James was getting ready for the Halloween season early. The man always had the worst luck when it came to costumes. He'd always have ideas for what he wanted to dress up as, but by the time he had the idea, he could never find the costume he wanted, so James would always have to wear something "basic." As such, James decided to do the costume shopping much earlier than normal, and find something to really pop and catch the attention of anyone who looks his way.

He walked into a local costume store that was open year-round. Normally, it was cleared out closer to Halloween season, but since that was still a fair bit away, he figured he'd be able to find whatever he wanted! When James had come previously, he was usually met with cleared out racks, but this time, it was filled to the brim with costumes! There were some full sets, while others were simply the outfits that characters wore. There were so many choices! James hadn't actually come with an idea for what he wanted to dress up as, but figured he'd stumble into something! 

There was a little bit of everything, ranging from costumes from video games to ones from mythology. If there was a character, it seemed like there would be a costume for them at the shop! James wasn't one for wearing thick costumes like a mascot would wear, and opted to find one that was just the outfit of a character, so he needed one that was distinct. 

Eventually, James walked over to the Sonic the Hedgehog section. He was a fan of the series and thought he might be able to find something there. While a lot of outfits were well, not very much outfits at all outside of gloves and shoes, a lot of the female costumes had more going on. The one in particular that caught his attention was Whisper's. He was surprised to see it there, but James supposed since she was one of the more popular characters in recent years, it'd make sense for there to be a costume! 

James decided that this was the way to go, and grabbed the outfit off the shelf. It consisted of Whisper's mask, cloak, top, pants, boots, gloves, kneepads, and a hair band. The only thing missing was Whisper's weapon, but James figured he didn't need that and could buy a replica later if he needed to. He gathered it together, and made his way to the cash register. 

"Find everything you need?" a lemur man whose nametag read "Michael" asked as James put the costume down on the counter. 

"Yup, sure did!" James paused and looked at the nametag so he could call the lemur his name. "Michael. Is this shop yours?" 

"It is now, yeah! Inherited it, didn't want it at first but now that I'm in the swing of things, it's hard to imagine I not working here." he chuckled, picking up the costume. "Good costume choice too! Funnily enough, I just sold a Tangle outfit just the other day." 

"No kidding?" James laughed along with Michael. "What are the odds of that? Tangle is great too, but I've always preferred Whisper over her in that duo." 

"I've always been a Lanolin guy myself. Maybe I'll sell her costume soon if this trend continues!" Michael suggested. "If you have a friend who wants to be a sheep girl, send them my way." 

"I'll keep that in mind." Michael smiled. "I've never worn a costume meant for a girl before, it will fit, right? I couldn't find a size on it anywhere." 

"Oh, no worries! All my costumes fit all sizes!" Michael paused for a moment. "But you know, I think it could fit even better, if you want it to." 

"How can a costume fit better? You going to stretch it out or something?" James asked with a dry, but friendly laugh. 

"Just a little bit of this." Michael said, hovering his hands over the costume. "And there! That should make things fit much better. I'd say what I did, but I find it much more fun for you to experience it yourself!" he said with a wink. 

"Strange but okay!" James said with a shrug and laugh. "Guess I'll find out! I do kind of want to try it on now though. Do you have a changing room?" 

"Right over there." Michael pointed to the corner of the store. "Change into your new getup and enjoy the results~!" 

"Thanks, I'll let you know!" James grabbed the costume and gave a nod to Michael before walking over to the changing room. The man didn't take long to get out of his current clothes and start putting on the costume. It did look small in his hands, but according to Michael all sizes should fit. He shrugged and slipped into the pants and top. It was a bit snug, but outside of that, the lemur was right, they did fit perfectly! 

"Wow, didn't expect it to fit so good." James commented to himself with a chuckle, looking at his reflection as he looked at the front and back. "It's not quite the complete look, but almost there! Makes me wish I had a fursuit to go with it. Make it really realistic." he chuckled to himself. 

However, James noticed something...off with his laughter. It sounded...quieter? And a bit more feminine than he expected to. "Test." he said out loud, his voice only a few decibels high while the pitch was undeniable female. He suddenly felt a shiver travel down his spine, and James immediately knew something was happening. Both from the foreign feelings all over his body and from the reflection in front of him. James was starting to transform! And judging by how quiet his voice was, James had a feeling he knew where this was going. Rather than panic, excitement filled James, watching with glee as his body started to shift to be a more appropriate fit for the costume. 

