A 2nd person story in which reader ends up transforming into a feral red kangaroo.

During this 3200 word long story you will experience a tiring journey through australian outback where you will find a curious female kangaroo, a local shaman and eventually you will be licked into being a kangaroo yourself.~

Gender neutral, mild implication of nudity and being male at end. Can be read as a story or convered to audio via TTS.

Please note: this story is very old, it's one of my earliest works, it's 7+ years old at this point, it's terrible, so bad in fact I almost decided against posting it. I did my best to format it and fix most glaring mistakes. Otherwise, don't be discuraged by this quality here and just glance over any other story I have written to see actually good content.

You have been warned!

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Sometimes all you need is to be a roo

After months of waiting and session passed there’s finally time to fulfil a dream. Ever since you started to like kangaroos you wanted to go see them from up close in Australia and there’s no better time than now. During winter here, it is summer on the other side of the globe. And so, with the saved money you bought yourself a plane ticket.

You packed everything needed for those three weeks. Your documents, money, clothing, and everything else you might need. The journey itself is tiring. One plane to London then waiting for another one to Perth. The almost 24-hour long flight definitely isn’t a most pleasant experience and considering that you will have to make it through it again soon it is not a thought worth hanging to.

But here she is – Australia. At first glance it looks like any other place from the western world. Typical buildings, regular people, nothing short of normal. Well, you didn’t come here for that, not mainly, of course being that kind of person to not waste a single day of a trip, especially taking under account how expensive it is you spend a first day in Perth and its neighbourhood checking anything you could enjoy as planned.

Next day, according to plan you are renting a car, nothing expensive, but at least it can hold a lot of stuff inside, it definitely needs to carry extra water and petrol reserves if you wish to make it through desert. There is of course a great road going around continent, but nothing can beat a journey through middle itself, especially if you want to see kangaroos from up close.

With your rented jeep packed and stocked on everything useful, you set off to the northwest. Unfortunately, good quality roads quickly end, this goes in parallel to the scenery which becomes less green and more desert-like, less distracting and more appealing. That’s a good sign, being away from civilization will for sure increased number of kangaroos’ sightings.

People say they are everywhere, but apparently even though it shouldn’t be possible you didn’t spot a single one so far. Most of the day is used to travel through these dirt roads, occasionally changing fuel. Even though the jeep is used to that it’s uneasy travelling in this way. Still, there’s no need to get discouraged. After reading the map you know where the kangaroo hotspots are and soon you will be going through them.

Around midnight after parking on the side of the road you tuck yourself in on the back sits. The night was surprisingly pleasant and as for a sleep over in car it wasn’t that bad. You will have to get used to that as most of the holidays will be spent exactly like this. Long and exhausting days spent in car, but the rewards, the perspective of seeing kangaroos is worth all the trouble.

Next day, after finishing with your new morning routine you are back on the road. It might have been 2 or 3 hours since leaving, but now patience has paid off. You finally arrived in the spot marked on the map. At least you should be near it. No GPS have signal here, but checking range on a car is very helpful in providing distances.

It’s very early so there is a full day to go and see them. No kangaroo is visible from road, but that’s ok. You will be going straight into the desert to see them there. After gathering a lot of water into your backpack you recon there is around 15 litters inside, it should be enough to sustain human for one day in this extreme heat. Those 40 degrees will really burn through that. You also pack few other things that you might need in the wilderness. Some basic equipment like compass, map and so on and lastly a sleeping bag. You rather won’t sleep out there, but who knows what can happen.

The journey in this heat is tiring, but since you brought a lot of water it’s manageable. The desert itself isn’t looking like you’d imagination, reddish dirt, small shrubs, definitely different than what most picture. During that hike you go past few chasms and impassable hills, there is also an abundance of small trees every now and then.

After few hours you finally find what you sought. A mob of kangaroos grazing themselves near a small clearing. Waiting for that took far too long. You slowly approach, taking pictures along way. There are stories of both people patting kangaroos and being clawed to death by them, so you take your time to approach. It would be terrible to get sliced now. There are some medicines inside the backpack, but if the bleeding were too strong no number of bandages would be able to save you.

The excitement grows with each step, but also the feeling of calmness comes. So far, they don’t seem to mind your presence, that’s a good sing, if there’s any chance for patting it must be now. Few seconds later this becomes true. You gently put hand on her side and rub her. Her brown fur is the softest you have ever touched. This feels so good that it could last entire day, nothing could be more important than this right now. She doesn’t run away, no, quite on the contrary she moves closer trying to hug you too. Time passes as this bliss continues, but unfortunately after few hours of repetitive patting and resting under nearby tree you decide it’s time to return to the car. After all there’s more of country to see yet.

