Don't Eat the Mystery Meat

As Lian walked down the quiet street she felt her stomach turn, a loud gurgle of discomfort doubled her over and she had to stop walking for a moment. Instantly regrets of eating food from that street vendor came flooding in. Her friend had refused to eat anything there, claiming it was some sort of "mystery Meat" and she would have no part of it, but Lian had been so hungry. Now Lian's friend had already gone home, leaving her to walk the rest of the way home by herself, and whatever she had eaten had taken this as it's opportunity to attack.

As she bent over clutching her abdomen she panted loudly, her body felt strange and she was worried she had gotten seriously ill, but then as sudden as it had overtaken her the feelings subsided. She stayed hunched over for a moment, trying to get her composure. As she went to stand up she felt a surging pressure and heard loud rip as the backside of her shorts were torn apart. Lian's eyes went wide and she frantically looked over her shoulder and saw... something. There was a shape that didn't belong hanging behind her, about a foot and a half long, tapered to a point, slick and shiny as it wiggled. She reached out a trembling hand and touched it.

Her hand rubbed the smooth wet surface, it felt like soft leather and... and she could feel herself touching it, she could FEEL IT!? He mind recoiled against the sensation and she drew her hand back to clamp over her mouth and stop herself from screaming. She Suddenly was very aware she was in the middle of the road with a, the word was hard to say even to herself.

She broke into a run, her tail swaying behind her heavily as she tried to reach home before anyone caught her and her... tail. She kept having to pull her shorts back up to avoid them falling down and tripping her, they had lost a lot of structural integrity from the growth of her new appendage and they fought against her as she ran. Her face was red and her breath ragged, but home wasn't too far now all she needed to do was-

*crack* *pop* *creak*

Lian felt the bones in her feet crack and twist, it felt more wrong than painful, but what really had her attention was the fact she had lost balance and was now tumbling forward. She tried to stop herself but her changing feet could find no purchase and she crashed into a bush in front of a neighbors house. After a few minutes of laying half submerged in the shrub she took stock of her body. Her feet had grown to a larger size, the heel extended backwards and the toes stretched out into a claw like shape with webbing between them. Her smallest toe seemed to have vanished and she was having trouble believe what she saw. Her hands would confirm her fears though, this was no trick of the eyes, her strangely shaped feet were as real as her tail.

Her shorts and shoes had not fared well, the bush had torn what little remained of the fabric, and her large pointed feet had torn through her shoes and split them apart. Now she was wearing nothing to cover her lower half, and if she wanted to make it to her house she would have to run the rest of the way nude from the waist down.

She was starting to panic, she didn't want to be caught outside nude, let alone looking like this, but if she waited any longer someone was bound to walk by. She was grateful to live on a quiet and not frequently traveled road at the edge of town at this moment. She gathered her remaining courage and got to her feet, it felt so weird, they were big and a little awkward to move on, it took her a few steps to get the hang of them but she managed to figure out how to move around with them after a bit. She couldn't quite get to the running speed she would like for risk of tumbling over again, but she reached her front yard within a thankfully short amount of time. Just as she was on her lawn she heard her next door neighbor leave her house.

Lian rushed over to the closest bush, covering her nudity from the woman who took her approach as a sign that she wanted to chat. Lian swore under her breath as she realized she was going to be stuck talking to the woman. She tried to smile and seem like nothing was going wrong as her neighbor started to idly chat with her. Lian's face was red, she was sweating, her eyes darted about as she tried to make sure there was nobody behind her or exiting one of the other nearby houses. The woman seemed oblivious to Lian' clear uncomfortableness though, and she rattled on about her sister.

Eventually the woman stopped, she noticed a small bump poking out from Lian's hair. "L-lian, are you feeling alright? Did you hit your head or something, it looks like it's swelling up."

"I-I!" She reached up and felt the knobby bump and stammered out a frightened excuse. "Y-yeah I uhm, hit my head, I have to go..."

Her neighbor looked at her skeptically for a moment then gave a weak smile and went to walk to her car. Her back was only turned for a few seconds before she heard Lian's front door swing shut and the girl had already disappeared inside.

Lian leaned against the door panting, she could feel the odd shapes above her temples pulling, it was like someone was yanking on her skull. As she tried to get a hold of herself she felt a crack in her back, a pressure that popped and creaked as bones shifted and her vision swam. Her clawed toes clacked on the floor as she staggered to her bedroom and collapsed on the floor. She passed out as her spine seemed to grow ridge like bumps that ran down it's length.

It was hours before she woke back up, but it didn't take but seconds to realize it had been no dream, she really was this... creature. She shuffled and staggered as she stood up, wandering to her bedroom mirror as she did. The reflection she caught look almost normal from the front, the only indication she had changed at all was the antler like horns growing out of her head and her now pointed ears. She looked like a cross between a girl and one of those dragon sculptures her grandfather collected. Maybe her friend had been right, maybe they weren't called dragon kebabs because they were spicy, maybe they were made of some strange exotic meat...

I do not own the rights to the original image used for this photo-manipulation, if the owner requests its removal I shall do so 
~The Warlock