Aetuornos Beta 1-1

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Author post thing:

So...hi. 

I've been very quiet lately. The main reason for that is essentially a gigantic writer's block that lasted two or three months, and was really gearing up to happen even without the help of the world going upside-down on me. I have personally been just fine, and I hope if you're reading this that you're okay too. Despite said block, I have been slowly chipping away at some of the ongoing stories; I've had ideas for captions. It's just that nothing has been brought fully to fruition yet.

So this is what I have. I had an idea for a story, more or less, and I'm running with it for as long as it takes me. I think eventually I'll be able to put out more captions and more of the other stories, but since I have this I want to publish it so that I'm not just posting nothing for, what, going on three months straight?

Anyway, I hope you like it.

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1-1: Warrior's Inception

It was like it opened up beneath him, and he fell. The falling felt slow—not air rushing across his body, but like water flowing slowly out of his way as he sank through it. Like he'd taken off in a cannonball and landed on his back, and then just given up, uncurled, and let gravity carry him down the bottom of the pool, or the depths of the ocean—only without getting wet, nor any difficulty continuing to breathe. He opened his eyes, and looked around; it was clear, slightly blue, with enough light filtering down from above to make out his own body. The "ocean" seemed empty around all sides, and below as well, and a rapidly retreating surface above. Motion was easy, at least as far as rotating himself around and upright went; resisting the downward momentum seemed pointless, and sideways movement didn't bring him much of anywhere.

His first thought was this: There was a lot he'd expected to be impressed by here, but he hadn't expected the first thing to be the loading screen. However, he had to revise that thought when he discerned a distinct sort of pressure and motion all across his body. Looking down, he saw that it was being visibly pressed and molded: His waist trimming, his arms and legs slimming down steadily. Also, the "water" had already washed off every trace of body hair, and reaching a shrinking hand up to his chin, he found soft, smooth skin all across his face. Speaking of hair, there were bright silver locks starting to trail down into his view, bits of hair floating around to either side of his face and occasionally tickling his cheeks, and more of it creeping its way down the back of his neck.

"Oh, woow," he said, patting his increasingly flat belly through the t-shirt billowing around his torso. "So this is how they keep it from..mmh!" His thinking aloud was interrupted by a mild tugging sensation between his legs. Squirming his thighs around a bit confirmed that something was much smaller—but still present—down there. "O-oh. Hahah, well," he said, feeling the heat of a slight blush on his cheeks. His throat tickled strangely, and he said, "Tha~aat's gonna feel sorta weird, I guess, thi~is, wa~ay," the pitch of his voice rising mid-word a few times.

"Aah!" His blush intensified as another tug downstairs diminished him further. Now he could feel his hips gently pushing their way outward, his bottom plumping out behind him and thighs steadily thickening. Looking down, he could see his shirt and shorts pulling themselves tight against his shrunken form, revealing the beginnings of some curves: A slim wist, still-narrowing shoulders, and the widening bottom, of course. "Oh! M-my clo~othes, too?" he mused, hearing his voice rise out of tenor range in the process. The shorts were rapidly losing their leggings, their material softening as they pulled almost uncomfortably tight between his legs and showed off a very pathetic little bulge down there, despite some..excitement he was presently feeling.

"Yeah, I guess at so~ome point..mmnh!" His voice cried out, sounding like a young boy's, as he felt a sudden, sharp tingling down there, which progressed into a weaker but steadier version of the earlier tugs. "Aa~aah.." His voice rose still higher as he felt his manhood melting away, and squirmed in place in response to the unexpectedly pleasant sensation. "Aah, aa~aAAaah..!" This time his voice seemed to mature a bit, sounding less like a girl and more like a woman, as indeed... "Ooh—oh—yyeeeeaaaAAAAAHHH!" The changes down there concluded, female replacing male all at once and instantly asserting itself with an unfamiliar yet deep and irresistible sensation alongside a gentle upward push toward her belly as all the rest formed into place.

"Hff, hff..t-that was, amaa~zing!" the new girl declared, looking down past the tight shirt on her slim torso at a pair of frilly black panties now holding comfortably snug against her new equipment. "M-maybe a little, uhm, extreme?" she added, trying to get used to the altered voice—now a sort of low soprano, not squeaky but fairly youthful and energetic-sounding. "Should probably mention that to the, uh..whoa..." Her ears felt strange, like they were stretching themselves out and sharply tingling all at the same time. Reaching a small, delicate hand up as she felt them brushing right past her nearly shoulder-length hair, she felt fuzz growing across them, as well as far larger ears than they were just a moment ago. "Heheh, that feels kinda weird too," she said, running a hand across the growing fur. "Not bad, though. I'm really wondering about the tail, now.."

