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Chapter 36: Consequences

Funshine stumbled forwards as she tried to cross her living room floor while balancing an old paperback book on her head. Cheer watched the newly female bear stumble with a smirk on her face, "Alright, that's good, keep your head balanced."

Funshine staggered forwards again and the book fell to the floor as she hit the wall to use for support. Once she had her footing again she crouched down to pick up the book and held it up to Cheer, "Is the book really necessary?"

Cheer snickered, "No, I just wanted to see how much I could get away with."

Funshine glared and hurled the paperback at Cheer, who easily caught it and dropped it into the open gym bag she had brought with her, "But seriously, Funshine, you're doing better than I thought with the sudden weight on your chest."

Funshine did her best to stretch upwards, but overbalanced and fell back against the wall. She giggled and hefted up her new breasts, "It was all worth it, even if it's going to be months before I can get back on my skateboard."

Cheer walked over and pulled her into a standing position, "Well do you feel confident enough to walk outside?"

Funshine stumbled again but forced herself to stay upright, "I need a little more practise. So when does the sore back set in?"

"Give it a couple days, I'll show you how I dealt with it once it sets in," Cheer crouched and fished around in the gym bag and came up with a bra, "First, if you want to start working out again you'll need one of these sports bras." She tossed the garment to Funshine, who caught it and then stared at it.

"Is this one of yours?"

Cheer nodded, "Relax, I haven't worn it since I did laundry. We're the same cup size so it should fit with some readjustment." She saw the somewhat baffled look on Funshine's face and added, "Believe me, it's painful and throws off your balance if you let them bounce freely when exercising. Grams can make you some later but you can borrow mine today. Need some help?"

"No, I got this," Funshine pulled the straps over her shoulders and brought the cups up to her breasts before reaching behind to try and attach it at the back. "Crap, hooks or snaps?"

"Hooks, here," Cheer walked around behind Funshine and grabbed her hands, "follow me and...there." Cheer stepped back and watched as Funshine adjusted the tightness until the bra was comfortably secure.

Funshine jumped in place a couple times, admiring how it held her chest in place, "Damn, now I know why you wear these things. Thanks."

"Anything to help, but I will need that back after today." Cheer was about to say something else when a thought hit her, "You haven't seen Take Care yet have you?"

"No," Funshine turned to her, "Why would I?"

Cheer rolled her eyes, "Gee, maybe because you just got your gender switched with magic and you'd want a doctor to see if everything's in the right place. Grab your gym bag, I'll take you to Take Care and then we're going to the gym."

Funshine sighed, "Alright just give me a minute." She turned and tried to march to her room, but stumbled and had to use the wall for support again.

OoOoO

Funshine stepped proudly out of Take Care's front door, still woblly and wearing Cheer's borrowed sports bra with a big smirk on her face. She plopped down into the passenger seat of Cheer's cloud car, "Well, the doctor says I'm all girl with no problems. Even said if she didn't know better she'd think I was born this way."

Cheer nodded, "Good, now let's see how well your body's held up to the changes."

A few minutes later they were in the change room of the gym with Funshine pulling on her old gym clothes. She grunted as she managed to pull her gym shorts up, "too tight," she muttered.

"Well yeah, girls got wider hips, Funshine." Cheer had already dressed and was watching as Funshine managed to tie off the drawstring of her shorts.

"Oh no, I'm gonna have to replace all my clothes now," Funshine groaned as the realization hit her and she pulled her exercise tank top on only to find that it hung low enough to expose her cleavage, unlike Cheer's. She smirked, "Then again, I might keep this, gives off a nice view."

"Now you sound like Crafty," Cheer giggled, "On that note you should sit with us at lunch and show off, I don't think Love-a-Lot or Gentle will mind."

"Since when do you eat lunch with Gentle Heart?" Funshine asked as they exited the change room.

"Every since Crafty started calling the four of us the DD girls. I think it's just to give Hidden something to gawk at when she's eating," Cheer rolled her eyes, "Gentle Heart's warmed up to it though and I think she appreciates the company."

