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Chapter 65
🕑 Added 2021-06-20 14:00:58 +0000 UTCOnce Sophia had fully converted back to her younger self, after successfully transforming to her older looks, based on her previous world with appearance alteration magic, she finally concentrated on the actual task.
"P-Putting many regrets aside-" She glanced at her chest while saying so. "Time to get back on track."
"Many..." Maya agreed as her tail flopped lifelessly on the ground.
"Do we need to have another talk?"
"N-No!" She immediately turned her head away.
"Okay... Let's try to transform into a tiger-girl next!" Full of energy, Sophia sat down on the grass and patted her lap. "Come here for a moment, Maya. I need you for a little something."
"S-Should I be scared?" She was a little hesitant.
"Think of it as redeeming yourself from you know what."
"F-Fine..." She had no other choice. Slightly reluctant, Maya walked up to her and got comfortable on the girl's lap. "W-What are you planning, anyway?"
"I need to get a better understanding of how your ears and tail work before I can recreate them for myself."
"T-That means-" She had a bad feeling.
"Lot's of fluffing~!" Sophia, on the other hand, had a bright smile on her lips and a scary look in her eyes.
Half an hour and intense petting of the poor cat-girl later, Sophia did not only look extremely satisfied, but she also learned a lot.
"Ha... Ha... Haa..." Maya's breath was still haggard when she was finally freed from the girl's clutches. "I-I... I feel violated..." She had tears in the corners of her eyes.
"l-, I finally know why scientists are so engrossed in their studies! Knowledge is fun!" Her take on it was very different.
"Y-You two should get a room already." Even Fen was affected.
"Ehehe~." Sophia didn't care about any of that. "Alright, I think I now can create my own ears and tail, now that I have a really good understanding of them."
"W-Way too good of an understanding..." There was still a bit of life missing in Maya's eyes.
"Mind if I go on a walk?" The wolf wanted to run away from them. He had enough. "You already know how to transform, right?"
"Sure, have fun."
"Thanks."
"Okay, let's give it a go! Cute is a must!" After voicing her preference, she closed her eyes and thought about the beast girl version of herself for a while. "I want to become a tiger-girl!"
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A couple of minutes passed, while the girl was concentrating hard on the task, she was eventually wrapped in smoke once more. Soon afterward, an all-new Sophia appeared. Her ash-blonde hair had more of an orange hue now. It was also decorated with a couple of black-striped highlights. On top of her head, a pair of feline ears in the same color appeared, with a generous amount of pure white fluff inside. They were slightly rounded, just like those of an actual tiger. Out of her lower back, below Sophia's t-shirt, was now a relatively thick and bushy tail sticking out. It was in the same base color as her new hair and was covered with black rings from base to tip. Once she had fully transformed, the girl did a short and clumsy twirl again to get a feel for her new body parts. After that, she created something similar to a mirror with water-based magic and gave a satisfied nod to what she was seeing.
"C-Cute..." According to Maya's reaction, Sophia's main goal had been achieved. "How does it feel?"
"I-Itchy..." Her response was slightly odd.
"Itchy?" The cat-girl tilted her head.
"Super, super, super itchy! Itchy! Itchy! ITCHY!" Her face grimaced as she shook her body around. "I-I'm feeling parts that shouldn't be part of my body... M-My brain can't process that! Argh, itchy! S-So weird... what is this feeling?! D-Do you have this feeling all the time, Maya?!"
"Err, no? I've been born with my ears and tail after all? How about you try to move your tail? Maybe it stops itching if you get used to it?"
"T-That might be the case... urgh... itchy! Wait, how do you move your tail, Maya?"
"How do you walk? Breathe? Sorry, I just do?" She had no explanation how she moves a part of her body that had always been there.
"Makes sense... W-Well, I feel it, itchingly painfully so! That means I should be able to control it, right? Let's fight this itch! This itchy, itchy itch!" It really was bothering her to no end. "Move my tail... move it! Gosh, it's sooo weird... Oh? I think I'm feeling the tip now." She stopped for a moment after saying that out loud. "Wow! wow, wow, wow! I NEVER thought I would say these words. Like, ever." She was getting incredibly sidetracked. "Thank goodness it's just because I grew a tail and not because- Anyway!" She stopped herself before her mind wandered somewhere she really wouldn't want to imagine. "For the time being, let's focus on the tip of the thick... urgh!" She couldn't stay serious and facepalmed at her own idiocy.
"Sophia...?" The cat-girl had gotten slightly confused while she was watching her.
"Don't mind me, and especially don't listen to the nonsense I'm spouting!"
"Can I ever talk to you again, then?" She just had to use this chance to be sassy.
"Okay, that one was good. I don't even want to get back on you for that."
"Hehe."
"Enough with the distractions! I need to focus on my tail! For the itch! Uh, against the itch!" Sophia closed her eyes and tried her best to move the tip of her new tail. A few minutes passed, and it suddenly twitched. "Oh, I felt that! I did that! Alright!" Motivated by her small success, she continued to get used to her new body parts.
