TF High 3

TF High Chapter Three: A Wet Nose, For Trouble

"So let me get this straight" Samantha Stripes the school paper's editor starts, as she tries to get short out the events just reported by student reporter Brandi Hound. "We have three cases of animal transformation on campus, including a shrimp turned into an elephant, a jock turned into a cheetah, and the schools principle into a lion? And you think it's all connected back to the GeneCorp "emergency dump" earlier?"

"I know it sounds crazy but it's all true!" Brandi begins "None of this was happening until those apes at GeneCorp dumped whatever they were holding." "Do you have any physical evidence?" Samantha asks, "PHYSICAL EVEDENCE! THE'RE STILL TRYING TO PULL THE ELEPHANT THAT USE TO BE TOBY SMALLS OUT OF THE BOY'S LOCKER ROOM DOOR!!!"

"Look Brandi" Samantha starts trying to remain calm. "If you're going to be accusing a major corporation of illegal actions you need something more than a mere coincidence backing up your claims." "FINE YOU WANT PROOF?!?" Brandi retorts as she stand up to leave. "I'LL GET YOU SOME!" She yells as she slams the door behind her.

Brandi walks out of the office and starts walking down the wall. "Evidence huh?" she mutters as she heads toward the fountain to get a drink. "I'll get you some evidence; I'm Brandi Hound, Travis Fortmasion's best investigative journalist!" Brandi says as she wipes the remaining water from her lips.

"I'm the best there is, and I know when something smells rotten. Cause I can smell trouble from a mile away. I'm like a bloodhound, once I've started I always get my man." As Brandi continued her self-motivating, and somewhat cheesy bragging, she is unaware that she is about to become part of her next big story.

It starts slowly, her once long hair begins to shorten and spread down her body. "Speaking of fishy." Brandi says suddenly, as she begins sniffing the air. "Are we having tuna for lunch again? I swear now that miss miller is part ca..caRrR…" Brandi stopped short as she realized that she now found the word "cat" repulsive.

She stopped to think for a second, as the fur on her back as well as her now drooping ears began to grow darker than the rest that had now reached her ankles. "something is not right." Brandi says. "what's wrong with me?" She hardly has time to ponder any further, when the aching starts.

As she looks down she begins to understand what is happening as the fur has now reached her rapidly changing hands, growing in size, as well as a new set of dark, hard, and claw-like nails. Soon after her feet bust from her now tattered shoes, now large, paw-like, and with the same dark nails.

"OH MAN IT'S HAPPENING TO ME TOO!" Brandi says as she begins moving as fast as she can toward the girl's bathroom. "I need to…get to…a mirror…" Walking into the bathroom Brandi's final changes set in. Her cheeks begin to sag as her face pushes out into a new dark ended mussel, even her eyes shift into larger brown dog eyes.

Looking in the mirror, Brandi is set back by her new form. "Wow. I'm color-blind now, that's interesting… Oh-man look at me, I know I said I was like a bloodhound, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WANTED TO BE ONE!"

She looks herself over, not able to come to terms with what happened to her is real. "This just can't be true, this whole thing is just a dream, that's it a dream. I'll close my eyes, and when I open them again, I'll be home in bed, perfectly normal.

Brandi closes her eyes. All she can focus on is the dripping of one of the sinks as she slowly begins to count. "1…2…3!" Opening her eyes she finds she is still in the girl's bathroom, still at school, and still half bloodhound. "THIS BITES!" Brandi yells. "Could this possibly get any worse?"

Just as she finishes her question, she hears a tearing sound coming from behind her. Turning around she finds a new tail has emerged from her back. "Oh how could I have forgotten the tail?" Brandi says sarcastically "as if I wasn't enough of a freak already. I swear GenCorp is ganna pay for this. I still don't understand how it happened though… I mean I wasn't changing at all until I left the paper offices.

Brandi stopped a moment to scratch her, now drooping ears. Surprisingly she was able to do so with her new hind leg without falling over. "What happened between now and then to cause this? what could have…" hearing the dripping sink Brandi pieces it together. "THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER!!!"


Has Brandi found the key to these transformations and how to stop them? Find out next chapter when TF High continues…