"Hey, there's Taylor!" Renata said, pointing. "We share a Spanish class. Let's ask her if she might want to join."
Renata led her friends to the pet store and waved to Taylor. "Hi, Taylor! These are my friends, Jez and Ruby. We wanna let you in on this tremendous secret we share."
Taylor just smiled knowingly, as if she had guessed the secret or had one of her own. "Oh, really? Well, I'm all ears."
Renata glanced around the street. "Not out in the open. Follow me."
Renata and her friends led Taylor into the pet store, past cages full of rabbits and cats. They guided the Wiccan girl to the restrooms in the back of the store and ushered her into the ladies' room, locking the door behind them.
"Okay, Taylor, watch this," said Renata.
"Don't freak out, okay?" Ruby added.
Taylor stifled a laugh. "I... think I can manage that, girls. Go on, impress me."
Renata stepped into the center of the room, willing her transformation to begin. Red and white fur sprouted over every inch of her skin, and her feet morphed into canine paws. A bushy vulpine tail shot out from behind her, and her fingernails became sharp little claws as her figure rounded. Finally, her face elongated into a vixen's muzzle with a shiny black nose as her ears grew long and pointed.
"Well?" the now fully transformed werevixen grinned. "What do you have to say to that?"
"Very nice," Taylor smiled placidly. "You look really cute like that."
"Is that all you have to say?!" Renata sniffed indignantly. "You just saw the girl who sits next to you in Spanish shapeshift into a curvy fox-person, and all you can do is smile and tell me I'm cute?"
Taylor chuckled good-naturedly. "I actually have a secret of my own, Renata. Observe."
Taylor suddenly began to strip naked, tearing off her shirt and jeans before shimmying out of her bra and panties. Jezebel eyed Taylor's firm tits, the thick blonde bush of curly hairs that concealed her pussy, and the unusually large clit that poked out of it. Suddenly, spotted golden fur even thicker than the bush grew over Taylor's nude body, covering it completely before a wild mane spread down her back until it reached her ass. Taylor's feet stretched out, becoming digitigrade paws as her popping spine elongated. Taylor's muscles swelled and hardened, causing the teenage girl to resemble an Olympic bodybuilder. Now a hulking, furry beastgirl, Taylor growled almost orgasmically as a tail pushed out of her lower back. As her fingernails sharpened into the wicked talons of a mighty hunter, Taylor's breasts ballooned in size while a secondary pair blossomed beneath them.
Next, Taylor's face stretched itself out into an animalistic muzzle as her nose morphed into a leathery black truffle. Inside her mouth, Taylor's teeth sharpened into the fangs of a fierce predator. To finish her head's metamorphosis, her ears grew big and round before climbing to the top of her furry head. Now that Taylor's head was fully changed, Renata and her friends could tell what she was becoming: a werehyena.
Finally, Taylor's clit began swelling to an absurd length, dangling down almost to her knees. Slowly, it reshaped itself into a true penis. Taylor's pussy then scooted backwards to make way for hir ballsack which quickly grew in the empty space before two plump testicles dropped into it. Taylor fondled hir new cock appreciatively as hir transformation finished. "Soooo..." shi grinned. "What do you think of my little secret?"
"Sweet Asmodeus!" Jezebel gasped. "You're one of the werehyenas from that new pack!"
"Yeah," said Taylor. "The one Selena started."
"Selena?" Jezebel repeated. "But... but she's the werewolf alpha's daughter!"
"She was a wolfborn," Taylor said. "She said that means a child of werewolves who was born a regular human. She really didn't want a life as the werewolves' whipping girl, so she asked Morgana to turn her into a werebeast. After that, she decided to start her own pack."
"Sounds risky," Jezebel mused. "Werewolves and werehyenas are both pretty damn territorial, especially the ones here in Stokerville. I'm guessing this would turn really ugly if Alpha Caleb or his savage beast of a mate discovered that their daughter started a rival werebeast pack."
