"Hmmm..." Alex muttered to himself, tapping his pen against the practice paper he was diligently making notes on, a dense volume overflowing with content from his AP program he was still struggling to understand. A black-haired, decently tall and decidedly 'dorky' college freshman preparing for finals, As it neared late afternoon Alex was snowed under by the amount of study he still had to do to get the grades that he needed to impress his professor. "
Ack
, I'm never going to be ready for this..."
While he stayed in and studied, his friend and roommate Lewis was out having fun, having already finished all the work he needed to for the semester. Unlike him, Lewis was a handsome young blonde who was often slacking off from his academic work, bringing back girls in the middle of the night from his frequent partying. As Alex pored over mathematics problems, his head spinning with formulas he was still struggling to grasp, he found himself becoming a little jealous. Even as he neared the end of his first year at college, he still hadn't got laid.
Hearing the clattering of keys and the door behind him swing open, Lewis burst in loudly as he always did. Running his fingers through his hair, he grinned in the way Alex knew meant he was up to something. "Hey Alex! You'll never guess what I found today."
"Can you save this for later?" Alex deflected, trying to focus on the numbers in front of him. "I have an entire semester of content to memorize before Friday's exam."
"That can wait." said Lewis stubbornly, putting his bag on top of his friend's desk and rifling through it. "You know Miss Margaret? The crotchety old lady who lives down the street in that weird creepy-looking house? She passed away last week and her daughter was selling a bunch of her old stuff."
Alex looked at him, bemused. "How is a garage sale more important than whether or not I pass?"
"Because we've all heard the rumors, right?" Lewis began, pulling out a yellowed dictionary and a dusty jar, both part of the useless junk and knick-knacks he had picked up for a bargain. "That she's a crazy witch. Surely you know the stories of people seeing some weird lights and hearing chanting coming out of her backyard in the middle of the night."
"You
really
believe any of those stories coming from black-out drunk college frat boys?" Alex scolded, moving his friend's bag aside. As the more logical of the two, Alex was used to having to talk down his roommate's crazy schemes. "Magic
isn't
real."
"Sure it is!" Lewis maintained, reaching back into his pack and pulling out a strange-looking furry charm. "Look, man!
A real rabbit's foot charm!
Imagine what we could wish for with one of these."
Looking at the charm, Alex felt like it was a pointless trinket couldn't have been worth more than a dollar. "Yeah, like I could wish you would leave me alone for a minute so I could study." Alex said, half-joking.
"
Naw
, where's the fun in that?" Lewis mused, "You'd have to wish for something really weird, right? You could create anything. You could BE anything!" Scanning the room for an idea, he laid eyes on the cover of a discarded fantasy novel on the floor, a thick volume he had abandoned weeks ago when he discovered it was little more than the writings of a weird pervert. "Like, you could wish you were inside of one of those dorky medieval fantasy books you like. Slay dragons and stuff like that."
Now curious, Lewis picked it up and began reading through it, opening it to the page Alex had bookmarked and picking up where he had left off. "You actually like this stuff?"
Eledria's soft amber eyes pierced through the hanging locks of her chestnut hair, catching Zeldor's gaze as he examined the many curves of her body. Her breasts, all six of them hanging naked from her chest, swayed gently in the breeze, their nipples hard as mithrium as the cool air brushed along their sensitive nerve endings. She leaned back on her hind legs, bare feet digging into the soil."
"
Dude, that's so
weird.
Why does she have hind legs and six tits? Is she some furry or something!"
"Hey, stop reading that!" Alex protested, unsuccessfully trying to snatch the book back.
"Not until you tell me about what she is." Lewis said.
Alex sighed. "She's a
Tauress.
"
"What the hell's a T
auress
?" asked Lewis.
Alex pondered. "It's kind of like a centaur, right? You know, the fantasy creatures with a horse's body and legs and a human's upper body? It's kind of like that, but without all the, y'know, horsey features. They have four legs and ten breasts, and it's all human skin." Noting his friend's disgust, he added; "And it's not a fetish thing!"
"Sure, sure..." Lewis teased, scanning the next passage as it described the way a human man and humantaur woman made love in very graphic detail. "It's just a weird kink is all."
"That's why I stopped reading there. It got too weird." Alex retorted, becoming frustrated.
As he continued reading, Lewis' hand began idly stroking the rabbit foot's soft fur. "Y'know, I bet it'd be
hilarious
if
I used my wish to turn you into one of these things
."
"Go ahead." said Alex, turning back to his paper, "
It's not like it's ever going to work.
"
In reality Lewis didn't really think that the rabbit's foot was going to be truly magical, but he would never pass up an opportunity to rile up his buddy. "You know what, that's my wish.
I wish you were like the lady 'Tauress' in this book, with five pairs of big, milky titties. You'd have to walk everywhere on four feet and get milked like a cow every day. Everybody would think you were some mutant freak!
" Lewis joked, dropping the rabbit's foot as it bounced underneath his bed.
"Gross!" Alex said, uncomfortable with the way his roommate mocked him about sex. He couldn't even imagine what it was like to feel a real pair of breasts. "I know it's supposed to be funny, but I didn't need to hear about your
weird sexual fantasies
."
"C'mon, I'm not being serious!" Lewis said, trying to lighten the mood, "Even if this old thing did work, it's not like I'm going to waste our only wish on something like that. Besides, how would somebody
even function like that
?"
"That's it, I'm tuning you out now." Alex groaned, returning to his paper as Lewis shrugged and left him alone, aware that he had clearly crossed some sort of line.
As a few minutes passed, Alex began to notice a hot feeling rising in his chest. Doing his best to ignore it, he felt the sensation of heat travel up his body and to his face. Trying harder to focus he felt flushed, his breathing becoming more labored as with every breath his chest puffed out slightly more than it had before.
"Are you alright, dude?" Lewis asked, concerned about his friend's condition.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." Alex answered, the almost-painful sensation growing stronger as the feeling spread through his arms and across his whole body.
"Hey,
um...
when did you grow your hair out?" he heard Lewis ask from behind him.
"I didn't-" Alex turned to look at him, but was shocked when a long mop of unfamiliar brunette hair whipped around his eyes. Holding it in his hands, he noticed that they too had been subtly altered, his fingers now more soft and slender than he had ever seen. "
W-what's going on?
"
Lewis looked up, instantly shocked by what he saw. "What happened to your face?"
Standing up slowly, careful not to strain himself, Alex moved over to the mirror to get a better look at himself. "
What the hell...?
" he whispered, bringing his hands to his face to check that it was all real. What had once been his familiar self - his pointed nose, his blue eyes, and the faded scar across his left cheek - now looked like that of a complete stranger. In fact, with the delicate skin and soft lips, along with the long hair that now trailed around his face and down his back, he unmistakably looked like a woman. A hot one, even. "
What is happening to me?
"
Feeling the heat envelop his crotch, Alex reached between his legs in horror as he felt his once proud member slowly begin to shrink away inch by inch until it was nothing but a tiny little nub. As the folds of a vagina formed where his cock once was, he felt a nausea in his stomach as his insides shuffled around to accommodate a new set of reproductive organs, including a fully-functioning womb.
Above, he wasn't faring much better. Feeling his chest bulge out in what was now unmistakably a pair of generous female breasts, he took his shirt off and hefted their soft, fleshy weight in his hands, each growing into generous pale D-cups capped with thick pink nipples and dark aureoles the size of poker chips. "Oh fuck,
don't tell me...
"