Funshine nodded then stretched her arms, "Alright, let's see if I'm as strong as ever."

Champ walked in right as Funshine lay down on the bench-press. He only stopped for a moment then darted past when the two girls weren't looking. Even though Funshine told him about the magical "operation", Champ still wasn't prepared for seeing him as a her. He shook off those thoughts and changed, deciding to just deal with it since he couldn't ignore it.

Champ emerged right as Funshine finished her session on the bench-press. The yellow bear sat up with a big grin on her face and flexed her arms, "Alright! I can still bench 120." Then she caught sight of Champ and waved, "Hi Champ."

"Hi," Champ waved back as he went to the treadmill.

Funshine and Cheer exchanged a look and Funshine seemed to immediately read what she was saying and they both grinned. Both got up on exercise bikes next to the treadmill and turned to resistance as high as they could, then started peddling whilst gripping the forward bars.

"Here for a workout?" Cheer asked.

Funshine giggled, "I'd hope so, or maybe he was hoping to see the new sights." Funshine stood up from the seat and pumped the pedals of the bicycle, bouncing up and down as she did so. Champ felt his eyes wander to the generous cleavage window on Funshine's tank-top, especially as she bounced up and down on the bike and she and Cheer started to sweat under the exertion at the bike's maximum setting.

Finally, Champ couldn't resist anymore and got off the treadmill and headed for the bench press. Funshine and Cheer giggled and dismounted, taking up positions on the weight machines as close to Champ as they could. This continued for over an hour until all three of them, thoroughly exhausted, started their stretches with Funshine and Cheer deliberately standing right in front of Champ, especially when Funshine leaned over to touch her toes.

Champ finished his stretches first and hurried into the locker rooms.

Funshine and Cheer giggled, "Oooh, I think that got him." Cheer smiled at Funshine, "How did you pick up on this so fast?"

Funshine fluttered her eyelashes then burst out laughing, "Heeheehee! Maybe it's just that 'woman's intuition' I heard so much about. Also I've seen how you girls flirt so I just followed your lead."

"Well," Cheer pointed to the locker room and grinned, "The follow my lead in there."

Champ had just finished undressing when Funshine and Cheer walked in. He smiled at Cheer then darted into the showers before either of them could get a word in. Funshine watched him go as she undressed, struggling with the sport's bra for a moment before unhooking it.

"Ready?" Cheer asked as she tossed her clothes into the locker.

"Maybe. I think he's still nervous about me," Funshine took a deep breath, "Let me talk to him then you can follow up."

Cheer raised an eyebrow but waited to see what Funshine would do.

"Damn hot shower," Champ muttered as he tried to shower without exciting himself.

"Champ. Can we talk?"

Champ recognized Funshine's new feminine voice but didn't turn around, "Sure, we can talk."

"Is this weird for you?" Funshine approached but not close enough to touch him.

Champ nodded, "Yes. It is I mean..." Champ blushed, "You're hot, Funshine but I know you used to be a guy and now you're a girl and... I just don't know how to feel about you and about this."

"But you were enjoying it weren't you?" Funshine stepped around to his side.

Champ averted his gaze while still blushing, "I was, especially with Cheer there... but still..."

Funshine stepped around in front of Champ, getting soaked by the running shower head, "So what's the problem?"

Champ turned back to face Funshine, keeping his eyes level now that Funshine was as tall as he was, "It's just that I don't know how I should feel about this. Part of me wants to just jump in but then I remember that you're one of my best guy friends and I'm not into guys."

Funshine glared, "But I'm not a guy anymore, I'm a girl and I feel right and I want to try being with you."

"You should give her a chance," Cheer's voice from behind was accompanied by the pressing of her breasts against Champ's back and her arms wrapping around his middle. "She really wants you, just like I do."

