This story was commissioned by my friend Mallardent!
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“Okay,” an ebony-furred wolf lady sighed as she locked the library’s doors. “That was a busy day,” she said resignedly in her heavy Southern accent. She turned for the parking lot, trying not to hang her head from exhaustion. She looked up to the billboard on the other side of the street as soon as she noticed from the corner of her eye that there was something new on it. She could not believe her eyes no matter how many times she read what was on it: it was the advertisement for a company that made and sold anti-anthro stuff - in a town full of them! The last library guest, who was a human, was seen gawking at the sign, himself in disbelief. Surely this had to be some kind of sick joke! She shook her head and walked on, and pulled the keychain out from her skirt’s pocket, only for it to disappear. In fact, every vehicle and person around her disappeared as the sky turned dark, and a thick, purple fog rolled towards her from every direction. She sighed as she realized who was about to reveal himself, as no one else she knew had so much love for dramatic entrances. “Hello, Felgar.”

Before her, some of the fog coalesced into the form of an anthropomorphic duck, about the size of a feral swan, with short, L-shaped horns and shiny black hair. His plumage was a deep blue, and his eyes were the pitch black of utter nothingness, with white rings around where any other creature would have had pupils. “Salutations, my favored denizen of this dimension!” Felgar said. “How is my favorite witch today?” As he asked this, the fog disappeared, the sky brightened again, and all the cars reappeared.

“I’m all tired, but fine, except for,” she nodded to the billboard behind her. “Surely that’s a joke, right?”

The demon, floating above the ground in a sitting position with his arms crossed, shook his head. “That’s all too real, I’m afraid,” he answered. “And that’s why I’m here. What say we dish out some karma again to those who are just asking for trouble?”

The wolf gave an exhausted grin and held up her keys. “Tomorrow mornin’, alright? I’ve had a long day. And, yeah, I must agree that this here company’s just askin’ for a whole lotta problems, tryin’ to spread into a city like this.” She looked more closely at the sign, seeing it was advertising things from repellant perfumes to stun batons and restraints. That brought out a scowl.

Felgar nodded, his broad, flat beak twisting at the corners into a grin. “You bet.”

* * * * * *

The next morning, as Karina awoke with a long, loud yawn, she became aware of someone else, just outside of her bedroom door. She grinned as she slowly pushed herself up. No one except the demon duck had an aura such as what she felt through the door. “Just a moment, Felgar,” she said in a slightly raspy tone, shuffling over to her closet.

“Oh, we have all the time in the world!” Felgar said through the door, obviously excited to go out and cause shenanigans with a mortal who, unlike most others he met, he actually considered a partner in causing havoc, while most others he saw only as playthings to be subjected to his whim and his reality-breaking powers. She was out of her room a couple minutes later, in her usual outfit of a white short-sleeved shirt and a blue skirt that stopped just above her knees, made from a thin, non-insulating material to protect decency while not causing her to overheat.

“So!” she said, “want to check in on Chester first, see if our foxy friend wants to come along?”

“You bet I do! Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if he winds up turned into an object himself again!”

Karina smirked. “You know me all too well, just as well as we both know where Chester is right now!”

Felgar raised a hand level to the corresponding ear, middle finger and thumb pressed together, and then he snapped them, instantly relocating them to the old, enormous, abandoned hangar that their friend used to store various historically significant vehicles; mostly tanks and warbirds. Karina listened for any sounds of Chester working inside, and then knocked hard on the door. “Just a moment!” a feminine voice called out from somewhere inside. So, Chester was in her female form for now, Catherine. “You can come in,” she called a minute later as the door handle clicked from being unlocked. Karina opened it and stepped through - with Felgar following by floating right through the wall - to find Catherine walking back to the latest member of her collection, that being some early variant of the infamous MiG-21 fighter, its engine laying on a wheeled cart beside it. “Are you two about to go do something?” she asked, putting a welding mask on.

“Yes, actually,” Felgar said, taking that same pose in which he greeted Karina the previous day. “There’s some new company that moved into town selling anti-anthro stuff.”

