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College, for most people, is a place for the academic study of many different subjects. It's a gathering place for like minded individuals to collect new information and share it with others who may not have discovered it yet. It was a place of higher learning where people come to have their beliefs and opinions challenged and to seek new perspectives on things that they otherwise normally wouldn't have. Connections were made every day, turning into lasting, meaningful friendships and perhaps something even more if one was lucky. It was a dream come true for those fortunate enough to attend.

For Ari, however, it was a nightmare. The nerdy fox dreaded going to school everyday despite having dreamt about it daily at one point in his relatively young life. The classes were fine, as were the professors most of the time. What really cemented the chunky vulpine's fear was the fact that he was targeted by these relentless set of bullies that seemingly picked on him for no discernible reason. It made it hard to push himself to get his education even though he knew that it would drastically improve his life if he did. The thing that really ticked him off about it moreso than anything else was the fact that this never happened in high school, where he flew under everyone's radar to the point where only his few, close friends cared about his existence.

One such person was Cody. The lithe kangaroo happened to be the fox's lone companion that he'd kept throughout the last decade or so. It seemed a little strange that the pair of them would be so close as on the outside they had nothing in common; Cody was a bit of a jock with a decidedly peculiar interest in interior design, whereas the dorky canine had gone heavy into the chemistry stream and had loaded up his timetables with nearly forty solid hours of studying a week.

Yet, the pair of them bonded regardless - they had pretty similar semesters back in high school, but they also did a ton outside of class as well. They both loved a lot of the same entertainment media - as well as having literally the exact same favourite band - and even got to enjoy some sports together. The vulpine wasn't really all that interested in them, but he happened to realize over the years that his stocky build made him fairly decent at rugby, all things considered. He'd debated on whether or not he should keep it as a backup just in case school didn't work out, but he was way too good of a student to give that up entirely.

Cody sighed as the black-furred fox shoved his locker closed, doing his best to keep all his textbooks and notebooks contained without spilling out. "We're three months into the semester, and I still think that you're crazy."

"I already told you," Ari shot the marsupial a knowing glance, "I can handle it with ease. I'm good at learning things, so I don't see why I should limit myself."

Cody let his head drop as he slung his hand onto the vulpine's shoulder. "Because you're going to burn yourself out really quickly. Trust me on this, I've seen it before with other people." He gave his friend an honest look. "And this is before getting that job that you said you were gonna apply for."

"And I said that I can handle that as well." Ari chuckled warmly. "Seriously, you don't have to treat me like a child. I can take care of myself."

"You're gonna kill yourself, trust me." Cody stated in the sincerest way that he possibly could. It was then that his eyes flicked over the canine's shoulder and saw three of the sleaziest people that he knew coming their way through his messy, light-brown hair. "Don't look now, but we've got company."

Ari's heart sank - he knew exactly who the roo was referring to. "Are you kidding me? They're here now?" Without even turning around, he got his answer.

"Oh look, if it isn't the little virgin fag himself." The leader of the pack, Max, taunted the chubby fox.

Ari grumbled, turning around to face the rhinoceros. "Leave me alone, Max. I'm not a virgin."

"So he admits that he's a fag then!" An even chunkier boar, Jack, chimed in, very pleased with what he picked up from the sentence.

Cody's gaze narrowed at the three scumbags that unfortunately decided that now was a good time to make their presence known. "I see that the turd herd is still running around here."

"Cody." Max snorted, suddenly feeling tense upon seeing the red-furred kangaroo. "Well, I'm still surprised that the school's star soccer player even wants to hang around this jerkoff."

Cody smirked, seeing a golden opportunity to set up a burn on the pachyderm and his crew. "Oh, I can answer that no problem. See, unlike you dipshits, his testicles dropped years ago." He chortled at his own joke. "I wouldn't be caught dead hanging around with children these days."

The gangly alligator in the back piped up. "Balls don't matter if you never get laid."

"Except he has, Aaron." Cody then turned to the vulpine. "Ari, when was the last time that you fucked?"

"This past March. Saturday the twentieth." Ari recited from memory, nodding when he was finished.

Max could do nothing but laugh. "Ha, I bet this dweeb even remembers what he wore that night."

Cody felt his mouth contort into a wry grin, knowing that he'd just lured them into a trap. "And the last time any of you had sex was when?"

Aaron began the process of pulling up the sleeves of his hoodie, as if he was preparing to get into a scuffle. "Sounds like your mouth is writing cheques that your ass can't cash."

"That... doesn't really make sense in this regard." Cody looked at the reptile with confusion before shaking his head entirely. "Listen, if you really are trying to get physical, know that I can take you down with or without fighting you."

Max puffed out his chest in an attempt to make himself look bigger than he already was. "You sound confident in taking on three people at once."

"See, that's the beauty of it all. I don't have to lay a finger on you, and I'll still come out on top." Cody's smile returned, though almost looked predatory in nature. "The instant any fighting occurs, we'd all be suspended while the administration does a thorough investigation into the matter. And who do you think those in charge will go easy on - one of the most well-respected students in the entire school with a squeaky clean record, or three chucklefucks currently on academic probation for plagiarizing each other at the last minute on an assignment that you had two fucking months to complete?" He raised his voice to emphasize the ridiculousness of their behaviour.

Nostrils flared as wide as they would go, Max burned an angry glare through the roo's skull. His pride was in shambles. "We're gonna take you down one day." He motioned for the other two that he came with to leave through the entrance that they walked through.

Cody looked completely unfazed at the threat. "No you won't."

"Interior design is for gay pussies anyway!" Jack shouted as he started rounding the corner to the perpendicular hallway.

"I don't give a shit about what greater men than you have to say about me. What makes you think that I care what you think?" Cody yelled back, knowing that the trio had heard him.

"Holy shit," Ari watched as the two of them were left alone nearly as quickly as they were originally harassed, "you trounced them!"

Feeling the adrenaline still rushing through his veins, Cody forcibly exhaled through his nose. His heartrate was still elevated from the encounter. "I couldn't care less about what the loser brigade has to say about either of us. Those guys are genuinely useless." He cast his eyes back to the canine, who had gone and slumped up against his locker. "Ari?"

"I don't even know why they do this. This is some kindergarten shit." Ari felt despondent at the fact that their tormenting hadn't relented a bit since the start of his program a couple years back. The whole thing truly made him miserable.

"Well, I do know from personal experience that kids are psychopathic assholes that lack a filter. Some people just never grow out of that phase, I guess." Cody felt for the black-furred fox, he really did. His issue was that there seemed to be no way to dispel these clowns aside from making sure that he stuck around his friend as much as possible, which wasn't always feasible given his schedule.

