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This was written as a serial story on my website over a period of several months. The Strange Island Part 1 It had started out as a great day, in fact, one of the best days of my entire life. My name is Lee Carvin and I was a 17 year old guy who was busy having blast. I had just graduated from high school last month, and as a reward my mom and dad sent me and my best friend Eddie off on a vacation. It was a fantastic island resort vacation, with just the two of us, and no parents in sight. At least none of our parents were in sight. We were adults now, free from school and on our own, at least until college started in the fall. At the moment we were on a small ship with perhaps two dozen people aboard, heading to a fairly remote island resort where we would be spending the next two weeks. Even though Eddie and I hadn't even arrived at the resort yet, we were both hyper with excitement. All either of us could think of were the beach and the babes, and not particularly in that order. "Man, Lee," Eddie exclaimed, "I can't wait till we get there. How much longer do you think it's gonna be? I mean, we've been on this boat all day already." "I don't know," I shrugged, trying to remember the schedule. "We got on this morning, we're supposed to have one night on board, and then we're supposed to get there sometime around lunch." "Why didn't they just fly us all there?" Eddie demanded impatiently. "We'd already be there and scoping the babes by now." I let out an exasperated sigh, remembering that I'd asked my dad a similar question before we'd left. "Because they don't have an airport and all flights in and out are by small sea plane. My dad says that this mini-cruise is all part of the experience, but I think he just didn't want to pay the extra money for the plane." "I guess I shouldn't complain," Eddie sighed. "I mean, your folks are paying for most of the trip." "That's never stopped you before," I teased him, earning a laugh. With that Eddie and I went back to watching the ocean and the small islands in the distance as we passed them by. That was fun, but not quite as entertaining as watching our fellow passengers. Unfortunately there weren't a whole lot of them worth looking at. There was a pretty nice looking business woman in her thirties, but she seemed really stuck-up. And then there was a really hot looking blonde who had unfortunately come with a really buff boyfriend. "I'm sure there will be a lot of girls for us when we get there," I tried to console Eddie when he complained about the lack of available girls on board. But truthfully I was disappointed too. "Besides the weather's great and there's still some eye candy as long as we don't get caught staring." "You got that right," Eddie laughed, quickly glancing to the hot blonde and then smirking at me. Unfortunately the perfect weather didn't last. Over the next few hours the sky darkened and the waves became a lot more rough. It got to the point where nearly all the passengers were feeling at least a touch of sea sickness, and it only grew worse throughout the night, especially when the thunder and lightning began to crash in the distance. After several hours of this nasty storm the whole ship suddenly jarred and shook, followed immediately by a loud alarm. I froze, my mind filled with thoughts of us having run into an iceberg, until I remembered that we were in a warmer climate where icebergs were less than likely. Then I shook it off, grabbed my life jacket, and ran up to the deck with Eddie. Everything was complete and total chaos, though the crew were trying their best to keep order. It was quickly explained that we'd gone off course and that we'd probably hit a reef, tearing out the bottom of the ship. We were sinking fast and would have to evacuate. The crew was already busy pulling out several large emergency rafts which inflated on their own. Before I'd even had a chance to fully absorb what was going on I'd been rushed off the ship and into a large yellow raft, with Eddie and seven other passengers. One of the crew members was about to join us, but a large wave hit us, sending our raft away from the ship. Between the wind and the waves we were quickly pushed further and further away from the ship. The ship, and the two other rafts slowly vanished into the distance, until I lost all sight of them. "We're gonna die," one woman was screaming in panic as she desperately clutched her 8 year old son. There were other similar screams and looks of panic, but I just sat there, firmly clutching the rope around the raft and desperately hoping to make it out of here alive. I was terrified, more so than I'd ever been in my entire life. There I was, in a raft with my best friend and seven near strangers, in the middle of the night, in the middle of a storm, and in the middle of an ocean. It was like something out of a disaster movie or something. Our raft was thrown around by the wind and waves, with each of us inside it being made cold, miserable and terrified by the darkness, broken only by flashes of lightning, and the pelting rain. It wasn't until someone discovered that raft had a built in tent we could pull over us that we had any relief whatsoever. Unfortunately that didn't really help our situation any and we continued to buffeted around and blown to who knows where. Part 2 It was our second day of bobbing around the ocean in our raft like a piece of driftwood and I was feeling hot, tired, and bored. The small amount of emergency provisions that had been stored in the raft were pretty much gone, which wasn't much of a surprise since they were spread between nine people. I was in a bad mood, as was everyone else. None of us felt like talking, other than to occasionally complain or snap at each other. Even Eddie hadn't said a word to me in several hours, which was pretty much a miracle, since I normally couldn't get him to shut up. It was more than obvious that everyone of us was thinking about the fact that we could very well die out here. "Water, water everywhere," I sighed as I looked over the edge of the raft, gulping as I imagined a school of sharks swimming just beneath the surface. I couldn't help but remembering that Jaws movie my dad had showed me when I was a kid, then thinking that maybe something like that was down below us, ready to come up and take a bite out of the raft at any moment. I wasn't the only one who was having such thoughts. Over the last two days, I'd gotten to know my fellow passengers in the raft a little better, though that didn't mean we were all great friends. In fact the stress of our situation made friendship with any of them rather difficult at the moment. The only one I really trusted right then was Eddie. Ellen was a pretty decent looking woman in her late twenties or early thirties, though she spent all of her time trying to comfort her 8 year old son Jimmy. The rest of us had tried keeping a pleasant outlook so as not to scare Jimmy any more than he already was, but that slowly ended as our own fear increased. Alice Adams was the stuck-up business woman that we'd seen on the ship. She was in her mid thirties and pretty good looking, in that kind of cold and unapproachable way. She had first insisted on being addressed as Ms. Adams, though the raft was hardly a place for being formal. And to make her even more annoying, she seemed to think that she was in charge, though in charge of what I didn't know. To make up for Alice, we had Tanya, the hot blonde that I'd been quietly watching on the ship. Unfortunately she'd also come on the raft with her boyfriend Dan, who was not only pretty muscular, but a bit jealous of other people looking at her as well. And to make things even worse, she seemed to enjoy flirting with other guys just to get a reaction from Dan. It wasn't a great combination for guys who had to be around those two. And then there was