[center][img]http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i374/bensundeitestutho/coollogo_com-2097171_zpsaq2ecgmy.png[/img][/center][center][b]Atlanta, Georgia[/b][/center]
[center][b]Several Hours Ago[/b][/center]
	The streets of Atlanta, while not entirely deserted, were still being traversed by only a few people, especially tourists who were temporarily stuck in the city because of the [i]‘Pax Metahumana’[/i] threat.  In spite of this, people still tried to go about their normal business because Lost Haven, which was said to be the epicenter of this entire mess, was miles and miles away.  Surely those superheroes would fix it before anything could happen to the southern United States.
 
	A group of friends at this particular moment departed from the World of Coca-Cola museum.  Between that museum and the Georgia Aquarium, they were about ready to grab dinner and then head back to the hotel where they had been staying.  Although, unlike other tourists, these friends had just arrived in town yesterday and therefore were not hindered by the nationwide warning about avoiding travel as much as possible, they still had to check into which places had closed due to the [i]‘Pax Metahumana’[/i] threat and which places had not.

	However, before they left for dinner, these friends decided to take a quick stroll through the Centennial park that was located right next to the Georgia Aquarium and the Coca-Cola museum.  Since it was so close by, they thought that they might as well take a look at the venue that Atlanta built when they hosted the Olympic games in 1996.  After this group of girls took pictures of themselves next to the Fountain of Rings and the Olympic concert stage and after they had traversed around the entire park, they decided that it was about time they head back to their car and find something to eat.

	While they were walking back, [b]it[/b] happened.

	From atop of the SunTrust Plaza, the tallest building in Atlanta, a hidden [i]Pax Metahumana[/i] device activated, generating a green dome that started at the apex of the tower and then eventually spread to encompass the entire city, along with some of the neighboring areas.  Even if these girls wanted to run, it would have been in vain because they were enclosed within the dome in a matter of seconds.  And as the dome passed by them, they all felt a slight tingle throughout their bodies for a few seconds until it disappeared.  Otherwise, however, everything else seemed normal within the dome, besides everything appeared a little more green in hue.

	The fours girls stood there in shock.  How was this happening, since the device was supposed to be in Lost Haven?  Crazy and uncanny things only happened in Lost Haven, didn’t they?  Yet now, there was a giant dome-like structure over Atlanta.

	One of the girls suddenly lurched forward in pain, wrapping her arms around her stomach as she fell to her knees.  Her friends were astonished by how their friend was acting.

	“Kyra,”  One of her friends begged her, hoping that it was just an act,  “This isn't a time for you to be joking around!”

	“I’m,”  Kyra paused as she winced in pain, “not!”

	Then, Kyra’s friends watched in horror as their friend morph into something that wasn’t human.  Even though it was painful for Kyra to endure this transformation, it was even more excruciating for her friends to stand by and witness whatever the [i]‘Pax Metahumana’[/i] dome was doing to her.  While the transformation was under way, it seemed as if it was not changing Kyra uniformly, but rather it was affecting different portions of her body almost at random.  However, once the transformation had been complete, it was clear that, even though the process seemed random, the end result was not, in the sense she had not become some kind of Frankenstein's monster.

	“Um, guys, what’s with the stares?”  Kyra asked with a hint of concern and fear in her voice once the pain had died down.  Something felt off to her.  Even though she knew that she was on the ground, everything seemed larger around her.  Her friends just gave each other concerned glances since they were unsure what to say.  “Spit it out already!”

	“Well, we don’t know how best to say it,”  One of her friends replied, pulling out her cell phone from her pocket and setting the camera function to use the screen facing shutter, “So it’s probably better to just show you.”

	In the cell phone screen, Kyra saw her reflection, although she did not see her own face.  Instead, a fox’s face stared back at her, with red, glowing eyes.  But it wasn’t just her head, but her entire body was like a fox’s.  The fur that covered her body matched the color of what her hair used to be.  And she had not one, but nine long, bushy tails that were arranged almost just like the train of a peacock.

	Thoughts of fear invaded her mind.  How was she supposed to live her life now?  She was no longer bipedal.  She no longer had opposable thumbs.  How could she survive in the normal world?  And what would her boyfriend think?  She was now [b]way[/b] past the ‘furry’ stage of the sliding scale of anthropomorphism.  She was now basically an animal with a human consciousness and a soul.

	Kyra then rested her head on the ground, covering up her eyes with her fox paws.  She hoped that when she opened her eyes that everything would be normal again.  No domes.  No metahumans.  No foxes.  She not only hoped for it, but she prayed.  She prayed to God that by his hand he would help her through this, no matter what.

	When she opened her eyes, Kyra was a little disoriented.  Her surroundings had changed somehow.  However, when she examined herself, to her horror Kyra discovered that she was still trapped in this nine-tailed fox’s body.  Cursed, even.  But how did she get here, wherever it was.  When she glanced around, she discovered a sign that said ‘Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site’.  How did she get here?  Wasn’t this place several blocks away from Centennial Park?  And a better question was, how was she going to find her friends again?