Anya

I felt two glances on my back at once: a half-naked pervert and a talking chinchilla. At the thought that I was changing in the presence of the latter and had no idea what kind of creature it was, it gave me shivers. It turns out that the rodent was spying on me for the sake of the black-eyed reptile. And how did they manage to turn everything around so masterfully? .. Alex is at the same time with them?

My head was swollen with thoughts and conjectures. But thanks for that, there is no room left to wonder what is happening. Magic, werewolves and your own curse. Slowly lined up a logical row, not forgetting to pull the jacket. Enough with both of them, seen enough. So. It all started with a dog attack. No no! First, a “fur coat” came to the store to buy food for Rustle. The soil was probed. And that same evening, Theo broke in, licked my cheek, demoralized me and stole the medicine. after which a mysterious itch began with a huge side effect - if they kiss me, I become an animal. At the moment, in my repertoire is a mouse and something big and growling. I'll ask the pervert later what I've become.

Alex's sudden interest was now also explained. And I was a fool who thought that I was in a fairy tale. Yeah. Got it. To a fairy tale

I looked around. A dusty road, on both sides a field with withered flowers and rustling grass. I think I can even hear the seeds in the pods rumbling. Autumn? And a couple of hours ago it was spring at home. Another oddity in the common piggy bank.

From the conversation of two intriguers, I realized that I was being dragged to the academy, on someone's assignment. Surely you should be happy? Not to prison, not to execution, not into slavery... Well, yes, but if you remember my five years in a veterinary clinic? There was a prison, and execution, and slavery. Study until green, session, practice ... I hope this academy has different rules, but I will be assigned there not as a student, but as a supply manager or a cleaning lady. I don't want to study anymore... The mere thought shakes me more than the steps behind my back.

Don't turn around! Don't look back at them.

- Theo, how can you? Climb under a young girl's jacket and then show you everything? I won’t agree to this,” Shorokh shouted loudly and displeasedly.

She could not stand it, measured her impudent muzzle with the most contemptuous look. Not enough for him? Wants to continue my humiliation? The kidnapper's eyes turned completely wild, and then the guy squeezed his fingers around the chinchilla's neck, and the animal yelled that if no one has a sense of humor, then it's not his fault.

Jerks. Both.

- Anya.

Does it again. How does he manage to pronounce my name in such a way that a viscous warm wave spreads through his body? And I'm almost ready to slow down, especially since my legs are already buzzing. Another kilometer, and bloody blisters shine on me.

- Anya, wait! - Theo caught my hand and jerked towards him, and I stumbled and imprinted with all my might into his hard chest. Again I hear his heartbeat, as violent as when I pressed my tiny mouse ear against him. Then it seemed to me a deafening roar, because she herself was too small. But now something has turned back, why doesn't the sound become quieter? Why rises and resonates with my frantic clatter.

She pulled away, and the black-eyed muzzle did not even think of letting me go, wrapped her arm around mine and pulled me closer.

- What are you feeling now? - quietly asks with a breath, so that my body is thrown from one extreme to the other. Cold, heat, and some other temperature completely unknown to nature, something in between, on the border of summer and winter, as if the sun hissed down into the frozen sea.

- What? my voice asked just as quietly, as if becoming a disobedient and separate part of me. I didn't let him talk, I didn't let him sound so gentle.

- What are you feeling now?

Tayu. I am that sea.

- I?

He mumbled affirmatively and slowly, slowly leaned towards me.

- I do not know.

“Think about it,” his hand gently caught my chin, made me freeze in sweet anticipation.

- Theo, stop. Bust. You had to calm her down, not excite her, if you kiss now, she will turn into that beast again, ”Shoroh intervened, and at the same moment the sun was covered with ice. What? Are they experimenting on me? Would you like to see what I will become this time?

- Great, Shore. Now she's angry again. Could not be silent and let me do everything myself? - the bastard removed his hands and cautiously pulled away.

I didn't get angry. I was once again trampled on and humiliated, and they also speak in the third person, as if I were not here.

- Give it to me, huh? - chinchilla jumped from his shoulder to mine. - Hello, beauty, let's talk? Theo, you go ahead, don't shine and watch how the pros work.

