Katie slowly came about. She was quite
groggy, she felt something in her mouth. A quick analysis with her
tongue revealed that this foreign object was her nipple, it was still in
her mouth. She opened her mouth and it popped out, by this time she
realized her whole body tingled. Stretching felt so good Katie could
have done it all day. New sensations were flooding in from all across
her body.
Katie slowly opened her eyes. She gasped
at seeing twelve glowing orbs of all different colors floating in a circle
above her. They froze at her gasp and then flashed off in twelve
different directions. She lay there a moment trying to figure out
what those orbs were when she realized that she smelt breakfast cooking.
She could smell every little detail of the meal, the spices, seasonings,
everything. Oddly, while she could smell everything, the only animal
she smelled was her cat.
"Must have gotten this new sense of smell
from drinking that milk." Katie mumbled to herself while staring
at the ceiling.
"That's not all you gained, Master," came
a deep rumbling voice from the direction of the kitchen.
Katie looked over at the door and saw what
she realized was Tiger. However, he was no longer her kitty.
He now stood over six feet tall on his hind legs. Four large, muscular
arms graced the sides of his powerful, broad chest. His chest tapered
to a washboard stomach. He had a towel wrapped around his waist,
but the towel didn't begin to hide his immense, bulging crotch. A
long tail darted around behind his massively muscled legs. His face
was a hybrid of feline and human features, one that Katie found strange
and quite appealing. His brilliant green eyes and short, jet black
fur finished off the portrait Katie observed. He had plates with
food in two of his four hands.
"I'm sorry Master, I saw you drinking of yourself.
I thought it'd be okay if I did too. It seems that your milk is very
effective."
Katie had finished pulling herself to her
feet. She turned to face the mirror and see what effects the milk
had wrought. Her mouth fell open, caught half way between a gasp
and a scream. Her changes were so beyond just a heightened sense
of smell that she had acquired that staring . The first thing that
caught her attention were the two large, white feathered wings that had
sprouted from her back. Just gazing at them was sparking a warm feeling
deep within her, and for the first time she considered her new form attractive.
The next point she noticed was on her face.
She had developed a second set of, still closed, eyes above her original
set. While staring at the mirror these eyes opened up, and Katie
was stunned as the whole new spectrums came alive around her. After
a few moments of mind numbing pain, the world settled down and Katie realized
that her vision now included the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.
After some experimentation she found that all four of her eyes could see
the extended spectrum and she concluded that the power just was tardy in
manifesting.
With her vastly improved vision she turned
her gaze to her body and saw that her muscles had grown considerably larger.
In fact, her muscles just rippled across her body, from her washboard stomach
to bulging biceps to huge quadriceps. She had no idea how strong
she had become, but she made a mental note to test out her power as soon
as she could. For now, all Katie could tell she had grown far beyond
what she dreamed possible.
One last change became apparent as she finished
her observation. She had sprouted two more tails, bringing her to
a total of three four foot long, cat like tails. They twitched and
swayed with a nervous life uniquely their own. Her tails were now
also covered in a fine fur. It was the same fiery red of her hair,
and this fur extended up her back, a narrow mane confined to her spine,
to her head.
"Master," Tiger's voice snapped Katie's attention
back to the present, "I have breakfast ready for you. Come, eat.
I'll tell you what I know."
****
Several blocks away, the orb of red energy
streaked towards a unremarkable tract home up the street. A car had
just pulled away from the house as the orb circled about the roof, probing
at one point, pausing at another, until it finally came to a stop at the
chimney. After a short pause, the orb settled on it's prey and zoomed
down the chimney.
Inside the house, a teenage girl prepared
for her day without any knowledge of the approaching orb. She had
just come out of the shower and had a white towel wrapped around herself.
Five foot four inches tall, the towel had little trouble wrapping around
her pale, anorexic body. Most of the summer had been spent in therapy
as her parents had finally convinced her she needed help. Part way
down the hall she stopped, brushed a lock of her brown hair from her eyes
and looked at a picture of herself and Katie.
"Thank you Katie," she whispered, "without
you're support I'd never have talked to mom and dad about my problems."
She shuffled through the house and into the kitchen. She grabbed
a glass of water and noticed a note on the counter:
Sarah,
Your dad and I went to
the club for some golf. We plan to stay for cocktails and cards afterwards.
Have a good day and don't do anything weird.
Love,
Your mom.
Sarah smiled, she had the day to herself.
Nothing was better than a summer day to spend with friends instead of family.