Michael, "Don't call me Mike," who was a middle-aged black guy with a bald head and gray beard. He was a bit heavyset and somehow made me think of a college professor or the dad from that old Will Smith TV series The Fresh Prince of Bell Air. The last of my fellow shipwreck survivors was Theresa, Michael's Puerto Rican wife. She was probably in her forties, but she looked real good for her age and was still pretty sexy. And from the way she looked at her husband, she was obviously deeply in love with him. "When I get rescued," Alice exclaimed, not for the first time, "I am going to sue those people." "Somehow," Michael commented wryly, "I doubt that the captain and crew were capable of controlling the storm." That only earned him a glare from Alice, who had an expression that indicated she knew what was best. A few minutes later Dan suddenly exclaimed, "Hey look, an island!" He was excitedly pointing to the side where I could see an island in the distance. "We're saved," Tanya grinned and all of us became excited and relieved. "The waves might carry us right past it," I pointed out fearfully. I didn't want to get my hopes up only to have them torn away by the ocean current. It only took a moment to remember that the raft came with a pair of oars that were strapped to the bottom. Dan immediately grabbed one of the oars and began to use it, and since I was on the opposite side of the raft, I grabbed the second one and joined him. We both worked hard to push the raft closer to the island. "Go faster," Alice demanded. "Quiet," Michael told her. "Just sit back and let them work, unless you want to grab an oar and actually help." "How dare you...?" Alice started with an angry look. But Theresa suddenly exclaimed, "Who do you think you are, bitch? Shut up and let them work, or someone might throw you overboard and you can swim to the island." I was a little startled at Theresa's outburst, especially since she was about the same age as my mom. But her threat had done its work for the moment because Alice just sat there with a gross expression. The island was a little further away than I had first thought, but fortunately the waves were pushing us in the right direction and the others were there to take over for me and Dan. We all took turns at the oars, including Alice, and we eventually reached the island, landing on the sandy beach. "Finally," Eddie exclaimed, scrambling out of the raft and actually kissing the sand. "I know what you mean." I stood up and stretched for the first time since climbing into that raft. "Where are we?" Jimmy asked fearfully. "We're on an island," Ellen tried to reassure her son. "It's just like Gilligan's Island. See, we aren't on that raft anymore, so we're nice and safe." Jimmy gave her a blank look when she mentioned Gilligan's Island, then his expression turned more skeptically before he finally complained, "I'm hungry..." "Me too," Eddie said. "I wonder if we can find a McDonald's around here anywhere." I just stood there, taking in my surroundings and trying to make more sense of where we were. At the moment we were still on a large sandy beach, but just a short distance ahead there were lots of trees and bushes. They were thick enough that I couldn't see very far in. And then I could see some large rocky outcroppings towards one end of the island, looking almost like a small mountain range. "This place looks more like that island on Lost," I muttered, thinking that the modern castaway TV show was a little more accurate than the comic classic. "I've seen movies where people got stuck on islands like this," Dan said. "The first thing we've got to do is look for water, then food and shelter." "Before we start making plans to live here," Michael pointed out, "we might want to have a quick look around and make sure that this is a deserted island. I know that I for one would feel extremely foolish if there turned out to be a resort or such just around the corner." We talked and argued about what we were going to do for some time before finally coming up with a plan. Tanya and Dan would walk along the beach in one direction to look for any signs of civilization, while Eddie and I would go in the other. The rest of the people would either be sitting around on the beach there, or going into the nearby brush to look for food and water. We would then all meet up again back there where the raft had landed in just a few hours. Eddie and I walked along the beach for good half hour before we were stopped by a large rock outcropping that blocked our path. It was high and steep, stretching like a wall in front of us. If I'd had more energy or been more ambitious, I might have bothered climbing it. As it was, we hadn't seen any signs of civilization, from a single footprint to a single piece of litter, so we decided to turn around and head back. "No luck," I called out when we returned to the rest of the group. After we'd told them about the rock outcropping which blocked our way, Alice grimaced, "You should have climbed on top of it. It would have given you a better view." "You're welcome to go back and climb it yourself," I told her, earning a chuckle from Eddie and just about everyone else. Alice glared at me, obviously not used to getting that kind of response to criticisms. "If you were one of my employees," she stated arrogantly, "I would fire you in an instant." "If I were one of your employees," I snorted in disgust, "I'd gladly quit first." A short time later Dan and Tanya came running back, grinning with excitement. "You'll never guess what I found," Dan exclaimed, pointing back the way they'd come. "We found a dock." "There weren't any boats though," Tanya added with a look of disappointment. "A dock means civilization," Theresa grinned. We all followed Dan and Tanya as they led us down the beach, about twice as far as Eddie and I had managed to go. Then we came to a protected inlet for a large lagoon that had a decent sized dock in it. It looked much sturdier than I would have expected, as though it had been made by professionals with the right equipment rather than thrown together from the materials at hand. That was a very good sign. "Look," Ellen exclaimed, pointing to a slightly overgrown stone path that came out near the dock, and which seemed to lead up towards one of the large rock outcroppings. "No." I pointed upwards, to the largest outcropping which was set some distance back. "There's a building up there..." Everyone immediately looked to where I was pointing, then we all began to grin in delight. It almost became a race to see who could get up that path first, in spite of the fact that we were all tired. The path slowly led up the large stone outcropping, providing stairs to make the climb easier. As we neared the building we were treated to a spectacular view. This massive rock hill was the highest point on the island, and even before reaching the spot that had the building, we could see almost everything. A quick scan revealed that this building seemed to be the only such place on the island, with the rest of it being sand, rock and brush. When we reached the end of the path we were at the building, which seemed to be a very expensive looking house. It was built right into the rock, with nearly all of the exposed walls providing a clear view of the surroundings with large glass windows. There was even a large patio which jutted out from the side. "Incredible," Eddie exclaimed. "Whoever built this must be loaded." "Yuck," Ellen grimaced. "The whole patio is covered with bird poop." I looked at the surroundings and realized that Ellen was right. There were bird droppings, feathers, shattered shells and other such debris scattered all over the place. It looked as though the whole outside had been taken over by the birds, which was not a great sign. In fact just from the state of the outside, I would guess that no one had been there in several years. To my surprise