The summer holidays were starting up, the sun shone bright as the funfairs and carnivals were starting to set on they allocated pitches.
The brightly light rides and striking red and white tents covered fields all over the English countryside.
As the afternoon sun reached it's position the sound of jolly carnival music filled the air in Hertfordshire, a one of these carnivals opened it's gates to an abandoned courtyard.
"Come on Megan" the light brown haired girl, dressed in a pink sleeveless dress called pulling on the arms of Megan, a five feet and six inches girl with dark brown hair.
"Alright, Millie" sighed Megan breaking free of her friend's tight grip.
She began to chuckle at Millie as the carnival came into sight,
"Your just a big kid at heart Millie even though your meant to be eighteen years old"
"Oh come on it's not like you hate the carnivals, you seemed to actually like beating me in the rifle ranges or the coconut shy" smiled Millie tussling her hair over her shoulders revealing her golden hoop earrings.
Millie walked with a spring in her step onto the carnival site with Megan following closely behind her.
"Good afternoon ladies" called a man that look like a homeless man walked up to, his hair was messy and dark with some parts grey, he worn a battered brown coat over dark battered and possibly worn out clothes, his boots were scuffed and mud possibly from working on so many fields.
"Ladies?" quizzed Millie, "He can't be talking about us Megan, can he?"
Megan chuckled, "Maybe can't be certain!"
"What's in that tray of yours free drinks perhaps?" joked Millie noticing the tray strapped around the man's neck.
"No free wrist bands but not just any wrist bands...." the man began.
Millie laughed, "Glow in the dark do they?"
"No these wrist bands are new to this carnival, these are scented wrist bands" the man finished.
Millie plucked one out of the tray, she eyed the pink band as she brought up to her nose,
"Smells like roses" she said gesturing to her friend to smell.
Megan smiled as she took one of her self, an orange one, "Reminds me of fresh fruit" she stated taking a quick sniff.
"The only friend I know that has orange as her favourite colour" she whispered to the man.
"Thanks for these" Megan said dragging her friend away from the man.
Both girls slipped the new wrist bands as they made they way of to the carousel ride.
The two friends whooped and laughed like kids as the ride spun around, the wooden horses bobbed up and down in time with the music.
Once the ride slowed to a stop both Megan and Millie wobbled off,
"Woah! That was..." began Megan holding out her arms for balance,
"Fun!" finished Millie doing the same with her arms for balance when suddenly her eyes widened as she noticed a boy walking onto the site.
"OH no! It's Daniel!" cried Millie.
"Daniel, Daniel Mane your boyfriend?" asked Megan looking towards the entrance to see the dark haired boy strolling onto the site with two other boys and two girls.
"Yeah, my ex boyfriend!" Millie said, "I caught him with that dancer chick the other day"
"Alright!" sighed Megan.
"I can't deal with him today" Millie protested.
"This way" called Megan tugging on her friend's dress.
The two girls hurried up to a tent,
"In here it's empty" Megan said peering into the tent, Millie quickly followed her friend inside and pulled the zip halfway down.
"Ok, we'll right in here for a few minutes" suggested Megan as she sniffed the air.
"Ok" agreed Millie peering out of the tent.
"Do you smell that?" asked Megan sniffing the air.
"No what does it smell like?" Millie answered with a question.
"Kind of an old rotten garbage smell or a really bad perfume" explained Megan sniffing around her.
"Well i can't smell anything!" Millie said turning around to see her friend pacing around sniffing the air when suddenly Megan stopped, her eyes widened as she looked at her friend.
"What?, what is it?" quizzed Millie, her hands went straight into her handbag and pulled out a small silver pocket mirror, she brought up to her face, "Has my makeup been....."
Millie broke off as she saw her reflection, one of her hands shakily held onto the mirror as the other reached up and brushed along a streak of fine white hairs running along the bridge of her nose and straight up the centre of her forehead.
"White hairs? and what's up with my nose?" cried out Millie as she ran two fingers over her now black nose, with a distinctive wet feeling around her nostrils.
"Are you seeing this?" she asked Megan in a flustered and panicked state.
Megan just nodded with wide eyes.
Millie grunted as her ears began to ring and ache, she watched her reflection horrified as her ears grew into triangles and moved to the top of her head, a fine coat of black hairs coated both sides. Millie held the mirror under her arm as she un-clipped her earrings from her new ears.
"What's happening?" she exclaimed.
Megan finally found her voice, "I don't know"
"What can we do about this?" asked Millie scared at the changes.
"I don't but stay calm and keep your voice down, if anyone sees you like this then you be in a freak show or a lab" Megan stated.
"What now?" cried out Millie as her tailbone and spine started to ache, "Can things get any worse?"
Yes they could, a large black bushy tail grew out from her tailbone as it grew it piled up in her underwear until it grew so much that the pressure tore her underwear clean over.
