Learning to Fly

Story by Gabriel Moon on SoFurry

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#45 of Commissions

A sky diving instructor finds a new more effective way to do his job via nanite technology


I gazed out over the edge of the hill at the beautiful summer's day creeping over the wide fields outside my hometown. It was fucking gorgeous. Not too hot, thankfully. Especially during mid-afternoon with the sun beaming directly on the fields below. Perfect for creating thermals, I thought to myself. Not something I usually cared about. But today would be an exception.

I was a skydiving instructor, a profession that well suited the daredevil in me. I had loved the sport from a young age and getting this job had been the chance of a lifetime. I got my kicks from doing dives and having rich people pay me to take them along for the ride. What was that adage? You never work a day in your life if you love what you do?

Still, I'm ashamed to say, after five years on the job I was already starting to get a little bored. The route had been carefully planned out, the procedure so ingrained in my mind that sometimes it seemed to suck all the joy out of my job. I mean, don't get me wrong. Jumping out of a plane and falling hundreds of miles to the earth was never going to get old. But, I needed something more. Something different. Unique.

I'd tried doing other dives all over the world, different altitudes, locations, and with different kinds of gear. Even in my off time, I was diving. I couldn't get enough. Yet, much to my dismay, the experiences only compounded what I had already known. Despite the thrill, there was only so much variation that the confines of the human body could allow from the experience.

That's when I decided to look into nanite transformation technology. It was months before I could save up for it, but I knew exactly what I wanted to try once I could afford a package. If skydiving as a human was losing its appeal for me, then what would it be like to skydive with my own wings? Yet that was something to consider for another time. It had taken some deep self-reflection, but I soon came to the proper conclusion. The thing I wanted more than anything was to fly. Not just to fall out of a plane, but to do so and then soar up with it once more. So here I was, staring up at the sky longingly, excited about experiencing what it would be like to truly live there and not just briefly visit as I'd done before this.

I took off all my clothes, stripping down to my underwear before even taking those off. wanted to see the changes to my body as they happened, even the more intimate ones! I didn't care so much about being seen. There was very little chance of anyone coming up this way, and besides, I would be covered in feathers soon enough!

I pressed the button on the device that would activate the nanites through my system and begin my change into the form I'd chosen. I would become part-eagle for this change. I'd be fully able to fly, while still having my hands and my voice for the duration of the experience.

I'd done some research on what it would feel like, of course. First hand accounts from others who had undergone this particular change, or ones similar. However, I don't think I could ever fully prepare myself for the sensations of changing into a non-human being.

It was safe as far as I could tell. Other people had become birds or other winged creatures and had been able to fly with no problems. And in the worst-case scenario, if I crashed and fell, so long as I wasn't killed outright, the nanites could heal any damage done to me. So while it would hurt like hell, there would be little risk to my well being.

I would remain changed for several days, long enough to get used to the sensations of flight. I then planned to teach a few special skydiving classes. It seemed people were eager to sign up. At the rate I was charging, I would be able to pay off the cost of the nanite usage!

I wouldn't have to think about how to use my new form, especially the limbs and other structures I could never learn on my own with a human mind. The nanites were programmed to teach me all the necessary mental commands without having to think about it. I would know how to fly, how to maneuver my wings, how to make micro-adjustments with my feathers, and how to take advantage of thermals and the like.

My thoughts snapped back to the presence as I felt a tingling spread through my body. That was supposed to signal the start of my changes. It felt weird, but I braced myself, trying to be prepared for anything. It wouldn't hurt, at least. I couldn't imagine the pain that should come with such a transformation. Every cell in my body would be changing. I could only imagine how unbearable that would feel without the nanites to dampen it!

I felt my arms itching and I looked down, watching as tiny barbs started poking out of my skin. They were much thicker than my regular hair. As I stared intently, my arm hair began to thicken to match the growth of this new hair. It itched like hell, but it didn't hurt.

The barbs began to thicken, erupting out of my pores as they grew longer and flattened. Smaller hairs grew from the shafts as the entire structures grew massive. In a few moments, my arms were covered with hundreds of them. I laughed as they began to take a more familiar shape. I was growing feathers!

