Luis woke up from his nap as an annoying ringtone started from his cellphone, and had only few seconds to notice that something was very wrong. The bed was familiar, a plain red blanket with white linens, but everything else was not, what with the menacing forest from one side and a prairie from another. The man was able only to confirm that he didn’t have the normal sleepwear on him before his complete focus was caught by a loud foghorn and a boisterous announcement.
“Ladies and gentlemen!” A truly gigantic screen projected the form of a lanky man with a ridiculous cape and a full-face mask for the entire island to see “Welcome to a new season of the most popular programs in the underworld, ‘Hunt or be hunted’! Banned in ninety seven countries around the globe, the game will be carried out in the completely hidden and untraceable island Pesa, graciously provided by one of our sponsors, with my dashing self as the conductor and commentator as the contestants move on the island. My codename is Microphone, and along my lovely assistants we will try to make this transmission more enjoyable and entertaining, only for the viewers home! Now, for the ones who never followed the many unforgettable seasons before this a quick summary of the rules: every game has two hundred participants, scattered randomly on Pesa, in a free-for-all where our brave competitors use their wits or brawn for seven days to reach the end without being eliminated. There is no limit in the number of the victors after the week, but the entire prize will be split between the last ones standing, with a jackpot of thirty million dollars!”
‘Thirty million dollars?’ Luis wondered with no small amount of awe as he imagined his victory ‘And we can share the money? This could be to encourage alliances…’
“But then, dear viewers, some would ask what prevented the contestants to simply all agree on a truce for the duration of the show, without lifting a finger the entire week, and finally return home with a fat paycheck? The answer is that no contestant can remain idle for more than a day if they don’t want to be eliminated, compounded by the fact that the two hundred must search for food and water in the island. Every minute that the contestants stays on the island they breathe a mutagenic serum, keyed specifically to transform slowly the participants in this edition into equines, that will be then collected by our own teams. After the event you can even buy your favorite attendee if he or she didn’t make it!”
“I repeat, for the contestant’s sake this time, that the serum will change you completely after a day into a stallion or a mare. Let’s look at the equipment given now, shall we? All participants were given a black collar attached around their neck, whose function is to better regulate the game, and a pair of boxers along a simple green shirt, that cannot be taken away by another contestant in any case. Now viewers at home, how can someone win this show if after a day they would become irreversibly horses? The black collar around every participant is not only important to give their position to the map that everyone in the audience can see, but is an effective way to regulate the so called ‘fights’ in the game! No fistfight of any kind, I assure you that the troublemakers will be disqualified immediately, instead this contest will be of a more… lewd inclination. Inside the chokers there are many small doses of antidote for the serum, that will reverse only a bit the changes in the body and grant a short-lived immunity, thus postponing the complete transformation by four hour to six at best. So how do they activate the injector in the collars? Our brave contestants must cause an orgasm to the other participants! You heard correctly folks, this will be a show where the various men and women in the island challenge others in lewd displays of endurance, where the winner stays human a little longer and the loser can feel his or her humanity slipping away with every peak!” Here the announcer showed several pictures from the previous edition, with many hybrid beings between man and beast into various sexual poses, all strangely but clearly enjoying themselves “If two contestants make eye contact within ten meters from each other then they must force the other to orgasm to leave the area, the ones who try to escape will be injected with a paralytic solution and will be at the mercy of anyone for five whole minutes. It will not be
tolerated even a hint at violence, and the punishment is the same as if the contestant tries to escape”
“Kiss your partner passionately, fondle their erogenous zones sensually, tickle your lover until they go over the edge in ecstasy! Everything is permitted as long as physical violence is forbidden, and to make the experience more exciting the collars are programmed so that if an enemy touch them it will release a tiny jolt that will render the first person to the enemy’s tender care: 30 whole seconds where the prey can only watch impotently as the other have his or her way with them. Of course, to compensate this penalty the jolt cannot be activated again for 30 seconds, so if the attacker don’t want this to be turned against him he should be mindful. This edition of ‘hunt or be hunted’ has a new rule added too!” Here the announcer assumed a sheepish expression and coughed on his fist “After much debates and disagreements the executives addressed a recurring problem into the previous seasons, specifically if two contestants of the same gender ran into each other, in the past such encounters ended up almost always with two paralyzed contestants, that refused to follow the rules in that case, but this time is different! The gender of the prey will be forcibly changed by the collar to please the predator, with no turning back on their own even after the encounter. The contestants that changes sex should remember then that they can change back to their previous state only by submitting to another contestant. It seems everything for now, so without further ado, let’s get ready for the show!”