Alexa walked through her local mall with an emotionless expression, and hand in her black purse. The mall was an indoor mall with a variety of stores, some of them closed and for sale, others open. It was a mall in the more expensive part of town that was hard for many stores to afford the rent, and those that could were usually upper class stores.

She was shopping alone today, though she usually did. She looked from shop to shop with a look of disinterest. She considered herself an elite amongst the crowd, even if much of the crowd was high class given the location. 

She didn't care that it was her husband that paid for everything, she had a credit card, and she was going to find something nice and expensive to spend it on in the fancy mall for her even fancier home, the same home that her husband fully paid for.



One of the stores had various fur coats and expensive clothing on pure black mannequins through the glass displays. Alexa paused to look at these coats, and saw her reflection. She was 5'3 and while she had an average build, she was a bit chubby thanks to a lifestyle of luxury and idleness. She had a pair of DDs, which she gladly took the time to wear the right kind of pink dress to show off her cleavage, though she had long pants on to hide her legs. She had long blonde hair that she only used the best kind of shampoo and conditioner to take care of, rarely getting it cut as most stylists ended up hating her after with how fussy about her hair she was. She smiled at her deep blue eyes. She was the definition of a trophy wife if there ever was one.



Alexa glanced beyond the glass to the luxurious clothing behind it, and she smiled when she saw a coat that looked like an animal's own. The coat was white with black spots, as if mimicking "Genuine fur, huh...?" she thought that was illegal in her country, but she was not one to complain about such things. She noticed that there was no price tag on it, nor did she see any large 'SALE' signs that would be in so many clothing stores. Price was no object to her, but she was still curious about what the coat was about. She walked to the open entryway, through the metal detectors, and into the store.



The interior of the store was like a fancy clothing store. It didn't just have fur coats, but snakeskin purses, belts, as well as normal tuxedos and dresses. While the clothes had an ink tag to prevent it from getting stolen, there was no visible price tag on any item. Alexa looked around the store, and then she glanced back in the direction where the displays were. She noticed there was a steel wall between the store, and the displays, with a locked door that led to them. The remaining walls looked as if they were made of fine wood, with more pitch black mannequins periodically placed along various sections of clothing. Odd dance music could be heard playing overhead, music that Alexa never heard, and couldn't even begin to describe.



While Alexa looked back at the steel wall, a man walked up to her wearing a blue suit with a black tie, as well as black pants. He had white sleeves underneath his suit, and fancy dress shoes on. He had a nametag that looked as if it were engraved in gold, but it made it hard to read his name. "Can I help you miss?" the man asked with a smile. He looked as if he belonged more at a fancy five star restaurant than he did a clothing store in the middle of a mall.



Alexa tapped just below her lip as she looked at the man. She glanced away from him briefly, towards the direction of the steel wall where she recalled the mannequin on display earlier that had the coat she noticed. "I saw a coat out on display, the white one with black spots. Do you happen to have one like that for sale?" she pointed to the direction of the metal wall where she recalled seeing the coat from on the other side.



The man nodded with a slight bow. "Oh yes, it is made from pure snow leopard, however due to the rarity of said animal, and difficulty of keeping the pelts clean, we store them in the back rather than put them out and about here. See, we sometimes get protestors over our...operation, and pig blood just does not wash from white fur, you understand, right?"



Alexa nodded back slowly. "Ah yes, that makes perfect sense. It's so stupid that people just don't grasp the concept of high class fashion these days. Animals kill other animals all the time, we're just using their pelts in addition to their meat." Alexa smirked. "Well, would it be too much to ask to try one of the coats on?"



The man shook his head. "Of course not, I just have to retrieve it from the stock room. You wouldn't mind waiting near the changing rooms, would you? They aren't that far from where I have to go, plus I'm sure you would love to have a bunch of mirrors to see how fabulous you're going to look."



Alexa followed the man to the back, passing by various other departments along the way. Alexa looked around at the other mannequins and displays, as well as the other articles of clothing that were arranged on racks and tables. There was a common theme she noticed, and it raised her curiosity enough to ask. "I don't notice any sale signs, where are the prices?" Not that price was a huge concern to her.