The vixen’s ears twitched as she picked up a welding torch. “Yeah, I’m aware of them. Immanuel’s been working on a set of potions for that, and I’ve been figuring out how to deliver them to the folks running that company, see how some of ‘em like being an anthro.” Immanuel, their skunk friend, was a good alchemist, at least when his brews didn’t destabilize and explode.

“Are you going to use one of these metal contraptions to deliver them?” Felgar inquired, gesturing around the room.

“Actually, no. Immanuel and I agreed to the old throw-it-at-them method.”

“How ‘bout your eye contact-based powers? Not gonna use those this time?” Karina wondered.

“Oh, I will, but Immanuel’s potion idea sounds a lot more fun.”

“Well, I hope he gets done soon,” she stated, “because we’re just about to begin!”

Catherine nodded as she started cutting a badly-rusted piece of the engine away. “I’ll be there when I can.”

“Good! Come on, Karina, let’s get started!” He snapped his fingers again, and they both vanished.

* * * * * *

The duo arrived at the headquarters building as soon as it opened. The guard at the checkpoint, as if aware of who they were, went bug-eyed as he opened the gate for them, as if Felgar couldn’t just send them right past it, and he only became more freaked out when he noticed fur sprouting on his hands! “Let’s let that one live on as an anthro,” Karina decided. “‘Least he knew when to quit.”

“Too bad you got to him first,” the demon duck replied, “I could go for a new bowling set!”

“Fine, next one we come across, you can get ‘em,” Karina grinned as the two approached the building. Behind them, the increasingly-feline guard tried to get out of his shirt as he quickly shrank.

“Halt!” Two more guards shouted in unison, and Felgar turned slightly to face them as he sat upon the air itself.

“Oh, wonderful!” he cried, “The numbers are perfect here!” He pointed at the two of them with all five fingers on each hand with their tips pressed together, freezing the guards in place, and then spreading his fingers out. The guards’ bodies immediately turned to wood save for their heads, which became polyester. Their limbs and heads separated from their torsos, heads turning hollow and spherical with three holes for fingers, while the limbs and torsos turned into bowling pins with a black-with-blue-stripes color scheme. “There’s no need for you two to worry,” the demon stated with his beak twisted into a tooth-bearing smile. “I’ll have plenty of spare time for you!”

Karina rolled her eyes. “Come on, let’s go meet the ones behind all this.” Felgar, of course, had no trouble inviting them in, simply willing the front door out of existence. A number of employees on the floor immediately fled, but some of them were caught by the duo’s magic. Karina flattened one of them from across the lobby by pressing her hands together, the palm of one against the back of the other, and her body turned into a rectangular canvas with a fancy wooden frame, falling to the floor as an abstract painting. Felgar decided on turning his latest catch into yet another wooden puppet, which was something he’d been doing quite a lot recently. He held it from its wooden, X-shaped controller for a few moments, admiring how perfect his new toy looked, and then dropped it with the promise of “I’ll come back later,” then followed Karina into one of the elevators. By then, someone had used the PA system to alert everyone in the building, not that they could do anything about it. Karina pressed the button for the top floor, but it only went up three floors before it stopped and the doors open, and the employee just outside had barely enough time to go bug-eyed before Karina said, “howdy,” and pointed both index fingers at him, then closed her hands, followed by the employee turning into a thin, dandelion-yellow ribbon which Karina promptly folded and tied into a sort of necklace for herself, which she finished just as the elevator doors closed again, and the car resumed its ascent - at least until someone made it stop on the tenth floor.

“Well, that was boring, anyway!” Felgar said, floating forwards and partially phasing through the doors as they opened. “We have all day anyway, don’t we?”

