“So the only thing strange that happened before you transformed?” asked Lindsay’s and Barbara’s father as they all sat in the semi-darkened living room of the house. All the people currently in the room could see each other clearly even though it was dark, too dark for a human to see more then just shadow outline of stuff for each of them now had cat eyes instead of human eyes. They had this because all of them had been transformed into were-cats.
“Yes, all six of us where in the room and we all transformed, and we infected you two.” Said Lindsay as the red were-cheetah sat cross legged on the floor like a kid. “Sorry about that Daddy.”
“No need to apologize my little girl.” Said her father as the Lynx man leaned over and scratched her behind her ear earning a little purr form her.
“Ya, this feels so nice.” Said her mother as she came out of the kitchen carrying a big tray of food, to anyone else it looked like something no one would want to eat if they had to. It was a massive slab of uncooked meat. It was just warm enough to be de-thawed in oven and would have been unsafe for a human to eat, but to them in the room it smells like the best food ever. “It is just lucky your father and I where on our way back from picking up this and the others from the store upstate.”
Both Lindsay and Barbara knew their father loved to smoke meat and this almost 4 pounds of uncooked slab of brisket had been bought from a store upstate their parents went to every couple of weeks. The brisket was raw and bloody, and it tasted amazing to all eight of them as they began to cut into it with their new claws and bite down with sharpened teeth.
It tasted so good and within a couple of minutes it was gone and all eight of them where chewing and licking their hands and whipping their mouths with their hands like a cat would to groom themselves. Even though they ate raw food, they knew that their bodies not only could handle the food but needed it.
“So what do we do now?” inquired Oscar
“I think we should do one of two things.” Said Stacy “We either figure out what this transformation is and how it happened or we spread this gift.”
“How do we figure out how this happened?” inquired Lindsay, none of them even thinking of trying to change back to human.
“The professor who gave you the crystal.” Stated Barbara “If that caused this.”
“Which is likely.” Added James “It is the only thing which happened which could have caused this to us, but unless you know where the professor lives there is no way to know how this happened.”
“I had that professor my freshmen year.” Stated Barbara as she eyed the clock on the wall by the stairs. “She is an anti-social night owl, I would bet she is still in her office.”
“So go and turn her and see if she can explain this.” Stated Stacy as Barbara nodded. “Not a bad idea.”
“We all can’t just go walking down to the center of campus.” Countered Elizabeth stretching a bit with her new snow leopard body. “We should spread this gift.”
“Why don’t we do both.” Inquired Lindsay/Barbara’s mother. “I assume Oscar and you know where this professor’s office is?”
“Ya.” confirmed Lindsay as Oscar nodded his head.
“Ok, why don’t you two go and pay her a visit, with Oscars climbing ability, that is how you said you got here and your pure speed you should be able to get there and back ok.” Stated her mother
“I can even drive you close and keep and eye out, staying in the jeep.” Added her father
“While we select a few people who we want to share this gift?” inquired Barbara as her mother nodded.
“Sounds good but how do we locate them and turn them?” inquired James as he noticed Barbara already had her phone out, same with his girlfriend Elizabeth, they were using them to text people. They had to use their claws to press the buttons, but it worked.
“Invite them to have a fire around the fire pit?” inquired Elizabeth
“I was just going to say beers, but that works.” Admitted Barbara as Stacy pulled out her phone and began to send out a text
“Sounds like we have a plan.” Stated her mother