FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

(M TF Hybrid)

Jay wore the underarmor for the Leian kingdom guards and still had his sword holstered on his belt but wore none of the rest of his attire as to attract little attention to himself. The kingdom is being overwhelmed and he found himself floundering in the few battles he managed to partake, so he was cutting his losses and fleeing the kingdom before its overtaken entirely.

He ran to the small neighboring kingdom of Rekkas, because rumor had it that they have a revolutionary new transportation system in place. He got there by stowing away in the back of a cargo cart, stealing the tattered tarp to wear as a cloak and better hide himself under. He wandered the streets of Rekkas but seen nothing of particular note- being a bit confused as to why the kingdom is so famed for transportation when it seems perfectly average.

Jay paused when he heard a woman arguing with one of the guards, she must be of notable authority because the guards were practically trembling in their boots at having angered her. Of much more concern to Jay however is that she has a birds tail behind her! It isn't an ornament or some sort of strange clothing item, because it lifts and fans out slightly when her emotions flare- it's an actual bird's tail. She is tall and slender, wearing a black dress and her long shimmering black hair is so long that it's looped back and tied to itself to prevent it from dragging several feet behind her on the ground! She gave a frustrated sigh before darting into a large opening. It is a structure of some sort but from the surface looks very small, like a storage shed of some sort?

Jay attempted to enter it after her, and the guards put up little resistance. They were going to stop him but he flashed the signet on his underarmor and told them he was on official business from Leian, so they let him past. Little did they know he deserted the guards- by the time they check he will be long gone. The building the tailed woman went into is just an opening- it housed nothing more than a long flight of stone stairs into a giant underground passage.

Jay quietly gasped in awe of the strange magic the Rekkas people apparently learned to harness- long, narrow lanterns in the roof, encased in glass that are lit without flame! Glass panels that display illuminated text! Strange doors that turn in a circle! Jay cut around the flow of traffic, slipping past metal detectors and guards to finally get to the main part of the underground complex- an underground train track! So this is Rekkas' fabled transportation system, hidden underground! Jay could not find the tailed woman again- she vanished into the crowd, but he had found something more valuable. The further he can get from Leian, the better. So Jay did not even care where this train actually goes- he is taking it.

He got himself a ticket with what little money he has on him and got on board. The train was oddly smooth looking, and the wheels were quieter on the tracks. The train moved faster than any other he had been on and the insides were illuminated with these strange lightning-lanterns too! He did not even know how the train was powered, because if it was coal powered wouldn't the tunnel fill with carbon dioxide and kill everyone waiting for a ride?

Jay travelled this way for several days, remaining at the station in different locations, using his money for more tickets to travel still further. It only took four stops to run out of available locations that he had even heard of. The kingdoms named now were all foreign to him. More than his effort to get away from his home however- Jay wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery of these underground trains. There are several locations unavailable to him- they would not allow him to buy a ticket, apparently needing special permission to go there. This location that kept popping up at several other stations was guarded by an odd looking type of knight- armed with strange looking weapons they call assault rifles, that apparently shoot projectiles quickly and at far range. Jay was trying to keep his head down so he would normally not try to pry into potentially dangerous questions- but... all of the knights guarding this 'Plexus' kingdom had the tails of beasts! Like the woman he seen before- they all had the tail of a different animal. One with what looked like a bushy, upwards curled canine tail, another with what looked like an insect abdomen, and even a man who rode the train with Jay one day who had what looked like the thin, billowing tail of a koi fish!

One night, riding the train with the last of his money one last time, Jay was alone in the train car because of how late at night it was, but at one stop two more men scrambled into the car, chuckling to themselves. One was a huge shirtless man with wild black hair- partially eclipsing the upper half of his face, so you only caught glimpses of his yellow iris past his hair. His body was covered in scars- many of which looked like BITE marks. The man in front of him leading the way however was a stark contrast. He wore a sharp black business suit with a tie, his black hair is short and neatly combed to the side. The large man glared at Jay, smile immediately vanishing. The smaller man's smile faded at the sight of Jay, but did not entirely leave his face.

He put his polished shoe-clad foot up on one of the seats, looking at Jay with a smirk. "Hey man, beat it, this car is ours for tonight, alright?"

As soon as they walked deeper into the car toward Jay- he seen these two were like the others from Plexus. The large man has the bushy tail of a black Dire Wolf. The smaller man's tail is harder to identify. It lashes around wildly behind him, fleshy and quite long, but capped with a metal spade tip as an ornament.

Jay stood up, his tattered cloak gathering up with him. "I was here first, I am afraid. So how about this... I move down a car if you tell me what is in Plexus."

The larger man snarled like a beast, but spoke no words. When he went to step forward the smaller man held out his arm to stop him. The smaller man's skin immediately turned bright red, and two long narrow horns erupted from over his temples!

"Wanna make a deal with the devil, eh? What makes you think we would negotiate with a normie like you? Mark here could literally eat you."

Jay bat enough of his cloak away for a moment to reveal the sword still at his side.

Laurence inhaled sharply, still grinning. "Ah. Okay then. What do you want to know?"

