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Henry patted his tummy as he smiled at Meixiu. “Thank you for topping me up.”
“My pleasure, sir,” she said with a smile.
They were relaxing in the kitchen, leaning back against the counter, listening to the sound of Tish’s family members talking and laughing in the dining room. They’d been apart for too long, and this get together was just what they needed.
The sound filled Henry with warmth, and he smiled in contentment. Siobhan suddenly appeared in the dining room doorway to the kitchen. He looked at her, and she was saying something to him, but he couldn’t hear it over a roaring sound in his ears. She was pointing to the back door. Roy walked into the kitchen from the main hall doorway. Meixiu began to push Henry towards the back door, and he looked at her in confusion. There was a commotion in the hallway, and Roy moved to the side, stepping into the kitchen.
Henry could now see down the hall, and Minkah was standing there facing him. She was in her Bastet form, and her tail was swishing back and forth with a fierce agitation. He could see her eyes were locked on him, but her muscles seemed to be frozen.
“Boy! Run!”
Roy’s voice cut through the fog in his head, and he spun and charged out the back door like he was running for his life.
-=-
Minkah saw her prey, and he was frozen by her predator’s stare. When he suddenly turned and ran out of the house, it caught her by surprise, and her muscles took an extra second to unlock. As she rushed forward, she ran into a torrent of Wild Magic Henry’s body had spontaneously released moments earlier.
In an attempt to catch her, a strand of webbing shot across the hallway from a door to her left, but she twisted at the last second to slide under it. As she corrected her balance, she came face to face with a dark-skinned male stumbling out of the dining room. His eyes rolled back as he fell. She was badly positioned, so they collided into a pile with him on top. She had her hands on his dense chest muscles to push him from her, but she froze as he began to change. His skin suddenly sprouted thick black fur, and she was looking at a male version of herself.
The back door slammed, and she remembered her hunt. She pushed the Bastet from her and scrambled to get back on Henry’s trail.
He wouldn’t get away again.
-=-
Roy watched Minkah leap out the back door, then he moved to kneel next to Chris. After all his fretting about changing, the man got an interesting transformation with the added bonus of having a built-in Human disguise. The man must have a horseshoe up his ass to beat these odds.
He waited and watched the prone man as others moved from the dining room to peer into the kitchen door at them.
Beth pushed through the doorway and shrieked in surprise. “Is that Chris?”
Roy held up a finger, and Chris suddenly switched to his Human shape. Luckily, he still looked like Chris, if not quite as top-heavy in his musculature. Bastet’s tended toward slimmer builds, but they were strong and flexible, which Minkah proved when she dodged under Michelle’s attempt to catch her with a strand of webbing.
Michelle and Dayshia arrived at the kitchen from the hall entrance and looked down at Chris, resting after his change.
“Sorry. I tried to stop Minkah but missed,” the Arachnid apologized.
“Don’t worry about it. This is perfect for someone who wants to keep looking Human,” Roy said with a nod to Michelle. He looked to Beth. “And the family gets a pet cat too!”
“What?” Beth gasped in dismay.
Mary smacked Roy’s shoulder for teasing poor Beth. “Don’t be mean!” she scolded.
Beth looked for an explanation, and Michelle touched her arm. “Bastet’s are shape shifters with three forms. Their native Bastet shape of a full-sized furred Humanoid with feline attributes. They also have a Human disguise and a small cat state.”
Marisa walked into the hall from checking on Natalia and froze. “What happened? Why is there so much Wild Magic-HENRY!”
Roy held up his hand. “His control on the rift failed, and he spaced out for a second. That was enough time to flood the kitchen and beyond. Chris walked into it, then into Minkah, who was hunting Henry.”
“Hunting Henry?” Brian exclaimed as he pushed into the kitchen. “We need to get out there and help him!”
Roy shook his head. “She wasn’t hunting to kill him,” Roy said to ease their concerns.
Beth frowned. “If she isn’t hunting him to kill him, what does she want?”
Dayshia sighed at her sister’s naivety. “Really?”
Beth glared at her sister then the glow in her eyes brightened. “OH!”
The front door closed with a thump. “Daddy!” a young girl shouted in fear.
