“Come on dude! We need to go back! It’s getting way too dark!” Tony whined as he stopped trudging up the steep incline, “My mom’s gonna be freaked!”
Ahead of him, Zach and Ash continued their ascent up the nearby mountain outside the other end of town.
“You can go back at any time, buttmunch!” Zach replied, “It’s not like I have a mom to worry about!” he turned to Ash who followed just behind him, “That goes for you too!”
“And miss out on seeing more aliens!? I don’t think so!” Ash countered with a competitive smirk. Then as a reminder she jingled the underpowered flashlight in her hand, it being the only mobile lightsource they had.
“Why would the aliens be hiding on the mountain!?” Tony asked before begrudgingly continuing on.
“Where else would they go!? It’s the perfect place to look over the entire town!” Zach answered.
“Yeah! I bet there’s like, caves and stuff up here too!” Ash agreed, her sideways cap nearly being blown off her head from a sudden gusting breeze, “It’s where I’d go if I was an alien invader plotting to take over humanity!”
“But… Shouldn’t we have brought an adult or something? What if there are aliens and they catch us!?” Tony pointed out, stopping once more.
“Like I said dweeb, you can go home at any time!” Zach shot back before quickening his pace, his gloved hands holding tightly to his stowed away camera as if it was a powerful weapon that would protect him.
“Guuuuys…” Tony whined before stepping ahead once again.
After another hour or so of constant climbing, the kids began to feel the piercing bite of the cold really settling in. Their thick clothes were not nearly as effective as they would’ve liked. Even Zach was then starting to consider turning back before something up in the distance caught his attention. A light! A whole towering structure in fact.
“There!” Zach pointed out before leading the others up higher towards it.
“What is it?” Tony asked in between heavy shivers.
“I think it’s a firewatch tower!” Ash realized as the shape became more clear, “It should be heated and stuff!”
The three, now completely forgetting about their alien-search rushed with everything they had to reach the potential warmth the tower provided.
Making it to the wooden stairs first, Zach nearly slipped and fell, only barely able to catch himself.
Ice or something else frozen seemed to have coated much of the stairs.
“Careful, guys. One step at a time.” he cautioned before attempting to go up again, but this time homemade sure to step on the softer gaps of snow.
With a few more close calls, the three managed to make it to the top platform to peek into the stationed space. It seemed someone was there recently. A single powered bulb of light illuminated the space while few corner space heaters were at max output and there was a lone red cooler that had been scooted into the center.
“Where’s the people?” Ash asked.
“Maybe they’re off doing something?” Tony posed.
“No duh, dummy.” Zach commented with a roll of his eyes before carefully walking to the door.
He turned the knob, finding it to be completely unlocked.
“Score!” he whispered in a cheer before pulling it open and entering the much more temperate space, his companions following in a rush.
“Ohh mannnn…” Tony sighed as he lifted his hands close to one of the several running portable heaters.
“You said it…” Ash agreed, finding her own heater to hog.
Wanting to join in, Zach hesitated to check the space out. He wondered if the person stationed here was stepping away to use a nearby outhouse or something like that, and why there even was someone stationed here during the winter. Do they really firewatch in the winter? He didn’t know.
But he did know that he was starving, and the cooler called to him in offering.
Bending down, he lifted the top free.
The two others sprawled in sheer panic at Zach’s sudden screams. They turned to look at him as he crawled back and away from the cooler in manic terror. But in doing so, something else caught their attention. A… person?
No, a person wouldn’t have big piercing yellow and red eyes, or more than four limbs.
A fur-covered winged monster like a trapping hunter held itself up flat against the ceiling as it silently stared down at its next victims in a steady gaze.
The three children scream and sprawl together in a chaotic storm to flee.
Before he can get far, Tony is wrenched upward by a long grasping tail. Ash, trying to drag Zach up to his feet, was snatched up by a clawed arm by her hood.
Crying like the day he was born, Zach army crawled to the door in feral hopes his friends’ fates would buy him enough time to escape. But they don’t.
A powerful arm grabs his leg before yanking him back across the floor and then twirled him around to be face to face with the looming beast. Which now held onto the three squirming children with ease as it bent down closer to the boy.
