Acclimation (pretty mature)

well, this is an unfinished story i had on FTT(my old forum) but it didnt get much attention so im going to place it here. i hope you enjoy.

Data log entry March 21, 2085, 0800 hours
It has been eight years since this whole thing began, the earth tired of man spoiling its beauty decided t fight back. Man being gullible as to think that they were just on a giant rock hurtling through space didn’t realize that each planet is in fact a living thing. When man first appeared on it, it believed us just to be the same as any other creature that was living on it. But in fact we were a virus, taking from the planet and giving nothing back to it, slowing choking the planet. When it first struck back we didn’t realize what was happening, suddenly reports of animal attacks on humans came flooding into emergency services. Dogs and cats mauling their owners. The immediate response was the merciless killing of all domesticated pets, this appalled me, seeing my own childhood pet taken away and shot. I would have quit the army right there, but I couldn’t. If I had then I would have been deemed a traitor and killed. It appeared the earth has a special link with the lesser inhabitants on it. But humans had evolved so much that they didn’t need to rely on the planet to survive anymore. The humans thinking they didn’t need the forest to live anymore, all they did was give the animals that had attacked and killed so many humans a home. We tried burning them to the ground, but the planet easily just rained away the flames. Being greedy we didn’t want to just nuke them because we wanted the land for ourselves. I have been fighting for the human race ever since this began. From simply guarding people traveling between cities, to destroying hot spots of animal activity. I’m leaving for a mission now, so more to come later.

Data log entry March 25,2085, 1800
Simple 4 day mission attack more hotspots eliminate the animals. Accept we encountered something different this time. When walking through the forest we came across a man who had been attacked by some animals and left there to die. Something that rarely happens so we immediately took it as an ambush. While drawing a perimeter our medic examined the man and noticed something odd about him. He said that he saw a thin layer of fur growing on him. We treated his wounds and returned to base, it was later that day that we found out that he had become a bear, and had to be killed. It wasn’t until after the autopsy that we found out what happened. It appears that the planet has created a virus. That when transferred to a human, most likely through a bite. Would slowly transform the cells of the human into those of the animal that had attacked them. I find irony in the fact that our greatest enemy will destroy us the same way we are destroying the planet. We were debriefed, and sent to relax, and this is the time when I’m entering my data. I have no doubt that we are going to have a rough few days before the vaccine is found. Thank god that mosquitoes are extinct now or we would really be in trouble. Sergeant Patterson has just come into the room, it appears that there has been enemy movement nearby and we are the only ones who are available to be sent out. I’m a little nervous; going up against this new thread could ad more danger to missions. And I’m not alone, private Curts the new member to our squad is visibly shaking, and private 1st class Michaels’ has a worried look on his face. The others don’t look like they were going to enjoy this mission like they did the other ones. For all I know today could be my last day as corporal Renders.

I placed my logbook back into my pack, “time to get ready for the next assignment,” I thought. I got up and walked towards the armory, I walked in and surveyed all the weapons that were available to me. I took my pick of a MK262 a couple of grenades, a field medical kit, my trusty pistol, and my knife. As I gathered the rest of my gear I took notice of what the others where getting. Private Curts took down a flamethrower, they found a new purpose for them seeing as how they cant be punctured to easily now, and how animal fur is prone to catching fire easily. Michaels, being the big man himself took the biggest gun in the whole room. A monster that fires a 20 lb slug faster at near the speed of light. Not risking being vulnerable he also grabbed a smaller assault rifle and placed it around his back. The rest of the squad grabbed other various rifles and as well as a fair share of grenades and extra ammo. When everyone was geared up we all marched out into the open to prepare for our departure into the forest.
I gave the order to move out and we marched into the darkness of the woods. We had tried burning down the woods around here, but the trees just adapted with a new bark. We crept along silently until we came to the spot where the animals had been spotted. Something didn’t feel right about this spot, either the intelligence was wrong or something bad was about to happen. I gave the order to brace for attack and to set up a perimeter, due to my strict discipline with my troops it took less than 10 seconds for everyone to be in place. I surveyed their positions; the majority of the 8 man squad was grouped around Curts. I found some humor in how even the more experienced soldiers were grouping next to the noob. This didn’t bug me though, we were in about a 20 meter circle with about 5 meters between me and Michaels and another veteran of the group, and 2 between the rest of the group, it was set up a little close for my comfort, but we should be able to hold. We stayed like that for 30 minutes, until the silence was broken by a shrill scream from Curts, I spun around to see a huge wolf on the back of his tank biting at the fuel tubes. Before any of us could react, in a single motion the wolf punctured a tube and scraped a tooth across the tank making sparks and igniting the fluid. That alone obliterated 5 five of the group, leaving nothing but a crater and scorch marks of the once brave men. Piles of flesh and fur rained down singed as, me and the other two survivors, Michaels and private Kread were thrown 10 feet. I got thrown into a bush and got tangled up. All I could do was watch as I saw about four wolves move in towards the two who only managed to stand and fire ripping two of them to a red mess, before they were on top of them ripping them to shreds, all I could see from my position was bits oh skin and bones flying to all sides. As they fought over the meat. I couldn’t stand the sight and screams emanating form them so I shut y eyes. While in my solitude I realized that I was in deep shit. First I realized that I was stuck in this bush with my weapon out of my reach. Then I realized that all wolves travel in packs of six, so I took numbers. One was killed in the blast, another two where killed by Michaels and Kread. That meant that one was still out there, my thoughts were disturbed by a huge wolf dropping down right in from of the bush I was stuck in and forcibly removing me by my foot. In releasing me from my prison the wolf had broken one of my arms and his fangs had punctured my boot and tore into my foot. The other remaining wolves walked over and formed a circle around me. When I thought they would deal the killing blow the simply sat there staring at me.

