Seriously, after all that yelling and wriggling on the ground, what he transmuted into was just a fugly, giant pitch-black wolf with one half-meter-long tail? 

"I've seen unsightly wolves, but I've never seen one this ugly. Geez!" Phoenix said with disdain.

"I second that," his mate chipped in.

He headed to the chair his mate formerly sat on, picked up the bowl of popcorn and sat down with legs crossed, "Dear, I'm rooting for you," 

She nodded before letting out just one tail. It casually ...