Hellcyon Days Ch. 01

Without warning, the beast's eyes flew upon and with tremendous effort, threw itself/herself at the pair. All Alex had time to do was push the elfin redhead away from himself with his good arm, before the mass of bloodied muscle and fangs smashed into him with the force of a truck. Earlier, he had thought that the backhand from the Rachel-beast was bad enough, a full contact body slam was magnitudes worse. A spray of blood burst from his mouth as his entire body went numb. This was certainly a worse portent than excruciating pain, pain reminds you you're alive, numbness means you're in big doo doo.

Somehow, just before the impact, Alex had managed to raise his trusty hunting knife with his non-dominant arm, broken shoulder and all, which impaled the Rachel-beast straight through her eye with the same force that she had thrown herself with, entering through the eye-socket and spearing her brain. This meant naught for Alex, since he had just suffered severe body trauma and even had the emergency services been working, the likelihood of his survival was still extremely low.

Emily quickly got up from her artless sprawl and inched around the bloody mound. Observing the large knife skewered through the beasts eye-socket, she reasoned that the beast had to be dead this time. More importantly, she had to try and rescue her savior. Trying her best to lever the beast off Alex, the massive bulk of the monster prevented her from even gauging the severity of Alex's wounds, beyond his unconsciousness. Responding to Emily's desperate cries for help, a black haired head popped out from behind a nearby door to survey the morbid scene.

"Emily? What's going on?" Leira stammered out as she hesitantly approached.

"Hurry and help me get this monster off Alex, then we'll have time to talk!"

Together, they managed to push the bloodied carcass off Alex's body, before carefully dragging his body into Leira's uncompromised apartment.

Inside, they laid Alex on the bed before Emily took off his baggy shirt to examine his injuries, all the while recounting to the Hispanic girl how she'd been packing her stuff when she'd heard some tentative knocks on her door. "I approached the door to see Rachel curled up on the floor, seemingly extremely weak and groaning something about feeling ill. Then before I could do anything, she gave out this inhuman shriek and started to morph before my eyes. Her muscles and bones began to bulge and grow, whilst fur sprang out all over her body. Her eyes were clenched, seemingly in pain and then her claws and fangs suddenly sprang out."

While she was narrating her story to Leira, Emily couldn't help but admire the toned and lean physique of Alex, she knew he wasn't scrawny but this was unexpected, she noticed that Leira's eyes too were riveted to his defined torso, even as she carefully probed and examined Alex's body.

"The worst part was the horrible crunching and squelching noises as Rachel's body transformed and in less than half a minute, she had changed into some horrid monstrous parody of herself. At first, I hoped that she had retained some aspect of her humanity, but one look into her inhuman brown orbs and I knew that there wasn't any trace of Rachel in it anymore," the redhead said with a shudder.

"How can you be sure that Rachel wasn't in there?"

Emily looked up with a solemn expression. "If you had seen that creature while it was alive, you would completely understand...There was nothing human left in that visage, just sheer bestial fury. I screamed and slammed the door shut, just before there was a massive crash on the other side. I am so glad that we live in this apartment, had it been any other, without these solid oak doors and reinforced concrete walls, I'd no longer be here. Anyway, that creature started to tear down my door and all I could do was grab my broomstick and try and stab it through the holes it had begun to rend in my door. Fortunately, just as the monster tore down my door, Mr Hero here came in and saved the day. Got really busted in, fighting the beast, but you should have seen him, he was utterly amazing. -Dammit! I can't tell how serious his wounds are, his entire torso is one big bruise, he's got multiple broken ribs and I can't tell if he's got any internal bleeding. I'm training to be a nurse, not a doctor..." Emily exclaimed as unshed tears glimmered in her eyes.

"He's got some blood around his mouth, isn't that a bad thing?" the dark-skinned girl interjected.

"Oh crap, you're right, I'll try and clear his air ways, and can you try and contact the emergency hotline, though I suspect that we won't be getting any help from there." Emily said as she tilted Alex's head towards her and tried to ensure that his airways weren't clogged. Both of the girls were surprisingly calm after the cathartic recounting of the horrid events, though now that they had stopped talking, faint shrieks and screams could be heard in the background. Their apartment building was solidly built and had been meant to be a bomb shelter, and as a result was pretty soundproof, so only extremely loud noises could be heard through the thick walls.

