Mystery of Bermuda

            A college dropout, to his own shock, had won a contest that promised a trip for four to Bermuda. It came as a shock to him because he had never won a thing until now. He was allowed to bring three of his friends with him. The plane ride over went smoothly. It would be the only thing about this adventure that was normal.

            The foursome made their way to a private bungalow, with enough room for all of them. It had three stories to it and a pair of long stairways. Were they not careful, one of them could get lost. It seemed like paradise. However, mere hours after they unpacked, something seemed off. One of the three other boys, a gym regular with a blond crew-cut who prided himself on his appearance, felt something tingling on his chest.

            "Hey." He said. "I feel tingly. I think this air is doing something to my nipples."

            The third boy, a geek whose hair was cut short, sported thick-rimmed glasses, and had no noticeable features, just scoffed. Narc, he thought. He lay in bed, reading a book, one of three he bought with him for the trip. He was hesitant to join the party, but his mother pressed him to get fresh air. As he returned to his book, an itch kept distracting him. His own chest started itching. He brushed it off as the air affecting him, too. The dropout and the fourth boy, who sported a mullet, would also get an itchy feeling in their chest regions. It couldn't be coincidence.

            "I think I'll go for a swim." Said the fourth boy, and without a second thought, he took off for the water, wearing only shorts. The dropout, in a white undershirt, followed him into the water. As they swam around, they were unaware that the hair on their bodies were falling off into the water. What little arm muscles they had were slowly melting away, leaving their arms lean.

            "Great vacation, man." Said the boy with the mullet to his friend.

            "Thanks." He replied. "You know, I've heard about this thing called the Bermuda Triangle. It's supposed to be someplace where visitors disappear, never to be seen or heard from again."

            "Aw, baloney. Whoever made that up has no life. They're probably on their phones or computers all day with nothing better to do."

            "I don't know, man." The dropout said. "I can't help but worry."

            "You didn't bring me here to worry." Went the boy with the mullet. "We came here to have fun."

            As the two boys continued swimming, the remaining two back at the bungalow, the gym rat and the geek, continued to keep themselves busy, working out and reading on a couch, respectively. The gym boy had brought some dumbbells to keep himself from getting bored. He already had biceps that would make any girl's face turn beet red in a heartbeat, but like a true narcissist, he wasn't satisfied. He wanted to be buff, a bodybuilder. Unbeknownst to him, however, that wouldn't happen.

            While he kept working out, he was suddenly felled by an ache in his stomach. He dropped the dumbbells to the floor and clutched his gut in agony. The groans from his stomach were loud enough to stir the other boy out of his daze. He turned to find the gym rat keeling over from what the geek thought were cramps.

            "Hey, are you okay?" He asked, genuinely worried.

            "I'm not gonna lie." The gym rat answered. "N-no. I think...I pulled something."

            "Should I get the others?"

            "N-no. I've had cramps before. It's fine."

            This was no ordinary cramp. Something was happening to his body that was, by no means, normal. The four-pack that he worked for months to obtain was slowly melting away into oblivion. Muscles within his chest were contracting, moving along with the bones in his rib cage. This led to much more agonizing pain, something the gym regular could not handle.

            "Okay." He groaned. "This...isn't normal. Gotta...find bathroom."

            He crawled up the nearest flight of stairs, pain wracking his body throughout his trek. Unbeknownst to him, his hair had started growing out, tickling his ears and reaching halfway down his neck. By the time he was at the top step, it had just reached his shoulders. In mere seconds, his hair had grown supernaturally fast to give him the appearance of a girl from behind. He pushed the bathroom door open and crawled inside. It took all the willpower he could muster to climb up the stairs, but now, he needed it again to pull himself off the floor. Once the sink was at his waist, he looked in the mirror and was mortified.

            "What happened to my hair?" He asked, incredulously. "It didn't look like this when we got here."