This evening passes the same way as previous one. After unpacking everything and eating some basic supper it’s time for sleep. It was a very relaxing night, you even had a first dream since last summer, every second of it was appreciated. Details are foggy, but it was for sure about kangaroo, similar if not the same you patted. It’s probably some brain memory stuff going on, but it was enjoyable, nevertheless.

It’s already forth day and there’s more of the desert to cover. After getting ready in the morning, you carry on driving north-west. Once again, the heat is immeasurable, but at least car’s air conditioning is working. Few hours pass as usual, but surprisingly there’s someone on the side. You stopped the car to have a chat with a stranger. It’s not every day that you meet someone in their 60ties dressed like a shaman, he has to be one of the aboriginal people living here.

He introduces himself as Daku and asks if you want to hear a story about local beliefs. Curious as ever next minutes are spent listening to a long story about how the world works, how everyone and everything is connected and how the spirits exist. He goes also into great detail how people used to acquire totems, something like a personal sign. While totems are passed down from generation to generation many people can’t know theirs as they weren’t raised here. He is kind enough to perform small right to find out what is yours. Apparently, yours is a native to Australia kangaroo, a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

After exchanging pleasantries there are still more kilometres to cover today. Few seconds after acceleration you turned head to see stranger once again, but he wasn’t there anymore. He couldn’t just disappear could he, this is a giant open plain, and those few meters you covered weren’t enough to lose anyone from sight. That’s strange for sure, might be a good idea to drink more water, this heat must be messing with your mind.

After an hour or so the car comes to a stop. Apparently, the coolant is completely gone and there’s no spare bottle. Car can go, but this heat would just stop it in few minutes and then it would become really dangerous to drive. To make things worse there’s no signal out here. The only thing to do is wait for someone to come pick you up.

But there’s a way to turn this disaster around. Since kangaroos are already here there’s no need to go through entire desert, that time can be used to wait and later drive using normal roads going around entire Australia. Might not be as good sightseeing experience, but at least entire plan won’t fall apart, and everything will be checked anyways.

Once again, it’s time to venture into the desert. While the temperature seems to be around same as before you don’t feel the scorching heat as much as back then. Might be a good time to rest and luckily for you there’s yet another clearing not far and similarly there’s another mob of kangaroos there as well. That’s what’s called luck.

As you come closer it’s clear that this is not an ordinary day. Somehow not only it’s the same clearing you found few hundred kilometres back then, but even these kangaroos seem similar. How’s that possible? That can’t be, yet the brown one looks exactly the way you remembered, exactly like one in a dream as well.

Nevertheless, the car can’t be far and that’s an opportunity as good as ever to rest for a while. There’s just something very soothing in basking under the shade of the trees, watching kangaroos going about their day. The only constraining thing right now is clothing. Since no one will be around there’s no problem with undressing and finally everything seems perfect. A time with no concerns and no worries, a time of peace and calmness and of course some kangaroos.

Moments later the female one approaches you and stars doing what she apparently enjoyed last time – cuddling. Indeed, nothing feels better than her touch on the bare skin along seldom licks. That’s definitely a positive change, you truly feel yourself connected to them and her in particular. She then moves closer to your feet and starts licking them. That tingling sensation actually forces them to grow longer and longer. You watch mesmerized as they are being covered in a soft brownish fur and orange one at the ends, nails are also changing into long and powerful claws.

That was clearly unexpected, in fear you try to jump away, but not being used to these feet all you do is fell on the ground behind. At the same time the kangaroo seems unalarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? It seems like too much of a coincidence, first the purpose of the trip, the dream, the stranger, and his stories and now this? There’s not much doubt in what is happening and some part of you doesn’t even mind it, but natural reaction to run away is still persistent.

Unable to properly move, the female comes near you once again and continue to lick higher parts of your legs. This time there’s a distinctive crack to be heard coming from the spot where legs and feet meet. The formers are also being covered in a fur, they are also becoming gray, but the higher the tongue moves the more reddish the hue becomes. The insides are also being reformed, both muscles and skeleton need to change in order for legs to work as intended.

Still unable to get away you turn around to at least face her directly. She looks so peaceful here, there’s no way that what she does can be evil in any way. After all you love kangaroos, and they seem to love you in return, it can’t be bad becoming one yourself, can it? And so, with that the last bit of resistance leaves and all that is left is joy and willingness, along some impatience as well.

More than happy, she continues to lick higher and higher. The newly grown fur is definitely more of orange if not of red colour. Since there’s more body here than in legs, the transformation seems to have slowed down a little. It takes more time and effort to change now. Especially now that your insides are also undergoing those changes. Once again, the muscles and the skeleton have to adapt, but this times also organs need to change, especially the stomach, after all kangaroos are herbivores. But with the time pass the fur spreads further and further.

