Peso the weregriffin

part 1: concoction gone wrong

during the week, Sam had been hanging out with shellington, as he wanted to start creating potions like sam did. he was currently working on one in sam's room. Sam watched curiously as he poured random substances into a small bowl as her tail snoozed on her feet. it soon turned a light crimson color. "that doesn't look good." sam stated slightly worried. "hm... looks can be deceiving." shellington replied patting her head, causing sam to flinch. she focused on the bubbling concoction. she poked her tail onto consciousness and it groggily looked up at her. With a motion toward the serum, it moves toward the serum and dips a tongue into it. she felt nothing wrong. no burning. It grinned at the taste, but they suddenly felt a surge of strength and power run through them, causing her angler-like antenna to flash multiple colors and for her to gasp at the suddenness. shellington staggered. "well..?" he asked a bit worried.

"guh... nothing seems wrong with it... I had a big amount of power jolt through me, though.." she replied, rubbing her tail's "head". this made shellington excited. he had created the potion of strength! "great! now let's see on how this works in full motion!" he exclaimed happily as he poured it into a small beaker. Sam whimpered slightly. "don't worry! a small amount like this couldn't do harm." he reassured her. Sam nodded. "yeah... I guess I could use that full heal the sammy skitty gave me incase it does have a bad side effect or two."

then a small penguin entered the room.

"peso!" shellington greeted happily greeted. "Hola! me amigo!" sam greeted. peso chuckles. "hello, guys! I just came to tell ya it's almost time to power down for the night." he informed the latter.

"perfect! that gives us time to try out this new potion I've created!" he exclaimed holding up the small beaker. peso raised his eyebrow. "uh... me..?" he asked in a worried voice. shellington nods. "don't worry! sam said that there's strength within it! you could be the strongest penguin ever!" peso pondered for a while. that's an attractive thought. being able to lift a manatee or even a whale to safety! "well... okay." he sighed. shellington smiles happily and hands him the beaker. peso sniffs it. smelled like nothing... peso hesitantly drank up the potion. it tasted like strawberries and cream. Very sweet! "mm!" he murmured and burped softly "excuse me." Sam and shellington stared. "feel anything?" questioned shellington. "mm.. nope! I Don't--" before he could finish however, a surge of power and pain ran through him, causing to hunch over and clutch his head. "OMPH!" is all he could say. "gah! are you alright?!" sam exclaimed. "don't worry! I'm fine!" he reassured in his best voice. he groaned more. "my head.." he looks up at them and they had shocked, almost horrified faces. "what?! what happened?!"

"jumping jellyfish! you.. have ears..!?" shellington yelled in horrified confusion. peso blinked and felt the top of his head. indeed large pointed ears had sprouted from his head! his hearing had improved greatly as well. "HUH?!!" he yelled and began to wobble. "aah!" he glanced down at his feet in confusion and saw them distort and grow furry. then... they reshaped, pulsating into a four-toed paw shape! then reform and grow into hind legs! he also felt pushing at his tail and looked behind him. his tail had reformed from a pert little tail feather to a long lion's tail. "F-Flappity flippers!!' is all he can stammer and felt his flippers itch. he looked down and saw them grow yellow and scaled like his feet once were, only they grew long fingers tipped with sharp talons. "w-wh-I..huh..!?" peso stuttered as he staggered and felt an immense pain in his face, causing him to clutch it, with his eyes clenched shut. "mmmy... grrgh..."

in his pain ridden haze, he felt his beak stretch out into a eagle's sharp, hooked beak and had two fang-like growths protrude from his upper jaw. his tongue also grew in length and became slightly thicker, growing small spines like a cat's. finally he looked up and his dark brown eyes had shifted to a deep shaded red ashis pupils constricted to slits.

finally, his body shifted and his muscles bulged. then he grew in size. Then two bulges grew on his back. In a matter of seconds they sprouted into large eagle wings, scattering thick black feathers everywhere.

"grrrrr...." he snarled lowly.

"JUMPING JELLYFISH!!!" screamed shellington. peso panted. the pain faded and he hunched over. he looked himself over in disbelief.

"flappity flippers... I... I'm a griffin..!!"