Life amidst the others

I awoke from a summer morning to the sound of an alarm clock, it was Saturday. I was still tired, but I still had to get ready for work even though most people don't work on Saturday mornings. I got out of bed, brushed my teeth, took a shower and did my usual routine. I heard my doorbell ring, there was a package at the front door, and it had no return address. The package had my name on it and everything, I was not usually into opening packages from strangers because it would either be unsafe or be from an unwanted advertiser trying to sell me their products by giving me their brochures. However this was different, the package strangely pulled me towards it, it felt like the feeling of a beckoning siren or loud alarm bells.

My curiosity got the best of me and wanted to open the package, I tore the box open. To my surprise, there was nothing in it. I flipped the box over the see if there were any hidden contents; however it was just an empty box. I stuck my hand through it to see if it would come out the other end. However, my own hand would not respond on the other side. It just went through it as if the other end of the box was intangible. When I retracted my arm, it came out of the box like pulling off a glove.

"What kind of box is this?" I thought crazily to myself.

I went back outside to see if the mailman was still there to notify him of this incident, however he was no longer there. Once again, my curiosity got the best of me; I stuck my head through the box to see what was preventing my hand from pushing to the other end of the box. It was an amazing sight to behold, about twenty feet below me was a rainbow above a waterfall beside a grassy plain. There were many birds chirping and a few grazing animals. "This must be some kind of joke," I thought to myself.

"How is this even possible?"

I thought that I was going crazy, so I called in sick to my boss to investigate further on this matter, even though they didn't have many workers today. I grabbed a long line of string and taped it to a can. I lowered the string as far as it could go to see if the can would either vibrate of make a sound when it touched the ground of this fantasy world, it did. Despite how much shock I was in, I wanted to explore this place and investigate further on the possibility of this being possible. There was not really a good way to get down into this 'place' without hurting myself by falling. I would use a ladder, but I don't think it would be good enough to stay latched onto a cardboard box.

I thought of an idea while pulling up my string attached to my can. I wandered into the garage, grabbing a rope and a tight belt with metal loops (used for activities such as mountain climbing and sky diving). I tied a knot around a pole on my staircase; I attached one of my belt loops to the rope and slowly hoisted myself down the box. One I reached the bottom, I unlatched myself from the rope. I lowered my hand down to the ground, the grass felt... real. It was astonishing, everything around me was real. I walked over to the pond beyond the waterfall and splashed my face with it, it too was real. As soon as I went back to the rope to get some materials to use on my investigation and some things for my survival, the rope and the cardboard box in the sky vanished.

"Fuck." I silently spoke to myself

I despised the thought of being possibly trapped here forever, but I quickly recovered from my worry about the positive outcomes from the situation, things such as no work, a fresh new start, wild life, and... I paused for a moment. I fell to my legs, as if I couldn't stand up anymore. I couldn't move any of my muscles, my entire body was not responding. I couldn't see anything, my vision has gone black and for a moment everything was clear again. I still couldn't move, however my eye muscles were still intact. I tried to stand up, my body still would not respond.

I suddenly gained enough reflexes to crawl over to the pond once more; I realized something as I stared into the reflection of the pond. I was no longer human. It was a traumatizing sight to witness, my clothes were gone. I had tube-like limbs, a huge ass head, a big muzzle, and my entire body was coated in blue. I also had long dark blue hair, I had wings, and I still appeared to be male, to say the least, but as if it couldn't get any worse, my dick was gone. How do I go to the bathroom now? I screamed out loud scaring most of the creatures surrounding me, but I don't think anyone heard me.

I suddenly became hungry; I didn't want anything to upset my new-found body, so I settled for a nearby tree containing some apples. I struggled to limp over to the nearby tree but I made it, but the challenge was how to reach for the apples. I tried to bang my new tube-like hands against the trees; however I was too weak in my new body to have any luck. I looked to see if anything or anyone to help me, but unfortunately there was nothing. I was too weak in my current form to move, walk, and possibly even eat if I was given the opportunity. I had no other option, I would just lie in the uncomfortable position I was in, and just wait there until I either pass out, or fall asleep, whatever came first.