You jump in
You stip down to your underwear and jump in the river. You feel the cold jungle water cling to your skin as you blindly swim to the other side.
But it never comes. After your breath begins to fade, you scramble for the surface. It never comes either.
You open your mouth, gasping for breath. You are about to fade into unconsciousness when you can suddenly breathe again. You look around to see the surface, but you only see dark water.
Then, the water is illuminated, like night vision. Your eyes don't sting anymore, either.
You start to healthily freak out, and thrash in the water. You continue to breathe from what you now understand are gills, but you try to touch your now unblinking eyes. You see in the enlightened water not hands, but long, skinny, flat appendages. They shrink back further into your body, and now they only propel you forward.
You feel the strain as your legs shrivel into two tiny fins on your abdomen, and your spine builds into a long, finned tail. Your neck disappears into your body, and your whole head lengthens.
Your mouth stretches even further to give way to your giant teeth.
Your last human thought is 'I'm a barracuda???'
Your first fishy thought is 'Food!'
Written by Another Author on 21 June 2008