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Rated: 13+ · Campfire Creative · Fiction · Animal · #2327199
For Halloween Human Teenagers are Transformed into Anthros by a Mad Scientist
[Introduction]
So...Since everyone had so much fun with the party campfire but it had to be cut short because of the rules of the WDC Birthday Campfire I figured I'll do something for Halloween this year and have a Campfire about 'Ordinary Teenagers with Attitude' being transformed into Anthros

Rules

Let's try to keep this mostly family-friendly...Like as much as an episode of TMNT
In this Role Play we get one character as our 'PC' so you don't get to introduce a whole heard of kids (Sorry I just feel the need to point this out) Each participant gets one character to play as a member of this team

Other than that most anything else goes
OK Introductions

Name: Katie
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Species she's been fused with: Domestic Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Personality: Formerly a spoiled cheerleader who bullied any girl lower than her on the totem poll, Katie has now been transformed into the thing she fears the most...A rat!
Likes: Cheerleading Chocolate Bon Bons, Gossiping, and whatever Boy Band is popular at the moment
Dislikes: Stinky nerds, green vegetables, not being fashionable

Katie had no idea what had just happened, one moment she was returning from that secret late night party her parents said she wasn't allowed to go to and she might have been a little bit tipsy...And the suddenly everything went...Black...And now she was slowly waking up she felt like she was sitting in the kind of chair you sit in at the denstist and her hands were tied above her head with what felt like nylon ropes...And things...Felt different...She felt warmer all over and felt like there was something sticking out of the base of her spine...And then she opened her eyes and saw there was a strange...Bump between her eyes!

Then she noticed the mirror on the ceiling...She no longer looked like herself...OK she still had the same blonde pigtails, and she was still wearing her cheerleader outfit, but she could now she the lilac and white fur and the muzzled whiskered face with the buck teeth! She had been transformed into a human-sized rat!

Her scream was loud enough to shatter a wine glass
Name - Justin
Age - 18
Sex - Male
Species fused with - Vampire Bat
Personality: Justin liked being able to read, loved studying. Wasn't exactly social. He was also a vegan.
Likes: Reading.
Dislikes: Bullies and the dark. The idea of consuming something from another animal.

Justin wasn't sure what was going. One moment he'd been reluctantly getting some late-night groceries. The next, he was on some sort of table. He was looking at what seemed to be his reflection. He was a big bat! And those teeth - they weren't the teeth of a vegetarian.

Then, he heard the scream.
Name: Carl
Age: 17
Sex: Male
Species fused with: Common house cat
Personality: Generally a pretty laid back and calm sort of guy. Has a VERY large appetite, though.
Likes: Eating, pretty much anything edible. Video games.
Dislikes: Vegetables

Carl awoke to the sound of a shrill scream echoing through the room. "Jeez, blow my eardrums why don't ya?" Then he noticed he was strapped to a table. "What the? Where am I?" Looking up, he saw his body had become that of a humanoid orange tabby cat. "Huh? What was in those drinks at that party last night? I must be hallucinating!"
Name: Billy
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Species fused with: giant panda
Personality: a real glutton. His appetite is more voracious than Carl's. He takes pride in his chunky body.
Likes: food, video games
Dislikes: weight loss

When Billy heard the scream, he began to look around.

"What happened?" He said, clutching his head.

One look in the mirror and what he saw staring at him was a humanoid panda! He looked at himself and, of course, he knew his shirt never even fit him, but it still didn't fit him.

"I'm a big, fat panda!" He shrieked.
Just then a voice came on the PA System "Ah! You're all awake! And apparently for the female she now has the capability to scream at rodent levels of pitch! I know because all my wine glasses just shattered but I digress...Let me introduce myself I am Dr. Caligosto I have long studied the problem of the plight of endangered species...If things continue as they are I fear most of the species that inhabit this planet will be extinct...So I had an idea! Put the DNA of the species of this world in the bodies of humans and let them continue on that way!"
"By abducting folks and changing them against their will?" Justin called out. "That breaks a number of laws, at the very lest."
Carl began to struggle against his bonds, but to no avail. "Let us out of here!" He demanded "As you wish." Dr. Caligosto said, pressing a button and releasing his captives. "Now, change us back, or we're calling the cops!" The doctor gave a nervous laugh "Um...well....that's not exactly possible.The transformation is permanent, you see."
"I can't believe it!" Billy exclaimed, clutching his belly fat. "I haven't gotten anything to eat!"

"You'll get something to eat," said Dr. Caligosto. "You just got to perform some tasks for me."