Leira put down her phone with a frustrated sigh, "No good, all the emergency hotlines are down, I think this might be more widespread than we thought..."

"We've got to keep calm, fortunately, it seems that we're the only ones left in the building, everyone else went for the big university celebration." Emily said as she felt Alex's forehead. "He's burning up, but luckily he's still breathing, that's a good sign. If his internal injuries were as bad as I had feared, he would have died by now, there's nothing more we can do at present, so all we can do now is hope for the best. Any ideas?"

"I think we should grab as many supplies as possible and consolidate them in my room, I'm sure you've got useful stuff in your room and we both know that Alex is sure to have a ton of useful items," Leira opined.

Nodding her head in agreement, both of them snuck toward the door before carefully peering out into the hallway. The coast was clear. Splitting up to save time, Emily went back into her room while Leira entered Alex's room through his still open door.

A few short minutes later, they reconvened in Leira's room after taking multiple trips to transport the provisions, careful to make as little noise as possible. Since, Leira's apartment faced the main street, they had peeked through the blinds but nothing could be seen besides the occasional speeding car. It seemed that their portion of the street was pretty clear of people, understandable since most of the stores had closed early and the student apartments were empty due to most of the students having either left for home already or gone for the major university celebration.

Moving away from the window, the two girls began to take stock of their provisions. Fortunately, in the short-term at least, food and water didn't seem like a problem. Both girls had stockpiled a ton of snacks and Alex had kept a large number of Meals' Ready-to-Eat (MREs) for his many camping trips. Water and electricity still seemed to be running, though for how long, they didn't know, so they started to fill as many pails and bottles with water as they could find. Alex's room also had a few large camping haversacks so transporting the supplies wasn't a problem. Leira even found an authentic bow along with a quiver of arrows in Alex's room, as well as a wooden staff, which she also brought back.

Sitting around their amassed hoard, as they carefully took stock of their provisions, Leira turned on her television, hoping for some good news, but what they saw on the major new channels, chilled their blood. It seemed that the same horrors were happening throughout the world. The military was trying desperately to contain the threat, but nearly half their number had already transformed into those inhuman forms. The news reporters, mercenary as always, tried their best to catch the nightmarish struggle on camera. The bestial figures weren't limited to the furred form of the Rachel-beast, some were a nightmarish amalgam of different creatures and others were utterly unrecognizable. The only thing they had in common was their lethal ability as they tore through military lines.

The main problem was the fact that the military lines kept getting compromised as more personnel turned into those creatures. It could've been possible to keep the monsters at bay, had the same monsters not kept appearing in the defence lines as well.

"And Alex actually fought one of those and won? With just a knife?..." Leira broke off in amazement, and then realization struck her, "We haven't called our parents!" Both of them immediately began rummaging through their pockets before attempting to contact their respective parents.

Emily's phone just kept ringing before going to voice mail, while Leira's managed to get through to hers.

"Hello? Thank goodness Mum and Dad, you're alright... Have you seen the news? Check it now and whatever you do, don't go out... Yes, I'm fine. I'm holed up in my apartment together with two of my friends... I've actually met one of those creatures, one of my apartment mates turned and tried to attack my friend. This other friend I'm with managed to subdue the creature, though he was injured... He's still unconscious, though my nurse friend looked him over and the fact that he's still alive, should be a good indicator... Yes, we've got plenty of food and water, we're going to try and stay inside, hopefully this whole thing will blow over... Take care, love you, and stay safe."

Leira looked up to see the worried visage of Emily as she kept trying to get through to her parents, but to no avail. "They should be home, but no one's picking up..." Emily's voice cracked. Leira quickly moved over to her best friend and hugged her, while Emily's worried sobs echoed softly through her apartment.

