Lion Dude observed his new form, one part trying to figure out what exactly he turned into, the other part being oddly aroused by it. A parrot flew in and landed beside him. While Lion wasn't the best at reading people, he could tell that the parrot was staring at him lustfully.
"Brawk! Pretty waifu alert!" the parrot squawked, "Brawk!"
"Is that what I turned into?" Lion asked the parrot.
The parrot wolf-whistled at Lion.
"I'm going to take that as a 'yes'," Lion deadpanned.
While he liked it when anypony considered him attractive, Lion found it weird that a parrot of all creatures was paying him compliments and it's for a form that wasn't his usual appearance. Slowly getting annoyed at the pervy parrot, not that he was one to judge, Lion decided to explore the beach he was on in the hope of finding a boat or anything that can get him off of the island he was on. While the more sensible idea would be to find a way back home, he figured he would treat this more like an adventure. Ironically though, in spite of a hunger for adventure, he preferred the comfort of his own home and his legs tend to get sore after too much walking. The sun was shining and, in spite of Lion barely wearing anything on his now almost hairless body, he felt like the weather was scorching. And since there was no drinkable water in sight, along with certain drugs making people dehydrated, chances are he is going to be a very thirsty stallion. Or rather a stallion that turned into a very thirsty, and surprisingly attractive, female ape. After what felt like an hour, he found a raft surrounded by a group of tall male ape things that were dressed as sailors and were definitely more hairy than his new female form.
"Greetings, my fellow waifus!" Lion said to the group of sailors, "I am totally not a stallion that got turned into a female waifu. You can trust me."
The group of hairy ape sailors looked at Lion, with one of them giving a wolf whistle his way.
"Hello, gorgeous," one of the sailors said perversely, "Want to hang out with some lads, do ya?"
"Not particularly. I was wondering if I could get a ride to...uh...somewhere that has weird magical happenings going on?"
The sailors looked at one another in order to think of what place in the world would have weird magical going-ons. A variety of places came to mind, like Disneyland, the North Pole, and Florida. Problem with those guesses were there was more than one Disneyland, the North Pole is freezing cold, and Florida is just weird. Suddenly, they came to a shared realization.
"Oh, you're on about that school!" one of the sailors said, "Canterlot High, wasn't it?"
Recognizing the name 'Canterlot', Lion assumed that's where he must go. While he didn't deny such a name was convenient and hearing it from a group of strangers even more so, he was in no mood to care about how contrived the whole thing was.
"Yes, that's the one," Lion replied.
"Yeah, I read a lot of weird stuff going on in that place," the sailor said, "What with one of the students turning into a she-devil, a battle of the bands that took a supernatural turn, another student nearly destroying the world. You don't hear stuff like that happening in Florida, do you?"
"Well, any chance you could take me there now? I'm a bit thirsty and I don't think there's anything to drink around here."
The sailor smirked at Lion. "Oh, you're thirsty, are ya?"
"Yes. That's what I just said."
"I know a way of quenching that thirst."
The sailor pointed at his crotch and thrusted. Lion looked at the sailor in confusion before realizing what he was doing.
"Oh," Lion said.
Lion walked up to the sailor and slapped him hard across the face.
"I'm not sure I deserved that," the sailor said.
Lion walked over to the raft, pushed it into the sea, hopped in, and fired up its engine.
"You know," Lion said to the pervy sailor, "If I had fingers, I'd show you one."
Lion looked at his hands and raised his arms in the air with both of his middle fingers extended.
"Oh wait, I do!"
As Lion zoomed off in the raft, the sailor stared on as he realized he messed up, with the other sailors looking at him in annoyance.
"I may have deserved that," the sailor said.
Lion inexplicably reversed the raft and threw a flare gun to the sailors.
"Since I assume not all of you are perverts, I figured you guys might need it."
Lion zoomed off again. While he has no idea where Canterlot High is, he figured he'd just keep travelling until he sees some familiar faces. The raft engine coughed and spluttered before ceasing completely. And that's when Lion realized he is now stranded in the middle of the sea with no way to call for help because he thought it would be wise to give the flare gun to those sailors.
"Aw, phooey!" Lion shouted loudly.
Deep within the darkest reaches of the ocean was a cave. The cave was a dark purple in colour and was littered with oyster shells. Within the cave was a nasty ugly looking creature that vaguely looked human but with the back of a manatee and electric eels for hair. The creature's lower half looked like a mix between a cuttlefish and a dress. The creature was in a slumber, until a small anchovy swam into the cave through inexplicable means. The anchovy's swimming was enough to wake the creature as it opened one of its blood-red eyes and looked at the anchovy with a sinister smirk. Without warning, the creature opened its mouth filled with white pearly blades, swam towards the anchovy with its mouth open and snapped it shut as it swallowed the anchovy whole.
"Life's not fair, is it?" the creature spoke as it picked up one of the empty oyster shells "Back in the day, I had ponies swooning all over me and giving me delight after delight as I lived like a queen."
The creature swam onto its back, emphasizing its very rotund body.
"And now look at me, wasting away in exile as everyone on the surface enjoys the pleasures that were once mine."
As the creature continued to self-pity, it noticed something all the way at the top of the sea that was floating still. From where it looked, the thing it stared at looked like a raft. Either that or an unusually-shaped turtle.
"My my, sounds like we've got somebody who's lost their way too." the creature smirked. "Good."