“Thanks for helping out with the tigers, Miss…” The pink-haired youth trailed off, though her smile didn’t falter. “I’m sorry, what was your name again?”

“Codi.” The dark blonde smiled back to her, looking to the tiger exhibit. “You know… It’s a shame that they’re endangered, they’re so beautiful.”

“Yeah, they really are.” The girl, Circine, replied. “Almost makes you want to live like one, doesn’t it?”

“Well, of course.” Laughed Codi. “I can’t imagine that it would be anything other than a good life. Wouldn’t you?”

Circine nodded. “Yeah, I can imagine that. It’d be a nice life of relaxation. Getting naps in, drinking milk, getting fed… Getting bred…”

“Mhmm.” Codi nodded, looking to the tiger, Arahbo, with a smile. For a moment she pictured what it would be like to live such a life, then her mind caught up with the last two words the girl had said. “Hold on, w-what?”

“Oh, I can tell that you’re interested. Right now, you’re thinking of having his big, strong paws encircle you… And that you’re feeling his hot and warm weight on your back…”

“Mnn…” The woman couldn’t help but blush, her heart pounding within her chest and her cheeks coloring hotly.

“Your own tail swishing behind yourself, a roar erupting from your throat…”

Codi purred at that. “Mrrr… Wait, what? I mean, I don’t want that?”

She flinched. She didn’t mean for that to sound like a question.

“Don’t lie to me.” Circine grinned, her green eyes twinkling with mirth. The girl hummed, leaning back from the railing. “You want it. You want Arahbo around you, beside you, and inside you. And lucky for you, I’m just the witch who can make that happen! All you need to do is say the magic word.”

Codi blinked in confusion, and before her brain fully realized what she was doing, her mouth had spoken for her. “Please!”

“I was looking for ‘Abracadabra’, but I suppose that’ll work.” Circine shrugged, her eyes twinkling. With that, she threw out a hand, pressing it against Codi’s bosom.

The woman groaned in surprise, her chest filling with warmth. She looked to the younger girl, then groaned in surprise. “What are you doing? I mean, what have you done? What’s happening to me?”

“So many questions!” Circine laughed, clapping her hands together. “And I think the easiest thing to do would be to do something like this!” Her hands began to glow and she passed it through the fabric of Codi’s shirt, cutting the fabric like butter.

Codi yelped and moved to cover herself, only to pause as she caught sight of her skin. It was pale now, a shade of snow white that seemed to gleam in the afternoon sun.

Though it didn’t gleam for long.

The soft shine of her human skin darkened as it took on the pallor of an animal’s hide. Then it began to itch, growing a coat of stubble, then hair, and then fur after that. It was thick and coarse, and she ran her hands through it in disbelief.

“How is this possible?” Codi breathed, groaning as the coat of fur crept across her breasts. She scratched at it with her nails, wincing as they poked a little sharper at her skin than she’d anticipated. That was odd… How long had it been since she’d trimmed them?

The woman looked down to her hands, gasping in shock as she saw that her nails had coarsened. They were thicker now, and looked incredibly sharp. Almost like the claws of a tiger…

“Well, you made a wish of course! And what kind of witch would I be were I to refuse. Or is that genies? I might be thinking of genies…” Circine tapped her finger against her cheek, watching the confused look in Codi’s eyes with a smirk.

“Genies? Witches? None of that makes any sense, none of that’s real! But this… This is real!” Codi pulled at the fur on her chest, shuddering as it crept around to her back. She sent a glance over her shoulder and had to stifle a moan at the sight of lush orange fur with sleek black stripes.

Though she didn’t want to admit it, the thoughts that Circine had offered her were more than a little appealing. And to have them come true, even like this…

Codi’s natural affinity for cats only grew as the changes across her body progressed, and her face flushed further. She panted gently, awaiting the girl’s response.

“I suppose it might not make sense, so let me make it easy for you. You have a choice right now. Either you walk away from the exhibit, and I leave you as a woman who can get stripey whenever she wants… Or you jump in, and you live forever with Arahbo.”

Codi shuddered as her tailbone lengthened, growing out into a long and flicking appendage. Her new tail had the same orange-and-black fur as her back, and she let it sway from side to side. Lost in thought, Codi found her eyes wandering towards the male.

Arahbo…

Her heart pounded in her chest, and she looked to the girl, then back to the exhibit. This time, her mind was fully in control of her body. This time, she was the one choosing. And she chose him.

Codi placed one of her palms against the railing, hopping over it with a quiet huff. Her palms and soles shifted in midair, and by the time she landed on the ground, she sported paws. It didn’t matter, nothing mattered but him.

Her vagina ached for his company, darkening to a feline black. Her folds thickened, dewing with lust in preparation. A rich scent began to permeate the air about herself, the scent of a tigress in heat flooding the room.

The tiger turned his golden eyes to her, an interested gleam spreading across them. He rumbled, idling to his paws and sniffing at the air… Smelling Codi.

Codi blushed, a low and instinctive purr emanating from her throat. Her tail swept from side to side, spreading her developing scent further across what would be her new home. She could tell that Arahbo was getting aroused, and the thought turned her on even more.

