Fair Play

And the last of them.  Not sure how many total words that is but that's 7 and a half hours of writing, editing and plotting all four stories.  I hope y'all enjoyed one or more of them!  Let me know if the proper Discord channel or comments!

Multi-colored tents spread throughout the valley, fluttering in the warm wind as the midday sun cast short shadows over the sprawling, rippling grass surrounding the tents.

A scattered line of people meandered towards a gate with the simple word "FAIR" burned into the wooden board over the entrance.

Sally stared at the fairgrounds through distrusting, squinting eyes.

"When in the world did this happen?" she asked nobody in particular.

She'd set out early in the day, enjoying the idea of a long walk on a beautiful day rather than driving like she normally did.  Hours ago there'd been nothing but a few people flying an array of kites but now hundreds of people milled about.

Flames guttered silently in the distance.  She shaded her eyes to see what looked like a fat mechanical dragon flailing arms and shooting gouts of fire.

"So, like, a shitty thrift store Burning Man?" she said, watching the poor creature sway back and forth.

The girl hefted her backpack and considered for a moment.  It was a Saturday morning with nothing else planned for the day and her legs weren't tired yet.  She could see food carts and games and large tents where she supposed acrobats performed.

With a shrug of her shoulders, she followed everyone else into the fair while sliding her backpack off to grab her wallet.  When she arrived at the gate, the old man taking tickets shook his head and waved her on after a single, critical look.  Once more she shrugged and walked inside.

Waves of laughter radiated from a large tent in front of her.  Sally went to her tiptoes to look over the heads of people to try to see inside but she only saw the uplifted trunk of an elephant.  She walked towards it but a massive wall of people met her.  They appeared seemingly out of nowhere, three people deep and all moving in the same direction without letting her pass despite her 'excuse me' and 'sorry' and 'if I could just-' and so she walked against them, expecting to find the end.

The line angled slowly without her noticing, forcing her to a specific direction until she stood in front of a smaller tent.  A young woman in gorgeous glittering makeup smiled and waved her over.

"How would you like to-" the woman paused and frowned and thought for a moment before grinning.  "Win a new car?!"

"Are you, uhh, sure?  You didn't sound so sure," Sally asked.  She looked around to see if there was something else interesting but the area seemed otherwise deserted.

"Oh yes, absolutely," the woman said, waving at a stack of papers on a table that Sally hadn't noticed before.

"Huh, so how does it work?" Sally asked while idly staring at the papers.  Her eyes glazed over when she saw the dense text.

"Have you ever played 'pin the tail on the donkey'?" the lady asked.  Her lips trembled as if she were trying not to laugh.

"No, but I know about it," Sally told her.

"Fantastic!  It's like that only someone else tries to pin a tail on you.  Well, not with a real pin because that would hurt and we don't want that."

"And, what?  I win a car if they do?" Sally asked, tilting her head slightly.

"Yee-ess," the woman said with no small amount of uncertainty.  "It's all in the paperwork.  You just read through every word, sign it and go inside!  No cost to you!"

"Well, heck, why not?" Sally said.  She grabbed one of the pens and leaned down to sign on the dotted lines of one of the pages.

"Oh, you should really re- oop, nope, you just signed it! That's okay, too!"  the lady said while clapping.  "Now, go in and set your backpack down and, umm, enjoy!"

Sally walked into the tent.  A young man shuffled nervously next to her when she entered but the tent was otherwise empty except for two women standing on the other side of the entrance.

"Ohhh, dibs!" one of the women said while casting an appraising eye towards Sally.  The woman seemed to be in her early 30s with gorgeous short, shiny red hair in bouncy ringlets that didn't quite touch her shoulders.  "I want to go first!"

"Fine," the other woman said while rolling her eyes.  She somehow looked both younger and much older at the same time but Sally put it down to the way she held herself.

"So, what do I do?" Sally asked.

The first woman walked over with a pair of blindfolds.  She took Sally's hand and walked her to the very center of the surprisingly large tent.  There, she held her arms up and slowly walked both of them in a circle as if showing them off.

"Uhhh," Sally said, looking around at the dusty walls of the empty tent.

"And now, I blindfold you," the woman said.  "I'm Margaret, by the way."

"Wait, me?  Why would you blindfold me?" Sally asked.

"So you don't give yourself away, of course," Margaret told her while wrapping the black silk fabric around her head.  "Now, hold still.  I'll go back to where I was, spin a few times and try to stick the tail on you.  If I do it, you win the boat!"

"You mean car?" Sally asked, reaching to pull down the blindfold until Margaret moved her hand away.  "Car, right?"

"Yes!  Car, sorry, the boat was a different deal."

Sally sighed and kicked herself for trying the childish game but she stood in place as promised.  Her breathing and heartbeat sounded obnoxiously loud in her ears in the absence of any other sounds.  She rubbed her arms, opened her mouth to ask a question and then closed it when she realized that would-

A sharp needle struck the very apex of the crack of Sally's ass.

"Fuck!" Sally shouted, jerking at her blindfold while jumping away.  "You stuck me with eeeehhh-haaah-"

Sally slapped her hands over her mouth while cold fingers gripped her neck.  The sound she'd just made was unnatural but it felt good to express it.

"Fuck!" she shouted again when she realized she was naked.  And then her eyes widened when she saw the layered benches lining the walls of the tent, completely filled with jeering crowds.  She knelt immediately while covering her breasts with one arm and placing her other hand over her mound.  Fire burned through her cheeks and ears at the shame of being nude in front of so many.

"I did it!  You all saw it!  I did it!" Margaret yelled, jumping and bouncing with glee.

