WHY!?

James felt like he fell for an eternity, but also for only an instant. It was all such an odd sensation before, finally, he felt as if he hit the ground and suddenly felt sore all over his body. A massive headache was coursing through his head as he blearily blinked open his eyes to see a wooden wall inches away from his face.

After confirming that he could now actually look around and that this wasn't just his old apartment, he noticed that he was in fact in a completely different and new house, or cabin, as all the walls seemed to be fastened of wood and the roof appeared to be made of some kind of straw or sticks. He couldn't tell in the dim light very well.

Suddenly, he heard someone snoring in the room and looked over to see another person still sleeping across the room under what appeared to be a sheet and some thick blanket or fur. Well, at least he hadn't woken up sharing a bed with a stranger. Maybe they were a sibling or this was a communal home or something. Feeling a chill, James brought the blanket up around him a little closer as he attempted to get a little warmer.

After taking a few breaths to taste the air once more after the creepy experience of his soul form, James decided to get up and at least try to take a look around. Sitting up, he felt a strange sensation on his chest as the shirt he was wearing rubbed him a little awkwardly. Not to mention, it felt like he was still rather chunky given how much weight it felt like he was lifting with him. Lowering the blanket from his frame, he looked down, and what greeted him was a sizable pair of breasts beneath a thin layer of linen that completely took up his view. Hardly believing his eyes as he saw the significant press against his shirt, he reached up and did what any sane man would do. He groped himself.

Not half a second later, a rather high-pitched gasp could be heard in between the soft snores coming from across the room. This very gasp had escaped James' lips and was a result of the sudden shock and sensitive nature of his new, much thinner fingers squeezing his now much larger chest in the dark through his not-so-soft linen shirt. It all happened in a few seconds, but to James, it had felt like a loud ringing bell in his head for several minutes as all time seemed to have stopped as he thought over the new reality he was apparently experiencing. His mind was blank and time was crawling ahead as his brain and soul caught up with the reactions to his new situation. And about a minute later, he did what any sane man would do and reached down, grasping at his groin to hope for what he thought should be there.

Unfortunately for James, and by the level of high-pitched noise escaping his lips, it wasn't. The scream was definitely feminine, and so was what James was feeling between his legs at the moment. His, now more factually her, mind was blank as she finally finished screaming only to be left panting in a cold sweat in bed, still awkwardly having her hand just below the sheets around her crotch.

Following this rather rude and loud awakening, the snoring across the room ceased before a sudden yelp came from that side as a woman nearly jumped out of her blankets and looked around with wide eyes in a somewhat defensive stance. "Wha...what's happening?!" Her eyes bleary, her long brown hair in a frizzled mess as she stood there in what appeared to be a loincloth and linen shirt similar to James'. Her body was somewhat muscular but still rather shapely, though a little less so than James's new body at first glance. She continued to look around hesitantly before the door to the room burst open as a large man in nothing but a loincloth and wielding a massive hand axe charged into the room with a shout of rage, only to be met with two yelps of surprise from James and the other woman.

For several awkward seconds, all three looked around the room nervously, going back and forth between one another, before the man asked. "Who screamed? What's happening?"

"I..." James tried to answer, but was soon interrupted by the other woman.

"It was Silva! She suddenly screamed out of nowhere." The young woman pointed at James and suddenly backed away from the large man with her hands up as she realized there was no danger and there was about to be trouble.

Soon after, more male voices and another feminine one could be heard just past the doorframe, asking if things were alright and what was happening. The large man held his axe up to quiet whoever was behind him and looked at James, asking, "Why were you screaming this early?" There was a heavy glare in his eyes as he looked like he hadn't slept very well.

James tried to recover as he realized this body's name must have been Silva, and now he/she was in serious trouble. He nervously looked down at the sheets in his hands and then said, "I.....I had a....uh....terrifying dream...I'm sorry." His head held down in a bow to whoever the man was as he quivered in bed. The larger man glared a bit harsher at James and looked back at whoever was beyond the doorway and said, "False alarm, everyone back to bed. I'll handle this..."

He set his axe down near the doorframe and walked inside before standing in front of James with his hands on his hips and glaring down at his much smaller and still half-sitting, shivering frame. Suddenly, without any warning, James felt a heavy smack against the top of his head and flinched in panic and pain, placing both his hands atop his head, only to feel his now much softer and thicker head of hair, which, as he bent over from the sudden flash of pain, he noticed was extended well past his ears and very long.

"The hell are you doing, girl? You know you probably woke up half the village with that screeching and probably set off the guard as well. Now I have to explain to every bleary-eyed neighbor that my dumb daughter scared us out of our wits because of a bad dream and that we weren't being attacked." His tone was heavy and demeaning to James' ears as he came to terms with the fact that he now had a new father. Rubbing his head, he looked up and saw a look of anger and sadness when looking down at the body of his daughter. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes before grunting and saying, "Get back to sleep, the both of you." Before stomping out the door and shutting it hard behind him.

James just sat there, feeling completely lost in all this, only to hear a snicker from across the room. He looked over to see his probably sister giggling at his pain as she got back beneath her blanket. "Hehehe, someone's in trouble~ Don't worry, baby. Your sister will protect you from the big, bad shadows. Though you're gonna be on your own with Daddy." And with that, she turned over in her bed and snuggled back into her blanket.

James just sat there. Feeling awful and in a mess of confusion. Not only was he now in the body of a young woman, but he apparently had a new family to deal with, whom he had no memories of, and he was being punished after his first few minutes in a new world. How the hell was he going to survive this? Wasn't he supposed to have some kinda cheats?

**Ding**

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