Ari sighed, wiping a tear from his eye with the ball of his palm. "Ugh, and of course I get stuck with them." He wasn't usually one to get angry, but there was no stopping his blood from running red hot with rage.

"Hey," Cody slung his shoulder around the other man's shoulders and brought him in close, "they aren't going to do anything so long as I'm here. I've got your back."

"Thanks." Ari dejectedly sighed. "I shouldn't have to always have you around, though. I should be able to take care of myself."

Those words struck Cody, who took a moment to contemplate them. That led him to bring his other arm around and give the vulpine a great, big hug. "This is what friends are for. We look out for each other and take care of each other when we get hurt."

Ari appreciated the embrace, though still felt a bit sore. "Yeah, I know that. I just think that I should be more self-sufficient by this point." He let go of the hug and stepped back so that he could see the marsupial in full. "I just wish that there was something I could do for myself to make them stop."

Cody pursed his lips, knowing that his friend didn't have many choices available to him. "Save for you starting a workout regiment five years ago, I don't think there's a whole lot you could do at this point in time." Honestly, he knew that that advice was egregiously unhelpful, but there weren't a ton of things that the canine could do for himself. "You could always start now, of course. That's totally an option!"

"Eh, that'd just take too long." Ari rubbed the back of his neck, still feeling incredibly down. "Plus I have no idea what I'd be doing in a gym, so the idea is even less useful."

"I mean, I could help you." Cody offered, feeling a bit of pride swell within him at the opportunity. "I do know a fair bit about working out since I've been doing sports for so long now. There's honestly nothing to it and I think you could pick it up really quickly!"

Ari mulled over the offer, but ultimately shook his head. "Thanks, but no thanks." He clutched his arm. "The gym's not really my thing. I wouldn't do very well with a routine since I've never done one before."

"And yet I think that it'd do wonders for you and your self-esteem." Cody clasped his hands together, a bit hopeful that his friend would hear him out. "Believe me when I say that I've seen people's lives improve dramatically since they've started exercising."

"Yeah, but..." Ari's words got caught in his throat, causing him to go silent.

Cody quirked a brow. "But?"

Ari winced with regret that he let the kangaroo steer him into this conversation. "I don't know. I kinda do and don't think that it's the right answer."

That got Cody to perk up. "How so?"

"Because I don't think I'm meant to workout, but I do think that the size could genuinely help me." Ari palmed his face with both hands. "Like, if I could get the size right now without having to lift a single weight, then I could stop those assholes from shitting up my life!"

"Yeah, but that's not how things work. You can't just wave your hand and suddenly have gains." Cody sighed, appreciating the sudden enthusiasm that the fox had, but thinking that he was tackling the issue the wrong way. "Our bodies don't function like that."

The look on Ari's face changed to one of determination. "Then the answer has to be that I need some kind of external help, like a serum or something like that."

That lost Cody. "And where exactly do you plan on finding this magical formula?"

"Maybe the grad students' lab has something in it that I could use?" Ari rubbed his chin in thought. "They're always working on something weird in there."

"Somehow, I highly doubt that they have anything like that." Cody clutched his forehead with his fingers, feeling like his friend had just gone off the deep end.

"No, I swear that I recall someone saying something like that." Ari looked up at the red-furred roo with a twinkle of hope in his eye. "I could try and sneak in to see what they're up to."

Cody froze, his eyes going as wide as saucers. "Oh, don't do that!" He gripped onto the other man's arms firmly. "Who knows what kinda danger you'd be putting both yourself and them into?"

With a cool collectedness, Ari calmly explained away any and all issues that the marsupial could have. "Dude, those guys have tutored me through some of the toughest courses that this school offers. These guys are genuinely the best of the best in their field, and I've even heard that government agencies have been looking at these students' credentials for potential jobs later on when they've graduated." An earnest smile wormed its way across his face. "They're the real deal, dude. If they don't have something that's safe to use by this point, then legitimately no one will."

Cody felt like the vulpine wasn't exactly thinking the straightest like he normally does. "Yeah, but they'll know if you access the lab if you use your student card to get in."

"That's the risk that I'm willing to take." Ari nodded.

Cody wanted to protest, but something felt off to him at the moment. "Say, don't you have class right now?"

Panic set in as Ari looked at his phone, only just realizing that he'd been talking in the hall for so long that he was fifteen minutes late to his current class. "Crap!"

*****

Being in the school after normal hours felt a bit weird to Ari when he wasn't in the library studying. His department did have a lab where students often stayed late in order to get their research done, but it was primarily meant for those who weren't undergrads like the black-furred canine. He'd been in the laboratory before, sure, but he was always supervised by one of the older students and was never on his own.

Tonight was different as he was there for a specific reason that no one else could know about. Peeking out from behind the adjacent hallway corner, Ari spied the entrance to the room and tried to see how many people were there for the night. In total he counted two, but one had been gone for some time now, seemingly like they left already. That meant that only a single individual remained, but he wondered for how long.

It was as if someone had been listening in on his internal monologue. The last person ducked out of the room in a sprint; it made him think that they'd be heading off to the washroom, but the speed in which they booked it down the hall got him wondering if something more serious had happened. Nevertheless, the lab was now abandoned - this was his chance to move in.

The one major worry that he had heading into the plan had been alleviated as he saw that the door to the room was left ajar, meaning that he could slip his student card back into his jeans. Quietly and carefully he crept forward, ever vigilant to see if someone was nearby. His heart nearly stopped when he saw the security camera high up on one of the walls, only to remember that the ones in this specific wing had been down for months now and the college hadn't gotten around to getting them fixed. Like many other schools their primary focus was on sports, not academics.

Right away, Ari ran into an issue when he remembered just how big the room was. "Goddamn it, where do I even start?" He scratched his head for a split second before he realized that he didn't have a whole lot of time to be standing around. Right away he raced over to the counter to see if there was an open log of all the experiments being worked on at the moment. As expected, he found nothing that could help him.

He then started looking at various vials and flasks out on the countertops to see if the labels would mean anything to him, but most of them were just standard chemicals that he had no use for. He was about to move onto the nearest cabinet of promising looking fluids, only to suddenly discern that they were pretty volatile acids and that he shouldn't go out of his way to fuck with them. He was running out of time and was taking too long. There had to be a change of plans.

Ari now skimmed over different sections of the lab in search for something related to what he was looking for. His heart was beating a mile a minute knowing that someone could walk in at any moment and possibly get him expelled. He could stop now and get out unscathed, but then nothing would be solved, and he'd be dealing with those bullies likely until he graduates. He had to keep going no matter the risk involved.

His search abruptly concluded when he happened upon a glass-doored cupboard that contained, what looked like to him, finished projects. He scoured through them, speed-reading the labels to see what each container held inside. It took him a whole minute to go from top to bottom, but he eventually found one that seemed to be exactly what he was looking for.

