I'm lying on my side. On my right side. I can hear people talking. Talking unusually loudly and clearly. I'm still tired, and continue lying there, with my eyes closed.
"Oh, David. Will you ever forgive me? This wasn't supposed to happen." I hear a boy's voice speaking to me. The voice sounds vaguely familiar. Like I've heard that voice on some old video from somewhere. I'm not entirely sure where.
I heard someone whispering. At least, trying to. But I can hear every word exceptionally well.
"Remember, you're David now. And you must keep calm. He may become more unsettled or agitated if you're agitated. The calmer you are, the easier this will be. Remember, the boy has the instincts and partial brain of a donkey now."
I slowly become more aware, as the anesthesia finally begins to wear off. I try to rub the blurry vision I now have out of my eyes, but I'm not able to move my arm very well in that direction. I felt like this had already played out in my mind.
I tried speaking, but the words seemed to die out before they could even reach my lips. I was only able to moan in a strange manner. I wanted to ask if everything went well. My lips felt strange. Too maneuverable. My tongue was large, fat, and dry. My teeth felt really gross. I could almost smell my own breath.
I tried speaking again, but only managed to wheeze inward, then moan outward. The noise sounded familiar to me. Irritating.
I tried again. Louder this time. Stronger. "Heeee hhhaawww," was all I was ever able to manage. I opened my eyes all the way for the first time. I still couldn't see very well. Vague shapes. Vague humanoid shapes. Mostly out of my left eye. My right eye was looking at the pillow I was laying my head upon. I heard one of those shapes speaking again. The boy. He smelled wierd. Different. A strong odor coming from him. It was sort of pleasing.
"David. Honey. You're awake now."
It was wierd, to be called "honey" by another boy. "Who....who are you?" I tried to say it. I couldn't actually say it. Words continued to stubbornly refuse to leave my throat and lips.
"Are you thirsty?"
"Haaawww." I wanted to say "yes." The boy reached out, and started petting my snout. Wait. My.....SNOUT!?
"HHHAAWW!" I nearly yelled, as I raised my head upright. The room spun for a second. But I regained the balance in my head.
"What's going on!?" I tried saying it. But I could only make those irritating noises. Noises that started sounding more and more familiar.
"Heee haaaww heee haaaww".
A donkey! The noises of a donkey!
"Heeee haaww heeee hhhaawww."
I.....I..... I.....couldn't speak!
"Heee hhhaawww hheeee hhhaawww'.
No matter how much I tried, I only sounded like a good damn donkey!
"Come now, David. Let me explain...'
"Heee hhhaawww ?" ("Explain what!?" My mind shouted, while my voice refused to comply.)
Someone came over and slipped something over my head, and shoved a hard metal bar in my mouth. I tried grabbing their hand, but only managed to uselessly paw at the air while I was still lying on my right side. My hand. I didn't feel like I had fingers anymore. What is going on!?
I tried sitting upright, but thing over my head was attached to something. I couldn't go very far.
"Ok, David. I know you're probably going to have a bad reaction to this. So I had to make sure you were tied down."
"There is done good news, and sons bad news.....'
"The good news is, you're still alive."
The voice stopped right there, as I saw the silhouette of a head turn to the dude and looked at the smaller sillhuoette. The boy.
The voice continued, as he sighed.
"The bad news is.....you're now stuck permantly as you are."
"Heee hhhaawww...." Still sounded like a god damn donkey!
I heard a chain rattling, as two more sillhouettes came towards me. One grabbed one of my arms, and the other, my other arm. I heard and felt the rattling chain go around both of my arms.
"Heeee haaawww, heeee haaawww " (what are you doing!?)
I heard a click, then felt my legs be grabbed as another chain is wrapped around my legs as well!
The chains were by no means tight. I could still move all four of my limbs. But my range of motion was even more reduced.
"This is for your own good, as well as my lab staff," the voice continued.
"David, please. It'll be ok." Said the boy.
"That, btw, is your mother with your original body. She's going to be taking your name. And you. Well....you're now going to be called "Spud ""
"Hhhaawww!?"
"Unfortunately," the voice continued. "The procedure went awry. Your mother's body started seizing once we started connecting your brain into it. You almost didn't make it. Her body died, and we only had one substitute body left. That's the body the intellectual and memory-based part of your brain now occupies."
"Heee haaaww," I was almost glad I couldn't speak, for I didn't want to ask. Almost glad. The noises I was making that was replacing the words in my mind filled me with dread.
"Heeee haaawww," I heard the lustful noise of a female donkey in heat. It made me instantly horny. Wait. How did I know that? And where was that coming from?
"Yup, your instincts are perfectly intact. At least, your sexual instincts."
"Heee haaaww," that noise again! I could feel my penis grow larger and harder. Why was the noise of a female donkey making me horny....?
"That was a recording, in order to test your natural sexual desires."
"Haaawww!?" ("What!?")
"Now. To get you up off that bed, and on all fours."
I felt the thing wrapped around my face, and that irritating metal bar in my mouth pull my head forward. I instinctually went with the tug, and firmly planted all four of my feet on the ground with four different "clops!"
Wait. "All four of my feet!?" I was standing on all fours. And it was....comfortable to stand this way. And. I was almost as tall as the man who was speaking to me!
I tried raising one of my "arms." But it wouldn't go very far, due to the chain around both of them. I planted it back on the floor with a "clop."
"Heee haaaww,"
I tried opening my fingers. To bend my fingers. But I didn't have fingers.
"Hee haaww." Still unable to speak!
I looked down towards where my arms and hands should have been. And saw the legs and hooves of a donkey for the first time.
"Heeee haaawww!"
I couldn't speak! I tried biting the air. Trying to force a word out. All I could ever hope yo "say," was a long drawn out "haaaaaaawwwwwww!"
"If you haven't guessed already....you, David.....Spud....you, Spud, are now a...
"Come on. Say it!" I brayed.
"A.....donkey...."
"Heeee haaww heeee haaww hee haaww"
"That's right. You're a donkey now.
"I'm a donkey! I'm a donkey!" Heeee haaww here haaawww" I couldn't say it! I couldn't say "I'm a donkey!" I could only bray it! I could only bray, which marks me as my new species! "Heeee haaaaaaawwwwwww!!!!"