Susan Maxwell couldn’t have asked for a better life so far, she had married her high school sweetheart, Mike after graduating college with her teaching degree as he started in the police academy after a tour with the army. They had moved back to their childhood hometown and had three wonderful kids; he was a police officer while she was a high school science teacher. The only thing that made her stand out was that two of her three kids where twins, twins ran in her family going back for generations, she had twin uncles, her grandmother had a twin who died in the crib and if family legends where true her great-great grandmother was a triplet. Now she and her husband had been blessed with a girl now 17 named Mary and her younger brother by minutes John, then five years later came a girl named Jennifer who was now 13.
Everything was perfect in her eyes, she had a wonderful family, she had a great job which made her smile, her kids where all doing great, they had just finished their dream house and both her oldest had been accepted with full rides to college with Mary with a swimming scholarship and John for Track and Field. She took even greater pride in her children’s accomplishments because she had coached both of them as assistant coaches on their respective teams, she credited swimming and running with keeping her figure even after three kids. Jennifer was the odd one out since she didn’t play any sports but was already winning contests for her skills with the flute and had just started the violin as well. Everything was perfect, everything was great, then the monster virus came.
At first it was just strange reports on the news and headlines on the internet then the CDC came out and announced to the world that it was real and there was no cure. Still the problem seamed far away, distant from their lives because no one in their town had come down with the virus. Then they she one of her students came down with it, she disappeared for a week and came back to class with cat ears and a tail. Then came a boy who turned into a snake woman, a Naga and another a girl who became a giant, which wasn’t too bad on the outside she looked the same until you found out that the 5’2 girl had become a 12’3 and would be likely over 18 feet tall when she finished growing.
Not every human now turned monster could return to society, the girl from her class who had become a 12’3 giant couldn’t return to the school she couldn’t fit through the doors. So the governments of the worlds began building special places for those people to fit in. A City for Giants in the Australian Outback, a town of Centaurs in Kansas, a tiny village in Scotland for people turned into fairies/pixies and so one for those who couldn’t be returned to normal society. Since it wasn’t practical for each nation to build their own settlement for each monster, some citizens of one nation would find themselves in a whole new nation once turned only adding to the stress of the change. That only affected a small percentage of people.
Then one day she woke up feeling tired and yet she felt hungrier than she ever felt before. Fear rose up within her which turned to terror when she discovered that everyone in her family had similar symptoms.
So now they found themselves in one large room in the local hospital, she could see the fear in her children’s and husband’s eyes and they could see it in her eyes. Finally, the doctor walked into the room, he was wearing a mask but worse of all he wasn’t human, he was a fawn with goat legs and two large black ram horns coming off his mess of a hairy head.
“Well, I am afraid you all have come down with the Monster Virus.” explained the Doctor as everyone remained quiet in the room.
“This isn’t fair!” yelled her son John in anger “I was about to go off to college in a few months.”
“You can still go to college, it is the law no university or job can treat you any different, you will have to make some adjustments because of your new situation.” reassured the Doctor, he had explained all this before and would have to do so again. There was no cure for the monster flu and some wondered if in the end humanity itself would succumb and the whole world would be monsters.
“And that is?” inquired her husband Mike, who had remained the calmest of them all. Everyone else seamed either angry or shock.
“Well I have good news and bad news.” started the Doctor as he looked down at his clip board, as the family prepared for the news.