"Mmmn?" Her mouth felt strange for a moment, and when she ran her tongue over some of her teeth afterward she discerned the presence of some longer and sharper teeth than before in a couple of places. "Fangs?" she realized aloud, grateful the dental change hadn't affected her speech. "Now that's commitment. I wonder..rr..mmh.." Her thought was cut off by a sudden spread of a tingly sensation all across her chest, but especially near the nipples. Looking down, but not finding anything to see just yet, she could already feel a new blush oncoming.

"O-oh yeah..I kinda forgot about that. Heheh," she giggled nervously. Her...reaction to the major change below had been something else, and this was already sparking a slight fuzzy feeling down between her legs. At the same time, she felt a gentle push from her lower back, and twisting around slightly she caught the beginnings of a silver-furred tail making its way out past the hem of her shirt.

The tingling intensified, and she felt the material of the shirt brushing across suddenly sensitive skin as her nipples grew wider and taller. "Mmh! O-oh...here gooees," she mumbled, bracing for impact. "Aah..aah...!" A little bump pushed its way up from below each nipple, the beginnings of a pair of breasts. "Aaah..rrf!" The growing tail swished rapidly back and forth, the girl's now-gigantic, fluffy ears lowering toward the sides of her head, and she surprised herself with a high bark. "Wha-aaAAaarrf!" A louder one interrupted her attempt to express the confusion. Her tail tingled and stretched, growing longer and thicker; the small bumps accelerated their growth, seemingly pushing the shirt out to accommodate their growing size. Her eyes fluttered shut as she began to find it difficult to think in the flood of sensations.

"RrrRRF! Yip!" Two sudden jumps advanced her bust size, each one accompanied by a torrent of wonderful feelings from her newfound womanhood. "Aah, aAah, AAH!" The breasts grew even faster now, as it felt like her entire being wanted—needed them to keep going. She was already past a mature, visible pair and growing toward above-average size, and it was clear it wasn't about to let up yet. "OoOOh yeeEEAaahh!" she yelled incoherently; a gigantic, fluffy tail now wagged vigourously around behind her as she writhed around in ecstasy, just riding high on it all. Finally, as one last push brought her breasts from 'big' to 'huge', she tilted her head back and let out an honest-to-goodness howl, a piercing "Awrooooo~!" that could have been heard for miles around—if she weren't still floating out in abstract space, at least.

The voluptuous woman bent forward, alternating between panting heavily and rapidly for a bit, before slowly straightening herself up as she felt something going on with her clothes. "H-hahah..that was..yeah, definitely..t-too intense." She shook her head, her ears flopping about and hair swishing around her a bit in response, but her face was still covered in the hugest, goofiest blushing grin ever. "Iiii, don't think I'm gonna forget to mention that!" Looking down, she could see her shirt in the process of reorganizing itself, the sleeves coming off and sliding down to the forearms, the hem traling down to her knees but splitting apart on either side in the process. A sash suddenly pulled itself around her waist, a giant red-and-gold ribbon tying it off, and a scarf wrapped itself around her neck, its tattered ends billowing out behind her to one side. A purple floral ornament attached itself to her hair just below her left ear, and similar stylings appeared on her sleeves as they billowed out near the wrists, some bridal gauntlets crawling their way up onto her hands from inside. Besides that, a pair of leggings pulled themselves up from her feet to her thighs, a pair of shoes appearing over them on her once-bare feet.

"Hahah, wow," she turned around in place, taking in the outfit. "Talk about revealing. Pretty standard stuff, I guess..I kinda like it, though! Oh..!" Her thoughts were interrupted as she passed through something resembling a thick, white fog to find herself falling slowly through a sunlit sky; looking up it became clear she'd just passed through a cloud, and looking down she could see a small, grassy clearing in the middle of a forest approaching—though much more slowly than her sense of physics suggested it should have. "Comin' in for a landing, eh! Hahah!" Her heart was racing; while that particular, girlish "excitement" from the transformation was steadily wearing off, she still felt excited and exuberant, full of energy and constantly eager to let it out. It didn't hurt that she was enjoying that part too.

"Whooooaaa—boom!" The wolf-girl landed on the grass, bending her knees as she hit the ground and immediately popping upright again. "Yeah! Stuck the—yip!" There was suddenly more weight from the back of her sash than expected, and reaching back her hand found the hilt of a sheathed katana and gripped it naturally, as its presence quickly began to feel not just expected but comforting—like as long as she had it, she could take on anything.
"Oh yeeaah! Hahah. Samurai," she said to herself, looking up again and beginning to really take in her surroundings.

