Conner had a bit more fun with them before he heard the front door opening. “Hide yourself in the wardrobe” he whispered to both Alex and Tony, and as much as they tried to stop, they rushed over there, toppling over each other to comply. They could hear someone come up the stairs, more than two pair of feet. Then whoever had come in went into the next room, which was the shared room of Yanis and Oli. Excited chatter was heard from there, and Conner turned to the computer to scan the new targets.
Beside Yanis and Oliver Andrews there were two more names in reach, meaning the room next door, the brothers Michael and Kyle Thompson. While Michael was twelve like Oli, Kyle was eight, so a year younger than Yanis. Conner grinned. With Daniel, that would make seven, one for each day of the week. Now he had just to decide who becomes what kind of pet.
He opened all four profiles next to each other, then copied the basic changes he wanted over from Tony´s profile he had minimized in the corner. Not wanting them to fight against him, Conner made sure they would be unable to move as soon as he entered the room, only exception if he ordered otherwise, and only be able to move freely again when he pushed their new tail-butt-plugs in. He then added a three-minute delay for the first victim, Oliver, then added five more minutes to the next, Yanis, continuing the same with Kyle and finishing with Michael. Now he really only needed to select what animal each of them should represent. And what animals he wanted in general.
As he had a cat (Alex) and a dog (Tony), his first addition was a mouse. Then he wanted a monkey in the group. One could be a horse, and a rabbit would also be funny. The last could be a bear. “Yes, that sounded good”, Conner decided.
Seeing who he had to change, he was rather quick to say who becomes what. As the horse was the only animal with hooves, and Daniel would be the only adult, it seemed fitting, so he sat that aside for later.
The mouse and the rabbit were smaller animals, and to continue the way down, Conner would make Oliver the mouse and Michael the rabbit. That left the “bigger” animals for the younger boys. He decided on Yanis as the monkey and Kyle as the bear.
With that all set he quickly changed the butt-plugs to fitting tails before setting the other changes to start. Afterwards, he got Tony and Alex out of the wardrobe, so they could watch the others change, before heading over with them.
He didn´t knock on the door, he just walked into the shared room. Yanis and Kyle sat on Yanis´s bed, while Oliver sat at the desk and Michael on Oli´s bed. All of them froze as Conner stepped over the doorsill.