Chapter 2: Cristina

            My name is Cristina. I can't tell you anymore about myself. Not my last name, where I live, my school; I can't even tell you what grade I'm in. But I can tell you this: I , along with a close group of my friends, can become any animal or person that I touch. You probably already know how from Sarah.

             "Hello? Oh, hey Sarah, what's up?" I asked, hearing endless laughter on the other end of the phone. "No really, what's up?"

             "You're going to find this hard to believe, but I just turned into Pika."

            "WHAT? How? Why?" I exclaimed.

             "Come over to my house and I'll explain. Bring Oliver and Andrew with you too." She hung up.

            So, still holding the phone, I called the guys and told them what Sarah had said. Thirty minutes later, the four of us were in Sarah's room; Sarah at her computer, and myself and the guys sitting on the bed.

            "I'll show you that I wasn't dreaming, but you can't freak out. You might scare me."

              As soon as she had said this, her fingers became what looked to be claws! Then she began to grow fur and shrink simultaneously. When she had finally stopped shrinking, she was lost somewhere in the clothes she had been wearing. I quietly hopped down from her bed and crawled over to where Sarah should have been. I reached in, then stood up.

             "What's in your hand, Cristina?" Andrew asked.

            I turned to face them. They saw me holding a small, furry ferret.

             "Say hello to Pika, or should I say Sarah."

            Realizing that I was holding what had been a girl mere minutes before, Oliver and Andrew completely freaked, both falling off the bed and hitting the floor with a loud thud.

            "Holy Crap! There is no way that you are holding Sarah!" exclaimed Andrew.

            ~Yes she is. Look, I'll crawl up her arm~

            As we heard that, the ferret ran up my arm and sat on my shoulder.

             "I heard that, but I didn't. I swear I heard Sarah say something from inside my head!" I said to them.

            "Good, I'm not losing my mind then," Oliver sighed.

            "That makes three of us then," added Andrew.

             ~I'm going to change back now. Uh, Cristina? Can you make sure the guys keeps their backs to me, please? And could you just place me where my clothes are?~

            I did what she asked. The next thing we heard was the sound of bones and organs growing and rearranging. It was really gross hearing it.

             "Ok, I'm back, and fully clothed," said Sarah.

             "How in the heck did you do that?" yelled Oliver, Andrew, and I in unison.

             "Well, I was holding Pika and was petting her when I felt a tingling sensation as Pika went into a kind of trance. Then I was thinking to myself what it would be like to be a ferret when I started to become one! To change back, I just thought about my human form. I know it sounds painful, but you can't feel anything. You just hear it." She explained.

            "So we can all do this?" I asked.

            "Yeah, we can. I think that blue thing we found last night gave us this power to turn into animals, and maybe even people."

             "Soon as I get home, I'm going to become a guinea pig," I said.

            "I have to warn the three of you though. When you morph back to your human form, you don't have your clothes on. So be careful about that," Sarah said.

            After she said that, Andrew and Oliver gave each other sneaky looks and then gave me the same look. I chose to ignore them. We heard a door downstairs open then close.

             "For our safety, we need to meet somewhere else where no one is around. No one can know our secret," I said at a whisper.

            "That's great Cristina, but where would we go?" Andrew asked me.

             "Well…I guess we could…" I started to say, but Oliver cut me off.

            "We could meet at my house, remember?" Oliver said.

            Oh yeah, duh. Oliver lives next door to me. For safety, I won't say everything except that he lives alone, so we're safe at his house.

             "Now that that's taken care of, I'll head for my house with these two so the three of us can become guinea pigs," I said, pointing at Andrew and Oliver. Having three guinea pigs worked out nicely.

             "Alright. Tell me tomorrow at school how it goes," Sarah said to us as she led us to her front door.

             "Trust me. These two here won't leave out any details," I replied, as Andrew, Oliver, and I walked out and for my house.