She was doing this, she was attracting her mate. It was a tantalizing, almost taboo thought, and Codi rumbled with anticipation. “Corrmmm herrre…” She growled, a smile spreading across her face. She could feel her throat growing, her vocal chords lowering the pitch of her soft voice.

He rumbled back, and a slight tug came from her ears as they rose to the top of her head. It was like her body was changing more and more to be able to better appreciate his presence. Her ears grew and twitched with the anticipation of hearing his breaths and growls. Her eyes turned a bright shade of gold, the better to see his gorgeous striped body with.

And her nose… She watched as it twitched, her face creeping out into a muzzle a little at her time. Her tongue coarsened and flattened in her mouth, and she played it along her lengthening teeth. Fangs… She was growing fangs!

The girl bared them, catching a glimpse of their pearly shine in her peripheral vision. She watched as fur inched out along her new muzzle, and smelled the world through the broad nostrils of her feline snout. There was so much more color to the world than she’d thought, so much depth that only her new nose could smell.

Codi purred, her smile only widening as she realized she could no longer speak as a human. She was closer to being a tigress, closer to being Arahbo’s mate. Though she might be closer to the latter than to the former.

The changing woman blinked in surprise as she noticed how much closer the tiger was, then she shuddered as he licked her beckoning sex. His tongue was coarse like hers, though despite its texture it felt like heaven against her aching body.

Then he lifted a paw, sending it from the small of her neck to the base of her tailbone. The slash tore through her clothes easily, leaving her clad only in her own fur. It looked like he found her stripes to be beautiful, as the dominant tiger let out a low roar of content.

The woman arched her back, moaning with bliss. Her back cracked and popped in time with her hips, giving her a four-footed posture. It seemed that this was what Arahbo was waiting for, as he took the chance to pounce atop her.

His weight settled comfortable across her back, and Codi lifted her head back, breathing in his scent. He was rich and masculine, smelling deeply of seat and sun-tanned fur. The scent left Codi nearly breathless, and she mewled with pure bliss.

Then he entered her, and she yowled. Her roar seemed to echo through the enclosure, just as the bliss of his entrance echoed through her every nerve. The spines of his cock stung her walls on the way in, and raked them on the way out, making her gush with excitement.

It was hot, full of carnal ecstasy. Codi whimpered with pleasure, arching her back and shuddering beneath her mate’s onslaught. She was no stranger to sex, but this was like nothing she’d felt before in her life. It was hot, it was passionate, and it was everything she had dreamed of.

She growled lowly, rocking back against her mate and rolling her hips against his. Her eyes glazed with bliss, but she didn’t miss them growing long and sensitive whiskers. The new hairs flicked and quivered with amusement, and she let a growl come from her large tigress’s mouth.

She rocked back and forth, her quadrupedal stance perfect for being bred like this. Her tail flicked and swayed with content, a content that only grew with her every rumbling purr of a breath.

Bliss unlike any other flooded her body as it completed its shift from a human woman to the proud, striped form of a tigress. Finally free of the burdens of her humanity, Codi yowled with feline ferocity, grinding her hips wildly against her lover.

She could feel every inch of his shaft within her, his keratinized spines raking her tough tigress walls. His breath was so hot against the back of her neck, almost as warm as his massive body against her broad back. They were animals, and they mated like animals.

Passion, desire, sensation…

It was too much, the culmination of her desires and the transformation of her form uniting and overriding each of her senses. She bellowed out the loudest roar of her life, clenching hard around his barbed cock, digging the spines in deeper as she came hard across his shaft.

He came within her a moment later, though not with a roar of his own. Rather, he simply rumbled. And yet… Somehow that was enough for Codi, enough to know that her life’s purpose was met, and that she could rest easily. Her eyes drifted close, and she knew of nothing else for the rest of the day.

Her first day was mirrored again and again across the next days of her time in the enclosure. She woke and ate and drank deep from the enclosure’s cage. Then she was bred again and again, cementing the pregnancy that had taken hold of her on her very first day.

It was the most blissful time of her life, made even better by the hundredth day of her pregnancy exactly. She had been swollen with a litter of cubs for so very long that she’d almost forgotten what it was like to be without them.

Then her water broke, and the enclosure’s staff rushed her to a medical room. She was sedated to the point of only seeing colors, though Codi could have sworn she’d caught sight of Circine’s hair in the turmoil.

She could feel her body flexing naturally, and she pushed again and again. There was a sensation of something, of several somethings sliding from her uterus to her vagina. The pressure relieved itself, and she let her head rest idly, letting the colors around herself blend once more.

Then the world returned to its normal state, the drugs wearing off. Codi shook her large head in a numb shock, looking to the comfort of her enclosure and rising to her feet. She was lighter now, which could only mean one thing.

A faint mewling sounded from near her belly as she rose, and the tigress looked between her legs. There was a kitten there, an adorable tiger cub nuzzled up close to her body. It… She mewled cutely, and Codi hurriedly set herself down once more.

The little cub nuzzled closer to her, and Codi felt her heart swell with pride. She was Codi’s child, one of her first litter. And… Sure enough there were other kittens there, a full litter. She would be able to raise them as her own, and then raise another litter, and another. She would firsthand help repopulate the animals she’d found so magnificent-not as a human, but as one of their own.

This love in her heart couldn’t be wrong. She had a new life now: one of a tigress, a mate, and a mother.