"Anything. Mostly how to get there. Why does everyone from Plexus have tails?"

"Eh, your world is too backwater... even if I told you- it's over your head, haha. You can get there through this very subway system... but you'd need special access permission from the post-human agreement."

"And who grants this permission?"

Laurence shrugged. "No one from your world, currently. The empress who was in charge of it died- she ruled some empire... uh, Para... something? Paramount, para... Paragriss! That is it! Anyway- Paragriss has no ruler currently so until it does, no one on your side can grant permission."

"But... you got permission... before she died?"

Mark huffed, plopping down in a seat- clearly not enjoying the conversation as much as Laurence. Laurence shook his head. "No, we got permission on our side. This subway is trans-dimensional, Plexus isn't just a different kingdom, it's in a different universe than yours." He laughed at the confused look on Jay's face. "Which I am sure you don't even begin to understand. The idiots-guide version of this; we are from a different world."

That seemed to be the extent of information he could milk out of these two without irritating them further, so Jay moved to the car further back. He blushed when he heard some... questionable sounds from their car. When they walked into the car Jay almost assumed one was some sort of policing officer and the other a criminal in his custody but... perhaps they are lovers? That would explain why they wanted the car to themselves.

Jay ran out of money to ride the subway... officially, anyway. It is so high-traffic that it is easy to shuffle your way around in the crowd to slip on board without anyone realizing. He kept his last ticket and flashes it when he cannot evade their eyes entirely- they just nod and move on without looking at it closely enough to realize it's expired. This day, he would get out at the station to Plexus. It is not even possible for him to get in the 'correct' way, so it's time to sneak in. If it is an entirely new world as Laurence said- Jay wants in. This world chewed him up and spat him out, he is done with this world. He went to this station once before trying to get out but was stopped by security because he didn't yet know how to get in.

Jay went during the night again- hoping the guards will be tired and less attentive. With no money he has been living off whatever scraps he can find, so Jay isn't exactly in the best of shape himself. Still earlier in the evening than when he encountered Mark and Laurence; the car was pretty full of other people, so hopefully Jay could lose himself in the crowd. How many were actually getting off at Plexus though, and how many were merely passing through? At least one was most likely getting off at Plexus- and everyone in their car was staring at her, Jay included.

Her tail is rather unassuming- long but very narrow with a tassel of hair on its end that form a single huge ringlet! The hair on her head touches her collar bone, but is likely considerably longer when pulled straight, because it also forms a huge mane of raven black ringlets. Her eyes are powder brown, and behind a large pair of glasses that make her eyes seem larger than they actually are, because the lenses are so thick. Jay doesn't even know what glasses are- they haven't been invented yet in his world. No one was paying attention to the cow tail swishing behind her; everyone was gawking at the freakishly pert K cup breasts in her sweater. Judging by her blush- she knew what they were looking at too, and struggled to avoid eye contact with anyone else.

Two guys muttering behind her chuckled, and then one abruptly grabbed the base of her tail firmly and tugged gently. The woman's blush doubled over and her body immediately froze up in surprise!

"H-hey... no..."

Jay slammed the man into the side of the car half-drawing his sword so the man's throat was pinned between the wall and the exposed blade.

Everyone else in the car immediately averted their gaze and the man glanced at the insignia on Jay's underarmor. "Undercover guard..? Hey man, it's okay, I was just checking out her tail is all..."

"You'll learn to keep your hands to yourself, if you wish to keep your hands at all."

"Y-y-yes sir."

Where Jay is from- if you get caught stealing you lose a finger for every item stolen. If you get caught sexually assaulting someone? Death. And they generally don't hold trials- if anyone of authority points the finger at you, you're dead.

The woman quickly took Jay by the wrist, twirled around to give a nod to the assaulter before unintentionally pinning Jay to the back of the car by her gargantuan breasts. "Th-thank you but, please don't hurt anyone! It is okay, really, I am getting off at the next stop anyway."

She was flinching a bit, looking like she was struggling with something. She didn't back up, but her breasts were drawing back from Jay. Is her chest... shrinking?!

He smirked, fully sheathing his sword again. "So am I."

She cocked an eyebrow. "You are going to Plexus?"

"Oh, uh, oh... yea, yes. I... business... there."

"Are you... a stowaway?" She realized now how haggard he looks. Wrapped in the tattered cloak he looks more like a lone wanderer or homeless man, and not someone who could afford to use an extra-dimensional subway.

Her breasts must have regressed several cup sizes- making her sweater now look oversized on her. Her breasts are definitely still huge, but not as absurdly so as they were only moments before. Her ears had three rings and two cuffs per ear, which caused the entire outer frame of her ears to be encased in metal but that was no longer true- her ears enlarged greatly and were now leaf shaped... she now has both the tail and ears of a cow. She somehow became MORE cow?

Jay did not know how to reply, so he just sort of locked up and didn't say anything. The woman glanced around the car and then back to him, now speaking in a lowered voice. "I can help you."

"Wha-why?"

She smiled timidly, her ears flicking causing her piercings to clink together. "Because you helped me! My name is Ivory by the way."

"Jay, former guard of the kingdom Leian, tenth of the order Reiun."

