The ad said:
"Test Subject Wanted for New
Spells
Non-magical human preferred to reduce
risk of interaction. Come prepared to stay one night for observation.
Side effects are expected but reversible; may include weight loss."
The pay was amazing for just one day's
"work". Obviously it meant that whatever spells were being
tested were probably a lot more dangerous or potentially
uncomfortable than the ad writer was willing to directly admit, but
the fact that side effects were supposed to be reversible was at
least a reasonably good sign. Orion could certainly do with more
money, and since he was overweight the fact that weight loss was
apparently likely enough to be specifically mentioned as a possible
side effect tipped the scales in favor of taking the risk.
He showed up to the appointed time and
place. The wizard looked like he couldn't be older than thirty, if
even that; certainly not the kind of ancient master who he'd expected
would be able to afford to pay as much as was offered for a single
day's worth of spell testing. And of course that amount of money had
attracted a fair crowd of people, who he called into a nearby office
one by one to interview.
One after another, the people ahead of
Orion were called in, interviewed very briefly, and apparently
rejected. And then it was his turn. He walked inside to find the
wizard sitting behind a desk and an empty chair in front of it. After
closing the door behind him, Orion stood there awkwardly for a
second.
"Please, take a seat," the
wizard said after a moment.
"Okay.." Orion went over and
sat down. "Waah!" The chair suddenly flared with a white,
flame-like energy, startling him. As soon as it had appeared it was
gone again. Turning back to the wizard, he apologized: "Um..sorry."
"It's alright. That's a scanning
spell," he explained calmly. Just take a seat and relax for a
moment."
"Alright..."
Orion sat down again, and this time
tried to ignore the energy flaring up around him. The wizard said,
"Welcome. My name is Serros." He reached a hand over the
desk.
He leaned forward a bit, being careful
to stay on the chair, and took the offered hand to shake. "Uh,
nice to meet you. I'm Orion." Thankfully, the scanning spell
fire stuff dissipated at this point.
After releasing his hand, Serros picked
up a piece of paper which Orion wasn't entirely sure had been on the
desk before. "Hmm. Would you believe you're the first person to
walk in here who wasn't secretly a kitsune or demon or something?"
"R-really?"
The wizard nodded. "I think some
of them were surprised to learn about it. Anyway, everything looks in
order. I'd like to hire you, if that's all right."
"Well, uh, sure!" Orion
nodded.
The wizard led the way out of the
office, and then his car led Orion's car to a normal-looking house
out in the suburbs. They got out and he followed Serros up to the
front door, which opened with a wave of his hand. After Orion
followed inside, the door shut itself again.
"So, if you don't mind me
asking...what kind of spell are we testing?" said Orion,
continuing to follow him. There was obviously some major magic at
work here; the antechamber alone looked almost as big as the house
had from the outside. Their path continued through a room decorated
with a bunch of armor and statues, with all kinds of weapons hanging
on the walls.
"Metabolic energy conversion,"
Serros said. "I'm looking into ways to fuel more costly spells
and enchantments with food." As he finished speaking, they
entered a lavish dining hall. The table in the middle was spread with
more food than Orion could imagine eating in an entire week, and of
such variety that he imagined one would need chefs from all over the
world to make.
"Oh, wow!" he said, pausing
in astonishment at the spread. "Um, so what do you need me to
do?"
"Well, stand still a moment, just
there," said the wizard, pointing to a spot on the floor near
the big table. "I'm going to cast the spell I'm working on, and
then you should feel hungry. After that you can eat as much of what's
here as you want. I'll be observing and taking notes."
Orion stood in the indicated spot, as
still as he could. Serros waved his hands and spoke in the
incomprehensible language of magic, creating a bright silvery glow
which then streamed out toward Orion. He mentally braced to
feel...well, something, at first, but as the magic stuff streamed
into him he didn't really feel much of anything at all. Before he
knew it, the spell was over.
He felt slightly hungry. Sure, Serros
had said the spell would do this, but honestly it didn't feel like
much more than the fact that lunch had been five hours ago and the
food in front of him looked and smelled so good. Still, he stepped
forward and began to dig into something that looked good nearby.