            Turning to his side, he found he had a mullet like the fourth boy, except his was slightly more voluminous and slowly getting longer still. Bones and muscle that made up his rib cage continued to shift around as his hip bones started to crack outward. The transforming boy groaned as his hips started to gain an hourglass shape. His spine was next to change as it cracked inward, seemingly forcing him to flex his chest. It also contracted ever so slightly, making him shrink in height. HIs thigh muscles, also quite large in size, slowly melted away as well, erasing more hard work. Then, as suddenly as it started, it stopped.

            "What--just--happened?" He asked himself, out of breath.

            Regaining his footing, he looked in the mirror and found his appearance drastically changed. Besides his now-billowing locks, he appeared to be a woman from the waist down. Mortified, he rushed back to the geek, who never left his place. The sound of him rushing down the stairs had snapped the reader out of his daze again.

            "My heavens." He spoke quietly. He eyed his changed roommate, looking up and down at his new body.

            "What just happened to me?!" The gym regular shrieked, his voice higher by a few octaves.

            "I...have honestly no idea." The geek responded, oblivious to his roommate's vocal changes.

            "My beautiful muscles are gone, and I have... GIRL HAIR!" He sounded more and more like a woman as he became more distraught, but the other boy was helpless, unable to do anything except stare.

            "The others can't see me like this. They'll ask too many questions!"

            Without a second thought, he ran back upstairs to one of the bedrooms to hide in shame. The reader was now all alone, confused by what he just saw.

            "Poor man." He said quietly to himself as he returned to his book. However, as he did so, he couldn't help but fantasize about the gym boy, completely female and undressing before him in the very bedroom he ran into. She then removes his shirt before pushing him onto the bed. In his fantasy, he says, "Wait a minute. This is all wrong. Weren't you--?"

            She shushes him. "No more talking."

            Then, she unzips his pants and finds something very hard inside.

            "You didn't tell me you were gifted with such a huge wand." She says.

            "Well, it's something I'm not exactly proud of."

            "You should be."

            "Wait. We really shouldn't--"

            She shushed him again and proceeded to have her way with him.

            "Please d-don't--Oh!"

            The hottie that was once a gym buff was actually giving him a blowjob without any sign of hesitation. The euphoria was nothing the bookworm had ever felt before. Even if it was wrong morally, he couldn't lie to himself: It was a good feeling. He clenched the bedsheets like he was gripping a pet's rubber toy. Slowly but surely, he was losing the battle to fight off the pressure below. Unbeknownst to him, this was what she wanted.

            "No. No-no. Must...hold...out."  Alas, the pressure was just too much. With a long, pained groan, he let loose, which shocked him back to reality. 

            "What--just--happened?" He asked, close to hyperventilating. Subconsciously, a girl that wasn't even real was messing around with his private parts, a girl that used to be a buff young man. That buff young man was now upstairs, freaking out at the unexplainable transformation he was going through. What could be causing his body to change like that? He thought. Such things just don't happen. However, while he was lost in his fantasy, his own body was starting a transformation of its own. What little body hair he had had receded into his skin. Next, his jeans began to feel strangely tighter in his thighs and derriere.

            "I don't remember these pants being so tight when we got here." He said, quietly.

            As he tried to adjust his pants, he was unaware that his fingernails had started getting longer much faster than normal. At that very moment, his nipples became erect as the area around them began to swell gradually. When he got back to his book, he finally noticed his newly-long, unmanicured fingernails. He was certain they were trimmed before he left. Now, he was sure that something was wrong. Whatever was changing his roommate was now doing the same to him.

            Then, he heard what sounded like a loud, lengthy slurping sound followed by a POP. With what was happening, he fathomed one guess. Removing his book from his lap, he saw the unimaginable: His private parts were shrinking inside of him. He wanted to scream, but something from inside wouldn't let him, so he kept on looking in horror as he officially switched genders. Quickly unzipping his jeans, he confirmed his fears: His manhood was gone.

            "Oh no." He said, hushed. "Is this really happening?"