A menacing thrumming released from its chest as its double set of dark fangs gets exposed mere inches from Zach’s face.
“Ape… Human…” it spoke in clear english, “Can you explain something to me?”
Too terrified to speak or move, Zach just lay trembling in place.
Taking that as enough of an answer the glowing red and yellow eyes narrowed.
“Why… am I green?”
-
“You know, it’s strange,” Shida mused as she stepped out of the borrowed bathroom back into the living room of Dagon’s rent-house. For a second, Chak looked over at her, but then immediately seemed to think better of it when she noticed that Shida had, while she was in there, thrown of nearly all her disguise’s clothes, leaving her only with what the disguised Cali could identify as -surprisingly suggestive- terran lingerie. Despite Chak turning her head with the speed of sound to stare at the apparently now very interesting wall behind her, Shida kept on her rambling as if nothing had happened. “I know for a fact that I’m still wearing that costume. I mean, I literally can’t take it off. But I’m still feeling pretty naked right now.”
With a soft ‘umpf’, the human-feline then dropped herself onto a large, shiny leather couch, and almost immediately pulled her legs up while leaning down, so she could play with the strange toes this form had given her. Short nubs that stuck out of the end of a long, slightly curved foot, that were however all movable relatively independently, much unlike her own bigger and stouter, but also less flexible ones that she had in her natural appearance.
As she stared down, she obviously also got a good look at her own cleavage, although that seemed to interest her far less than the wriggling toes.
“Wow, human feet are sensible,” Shida giggled after a moment, as her own prodding at the appendages had begun to tickle her. “This body’s weird.”
Her face was still as red as before, and ever since they had left Mary’s parent’s house, she had also began to slightly slur her speech.
“You must try this out,” Shida said and leaned back against the couch’s backrest, while staring at Chak and invitingly patting the space next to her, as if she was trying to summon the Cali over.
Chak kept her eyes averted as she approached, having taken off her outer coat she wore a white tank top with an exposed midriff.
While her friend was using the restroom she had been prodding her torso, fascinated by its silky softness and downright squishy nature. Simone was the only Terran she had ever been hands on with and although she’s plenty soft when her muscles didn’t flex there was a clear difference in density.
“Try what out?” she asked as she nestled down to where Shida invited her.
Shida wiggled her feet and toes once more.
“This!” she exclaimed excitedly and reached down to prod at them again. “It’s so weird. You usually have hooves, so it should be even weirder for you!”
During her playful movements, she somewhat lost her balance and began to tilt to the side, catching herself just in time so she only grazed Chak with most of her skin.
“Sorry,” she said quickly. “That wasn’t on purpose for once.”
Her face now matching Shida’s in redness for completely different reasons nodded quickly.
“It-it’s okay. I’m u-used to your usual… uhm… physical nature.” she partially lied, genuinely fine with it but she was clearly not ‘used to it’ in this specific circumstance, “Uhm… that’s why I still have my boots on. I don’t know how I’m going to feel with how weird it is. Not having my lower limbs is already throwing me off quite a bit. But… I suppose I can’t go to bed with the boots on so…”
Pulling a leg up and into her lap she untied the laces and pulled the boot free. The end of her stocking covered leg had the shape of a relatively petite foot. She stared at it, cringing as she made it move with entirely new reflexes.
“It’s… a bit stumpy. And indeed… very weird…” she commented before lowering it away to free her other leg, her twisting body now forcing her to look more in Shida’s direction.
Shida opened her mouth into a big yawn, revealing the for terrans still slightly too long fangs in the corners of her mouth, that seemed otherwise completely normal.
As she closed it again, she began to make wet popping sounds with her lips in quick succession, seemingly playing around, fascinated by their specific movability.
Over time, while Chak took the boot off and had both her feet on the ground, the sounds slowly turned from quick and playful to more slow and contemplative, as Shida got a pondering expression on her face, that may have looked a little bit silly in combination with the constant popping of her lips.
After a while, she even lifted a hand to her cheek as she apparently really thought about something, before throwing a sideways glance at Chak. And if the Cali saw it right, it almost seemed like the disguised feline was becoming even redder as she thought.