Ari was thankful that it was held in a tube as it meant that it could be easily transported in his pocket without much difficulty, but now he had to be mindful of how he moved so that he wouldn't crush it accidentally. With it now safely in his possession, he deftly moved to the doorframe and peeked his head outside the entrance to see if anyone was coming. There wasn't, which is when he made his move, bounding to the nearest exit with the biggest leaps that his thick legs could take. It wasn't graceful in the slightest, but it got him out of the building and away from any prying eyes. He only hoped now that no one would notice that he'd pilfered one of their many projects.

"Are you sure that you got what you wanted?" Cody looked at the fox with an inquisitive look on his face. He'd made his way over to the other man's home as soon as he heard that the plan had been followed through.

Ari excitedly beamed at the red-furred kangaroo. "Yeah, check it out. It says, 'Muscle Growth Enhancement' right on the label." He used his index finger as a pointer to show off the handwritten identification. "Scientists are nothing if not dull and predictable in their professional lives."

The whole thing still didn't sit well with Cody, who'd been feeling uneasy when the vulpine said that he was genuinely going through with his plan. "I still think that you should reconsider." He placed a hand on his friend's shoulder, his grasp firm with worry. "I can help you come up with a lie to get you out of any trouble that you might land in. We can say that we found it somewhere in the men's locker room. They'll immediately think that it was some jock who took it and got cold feet, leaving you off the hook entirely!"

"Wouldn't that just make you a suspect then?" Ari cocked an eyebrow at the roo's slapdash scheme.

"That can be the thing that makes it believable." Cody explained. "I'm in there a fair bit, so I can say that I found it under a bench when I was looking for my phone or something, and then figured that the chemistry department might know what it is." He tried to put on a smile but saw the troubled look on the canine's face. "Is there a flaw in my plan? Have I overlooked something?"

Ari sighed, his gaze falling to the ground. "No... it's just that if we do all that, then I'm still stuck with getting bullied by those assholes. I'll have no way to defend myself, and right now I'm sure they'll be on the lookout for when you're not with me." He held onto one of the marsupial's hands with his own, a determined look in his eye. "I have to do this. Please don't stop me."

Cody groaned, his face scrunching up as he mulled over what he was going to do. "Fine." He sighed with a bit of a whine escaping his throat. "But I genuinely think that this isn't a very smart idea. I do genuinely believe that there's a better way to handle all this."

"I know," Ari gently placed a hand on his friend's arm, "but this is gonna work out, I know it. Those guys in the lab know their stuff. This will only help me."

"Alright." Cody swallowed, a bit of a defeated tone in his voice. "But if anything happens, I'm calling for help no matter what you say." He stood back to allow the black-furred fox some space.

That got Ari to warmly smile. "I actually count on that." Steeling himself with a few deep breaths, he gripped the tube in his hand tightly, bringing his other hand over to release the rubber stopper that was sealing it up. He winced a bit in anticipation of the fluid inside to suddenly react with the air in his living room, though nothing ultimately ended up happening. With his fingers shaking slightly in either excitement or extreme nervousness, he slowly and steadily brought the tube up to his mouth in order to drink it down. At least he thought that it needed to be ingested. Man, he hoped that he was right.

After a few seconds of internally coaxing himself, he tipped the glass up at a forty-five degree angle and allowed the liquid to slide down his throat. He let out a gasp as it felt a little bit cold going down. Several moments had then passed as he stood there expecting something to start happening. He'd placed the tube down on a nearby table so that he wouldn't drop it. His heart raced faster than it had ever gone before, both in fear that something bad might be happening to him and that this whole thing might have been a total failure after all.

It was then that Ari felt it - a warmth began to develop inside what he could only assume was his soul, cultivating itself and spreading rapidly throughout his body. It was as if he was getting covered by a blanket made of lukewarm lava, a sensation that he was gradually growing to love. It travelled down his torso and even into his limbs, making his fingers twitch in relaxing euphoria.

Once the warming sensation in every single part of his body, it then intensified and got to work. Instantly, he gasped, needing to relieve the heat that he was now unexpectedly dealing with. "Forgive me!" He blurted out, hastily shucking his shirt and pants off. All that remained on him after slipping out of his socks was his fairly skin-tight pair of briefs, which was housing his incredibly erect cock at the moment.

"Oh!" Cody quickly turned his head away from the stripping vulpine. "I should give you some privacy." He could feel a deep blush coming on.

"Sorry!" Ari nervously chuckled, feeling a bit apprehensive that he momentarily forgot that the kangaroo was even there with him. He dug his thumbs under the waistband of his underwear and nimbly peeled them off of his crotch, and not a moment too soon as the fabric was beginning to stain where his cock head was. He was now naked as the day that he was born, shaft standing at attention with a bead of pre forming at the tip. "You might as well look now, it's not gonna get any less intimate from this point onward."

Reluctantly, Cody agreed with the sentiment and gradually opened his eyes, laying his gaze upon the chubby form of the canine in his birthday suit. "So I'm assuming that you're enjoying whatever's going on inside your body."

"Uh," Ari rubbed the back of his neck as his cheeks took on a rosy, pink hue, "yeah, I guess you could say that." It was just then that the warmth inside him escalated even further, enveloping him all over. He grew a little panicky, hyperventilating a bit as the thought of overheating swirled through his mind. The warmth permeated through his muscles, causing them to tense as hard as they could. He wasn't sure why he was involuntarily flexing nor how long it would last. After a moment or two had passed his body relaxed, allowing him a reprieve to try and understand what just happened.

What had taken place was his muscles actually growing larger. Ari was wide-eyed in shock when he looked over himself and confirmed that he was, indeed, bigger than before. It also surprised him to realize that whatever that was didn't hurt and that he didn't feel sore. That meant that the serum worked after all! All the doubt that the roo had planted in his mind had vapourized in an instant, letting a wave of relief wash over him.

He barely had a second to inspect himself before round two started, this time feeling even more vivid likely due to his now greater size. He got to see firsthand how his pectorals strained as they jutted out, only to relax again a second later. Like before, his body retained the size of when he was at his largest. His chest heaved with every breath he took, rising and falling with every inhale and exhale. He'd have thought everything going on was a dream had it not felt so real.

Ari had to double take when he looked back at his friend. Where the marsupial had been taller than him before, he now just slightly had the lead. The formula was just supposed to just affect muscle tissue, right? It felt unnatural. If his height was affected, then were other unrelated measurements as well? All it took was one look down at his pelvis to confirm that, yep, his schlong and balls had grown in tandem with the rest of his body. The realization elicited a throb of from his endowment.