Beth immediately ran toward the voice and saw her daughter trying to run toward her prone father. The girl began to wobble on her feet as she stepped into the Wild Magic. The mother frantically pulled at the jacket’s zipper, which stuck momentarily then came loose. She stripped her daughter’s winter coat off and pushed a hand under her shirt on her stomach, then grabbed one of the girl’s hands and placed it on top of her hand. She just got positioned as Emily’s eyes rolled back. She frantically watched her daughter’s face and released the breath she’d held as the girl’s eyes and lashes began to grow like hers. She turned to look back at Dayshia. “We need to get Danny and Tommy and have Fauns assist their transformations. With the magic loose in the house, I don’t want to risk them changing randomly.”
Brian and Lyle stepped forward. “What do we do?”
Dayshia looked at them. “It was a close call for Emily because of her winter coat. You need to have your hand on the bare skin of their tummy and one of their hands on top like they were holding it in place.”
“How are we going to get them inside without their jackets?” Brian asked. “Do we go outside and get them prepped before bringing them in.”
“I have a better idea,” Dayshia said. “Lorelei?” she called out.
The woman in question joined them from the dining room and looked to Dayshia, who nodded. “Could you sing a tune to bring just Danny and Tommy to the door, unzip their jackets and expose their bellies as they come inside?”
“That would feel a little weird,” Lorelei said.
“As their mother, I fully support your efforts to help with this,” Beth said.
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“We don’t want a stampede of kids, and we don’t want the door opening too much to let the magic out until the kids have received enough to trigger their change,” Dayshia explained.
Frowning, Lorelei slipped outside quickly, closing the door behind her. Pushing aside her distaste for manipulating kids, she thought for a second and then began to sing. It took just seconds for the song to locate and separate the two pre-change Human children from the Satyrs and send them back to the front door.
She soon saw them running awkwardly in their snow pants. They were panting as they arrived.
“Is it time?” Danny asked excitedly.
She knew they wanted this. She knew there were practical reasons for using her skills, but she still didn’t like it.
“Yes,” she said and gestured to their tummies. Both lifted their shirts to display their bare stomachs. “In you go.”
Lorelei remained on the porch for a moment as she wasn’t keen on being part of what still felt like manipulating children to her.
She pushed it from her mind by thinking about Henry instead. She hoped he was going to be okay. She wasn’t sure what it meant that he’d lost control of the rift.
-=-
Henry was charging through the woods, his hooves finding purchase in the snow and plowing through the deeper snowdrifts. As he ran on what felt like autopilot, he tried to comprehend why he felt so dazed. He looked inwards and saw his rift was wide open, the zipper construct a destroyed mess. He released the code, and the spell dissolved until he could see the rift’s edges. They showed no sign of damage, thankfully. There was just too much pressure from the other side. He was going to have to devise another way.
He picked up a sound: heavy panting and the thump of feet on the ground.
Something landed on his shoulders and knocked him off his hooves as he went headfirst into another snowdrift.
He tumbled, and the weight on his shoulders sprung away. When his forward momentum finally came to a halt, he was on his back in the deep snow. Henry wiped the snow from his face and stared up at the falling flakes. A dark shape pounced on him again and roared in his face. The sound was filled with rage, pain, and fear. He blinked up and recognized Minkah’s Bastet face.
“Minkah-”
“You left my side!” she roared and beat on his chest with her fists until he grabbed her wrists.
“You promised you would remain in my custody!” she screamed with a sob at the end.
Henry looked up into her large, beautiful eyes and saw tears.
“I’m sorry, Minkah. My friends were in danger. I had to act. And Mab needed to die,” he said gently.
She searched his eyes for something, and he released her wrist to reach up and touch her cheek. She was suddenly in her human disguise, without clothes! He blinked at her then engaged his glamor as well, also naked. Damn, it was cold!
Then her mouth was on his, her need desperate and eager. She began grinding her pelvis against his, and that felt damn good! He converted some of the Wild Magic coursing through his body into heat and let it chase away the chill until he was radiating the heat. Minkah gasped and pulled back to stared down at him in surprise. Then she went back to thrusting her tongue boldly into his mouth, trying to taste him. Her hands traveled over his body, stroking, scratching, squeezing, and pulling. He took this as permission to touch her as well, and she liked this very much.
His cock was quickly responding to the pressure she was applying to it. Lengthening and hardening as she ground her wet lips along its underside.
One quick twist of her hips at the top of the next stroke and Henry’s cock was plunging deep into Minkah’s molten depths. She sat up to put more pressure on his thrust and hissed at the sky.