After what felt like a lifetime or two, the portal opened and the three feel 20 feet, knocking the air out of their chest.
"ASHLEY WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" Ryan yelled while shaking her.
"Wha-what happe-." Ashley started to say.
Ryan interrupted her, "Don't worry everyone is somewhat OK from whatever happened. Just take it easy for now."
She laid back down, confused on what he meant by 'somewhat OK' but ignored it for the moment. A low moan was heard to the side of them causing Ashley to turn her head and look. She saw Jim was on the ground but he looked to be in a fit of fever.
"What's wrong with him? Is he OK?" Ashley asked with a concerned look.
Ryan looked to Jim then back to Ashley, "Honestly? I don't know. He was the one who woke me up and got you out of the tree when we arrived here but then he just fainted. I assumed it was from coming through that portal but then he broke out in sweat. He's doing better than before now."
Ashley and Ryan sat there watching over Jim as he slept for a few minutes.
Jim slowly woke up and let out a yawn, "Mmmmm what happened?"
Ryan was going to respond but stopped when he noticed something abnormal about Jim.
"Hey Ashley, you see what I see right?" Ryan asked nudging her.
She leaned up on her elbows and looked towards Jim. She let out a small gasp and in a blink of an eye she tackled him to the ground.
"What the hell Ashley?! Are you trying to kill-" Jim started to say but was interrupted by Ashley.
"OH MY GOD! IT'S SO CUTE! I'M SO JEALOUS!" Ashely squealed out.
Bewildered, Jim asked, "What do you mean by what I have?"
"You should go ahead and feel the top your head Jim." Ryan stated pointing to the top of Jims head.
Confused, he moved his hand to the top of his head and felt something furry," Mmmmmm ok. I am not going to freak out just yet but umm what's on top of my head?" Jim asked with a confused look on his face.
"You have ears like from an animal! Why do you think I came to you so freaking fast!? OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO KAWAI!" Ashley yelled, squeezing Jim tighter.
Ashley was into humanoid people from her stories and shows. She is known to draw amazing pictures of herself and others as animal folk on the side.
" Ashley! You're killing me! Stop! BLECH" Jim sounded as he faked his death.
SMACK! "Knock it off Jim. We have to figure out where we are at and at what point in time. If this is even our world." Ryan said with a little laughter before it turned into seriousness.
"OK, OK. We're getting up now." Ashley said as her and Jim stood. "YOU EVEN HAVE A CUTE TAIL OH MY GOD!" Ashley yelled with a loud girly scream.
"OK, now I'm curious. Could you guys tell me at least what animal I look like?" Jim asked after brushing off his pajamas.
'Good question. I wonder if me and Ashley changed in anyway' Ryan thought to himself.
" Mmmm you have fox-like ears and tail." Ashley explained as she dusted herself off.
"Do I look any different in anyway?" asked Ryan.
"You are a little buffer actually. Like a stick but with muscle." Ashley replied.
Ryan was wearing plain shorts and no shirt since they were home when this happened.
What about me? Do I look different?" Ashley asked.
"Yeah you have horns. Like a devil" Jim said with a serious tone.
"OH MY GOD PLEASE NO! I DON'T FEEL ANY PLEASE TELL ME I DON'T RYAN!" Ashley asked, panicking and moving to Ryan.
"No you don't, you're fine besides..." Before Ryan could finish Ashley moved to tackle to Jim but was surprised when he moved out of the way and leaped to a tree more than 15 feet away.
"What in the hell was that Jim?" Ryan asked with a surprised tone.
"Dude I have no idea but that was awesome!" Jim said as he walked back towards them, slightly out of breath.
While he was walking back, he had this weird feeling like something bad was going to happen but ignored it for the time being and continued forward to hear what they were saying.
"Maybe things changed about us, like how Jim can leap around like a fox and looks like one too." Ashley stated as she rubbed her legs and arms to see anything was out of the ordinary.
"We have a lot questions about where we are and what we are capable of now but first we have to get out of here and get to a town or something. We don't know what point of history we are in and we're in the middle of the woods." Ryan said.
Jim walked up to the two and waved his hands,"I'm going be honest here guys and no joking, but I have a bad feeling about where we are at. We need to move." Jim said with a concerned look.
" Alright grab anything that came through with us." Ryan said picking some things up. "Jim I don't suppose you have a new sense of direction by chance?"
Jim tried to tell what direction was what when he smelled something. "Yeah, I smell a bakery in that direction." Jim said pointing in the direction of the smell before picking up the rest of the items.
"I don't smell anything so I would say your senses are the same as a fox which is very interesting." Ashley said to Jim.
Unsure of what they'll encounter, they started walking in the direction Jim pointed out. All of them were unhappy about not knowing what to expect but with nothing else to help them, they set out.