"We're not helping you do anything!" Katie snapped. "When we get out of here and tell our parents, you'll be forced to create an antidote for us or else!"

"I believe you have no choice," Dr. Caligosto said. "You're not going anywhere."
"You are to help me create a new world of Animal People!" The Mad Doctor said

"You can go to Hell!" Katie shouted

She ran out of the room she was in and saw the others leaving their respective rooms and she groaned as she recognized the former humans they were

"Oh great!" She groaned "Scrawny Vegan Boy and Two Fatsos!"
"You're one to talk, Rat-face," said Justin. "Now, do you want to play the Insult Game or get out of here?"
(For the record, Carl isn't exactly what you would call fat. He eats a lot, but has a high metabolism. Think Shaggy from Scooby Doo.)

The four mutated teens made their way frantically down a nearby hallway in search of an exit. "Wait!" The doctor called "Come back!" But it was too late. They burst out a door into an open field on the outskirts of the city. It was dark, with only the light of the full moon illuminating their way. Dr. Caligosto sighed "I knew I should have bought that security system. Luckily, I thought to put tracking chips in all of them."
The four collapsed on the ground with Katie resting against Billy's belly.

"So this is our new lives," she said. "Our families won't recognize us."

She began hearing a purring sound.

"Stop it," she said to Carl. "Leave me alone."

"It isn't me," Carl said.

Just then, a robot cat leapt onto Katie.

"Get it off!" She screamed.

"Fear not, mutated humans," the robot cat said. "MeowMax is on your side."

"Your name is MeowMax?" Katie said.

"That's MeowMax's name," MeowMax said. "If you want to be human again, MeowMax has calculated the ingredients for an antidote."

Billy began scratching his belly.

"I could get something to eat right now," he said.

"Is food the only thing you think about?" Katie said. "Aren't you fat enough already?"

"Everyone, please settle down," Justin said. "If we're going to be people again, we have to work together."
"The first ingredient for the Antidote..." Said MeowMax "It is a rare flower from China!"

"China huh?" Katie said giving the side eye

"How do we get there like this?" Justin asked

"We can stow away on a ship." Said MeowMax

"How about we try a store in Chinatown?" said Justin. "Might save us an extra-long trip at any rate. For all we know, it's in Chan's Boutique store. That, or the guy can easily order it in."

"Seriously?" Carl asked. "Some fella in Chinatown just so happens to have or can easily acquire a rare plant we need?"

"You'd be surprised at what they can get," said Justin. "Same with most anyone in an ethnic section of the city."
Fortunately for the group, it just happened to be Halloween night, so there was no need to worry about them being seen. Everyone would just assume they were wearing elaborate costumes. They made their way to the city limits, past count,less trick or treaters dressed as various characters.
(Before we continue, I'd like the other participants to know that MeowMax refers to himself in third-person.)

Meanwhile, Dr. Caligosto had invited a tough-as-nails mercenary named Jennifer to his lab for help.

"If you're on the hunt for an experiment or two," she told him. "It needs to cost money."

The doctor placed a package on the table and tore it open. Inside were wads of one hundred dollar bills.

"I'm listening," she said.

"I knew I should have removed MeowMax's memory chip," Dr. Caligosto said. "Then he wouldn't have any information about the antidote."

"So you want me to catch these experiments and lock them up in your lab?" Jennifer asked.

The doctor nodded.

"That is despicable," she said.

She let out a sinister chuckle.

"It's a deal!" She exclaimed.

Meanwhile, in China, Billy was busy stuffing himself silly, much to the chagrin of the others.

"Keep this up," Katie said impatiently. "You won't get any thinner."
Um...They're in Cina already? Wouldn't that take at least more than 24 hours if we presume they were in America?

"I still can't believe that stupid robot cat got us on this super fast plane to China!" Katie exclaimed

"MeowMax has friends in high places!" The Robot Cat said

"OK seriously..." Justin said staring at the Robot Feline "...Just what the heck is going on?! You know more about the situation than you're letting on aren't you?"

MeowMax sputtered for a few minutes then spit out of photograph...The four mutated teens looked at it it was a picture of what looked like a Garden Gnome complete with a pointed red hat climbing into a man-sized robotic suit with a sticker on the chest saying 'Hello My Name is Dr. Caligosto'

"Dr. Caligosto is a garden gnome in a suit?!" Carl yowled at the sheer absurdity of it...

But then Katie remembered some books she was read when she was little something about how Gnomes are really concerned with the enviroment and the preserving of animal life..

"Still sounds like something a fool would fully trust," said Justin. "It just smells of bad juju."
"So, where exactly do we find this flower?" Carl asked.

