The Transformation
#1 of Commissions
The Transformation
By: Sir Hamlock : Nick Zanni
Corey Volpe was half way through a semi normal day. He was almost done with work, only an hour left. He worked at a grocery store as a cashier and didn't really mind it, not like his coworkers. He actually enjoyed going into work every day, working was relaxing to him. But today was different, he wanted to leave, he didn't want to be there. He felt sick, something wasn't quite right. He went up to his boss and asked to go home and the boss let him.
As Corey walked out of the store, he feels a rumbling in his stomach, and not the normal kind. He starts to have weird feelings down his whole body, some sensation that felt like stinging and biting all at once. He started to race home, having no idea what is happening, freaking out, until he stopped dead in his tracks. He started to walk funny and his legs started to hurt. He looked down to see no more human skin, but pumpkin orange fur. He rips off his shoes and sees that his feet are now that of a Kitsune. He looks at his hands and noticed claws creeping out of his fingers. "What is happening to me", He mutters to himself. He picks up his shoes and races the rest of the way home. Once he reaches home, he rips off his pants. Almost all of his legs are now fur. He takes off his shirt, and same thing goes for his arms and chest. He runs to the bathroom mirror to check on his face. He looks in and sees, a bit of his skin being replaced by fur. He also noticed that he now has a snout forming. He starts to worry about what would become of him if it kept on heading in the same direction.
He heads to bed hoping that it is all just a bad dream. He lays down, and tries to get comfortable. Tossing and turning all night was not how he thought it would go, but it happened all night. He woke up a couple of times that night, still the same way, half human half Kitsune. He finally did fall asleep though, and when he woke up, he was greeted with a surprise. He was human all right, but he still had the tails. He reaches down and feels the tails, cautiously rubbing the fur, making sure they are real. "Great" He thought "It wasn't a dream"
He gets out of bed and heads over to his bathroom, and stands in front of the mirror. He stares at his reflection and sees he's still human, well mostly human. He still has a shout, and a bit of fur popping out from behind his ears. His hair started to change into the same orange color as his fur. "Well shit" he thinks. "I need to go to work, but I can't like this" He looks around for his phone, and finds it on his side table. He looked at it for a second, thinking about what would happen if he called out, he wouldn't get in trouble, right? He dialed his work and asked for a day off. The boss was surprised but accepted a day off for Corey. Having a day off was something new to Corey, He decided to see what was going to happen to him, so he got onto his computer and searched up Kitsune Lore and clicked the first link that came up. He looked to see what is a Kitsune, and he found this. 'Kitsune is an animal supposed to be mysterious, fascinating, and mischievous. And he is believed to be very grateful for the kindness done to him, as seen in many tales, and is also affectionate as revealed in some dramas. He is enshrined as a god because of his supernatural power. He is endowed with the subtle art of metamorphosis, and he is able to bewitch men in the guise of a charming girl. An exceedingly interesting and entertaining beast Kitsune is.'
"What does that mean for me..." He asks himself. He looks further into it, and discovers how he can get control of it. He gets up, gets a coat and a hat, tries to cover himself as much as possible, and heads into the world. He heads straight to the woods, somewhere that no one can see him, no one could hear him scream. He gets deep into the thick woods, looking for a spot to settle down. Corey needs to wait till midnight on a night with a full moon, and it is conveniently tonight. He sits down, and waits for the night. Each second that it gets closer to midnight, he gets a bit more fur, loses a bit of his human psyche. He is becoming a fox the closer it gets to midnight. "Please, I don't know what to do, I don't want to be this way, I am scared" He says, he looks around into the deep woods, the shadows dancing all around as the sun heads to bed. He gets up, and thinks, its time.
He gets a stick off the ground, and draws a circle with a star in the middle of it. He tries to make it as symmetrical as he can, and does a decent job of it. Walking over to the center of the star he looks up, the moon is almost over head, it is almost time. Sitting down he thinks to himself "All I have to do it sit here and howl, is that it, or is there more?" Waiting is the only thing he can do right now, so that's what he does, every other minute checking the circle and star, making sure the lines are still there. A brief gust of wind blows through the forest, blowing against the leaves and the bark of the wood. Checking his watch makes him aware it's a few minutes till midnight, he stands up, and gets ready. Watching his watch, the second hand, seconds from hitting the 12 mark, he gets ready, looks up, and begins to howl. He screams a howl, just like a wolf would, but mixed with a foxes scream. While howling he starts to feel a severe pain down his spine, he whips his body around, continuing to howl then it changes into a scream, a scream that's a mix of a foxes and a humans . As he is whipping around he looks down as best as he can, and noticed his arms and legs are now completely replaced his skin with fur. He stops screaming and falls to the ground knocked out.
When he wakes, he looks around. It's still night, and no one is around still. He tries to stand on his feet, but he is not fully stable, so he falls back down. Looking at himself, he is not himself, he is not human. He now has fox paws where his hands and feet should be, his legs and arms are fully covered in fur, and everything feels weird. He gets on his han... paws and stands, feeling better than on his hind legs. He races out of the woods, past trees and bushes, into the street of his town. He races to his house and reaches there in no time. He gets up on his hind legs, stumbling he opens the door, heads in, and shuts the door behind him. He starts freaking out, how did he change into a Kitsune, how is he an animal, is he able to turn back? He runs to his room and throws himself on the bed. "Please, let me be a Human again, let me be the thing I was born to be my whole life."
When he wakes up, it's the morning. He shoots out of bed, and noticed that he could stand. His eyes dart from the door to his feet. They were normal human feet. He rushed to the bathroom looking at himself in the mirror. Everything is the same, but he now had a bit more fangs, and he had a bit of pointy ears. Closing his eyes he whispers "Please, let me be an Animal again, let me be the thing I was supposed to be my whole life." Opening his every very slowly he sees he's not human anymore, he is back to his Kitsune form.
Some say after that day he ran away, and lived his life as a Kitsune. Some say he lived his life as a human and never transformed again. But the real story, he lived his life as both, Kitsune and human.