Sonya got home, and dropped her purse on her bed.
She then covered her face with a pillow and started crying into it.
After an hour, she got up and dried her face with tissue.
"Derek." she said "That JERK! How could he do that to me? He threw away our relationship for a mermaid suit?"
She then took out the collar, looking at it. "This is all I have to show for it." she said "Might as well try it on since I went through the trouble of
stealing it."
So she strapped it onto her neck, and looked in her full-body mirror.
"I don't look half bad." she said, smiling a bit "The ruby even matches my hair."
No sooner had she said this, than her eyes got wider, her head got slightly bigger, and her nose got pointy.
"Whoa!" she exclaimed "I'm an anime girl!"
Then her ears moved to the top of her head, and became big triangles. She wiggled them around a bit. She then felt a jolt in the back of her
pants, and when she looked, she saw that her spine had extended into a long tail. She found she could move it around, and held in in her
hands. As she stroked it, she started to purr, and her fingers puffed out to make room for retractable claws. Pink paw pads also formed on her
palms and fingertips. Her feet hurt, so she took off her shoes and socks, and found her feet had gotten the same treatment as her hands.
She looked in the mirror to see her pupils become slit, her nose become a cute, pink triangle, and her upper lip split neatly down the middle,
puffing out to make room for her feline fangs.
Her clothes changed to a red top, and red miniskirt, leaving her midsection exposed.
Her breasts got bigger, and her hips got wider, but her new clothes still fit.
Red tufts of hair appeared on her ears and tail.
Her body got tan, her irises turned yellow, and she got black tiger-stipes all over her tanned skin.
Finally, her hair became wild and untamed, going into two thick ponytails behind her ears. They went as far as her waist, and her held in place
by black ribbons.
"I'm an anime cat-girl!" she exclaimed.
She looked at herself. She was scared at first, but the more she looked at herself, the more she liked the new her.
The collar then fused with her neck - it was now a part of her.
"I didn't want to take it off anyway!" she said, smiling "I'm not only more beautiful, but now I can get back at Derek. He'll pay big time!"
With that, the ruby glowed, and her hair became fire. The tufts on her ears and tail also became flames.
She then found she could control it, as well as form fire in her paw-like hands.
"I understand now." she said, feeing the ruby on her neck pass knowledge to her. "This ruby was worn by a woman ages ago. She was to be
married, but her groom broke her heart. Her rage was then imbued into this ruby, waiting to be worn by another woman with as much burning
rage toward her former love as her. It chose me."
Then she clenched her cat-like fist, and grinned, showing her sharp, cat teeth.
"Then I won't disappoint it or her," she said "but I won't kill Derek - I'll just burn up all he has with this rage! And then I'll use the magic of this
ruby to transform him as further punishment."
"With that, she leaped out the window, and ran to find Derek - hair and tuffs ablaze!
What now?