This is where you shine

Stepping out into the Swimming area, you saw pupils of all sizes, some with costumes on but many naked. Mr Hyneman, a walrus anthro, covered his big flabby body with shorts and a shirt. He had long tusks and his feat were flippers. He was one of the few fully hairless mammalian anthros. There were bird and reptiles with feathers and scales respectfully. Invertebrates came in many sizes, some no larger than the insects that lived on Earth while others were human size or bigger. Fully aquatic anthros looked like mermaids with either fish or whale tails and then more humanoid torsos, arms and then faces that were a mix of both animals and man. They went to separate, fully aquatic schools with amphibian anthros.

There were three pools one for small anthros and those who were poor swimmers. One for most of the other pupils and another for natural swimmers. As a human, your lack of fur placed you in the natural swimmer's category. To your surprise, only Alice was a good swimmer. Julie and Bec were in the intermediate pool and Rose was in the little pool. She did not like water, She huddled in the shallow end just trying to learn how to float with two cats while a group of mice swam lengths past them. They were aided by a beautiful Seal Teaching assistant. She had white fur, large breasts and thick thighs. You had not caught her name and before you could ponder Mr Hyneman blew his whistle indicating the start of the class.

"Alright class, Since this is the first swim class of this new term and we seem to have some fresh faces We are going to do a general assessment. You will swim as many laps as you can and be rewarded marks based on number of lengths, speed and endurance. Those from the upper pools who fail to meet goals will be downgraded. Those in the little pool will be expected to complete at least one length or will be feeding Printable Lionheart." Mr Hyneman Explained.

You got ready to swim, there weren't many pupils in the higher pool as most natural swimmers went to aquatic schools. You heard a voice behind you. "Wana up the wager." You looked back to see a large Crocodile girl. She had green scales and wore only bikini bottom as reptiles did not have breast. If she had not spoken in a soft gentle voice, you would have mistaken her for a guy in speedos "Name's Abby. When I heard they transferred a human her by mistake I could not believe it. Now I see they put him in ma pool" She introduced herself.

"What you want to up it too? We are pretty safe here in the higher pool. The expectations may be hight but we have one pool buffer zone between here and the kiddy pool." Alice asked.

"Well, I am interested, out of the 3 of us who is the best." Abby explained. She looked around at the others in the higher pool." They all looked like natural swimming species but not athletic. You were a bit chubby, had always struggled out on the field back in your human school but the pool was where you shone, athletically at least, the classroom was more your thing. "I reckon we will be the last ones standing Alice and the human is untested." So whoever wins gets to eat the looser, Deal?" She declared and reached out her hand.

This was your chance to prove yourself. Abby was an apex carnivore, the law of dominance meant she could eat either one of you and perhaps everyone in this class. Being in her natural hunting grounds gave her dominance over other apex carnivores in this context; with accordance to the natural advantage act of 1964. She could eat Terry the lion, currently in the mid pool if she wanted to. Being new to this world humans currently had no natural hunting ground defined by law so you did not benefit from this law"Deal. You agreed."

"Deal" Alice agreed knowing it was really a race between the two of you as to who would escape Abby's stomach. She knew that if she didn't join the deal would be off. If she did all she had to do was beet you to be free from the punishment (or at least delay it with reforming) that you had threatened in the changing room.

You heard the whistle bow again and the race was on. The three of you dived in and immediately Abby took the lead. She used her powerful tail to propel her thought the water adding to the strength of her arms and legs.