On the continent of Midgard in the woods due just west of the famed chocobo farm a familiar group of mercenaries had set up camp to perform a mission. Of this group currently two were at the camp site while the third member had been sent out on his own. “This spell will do the trick for sure!” the young girl of the group in a pink dress with a red jacket and matching bow tied around her long braided hair said as she shuffled through the pages of an old warn out book. Her comrade, a much larger and much older man wearing a tattered vest jacket and wielding a massive gun as a prosthetic for his missing arm looked towards the girl with a good deal of suspicion. “you sure Aerith? You can barely even read that damn book”. “I can so Barrett!” Aerith shot back at her friend right away causing him to flinch a bit. “besides, we’ve been out here for two days already with no luck and the deadline is tomorrow night. So if you have a better idea I would sure like to hear it!”. Barrett crossed his arms and gave a huff in defeat “you win. But don’t expect me to-“.

Before Barrett could finish his sentence a sudden noise from the bramble behind them draws the attention of the two. Brushing away some branches and walking towards them is a young man with spikey golden hair dressed in dark blue and a shoulder plate carrying a large sword emerged from the trees, covered in golden feathers clinging to his body and making an expression of frustrated annoyance. “finally!” Aerith stated as the newcomer slowly walked towards her “took you long enough Cloud”. “I don’t want to hear it Aerith!” Cloud nearly shouted back at the girl startling her some before setting down his giant blade by a tree. “I just spent the last three hours wandering through the woods looking for a damn chocobo and I ended up falling in to an old nest! So I’m not in any mood alright?!” Aerith just gave her own annoyed huff and threw her head to look away from her friend “hmph! Fine then, be that way then!”.

Already exhausted by the bickering Barrett put his hand on Clouds’ shoulder and tried to deescalate the situation before it got out of hand. “knock it off you two! Fighting isn’t going to get us anywhere”. Cloud brushed his friends hand away and shot him another annoyed look. “save it Barrett, the auction’s tomorrow night and we still don’t have the bird they’re looking for. We should’ve just headed straight to Rocket town”. “oh please!” Aerith countered drawing all the attention to her now “that trip is gonna take a whole week at least! And I’m not going to sleep outside for that long when we got such an easy payday lined up.”

After hearing Aeriths’ claim Cloud looked up to the much larger Barrett in hopes of getting support only to receive a shrug instead. “she’s got a point Cloud, we’re low on supplies and can really use the cash…”. Seeing that he was outnumbered and that he wasn’t going to win this argument Cloud gave a defeated yet defiant sigh and turned away from his two comrades to slowly storm off “fine! If you two want to waste your time chasing after some stupid bird then go ahead, but I’m not. I’m heading to Rocket town before I end up stinking like a Chocobo for the rest of my life!”.

“Hang on Cloud!” Aerith shouted as she ran up to the annoyed mercenary before he could get to far. Cloud Turned around to stare daggers at his friend but before he could meet her gaze his vision was blocked by the girls slender arm reaching up past his face. Before Cloud could even react Aerith put her hand around Clouds signature spikey hair and pulled out some of the feathers stuck to his head, along with a few hairs that were yanked out by force as a result. “ow! What the hell Aerith?!” an increasingly pissed Cloud screamed as he grabbed his scalp. Aerith in response held up the feathers in her hands with a condescendingly cute smile “sorry Cloud, but I need these for my summoning spell”. Cloud merely groaned through his gritted teeth and went back to storming off.

Cloud marched on for close to an hour, mumbling and ranting his frustrations to slowly calm himself down and rubbing his head remembering his earlier experience. “dammit Aerith. Your spell’s just gonna backfire like they always…”. Finally regaining his composure Cloud cut off his own sentence and stopped in his tracks for a brief moment to realize something. “shit! My buster sword!” the mercenary shouted out as he felt around his back to notice the missing object. “dammit! I was so pissed off with this damn chocobo hunt I left my sword back at camp” cloud stated in frustration with himself as he turned around and started heading back to the camp.

