Khan Xander St.Cloud

Date: 20th of February, 2002.

Location: "The Woods" Apartment complex, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

I had been listening to the news all day and waiting for the wave to reach me. The transformation of the world into anthropomorphic-animal-people was almost complete, just North and South America and a few islands in the Pacific left to go. President Bush had declared a state of national emergency and imposed martial law. He also had grounded all air traffic except for trans-rotational flights heading West, and even those if they couldn't take off at least half-an-hour ahead of the wavefront. He meanwhile was on Air **** One on his way to an Emergency International Conference being held in Tokyo along with the heads of state of half the planet, most of them racing the wave just like he was. Vice-President Dick Cheyenne was on Air **** Two, leaving Speaker of the House Denis Hastert to manage the domestic situation. NASA had launched every shuttle they could scramble just to get more people out of the reach of the wave, which didn't seem to extend above the atmosphere. The crew of the ISS looked on in horror. Russia had managed to put three people back aboard Mir for the next three days.

I, however, was not one of the fortunate few with the wherewithal to try to escape the transformation, I could only wait and pray.

As I saw the rainbow glow of the wave color the horizon I rushed to my bed and lay down, expecting from what I had heard online and on the news for this to be an incredibly hellish ten minutes.

The energy wave passed through my room, leaving me with a pulsating aura of rainbow light, and I curled up in a fetal ball as the transformation began.

The pain started in my feet and face and worked its way across my body from there. The bones in my face stretched and shifted like taffy, while I felt my feet scrunching up and the bones and nails re-configuring themselves. My skin was on fire as trillions of new hair follicles pushed my new skin covering out all over my body, and I let out a blood-curdling scream, one of many that split the air about then. Shortly I felt my coccyx start to morph into a tail, and at that point the pain just became too much to bear, causing me to blackout.

I came to about thirty minutes later, the agony of the transformation nothing but a horrible memory, and went to look at myself in my mirror...