Cow Daze
Epilogue: One Year Later

The Carter Family Camping Excursion’s return to the mountain felt a little strange. As Miles parked outside of the main cabin, he couldn’t help but look back on the life before it all happened. It was very much like remembering an old friend rather than remembering his own life.

Everything changed. Once the chaos of the first month subsided, smart people, the ones who weren’t turning into half animal fuck machines anyway, put their heads together and figured some things out. The virus ultimately affected roughly thirty percent of Americans. That number went to ten percent of other countries due to containment precautions. Still, almost a billion people being infected meant the world would never go back.

Miles moved around to the rear of the car, opened the trunk, and lifted the massive cooler out with one arm. The ox like strength was a nice benefit, though the need to expend energy kept him in the gym way more than he enjoyed. He peered through the back hatch at Penny and Becca in the backseat. “C’mon you two. Focus.”

The sisters were each using their new pumpers, another gift from the strangely benevolent and open minded Viral Event Acclimation Agency. The devices had been engineered by a female engineer who suffered from hybridization and needed a way to find relief throughout the day. The devices resembled a dairy milking apparatus, but with the added feature of a vibrator and portable drum for storage. They even came with USB plugs for travel. Penny and Becca spent most of the drive enjoying their new toys.

The second and third cars pulled up. Like every other person who went through hybridization, Anthony had been forced to buy a new car. Miles wondered if car designers actually enjoyed the challenge of building something for a body other than human. He’d opted for the smaller model since he only ever needed to worry about his wife and Becca, maybe sometimes a friend or Alicia. Anthony and Luke both took the large models of the new car line, capable of fitting five hybrids or eight regular humans.

From the look of things, the boys had swapped driving responsibility at some point, not that it made much different. Luke had Purity’s head bobbing up and down on his cock as soon as he parked. Miles decreed no sex while driving as soon as they got the new cars. That didn’t prohibit Anthony from being buried in tits and ass in the back seat. Miles gave a wave to his son which clearly meant to finish up and help with the unloading.

A few minutes later, the two younger bulls hopped out of the car. Anthony fastened his kilt back while Luke only needed to hold his down. Clothing was another realm that needed to advance quickly. For the bulls, shirts didn’t need to change much, though few of them liked wearing them. Pants were a non-start, though. For one, the bulls all had thick hair covering their pelvis which made clothes uncomfortable. The tail presented problems as well, especially with how often they needed to quickly undress. And, the largest issue, was the changed genitals being entirely unable to be confined. Kilts became the obvious solution rather quickly. In public, Miles wore an undercloth as well. For their private lives, such things only got in the way.

The women had a more significant issue with the changes to their clothes. Their new breasts chaffed instantly if confined. They almost constantly leaked milk, and no confining clothes would work on their lower halves. Again, female designers found solutions to the problems. They switched to a fabric blend that was less abrasive and sold it exclusively for hybridized women. Dresses, if they could still be called that, were the main route, but most came with fasteners in the front for easy disrobing, as well as further padding to protect from leaks and other stimulation. None of the women bothered to dress for the excursion, other than the collars they’d all chosen to start wearing for reasons the men didn’t understand.

Kat and Joy tumbled out behind Anthony, giggling at one another as their massive tits bounced on top of their swollen bellies. Kat had ultimately been the only one of their herd to fully develop an udder, much to the disappointment of the others. The bulging sac did come with some unfortunate realities, though. Kat rarely walked upright while inside. Her body simply wouldn’t allow it. The pregnancy made it worse as her abdomen filled out and pressed all of her tits out of its way. Miles saw plenty of women who hadn’t also gotten Kat’s additional height. They looked like squashed parade balloons, but Kat managed to look sleek, if still quite plump. With her arms fully extended, her belly and udder had about an inch of clearance from the ground, and that was enough for her.

Stephanie joined them, cum oozing out from between her pussy lips. Miles didn’t exactly understand how courtship worked in the new way of things, but he liked Stephanie, and appreciated Anthony bringing her around. She was less pregnant than the others, but still quite the baby bump underneath her nicely tanned breasts. The poor girl had gone through the initial stages nearly alone. Her then boyfriend had fucked her once before becoming alarmed at her sudden changes. He locked her in an apartment and made a run for it. Stephanie didn’t know what happened to the guy after that, but she spent the rest of the initial days masturbating in her apartment. Anthony had known her from before and seemed to like her enough to keep her around. Poor thing wasn’t as developed as other hybrid girls, but she made up for it in effort. The bulls all thought she was sweet, and Penny approved of her, so that was the last anyone thought of it. She was part of the herd.

