As the start of his tail began to grow from his back, Ollie felt a pins-and needles sensation all over his body, and soon enough tiny blue, black and white feathers began to grow from his skin. Ollie felt his heart beating faster, even as he raised a foot...watching as tailfeathers began to sprout from his behind, feeling his teeth merging into the beginnings of a beak. He was doing it, he was really becoming a bird! But then a thought struck him. What if he got stuck. Being a full animal, he couldnt put on the ring or take it off, or even communicate. He couldn't take that risk, not so fully. Glancing around quickly, he saw his junior high sneakers still on the floor. His feet were already starting to shift more fully. His five fingers were becoming three and starting to spread and he could feel the start of a fourth toe grow from his talons. His adult clothes were still a bit too far that he feared running to reach them.. Well, it was better than nothing, maybe they could help him stay at least partially human.
Stumbling a few steps, he manages to grab the sneakers with his fingers even as they were starting to get a little stubby, and stuff his shifting feet into them.
In an instant, everything shifted, the world began to grow around him even as the feathers swarmed his changing body. His fingers distended again, growing dark and scaled even as his growing wings merged into them. But still though his arms were now wings, he kept hands. His feet, in turn slid and he heard a rip as the talons shifted out of them, but somehow, he remained humanoid, even as his feet fully changed. HIs ears dissapeared aside his head as he felt his body growing smaller, slighter and lighter.
Then it was suddenly over....and olliver stared in the mirror. Standing there staring back was a young looking humanoid blue jay, completely naked except for a human boy's ripped sneakers. From head to tailfeathers, he looked like someone had merged and melded a human with a bird Oliver could not believe it. He flexed fingers and toes, felt his tail twitch behind him. He had done it, he had become this hybrid, albeit a young hybrid. He felt giddy again, staring down at his naked body. Somehow this was better than he imagined ....the ring still fit on his finger. After a moment of just observing his body he decided...