PART ONE.

 

Catalina Island, California

Kat sat on the side of the boat looking into the water, watching the multitude of fish swim by, she was waiting for the flying fish, it was mere hours before the first ones were due to fly past her. She wanted to see if she could capture a few for her research, of course they would be returned but she wanted to find out about the
intelligence of the fish, see if they could be used to help find out if the  genes were changing, she looked at the captain of the vessel, then back down into the water.  Spotting a large turtle she dived into the water, and swam down to look at it, swimming around it she brushed her hand along its tough shell, and smiled, looking gat it
carefully, she could see the damage that a passing speed boat had done and frowned, tickling it under the chin, then surfacing, she sighed, thinking.

"Another one to add to the collection" looking at the captain, "can you collect me a dozen fish, for my research, i forgotten something" diving into the water, she swims under the boat, and when out of sight of it, changes her shape to that of the turtle, swimming down she catches her bikini in her mouth ,  feeling for the first time what it was to be a turtle, swimming gently, following the currents back to the shore, she felt almost free, surfacing, and taking a breath. She dived back down, knowing that Avalon lay just 3 miles away she swam gently but strongly, about 100m off shore she stops and changes back , and dresses , and then continues her swim to shore, climbing ashore. She goes to the vehicle rental hut and took one of the golf buggies up to her
camp site , sitting down in the tent, show started to look at the research she had on her computer, then went to her private files, and entered the feelings she got from being the turtle there were 113 files about different animals, some her father made her take, others she hade collected herself, her pet project, was taking shape, she had managed to collect, many samples of blood from mosquitoes trapped in amber. 

She was attempting to re sequence the DNA into whatever they were before, she had managed to separate
out the larger creatures, and had set her sights on one in particular, the veloceraptor. 

Her research partner was working on a computer program that would help immensely, it could create
genetic sequences foe any features on a creature. but it was not sufficient yet, it kept making single bit errors, and she didn't like what these errors produced, looking at her list she smiled, all the zoos she had visited had allowed her access to all their animals without question, and she was very grateful, for amassing most of the cat family, many members of the canine family, and many equines and camels, but it was the aquatics and birds she needed information on, looking again at the list, and thumbing through  show smiled, and made another transformation, to her favorite form , that of the black panther. placing her paw on the screen she lowers it down and moves over away from the laptop, and lays down, it felt right for her to be like this, it was her fathers favorite too, but here on the island it was impractical. 

She had to come up with some clothes she could hide on her transformations, perhaps ,
there were some information somewhere but it was not worth it now, she would have to wait,

To be continued...