            Had she looked in a mirror, she would have had her answer, as her hair had also started growing unnaturally fast, reaching the back of her neck. Some strands were also turning a dirty blonde color. By now, her chest was much more pronounced, as a tent had started to form. She lifted her shirt and was greeted with the sight of what were undeniably breasts, and they were slowly growing before the geek's eyes. One second, they were B-cup size. Thirty seconds later, they ballooned to C-cup size. Another thirty seconds later, they swelled again to D-cup size. In a minute, the mounds on her chest had grown to DD-cup size. Her hair was still growing as well, becoming more voluminous in area, growing past her shoulders, and covering her eyes, glasses and all.

            *RIP*

            Then came a tear from behind her. The spooked youth jumped out of her seat. It was her jeans ripping from her back end, which was inflating as quickly as her new breasts. She moved her hands subconsciously to her growing rump.

            *RIP* *RIP*

            More tearing sounds came from her thighs. The holes became bigger as they were getting thicker. All the while, her pale skin became slightly tanned all over.

            "Whatever this is--*ahem*--seems to be contagious or something." Her voice cracked as she spoke, suddenly rising a good number of octaves. "M-m-my voice! Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Do-re-mi--I'm really becoming a female! A mirror. I need a mirror!"

           She rushed upstairs to the same restroom earlier occupied by her transforming roommate. A look in the mirror confirmed it: The bookworm was now a young woman, and a well-shaped blonde one at that. However, instead of being mortified like her roommate, she was mesmerized by her own appearance. She turned sideways to get a good look at her rear. To her, it appeared to be quite fleshy and wide in area. 

           "I look like I stole this booty from Jennifer Lopez." She said, feeling her large derriere. "So this is what he was freaking out about. The others will undoubtedly be amazed by this."

           That's when the shock set in. The other two boys, the dropout and the boy with the mullet, don't know about their transformed peers. They were still out swimming. However, what had happened to the gym rat and the bookworm was also happening to them. They just hadn't realized it yet. "Mullet" was deep underwater swimming like a common salmon when he noticed what he thought was a girl swimming past him. Her hair was long enough for her to look like a girl from the back. Unknown to him, it was really the dropout, whose transformation was happening at a faster pace.

           Who is she? He thought. She swims like a mermaid or something. I'd like to get to know her better.

           He followed the still-transforming dropout back to land, still thinking he's a girl. The dropout's legs were getting longer and leaner as he kept kicking them in the water. Meanwhile, Mr. Mullet's own changes were just getting started. His own legs also lengthened as they became long, lean, and sexy. The mullet on his head was slowly getting longer and spacious in area. As they reached the shoreline, he found the "girl" had beaten him there and was drying off. Now was his chance to "get to know her better".

           "Hi. I don't remember seeing you here." He said, flirting. "Would you like to meet my friends?"

           "Dude!" The dropout cried out as he turned around. "What are you doing?!"

           "Jeez! I'm sorry. Hand to God, I-I-I thought you were a girl. I mean--From behind, you looked like one w-with your long hair."

           "Wait, wait. What?"

           Sure enough, when he got a look at his reflection in the water, the dropout did indeed look like a girl. A look of fear ran across his face.

           "What did that water do to me?!" He asked, panicky.

           "I don't think it's the water, man." The boy who once had a mullet answered. "I think it's something else. This whole place, maybe."

           "Please don't start that again. I'm already freaking out. I didn't look like this before we dove in."

           "Not only that, but I think you're growing boobs, too."

           The fourth boy was right. The dropout was growing breasts, and his wet undershirt showed it. They appeared to be at B-cup size and were getting bigger with every passing few seconds.

           "Oh my God!" He shrieked, his voice rising many octaves at the last word uttered. He clasped his mouth at the foreign sound of his own voice. "Am I really becoming a chick?!"

           "By the looks--and sounds--of it, yeah." The fourth boy answered, his own changes speeding up. "And I think I'm next. Does my chest look bigger to you?"