"Price is negotiable." The man said as he walked to a locked door with a sign that said 'Employees only' on it. "Try on the coat, then we'll talk about price." He put a key in the lock, and walked off.



Alexa watched the man walk in the back, and then looked ahead to see an open corridor that led to the changing rooms. The rooms looked extremely private. She could see one of the open doors, and it was as large as a small bedroom, almost overkill in terms of size. Something seemed off about the room though. Alexa walked closer to the open changing room, and then she looked down at the ground. She saw what looked as if there were scratch marks made by an animal. The marks looked old, and as if someone had tried to cover them up, but it was undeniable that she saw the lighter marks on the dark wooden floors. "Huh, weird..." she turned to see there was a mirror that measured the length of the wall, and glanced at her reflection. The thoughts of the scratch marks quickly left her head, and she smiled at herself. "Some bozo probably scuffed up the floor or something stupid, no big deal."



Shortly after Alexa left the one fitting room, the man returned with the coat. The coat wasn't as thick as many stereotype coats would have one believe, and while it lacked a head and tail, it did appear to have four stubby paws stretched out around it as if it were a large blanket. The interior of the coat was pink, but the exterior looked just like the display which was mostly white with black spots. "I found the coat you were looking for ma'am."



Alexa grinned at the sight of the coat. Truly, it looked like one of the most unique coats she had ever seen before. Not wearing a coat already, she just set her purse down, and then slipped her arms through the armholes of the coat. She wrapped it around herself with glee, and brushed her fingertips along the outside fur of the coat. That was one thing Alexa loved about fur pelts, the fur felt so luxurious, although it was very hard to care and maintain, that's what dry cleaners were for, and it wasn't like she was going to be paying for any of it in the first place, her husband was. "Oh this just feels absolutely FABULOUS darling!" with the coat on her, she twirled around. She made her way to a mirror to get a better look at herself.



The man followed her with a far more humble look. His fingertips wrapped around each of his hands, and he was slightly bowing as he followed her. "Oh yes. The snow leopard's pelt is very soft, but as you can imagine, the animal is incredibly rare. There is that male one at the nearby zoo, but besides that, I can't think of the last time I ever saw one, even in a documentary."



Alexa went back to the fitting room she had gone to earlier, and took a look at herself in the mirror. The coat fit around her almost as if it were a second skin. She felt a warmth while enveloped in the fur, though it wasn't hot enough to make her sweat. She smiled at herself in the mirror, and did a quick twirl. "Rare and lavish, that describes me quite well." She turned to the man. "Wouldn't you agree?"



The man smiled slightly at her. "Does that mean you're interested in the coat?"



Alexa let out a thoughtful 'hm', although deep down, she wasn't thinking too hard on it. She absolutely adored the way the coat looked on her. It almost looked as if she were wearing nothing underneath the fur. "I'm still quite curious about the price of it." It was a downright lie, she just wanted to sound as if she cared about her husband's money. In truth, even if the coat had cost more than the price of a car, she felt quite strong about wanting it. She felt so wonderful, so fabulous, and so perfect, as if the coat itself completed her life. She had never felt such a way about a coat before.



"Dear, I can tell that money is no object for a woman such as yourself. Yes, there is a cost, but it isn't necessarily money that you need to pay to have such a fine coat." The man stepped back from her.



"Wait...are you asking for...?" Alexa turned to the man with a raised brow. Before she could finish her sentence though, she felt an unusual itch underneath the coat. She tried to scratch it through the coat and clothing, but it didn't help her. It was an unusual warm itchy sensation, just above her elbow, as if it felt like a rash. "Hrmph, I know I'm not...not allergic to any of the ingredients in a coat."



The man took Alexa's coat off slowly and carefully. "If you think I am asking for certain favors, then no I am not. You might not be as high class as you think if you believe that we would offer such...things here." The man spoke with a smile, though based on his tone, he sounded insulted. "You do look a little red in the face though."



