THE BITE OF  JASUfox EPISODE 1, mango juice

It was a bright and sunny day in the city; the birds were singing, the traffic light and the children somewhat under control. Here, in this city was a bat, a rather unusual bat at that. This bat was dark brown in color. His feet were adorned with red sneakers and he wore a black tank top and a pair of green shorts. On his hands he wore a pair of matching four fingered white gloves that one would expect a character of a Disney cartoon to wear. You see this bat, Jasu as his name was, was a toon based creature, meaning that the normal rules of anatomy didn’t always apply to him. He stood at a height of four feet and his face was very toony, with large eyes and a silly tuff of amber hair on top of his head. The place that he found himself outside of today was Lamplight Labs, a building in which the board toon hoped he’d find some exciting elixirs or toys.

The doors opened silently, allowing Jasu entry into the building. He snuck past the front desk and into the hallway beyond. His goal was one of the labs off the main hallway. He found one that had an unlocked door and slipped inside, and found upon the table a test tube. In the glass tube there shone an orange potion that smelled like his favorite food, mangos. So what did he do? He did the only thing he could do, he drank the entire mixture up, without even a thought as to what it would do to him, or what it was made to do to others. The toony bat barely put the vial back down on the table when he heard someone enter the room from behind him. He turned around and saw that it was the owner of the labs, a green dragon by the name of Draco Rex, standing in the doorway to the room.
“Jasu?” asked Draco, “what are you doing here?”
The bat just gave a huge grin and said to the puzzled dragon, “Just having a little-self tour.”
Draco frowned at the bat. “Now, you know the public tours are not for another hour.”
“The door was open” was Jasu’s only response as he began a rather silly walk toward the dragon. “Doesn’t mater now,” the bat continued as he literally waltzed past the dragon in the hall beyond. “I’m board of this geek-show, off to the fun stuff for this batty, SCREEE!” Draco could only scratch his head in confusion at the strange toon bat as he continued to walk away and out of the building. Little did either of them know that that mango juice that Jasu had drunk would cause one gigantic mess for the entire city.

It was barely ten minutes later that Jasu was up to some cartoon villain shenanigans. He had set up a trap on the street, next to one of the crossing signs. He had placed on the pavement between the white cross-walk stripes a portable pitfall in which he would trap a poor fur. Once the poor critter was at the brown bat’s mercy, he would then proceed to use his “special” weapon on his prey. This weapon in which I speak is none other then the toony bat’s fangs. These were not your average pearly whites, oh no, they were able, through a single bite, to cause Jasu’s prey become inflated into a helpless ball of air that the devious bat would then do with what he wanted to. There was another feature to the fangs, not only could they inflate a victim, but they could also deflate Jasu’s prey, causing them to shrink or sag, while that air went right into the bat himself! However, the bat could not only ball up from stealing the air, but he could also bulk up, or even grow to being a giant through the stolen air. Of course, this is what would normally happen with the use of the bat’s fangs, however things had changed with his last drink.
Jasu did not need to wait very long, as soon a rather plain looking anthro turtle in a black jogging suit had stepped up to the crosswalk. Jasu grinned, showing all his teeth, not just his special fangs as he awaited his trap to be sprung. He did not need to wait long, as the turtle upon seeing the light change, jumped off the curb and right into the pit. The look on the reptile’s face was priceless, Jasu could hardly contain his laughter as the jogger tried to free himself from the random hole that he had found himself at the bottom of. Within seconds, Jasu swooped down from his perch atop a street light and tackled the poor turtle. In a fluid motion he moved his mouth, and thus his fangs, right up to the area in which the black hood of the turtle’s jogging suit met his brown scaly neck. This also happened to be the area right above the turtle’s shell. With a sound like a cartoon chomp sound effect, Jasu bit down hard on the neck of the reptile. He had planed to inflate his victim into a helpless round balloon with a shell. But something was wrong. At first the bat thought he had accidently bit the shell so he opened his mouth and took another deep bite, this time right on the nose of the distressed turtle.
“YEEOUCH!”
That was a rather unusual response to one of Jasu bites, for when he put his fangs to use, it was painless on the bat’s prey. Jasu found himself confused by the turtle’s obvious pain at his bite. However his confusion did not last long. The turtle could simply be over-reacting to the bite, Jasu thought to himself, though the fact that the turtle wasn’t getting any rounder or flatter that worried the bat the most. It was while he was thinking that the turtle some how managed to free one of his arms and swatted Jasu away.