This went on for 20 minutes before I began feeling strange. Suddenly I had gotten really hot. I began taking of clothes slowly, so as not to aggravate the wolves that still surrounded me. When I was down to just my boxers I could see a fine fuzz growing out of my skin, I was then shocked to feel something growing from my ass. I began twisting around to see what was happening, but the adventure was cut short by a pain running all the way through my body, I screamed out in agony as my bones began shifting into their new positions, I felt like I was being torn apart from the inside, as I was forced onto all fours. I began vomiting uncontrollably as blood came pouring out through my eyes, ears, and nose. This must have been the virus that that man had been infected with, I was going to be switching side, and I don’t think I have much of a choice. I felt the pain as if someone was ripping off my face as it elongated into the muzzle a wolf. By now my fur was done growing and had a grayish silver hue to it. Although the pain in my body grew even worse as I hit the climax of my transformation. My legs shortened as they shrank to be equal with my arms. My hands erupted in a rush of fire as my fingers shrank and my thumb rose up the back of my arm. New ears shot out from my skull, heightening the pain in my head only comparable to getting 50 migraines all at once as my brain rewired itself to better help me get use to my new body. It was at that point that I finally passed out from the pain. I awoke what felt like 2 hours later till seeing the animals surrounding me, I remembered all the events that had taken place and was still shocked to see them. I tried to stand but it was hard getting used to walking on four legs. I was hit with a torrent of new sensations as I looked at the tattered charred clothes that were all that was left of my former life. I took a step forward and instantly fell down, wincing in pain and closing my eyes. I tried to stand, but I was shocked when I felt a paw keeping me down. I thought that they were going to kill me and my time was up. But I got yet another shock as I felt a soft tongue slowly licking my face. I opened my eyes to see a beautiful female wolf licking the blood off of my face. that was all i could remember as i was plunged into a dark sleep never to awake as the man i once was

Well as I've said before Saiphex I love this one. You should deffenately keep it going. It's a very original plot I think.

here is part 2 of it, it kinda got cut off

I awoke to find myself not in the forest, but in a very dark place. My eyes adjusting to the darkness I noticed that I s completely trapped in here. “hello,” came the echo of a mysterious voice. I tried to say a word back but all that came out were growls and howls. “don’t say the words, think them, you can’t speak anymore. After all how many wolves have you ever heard speak English.”
“What the hell are you!” I screamed furiously into my mind frantically pacing around the den. “ how are you talking to me?!” “I share a special bond with all animals on me.” “what do you mean on you.” “exactly what I said, I am the planet you are riding on” “what…planets cant talk they are just rocks.” “all planets are living things.” “then why are you doing this?” “I did this to clear myself of the infestation your kind have become.” I can’t control humans because they have evolved out of my control, it was a foolish mistake to even allow you so far. I have wipe all species from the existence as soon as they figured out fire. But after so many species were wiped form my surface I began to wonder, what if I were to allow one species to go beyond fire. What if I were to allow them to become something more. It was your kind that where to be that species. You used to be the pets of your predecessors, you were used as bait in hunting, and were easily wasted. It was as soon as they found fire that I let loose a illness that would wipe them out, yet leave the rest of the creatures as they are.”
“so what you are saying is that humans were pets to a higher race”
“That is true,” the planet proclaimed, “ and now that I have let you get to far advanced it is time I make things right.”
“but then why don’t you just release that illness and wipe out the humans like you did our predecessors?”
“well, by allowing your kind to develop so much you can say that I got attached to them. I didn’t want to kill you so I decided that I would allow you to rejoin nature.”
“so that is what has happened to me?”
“exactly,” the planet said sympathetically, “so that leaves you with two choices, you can either join our cause and fight for us of your own free will. Or I can just overpower your mind and force you to fight.”
“ your asking me to turn not just on my friends and family, but my entire race!” I screamed.
“I know this is a hard choice for you, but if there is no going back to being a human, and there will be the enjoyment of being apart of something more simple. I will leave you some time to think about your choice.”
At that the voice left my head, and I took it as my time to decide on the rest of my life. I layed down and began to think about my choices, this went on for what felt like an hour before the soothing voice of the planet came back to my head.
“have you come to a decision?”
“I have, an I have decided that It will be better to serve of free will, then to be forced to watch.”
“You have made a very wise choice.” and with that a opening appeared in the side of the den, and before I left I said “I hope that you are right, but one question before I leave.”
“yes”
“are you really going to talk to each person before and give them this choice, wont it take forever?”
“ yes I will talk to each person who is transformed, but not like this. It will become more routine, a simple appearance into the mind ask what their decision is, then carry it out. I can split my focus and talk to more then one person at a time.” and with that answer I slowly walked out of the den and into the light of my new life.

