What could go wrong?

  “Are you sure we should be here?” Emily asked, spinning her
long blonde hair around a finger nervously.
“This place has been abandoned for years, who's going to care
if we take a look around?” Ty said back, looking for the basement. All the good
things had probably already been taken, but maybe they could find something
pretty cool down there. If not, there would at least be something that made
coming here worth it...right?

“B-but what if someone sees us? They might call the police!”
She glanced back and forth, almost expecting to see someone walking by and
finding them. She continued followed Ty, though.

  Ty kept looking around, until he found the door under a pair
of old stairs. That's got to be the basement! He ran over to the door, careful
not to step on the random debris around the floor surrounding it. The door was
much different than anything else in the house, where the wood in the rest of
the house had been rotting, this door seemed almost brand new, there was hardly
a scratch on it. It was also very nicely made, and seemed to be worth a small
fortune alone, unlike the cheap looking house it stood in.

  “Emily...come look at this!” he called to her as he tried to
open the door. He expected it to be locked, but was surprised when it simply
opened wide. The room inside was huge, but empty. The floors were covered in
bright red carpet, the walls were vacant, and aside from a single pedestal at
the end of the room there was nothing here.

  “What is this place?” Emily walked forward into the room and
looked at the walls. It was covered in some angel wallpaper. While she was
looking it over, Ty walked right over to the pedestal.

  The pedestal was very ornate, it had gems going all the way
down it, and at the top was a red velvet pillow holding what appeared to be an
old fashion lamp. The lam itself was less impressive than the pedestal it sat
on, being all covered in dirt and looked really cheap.

  “Why would someone put a piece of junk on such a pretty
table?”

  Ty jumped at Emily's voice, not expecting her to be right
behind him.

  “Don't do that!” he scolded her, “And I'm not sure. How come
no one has taken the gems in this? It's not like it was hard to find this
room...” He took a closer look at the gems. If they weren't real, they were
very good fakes...good enough that any thief think they were real. He brought
his attention back to the lamp.

  “Maybe if we rub it we'll get three wishes!” he joked as he
grabbed it. Emily reached out to it too, and while they were both holding it Ty
took a bit of his shirt and have it a rub. The lamp started to violently shake,
making them both drop it and jump back. As it hit the ground, it kept  shaking, and started jumping off the ground
on it's own and spewing out a pink smoke.

  “What's going on?!” Emily shouted as the smoke began to fill
the room. The smoke, after filling the room, was suddenly sucked back to the middle
of the room and began to condense, forming into a beautiful woman in Arabian
clothing. She floated above the lamp, her legs still made out of the smoke and
began to stretch. Ty stared at her in a trance, he couldn't believe what he had
just seen. She looked down at the two siblings and seemed to be searching for
someone.

  “Where is Lia?” she asked in a very smooth voice causing Ty
to snap back to himself and jump up.

  “Who is Lia?” Emily asked. However, before the genie got a
chance to answer Ty jumped in.

  “There is no one else living here. We found you in this
abandoned house.”

  The genie took a moment to think before smiling. “So then,
that means you two get  three wishes. And
since you were both touching the lamp, the wishes will effect you both. Think
wisely.”

  The brother and sister jumped in excitement, three wishes!
They could get anything that they wanted!

  “This is awesome! What should we wish for?” Ty asked Emily as
he grabbed her hands and was hopping up and down. Emily thought for a moment,
trying to think about something she wanted. She had wanted a pet, maybe they
could get a pair of foxes?

  “I wish we had some pet foxes!” Emily told the genie who
smiled.

  “Granted.”

  Ty instantly knew something was wrong, his whole body tingled
and the room started to get bigger around him. A sharp pain in his back caused
him to reach back and hold where the pain had been. His eyes went wide when his
hand rested on something pushing out of his tailbone. Frantically he looked
over to his sister and saw she was getting smaller too and what was growing out
from her back could only be explained as a tail..... what was happening to them,
they wondered. Did the genie do this?

  Suddenly his whole body because extremely itchy, unbearably
so. He attempted to scratch as much as he could, even falling to the floor to
try to use it to help, but it didn't. He watched in horror as a  light gray fur began to grow all over him,
covering his whole body. Horrible pain in his hands caused him to yell out and
snapped his attention to them. His bones were reforming, becoming smaller and
more compact. He felt like they were being squeezed from all sides Within
seconds they looked like paws, nails turning into claws and his palms into
pads. The pain continued up his arms as it also started in his feet. He rolled
onto his side and closed his eyes shut feeling his body change. Once the pain
left his feet the feeling began to be...enjoyable. The feeling traveled through
his chest, and finally to his head. He could feel his face changing, his ears
moving, but he kept his eyes shut. The feeling left him, but he kept his eyes
closed, afraid of what he might see. He moved bits of his body, getting used to
how everything felt. It was...different.

  “Ty! What happened to us?!” Emily's voice caused him to
finally open is eyes and look at himself. He was definitively an animal
now...but it wasn't until he looked at Emily that he realized what animal. A
gray fox.

  Ty didn't answer her, instead he turned to the genie who had
a huge smile above him.