the large door was unlocked, so we were able to just let ourselves in. The inside was in MUCH better shape than the outside. The door might have been unlocked, but it had been closed, keeping out all the birds and other animals, though there was a layer of dust which confirmed the fact that no one had been there in a while. "It must be some millionaire's vacation home," Dan said as he looked around. "It's like, totally dirty," Tanya grimaced as she wiped a finger over the dust on a table. "It doesn't do us much good if no one's here," Alice said with a deep scowl. "But I suppose it's much better than sleeping in some tent until we get rescued." "True." Michael nodded agreement. "But there might be a satellite phone or a radio we can use to call for help." We all brightened at the idea and separated to search the house. We located 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a pantry that was stocked with canned and dehydrated food, a large supply of potable water that was tied to the faucets, and even a working generator that was able to restore power to the house, but there was no sign of a radio or anything else we could use to call for help. "At least we should be comfortable here until we're rescued," Michael pointed out. "And since there is a house here, we know it's not an uncharted island and that people do come here." "But it looks like it's been a while," I scowled, wishing that I'd never gone on this vacation. "Then we should probably go and pick out our bedrooms," Theresa said, "because it looks like we might all be here for a while too." None of us was too happy about that, but she had a point. We had no idea how long we would be stuck here before the owners of the house came back, so we might as well get settled in. I grimaced, then called out, "Dibs on the room next to the bathroom..." Part 3 I stood out on the balcony, staring out at the vast ocean, scanning the horizon and sky for any signs of a ship, plane or helicopter that could rescue us from the island. Hell, I would have been ecstatic to even see a hot air balloon. Unfortunately I didn't see a damn thing, except waves and sky. It had been four days since our raft washed up on this island, leaving us all trapped here. Sure, it was a pretty comfortable place to be trapped, with plenty of food and water, indoor plumbing, comfortable beds, and even electricity, but we were still trapped. "It could have been worse," I reminded myself for what had to be the thousandth time. "We could have washed up on any of those other islands that didn't have a comfortable house waiting." That soothed my mood for a minute, but only a minute as I thought about how I didn't want to be stuck on a deserted island at all, even if it did happen to be a comfortable one. "At least I have a room to myself," I chuckled, thinking that it was probably one of the first times in my life I could claim that. Before this I'd shared a room with my younger brother Ken. There were six nearly identical bedrooms in the house we'd stumbled across, though nine of us. Fortunately though that wasn't really any problem. Michael and his wife Theresa automatically shared a room, as did Ellen and her son Jimmy. Neither Tanya or Dan had a problem sharing a room with each other either and actually seemed to prefer it that way. This left the three of us who remained, each with a room to ourselves. After a minute I turned my attention to looking for ships and aircraft in the distance, even using a pair of binoculars that we'd found in the house. It was my turn at watch and I even had a signal flare from the raft just a few feet away just in case I did see something. While I was keeping watch I was actually thankful that I wasn't out with Dan, Michael and Eddie. They were down on the beach building a big SOS sign out of rocks and such. By the time I was done with my turn at watch they would probably be finished. I only hoped that all this would help us get rescued. "I just wonder why a place like this doesn't have a radio to call out or something," I grumbled, having thought that someone who lived or just vacationed in such an out of the way place as this would at least want some way to contact the outside world. Eventually my shift at watch was over and Alice came to replace me. She glared at me slightly but didn't say anything rude or insulting, which was definitely an improvement. She had gotten a little better about her attitude, though she seemed to take it personally that we didn't all accept her authority. Of course she still tried pushing the rest of us around, just not nearly as much as before since she knew we'd only ignore her. I was just on my way to the pantry to find something to eat when I suddenly felt a cold chill run through my entire body, followed by a tingling over my skin. I froze, grabbing the wall for support and gagging, as a wave of intense nausea shot through me. "Oh shit," I groaned, closing my eyes and waiting for it to pass. It did so after a minute, at least most of the way. I still felt a bit nauseous and chilled though. Over the last few days most of the members of our group had started getting sick. We didn't know if it might be food poisoning, something in the water, or just some local bug that we were catching. What we did know was that it seemed to come and go in spurts rather than hitting people all at once, and that everyone had slightly different symptoms. Up until now I'd thought that I had been lucky enough to escape it. "Just great," I groaned, letting go of the wall and continuing towards the pantry. "Let me guess," Ellen said when she saw me, "you finally caught it too." "Yeah," I sighed, "I've got nausea and the chills." "It could be worse," she pointed out. "It could be fever and diarrhea." I winced at that, remembering how she'd spent half the day in the bathroom yesterday and how she had been hitting it nearly every hour or two since. "I swear this is making me lose weight." "So you're looking for a snack." I gestured to the food in the pantry. "I know I am... I just wish I could find some icecream or something. I mean, that would be perfect for this place." "Actually," Ellen sighed, "I'll looking for something for Jimmy." Just then I saw Jimmy coming towards us, complaining, "I'm hungry..." "You're always hungry," she told him with a look of exasperation. "I'm afraid he's going to eat everything if I give him half a chance." "Eat up," I chuckled, grabbing a canister of peanut butter that I thought might go good on some of the fruit we'd found in the jungle. "There's still plenty to go around, especially with the way Michael can catch fish." I left the kitchen, only to be hit with another wave of cold chills and nausea a minute later. I wasn't sure that I even wanted to have a snack anymore, so I sat down to catch my breath and hope that this whole sick thing would go away before long. It was bad enough to be stuck on this island, but to be sick on top of it? After a while Tanya came into the room, looking just as hot and sexy as always. And since Dan wasn't around, I didn't feel nearly so bad about staring at her from the corner of my eye and admiring her figure. I think she noticed me looking because she began moving a little more sexily. Just then Tanya staggered and dropped to her knees, gasping in pain. "It hurts," she cried out, obviously referring to the cramps that she'd been suffering since she'd come down with this weird sickness. "Are you all right?" I demanded, rushing over to her. "My whole body hurts," she cried out, her face contorting in agony. Then she collapsed the rest of the way and her body began to shake as though she were having some sort of seizure. I stared at her in fear, not having seen her or anyone else react like this. Maybe she had some sort of medical problem that the sickness was making worse. I didn't know and couldn't exactly ask her at the moment. For a moment I stood there, paralyzed