Cloud begrudgingly headed back to the camp site dreading the embarrassment he was bound to face, but when he had only half a mile left to go Cloud felt a sudden pain over his entire body and clenched on to his chest. “aaagghh! W-What the- hell?!” Cloud grunted through his teeth as the pain quickly spread through his insides and to the rest of his body. Cloud quickly fell to his knees as his legs became numb and his skin began to itch with a prickly sensation that looked like blonde hairs starting to sprout all over. Before Cloud could question what was happening his clothes began to get tighter and tighter as his body started to slowly swell like it was putting on weight. “hhrrgh!!! W-What the hell’s happening?!?!”

Cloud struggled to question through his gritted teeth as the supposed hairs growing over his body continued to grow long and fan out revealing themselves to actually be feathers. “Wha-FEATHERS?!?!” Cloud shrieked aloud in an unusually high pitch for him, a detail he didn’t pick up at first however due to a much more alarming change occurring as his arms made a series of cracking sounds and stretched themselves out into large paddle like shapes. Cloud looked on in terror as his hands quickly disappeared under the large feathers sprouting out of his continuously inflating arms, instinctively Cloud tried to cry out but couldn’t move his mouth the way he wanted to thanks to his lips suddenly becoming hard like a rock and expanding out away from his face in to a brand new shape.”Agghh!! What the-wha-wha…WWWAAAARRRKKK!!?” Cloud shouted out loud, surprising himself as the cry echoed loudly through the trees.

“did…did I just wark?!?!” Cloud thought to himself just as his clothes finally tore apart at the seems, leaving our hero to see the full tow of his bodys’ changes. The feathers growing on his arms have indeed spread across most his body stopping at his enlarged thighs, only for his legs to instead be covered in some sort of scales. What was even more alarming was that Clouds feet have grown out to the point where his toes had fused together into two separate digits that along with his heel had stretched out and curled in to what now resembled birds feet.

Cloud quickly tried to stand up so that he could better assess the situation, but this quickly proved to be a mistake for once Cloud stood up straight his legs painfully snapped at the knee, bending them in the opposite direction as his spine popped itself in to a new position itself forcing his now fat ass to protrude out behind him. “AHHHHGGG!!! WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?!?! I-I LOOK LIKE!!!...”Cloud mentally screamed to himself as his changes slowly and painfully started to come to an end. Cloud’s spine snapped more forcing him to bend over further as his body rapidly began to put on more weight, shredding what was left of his clothes and leaving cloud completely naked. His legs stretched out and his thighs grew wide while his hips ballooned out to accommodate all his new mass.

Cloud’s arms also continued to grow until several loud snaps finally finished their changes in to a pair of feathery wings. Cloud’s neck began to stretch out and thicken drastically too as his skull began to reform itself to better fit with his new neck and growing beak. All the weight that cloud had put on then began to tighten itself forming in to a new muscular system while his insides followed suit and began to painfully reform themselves in to a new set of organs. Finally two more changes occurred just outside of Cloud’s line of sight, going unnoticed for now due to his pain. The first being a big bushel of giant tail feathers sprouting out like a fan over his now big round backside. The second change being one that would have been much more terrifying had the young man saw or even knew that it was happening, his malehood began to shrivel up and shrink away between his new legs until even the hole it was drawn in to had fused together, leaving just a smooth patch of feathers as his insides continued to twist and turn transforming his prostate in to a fully functional cloaca.

Finally with his changes now coming to an end Cloud spread out his wings, stuck his beak to the sky and gave a deafening “WWWAAAAAARRRRRKKKKK!!!” as his transformation came to an end leaving where there was once a proud human mercenary just minutes ago now stood what was undoubtedly, unmistakably a perfect yellow chocobo, the only left of Cloud’sformer self being his signature hairstyle now consisting of feathers. “HHHAAAHHH?!?!? WHAT HAPPENED?!?!? I-I’M A CHOCOBO!?!?!” Cloud screamed in terror as he frantically looked over his body, or at least he tried to scream out only for his words to be replaced with warks and kwehs. “WHAT THE HELL?!?! WHY CAN’T I SPEAK ANYMORE?!?!” Cloud continued to try and say only for the same thing to happen.

