After an awful night plagued with nightmares, you wake up from your sleep to find yourself on your human child-sized pet bed. You were so depressed, you almost didn't have the strength to look down at yourself to see what happened next. But you finally gain the courage to look down and see... no change at all. You're still an anthropomorphic fox, the same as yesterday, and nothing else looked different at all! It was shocking, but a welcome sight! Has this curse finally come to a stop?! You felt so elated, you quickly ran downstairs to hug your parents and tell them how much you love them!
When you get downstairs, you noticed something off about your living room, it looked kinda the same, but the TV and the ceiling lamp were gone, and there were no sounds of traffic outside... But you were so relieved to stop transforming, you didn't pay any mind to the slight differences. You ran into the kitchen where you knew your parents would be. There were more differences in the kitchen... a classic wood stove and a big icebox instead of the usual appliances. You made a mental note to ask about this stuff later.
You turned around and were in shock to see - your mom and dad had started to transform! Your mom had fox ears and a tail and your dad had the same, as well as bare fox paws! Your fate was twisted once again as the universe has started making your world into an animal's world! Your mind raced with questions, like who else was changed? How far will this transformation go? It was too much to think about at once, so you kept it to one question at a time. "Mom, Dad... where's our appliances?"
"What do you mean?" Your mom says. "We have the finest icebox, stove, fireplace, and a stocked library."
"Nothing better exists?"
"Well, we certainly can't afford a king's palace, but our home is pretty state of the art."
"I see..." You brought up another question. "Is it very common for humans to have uh... animal features?"
"Why wouldn't they?" Your dad shrugged. You had more questions, but... they could be answered by simply going to school. You grabbed a leg of chicken for breakfast and took it outside to wait for the bus. It takes you a minute of waiting to realize... the roads are cobble and there's no car in sight. It seems to you that the level of technology in the world, or at least your town, has decreased by a lot. Guess you're forced to walk to school then.
You are relieved to see school is still there, if a lot smaller than usual. You enter in and see your classmates have animal features, just like your parents... but oddly enough, not all the same animal. There were kids who were ever so slightly deer, moose, hare, raccoon, even a few birds. There were also one or two unchanged humans. While you were observing, your friend Max walked up, sporting bobcat ears and a tail. "Hiya, how's my fox?"
"Uh, hi. Say, have you ever wondered how I'm the only full animal while everyone else is only part?"
"I wouldn't say full animal. You can talk alright."
"Right. Wonder how long that will last..."
"What about the humans without special features? What's their deal?"
"Beats me. They have big round ears, no tail at all. That's weird in my opinion."
"I see."
In your Biology class you witnessed a lecture about how humans are the most varied species, having DNA from every single other animal on Earth. And how most humans have a little animal but some (like you) were almost full animal. Just when you thought you didn't have to be the teaching tool again, the teacher called you up, and displayed you for all to see yet again. But she also called a young girl who didn't have animal features, and instructed her to strip naked so SHE could be scientifically observed as well. She looked positively mortified to be so different from the rest. Her name was Megan. You made a mental note to keep an eye on Megan for the coming days, and see if she ever changes or if she stays the same.
After school, you stretch out your arms and legs, take a piss and a poo in the yard outside school without a second thought and head for home. Max comes over and plays with you, specifically by throwing a ball around and you catching it in your mouth, as your paws don't quite catch balls very well. It just makes you feel like a canine even more. As you play, you can't help but feel relieved. If the rest of the world is becoming animals as well, it means that after the transformation comes to an end, you'll end up as a feral fox who has two feral fox parents and a bobcat friend named Max. Or something completely unexpected could happen instead!