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Attack of the Costumes (Anthro TF via Hypnosis)

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It was a Saturday in May 2014 in Richmond, VA. I had recently had a friend arrive from Canada named James, a.k.a. Monkey Scientist as he was known on DeviantArt. James has brown hair and eyes to match, is mostly skinny with a slight bit of a gut, almost six feet tall, with slightly long arms. Myself: I'm six foot three, brown hair and brown-green eyes, slightly obese, and not really all that long. We went to Richmond because we had nothing better to do, and were browsing the mall for anything interesting.

"See anything interesting?" James asked, as we traversed the rows of stores in the mall.

"No... wait. There's a costume shop!" I said, pointing at the aforementioned costume shop, that I was absolutely sure had not been there before. I dragged him over to the store, where a mystical sight met our eyes. Hundreds and hundreds of anthro animal costumes hung on the walls, lay in boxes, and were stacked on shelves. The costumes themselves varied based upon species, weight, height, and fandom.

"Amazing..." I breathed in awe as we examined the various costumes. On a whim, I walked over to the "Mythical Creatures" aisle of the store, browsing until I found what I was looking for.

"Aha!" I cried, pulling out a costume of a tanuki. The costume in question was as tall as I was, but twice as wide. Its belly seemed to be stuffed with padding to give it that round look, and its groin area was... padded as well. Fortunately, the lower half had been covered up with a nice blue loincloth that kept anything from showing, but you could see the lumps. On the upper part of its body, one could see a weird tattoo on its chest. I picked the costume and walked over towards the counter. As I waited in line, James came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder.

"James! Look what I found!" I said, showing him the costume. He examined it and then grinned at me, showing me his own costume. 

"An overweight... walrus... security guard?" I asked, since that's what it was. It had the same round look as my costume, except mine was slightly thinner than his. The outfit the walrus wore was grey with weird looking badges covering it.

"Cool, but... why a walrus?" I asked. James smiled.

"Ever since I saw this weird movie called Tusk, I've wanted to write a story about turning into a walrus. I got this costume to give me some ideas. Why?"

I shrugged, and turned to the register as we came to our turn in the checkout aisle. We bought and paid for our own costumes, and then were about to leave. Suddenly, an idea hit James, and he turned to me and asked me a question.

"Hey, why don't we wear our costumes out of the store and back to your house?" 

I didn't see a problem with that, and so we walked to the dressing rooms and took the costumes out of the bags. I carefully stepped into the leg holes of my costume, zipped the back of the suit up, pulled the paw gloves over my hands, and placed the mask over my face. The mask felt cool when I put it on my face, and I could see through the eyeholes. I looked at James, and saw that he had put his suit on too. We stared at one another for several minutes before bursting into laughter since we honestly looked ridiculous in these suits. 

"Man, how does a walrus anthro even work?" I asked James. 

"Says the guy with a big case of-" James began to say, before something caught both of our attention. The costumes were beginning to glow.

"What's going on?" I asked, as the costume suddenly began to get tight on my body.

"We've got to take these off!" James said, reaching for his zipper with his flipper-like appendages. I tried to remove the paw gloves, but they were stuck to my hands... actually, they were my hands. I pinched them, and it hurt.

"I can't find the zipper!" James yelled, his costume mouth moving instead of his real mouth.

"Me neither!" I yelled, my costume mouth moving too. Suddenly, a flash of pain hit my and James' heads, and we both held them in pain as our new bellies jigged. My mind became hazy, and I found it hard to remember my name. 

Who am I again? I asked myself, as my tail began to move on its own. Suddenly everything made perfect sense: my name was Leaf and I was a tanuki from Japan on vacation! I smiled, as I looked at my assets.

Still there. I thought in relief. A pity I had to drag that poor security guard into all this. What was his name again? Officer Jim? Yeah, that was it! 

I turned towards the guard, an apologetic look on my face.

"Sorry for making you have to come in here with me. I found what I was looking for: I never actually lost it in the first place."

The officer smiled, and shook his head, his blubbery body shaking with him.

"It's quite alright, young cub. I used to fakely lose things too when I was your age. Just be careful about false alarms in the future, ok?"

"I will." I said, my finger-paws crossed behind my back. After all, we tanuki live to pull pranks! It's a weakness of ours. The officer smiled, and left the changing room. I sat there for a while. It honestly felt like I'd been someone else before! I shrugged it off.

"I'm Leaf! A tanuki with desire! Look out world, because here I come!"

I opened the doors, began to leave... and then my bulk got stuck in the door.

"Yare yare daze."
Ok, the title is a bit misleading: there's no actual attack, but me and :iconmonkey-scientist: do change because of costumes... hope I didn't spoil the ending...

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Why haven't I heard about this in the RTD yet? IT MUST BE A TRUE STORY!!!

Great story, and not sure if you'll get the abbreviation above but I hope you do. 3