As Francisco slept, he twitched. And grew.
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"Oh no!" Josh called out.
"What?" Ric asked, coming over to the table where Josh'd been reading more of the book.
"It says here we're not supposed to mix spells, it creates a random effect." He pointed to a red-inked warning, probably a later addition by a more recent owner.
"What?!? What's going to happen?" Ric started to panick.
"Calm down, it says there's a table in the back of the book that'll tell what." He flipped to the back, to find more red ink, marking a table of page numbers for spells. "Alright.. this page.. and that page... Omigod."
"What is it?" Ric tried to look over Josh's shoulder, but couldn't read the fine print.
"It says he's going to end up with the results of page 48, which is THIS spell." He pointed to a page title that read "Pure Man," with a diagram showing a rough before-and-after. The man on the left looked average, like an old anatomy sketch, but the man on the right was obviously bigger, taller, much more muscular, with huge hands and feet, with dark squiggles all over the body indicating body hair, and a long tube of flesh accompanied by two spheres hanging from his groin.
Both boys immediately dropped the book, and ran to Francisco's door, pushing it open just enough to see..
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Francisco groaned, and turned over onto his back. Three buttons had already popped off, revealing a thick mat of chest hair, thicker than Josh remembered from his quick view before. The hair on his arms also seemed a lot thicker, and even his hands had some of the hair extending onto the backs of his fingers.
Ric had run back to the book, and was reading the warning on the new spell which had taken effect. "It says he's going to be very tired, and that he'll sleep very deeply. I think we should pull his clothes off, so he doesn't rip them to shreds."
"Are you sure? Can we really do that to Mr. Mendes?" Josh looked pensive.
"What, you mean more than we've already done?" Ric looked at him questioningly.
"I guess.. Let's just be quick about it."
They tiptoed into Francisco's room, and began unbuttoning his clothing. The jeans' button popped right open, and the zipper half-opened on its own. Josh pulled the rest of the buttons loose on the shirt, and started to pull it from their teacher's shoulders, when the growing man suddenly twitched, this time lifing an arm to scratch his chest, raking through the thick chesthair. Already stressed, the shoulder of the shirt ripped through, exposing his tanned, muscley shoulder.
"Crap!" Josh jumped, looking at the big muscley arm.
"Forget that, then, help me get these pants off. His legs have gotten really big." Ric had managed to get the waistband of the pants down a few inches, revealing Francisco's boxers.
"I don't think that's all that's gotten big." Josh stared at the bulge in the sleeping man's crotch, watching as it visibly inflated, pushing at the material. Small ripping sounds could be heard as the fabric began to give way.
"Never mind that, help me pull these pants off." This caused Josh to jump and he helped his friend by pulling on one pant cuff while Ric pulled on the other. It went slowly, but eventually the got down to Francisco's hairy knees, and the rest pulled off. This caused both boys to fall back, knocking into the dresser behind them.
"Wha!?" Francisco jumped up, ripping the rest of his shirt to shreds. He now looked like a hairy Latino version of the Incredible Hulk. Even his face had changed, broadening, little muscles in his cheeks, brow, and jaw growing enough to make him look different. All of this was covered by a thickly-growing beard, almost half an inch long, and thick eyebrows that spread in all directions.
"Boys, what are you doing in here? I told you to go watch TV." He turned to the side, still unaware of his changes. "Nevermind. Excuse me, I need to use the bathroom." Getting up, he sleepily swerved, just in time to avoid hittin his 7'2" head on the top of the doorframe!
Ric and Josh looked at eachother. What were they going to do now?