Turning the Classroom Into A Zoo [2]

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That morning didn't turn out the way everyone thought it would.

What was supposed to be a normal day in class had turned into a magical horror show. Students were being transformed into animals, and the room was turning into a slice of untamed nature. But the students will discover that there were even worse things that Professor Darwin could do to them...

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It has been twenty minutes into class and already had the professor turned three people into animals.

The class was in shock. People were literally being transformed. The room itself was transformed with the floor broken down to uneven dirt and the walls had been eaten by encroaching tree-like surfaces. The rooftops gave way to a bramble of vines and vegetation. Students would look up and not be sure how far it goes. Where did the roof go? There wasn't one anymore, not that they could see.

The back was the same. Chris, a student seated in the final row of the classroom, looked over his shoulder at the back wall. The wall had disintegrated into layers of vines. It looked like someone could walk around back there.

Towards the middle of the class were Adrienne and Wally, two friends seated beside each other on the edge of the classroom. Both were nervous, their breathing heavy and their eyes full of disbelief.

Adrienne looked over at the walls again. The regular classroom walls had given away to walls of tree bark and the roof up above had broken away revealing endless bramble. How far up did it go? Adrienne couldn't fathom and answer.

She tried to break the tension by talking to a good friend. She shot a mouth over at Wally, "This is really fucking something, huh?"

Wally looked over at her a peek, "Yeah..."

"Is this really happening?" asked Adrienne, "It feels like a dream." She took her hands to her arms, feeling dizzy.

"I don't think it's a dream." said Wally.

"I'm so scared, I think I'm going to cry!" said Adrienne.

Wally snerked, "If you do that, everyone will laugh at you. Including me."

Darwin, the sorceress at the front of the class, heard their chatter. While there were mutterings all across the room, theirs stood out. Darwin took a couple steps towards them, and before they could react, reached out her hand and fired two bolts of magic light at them.

Wally was turned into a badger and Adrienne into a rabbit. Wally's transformation gave him a bit of fat, his waist had expanded and his clothes along with it. His hands were covered in black fur and his face had a long badger nose with black stripes down his eyes although he retained the broan hair on his head from his myuman form. Barefoot, black furred feet rested on the dirt floor.

Adrienne's tall lapine ears held high in the air with her small mop of hair in between. The cream-colored rabbit was just as fat as she was as a myuman, although her bosom got a few bra sizes bigger. Her glasses rested on her protruding nose. A big incisor rested on the front of her face.

Darwin left them alone to quell in their new forms. Adrienne looked over her hands and gasped, her breaths hard and heavy. Her exhaled were like she was trying to expel the rabbit from her, but she knew she could not.

There was giggling. Adrienne looked over to see what everyone was giggling about and she saw Wally, head down and whimpering like a little kid.

Adrienne looked at him, him weeping quietly, she said, "Looks like you're the one to cry, Wally!"

It was a brief respite of humor for Adrienne, but the reality settled back in that she was a rabbit. Her form had been changed, something thought to be impossible. Her eyes went back to her hands, and her bare fuzzy feet on the floor. Her head was spinning.

Darwin took to the front of the classroom. Although most people were too scared to fully pay attention to what she was saying, she continued her speech. It wasn't anything she prepared word for word, but she had planned out the important bits.

"The young people of the world nowadays do not know animals well," said Darwin, "Understanding the zoological world has been lost on the new generation." She put her hands behind her back and shook her head dismissively, "This will not do."

The students had no idea what to think. Darwin walked down the aisles, approaching Daniel and Toby, two students she had just transformed. Daniel was a white dove and Toby had been turned into a black cat. Both of them gulped as Darwin got close.

The professor took a hand to Daniel's shoulder and she could feel the young bird shiver violently. She chuckled, "This bird is quite cold because it is fall and it's about time that he flew South for the winter!"

She continued on to Toby, sitting behind Daniel. Toby fidgeted with himself nervously, both with his hands and his bare feet. He cuffed one foot with the bottoms of the other, clawed toes rubbing into the fur.

Darwin gave a sly smile. Toby's teeth chattered as Darwin put a hand on his shoulder too. He was a scrawny guy, she thought, but had a handsome face even as he stared back with eyes full of fear.

"This cat is in the prime of his life," said Darwin, "A young energetic specie."

It was weird to Toby because no one had ever called him that.