“Get off me you insane flying fox!” scowled the turtle as he managed to lift himself out of the hole in the pavement. “You should be ashamed of yourself for your behavior young man!”
“First off pops, I am not a flying fox, I am a toon bat, BIG difference I’ll have you know.” Jasu said as he righted himself from the side walk in which he had landed. “second off, I’m a TOON, T-O-O-N! my behavior is the LEAST of my worries!” With that the bat got up and walked away from the jogging suit clad turtle, however the turtle was not as unaffected by the bat’s bite as he had thought.

It was some time later that yet another trap had been set by the dark brown bat. This time the bat decided the direct approach would be best. So when he saw his target from his new vantage point atop the roof of a corner ice-cream parlor, he simply glided down. The large, muscular lion let out a mighty roar of surprise upon feeling the toony bat suddenly clamp on to his back.
“Heya big guy!” screeched the bat, as he maneuvered his fangs closer to his target’s neck. “hope you don't mind if I steal some of your buffness, since you have plenty to spare!”
“STEAL MY WHAT?” bellowed the golden feline as he struggled to reach and remove the bat from his back. To no avail and within seconds Jasu’s fangs were in the lion’s neck, sucking for all they were worth. However as before, something seemed, wrong. Jasu was sucking at the lion’s muscles for all he was worth, but the toony brown bat was for some reason still looking like a toony light weight while the lion still looked like the king of the gym. Needless to say, but within seconds the bat had been rudely torn off the chiseled back of the golden lion and for the second time that day, landed rudely on his poor batty rump, this time landing in such a way that his tail received the bulk of the impact.

Before Jasu could pick himself up from the concrete side walk when he noticed something strange was happening to the lion man before him. First the lion seemed almost to have a hairball in his neck, for he kept scratching at his neck and coughing, harder and harder. Suddenly deep dark ink began to drip from the white maw of the surprised lion.
“Wh…Wh..Ack..What is this?” stammered the lion through the dripping ink, his bravo suddenly gone. Then, before the bat’s wide eyes, the lion seemed almost to deflate, as if the toon had really stolen the strength from the lion, only that Jasu could tell from his still thin arms and body that this wasn’t the case. Next, the lion’s bright gold and copper mane, a thing of beauty and pride, began to fall out like autumn leaves out of a tree in winter. Soon the lion was both bald and clean shaven, though was it the bat’s imagination or had the golden fur of the now tall and thin lion started to turn a darker shade?
It was true! The lion was steadily deepening in color, going from golden yellow, to a dirty blond to a brown of the same pallet as Jasu himself! All the while the ink continued to pour out of the lion’s once white maw. Next to change was the lion’s ears, which suddenly bellowed out, to twice, then triple their original size. As the lion reached up with his paw-hands to feel his new ears in shock, it became clear those too, were changing. A thin, white fur down seemed to appear on his hands, causing his black nails to vanish in the fuzz. Even his pink hand pads were soon covered in the mysterious fur, which turned into some like fabric. Then it was fabric, and the feline was now wearing a pair of white gloves eerily similar to the pair Jasu was wearing.
“WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO ME YOU RAT?!” The lion roared as he continued to transform before the bat’s very eyes. Jasu could only shrug in answer. It may have been the toon bat’s bite, but even he didn’t know what was going on. However it was then that he started to think back to the mango chemical he drank in Draco’s laboratory. Did it have something to do with this?

All thoughts of what had caused this vanished as the lion suddenly grew a pair of bat like wings from his slender arms. Wings that were so much like Jasu’s own pair that he let out a scree of shock. As things were going, the once golden feline now could pass as a taller less toony version of Jasu himself! And then, the lion promptly started to lose his height advantage. He shrunk from his big and tuff height of 7 ft to being exactly the same size of Jasu, 3’5” feet! The toony bat could not help but start to feel like he was looking in a mirror at the former lion before him.
“Stop this… please…” begged the feline. There were now tears in his eyes and ink still dripping from his mouth, a mouth that was looking more and more like that of a bat, a toon bat, by the second.
Jasu could only give his best toony grin and another shrug. “Sorry pall, but I don’t even know how to control it, let alone stop it. Enjoy your new toonyness!”

Upon saying the word toonyess, the lion gave one last almighty cough, and was no more. In his place was a perfect replica of Jasu, same fur, same ears, same eyes, even same fangs with the same powers. For a few moments they just stared at each other. Both Jasus looked up at the other’s ears and then moved their eyes down to their feet, only one was wearing shoes, the other had his toony bat claw’s clearly exposed. With no more then shrug at each other and a big batty toon grin, both of the bats turned abruptly around and walked off in separate directions. The shoe less Jasu walked off toward downtown, but the original Jasu found himself tackled only after taking two steps forward. It was yet another bat, identical to himself! Only this one for some reason had a shell on its back, given it was a small shell, but a shell none of the less.


And that is all for now. Stay tuned for the next episode of the bite of JASU!