When I first stepped out of the den the light draining in through the treetops blinded me. When my new eyes adjusted to it I examined my surroundings, and it looked just like any other part of the forest. But a closer look showed that the ground underneath all the trees was gone, and you could see small groups of animals under each one. Walking slowly being careful not to trip over my new legs, I made my way through the rows of trees. I walked around aimlessly for half an hour until the barks of a beautiful vixen caught my attention. She was a beautiful arctic fox whose fur glistened in the air. Her voice wasn’t in a language I could understand, but the tones of the barks instantly told me that she wanted me to come over. It wasn’t until I got closer that she started to talk.
“So you must be the new blood.” she snickered looking me over “Not to shabby if you ask me.”
“Wait how can I understand you, I thought we couldn’t speak.” I asked with a puzzled look on my face
“Well of course we can’t speak English, bit that doesn’t mean that we can’t communicate with our own language doesn’t it.”
“Yah I suppose that makes some sense, so why do I hear it as English then?”
“Another thing you can thank the planet for, he makes it so that you hear anything as English, and even though it sounds like you are speaking in English you are actually growling.”
“One other thing, what is a snow fox doing in the woods during spring?”
“ I was here to help fight in the winter, but now that the snow is gone I am going to have to leave back to the north soon.”
“Is that where you are normally from?”
“Well actually I was born a human, but I was to be the earths first test subject for the virus, I’m just lucky that I got the first working solution, although it only made me into the fox you see now and that I had to be bitten many more times for this to be final it was quite successful.”
“So, did you choose to join tem of your own free will?”
“Yes, when it had happened I was alone in the woods, I had run away from my shelter and fled to the woods, I knew that they would not follow me because they were afraid of the animals. But I wasn’t afraid to be killed by them. In fact I wished they would, I didn’t want to be human, I felt that we should have let the planet do what it wanted to us, but nobody else shared that thought with me, I was to be arrested and killed for treason by the humans. And that’s why I ran. I had been in the woods about a day, and I was tired, I storm had blown In and I was cold, it wasn’t to longer before I collapse and that’s when I saw that beautiful fox come towards me. At first I was scared but that feeling quickly left me and I encouraged it to approach me. When It got closer it bared its fangs and I was ready to die, when I felt its teeth sink into my flesh, I was ready for the next strike but when it never came I opened my eyes and sure enough there was the fox, but it was just sitting there. That’s when the pain set in and transformation began. I bet you know how that felt, and like you I soon past out, when I awoke the fox was still there, I went to back away but something felt wrong, I felt smaller and when I looked at him, he nuzzled next to me and we just laid there, I awoke the same way you did in the den and that’s when the planet spoke to me and gave my the options and I chose to join of my free will. Because hey, I’m more use fighting for the planet then dieing as a human.” We continued to talk on for a bit longer before she told me that her time was up and that she had to leave for the north. I asked her if I would ever see her again and she told me that I would as soon as the first snow began to fall here in a few months. And with that she left me, but before she left she nuzzled me and I swear that she kissed me but I wasn’t sure if that was even possible anymore. All I knew was that I couldn’t wait for winter.

keep it comming

i hope to get the new chapter up this weekend, but im too tired atm, so expect it either tomorrow night, or tuesday night.

sorry guys, i dont know how many of you like this, or how many want me to continue, but as of right now im to swamped with school and theater, i may have time this weekend, but i dont know.

take your time but i like it