Description
I was at the marketplace collecting supplies for the vet, enjoying being able to get away from the animals for a moment.
Oh, I guess I should introduce myself, I'm Joe Garnett. I'm a veterinarian at the local veterinary clinic. I love my job but every now and then it's good to get outside and do something that isn't as stressful as performing surgery on someone's pet.
Anyway, I was on my way to my first stop when I noticed a group of hooded figures in the crowd, they wore hooded robes similar to what cultists are depicted wearing. Except they've got holes in the top of the hood and popping out are accurate versions of cat ears and a tail sticking out the back.
I have to say that as I got closer I found it harder and harder to believe that these are fake, they're too accurate. The only one who didn't have the hood up was a young man who has black cat ears on his head. Which like the rest of the groups I would never have guessed they were fake if they were not on a human head.
'This must be the new religious organization everyone's talking about.' I thought. The group calls themselves the Order of Lioness. They seem to have appeared no more than two weeks ago, but they've already become thousands strong. Thanks in part to them getting major figures on the top of both the Catholic and Jewish churches to join.
One of the figures directs the hoodless boy's attention to somewhere. Then they all go in that direction. As they do a little girl, no older than five slips out of the crowd.
I wouldn't have noticed her if it weren't for two things. One: everyone else was staring at her. Probably because of item number two; she's surrounded by cats. Way more than a dozen, and I'm pretty sure that I've treated some of them.
This five-year-old girl has befriended all the stray and outdoor cats in the area. An amazing feat on its own, but add in how cute the blond haired girl is that realistic cat ear headband on her head, and with a kitten in her arms as well as on her head; half the crowd are gawking while the other half is 'awing.
As I watched she seemed to look from one cat to another then running off somewhere, at which point the crowd dispersed and I felt it was time to get back to my errands.
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When I returned to the vet, I put all the supplies away and moved on to the waiting room. It was a surprisingly slow day today with there being no cases at the moment, the waiting room completely empty; so me and two other doctors, Susan and Anthony, decided we’d spend some time chatting with the receptionist Mary. Since there was nothing better to do at the moment since there was literally no work to be done.
At some point during the middle of our conversation, the girl from before came through the front entrance ringing the bell, grabbing our attention.
One thing I noticed was the lack of cats around her until I look out the glass door behind her to see a shopping cart full of yarn balls had fallen over and the horde of cats spreading it out while some kid videotaped it, probably with the intention to post it on the internet.
It was at this point that I realized something I didn't realize before, her tail was swaying, in a way that I would expect a cat tail to sway, granted cats only sway their tails when upset or on the prowl.
at this point, Anthony walked up to the girl and said. "Hello, Are you lost? Where are your parents? What's your name?"
The girl for most of the questioning just tilted her head, as if not understanding the questions. Until the question of her name in which she smiled and said. "I'm Lioness, want to play?"
At this point, something happened, something that I would never quite forget, Anthony started to shrink, losing height at a very rapid pace. His body hair seemed to retreat back into his body while his hair seemed to grow out. His arms and legs seemed to slim down and become petite, as his face rounded out making him look like a girl. I notice him dig through his pants, and the fact his face turned red as a tomato told me he wasn't a he anymore.
Her dark brown hair then turned a lighter chocolate brown as I watched her now really baggy lab coat and uniform underneath shrink and fuse into a blue sundress with a flower pattern on it.
Then, her ears started moving up her head until finally, two chocolate brown triangles popped out of the top of her head, and a tail the same color slithered out from under her dress.
To say Anthony was scared would be an understatement, she was shivering at this point, and her tail was fidgeting nervously. That was until the girl (Lioness she said her name was.) start scratching her behind the ears, at first it looked like Anthony was going to push her away, but then started pushing into the petting, while purring.
after a short petting session, Lioness finally stops petting, and Anthony's eyes open to reveal they've gone from brown to green, with her pupils more oval shaped as if a mixture of a humans pupil and a cats.
"Anthony, are you okay?" I said. For a moment, not a sound was made. You could hear the sound of cats playing with yarn outside.
Then, Anthony lightly pushed Lioness with one hand saying. "Tag, you're it!"
Next thing we know the two were literally bouncing off the walls chasing each other while we were just dumbstruck.
Suddenly, the catgirls jump on Mary and Susan piggyback style.
They quickly shrunk down to the same height as the other girls and grew cat ears and tails, now there are four cat kids running around and I was in a good mood to get out of there.
Unfortunately, that was when Mary jumped on me, knocking me down as I felt the changes occur.
I noticed that the transformation was getting faster each time, not sure why but I couldn't really think on it for long as I felt myself shrink.
As I shrink I felt my hair grow slightly longer, my arms and legs slim down a little, I could feel as a slender tail slithers out from behind me as another tail slowly pulls itself inwards.
As my ears migrate upwards new thoughts start bubbling up in my mind, they were mine, yet not... They were thoughts like "What should I play next?" and "Where are all the toys?"
At a rapid pace, these thoughts overwhelm the normal thoughts until all that was left of me was a five-year-old catgirl who was playing with four other catgirls.
The next half hour is a bit fuzzy, like my actual childhood. The entire experience was like a bizarre mixture of pure bliss and childhood playfulness.
Thankfully it did end when the door to the outside quickly opens and the robed boy from earlier grabbed Lioness by the neck of her dress and threw her into the hands of two other robed individuals who then dragged her away.
Then he closed the door and held it closed keeping us from leaving for the better half of two minutes, then we started transforming back.
And fainting.
When I awoke I found me and the others on the floor, normal. With the robed boy standing there watching us.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
I slowly got up and said. "Yeah, I think so."
"Great, my name's Joshua by the way. I'm the high priest of the Order of Lioness."
At this point, something clicked in my head. "Wait... Didn't that girl say her name was Lioness?!?" I said. "But... If... Then... How... Why!?!"
I think you get the point.
"Now calm down, I can explain." He said, looking at the three unconscious people here. "But I think we should wait until the others wake up first"