Funshine grinned, then noticed that Champ was looking both aroused and uncomfortable so stepped around to Cheer, "I think that's enough, Cheer, he doesn't want it right now. But maybe we could make up for that." She pulled Cheer closer as they stepped to another shower stall.

Champ turned away and took a deep breath. Was it really so weird? Maybe, but he had said he would support Funshine and she wanted him. Maybe...He thought for a moment and turned around to watch the two girls washing each other. Damn sneaky tactics, but then again. Maybe he should give it a try.

Cheer saw Champ approaching over Funshine's shoulder but said nothing, letting Champ sneak up and grab her around the chest. "Maybe I should give it a chance, damn," He gave Funshine's breasts a squeeze, "You're a big as Cheer."

Funshine gasped then grinned, "Well it's what I wanted." She turned her head and gave Champ a kiss, "Want to help me go for a test run."

"Alright, just let me get my bearings. Not sure how well I can handle this," Champ chuckled.

"Don't forget about me," Cheer swung around behind Champ and pressed up against his back, "I wasn't just helping her out to get you, I need some love too."

OoOoO

Champ, Cheer and Funshine entered the Hall of Hearts together with Funshine limping slightly.

Champ looked a little sheepish, "Sorry, I didn't think the change would make you a virgin."

Funshine smiled and waved him off, "You already apologized like ten times, it's fine. But if you feel like you need to apologize then you can get lunch for me."

Cheer spotted Love-a-Lot, Gentle Heart and Crafty seated together and took Funshine's hand. "Com'on, let's show them the newest member of the DD girls." She grinned as she practically pulled Funshine over to the table where the other girls already had their lunches.

Crafty was the first to spot them and grinned as Funshine sat down, "Well hello, Funshine. Looking good."

Funshine smiled, "Thanks. So what do you think."

Gentle Heart gave a nervous smile, "You look very nice, and tall."

"And big right?" Crafty nudged Gentle Heart softly with her elbow then patted her own chest. "I know at least one more person who'll be happy to see you."

"Oh, who's that?" Funshine asked as Cheer got up and headed to the buffet.

"Here she comes, the DD girls' number one fangirl." Crafty grinned and waved over Hidden Heart Wolf.

It took Hidden Heart a moment to recognize Funshine sitting across from her and she blushed, "He-Hello Funshine."

Funshine leaned forwards, "And hello to you too. What do you think of my new look?"

"You're tall like me, and hot," Hidden blushed at her accidental outburst and dug into her lunch.

"I see you've met with her approval," Love-a-Lot laughed.

Champ had loaded up both trays when he spotted Share Bear in the kitchen scrubbing pots. He turned to Playful, the server for the day, "Why's Share on dish duty today? I thought it was Wish's turn."

"Share threw a rock at Funshine because she didn't agree with his whole 'I wanna be a girl' thing," Playful spotted Funshine at a distance, "I see he went through with it. But yeah she's stuck on dish duty for the rest of the month."

"She." Champ spoke forcefully then took both trays of food and headed back to the table. He didn't envy Share but after he'd heard what happened he felt she deserved it. No one in the Kingdom of Caring wanted to be on dish duty, cleaning up one's own dishes was one thing but when you have to clean up the dishes for about 40 people and buffet trays three times a day was a nightmare, taking over an hour after each meal was finished when working in pairs. Alone, Share would be there until at least 3:00pm and then close to 9:00pm after supper.

"So how's your training going?" Crafty asked Hidden.

"Oh well..." she stirred the soup in front of her, "It's not as exhausting as yours, I'm just learning magic and spells, and copying things down in a book I keep at home." She stole a glance Funshine again then turned back to her food.

Crafty grinned, "Can't keep your eyes off her new tits can you?"

Hidden Heart blushed but nodded.

A more awkward conversation was about to take place nearby as Proud Heart Cat approached the table where Loyal Heart Dog and Defiant Heart Badger were seated.

"May I sit down?" Proud Heart asked.

Defiant Heart gave her a death glare but went back to his food.