Alexa took the coat off with a grimace. She still felt warm and itchy, especially on her arm. "Pah...I'm going to use the bathroom." She said with a gentle shiver. "Keep that coat set aside, we are NOT done with it." Alexa made her way to the bathroom with a quick walk, her high heels echoed on the white tiled floor beneath her. The bathrooms weren't too far away from the changing rooms, less than 30 feet even. She was quick to enter the bathroom, and then she grabbed the handicap stall on the very end. Once she was in the stall, she raised up the part of her dress that covered her arm. She couldn't deny how itchy and warm it still felt, and when she revealed her bare skin underneath the sleeve of her dress, her eyes widened.



On her arm was a patch of fur, fur that looked just like the coat she wore moments ago, but this was on her skin. Alexa reached out to touch the fur, and then quickly pulled back when she felt the tips of the fur move as if the fur was attached to her. "W-what?!" Unfortunately for Alexa, it wasn't just her arm, but her belly too felt warm. Her thighs had an uncomfortable itch that was hard to ignore, and with a mental shout of frustration, she took off her dress in the stall as fast as she could.



With the top part of her dress removed, Alexa looked down at her body. She had a silk bra covering her chest, as well as luxurious panties covering her crotch. Despite removing her top though, she still felt very warm, itchy, and uncomfortable. She looked down at her belly, and her breathing quickened as she saw another patch of fur. "T-this isn't normal..." she said to herself with a quiet whimper.



Alexa wasn't sure what she should do. She looked to the bathroom door, and then at the dress she put on a small steel hanger on the bathroom wall. She could put on the dress and go out, but she felt so uncomfortable. Part of her just wanted to stay in the stall forever, it wasn't the most pleasant of areas to be in, especially for a woman of her high standards, but at the same time, she felt a fear she had never felt before of the outside world. "They wouldn't...they wouldn't accept this..." Alexa slowly touched the fur on her belly. It reminded her of the same fur her cat had, it felt just as luxurious and smooth, but the pattern reminded her of the coat she wore earlier. With a grimace, she felt an itch spread through her body again, and started to scratch herself. Her scratches were short lived though. Alexa heard small clinks hit the tiled bathroom floor, and she found scratching herself was much harder than it should have been.



Alexa raised her fingers as they felt odd, and she found out why scratching herself was so difficult. Her fingernails had fallen right out from her hands. She raised up both of her hands in pure shock and wide eyes. Her fingers lacked nails, and it made them look almost inhuman. The skin where the nails once were was still pushed downwards, and there was no blood, just smooth sensitive skin. She looked down on the floor, and she saw that her nails had fallen from her body. 



Alexa's toes in her high heels felt uncomfortable too, as if small sharp stones rattled around inside of them. She was hesitant to remove her shoes, especially in a public bathroom. It was one thing to take off her dress with at least semi-privacy, but bathroom floors were incredibly dirty. "I-I need to get out of heeeeRE!" she gasped and grabbed onto her stomach as she felt a violent churn. "I-I-I have to be getting sick. That's got to be it. I must be...must be hallucinating." She looked at her fingers, her very fingers that lacked nails. Alexa reached out to her dress hung up, but hesitated as her fingers felt the fabric. She normally very much liked the fabric of the dress before, but now feeling her dress gave her an odd sensation of discomfort, just like her underwear and shoes were now giving.



Alexa grimaced down at the bathroom floor. She was of a high class, she didn't know what went on the bathroom floor. The fact she took her dress off to hang on the bathroom wall alone made her shiver, but she was just so itchy. The itchy sensation continued, but she had no way to relieve herself. She could only watch the fur spread down to her very fingertips, covering her in snow white fur with black spots. The fur looked, and as she touched a finger on her fur it felt, exactly like the coat she had tried on earlier. Alexa bit the bottom of her lip nervously, unaware that even her teeth inside of her mouth felt slightly loose. "I can't even...I'd have to cover this up..." she looked back at the bathroom door, and then at her purse. 

With a deep breath, she took out her cell phone, and called her husband. Alexa had no idea what she was going to tell him, just that she knew she needed some sort of help.