Finally, after a seeming eternity of trying to overcome herself, Shida spoke up again, with only slight hesitation remaining in her forthcoming voice.
“You know,” she said, her tone turning both casual and sweetening at the same time. “There is one other thing I feel like I have to try out, because I might never get the chance to again…”
She left that comment as it was for a few seconds, allowing it to sink in, before she added,
“But it’s…weird…Like, more than the feet. Way more.”
Chak, looked directly at Shida. Though perhaps to the feline’s surprise she didn’t bear an expression of embarrassment or fluster. Rather, a single raised eyebrow with an almost amused look to her.
“Is this another tease?” she asked in a near whisper, “Because… if it’s not… Well, let me just say this before you ask it; Simone has confided to me that although I’m the only person for her, she’s open for me to have experiences with others, whether those experiences be big or small depends on the person and how well we’d know them. I never felt inclined to, because Simone is more than enough for me in every way and that’s never going to change. But… for all I know, this may very well be the last night I’m mostly myself. Even while in this strange altered body. I can hear her shouting at me to ‘get it girl!’ while I still can.” Chak giggled sadly, her eyes drifting away to reminisce on her personal conversations with her partner, “But even if your ask is truly big, or deceptively trivial… I don’t want you to ask it if you are not absolutely certain that it’s something you really want.”
Almost immediately, Shida recoiled slightly, her face even more flustered than before, and she raised both hands to wave them defensively.
“Whoa, I wasn’t going to go that far. I know your boundaries. I mean, you made them very clear earlier. And besides, even if that’s what I was after, I wouldn’t want it to be under a duress-ful situation like this. That would just feel like I’m taking advantage of you,” she quickly babbled, showing off that she, despite her tipsy condition and slightly slurry speech, seemed to still be in full control of her mind at least. After quickly getting her defense out there, Shida calmed down somewhat again, letting her hands sink down and scooting close to Chak once more. She took a few deep breaths and seemed to collect her words before she continued. “But, all the other stuff, that’s kind of why I’m asking. Like I said, I think it’s the only chance I have. You’re the only person around I can ask, and tomorrow, you might not be yourself anymore, until I found the way to fix us. And once we’re fixed, we’re likely going to blow this joint immediately, and all the magic will be gone, so I won’t have a chance to then either. So this is kind of the one opportunity I got.”
She lifted a hand and put it onto Chak’s shoulder gently.
“This isn’t a tease,” she promised. “And also not me just trying to use the moment. You’ll probably think less of me for it after, but…I really feel like I have to try it. Otherwise I wouldn’t be asking.”
She looked around for a bit, nervously avoiding eye-contact, before finally pulling herself together and bringing her head around to smile at Chak.
“You can of course always say no to me, with no questions asked,” Shida firmly assured Chak, leaving no doubt about her genuineness, that hopefully not even the strange magic could misconstrue. “But, uh…well, would you let me try it out?”
Chak takes hold of Shida’s hand that rested on her shoulder, her own nervousness melting away.
“You are a very good person Shida. Someone who I trust explicitly, even when you really tease me. Because I already know you respect me and my boundaries. It’s true that my instincts would scream at me constantly that you intended to do me harm, but even those are numbed in the background of my mind because I trust you without a single doubt in my mind. Even in your current somewhat inebriated state, you are proving to me that my trust is well placed and safe.” She scooted -what Simone would teasingly call ‘juicy’- hips up against Shida’s, “Whatever it is, you have my permission. And don’t worry, I won’t think any less of you. I just hope… you won’t think of me less for asking something in return. It’s nothing risque, though it could be perceived that way.”
Shida smiled and, in a Terran-like gesture, she presented her extended pinky to Chak.
“It’s a deal?” she asked and patiently awaited the answer.
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Operating her pinky for this odd but recognizable Terran gesture, Chak hooked hers with Shida’s without intentional hesitation. Though the operation of doing so took concentration with such a small appendage.
“It’s a deal.” Chak said with a nod.
Shida breathed heavily.
“Alright then,” she said under her breath. “Here goes.”
With that, while she was still hooked with Chak’s hand, she lifted her leg and swung herself around in a smooth motion, that ended with her basically sitting on Chak’s lap, with Shida’s knees digging into the couch right next to her friend’s thighs as they faced each other directly.