Loyal Heart sighed, "You may. Do you wish to talk, Proud Heart?"

Proud Heart winced slightly at the sharp tone in Loyal's voice but sat down across from him. She put her hands on her lap, "Loyal Heart, I'm so so sorry for what I did I...I just thought you would, I mean," Proud Heart was choking up as she started to cry, finally swallowing to force one last sentence out, "I'll do anything just please talk to me again!"

Loyal Heart set his spoon down then picked up a clean napkin, stood up and walked around to sit next to Proud Heart, "Proud Heart, look at me." She did and he wiped at the tears in her eyes. "I think I can forgive you, eventually, but I won't forget this. I can't love you like I once did and it's going to take time for me to move past this."

Proud Heart managed to smile briefly even as she kept crying, "Can I do anything?"

"Just sit and eat and don't try anything else like that again," Loyal Heart stood up and walked back around to his other side.

"You're a better man than me, Loyal," Defiant Heart said. He looked over at Proud Heart, "I don't really have anything to say to you, but I wasn't the one hurt by this. Excuse me, but I need to get to Love Heart's training session." He stood up and left.

Proud Heart winced but wiped her eyes and started to eat.

Loyal Heart smiled, "I can't fault him for his honesty."

OoOoO

Defiant Heart and Anger Heart sparred back and forth across the clouds, fire and bones shards flying and the badgers striking close with his spear, two strikes almost too close to home. Finally, the two slumped down on the clouds, even Anger Heart's three tails sagging in exhaustion.

"At least we're getting stronger," Anger Heart sighed, "I just wish we had more break time."

"Can't help it. Only three years to get ready or we could all end up dead." Defiant Heart winced as he remembered his encounter with Passion Heart.

"Right." Anger Heart turned to watch where Guidance Heart and Sweet Heart were sending elemental blasts at one another, "So how are things with Loyal Heart?"

Defiant Heart rolled his eyes, "He's doing better than I thought he would. I wouldn't give Proud Heart the time of day but it's not my choice."

Anger Heart nodded and glared at the ground, "Yeah, I agree. Are you interested in Loyal Heart?"

"Romantically...maybe," Defiant Heart sighed, "I like him a lot but we don't know each other that well yet, but we eat lunch together and...I'm trying to help him recover."

"Well, good luck then. Just make sure he likes you first," Anger Heart said.

"I know!" Defiant stood up and pointed his spear at Anger Heart, "Alright, let's get back to it."

Anger Heart glared, "Give me a minute to rest!"

"You've had your minute, now get up!" Defiant ordered.

Anger Heart jumped to his feet as his tails swished behind him and he conjured fire on his hands.

OoOoO

Take Care pulled Confidence Heart aside as soon as she came home, "Confidence I have an idea, come here."

"Alright, hold on I just got back from training," Confidence Heart stumbled slightly as Take Care led her to her own bedroom. Take Care had agreed to give Confidence and Love Heart their own room, though Love Heart visited her at nights on occasion.

"Here, what do you think?" Take Care rummaged opened her dresser and produced a set of black lingerie, "I got them in your size."

"Thanks, I guess." Confidence took the garment, "I thought you didn't like girls like that."

"I don't, but I wanted to do something nice for Love Heart, with all the training he's been putting everyone through, so I thought we could do something for him together."

"Hmm," it finally clicked in Confidence Heart's head what Take Care meant, "Alright. Just let me shower and meet me in our room."

About ten minutes later, Love Heart came home after logging his training report for the day, at Tenderheart's insistence. He grabbed a bite to eat from the fridge, showered and headed for bed, barely registering that Take Care and Confidence weren't around but just assuming they were busy.

Love Heart opened his bedroom door and started, his eyes going wide as he saw Take Care and Confidence Heart standing in front of him, both wearing identical black lingerie.

Confidence Heart stepped forwards and took one of his arms. "Feeling better, Love?"

Take Care strode forwards, putting more sway to her hips as she did so and putting her arms behind her head, "What do you think?"