I felt my hands start to tingle next as the skin began feeling dry and rough. I stared in excitement as my skin darkened towards a yellow-orange shade. It then began to flake into patterns that resembled scales which spread down my wrists into my hands and fingers. In a few moments, my arms from the elbow down were covered with scales while feathers continued to thicken over the pale skin above.

The tingling intensified in my fingertips and I knew what was coming. I stared as my nails changed from their translucent pink towards a thick, diseased-looking black. The nails on each finger expanded, the ends curving into vicious-looking claws as they grew in both girth and length. Soon, all my fingers and thumbs were adorned with the deadly talons!

My arms were still changing, the bones and muscles contorting into new shapes. I could almost feel my bones starting to hollow out, while my muscles stretched and thinned to their absolute limits. I smiled at the realization. My body needed to undergo a variety of physiological changes to allow me to be able to fly under my own power. The nanites really were amazing!

The changes started moving into my chest, starting with more brown feathers popping out from my skin. I resisted the urge to scratch. I didn't want to accidentally hurt myself with my new talons. Even if the nanites healed me, I still didn't want to be covered in bloody feathers!

I felt my stomach gurgle as my internal organs started shifting to suit my new form. I knew my digestive tract was changing to handle a diet of only meat, forming my avian gizzard in a space preceding my stomach. My breast bones expanded outwards to allow room for the increased size of my heart and lungs. The bones were shifting inside my body, thinning out to become as light as possible for flight. It was an amazing sensation, I had to say!

Despite myself, I started getting aroused. I felt a little embarrassed by this realization. The changes felt good, sure, but my cock was at full mast! At least I was alone out here. No one else could see the changes or how much they were turning me on!

I stared down at my erection, watching as my modest 6 inches began growing. The tip was leaking a clear fluid as the entire shaft became pointed and red. It was getting longer and thinner the more I stared!

I'd done some research on birds before the change started. Most birds didn't have cocks or any form of external genitalia. They reproduced simply by rubbing their cloaca together and exchanging fluids.

I quickly became curious about how my changing cock would look. I didn't know I'd even have one if my anatomy resembled an accurate eagle's reproductive organs. I hadn't looked up the specifics for this nanite transformation. I suppose I was too embarrassed to do so. Maybe this was how other people who had chosen a package similar to mine had wanted it to look. I might have considered them deviants if the changes weren't so arousing!

I felt something tingling in my backside as the changes in my internal organs migrated along with my anus. I shuddered at the sensation as my balls started retracting inside me and the opening of my anus grew closer to my cock. I shuddered as my interior anatomy slowly slid closer and closer to my junk. It seemed to be on its way to merging with my cock and forming an avian cloaca. It was a bizarre sensation, to say the least!

I watched as the slit of my anus merged fully with my cock, leaving my member sticking out the edge of the larger opening. I couldn't imagine keeping this thing out long enough to, well. You know. But from the seasons welling up from my new cloaca and cock, the decision might be taken out of my claws.

I could feel the feathers spreading down my legs, the itching intensifying as more and more of those thick brown shafts poked out all over my flesh. My ass cheeks started to tingle as they began to recede, melting into the pinkening flesh of my skin. Several larger shafts sprouted out above the area where my ass had been. I smiled at that. They were becoming my all-important white tail feathers!

The brown feathers continued to spread down my legs as I felt my hips shift a little. They were thickened a little at the ends, while thinner down towards my knees. My knees stayed the same shape. I was becoming only part bird, after all. The bones in my legs hollowed, allowing the passage of more air and blood vessels. My muscles stretched as well, thinning to minimize the overall weight to aid in flight.

I felt much lighter already as the changes continued encroaching over my form. was exhilarating, being this weightless. I felt so powerful. And breathing was so easy! I took in several large lungfuls, feeling energized in a way I'd never experienced as a human.

I watched as the yellowed scales started forming on my ankles, right above the skin where the feathers had stopped growing. It was the same color as the skin on my arms, and I began to realize that the programmed form had chosen bird legs for both sets of limbs. It was a pretty cool look, all in all.

My toes were starting to twitch and extend as the yellowed scales encroached over their surface. My big toe crawled up into my ankle completely while my little toes started to rotate backward on both feet. I could see my pink nails starting to stretch out into dark black claws. I smiled a bit as I watched the sight of my new talons forming on the remaining three toes.