One ring...two rings...eventually the call went right to voicemail. Frustratingly, Alexa hung up. "He's always fucking working I swear." She grumbled. 



With a deep breath, she looked down at her left arm, covered in snow leopard fur. "Maybe it's not that bad....I can just...I can step outside like this." She thought that, just perhaps, she was hallucinating. She wasn't sure how she was, or what would have caused her to, but it was the only logical explanation she could think of. People just didn't straight up lose their fingernails and grow fur. Sure maybe people lost fingernails at SOME point, often with an illness, but almost no one grew fur, especially with a coat as fine and sleek as what Alexa had, as well as the color of the fur itself.



Alexa grabbed her dress, but she couldn't even hold onto the fabric for very long before she pulled back. Her pink long dress that went down past her knees was just too uncomfortable to even touch. Worse yet, her fingertips felt stubby. She glanced at them, and her ears gently flickered at the sound of little crackling coming from her fingers. She couldn't see it, but the very bones inside of her fingers were scrunching and crushing together, shrinking her fingers, but expanding them at the same time. Her thumb though was being pulled back. She could feel her toes tingle too. Alexa still didn't want to take off her shoes and touch the bathroom floor. She looked back to the toilet she hadn't used, and grimaced at the thought of even touching the toilet to raise her feet. Then, she got an idea. "As much as I don't WANT to do this, better this than my own two feet."



Alexa picked up her dress, and set it on the bathroom ground. "I'm going to need to buy a new dress too." She grumbled. "I'm NOT wearing this again..." She stepped onto the dress, and then she removed her high heels and stockings. It felt strange removing her socks. It felt as if something was caught on her toe, but it pulled off with a small pull without any pain, as if she had clipped her toenail, but not fully, and just pulled the rest of it.

Alexa looked down at her feet, and noticed that her big toe had pulled back a few inches, while that toe, and every other one, lacked nails. Her heart pounded heavily with fear. She looked at the bathroom door, and bit onto her index finger nervously. It was when she bit onto her finger that she felt something odd in her mouth. She couldn't explain the sensation, but like a curious child, she reached into her mouth, and gave a tug. She winced slightly at the pain, but then when she pulled out the strange thing in her mouth, she was ready to scream. She stared at a full grown adult tooth that she just so casually removed from her mouth. She stared at it in shock. The tooth looked perfectly healthy, and while there was minor blood, it was nowhere severe. "I...I..." She shivered, and laid down on the dress. She wrapped her arms around her torso, and pulled her legs to her chest. She rolled slightly around on the ground with a whimper, a single tear went down her cheeks. "This isn't normal. This isn't normal. This isn't normal." She repeated. She didn't even know what she should do. Her husband could only help her so much, even if he did answer his phone. She wasn't sure what the hospital could do about her situation, and as it was, she was too afraid to even leave the bathroom. By now, the fur on her arm had spread to her elbows and her other arm. It was slowly working its way both up, and down, her body. She knew she was transforming, and she couldn't get her mind off of the coat. "Am I going...am I going to become a snow leopard or something?" she asked herself. She had to try to keep quiet, as the bathroom did have more stalls. The last thing Alexa wanted to do was to alert anyone else that might come in the bathroom about her situation, then again, she thought that maybe others could figure out how to help her, though not even she could imagine how they would assist.



It was just then, there was a knock on the door that led into the bathroom. After a brief moment of silence, Alexa's ears flickered as she heard the door open. "Miss, are you okay? You've been in there for quite some time."



It doesn't feel like I've been in here for very long at all! Alexa thought to herself. She took a look at her cell phone, and then grimaced as she didn't pay attention to the time when she even got there, so even she was unsure how long she had been at the store for. "I'm...I'm fine!" she replied. "Just having some...just having some woman problems. I might be in here awhile, but I am fine!" she shouted defensively. I'm not fine, but I'm not letting him see me like this! She thought to herself. She winced as she felt the muscles in her arms shape and readjust. She stared as the muscles in her forearm muscles grew, thicker, and furrier. Though the arms themselves looked more slender. 