Whether he was hungry for normal or magic reasons was basically
irrelevant; he was hungry, and he'd been offered this delicious food
to try.
At first, Orion tried a few bites of
everything. There was just so much here to try, and it all looked too
amazing to go without trying as much of it as he could. But to his
surprise, instead of getting too stuffed to eat he seemed to
gradually get hungrier, and before long he had taken at least a bite
or two out of everything that looked good, and he felt at least as
hungry as before, if not hungrier. So he began to take more of the
stuff he'd liked the best the first time around. There were all kinds
of flavors to try: Meat, bread, veggies, fruit, and sweets;
sandwiches, soups, grilled fried, baked or raw; sweet, savory, salty,
spicy; tender and succulent or crispy and crunchy.
Every bit of it was amazing, and Orion
went into such a gluttonous frenzy that only after he began to stop
feeling like he was starving did he realize he'd eaten probably a
third of all the food that had been laid out in front of him. But oh,
he was still hungry, and he kept on eating, paying almost no
attention at all to the wizard following behind him writing things on
a clipboard aside from being careful not to run into him or step back
onto his toes or something.
Eventually, after probably at least an
hour straight of eating, Orion was finally full. It seemed like only
a few bites from still wanting to eat more to his stomach seemingly
realizing how much it had just taken in and declaring that it was
stuffed. He sat down at one of the chairs in front of the table for
the first time and sighed, before finally remembering he had an
audience and looking at the wizard with a mixture of surprise and
possibly shame.
"Um, wow, I...was really," he
said, uncertain of how to put it. He wanted to apologize for gobbling
down so much food, but after all, he'd been told to do so as part of
the test. He wanted to compliment the chef or something, but that
conflicted with his desire to apologize and got lost.
Serros just nodded. "This is about
the expected amount," he said. "You should feel sleepy
soon, so I'll show you to the guest bedroom."
"Okay." Orion stood up again
and followed the wizard through a few more opulently decorated rooms
of varying purposes before coming to an enormous bedroom. He found
himself yawning a couple of times on the way, even though the windows
they passed showed the sun just now setting.
Serros showed him the adjoining
bathroom, and that his small suitcase of clothes for the overnight
stay was already here (but, Orion's mind briefly protested, hadn't he
forgotten to even get it out of his car? And hadn't the wizard been
right there next to him the whole time?), and then showed him how to
operate a magic lantern next to his bed. It lit up when its handle
was grabbed, and snuffed out again when nobody was holding it; simple
enough.
"Feel free to explore the house if
you become restless tonight," said Serros. "You will be
perfectly safe as long as you stay out of any closed doors—which
are locked anyway. Do you have any questions?"
Orion opened his mouth to answer, but a
big yawn came out first. He was having trouble not just dozing off on
his feet. "Sorry—um, no. Thank you," he said.
"Of course." Serros nodded,
and then left.
Orion didn't really want to sleep in
his clothes, especially not in a bed as comfy-looking as that, so he
mustered as much concentration as he could manage to get out a
nightshirt and change into it, taking off his shoes, socks, and pants
along the way. Then he turned off the light, shut his bedroom door,
undid the covers and crawled into the soft bed, tucking himself in
and enjoying the silky-smooth sheets for a moment before drifting off
into a deep sleep. He dreamed of the food he'd had for supper,
experiencing many of the delicious tastes and smells all over again,
some seemingly in more detail and focus than he had the first time
around. The knowledge that he might not ever get to eat such
delicious food again hung in the background, giving an edge of
nostalgic longing to the whole dream.
Eventually, he woke up. He very
slightly opened his eyes to glance at a clock on the nightstand, and
saw that it was somewhere between 1 and 2 AM, far too early to be
awake yet. So he closed his eyes again, wondering why he was even
awake. There was something beginning, just on the edge of his
perception, which seemed to be the culprit; it took a few seconds to
identify it, and in that time it seemed to grow stronger.
There was a gentle tingling sensation
running across Orion's face. And as it grew stronger, it began to
spread up and out along his scalp, and down his neck and then onward
through the rest of his body. Everywhere it appeared, it began too
faint to fully identify and slowly progressed into a quite
noticeable, strangely pleasant sensation, just as it had on his face.
