animal tf story unique friendships

a young girl named zara always after school went into the jungle to play with a leopard cub near her house who she hadn’t told anyone about her parents are lax so don’t really care what she does after school due to their work. the only rule she had to follow was needing to be home by 8pm as her parents said she can’t be out after that for safety its only a 10 minute walk back home and she leaves more time than needed. one day the cub a female she named mariah looked in pain which is the first time zara had seen look hurt and knows that it would be tough to get help so she stays with mariah for a while and notices something strange as it feels like its giving her something about 30 minutes later she looked down and screamed she was gaining leopard spots on her arm and than noticed mariah clawing at her clothes and realises something is off mariah then tells her to calm down she was only pretending to be in pain to distract her because she always wanted a sister and company her body had changed into a female leopard cub and was quite happy suddenly realising her friend or should i say sort of sister did it to her to make her happy they went to find mariahs parents who often hunt while they play but zara knew them and all ended well.