"Well, time to go. Onward!" She released the sword to point dramatically forward, then began walking that way at a brisk pace, looking around at the unbelievably realistic beauty of the simulated nature. "I dunno if we get a tutorial or what, I mean, this all feels pretty natural. Maybe I'll just look for a town, and see if I can figure out where Remus wound up. Or I guess 'landed'?"

She was going to say something else, when her ears twitched, picking up a noise from nearby. It was a weird sort of rhythmic squishing, fluid noise, and before long she discerned the source: A small group of green, slimy blobs with small, spherical cores glowing visible within them, in the process of surrounding her. There were two to her left, three to the right, and two more coming up in front of her—none behind just yet, but they were clearly aiming to get there. "Oh-hoh, think you can get the drop on me?" she said, placing a hand on the hilt of her sword and staring at the pair straight ahead. Her body seemed to instinctively tense up, and she became aware of a kind of muscle memory for various movements she could make to attack in this situation. Just as soon as one of them got close enough...

It wasn't long before one of the ones in front of her tried its luck, squishing itself nearly flat before springing upward to lunge toward her. The wolf-girl grinned, her fangs gleaming, just before she made a sudden, swift motion forward, the shing of her sword exiting the sheath audible as she swung it twice in a single leaping arc toward, into, and past the first slime, followed by the second slice through the other one just past it on the way to landing. When her feet hit the ground the sword was already halfway into the sheath, and it audibly clicked into place as the glowing cores of the slime-creatures fell apart, the clean cuts cleaving them in two, and the rest of their substance collapsed into puddles of goo on the forest floor.

After that, the samurai turned around easily, facing the remaining slime-things with a winning, fanged grin and her hand still on the hilt. "You want some more~?" she said in a happy, playful voice, and was pleased to see the five remaining monsters quiver and hesitate in their motions—clearly intimidated. Two of them fled, the remaining ones approaching her as she gave a 'come on' motion with her free hand.

Deciding to try out a different move, she unsheathed the weapon and flipped it around to an underhand grip, the blade pointed behind her. When another slime lunged, she swept the blade up through it—slicing the core in the process—let go so it flipped in the air and caught it in her other hand flipped the other way so the blade could slice down and finish it off. After that she leapt off to one side, twisting around so her feet hit a tree trunk, kicked off it and landed blade-first, the katana's tip piercing straight through the second monster as she flipped over it like a polevault to land to one side of the collapsing goo. The final remaining monster went down with an easy side-swipe just when it was halfway into a lunge her way, and she danced around to one side of the spray of greenish slime before it could hit her.

"YEEeaaah! Awe-some," she said, fistpumping with her free hand while the other one put away the weapon. "I know those're prolly just level one baddies but I don't care, that felt so cool! I even scared some of 'em away! Saay.." Looking around, she discerned that a couple of the sliced-apart cores were still present, as well as a couple of glittering chunks of some sort of ore that had fallen out of the other ones. Kneeling toward the closest one, she picked it up and immediately felt a certain familiarity with what she was looking at, which confirmed her thoughts.

"Loot! I guess these core thingies are for crafting or spells, aand..." She picked up the ore, her tail wagging vigorously. "This stuff can be sold for money. Neat!" All she had to do was pick the item up, or—as it turned out—walk close enough to it to do so, and think about putting it away, and it disappeared, giving her a distinct since that it had been "put away". Obviously her ridiculous getup had no room for practical things like backpacks or even pockets, but that was no hindrance to lugging around as much treasure and spoil as she liked. Just like it should be, really.

Humming to herself, the voluptuous wolf-girl continued on her way after this, quickly coming upon a small lake fed by a nearby river. The water was clear and still enough to serve as a reflective surface, so she stopped by to take a look. "..Wow," she mumbled, flapping her ears up and down and watching her reflection's do the same. While it was in some ways obvious, it took seeing her reflection to really appreciate just how drastically different she looked just now. The way her fur faded from bright at the base to dark near the tips was nice, she thought, and...

"Is my tail really that big?" She curled it forward to have a look; it really was. "Heheh, wow," she giggled, pulling the enormous mass of fluff into her arms and running it across her cheek for a moment before letting it fall back to its preferred position. "So soft and warm~..."

This bit of self-appreciation was interrupted as her ears twitched again, picking up a faint thud of something landing on the ground, followed by a short, whining groan. Another person had fallen, possibly from the sky like her! So she took off at a run to investigate, impressed at just how good this body's sense of hearing and direction was compared to her real one's. It was a fair distance off, and she knew it was, yet despite dodging around several trees and hopping over stumps and briars she never lost her sense of where the sound had come from, and quickly made it to another little clearing to find exactly who she'd been hoping to see.