Colin looked over his friends, then leaned back. “Jane, Rex, Sally, Alister… we’re all anthro dragons here, right?”
All their faces (including Robyn’s) went dull for a moment as they answered in a monotone, unison “Yes.”
Jane, obviously, underwent no new changes, but all three of the others immediately began to grow scales in different colors, their bodies stretching and reshaping.
Rex’s body began to get longer and thinner, almost serpentine, as ruby-red scales spread down his back, with larger yellow scales on the front of his torso. His hair, meanwhile, turned bright yellow, growing out long and wild, becoming more like an animal’s mane than any human hairstyle. A pair of brown horns poked out from the back of his head, branching off at several points like the antlers of a deer. His jaw grew out wide and bulky, his nose sliding to the front as a pair of prominent nostrils. Unlike Colin, while his teeth did get sharper, his tongue did not fork. Instead, he grew long, dangling whiskers at the end of his snout. As his clothes tore, then disappeared, Colin could see that Rex was growing more hair down his back, tracing down his spine all the way to the newling forming tail snaking out about his rear, culminating in a sizable tuft at the end of the new limb. The new eastern dragon seemed to constantly be hovering just above his chair.
Alister and Sally, meanwhile, began to change into the same sorts of western dragons Colin and Jane had already become. Alister grew black scales with red suctes, while Sally’s scales were purple with white. Tearing sounds could be heard as tails and wings forced themselves through the ex-humans spines and shoulders, a fin-like ridge in the same colors as their scutes rising down the length of each of their spines. A set of four boney spikes, each pointed a different direction, grew on the ends of their thick, powerful tails. Both grew four horns from their backs of their heads, Sally’s being slightly longer. Their nostrils moved down as their jaws pulled forward, becoming long, narrow snouts, the tips of their upper jaws curving down reminiscent of a beak.
Colin had been a little surprised to see the minor differences in Alister and Sally’s new forms, and VERY surprised to see Rex become an eastern dragon. He hadn’t specified any of those details, so what had led to those different changes? Was it random chance?
“We’re all anthro dragons. What about it?” Alister asked as the group came to again.
Colin suddenly remembered he wasn’t asking these questions in a vacuum. He tried to come up with a decent follow-up.