Her pink dress rose up as the tail appeared in plain sight, sticking high into air, a thick white striped ran down the centre of the tail as became more bushy.
"Jeez! Is that a fucking tail!" Millie screamed spinning from side to side frantically trying to see it.
"It looks almost like a...." Megan paused as she realised what she was thinking,
"A what?" Millie asked with fear spreading into her eyes.
"Well, the stripe on the tail is signature to a........also that smell comes from a spray of a skunk" explained Megan.
"A SKUNK!" shrieked Millie, "How's this happening to me and why?"
"No clue" came Megan's short answer.
Millie was about to ask another question but quickly stopped and bent down and unzipped her black wedge boots.
"Why you doing that?" questioned Megan,
"They starting to pinch" winced Millie as she pulled them off.
Her jaw dropped as she looked at her feet, black pointed claws protuded from where her toenails should have been and to Millie it look like her big toes were missing and indeed they were.
Both girls watched as her feet bones shifted and cracked, the noises made Megan flinch and looked away but quick started watching again as Millie cried out in pain, her toes remained on on the ground but the rest of her feet rose up at a slanted angle.
Black hairs slowly sprouted on her feet and legs as black pads puffed up on the bottoms of her toes and feet.
Meanwhile Megan had watch a similar change occur to Millie's hands, her thumbs retracted back into her hands as her finger shrank down to size of her toes, black sharp claws grew out from her fingers pushing her fingernails clean off, similar pads puffed up on her finger tips and palms.
Millie looked at Megan as she tried to stand but fell to all fours,
"How are you bigger?" she chirped.
"It's not me" replied Megan reaching down to her shrinking friend and pulling off her bra and dress.
As if like a magic trick Megan revealed her friend covered in black hairs with a two white stripes running from her tail and up her back, Millie's light brown locks fell out as her head began to cover in black hair, the white stripes continued to appear up her neck and over the centre of her head connecting with the white stripe on her nose and forehead.
Millie chirped like a skunk as her nose and mouth pulled forwards, the sapphire blue colour of her eyes faded into blackness as she gained a small muzzle.
Megan stared at the small skunk that was once her friend sprinted out of the tent, she knelt down and grabbed some of Millie's former hair, tears rolled out of her eyes as she dropped her friend's dress and bra on the ground.
"Why did she have to end up a skunk, what is it in the world that is right about a girl becoming a stinking creature like that" she mourned.
Megan's distressed mind kept on thinking, "How could see explaining this to anyone or even Millie's family"
She began to cry when she suddenly heard a loud ripping noise coming from behind her followed by a draft as something or someone lifted up her black and white floral skirt,
"No not me as well!" she cried out peering over her shoulders to see a fleshy large tail growing upwards, "Please god no, i don't want to be a skunk" she protested as white hairs started to appear around the top part of the tail with orange hairs grwoing along the rest of it.
"Wait that's not a skunk tail" she said stunned and surprise, "It's a fox's tail"
Megan like Millie was forced to removed her shoes quickly as her feet bones cracked and popped, she leaned right on her back and stretched her feet up, she tried to wiggle her toes to stop her big toes disappearing but failed.
Small black claws grew out from her toes forcing her nails off. Soft black pads puffed up on the bottoms of her toes and feet as black hairs started to sprout on her paws on the lower half of leg whilst orange sprouted on the rest of her legs with white appearing on the insides of her thighs.
Megan's chest itch forcing her to remove her top and peered down as white hairs sprouted in between her bust and centre of her chest and belly. She could feel what see assumed to be oranges hairs growing on her backside and public area but upon pulling her skirt of her thinning waist she found her public area covered in white hairs.
Still remaining on her back, she watched as her thumbs disappeared whilst the other fingers grew into short stubs tipped with black claws. Similar black pads puffed up on her fingernails and palms as matching black hairs to her rear paws sprouted on her front paws and lower arms.
Megan cried out as her back spasm and twitched, she rolled over onto her front and shakily rose up onto all fours, her back was completely coated in orange hairs that were spreading down the sides of her chest and belly.
"I can't be a fox" she wailed as her body grew smaller, her bust shrunk down into teats that moved to join two other sets on her belly, white hairs quickly took over her former breasts location.
The white hairs spread up from her chest and along the front of her neck and under her chin. Megan yipped and yapped as her face pushed outwards, her nose growing smaller and darker as it mashed together with her top lip. Her teeth grew sharper and more pointed as her tongue lengthened. her ears grew into small triangles coated in orange fur with white on the insides, slowly the moved to the top of her head as her eyes darkened.
Megan's human hair fell out as the last of her fur grew over her head and muzzle.
"At least I've still got my mind like Millie" she thought but she was wrong what happened to Millie afterwards was happening to her, the animal she had become was taken control of everything eliminating her human side and mind leaving a scary fox in the tent surrounded by clothes belonging to both girls including the wrist bands.
Both girls were never seen or heard from again, to this day no-one knows how and why the disappeared expect one man.
