Nova sleepily opened her eyes. What a weird dream. She had been murdered, been turned into a hellhound by some insane demon, then mauled her murderer and ate his soul. And then...she couldn't quite remember. Well, it didn't really matter. It had been a dream after all...right?
Nova blearily looked around her. She was at the base of a tree, and there was smoke and the odor of brimstone coming from a hole a couple of yards away. Suddenly, Nova's eyes shot open as she looked down in shock. She was stark naked. No clothes, no weapons, no nothing. Nova jumped to her feet to look around her for her supplies, when she felt something strange. Something out of place. Something just behind her.
She had a tail.
No, to be more precise, she had the skeleton of a tail, but it somehow functioned like a normal tail despite the lack of musculature or nerves. And not like just any tail. Like the tail she had dreamed of. Like a hellhound's tail.
In disbelief, Nova unconsciously lifted her hand to her forehead. Which was when she realized that the tail was not the only addition she had. Jutting out from her temples were two short horns. It hadn't been a dream. A demon had changed her into a hellhound. But why was she human again now? Well, mostly human.
Nova stared at the hole in the distance, lost in thought. When she finally came to her senses, she realized she couldn't just hang around there indefinitely.