Cloud did his best to keep his senses as he experimented with his new body by moving one new body part at a time. Cloud started from by trying to stretch out his arm only to see the feathery wing extend right before him. Still not believing himself to be the one moving the avian appendage Cloud then started to slowly flap it up and down just to see the wing move as he commands it.
Cloud felt his heart start pounding like a hammer but did his best to calm it down. “I-I Don’t believe this…” Cloud thought to himself as he turned his attention from his wing to his drum stick leg. Cloud began flexing the new limb just to see and feel it bend the complete opposite direction that it should for a human.  Cloud then tried to curl his toes only to see the three large talons ball up in to a clutching gesture. “”I…I’m actually a chocobo?!” Cloud thought in a stunned shock as he set his new foot back down. Without even realizing it Cloud bent his new avian body over and started to use his new long neck to examine his new frame. Cloud thoroughly looked at his side and traced down his back, not even realizing his new line of sight should be impossible for a human until he was staring up at his backside. Still disbelieving of what he was looking at Cloud stuck his already protruding posterior out even more and lifted his already propped up bushel of tail feathers straight to the sky before slowly shaking them from side to side.

Clouds eyes buldged wide open in surprise before cringing and a deep blush burned underneath the feathers on his face as the once proud hero watched the robust rear of a chocobo waved back and forth with the quiet rustling of tail feathers. “Ohhhhhh!…this is so wrong!!… Why do I have a giant bird ass!?!?” Cloud couldn’t help but to think aloud as he continued to watch his tail feathers shake.

Clouds’ attention was soon drawn away however as a light breeze made contact with his now broad backside. Normally such a weak gust of air would never had made any sort of impression on the mercenary, but as the wind gently brushed through the feathers now coating every inch of his butt Cloud couldn’t help but Flinch with a shiver down his spine at the disturbing sensation of his newly formed and apparently hyper sensitive tail hole getting blown in to. 

With a startled wark Cloud quickly shot his new head up and brought his new rear , trying in vain to lower his tail over his exposed anus only to find that his exposed ass can’t be covered by any means. As if the sudden revelation that he was completely buck naked for the whole world to see wasn’t bad enough the breeze persisted to blow, now funneled by Clouds bushy fan like tail directly down his rump right over his unbearably sensitive hole. 

”kwwweeeeeeehhhhhh….” Cloud blurted out loud just like a chocobo as the shiver down his spine was upgraded to a strong tingling sensation now throughout his entire lower body. Clouds feathery face felt even more heated and his heart began to flutter as the unnerving yet almost oddly pleasant sensation racked his new feathery form.
 “Hhhaaahhhh…W-What the hell!?!? Wh-Why is my ass so…sensitive?!?!” Cloud tried to question as the breeze finally faded leaving behind a lingering stimulation. “D-Dammit!!! I-It’s gotta be cause I’m fucking naked!!!” Cloud thought with a loud huff as he tried to throw his head in frustration.  Soon enough however Clouds’  frustration quickly changed to fear as another disturbing realization made its way in to his mind. “w-wait…if my ass is completely out in the open, then…”.

With the fact that he was undeniably naked now confirmed Cloud hesitantly turned his gaze downward to the ground stopping at the sight of his talons. After freezing in place for a not so brief moment Clouds’ curiosity finally overpowered his fears and with a deep breath Cloud clenched his eyes shut and used his new long neck to swing his head down to a spot where he could get a good look at his undercarriage.  Slowly Cloud forced his eyes to pry open to confirm just how naked he now was, only to be greeted by a sight of something completely unexpected yet somehow even more  unwelcomed.

