CHAPTER 1 - FINE TILL FUR
It is about twelve in the morning. All my family is asleep right now; I'm the only one awake. I'm only awake right now because I really needed to pee. Okay, that's a half-truth – I was also awake to finish off Iggy's castle.
The cathode-ray tube of the television shines a light from the crack in the door. Since I don't particularly care about burn-in I left it.
Walking down the stairs to the kitchen, as nondescript and grey as always, and grab a glass to get a cuppa in. As I was about to put the glass to my mouth, I heard a squeaking sound – that sounded more like a beep – at the base of the stair.
Drinking quickly, I set the cup down and walk to the source of noise. Is that a-I think it is...! I run towards it, but it turns around and sticks one(!) of its tails(!) up at me, and I trip over it.
Well, the first thing I notice is brown fur growing everywhere. Except for my neck, which gets tan fur. My hands decomplexify with a soft crack, morphing into paws. My skull, more particularly, a muzzle grows outwards, past the skin and muscle, tearing past both layers, and would be causing screaming pain would it not be for the fact that I don't even really know what's going on.
Then it hits me along with the pain.
Oh god, the pain. It knocked me unconscious for about a second. When I got back up, my spine snapped in two, one half becoming my spinal column, the other becoming the tail. My limbs degrade into quadruped legs, and my teeth grow out a bit.
At the end of it all, my skin shrinks to the size of my new body, and I started yelling as quietly as I can. It's not very effective, though. Also, it comes out as a series of beeps and screeches.
As though I came out of a Game Boy.
Which I did, I suppose.
If you got rid of the whole chip thing, it almost sounds like Japanese. Which, I'd suppose it is, what with the franchise being Game Freak's and all.
A light(!) erupted from Mum and Dad's room. Dad opened the door and peeked out to see what that was. I just hid behind a wall, mouth as panicked as possible with just bone.
He turned around.
It turns out he was getting a flashlight.
My breathing started gaining speed, as the adrenaline starts to pump through my body. I have a feeling he notices it.
My suspicions were confirmed the moment afterward – the light shines directly onto me face. For a second, I couldn't move, but after, I ran like the wind to behind the counter.
All I could think as I entered the cabinet to kip for the night is a simple He saw me...
And so Jay Salisbury was no more, instead was a newly formed Eevee, who just so happens to also be Jay Salisbury.
