Leopard Man threw his hands up as he bowed out of the auction. Bidding further escalated, but after a few more minutes, Horse Man snorted in defeat as well, for the Lobster Man had seemingly carried with him more money than the both of his competitors put together.
"Sold to the dapper crustacean in the blue frock coat!"
Alexandra was dragged out of her cage, despite her vehement protestations. Lobster Man gave her a wink and a tip of his matching blue hat. Alexandra seethed at him. Two ape-men strong-armed her, dragged her across the stage, and into a cramped room down a hallway, which was subsequently locked.
"Get me out of here right now!" Alex protested in the usual way. Of course, her yelling meant nothing to the animals outside. She decided to examine her new surroundings.
It was a smallish but clean room, entirely of wood. A small heated pool occupied the far corner. Aside from the door, the only other feature of the room came in the form of a full length mirror set up near the hot tub on the wall. Alexandra shivered, for the room was otherwise very cold. She had a guess that they wanted her to get into the tub, and that this would be her final act as a human girl, so for the longest time she refused.
However, the room was growing increasingly cold! They meant to either force Alex into the pool or freeze her where she stood; her breath visible as she shivered. Her bare feet slipped on the nearly icy floor. Frost began to form on the edges of the mirror.
Sobbing, literally freezing, with no option left, Alex slowly descended into the clear blue waters of the tub. She relaxed, relieved, as her skin warmed... And began to turn red...
Alex's arms, now bright red, grew hard from her elbows to her hands. Her fingers fused together into a hard, lumpy mass as her thumbs increased threefold in width. Her formerly petite hands developed quickly into a pair of meaty lobster claws.
"Nooo... I don't want to be a lobster..."
Alex's legs began to turn red as her toes merged into a singular claw-like mass on each foot. Her red ankles poked out more severely, it seemed. The skin on her legs became hard now, and plumped out as her tissues were replaced, her legs filled now with succulent lobster meat.
Alex's new red, fist-like hands became rounded and smooth, with serrated edges poking out from her thumbs. Serrated edges cropped up along the backs of her legs, as well. Alex ran her 'hands' down her legs, but couldn't feel much anymore. Audible clicks could be heard as her newly forming shell collided with itself.
Alex glimpsed something brown floating in the tub. Her hair had fallen out! She could see her shiny, round head and slender, elongating neck in the cruelly placed mirror. Her red lips became indistinguishable from the rest of her crimson face.
I'm such a deep red now! Alex thought. Am I going to become a lobster completely? I don't want to be transformed!!!
Her eyes were becoming small, black circles as the shape of her head began to change. It was growing narrow, and her eyes began to move far apart from each other, towards the sides of her head.
Alex screamed as a pair of stalks carried her now black, round eyes away from her shifting skull...