Perhaps the wisest of them all, Vivian cautioned the group against approaching the strange glowing orbs, while Pepper investigated the engravings on the stones. Vega, Arlo and Nauta approached the orbs with very little fear, after all everything on Isle Vyrelle seemed rather peaceful and benign. The orbs continued to hover in front of the men, seeming to be fascinated with them.
At the moment Pepper mentioned that maybe the orbs were testing the men because the women were naturally nice there was a high pitched popping sound that rang out across the clearing.
It was like the sound of bubbles busting, and the reverberations came from a single spot. There, standing almost weightless on the stone with the carving of the woman swimming stood a young girl, perhaps twelve or fourteen years of age. Her skin was a soft powdery white that possessed the same luminescence as the moon and she had matching long curly white locks along with a flouncy pale dress that came to her knees.
It was the same girl that had appeared under their boat, although her eyes looked smaller and more normal. She smiled widely at Pepper with a toothy grin.
“We ladies are naturally nice.” The girl said brightly while looked up with the same mischievous smile at Vivian and Pepper.
“Can’t say as much for you boys though.” The girl said with a sour frown, looking rather intently at Nauta and his red hair before her short attention span swept back up to the women.
“Now, you girls already understand! But you fellas need to be taught a lesson…just like him…” The girl said while looking down at the other stone that held the carving of the man swimming toward the woman.
The orbs began to glow brighter and become almost blinding as they seemed to split into shining tendrils of light before reaching for the men they had been hovering near. Cold, misty appendages would wrap around each of the men as the orbs’s radiance sunk into their skin, making them feel like they had been doused in buckets of cold water.
It all happened rather quickly, the men of the group would begin to glow brightly with the same hue as their orb as their bodies began to shrink and change forms. Arlo sprouted two furry triangular ears and his face shifted into that of a rather mischievous looking raccoon. Eventually his entire body followed suit and the man was nothing more than a bundle of fluff and sharp pointy teeth.
Nauta went through a similar transformation except he began to sprout reddish fur that matched his own Aukari locks. Within trills he had shrunk down and been transformed into a small red coated ferret.
Gem, although silent during the interaction with the strange girl had begun to transform into a silvery gray fox, matching the inscription of the fox on the stone in front of him.
The men would find that although they were transformed that they were somehow mentally in contact with the three woman. The women could hear their thoughts, and the men could understand the women’s words just as before.
The young girl cackled with delight from her perch atop the stone. Her delicate fingers were laced together while she lightly cocked her head at the group.
“Much better, now for the rest of the pigs.” She said with an amused smirk.
Screams erupted from the beach as the circle of men that had been drinking at the water’s edge were all attacked and transformed by the surrounding orbs. Within moments the men had shifted into the forms of squealing pigs, their panicked calls echoing from down the path. All the other men on the island were also all transformed, though most into forest creatures similar to Arlo, Nauta and Gem.
Howls of fear and cries of women could be heard in the distance once all the tourists on Isle Vyrelle realized what had happened. Every man on the island was transformed. While the women were left to take in the horror of what they had witnessed.
The moon pale girl with the glowing skin hopped down from the stone, her bone white hair drifting behind her on a ghostly wind.
“You’ll have to rely on them if you want to get your bodies back boys.”She said icily while pointing toward Vega, Pepper and Vivian.
“So let’s play a game…it’s simple, so simple even you blockheads can understand.” The girl giggled under her breath, whilst leering at the transformed men. “This is my island…so you’ll have to play by my rules. Find me….it’s just that simple, find me again and this will all be over."
The girls turned toward the path that continued further into the biolumenecent forest.
“I’ll even play fair and give you a hint.”She added gleefully.
Her voice seemed to change, becoming older and more refined like that of a lady rather than that of a troublesome child.
“Where the water meets the peak,
And the sky touches the land,
Only there can you find me,
And once again become a man.”
With that the girl seemed to fade from existence as if she had been nothing more than a specter. The group was left with a conundrum and a crisis to resolve.
At the moment Pepper mentioned that maybe the orbs were testing the men because the women were naturally nice there was a high pitched popping sound that rang out across the clearing.
It was like the sound of bubbles busting, and the reverberations came from a single spot. There, standing almost weightless on the stone with the carving of the woman swimming stood a young girl, perhaps twelve or fourteen years of age. Her skin was a soft powdery white that possessed the same luminescence as the moon and she had matching long curly white locks along with a flouncy pale dress that came to her knees.
It was the same girl that had appeared under their boat, although her eyes looked smaller and more normal. She smiled widely at Pepper with a toothy grin.
“We ladies are naturally nice.” The girl said brightly while looked up with the same mischievous smile at Vivian and Pepper.
“Can’t say as much for you boys though.” The girl said with a sour frown, looking rather intently at Nauta and his red hair before her short attention span swept back up to the women.
“Now, you girls already understand! But you fellas need to be taught a lesson…just like him…” The girl said while looking down at the other stone that held the carving of the man swimming toward the woman.
The orbs began to glow brighter and become almost blinding as they seemed to split into shining tendrils of light before reaching for the men they had been hovering near. Cold, misty appendages would wrap around each of the men as the orbs’s radiance sunk into their skin, making them feel like they had been doused in buckets of cold water.
It all happened rather quickly, the men of the group would begin to glow brightly with the same hue as their orb as their bodies began to shrink and change forms. Arlo sprouted two furry triangular ears and his face shifted into that of a rather mischievous looking raccoon. Eventually his entire body followed suit and the man was nothing more than a bundle of fluff and sharp pointy teeth.
Nauta went through a similar transformation except he began to sprout reddish fur that matched his own Aukari locks. Within trills he had shrunk down and been transformed into a small red coated ferret.
Gem, although silent during the interaction with the strange girl had begun to transform into a silvery gray fox, matching the inscription of the fox on the stone in front of him.
The men would find that although they were transformed that they were somehow mentally in contact with the three woman. The women could hear their thoughts, and the men could understand the women’s words just as before.
The young girl cackled with delight from her perch atop the stone. Her delicate fingers were laced together while she lightly cocked her head at the group.
“Much better, now for the rest of the pigs.” She said with an amused smirk.
Screams erupted from the beach as the circle of men that had been drinking at the water’s edge were all attacked and transformed by the surrounding orbs. Within moments the men had shifted into the forms of squealing pigs, their panicked calls echoing from down the path. All the other men on the island were also all transformed, though most into forest creatures similar to Arlo, Nauta and Gem.
Howls of fear and cries of women could be heard in the distance once all the tourists on Isle Vyrelle realized what had happened. Every man on the island was transformed. While the women were left to take in the horror of what they had witnessed.
The moon pale girl with the glowing skin hopped down from the stone, her bone white hair drifting behind her on a ghostly wind.
“You’ll have to rely on them if you want to get your bodies back boys.”She said icily while pointing toward Vega, Pepper and Vivian.
“So let’s play a game…it’s simple, so simple even you blockheads can understand.” The girl giggled under her breath, whilst leering at the transformed men. “This is my island…so you’ll have to play by my rules. Find me….it’s just that simple, find me again and this will all be over."
The girls turned toward the path that continued further into the biolumenecent forest.
“I’ll even play fair and give you a hint.”She added gleefully.
Her voice seemed to change, becoming older and more refined like that of a lady rather than that of a troublesome child.
“Where the water meets the peak,
And the sky touches the land,
Only there can you find me,
And once again become a man.”
With that the girl seemed to fade from existence as if she had been nothing more than a specter. The group was left with a conundrum and a crisis to resolve.