She looked down and brought a hand to his seat. Toby flung his arms aside to get out of the way of Darwin's hand like it would cause instant death to touch it. It was just a hand but Toby figured she could do a lot with it. A couple curious fingers touched the corduroy of Toby's pants. There was meat inside there! Toby couldn't help it, he giggled nervously. Darwin unfolded the hand and palmed Toby's groin. Toby was packing!. She could feel his shaft curl up inside his garments, and his testicles were like large opals hidden away. Toby bit his lip. It was nervewrecking but also sensational.

"And very, very unspayed!" she said, taking the arm back up, "Better keep him away from any females or there will be kittens in no time!"

Darwin returned to the front of the class and left Toby with a fledging boner. She looked over to make sure a majority were giving her a sliver of attention and then continued, "In the world ahead, we will need bright young minds that know how to engage with the animal kingdom. A vast knowledge of many animal species will be a hot intellectual commodity."

Ava, a vain girl with long silky hair, was seated close to the front. She could only hear Darwin's lecture and feel betrayed. She felt betrayed at life that she had to slum it in a community college and then end up in a classroom with some sort of witch.

She exhaled through her nose like an angered bull. Petite tears were forming in her eyes. She checked once again around the classroom, she checked to see if the students that got transformed were still transformed. She saw the guys that got turned into the dove and the cat. She saw a few more across the room. She was hoping it was a hallucination and it would go away but it was confirmed that it was real.

She couldn't stay there any longer. There was only exit. She got her purse and stood up, not even giving the witch a glance as she went to the door.

Darwin was disgraced by Ava's interruption. She scowled, "Sit down, student."

"No. I'm done with this." said Ava, walking up to the door.

Ava took the door handle but Darwin rolled her eyes, "Ok, we're doing this," reached out her hand and fired a bolt of light at Ava. The myuman hand Ava used to turned the knob turned into a gray-furred hand with tiny claws. Ava gasped.

The more she looked at her body, the more her heart sank. Her hands had changed, so had her feet- now bare and gray. There was gray fur on her cleavage (which also had grown a few sizes but she wouldn't realize that until later). She felt her nose, it was protruding from her face. Her breath became panicked and loud. She could feel her ears, now long and hanging from her head.

She said, "I... I...!" Her vision blurred, then faded to nothing. The rabbit fell against the back wall and collapsed against the floor. Her head hung off her shoulder and she had fainted.

That was taken care of.

A few seats back, there was Irma-- Ava's best friend. She was mortified for her friend, to be transformed like that. She was already freaking out, rocking back and forth in her chair, but seeing someone she knew be corrupted like that was enough to make her nauseous.

She stood up in her seat to get a better glance at Ava. She was unconscious on the floor. Irma slumped down and put her head in her hands.

"This has to be a trip or something," she said.

She gazed around the classroom, then looked back at Scott. Scott was a hunk, at least according to Irma and Ava. He wasn't taking it very well, it looked like.

Scott was usually a cocky guy but the events over that morning's class weighed down on his spirit. The walls were changing, the teacher was doing magic, and students were transforming into mutants.

His felt like he was on a bad trip, something he's bragged about having but something he's never truly done. What was he being punished for, he thought.

Scott prayed that it was all just a dream.

Aron beside him glanced over. He could see his classmate Scott wasn't handling it too well but felt like trying to console him would have been pitiful.

What am I supposed to say? Aron asked himself, Hey, Scott, don't worry everything is going to be alright? I have no fucking idea!

Darwin addressed the class, "What divides the species? What makes a cheetah fast and a frog content in rainy weather? What separates the deer from the dino? How big are the two on average?" She looked at Ben in front of the classroom and her looked was returned by Ben flinching. Her expression was excited, "If you were turned into a larger creature, would you expect the extra weight?"

"Wh... what?" asked Ben.

Darwin fired a bolt and Ben was transformed into a moose. He took over a foot in height. He had a big droopy snout with a beard underneath with big antlers on top. His body put on a lot of extra weight. His core, arms, and legs had more meat on them. His hands were whitely furred except for the hoofy fingers. His shoes were gone and his feet had brown fur on them with opals of hoof replacing his toes.

Ben was scared stiff, paralyzed in his seat!

"Wait a minute," said Eugene, rising from his seat, "That's impossible!"

Darwin crossed her arms, "How so?"

Eugene pushed up his glasses, "A person can't be transformed into another object because that defies the law of conversation of mass."

