What a jackass

Man into Donkey

Dustin was a well-built athlete, an average student, and, you guessed it, a full-time jock. Loved by cheerleaders, admired by team mates and friends, hated by nerds, he not only is the star linebacker for his High School football team, but he is also the average trouble maker you’d see everyday at school. Instead of doing his homework, he is rather laid back and easy-going, and rather wants to focus on his job in construction.  

Almost every day in the afternoon after school, he pranks a weaker and smaller guy at school, just for the heck of it and blowing off some steam. He gets caught often, but not always. The coach always gets him out of trouble, because h obviously only wants the best for him and wants him to get that scholarship, but not without good marks that actually qualify him.

But there’s one girl Dustin can’t really deal with, and her name is Jackie.  Jackie is a rather suspicious girl, who is a lot into witchcraft and spells, but for her parents’ sake, is not a Satanist. She does a lot of palm-reading for her friends and other students at lunch hour, and finds positive news almost everything, just to cheer the people up from Dustin’s beating. She hates Dustin the most from the football team, because he is being such a jerk, and she wishes to get revenge on him.

One time at lunch hour, Jackie was doing her usual thing, eating lunch with her normal, nerdy and gothic friends, and handing out a few more fortunes to students. Then the unbelievable happens. Dustin shows up and sits down by her. “Hey freak, why don’t you read my palm, since you’re already doing that?” Dustin spits Jackie in her face, his friends around him, watching. Jackie frowns, obviously a bit offended by his comments and he opens his palm, and starts to run a finger along the lines.

Dustin chuckles and says: “You got a crush on me or something?” he laughs, but Jackie doesn’t answer until she finally catches a deep breath and has this to say to him. “Oh wow, the signs are great for you.” She says in a determined voice, yet it’s tricky, but Dustin is too dumb to realize that and has a happy face on him. “Destiny awaits you...tonight!” Jackie shows a surprised face on her. “Under the full moon” Dustin is impressed and so are his friends. Dustin is completely surprised, and Jackie tells him. “Go outside in the full moon tonight. It’ll come to you.” And Dustin jumps up. “Oh man, that’s great! Thanks!” and he wanders off with his friends, showing a poor Chinese guy into the garbage bin before leaving the lunch room.

Yvonne, one of Jackie’s friends, has listened to all of this and she turns to her. “Are you for real, that this jackass receives his destiny tonight???” she asked very confused. Jackie wipes off her fake face and whispers. “Oh, don’t worry. You are right about the last part.” And she chuckles, but Yvonne stares at her confused before biting into her sandwich again.

And so the day winded down with no surprises happening. After dinner at around 10 PM, Dustin called up a few of his friends, Lloyd and Matt, and gathered at Dustin’s house. All three of them had a few snacks before heading outside under the fairly clouded sky, but the full moon was there...somewhere. The three just stood there, in their football jackets, waiting for the full moon to finally show up.

Dustin didn’t seem to get bored at all, just being excited for his destiny, but the other two tossed a football to each other, getting a little bored. “Dude, it’s cloudy. How the hell is the moon supposed to show up?” Matt asks. Dustin just shakes it off “You obviously can’t wait. Well, I guess you got that from all the tough games we had this season.” Lloyd just gives a grin.

20 minutes later, the moon still hasn’t shown up yet, and Lloyd doesn’t seem to take it any longer, until the edges of the moon finally show up. Dustin stands on the lawn, looking at the moon, full of excitement, and his two buddies just sit on the deck, relieved that their boredom is over. The full moon appeared from the clouds and its brightness shined on Dustin.

Dustin felt great as soon as the moonlight hit his face, already feeling his destiny is coming and he closes his eyes. A warm tingly feeling came over him and that throughout his body. Lloyd and Matt watched from the sides, curious about what’s awaiting him. Seeing nothing changing, Lloyd then asks “Uhm, what it is?” but Dustin can’t give any answer. He is overwhelmed with this amazing feeling, and he goes deep down to find the answer himself.

Then all of a sudden, Matt sees something strange. His right hand seems to fuse together and form a hoof. “Uhm, Dustin?” “What?” Dustin opened his eyes, in a rather gibberish voice, showing bigger flatter front teeth in his mouth, and Matt points to his hand. Dustin looks at it and jumps. “Holy hell, what’s happening???” he jumps and can’t even feel his hand anymore. Brown fur has started to grow around his hoof and it’s crawling up his arms at a fast pace. Dustin’s mouth gets filled with more big teeth, as his head starts to slowly crack. His fur rapidly crawls all over his body, making him take off his jacket and shirt, due to the warmth.

Lloyd and Matt just stare, scared as hell, as their top linebacker has grown fur all over the place. “Damn, that’s screwed!” he shouts as he watches Dustin’s shoes explode to reveal hooves in digitigrade’s posing. Dustin is really panicking now, and tries to walk, but he trips and lands on all fours, leaving him there, as suddenly his shoulder blades are sent back and his chest expands outward to make him look like an almost complete equine. “Holy crap, ears???” Lloyd shouts out in shock, as Dustin all of a sudden grows long ears and his neck expands outward. Then his face pushes outwards to form a muzzle. “Lloyd! Maatt! Heeeeeeeelp meeeaaawwww! Heehaaaaaw!”  Dustin stands there, finishing growing his tail, now standing there, a full donkey. Lloyd and Matt just stand there utterly shocked. “Matt, let’s got outta here!” Lloyd shouted to Matt and they both went for it out of the backyard, leaving Dustin hawing for help.  

Dustin just looks around, his parents away for another few days, not really frightened but very shocked to question himself if this is his destiny. “Well, hello there!” a familiar voice comes out of the bushes, and Jackie appears out of them, coming to him. Dustin’s fury started to make him burn and he dodges towards Jackie, but stops after a few meters, as he finds himself tied to the house. “You...you witch!!” he shouts, but they only come out as desperate donkey noises. Jackie giggled and ruffed his hair. “I told you a thousand times, but you never took it seriously. You are indeed a jackass. Now both inside and out!”

Dustin couldn’t believe it, and he snorted at her, angry at her and he hawed “Why did you do this to me???” and Jackie could understand him and she had a sure answer for that. “This is for bullying me and all the other students for all these years you have been at my school. I don’t stand for your actions anymore. It was time for you to accept your punishment!” and she tightens the rope around his muzzle, making him twitch a bit. “Now can you be a good ass? Then I’ll turn you back...eventually.” and with a loud poof, she vanished, laughing evilly.

Dustin drops his ears, angry at this situation, just not happy and with a few loud thumping noises, he climbs onto the deck, sitting in a corner, thinking about what could turn him back, but it will take a lot more than just saying sorry.

The End