"Yeah," said Taylor. "Selena figures that they'd either go to war and kill us or (more likely so as to avoid mysterious disappearances) go to Morgana and force her to turn us back into humans. To make the whole situation even messier, Selena's dating one of the von Karnstein vampires, Tatiana."
"Yikes," Jezebel flinched. "Artemis Lyall'd goddamn hate that!"
"How thrillingly scandalous!" Ruby said, grinning at all the juicy werebeast melodrama. "Well, you're always welcome in Rennie's skulk if the werewolves force you outta your hyena pack."
"Uhhh... thanks, I guess?" said Taylor. "I actually knew about your skulk. The spirits told me."
"Oh, are you the werehyenas' shaman?" Renata asked brightly.
"I am," Taylor answered, hir bosoms swelling with pride. "Actually, I'm still learning from a master shaman from an Oklahoma pack, but I've learned enough to perform basic spirit communion. You should really choose a shaman for your new skulk as soon as possible. I'd happily relay my lessons to them. Any of your recruits seem suitable?"
Renata thought about that. "Well, I have two. The first one is Flora Roberts."
"Hey, that's Marley's sister," Taylor smiled. "Selena's planning on asking Marley to join the hyena pack soon."
"Gotcha," Renata nodded. "I'll make a note of not recruiting Marley to my skulk, then. Anyway, Flora's really close to nature, and she loves using cannabis to achieve a higher consciousness. That sounds pretty shaman-like to me. The other possibility is Lainey Castle. She's big into things like astrology, healing crystals, psychics, tantra, past lives, things like that."
"Either of them could be good," said Taylor. "The most important thing is natural talent for sensing the spirits, of course. Once your skulk is more established, bring your candidates around and I'll test them."
"Thanks!" Renata smiled.
"Oh, and one more thing," said Taylor. "The spirits were worried that you'd get up to the usual werefox craziness and make trouble for the other magicals in Stokerville. You seem alright, though. Can we count on your skulk to behave?"
"I think so," said Renata. "I take a potion that boosts my empathy and impulse control, so you can count on me at least to act sensibly. My mate Ruby won't take it, though. She comes from a preexisting skulk, and she's loyal to the old ways of mischief. I'm hoping the rest of my skulk'll take it, though."
"That's good to hear," Taylor sighed in relief. "Yeah, I'm expecting looooots of headaches from Ruby's old skulk while they're in town. Selena's considering 'encouraging' them to move on if it gets to be too much."
"That's us!" Ruby laughed. "'Too much' is our specialty! So's being 'encouraged' to move on, now that I think about it. Mom actually enjoys the attention when pissed-off local packs come and order her to skip town. She's my birth skulk's alpha, y'know."
"Here's hoping there won't be any violence," Renata said. "So, Taylor, how are those two friends of yours, Alyssa and Dani?"
"Alyssa's a vampire now," said Taylor. "Her new name's Jinx von Karnstein."
"What's with vamps and branding?" Ruby shrugged, smiling and shaking her head. "I tell you, those guys are freaking obsessed with being as goth as fuck."
"Well, Jinx seems to like it just fine," Taylor said. "She's training to be a clan seer for the von Karnsteins. As for Dani, she's studying to be a witch under Morgana. She's hoping that she and I can eventually get a poly thing going with Morgana's daughter Vivi." Shi shrugged noncommittally. "We'll see."
"Cool," Renata smiled as she shifted back into human form. "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you around. I'm off now to ask Paige Nielson if she wants to join my skulk."
"Ah, the queen of shoplifters," Taylor chuckled as she returned to her own human form, her enormous muscles deflating and her cock shriveling into a clit as her fur receded. "Yeah, she sounds like the perfect werevixen. Well, bye for now. I'll help you with shaman stuff where I can." She tugged her clothes back on and left the restroom.
"Well, that was certainly interesting," said Jezebel.
"Sure was," Renata agreed. "Now let's hurry up and get moving. I wanna get Paige in my pack before the vampires or other werebeasts decide they want her."