Darwin gave a little nod like she was receptive to his input then reached out a hand to shoot a bolt at Eugene. Eugene would never realize what had happened to him. He was turned into a sloth. He had a white face with black markings on his eyes and a flat nose. Brown fur covered his body. His fingers and toes hadn't the classic long claws of a feral sloth, but rather petite claws.

The sloth opened his eyes, and looked around with dumb look, his mouth hanging slack-jawed. He moaned quietly, and grunted. Students realized something was wrong, he wasn't responding to his transformation. He didn't notice it.

He smiled dumbly, letting his mouth hang open.

"How does the conservation of mass work?" Darwin asked the sloth.

The sloth looked at her but said nothing. He smiled wide when she walked closer. She chuckled and he looked back with eyes devoid of intelligence. Whatever he was before the transformation, that was erased with it. The transfiguration process not only changed his form but also his ability to think.

"What's 1 plus 1?" asked Darwin.

Again the sloth said nothing.

"Looks like you're not so smart after all," said Darwin, "Sit down, Sloth."

Sloth took a seat. Darwin went back to the front, once again. She looked up in the brambles again and saw some critters scurrying around. She saw some birds flying from branch to branch, vine to vine. Not only was the room giving away to untameable nature, it was also inviting small creatures.

Darwin whistled upward and down the vines came a sugar glider, with its long tail and mask patterns on the fur on its face. It didn't look to be anything more than a sugar glider although no one in the classroom expected to see one that day. They weren't local fauna, that is for sure.

"This is a feral," said Darwin matter of factly, "It is not very intelligent, and cannot speak."

The class followed her words but dreaded what she was going to say next? What was she going to say about myumans? Would those words lay out their doom?

Darwin stood before Patrice, a girl seated at the front of the class. Patrice looked up with fearful eyes and when she saw Darwin looking down at her with a calm but commanding gaze, Patrice knew she was in for it!

Darwin reached out her hand and a flash overcame Patrice. When the light receded, her form had changed. No longer was she a myuman, but an animal. She had red, white and black scales. Her hands and feet were unadorned with claws. Her head was flat and reptilian with discrete ears and nostils at the front. She was a milk snake.

The students nearby gasped at the sight. Everyone had seen a transformation already so you had to be up close to feel the intensity; the magic had lost a lot of its shock value for observers. Patrice looked at herself at shock, jostled up in her seat and eyes wide as the sun. She couldn't say anything, just stare in shock.

"Could you come up here a moment?" said Darwin, offering a hand.

Patrice, shivering with terror and her breaths as stressed as a twisted handcloth. She got up out of her seat, barely able to stand on her legs. The transformation might have made her body sensitive because she could feel every speck of dirt beneath her bare snake feet.

Darwin brought Patrice to the center of the room. She gestured at the snake, "This is a zooman. They stand on two feet," she turned Patrice around to show her backside, "Do not have a tail," Darwin waved her hand over Patrice back then turned her back around. She drew attention to Patrice's chest, which grew a few sizes with the transformation. She had breasts the size of melons underneath her button-up shirt.

"Zooman females have mammaries," she rubbed the bottom of a tit. Patrice grimaced at the unwanted touching, "Usually quite big! They even produce milk!"

The classroom was still nervous about the transformation situation, but focusing on a girl's breasts was comforting or exciting to a few. Some even found a girl being groped and prodded like a test subject giggle worthy.

"And of course," said Darwin, "Zoomans can speak. Speak, snake!"

Patrice looked at Darwin and tapped her throat. Darwin stared for a moment, "Oh. Right." She daintly zapped Patrice and the spell preventing her from talking was gone.

"Why can't I t-?" said Patrice, confirming that she once again had the ability to speak.

"Snake," said Darwin, "What is your favorite food?"

"I don't know," said Patrice, "It's pizza, ok?"

"See," said Darwin, "even though she is a snake, her diet is still myuman." She focused down on Patrice's midsection, taking a gentle hand to pat it, "Even though she is a reptile, she still produces children like myumans!"

Patrice turned ghostly at that comment, stiffening up like a cardboard stand, only her toes twitching with discomfort. She was only just transformed and now the professor was giving the low down on her mothering options!

Darwin looked around. She would need a male for the next part of the explanation. Who was more male in the class than Toby the cat? Darwin thought about that grope she gave him earlier- he was hefty in the pants!

"Cat," said Darwin, "come up here."

