Wendy again stopped and whispered something in Ty's ear. They both looked at each other with excitement and nodded.
Ty turned around to see his step brother / step elephant brother looking down at the both of them sheepishly.
"Yes?" Ty looked up at Dustin. "Something you'd like, brother?"
"I... I realized I'm naked." Dustin blushed, and covered his big gray elephant package modestly.
"Oh, it's nothing the world hasn't seen before!" Wendy comforted. "Embrace your animal side!"
"Here. If it'll make you feel better." Ty concentrated, and suddenly Dustin was wearing cut off jean shorts and a loud yellow and red flowered Hawaiian shirt. The elephant adjusted his black sunglasses incredulously and looked down at Ty.
"Now that's just silly." Dustin peered over top of his shades.
"No way!" Wendy laughed and clapped her hands in amused appreciation. "No way! It's perfect! It's freaking perfect!"
"Listen, I'm going to go with this young lady here and have some fun." Ty began. "I'll be back, I'm sure I'll change you three some more, but for now, you'll just have to live with being a ten foot tall anthro elephant with questionable fashion sense, okay? Enjoy it! It's weird, but so is life."
"Yeah." Dustin nodded. "I know what you mean. Didn't really wake up today and go 'you know what, I think I'll get turned into an animal today.'" The elephant offered a weak smile under his trunk. "Uh, happy birthday by the way."
"You remembered!" Ty beamed. "Nobody remembered! Thanks, Dustin!" With a last wave and smile, Ty started down the driveway with Wendy again.
"Hey, uh, Ty!" Dustin called once more. "If you happen to find any girls who like elephants like Wendy there, send them my way, okay? There's, uh... something I want to try out."
"Sure thing!" Ty winked, and both he and Wendy burst out laughing as they headed down the street and out of sight.
Dustin stared down at his mom and dad, who were sitting in the grass in front of his foot, sulking. "Well." Dustin sat down on his mighty rump, leaning back against the house and smashing a wall in slightly. It was wrecked anyway, who cared? "I guess we'd better make the best of this for a while, huh?"
June sighed, turned around, and went pale. "Uh... Dustin's a talking elephant now."
"Yes." Mark whipped his tail through the grass angrily, his eye blackened and his nose still broken slightly. "I know."