and unable to think of what to do. Finally I just screamed out, "HELP!" A minute later Alice, Ellen, Theresa and Jimmy all came running into the room as fast as they could, though Ellen told Jimmy that he should go back to their room so he wouldn't have to see this. However he ignored her and stood there at the doorway, staring at Tanya with a pair of wide eyes. "What happened to her?" Alice demanded, glaring at me as though I might have attacked her. "It's that sickness," I snarled. "It's gotten worse." "It hurts," Tanya whimpered, gasping deeply for breaths. "Let's get her to her bed," Alice said. Theresa and I both turned to glare at her, ready to argue and snap at her for ordering us around. However we both realized that this time she was right. I grabbed for Tanya's shoulders while Theresa began to grab her feet. "Aren't you going to help?" Theresa demanded of Alice. But before Alice could answer Jimmy gasped and began to shudder, obviously being hit by an attack of the illness himself, though not nearly as bad as Tanya's. However Ellen immediately forgot all about Tanya and helping us move her as she rushed over to her son. "Poor kid," I muttered, hating to see someone as young as Jimmy getting sick. But then I focused my attention back on what I was doing, reminding myself that Tanya was currently a lot worse off. I began lifting her shoulders and upper body, surprised at just how heavy she was. She was certainly a lot heavier than I ever would have guessed. "Damn, she needs to go on a diet..." Theresa and I quickly managed to get Tanya into her bedroom and set on top of her bed. Then Theresa had Alice fetch a wet cloth to help keep Tanya cool. Since there wasn't anything I could do, I left Tanya in Theresa's care and hurried out of the room. I hadn't gone very far when I was hit with another wave of the sickness myself, becoming so nauseated that I nearly lost what little I had eaten. When it passed I stood up, still feeling sickness, just not nearly as strong. "Just great," I spat out bitterly. "Shipwrecked on a deserted island and now everyone is getting sick." And from Tanya's condition I had a bad feeling that the sickness was only going to get worse, a thought which terrified me since we had absolutely no medical facilities. "Damn I wish I'd never gone on that stupid vacation..." Part 4 I was not in a good mood, nor was anyone else on the island. It was hard to believe that our little band of castaways had been so hopeful and full of cheer just a short while ago, thanks to the discovery of the house and all the food. Unfortunately this strange illness had changed that, filling us all with an ever increasing fear. When the sickness had first appeared it had seemed minor, little more than an inconvenience. However Tanya had completely collapsed yesterday and had barely even moved since. And to prove that it wasn't just a one time thing, little Jimmy had collapsed the same way just a few hours ago. "Is Jimmy any better?" I asked Ellen hopefully when I saw her coming out of the bathroom from another one of her bouts of diarrhea. She looked pale and thin, somehow smaller than normal. It was probably a combination of the sickness and worry over her son. "No," she shook her head, looking as though she were about to break into tears. "He's not moving..." "If only we could contact some help," Michael exclaimed as he walked in our conversation. "Unfortunately we don't even seem to have any medical supplies beyond a few band aids." "Tanya doesn't seem to be improving much either," Theresa said as she walked up beside her husband. She scowled. "She still has a fever and keeps having these little seizures. She doesn't seem to really be getting worse either, so maybe she's fighting it off." "How could this happen to Jimmy?" Ellen cried out, seemingly ignoring the fact that she along with the rest of us was sick as well. "He's only a little boy..." "It's not fair," Theresa told her with a sad expression. Ellen nodded. "I've got to get back to Jimmy." With that she turned and hurried back to the bedroom she shared with her son. "Man, this really sucks," I grumbled, shaking my head and trying to hide the fear I felt. I couldn't help thinking about all those movies about people getting caught in some virus outbreak that kills just about everyone. So far no one here had died, but that didn't mean it would stay that way. "Maybe we should do a quarantine thing," Dan suggested as he joined us, "I mean, if we all go and keep away from each other..." "It's too late for that," Alice snapped, joining us as well. She gave Dan a look that indicated he was a complete idiot. "All of us have already caught it." "I'm afraid she's right," Michael sighed. "And even if we'd done that as soon as we began getting sick, it still probably would have been too late." "Well, we've gotta do something," Dan snapped, gesturing in the direction of Tanya's room. "I don't want to end up like her." "None of us do," Michael reminded him. "But at the moment there doesn't seem to be anything we can do. We don't even know for certain that it is a virus. It could be some sort of poison or infection for all we know." "I've started boiling water before drinking it," Alice pointed out, "but it hasn't done any good." "Then I suggest we pray." Theresa shook her head. "I've been praying for us all, but we could use all the prayers we could get." We all grumbled, feeling frustrated and helpless since there didn't seem to be anything to do. I sighed and decided to go down to the lagoon and join Eddie in fishing. It would be great to not only spend time with just my best friend, but also to take my mind off of everything that was going on. I had just taken a few steps when I was hit with another wave of chills and nausea, nearly dropping to my knees. "Damn," I muttered, "it's going to take more than fishing to get my mind off this shit." When I reached the lagoon I found Eddie sitting at the end of the dock with a home made fishing pole dangling in the water. It had seemed a little strange that we couldn't find any real fishing poles or fishing gear in the house, especially when it seemed to be some sort of vacation home, but everything about this island was strange. He nodded towards me and gestured for me to join him. "I've been trying to keep away from everyone else," Eddie shrugged. "You know...just in case." "You've already caught it," I pointed out quietly, thinking about the conversation I'd just been involved in up at the house. "And Michael thinks it might be some kind of poison, and that wouldn't be contagious anyway." "Maybe it's anthrax or something," Eddie gulped nervously. "Maybe the government was using biological weapons here or something man." "The house doesn't exactly look like a top secret government lab," I pointed out with a grin, earning a grunt from Eddie. Eddie and I sat there for over an hour, barely talking as we just looked into the water and watched the fish swim past. By the time we were done, we had a total of three fish, including the one Eddie got before my arrival. This wouldn't be enough to feed the whole group, but it would be enough for the two of us to have some fresh meat along with the canned stuff in the pantry. When we made our way back up the path to the house, I was regretting wthat I'd ever joined Eddie fishing. Sure, it meant that I'd get a little something extra with my dinner, but wasn't feeling all that well and the long walk wasn't making it any better. The chills and nausea had been hitting me in waves, but some of it remained with me all the time now. It grew worse while I was exerting myself going up all those steps. "I feel like puking my guts out," I told Eddie, who nodded agreement. "And to make it worse, I've got a hard-on that won't go away. I mean, what a time for it to happen. Why couldn't I get the everlasting boner when I had a lot of chicks around?" "Too much information," I told