Toby pulled out his desk and got up. He could already feel his heart beating out of his chest. The bottom's of his feet stepped coldly towards the front of class.

When Toby got to the front, Darwin positioned him beside Patrice. Both the cat and the snake felt like they were at another person's wedding and the parents were asking the two to go on a date.

"Despite their transformation," said Darwin, "their reproductive functions are the same." She came between the two and leaned down to gesture at Toby's groin, "He's got a nice big one in there. He takes that," she pointed over at Patrice's groin, "and sticks it in there to make a baby."

Patrice rubbed her arm, giggling nervously. Toby had a big goofy smile on his face. If they were being honest with each other, they were both concentrating very hard on not crying for mommy as they dealt with the surreal feeling of being a barefoot monster animal standing in front of a nervous classroom.

Darwin pushed them closer together. She slapped Patrice on the shoulder, "Maybe it's too early in the school year but I sure would like to see these two go at it!" She rubbed Toby on the shoulder, "Having a live demonstration would be very good for learning about animal nature, huh?"

The two were mortified and uncomfortable in their own skin, but as they looked at each other, a warm feeling came upon them. Toby looked at Patrice's eyes and scaly head, and felt the urge to reach out and stroke it although he restrained himself. He moved down to the breasts. Why did a snake have such large breasts? It didn't matter. They were arousing. He moved down to Patrice's waist. She had nice hips and he wondered what she had in store behind the front of her pants. What did her vagina look like? He wanted to see.

Patrice was feeling rather lusty herself. The cat's face had a handsome ruggedness to it, and Toby was mildly built. She caught a peek on his rump earlier and thought it was a firm looking thing. The lack of tail was weird, though Patrice was one to talk. She looked down at the front of Toby's corduroy pants. Patrice could feel that parts of her own anatomy were seemingly unchanged in her transformation, like some of the anatomy in her underwear. Was Toby's the same way? She felt a tightness in her that made her beckon for Toby's body.

"That's for another time," said Darwin, "You may be seated."

Patrice walked across the front back to her seat and Toby went down the lanes to his seat. Darwin followed behind, figuring that should would have a better grasp on the classroom if she was at the center of it instead of the front.

While Darwin continued her explanation on animals and the like, Greg, an emo kid seated towards the front on the side looked over at Sloth. That kid was always annoying with his science and nagging, but for the life of him Greg couldn't remember what his name was.

Sloth sat peacefully, having a slight smile on his face. He stared out into space with not a lot of smarts left in his eyes. His tongue hung out of the side of his mouth and tiny bits of drool fell from his mouth to his desk, making a small pool.

Whatever was going on in the classroom, though, Sloth didn't care.

"Guys," said Greg, "I think something's wrong with..." still couldn't remember his name, "him."

Kyle in front of him drew his attention to the sloth, but hadn't the ability to say anything after Darwin cast a spell to make him silent. Louie was seated behind Sloth and sat up on his seat to get a better inspection of his xenarthran classmate. Bryce looked over Greg's desk at Sloth.

"He's a sloth," said Bryce plainly.

"I think his brain has been erased." said Greg, "He's not... scared. I think him being turned into a sloth took away his intelligence."

Bryce chuckled, "So he... doesn't remember what class he's taking?" Bryce tried to hold in his laughter, with little giggles escaping him.

Greg looked over at Bryce, "This is serious! That witch can do that to anyone!"

"Well if she turns me into a sloth," said Teri, "please take care of me and feed me!"

Bryce held in the giggling for a moment to look at Louie. Louie was a bespectacled boy with shaggy brown hair, a green hoody, and dark blue jeans. Bryce whispered over at Louie, "Hey Louie!"

Louie wasn't in the mood for Bryce vim. There was a hellish event going on in their classroom and Bryce was treating it like a goofy subsitute teacher. He had half a mind to not respond but went against his better judgement.

"What?" Louie said with anger and stress in his voice.

"Check the sloth's dick!" said Bryce.

"What?" Louie was disgusted.

"I hear they have corkscrew penises." said Bryce, "Check it out."

"You check it out." said Louie.

Bryce chuckled although his chuckles were offbeat and unhinged. He couldn't stop himself. He turned back towards the front while giggling like an idiot.

Over on the other side of the classroom, Ava was still unconscious on the floor. She was still a rabbit too. Kimi was seated by the door with Selma right beside her. They stared at the rabbit, occasionally looking at each other as some kind of communication but saying nothing.