He didn't stop there, however. His body continued its expansion, bulging out in every available dimension. His height surged even further, increasing rapidly until he could see the ceiling scant inches away from the top of his head. Quickly estimating the math got him thinking that he was fairly close to nine feet tall. It was official, he was a veritable stud now.

Compounding that was the fact that his width and thickness followed suit. Gone were the days that he could see his feet past his chest, now there was only the view of fluffy pectoral mass in his peripheral vision. His arms had bloated outward until his biceps had formed split peaks and his triceps had taken on a large croissant-shape. They all felt as strong as steel when in flexion.

Ari's back had grown exponentially as well, now resembling a gargantuan mountain range in all its glory. There were huge peaks and valleys all over that formed nooks between those muscle groups, enough to get a finger pinched in between if it ever found its way in. His winglike lats made sure that his width hadn't been abandoned, nearly looking like one could build a house on them.

For the first time in his relatively young life he had abs, raised off the front of his torso like cobblestone. Now that he thought about it, he'd lost a lot of the fat that he carried before, but it hadn't completely disappeared as his muscles weren't completely striated. It did give him that shredded look that he often used to envy people over.

With a flex of confirmation, Ari could tell that his legs had bloated greatly into twin redwood tree trunks. His quads were unbelievably massive and fought for space even when at rest. Those calves of his had the perfect teardrop shape that bodybuilders the world over would kill to have because of how difficult they were to achieve. He had to snicker seeing as how he got all this so easily.

One area that he hadn't really thought about was his ass, but he was happy to report that his rear had ballooned out into globular cheeks that could crush very nearly anything put between them. They felt hard as diamond in his grasp with his fingers unable to dent the flesh no matter how much force he applied. He had to admit, a man as powerful as him needed a strong foundation in order to be taken seriously.

Last, but certainly not least, was probably Ari's now prized possession - his turgid cock. That monolithic pillar jutted out from his crotch with great pride, throbbing in sync with his heartbeat. He couldn't exactly tell how long it had gotten, but he was more than pleased to see that it had grown to the point where it made it past his belly button. But of course, what was one's rod if it wasn't paired with a set of testicles? His were a pair of monstrous testosterone factories, so large, in fact, that they also took up a lot of space and needed to be fully in front of his legs as they wouldn't fit between them anymore. Any larger and they might have to fit in behind them.

Cody had been frozen to the spot while watching the fox experience his transformation. Not once during this whole thing did he expect the formula to be this effective, and yet here was all the proof he needed standing tall in front of him. "You're a lot... hairier now." He gulped, his eyes rapidly scanning the humongous form of his friend.

Ari would concur had he not been running his tongue all throughout his mouth. "My teeth are sharper too." He smiled at the red-furred roo, showing off the pointy canine teeth that he now sported.

The display rattled Cody all the way down to his bones. He covered up his mouth with a hand, honestly a little frightened by what he saw. "Um, Ari? You're still... you, right?"

"Of course I am!" Ari beamed, letting the corner of his mouth twist into a wry grin. "I still have the urge to maintain my perfect grade average, I still love playing video games, and I still think that parties are lame."

"Oh thank fuck, it is still you." Cody felt his hand drop straight to where his heart was located on his chest, releasing a sigh of relief.

Ari took the opportunity to inspect his new form, whistling as he saw how sculpted and massive his body had gotten. "Goddamn, check me out! This steroid worked wonders on me."

"Actually, I believe that this is more like a growth hormone than a steroid." Cody pointed out matter-of-factly.

Ari chuckled. "I'm surprised that you know the difference."

"Shush. I'm allowed to know things." Cody snickered.

"So," Ari stretched out his arms a tad as if to show off his titanic frame, "how's all this look from your end?"

Cody stared at the vulpine, his mouth marginally open in disbelief. "You mean besides literally unbelievable?" He walked over to the much larger man and looked up at him. "I'm just happy that you haven't gotten a heart attack and dropped dead or something."

Ari smirked. "Ah, you wouldn't get rid of me that easily." He lifted his hands until they were situated behind his head, exhibiting his winglike lats for the marsupial. "I don't think that Death is strong enough to take me out now."

"Oh, I wouldn't be too cocky. You know just as well as I do that at your size you can still-" Cody's train of thought was cut off when his brain registered a scent he'd never really noticed before. Well, that wasn't entirely true; it was certainly familiar, but it was just never so strong before. He followed his nose to the source and discovered that it was coming from the sweaty fluff sticking out from between the canine's overly stuffed pectorals. "Oh..."

The kangaroo's odd behaviour gave Ari pause. "Cody?" As much as he wanted to see what was going on, he didn't stop his friend's actions.

"Dude, when did you start smelling so good?" Cody had to stand on his tiptoes to dig his muzzle into the black-furred fox's pec valley, which he did with gusto. He was instantly assaulted on all fronts by the masculine musk.

Ari's mouth opened a few times to speak, but he had a hard time getting words to come out. "I-I've always smelled like this. I don't know what you're getting at."

"No way, man." Infatuated with the heavenly aroma, Cody wiggled his face around and inhaled as much of it as he could. "You smell strong, like I'm taking in your very essence right now." Unbeknownst to him, he actually was. It was minor at first, his frame just creaking ever so slightly larger with every passing second, but it wasn't enough to get him to notice.

Ari, in actuality, was the first to perceive something off about his friend - something more than him becoming enthralled with his own personal scent. "Uh, Cody? You need to stop and look at yourself right now."

"Not a chance!" Cody's tongue lashed out and licked all the fur within its grasp, unleashing more of that earthy scent right into his nostrils. It was like every motion rewarded him with another pulse of growth, coaxing him to keep going as he probed his nose into every crevice that it could reach.

It was when Ari started hearing tears coming from his friend's attire that he decided that enough was enough and that he was going to do something. "Dude, you're busting through your clothes. You gotta stop now."

That got Cody to huff, but he ultimately acquiesced. "Fine. Lemme just fix the problem then." With one swift motion, he gripped the collar of his shirt with both hands and pulled in different directions, shredding it entirely down the front. The scraps of fabric fell to the floor by his feet.

Ari couldn't believe how crazed the red-furred roo had become. He knew that his friend genuinely liked the shirt that he had been wearing, so to just rip it apart so casually like that really meant something. "Okay," he sighed, palming his face with a hand, "you really need to stop now."

"But why?" Cody whined, feeling that his fun was getting cut off prematurely. "I don't want to stop right now. I love the strength that you've got now, I love the scent that you're giving off, I love..." The next word got stuck in his throat and he did everything in his power to get it out without choking. "You."

Ari felt like his brain glitched out when he heard that. "Excuse me?"

Emotions positively flooded Cody at the moment. It was like he felt attraction the most one second, and then the next was embarrassment after making his feelings known. There was anger at himself for only discovering this now, and then shame for losing himself so effortlessly. "Yeah." He gently nodded his head.

