A transformation story I got requested to write long ago.


Ok, I would like to start with my name, it’s Kristian. I am a young male who loves nature. I often travel to the woods nearby just for something to do. The forest is teeming with all sorts of animals, and all sorts of vegetation. I like to study everything to do with nature, whenever I go to the forest, I take a notebook to record all that I see and all that I do. I would sometimes just sit in any tree nearby and draw what I saw. I am quite a good artist not being modest. My favorite thing to draw are foxes, my notebook is basically filled with drawings of them. They are great creatures, but enough about me, this is a story about what happened to me on what I thought would be a normal day.

A had a free day today, I could spend it doing whatever I wanted, so you could guess what I was going to do. I picked up my notepad and went into the forest. Most other times I went there, I couldn’t go deep into it as I didn’t have a lot of time, but today I could. The front of the woods wasn’t very thick, you would be able to see quite far without any trouble. Here though, there wasn’t much nature, the deeper you go, the more there is. As I was walking through, I went past where I would normally sit, a big thick tree, with a massive branch sticking out where I could sit and see into the woods. I’m not going there today, I want to go further in and find somewhere better.

The woods were getting quite a bit thicker now, and the whole place was darker. It would be hard to tell the time now. I don’t know how far, or how long I travelled for, but this would be far enough, I don’t want to get lost here. Looking around, I saw a good place to rest, it was a large dry rock. I could just sit there and wait. As I was walking here beforehand, I could see many more creatures than I did when I wasn’t as far in. I might even be able to fill the notebook with all I see. There were animals I didn’t see before when not as far in, like deer, and I also think I saw a wolf. But there were still foxes, many actually, they did look a bit different though. First of all, they were bigger and darker than the ones I saw before, they still looked quite timid though, so I had to draw one.

As I sat on the rock drawing the fox, as it was rested by a tree, I heard a rustling of bushes, but it wasn’t movement of something small, it was going to be something big. The fox had ran off now, in fact, there were no animals around now, hopefully whatever this thing was wouldn’t notice me. As it got closer, I realized it must be a person, as it was too big to be any animal that roam, so I got up. Finally, an old looking, quite tall man emerged, he had white fuzzy hair, and a white lab coat, the typical scientist I thought to myself. He must be here for the same reason I am, to study nature. He spotted me…

“What is a young boy like you doing here?”
“Um… I’m here to draw, I love to draw nature.”
“Don’t act scared, you do know it’s late don’t you?”
“How late?”
“It’s about uh, 6 o’clock.”
“6?!?! I should be home by now.”
“I am guessing you live in the nearby village, I’ll take you there, I know the way around here well.”
“Thank you.”
“Here, you must be thirsty, have a drink.” He passed me a bottle of water.
“Thanks again.”
“No problem.”

I didn’t see anything wrong with this, it would be the fastest way for me to get home. I drank the water instantly, god I needed a drink. It tasted a bit weird though, I couldn’t concentrate properly after it as well, probably because I was tired. Actually, I must be really tired as it began to get hard just keeping my eyes open, and moving was even more of a struggle. All suddenly went dark, last thing I remembered was me laying on the floor, with a silhouetted figure shadowing over me.

I struggled to get my eyes open again, but now from what I could see, I was inside a room full of electrical equipment, at that point I remembered what happened earlier, the scientist, he must have bought me here after I passed out. Now that I was awake again, I could tell him where I live so I can go, my family will surely be worried by now. I tried moving my legs, but couldn’t, so I tried my arms, same response.

“What the hell?!?!”
“Awake already, strong willed I give you that.”
“Where am I? And why can’t I move?”
“Where you are doesn’t concern you, and you’re strapped down, there is no way you can move.”
“Why? I was meant to be going home.”
“Not anymore you’re not, you’re going to be in a little experiment…”
“I didn’t agree to anything, I will sue you after this.”
“I highly doubt that. I saw your little book, you like foxes I see.”
“DON’T TOUCH THAT!!! Let me out!”
“Soon boy, soon.”

I was struggling to get out, but I couldn’t, it was too tight. The scientist then got out a syringe, there was some yellowy substance in it, no idea what it was. I didn’t want to find out either, I had to get free. I concentrated on getting my left arm free, that way the scientist won’t notice me doing so, and I have a penknife in my left hand coat pocket. If I can get hold of that, I can get free, and use it so I can escape from this mad man. The buckle holding my left hand started to feel looser, a bit more time and I could get it free. The scientist had moved right over me now, and shoved the syringe right into my arm. I couldn’t stop him from doing so, it hurt quite a bit, and I could even feel whatever was in the needle, travelling round my blood stream. The scientist then moved to the doors, locked them, and then came back to me. He undone the straps holding me in place, then jumped out of the way. I jumped up and grabbed my knife, the scientist then ran behind some glass wall, and closed of the entrance to it.

