There were things in life that Yoji really appreciated. Like sleeping in late until one of his teammates yelled at him to drag his lazy ass out of bed. And than keep staying in bed until someone (usually Ken) banged at his door loud enough to let the house come down. And then there were these mornings when he woke up on his own accord. Usually because he had to use the bathroom. Like today. The tricky thing was getting to the bathroom and back without anyone noticing. Sometimes he managed to do so, but most of the times Aya caught him. Like he had some kind of 'lazy bum radar'. So getting up meant a real challenge and Yoji was not quite sure he wanted to take it right now. But his body thought otherwise so he rolled over and suddenly landed on the floor. Ouch, this was unexpected. And somehow he did not feel like getting up. Perhaps it was still very early and he was still too drunk to walk properly? Must be it. So he would just stay down here and crawl through the hallway to get to his destination. Maybe that would keep Aya from his tail.
He managed to open the door without opening his eyes. He knew from experience that sunlight would lead to headache and he did not want any of that. His morning breath was really killing him today anyways. Some of the drinks must have been spiked with something very nasty. He would have wondered some more, but his bladder told him to hurry. So he just kept crawling until he somehow felt he was being watched. He stopped and opened his eyes just a little bit.
There was a cat sitting in the middle of the hallway watching him with an intense stare. It had short brown fur with a touch of red to it, long legs and quite large ears. He knew this kind of cat, because: Of course they had looked up their codename breeds. This was an Abyssinian cat. How it got here was a miracle to him, but not one he wanted to solve right now. The bathroom was still calling him, so he decided to ignore the cat and keep crawling. Maybe he would make it before Aya caught sight of his indignity of not being able to stand up straight.
He turned his back to the cat and headed for the bathroom, when suddenly Aya appeared out of nowhere. At least his voice did.
"You are a dog," he said and Yoji winced at his tone.
"Oh come on. It´s too early to be this insulting."
"It was not an insult, it was a fact," Aya stated and came closer. When Yoji opened his eyes the cat had come into view again. And it was talking. With Ayas voice!
"This is not funny. Not at all," Yoji declared and tried once again to get up. He failed and landed on his butt. He looked down and...
"Whoah, what´s that?" He looked at the thin and hairy thing between his legs. Those legs, however, were still long but somehow bent in the wrong places and far too hairy, too. He ivestigated further and his hands were just not there. Instead he had slim, light brown paws matching the very short fur that covered his body. He did not care to look down his face. He knew he was to find a muzzle there. His once handsome face was gone and replaced with the derogatory look of an animal. A dog!
"Tell me this is a dream. Someone really had my drink spiked and in reality I am lying somewhere too drunk to remember my name."
"I'm afraid not," the cat answered. "Someone has turned everyone in Tokyo into animals. I just checked the news."
Yoji shook his head and had his ears flying around him. This was not good. Not at all.
"I need to pee," he said. "Everything else later."
He went for the bathroom and stopped to look back at Cat-Aya. "What kind of dog am I?"
The cat looked him up and down. "A greyhound as far as I can see. Don't know the exact breed, though."
A greyhound? Ok, that was not so bad. He might have turned into a poodle or something like that. And it meant he could reach the door handle without having to jump up.
When he came back he shook his head (the ears again!) "Using a human bathroom as a dog is an experience I dot not want to participate too often. So where are Ken and Omi?"
Cat-Aya started to answer but his words were overlayed with a furious scream from Omi's room.
"Why?" the youngest assassin wailed. "This is not fair. Why do I have to look like that?"
The dog and the cat look at each other and hurried to Omi's door. Yoji opened it and when it swung back the saw a very, very angry rabbit sitting on Omi's bed.
"So, you two got to be cool animals, right? Carnivores. And I am fluffy? FLUFFY!"
The rabbit looked as it was to tear someones throat with its teeth. Which were rather large. But despite the murderous look in his eyes, Omi was a really cute rabbit with light brown fur quite similar to Yoji's coloring.
The rabbit jumped from the bed and hopped into the hallway. "Where's Ken? Is he a little Fluffykins, too, or am I the only one? Ken? KEN!"
Omi kept yelling and running and Yoji felt the urge to run after him and catch him by his neck. A growl formed within his throat and he had to swallow quite hard to get it back down. From the look of it, Aya had the same problem.
"We need to get some food soon," Aya stated before he joined Omi who was banging his little paws against Ken's bedroom door. He did not make much noise, though. His paws were too soft as it seemed.
"Let me help," Yoji offered and opened the door with no effort. Omi glanced up at him, swearwords in his still blue eyes, and hopped in.
The room was a mess as usual. There were clothes and soccer equipment lying around mixed with free weights, sport magazines and leftovers from at least three meals. Yoji wanted to lick them and shook his head to get rid oft that feeling. Oh, theses ears really started getting on his nerves.
He turned his attention to the bed were the room's owner was happily sleeping on his back. And dreaming judging from the movement of his paws and the whining and woofing he was doing.
"Ken, wake up!" Omi called and Ken did. He literally jumped up, sneezed and was there.
"Oi, don't do that, Omi", he barked. "You scared the hell out of...Omi?"
The black and white shepherd dog tilted his head and looked at the rabbit in front of him.
"Who are you?"
"It's me. Omi," the rabbit snarled. "We all got turned into animals last night. That's Yoji and Aya over there."
The shepherd dog looked at the other dog and the cat and sneezed again. "This must be one of the weirdest dreams I ever had", it mumbled under its breath.
"Unfortunately this is not a dream. We really turned into animals and so has everyone else in Tokyo." Aya jumped up the bed as well and started liking his front paws. When he realized, what he was doing, he stopped and had such a confused look on his face with his tongue sticking out, that Yoji just started to laugh.
"You look really stupid," he yelped and got a hiss and a claw directed straight at his nose. He instinctively jumped back and started to growl.
"Hey guys, I think we have bigger problems right now,"Ken said.
Yoji fought his tongue, but could not resist. "Yes, we need to solve this before Aya starts coughing up hairballs."
Aya glowered at him. "Or you and Ken start sniffing at each other's rear ends."
"Touché," Omi stated dryly.
"So, were do we start?," Yoji asked and finally sat down. He really wanted to run, which was rather unusual and really not helping. "Omi, can you still use your computer?"
The rabbit looked at its paws. "I'm not sure. Maybe if I am really, really careful."
"You could take a pencil into you mouth," Ken offered. "Should be easier to reach the right button."
"But we do not know, what we are looking for," Aya interjected. "The city is full of cats and dogs and what else and nobody seems to have any clue what happened."
Omi sat on his hind legs and started grooming his ears with his paws. It seemed to help him think. "Maybe we should try to reach Manx or Birman. Kritiker might have some information, but I really doubt it. This is so frustrating."
He started to nibble away at Ken's bed sheets.
"Hey, stop that. I still need those," Ken barked. "And I need something to eat. I feel like I'm starving."
"So do I", Yoji nodded. Maybe this was a dog thing. Aya seemed to be much calmer about that. "Let's go and grab a bite to eat. Than we can think how to get back to human form."
The four animals were just about to leave the room, when there was a knock at the window. The knock was followed by some serious cursing and suddenly the window went up by itself. Something small entered the room and went flying around the overhead light until it finally grabbed the electrical cord.
"This is the stupidest idea ever," the little bat said and looked down on them with disdain.
"Hello Weiß. Crawford wants to meet you on the outside."
Music: "Last Friday night" by Kate Perry
Really: Should I continue or is this horrible to read? I'm still fighting the punctuation. :/