him with a shake of my head. "Too much information." We were nearing the end of our trip up to the house and were going up the part of the steps that made me the most nervous. There was a steep drop to one side, nearly a cliff, and there were no hand rails to keep you from going over. As with every time I made the trip up and down those steps, I made sure to stay on side of the steps that were furthest away from that drop. It was at this point that I looked ahead of our path and noticed Alice coming down towards us. Since she had a basket in her hand, I assumed that she was either going to gather fruit or something. I scowled slightly, wishing that I'd thought to grab some fruit when we were done fishing so we could have made the most of our trip down to the beach. Alice didn't say a word as she came towards us, though she suddenly stopped with a look of pain on her face. She gasped, obviously having an attack of the sickness, then lost her balance and staggered towards the steep drop. "Watch it," I yelled, running towards Alice and grabbing her just before she would have toppled over the edge. I quickly pulled her back to safety and let out a sigh of relief, my heart racing as I realized how close I'd come to going over with her. "Lee!" Eddie called out, quickly running up to join us. He stared at me. "Damn man, you nearly went over..." "Thank you," Alice said in a crisp tone after she had recovered her balance. Then she looked to the edge, her eyes widening as she realized just how close she'd come to dying. She stared at me for a moment with a look of surprise, then said, "Thank you," again, this time with real gratitude in her voice. This was the most human warmth I'd ever heard from her. And she surprised me even more by smiling faintly. "No problem," I told her, glancing towards the edge myself. "I would have died," she said, her voice a bit shaky. She shook her head. "I almost went over..." "Dean saved your ass," Eddie exclaimed a bit smugly, obviously enjoying the opportunity to rub it in. I glared at him. "I am well aware of that," Alice snapped at Eddie in her normal tone. She took a deep breath and stared at me for a moment, a curious look in her eyes. Then she gave me a friendly smile, a slight nod, and quickly continued on her way, careful to keep as far away from the edge this time as she could. "Man," Eddie shook his head, "that was wicked. I can't believe you actually saved her ass." "It was nothing," I shrugged it off, secretly feeling a little surprised by my own actions as well. After all I wasn't exactly the hero sort and this was the first time I'd ever saved someone's life. "Too bad it wasn't Tanya," Eddie continued, "then maybe she would have shown you her gratitude, if you know what I mean." "Yeah right," I laughed, "then Dan would kill me. Tanya may be hot, but I'm not sure it's worth it." Eddie and I had barely reached the house when Theresa came rushing out of Tanya's room, frantically going on about something in Spanish. I couldn't tell what she was saying, though a lot of it had the tone of profanity. Michael immediately tried calming his wife down, though it took a minute to do so enough for her to switch to English. "Tanya," Theresa exclaimed. "Something strange is happening to her..." She shook her head, gesturing back to the room. "I've never seen anything like it..." "What?" Dan gasped, jumping to his feet. He took several steps towards the room he'd been sharing with Tanya until she went unconscious, then paused. "What if she's getting contagious or something?" Theresa said something in Spanish again, then told him, "I don't know what is happening to her... It's not normal..." For a moment Theresa just stood there, looking a bit stunned, then she took several deep breaths and went back to Tanya's room, with Michael following close behind her. Dan, Eddie and I all remained where we were, looking at each other in confusion. Michael came back a minute later, looking a bit startled. "She's having some sort of seizure," he said slowly. "But it's like nothing I've ever seen before..." "What's going on?" Dan demanded, but Michael wouldn't say any more on the subject and when Dan went to go check on Tanya, Theresa wouldn't let him in, saying that Tanya needed her privacy. That only made us all the more curious. After two hours Theresa came back out, looking a bit shaken but in control of the situation. "Tanya is awake again and feeling much better," she announced, glancing back to the doorway with a strange look. "But she's really hungry." She shook her head in disbelief and hurried to the pantry to gather food. A minute later Tanya came out of her room, naked except for a blanket that was wrapped around her to protect her modesty. At first I let out a sigh of relief that she was all right, but then I suddenly realized that something was seriously wrong. Everyone around me gasped in shock, each and every one of us staring at Tanya with our mouths open. Tanya was standing there bare foot, but she towered over all of us. She slowly moved closer to Dan, now standing 6 inches taller than his height of 6 foot 2. He seemed short compared to her, a fact made even more pronounced by her rather prominent muscles. Tanya was still sexy and curvy, but now she almost looked like a female body builder, possessing obvious muscles that she definitely didn't have before. All of us just stared at Tanya in shock, trying to absorb her transformation and make sense of it. Finally Tanya was the one who broke the silence with a look of confusion and then demand, "What the hell happened to me?" Part 5 I stared at Tanya in stunned amazement, and I was hardly the only one. Everyone had come rushing over to stare at her, even Ellen left Jimmy for a few minutes to come and stare at her in amazement. I don't think that anyone could fully absorb the fact that our sexy Tanya had somehow become a towering 6 foot 8 amazon. "You all look so small," Tanya gasped as she looked at us all, her eyes especially going wide as she stared at Dan. Then she winced and exclaimed, "God, I'm hungry..." Tanya was immediately ushered to the kitchen where Theresa began piling large amounts of food in front of her. She gulped everything down, eating such a large amount of food that I almost feared she would empty the entire pantry. All I could do was stare at her as she ate while simultaneously trying to pretend that I wasn't. Everyone else was doing the same, with Dan looking quite nervous as he did so. "If that's what the sickness does to you," Eddie whispered into my ear, "I can't wait." I merely nodded my head at that, wondering what it would be like to be so big and strong. After all if that weird sickness could do that to someone like Tanya, then what could it do for me? What could it do for someone like Dan, who was already pretty muscular? I didn't really want to know what it could do to Dan, but I certainly wouldn't mind finding out about myself. Once Tanya finished eating she stood up again and looked at as all with a strange expression. She looked as though she couldn't quite believe how big she had become and thought that this might be some sort of a joke. Then she insisted on standing beside Dan and comparing their heights, shaking her head in amazement once she had done so. "This is so weird," she said, staring at Dan and giggling weakly. Then she looked down at herself and the blanket she was wrapped in and blushed. "I don't have any clothes..." "Actually," Michael mused, rubbing at his beard, "I found several boxes of jumpsuits in a room. They seem to be in just about every size, even ones big enough for you. These might not be very flattering, but at least you will have something that fits." Michael and Theresa took Tanya to the back room and showed her the boxes of plain white jumpsuits. Michael hadn't been kidding when he said they came in all sizes since some were the right size for small children while