Clouds’ eyes once more shot open in shock at what was, or rather wasn’t in front of him. Where Cloud had expected to see the large flacid member of a chocobo cock or even some sort of feathery sheath Cloud saw nothing sitting between his legs.  Frantically Cloud examined every last inch he saw as he looked from one tree trunk thick thigh to the other in search of anything resembling his malehood, only to find a smooth round feathery taint without so much as a nub on it.

“W-WHERE THE HELL’S MY DICK?!?!” Feeling emasculated Cloud screeched out in the form of warks and kwehs in frustration at the humiliating detail only adding further insult to his injury. “SERIOUSLY?!?! I DON’T EVEN HAVE A STUB?!?! EVEN RED GETS TO HAVE A SHEATH AND FUCKING BALLS!!!!” Cloud continued to shout out as his terror and frustration for his situation couldn’t be contained any longer.
 
After warking his beak off for a bit Cloud exhausted his emotions enough to take back control of his thoughts. “o-okay Cloud, relax! There’s gotta be a way to undo…uggghhh!” Cloud began to reason to himself but was stopped by a sudden distress in his body. “oh gods, what now?!” Cloud questioned in fear as the sensation intensified, however unlike the earlier when his insides were being transformed racking his whole is with pain  this new sensation was focused mainly in his stomach and was more of an unbearable discomfort to pain.

“ohhh…!” Cloud groaned out as his guts rumbled violently while the rest of his bird body began tensing up. “uggh! What’s happening now?! Oohhh… my guts are on fire!” cloud thought to himself as the pressure grew to great to bear, swiftly traveling through his stomach and towards his backside in an instant. In response to the pressure Cloud’s new body swiftly moved on its own, quickly locking its scaly legs and sticking his massive backside out while hiking his giant tail feathers out all while cloud tensed up the rest of his body as a result. “Hhaaahhhggh! OH FUCK! I’m…I’m gonna…WWAARRK!” and with a loud wark a massive stream of white sludge shot out from Clouds backside taking any dignity the former hero had left with it. The chocobo couldn’t help but give a small kweh of relief at getting rid of that discomfort but that relief was short lived as Cloud turned his long neck to see what he just done.

Looking at his handiwork Cloud winced in disgust at both his mess and himself as a red blush grew on his face so hot that it showed through his blonde feathers. “d-did I just…ugh! DISGUSTING! I-I can’t believe just…ugh!!!” Cloud cried to himself, shaking his head in embarrassment and frustration before pacing around rather awkwardly for the next minute trying to decompose himself. “okay Cloud, think!...you…you gotta find a way to fix this!” Cloud began to nervously ramble to himself “ it’s…it’s gonna be okay alright?! I mean, it’s not like things could possibly get any woAARRKK!!”.

Before Cloud could finish his mental sentence a very sharp pain suddenly stung him right in his now giant ass. Without even thinking the former human began running away startled by the sting, “YYYEEEOOOWWCH!!! What was that?!” Cloud began to wonder, but before Cloud could recollect himself and stop running the world around him began to spin and his running legs soon became heavy. “wha…what’s happening???...why do I feel so…sleepy?...”. Before Cloud could get his answer his whole body went numb and collapsed on the spot as his vision began to blur before finally passing out.

With the bird Now out cold on the dirt floor the two hunters casually walk up to examine their catch. “HAH! Told you my spell would work!” the young girl squealed cheerfully as her companion went to lift the birds tail feathers and pluck a large tranq dart out of it’s behind. “gotta hand it to ya Aerith” Barrett started as he patted the unconscious bird on its flank. “you actually did it! It’s even the right color”. Aerith just smiled and nodded smugly. “ naturally! I just wish Cloud was still here so I could rub his face in it…”. Barrett just rolled his eyes before pulling a number of straps out from his bag. “ you’lljust have to rub it in when we meet up with him next week. Now come on! We gotta tie this damn bird up and drag it back to the freaking auction house to get examined!” Aerith just huffed and completely changed her demeanor before walking over to help her friend tie up the chocobo. “oh okay, but I don’t see why we need it examined. My spell was perfect, there’s no way that this bird isn’t a hen”.