Sarah's first order of business today was to figure out why Katie had ignored
her over the weekend. She had all these cool plans, and without Katie
or, more importantly, Katie's car, Sarah had been stuck at home with her
parents. Sarah loved her parents, yet she could only take so much
of their compassion before she needed to scream. But regardless of
how angry she got at Katie, a little voice kept wondering what had happened
to Katie. This wasn't like her to not return calls and ignore Sarah
for an entire weekend. Sarah couldn't help but feel that something
very odd was happening.
"Katie, if you spent the whole weekend at
those garage sales, I'll have to...," Sarah was startled by a loud crash
from the family room. "What was that?" Sarah walked over to
the door to take a look. The family room was bathed in a sick, red
glow which illuminated the several bricks dislodged from the chimney and
scattered across the room. Sarah gasped when she spotted an orb of
red light floated in front of the damaged fireplace. The orb flashed
across the room and, before Sarah could react, the orb struck her dead
in the chest. Her body immediately began tingling and in a panic,
she ran for the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, Sarah could see
a strange, red symbol appeared in the center of her chest.
"What the hell?" Sarah could feel both
panic and pain rising in her body. She screamed as both reached intolerable
levels. Sarah gasped as large bulges formed below each arm.
All she could do was watch in horror as the bulges quickly became new arms.
As the arms finished forming, her entire body convulsed. Her body
was growing taller and more muscular before her eyes. She closed
her eyes in fear of what was happening.
A short while later, the pain was gone.
She opened her eyes and the world looked much different. Sarah realized
she still had her extra arms. The room seemed smaller, and when she
pulled herself up she found out why. Getting up was made far easier
having an extra two arms to balance on, however, she hit her head on the
ceiling when she tried to stand up. Rubbing her head, Sarah noticed
the massive hole she had put in the ceiling. She ducked back down
to see she was taller than the eight foot ceiling in the bathroom.
Her body had gained such massive muscles that she now looked like a bodybuilder.
Sarah pulled herself out of the bathroom,
her new massive body and immense breasts damaged the tight door when she
squeezed through. She wiggled through the hallway, and finally reached
the living room with its vaulted ceiling. Here she stood up and reached
her full height. Her breasts hung like massive watermelons protruding
from her chest, and her brown hair now reached her knees. Looking over
the room, Sarah guessed she stood over nine feet tall and as she stretched,
she could feel the immense potential of her new body.
While looking over her body, dark thoughts
began to enter Sarah's mind. She rebelled against these thoughts
until the emblem on her chest flared with a red light. The red light
drover her consciousness to a corner of her mind as one motive entered
her mind, to find and kill the Handmaiden of Tyvria. She had to kill
Katie. With no control over her body, she set off towards Katie's
house by crashing out the back wall.
****
"So, those orbs were evil spirits?" Katie managed
between sips of orange juice.
"More precisely, evil warrior gods, Master.
Those were the Twelve Akkadians." Tiger responded with a mouth full
of pancakes.
"And they seek to kill me?"
"Actually, they will try to bring about the
end of human civilization, and it's your job to oppose them. Knowing
you exist means they will try to hunt you down." Tiger's tail twitched
nervously, "One of my duties as your Knight is protecting you at all costs."
Katie's tails flickered at that. "Why
me?"
"Well, Tyvria is a goddess of pleasure and
fulfillment. She is also the last of the Ur gods who fought the Akkadians
throughout
human history. For reasons Tyvria wouldn't tell me, only the
Ur gods are allowed to oppose the Akkadians. You were cursed as a
Handmaiden by Tyvria in a fit of her anger, and completed your transformation
by drinking your milk. Apparently you have triggered this prematurely."
"So," Katie finished off her juice, "then
why me and not Tyvria? I'm just an ordinary sixteen year old girl.
Well, I was one."
Tiger saw her blush at the last comment.
"Well, two times ago, roughly 15,000 years, Tyvria imbued a human warrior-queen
as a Handmaiden, like she has with you. The queen failed and the
result was the last ice advance which wiped out man's earlier civilization.
After that, about five thousand years ago, the Akkadians tried again.
Tyvria appeared herself and vanquished them. However, she used all
her powers and can no longer manifest in our world. So, she has no
choice but to rely on a human once again."
"Well, thank goodness I have this body then.
I'd hate to fight them in my old one." Katie ran her left hand over
her lowest breast. "And after getting over the initial shock, I'm
really starting to like all this."
"Good, liking your body will help you in the
fights to come."
They just finished breakfast when back wall
of the kitchen exploded. Both Tiger and Katie were knocked across
the room. Standing amongst the debris was a nine foot tall, four
armed, overly muscled, naked woman. A red emblem in the center of
the woman's chest glowed with a fierce light. The woman took a step
toward Katie and Tiger quickly stood between them.
"Handmaiden! I must kill the Handmaiden!"
bellowed the amazon.
"S..Sarah?" Katie meekly replied.