"Oh. Uhm... geeze, that is a mouthful, hope just Jay is alright."

He chuckled. "Jay is just fine."

She took him by the wrist and lead him through the cars finding the one with the least number of people on it so they could be semi-private. They don't need anyone trying to snitch on them. Ivory doesn't realize every time she leads him like that she is unintentionally pressing his arm into her boobs. Her breasts are so gigantic normally that she just became used to things brushing up against them all the time. Her breasts get places before the rest of her can.

Ivory plopped down in the seat next to him. "So... what do you know about Plexus? I know you haven't been there before by your appearance."

"I could have been there and just not settled in or purchased any garments from its vendors while I was there."

She paused a moment for the gears in her head to turn- that wasn't what she meant at all. "No, I mean you don't have a tail."

"Well I never said I was born there."

"Neither was I! Anyone who goes to Plexus gets a tail whether they had one already or not."

Ivory did her best to try and explain the world Plexus is in but ended up partially confusing herself, never mind Jay. She could explain it easily... to someone with a similar education to hers. To someone from a world that hasn't even figured out gunpowder yet? Quite a bit harder. What she did manage to teach him is that everyone who goes there will grow a beast's tail, and retain that tail permanently, even if they leave Plexus. And the reason she was so immediately distressed over having her tail touched- touching it brings out the beast it's linked to. She turned slightly more cow because that man touched her tail. She can deliberately turn more cow if she wants, but having her tail grabbed will bring it out even if she doesn't want to. Anyone with a tail can channel the aspect of that beast to turn mostly into that beast. There is also no way of knowing what tail you get, until you already got it.

That means Jay cannot go back to his world as a normal human ever again, he will be tailed forever the moment he sets foot in Plexus. But that is perfectly fine by him. Chances are his kingdom may have already been completely wiped off the face of the map, so he doesn't have a home to go back to regardless. Plus, how awesome would it be to get the tail of a dragon, or griffon? He could get badass beast powers! Jay was not dissuaded from his goal by this revelation at all.

"Hmm, so you cannot revert the uh... cowification those men beset you with?"

"Eh, it will go back on its own. But because it was instigated by a force other than my will- I can't use my willpower to reverse it."

Jay glanced at her chest a moment, then back at her.

Her brlush deepened and her ears flicked back. "W-what?"

"You don't have to answer this but... why did your endowments appear to shrink when you became more cow? Wouldn't that have... made them bigger?"

"Oh- no, because not all cows are dairy cows. Also- in my case it's because the mammary area is multiplied."

"Eh?"

She lifted her sweater enough to reveal a pair of B cups BELOW her H cups. She let the sweater plop back down, then glanced around to make sure no one was looking before wedging a thumb under the waist of her magenta pants and pulled them away from herself enough to reveal the four nipples that now adorn her upper crotch! Eight nipples total- two sets of breasts and an udder... but they all share the mass of her original pair, so the bigger the others get, the smaller the originals become. So Ivory looks considerably less endowed as a cowhalf than as a human, even though it's technically the same in both forms. Jay was also a bit stunned because she had no problem showing him this. Apparently nudity isn't anything in her world. Ivory is not from Plexus, but she is also not from his world, either.

The subway train finally came to a stop with a loud hiss all the doors opened at the same time, startling Ivory. "Ack, we are here already and I haven't had time to think of a plan yet! Uhhhm... okay, follow me, stay on my immediate left- like, brushing against me. There are security cameras and I need to basically eclipse your body with my own to prevent them from getting your face."

"What is a camera?"

"No time to explain- c'mon!"

She darted through the crowd with Jay trying his best to keep pace with her perfectly. If he was too fast or too slow his face would be exposed to the security cameras in the upper right corner of the walls at the stairs and again at the gates. Unfortunately there was a bit of a traffic jam at the gate. Some jackass with the tail of an eel tried to bring items into Plexus that are currently deemed illegal, which then held up everyone else from being checked while they go through his entire luggage to make sure there isn't anything else.

Ivory nibbled her lower lip nervously trying to think of a plan. With the line moving so slowly this is going to be hard. She is usually great at coming up with plans and ideas- but she had been so distracted trying to educate Jay that she didn't even start thinking till they had already arrived. Jay could feel her nervousness and started sweating too the closer they got to the security check. He doesn't even know how the weapons these guards have work to be able to dodge them. Guns do not exist in his world. Neither does electricity- he thinks the electronic lights are some form of lightning magic. Ivory's grip on his wrist tightened... is she preparing to just run for it?

A woman further in on the other side of the gate yelled to them, waving her arm. "Yo! Guys, c'mon, we are running late, we will miss it and they don't give refunds!!"

"Oh!" Ivory ran toward the woman, placing a hand on the sides of the gate and just jumping over it! Jay followed quickly after her.

The guard looked at her quickly. "Hey!"

Ivory flashed him her ticket. "Sorry- in a rush!"

The man held up a scanner and it pinged- indicating her ticket is authentic and he just sighed and went back to the person he was already tending to... without asking Jay for his ticket, assuming if one of them had it, both of them would.

