the bottom of his feet as they faced away from him.


“I’d..I say this was weird b..GAAA!” he winced and shed a few more tears as his body grew longer once again. “I think I will just shut up.” he spat as he looked at the long furry body. The only thing that gave david any relief is that the pain quickly vanished as soon as it came.


He lied back down on the ground, breathing heavily. he started to wonder what was going to happen to him now. Was he gonna be stuck as some sort of monster in a strange world? Will he find a way to change back, or even make it home? Would he ever see his friends and family again? Tears once again flowed from David’s face, though this time they were of sadness and not of pain.


David just lay there, his eyes heavy with tears as his paw and tallon hands just slowly scratched into the bland, textureless ground. The pounded it a few times as he never looked away for the gray sky. he was about to give the ground a hard slap with his fis but screamed as suddenly there was no ground under him. He screamed as he was suddenly spinning in the air above the ground. Levitating above it like he was being pulled by invisible strings.


David was able to compose and stable himself in the air. he stared back at the ground in shock “I CAN FLY!?” He said as he started to move around the air with ease. The euphoric feeling of flying distracted him from her personal dilemma. “Amazing…” he said in awe as he went higher and got an even better view of the area. He could make out the outlines of what seemed to be a dilapidated farmhouse in an orchard of gray trees, and a massive thick, gray forest near the town.



“What was this place before it went grey like this?” he said as he “sat” in the sky. As he tried to envision it, this though were derailed as he felt something lower on his body. “What;s going on now?” he said as he bent his body around to get a closer look “Oh...wow this is still weird.” he said as he got an upclose look at two small lumps growing on his back. David held his chin in thought as he tried to remember the statue “Those must be his wings but,,,how am I flying without them?” He yelped as he felt the two small lumps slowly swelling up, like two balloons under his skin that were being inflated by helium. he clenched his fists, grit his teeth and tried to force them out. david grunted and groaned for a bit until he heard two loud pops coming from his back. A pleased sigh of relief escaped from his mouth while he looked at the two new appendages.


There would be 2 small, bare, “things” sticking out from his back. the twitched a bit and wigged as David gave a disgusted look “Um, that doesn't look right.” he winced as he poked the featureless tendrils. A warmth slowly started to flow through them. From the left side, a bright, blue, feathery plumage would start to sprout out and cover the barren part. When the feathers finished growing, it left David with a rather, beautiful, blue bird wing.

Curiously, david went and felt the feathers, the plumage felt very soft in his scally grap. “Rather nice.” he admitted. When that was done, he turned his attention back to the other tendral. No feathers there, instead the skin seems to have tuned a dark purple color. Smaller pieces seemed to be slowly moving down from the larger piece, and in between each one a leathery membrane started to grow in between. David seemed to be rather amused at his new bat wing.


“Half angel, half devil, all me.” He gave a hearty laughed as he flapped them around and did a small flip in the air “Wait, wasn't I supposed to be sad at something?” he tried to think, his head was starting to feel a bit hazy, his memories were becoming more and more foggy.”I suppose it wasn't that important...right?”


David’s thoughts were interrupted by the changes once again, this time coming from right above his butt. “YEOUCH! feels like I am at the butt of a very bad joke!” he caught himself “Have I always made bad puns before?” The pain hit again, cutting him off. david rubbed the palm of the lion paw back there and felt a large lump forming “Oh I do declare these shorts are making my butt look WAYY too big.” he giggled. “Forget budonkadunk this is bu-tonka-pickup truck!” he laughed more. He started to feel rather carefree now. He view more in the sky as he looked back at his butt. The shorts strained and gave way, rippin his shorts and causing the remains to fall to the ground, “Oh my it’s rather drafty up here. “ he laughed as he turned to look more at his exposed lower region.


The large swelling seemt to be his body getting longer once again. This time though, it was a bit different. instead of the brown fur, the lengthening bulge was covered in red scales. “I am such a colorful creature, and that is no tall tail.” he giggled as he twitched and waved the growing appendage. “Sadly it's not...tuft enough.” He gave the tip a small pinch, and a tuft of white fur sprouted from the tip. “That looks so much better.” he looked it over again and saw a small ridge of bumpy scales growing from the tip, and stopping just above his hips.


“This is amazing, I can't remember the last time I felt this good, I..I...um…can't remember anything actually..” He tried to rack his brains out for anything. “Nothing. why can't I remember?” he landed on the ground and stood on his feel “What...happened here?” He finally noticed the gray, bleak world. ‘THis...feels familiar, somehow..” David took a step forwards then gasped again. He flew into the air again to avoid falling.


