Mano Ka'ao

"You love the water don't you?"

"Of course."

"Did you ever feel like you could almost breathe under the water."

Cindy thought about it. "Sometimes. I can hold my breath for a really long time. Why?"

"Your mother told you your father died when his fishing boat sank. The truth is your father was an 'aumakua. He was a shark spirit.

When your mother became pregnant with you he told her the truth. Your mother never believed in the old spirits and she was scared. She told him she never wanted to see him again. When you were born he came to see you. He wanted to take you into the ocean. Your mother refused because she was afraid he'd take you and never bring you back. Soon after that she left the islands and never came back."

"So I'm-"

"Yes. We are all related to sharks but you are both. Just as you are now woman and man. You can change if you try."

Cindy held up her hand. She concentrated on the way she'd felt last night, wild and dangerous. Before her eyes her hand grew! Her skin turned a dull, scaly gray and webbing grew up between her fingers. Her nails became long and pointed and hard.

She got scared and the transformation immediately reversed itself.

"That was very good. You just need to relax and let it happen.

"I knew you would never really be happy away from your native waters, never knowing your true nature. That's why I convinced your mother to let you come here."

Cindy stayed in the house all day practicing her transformation. She could turn herself into a huge shark but she had to quickly change back because her gills burned for water. She could also stop the transformation at any point along the way from human to shark. This was incredible!

At dusk she jogged down to the beach,her new genitals a bouncing bulge in the front of her bikini bottom, threw off her clothes, and dove into the water.

She transformed completely into a massive twelve foot shark and shot through the water like a missile, propelled by her powerful tail. She explored the ocean in ways she had never been able to, even with scuba gear. She snapped up fish by the dozen and swallowed the chunks whole. She'd never felt so powerful or so right in her life.