Kimi had long wavy dark brown hair and wore a close fitting sunshine yellow jacket with a red and white striped shirt underneath, and a pair of blue jeans with flower printings on the thighs. She tapped her fingers on the desk.

Selma was a shorter girl with short-cut brown hair. She wore a blue t-shirt and a pair of knee-length shorts. Like all footwear, her shoes don't really matter because they will eventually be done away with before long. You know what kind of story this is.

Ava was towards the back of the class. The two girls could hear what she was saying fine, they didn't care though. There was mention of physiology and instincts but they couldn't pay attention. They felt like they were about to be escorted into Hell.

"Is she ok?" asked Selma, nodding in Ava's direction, "She isn't dead, is she? She didn't," Selma mimed breaking a twig, "break her neck, did she?"

"I don't know," said Kimi. She got up, looking back at Darwin to see what she was doing. The professor had her back turned so Kimi got out of her seat and walked up to Ava.

Ava had a reputation in class for being a bitch. Kimi brushed up against her a lot. Up to that class all Kimi knew of Ava is that she was a stuck up princess but suddenly felt sympathetic after witnessing Ava's horror of being turned into a rabbit.

Kimi looked to her right. The door was right there. Could Kimi just escape if she opened the door and ran out? Kimi looked at the dirt floor and the vines above her head. The classroom had been transformed into a jungle so she was thinking that escaping danger wasn't easy. If the room can transform like that, maybe the halls weren't any different. She put the idea to rest.

Ava looked and sounded like she was breathing. She didn't look dead either. Kimi leaned down and nudged Ava on the shoulder. Ava moaned and turned a hand to her head, poking herself with her sharp claws. She cringed and then looked at her hand. Gray fur. She instantly remembered what happened and screamed. She flailed around, kicking Kimi on the leg in the process.

Kimi backed off, instantly regretting what she had done and feeling like she made the situation worse.

Darwin heard the commotion and looked up front. It seems the rabbit had woken up. The professor walked up to the front and saw Ava once again in shock because of her transformation, but her eyes were wide and she was unfainted.

"Sit down!" said Darwin.

There was nothing Kimi could do. She immediately zipped back to her seat and sat down. Or sat up, more like. She was scared into sitting up like a child at a private school!

Ava got up on shaky knees. Tears sprinkled from her eyes. When she looked at Darwin, Darwin glared back. Ava turned away in fright. Stifling whimpers, she sat down at her desk.

Darwin took a glance at Ava hiding her tearfilled but decided not to draw attention to it as Ava looked distraught enough already. She didn't want to traumatize the little lady, not more than she already had been. Darwin moved to the back of the classroom.

"I know many of you are worried," said Darwin, raising her arms gesturing at the entire room, "How can something like this exist, you may ask. This isn't real, is it?" She chuckled, "It is most real."

Scott was sweating a lot. His breathing was strained and his vision blurred. He wasn't taking the magical events very well. Looking around the room made him nervous and his claws were dug into the desk.

Darwin looked at Scott. He was a handsome boy with great hair but he was having a breakdown. He was shivering and sweating and was looking around in all directions like he was watching out for ghosts.

"But just because it's real doesn't mean it'll hurt you," said Darwin. She was feeling nasty, so the student that was taking their situation the poorest; he got zapped. She fired a bolt of light at Scott and his figure changed to one of a dog's (a German shepherd to be precise)!

Scott spasmed and began screaming. His screams were high pitched and girly, drawing the attention of everyone in class. With tears running from his eyes he switched into bawling, crying uncontrollably and kicking his legs around.

Darwin was unsure what to do, "J-just calm down!"

Scott remained baby. He held his hands to his eyes and waaaaahed loudly, drool hanging from his maw. He cried, "Mommy! Ma-ma-ma-mommy!" The crying and bawling continued.

"Stop it!" demanded Darwin.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

Darwin had enough. She fired a bolt of light at him and the crying stopped. Scott looked outward, confusion in his expression and a lack of intelligence in his wet eyes. Drool hung from his maw. He loosened up and fell back in his seat. He looked around, with a peaceful look on his face.

"All better?" asked Darwin.

Scott looked up and grunted at Darwin. Students around Scott were more disturbed by his sudden lack of personality than the transformation itself. Ultimately Scott was gone, and the dumb dog person had taken his place.