Ari couldn't stop a rosy blush from tinting his cheeks, even through his now shaggier fur. "Oh... I hadn't realized."

"I mean," Cody had to take a moment to organize his thoughts before he continued, "I guess that I have for a while now and I never really pushed myself to act on it before." He grunted, only now taking in his swelling body. "And now that you're like this... I don't know, something just clicked with a baser part of my brain. I just wanted to get closer to you. I wanted to be with you."

Hearing the marsupial's words touched Ari in a way that had never been done before. He was outwardly displaying a full body expression that one might think was unbecoming for a beast his size. "Y-You do?" He cupped his muzzle with both hands.

"Yeah, I do." Cody affirmed with a confident smirk. "You've always been one of a kind and I really appreciated that. And I like that nothing about all this," he gestured to the black-furred vulpine godly physique, "has affected who you really are, because I love that most of all."

Ari rubbed the back of his bull neck, mulling over exactly what the best thing for him to say was. "Truth be told, I always really liked you too. I mean, I couldn't understand why one of the literal most popular kids in school would ever want to interact with someone like me without it being a dare." He sighed. "I dunno, it just made me wanted, and I liked that feeling."

"So it's mutual then!" Cody beamed. "I guess now that it's official I won't be so hesitant in being forward with you, but I'm at a bit of a disadvantage with you being that much larger than me." He stripped out of his pants and undergarments before tossing them beside him. "So let's even the playing field a bit, shall we?" He was never one to not use sports-based puns if he could help it.

The invitation to get more intimate with someone he liked thrilled Ari, who had never really gotten the chance to do so earlier in his life. He chuckled with enthusiasm as he slowly bent down to his knees, then leaning backwards using his hands until his back hit the carpeted floor. "Hope that you're ready to take me on. I've got a lot of surface area for that tongue of yours to cover." Grinning from ear to ear, he held his prodigious length proudly in his grasp.

"It might be less than you think once I catch up to your size." Cody shot the fox a sly smirk. It took him a hot second to figure out his best plan of attack, but he quickly decided, for now, that it'd be best if he straddled the larger man's girthy pillar and use it to keep him near the top of that fluffy torso where a lot of the densest pockets of musk were held on his friend's elephantine body.

Ari lowly moaned when he felt the kangaroo lay on top of his leviathan bulk, feeling those large feet run themselves over his meaty spear. "Oh, that's something that I've never tried before."

"Really?" Cody huffed, already getting his nose close to the intensely packed chest of his friend. "I've done it several times to other people. We can certainly try it later if you're interested." He whuffed around those stuffed slabs of meat, inhaling the other man's masculine scent with aplomb. As if it was waiting to get its next fix, his burgeoning body restarted its growth, ballooning ever so much more with each sniff.

It was an odd feeling, Ari thought, to be able to feel someone else growing right on top of his own body. Every breath that the roo took just piled on more muscle mass to his ever growing frame. He'd been holding onto the other man's sides to support him just in case, but he was feeling it widen with every single moment that passed. His shaft was getting pushed further away from his body, though that problem was quickly resolved with a simple reposition from his friend, ending with both of their fleshy spires sandwiched between them.

Cody was having the time of his life burying his nose into the canine's substantial traps. The sensation of literally gaining mass out of thin air was nothing short of orgasmic, and his leaking shaft was proof positive of that. He licked and groped at those muscle groups, even going so far as to suckle on them once he'd gotten the heady aroma off of them, but he wasn't done just yet. Oh no, he was far from being finished. He was insatiable and wanted more, knowing exactly where to get it.

Ari didn't exactly know what the red-furred roo was planning when he felt the swelling body on top of him shift completely around, but it soon became apparent when he felt that snout dig its way into his musky pubic bush. His gasping didn't last for long, however, as he soon got a faceful of growing balls plopped right onto his own nose. All of a sudden he got to experience what his friend was going through and liked it, lashing his own tongue across the sweaty sac. He was done growing, obviously, but he wasn't about to stop himself from having a good time, and if it helped the other man get close to his size then how could he say no?

The reciprocation of attention to his nether region caused Cody to redouble his efforts, washing the base of the thick shaft in front of him with glee. It made sense to him that his size was increasing after taking in all this delicious musk, but what he hadn't noticed is that there were other effects taking place as well. Much like his friend underneath him, he was gaining fluffy fur all over his body, from his own pelvis and armpits to a dense treasure trail running down from his bloating pecs to his crotch rocket. What was uniquely happening to him, however, was happening on his face.

While he had the ability to successfully grow facial hair like most men, he never really had a taste for it on himself since he didn't think it fit him all that well. His body seemed to disagree on that matter as the sideburns he kept trimmed grew downward and connected at the tip of his jaw, giving him a surprisingly clean shaven chin strap that he might not actually mind at all. At the very least it made him look much older than he actually was, which might be a blessing in disguise for him later on down the road.

It was several minutes still before Ari stopped feeling involuntary movement coming from his friend. He'd been growling into that bloated ballsac for so long that it took his brain a hot minute to notice that it was no longer pushing into his muzzle. Once he realized, he signaled the marsupial with a squeeze on those mouth-watering thighs. "Hey dude, I think you're done now. I don't feel you growing anymore."

It took Cody a little bit longer before he snapped himself out of his lust-filled daze. "Oh?" He groggily replied, blinking a few times to regain his bearings. "Oh!" His surroundings suddenly made sense to him again, making him realize what was going on in the first place. "Okay, let's see the damage." He pushed himself off of his friend with relative ease, but then struggled a bit when it came to righting himself onto his feet. It wasn't obvious to him at first, but the black-furred fox could instantly tell why.

Ari wolf whistled when he got a good look at the now transformed kangaroo. The other man didn't quite reach the heights that he did, but it didn't matter since apparently his body made up for it by adding those missing inches to the rest of his body's measurements.

For starters, those arms of his had billowed out larger than what his were like, looking like Cody had literal cannonballs attached to his limbs if viewed at a certain angle. His gargantuan quads had absolutely swallowed up any space that was once there, having to push his titanic cock and balls in front of them due to not being able to fit there anymore. Last, but certainly not the least by any stroke of the imagination, was his feet, which had swelled out incredibly, even in relation to the rest of his body. They were giant eighteen inch stompers that could press down on the average man's torso in its entirety. It really sold the appearance that he was a total mass monster.

"Goddamn, look at you!" Ari guffawed when he finally got a good look at his friend. "You're fucking huge!"

"Yeah, I guess I am." Cody examined himself in awe, mesmerized by his bulk. He attempted to heft one of his overhanging pecs, but the muscle was wholly solid and unbudging. "This... This is definitely something. I haven't decided whether or not I like this yet."

