Subject 006: The Dragon girl

Last year the lab I worked at had come dangerously close to losing all its funding and being shut down permanently. To be fair it had been years since anything of actual use had come from our small team.

As the head of our group, it was up to me to find some way to save all our jobs. We needed something solid to provide to the government to show we were worth funding, but unfortunately, we had nothing good enough.

I was walking through town one day, trying to come up with something that could save us, when I came across an old antique shop. Jokingly I decided to go in and see if they had anything like a rabbit's foot because I sure did need luck.

I entered the store and looked around, as anyone could have guessed it was all junk. That's when the store owner came out holding some strange box. She told me it was the item I was looking for and handed it to me.

I opened the box and inside was an old-looking capsule filling tray. I looked at the woman confused and she just chuckled, saying there was a special magic attached to it, and it would solve all my problems.

She then shooed me out of her store and locked the door. I didn’t even pay for it. I shrugged and took the thing back to the lab. I cleaned it up and sat it at my table, I looked it over and nothing about it seemed out of the ordinary.

The woman mentioned there was magic attached to it, so I decided to use it to fill some pill capsules, filling them with nothing but sugar. I stuffed the pills into some cheese and brought a handful over to our test mice.

Most of them are perfectly healthy, but one or two are on death's door, so if this magic does anything, it should show in the mice. So I gave them the pill-filled cheese and watched as they ate it all up.

Nothing happened immediately, which makes sense for normal medication, but I was a little disappointed figuring magic would happen right away. So I returned to my table and returned to trying to figure out how to save the lab.

I end up falling asleep and being woken up by my lab assistant. She had seemed super excited about something and dragged me back over the mice. I was kinda excited, did that capsule-filling tray actually work?

We got to the mice tanks and I was completely flabbergasted. The mice were all moving around and healthy even the sickly ones, but not only that they had somehow taken on features from other animals.

Some of them had cat ears and tails, others grew wings and beaks, and some even turned into fish and jumped into their water dishes just to survive. This was it, this is what our lab needed to keep our funding.

So over the next few months, we continued our study, reporting our findings to the government, although we had to lie about the item we were using to create these pills, lucky we were able to claim it was a secret formula.

We were even able to predict what transformations would occur with each pill, and after a year we were ready to begin human trials. So we began the process of recruiting people to take part in it.

My assistant took care of that part for me. I'm not sure how she got so many people without telling them what we were testing but she got us eleven people, and with one volunteer from our group we had an even dozen.

Of course, I wasn’t going to make any of my employees test something like this, so I volunteered myself to test one when the trials began. Of course, unlike the others in the trial, I got to pick my transformation, and I was excited about it.

Thanks to our predictions, I know the pill I’ll be taking will turn me into a human with dragon features, which is crazy. Imagine getting to be a real-life dragon hybrid. So we continued to prepare until the day of the trial.

Setting up specific rooms for each of the test subjects, making the room match the animal they would be turning into. We even created some hypnotic ambient sounds to help them accept their new forms.

So the day of the trial, I sit in the lobby pretending to be one of them, and just like them I’m led to my personal room and handed my dragon pill. I quickly swallow it and enter the room. They were ordered to lock the doors after placing subjects into the rooms, so I was now locked inside.

Unlike the other rooms, mine was just a basic bedroom. I jumped into bed and just began to relax. We had theorized that it would take a few days to see the full effect when the pills were used on humans.

So I went right to sleep, which I really needed anyway. I couldn’t remember the last time I was able to get a good night's sleep. When I woke up the next morning, I got right up and walked over to the mirror with a notepad in hand.

I began to write down any changes I had noticed, of course, my team was also observing me from a one-way glass, but I’m still a scientist too, so how could I not help out? The first day left me a little bit shorter, and I already had small horns growing out of my head.

The second day, I continued to grow smaller in size. My hair also began to grow, now touching my back. My horns were now about a foot long, and I had quite a few of them. I was a little annoyed that they grew in asymmetrically, but oh well.

The third day had a ton of changes. My hips, butt, and thighs seemed to have gotten wider, along with a very thick and heavy tail growing out of the spot just above my butt. My ears had also begun to change shape, becoming pointed and longer.

My chest was also kinda lumpy, they looked like they were swollen. My hair had also grown down past my butt, I’ve never once had hair this long. I chucked those two things up to side effects and wrote them on my pad.

When I woke up on the fourth day, my clothes and bedding were all ripped to shreds. I looked down at my hands and I noticed my fingernails had become like claws, and they were very sharp.

I removed the shredded clothes and went to the mirror to do my daily check. It was then that I finally realized the true extent of my transformation. I was indeed a dragon humanoid hybrid, but I was now one hundred percent a woman as well.

My chest that I thought was swollen, well those were breasts growing, and my hips, thighs, and ass getting bigger, well that was just my body adapting and adding more feminine features to me.

I began to fully inspect my new body, and even though I was a little upset to suddenly change gender, I was prepared for unintended effects. Plus this made the project even more groundbreaking. My assistant came in and greeted me, confirming that they believed my transformation was complete.

She handed me some extra clothes they had prepared and said I’d look super cute in this outfit.

Of course, she gave me some of the most revealing clothing we had, but it was better than being naked.

She then took me into our main lab room, and the group began to study me and proceeded with some tests. Overall the project was a success, despite everything I was healthier than I was last week, and perhaps even a decade younger.

We decided to have a toast to celebrate, so I popped a special bottle of whiskey and poured everyone a shot. We clashed our gasses together and threw the shots back. Once I finished, I let out a burp, followed by a burst of fire.

I quickly shut my mouth and covered it with my hands. Luckily I didn’t set anything on fire, and everyone laughed it off. That was just another thing I would have to get used to from now on, hopefully, I can learn to control it better.

After our little celebration, I was taken to look over the other subjects, and much like me, they had all seen similar transformations. That included the gender change part. Most of them didn’t seem to care though, I guess those hypnotic tapes we played while they slept really helped.

We marked each one a success, and per our agreement with the subjects, we found them all new homes. With the world suffering from a wave of cursed items, it wasn't all that strange to see people transformed like this, so no one questioned us when we asked them to adopt our test subjects.

Once they were all settled we went over the data and sent it off. We were given a ten-million-dollar grant to continue our work, which was the best news ever. If we get this down to a perfect science, my whole staff and I could end up rich. Now all we need is a new set of subjects for the next trial taking place in a few months.