He felt something else odd, too; as the tingling faded off from his
face and intensified across his scalp, he could swear there was more
and more hair falling around his head. There was the feeling of its
weight on the side of his neck, and then his shoulder too, making it
seem quite certain that it was growing longer and longer.
"Mnh..?" Orion reached a hand
up to his head and touched his cheek, and found the skin there soft
and smooth, and completely free of hair. By now the tingling had
spread all the way out to his fingers and toes, and was fading off
from his upper torso, so he moved his hand down along the chin and
neck to his chest, discovering the very same kind of skin all the way
across. This must be...the side effect, right? Not exactly weight
loss, but...
He was interrupted in his thoughts by
another strange sensation. His nightshirt was falling across his
stomach...again, and again, and again, as if it was flapping away and
then back onto it. But paying a little more attention to this, Orion
began to realize that there was less there to feel the nightshirt
falling onto it each time; in fact, his belly was receding. Orion
smiled to himself, hoping the wizard wouldn't insist on reversing
that particular effect. But it was soon apparent that even that
wasn't all that was happening.
Even as the tingling faded off from his
extremities, it only grew stronger on a certain something between his
legs. And that wasn't all; he could swear the bed was growing larger
around him, his body pulling steadily closer despite his not moving
around at all. "Hmm?" His voice sounded a little odd, but
Orion was concentrating instead on stretching himself out on his
side, trying to make sense of what he was feeling. Once he had, he
could feel his feet slowly sliding up the sheets toward him, even as
he pushed them out away as far as they would go. He was...shrinking?
Losing not just weight, but height, too?
His nightshirt began to pull closer
against his body somehow, shrinking itself, it seemed. His shoulders
felt a little narrower than before, and then still moreso; the shirt
pulled close against thinner arms than he was used to. He felt one
hand with another and found both shrinking in size, the fingers
turning smaller and thinner. As the shirt pulled closer still, he
felt the big gut he'd lived many years of his life shrinking to just
a little bump, and then diminishing still more. He couldn't help but
celebrate that, even in the midst of all the other strangeness.
The tingling between his legs grew even
stronger now, and he started to realize that there was actually less
down there than there had been before, too. "Nnh...?" Orion
paused, realizing his voice sounded rather odd. He tried clearing his
throat, and heard a sound like a young boy doing the same. What was
happening to him..? He was interrupted from thinking about that yet
again, this time by an odd stretching sensation from his ears.
They felt the way his arms did when he
stretched them out after waking up in the morning, only..they were
his ears. He could feel the right one moving across his pillow,
becoming bigger and taller. On top of that, they both started to
tingle ever so slightly, and reaching a hand up he discovered soft
fuzz beginning to grow all over the left ear. And then he felt
another something happening, a pushing sensation from his lower back.
Something that hadn't been there before began sending his brain
signals of itself sliding out along the sheets as it grew in size,
signals sent from the base of a thick mass of long hairs all along
it.
Orion's attention was drawn back
between his legs. "Nm..mrrn..!" A voice like a young girl's
came from his throat as he moved his legs back and forth, trying to
make sense of the deeply pleasant inward slipping sensation down
there. He was...it was..soon there wouldn't be anything down there at
all! But why did it feel so nice? Orion's cheeks burned with a blush,
and he let out a soft, canine-like "Rr..rrf!" His voice was
deepening again, but in the wrong way somehow...it still sounded very
feminine.
His ears and the—well, it had to be a
tail from his back—continued to grow, the ears slowly twitching
themselves around and the tail swishing up and down under the covers.
His shorts felt awfully tight all of a sudden, and he noticed that
his stomach was now completely flat, only to have found another
direction to shrink in. The nightshirt pulled still closer against a
gentle inward curve there while his hips began to push their way out
to the sides, his rump plumping out behind him too. His underwear's
leggings were completely gone, and now it squeezed tight between his
legs, against something which threatened to be completely gone soon.
Before he knew it, Orion's ears and
tail finally finished growing, both covered in thick, soft fur and
deeply sensitive to their every movement across the silky sheets and
pillow. They moved around excitedly as his blush deepened, a mature
woman's voice escaping his throat in a soft "Mrrrrrrf!" as
with one final, slipping tug, the panties came to fit between Orion's
legs snugly and comfortably. Her manhood was all gone, and with a
gentle easing off of the tingling down there something entirely new
formed in its place. She could feel an upward push, toward the pit of
her stomach, as everything needed for her to be completely female
grew into place.