Shida could feel her heart pounding as she noticed the heat of her current condition radiating off her body and into Chak’s.
She got slightly lightheaded for a moment, although it felt less like she was actually nervous, and more like this was what her current body thought it was supposed to feel like in a situation like this. Although, admittedly, she couldn’t deny a little nervousness on her part, simply because of the strangeness of the whole situation.
Still, she had made up her mind, and therefore she didn’t allow herself to hesitate, as she reached out both her hands and gently cupped Chak’s face with them.
For a moment, she looked the transformed Cali into the slightly sparkling eyes. Then, with a resolved breath, she pulled her in, while also bringing her own face in close, and firmly pressing this strange body’s lips onto Chak’s.
She felt her body go through a strange mix of emotions, as the smooth skins made contact with each other. And she held the position for a few seconds, with the only thing she truly perceived being gentle breath on her face and her own pounding heart.
Then, before it could be seen as excessive, she already pulled away again. Her face must’ve been redder than Mars at that point as she looked at Chak once again, who wasn’t fairing much better. But Shida still had a smile on her face.
“So this is what it’s supposed to feel like,” she mumbled between heavy breaths that rocked nearly her entire body. “That’s…so much less weird. Wow.”
She blinked for a moment, unsure what else she should say now. If anything.
“Uh…thanks,” she brought out, immediately regretting it as the most awkward thing she could’ve possibly thought up, and quickly, she began to climb off Chak again.
A bit dazed, Chak lifted her hands from Shida as they assumed places on the thighs. Her soup of a brain goes back and forth in wanting more and being relieved for it to have stopped then and there.
“That’s how it feels for Simone!?” she said with shaking breaths, “Is… is your chest… flipping? Shuttering? Whatever this feeling is… Wow…” she puts her hands up to the sides of her head, but instead of scratching her fingers brush through her hair dragging it back, “And this sweating… so much sweating…” she marveled both in awe and slight disgust. Leaning back she tried to wait for her chest feeling to settle.
“Yeah,” Shida replied, sitting almost nervously with a hand on her chest while she still felt it pounding in there. “I hope this is just a first time thing, otherwise I might have to start pitying James instead…”
At least she didn’t remember his heart pounding like this every time she had granted him one of her much-hated kisses. Then again, maybe she would see those in a new light from now on. Or maybe not. Time would tell.
Taking deep breaths to calm herself once more, she turned her attention to her immediate side.
“I just had to know…” she mumbled, justifying herself once again, before shaking her head, making her strange, smooth hair fly around and accidentally smack against the side of Chak’s head. “Oh sorry!” she mumbled, gently reaching for Chak’s likely unhurt face to try and sooth it, while she got back to the topic at hand. “So uhm what…what did you want to ask for?”
Chak’s eyes widened and lips pursed as she was reminded that she had her chance to make her own request.
“Uhm…” she squeaked, “Before I ask… For my own sake I need to cool off in the shower first. I’ll be quick.” she notified as she stood up and moved her way to the bathroom door, but she shyly peeked back out to address Shida, “I understand why you asked, but I hope I did your first experience justice! Although I’m not your type, Simone has given me plenty of practice.” she nervously chuckled before closing the door. The sounds of running water erupted out and the occasional surprised gasps and mumbling of the Cali noticed the oddities of her exposed Terran form.
“Well, if I got you that hot and bothered, maybe I should’ve gone all the way!” Shida yelled after her while trying to lighten the mood a bit, although she didn’t quite manage to get her voice all the way to her usual, mocking tone.
Then she rolled over, killing time by sprawling out on the smooth sofa, stretching her limbs and staring up at the ceiling. The cool material felt nice on her exposed skin, although some of the strange straps holding parts of her current outfit together did irritate her a bit whenever they got caught somewhere as she moved.
When Chak finished in roughly ten minutes, she nervously stepped out in her tank top and undergarments. Somehow despite not caring if Shida saw her completely nude in the past, this partially covered Terran form spiked her nerves.