Ari impishly smirked. "Well, I'm in love, that's for sure. Though, you might not be the best soccer player anymore with how heavy you are now. Come to think of it, football might even be a bit tough for you since I don't know how well you'd run now."

Cody absolutely wanted to protest all that, but a single glance down at how much his chest protruded outwards reinforced the other man's words. "Eh, alright. You might have a fair point." He tried to see how much he could twist his torso and was genuinely surprised when it wasn't that far at all.

"It's a shame that we don't even really know how tall we are." Ari scratched his wide neck.

"I wouldn't necessarily say that." Cody rubbed his furry chin with the index finger and thumb from one hand as he scanned the room. "I'd say that I'm around seven feet..." He paused, really making the gears in his head turn to formulate an answer. "And nine inches."

Ari could only stand there in amazement at how rapidly the roo had come up with a result that sounded halfway plausible. "Holy shit, that's actually impressive!" He closed his slightly agape mouth when he realized that it was open. "What clued you in?"

"That archway behind you that leads to the main hallway," Cody pointed over the vulpine's shoulder to the passage behind him, "I know that the top of the entrance is a foot lower than the ceiling. Now since I can tell from here that I'm not that far away from hitting it with my head, I figure that I'm a couple inches shorter than it."

Not wanting to miss out on the explanation, Ari turned his whole body - as he couldn't just turn his head - to look at the example given. "Oh damn, I didn't even think about that." He pivoted back to face the red-furred marsupial. "If only there was something around here that I could do that with."

Cody narrowed his eyes as he scrutinized the other man's body, comparing the height to his point of view and working the math out in his head. "I'd wager that you're about a foot taller than I am just by looking at you."

"That..." Ari thought about it for a second before realizing how much sense that made. "That actually doesn't sound half bad. What about our weights?" He shot the kangaroo a cheeky grin.

Cody returned a wry smile. "We'll use your scale."

"That's even if it could handle us." Ari's smirk grew more mischievous by the second. "We're fucking beasts now!"

"Um, that's... not entirely inaccurate," Cody grimaced, not really fond of the description that his friend had given him, "but I'd still like to think that I'm more than just my body. But yes, we'd definitely need some kind of industrial scale in order to actually make a precise measurement."

• They make out

Ari's tongue playfully stuck out as a pretty horny idea ran through his head. "I bet we'd be as heavy as a small vehicle now."

Cody could only chuckle, though he liked the idea of that as well. "Yeah, we might just be." His mind, however, came up with a thought of a more serious manner. "Do you think that you're ready to take on those dickwads at school now?"

The question got Ari to stop chuckling for the time being and genuinely contemplate an answer, needing to take a moment to think. "I'm gonna be completely honest with you," he had made up his mind relatively quickly, "I really don't give a shit what they think about me anymore. Like, I couldn't care less what their opinions of me are."

"Ah, it seems like more than just your body has changed." Cody placed a hand on the black-furred canine's rippling shoulder, feeling the sheer strength kept within.

"Well, I'm still the same fox that everyone knows and-" Ari paused when he remembered that he wasn't exactly the most popular person around. "You get the idea. I just feel a lot more confident in myself now."

Cody grabbed a hold of the fox's other arm, also savouring the width of the brawny limb. "Mmm, I love a man with confidence."

"And I've got enough to go around now." Ari rumbled, reaching around the roo's enormous heft to feel up his mountainous back, running his fingers along the crevices between those bulging muscle groups. "Heh, I bet you don't even know how hot you look right now."

"Considering the beefcake that I'm looking at, I think I've got a good idea." Cody purred, trailing his finger down the stud's cheek.

Ari shot the marsupial a wry smirk. "I don't think I've got the facial hair that you do, though."

"Oh wait, what?" Cody jumped back in surprise, instantly shooting his hands to his chin. Sure enough, his fingers were feeling the coarse hair of what was now his beard. "Oh wow, I didn't realize that this happened!"

"Yeah, you totally look like a grad student now." Ari gave off a lewd grin as his eyes wandered up and down his friend's hulking physique. "Someone might even think that you're working on your doctorate thesis."

"I do like that sound of that." Cody pressed his biceps against the sides of his torso, forcing his hugemongous pecs to puff out further. "Does that mean that I can stop getting carded at the bar now?"

Ari licked his lips, liking what he was seeing. "I think that your body would clearly demonstrate that you can hold your liquor now." He planted a hand on the kangaroo's swollen trap and gingerly slid it up to his face, rubbing his thumb along that cheek until it reached the muzzle. "As well as many, many other things."

"Like a horny fox?" Cody's most recent exhale was quite a bit more forceful than his previous ones. His arousal was apparent between that and his member chubbing up.

"You could probably do that without breaking a sweat." Ari bent forward to get close to his friend, his breathing becoming staggered the closer that he drew near. It was a bit awkward for him to navigate the probable hundreds of pounds of bulk the pair of them possessed on the upper halves of their body, but he successfully operated his godlike body around until he could plant a sensual kiss on his friend's - no, lover's - lips.

The two of them went at it with fervor, relishing in the taste of each other's mouths as well as the feeling of their sweaty masses pressing against one another. Their tongues were like choreographed dancers, moving and swaying together like this had been rehearsed many times over. They both huffed lasciviously into the other's mouth, a testament to how much they both wanted this.

Their hands wandered over each other's embiggened bodies like a sculptor assessing the finer details of his work. They poked and prodded and groped the other person's densely packed musculature, but none of it relented to their forcefulness, much to their delight. They were the perfect beings for each other as neither of them would crumble in the grasp of the other.

In his lust-filled haze, Ari let his hands roam to where the red-furred roo's protruding pectorals. He lavished them with attention, getting rewarded with having them flex in his very grip. Then he got a brilliant idea. Slowly, but surely, he meandered them down to those fat nips that were pushed to face the ground due to the sheer amount of muscle mass packed in that chest. His very next move was giving them a slight squeeze, but that was all it took to get his lover's attention.

"Oh fuck!" Cody moaned as he broke off the kiss, doubling over slightly from the sudden tugging. His breathing turned into full-on panting from the rough treatment that his nipples received. Instantaneously, his cock surged to full mass from the stimulation, drooling a mess of precum from his over productive balls.

Ari bit his lower lip as he eyed the hunky marsupial's tensed form. "Oh ho, looks like I've discovered your kryptonite."

"Ahhhhh!" Cody bleated from the feeling of his nervous system going haywire. "You absolute piece of shit!" He meant that in the nicest way possible.

"Who'd have thought that you'd be taken down by something so obvious?" A mischievous grin found it's way onto Ari's face, his tail swishing zealously behind him.

Cody was brought to his knees by the action, but the sudden drop meant that his nips were promptly freed. His hand found its way to his massive chest, clutching it as he caught his breath. "You monster." He giggled, not taking the situation all that seriously.

