Normal, no more

Chapter 4-...We find a way

(Credit goes to the artist, I can't draw for the life of me)

It took Mark thirty minutes to notice that both his best friend/roommate and his dog were missing as he was playing a riveting game of Tasty Planet on his IPad. Only when he realized that Jack was taking far too long to piss did he worry that something had happened to him or Chica. He got up and experimentally called into the hallway "Jack? You okay?"....Silence "Chica? Chica-Bica? Chica-Bica want a treat?" This time he got an answer in the form of a bark resounding from the bathroom. He ran over hoping and praying that Jack was okay. Turning the corner and opening the door to the bathroom he saw Jack clutching Chica. He was out cold, the slow methodical rise and fall of his chest a sign of life still within. Everything seemed fine...but it wasn't.

Blood had pooled around Jack's head and back, clotting in his hair and staining his clothes as well as Chica. Something was in the blood pool that made Marks heart lurch. It was Jack's left ear. It looked like it had just fallen off, it was such a clean cut. His other ear looked like it was about to fall off, it didn't even look like it was attached to the side of his head. Traveling up the side of his head, Mark found two light brown pointed ears on the top of his head. His hair was bloody and messy. Mark decided to do him a service and remove of the other ear that was still on Jack, finding that it wasn't even attached anymore. It was just a flap of ear, there wasn't even a sign that it used to occupy that space on his head, there was just skin, no scar or anything to even show that an ear used to be here. Mark scanned the rest of Jack's body looking for any other changes. There were tufts of fur on his elbows that ran down halfway down his arms and halfway up as well. Mark was surprised he didn't notice this earlier but he found a long, fluffy, brown tail that went all the way to his head. Accounting for everything he could see Mark made the connection that Jack's animal was a squirrel. 

Mark was still taking this in when Jack started to regain consciousness. His tail twitched, he ears swivelled around, and his eyes fluttered open. "Mmh... Wuh... Meark?" Mark jumped at the sudden surprise. "WHA-HO-Hey-yew-piece-of-shit..ha... you have got to stop doing that..." "Sorry...whut...what happened...?" Jack was starting to sit up groggily, this was about the time that Chica wrestled out of his grasp and started licking his head, right where his ears used to be. At first Jack didn't even remember what had happened let alone realized that he had even had his transformation but as Chica licked him he started to feel as if something was...off "Ahh! Chica no! Hahaha, stop! Chica, stop!" Wiping his face he looked over to Mark only to see him looking happy yet...shocked? What? "Mark, what's up? You look-" that was when he wiped where his ears should've been, where they had always been, and now where they weren't anymore. That was when he remembered seeing his own ear in a pool of his own blood.

Oh....right....that....welp

He felt the sides of his head and low and behold, they weren't there at all. Looking back to Mark he gave him an "is-this-really-happening?" look which Mark responded with a "yep-this-real" nod and held up the ear that he had pried off of his head. Jack's eyes almost went dead when he saw his own ear being held in his hand. He then felt an alien sensation take hold, something moved on his body, something that did not exist thirty minutes ago yet was moving almost naturally.

 Turning back he saw the tail that was now attached to him, now he felt how uncomfortable it was with his waistband pinching it against his back. Reaching out to touch it he felt his own fingers brush against it. The fur was soft to the touch and his tail twitched subconsciously, he cringed as he felt it move. Finally getting off of the bathroom floor with a little help from Mark he was able to take a good look in the mirror. Jack finally saw his new ears and reached up to touch them, as he was getting used to his new ears Mark was kinda interested in Jack's tail, he motioned to the tail "Can...can I...?  You know..." Jack nodded "Go ahead, you're gonna be going through the same thing soon so might as well." Mark hesitantly reached out and brushed his hand against the furry tail. Still unused to the tail and the sensations that followed, Jack almost jumped out of his skin when he felt Mark touch it. It felt....good? Like... a calming kind of good. It wasn't like that when he touched it. He almost lost himself in the feeling of comfort until he noticed a rumble coming from his chest. Was.. was he.....purring? Could squirrels even purr? (To answer your question, yes, yes they do) 

Both men stopped everything when they heard the purring. Both turned red, Jack more so than Mark. Great, now he had to deal with animal noises coming out of him too, as if washing himself wasn't going to be hard enough now that he had more hair to wash. "Well, now that we've had our fair share of embarrassment, Jack you should probably shower and get changed, l've got to wash Chica-chu outside with the hose now." Motioning to the blood on the floor and on both Jack and Chica. "Yeah, all this is gonna need a good old scrub." Both laughed a bit and went their separate ways, Mark with Chica to the backyard, Jack to the bath tub to start up the water. As the water started flowing he wondered what the world was coming to now. But he knew no matter what, they would find a way.

Yay! Fourth chapter! Most of this fanfic has actually been inspired by another fanfic by friskie06 who made a pretty kickass story called the achievement animals. I highly recommend checking them out! They're good at what they do!

Anyway be ready for the next chapter: Squirrel-y Situations.