“O-okay. Uhm…” she started to say as one of her hands messed with a bit of her mostly-dried bangs, “If you feel at all embarrassed about making your request, I think I’m about to make you feel better about it.” She shrugged with a chuckle seeing her friend relaxing on the couch, “Would it bother you… and I know we already made the deal but you can still say no to this, but uhm… When we go to bed, could you… uhm… h-hold on to me… and… uhm… cuddle I suppose until I at least fall asleep? Why does this feel harder than if I was asking to go ‘all the way’!?” she rambled in flustered in a shallow laugh, covering her face with her hands, “Uhm… If… if in my sleep I slip away to the curse on us, I’d like it very much to be held by someone I trust… Is that… okay? I know how morbid that sounds, but… uhm…”
Shida inspected her for a few seconds.
Then, wordlessly, she let her head sink down again, and instead lifted her arms high up towards the ceiling, while spreading them out slightly and opening and closing her hands repeatedly.
A bit too quickly, Chak moved in and crawled on top of Shida, resting her head on her friend’s upper sternum. Pulling up a blanket she nestled fully into place.
“Thank you Shida…” she whispered in sincerity, her voice trembling, “Heh... how do Terrans see when their eyes water like this!?” she added in a soft grateful laugh.
Shida gently stroked through Chak’s white head of hair.
“What, you think I would let you sleep alone when Doodle’s around?” she joked gently, barely raising her voice above a whisper. “I know I locked him in the attic, but that guy’s a creep and a half. Who knows what he might try while I’m not looking.”
She then nuzzled her head against Chak’s gently, and a strange breath escaped her throat. Right, no purring in this form. Too bad, really…
Then, she eventually allowed her hands to glide downwards, coming to a stop on Chak’s back. She smirked, as she felt like it was time to show that things had not changed between them, despite it all.
“So…” she therefore cooed for a moment while softly stroking over Chak’s back with her fingertips. “Where do I get to put my hands, huh?”
Chak smiled, her eyes fully closing.
“Shida…” she pretended to scold like she previously had, making minor adjustments she released a calming sigh, “Wherever you’d like. My treat.” she giggled in shallow breaths, “But seriously, wherever’s most comfortable. I hope to see you in the morning, but I really meant what I said. I’ll ‘always’ be your friend. Christmas curse or not.”
“Yeah,” Shida mumbled, and didn’t really move her hands all that much as she leaned her head back and also tried to relax, closing her eyes. Slowly she emptied her mind.
However…there was something that bothered her. At first she tried to ignore it, really not wishing to ruin the moment, but after a couple of minutes, she had to admit it to herself that this would be a problem.
With a hesitant and honestly sorry sigh, she asked,
“Still awake?”, not bothering to lower her voice all that much this time and hoping that Chak hadn’t fully drifted off yet. With her head right on her chest, the Cali could likely hear her heartrate pick up again, if she was awake.
“Mmhm.” Chak hummed in the affirmative, slightly moving her head in an almost-nod.
Shida swallowed, but once again decided to just get it over with. This was far less embarrassing than the kiss, ultimately.
“While we’re on the topic of hands and treats…” she said and hesitated for a second, taking one of her hands off Chak’s back so she could pull at the strap of her own bra. “Think you could help me out of this deathtrap? I don’t know if the magic is making fun of its female Santas, but this thing is uncomfortable as all heck.”
Whatever she had been stuffed in here, it itched and pinched and pulled all over, and it was driving her crazy, especially with the added influence of Chak laying on top of her now.
Without so much as a word or grunt of acknowledgement, Shida felt Chak’s hand dig and reached under her back. With a swift darn near professional movement for someone who never wore such garments, Shida felt a pop and a sudden satisfying un-constricting release that had clenched around her upper torso.
“Mmmmnn... Betterr?” the Cali mumbled in an almost incoherent voice.
“Almost,” Shida mumbled back and began with a complicated wiggle and shimmy of her body that would disturb the Cali as little as possible while the feline pulled the entire strapped-together monstrosity of fabric and wire from her body, finally pulling it over her last leg and tossing it out from under the blanket with a relieved sigh. “Better.”
Then she closed her arms around Chak again, a bit warmer than before this time.
“Hmmn… thaat’s gud…” Chak mumbled more as she fully resettled, “Gooodnnnight… Smnmnnnn” she trailed off, fully crossing over into complete slumber.
