Splashdown in the Sewer!
(Male & Female human To male Ottsel & female Splinter)
for James Fox (CyberFox)
It was a rather bright, sunny day in downtown New York, the tall buildings of Manhattan Island piercing fluffy white clouds. It was rush-hour, and as usual many men and women in suits travelled the blocks between their jobs and their homes. In the midst of all that, a man and a woman, both roughly in their early twenties, the man wore a simple Hawaiian tee-shirt and white shorts, whereas the woman wore a rather revealing skimpy black vest and skinny jeans; both were tourists from abroad and both had come for a bit of fun in the Big Apple.
As the two crossed the busy intersection of Seventh Avenue and Broadway (colloquially referred to as Times Square) the woman, who had worn high-heels that day slipped, her foot jarring as it struck the grate that led down into the inner workings of the city, which included the metro system and the sewers. A jingling sound became apparent as her keys to her apartment which fell loose in the initial jolt began rattling and bouncing against the grate.
The keys fell and banged, clanged and eventually a small splash echoed back up to the woman "NO!" she screamed "My keys!!!" After wrenching her foot loose, she dragged the man by his ear as the two made their way out of the street and into an alley where an open manhole cover presented the woman an opportunity to retrieve her lost items.
"Come on, Mike" the woman said, "we'll just go down and get my keys. They can't have gone THAT far."
Michael often called 'Mike' by his girlfriend shrugged, "I dunno Katie, looks kinda dark in there. Maybe we should just go back to the room… I'm sure the management will give us another key." He replied.
"Yeah, but with a goddamn $150.00 fine; I ain't payin' that, come on those alligator stories are just that, stories." Katie responded, she then huffed and began climbing down "I'm going… you'd better come with me."
Michael sighed, he'd have to now… or be labelled a bad boyfriend. Following Katie down the manhole, he was quickly presented with a new problem, light. As they descended the light grew dimmer and dimmer until everything just looked as though it were a greyscale wash of light and dark grey shapes, visible lines blurred until they were no longer distinct.
Popping out something from her pocket, Katie snapped the object, releasing a glowing green light into the otherwise dark sewer. "Aren't ya glad I brought this along from the airport now?" she taunted.
Michael rolled his eyes "Yeah yeah, let's just get your keys and get the hell outta here before someone spots us." He retorted.
With Katie leading the way, the two of them followed the sewer as it snaked its way under the road. There, in front of her was the sewer stream, it glowed an odd yellow-like colour in the green light of the glow-stick. Searching around, it wasn't long until she found her keys, resting on the bed of the sewer river. "Come on, let's go" she said, treading carefully out into the river. When she realised nothing was happening, she waded across.
Michael hesitated again, but followed, wading through the sewer with his girlfriend. It was as the two of them reached the other side that things took a turn for the worse, the woman began to convulse rapidly and visible sweat pearls began forming on her body; she literally couldn't stand and fell, face-down into the yellow sewer water.
"Katie? Katie! Are you alright, Katie?" he asked, now very afraid, but before any answer came back, Michael too, started feeling hot and weak, his muscles could no longer support him and he too, fell face-down into the water, inhaling it into him, before half-choking and spitting the water out, flipping himself over.
Straining his neck, Michael could see that Katie had taken off her clothes, brown fur sprouting all over her body, however Michael was more concerned about his increasing heat, it seemed that whatever was affecting Katie was affecting him too. Dumping his clothes, he was shocked to find not the brown, coarse fur that Katie was sprouting, but began sprouting yellowish-orange, coating his belly in a natural warmth.
Turning back to Katie, he could see that brown, coarse fur dominated her body, which started becoming noticeably compacted as she shrunk, from 5feet, 6inches to a new height of 4feet, 8inches, looking back to himself, he noticed that, like Katie he was now covered orange-yellow fur, and he too felt a pinching sensation as he, too, shrank to match her height.
Katie's breasts, which started their human life as perky double D's shrank slightly with her body, but they were still easily C-cups afterwards. Michael noticed that something brown started snaking its way from behind Katie. "K...Katie, b…behind you" he muttered.
Katie's eyes widened as she felt behind her, there attached to her coccyx, was a fully functional rat-like tail. She then felt a pinching in her feet, which lengthened slightly, but her toes pushed together until, in a moment of sheer and utter pain, the bones in her smallest, pinkie toes, snapped and they dissolved into her four remaining toes, the leftover remains being used in the transformation.
Michael noticed it better than Katie did, since his transformation was in his hands, they bunched up, his thumbs retreating upwards, becoming their vestigial counterparts, dewclaws; but tight wrappings wore their way around Katie's now rat-like legs; Michael's own transformation saw pads developing on his paws and his feet began bunching like his hands as well.
Katie's face began pushing outward into a rat's muzzle, her front teeth elongated and whiskers exploded from her lengthening jaw, her hands shifted, her pinkie merging into her other fingers as her nails sharpened into claws, she looked down astounded as her pupils dilated, covering her irises while her clothes merged together in a reddish-pink dress with a black martial arts band, which she put back on her finished body.
Michael saw all of this, even as his own transformation sped up, his ears lengthening and a prehensile tail exploded from his own coccyx, covered in the self-same orangey-yellow fur of his body. His feet, now more resembling paws also grew pads and his eyes changed shape, shifting his vision slightly to have more of an 180o view.
The pain subsided in both Michael and Katie as they looked at their finished bodies and they managed to get a good look at their new bodies.
"Michael… you're… I'm…" Katie spluttered.
Michael put a paw over her muzzle "You're beautiful" he crooned, and leaned in to give her a kiss.
"R…Really? *sniffle* but… we're… We're animals." She sobbed.
"So? It doesn't matter what we are. I… I love you. Always have, but I've been too afraid to tell you." He confessed, grasping her clawed hand in his paw.
Katie smiled at that and the two of them left the keys at the edge of the sewer, dropped the glow-stick, no longer needing its light as their eyes had become accustomed to the darkness, and they disappeared into the New York sewer system, and lived long, happy lives.
FIN
All characters © ImmortalDragon (aka: Raisus) February 2012
