Audrey continued to meander down the sidewalk, calling for her nonexistent calf while a growing crowd of onlookers stared as she passed. Her pants had mostly survived her sudden transformation into a part-human, part-cow creature, but her shirt was not nearly so lucky. Her still-leaking breasts made sure of that.
She looked particularly ridiculous as she walked on all fours, as her legs were still longer than her arms. As a result, her rear was sticking upward, which may have been necessary to keep her udder and its teats from dragging on the ground. While her feet had become hooves, there was still a semblance of humanity in her hoof-like hands. The fingers were more stubby and blackened, but she at least had fingers.
As she continued to wander along the sidewalk, a voice suddenly pierced the crowd of murmurs. "Audrey?!" A young woman about the same age as Audrey pushed her way to the front of the crowd. "Oh my god!" She kneeled, placing her hands on both sides of Audrey's face and forcing her to make eye contact. "What happened to you, Audrey?!"
Audrey simply mooed. In her diminished state, she was more confused by this person's actions, though there was a brief flicker of...something? It was very confusing.
The woman gave a pained look. "Okay...It'll be okay..." She moved to Audrey's side, then hooked her arm between Audrey's breasts and udder. As she forcibly lifted Audrey up, several of the bystanders averted their eyes as Audrey's bare upper half was placed on an even more prominent display than before. Several more began to take out phones and began pointing them in the pair's direction. "We'll get you a shirt..." She then muttered in a near-imperceptible mumble. "How in the world can I fix this?"
Audrey wanted to go back to the ground. It didn't feel right to be standing on two hooves, and all the flesh on her front painfully pulled her forward. However, this person was straining to keep the both of them standing. She began to struggle against this woman, but Audrey couldn't shake herself free. She turned to look at this person once more, and once more, Audrey felt something was not right. As she looked around at the veritable crowd that had gathered around her, this wrongness kept building. She was a cow, but she was so similar to these creatures when she was on her hind legs like this, and they were not cows.
The woman took a slow step forward, forcing Audrey to take a shaky and confused step in the same direction. She was already breathing heavily, but then turned Audrey to face her once more. Her intense sadness was only met by Audrey's dull stare. "Audrey, it's me, Melissa! Snap out of it!"
"Mooo..." Between the name and her face, memories began to flood back into Audrey's mind. "-Lissa?"
"Yes! Audrey, it's me! What happened to you?! Never mind, we need to get you out of here!"
Audrey was thoroughly confused. How had she gotten here? Why was she so heavy, and why did she feel like she was being pulled forward? She looked down briefly to see her uncovered breasts, which were much larger than usual. She instinctively moved her free arm to try to cover herself, but what was more distressing was the feeling of flesh against her jeans. It felt like there was a terrible pressure around her gut. It felt strangely like a much worse version of whatever was happening in her still-leaking breasts. She gave Melissa a numb nod toward her friend, then tried to force herself to stand upright. Her stomach felt horrible while standing, but she didn't want to be among these strangers for a minute longer.
"Thank yooou, Mooliss-" Audrey noticed that something was wrong with her speech. What happened to her? Why was she slurring her words? She instinctively moved her hand down to feel her gut since this nagging pressure wasn't stopping, then shivered as she tweaked a teat. "Moo...Meh-lissa, what's going on?"
"Uh, you've grown a few cowish parts. Ears, hooves, horns, tail..." she gave a pregnant pause. "Udder..."
As the duo passed various storefronts, Audrey recognized the arcane, and what had happened to her there. "Wait! M-lissa! I knooow what happened! A cow toy did this! Please, gooo in and get it, but don't squeeze it!"
Melissa nodded. "Alright, I'll get that cow and a shirt for you to cover up." She brought Audrey to a raised cement barrier, then set her down into a seated position. Melissa took great care in pushing her friend far enough back that both her rear and udder were held by the barrier, so Audrey wouldn't be pulled forward. "Wait here."
Melissa disappeared into the arcade, emerging less than a minute later delicately carrying the cow toy that had made Audrey this way. She set it down next to Audrey, then jogged to a nearby storefront that had some manikins wearing clothes on display. While she was away, Audrey suffered the embarrassment of being gawked at by various passersby. Most merely stopped for a brief picture, but a couple weirdos stayed for uncomfortably long, either whispering to each other in disgust or with a predatory gaze. One guy shooed them away and asked if she needed any help, but Audrey shook her head and continued trying to minimize the amount of bare flesh she was displaying.
Shortly after, Melissa returned with a shirt that was much too large for Audrey. She navigated the shirt over her engorged assets and horns, then lifted Audrey back up as she grabbed hold of the cow. While the shirt was obviously too large for her, the udder was still peaking through the bottom-most portions of it. Nevertheless, it made her look slightly more normal. "Alright, let's get back to my place and we can figure out how to fix this."
Audrey wasn't sure about that. The arcade had done this to her. Maybe it had a way of fixing her?