"Very well then, I shall leave you to your business." The man said, and then shut the door behind him.



Alexa's ears twitched and tilted in the direction of the door. She quickly realized that her ears should not be doing such things. She reached up to the sides of her head to feel her ears, but she didn't feel them where they once were. She slowly raised up her furry hands, and felt two fuzzy ears almost at the top of her head, tilting and flexing in ways that no human ears should have been able to do.



Alexa half wished there was a mirror in the bathroom stall. She knew there was one above the sink, but that would mean she would have to leave the stall, and step on the tiles in her bare feet. Her curiosity made her wonder just enough to open up the bathroom stall door slightly, and she glanced to the entrance. She noticed there was a lock on the entrance into the bathroom itself, and without a second thought, she rushed over and locked the bathroom up entirely. "That...that should help..." she mumbled. It was hard to stand up straight to run effectively, her arms, despite being smaller, felt as if they weighed her down, but she had the willpower to keep the bathroom to herself, and just enough dexterity to perform simple locks.



With the bathroom now locked, Alexa moved to the large mirror above the many sinks, and stared at her reflection. The fur still hadn't touched her face, but it was tickling up her neck. The hair on her head was still long and gorgeous too. Her chest was still there, but fur was covering her torso, and slowly moving down her legs. Her fingers were thick, while her thumb and big toe were pulled back far beyond where they should have been. Her arms were shifted slightly, and more muscular than her feet. She raised one arm to get a good look at her hand, and she noticed black paw pads growing in underneath her fingers. "Is there...is there nothing I can do to stop this?" she asked herself with a pout. She felt a surge of anger rise in her belly, and she glared at her own reflection. She kept her mouth closed, knowing very well she had lost at least one tooth in it. She was ready to punch her reflection, but she wasn't ready to injure herself, even though she was feeling moderate pain all throughout her body. Her ears, the same ears that looked much more animal than human, flickered as they picked up the noises of bones crunching and her muscles shifting. "Is this some kind of...fucking...fucking karma for the snow leopard? I didn't kill the damned thing! That's like if I were punished by becoming a cow for eating a fucking hamburger." She shook her head rapidly with denial, and as she did, bits of her human hair began to fall out. She noticed fine follicles of her blonde hair drop from her head.



"I'm going bald now..." Alexa said quietly. Her anger slowly died down as fear arose. She wasn't sure what she should even be feeling as her body was flooded with all sorts of emotions, everything except happiness. "Someone...anyone...tell me what to do." She looked down at the sink with a grimace. She felt something touch the inside of her lips, and when she opened her mouth, more of her teeth fell out. Her stubby fingers squeezed together as they tried to make a fist, but she couldn't even do that now.



Alexa slightly growled at her own reflection. She knew she had said it out loud, but she wanted some help from someone, someone that could explain what was going on with her, and someone that could just tell her what to do. She glanced to the bathroom door, and then she looked back at the mirror. She knew she couldn't go outside into the world like this, she didn't even look human anymore, but she couldn't stay in the bathroom forever. "Maybe...maybe..." she stepped backwards from the bathroom mirror, and slammed her hands down onto the ground. She felt twinges in each of her stubby fingers and toes, as if they each had minor papercuts, but she ignored the slight pain. "If I get out of here..." she knew people were going to panic at the sheer sight of her, she couldn't even take off her bra or panties anymore.



Alexa felt frightened that it was far more comfortable for her to walk on her hands and feet. Her arms hadn't grown at all, in fact, it looked as if they were shorter, making her ass stick up in the air as she had her hands on the ground. She felt humiliated as she looked behind her, though it also did look like her ass was slowly moving down to the ground, inch by inch.

While fur continued to slowly creep up her head, the more the fur covered her scalp, the more her fine hair fell down onto the ground below her.