           Looking at the fourth boy's chest, it appeared that there were some mounds growing as well, though not as large as the dropout's. His mullet had grown out at a supernatural pace also, though it seems to have stopped midway down his back. Also, his waist had caved in, giving him a hourglass shape. While the fourth boy was examining his own changing body, the dropout got a horrible surprise.

           "Oh no. No-no-no-no-no-NO!" He shrieked again. "It's gone. They're completely gone."

           "You mean...down there?"

           "YES, I mean down there!" The dropout's voice and body were now absolutely those of a girl. "And you look like you're about to join me."

           "What do you--ugghh!" The fourth boy was cut off by a sudden pain in his own nether region. It was his own machinery receding inside his body. The sound of some gurgling followed by some pops confirmed it. She bent over, groaning as her voice rose in octaves as well.

           "What's--aahhhhh--happening to us?!" She cried out, her voice cracking mid-sentence.

           "I don't know, but we have to tell the others."

           "How will they believe us?"

           "I don't know, but they'll find out eventually so we might as well."

           What the newly-transformed girls didn't know was that their roommates were now girls themselves. As they walked to the bungalow in shame, the last of their changes took place. Both of their rears began to inflate in size, becoming quite ample. The girl who used to be the dropout looked down at the other's legs and then, their own. In her mind, she now had the pair of legs she used to dream about as a male. They were a supermodel's legs. She subconsciously struck a pose, as if she was at a photo shoot. All the cameras in the room were focused on her, snapping every sexy pose she could make. For a moment, she completely forgot reality as she soaked in all the attention. She couldn't deny it; It felt empowering. She heard herself giggling subconsciously as she continued posing seductively. It wasn't until the other girl called out to her that she snapped back to reality.

           "What are you doing?!" She asked, incensed.

           "I'm--I'm sorry." The other responded, flustered. "I-I don't know what got into me."

           She ran to catch up to her transformed companion, who was working out in her mind how to explain what had happened to them. Upon opening the door, they found nobody in the kitchen or the living room.

           "I guess they're both upstairs." Said the girl who was formerly the mullet-haired boy. "Hey! Are you guys up there?"

           No response. Cautiously, they walked upstairs. They were unprepared for what--or rather, who--they would find. The beauty that was once the boy with the mullet knocked on the bathroom door.

           "Occupied." A feminine voice spoke that tried in vain to be as gruff as possible. It was the geek.

           The beauty that was the dropout went for the bedroom when a scream went out. "Don't come in here!"

           "Why?"

           The former gym buff tried in vain to disguise their new voice while coming up with an excuse. "Uhh... I'm not decent. The room is a mess."

           Unamused, the changed dropout barged in to find the bedroom spotless and the changed gym buff hiding in shame underneath the covers of one of the beds. Slowly, the dropout crept further to the occupied bed.

           "Please don't come any closer. Just go away."

           "Hey, it's okay. Whatever happened to you affected me, too."

           "Wait, WHAT?! You, too?!"

           "Yeah, and I'm as freaked about it as you are."

           The transformed gym buff slowly uncovered herself, revealing herself to be no less beautiful than her companions. She, too, was blonde, busty, and upon removing the covers, showed that she also had wide hips and a spacious derriere. Shirtless and in tears, she embraced her dropout friend and continued crying silently.

           "What's happened to us?"

           "I don't know, and I certainly don't know how we'll explain this to or families, but...we'll figure something out."

~~~

           Alas, they never did find out why they all changed into well-sculpted blondes. Making matters worse, when the dropout tried to contact his parents, they each thought it was a prank and ordered her not to call their home again. She certainly couldn't prove that she was once their son without any photographical evidence. Not only that, but for all they know, she might have stolen their son's ID and driver's license. So, she was at a loss; All of them were. Nobody they knew would believe that they had gone to Bermuda only to be transformed into hot blondes. With a lack of options, the best thing they could do was start anew. It would undoubtedly be difficult, but between the four of them, at least, they'll have emotional support of each other. If only they could figure out how they became females. Sadly, it's just one more mystery of Bermuda.