others came too large for even Tanya to wear. Once she found one that fit her, she disappeared into another room to get dressed. "What do you think?" Tanya asked once she came out, showing off the jumpsuit she now wore. She scowled. "It's ugly..." "But at least it fits," I pointed out. "Yeah," Eddie grumbled, leaning over and whispering to me, "too bad we had these because I wouldn't mind seeing her going around without anything to wear." "I wonder what Alice will say when she gets back from picking fruit and sees this," I mused to Eddie. Eddie just snorted. "She'll probably give some feminist lecture on how all women should be bigger than guys." "I don't know," I shrugged. "She's rude and bossy to everyone, not just the guys." Then I chuckled. "She'll probably just be mad that she wasn't the first one to get big. I mean, imagine how easily she'd be able to intimidate us and boss us around if she was that big." Eddie shuddered. "I don't want to think about that. I just hope I grow bigger before she does. There's no way I want to be smaller than her." "You're assuming that we all grow larger," Michael said, having overheard our conversation. "We don't know what this strange sickness is doing to us. For all we know, the rest of us could all die." I grimaced, not wanting to think about that possibility. I'd been thinking about it quite a bit over the last few days, so seeing Tanya and realizing that it might make me better instead had been a large surge of hope. Unfortunately I couldn't deny that Michael had a very big point. We had no idea if the sickness would do the same thing to the rest of us that it did to Tanya. "You're ruining the mood," Eddie responded, refusing to give into Michael's reasoning. I could see the gleam in his eye as he imagined what it would be like being big and muscular. He was probably day dreaming about going back to civilization and having girls throw themselves at him. After this Tanya vanished to find some privacy where she could investigate her new body, and avoid our curious stares. I noticed that Dan disappeared as well, though he seemed to do so in the opposite direction. I couldn't help wondering what would happen to their relationship now that Tanya had changed like that. I took my shift at the watch, looking out at the ocean with the binoculars, and trying hard not to think of the aches and shivers I'd been feeling. They were extremely uncomfortable, but I couldn't very well complain since everyone was feeling symptoms of the illness. In fact I was lucky in that I didn't have the severe diarrhea that several others did. "Damn," I winced as I was hit with another attack, my whole body cramping up for a minute and dropping me to my knees. As with every other time, it quickly passed, though that didn't make me feel a whole lot better. I knew I could expect another attack to hit before long. Just a short time later Alice came out onto the patio, surprising me by bringing me a glass of water and some fruit. "I thought you might be getting hungry out here," she said almost defensively. "Thanks," I responded, just a little surprised since Alice wasn't known for being the most thoughtful person on the island. Alice stood there for a moment, silently looking out of the ocean and acting almost as though I weren't even present. This was a bit more like the Alice that I was familiar with. Then she said, "Tanya's change is certainly...surprising." "Yeah," I agreed, not sure how else to put it. "I didn't even think it was possible to grow that fast." "It does seem to go against normal physics," Alice scowled. "It goes against everything I know about matter conservation. Where did that extra mass come from?" I just shrugged. "I don't have a clue." We both just stood there, staring out at the ocean in silence. It was strange to realize that this was the longest conversation that I'd ever had with Alice, and the longest I'd heard her talk without threatening, lecturing or trying to boss someone around. At the moment she almost seemed like a normal human being. Finally Alice turned to leave without saying good-bye, pausing just long enough to say, "I almost forgot. Dan collapsed and had to be taken to bed too." "Three down," I whispered once Alice had left. "Six more to go." It seemed that we were all collapsing due to this sickness, one person at a time. So far Tanya had come out of it all right, and then some, but we had no idea if the same could be said for everyone. Then I gulped, afraid that my turn to find out would come soon enough. Part 6 I looked at Eddie across the small table that we were playing cards on, scowling as I did so. We had both thought that a game of cards would distract us from all of our problems, though it had done little towards that goal. Instead we found ourselves snapping at each other and arguing as we took our frustrations out on each other. Things had been pretty strained since Dan had collapsed yesterday, and they only grew worse when Michael had followed him this morning. As of now four of our group had gone unconscious, with only one of them coming out of it so far. And Tanya had been so drastically changed that none of us could believe it. "It looks like I win again," Eddie smirked as he showed me his hand, "what's this...five of the last seven games?" "Bite me," I snapped back. After staring at Eddie's smirking face I looked around, spotting Alice sitting on the couch and reading a book she'd found. It was one of those old classic books by Jane Austin or someone, but she seemed to be pretty caught up in it. But other than the three of us, there was nobody else in sight. Ellen was still with Jimmy and had barely left him at all since he'd collapsed, and now that Michael had gone down as well, Theresa was giving him a similar treatment. I wasn't sure that I'd seen either Ellen or Theresa at all, since around the time Michael had just fallen flat onto his face in a bunch of intense seizures. Of course Dan was out of it too, but to my surprise Tanya didn't seem nearly as concerned about him as I would have expected. Instead of sitting beside her boyfriend while he was sick in bed she'd been running around marveling at her new size and strength. In fact she was currently busy with a set of weights that we'd found, measuring just how strong she'd become. I hadn't even seen her in at least an hour. "You want to play too?" I asked Alice, more to be polite than because I thought she's accept. "No thank you," she responded, barely glancing up from her book. Eddie glared at me for making the offer. He didn't like Alice at all and seemed offended that I had somehow ended up on relative speaking terms with her over the last few days. "Just go ahead and deal the next hand." I glared back at my best friend. "I'm going to kick your ass this time." "Promises promises," Eddie snickered as he began to shuffle the cards. We were halfway through our next game with Tanya finally made a reappearance. She stepped into the room, wearing just her white jumpsuit and towering over everyone present. She seemed to be both self-conscious of this fact and amused by it at the same time. "Guess what," Tanya exclaimed, "I can bench press almost four hundred pounds." She stood there, proudly flexing her muscles, though I couldn't really see them through the jump suit. "Great." I rolled my eyes, suddenly feeling weak and scrawny in comparison. It was hard to believe that the hot and sexy babe that I'd been drooling over on the ship could now bench about twice what I could. It just wasn't fair. "Do you guys want to come see?" she asked me and Eddie, giving the sexy pout which was no longer quite as effective with her new size. In fact it seemed a bit...odd. "Why not," Eddie sighed, putting the cards down and glaring at me. "It's not like I have anything better to do." "Hey," I protested, "I was just about to win this game..." Eddie just laughed though as he left the table, making