Jon had tried, but he hadn't quite been able to stop Karyn. However, he did get a hand on her and now he was transported too, but to where? Or who?
Jon became disoriented and before he knew what was happening, he ran into someone and fell to the ground. He sat up and saw he was sitting in large field.
"What's going on?" Jon said.
The man he ran into looked up. "Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Jon," he replied "Who are you?"
"No, you're not Jon," said the other man. "Who are you? Who am I? What's going on? Where am I?" the man frantically asked as he began to cry.
"Karyn?" Jon asked.
"Yes, I'm Karyn, what's going on?" he replied.
Jon couldn't believe it but the jockstrap had worked. He was looking at a man in front of him in his mid-20s wearing nothing but a pair of light blue compression shorts and it was a very confused Karyn in his body.
"Karyn, calm down," Jon said. "It's me, Jon."
"No you're not, where is Jon? What's going on?" Karyn yelled.
Jon looked down at himself and realized why Karyn didn't believe him. He too was sitting on the grass shirtless, wearing only a pair of dark blue shots. His normally thin frame had been replaced by a medium build and his thick legs and bare feet were not his own either.
"Wow, it really worked," Jon said and turned to reassure Karyn.
"Listen Karyn, I made a wish with the stone," Jon said as he put his hand around her - or rather his - shoulder. "That jockstrap you were playing with was magic."
Jon quickly explained the wish he had made and how he and Karyn ended up in their current predicament. Karyn began to calm down, but still had questions.
"Well who am I? Where are we?" she asked.
Jon thought about that for a second and found that he knew the answer. "Don't you remember?" he asked. "We're in Bischofshofen for dryland training." As Jon spoke, he suddenly realized that he and Karyn had been speaking German this whole time. Jon didn't know a word of German, but suddenly he could speak and understand it as his native tongue.
Suddenly they were interrupted. "David! Michael!" someone yelled from across the field. "Will you two get up so we can play some football?"
They looked over to see an older bald man holding a soccer ball and three or four other men in shorts were stretching and jogging around nearby.
"Look, just try to play along," Jon said to Karyn as he got up and ran over to towards the others.
"But, Jon..." she started to protest as she stood up. "Heads up, David!" came another voice and she turned around to see the soccer ball coming her way. She instinctively trapped it, then passed it away before jogging up the field.
Karyn looked down at her body again. She was a guy! She didn't even know what to think. She ran her hands over her torso. Her body wasn't huge, but it was clearly in good shape and athletic. Then she reached her hand down her shorts and almost screamed. She had a penis! Karyn figured that she should have expected it seeing her current predicament, but it still came as a shock to actually feel it and the sensations it gave her.
Meanwhile, Jon was passing the soccer ball around with the other guys on the field and trying to see what more he suddenly knew about his predicament. He knew he wasn't a pro soccer player, this was just training. They were in a village in the Austrian Alps, just like every summer.
Jon's train of thought was interrupted by the coach's whistle.
"All right, guys," he shouted. "Now that you're warmed up, let's start the run. Today we'll do the endurance training."
The pack of athletes started off down a trail in the hillside and Jon and Karyn followed. Karyn felt so much stronger in this body and Jon was amazed that he was cruising through a run that would normally be a labor. Seeing the snow-capped peaks, all the details of this athlete's life suddenly dawned on Jon. He was on the Austrian ski team, he competed in the nordic combined, a combination of cross-country skiing and ski jumping. As he looked at the other bodies jogging alongside him, Jon knew who each of them were and his head was filled with memories of them.
They must have ran for ten miles and eventually both were covered in sweat and pushing through pain. "How long are we going to be here?" Karyn panted. At that moment, Jon realized that while he was careful to specify that they would only temporarily jump into an athlete's body, he never said anything about how long they would be there or how they would get back.
"I don't know," Jon replied.
"You don't know!?"
