(Woman to Panda)


Once upon a time, there was a scientist who developed a way to increase the panda population by a simple change of diet and activity.
This is not a story about that scientist.
Lei Ran was a researcher at University of Illinois.  She had been working long hours on her senior project: a chemical that could help patients fall asleep faster.  The young Asian had long-suffered from insomnia, and so she had decided to test the first version of the chemical on herself.  The serum was based on panda genes, so it shouldn’t be too dangerous.
Of course, we know that was the insomnia talking.

Lei rubbed her arm where she’d injected herself.  She chose to test the new serum on herself in the safety and privacy of her own room.  The plush bed didn’t hurt things, either.  She sat upon this very bed, wondering then the injection would take hold.
Then, Lei’s stomach gurgled, and she clutched at it with both hands.
“Uhn... M-maybe this was a bad idea.”  She hugged her arms to herself tightly, whimpering as she felt her gut start to expand.  She frowned, poking at her new rolls of fat.  She wasn’t fat, but she wasn’t thin like she used to be, either.  ‘Pleasingly plump’ would be a good way to put it.
Her frown deepened as the fat jiggled around her finger.  Did the room get hotter?  She’d heard that larger people tended to feel hotter, but she didn’t think that was actually true.  Her back itched, and she itched at it absentmindedly.
She paused on her third scratch, realizing that she was itching something other than skin.  It felt like... hair?  Hurriedly, the girl stripped off her shirt, her eyes widening as she saw a white coat of fur creeping across her torso.  It continued to advance, spreading and fluffing across her body as she watched, dumbfounded.  The fur around her legs and arms was coming in black, and she realized what she resembled.
Lei turned to her mirror to find she had black rings of fur around her eyes, just like a panda.  At least the fur wasn’t covering her nose.  No sooner had she thought this, than it changed black.  She could feel it moistening, and licked it experimentally.  She shivered at the sensation of her tongue on her nose, shaking her fur as she shook her head.
With a start, the collegiate realized that she had just licked her nose.  Her tongue had lengthened, rolling down to a point well below her chin.  It looked to be a lighter shade of pink now, and felt a little rougher against the smooth wetness of her nose.  She tried to fit it back in her mouth, but the darned thing wouldn’t roll into her mouth.
As if sensing her distress, her mouth started to ache as the changes overtook it, too.  She groaned as her jaw cracked out form her face, forming a muzzle to contain her new tongue.  Her teeth ached in her new muzzle as they also grew.  She experimented with opening and closing her muzzle, slightly disconcerted by how much of her face she could now see in her main field of vision.
Her eyes changed next, the pupils dilating to extreme amounts, her irises lightening to a rich burgundy.  She blinked as she realized her vision was much poorer, and she wondered if they made glasses in ‘panda’.  She blinked a few times, trying to gauge just how bad the blur was in her vision.
Lei fell back on her bed, sitting cross-legged as she contemplated what was happening to herself.  Maybe the serum had a little too much panda in it.  She twitched her snout as her nose flattened against her muzzle, joining slightly with her upper lip.
She covered her ears at they tingled, but each one slid up her scalp, popping free from under her hands one at a time.  She glanced back to the mirror, twitching one of her new ursine ears experimentally.  At least pandas were cute animals...
Lei looked down to find her hands changing, her fingers plumping further, nails lengthening into sharp claws.  Scratch that, at least pandas were cute and deadly animals.  She hooked a claw under her bra, freeing her furry chest from the confines of the restraining wire.
The panda-girl smiled with relief as she realized she was now able to breathe more deeply.  She felt like she was expanding further.  No, wait, she was expanding further!  She squeaked in surprise, hurriedly shredding her shorts and underwear before they got uncomfy.  She continued to plump up, her arms and legs ballooning out while she gained a substantial pot-belly.  Her breasts shrunk into her chest, and extra rows of teats bloomed out from under her fur.  She sighed.  It wasn’t really too much of a waste; she didn’t have too impressive a chest to begin with...
Unused to her new weight, she windmilled her arms, trying to keep her balance.  It didn’t help, and she fell onto her back, her arms and legs comically splayed in the air.  The position gave her a good view to see her palms fluff out into thick, leathery pads, and she could see that her feet were beginning to change, too.
Lei rolled her way back to a sitting position, her legs before her stretched out into a ‘V’ shape.  She watched as her feet shortened, claws poking out from soft fur.  In the mirror, she could see her feet had pads, too, though the fur was covering far more of her paws than pads were.
Her cheeks ached again, like she’d been blowing a balloon for too long.  She moved herself to face the mirror, watching as her cheeks—her entire head expanded.  Well, now she looked like a panda in every sense of the word.  Except wasn’t she missing a—
She yelped as pain blossomed from her backside, rolling over onto her stomach as she grew a small, fluffy tail.  She wiggled it experimentally, trying out the new sensation of having a tail.  It wasn’t that bad, to tell the truth.  Still, she never liked lying on her stomach...
She wiggled her arms, grunting as she rolled herself onto her side, then her back.  She sat upright for a moment, loudly smacking her gums as she wondered what to do.  She could hardly come up with a serum to reverse the changes in this state.  Plus, she probably wouldn’t be able to get a job after college—though who would make her pay for her education?  If anything, she’d get a great settlement from being changed like this!  She yawned happily, squeezing her eyes shut as she took in a gulping lungful of air.  Then she yawned again, falling back onto her back as her eyelids drew heavy.  Maybe this wouldn’t be such a bad change, she thought as she drifted off to a cozy sleep.

So there we have it, a girl driven by her university to make a sleep aid ends up becoming one of the sleepiest animals around.  I guess her drug still works, though.  From a certain point of view, at least.