Fur-riends
Sid reached out and touched the piece, slowly moving it along the shorter route towards the "CHANGES" space. He wasn't sure why, but his heart was racing and everyone at the table seemed to be holding their breath. It was as if a storm were brewing outside; each of them could feel the tension in the air. Sid moved his piece the rest of the way and stopped.
He looked at the cards.
"I suppose you should draw one, hon," said Chris, biting his lower lip.
Sid could only nod.
Reaching out, Tyler took the top card from the deck and handed it, still face-down, to Sid. "Go ahead, game-boy; what's it say?"
Sid scowled at Tyler's action but didn't say anything. Turning it over, he looked at it.
The card was small, only slightly larger than a standard business card. It was white, plain and had a small bit of writing on it.
"What's it say?"
Tyler cleared his throat and recited, aloud...
"True courage is found in lion's heart,
It cures apprehension, fine.
But since another played your part,
Instead you get a swell time..."
The students looked at Sid for a few moments; their friend and host just looking at the card for a few moments and turning it over in his hands. "Ok, that's weird... There's no instructions..."
"What's it mean, though?" asked Dave, finally.
"I don't know," said Sid slowly, putting the card face-up on the discard pile. "But there're no rules beyond what's on the back of the box. Roll the dice and move yourself towards the finish line..."
Just then, a strange, tight sensation ripped through Sid's chest. Gasping, he pitched forward and placed his hands flat against his shirt and gasped, sharply! "Oh, God...! Guys, I...I don't feel ... too ... good..."
A garbled shout escaped Sid's throat and he pitched forward, gasping for breath. The others jumped up and immediately went to his side, Tyler taking charge... "Dave, call the campus hospital! Chris, help me carry him to his mattress..."
Chris, though, was just shaking his head, now, staring at Sid. "I think it's too late for that, Tyler..."
Tyler's gaze followed Chris' and even Dave stopped, phone in hand, to watch as Sid's body slowly writhed as he pitched back in his chair. A tawny, brown fur had started growing at an incredible rate across his face, arms and hands. His body, always trim and in shape, was slowly showing a bit more definition, now, but also was changing in less than human ways.
His hair grew down past his shoulders and puffed out to the sides. His face pushed outwards into a muzzle, black nose sniffing with heightened senses as his ears rounded and rose up alongside his head. "What's ... happening...?" Sid managed to gasp through gritted, sharp teeth.
His voice had lowered.
The other guys just stared as the transformation continued. And, slowly, over five minutes, their friend was transformed into a humanoid lion. The sensation of the metamorphosis gradually faded and Sid looked up at the others, startled. He couldn't see his face but his leonine hands and body-wide fur told him much of the story.
"Oh, God. Guys..." He snarled then and Tyler jumped back, grabbing Chris and putting the more effeminate man behind him. The three watched as the now-lion-like Sid reached back and ripped at the waist band of his jeans. He snarled as if in some discomfort but -finally- gasped in relief as he used his new claws to rip through the top few inches of fabric to let out his long, tufted tail. It swished behind him as he looked past his friends to the small mirror by the door.
The full impact of what had happened to him, struck.
"A lion," he said, after a few minutes. "It ... it couldn't give me the courage of a lion so, instead, it gave me it's shape..."
His words were soft and half-whispered as his friends slowly came back to the table. Sid's eyes, a tear in one of them, looked up to his friends as he said, in a broken, low voice, "God guys, what do we do, now?"
What do you do now?
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