Sarah, his sons fiancée, Rebecah, Zach's mother, Joanne, Sam and Porter's mother, Dick, Dave, Jessie and Ethan, now perching on Dave's shoulder for convenience sake, swarm around Jim Parkings demanding an explanation. Meanwhile Carlos and Jason were trying to cheer up Raphi, Mike's little brother, they were going to stay with them until they could be sent with their families, but for now they had a greater emergency. While Joey was pondering which of the women he'll try to seduce, but when he put his eyes on Joanne or Rebecah both Sam and Bill jumped at him. Dave couldn't help to be oddly attracted to his boyfriend brother. Melanie and Porter rattled in their caged while the others just sulked away.
Finally a whistle call broke the cacophony of discussion, all eyes were upon Mei Ling, Jessie's girlfriend, she was about to speak. "I know you are all concerned, and to be perfectly frank you should, is not everyday that a curse this powerful is unleashed. For those who don't know me I'm Mei Ling, companion of the presently lovely boar guy here and lucky for you descendant for a long family tradition of... lets say occultism specialist."
"You are the one behind this?" asked Rebecah infuriated.
"Please, if I wanted my girlfriend with a dick I would just give her a dick, not mess with the whole family tree. Beside I'm not powerful enough to do this... or, sadly, undo it either."
"People Mei is her to help , Mei please don't antagonize." snorted Jessie.
"Right, as I was saying. The culprit here is someone Mr. Parking had to had met at some point, from what I can gather around 20 years ago. You are cursed with the spirits of the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac. And yes, you are all siblings. Mr. Parking care to introduce them to each other?"
Jim Parking was looking absolute mortified, he sighed heavily and the look his eldest children gave him did nothing to help the matter. "Well there's nothing much to it really. He is Zachary." said pointing at the dragon boy. "Rebecah got pregnant with him after I divorce your mother... and before I married your." explained to the respective siblings. "I didn't know about him until after Raphi was born. I... was going to his birthday party when this whole thing occurred, that's why I couldn't celebrate with you all, although I don't think you'll want to either way." Looking at Joanne who was standing crying next to Porter's cage. "Then there's Porter and then Sam, which I had after I married Linda, Joanne didn't wan't me to met you guys. But this are your brothers, Bill, Jessie, Richard, Ethan, Melanie, Joey, Zach, Gabrielle, Michael and Raphael. Although Zach, knew about you all already."
That was a lot of information to process, and everyone was silent... until Dick broke the silence. "Wait are saying that 'Shirtless Hunk' here is the youngest of us all?"
"Glad to see I not only attract chicks." said Sam with a smirk.
"Well that's really honky dory, we have more brothers than we know what to do with them, but tell me exactly what are we going to do!" said exhaling Dick.
"Which brings me to the next thing, as you have noticed, not everyone of you are complete animals, you just took the characteristics that most suit them. Strength, age, sex, etc. The good news is no curse is permanent, this one not an exception."
"Well that's the first good news I had heard, when we return to normal?" asked Ethan.
"On Mr. Parkings birthday..."
"What?" yelled everyone.
"twelve years from now." ended Mei Ling.
"12 years! We can't stay like this for 12 years!" the panic started to ensued, when Mei Ling whistled again.
"Calm down, that's the good news in case we fail, well rather you fail. There's a way to remove the curse, but you only have 12 days which is the time the spirit will take to become use to your bodies, then you'll have to wait 12 years for them to leave on their own."
"So what do we do?" asked Jim.
"You either make the person who put the curse in the first place to remove it..."
"But I have no idea of where to find it... or who it is?!" replied Jim.
"OOoor..." Mei Ling somewhat irritated by the interruptions. "We try to exorcise them... however there's a problem with that."
"More problems?!" claimmed exhausted Dick.
"We have 12 days but... 2 have already passed, and I'm sorry to say I can only try to perform one exorcise at day... and even then it would be taxing for me and it wouldn't be a warranty of success for reasons I'll explain shortly. My point being that two of you would have to remain with the curse for 12 years, regardless of how successful we actually are, keep in mind that your bodies are still adjusting to the spirits, you may continue to change further during this time."
"Well if there's no volunteers, I do." said Samuel.
"Darling no!" yelled his mother.
"Don't worry mom, beside between Porter and me, I think he needs more help, after all I'm what did he called me... a 'Shirtless Hunk'. I'll be fine." said Sam.
"I kinda like clopping, but remain a centaur would be a problem." said Mike.
"I wouldn't mind if you choose to keep the cock." whispered Mei Ling to Jessie.
"But I would!" said Jessie.
"Dick you look better, why don't stay the same as muscle-head here?" said Joey.
"Why don't you go fuck yourself!" replied Dick.
"Not really my thing. But it seems to suit you. Then again, I might be tempted to stay like this, as long as I something might be done to these ears."
"Stop!" yelled Jim Parking. "There's no other way?" pleaded to Mei Ling.
"I'm afraid not... and as far as suggestions go, they seem the most reasonable of the bunch."
"Fine... what now?"
"Choose who goes first, the ritual is different for the twelve spirits, choose quick we don't have time. A fair warning to the first volunteer, the process can get a little messy.