It was New Year's Eve, and everybody was excited. After all, they were turning the clock to 2077, long foretold that it would usher in a new era of peace and happiness for mankind. Of course the elves weren't happy about it, humans always thought that the world revolved around them, always looking to better their own lives and ignore everyone else. At least the dwarves attempted to keep peace over the world, but humans, they fought over ridiculous reasons, and now they were getting a blessing from the gods?!
They abused magic, killed each other in droves, and let those in poverty suffer. Now they'd have peace and happiness all across the board...unbelievable.
Tina was so excited, this year was it, the year mankind can finally tell the elves to stuff it. Wizards, warlocks, and witches and sorceresses were casting spell after spell, creating dazzling effects. As a sorceress herself, she knew that this much magic in one area could be dangerous, causing a magic overload and causing something horrible to happen, but those chances were slim with the whole "magic year" business going on. Her best friend, Zia, was a duchess in one of the neighboring human kingdoms, and she'd come here to celebrate with her instead of her stuffy family.
"This. Is. AWESOME!!" Zia yelled while she crowd surfed.
"Be careful!" Tina yelled. The last thing they needed was for her to get hurt and cause an incident.
"FIVE!" The countdown had begun, and the crowd was drunk and happy about it.
"FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE!"
Then the magical wave surged across the crowd, and flew out the building. They all looked at each other, surprisingly, the blast made them all sober agin. But nothing else changed. Then everything went black.
Zia woke up slowly, her new cat ears and tail twitching around while she slowly got up, not sure what was going on. The last thing she remembered was...something. She looked around, another female was getting up, she recognized her. Ti, was that her name? She noticed a male getting up, and the two locked eyes, and she immediately turned and presented her now tailed rump to him. She feared he was rejecting her offer to mate, when the weird things covering her ass was ripped off, and she knew that he was mating her, she purred and grunted in pleasure.
All across the world, mankind was reduced to nothing more than dumb, primitive cat-people. When the elves and dwarves got word, they convened to determine what to do with the humans. Some advocating exterminating them, saying they brought this on themselves, others advocated trying to revert them back to normal. But they eventually decided, the humans were more peaceful with each other than ever, and they did appear happier than before, who were they to question the wishes of the gods? So, they opted to use the humans as pets. And the decision was welcomed which more than anyone thought it would.