It wasn't over yet. Orion's chest began
to tingle once again, the skin suddenly growing deeply sensitive, the
nipples beginning to grow larger and longer. The movements of her
nightshirt across this began to give her new, pleasant sensations
between her legs, drawing a deep, mature "Aah..aah~," from
her mouth. Soon she could feel the rest of her chest following the
nipples forward, steadily swelling out larger and larger...the tight
shirt was all too tight, squeezing and rubbing against the forming
breasts. Her small, delicate hands reached up and fumbled with the
buttons, managing to undo the first few and draw a pleased, womanly
sigh of relief from her lips.
"Hhhaaah." The feeling of her
breasts released from that pressure, and continuing to grow, was a
deep relief to Orion. The sense of relief grew; she felt as if she
had been bound up for so long, and finally her body was being
released to its full, beautiful form. The enjoyment of her growing
bust was more than the sparks of physical pleasure from her newfound
womanhood, extending deep into her being, her sense of self. By the
time they finally stopped growing as a pair of nice, big globes, she
felt deeply at home in her new, quite female form.
"Hmmn~," Orion smiled to
herself, already feeling rather good about her deep, womanly alto
voice. She swung herself around, her shortened legs hanging off of
the bed but shy of the floor, and then dropped herself down and stood
up, picking up the lantern on the nightstand and looking around in
the pale white light it provided.
Everything looked so much bigger; she
must have lost at least a foot of height. her hair tumbled down
across her shoulders, all the way to the small of her back. Her ears
twitched and turned, catching every little sound in the mansion of a
house around her, and her tail swished back and forth in a pleased
wag, somehow helping maintain her balance at the same time. She was
quite curious about her new appearance; if only...there! Of course a
lavish bedroom like this would have a big, full-length mirror over by
the dressers. The new girl skipped happily over to it, holding up the
lantern to give herself a good once-over.
Her hair was a silver-gray color, and
some of her fur as well; her ears and tail faded from that to a pitch
black near the tips. Her eyes had turned bright yellow, and her
teeth, especially the canines, were a bit longer and sharper than
before. In fact, sticking out her tongue she could see that it was
longer than before, even though it hadn't seemed so inside of her
mouth. She was a gorgeous woman, with nice, wide hips and a
full-sized butt, a slim waist and nice, big, round breasts to finish
it off. Her face was lovely, and even her strange new ears and tail
seemed cute enough to enhance rather than detract from her beauty.
The collar around her neck she hadn't even noticed appearing helped
that along, too.
She reached a hand up and back, running
it through her hair; it was silky-soft, even as messy bed hair, which
was just unbelievable. Had Serros's spell really been intended to do
this? Well, probably not; it seemed like quite some side-effects,
though. She would have to let him know about all this...and beg him
not to reverse any of it, she thought.
Well, all of this excitement had left
Orion wide awake. She'd been invited to explore the house, so she
walked over to the bedroom door to go do just that, enjoying the
strange new feeling of her hips gently swaying back and forth with
each step. Off she went with her lantern through the house, sniffing
the air every now and then and catching all kinds of scents she was
sure wouldn't normally have been noticeable before. Orion wasn't
really sure what she was looking for, if anything, but found herself
changing direction instinctively almost every time she sniffed the
air. Eventually she stopped in front of a closed door with the
distinct feeling that this was what she'd been after.
But she wasn't supposed to go into any
of the closed doors, right? Something dangerous might be in there!
Orion's ears twitched and turned forward, listening carefully, and
picked up the faint breathing of someone asleep. A blush rose to her
face as she realized what she'd been doing this whole time: Somehow
or other she knew Serros's scent, and had followed it all the way to
his bedroom! What did she want with..him in his bedroom? Surely
letting him know about these...side effects could wait until morning.
But even as she thought that, she raised her free hand to gently rap
on the door a few times.
