"This hay sure is goooood stuff!" Lana said to herself in a deep voice, and a smile on her bovine face "Still,...something doesn't feel quite right here, though I can't put my hoof on it. I wonder when my parents are gonna milk me? Wait........milk me? Why am I thinking that? Hmm.....maybe I should talk to them about this. Yeah.....that's what I'll dooooo."
So Lana walked out of the barn, and to her house. She rang the doorbell with her nose. "Mom, Dad." she called to them in her deep cow voice "I think I might have a problem!"
They opened to find their cow daughter, still with her blonde hair in a bun, which was the only human-looking thing left about her, and she had a nervous smile on her muzzle. "I think something is wrong." Lana told them "I want to be milked, yet.....I feel like I shouldn't be for some reason....also.........I know I'm a cow,.....yet I'm pretty sure I'm in highschool. How did they even allow me in there? I mean, what would a cow do with an education anyway? Am I actually a science experiment gone wrong, because.......that would be kinda cooooool actually! Ha, ha, ha!" and she wiggled her ears as she laughed.
Her parents looked at eachother, then back to Lana. "Dear," her mom said with a nervous smile "Would you excuse us please? Your father and I need to talk about something." and she shut the door.
"Oooookay then." Lana said with a smile "I'm a patient cow. I'll wait."
Inside, they were trying to figure out what went wrong. The cow necklace was supposed to turn her into a normal cow. For you see, Lana's parents had gotten tired of her attitude, and wanted her gone without straight-up killing her, so they figured that they'd sell her off for a large amount of cash, and Lana would eventually be turned into steaks and burgers after she was no longer any good for milk.
But now they had a problem: Lana could not only still talk, but she also half-way remembered who she was.
While her parents paced around trying to figure out what to do, Lana was having a problem of her own: her memories were all messed-up. Sometimes she remembered herself as a human girl, but other times she remembered herself as a cow. She didn't know what to do.
At that moment, Lana heard the fluttering of wings. She looked around, and saw what looked like a 3-year-old girl dressed up in cowgirl clothes with a black hat, black boots, and a black belt with a silver skull buckle, but her skin was red, her eyes were black with yellow irises and slit pupils, she had long black hair, pointy ears about six inches long each, horns poking out of the top of her cowgirl hat, large bat wings poking out of the back of her black vest, and a spade-tipped tail poking out the back of her pants.
She also seemed to carry a small gun, and a lasso on her belt.
A naughty smile revealed sharp but cute fangs, and she spoke in a cheery tone "Well, well, well! What have we got here? It's not every day I see a cow with a hair-bun! I'm Cassidy, local trouble-maker 'round these parts! And who might I have the pleasure of talkn' to?"
"I'm Lana," Lana replied nervously "and I'm very confused right now! I'm a cow, but I don't know if I should be one or not!"
"I'll answer that for ya." Cassidy said with a smirk "Yer NOT! See, I've been watchin' y'all ever since ya came here. I know bein' an imp, I normally don't give a rat's backside if something bad happens in the life of a mortal human, but yer ma and pa bought that necklace fer ya so that they wouldn't have to put up with yer complainin' no more! They meant ta sell you off ta be milked an' butchered!"
"How do I know you aren't lying?" Lana asked, a bit mad that this imp would say such things about her parents.
"See fer yerself!" Cassidy replied, and using her imp magic, opened a portal through which sound and sight could only go one way, so that they could see and hear Lana's parents, but not the other way around.
"I don't understand!" Lana's mom screamed "She should be nothing but a dumb cow now! That saleswoman said so!"
"Calm down, dear." Lana's dad told her "Did you keep the reciept?"
"What good will that do now that the necklace has fused to her?!" Lana's mom responded "I can't take her anymore! We're shipping her straight to the butcher shop TONIGHT!!!"
At this, Lana began to tear up, and Cassidy, believing that Lana had seen enough, closed the portal.
"I don't belive this!" Lana said as she cried "I didn't know they felt this way about me!"
"What if I told ya that there was a way fer me ta change yer fate fer the better?" Cassidy said with a kind smile.
"Why would you want to help me out anyway?" Lana asked through tears.
"Because my parents were the same way with me!" Cassidy told her with an angry look on her cutely fierce face "Years ago, I usta live in that there house with my ma and pa, but they were poor and need money.
They were desperate - VERY desperate! I was seventeen just like you. They tied me up in the basement on a magical circle, hoping that by using me as a sacrifice, they'd get all the money they could ever need in return.
They set fire to the house and let it burn with me still in it! I had so much rage in my heart that I refused to die.
As the flames consumed me, they made contact with the circle and triggered it, but instead of summoning anything, it changed me into what you see now..........and as for my parents,......well......I didn't kill them......no! Death would've been a mercy! Instead I used my new-found magic to turn my ma into a hat, and my pa into boots! They said I wore them out, well now I'm WEARING them!............Ironic, right?
I stayed behind in case anyone ever moved into the house that was built over mine that burnt down, ta make sure what happened ta me don't happen ta no other kid! So.....I have me a sweet little proposal fer ya: I'll not only get you out of that huge, clumsey form, but I'll also help ya git back at those varments who dare call you their daughter! What do ya say? I've restored yer mind while we were talkn', so now you can make the right choice.
What will it be? Lana-burgers, or sweet revenge?" Of course, it was Cassidy's intent to turn Lana into a little imp like her so that she'd have someone to play with, but she didn't tell Lana that "Well Lana?"