me realize that this was probably the real reason he chose to quit playing. Once Eddie had left the room with Tanya I was left alone with a stack of cards and nobody to play with. Of course Alice was on the other side of the room, but she'd already made it clear that she had no interest in playing. In fact I didn't even think she ever played games. Reading a book was the closest I'd seen her come to really letting down her hair and having a good time. I remained where I was, playing solitaire for about ten minutes, when I realized that Alice had come over and was watching me. She looked a little embarrassed for a moment, but quickly recovered. "I'll play a game or two with you if you're still interested," she offered, adding, "I've found a good spot in my book to take a break." I blinked in surprise, then told her, "Sure..." Alice and I played through one hand and were starting on our second when I heard a loud scream coming from one of the bedrooms. "That sounds like Ellen," Alice exclaimed, jumping to her feet and rushing towards her room. I dropped my cards, silently cursing since I a great hand, and following after her. I rushed into the bedroom Ellen and Jimmy shared, only to see the 8 year old boy laying in bed, his whole body shuddering and shaking in a horrible seizure. At first I almost didn't even recognize him, since he looked so different from the last time I'd seen him, but Ellen was standing over him, staring at him in shock and horror. "He just started shaking and changing," Ellen cried out in panic. I could only stare at Jimmy with my mouth open, stunned to see that he was noticeably larger than before. My first thought was that he was growing bigger, just like Tanya had, but I quickly realized that he was changing in other ways. His was noticeably longer and was getting lighter in shade as I watched. And his chest... His chest was slowly welling larger. "Holy shit," I exclaimed, my eyes going wide. "He's starting to look like a girl." Ellen only screamed louder at that, dropping down to clutch her son. "Why is this happening?" Just then Eddie and Tanya came bursting in as well, all curious to see what was happening to Jimmy. Tanya's eyes went wide and she gasped, "He's not changing the same way I did..." "Get out," Alice snapped, pointing towards the doorway. "It won't do any good having everyone in here." "I'll go get a towel and some ice water," I said, remembering that it had supposedly helped Tanya while she was going through her surge of changes. I left the room as fast as I could while Eddie and Tanya were almost shoved out. Jimmy continued to change for the next two hours, his body being hit by waves of seizures and being transformed even more each time they came. Every time I looked into the room at him he had become more and more girlie. Soon however he didn't look girlie so much as womanly. Jimmy wasn't just getting bigger...but older. His body was developing all the traits of an adult woman and then some. Ellen spent the entire time by Jimmy's side, her reactions shifting between uncontrollable sobbing and just staring at him in shock and horror. She was obviously having a difficult time dealing with the situation, and strangely enough Alice was the one who kept her from panicking entirely. Alice stayed by her side, remaining calm and level headed. "Figures she wouldn't freak out," Eddie told me, still upset at having been kicked out of the room and Alice being allowed to remain there and watch. "That bitch has ice in her veins." "Like this is any different than when Theresa kicked us out while Tanya was changing," I pointed out, hardly able to believe that I was defending Alice. Eventually though Jimmy's transformation ended. He woke up, changed and confused, but no longer sick or having seizures. Ellen was relieved that Jimmy was all right, but she was horribly confused by his new appearance and didn't seem to know what to do. This only left Jimmy even more scared and confused, so he sat there crying. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw just how much Jimmy had changed. Jimmy no longer looked anything like his old self or even remotely like a little boy. The former 8 year old now looked like a 20 year old woman, or more specifically like a complete and total bombshell, with long blonde hair, stripper sized boobs and a killer figure that would make any guy drool. It was no wonder Ellen was too stunned to think clearly. "Did you see that kid?" Eddie asked me with a look of disbelief, glancing towards the room that Jimmy was still hiding inside of. "I mean, holy shit..." "Definitely weird." I nodded my agreement, feeling even more apprehensive about this weird sickness than before. Until that moment I didn't even think it was possible. "How come it did this to me," Tanya asked, gesturing down at herself, "and then it did that to him?" She sat there was a look of confusion on her face, as well as a hint of jealously. It was no surprise since Jimmy now looked even sexier than she had before she'd been changed. Alice sat a short distance away from the rest of us, having been quiet until then. She stared out the window with a strange expression and said, "This can't be happening... Human's don't just change like this. It's impossible." "Impossible or not," I pointed out, "it's happening." "He looks like some kind of bimbo," Tanya announced with a jealous expression, something which I found ironic since I'd thought of her as being a bimbo. Alice got up and announced, "I'm going to see if Ellen is all right." Of course I knew her real motivation was curiosity. Like the rest of us she had a hard time accepting that the sexy babe in that room was really just an 8 year old boy. I knew that I was fighting the temptation to go in for another look, though the fact that Ellen was in there chasing out anyway who approached to closely helped keep my curiosity in check. Alice was just walking past when she suddenly froze and let out a loud gasp. She started to collapse but I quickly caught her. "Thanks," she gasped weakly. She tried standing back up, but it was obvious that she wasn't in very good condition. In fact she was beginning to shake and spasm. "Oh no," I grimaced as Alice collapsed entirely, her body going into seizures for nearly half a minute before finally going motionless. "It just got Alice..." "About time," Eddie muttered, almost smirking. "Just think if she gets muscles like Tanya's," I pointed out to him. Eddie suddenly went pale. "Oh shit..." "We've got to get her to bed," I said, trying to lift Alice but finding that the she was a little heavy to move easily. "Can you help me Tanya?" Tanya blinked in surprise. "Why me?" "Because you're the strongest one here," I reminded her with a roll of my eyes. "Oh yeah," Tanya blushed in embarrassment, then came and picked Alice up, gasping, "Wow... she's so light..." While Tanya carried Alice to her bedroom, I turned to Eddie and gulped. "It looks like there's only four of us left. I wonder who's next..." "Well I sure as hell hope it's not me," Eddie said with a visible wince. He had been previously hoping that the sickness would make him as big and strong as Tanya, but since he'd seen what it had done to Jimmy, he no longer wanted any part of it. I only nodded, agreeing with him completely. Somehow though I didn't think that either of us would be that lucky. Part 7 I sat back with a book in my hand, though I scarcely paid any attention to it. For one thing the book itself was boring, though didn't exactly have a lot of choices here on the island. For a second Alice was still unconscious in her bed just a few feet away from me. Ever since Alice had collapsed yesterday it had been up to me to look after her and occasionally run a damp rag over her forehead to try calming her fever. As it was Alice had made such a poor impression on everyone else that I was the only one who was willing to look after her