The Thirteenth Tail

The witch clasps her hands together in delight as she regards your new form ... and then slowly sags, from her fingers all the way to her shoulders, then up to her jaw! She gapes in astonishment at you. You look at Jessie quizzically, and she is wearing the same astonished expression as the witch.

"What is going on?" you ask, and the witch regains enough of her composure to look you in the face and point out something towards the center of your body. You see she has an extremely respectful look on her face. "Something went...wrong?" Jessie asks as you look down ... then to the rear. Your fur has become grey and silvered, but that does not attract your attention so much as the fact that there is tail after tail sprouting from your buttocks! The count of tails grows until it reaches thirteen ... and then they suddenly stop shooting out of your spine. Your fur begins to recolorize and the weariness that washed over you with each new tail dissolves.

"... eight ... nine ... TEN ... ELEVEN ... This cannot be! Impossible!!" the witch screams, obviously frightened. You look her up and down and see a sickening dirty-yellow aura about her that claws and scrapes at every living thing near by - - except for you! "Kitsune ... you just became one, three tails like your Jessie, but they die at nine tails! World cannot support more, but you!" She suddenly heaves back and away from you and draws that ugly yellow into herself, seeming to intensify it, as though preparing for something. "ANOMALY!!!" she shrieks, and releases a jagged bolt of energy in your direction. It hits you in the solar plexus, knocking you back a step, but merely leaves you stunned for a moment or two. Jessie looks on in terror.

Written by Hypogryph (edited by wanderer)

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