"The flower you're looking for grows about fifty miles from our current location." MeowMax said "At the top of a mountain." Everyone let out a collective groan. "Well, we won't get it just standing here." Justin said "Let's get going." As they prepared to leave, they saw Billy had gotten into a bit of a situation. Some passing children thought he was someone in a panda mascot suit, and were climbing all over him and taking photos. The rest of the group couldn't help but laugh.
A little girl had placed her hands on his belly. To Billy, that tickled. He really did have a ticklish belly.

"Cool moving jaw mechanism!" A little boy said, commenting on Billy's mouth.

Sure, all the humans present were fooled by this. That is, except for Jennifer who had infiltrated a luxury flight.

"MeowMax senses danger!" MeowMax announced, but not too loudly.

Jennifer hid from the crowd and took out a pistol she had loaded with tranquilizer darts. MeowMax opened a vacuum from his mouth and sucked it in. Then he burped.

"Excuse MeowMax," he said.

"MeowMax is excused," Jennifer said, holding out her hand for her pistol.

MeowMax spit out the pistol which landed in her hand. She took aim at Billy and pulled the trigger and out came a tranquilizer dart, but instead of flying toward the panda, the dart went upward into the air. It came flying up clean out of sight.

"MeowMax sabotaged your pistol," MeowMax explained. "Random things will happen everytime you pull that trigger. That dart, for example, had helium in it."
I'm assuming since we are in China the kids were actually speaking Chinese and no one understood what they were saying

"Who the heck is that?!" Katie exclaimed

"A mercenary, what do you think?" Justin asked and then he grabbed Katie's shoulders in his prehensile bat feet and decided to test out his new wings for the first time

"How do you already know how to fly?!" Katie screamed as she looked down at the ground getting farther and farther away Katie feared heights almost as much as she feared rats!
"Let's go with instinct," said Justin.
Carl and Billy, meanwhile, were still on the ground. "No matter." Jennifer said "I always carry plenty of backup weapons!" She pulled out a bazooka from behind her back. "Where do you keep all this stuff!?" Carl asked in bewilderment.

"Never you mind. Now, are you going to come quietly, or do I have to get rough?"

The two of them tried to run for it. Jennifer fired her weapon, launching a missile that opened into a net, ensnaring the two mutants. Jennifer radioed the doctor on her earpiece.

"Hey doc, I got two of your runaway test subjects. Stand by for the other two shortly."
"Why would you want to catch us?" Billy asked.

"The doctor would like you back. Have you got a problem with that, fat boy?" Jennifer said.

CLICK!

A handcuff was clapped onto her wrist.

"Did you come to China without a passport?" Said the cop who cuffed her.

Jennifer took out her pistol and pulled the trigger, but instead of a tranquilizer dart, a stream of bubbles came out. She had been arrested no doubt about it.

"MeowMax contacted the local authorities because he saw no passport on Jennifer, " MeowMax explained while he cut the two mutated teens out of the net.

"We've got to hurry," Carl said. "We'd better catch up with Katie and Justin."
Katie and Justin flew into the bamboo forest Justin had to land because he was exhausted.

That was when something came out of a nearby pond of green water! It looked like the ghost of a wizard!
"Nǐ shì shuí?" the ghost said, in a questioning manner.

"Um, what did you just say?" Justin asked.

"Ō, tài bàngle! Yīngguó yěmán rén," the ghost muttered. "Wǒ tǎoyàn shuō yīngyǔ. Ràng wǒ tīng qǐlái xiàng gè méiyǒu shòuguò jiàoyù de nóngfū."

"I don't think he likes us or something," said Katie.

"No, I hate speaking English," the ghost said, with a think accent. "Makes me sound like an uneducated barbarian peasant, despite the fact that I was an advisor to many Emperors over the years."

"I didn't hear any issues with your English," said Justin.

"I might be able to speak it, read it, write it, and understand it, but it doesn't mean that I like it," the ghost said.
Who are you, anyway?" Katie asked.

"Hong Dao Shin." The ghost said "As I said, I was the royal advisor to several emperors of the past."

"Can you help us?" Justin asked "We're looking for a rare flower that grows at the top of a mountain."

"You must mean the Dragon Lily. I know of it. Why do you need it?"

"So we can be human again. Can you help us reach it?"

"I can tell you where to find it, but as for getting to it, I can't really help there."

"Where is it, then?"

"Go east from here, to the tallest mountain in the province. You can't miss it."

"Thank you."

As they prepared to leave, Hong Dao Shin said "Wait! Before you go, may I ask a small favor of you?"