I don’t understand how the black-eyed freak hasn’t finished off this creature yet? I'm on the edge. And this is with all my love for animals.

The guy did not even think of leaving, he stood, looking incredulously at me, then at his pet. Afraid that your friends will blurt out too much? Curiously, in a small detachment there is no agreement. She scratched Rustle behind the ear and grimaced a malevolent grin.

- Theo, leave us, otherwise I will tell Anya about the word with the letter I ...

The black-eyed muzzle didn't even budge.

“They…prin…” the rodent stretched out in syllables, and the pervert gritted through his teeth:

- I'm waiting for you ahead, do not lag behind.

- Wonderful, - the animal rubbed its paws. - Anya, you have questions, because, unlike my asthmatic friend, I can talk.

- Asthmatic?

- Well, yes. Ah-ah-ah-ah-Anya, - Rustle grimaced Theo, pretending to be suffocating, and I involuntarily smiled. But it looks like! That's how this pervert talks to me.

- What kind of imprin..? - Asked the chinchilla right off the bat, if you hit it in the most painful place for the bastard.

The road became a little smoother, and I was able to keep the pervert's beautiful, sculpted back in sight.

- Imprinting something? You will be told in pairs, I promise. Or Theo confesses, if he dares. It's just that this is not my secret, and I have no right to give it out, especially since I will immediately lose my blackmailing tool.

- You're a wicked boy. Is your real name Shorokh?

- No, this is a nickname from the time of our students with Theo. I always had a lot of papers, and I spent a long time poking around in them in the classroom, trying to find the right one, - the animal happily shared.

- Did you and Theo go to school together? People and animals in the same academy?

That's the opening.

- No no. I am not a chinchilla. That is, now a chinchilla, but in fact a person. My transformations were also problematic, and one day I could no longer become myself.

- I'm sorry, Shore. Is it reversible?

- Not. But Theo is trying to find a way. The only one who believes that all is not lost. He sacrificed a lot for me.

In an instant, all my misadventures were reduced to zero. Who's having a real life nightmare. A few moments in the body of a mouse almost drove me crazy, but Rustle will remain so for life. Now even Theo did not seem like a complete bastard. Didn't leave another.

Is that why you're taking me to the academy? To not repeat your fate?

- Partly. But we didn't know about you until the letter.

- Letter?

“Me and Theo are kind of mercenaries. We carry out assignments related to crossing the borders of the worlds. You have become such a task.

Head spin. Worlds, borders, shifter academy, a guy in a chinchilla body. I'm starting to understand why these two dragged me away by force, I definitely wouldn't believe their word. There were too many questions, but the legs did not obey at all.

How did I guess your name? Just don't tell me that I have some kind of magical ability, I have enough sudden transformations.

- You didn't guess, I suggested it to you. This is my talent - the impact on consciousness. It was because of this that I locked myself in the body of the beast. Accidental suggestion, and here I am a chinchilla. But don't worry, I didn't do anything to you anymore.

- And Theo? After his drooling tongue, I developed a monstrous allergy. And she disappeared too suddenly, how can you explain this?

- Consequences of imprinting! whispered Rustle conspiratorially.

- You won't tell me, will you?

- I promised. Well, are you ready to kiss Theo?

I already choked. What?! Again?

- Why? - Well, the cheeks are reddening. It would be better to itch and get covered with a rash. At least it's not as humiliating as a traitorous reaction to a half-naked werewolf.

- We have a very long way to go. And you are already very tired.

- And how will a kiss with your friend help me?

- You will turn into someone more compact, or, as an option, more enduring, - Shorokh explained.

"Or I'll turn into a predator and eat you both."

- Are you angry now?

I listened to myself. It really became calmer. Having learned more about a strange couple, she let them into her life, began to empathize.

- No, I am not angry. But Theo...

- You like it, don't you?

- NO!

Laughs. Harmless, rather cute.

"Why doesn't he turn into a horse and drive us." Can he? I saw a very suspicious cat on my way home from the hospital. Was it Theo?

- Yes. But you pierced his hand, he will turn out to be a lame-legged horse.

- Laaaadno, let's try, but if anything, it's not my fault.

- Theo, come back! Your girl said she wants to kiss you, who's the best co-pilot, huh?