right now. Of course Theresa or Ellen might have at other times, but Ellen was still busy with the now transformed Jimmy and Theresa had collapsed herself sometime during the night. "Come on," I sighed, pulling the rag from the bucket of cold water and squeezing it out before setting it on Alice's forehead. "Don't let this kill you... You might be a major bitch sometimes, but you sure don't deserve to die on this godforsaken island." Of course I knew that there was a good chance that Alice wouldn't die from the sickness, since of the six people who'd gone down now, none of them had died. In fact the two who had woken up from their bouts of unconsciousness had found that they had somehow changed a great deal. Tanya had become an amazon while Jimmy became some kind of babe, so there was no telling what it would do to any of the others, Alice included. Just then a wave of the sickness hit me again. My whole body was wracked with aches, nausea and chills, almost enough to make me think that it was my turn to go unconscious now. However they passed after just a minute, at least for the most part. I still felt somewhat sick, just not too overcome with it to move. "Damn," I grimaced, taking a deep breath and trying to regain my balance. After a minute I got up from my chair to go check on the others and get myself something to eat. While I was at it, maybe I could get someone else to keep an eye on Alice for a while, though I doubted it. There were more people down with the sickness than there were those of us still moving, and Alice fell on the bottom of the list for people to care about. I couldn't help but feeling sorry for her, thinking that it must be a lonely existence not to have anyone close to you. "She really must be sorry if all she has is me." I shook my head with pity. When I reached the central living area I found that Jimmy was now dressed in one of those white jump suits that Michael had found. It was plain and boring, but he still looked pretty damn hot in it. His breasts looked as though they might explode from the confines at any moment. "My chest feels funny," Jimmy complained to his mom, who hovered right beside him, glaring at Eddie who was trying hard not to stare too much. I could see why since Jimmy kept grabbing at his now monstrous breasts, obviously unused to having them. "And it's so big and heavy..." "Hey man," Eddie greeted me, "is the bitch any better?" "No," I responded with a sigh, wishing that he'd stop calling her that while she was sick and unable to defend herself. It just didn't seem right. "How about the others? Is anyone else changing?" "Not yet," Eddie shrugged. "We went and checked on them ten minutes ago." "I wonder if anyone else is going to end up like me," Tanya mused, flexing her arm and shaking her head in disbelief as she stared at the muscle. "I feel so strong now..." "You sure are big," Eddie said, staring at her breasts which seemed to have increased in size as well so that they were still the same size in proportion to the rest of her body. He licked his lips unconsciously as he stared at her, a fact which Tanya noticed and seemed to be amused by. "I don't wanna be a girl," Jimmy abruptly stated, trying to cross his arms and give a look of determination, though it only looked comical since he couldn't even cross his arms due to his massive chest. "I don't wanna have cooties..." "Sorry kid," Eddie teased him, "you've already caught them. Why else do you think you turned into a girl?" Jimmy just stared down at himself with a renewed look of horror while Ellen snapped, "Don't fill her...his head with such nonsense." Then she tried to reassure Jimmy, "You don't really have cooties..." But Jimmy looked at her tearfully. "Does this mean I have to be a mommy some day?" Ellen nearly choked at that while Eddie burst out laughing. "Your turn will come," Tanya told him, seeming a bit amused herself. I nodded and grabbed some fruit to eat, realizing that I missed the fresh fish that we had been eating. Since most of us were either down with the sickness or knew that we could collapse too at any time we were staying in the house. The only one who still went down the long path of stairs to pick up fresh supplies was Tanya, and she only bothered with the fruit. After eating I checked in on Alice again then went the rounds to check on everyone else. Theresa and Michael were both completely unconscious and showed no signs of things worsening or improving. But when I checked on Dan, I was surprised at just how much smaller he now looked. It was as though most of his muscles had just burned right off over the last few days. Just then as though the sickness had been waiting for some sort of sickness, his body began to shake and spasm. It was the same thing that had happened to both Tanya and Jimmy in the final hours before they awoke. It was what happened to them when their bodies were changing. "Oh shit," I gulped, rushing out to the others. "Dan's beginning to change." All of us rushed back to Dan's room, though Ellen chased Jimmy out as she didn't want him to see it. We all just stood there and watched Dan for a minute before we thought to grab a bucket of cold water and a rag to help with his fever. Tanya stared down at him with an expression that was more curiosity than concern. "He looks like he's getting smaller," Eddie said after Dan had been in his seizure stage for about an hour. "I wonder what he's gonna look like when he's done." "I don't know," I said with a grimace, not sure that I wanted to know. So far the weird sickness didn't seem to be making much if any sense at all. Somehow I had a feeling that watching Dan's final transformation would only confuse me about it even more. While the others were keeping a close eye on Dan, I went back to check on Theresa, Michael and Alice. Thankfully none of them were starting on that seizure thing too, because I didn't want to even think about what it would be like having everyone go through it at once. Dan continued to change as he went through what seemed to be the final stages of the mysterious sickness. He had lost almost all of his muscle mass, as well as a good deal of his height. But more than that it was becoming obvious that he was not only getting smaller, but younger as well. He looked like a teenager and seemed to still be getting younger. When Dan finished his transformation all of us just stared at him in stunned disbelief. I could hardly believe what I saw, though I knew I shouldn't have been surprised considering what had happened to both Tanya and Jimmy. And as I had expected I was only more confused by the sickness than ever before. "Holy shit," Eddie gasped with a look of fear, "I hope that doesn't happen to me." Dan remained motionless in his bed for a short while after he had stopped changing, relaxing now in what seemed to be an exhaustion rather than sickness induced sleep. I only wondered what he was going to think about himself once he woke up and discovered how he had changed. My curiosity didn't have to wait too long before Dan began to stir, then opened his eyes and sat up. He looked around with an expression of confusion, his eyes going wide when he saw Tanya standing there. "It wasn't a dream," Dan said, staring up at Tanya and gulping. "You look so cute," Tanya responded, grinning down at him. Dan blinked, then looked down at himself and let out a loud scream. It wasn't surprising since his age had continued regressing until he was now only a 5 year old boy. He was small compared to all of us and absolutely tiny next to his girlfriend. "What the fuck happened to me?" Dan cried out, jumping out of bed and standing there without any clothes on, his new position making the size difference between himself and everyone else even more obvious. He screamed and ran from the room so we chased after him. "Wait," Tanya called out, "you're not the only one..." When we got to living room Dan stood th