The Day we all Became Animals

It was a cold, grey morning in the sleepy seaside town of Portsmouth and as the sea fog touched the various inhabitants of the town, the Citizens of the town began to change

Two Men were having a Spirited Debate about which was better, Transformers or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, when suddenly the one who was arguing for Ninja Turtles suddenly sprouted two pointed dog ears!

The Man on the side of Transformers felt something stirring in his own legs, he looked down and saw his feet had grown to sickle claws like a Velociraptor!

His friend however was transforming into a Dog faster then he was transforming into a Dinosaur, the Ninja Turtle Fan was forced onto all fours, he had sprouted a tail and muzzle and very soon all he could say was 'Bark! Bark!'

Everyone touched by the fog started transforming into various Beasts, Birds, Fish and Insects! It was complete and total mayhem as People ran around like crazy as they transformed...He one lady was sprouting another pair of arms and some gossamer wings on her shoulder blades, another young man was beginning to grow a pair of antlers on his head and the most extraordinary of all one man turned into a Fire Breathing Dragon!

And when the Hero of our story finally wakes up, it was two in the afternoon and most everyone was completely transformed into Animals and the only ones who still had opposable thumbs were those Transformed into Monkeys and Apes and those who were still able to speak in Human Language were those Transformed into Parrots and Myna Birds.

Our Hero, Johnny had fallen asleep, drunk in some warehouse basement so he had not been touched by the morning fog, he only woke up at two in the afternoon because of all the cacophony of the roars and bleats and shrieks and howls that were pounding his hungover head.

Johnny clutched his head and sat up, He then realized he had fallen asleep in a warehouse basement! This wasn't even a place where he worked!

"Oh man!" Johnny moaned "What the heck did I even do last night?!" He staggered to his feet and instantly stumbled...And fell on his rear."

"What is going on?" He asked clutching his head "Did someone release all the Animals from the zoo or something?"

Just then one of the Men who DID work in the Warehouse who had been transformed into a Black Rat managed to creep under the basement door and saw much to his surprise someone who was still a Human Being in the basement!

The Rat ran down the stairs and up to to the Human who flinched at the sight of him!

The Rat squeaked and jumped up and down to communicate, but Johnny only attempted to quick him away.

'He can't understand me...' The Rat thought to himself 'How am I ever going to communicate...' Then he saw a notebook and a pencil and he knew what to do.

He took the pencil in both paws, a bit awkwardly at first since the pencil was nearly as tall as he was and wrote on the notebook MY NAME IS FERNANDO

Johnny sat his jaw dropped as the Rat held up the Notebook

"How...How are you able to write?" Asked Johnny

Fernando wrote underneath his name I WAS ONCE A HUMAN! EVERYONE IN TOWN HAS TRANSFORMED INTO ANIMALS! EXCEPT YOU FOR SOME REASON!

Johnny clutched his throbbing "This can't be possible! This can't be happening! This must all be some drunken dream I can't wake up from!"

At that point Fernando ran up to Johnny and bit him on the finger

"Ow!" Johnny yelped clutched his bleeding finger

Fernando ran back to his notebook flipped to the next page and wrote THIS IS NO DREAM! I AM A RAT! WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AND YOUR THE ONE PERSON IN THIS TOWN WHO STILL HAS OPPOSABLE THUMBS AND CAN SPEAK HUMAN LANGUAGE!"

"Fine!" Huffed Johnny "This in't isn't a dream! How do we got out of here?"

Fernando flipped to the next page and wrote "THE DOOR IS UNLOCKED, I ONLY SLIPPED UNDER THE DOOR BECAUSE I'M A RAT.

"Well Fernando." Said Johnny "We better get moving."

He picked up the Rat and put him in his pocket,the Rat let out a loud squeak

"What?" Asked Johnny then he quickly realized Fernando wanted his notebook and pencil brought along, he picked those up and put them in the other pocket

Johnny slowly made his way up the stairs and when he opened the door he saw a bunch of Animals milling about looking extremely despondent,then when they saw an actual Human Being emerge from the basement, it took everything within their power not to rush him and knock him back down the stairs!

Fernando emerged from his pocket and explained in Animal Language everything that had happened.

Fernando's Manager who had been transformed into Mackerel Tabby Cat of all things mewed 'Why has this drunk remained Human while the rest of us become beasts?!'

'Heck if I know...' Squeaked Fernando 'But could someone get us a phone?'

One named Mortimer who had transformed into Baboon, reached into his pocket, pulled out a Cell Phone and handed it to Johnny.

"Guys..." Said Johnny "...Who should I call and what should I say?"