“Close one.” he said as he looked again. His hips started to melt and become absorbed into his body, like it was warm putty. His legs seemed like they were now just attached to his body like it was an afterthought. The seemed rather strange as they just hung off him. “No butts about this but then how….never mind.”


“Might as well take those off.” he brought his human legs over and easally removed the shoes and socks “Perfect. Aw, look at the cute widdle piggies.” he said and teased his feet. he gasped and pulled it back as he saw his feet stretching, and growing longer. he looked to his left foot first.

The toes were starting to fuse together forming one huge digit. The remains of the nails started to wrap around the whole bottom of the foot. His arch started to pop as his foot stretched into a vertical possession. His heel was now pointing away from his body. the remains of the good started to become covered in a rather, light brown fur. The upper part of his leg shrank and shifted a bit and curved forward to adjust itself more probably to his new form. The sounds of a small crack was heard from the hoof, “What was that?” he picked up up to see he hoof become cloven. ‘Oh, and now for the second one.” he said and looked.


Unlike the fur on the left foot, green scales started to grow and cover his right foot. “I am gonna have to get something for all this dry skin. Foot, claw, tail. Do, re, me, I am just covered in scales.” he cried. and tried to scratch his foot “So I know that but nothing else?” he grumbled as he kept scratching at the itchy foot. “THis is a strange day.”


The toes on the right foot fused into two larger toes. His nails turned a bright white as they were pulled into long, pointed claws. Like his other foot though, his arches popped up and only his “toes” were flat. There would be another odd sensation coming from his elevated heel “Oh what now?” he said as for right out of the heel, a dew claw was growing out “How lovely.” he sighed. The leg shrank in length, and he became balanced out as he stood on the two different “legs “



“So all that;s left is the…” Before he could finish, his neck started to snap, crackle and pop as it slowly started to lengthen and move away from his body. “Why am I suddenly hungry?” David pondered as his head was being stretched longer and longer. Gray fur started to slowly creep in and cover his remaining, exposed skin. The skinny neck started to swell in size, becoming about as thick as the body that lay below him, and absorbing his shoulders as they became almost non existent. “Oh now my shirts will never look good on me again.” he said as he flexed his arms around.


Davie would next start to feel a tingling on his scalp. As he reached up to try and feel what was going on, his hand would actually knocked off a small piece of his, black, poofy hair. “Oh no, not my magnificent locks! Now everyone is gonna laugh at tease me!” he said in mocks sadness. He suddenly gave an annoyed snort as he gave the remaining hair a small flick, and the hair flew off. “Bald is beautiful after all.” He summoned a small mirror, and gave it a kiss. The reflection screamed in fear, pulled out a hammer, and smashed itself “Everyone's a critic.” He grumbled and made it vanish, “Wait, how did I do that, and why did it feel so familiar?” He stroked his chin in thought, but even that was starting to change. As he stroke it, the small stubble of black hair grew longer and turned white.


“Hmm classy.” he cooed and stroked it. A mild pressure on his head made him try to look up. “Now what is going on up there?” he said as he reached up and felt it. His claw would stumble across two lumps growing up there, “Ah, I feel something growing, I think it needs proper watering and care.” he pulled out a pink watering can and poured it right down upon his head. David sang a small tune, then stopped. he sniffed the air “This isn't water.” he opened wide, and drank some “It's...chocolate….chocolate...milk?” He merely shrugged and he drank more of the milk that was poured down. As he drank, he could feel the two lumps growing bigger in size. “Milk, it makes a body grow.” he chuckled as through his skin, a white deer antler, and a light blue, banded dragon horn started to grow out of his scalp.


“Well i am glad that worked, I would have hate to put manure in there.” he shuddered and tossed the can away. “So, apparently I can summon anything I want. Maybe I can summon up my name?” He pondered and concentrated. ‘Come one come on!” He strained and tried to get any memory he could get. David grit his teeth as he grunted, groaned and strained, diving into the void that was his memory “Come on...ANYTHING!” he cried, but that was interrupted by a loud pop. “What was that?” He looked around confused for any signs of a change. “Wonder what that was about?” he said and rubbed the back of his neck. His pawed hand would brush up against something. “Oh?” he twisted his long neck around and caught a glimpse of a short, dark gray mane that rand down the length of his neck. “Meh, it's okay, I suppose.”


“Now then perhaps I can blagablaughablug.” He stopped trying to talk as his mouth and nose was pulled and stretched away from his face. His small mouth started to become larger in size, while his nose was pushed up into a small snout. His longer face seemed to squeeze and shrink between his new mouth, and where his eyes was. giving the appearance of a sideways hourglass. “Oh my.” he tongue started to grow longer to fit the mouth. it ran along his changing teeth, and brushed up against a longer fang that hung out of the front of his mouth. “Oh boy, I have quite the big mouth, Ain't that the tooth?” he laughed to no one.


