Erick looked up at the name labeled below the portrait that read 'Arther Sesil Strongback' and down at the ring, and laughed.
"what a A.S.S." He said and laughed "Dude I got to remember that!"
Smiling Erick slided the ring on his finger, a few seconds later things weren't so funny
His finger was tingling, worried at the ring being too small he attempted to pull it off, it wouldn't budge.
"Shit!" he said, then repeated as he tugged at the ring. The strange feeling was spreading, the tingling feeling spread down his arm and traveled down into his chest.
"Ugh!" he groaned as his stomach seemed to twist. The feeling grew and his chest felt like it was being pulled. Erick suddenly fell to the floor, the feeling was growing stronger and he felt like he was going to throw up, but there was no nausea or pain.
Erick's back arched as he felt his chest pull up, he lungs filled with air, and suddenly it let loose.
"Hee- Hee- HEEHAW!!! HEE HEEHAW! HEEHAW! HAW HAW!" Erick brayed uncontrollably into the empty halls repeatedly.
As the braying died down and Erick regained control of himself. He stood on his hands and knees scared.
"H- Hwat the hell" he muttered his voice felt weak and at first seemed as if it was confused whether to continue braying or to form words. Suddenly aware he was still bent over on the floor he started to rise to his feet.
As his back straitened and his legs pushed his body up, he became aware of a certain awkwardness in his body... his pants felt tight, they were tight... unusually so. Looking down he saw a bulge. a lump traveled up from it that traveled under his shirt.
"Shit1 I did NOT get horny from that!" He cried in defiance. As he unzipped his pants and pulled up his shirt, he was not relieved to find otu he was not in fact aroused... He looked in bewilderment at what he saw. A fleshy tan sheath had replaced his once proud manhood running from just below his bellybutton down to what had been the source of the bulge in his pants. Erick blinked when he saw them, they had swollen dramatically and had turned dark and leathery and he for a moment was wondering how any of this was possible... then he remembered the ring...
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"So... we go on three?" Mike said looking at the cobweb filled stairway
"Ya" Sei answered
"One... two... Three..." Mike didn't move
"Screw it!" Sei said pushing past Mike and walked into the first web
As the two made it to the top step, Mike couldn't help but laugh at Sei who was working at removing layer upon layer of webs.
They looked at the stairway below in triumph, then turning around there eyes widened in horror... thousands and thousands of boxes were stacked in the attic. It was like a giant labyrinth of junk.
"Theres got to be thousands... it will take us forever to search all of them..." Mike said
"Unless we split up." Sei added, then mentally hit himself
"Ya..." Mike didn't want to but he wanted out of here and splitting up made it quicker.
Sei went right and Mike went left searching though the boxes. For all intensive purposes the boxes contained random junk...
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Johnathon sighed, almost every room so far had been broom closets full of brooms. He wondered why anyone would need so many brooms in one house, it was as if they thought that if you have enough brooms you wouldn't have to sweep... but what unsettled him was that some of them had seat cushions.
At least this room wasn't a broom closest he thought, as he walked into the bedroom. It was dusty and old and reeked of moth balls, but at least there were no brooms.
Johnny jumped on the bed placing his hands behind his head his sighed in relaxation, he rationalized he had a good twenty minutes to try off and rest a bit... thats when he saw it, on the mantle... was it there before?
Sitting up on the bed he eyed the wooden box curiously, it had gold around the edges. Something like that he probably would of noticed... curiosity won over and Johnny slid off the bed and walked over, opening the lid he found...