  “Why did you turn us to foxes? And why can we talk still?” he
growled, sticking his trail straight out and making his fur stand on end. It
felt natural to do while angry, and even felt good.

  “I granted your wish. You wished for pet foxes. Well, I can't
create life from nothing and bringing a fox kit would take it from it's family,
which I was unwilling to do. So I simply made you each your own pet fox. The
reason you can talk is it would be very hard to grant future wishes without
being able to understand you, don't you agree?” She shined a bright smile. Ty
sighed, they should have been more careful with the wish. Now they were foxes,
a wish down, and it would take another wish to become normal again.

  “Emily, let me do the wishes, alright?” he told his sister,
who hung her head sadly.

  “I'm sorry, I didn't mean for this to happen.”

  He looked back to the genie trying to decide how to wish them
back. 'I wish we were human again' might not make them same as they were before
their transformations. 'I wish we were back to how we were' could be anywhere
in the past, maybe even as babies.

  “Ok, I wish we were back to normal!” The genie smiled and
snapped her fingers.

  “Wish granted.”

  The pain returned, almost worse than the first time. However,
this time it was focused around his pelvis and shoulders. He fell down onto his
side a second time, feeling his new fox bones reforming  back into human shape excruciatingly slowly.
With a final POP that caused him to yell out in pain, the feeling spread to his
hands and he watched as they changed from paws back to normal, though still
furred. Finally, the pain faded. He looked at himself, he was still covered in
gray fur...his feet, though now more human shaped, were still paws, and he
still definitely had a tail. He felt the top of his head, finding his ears were
still that of a foxes. He was some kind of Animal Hybrid!

  He started to stand, but a sudden force hit him in the
stomach causing him to double over. He could only watch in horror as he not
only started to growing a second pair of legs...but his normal ones seemed to
be moving back. He shivered at this new sensation, it was like his butt was
stretching out...like he was gaining a second back. He took a look at Emily and
was worried, but not surprised, to see the same happening to her. She seemed to
be farther along...and thoroughly enjoying the transformation, rubbing her
hands across her new back...it was like from the waist down she was still a
fox, but above it she was an animal hybrid...not what he would call normal.

  Finally he felt like the changes were over, so he attempted
to stand on his new feet...it was different having four feet as well as two
arms...but he was getting used to it quickly. One thing he didn't notice,
however, was that he was still small, about the size of a fox kit still.

  “Genie! This isn't what I wished for! I wished to be normal!
This is far from normal!” he shouted at the genie, who only laughed.

  “Changing you to 'normal' would have canceled the first wish,
which I can't do. So, instead I went for a middle ground. If you'll notice,
you're both a fox and human. And, to satisfy the 'normal' part of the wish I
made it so it's normal for you to be like this. Everyone will remember you like
this. You should be thankful that I didn't twist your wish, it could have been
a fun one.” She giggled loudly.

  “Will we ever get to be bigger?” Emily asked, not all that
worried about staying like this. She liked her new body.

  “No, sadly. You're stuck at that size unless you wish
otherwise.”

  “Can we Ty? I want to stay like this, it feels...right!”
Emily begged. Ty had to agree, this body did feel better, it felt like he was
meant to have it. His family and friends would see it as normal, too. The only
issue was size...

  “Alright. Genie, I wish we were bigger!”

  “First...” the genie blinked her eyes, and suddenly they were
outside in a field. Ty and Emily were puzzled why the attic wasn't good enough,
but before they could think too much the genie finished her sentence. “Good.
Now, Wish granted...enjoy.”

  Ty felt a shock wave run through him. It was unlike anything
he had felt so far, it wasn't a pain at all, it only felt good. It was like a
full body massage! The ground started to get farther away, he was growing!
Emily too, seemed to be growing, and at the same rate! He tried to figure out
how fast he was going, and he estimated maybe two or three inches a second.
This was awesome, it felt great and in just a few seconds he'd be as tall as
normal!

  He overshot his normal height and continued growing. He didn't
seemed to be showing any signs of slowing either, if anything he was growing
faster! The massaging started feeling more intense Ty could almost not handle
it, it felt so good!

  “What's going on?!” He shouted at the genie, who was now
smaller than him.

  “I granted your wish. You're becoming bigger...you never said
how much bigger though, so I took a guess. I hope you like my choice.”

  Ty couldn't couldn't reply, the only thing he could think
about was the feeling of growing, it was so intense that he couldn't even think
about anything else. He was growing to an absurd size, much bigger than he had
ever expected.

  Then, suddenly, the feeling simply vanished. Gone instantly,
and Ty looked afraid.

  He was huge! Much bigger than any house he ever lived in, and
even bigger than most buildings he had ever seen. Emily was just as big as him,
and looked equally as surprised.

  “I made you both one hundred feet tall. I would say that's
bigger than the six inches you were before.”

  “Wait! Make us smaller! This is too big! People will think
we're monsters!”

  “I'm sorry, but you used your three wishes. However, behind
the kind hearted genie I am I already made it so that people will see this as
normal. Well...people who know you will see it as normal, anyway.” The genie
turned back into smoke, and flew back into the lamp, which then vanished.

  “Ty...what do we do now?” Emily asked. Ty looked at her, and
took her hand.

  “Let's go be normal.....”