Day after weary day Ron sat in his cell. The first two days found him angry at Lusious for his confinement. The night's brought of fits and tears for all those he loved and cherrished. Each day brought the two guards with rations to be consumed every four hours. The serum went into the rations as it also colored the drinks.
Ron awoke the fifth day to feel the itching. Scratching till from the maddened continued itch he tore his clothes from his body. The warmth of his cell made them useless as did the sprouting hairs. Shoulders and neck began to grow a dark brown wooly hair. The more he scratched the more he would suck in deep breathes. Huffing like a steam engine he soon began to make grunting sounds.
The two Bovined guards would come down the hall and listened to Ron going through the same situation they' had only months before.
Day, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, the rations grew larger to become bushel baskets of grain, grass clippings, and confectioner's syrup. A bucket with a ladle came hourly as Ron's thirst increased. As the day came to a close and Ron sat on the toilet dumping a load the door to his cell opened.
"Ron you look very well!" said Lusious.
A blast of methane and Ron looked up at Lusious. "You might think so but my Mother would never know me now!"
Indeed his face had grown to a squared blocked head of a massive skull. The Bison head and face was almost totally changed. The ability to speak with slurred English left him often crying to get words out. The shaggy huge shoulders of the American Bison had expanded his body so he looked ready to stand on all fours. A tail switched back and forth as he nervously stood up. Skin was very black everywhere as too the dark brown and black hairs were quickly covering any open hide.
Fingers were knarled as his toes had changed to cloven hooves very early in the reforming process.
"I have begun to find the clippings more to my taste than the grains!" said Ron slurring the words.
Lusious looked on with a smile across his face. The man how begged for help just ten days before had at some time accepted the final outcome of the process. "Are you willing to be moved to a box stall in the barn, Ron?" asked Lusious.
"Yes Sir, I have begun to see the advantages in being a bull! I'm safe and sure that JoJo will never look for me like this, and my family were of no help before and I don't need them now at all! If I could I would write my wifee' and tell her to come join me here. Oh but this body's strenght is so, so, so, it's great!" rambled on Ron.
The guards put ropes over the great head and starting horns for the short walk to his stall.
"I'll change your diet card to just grass clippings, while the water will contain the glucose for building stamina. I believe that within ten more days we could turn you out to pasture." said Lusious.
The changing Bison seemed to groaningly grunt with glee at the thought of being put to pasture. Once in his stall he stomped about first on two hind legs and then on a fours. A strange thank you came from the Bison as Lusious closed the bottom to the Dutch doors.
"I'm delighted that you have accepted the change of body so very well! In the past I have noted that if the change is done with a host feeling benifical about the outcome, he or she retains more of their mental process. I will check on you in four days and see how you look by then!" said Lusious as he gave new orders to the Bovine guards.
Ron walked circles about the 20x20 wood lined stall. Even with no windows the thrill of not being found by the crime boss JoJo made him relax as not in a long while. The next two days found him filling his stomacs with dark green grass clipping sent to the farm from garbage collectors in neighboring cities.
As his hind quarters solidified to Bison format his body weight spread to four sound hearty boned legs. The splied cloven hooves gave a strange feeling to walking but Ron always rolled with the punches of life.
At last after twenty days of continued change he was guided to the pasture gate for freedom to graze. Snorting with absolute glee he pranced into the pasture and turning about bellowed his pleasure to Lusious.