Love Heart blinked, "I think you're going a lot out of your way for me." He smiled, "Thank you." He pulled Confidence Heart into a hug and gave her a kiss, then took Take Care's hand and pulled her gently in for another kiss.

"Gotta admit, this is more fun than I thought it would be," Confidence pulled at one of her bra straps, "gonna save this for special occasions."

"Well let's make this special then." Take Care sat down on the bed and beckoned for Love Heart to join her. Love Heart approached with a slight push from Confidence Heart, who jump in bed as soon as he was in.

OoOoO

"Thanks for seeing me so early, Take Care," Funshine sat on an exam bed, one hand over her stomach, "I think it was something I ate."

"Considering you threw up in one of the toilets five minutes ago that's a fair assessment. This won't take long." Take Care walked over to Funshine, "It might have something to do with your transformation so I need to be thorough."

Funshine lay back as her blood pressure was taken, "That makes me nervous."

Take Care smiled, "Don't be. Just do the usual thing for your yearly checkup."

Take Care ran Funshine through her usual battery of tests, checking everything she possibly could. When she finally got the results, all she could do is stare at the results.

Funshine fidgeted nervously, "What, is something wrong? Am I going to live?!" Funshine was starting to panic.

Take Care held up a hand, "You'll be alright, but I was partially correct: this condition does have to do with your transformation." She looked up from the results page, "Funshine, you're pregnant."

Funshine just stared at Take Care for a minute before she answered, "What? Pregnant but...I thought we couldn't because of that curse."

"Unless Life Heart removed the curse without telling anyone," Take Care looked over the notes again, "And about a month along if this is right which means... you've been pregnant almost as long as you've been female and that's right after the unicorn twins were born." Take Care paused, "Which means I need to get every girl in the Kingdom of Caring in here for a pregnancy test now, myself included."

It took a couple hours to get everyone together and tested, everyone except Life Heart who refused to come. Take Care refused to reveal the results until after all the rounds of testing were done but finally, she announced the results while standing on her front step, not wanting to crowd everyone into either her living room or waiting room.

"I'll get right to the point. Funshine, Cheer, Swift Heart, Proud Heart, and myself are all pregnant, and all roughly around one month. No one else is as far as I can tell but I can't test at the earliest stages so I'd like the rest of you to come for a follow up in a month just to be sure." Take Care sighed as she heard the voices running through the crowd, some even saying they were going to march over to Life Heart and demand an explanation, others worrying about how this would affect their lives.

"Hold on!" Take Care had to shout to be heard, "Listen, I know we've lived without consequence for a while but I do have a stock of contraceptives and other birth control you can use, and I'll teach you how to use it if you don't want to search for it yourself. Thank god the internet still works," she whispered the last line, "And I will talk to Life Heart myself. Now please go back to your day, I need to finish these reports and I can hand things out later. You'll just have to be more thoughtful in the future."

As the crowd dispersed, Confidence Heart approached Take Care, "So what about me?"

Take Care shook her head, "What your doctor on Earth said is true: your endometriosis wasn't part of the curse. I'm sorry."

"I see," Confidence Heart sighed. "I'm gonna go start my training regime see ya!" She waved over her shoulder as she headed for the training field.

Take Care watched her walking away for a moment, then sighed and returned to her office. She was not looking forwards to filing all these reports, or the conversation she would need to have with Life Heart later, which would have to involve the other three founders and the leaders as well. She wanted to be happy about the child growing inside of her, but she had more things to worry about right now. Maybe later she'd be happy but now...she just needed to get through the day.

OoOoO

Take Care sighed as she stared at a very sorry looking Life Heart inside the Hall of Hearts. Other members of the Care Bear Family wanted to be present but thankfully Noble Heart and True Heart had told them to let the leaders and Take Care handle things.

"Life Heart, just tell me why you removed the curse without telling anyone," Take Care said.