At this point you are finally able to support yourself on new legs. Looking down you see new massive feet and lots of colourful fur, which itself is very pleasing, there’s no way anyone wouldn’t enjoy having it. Standing now is fortunate as this allows the kangaroo to go behind and lick near your tailbone. Well, there’s only one thing that can come out from there and indeed you feel a tail growing as she continues to lick or even suck the tip of it. A long red and yellow tail is growing out of you now. It takes time for it to grow, but it’s a pleasurable experience, nevertheless. When it finishes it’s truly massive, it also seems to help in keeping balance which still needs some work.

All your lower body is changed now, resembling nothing more than a common red kangaroo. Is it better that way? What would that mean for your future, for life and the family? Would anyone find out what really happened? Would anyone believe in such story? Do you even care for these answers? Not really. All that matters now is to continue the change and there are still few parts resembling human a bit too much.

Without any longer brake she comes in front of you once more. This time licking your arms and making her way down towards fingers. Just as in case of legs first the red fur appears, later the grayish one, it all wraps with the brown. At the very end, each finger is also carefully sucked and then released as a newly formed claw. You can also feel bones change, while kangaroos don’t run or rather jump on all fours, they often use hands to support themselves while grazing. Grazing… that thought soon comes into the mind. Can anything different other than peacefully eating whatever one can find in grass be better? Probably not. After all, living of the land is all one needs to survive, and it’s the purest form of it.

You look beautiful now, might be the self-esteem, but it doesn’t seem like any other kangaroo in this mob looks as good as you do right now. Still, there’s one part of the body in constant need of change. A sign of the individuality of each and every human now is going disappear, replaced by something better and more gorgeous.

You feel as she now moves her tongue towards your cheek. Feeling the fur grow all over the face is the most pleasing experience from them all. It’s also more diverse with parts being red and yellow or even brown and grey in places. She then continues to give you something resembling a gentle kiss. You wouldn’t be a good partner if you didn’t return the favour and so with each second a feeling of stretching can be felt more and more. Your mouth and nose elongate forming a muzzle. Teeth are also changing, moving away and leaving a big gap between. Those in the back are merging and growing for instance. After all they need to be able to chomp that grass apart. Your nose also changes becoming black. The nostrils are bigger, and it becomes wet as expected. You can now sense wide variety of smells; it will come in handy in the future.
 
After that’s done the licking comes to the ears. They start growing larger and move more to the top of the head. Your hair is now merged with the fur as well. And finally, the newly formed kangaroo ears are in place. Hearing is now different, it’s more like feeling sounds from the top of your head rather than sides, but still very accurate and these will help in thermal regulation as well.

There’s just one more thing to fix – eyes, the final parts to be licked. Somehow you manage to not close eyelids. That’s good as seeing your eyes moving on the own to the sides, allowing for far bigger field of view feels amazing. Fortunately, you are now a kangaroo not a bird, which means that not only vision in front is covered by both eyes, but also that you are able to focus on everything in front with a particularly good precision. And on top of that seeing a bit behind is a nice addition to life.

That’s it, there’s nothing more to change, that’s why the female gives you one more lick on the right cheek and then steps back and looks directly into your eyes. When you calm down from the enthusiasm of the change you notice that, and stare at her in return. In that moment, when both of you are lost in each other’s gaze you finally realise that this is how the life was meant to be. She is yours now, just as you are hers.

Being a human was a mistake, maybe the biggest practical joke of some higher power so far, but with this trip everything was restored to its real form, there are definitely few more questions about meaning of life and afterlife to be asked, but right now they can wait.

Luckily or unluckily after everything you kept the intellect. Yet the strong need of following instincts comes in play. That transformation might have been the best part of the life yet, but it for sure drained energy out of you. And since there’s still time before the hour of sleep and grass near clearing looks so tasty it’s time to eat. If anyone asked you about eating grass before there wouldn’t be a surprise in answer, but now, nothing in the whole world could compare to it. Clearly the form dictates the taste, and you truly couldn’t be happier about it.

As much as doing regular human stuff feels great nothing is better than being lost in a moment, doing absolutely nothing else, but simply existing. Getting enough energy from the grass takes a lot of it to be eaten, but just doing that feels amazing. You feel like you could do it forever and well there’s nothing standing in the way of doing so now.

During all those hours of grazing the female hasn’t left you side, she didn’t step away more than a few meters at the time. After all you are both in this together now. You were lost too much in the eating, but in the moment of clarity you realise you still didn’t thank her, of course words won’t do as the only sound you can make is a cross between deer’s bleat and some random snort. But there’s one remarkably simple and yet so desirable thing that can be done. With that in mind the night will end in pleasure and later on both of you will fall asleep in each other’s paws.

Fin ^^