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It was hours later that Alex's body began to convulse, both Leira and Emily had fallen into an exhausted sleep after barricading the door with Leira's sparse furniture, and they woke with a start. They stared fearfully at Alex's jerking body as they were paralyzed with terror, it hadn't occurred to them that one of their own would transform, they had assumed incorrectly that all the people who would turn had already undergone the transformation.

With mute horror, they watched as the bones and muscles of Alex's body started to rearrange in grotesque pops and cracks as his body shape seemed to grow and change, an iridescent carapace began to form over his skin, as the once horrid bruising faded, forming claws and armor while creating a fearsome visage. His head took on the countenance of some bygone prehistoric creature, seemingly frozen in the rictus of a snarl. But what was most terrifying were the skeletal wings that sprung forth from the Alex-creature's back, at first glance they appeared akin to those of a bat without the membrane between its fingers. But on more careful observation, the vast wing span could be seen to be riddled with spines and spikes, there were many more 'fingers' to the disconcertingly beautiful wings, and somehow their shimmering glow seemed to give the devastatingly dangerous appendages an ethereal light.

With a horrid gasp, both the girls beheld the awe-inspiring figure as it twitched then slowly sat up. The unhurried movement only concentrated the flustered gaze of the two women as they beheld the spectacle of a manhood that the armored figure's shifting had revealed. Earlier, before falling asleep, they had removed the baggy jeans that Alex had worn, in order to make him more comfortable and had been treated to the sight of a snug pair of boxer-briefs outlining a cock of substantial size. As a result of their earlier ministration, as the figure shifted, his underwear failed to contain the now swollen lengths of his cocks, revealing to the awe-struck stares of the women, a pair of diamond hard erections jutting from the band of his boxer-briefs.

The transformation had given Alex a dual pair of cocks, ridged beyond the norm and larger than even his previous considerable size, what could have been monstrous, assumed instead an otherworldly allure. The two women, despite themselves, couldn't help but imagine and crave their crush's swollen member thrusting deep into their gushing pussies. Try as they might, they couldn't shake off the lust that had overcome them as they continued to stare at the sitting figure, much like mice before a snake.

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Alex woke to a world without pain, the last thing he could remember was a flash of brown combined with a horrendous impact and then a smothering weight followed by oblivion. Slowly sitting up to prevent aggravating any injuries, Alex was immediately hit by how different he felt. He felt stronger and more energetic than ever, and deep within him there was a slowly smoldering warmth that he couldn't recognize.

Scanning his surroundings, he instantly noticed his pair of neighbors sitting near the corner of the room next to the window, seemingly mesmerized by him. Wondering to himself what exactly was the matter, he finally took a look at himself and was shocked beyond words.

The first thing he noticed was that he was almost completely naked, immediately followed by the fact that he had a pair of raging hard-ons, not A raging hard-on but two. What. The. Fuck. Immediately after, he realized that he appeared to be covered in some form of armor the colour of mother-of-pearl. Standing up, he almost stumbled before noticing that his balance was off. As he shifted to compensate for his alteration to his center of gravity, he was baffled by the myriad of unrecognizable sensations littering his mind. Glimpsing a gleaming shape in the corner of his vision, he turned his head and was greeted by the vision of shimmering wings and instantly connected his new-found sensations with the tactile feedback of his new appendages. Experimentally rolling his shoulders, his wings barely seemed to move before he mentally attempted to move his new appendages. With barely an effort, the spiked tendrils flashed forward too quick for a normal eye to follow, piercing the wall 15 feet away with effortless ease.

Shocked at the lethality of his blade-wings, he drew back his wings as he looked back at his neighbors, only to remember that his privates were uncovered. He leapt to his feet, startling the pair, while attempting to cover his groin, with little effect. With his fluorescent blush shielded from view by his carapace-mask, he stuttered, "I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to flash you, but where's my clothing? What happened?"

What Alex didn't realize was that his once vibrant amethyst orbs had become an incandescent blaze of purple, even more spellbinding than before, so it took the girls' brains a few moments to restart.

"You're... You're speaking? You're not a monster?" Emily stammered and Leira immediately followed with a blush, "We took off your clothes to make you more comfortable and... you don't need to worry yourself about flashing us."