"I take it that you liked that." Ari quirked a brow at the man below him.

"Like it? I loved it!" Cody let out a hearty laugh. "Oh man, I've just never felt anything like that before in my life, and I've been with a fair number of people over the years who've tried some weird stuff."

"So," Ari bent down until his own knees hit the floor, putting his mouth close to his lover's ear, "does that mean that you wanna keep going then?"

Cody didn't need to be asked twice. "God, you know it!" He let himself flop to the ground, pecs heaving with every one of his panting breaths and cock bobbing in the air. "Don't hold back on me. I can take it."

"Out of everyone that I know, you're the only one I believe when you say that." Ari hunkered over the kangaroo's swollen body, his hands on the tensing chest. "Hope you're ready."

Cody's shaft shot out a glob of preseed in anticipation. "You don't gotta hope."

Ari took that as his cue to begin the assault, roughly gripping onto the thick nipple and giving it a light twist. It elicited a moan of approval from the studly roo. He repeated the motion on the other nipple as well, getting rewarded with yet more pre splashed onto his shredded torso.

Cody's entire vocalizations at the moment consisted of moans and groans of pleasure as his hips bucked from the gratification he felt. His pectorals bunched up continuously, squishing themselves together as he was played with. Truthfully, he wasn't sure why his nips of all things got him the horniest, but he wasn't complaining.

As much as Ari was enjoying driving his lover crazy with lust, he wanted to have some more fun himself. Moving one hand away from that packed chest, he bent down and licked at the free nipple before taking it between his teeth. He wasn't overly harsh with it, but he wanted to apply just enough pressure that the other man really felt it.

Cody's body was spasming after experiencing major euphoria coursing through him. He was doing everything that he could to hold on as long as he could, but the vulpine was good at what he was doing. His balls were primed and ready to fire.

Ari wasn't oblivious to the red-furred roo's violent thrashing, in fact, as he wanted to keep egging it on. He shifted his jaw to the right and to the left for maximum stimulation, which of course got the man underneath him spewing the most pre that he'd ever seen in his life. It was only a matter of time now.

Cody was barely holding on at this point. He could feel with the way that his prostate was throbbing that he was nearing climax. His crotch rocket pulsed in sync with his heartbeat as exhilaration rocketed through him. That was all it took to get his pendulous balls to pull up and open the floodgates.

Ari stopped what he was doing and leaned away from his lover, admiring how the marsupial was shooting off bucket loads of cum without difficulty. The roobatter splattered not only all over the carpeted floor, but also the pair of them as well. This was far and away more jism than all of his previous orgasms combined.

With his eyes struggling to stay open, Cody just laid there as a passenger to his own release. His body was uncontrollably trying to eject everything in his cum tanks and was looking like it was succeeding. The surrounding floor, as well as his own furred hide, was covered in a sticky layer of his seed. When all was said and done, he stayed put where he was and panted hard, feeling the best that he'd ever felt.

"Looks like you enjoyed yourself." Ari snickered, wiping some cum off of his face.

"Hell yeah." Cody wheezily chuckled. He was content to do nothing at the moment, but strangely he felt like he was getting a second wind. Carefully, he pushed himself up, not even concerned with the slippery surface that he'd helped create. "Damn, I feel great." He looked up at the canine as a thought crossed his mind. "Remember how I played with your cock earlier? Want me to do that again?"

Ari stared at his lover for a second before realizing what he was getting at. "Oh, yes. Let's do it!" Now it was his turn to lean back and be taken care of.

It took a little finagling, but Cody had managed to rest on his meaty glutes in order to lift his feet in the air. His tail thumped as he pushed his massive paws forward until they contacted the fox's monstrous pillar. He huffed when he felt the turgid flesh with his toes, pressing the soles of his feet into the rock-hard cockflesh.

"Oh, this is different." Ari huffed, a bit out of sorts. Now he knew what the kangaroo had gone through, and he wasn't prepared in the slightest.

Cody's tongue stuck out the side of his mouth as he figured out his best angle of attack. His foot-and-a-half long feet slid up and down the sides of that girthy length, feeling the veins snaking down it throb with need. He seemed like he was getting the hang of it now.

Ari's will felt like it was made of butter with how overwhelmed he was feeling. His breathing quickening only indicated that he wasn't going to last very long, which he recognized the roo doing earlier. This felt nothing like having his hand take care of business, that was for sure!

In an effort to shake things up, Cody went and alternated the direction that his feet were moving in. His pads shuffled in opposite paths along that pole, getting slicker by the second with how much pre was oozing from the tip. He was a tad embarrassed to admit it, but this had awoken something in him.

Ari was now on the throes of release, having had his elbows buckle without warning. His balls positively roiled with seed, audibly churning up what's likely the biggest load that anyone would ever have. He huffed and puffed with need and then cried out loud, letting his dam burst and his cum to come geysering out of his pipe.

Cody sputtered from the sudden blast of foxbatter, having accidentally angled that rod towards his face. Truth be told, it didn't taste bad at all. He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue to get some more, greedily slurping it down as fast as he could. Perhaps later on he'd get his mouth all over that dick for real.

It took several long, euphoric moments before Ari's release came to a trickling halt. There wasn't any other time that he'd ever felt as spent as he was, yet he could feel his energy coming back to him out of nowhere. He thought it was odd that the roo did that, but now he knew why that happened. "Holy fuck!" He exclaimed while shucking the cum off of his face, needing both hands to do so.

"Right?!" Cody chortled, his own shaft back at erection again. "We gotta experiment more with our bodies later."

"I almost wanna do it right now." Ari brought his arm up into a pump, just relishing in the strength he possessed. He desperately wanted to press himself against his lover again, his leviathan log of canine fuckmeat chubbing up again at the idea. For now, he'd give himself a silent revelation as he just sat there, basking in his accomplishment.

"So, I had a thought just now." Cody shifted his body towards his lover.

"Oh good, you still get those." Ari responded sarcastically, a cheeky grin forming on his face.

"Quiet, you." Cody playfully smacked the fox's brawny arm. "I only just realized that, with how we grew many multitudes larger than where we started, we now currently don't have any clothes that we could possibly wear."

Ari dismissed that with a wave of his hand. "Oh, that's easy. We can just order some no problem."

The air of nonchalance that the vulpine gave off caught Cody off-guard. "Will they get here in time?"

"I've made a fair bit of purchases recently, so I've been given free express shipping for the next little while. We'll get our stuff before the weekend's over." Ari stated matter-of-factly.

Cody could only blink upon hearing that. "Man, we wouldn't even be able to wear normal clothing. We'd need to get something custom made..."

"Is money an issue for you?" Ari bluntly inquired.

