Chad was looking around for his precious loincloth everywhere, darting his eyes around and once back upon the floor bending to look under benches and everywhere the loincloth could possibly be. He had to find it before the transformation fully kicked in or became permanent! Chad could not afford this risk! He already looked, more ape than man, with his incapacity at walking fully upright and solely on his knuckles, his sloping forehead and bulging eyebrow ridges, his hairiness and his chimp-like features. In fact, only his feet remained fully human, now utterly useless for walking when his very arms and legs, as well as his knees, were completely unadapted for such a purpose. His body was too simian to go around like a man but his feet too human to advance like an ape! It was ridiculous! And humiliating! He was a jock, not a stupid caveman fit for a zoo! Unfortunately for Chad, it was only the beginning.
Suddenly, a music erupted in the room. The sort played in the streets or big cities by old vagrants for a few coins of change, often with a little monkey in a ridiculous costume with a silly hat or little bowl to collect the coins, doing tricks at the same time. A hurdy-gurdy melody. But as annoying and surprising as it was, Chad suffered another effect. He started to dance. Uncontrollably. He could not stop himself from spinning, flailing his limbs, stomping his feet and shrieking and grunting in a horrible mimic of the melody, all the more grotesque for the fact that he still looked partly human. What was happening? Why could he not stop himself? And it went on for long minutes so that when the music at last halted, he was exhausted and slumped to the ground, seating and panting.
"Enjoying the music, Chad?" came a mocking voice.
Chad turned and saw not at all a hot girl, as he had previously expected, but Roger, a nerd he loved to pick on. In fact, at school, it was his favorite pastime, which he indulged in every time he was bored, which happened very often as he was interested in nothing at all, apart from football. His friends did the same but any observer would have concluded that Chad was the worst and the most vicious. The bully tried to ask a question but it only came out as a grunt, yet interrogative enough to tell Roger that he was obviously wishing some answers and explanations.
"I'm Roger, Chad, but not really. I mean, Roger is my name but I am not actually a student. I am a warlock and I go to different school posing as a student. You learn interesting things about who is kind to his or her fellow man and who is not, actually. Perfect to mete out rewards. Rewards and punishments. Those kind to me as my time as a high schooler will find themselves blessed with fortune or a streak of good luck. As for the jerks who loved bullying, well..."
Roger smiled evilly.
"They shall get their unexpected comeuppance."
Chad widened his eyes out of pure terror at what this implied for him. This was bad. Really, really bad. What did this freak have in mind for him? Nothing good so... How worse could it get?
"You're the first but do not worry, your friends will get theirs soon enough. Waiting won’t make it any easier, rest assured."
Roger then clapped his hands enthusiastically.
"So! What next for your permanent transformation? I know!"
Roger uttered a few words and Chad felt himself shrinking. He also could feel a pressure on the base of his backside and his toes doing something weird. But it barely stopped that the hurdy-gurdy music played again. So Chad danced again, amidst his own pleas for it all to stop, coming out as shrieks solely. Yet as he moved anew, he could see that more fur covered his body, yellow, a little longer and with a long tail swishing behind him. His feet were completely ape-like now. In fact, he was no ape at all, he was a monkey, exactly like the ones doing tricks for coins for their owners, precisely! The humiliation was complete and when the sound stopped, Chad was ion the floor, panting and embarrassed to no end. Roger, for one, was laughing uproariously.
"You're really great at this, Chad! Should I keep you like this forever? And send you to a zoo or a circus? Or will it be something else? I'm bursting with ideas, you know."