Kyle has been sitting in front of the TV playing his games for 2 hours straight now. Surrounded by junk food and empty Pepsi and Coke cans, it was clear he has been playing for quite some time. Grabbing a hand full of potato chips from a bag to the right of him he chowed down on them. Hearing his mother call his name and walk down the stairs he paused the game and looked in her direction.
“Kyle , you’ve been playing on that thing for over 2 hours now. Don’t you think you come and play outside or at least take a break?” asked his mother , in a tone all to familiar to anyone who’s parents have asked them a similar question.
“I’m almost done” he said , hoping she would accept it, or at least hoping it would buy him some time. Walking by the TV and seeing the game he was playing, the character he was playing as in particular, she continued
“Weren’t you just playing this?”.
“No, this is a different game” he responded. Continuing she asked
“But it’s the same character, that little fox thing”. Getting a bit annoyed, but understanding that she didn’t play these games, so really couldn’t be expected to understand the details of them anymore then he could know the details of her hobbies that he wasn’t interested in. Finally responding he said
“His name is Tails he’s been in over 31 different games, and I have 25 of them.”
“25? You must really like that character! He is kind of cute but I still think you should take a break. Play as him too much and your gonna end up becoming him!”. His mother responded. He looked at her and rolled his eyes
“If course I like him. But playing so much I become him? Common Mom, tactic may have worked when I was 8, but I’m 18 now! That doesn’t happen to people in ‘real life’” he responded, sounded almost disappointed.
“Well, maybe not but it’s bad for your eyes, you're going to end up making yourself need glasses. Anyway, I’m going to the store for a few hours. By the time I get back I ‘d like you to have cleaned up this mess”. She said, then went upstairs after he responded with
“yea yea” and resumed the game, thinking to himself
“Playing as him so much that I become him, yea right”.
As he heard the front door close and continued to play, he was completely oblivious to the 2 small ears that sprouted on the top of his head. Taking yet another handful of chips from the bag next to him, he gobbled them down so fast he barley tasted them, reaching for the 2 liter bottle of Coke beside him, he drank the last half of it, all in one gulp. He was in the process of drinking the Coke when the ears that had sprouted on top of his head grew considerably, each one encompassing nearly a third of the top of his head, and growing orange fur on the outside, and white on the inside. His human ears, as if to compensate, shrunk into his head and vanished. All the while he seemed to have no idea that this was going on. Having finished off the bag of chips and bottle of Coke, Kyle paused the game and walked over to the mini fridge to get another bottle and to the closet to get another bag of chips. Quickly sitting down and opening them, he resumed his game. Not 5 minutes later, he finished the game, and began to play another. Almost like clockwork, the second he turned the new game on, orange fur began growing all over most of his face, and 3 large strands of orange fur sprouted on the right side of his face above and to the right of his right eye, and began to grow longer and longer until finally settling in. Now fully engrossed in the game, Kyle came to the character selection screen, and of course selected Tails. Confirming his choice started up his changes once more. His nose elongated slightly , forming into a slight cone shape with was covered in white fur and a little black nose at the end. White fur grew on the bottom of his face, and grew into 3 long tufts at each end. His eyes grew much bigger, becoming oval shaped with little blue irises in the middle. Still completely unaware of these changes he continued to play the game.
After 35 minutes of play, he paused the game to get up and stretch and drink some of Coke and eat some more chips. Once again gulping down the Coke, he drank half of the bottle in seconds and let out a huge belch. Reaching in the chips bag he grabbed a handful and placed them on his lap, quickly munching them all down. He resumed the game, and his changes resumes along with it.
Orange fur covered his arms, quickly growing in. White fur grew on his chest up to his neck, while more orange fur quickly covered his back, sides and neck. The hair on his legs became orange fur, which quickly spread, covering the rest of his legs. Still completely unaware of what was happening to his body, Kyle was now covered from head to toe in fur.
After another half hour he completed the game, and as before removed it and inserted another. Once again he quickly started the game, and at the character selection screen select tails as his character. This started the changes up once again. This time the change extended slightly beyond his body and began to alter his clothing, soon has clothes formed into 4 small balls of energy, which covered his hands and feet. The energy on his hands forming into large gloves, and the energy on his feet forming into large shoes. Despite all that was going on, Kyle was still completely unaware of his changes.
For an hour he played the game, and finally was done. Thinking that maybe it was time for a break, get got up, but then decided to play just one more game.
“One more can’t hurt” he said to himself. Once again he took out the old game, and inserted the new one, again powering it up. This time at the character selection screen, he thought of selecting someone else, but saying
“na, Tails is the best” he selected tails and confirmed the selection. Suddenly he felt a sharp pulling sensation right above his rear end, reaching his arm over to find out what was going on he suddenly became aware of his changes.
“What the hell? Noooo!” was all he could say as he ran to a mirror in time to see two large and fluffy fox tails grow out over his butt. Not stopping there, almost as if in unison to the games music, he felt himself shrinking. His torso become much more round and plump. When he spoke , he could hear his voice becoming higher pitched. Several seconds later, he stopped shrinking, his height now the same as tail’s height was as listed as in his profile. His proportions were exactly the same as his. Looking exactly like a real life version of tails he pondered what to do next.
At first he thought he could shut the game down and clean up his mess, and doing so would reverse the changes. Alas, no matter how clean he got his play area he still did not change back. Again looking at himself in the mirror, he found himself admiring his reflection.
“Out of all the things out there, at least I got turned into something cute”, still a bit shocked to hear the sound of his voice, he realized that much like tails he was a little kid.
“I just know mom’s gonna say ‘I told you so’” he said to himself , as he did several motions in front of the mirror. Yet somehow that didn’t bother him, as he was finding several of his worries vanishing , replaced by a desire to play and have fun.
“Here I come world” he said as he ran upstairs and out into his backyard. It was fall and there were piles of leaves everywhere, despite it being cool out he didn’t notice it at all. The fact that he was wearing nothing but gloves and shoes seemed perfectly normal to him. His fur kept him nice and warm. He found his sense of modesty seemed be all but gone, but instead of feeling alarmed by this it made him feel liberated, as if a weight had been lifted of his shoulders. He had played in the leaves and had been running around the yard for at least an hour when an interesting thought came over him. Looking at the pair of tails he now had, he wondered if they would allow him to fly.
Almost automatically the tails began to spin like a helicopter blade, and he found himself raising off the ground and gaining a bit of altitude. The feeling of raising himself into the air was quite invigorating for him. The view was incredible, in a matter of minutes he had flown high enough that could see his entire street. Giggling to himself at what anyone who saw him would think of the sight of a flying fox kit, he decided to try to do more then just hover, he wasn’t sure where the knowledge of it came from, but instinctively he knew how to move and control himself. Flying way high into the air, he saw a passenger plane, and decided to have some fun. He flew right up to one of the windows, knocked on it and waved to the person inside and giggled. Before the person could get a second look, he had taken off thinking
“That’ll give him a fun little story to tell”.
Slowly descending back down towards his house he saw his mom’s car pulling into the driveway. Heading right for it, he softly landed on its roof. His mom looked up to see what had landed on her car when see caught site him. Grinning and waving at her he said
“Hi mom” in a play full voice.
“Mom?” she answered, he responded with
“It’s me Kyle! You were right, playing to much really did turn me into Tails”. Unable to think of anything else to say she looked at him and said
“I told you so! Now common down from there son, it’s bath time”.
“Awe! Mom”,
“Don’t awe mom me!” she said, mostly in a fun voice, clearly finding this situation amusing, rather then alarming.
“Okay but ya got to catch me first” he said as he flew into air, and the chase was on.