Alexa could feel the hair fall out from her head. It upset her in ways she couldn't begin to explain, she felt no happiness, just every other emotion wildly inside of her that she kept contained, like a wild animal inside a cage that needed to be set free. She stared at the entrance to the bathroom with wide eyes, and stepped toward it. She put her stubby fingers onto the lock, but before she unlocked it, she paused. How are they going to react to seeing me? I'm a monster. She thought to herself, as a lone tear fell down her fuzzy cheek. She wasn't quite human, nor was she quite animal, but a mixture of the pair. She could feel her stomach churning and twisting, bringing about all sorts of discomfort. She felt a hunger towards raw meat, but with her human teeth falling out bit by bit, she knew she couldn't eat anything. As it was, she had to open up her mouth to spit out two more of her own teeth.



Alexa thought that maybe the man could help her out somehow. Maybe if I can get some kind of clothing from him, like a hoodie, big pants, SOMETHING. If I can cover myself up, then I'll be good. She mentally told herself. At the door to the bathroom, she took a deep breath, and opened up her mouth to speak. "Marrrrooh?" she asked.

She then felt her fur stand on ends, and she slammed her mouth shut. I just...I... She thought to herself. She opened her mouth again to speak, quieter this time, yet it was another "Maroow?"



Alexa's heart pounded heavily. She couldn't even speak the human language anymore. Her ears twitched, and she instinctively sniffed the air a few times to pick up the scent of the man still nearby, yet he wasn't opening the door to check on her, he wasn't doing anything to see what she was doing. I came off too strong when I said I was fine. She thought. She squeezed her lips together, and stared up at the lock to the bathroom door. She felt a sudden surge of adrenaline rush through her body. She couldn't stay here. If she waited until she was done transforming, who knew what they were going to do with her, yet if she went out now, she knew that people were going to likely scream and panic at the sheer sight of her, but she had no other alternative. It be better they see me at least partially human rather than full on animal. I am NOT going to live in the wild! She thought to herself, she just had to find some way to tell them she was still human. She still had her bra and panties on, though her panties felt uncomfortable, as if something was stretching them from behind, while her bra felt ill-fitting on her chest. Anyone can put clothes on an animal. She thought to herself. She made her way back to the bathroom stall, disgusted at the bathroom floor, but her body was getting changed so much she could easily get over how disgusting she thought it was to be walking barefoot on the white tiled floor. She grabbed ahold of her cell phone, and she tried to type in her password to access it.

Unfortunately Alexa's fingers weren't just shorter, they were stubbier. Each one was twice the size of a human thumb, and it made texting almost impossible, let alone getting in her phone. With an angry growl, Alexa pinned the phone between her hand and the ground, and slid it forward. She slid it along the floor, and followed it as she pushed it to the door. I may not be able to type it, but dammit I can show them that I know how to fucking use it!



Alexa stepped up to the bathroom door. She didn't want to take a look in the mirror anymore at her body anymore. Her bra felt as if it were becoming too big for her chest, but she could feel other nipples slowly growing into place on her torso. The new nipples gave her twinges of pleasure as each pair grew in, but the minor bits of pleasure were easily ignorable by her. She unlocked the bathroom door, and pushed it slightly. She pushed the door a few inches, and then pulled back, and then a few more inches, and then back. She never opened the door outright to show herself, but she was trying to do something to attract the man's attention.



"I heard some strange noises in there, are you going okay miss?" The man asked. "Can you speak?"



Alexa wondered how the man even knew she was having problems speaking. It was true that she had made some odd noises earlier, but then she also wondered why the man wouldn't have even questioned that. Her ears, the same ears that became increasingly sensitive, told her the man was close by most of, if not the entire time. Something...something's not right, and it's not just my body transforming. She thought to herself. The way the man was behaving just didn't add up to her, plus she was in a public woman's bathroom, there should have been more people that wanted to come in by now, unless he had closed it off, but why would he close it off just for her?



The man knocked on the door. "Miss?" he asked once more. "Do you need me to call an ambulance?"



Alexa hesitated when she heard that. She wished she could have said yes, she definitely needed something. "Yarrroh" she tried to answer. It was difficult to make her lips move the way she wanted them to, they felt almost stuck in place. She could still open and close her jaw easily, but the muscles to her lips was another thing entirely.



