It was a cold November day, as a 24 year old college student, Joey, sat in his apartment room studying for his exams and doing his homework.
"Man, this is inhumane, how do these people expect us to do all of this work? They pile more and more on us every year" Joey said, feeling exhausted, as he collapsed face first onto his desk.
As he laid there exhausted from all of the work, he suddenly heard a knocking on his door.
"Now who could be knocking on my door?" Joey asked himself curiously as he got up.
He walked over to the door and opened it up only to find no one there.
"Now that's strange, I coulda sworn someone was there a minute ago" Joey said to himself feeling confused.
He turned to close the door and found a note attached to it. He looked at it curiously and read it.
"Notice to all tenants, due to the rising cost of utilities, rent will be increased by fifty dollars effective immediately. We apologize for the inconvenience, signed, the landlord '' Joey read to himself.
Joey clenched his left hand into a fist and punched the door with all his might. He manages to punch a small hole into the door and rips the note off the door with his right hand and tore it into little, tiny pieces. He then stormed back into his room and sat at his desk. He knocked all of his books and pencils off of it and layed face first on the desk trying to calm down some.
"This is ridiculous, it's hard enough to do my schooling and my job at the same time, I can't offer up any more free time for work, I just can't do this!" Joey yelled to himself in annoyance.
He took some deep breaths to help calm himself and got up and walked to his closet. He pulled out his jacket from the closet and put it on.
"Maybe a walk is all I need to cool off" Joey said to himself with a slight depressed tone.
He walked out of the apartment and closed and locked his door. He then proceeded down the stairs of the building, walking out the front door into the cold outdoors. He looked around, saw the freshly fallen snow and walked along the sidewalk heading down to the park. As he walked, he saw some kids in a backyard having a snowball fight with each other and having fun. He stood there and watched them.
"If only I could ever be young again, then I could put off all of this stress till I'm more ready for it" Joey said with a slightly sad tone.
He continued to walk down the sidewalk till a sharp, cold breeze started to blow. Joey quickly ran inside a nearby store to escape the cold. As he walked in, he saw that the store was dimly lit and full of cobwebs. Looking at the shelves, he could see they barely had anything on them. He scratched his head in confusion as to the condition of the store.
"Good day, sir. Please feel free to have a look around the store" a mysterious voice called out to him from behind.
Joey turned around and jumped up as he saw an old man in black cloak with dark glasses on.
"Sorry if I scared you, I tend to have that effect on people" the man said as he walked over to the register.
Joey nodded and just walked around and looked at the merchandise. Everything there was, was covered in a ton of dust and was quite old and worn. Joey was about to leave the store, when he noticed something quite strange. It was an otter plush, but what made it strange was that it looked quite new. It didn't have a speck of dust on it and neither did it look as though it were in disrepair. Joey picked it up and looked at it, as the shopkeeper watched with a smile.
"I see something has caught your eye." the old man said to Joey from across the room
Joey looks up at the old man and nods, "Yeah, I found this plush otter, it looks new actually" Joey said to him a bit confused
"Why don't you come around into the back with me?" the old man asked
Joey was unsure knowing most horror movies involve a person following strange looking people to places such as that, but goes anyway knowing it was real life and not a movie. As they reach the back, the old man turns to Joey.
"There's a reason as to why the otter plush seems so new" the old man says with a grin
"What is it?" Joey asks curiously.
"It's what you desire most" the old man replied
"What I......desire most?" Joey asked confused
"You may not know it, but it is" the old man replied
Joey just stood there dumbfounded by what the shopkeeper had told him.
"Perhaps I need to show you" the old man replied to Joey's confused look
Joey only just looked at him even more confused. The old man began chanting some words, but he couldn't make out what they were though. Joey began to feel all dizzy and next thing he knew, everything went black.
"Am..... am I dead?" joey thought to himself as he was still in the darkness
Joey soon found himself back into consciousness and found himself staring at a light blue painted ceiling.
"Odd, I don't recall the shop having a painted ceiling, where am I?" Joey asked himself in his mind
He sat up and looked around his surroundings and notices something quite odd
"I'm in a crib!?" Joey thought to himself in shock
Not only was he in a crib, but a bright blue nursery, containing a changing table next to the crib, a closet, a shelf stocked with diapers, wipes, powder, changing pads, and plastic trash bags.
"This no make sense" Joey said in a babyish tone
Joey immediately put his hands over his mouth. As he did he could feel his mouth was different, it felt like a muzzle. He looked at his hands and saw that they were now covered in brown fur. He then saw his feet were now brown furred paws and that he was in a sleeper with fish designs on them. Joey sat there in shock of all that he was seeing and started to panic a little and tried to back away. As he backed away he pulled his new tail a little hard, causing him to yelp loudly enough to be heard by the nearby baby monitor.
"What's going on here? None of dis makes any sense to me" Joey said in fear of what had happened
In all of his panic, he suddenly felt a growing warm, wetness spreading around his waist and realized yet another thing, he was now in a diaper. Joey started to panic now, as he continued to wet his new diaper and was unable to control it. Just then his bedroom door started to open up and Joey became startled causing his diaper to bulge out in the back and stink some. A tall female anthro otter walked inside his room and looked over at him. Joey became scared by this and dove under his blankets in fear. The otter walked up to his crib and picked him up while wrapping him up in the blanket. Joey just shook more and began to whimper as the otter put her finger against his muzzle
"Shhh.... don't be scared little one, it's ok, i'm not gonna hurt you. You're probably just a little startled by everything that has happened is all" the otter told him in a soothing and calming tone
Joey continued to shake in fear seeing the large otter holding him and whimpered softly curling his tail between his legs some timidly. The motherly otter just held him close and began to hum a soft tune to help calm joey down some. Joey started to calm down as she started rocking him in her arms humming the soothing tune to him. She carried him over to a mirror so he could see his reflection. Joey looked into the mirror and was surprised by what he saw. He saw that he looked much like an otter, only more human like the otter holding him, but much younger, like a baby.