The other woman smiled. "Good to see you guys made it, c'mon!"

The woman is wearing all black, so it was hard to see her at all at any sort of distance, she blends into the dimly lit areas of the tunnels. Black baseball hat under a black hoodie, black backpack on, black frilly skirt over black fishnet leggings and sneakers that are half black and half white. She has a ring piercing in the middle of her bottom lip and a pastel pink streak dyed in her otherwise long dark red hair. Her eyeshadow and lipstick both are a deep royal purple. Her B cup breasts utterly hidden under her attire. The woman's eyes were rather striking- a color Jay did not even think possible to occur naturally; her eyes are silver. When she turned around Jay took a step back to avoid her accidentally slapping him with her tail- it was not at all subtle. Her tail is as long as she is tall... the tail of a shark. She wears a necklace of sharks teeth... they are all her own discarded fangs. Because the fin at the end of a shark tail is vertically oriented- she wears a long metal cuff on the lower ridge so if it skims the ground on accident she doesn't give herself road rash, it just scuffs the cuff.

Once they were a good distance away from the gate Ivory sighed and the other woman turned- still walking forward but now facing the two of them. "Soooo... who is the guy?"

Ivory motioned to Jay. "This is Jay, the, uhm... fourth of a line, of a kingdom? He is from Mythis Earth."

Jay looked at her confused. "Eh?"

Ivory chuckled, adjusting her glasses. "Mythis Earth is the version of this world you came from. The universe has many alternate forms- like light filtering through a crystal and breaking up into a rainbow, there are many different colors but they all originate from the same light."

Jay looked even more confused, squinting his eyes.

The other woman sighed and rolled her eyes. "Forgive her- she is sort of a brainiac, she speaks academically and forgets how to talk to, you know, regular human. Basically- there are many versions of Earth. The one you are from is called Mythis, so people don't confuse it for the others. The one we are about to enter is Coined Earth. You gunna get yourself some taaaaail!"

Jay nodded, and after a pause Ivory looked to the woman. "I... don't think that innuendo exists on his planet."

She lowered her brows and huffed. "Lame." Her voice is very dry and gravelly.

Ivory explained to Jay that the other woman is her close friend Coral, and helped her find a place on Coined Earth. Ivory was originally from Genis Earth, but Coral on the other hand was born in Coined Earth- she had her tail since birth. This subway station branches into many others that only exist on this side of the dimensional rift, so they have a lot more tunnels to navigate, and time to explain things a little better to Jay. Plexus is currently the capital of the entire world of Coined Earth. Long ago a God named Diovllun used his powers to burrow through the dimensions to connect different universes in the multiverse. In his experimentation with his powers he unintentionally created the Coined universe, so this universe is artificially made by him. While it is identical to its neighboring universes in many ways- because it was artificially created; it lacked any and all life forms. It was a version of earth devoid of life, but not the resources to create life. Also because it was artificially inserted into the multiverse; the dimensional barriers between Coined and the surrounding universes was very thin, and easily breached. Thus mortals were able to create the trans-dimensional subway.

Contact with Mythis Earth has been minimal- on Jay's side of the rift information on its existence has been deliberately kept neutered to control the flow of information. There is no telling how a less advanced version of Earth will handle the information on how to construct guns and bombs. But Coined is supposed to be devoid of life- it clearly is not now. Genis Earth where Ivory is from is where all the technology, plants, and animals that now inhabit Coined Earth came from. Any species they want to have around- they bring enough samples to Coined to breed, and with absolutely no competition on that world for resources; they flourish.

Now, the much more interesting aspect... their tails. Everyone on Coined gets a tail, but none of the people who came to the world had a tail prior. It is actually the result of yet another world- dubbed Switchhood Earth. On that version of Earth everything appears the same, but the proto-life cells that would eventually become humans instead became various animals, and what would have evolved into various animals instead evolved into humans. The end result is a planet that is almost indistinguishable from the average version of Earth- which is why it's so close in the multiverse. That however means that your counterpart in that universe is an animal, not a human.

That is where their tail comes from. It is shared with their counterpart in Switchhood. In Switchhood; Ivory was born a feral cow. That is the animal aspect she channels to turn into a cowhalf- her other self. The dimensional barriers are so paper thin around Coined that you can channel aspects from other versions of yourself, in other universes! Once the link is made it cannot be broken without travelling to a universe further away... but the dimensional barrier to further universes cannot be broken by mortals, so, it's essentially impossible. This has made a bit of chaos in Switchhood as well, because the reverse is also true for that universe. The animals are able to channel the human aspects, so many of the animals have awoken to higher intellect and attempted to come to Coined to gain the ability to turn humanoid.

Jay sighed, mussing his hair up a bit in frustration. "This is... very confusing. I am trying to understand but... the types of magic you use are very different from my world."

"Uh, it's... it's not magic."

Coral chuckled. "I'm with you Jay. This magic shit is wack. People in Plexus have tails- can turn into a demi-beast. That is all you need to know. The hows and whys don't change a thing."

Ivory pouted. "Well its interesting information still..."