“Goodnight, Chak,” Shida said gently and held her tight as she drifted off. Then she leaned her head back again, staring up at the ceiling. Whispering, she added, “Goodnight, James.”
-
Eyes opened.
“Five more days until Christmas!” That’s the very first thing that runs through the woman’s mind as she stared up close at the couch’s material. Blinking, she found herself laying on another individual who had arms wrapped around her. Who… Oh right. Santa. Of course. There was much to be done if they were to save Christmas in time!
Opening her mouth, Rudolph intended to attempt to address Santa and tell her that she was ready to embark on their quest. As her most loyal reindeer, it was her duty to make sure Santa got to where she needed to go, and light the way throu-
“Shida!” Chak gasped out fearfully as her brain caught up to itself from the morning mental haze. Still, in her waking moments she felt nothing of her usual self, like files on a computer just not loading in the order they are supposed to.
Wrapping her arms tightly around the other woman, she immediately started silently crying from the fear of being utterly gone and relief that her mind still managed to dig itself to the surface. She’s still here, she’s still here. Reaching a hand up she slightly jostled her friend.
“Shida! I’m Chak… Chaka- Chakalata’Motaas. Princess of… the… Cali people! Oh stars… I… I didn’t remember at first… But I do now! I remember!” the Cali huffed as she processed into her mind.
Shida, at first slightly dazed at being startled awake like that, thankfully caught herself quickly and pressed Chak to her chest.
“Yes, you are,” she said reassuringly, holding her friend as tightly as she could while running a hand along the back of her head. “And you’ll never, ever, be anybody else.”
I won’t let it happen.
This thing can’t have you, whatever it is.
Thoughts like those spooked through her mind as she just held Chak, feeling wet tears slowly run down her skin.
Her hands clenching tightly, she opened her eyes, glaring over at the almost inconspicuous sack that leaned against one of the walls of the room.
“You. Can’t. Have her!” she repeated through threateningly clenched teeth, convinced that the seemingly inanimate object could somehow understand her. “And if I have to burn your darn Christmas to the ground to make it happen, you cannot have her! And you’re going to regret the day you decided to mess with me.”
After a while longer of holding her, Shida gently peeled Chak loose and pushed herself to fully sit up. In a slight reverse of yesterday’s scene, it was now Chak who sat on Shida’s outstretched legs while the feline gently held the transformed Cali’s face in both hands.
“You’re okay,” she assured her softly. “Look at me. You’re okay.”
“I… I was gone… just gone.” Chak initially replied, as she struggled to keep her tearing eyes open, “But.. I’m here! I’m okay… I’m okay.” she echoed Shida’s assurances before measuring her breathing to start fully calming back down, trying to bury how truly scared she was for Shida’s sake.
After some time passed and Chak fully gained her wits, she hugged Shida tightly one more time before sitting up.
“I suppose… the magical Terran ‘fairytale kiss’ last night wasn’t enough to break this magical curse, huh? Darn it.” she jested, running her hands through her hair.
Shida smiled through her fear.
“I’m just not your knight,” she said quietly. “But I still won’t let that happen to you.”
She found herself quietly repeating that last part to herself over and over like a mantra.
Then she also ran a hand through her hair, before quickly drying her tears with her knuckles.
“Sorry, I must look a mess…” she mumbled with a senseless chuckle escaping her.
“A very pretty mess, yes.” Chak replied, nudging her friend before standing.
“A pretty hot mess,” Shida added onto that statement and started to look around, searching for what she had so carelessly tossed aside the previous night. After a moment of searching, she found the red, laced and tangled mess on the ground, and she quickly leaned down to pick it up. She’d probably need this again today.
While she got busy untangling the whole thing while making sure the right side was in and the right side was out, she briefly glanced over at a large mirror that was part of a cabinet door, that stood left to the rather sizeable TV. Her mirror image looked back at her. Frazzled and tousled, but overall…not necessarily a bad sight.
She briefly glanced over at the bathroom, thinking about freshening up a bit. Then she looked forward.
Reaching out, she quickly grabbed Chak’s wrist and pulled her into herself, maneuvering their bodies in a way that they would both see their mirror images as she squeezed Chak closely.
