Now John and Damon shared a apartment in the seediest part of town,above Big Al Sloans SpealEasy La La Gurls wjhereas Chris,
who was hoping to get out of this downward spiral by getting a
University Degree in Advance Practical Paleontology ( generally
means knowing that deposits of oil and coal go hand in hand with
knowing what ancient animals and plants lived during certain ancient periods of time ) had a different,even small University Student room where Chris wrote his Paleontology essays,connected with gamers of FANTASY-WARP and generally tried
to avoid his Uncle in Law Big Al Sloan and his organized crime thugs.
John and Damon had little to look forward to in this bleak crime
soaked world and one of the few pleasures they had were a pair of white female lab rats named Thelma and Barb that Chris had filched for them out of one of the University's laboratories.
So the roommates invited Chris to come into their apartment to help them feed Thelma and Barb their two pet rats.
Chris however had a major Paleontological Evolutionary Theory paper he needed to get done and so waved off his two buddies,wished them the best and took the University Bus back to his own student apartment.
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Meanwhile the Witch was growing frantic with worry.She had used the standard
The Animal You Touch Is the Animal You Turn Into
spell
and due to some misworded spelling errors on the Witch's part the spell was going to be quite literal and permanent when it kicked in.Not only would Chris,John and Damon take on the form of the
first animal they touched but their brain,mind and soul would be
that animal as well.
In other words,,,,
shortly after Chris left them Damon and John touched the fur of Thelma and Barb and ZAP
they shrank and collapsed into their human clothes and the nearly mindless dulled squeaks of two new female white lab rats emerged from their clothes.
Though their souls and minds were still human at this point that was not a sure thing anymore.
So when Big Al Sloan's thug Mr Sledgehammer came to collect his
share of the loot he was sure John and Damon had gotten that day from their thieving ways
what Mr Sledgehammer found were 4 white rats out of their rat cage and out and about in the room where he'd expected to find
Damon.John and 2 pet rats.
Thelma and Barb,being rats,were dashing about squeaking and looking for cheese whilst the two other female rats just looked up at
towering Mr Sledgehammer with a degree of terror and dulled
human thoughts.
So Mr Sledgehammer,knowing that his boss didn't like rodents
running about on the loose above La La Gurls,spent the next
hour chasing after 4 frantic female rats,dropped them back into their rat cage and carried the rat cage downstair to the back rooms of La La Gurls where Big Al Sloan was having a cardgame with
Bonnie Parker,Clyde Barrow,Pretty Boy Floyd,Machine Gun MacGurn,Ma Katy MacGinnis and John Dillinger.....