The women paused near another gate- but this one was entirely automated and there was no guards. The hall has been painted a rainbow of colors, because as the women inform Jay- this is where Coined officially starts. You pass through this hall, you become tailed. The two women skittered to the far side and waited for him with big grins on their faces eager to see what happens. Jay nervously walked toward the barrier.

"I hope I get something fearsome and proud, like a griffon!"

Ivory hummed. "Er... well, definitely not that. Mythical beasts like that only exist in Mythis Earth... that is why we called it that. The creature needs to actually exist in Switchhood for it to be a viable option."

Jay slowly walked down the hall, feeling a strange, gentle tingling as he walked. For a moment he seen a bright light and felt a burst of wind making him blink in confusion and stumble forward a few steps. No one else felt that- what he thought he seen and felt was his other self's consciousness momentarily crossing with his own. As he approached the women again he placed a hand on the wall beside himself and tried to turn around to see his tail, but could not. Coral grabbed him and spun him around so they could at least witness his tail growing in. Batting the cloak to the side Coral snags his pants and pulls them off him slightly to expose his tail bone. It twitched, swelled a bit bigger, twitched again, stretched, flicked up, and then erupted in fur!

Ivory smiled wide. "Oh. Hmm."

Coral started snickering immediately and let his pants snap back into place. Jay turned several times in a circle attempting to look at it- whatever it is, is too short for him to see it!

"W-what? What does it look like?"

Ivory tried to suppress her smile. "It is... cute!"

Jay immediately lowered his brows. "What?"

Coral just blurted it out. "It's a bunny!"

"WHAT?!"

Ivory shrugged. "Hey- at least you got a tail anyway."

"... in what scenario do I not get a tail?"

Coral crossed her arms, trying her best to look more serious. "The tail is shared with you in the other universe. But not everyone exists in the other universe. Maybe your grandma died in the other universe and you were never born in the first place. Or you got eaten in the other universe before this version of you entered Coined. If there is no 'other you' then there is no tail, either."

Oh... well at least he can feel better knowing he... exists, in another universe still? Jay spun in a circle several more times before finally reaching back and just grabbing it to feel it instead of trying to look at it. Yea... that certainly feels like a rabbit tail. Just a fluffy plume. Oh great. Yea, that will help people take him more seriously, because who doesn't fear a little rabbit? Oh right- literally everyone. Jay was quite devastated by the revelation- especially knowing that he cannot get rid of it now. He is stuck with a rabbit tail all the time. Ivory tried her best to cheer him up while Coral just tried to suppress her chuckling.

By the final automated gate, Jay motioned to an odd blob sitting to the side of it. It looked like a giant amoeba- about the size of a partially deflated small beach ball. It had a diffused red nucleus and the membrane and goo that makes up its body is a pale, translucent blue. Jay of course never seen one before- the giant or normal variety.

"The hell is that?"

Coral shrugged. "Giant amoeba. Just ignore it- doesn't do anything. You see them hanging around high traffic places like this. They probably like the cooler underground."

Ivory hummed in thought, taking a step back and over to the blob. "That is what everyone says- but actually it's not an amoeba." She pressed her hand against the membrane, compressing it inward toward the nucleus before it rolled out of the way of her touch. When she compressed it toward the core- you could see well enough through the slime that it is not one, but a cluster. "It has more than one nucleus. It... might actually be capable of simplistic thought. It can't be an amoeba- it's a Protist."

Coral sighed and continued walking. "It is a normally microscopic thing that is so big you can see it. That is all you need to know."

None of them, including Ivory thought on it long enough to see the more disturbing implication of it being in Coined Earth in the first place. No one brought it to Coined from Genis, but Coined had no life by default. So... how did this thing get here?

Jay's woes were forgotten quickly when they finally ascended the steps into Plexus! The city was like nothing he had seen before- and he could not even see half of it because it's the dead of night at this point. Sky scrapers of glass and steel tower over everything, neon signs and lights keep the city glowing even in the dead of night. Plexus was born from a technologically advanced earth, but erected in a virtually newborn, untainted Earth.

Jay had no money, but they informed him it wouldn't matter anyway, because no one in Plexus accepts currency from Mythis anyway. Without anywhere to go, Ivory and Coral offered for him to stay at their house for as long as he needs. It is a nice house- quite large, has a good sized garage too. There are two bedrooms on the second floor but Ivory had the wall knocked down between it and the study and just made it into an expanded library for herself- she apparently works as a genetic researcher, so she studies species and cross-dimensional influences of traits. Most people look at her, see tits the size of pumpkins and think oh she's a bimbo. Yea... no. Coral is on a professional football team. Er, or, soccer team depending on what you want to call it. Sports games get real interesting when you throw in the factor of beast aspects. She might as well have three legs- she is allowed to swat the ball with her tail.

They did not give Jay a full tour of the house because it is already extremely late at night, so they just scrambled to make space for him to sleep for now. Because there was only effectively one bedroom, they cleared out a space in the loft- which is roughly half the floor space of the second floor, so it's pretty big. It is just also dusty and a bit cluttered. They got an old cot out for him to sleep on and a couple of sheets for now- good enough for the night till they can set things up better. Jay did not want to pry so he did not ask them just how close they are, but he could make an educated guess at this point. They live in the same house- it only has one bedroom. They aren't just close friends.

