I turned the corner through his doorway, to find Lucas crouched over a few sheets of paper and grinning, hand scribbling enthusiastically.
“Look, what I’m drawing is actually happening!” He giggled excitedly and scooted over a bit, wanting me to sit beside him to see. On his sheet of paper I saw a familiar round-eared face looking back, atop a human’s body...
“I drew you first,” he explained, “but then I started adding hyena parts for fun.... but it’s actually happened, just like in my drawing! My brother’s a hyena!”
Did he not get it? This was bad, I can’t let Mom or Dad see me like this, or anyone! I can’t just be a hyena headed freak! I tried to get my lips to form actual words again, to ask him to change me back, but he just grinned even more at the animal whines that game out.
“This is so cool! I’ve never seen a real hyena before!” He reached up to play with my ears, and it was then that the tingling, itchy feeling came back. On my legs this time.... knowing what it meant this time around, I rubbed them through my pants legs yo confirm my suspicion, unconsciously letting out a whine when I feel the slight prickle of hair along the way...
That got Lucas’s attention, and he looked between you and his drawing a couple times, before that grin broke out again, and he picked up his drawing.
“You’re changing more!” He shouted excitedly, “look, I colored in your legs before I came down to check on those weird noises you made in the bathroom! And I changed how they look a bit, their legs work different than a humans, so I think you’re gonna get some paws this time!”
I let out a low groan at that, and pulled up the bottom of one of my pants legs to see. Sure enough I saw brown and tan fur poking through my skin in expanding patches. I ran a hand over it and felt the prickle of new hairs poking through my skin. Then my feet started to feel tight, like my muscles all stiffened, before they started to lengthen in my socks. They seemed to be getting thinner, but longer nonetheless, and my socks were stretching, and getting tighter and tighter. I let out a muffled growl that startled my brother up from staring, and he looked back at my face, a bit worried. “....Does it hurt? I hadn’t thought about that.”
I responded with a whine and started working to pull off the first sock, slipping a finger in to wedge it off my heel. Lucas got the message and tugged on the other one, and my new paws were soon out for both of us to see, the last of the changes there finishing up, and claws growing in on my new, rounded digits. I flexed them, and felt my ears fold back when they moved like I’d expected them to. These were my feet... and my brother couldn’t be more facinated.. “Wow! You really have paws now! Maybe I won’t have to beg mom to go to the zoo just to see one now!” I didn’t like the sound of that..... but I had a bigger problem to worry about right now. How was I going to stand on these?? I huffed and shuffled forward, getting on my hands and knees to push myself up, and managed to get my new feet up under me... then tried to stand. I somehow got up for a moment.... but the unthinkable happened.
My pants slipped down.
I heard Lucas try to stifle laughter, but he wasn’t very successful.... I tried to reach down to put them up quickly, but ended up tumbling forward with a crash, landing on my back with legs up in the air... and when I looked at them, pants hanging off one paw now, they were far from human. My legs looked so much closer to a dog’s.... though a bit off. Either way, there was nothing human about them. Even the way they hung there over my body while I lay on my back was all animal.
Then I realized once again I had no pants, and rolled over, crouching oddly on my legs, and pulled my lost article of clothing in front of my crotch. My brother was just giggling at my slip the whole time, and my ears lay back in embarrassment.
“I don’t think you’re very balanced like that, hehehehe...” then I noticed the crayon in his hand, and the paper he was drawing on... he was going further with this?? After all that!? I scooted over with an annoyed huff, trying to get a look, when I felt this pressure on my lower back... like something was pulling on my spine.... and I whined... I saw a new addition to the picture, and now I was growing a tail....
So I chanced a look behind me, and saw a nub, pushing longer and longer, with dark hairs starting to poke through.. and in my worry, I saw it start to tuck down, and I felt the fur of my legs start to tickle it, and felt the longer fur growing on the bottom of my new tail brush my legs... I looked at my brother, giving a whine. I wanted to tell him to stop this, but I couldn’t even get that across, he wasn’t even paying attention to me, just my new addition, absolutely amazed.
Then he tugged on my new tail, causing a sharp yelp from me, and I ran a few feet away....... wait.... I ran? Looking down I saw myself up on all fours, my new legs feeling oddly at home in this position, and my tail out for balance. I didn’t like how natural this felt at all, but of course Lucas is bursting into a big grin. “That is SO COOL.”
I tried to tell him off, but my hyena’s head and neck stopped that again, and all I could do was let off a laughing cry. He, of course, took this as my enjoying myself too.
“You know... you don’t look very comfortable like that, all human between your neck and legs, especially when you’re on all fours like that....” and he was reaching for his crayons again