There was a moment of silence that felt like an eternity before there was suddenly the sound of the man working a key in the door. "I think you kept it unlocked, but just in case..." he said quietly. He then opened the door, and stared down at Alexa before him. Alexa's arms were no taller than three feet, while her legs were quickly shrinking to match that size.



Alexa stared up at the man in horror. She was expecting the man to run away from her, to scream and shout at the beast before him. True her fur and muscles made her look sleeker, but her face was still largely human, just covered in fur. Her torso was still very much human, and while she was looking more flat chested, she still had the human rear too, though with every passing second, she was becoming less and less so. She opened up her mouth to speak, but the last of her human teeth fell out as she did. She slammed her lips shut, and then pushed her phone forward, hoping the man would see it. Alexa rapidly, and repeatedly, tapped the screen with what was becoming her front right paw. She was hoping the man would see it and understand that she was no normal animal, even if she couldn't actually text anything at all.



The man watched Alexa with a raised brow. A small smile crept across his face. "Let me get a good look at you..." he reached down with his hairy hands, and brushed his fingertips across her fur, right along her neck.



Alexa wasn't sure what the man was doing, her ears, now almost at the top of her very head, tilted back when she felt the man's large fingertips. She hated to admit it, but the man's hand felt good brushing her fur. She wasn't eager to purr about such things, unaware if Snow Leopards even could or not. She knew nothing about wild animals, just that she liked their pelts.



"That's a girl..." the man said quietly. He reached into his pocket with one hand, and he pulled out something that he kept balled up in his fist. He was quick to move it away from Alexa's sight, though his hands went right back around Alexa's neck.



Alexa felt something wrap around her neck that wasn't his hand. She was ready to pull back, but it was just then she felt her legs crack loudly. It didn't hurt, but it distracted her, and made her gasp. "Wrrraror?!" she wanted to know what the man was doing to her. It felt like he was putting something on her that didn't feel quite like cloth. In fact, it felt leathery.



The man's hands went from slow and steady, to quick and slightly sloppy. The man wrapped a leather collar around Alexa's neck, and then he attached a leash to the collar. He stood up with the leash in hand, having tied it around her as if she were a common dog. "Now listen, you are an animal, at least, you'll become a full one soon enough. If you behave, you'll go into a zoo, but if you're bad? Well, you can always go into the wild."



Alexa felt her heart skip a beat when her eyes spotted the leash. It was easy enough for her to put two and two together to realize what exactly the man was doing. Her eyes trailed up the leash, and she wondered how she could have missed such a thick leash. He hid that in his hand? HOW?! She could barely hear what the man even said to her, her heart was racing, and her breathing quickened. She tugged at the leash, too afraid to move her arms and legs to try to actually run.



"I'm sure you have so many questions." The man said as he tugged the leash a bit. "But alas, you're a snow leopard, or at least, you will be a full one soon enough, you don't need answers. You're more animal than human now. Let's go." The man tugged the leash. "You can walk just fine, I know you can."



Alexa growled quietly at the leash tug. She could feel her entire body slide along the floor, and she had no way to grip the ground. Where's he taking me?! It's not to the hospital. She could tell he had plans for her, and she was not willing to wait to see what kind of plans those were. She raised one of her legs, and felt the repeated cracking of her bones as they shifted and adjusted into place, along with her muscles. She had a strong feeling that she wasn't going to be able to stand on two feet easily again. Not caring for what 'punishment' the man had in mind, with another deep growl, she lunged at the man to pin him down with her weight. She was easily able to tackle the man, and pin his body underneath her paws. She stared down at him angrily with her slowly slitting, yellowing eyes, and an emotionless face, as her lips couldn't even make an expression anymore. 



The man seemed only partially surprised when Alexa jumped on him, though he couldn't react in time regardless. He fell right down to the ground with a hard slam, but instead of looked shocked or frightened up at Alexa, he just smiled, and firmly kept hold of the leash. "What do you think you can do like this?" Thankfully there was a wall that kept the two of them somewhat secluded from the public eye.