Without a sundial- Jay has no idea how far he slept in the following day, but it looks like early afternoon by the time he got up. They have clocks in the house, but he doesn't know what a clock is. He took off the cloak and his belt to rest his sword beside the bed. Without his gear to make him look more imposing his false intimidation tactics fall apart. Jay is athletic but not at all muscular. He has a scar across his left cheek and another across his left side and midriff. He was a guard- but somehow managed to lose every fight he ever took part in. Does great in training practices but put him in front of a real opponent and he falls apart. His hair is short and blond- too short to bother combing. His eyes are a deep indigo in color, and his skin is golden toned.

So his idea of turning into a powerful beast in this world and finally becoming intimidating and powerful for real sort of went out the window. Unless he wants to bully some carrots- the form of a rabbit isn't helping. He should be able to manifest the traits willingly though- he should see just what his demi form looks like just to fully know his new self. Apparently people in Coined Earth cannot turn fully feral- so even if he transformed because of a loss of control he still won't completely go beast, there will always be a little bit human.

He sat hunched over on the edge of his bed under the low roof of the loft, pillars of light highlighting all the dust in the air up there to illuminate the room for him. He concentrated on what his beast aspect is, what a rabbit looks like, what an animal does, how it lives. He used his willpower to trigger the aspects and they quickly took hold. It comes on as a gentle tingling, but quickly turns to an outward pressure. It sort of feels pleasurable, like a good stretch, or an odd, full-body hug from the inside out. Almost like the human body is being stretched around the animal body; the beast growing from within.

His feet stretch longer but also enlarge- his toes becoming gigantic. His nails turned to small translucent claws as white fur quickly grows on the joints of his toes, then the back of his foot- and then spreads to cover it all. The fur is fluffy and powder soft to the touch. Jay already took his boots off to get into bed last night and socks haven't been invented in his world yet- however the changes fired up his legs rather abruptly making his pom-pom tail twitch and he scrambled to get his pants off! His thighs were ballooning with muscle- fast! Rabbit legs are extraordinarily strong! He had to forcefully yank them off because his thighs were already overfilling the legs and threatening to test the seams by the time he reacted to it. His shins got a bit shorter but his thighs got longer and larger and his feet are STILL growing! A pressure under his feet swells the flesh out into pink bubbles- flesh pulled taut over fat deposits to give him paw pads to cushion his steps!

Jay blushed and immediately cupped his junk as the tingling pressure inhabited his crotch! His pubic hair turned from blond to pure white and spread over his nuts. His penis almost felt like it was trying to invert into his body as the foreskin fattened and was swallowed in fur, turning instead into a sheath- though it did not fuse to his underside. His balls felt so full suddenly, making him unintentionally aroused and needy- but more importantly they started to swell so quickly they made an audible burbling sound! Rodents all have large nuts for their body size. From the size of small chicken eggs to large ones, to tennis balls, to baseballs, and then to softballs in size before they stopped! Each testicle is large enough that you'd need both hands to completely cover it, but small enough to be cupped fully in a single hand still.

His feet finally slow to a stop, but at this point are so large they are almost comical compared to the rest of his body- like cartoon character proportions. Jay supposes it's better than the alternative- shrinking him to match the size of a rabbit; that would regress him quite a lot. But wait... shouldn't that be what happens? Why isn't it?

Jay went rigid as he felt the feeling race up his body and concentrate into his ears, and groaned. His ears immediately felt hot, and fur started to grow on their backs before their shape even started to deform. It almost felt like someone gently tugging on the ends, but it was an internal pressure trying to shove them longer! Flatter, bigger, longer... much, much longer. Long hairs grew around the edges of the ears as well, facing inward to shield the inner ear from potential irritants, but the actual inside of the ear is still bald- the flesh turning a pastel pink in color. His ears did not stop till they were around two feet long! They immediately drew back, reflecting his irritation at being turned into such a fluffy, unintimidating form.

What a joke, even in an alternate universe he is a pushover. The changes seemed to stall there though... that is a lot less animal than he was expecting. Jay was deliberately trying to turn all the way- he was expecting more like 75%, this is more like 30%. Jay grunt and rocked back on the bed to examine his genitals. The transformation made his balls feel stuffed full, like he needed to cum. It made him unintentionally horny. He touched his sheath around the base of the neon pink cone his penis became and tugged back gently- using the sheath to masturbate it rather than touching the bare shaft- at least till the precum coated it. As it became more erect it looked bumpy toward the end. His glans are no longer discernable from the rest of the penis, but it still engorged to the same size it had already been. Instead of the glans and corona there are instead lots of bumps on the shaft.