Cody involuntarily laughed. "Oh god no, I have a sports scholarship, remember? The school keeps throwing money at me like it's going out of style!"

"Then I happen to know someone local who could help us out and get us something to wear by the end of the weekend." Ari declared determinedly. "The challenge will be to somehow get him to believe that we're not making up the order that we're gonna place."

***

"It feels like I'm wearing goddamn clown shoes." Cody grunted, still adjusting to his enlarged stompers. Never in his life had he seen a pair of shoes this size not part of some museum exhibit on curiosities throughout history, let alone on someone's actual feet.

"It helps that you've likely got the biggest feet on campus." Ari playfully stuck his tongue out at the marsupial.

Cody slapped his face but couldn't stop the chuckle from making it past his lips. "That objectively doesn't help in the slightest." He wiggled his toes in his size eighteen footwear, noticing that he didn't have as much room as what he did in the shoes he wore before the weekend's events happened. It was just then that he took a deep breath and noticed a peculiarly strong scent coming off of his friend, but it wasn't quite the musk that he'd thought it would be "You've put on a hell of a lot of cologne today."

Ari sighed in frustration. "I kinda have no choice. I can't risk anyone else getting affected like you did."

"True." Cody nodded, taking in another deep inhale of that masculine aroma. He was grateful that it barely nudged his libido awake.

"The last thing I'd need is to be pinpointed as the catalyst for everyone's growth and summarily be tested upon by the military." Ari grunted at the red-furred kangaroo's suggestion. "I'd rather not run the risk."

Cody shot the fox an irked look. "Okay, it's not them you need to worry about." He rubbed his forehead, not understanding how his friend hadn't realized the repercussions of his actions yet. "You literally stole school property and expected to get away with it. The truth is gonna come out way sooner than you think considering," he used his hand to gesture to the entirety of their behemothian frames, "you know, all this."

"Alright, alright, I'll drop by the lab as soon as I can and explain what I did." Ari groaned as he palmed his face. He pivoted on his heels as soon as he turned around the corner of the hallway so that he could talk with the roo face-to-face. "All I'm gonna say to you is that their formula worked like a charm. I told you that they're geniuses."

"And I'm sure that they'd already procured a suitable test subject who they were just about to test their experiment on." Despite not being the taller one, Cody still had the vulpine look up to him for his guidance and wisdom in situations that he wasn't intimately familiar with. That had been the arrangement that they've kept with for years now. Just then, he noticed something familiar out of the corner of his eye - a wiry tail with hairs at the end that he had immediately identified. "Right behind you, twelve o'clock." He glanced back up at the canine and gave him a knowing glance.

Ari instantaneously knew who the marsupial was referring to, though he didn't dread the encounter this time. "How many are there?"

"Just a single person." Cody stated as if he was giving a report to a superior.

"Big boy himself?" The feelings welling up within Ari were beginning to surge through him, nearly feeling as good as when his muscles did that.

Cody wryly smirked. "The one and only." That rhino had no idea what he was in for.

"Has he noticed us yet?" Ari wasn't ready to twist himself to get a better look, lest he scare the pachyderm away.

"I'm surprised that he hasn't smelled anything yet, but no. His locker door is blocking him from seeing us." Cody flashed his gaze back to where the bully was standing, still seeing a metal door in the way.

Ari's grin spread across his face, ultimately contorting into a vicious sneer. "Then let's go make our presence known, shall we?" Years of abuse at the hands of that _asshole_were about to be resolved in an instant. Vindication will be his and it will be sweet. "Oh look, there he is." He shut the locker door with a single swift motion of his hand, startling the rhinoceros who hadn't expected anything like that to happen.

"What the-" Max's eyes darted between the two giants that had just walked up to him, his knees nearly ready to buckle in panic. "W-Who the hell are you?!"

"Name the first black fox that pops into your head." Ari commanded, his expression and tone one of seriousness.

It actually took Max several moments before he came up with an answer, one that made his eyes nearly pop out of his head and his blood curdle in fear. "Ari?!"

"And 'Bingo' was his name-o." Ari shot out an arm and pressed it against the wall of lockers, now leaning over the rhinoceros. "Listen, I've been meaning to talk." He daintily grabbed the rhino's chin with his thumb and the knuckle of his index finger, bringing the bully's face up so that their eyes could meet.

Max cowered from the situation that he was in, nearly looking like he was about to break down in tears. "Uh, n-no, I think that's okay..."

Ari's heart raced with excitement from finally getting the opportunity to turn the tables on what's plagued his college life thus far. "Hmm, surprised that you don't have your little posse behind you right now."

"T-They're in class, heh." Max nervously chuckled, trying harder than ever before to defuse the current situation.

Ari saw through the bully's demeanour, his gaze boring directly into the rhino's skull like a drill. "Amazing how quickly you change your tune when the shoe is on the other foot." He then grabbed the pachyderm just under the front of the collar of the red-patterned plaid shirt that the bully was wearing and hoisted him high against the wall of lockers. "You know, with that expression, I can't tell if you look ready to either piss your pants or cream them."

Max flinched when he saw a black-furred fist get raised in front of his face. "Please don't hurt me..." He recoiled and hid himself with his hands.

"Then you're either gonna stop fucking with me on your own, or I'm gonna make you stop." Ari snorted, letting out years of pent up frustration in a matter of seconds. He'd never felt so alive. "I know who you are, who your friends are, who your parents are, what your schedule is like, where you live, and what you do after school." He leaned forward to get really close to the rhinoceros, his lips scant millimetres away from his former bully's ear. "Run away, and don't let me catch you doing this shit again or there will be consequences." He then let his grip go.

Max was unceremoniously dropped, ending with him landing square on his ass on the dirty floor below. Not wanting to be stuck in this hell any longer, he scrambled to his feet and ran away as fast as he could.

"Tell all your friends!" Cody shouted with a cheeky demeanour at the fleeing rhino. He then flicked his gaze over to his friend, who'd been breathing heavily since the encounter ended. "How're ya feeling?"

"The best I've ever felt!" Ari almost couldn't explain what his body was doing at the moment; he'd say that the best that he could describe it was like having an 'emotional orgasm'. "I think it might take me a bit to come down from this high."

"God, I bet! Just think, him and his crew won't go anywhere near you or I anymore and we'll finally be free to live our lives again." Cody was in the mood to celebrate but a particular aroma caught his attention. Unfortunately, he recognized it almost immediately. "Hey man, I don't wanna alarm you, but I think your cologne is wearing off."

Ari stood stock still, as if the wind had been taken out of his sails. "What?" He dug his nose into the various parts of his shirt that he could bring to his nose, observing right away that the scent of his heady musk overpowered literally everything else that he'd put on that day. "Oh shit!"