“We sure do,” the wolf answered, stepping through the door. Both of them turned as they heard a security force coming around the corner. The duo grinned to each other as the first security person came into view. Karina stopped him in his tracks with a pinching gesture, then opened her hands with her fingers splayed and palms turned towards the ceiling, and the guard’s body immediately turned into a hollow sphere of latex filled with helium, and Karina allowed the newly-made balloon to float to the ceiling. The next one came around just in time to see this happening, and acted upon the better part of valor by turning around and running away. The next one was not so fortunate, much less smart, pulling one of the company’s own stun batons from his belt and charging at the demon, only to collapse to the ground as body flattened and turned into to a large sheet of aluminum with a clap of the demon’s hands, who then spun his hands around each other, causing the sheet to coil tightly around itself and become riddled with diamond-shaped gaps that quickly expanded until he became a roll of chain-link fence. “There’s a new one,” Karina remarked, listening for anyone else that might be coming for them.

“Well, this guy needs to learn to keep his distance! That is the purpose you mortals have for fences, is it not?”

The wolf shrugged. “Good point.” A door at the end of the hall from where the guards came got her attention; it was a storage room, and it sounded like there was someone in there. “Wanna go check that out?” she suggested. Felgar nodded and the two crossed the hall and entered the room which was, in fact, a storage, filled with anti-anthro stuff, and a single worker right before the two. Before Felgar could think of what to turn this one into, Karina carried out her own idea, pointing her index finger at the man’s forehead and her thumb at his chin, then flipping her hand around, causing the human’s face to turn upside down! He yelped as he staggered backwards until he walked into a shelf and fell to the floor. “Let’s let him go,” Karina stated. “He might turn back if he cleans up his act. Now, let’s go meet the head of this operation.”

“Sure thing! It’s multiple heads, actually, but sure.”

The office at the head of the building was an agora, with one wall made entirely with huge, curved windows. Two men and two women, obviously the heads of the company, were waiting for them, grinning as though they had won some great victory. “You have no power up here,” one of the men declared as if he were in a movie.

Felgar rolled his eyes. “Another person acting like a cheap disposable villain in some short story. Oh, wait, that’s exactly what he is.”

“Y’all realize you’ve kicked a hornet’s nest with this business a’ yours, right?” Karina asked with a glare, having not heard Felgar’s remark.

“Yeah, and what are you going to do about it?” one of the women mocked, Karina’s metaphor flying over her head. She pulled one of those perfume sprayers, while one of the men drew a stun baton. “We’ll teach you a little lesson!” This woman raised the sprayer, only for Felgar to move his toes about as he cast some of his own magic, causing the perfume sprayer to shrink and fold into a rubber duck just as the woman squeezed it, causing it to quack. She did a double take at what she was now holding, and then charged with a yell at the two anthros alongside the colleague with the stun baton. Before Karina could stop them, Felgar pointed a foot at each of them with toes splayed, and they froze in place. He wriggled them about some more, causing the man to drop the baton as his form turned into a simple wooden cylinder, with a gold plate on the side with “FELGAR THE MIGHTY” stamped into it. Meanwhile, the other woman suddenly gained a distinctly avian form as she shrank and turned to gold, her body coming to mirror Felgar’s form, except at the size of a typical anthro, and then her feet fused to the pedestal, her body locked into a commanding, prideful pose.

The other two humans, still not realizing they were way in over their heads, were trying this whole time to flank the wolf and duck. Karina let them come to them, targeting the man first. She turned the restraints he was holding to dust, and all of his interior tissues to soft, harmless plush stuffing as his clothes and skin fused together into a soft, gray fabric. She held her hands out with her fingers splayed, and then closed then, causing the former person to shrink. Pulling gestures, one towards and one away from him, caused him to grow a snout and a tail respectively as his increasingly-canine form fell to the floor with a soft plop. Ignoring the new plushie, Karina turned around and took hold of the other person with her magic, kneading the air as her body collapsed into a blob of clay, ready to be molded into whatever shape someone wanted. “Is that all of ‘em?” she asked, looking around the room. Her ears perked up when she heard someone running up the stairs. They both turned towards the door just before it swung open.

Panting heavily, Catherine stepped into the room with a bandolier filled with potion vials. Her excited expression flattened as she looked around at all the transformed people, and at Karina and Felgar standing in the middle of it all. “Aww,” she groaned. “Did I miss it?”