“WHAT THE **** HAVE YOU DONE?”
“Not much heh heh…”
“Why did you release me then, get out from behind there and face me like a man.”
“Ohh noo, you need to be free for what is about to happen, and I need to see.”
“What is going to happen to me? WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?”
“Since you really want to know, well, you like foxes, consider this a favor.”
“Wha…”
“That’s right, if this works, you will become a fox yourself.”
“What do you mean I will become a fox myself?”
“People these days are so stupid, you will turn into a fox, you will soon grow smaller, grow fur, and soon become completely like a fox.”
“You wish…”

I threw the knife down, and started hammering on the glass. The scientist was just standing there laughing, not even flinching in case I break the glass. I started to feel weaker in my arms, I knew I couldn’t break the glass, so I went for the door. The door was metal and looked very thick, it was secured by many dead bolts, but I had to try and open it. I was using all my strength to pull them open, my hands were getting tight and restless, this was hurting them quite a bit. I started to feel little pains in them, I took a look, and there were small brown hairs growing on them. I then looked over my whole body, the brown hair was everywhere, the same brown as the foxes around these parts.

“IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING?!?!”
“I don’t see any change yet.”
“Brown hair is growing on me, what did you do?”
“Stage one complete, now for stage two.”
“Stage two…”

I didn’t want to go any further in this, so I ransacked everywhere in the small room for an antidote. I was throwing everything about, hurriedly looking for anything that could resemble an antidote. There was nothing. The hairs were starting to get larger, and more consistent. Pains were being created in my head, moving was getting very hard to do. I fell to the floor in pain, my whole body felt like it was being compressed, shrinking as it were. I struggled to get to my feet, I still had to try and get out of here. As I got up, I realized my clothes were bigger than before, in fact, everything was bigger. I then realized when I looked at my arms, it wasn’t everything else getting bigger, I WAS GETTING SMALLER!!!

I was getting really worried now, this has to be a dream, I must’ve fell asleep in the woods, and this is just a nightmare. If it was a dream though, surely I wouldn’t feel the pain, the excruciating pain. I didn’t move from the clothes just in case, but I could see my body properly now, my chest was turning white, and I was starting to get thinner as well. I turned to look at my back, and the first thing I noticed was a huge, long tail. It was also brown, very fluffy, and had a white tip. I still couldn’t believe this was happening, I knew from before what foxes look like, now I am starting to look like that myself. I put my hands, now furry, on my face. I could feel something quite long come out of it, so I opened my mouth, and that was the long thing, I felt it with my hands when it opened, and felt the small whiskers. My body didn’t look like a fox yet, but the outer layer was. I moved over the top of my head, and my hands came across two new flaps of skin, well fur, with large holes in them. I could hear my hands vividly when doing so, so they must be the ears.

“Stage two complete, ready for final stage.”
“Stage three, I am guessing that’s the body?”
“Smart kid, soon to be smart fox.”
“STOP THIS, I DON’T WANT TO BE A BLOODY FOX!!!”
“Nothing any of us can do now, just accept it kid.”

Stage 3 was my body, would I really turn into a fox? And if so, will it be permanent? Thoughts of all kind were entering my head, wait, would I lose my thoughts, my memories? Would I cease to be me? The pains in my head came back, they were much greater than the ones previously. So great that I fell to all fours in pain. I was getting a sort of hunchback, my legs and arms were tightening, and started to change shape. I moved my hands in front of my eyes, I can’t say hands anymore though, they were now paws, thick furred paws, now with 4 parts, not 5 fingers. I outstretched them to the floor, my arms were now completely different. They were, fox like, and my legs were the same. I was really small now, exactly like a fox, only my torso connections were left.

I couldn’t stand on 2 feet now, the only way I could balance was on all fours. Pains were still shooting all throughout my body. They didn’t hurt as much now, just a tingle on each joint. I looked behind me, I could now as my neck was larger, and more maneuverable. My body was now completely like a fox, I had the tail, the paws, legs, arms, and fur. I was also really small. The clothes I wore previously were now laying on the floor, I was naked, but that didn’t matter for an animal.

“Stage 3 complete, how do you feel?”

I couldn’t say anything, no matter how hard I tried, all I could let out was a yelp.

“Sorry, I forgot, you can’t speak human anymore. You can understand me, I can’t understand you though. Come here…”

At least I still have my mind, but that doesn’t matter, I am still trapped here with this man who done this to me. I started to back away from him, but I was trapped, no escape. I got to the corner, now there was no way I could go. The scientist got closer, and picked me up. I tried to attack him, but it was futile. Now what was he going to do? He’s turned me into a bloody fox, what else is there to do. He moved me into one of his hands, holding me up by my armpits, if that is still what they are called. Thanks to that hold, I couldn’t move, so I couldn’t attack. With his other hand, he unbolted the big door, and picked up my notebook.

“You’re quite an artist I must say, you look exactly like this drawing.”

What a b*****d, but I still didn’t know what he was going to do with me now. He had opened the door, I could see into the outside, if I could get him to lose grip now, I could escape. It was useless though, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t move properly enough. He had put my book under his armpit now, still had his other arm free. He soon took me to a vehicle, a van, he opened the boot and there was a cage.

“The last one got away, I will make sure you don’t.”