To my delight, the black-eyed muzzle looked more embarrassed than I did. And in a moment he mentally incinerated Rustle, playing with his jaws. They are funny. Boys!

Theo

Some kind of incessant chaos began, as soon as we took on this task. As soon as he squeezed the envelope in his hands, a wave of uncontrollable trembling passed through his body. Instincts stretched to the limit and also went crazy, forcing either to break into another world in the first second, or to run in the opposite direction. Am I sorry? Great question. I don't understand a thing. I can't imprint with anyone, and if it really happened, then my whole life before that was a lie. Most likely, there is a curse on the girl, which hooked me too. It is necessary to find a customer, and this can be done only after the task is completed, and I have no more than a month. Then you need to get the following and permission to move. But for now I'm here. Anya looks at me wickedly. It’s as if I’m thinking something nasty, I feel the hair on the back of my head rise up. Bad sign. It is unlikely that she can control the transformations, as far as I understand, they are tied to emotions. What does she feel now? It's vital for me to find out. What do you think, dream, what do you want? This is not fucking imprinting, I would understand her mood without mistakes, I know what I'm talking about. But everything is muffled, as if a wall had been erected. The rustle was wrong, and I really hope he had the brains not to voice his assumptions to Anya. But the mark... It reappeared after so many years. How did I let it? He couldn't play with one goal and choose a girl who doesn't care. I couldn't get over her! When did it happen? During surveillance? Gods, yes, I deliberately dragged out the time so as not to drag her out of her native world. I didn't care about her training, I needed to be close to the drug supplies. This is nonsense, not imprinting. Now I'll kiss her and I won't feel a thing. Yeah. Logically

- Come on, do it quickly.

Again she wrinkled her nose. Does she know she looks even cuter that way? Sweeter... Get it out of me!

- I myself do not burn with the desire to delay.

She raised her eyebrows, and something offended flashed in her eyes. So who made me say this? I'm behaving in a nasty way. I show my weakness. Indifferently hug, press, kiss. Everything is simple! And still it is necessary to be silent, otherwise I will degrade to Rustle. I put my hand on Anya's waist, and the demons were in my thoughts again, scolding me for not throwing out my jacket, then my task would now be in front of me without any clothes at all. Cougar... Turned into a cougar for the second time. And what does it mean? Coincidence or hint? Cougars are a loner, or maybe it's not related, and Anya represents passion this way? Then it's progress. The blond made her feel like a mouse, I - a predator. This is good?

- Come on without hands, - she squeamishly freed herself from the hugs, and Rustle on her shoulder desperately clamped his mouth shut so as not to neigh. He must have said something to her!

- Habit.

What's another habit? When was the last time you were with a girl, Theo? - a friend was enough for a while. Thank you very much. And why does it bother me so much that Anya will think, I decided everything for myself, this is a mistake.

- Will you close your eyes? - wildly annoying that they were both staring at me.

"No," she crossed her arms over her chest.

I feel like I'm on an exam, my mouth is dry. He licked his lips, and the girl began to grin again. Damn it!

Now there is definitely no desire to delay. He leaned over sharply and kissed him in the most casual way, so as not to even leave a chance for himself, to feel at least something. But I felt: warmth, tenderness and a rapidly tightening hole in my chest.

Anya reincarnated too quickly, I managed to catch her at the last moment so that the girl would not be hurt on the ground. The rustle managed to jump over my shoulder in time, and no longer held back laughter. He neighed vilely and disgustingly, and also tried to say something, but because of his snorting and gurgling, I could not make out a single word. Luckily.

There was soft fur under my fingers. Cute animal. Black with white stripes and bushy tail. Beautiful, if not for one "but". It's a skunk! Anya has turned into a skunk! Now, against the background of this, Alex's mouse looked much more romantic. And this is what I have to carry? Are these her feelings for me? Class.

The tail rose menacingly, and even Rustle stopped neighing. The girl will kill the two of us with one shot, after which our company will definitely not be allowed into the most seedy inn, but rather deployed at the city gates.

- Anya, I beg you not to be stupid. You don't know how to handle... this! What if you accidentally ... remove the safety catch?

The tail rose higher. The cougar was as scary as a little stinky animal.

“I can’t look at this,” Rustle squealed.

And it is not necessary to look, we will smell it soon.