Life Heart scuffed her hooves on the floor from where she sat, "I...I didn't want Meek Heart and Wild Heart to grow up alone without friends like Love Heart and Sweet Heart did," she turned to look at her son, who just groaned at the realization. "And...I wanted to make sure someone would have a child soon."

True Heart put a hand to her chest, "Life Heart, I understand your concern, believe me I felt the same thing when Hugs and Tugs were born, but what you did it's like..."

"It's like replacing someone's birth control with candy and not telling them." Noble Heart's voice was considerably l more hostile than anyone else's.

"Mom, I can't handle this right now, and especially now I have to worry about raising a kid while we're preparing for what could be the fight of our lives when the barrier drops." He turned to Take Care, "Sorry, Take Care. I'll try to make time to help."

"We both have our responsibilities. I need to think about training a temporary replacement," Take Care looked down at some notes she had brought with her, "Bright Heart and Grumpy built all my medical tools so they can at least run things. I'm going to need to train someone to be a nurse too so I can have someone to take over when I get farther along, then there's raising the child." She smacked her face with her notes and leaned back in her chair, "Part of me wants to abort this child right now and skip all of that."

"I can help look after it!" Life Heart jumped up. "I mean I know I have Sweet Heart babysitting right now but I can look after my grandchild whenever you need time."

"That sounds like a fitting punishment." Tenderheart finally spoke.

"Punishment?" Brave Heart turned to face Tenderheart, "For what?"

Tenderheart turned to look at Noble Heart, "Well I think, 'replacing birth control' as Noble Heart put it, is deserving of a punishment of some kind. Life Heart should be an on-call babysitter for each of the five currently expectant mothers when they're children are born. The twins should be almost a year old by then and if Hugs and Tugs are any indication they will at least not be completely dependent on Life Heart by then."

Life Heart gulped, then turned to Tenderheart, "I can do that. I promise."

"Well that's settled," Take Care stood up, "Excuse me but I have to prepare some sex-ed lessons for everyone if they want to keep living the 'free love' lifestyle they're used to."

OoOoO

Word had spread quickly, especially with Take Care's sex-ed lessons. No one was particularly happy about the lifestyle change, but other than the five expectant mothers they begrudgingly accepted the new status-quo but didn't change their activities otherwise.

Proud Heart Cat decided to go a step farther; she'd only had sex once in the last month, too wracked with guilt every since what happened with Loyal Heart. She approached Loyal Heart at lunch, the only time she felt safe approaching him, and sat down across from him and Defiant Heart.

"It's mine." Loyal Heart looked up as soon as Proud Heart sat down.

Proud Heart nodded, "Yes." She stared at the tabletop, she hadn't gotten her food yet but her stomach was demanding it. "I deserve this after what I did."

"Maybe, but I don't think you should face this alone." Loyal Heart said.

"He's right." Both turned to face Defiant Heart, "Proud Heart, what you did was...unacceptable, but if you need help then I don't think you shouldn't be forced to face this alone."

Loyal Heart smiled, "Thank you, Defiant. I agree," he turned back to Proud Heart. "I am willing to help you, and despite what happened I'm not going to abandon our child, even if we are not in any sort of relationship. But first," he pointed to the buffet, "Get some food. You're eating for two now."

Proud Heart managed a smile, "Thank you." She started to reach for a hug, then stopped and stood up to get food.

"Thank you, Defiant Heart." Loyal Heart sunk in his seat a little, "I wasn't sure if I should do the honorable thing or not, after I was taken advantage of. Thank you for affirming my choice."

Defiant Heart smiled, "Anytime. I'll help too."

Loyal Heart shook his head, "No, this isn't your concern."

Defiant Heart prodded Loyal Heart's chest, right over his symbol of a heart shaped medal, "You're my best friend up here, I'll find the time to help when I'm not training." He couldn't resist flexing a muscle, "I'm getting stronger every day."

Loyal Heart chuckled, "That you are."

Defiant Heart wanted to make a move, but instead turned back to his food. One day at a time and let Loyal make his own choice.