Tom entered the build a character screen of the Monster Maker program. He looked to his friends and said, "Alright guys, what should we do?"
"Oooh, do me," said Brad.
"Okay," replied Tom as he typed in Brad's specifics into the system. Soon, a full body image of Brad appeared on the left side of the screen. The three of them gasped at how spot on the image was. It, however, was not enough to stop them from proceeding with program.
"Okay, Brad, which monster would you like to be?" asked Tom.
"Heh...well, I've always had this thing for werewolves," replied Brad.
"Cool," said Steve. "What kind of werewolf though?"
"Yeah, they have sub-catagories here, like Wolfman style, bi-pedal or quadrupedal werewolf," said Tom.
"Dude, you should go for the full quadrupedal werewolf, like in American Werewolf. That'd be cool," said Steve.
"Yeah, okay, let's try that. It's just a computer simulation anyway," replied Brad.
Tom selected the information as dictated by Brad and Steve and pressed the enter button. A progress bar came up, with various statuses whipping by as the program worked. A message flashed stating "Transformation begun" and the progress bar started slowly started moving along the screen.
Brad started feeling hot. He fanned himself with his hand and asked the others if they felt warm. The both responded no. He could feel sweat beading up on his skin. Something was wrong, he was drenched in sweat.
"Seriously guys, I'm burning up here. You're not hot at all?" asked Brad. Before they could answer, he cried out, grabbing his gut. "Oh, god, something's not right here guys,"
Both Tom and Steve looked at Brad. The first thing they noticed was that his skin looked darker, almost as if it was dirty. It quickly dawned on them it was a stubble of what was going to become fur.
Pain radiated through Brad's body as he cried out again. He held out one of his hands and watched, horrified as it started to stretch and reform into a paw as his nails grew out into sharp claws.
"Oh god..." cried out Brad, in a deeper, coarser voice as the transformations continued. "It hurts so much...yet feels kinda good too..."
Tom and Steve watched in shocked silence as Brad's transformation continued. Thick, dense fur grew in, sharp fangs grew out of his mouth and his feet grew into digitigrade paws. His chest barreled out as his clothes tore away from his dramatically transforming body.
Brad fell onto his newly transformed forepaws as his face pushed out into a lupine snout and his ears grew pointed and shifted upwards on his head. As quickly as it started it seemed to stop.
Brad the werewolf looked to his two friends and let out a soft whimper. He walked over to Tom and Steve, trying to show it was still him inside. Steve reached over and started scratching him behind the head and then ran his fingers through Brad's fur.
"This is amazing..." said Steve.
"I know..." replied Tom, looking back to the computer. "What should we try next?"
"Will Brad turn back?" asked Steve.
"Yeah, he will. It should wear off in a few hours. That's what was pre-set here. Hey, look, there's an option to make him permanently a werewolf! Cool..." said Tom.
"Well, if we can turn back, let's see what other options there are," said Steve.