"What is it? We're kind of in a hurry."
Meanwhile, Carl and Billy were given a ride up the mountain by MeowMax. However, Billy's hefty size proved to be a challenge for the robot cat.

"I could go for some spaghetti and meatballs right now," Billy said.

Carl felt very annoyed by this. He did eat a lot himself, but his metabolism was higher than Billy's.

"MeowMax has brought Carl and Billy to the summit," MeowMax said.

Katie and Justin rushed up to their fellow travelers and told them about Hong Dao Shin.

"What was the favor he asked for?" Carl asked.
Katie held up a box made of jade "He told us to take this box containing the ashes of his lover to the Mountain to be placed at the peek..." She said
"And if you wonder why, it's because she liked the view, and he never had the chance to bury her there," said Justin.
"So, just how do we get go the top of the mountain, anyway?" Asked Carl. "How do you think?" Said Justin "We climb." "Can't you just fly us up to the top?" Billy asked "I can't carry everybody all at once. Besides, the strong winds and thin air higher up the mountain will likely make it even more difficult to carry just one of you."

Everybody let out a long "This is gonna suck" sigh. "There must be some easier way to do this." Katie groaned. "MeowMax might have a way!" The mechanical feline interjected. "Whatever it is, it has to be better than climbing a mountain by hand." Said Carl. Oh, how wrong he was.
MeowMax opened a compartment from both sides and two cables came out. They then joined together and a ring formed from both sides. A basket then formed when both halves of the ring touched each other.

"MeowMax can pull a sled to the top," he said.

"A sled to the top," Katie said. "Now I've seen everything!"

The group piled into the sled and MeowMax began pulling it up the mountain.

"Could you provide a pizza to eat?" Billy asked.

"MeowMax wishes MeowMax could accommodate, but MeowMax wasn't programmed to make wishes," MeowMax said as he ascended further up the mountain.

Meanwhile, in jail, the police stopped by Jennifer's cell to check on her.

"Jennifer," the chief said. "We're going to have to send you back to America under maximum security!"

They walked up to her bed because it looked like she was there, but there were pillows when they pulled back the covers.

"Pillows?" The chief asked.

"That's the oldest trick in the book," said a burly police officer. "Every officer in China knows that."

"Sure," said the chief. "But do they know about the secret escape tunnel behind the innocent-looking poster?"

He removed the poster, but instead of an escape tunnel, he saw a piece of paper that read, "Please don't fart in a diaper" taped to the wall.

"She's riding on the ceiling!" A female police officer said.

The chief pulled out his gun and fired it at the ceiling, but no one fell from the ceiling. The burly cop pointed at the bed.

"The secret tunnel under the bed!" The chief announced.

The police lifted the bed and sat it upright.

"Move, move, move, move!" The chief barked.

As soon as the police went down the hole, the mattress had been cut open from the inside. It was Jennifer who was hiding in the mattress until the police were out of sight. She walked toward the open door and once inside her cell, she slammed the door shut.

"Hey!" Shouted the chief. "Someone slammed the cell door shut!"

Now that she was free, Jennifer gathered all the equipment the guards confiscated from her.

"Doctor, I'm back on their trail," she spoke to the doctor through her earpiece. "I just broke out of the joint."
As they went up the Mountain Katie asked MeowMax "So what do you know about that Garden Gnome who turned us into animals?"

"Not Garden Gnome..." Said MeowMax "...Garden Gnomes are lawn decorations just Gnome, Caligosto is a rogue among the Gnome community, Gnomes are concerned about the environment but Caligosto has gone too far he thinks he can save the environment by turning humans into animals!"
"I just want to go back to being human, and having the ability to enjoy being a vegan," said Justin. "I don't like the idea of having to drink blood or whatever."

"Is this a religious thing?" Carl asked.

"Medical," said Justin. "If you try to force someone who has never ate meat to eat meat, their body will see it as something akin to food poisoning, if not worse. For someone like me to become more omnivorous, I'd have to slowly introduce meat into my diet."
As they climbed higher up the mountain, it became more difficult for the four of them to breathe, due to the increasingly thinning air. Before long, it began to feel like they were suffocating. "MeowMax...Help...us..." Carl gasped between breaths. "MeowMax is sorry, but MeowMax is not equipped with breathing equipment. MeowMax is afraid you'll just have to deal with it. Don't worry, though! MeowMax is almost at the top!"
As soon as they reached the top, the four began to hold their breaths. The group began to bury the box containing the ashes.