Yet, I was distracted from my developing talons by the sensations of my smallest toes moving backward around my feet. I stared as the toe finally settled behind my heel. It began ballooning outwards with muscles, the scaled toes growing the same wicked claws that adorned my other digits.

I gazed down in reverence at the completed avian feet I now sported. I would have no need for shoes with these! I dug them into the ground, feeling every inch getting longer and more flexible. These feet were amazing! There was a strength to them beyond what even I felt in my hands!

Yet even the sight of my feet paled in comparison to the excitement I felt from a tingling in my back. Would these be the beginning of my wings? I rubbed the features in the area gently as a protrusion of skin and bone began to push through the skin. It started as an uncomfortable lump, but as the tingling persisted, the limbs rose out from the skin just above my shoulder blades.

The new arms began to stretch outwards, growing longer and thicker as needed muscle and bone filled the spaces inside them. I tried flexing them as new neural connections began forming in my mind. I could really move them at the base above my back and from the elbow joint that had formed. I could manipulate the limbs as well as I could my own arms. It was so bizarre having a second set!

The arms lacked fingers or anything of the sort. I could feel the fused bones growing underneath the skin but all that was left was a pointy lump at the end of the limb. I watched as it, too, became covered with feathers. Several larger sets of feathers grew longer and thicker from the base, the muscles underneath the skin able to move them independently as they grew stronger.

The muscles underneath them were powerful but light like the rest of my body. The surface of my wings was becoming covered with large, broad feathers that would aid in catching air currents and allowing me to fly. I was beyond excited!

I flapped them experimentally feeling myself lift off the ground slightly. Wings! I had wings! I could fly under my own power if I so chose! I couldn't wait to try them out, to take off from the hill and soar over the fields. I even found myself wondering what it would be like to jump out of a plane without a parachute!

My cock twitched from the thought. I looked down to see I was still powerfully erect and engorged with blood. The arousal from the changes was maddening!

I reached down with my clawed hand, careful of my talons as I teased the tip. I felt a shiver run through my entire body as the tip burbled out a small amount of pre. Something in my loins trembled with excitement. I had no testicles to speak of anymore, those had all ended up inside me. But the more I stroked myself off, the more I felt something tingle inside me, the pleasure stimulating me inside and out.

A further tingling distracted me from my exploration. At last, the changes began to overtake my head. I could feel the pinpricks of feathers bursting out of my neck as the bones and muscles audibly cracked. I craned my neck to alleviate the discomfort, and with a surprising motion, I realized my neck could turn much further than as a human. I figured if I had chosen to be part owl I could, in fact, rotate my head all the way. But still, even this degree of range of motion was amazing! I could even look back and see my tail feathers, white and proud and still growing longer from my backside.

The feathers were spreading further up my face. I couldn't see them without a mirror, which made me a little disappointed. But I could feel them running up my face, around my eyes, and my cheeks. I knew they were white this time, instead of the shades of brown that covered the rest of my body. I felt my hair grow fluffy and light as the strands of hair either fell out or grew thicker into the beginnings of white feathers. I grinned at the implication. I was well on my way to becoming part-bald eagle. A little cliche, I know, but I was loving every minute of the change!

I watched as my lips started hardening with a yellow flesh and began to push away from my face. I could see the hardened skin extending longer and longer, taking my nose for the ride as well. My nose began to curve and sharpen into the tip of my deadly beak, while my thickened lips formed the rest of the protrusion. I could feel my tongue getting thinner in my mouth. My teeth, however, remained intact and human. What a sight that must be!

I could feel my eyes start to water as they grew larger, taking up a good portion of the surface of my face. I was gaining a predatory stare as the blue irises changed into a golden color. I blinked a few times, stunned by the level of detail in the world around me. It was amazing! Colors were so much more vibrant! I could see every blade of grass a mile away, all across the field. Every hint of movement set my mind ablaze in excitement! I was an apex predator, lord over the skies!

The sensations of change once more brought me to look down at my needy cock. It was throbbing now, growing longer the more I watched. Pre was drooling from the thin pointed tip. It was so long I wondered how it was going to fit back into my body once I was done! But there was no way it was going back in without me finishing first, I was certain of that!