He slid his hand up to collect the pre as it slid down and twisted gently to spread it. As soon as his hand passed over the bumps they engorged as well, becoming paler against the rest of the shaft but enlarging considerably- tiny bumps, large bumps, small thorns! Phallic barbs? Uh... rabbits... don't have those. The shaft kept engorging- growing larger than it was when it was human! It bloated larger in the middle, tapering off at the end and a bit at the base as well. Deeper pink in tone, tiny violet veins appear around the very base! Five and a half inches as a human- eight inches long now, but still getting wider even after it stopped lengthening! It forced his grip to spread, his fingers and thumb no longer able to touch around his shaft! It feels so good to bend the barbs that his whole body shivers and his hand pauses- afraid to stroke across all of the barbs at once at risk of sending him over the edge immediately. Why does his penis look like this though? This isn't no mere rabbit, unless they have some crazy rabbits in that other universe.

If he was going to complain about part of his transformation it would certainly not be this part. He used one hand to cup his enlarged balls- only able to really hold a quarter of either one in his hand at any one time, he gently rolled them and tugged at the soft scrotum. His other hand stroked the shaft; becoming very slow and loosening his grip greatly as it passes over the barbs. Rubbing down on them feels good but not too much different from the rest of the shaft- its rubbing up that causes the intense pleasure, because the barbs naturally bend toward the base, so pushing the other way causes them to catch on your grip and drag! It does not take him long to reach his peak like this and his enlarged balls yank themselves from the grip of his other hand, clenching hard to him as he erupted!

Jay just sat breathing heavily for several minutes before cleaning the mess so the women did not know what he has been up to. Normally he would never do something like this while a guest in someone's home, but transforming enlarged his balls and made them feel so pent up! When his dick softened again- the barbs were the first thing to regress, becoming almost undetectable when soft. Now that his head was clearer he was once again puzzling over why there seemed to be non-rabbit traits in him. Is his transformation stunted by something? It was then he remembered that grabbing the tail can also trigger the transformation- because the tail is a manifestation of the beast that already fully exists by default. Eager to see if he could achieve traits from something other than a bunny- he grabbed his own tail.

The tingle momentary exploded through his body a hundred times stronger than it had been and was immediately followed by a pressure everywhere in his body so strong it made him groan loudly. His muscles did not respond- too much change was happening at once, it locked up his body's other functions! His little pom-pom tail got fluffier, and fluffier, and fluffier! It went from the size of a softball to the size of a beach ball! The claws on his giant feet grew in length, darkened a bit, but then sunk backwards! The last segment of bone on his toes inverted- drawn back and held by a new tendon... the retractable claws of a feline. A species that does have phallic barbs.

His arms felt so tight, compressed. The skin tightened, the muscles regressed in size, becoming narrow and sinewy. His skin darkened further, turning from gold to bronze, from bronze to dark chocolate, and finally to true black! The pours in the skin smoothed over as the keratin content of his flesh increased, causing it to bubble out slightly more than the rest- turning his flesh into banded scales! His fingernails tightened, becoming more narrow but erupting from the ends of his fingers in length, curling over, then up and out- forming long narrow talons, black as night. His hands stretched, leaving his thumb behind- his fingers enlarging to help house such large talons. He still has all his digits- but his thumb is drawn too far back for him to use it to hold anything in this form... it also makes masturbating using his hands kind of impossible. His arms look like... birds legs! Bird and cat? Wait... is he actually turning into a Griffon?! Ivory said that was impossible- griffons don't exist in Switchhood Earth!

Jay flopped off the side of the bed, hoping the women didn't hear that from downstairs. The talons on all four of his legs click on the floor- he stands on the fronts of his feet like a digitigrade, even though rabbits are technically plantigrade like humans. Jay almost fell on his face- his arms buckling and his body tensing from the tingling feeling. Different this time- it's not the tingle of the transformation taking hold, its physical; on surface level, coming from his skin. The scales start to branch off, breaking at the edges into millions of tiny bristles and started to shimmer blue over the black coloration. He felt his arms slowly expanding outward, then the bones inside start to branch! His arms bulge strangely- looking double wide, but as the muscles clench and try to pull apart, a divot appears down the middle! Jay cannot control the muscles as they yank in two different directions- the divot getting deeper till his arms split in half! The new limbs swing out to the side and then in a loud hollow crunch- his shoulder blades also split! The old ones shift further forward and out to the sides while the new ones sit overlapping them partially, further in toward the spine! The splintering scales went with the new limb... they turned into feathers- he now has wings! Metallic, dark blue feathers with a tiny notch of white at their ends.

White fur spread over his hips now, crawling up the lower part of his torso while another patch formed and spread on his chest. The banded scales of the avian claws faded back to normal flesh before the shoulders and the upper limbs converted them all into a covering of feathers. The base of the wings had a large plume of feathers on them as well, but they seemed to stop there- the fur took over on the rest of his back. The fur shifted color there though to a pale gold. His face twitches and Jay draws his head back as he feels it start to change. His short hair turns to fur and helps speed the spread. His face clicks and his jaws project outward, pulling his face into a short muzzle like a rabbit. His upper lip projects out into whisker pads, followed by long gold whiskers. His front teeth grew- making next to no sound outwardly but to him the enamel stretching sounded like two sheets of glass being rubbed together. His other teeth sharpened but also were forced to narrow and shuffle over to make room for his front teeth. No longer slate-like, but round. They grew both too large and too long to actually fit in his mouth, and then grew past his lower lip, then past his chin! Like two long, slightly curved spikes!

