"...tail"
Ben stepped up to the microphone. He wasn't as nervous as the rest of the group, in fact, he was completely fine with it. He knew what he was changing into and he knew that it was because of this spelling bee, but he couldn't care less about it. He just wanted to win, and since people were worrying about their own changes, he thought that he had the fighting chance. He saw the judge smile away, which made Ben smile back. "Yeah, you may be smiling at what you've done to them, but you won't be smiling once I've won" he thought.
"Tail." Ben spoke, his throat sounding scratchy and hoarse "T. A. I. L. Tail." From there, Ben felt his spine start to stretch, pushing against his skin, trying not to make a face so the judge knew that it bothered him. The skin morphed around the now one foot long extension to Ben's behind. Black hair started to push through his skin as the extension continued to lengthen to two feet. More and more hair started to sprout, and thicken as the extension now reached three feet. The extension stopped but the hair didn't. It continued to thicken, completely making the small skin extension almost invisible under the layers and layers of fur. As the hair and spine stopped creating a new horse tail for him, Ben stopped tensing up his face in discomfort, much to the enjoyment of the judge.
"Thank you, Ben. You may sit down now" she replied.
Ben walked back, swishing and flicking his new tail back and forth. The contestants that previously had their transformations giggled at Ben's tail, making him sneer at them as he sat back down. Ben did notice something else, the discomfort and nervousness of Veronica. Veronica was up next. While she was nervous, she was determined to see though the spelling bee to see if her changes, as well as everyone else's, could and would be reversed.
"Veronica, your word is..."