“You…wanted to take pictures, right?”
“I-I believe you were the first one to bring up pictures…” Chak mumbled as her face erupted in a red tint, “But… yes.” she stated as her rolling eyes landed onto the reflections. Her expression softened in minor confusion before she suddenly smacked her own face with genuine anger.
From Shida’s response, Chak waved her hand quickly.
“Sorry. I just couldn’t remember why I wanted pictures of myself… Simone. The love of my life. She’d love them and be soooo jealous she couldn’t see me in person.” she explained, covering her tone in an amused one halfway through, “That is… if this me looks appealing… am I? I know you don’t see me that way but…” for the first time Chak tilted parts of her new self to judge it from that criteria.
“You know, without that ridiculous outfit…,” Shida mumbled and allowed her hands to slowly glide upwards along Chak’s body, starting from her stomach. Although she stopped short before she got to any juicy bits, the implication was still clearly there. “I think I could work with this. Still like ‘em a bit taller, maybe a bit more muscle, but apart from that…”
She decided to let Chak’s fantasy finish that sentence for her, as her hands settled down around her friend’s lower ribs.
Bouncing like she used to, but now with the balls of her feet, Chak shyly covered her face in a snicker.
“I’ll take it!” she giggled, “Do we have an image-capturing device on hand?” she asked as she casually looked around.
Shida scratched her chin.
That was a good question actually. She wasn’t going to use Dagon’s lended phones for that, that was for darn sure. But didn’t she have her own with her.
With only slightly suppressed hate in her eyes, her attention turned towards the sack. Right, last time she saw it was when…
Letting go of Chak, she stomped over to the bag of torture and casually kicked it over once she got within reach.
“Spit out our stuff,” she demanded imperiously. Yet nothing happened. Shida ground her teeth and her face and gaze alone would’ve probably ended lesser lifeforms at that moment, however she managed to overcome the sheer adversity within her and corrected herself to the most spiteful, “I wish to have our possessions back,” that had ever been and would ever be spoken in all of history.
Reacting to the magical words, the band of the sack opened and -with more force than would’ve been generated by it just being dropped- her phone came tumbling out, followed by Chak’s lens, then their clothes and then -as a pleasant surprise- two fully loaded weapons. A pulse pistol from Chak and an fully automatic mini-rifle from Shida.
Shida blinked.
“Huh, I forgot we had those,” she admitted as the sack spitefully spat out the items, seemingly intending to try and break or damage them in the process. However, they were sturdily built and could withstand much more than an angry, spitting lump.
Walking over casually, she picked up her phone and Chak’s lens, holding it out to the transformed Cali.
“Will this even work?” she asked with a distrustful look at the brain-interface-item. “Does your human form have a communicator?”
“Uhmmm… it doesn’t. But I recall Dagon saying he would bring us… phone cells? However, that Lens is custom for a Cali’s neural system. Not that other species can’t use it, but… the active side effects of a poor neural connection are wide and varied, all of which are not the most pleasant experiences. At best I’d feel a little drowsy. Though… I am willing to see if this magical disguise compensates for that. If not for testing’s sake.” Chak replied as she took it back and flipped it in her hand, “But for the images maybe we just use your device.”
Shida reached out and pushed Chak’s hand with the lens down gently.
“I don’t know…maybe we should leave messing with your head for another time…considering…you know?” she gently proposed and looked at Chak’s face with a bit of worry. “It may not have connection, but my phone works fine for everything we should need from our side. And for communication here, we will have the ones that Dagon will have brought to us. So, just to be sure?”
“...Alright. Though there might be a small chance that it may help with my situation. It travels through my neural system, maybe it can keep them open as well?” she posed, though by the tone of her voice she knew it was a big stretch in an attempt to justify trying it on, “But you’re right. It’s just as likely to make things much worse.” she agreed before looking back at her reflection with a tinge of disappointment.
Shida nodded and smiled gently, before beginning to raise her phone with one hand, while the other one reached for Chak’s tank-top, gently pulling its rim upwards just a few centimeters.
“So,” she asked playfully while the camera pointed at the white-haired, human-like figure. “Like how much of a prude are you feeling today?”