“I was considering” and you pause. “Would it be possible to be a hydra?” The headmistress nodded. “Long tail, multiple heads, venom, we can do that. It might be hard to control at first but we can do it and try to teach you.” You nodded.
The head mistress pointed to where you should stand. You went into the middle of the room and she started to say something. Either you couldn’t understand or you were too distracted though as you felt your skin drying and becoming scaly. Your hips felt enflamed and you knelt down and then laid down on the ground. There was some didcomfort as a tail started to grow, and then muscle burning as you started to get bigger.
Finally as the body seemed to slow your shoulders seared as 2 necks seemed to pop out of the shoulders. They grew out, along with the first head, until they were of giraffe length. Then the face started to push out until they had a reptilian quality.
As the body started stabilizing you felt a dorsal sail start to grow on your back, and your mind seem to start spreading. You could feel your frontal lobe get divided along the three heads, and the rest of the brain go to the base of the neck and a mini brain grow near the rear. You feel a second smaller heart grow at the rear as well.
Then things seem to calm down. The searing stops. The pain stops. You feel hungry from all the energy spent transforming, even subsidized by magic.
“Ok” you say. You being the center most head. The left and right getting their bearings.
“Ok” the head mistress says. “We should show you to your room and get you acquainted with your class schedule. Before we begin, for your safety and privacy and everyone else we expect you not tell any other students about your origins or ask about theirs. Is that understood”.
“Yes” you say. “Good. Let’s get too it then” the head mistress says.