His ears waved in the air, getting much, much wider but no less long- in fact they might have even stretched a big longer still! His ears started to match his feet, in that they are comically disproportionate toe the rest of him. Rabbit ears are huge and long, but they're now mixed with something with wider ears. Jay's entire body was covered in white fur- though it was a bit more course now after the addition of new traits. It also transitions to pale golden fur on his upper back, neck, and his entire head- being a closer match to his blond hair. A crest of blue feathers adorns the middle of the top of his head. His torso is still humanoid in shape, and he is still able to walk on two legs or four. Jay cannot spread his wings to really see how wide they spread- there isn't enough space to do it indoors.

Jay caught his reflection in an old half-covered mirror put up there in storage. His eyes caught his attention first; they are normally indigo. They are currently glowing the color of lilac. This isn't one animal... its three. Rabbit, Bluejay, and Sabertooth Tiger.

Jay grinned timidly. He is a griffon! Sort of. A really weird looking one, but he has bird claw front legs, a bestial furred body and bird wings- that is technically a griffon depending on how loose your definition is. That is why his transformation stuttered after rabbit- he was not aware he had two other species in him so he was unable to will them out. That also means that he could manifest them individually now that he knows he has them- becoming only part sabertooth, or only part bluejay.

Jay returned himself to fully human with the small, unassuming rabbit tail and slipped his clothing back on. Before putting his pants back on- he used his sword blade to wear a hole in the back of his pants, so when he slipped them on he could pull them all the way up- popping the little pom-pom tail out through the opening he made. He left his sword and cloak by the bed for now, hoping he does not need to hide himself or defend himself for the next while at least. Jay convinces himself to keep his transformation a secret for now from the women. It could be a valuable secret weapon if he ever finds himself in trouble. At a glance everyone will think he is a weak little rabbit.

Once the women seen Jay come down- Coral headed up in his place to better fix the loft for him to live in. Ivory plopped him down in the kitchen as she mixed up a quick late lunch for him. "Sleep well your first night in a new universe?"

Jay chuckled. "Very. I am eager to make a new life here. I had thought I would be doomed spending my life drifting the streets of my world, but I have hope I can scrape something together in this world, where I failed so many times in the last."

"Well that is great! Sounds like you had a real rough time in Mythis. Me and Coral will help look after you while you are here till you can get on your own two feet! It will be fun! I can teach you all the cool things that make this world so unique! Coral doesn't like hearing me rant about stuff like that. She was born in this world y'know, so it's the bland usual for her."

After a pause while she starts to prepare the food, Jay spoke up again. "So... how many people become hybrids? More than one animal I mean? What are the odds?"

Ivory shook her head- unintentionally causing her boobs to wobble from side to side too; their size now restored as her bovine traits receded overnight. "Zero. No one has ever gotten more than one animal. It does raise a few questions though. It makes sense- there is only one 'you' in this universe, so there could only be one in another universe. On the other hand... what happens if the biomass is wildly different?"

"The what-mass?"

"Er... basically the size of your body."

"So.... if someone were a small bird in another world?"

She smirked. "Or a cute lil rabbit? Yea, exactly that. There is a universal conservation of mass- so every universe should still have the same amount of mass and space existing within it- so the mass that makes up your body still exists in the other world in its entirety. Obviously you are not what makes up your body- but also something like a rabbit cannot do all the same things a human can- it doesn't have the mental capacity you do, so what is the equivalent exchange on it? The universe still works the same otherwise, so the same environment and stimulus should still be able to shape a version of you- if not in one, then across multiple beings... so then, why can't you manifest all of those creatures? Only one represents you, regardless of its ability or role, which seems odd. Something like a cow, like me, sure, but in smaller, simpler creatures? It raises questions. Questions people like me do research on to try and answer but... still a mystery to me. A lot of unknowns still out there in the multiverse."

"Hmm. What about the tail- any reason it would enlarge at all?"

She raised her brow, turning to face him again. "Did yours grow last night? Oddly specific question."

"Y-yea, a little."

"That means the rabbit is here- in Coined Earth. When an animal comes here it gains the ability to channel its human counterpart, to become mostly human. But doing so causes the human counterpart to be forcefully changed into mostly animal. The human version can resist this change still- but doing so will cause all the energy to instead build up in the one animal part they cannot get rid of... the tail. And touching the tail brings out the beast- so the bigger their tail grows the more likely they will change without meaning to. When their animal counterpart turns back to normal the effect ends."

Jay did not understand a lot of her explanations- she uses terms that simply do not exist in his world, but he still got the jist of it. And now he is even more adamant in his decision to keep his form a secret. No one else is a hybrid... but he is. Jay has a form like no one else. A hidden trump card. For now he had a lot to learn about this new world and how it works, but for once he actually has a bit of hope for himself.

The protist finally rolled its gelatinous form back to its home, the colossal chamber filled more with darkness than anything else. Far enough underground that no light will ever dry its membrane. As soon as it wedged itself into the others, six giant eyes open in the dark, and she awakens.

"Another Chimera... find him. Bring him to me."