The person inside woke up, and there
were footsteps on carpet up to the door. Part of Orion wanted to run
off and hope he thought it was his imagination or something, but she
found herself smiling instead, still blushing, and her tail beginning
to wag even faster behind her as the door opened. Serros was in a
robe that did nothing to hide his chest, which was now a little above
her eye level, and her first thought was how cute he looked. "Um.."
For once, the wizard was at a loss for words.
"Hey, uh, it's me, Orion,"
she said. "I woke up a few minutes ago and then, well, this
happened." she made a vague gesture to her body's state.
"I...see." Serros rubbed an
eye, thinking. "Hmn..the spell isn't venting excess anywhere
near as safely as it's supposed to. This is honestly much more change
than I expected, but it still looks purely physical, nothing I
couldn't put right."
"Oh, but.." Orion's ears
drooped slightly. "I, kinda like this. In fact I really like it.
Can I keep it?"
"I don't see any reason why not,"
said the wizard, tilting his head slightly. "Can you tell me why
you like it? It might help make sense of how it happened."
"Well, I..this just feels really
good," she said, not sure how to put it into words. "I like
being small and cute and pretty and soft and..things. And, I like the
wolf bits too. Something about it all feels right, like I'm supposed
to be like this..even though, that doesn't really make any sense?"
"Hm." Serros put a hand to
his chin. "I believe I know what happened. My spell is supposed
to vent excess energy by improving the body—things like weight
loss, mild muscle gain, healing scars, that kind of thing. But I
didn't set any parameters on what 'improvement' means exactly, so if
some part of you wanted to look like that, the magic vented
by..changing you to look like that."
"Do you like it?" she said
eagerly, and then paused, unsure where that had come from. "Uhm,
I mean, uh," she fumbled for a moment, blushing even brighter.
"I-it's, quite attractive,"
Serros answered. "Beautiful, in fact." Wait, was he
blushing too?! She forced her eyes up to his face to see him trying
not to stare down her partially-open shirt.
The wolf-girl's instincts took over
again, and she pounced up at him, throwing her arms around his neck
and hanging herself over him in an embrace. "Err...I dunno,
w-what I'm doing," she said, and giggled nervous. Her face was
right in front of his..!
"It seems obvious enough to me."
To her surprise, he didn't push her off. In fact, she could feel the
wizard's arms slowly making their way around her, beginning to return
the embrace. "This...isn't really an appropriate situation,"
he said, his face as red as hers felt. "Your hormones are
probably running wild just after, a-and you're not used to having
animal instincts yet, either.." Orion replied by pushing her
face into his in a kiss, which he returned just as willingly and
eagerly as she gave. Only after their faces had been locked together
for well over a minute did they let go, and Serros gently set her
down on her feet an arm's length away from him.
"Y-you should, I mean. It would
probably be best to give it a day or two and see whether you feel the
same way still." He wasn't clear on which way she felt he meant,
but she nodded. "Um, you can stay here during that time if you'd
like."
"Okay," she said, giving a
wide grin, almost a smirk. That new animal instinct felt just as if
she had her prey right where she wanted it. But for now she let him
go back inside and close the door, and went back to her room, curling
up on the soft bed to sleep for the rest of the night.
A few days turned into a week. Every
bit of the food she'd eaten the day before had been Serros's doing,
through some magical means of cooking, and she got to have more of
it. Orion suggested the wizard could continue using her to test his
spells to make up for her taking up space in the house, although it
was obvious to both of them he was enjoying her company. A week
turned into a month, and not even the regular pain of being a woman
discouraged Orion from staying just as she was. After all, her
boyfriend was just as fond of it as she was, from the way he returned
her every kiss. She became familiar enough with his work to help him
in more ways than just spell testing and stress relief.
She knew his habits and routines well
enough to hunt him down any time of the day, and took advantage of
that to surprise him with a proposal, which of course he accepted.
His assistant became his fiancée and only flirted with him more,
which he clearly enjoyed even through the protests. It was only
another couple of months before they became partners for life, and
then her prey was completely at her mercy, there in the bed with her.
It had all felt so natural and impulsive, but as she drew close to
her husband to take what she'd really wanted ever since first seeing
him as a woman that night, a part of Orion's mind couldn't help but
think things had gone exactly to plan.