James watched as his ears traveled up his head, increasing in size as they did until they were doubled. The tips of them became pointed while the sides became straighter, causing them to take on a triangular shape. On the insides of James' ears, chocolate brown fur coated it while biscotti fur sprouted over the exterior to completely cover the skin on the ears. 

It wasn't just James' ears that were growing fur, but his entire head. More biscotti colored fur grew over the entire back of his head as well as all the area above his eyes. It even extended to his hair, of which became much longer and fuller, with a long bang in particular hanging over James' right eye. Speaking of, going across James' eyes, white fur found itself growing, giving him a bit of a "mask-like" fur pattern there. Around James' eyes themselves, gray fur formed. Lastly, around the lower half of his face, chocolate brown fur grew, matching that found inside his ears now. James' nose shrank in size, turning circular while taking on a black coloration. Afterward, James' face stretched out, growing into a modest muzzle while one of his teeth became sharper and longer, the new fang sticking out from the size of his muzzle now. The overall shape of James' head became much larger and a bit wider as the shape of the skull altered. 

The size of James' neck shrank until it was practically nonexistent, his head now practically directly connected to his shoulders. What little throat was left had the lump inside it shrink as well, cementing James' soft, high-pitched voice as his new permanent tone. James' shoulders cracked down as their broadness became narrow, his arms becoming significantly thinner and slender to keep the proportions in check. Brown fur coated James' shoulders and arms, traveling all the way down and growing over his hands. While most of James' upper body altered to have fitting proportions, the same was not happening to his hands. Instead, they actually increased in size, fingers becoming thicker as their size practically doubled. James' fingernails altered, becoming a bit more disconnected from his fingers and turning into small black claws. 

Brown fur continued to grow on James' upper body, completely covering up his entire torso. While the fur grew, the figure underneath it altered. The sides of James' body sucked inward, leaving a concave angle in his figure while the same was happening to his back as an arch formed into it. While most areas were losing mass at his upper body, the one exception would be at his chest. There, two mounds began to amass, becoming softer as they rounded out into a modest pair of breasts. 

Below the belt, James' hips expanded outward, growing into wider, more childbearing proportions. Similarly, his rear puffed out, becoming more pert and pronounced, highlighted by his arched back. Between James' legs, his manhood flattened and faded away, swapping to the workings of the opposite sex inside and out. Like his arms before, James' legs became much thinner, taking on a more "noodle-y" look to them. As this was happening, the length of James' legs was becoming shorter and shorter, causing his height to be practically sliced in half. And just like his hands, the size of James' feet became significantly larger. In the process, the digits of toes started to merge until there were only three, the bottom of the feet now completely flat as they transitioned into paws.

Brown fur continued to grow down James' legs, his body now covered in fur from head to toe with no visible skin left. Lastly, behind James an entirely new appendage grew. While most of his body had brown fur, his new tail would have more biscotti fur to match the fur on his head. It was fairly long and thick, almost reaching the ground. With that, James wasn't a human man anymore, but a wolf girl. More precicesely, he was Whisper the Wolf! 

With the transformation complete, James looked at his reflection in awe. It was hard to keep his eyes wide open, and he found himself naturally squinting more often than not to the point it looked like his eyes were almost always closed. His chest was slightly exposed, the lower cut of the top revealing a small bit of cleavage with the rest hugging his curves to highlight his new feminine figure. The pants were tight and snug, but still able to stretch and move with ease. He had never seen Whisper with her hair down before, so it did look a bit off - something rectified when he grabbed the hair band that came with the costume and put his hair into a thick ponytail. While he was at it, James also put on the cloak, boots, and had the mask on his head but raised up rather than over his entire face. With another look in the mirror, James saw a spitting image of Whisper! 

"Oh my gosh..." a big grin formed across her face. "This is awesome!" James found herself giggling with glee. She didn't even mind that she was a girl suddenly, everything about this was just amazing! She'd happily be a girl if it meant she could be Whisper! 

She walked out of the dressing room, smile never leaving her face as she did. It seemed her good mood was noticed by Michael, who looked on with a smile of his own. 

"I take it you like the results?" he asked with a friendly laugh.

"Like is an understatement! I've never been happier!" James answered back. "I don't know how you did this but keep doing it!" 

"That's the plan!" Michael said back. "Enjoy the results, Whisper." he said with a smirk and wink. 

Just being called Whisper made James all giddy. That's who she was after all, best start thinking of herself as Whisper now! She had no intention of going back to being James now after all! 

"This has been great, thank you a ton, but now I have to be off! I got to find new clothes for this new body. I'm a lot shorter now so nothing I used to have fits anymore, not to mention the fact I'm a girl now!" 

