“Alright…- HOLD FOR PLANE.”
Cameron looked around as his friend Travis messed around with the sound mixer, headphones on. Cameron’s hearing was pretty good, above average even, but he couldn’t hear what his friend was talking about.
“Cameron, put your ears on.”
Glancing back he saw Travis pointing to the headphones around his neck. The gesture immediately clicked as he quickly lowered the large boom pole and put on his headphones. As soon as he did, the world got a whole lot louder. The quietest sounds were now at a good volume and the distant noises of the city were a lot clearer. He could hear everything from the rustling of the bushes to the far of yipping of hyenas.
“Good! Plane’s gone, now we can get some foley!”
“Uhh…yeah, great!”
Travis laughed a bit. This was his friend’s first time out in the field recording something. He needed an extra pair of ears to help record some sound effects and Cameron volunteered.
“Don’t worry, you’ll do fine! Just point the microphone where I ask ya’ to and we’ll be good. –Oh, tell me if you hear anythin’ strange too! Can’t let anythin’ weird get in to the mix!”
Cameron nodded and held the boom steadfast. He wasn’t going to let his friend down! He heard the wind pass over the microphone through his headphones; it sounded a lot louder and more dramatic than usual. Thank you amplification!
“Alright, speeding in three…two…one..recordi—“
“WAIT. Did you hear that?”
Travis paused and looked around then at his friend. “Hear what?”
“There it was again! It was like a….squeak or something…maybe like a...yip?”
The pair stood quietly as the tall grass around them swayed in the breeze.
“I don’t hear any—“
“THERE IT WAS AGAIN.”
Travis frowned a bit and looked down at field recorder. If his friend heard some sort of animal, then he heard some sort of animal! He began to raise the levels for his headphones hoping to hear what Cameron heard. Sounds came in even louder than before. Even the rustle of his clothes was picked up by the sensitive microphone. Glancing up, Travis froze and tilted his head.
Cameron was swinging the boom around trying to pinpoint the source of the strange sounds. Travis began to giggle. It wasn’t his friend’s actions that made him laugh however, it was something else.
“Cameron, how are those headphones fitting?”
Travis giggled to himself as Cameron stopped and looked at him; his ears much larger than before. Both had a slight point to them and a thin layer of black hairs atop them. Cameron tilted his head and felt his headphones and ears; not noticing any changes immediately.
“They fit fine. Speak for yourself! Yours are looking a bit loose!”
Travis reached a hand up to his ears and adjusted his headphones. His ears were also quite a bit larger than usual; orange hairs had sprouted atop their points as well. Travis just shook his head.
“Nevermind all that! Let’s get back to work.”
With that settled the two went about their business; recording a few sound effects as the world around them kept getting louder. No, it wasn’t getting louder, their ears were just getting more and more sensitive. Travis’ and Cameron’s ears continued to grow; black and gray fur covering Cameron’s as orange and tan covered Travis’. The two began to giggle and yip to themselves as the fur not only grew over their huge ears, but started growing on their backs and stomachs.
The pair tried to maintain their focus on the work at hand but their two growing fur coats kept distracting them. Both were soon scratching and shifting under their clothes while white and light gray fur spread up their stomachs and chests. Before long, both of them were yipping and giggling; the ticklish fur was growing over their arms and legs. Their nails darkened and grow out; sharpening into claws. Their now large, vulpine ears twitched and swiveled on top of their heads as they finally started to take notice of the changes.
Travis yipped and whined; his feet feeling uncomfortable in his shoes as ankles began to rise up. He kicked off his shoes with a satisfied yap and glanced over at his friend Cameron who had already done the same. Cameron’s furry ears towered over his changing face. A short vulpine snout had taken up part of Cameron’s nose and mouth. Travis giggled at the sight of his friend and let out a few yips. His own face was already taking on a distinct foxy look as well.
As the fellows giggled and yipped, they held their gear tight, even as their nails began to sharpen into black claws and rough pads started emerging on their palms. Both then began to feel a slight tug at their respective backs. Upon inspection, sure enough each had a wiggling fox brush behind them.
“W-Wrre- have--!”
“-Tails!”
Both young men were overjoyed. Any possible negative thoughts about their sudden transformation didn’t register with them. Their tails grew larger and fluffier; flicking and swishing behind them as their clothes began to engulf them. Their huge ears swiveled atop their furry skulls while fur covered their heads and arms. The world seemingly grew around them as their shrinking frames let their clothes slide right off; not that they could have prevented that from happening anyways, their hands were already tiny little fox paws. The sound gear and headphones tumbled off their furry bodies. By now, Travis resembled more of a fennec fox than a human and Cameron was the spitting image of a bat-eared fox. Both little foxes yipped and yapped; tails flicking as they fall to all fours. They could only yip at one another as they climbed out of their former clothes and shook out their fur coats. The two tiny, big-eared foxes sniffed around a bit and happily hopped around.
The fennec nosed his audio gear and looked at his friend. “Rrraor! Yip rao!” / ‘So…this was unexpected!’
The bat-eared fox tilted his head. “Rrr? Raor’raowrr’yip!” / ‘You mean you don’t normally turn into a fennec fox when you mix audio?’
The fennec giggled and yipped. ‘In a way, I guess! Hope this hasn’t ruined your first time out here!’
The bat-eared fox swished his tail and perked his ears. “Rr…rao-rrrao!” / ‘Nah, recording sound is fun!’
________________________________________________________________________

Commission I got from  Silverclaw1 and for extra fun included  That Isle Cat who also wrote the story above!

Looks fantastic and as per her style, fun! I love it!