"Are you ok little one?" the female otter asked him caringly
Joey looked up at the otter with cute looking eyes and nodded.
"Your so cute" the otter said to him as she nuzzled him
Joey giggled and saw he was being carried off to the changing table, confused some by what all happened or how it was even possible trying to figure everything out
"Who are you?" Joey asked the otter
"Me? my name is sasha, but you can just call me mommy" Sasha replied to Joey as she sat him on the table
She pulled out a changing mat and spread it out on the table and laid Joey on it. She unbuttoned the bottom of the sleeper and untaped his diaper. Joey blushed heavily being changed, Sasha got out some wipes and cleaned him up good and put them in his used diaper. She rolled it up and threw it in the nearby diaper pail. She picked up the baby powder and shook some onto Joey as she did, some powder blew over onto his nose causing to sneeze cutely.
"Bless you" Sasha said as Joey sniffled
She grabbed a new diaper and unfolded it. She lifted up Joey's legs and slid the new diaper under him and threaded his tail through the diapers tail hole and folded it up around him and taped up the sides.
"There, all clean, feel better?" Sasha asked Joey as she rebuttoned his sleeper.
Joey nodded and looked at Sasha, "My name is Joey, but what did you mean calling you mommy?"
"Pleased to meet you Joey, and it means that i'm going to be your new mommy, and you get to be my little pup" Sasha said
Joey was about to ask her some more questions but got distracted as his stomach growled loudly enough for both of them to hear
"Sounds like somebody is hungry" Sasha said as she picked up Joey
Sasha carried Joey into the kitchen and sat him down into a highchair, strapping him in before setting the tray down. Joey squirmed a bit not used to sitting in a highchair as Sasha went to the pantry to get out some food. Joey continued his squirming until he looked at the food and saw it was baby food.
"Baby food!?" joey exclaimed in shock
"Well of course dear, your teeth aren't fully grown at the moment so you can't exactly eat solid foods till they all grow in completely" Sasha replied
She opened up the jar of food and pulled out a spoon from a drawer and scooped up some food and held it up to Joey's mouth. Joey twisted and turned his head, fearing it would be yucky. She smiles and kept at it some
"Here comes the choo-choo, open up the tunnel" Sasha says with a grin
Joey shook his head no, making Sasha tickle his tummy to make him laugh. Joey opened his mouth widely as he laughed, letting her put the food in his mouth. The food now in his mouth he now had to eat and taste it. His face lit up some as it tasted extremely good to him making him open up his mouth for each new bite of food.
"Its shrimp, its why its so tasty little cutie" Sasha says as she pets his head
Joey nodded with a grin, wagging his new tail happily and finished off the jar going as far as to lick it clean. Sasha smiled and tossed out the empty jar and washed the spoon, not letting him out of the highchair yet. She finished and got out a bottle and filled it up with milk before screwing on the top part.
"Now something to help wash it all down to help you grow big and strong" Sash says walking to him.
She held the bottle to his mouth as he tried to suckle on it but couldn’t quite get it right. Sasha helped him as best as she could, allowing him to get some milk to come out and started to drink it. He continued to drink it till it was emptied of the milk. Sasha then put him over her shoulder and gently patted his back causing him to let out a long burp. Joey blushed some from it as Sasha cuddles him.
"Feel better?" Sasha asked.
Joey nods a little embarrassed, unsure why he couldn't have a glass.
"Why couldn't I just have a glass?" Joey asks curiously.
"Because you can't hold onto one, you're still growing and being a little otter pup does limit what you can do" Sasha replied.
Joey looked around a bit curiously wondering if he could be normal again, but then stopped thinking that as memories of how stressful his normal life was and didn't want to return to it at all.
"T.V time little Joey" Sasha replied merrily.
She lifted the tray up and unstrapped him from the highchair before picking him up, carrying him out into the living room. She walked him to the couch in the middle of the room and sat down on it, holding Joey on her lap as she turned on the television.
"What do you want to watch?" Sasha asked curiously.
"Well, I don’t know what there is to watch" Joey replied feeling unsure.
She chuckles to herself, "Oh yeah, that's right, mommy forgot about that" Sasha replied
She flipped through each of the channels to help him find something to watch, but currently nothing of interest was on at the moment.
Joey soon began to doze off as there wasn't really anything to watch at all. Joey tried fighting off the drowsiness as his eyelids grew heavy, unable to keep them open any longer as they soon forced themselves shut. Joey laid on Sasha’s lap, curling up and began to suck his thumb as he slept. Sarah picked Joey up and carried him to his bedroom so he could sleep in his comfy crib. She laid him down on the mattress and covered him up before giving him a pacifier to suck on. As joey slept, curled up under the covers of his crib, Sarah gave him a gentle kiss goodnight and left turning on a nightlight for him.
“Sweet dreams baby boy” She whispered quietly as she left the room, turning out the lights.