Of course, Billy, ever the food addict, began searching for food when he felt a rumble in his belly. As he searched, he saw in front of him the Dragon Lily. He reached down to pick it when-

"Step away from the flower!" A female voice said.

He turned around and standing behind him was Jennifer!

"MeowMax doesn't understand," MeowMax said. "MeowMax contacted the police and had Jennifer arrested for illegal immigration."

"Too bad for them, I've escaped," Jennifer said.

The group froze in front of Jennifer.

"Are you going to come quietly?" She asked.

A panel on MeowMax's back opened up and a giant magnet popped out. He waved it over her and retracted it back into him.

"Ha!" She mocked. "You didn't do anything to me. No, to take care of some- AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

She went flying up and became attached to a passing airplane.

"MeowMax has made Jennifer magnetic," MeowMax explained to the group. "She will be attracted to anything metal, except for MeowMax."

Thank you," Billy said. "Maybe we could go grab a bite to eat after we pick this flower."
The Dragon Lily was a beautiful flower not only bright red in color but it actually glowed in the dark!
"Okay, let's see about finding the rest of what we need, but let's stay local," said Justin. "I still think that we could have picked this up in a Chinatown garden store in the States."
"So, what else do we need, anyway?" Carl asked MeowMax.
"The next ingredient on our list," MeowMax said. "Is mummy dust."

"Ewwww!" Katie exclaimed. "I'm not touching a mummy to get dust! That's disgusting!"

"You won't have to," MeowMax said. "MeowMax has a function that can collect dust from mummies."

"Luckily, we know where we can find mummies," said Justin. "Egypt!"

"Then we can't waste any time standing here," Carl said. "We'd better get going."

"Do you think we can hit a restaurant when we get to Egypt?" Billy said, shaking his jiggly panda belly up and down.

"If you keep on eating," Katie said. "One day, you might explode."
Meanwhile for Dr. Caligosto as he was waiting for his creatures to be returned to him suddenly five other gnomes, three male, two female approached

"Look...We need to talk..." said one Gnome who was Caligosto's brother
"What are you going to do?" Caligosto asked, with an evil chuckle. "Arrest me?"

"We can do this the really easy way, where you turn yourself in," the brother said. "Or, we do it one of the hard ways, where you are dragged in regardless of what else happens. However, even the hard ways have a few options - you can be brought in with every bone in your body broken, or you could be brought in dead."

"You wouldn't kill your own brother, now would you?" Caligosto asked, with a smirk. "What would our parents say?"

"You're right, I wouldn't kill you," said the brother. They pulled out a gun and shot Caligosto in the right knee, rendering the leg incapable of baring weight, causing Caligosto to scream in pain. "But kneecapping isn't the same as outright killing you, as my intention is to try to bring you in. If you bleed to death, well, that's the chance one takes."
The four teens boarded a plane to Egypt, stowing away onboard the cargo hold. "Better get as comfortable as you can. " Carl said "This probably won't be a relaxing flight." Billy was the last to crawl through the cargo hatch, ending up getting himself stuck halfway through. "Uh...guys? A little help, please?"
The others came forward to pull him forward.

"Suck in your stomach, Billy!" Katie said.

"Wiggle! Wiggle harder!" Justin said.

"MeowMax will handle this," MeowMax said.

He opened up and thin robot arms came out of his body. One of them squirted yellow liquid on Billy's abdomen. The others then pulled him into the cargo hold no problem.

"MeowMax used butter to get you unstuck," MeowMax told Billy.

"Thanks," Billy said as he rubbed his tummy. "Do you suppose we could get a snack from up top?"

The group glared at him. They knew his eating habits would be his undoing.

"Do you have seven stomachs?" Katie asked sternly.

Meanwhile, Jennifer had dropped in on the doctor who was laid up due to being kneecapped.

"Doctor, I know where they're going next," she told him. "Egypt!"

Dr. Caligosto didn't budge. So, Jennifer took some hatchets and took out some of the lights except the one she was standing under. Then, she began to sing Let It Go from Disney's Frozen. As she sang, the doctor was beginning to heal as if he was never kneecapped. When Jennifer was done singing, the doctor laughed.

"Perfect," he said. "When they arrive, you'll be ready."
I'm ending this because I'm tired and I can't concentrate on other campfires we'll try another one sometimes



Fortunately, the two female Gnomes knew magic as they fled down a mouse hole the Two Female Gnomes chanted a spell that reverse the transformations and turn the teens back into normal humans.

And with that the Teens just POPPED back to normal with exclamations and swears abound.

"Caligosto will still be after them..." Said the Brother "...But we'll be there to help them!"

The End!

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