"There's a great store a few blocks down. Lot of people who buy costumes here usually go there. Tell them Michael sent you and they'll give you a nice discount!" 

"Thanks for the tip, I think I'm going to take you up on that!" Whisper smiled and waved goodbye, Michael waving back as the new wolf girl left to explore this whole new life! 

It did take a little bit to get used to walking with her new center of balance, but she was walking like she had been a wolf girl her whole life! She had a spring in her step, with a smile never leaving her new muzzle. If her eyes were wide open, you'd be able to see a sparkle in them! 

"Hey, you!" Whiper's ear twitched when she heard someone calling to her. Turning to face the source, she was greeted by a fox man dressed in a casual open flannel and jeans. 

"Me?" Whisper asked, pointing to herself. 

"Yeah! You're from one of those video games aren't you?" the fox asked. 

"Not a video game, no. Comic, actually. But if she got put into a video game that'd be awesome!" 

"That can easily be arranged!" the fox laughed. "Skyler, not that it matters to you." the fox introduced himself. 

"Hopefully, it'd be great to have Whisper in a game! Or should I say me in a game?" Whisper said with a giggle. 

"Your wish is my command!" Skyler said with a smirk and glowing eyes. With a snap of his fingers, Whisper's body began to change yet again.

Only this time, her species and sex weren't being affected. Instead, she felt herself start to stiffen up. Her legs went straight and one hand went to her side and the other became outstretched. Materializing seemingly out of nowhere, Whisper's weapon formed that her hand gripped around at the handle. Whisper's eyes were fully closed, with a concerned expression forming on her face. This expression and pose became locked in place, Whisper unable to alter them at all as the next phase began.

Whipser's fur was hardening and being converted into plastic. Everything that made Whisper animate was leaving. All bone, muscle, voicebox, everything was gone. Whisper's form became more fragile and easily breakable, all while a black platform materialized underneath her feet that the boots were connected to. The new plastic figurine shrank drastically in size once again. While the change from James to Whisper cut his height in half, the change from living wolf girl to inanimate one caused an even more drastic size change, the Whisper figurine becoming less than a foot tall as now it was only a few inches. Now, Whisper had been turned into an amiibo of Whisper the Wolf in an identical pose to her primary stock photo used for media promotions. 

"See? Now you can be in the game!" Skyler said, kneeling down and picking the new Whisper amiibo up. "Granted, I don't really play video games these days. Why play a game when I can just make reality into the game and live it myself? Much more fun that way!" the fox laughed. "So I don't really have a use for you." he said with a shrug, tossing the Whisper amiibo aside as it landed into a bush. 

Skyler left the transformed wolf behind, leaving Whisper to its fate. Mentally, much of James was overwritten. As an amiibo, the memory it had wasn't too drastic, and didn't have much room in its data banks to retain anything but its programming. James' personality became identical to Whisper, including her memories. 

She gained deep knowledge about wispons and wisps, capable of using them to help her in any situation. When used in a supported game, Whisper would show up with wisps and her weapon, helping to clear out an area from enemies. All one needed to do was activate the amiibo at any point in a level to bring Whisper's assistance in. 

But outside of that in the "real world," James was now just a Whisper amiibo. Despite it being odd that an amiibo existed for a character that wasn't actually in any game, nothing else about it was out of the ordinary. No one would assume it was once a living version of Whisper, and especially no one would ever consider it having originally been a human man named James. At most, anyone who saw it would just assume it was an amiibo that was made by a big fan of Whisper. The details were there, so they had to of loved Whisper! 

Whisper had spent a while in the bushes, some making idle comments about it but for a while, no one had decided to claim an amiibo for their own. Eventually, someone who appreciated it would claim the figurine and take it home with them. They weren't sure if the Whisper was fanmade or official and accidentally got left out, but they wanted to keep it on nature of it being a collector's item! 

Whisper was put into a display case alongside other various Sonic the Hedgehog memorabilia, especially rarer ones that they had never seen before. The collector kept getting lucky finds, just the other day they had found a Tangle standee advertising people to join the Diamond Cutters! Fittingly, Whisper was kept near the Tangle standee. They almost had a full collection of Diamond Cutter collectibles! Just needed Lanolin and Silver to round out the "main" crew. 

And so, that's where James stayed. If the game ever came that allowed the amiibo to function, perhaps she'd be taken out and used for the bonus content. But until then, Whisper would stay in the display case. At the very least, she was cared for!