Purity hopped around the side of the car carrying Bertie under one arm. The chicken fluttered down to the ground and wandered off to chase a bug. Purity still didn’t speak much, but otherwise largely returned to her old self. She took breaks from that self at fairly high intervals to come join in the communal fucking and milking. At the same time, she seemed to gain an ability to share her interests with others more easily, particularly the two younger bulls. Miles noticed Luke and Anthony tended to hang around Purity more for her interests than because she wanted them to fuck her. At their most salient selves, the three would play board games that seemed way more complicated than the ones Miles knew. The other girls wouldn’t be interested, so they would spend the time with their mouths wrapped around the bulls’ dicks.

The third car presented the most unusual adjustment for Miles. It was Alicia and her new bull, Logan. While he no longer felt like Alicia’s father — in fact, they weren’t even biologically related anymore due to the severe cellular changes the virus caused — he did still feel a protective bond with her. The same as he felt with the others, even Anthony or Joy. For the first half of the year, they all attributed this feeling to their history together as well as the shared event of their change, but some began expecting it ran a little deeper than that. He was protecting the members of his herd.

It wasn’t unusual or unique to the Carters. New herds formed all over the world. Groups that cohabited, looked out for one another, and fucked like crazy. Each herd had a patriarch and a matriarch who generally ran things, with the other, usually younger, members happy to follow leadership. This all came naturally to Miles and his herd, but adding a new member seemed strange. Miles constantly found himself testing Logan in subtle ways, trying to determine if the young bull would follow his orders like Luke and Anthony. So far, Logan hadn’t resisted the nudges. Penny approved of him. Becca, too. And Logan was eager to prove himself. He seemed to make Alicia happy, so Miles tried not to let his strange territorial drive cause too much of an issue.

The women all congregated together as the bulls carried in the provisions. A week’s worth of food was four times what it had once been. Miles also switched most of his meat selections away from beef. The women followed them inside all chattering together and rubbing on one another. While their intellect and senses of self mostly returned once the more adverse effects of the virus passed, their bodies, the men too, still demanded a primary focus on sex. Penny led the women into the kitchen where they started putting things away. In theory, the younger group would separate off to their own cabin, but Miles doubted that would happen until the second night at least.

Once everything was inside, Miles rummaged through the fridge to bring out one bottle of champagne and one bottle of sparkling grape juice. Penny and Becca helped hand out the cups to the appropriate drinkers. Once everyone was ready, Miles cleared his throat. “Well, it’s been a strange year, hasn’t it? In the past, we came up here to get away from our lives for a little while, but this year it feels a lot more like coming home. Family means something else now. It’s more complicated and less complicated at the same time. Like they keep saying on the news, we’re a small portion of a change in humanity that won’t happen again for centuries. Frankly, though, I don’t care about that. I don’t need someone with six degrees to explain to me why what I’ve become is ok. We’ve all been given a new start on life. One that’s going to be very different, but hopefully very happy. Our family has already grown with Stephanie and Logan. We’re all excited to spend more time with each of you. But, as you can all see and most of you can feel bumping around inside you, we’re about to grow in a totally different way. To that end, we’re going to need more space. Girls, and Logan if you’re interested, I’ve talked with Luke and Anthony, and we’ve decided to buy one of the plots at Hybrid Hills.”

The room erupted into an excited chatter. Not long after the viral event, some developers in rural Virginia decided to get ahead of the curve. They offered up large plots of land with custom built houses for the new hybrids. It caught on and a small community had already grown up of people like Miles. It would be good to be near others like them. He waited for the room to settle down. “Alright, I have pictures to show you later. There’s a whole lot of shit for all of us to do when we get there. Each of you will get a room to design for yourselves, and there’s going to be plenty of extra space. Even a dedicated milking room. But that comes next week, for now, let’s toast. To the Carter Family Excursion.”

Purity mooed, louder than the others cheered, and they all turned to look at Miles. He blushed and shrugged. The noise started deep in his chest, rumbling slightly as it made its way up and out. The bellowing low of their bull was joined by the others.