Alexa glared down at the man. She wasn't even sure what she could do. Her instincts told her to bite and scratch at him, but her nails had fallen out, as had just about, if not fully, all of her teeth, she had lost track of how much teeth she lost, and she wasn't willing to explore her mouth with her tongue to find out. She couldn't bite, she couldn't scratch, and her body barely felt any bigger than it did before her transformation. She could feel her bra, now ill-fitting on her, now too big for her chest, and her panties slid down her legs as a short tail appeared, one that was slowly growing outwards.

While Alexa was clueless about how she could harm him, she still wanted to keep him pinned down.



Alexa was certainly becoming an animal. Her paws were bigger and thicker, but she hadn't grown accustomed to her strength. The man wriggled one arm free, and then reached to his side where he pulled out what appeared to be a gun. "Hard way it is then." He then pulled the trigger.



Alexa winced when she felt a prickling sensation hit her chest. She had noticed the man pulled something out, but she didn't know what it was, at least until she started to feel drowsy. She let out a yawn, showing a larger, flatter, rougher tongue, and then collapsed onto the man. No! Stop... She thought to herself, though her thoughts quickly became cloudy as a wave of tiredness hit her, and she soon fell asleep.



Alexa's eyes slowly opened up. She felt groggy from the tranquilizer dart, but she knew she had to fight off the dizzying sensations of tiredness as best as she could. She felt the warmth of the sun hit her furry back, and she took a look at her new surroundings. She was no longer in a mall, but out in the sun. She felt warm all over her body, and while she couldn't see herself, she could feel fur cover herself from head to toe, and a long tail behind her that helped her keep balance. She slowly stood up on all fours, and heard various cracks from her spine and legs as she did so. Where...where am I? She thought to herself. She noticed tall gray rocks right in front of her, to the left of her, to the right of her, and then she turned behind her, and froze. She saw, not rocks, but a glass panel. She could make out a path on the other side of the panel, while she herself was in a grassy and rocky terrain area. I'm...I'm in a zoo? She thought to herself.



Alexa stepped forward on her large paws. She felt the grass tickle her, though her black paw pads felt nothing. Once she got up to the glass, she put one of her thick paws up against it, and looked around. She could make out other feline exhibits along the path, and she herself had a sign that told zoo patrons she was a snow leopard. Alexa could see her reflection through the glass too. She saw not her blue human eyes, but yellow ones, not quite slit like a housecat, but round. She had round ears almost at the top of her head, and she was covered head to toe in thick fur. The fur was whiter on her belly, but more grayish on her back, with black spots that were scattered around her entirely. Her face was not a human one, but that of a snow leopard's own. She opened her mouth slightly, and saw the inside of a snow leopard's mouth, but with one key difference. Sharp teeth were poking slightly out of her gums, as if she were an infant going through the teething stages. She could also feel small prickly sensations on her paws, the beginning of snow leopard claws.



Alexa stared at her form in disbelief. She saw her tail right behind her, and while she didn't want to look under her fur, she didn't feel her breast, but she did feel slightly intensified sensations on spots on her chest. She could tell she had multiple nipples, but she dared not look to see how many. She slowly stepped back from the glass as she stared at her reflection, a snow leopard in distress. No, no, no, no, no! She mentally yelled. She opened her mouth to plead for escape, but all that came out was the "Mraow!" of a snow leopard.



As Alexa stared at her reflection, the man from the store approached from the other side of the glass. He had a smile on his face as he approached the glass, and leaned down to get onto eye level with Alexa.



Alexa was quick to spot the man, and quicker to step farther back from the glass. Her ears tilted back, and her head sunk low, as if she were acting on instinct. She was ready to bare her teeth to the man, but she knew her teeth were just short little sharp things, barely noticeable if she opened her mouth.



The man chuckled at Alexa's movement. He tapped the glass happily. "You know how much the snow leopard population is dwindling because of people like you? Well, you're going to help repopulate them now. There's a male snow leopard arriving later today that I'm sure you'll just make VERY fast friends with, and together you can help make the snow leopard population grow." He stood back up, and turned his back. "By the way," he said, before he walked away. "The payment for the fur coat was your humanity."

