Dennis leans back on the bench, his back against the wall and his hands behind his head, grinning at his trophy, “man, I still can’t belief I won my first race,” he says, turning to grin at Jeff, “all thanks to you, Jeff!”
Jeff chuckles, “as I said: no problem,” he says, just then he feels a tingle run through his body, “looks like I’m finally transforming back”.
“How can you tell,” Dennis asks.
“When you confirm a change, or if a transformation ends, you or the target will feel a pins and needles sensation run through your body, this signals you that the change is about to happen”.
“I see,” Dennis says, “and yes, now I can see that you are transforming back, you already look a lot smaller”.
After 30 minutes Jeff is back to his old naked human self, “Dennis, would you mind tossing me my clothes?”
“Sure,” Dennis says, tossing Jeff’s clothes over the door of the stall.
“Okay, I’m dressed,” Jeff says after a few minutes, “could you let me out please?”
“Yup,” Dennis says, opening the door, smiling as he sees Jeff back to normal, “welcome back to the human life… Zeus,” he says teasingly grinning.
Jeff chuckles, “haha… very funny,” he says, he then smiles, “it feels great to be back to normal, but being a horse was kinda cool. I felt so strong, powerful and unstoppable,” he says.
“Maybe you might want to become “Zeus” again some day,” Dennis asks.
“I wouldn’t mind,” Jeff says, “when your real horse falls ill or has some issues, I’d be happy to be the replacement”.
Dennis beams, “cool! Thanks, Jeff,” he says.
“No worries,” Jeff replies, “so, where shall we head?”
“I’d like to show you my family’s farm”.
Jeff smiles, “I’d like to see it,” he says.
“Cool, then let’s go,” Dennis says, leading Jeff to the bus stop, soon their on their way to Dennis’ farm.
As they sit on the bus, Dennis turns to Jeff, keeping his voice low to not draw attention to them he ask, “so, how was it like being a horse,” he then adds, “I know you said it wasn’t to weird, still, it must have felt somewhat weird”.
“Well,” Jeff begins, “to be honest, it did feel weird, especially the animal’s instincts, however they helped me to be able to walk and run on all fours, everything felt natural to me, as if I had always been a horse. If I wouldn’t kept my normal mind intact, I would have probably been overtaken by the horse’s mind, thankfully that didn’t happen, all though I did feel the horse’s mind tugging on my human mind, as if trying to overpower it and move to the front of my mind”.
“Sounds scary,” Dennis says.
Jeff nods, “it was, but I managed to remain calm and focused, and that helped me to keep the horse’s mind from taking over”.
“Luckily that didn’t happen,” Dennis says, “I doubt that so wanted to be stuck as a horse forever, right?”
Jeff nods, “right, but as I have said, I wouldn’t mind becoming “Zeus” once in a while, whenever you need him”.
Dennis smiles, “that means a lot to me, Jeff,” he says, “and by the way, sorry for being so snappy when we met”.
Jeff chuckles, “all good,” he says, “I understand, you were just upset because you’ve been looking forward to the race, and then you horse injured himself”.
Dennis nods, “yeah, but then you came along and made my day,” he says, grinning down at the trophy between his legs.
Jeff smiles, “I’m happy that I made your day,” he says, “your parents will be proud”.
“I hope so,” Dennis says, “and I hope Shadow will quickly recover”.
“He will,” Jeff says, “by the way, where is he at?”
“After the vet examined him, he was taken back to the farm,” Dennis says, “after you transformed into “Zeus”, I texted my dad that I found a replacement horse, my parents don’t know I won yet”.
Jeff grins, “well, they’ll be surprised,” he says.
“Just so you know,” Dennis then says, as they are just two stops away from Dennis’ farm, “I told my folks that you are the “owner” of “Zeus”. They don’t know how he looks like, so… I was thinking,” he looks at Jeff.
Jeff tilts his head, “what were you thinking?”
“I was thinking, maybe “Zeus”, instead of looking exactly like “Shadow”, he… you should look different”.
“What do you have in mind?”
“Instead of black fur, mane and tail, I kind of would like “Zeus” to be a white horse! White tail, mane and fur!”
Jeff shrugs, “okay, next time I’ll be a white horse,” he says, chuckling.
Dennis smiles wide, “you’ll look absolutely stunning,” he says.
Jeff grins, “I don’t doubt that,” he says.
Finally they arrive at Dennis’ farm, Jeff stares in amazement, his eyes wide, “welcome to my family’s farm,” Dennis says, grinning.
“It’s huge,” Jeff says.
Dennis chuckles as they start walking towards the main building, “yup, we produce a lot, like milk, eggs, vegetables, salad, corn… which we sell to to grocery stores all across the country and even international!”
“Damn,” Jeff says, “your family must be really wealthy”.
Dennis nods, “we are, but most of the money flows back into the production of our goods,” he says, “though we are rich, we are humble and down to earth. We don’t brag about our wealth, we even donate large sums to charities, especially charities that help troubled youths or orphans”.
Jeff smiles, “I’m glad that you are one of the few rich folks who aren’t stuck ups,” he chuckles, “I wish my family would be wealthy, but…,” he trails off.
“You guys struggling?”
“Well… there are good months and bad months,” Jeff says, “but we always manage to get by,” he adds. He then turns to Dennis, “and before you even think of helping us out: forget it,” he says, “besides, if shit hits the fan, I’ll just use my app to “help” us out a little!”
Dennis chuckles, “alright,” he says.
After introducing Jeff to his parents and twin brothers, which look identical, the only way to tell them apart is that Ben’s favorite colors are blue and white, and Len’s favorite colors are red and blue, both wearing outfits in their favorite colors.
Ben is wearing a blue t-shirt with the superman symbol on the front, blue jeans and white sneakers, while Len is wearing a red t-shirt with the image of spider-man on the front, blue jeans and blue sneakers.
Dennis turns to Jeff, “so, what would you like to do,” he asks, “we could head to my room and play some video games, or would you like a tour of our farm? Or would you just like to chill? I have a few amazing comics in my room”.