I could feel the last changes spreading over my form. My head began to slope as the bones in my skull fused and hollowed. My ears retracted into my skull, but I could hear so much better, as though the world had opened up for me through the ear holes I now sported. My body didn't shrink much, thankfully. I had been rather tall and I didn't want to lose that height!

Every itch, every tingle that led me to my final form made me so damn horny! I couldn't help myself. My cock was so painfully erect. No one could help themselves in this kind of situation, I was sure!

I gripped my cock carefully, wary of my sharp talons. My member throbbed as I stroked its length. Thankfully, the skin on my flesh was firm. Even my rough-scaled hands did little to slow me down as I found my rhythm.

I was getting so close. The sensations welling up in my cloaca were reaching a crescendo. I'd never felt anything like this. It was so good... oh fuck... I was gonna...

"AHH ffuccccccccckkkk!" I yelled as I shot several streams of thick spunk all over the ground. Waves of orgasmic release flowed through my body, making my feathers tremble from the sensations. No human orgasm could compare with the sheer force of my avian release!

I sat down hard as my cock burbled out the last bit of cum onto the ground. The change was done. I was ashamed that I hadn't brought a mirror. I would have loved to see the changes and what I looked like now. I was sure I was a magnificent specimen of avian physiology. And it was mine for the next five days!

I was amazed at the level that I could see the world around me. Everything was so bright and vivid. Was this the world viewed through the eyes of an apex predator? I couldn't wait to see it from the sky!

I looked down from the hill, wondering if I could just jump off it. But what if I couldn't fly right away? I jumped up and down, flapping my wings and trying to lift off the ground. But with the size of my body, I couldn't get enough lift. I would have to risk jumping off if I wanted to truly fly.

I spread my wings as I gazed down at the 30ft drop. It should be enough for me, right? I gripped the ground in my talons, feeling a little nervous about jumping. But there was something else in my mind with me, a new aspect of avian instincts. They wanted to take off and soar in the sky.

I had to risk it. I flapped my wings hard, feeling myself start to lift. I jumped up, gaining extra height to increase the length of the fall, forcing my body over the edge. My stomach dropped as I fell to the earth, but my wings were already in motion. The powerful muscles caught an updraft and I rose into the air, flying for the first time.

I can't begin to describe the sensations of flight. I was already 20 feet in the air, my wings flapping to take in every breeze, every rising air current to lift me higher and higher. I could even spot the currents of heat, the thermals that would lift me up.

I rose as high as I could, my eyes still able to see every blade of grass, every animal, every insect that crawled across the ground. It was amazing! Yet nothing attracted my interest like the river nearby. I could see the silvery shapes of fish under the surface, awakening a hunger in my belly. I knew I didn't have to eat my fish raw. Though, the rumblings in my stomach were giving me a craving for sushi!

I took off, reaching heights recimecent of my diving excursions. I relaxed, letting my body take over as I surveyed the landscape. The sight was breathtaking. I'd seen it all before, of course. But not for this long. Not without any worries about the dangers of preparing for my landing. I could stay up here for hours!

This is what I'd been looking for. What I'd been missing despite all my adventures. This was true freedom.

******

"Alright ladies and gentlemen, get ready! This is going to be a first-time experience for me too, so brace yourselves!" I yelled, trying my best to smile with my beak. It wasn't the most reliable sight, but it was the best I could do.

I saw them staring wide-eyed at that. Well, in their defense, they had been staring wide-eyed at me all afternoon, ever since we'd gotten in the plane and taken off. I bet they weren't expecting a 6'foot eagle man to be giving them diving lessons today. Well, I mean, I had announced it prior, but seeing is believing, as they say. I even had the decency to put on pants, hoping they wouldn't affect my flight too much. And in case I got too excited in an inappropriate way.

"Everything ready, Colin?" My pilot asked through the intercom. I gave him a clawed thumbs up and he prepared to release the hatch to allow the jumpers to exit the plane.

"Alright everyone, make sure your parachutes are secured!" I said as I felt the wind blowing my feathers from the open hatch.

I lead the way, jumping out of the plane with my wings tucked in, much as I would in my human body. I wasn't wearing any other clothes, but the cold didn't bother me through my feathers. I started to fall, enjoying the exhilaration as I usually did. But this time would be so much different.

"WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed as I opened my wings, and I flew!