Reaching over to pick up Alex's shirt and jeans, which had been hidden from view, from behind the coach. The beautiful Hispanic girl cautiously walked over and handed the clothing over, whilst subtly taking peeks at Alex's insufficiently covered throbbing members.

Hastily turning around, Alex almost shredded his clothing with his new-found claws before they along with his carapace retracted into his skin. Fortunately, he seemed to have at least subconscious control over his new armor, though he noticed that while his wings had mostly withdrawn and folded up when his carapace had disappeared, they couldn't retract fully, leaving a perceptible mound on his back while wearing clothing.

As Alex put on his last piece of apparel, the redhead and black haired beauty breathed out an audible sigh of disappointment, which drew a puzzled glance from him. Alex's body had become if anything, more toned and lean after his transformation, and he had grown slightly in height, though nowhere near Rachel's extent. The changes had been concealed by the gleaming carapace, but when it had withdrawn into his skin, Alex's improved body had been lay bare for the two girls to ogle, and ogle they did, almost as if they were trying to sear into their eyes, the image of Alex flexing as he put on his clothing.

The problem arose when Alex's vicious hard-ons refused to subside, and he recognized the rapidly growing blaze within him. Even through his baggy jeans, the steely erections of his cocks formed an obvious obscene bulge in the denim fabric, which the girls' eyes refused to leave. Looking up at the pair of gorgeous women, the raging lust within him rose to the forefront of his mind, but the memories of a broken man and years of mental conditioning gave him the power to resist. He had suppressed his lusts for years and he refused to concede to them so easily. Letting out a strangled gasp as he wrapped his arms around himself, he fought out, "Girls, you've got to leave the room now! I'm a danger to you! The transformation changed more than my body... It's... enflamed my lusts! Quick, while I can still control myself!"

Sharing an unreadable look with each other, Emily started, "Alex, you may not know this, but we've loved you for more than 3 years. I know you recognized us from high school, so don't deny it. You always act so antisocial but you're never one to look away from a wrong doing."

Leira continued with a radiant smile, "We've seen you take it upon yourself to attract all the bullies, focusing their attention on you, in order to prevent and deflect any harm from weaker students. You could've averted your eyes, heck you could've been one of the popular people if you had chosen to walk such a path. But you didn't."

At this point, Alex was shivering constantly and his grip was white knuckled as he tried his best to avert his eyes from the two approaching beauties. In his mind, two embers of gradually increasing incandescence were approaching the furnace of his core.

Emily took off her shirt with a sensual wriggle as she continued huskily, "I know you remember how you saved the both of us from the cadre of bullying senior bitches in freshman year. When you casually strolled into the female bathroom, before they could start anything with us, and then sprayed them with the water hose, chasing them out of the toilet. You were already our hero, some guys...no most guys would've expected something in return for their help, or at least some recognition, but you just gave us a small smile before casually strolling back out. We tried to get to know you better, but you kept everyone beyond arm's length."

The dark eyed Latino girl slowly pushed her jeans down her curvaceous hips as her eyes locked to his, "When we discovered that not only had we gone to the same university, but we also lived in the same apartment building floor. We dared to hope and we bided our time, knowing that we had to find the right opportunity to weasel our way into your life. Three years of trying to befriend you had taught us that much."

As the two girls conducted their slow strip tease, leaving behind a trail of clothing, Alex was torn, his resolve was weakening with every throb of his swollen members, while the words of the sensual pair slowly descended into throaty purrs.

"And now the perfect opportunity has been presented to us!" The pair of beauties finished their speech in unison, just as they ended up stark naked before Alex.

And what a sight they were to behold, the olive skinned beauty of Leira contrasting beautifully with the pale flaming haired vision of Emily. Alex certainly recalled that particular instance to which they were referring, even among the beauties of his high school, the two of them had stood out, which had made them a prime target. Alex had managed to step in before it could escalate to physical abuse. And their subsequent actions had been one of the few true temptations he had throughout his life, their earnestness had shone through even his cynicism, but he had managed to hold back then.