Last one? So was the one I saw previously a human as well? But that one managed to escape, so I can if I try. The scientist had opened the cage and he threw me to the back of it. But as he was closing the cage, I ran forward and hit it open again. This stunned the man for a second, but soon he went to hit me back, as he did so, I jumped out of his way and bit his arm. He fell back in pain, so I jumped out of the cage and bit his leg. Biting was the only form of attack I could do. The scientist dropped my book while staggering, so I picked it up with my mouth and began to run.

“GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE S**T!!!”

Not a chance, I had to go as fast as my little legs could carry me. It was quite fast to be honest, and I could maneuver easily as well. I ran past the rock I was sitting at before, so I must be going the right way. I kept sprinting, I couldn’t slow otherwise he might catch up. The book in my mouth was making it harder, but if I can get home and show it to someone, they may realize something has happened to me, and I can show them where to go. I started to get into the thinner parts of the woods, the normal place I used to go, there were many people there, may be searching for me. I got to the tree I used to sit on, if I wait there with this book, someone will soon see me and my book, and figure out something has happened. I was completely out of breath now though, my heart was thumping and throbbing. Everything around started to slow down, and began to fade into darkness. I was feeling tired from running, I couldn’t move anymore, I just had to lay there, on that tree, hoping someone would soon find me.

I don’t know how long I was there, but I soon got my energy back, and at a lucky point in time as well, as I saw my best friend come nearer to me. Ola, he was the same age as me, hopefully somehow he could figure all this out. I ran to his feet, with my notebook in my mouth. I dropped the book and nudged Ola with my nose. He looked down and picked up the book.

“Hey, isn’t this Kristian’s book, do you know what happened to him little guy?”

I didn’t know how to do this, so I used my head to motion him to follow me into the deeper parts of the woods. I was running through it, making sure Ola was always close to me. We got back to the building where all this happened, but it was locked again. I hit the door with my head signaling that in there is information about me. Ola started banging on the door, shouting at whoever was inside to open it. The door opened and the scientist opened, I started to growl at him.

“I’m looking for my friend, I have a feeling he may be around, do you have any idea where he may be?”
“Sorry no I don’t, but come in, there may be something here that can help you.”
“Ok.”

Ola walked into that building, I snuck in at the same time. The scientist then slowly bolted the door shut, did I just lead my best friend to the same fate as me? The scientist moved to the back of the room, looks like he’s filling up another syringe, I have to do something to help now, but what? As his back was turned, I moved round the ground, looking for my old clothes, I found them pushed under a table, so I pushed them out to the floor, and nudged Ola again.

“These clothes, they’re Kristian’s, he was wearing these before he left!”
“Wha…”
“What have you done to him?”
“S**T, look by your feet and see for yourself.”

Ola looked down to see me there, then his eyes widened and mouth dropped. He was frozen in shock, he fell backwards onto a table where the scientist was, and he quickly grabbed Ola holding him down.

“Yes your friend is now that fox, and you will be soon joining him.”
“…You….wish…”

The scientist now with a full syringe of the same yellowy stuff he put in me was about to inject Ola with it. I ran to bite his leg again, and he shouted in pain, as I did that, Ola got out of the scientists grip, and moved out of the way. She also ran for the door, but once again, couldn’t unlock it. The scientist then got ready again, and began to run at Ola, but he spotted him and quickly jumped out of the way. The scientist ran face first into the door, and fell to the floor. Ola moved to the other side of the room, trying to come up with an escape plan. The scientist got up and had a very angry face, he looked mad.

“NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY, GET ‘ERE!!!”

He ran at Ola again, aiming for her left arm, I couldn’t believe this, I did lead him to the same fate as me. As he got nearer, Ola moved to her right, grabbed the scientists arm, the one with the needle in, and twisted around his body. That caused the scientist to fall into the side of the building, and Ola was still going with the attack, and used the scientists arm to put the needle in him. YES, he will now get what’s coming to him.

“What have you done you little brat!!!”
“You tell me, whatever was in that syringe is now in you.”

The scientist pulled the needle out of him, and started to shout, knowing what is about to happen. I nudged Ola’s legs again, and moved into the glass room, he followed me. We shut the door, and watched as the scientist was now falling and screaming in pain. I couldn’t see what was going on, I was too small, but from the screams I could tell. Ola looked away as well. A few minutes past before Ola looked back, and he opened the door. As I walked out, I saw white clothes on the floor, with a moving bulge underneath. I went straight to attack it, I want to kill him. I was clawing and scratching at it, before Ola moved me of, and then kicked is with force. It flew against the wall, and suddenly stopped moving. Ola then came down to me.

“Kristian, is that you? Give me a sign.”

I nodded, and also winked as I looked up at him. It was the only thing I could think of doing to let him know it was me.

“It is you!!! I gotta get you home, or to the police.”

He even started to cry a little bit. Ola picked up the scientist fox, and threw him into the glass room, and slammed it shut. He then picked me up and began to run back home. He could let people know what has happened, and show evidence, and hopefully someone could help me turn back into a human.