“Ok body, I hope you are done changing, because you are not going to pull the wool over my eyes anymore.” He said proudly. A statement he soon regretted as his vision went dark. “AHHH! IRONY!” he cried and waved his hands around in his darkness. “What’s happening now!? Oh I hope nothing else happens to my beautiful face.” he brought his hands up and conestly felt it. His attention was suddenly altered to his ears though. “Oh great two things at once?” He tweaked them a few times as they moved up his head and grew longer. They rested upon the top of his head, next to the new horns. From the darkness, his vision would slowly start to return to normal. “Oh thank heavens, I have not idea what I would do if my sight never came back!” he looked around at the grey world “Not that there is much to look at.” He grumbled in annoyance.


“Let's see if I can try that trick again.” He said and summoned the mirror once again. He stuck his tounge out in mild disgust as he stared back at his reflection “Yuck.” The reflection screamed again, and was about to break itself again “WAIT!” he cried and the reflection froze. “Allow me.” he summoned a hammer in his other hand. He took one more look into the mirror, and saw that his eyebrows were becoming white and bushy. The complemented the white goatee that was upon his chin. he leaned in for a closer look at his new brows ‘Hmm, poofy.” He said and then shattered the mirror.


“Well, it seems that show is over.” he sighed as his body slowly lowered itself to the ground. “Now, what am I supposed to do here?” The moment his goat hoof, and dragon food made contact, a bright light erupted from him “Oh what NOW!?” he said as he shielded his eyes “ I JUST GOT MY VISION BACK!” David groaned as he could feel warmth from the light. Old memories starting to appear in his head, but everything was so blurry he could not determine what they were. hr tried to focus, but the best he could make out was colorful blurry blobs who seemed to walk around on all 4s. “What, what are those things!> WHO ARE YOU!?” The bright light was fading away, and david was allowed to see again “Was that...a memory?” Tears started to flow down the side of his face “Why..am I crying?” he tried to wipe them away.


David took one step forward, and suddenly a huge wave of color erupted up and started to cover the ground. In shock, david flew up into the air “What just happened!?” he said as the color spread a bit and covered a small area. He moved over to another gray pated and gave it a small poke. From the point of contact, the grass turned a luscious green color. The trees would look healthy, and lively once again. david flew over to the aple trees. he plucked one of the grey apples as the whole orchard started to come back to life. He took a bite and the sweet fruit filled his mouth “Am I supposed to...restore this world?” He swallowed the fruit, then took off to return the gray world to one of color, scents, and life.


Back in the human world, Tyler was waiting outside the cave entrance. He shot a small glance to his phone “man david has been gone for 20 mins. I suppose he is having the time of his life in there. Maybe I should go in there.” he looke dinto the dark cave and gulped “In about 30 more mins.” he chuckled nervously.


Suddenly, the whole mountain started to shake. Pieces form higher up started to break off the side of the mountain. “AW CRAP!” Tyler cried as he tried to move away “DAVID!” he screamed into the cave, hoping his friend would be on the way out. “DAVID!” he whimpered as the rumbeling stared to intensify.


“KID LET'S GO!” One of the rangers ran over and grabbed him “IT’S AN EARTHQUAKE!” He tried to pull Tyler away


“BUT MY FRIEND IS IN THERE!” Tyler protested and tried to get out of his grip


“LOOK I AM SORRY BUT..” He was cut off as form the entrance of the cave, the transformed David suddenly flew out


“WHEW! That was harder than I thought it would be.” He stretched a bit, and looked over the two humans “Oh hello, my name is...D. It's the only thing I can seem to remember right now, Just a simple letter, and some blurry images. Anyway, nice to meet you.” He grinned as he stared down at Tyler.


D Raised an eyebrow as he stared down at Tyler. “What have we here?” He lowered his head for a closer look. Tyler was too scared of the creature to protest of get away. D pressed his ear against the human;s chest. He could feel a presence inside tyler, and a voice, a tiny voice.


“H..e...l...p….m...e” It said faintly.


“What is that? Hey kid, what's your story?” he said as he grabbed Tyler's wrist. Tyler would feel a strange presence flow into his body form D’s grasp. Tyler mealy whimpered as he stared at his hand, and he gave a huge gasp. Dee stared at the hand as well, a look of amazement on his face.


“Well well, how many more are like this?” he started to laugh maniacally. Before D the two, they would watch Tyler’s hand slowly transform into a hoof.