"Good," said Darwin. She walked away, leaving the dog boy to stew in his stupidity.

Ava was watching from the front of the class. The event made her fur stand up and just thinking about how she had fur now was horrifying.

She fainted and cried earlier but it looked like Scott, a man she found super hot as a myuman, was a bigger baby! She did not share her fellow students' concern for Scott's sudden lack of faculties.

On the other side of the classroom, Adrienne was doing a breathing exercise she had learned to deal with anxiety, and she had a lot of anxiety to deal with.

She knew she had to do something, assess her situation. Down below she dug her bare feet into the dirt. The claws on the end of her toes left lines like a rake in a sand garden. In that sense, it was relaxing. She got caught up in the moment and started drawing basic shapes reminiscent of the Nazca lines. It was quite compelling for the traumatized rabbit girl! She used both feet and tried to make patterns around a clump of grass in the center underneath her desk.

She raised her head and compared to a few minutes ago, she felt quite good. Before that day she had never thought about sand garden meditation but it turned out to be an effective mood enhancer.

Adrienne's attention turned to her chest. Her breasts had gotten bigger, by a few sizes. She felt them with her left hand, the side facing the edge of class, so less people could see her. She felt her breast. It was firmer than before. She felt the top of her chest and they had a roundness she hadn't before.

These are pretty big, she thought. These are great! I got some rockin' tits! Maybe now guys--

Her thoughts suddenly diverged to some other sexual characteristics. She looked down at her crotch. She took her left hand and drifted it down to her crotch. She slid it under the waistline of her pants and dug those claws under her underwear. She glided some fingers down her vulva and she realized it was thicker and plumper than before. There was a discrete fuzz on it with a puff of hair at the top.

Adrienne was impressed with her upgraded sex. She swallowed hard and then twisted a finger into her hole. It felt good in there, maybe even better than when she was a myuman. She felt the rim of her sex and prodded the different folds of her body.

Am I... am I a sexual creature? she asked herself.

It was a stupid question but for all of the books she had read and movies she had watched, she never once considered that a myuman turned into an animal would have a sexuality. But this was reality and although she had been turned into a rabbit, doesn't mean her sexuality went away. In fact, she was an animal. If anything she would have more of a sexuality. Weren't rabbits supposed to be very horny creatures too?

But who would want a fatso like me? she asked herself.

She gripped her hands, letting the claws dig into her palms. She raised a glance over at Wally beside her. He had been turned into an animal as well. It looked like he had put on some weight; was some of that weight in his pants?

She cared for her friend and wanted to see how he was holding up. Wally stared at the front without any specific expression. He didn't seem scared or embarrassed.

"W... wally?" she beckoned him.

Wally blinked and looked over at Adrienne. That's when she noticed the drool hanging from his mouth. He looked at her with disturbingly calm eyes. They were eyes of the Wally she knew but at the same time... they were not.

"Wally?"

The fear in Adrienne's voice was striking. Students around looked at Wally. A few minutes ago he was whimpering like a kid, but now he seemed at peace.

"Are you ok?" asked Adrienne.

Wally smiled, letting his tongue hang out. He panted, something like a dog. He looked back at Adrienne with dull eyes. He grunted at her. His mind was gone.

"Professor!" shouted Adrienne to the other corner of the classroom, "Professor, come here!"

Darwin was in the middle of her lesson. She sighed then briskly walked behind the class then up the aisle between Wally and Adrienne. She looked at Wally, "What's wrong?"

"It's Wally!" said Adrienne, "He's... gone. He's not responding. He's not saying anything!"

"Wally?" said Darwin. The badger looked up at her and scratched the front of his windbreaker. He smiled, showing his fangs. Darwin took his chin and looked closer.

"Oh," said Darwin, "He's gone atavistic."

"What?" said Adrienne, "What does that mean?"

"Sometimes people get so scared that their minds regress to an animal state," the professor explained, "They likely won't be able to talk or do any math or hand a tool more complicated than a stick." She let go of the badger's shin, wiping the drool on his clothes, "The transformation must have really spooked him! i]Clearly[/i]."

"Is he going to be ok?" asked Adrienne.

Darwin gave a gentle smile, "Who knows?"

Darwin walked away, speaking a lesson few cared about, and Adrienne stared at her friend Wally. He looked back, drooling hanging from his chin, fanged tooth biting into his lip, eyes full of relaxation. Was Wally gone for good?