Once she stopped facepalming herself after saying she wanted to move down the tip and use the whole thing, Sophia finally regained her concentration once more and actually made some progress. Eventually, she became able to, at least clumsily, move her entire tail after a lot of training.
"Oh, seems like you're getting the hang of it." Maya was watching the somewhat choppily yet gently swishing orange and black tail of the newborn tiger-girl. "How does it feel now?"
"Less itchy, but still very itchy!" One could mean she had taken a liking to the word. "But yeah, it's getting better, I think? I might get used to it eventually. It looks way too cute to give up!" Sophia clumsily moved her tail to her side to get a look at it. "So very cute~."
"Yep, cute." Maya wasn't looking at the girl's tail but rather at her bright and adorable smile while she was doing so.
"Let's see how walking or running works with it! Here I go-"
"Ah, I wouldn't do that if I were you- Aaand I was too late." She wanted to warn her about something but didn't get the chance to finish her sentence.
"Huh? Eh?! O-Ouch!" Sophia accelerated as usual, but she managed to move at best 3 meters before she tripped and skillfully planted her face into the dirt. "W-What was that?!" She got up and took a couple more steps. "Ehh?! I-I can barely walk at all!" She looked really wobbly and unsteady while moving, and her new tail was twitching and swishing all over the place.
"Ahaha..." The cat-girl watched over her with an awkward smile.
"W-What is going on here, Maya?!"
"The tail is an integral part of our balance. If you, who has absolutely no control of it, try to run, your tail's all over the place and destroys your balance. It'll work against you in that situation."
"Urgh, this sure is complicated. And itchy!"
"It would probably be the other way around for me. If I were to lose my tail, I would have some serious problems as well." Maya looked at her own, snow-white one while saying so.
"Want to try? If magic can add tails, it can temporarily remove them as well."
"Yeah, no." She wasn't a fan, and her tail, as if having a life on its own, angrily swished around and twitched a couple of times. "I'm quite fond of it."
"Yeah, me too." She stared at Maya as a whole, though. "So, how do I use my tail for balance?"
"That's... hmm? That's actually a good question. Wait? Seriously, how...?" The cat-girl had confused herself over the question. "I-I never thought about that before... I just do it. Eh...?"
"I am so happy that I'm not the only one that gets distracted by trivial stuff while thinking!"
"Okay! Sophia, I will walk around a bit, and you watch me! We're going to find out how this thing actually works!" She gave her tail a slight glare while saying so.
"S-Sure..." She was a little confused why the cat-girl was so motivated about it. As said, she watched Maya walking around and focused on her backside while doing so. While she paraded around, Maya made some extravagant movements with her hips, getting a better understanding of how her tail compensates for that kind of walking.
"And? What did you find out?" She stopped walking around and faced her.
"S-Sorry..." Sophia awkwardly looked away with a slightly red face.
"E-Eh? Why are you apologizing all of a sudden?!"
"All those fancy extra movements of your hips-"
"Yeah?"
"I-I ended up staring at just your... b-butt. Sorry."
"Pervert." While she seemed a bit embarrassed, Maya didn't look angry.
"P-Please do it again. I'll do it properly this time!"
"Okay." With a slightly doubtful expression, she walked around some more. "And?"
"Hrmn..." Sophia was seriously thinking about it. "I believe I found a pattern, actually. Whenever you move or take a step, your tail swings in the exact opposite direction."
"Oh? Really? I never paid attention to it." Maya was learning new things about her own body. "Fascinating, but it actually makes sense, improving your balance with a counter-movement."
"Oh, kinda like when you flail around your arms when you try to balance on a narrow object?"
"Exactly! Well, I use my tail for that, now that you mention it... but, I guess that's precisely it."
"Interesting. So you don't have a tail just to make you look even cuter. It has a practical use as well!"
"T-Thanks."
"Time for more training! I at least need to be able to walk and run properly... And get rid of this itchy itch!" Sophia was still greatly bothered by it.
"Sure, break a leg... Not literally please, though!" She had a feeling the next hours would involve a lot of stumbling and falling.
Now that the girl had a rough understanding of how her new tail's supposed to work, she had gotten motivated.
A couple of hours passed, and as predicted by the cat-girl, Sophia had kissed the dirt more than just a couple of times. Mainly because she always got overconfident once she could walk a couple of steps and directly tried to run, which didn't work out. After a lot of trial and error, though, she was slowly getting a better feel of her tail and became able to use it for slightly more refined movements.
Once the sun began to set, and it was getting time for dinner, Sophia had become able to walk again, albeit clumsily. That she occasionally seemed like a grown-up newborn, just learning how to walk, didn't bother her much because the tiger-girl was having way too much fun with her new tail. Sophia still complained about the lingering itchiness during their dinner, though. More than once, actually.
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