"What the hell was that!?" Asked the senior most swimmer, Kevin Walker.
Another older black boy turned around, a panicked expression on his face. "I have no F-ing clue, but was that THING coach Matthews?"
Her Jared couldn't help but let out a sarcastic snort, "I think that was already established. What I am more worried about is what has happening to him. Did you see his body, it was distorted and misshapen." Jared was slightly afraid, thinking back to how only a few short minutes ok they had been talking in the locker room.
Thomas turned to his friend, "You know he kinda looked like he becoming a dog." His said, clear and softly, but had somehow managed to cause all of the aide conversations to bleed off.
"I'm sorry? A dog?" This time it was a female swimmer.
Thomas rubbed the back of his head, "Well yeah didn't you see the snout and tail?" He asked condescendingly, yet without malice or ill intent.
One of the younger swimmer suddenly reached for his towel, letting his bright red hair fall over his face. As he pulled it upwards he saw his cell phone and watched as a emergency alert ran through. "Hey guys! You may wanna look at this!" He shouted out as he motioned towards his phone.
The others crowded around him, looking downwards bad reading the automated message. -This is a terror alert, an unknown biological agent has been detected in the area. Citizens are advised to remain in their homes, with their doors and windows locked. If you see citizens with any of the following symptoms please avoid contact with them. High fever, cloudy eyes, profusely sweating, unnatural hair growth, altered behavior, and any other uncommon actions.-
"What are we going to do?" A young women asked.
"Well first off we need to stay where we are, you read the text we have no clue what's going on. Aside from the fact that something happened to our coaches and we don't know where they now are." Kevin said with a strong tone, and good standing posture.
The rest of the group looked hesitant to agree, many had drivers licenses and thought they could easily go home. Before anymore conversations could be started the whole pool went dark. Being in an indoor pool, Kent they required artificial lights to provide light for their workouts. It was these lights that had gone off.
"Ahhhhh, now what." An agitated female said as she started shuffling around.
Kevin walked towards one of the doors around the pool, not the locker room door, and tried pushing them open. They would not budge.
Kevin walked back before saying, "It seems like a blackout, no problem. We can't leave the pool area because of the magnetic seals on the doors not opening, but I'm sure that they lifeguards will be working on letting us out." Kevin finished and then went to towel off.
Many of the others followed his lead, some tried to push the doors open themselves and other looks around cautiously.
Jared walked with Thomas towards they red haired boy who had let them know about the government alert. "Michael, since when did you start being your phone out on deck?" Jared admonished, before ruffling the younger boys hair. Being nearly eighteen Jared was pretty developed and had a great swimmers body, but in comparison thirteen year old Michael was a stick who had yet to hit puberty.
Pushing his hands off head Michael replied, "You know coach Matthews was always so busy trying to woo coach clover, and so rather then spend the last ten minutes listening to their vague flirting I thought I could find better ways to entertain myself." He was honest, but it didn't make the reason behind the action and less weak.
Michael was quite for a moment, wrong out his hands. "Hey do you guys think that it's possible for someone to transform? I mean how else would Mr. Matthews look like that?"
The question caught the older boys off guard, Thomas started to talk, but Jared looked around and noticed that many of the swimmers were speaking in hushed whispers casting half glance looks at the locker room doors.
".....and that's why I think that transformations could be possible." Jared clued in on the the tail end of the conversation between Michael and Thomas.
As they finished talking all the swimmers started drying off, and then waiting in their swimsuits for the power to turn back on. Occasionally they could hear howls echoing through the other sections of the indoor pool, but being isolated at the center they had no idea what was going on.
Eventually...