Sally's vertebrae pressed against her back in a wave beginning at her neck.  It shoved her forward but she caught herself with both hands as her spine continued to bulge.  A sharp 'crack' made her gasp and she spread her knees with her head bowed.

A sliver of bone formed within her hips as ligaments and muscles and nerves surrounded it and attached it to her now mobile tailbone.  Another bone grew in place and her skin stretched over her tail.  Long brown hairs grew from the very tip as it swayed and lengthened.

Sally shivered and moaned every time her tail jolted with a new growth.  She jerked and licked her lips and swallowed.  Margaret knelt beside her to stroke her back.

"It's okay, you can say it," Margaret cooed.  "It feels nice when you do, doesn't it?"

"I don't- ohhhh- don't knoooOOOHH what you mean," Sally panted.

Margaret's hand slid down to Sally's ass.  She patted it with a smile and rubbed.  Short, coarse hairs grew where she touched.

"Don't- don't-" Sally tried to say but she leaned into the woman.

"Such nice, strong haunches," Margaret said approvingly.  "You know, the harder you hold back, the worse it-"

"HEEEE-HAAAAAW!" Sally brayed, with her head raised to the ceiling and her eyes wide.  Her ears drooped and elongated, falling to brush against her face and the hair growing from the back tangled with the hair growing over her cheeks.  It felt better than 'nice', it felt orgasmic to let it out.  Her pupils squeezed into rectangles that shoved the whites from her eyes.  "HAAAWW!"

"There you go, good girl," Margaret said while massaging Sally's back.

"Get- get this thing off of me," Sally said, reaching back to grab the tail the other woman had pinned on her.  Instead, she shrieked when she yanked her own tail hard enough that the joints popped.

Sally kicked while rolling in the dirt.  When she breathed in, she sneezed back out explosively and her jaw cracked and expanded.  The girl pushed her hands against her face to try to hold back another sneeze but it was impossible and she bellowed out, stirring the dust.  Pain pinched the bridge of her nose when it flattened against her elongated muzzle.  She touched her face gingerly to feel strangely soft skin and short, bristly hairs over her lips.  Her head felt heavy until new muscles grew along her back and within her neck to stabilize her.

"Yes, that's it, let it all out," Margaret said.

"Why? Why are you doing this to me?" Sally said, once more covering her breasts.  The fur growing over her arm brushed against her nipples and she bit back the moan she felt rising.  Or, she hoped it was a moan and not the other thing.

Something was stirring low on her belly, answering the pleasurable feeling of her nipples every time she moved her arm.  Sally refused to look down but felt a strange weight pulling at her.

"Doing?   You- didn't you read-?" Margaret turned with a frown to see the young woman with the glittering makeup shake her head.  "Well, that's not my fault, is it?  Who doesn't read papers they're signing?"

"I- I- No no no nooEEEEEEH HAAAW!" Sally cried out, shoving her chest flat against her thighs with her ass raised.  Her tail curved in a loop that drooped down to touch her pussy as her labia began to bulge.  The flesh grew wrinkled and swollen while stretching up to touch her asshole.  Clear cum welled from her lips as they darkened and flexed, tensing open repeatedly.  Her tail pulled away.  Strings of her cum glistened in the sunlight until her tail slapped down against her ass and she jumped.

"I'm a witch, girl, and you're my new familiar," the woman said, not without some small bit of concern.  She continued stroking Sally, pressing her fingers into the thick muscles lining her spine and down, pressing the butt of her palm into Sally's ass when it began to expand.  "Well, familiar and, well, not 'beast of burden' but I do often have to carry a lot of things."

"I can't feel my toes," Sally complained, panting and trying to distract herself from the way the air felt against her bare pussy.

"I know, I know," Margaret said, shushing the girl while rubbing her gently.  "It'll pass."

Sally's shoes strained against her feet, trembling as stitches popped and the soles exploded.  Her toenails had tripled in thickness and continued to grow, merging with the neighboring toes when they expanded far enough.  The nails grew down to surround her toes and her entire foot.  She could feel the bones shifting in her arches and ankles, twisting and moving into different positions.

"I'll have someone trim you down and we'll get the best shoes for you, don't worry, dear," Margaret said.

"Sally," Sally told her.  "My naaaaaaAAAAWW HEEEEEE HAAAAWW!"

An orgasm hit Sally hard when the bray forced her muzzle forward.  Two black, long teats quivered low on her belly as the surrounding skin swelled around them.  The combination of her teats growing in place with the sound being ripped from her throat forced her over the edge and she felt eternal shame when thick, clear liquid squirted out to darken the dirt beneath and behind her.

"Oh, yes, very good," Margaret moaned.  "I look forward to winning you over and exploring that very eagerly.  But first, comfortable clothes and a look at your new room in my mansion."

"I- I- I-" Sally stuttered, still shaken from the orgasm.  "Mansion?  But, I have work and-"

"Oh, no, don't worry, dear Sally, you'll have none of that from now on.  A life full of magic and mystery and an enchanting, beautiful red-headed witch eager to share your bed wait for you.  Now, come along.  I'll help you up."

Well, shit, Sally thought, standing and nearly falling on her new hooves.  Despite her nakedness, the thick fur covering her body gave her some small comfort as the people continued to stare.  She lifted her muzzle to glare back at them defiantly.

"That means I don't have to pay back my student loans, right?" Sally asked as she was led away with Margaret's hand on her arms.

"Oh, yes," the woman laughed lightly.  "Absolutely."

"Oh, rock on, that's a fair trade, then," Sally said as they passed through the tent.

"I, uhh, I changed my mind," the man just inside the entrance said as the other woman laughed and led him to the center of the tent.