Awakening

"Ow... my head." I groaned as I awoke to a throbbing headache. When I opened my eyes, however, it was when I realized that I was in a forest.

"Where am I?" I said aloud, my voice echoing off the trees. I slowly stood to my feet, using one of the nearby trees as support. My head was still pounding, and I tried to look around, but the forest was so dark that I could barely see. Something about the darkness and silence of the forest created such an uneasiness in me that I hastily picked a direction and started walking.

As I walked, the only thing I could hear was the sound of my footsteps on the ground beneath me. The silence felt deafening, and it was getting to me. Multiple times, I heard rustling behind me, yet when I whirled around, the only thing I saw was the trees, which only worried me further and made me quicken my pace.

After about fifteen minutes, I finally saw sunlight breaking through the trees, and I saw the edge of the forest ahead of me. I broke into a run, and when I let out a shout. I slowed from a run into a brisk walk, making sure that I was a good distance from the forest, not wanting to be anywhere near it.

After stopping to catch my breath, I stood up straight and looked at the area surrounding me. I was in a large plain, covered by occasional trees and hills. "Where am I?" I couldn't help but wonder, considering this was a place that I had never been to before. I noticed that the time was roughly mid to late afternoon, because the sun wasn't at its full arc, meaning it wasn't noon, yet it wasn't near the end of its arc, meaning that it also wasn't quite evening. I was facing the sun at the time, so I raised a hand so that I wouldn't have to squint.

It was then that I noticed that my hand was covered in white fur.

I didn't react at first, but when I realized what I saw, my heart skipped a bit and I looked at both my hands. Sure enough, both my hands were covered in white fur, with claws at the fingertips. Shock hit me, and in a panic, I looked at both my arms, and they had the same white fur covering them. My heart pounding, I looked down at my legs and saw the same thing. I shakily raised my hands to my face and felt my face, I found out that my mouth had transformed into a snout with sharp teeth, and that my ears were longer and pointed and now rested on the top of my head.

To make matters worse, I felt something brush my leg behind me, and when I glanced behind to look, I found out I also had a tail.

"Nope, this isn't happening, this isn't happening..." I rambled, in denial as I tried to convince myself that I just didn't see what I had become.

It didn't help my situation when something wrapped itself around my right leg and yanked me off my feet. I hit the ground hard, yet before I had any time to react, it started dragging me back towards the way I came. Turning myself on my back, I noticed that the limbs of the forest trees were what had grabbed me. "What the? Let go of me!" I shouted as I aimed a kick at the branch with my foot. The branch responded by tightening its hold on my leg, causing extreme pain and causing my leg to burn as if on fire, making me cry out in pain.

"H-help, someone, please!" I shouted in hopes that someone would hear me and would come to help me. Just as I was about to be dragged into the forest, something flashed from the corner of my vision and struck the branches that were holding me. The forest seemed to recoil from that, and the branches let me go. 

With my leg burning with pain, I tried getting to my feet, but my leg was so injured that I couldn't use it to stand up. Glancing at my leg, I noticed that it was covered in dark strands, that ran up and down my leg like veins. Being unable to stand, I opted in using my hands and my one good leg to crawl as far away as I could from the forest yet again, this time making sure that I was out of sight from the forest.

That's when I heard a voice call out "You need some help?"