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Janus casually sprawled on their couch, their tail draping off one end while their horned head rested on the other arm. Their wide hips hardly reached the middle cushion at all, a testament to just how high a percentage of their size was sequestered to the caudal appendage. The kobold was reflecting on the events of the previous day. They had woken up as a human the day before, but by now that life was starting to seem as distant as a dream.

The entity, Geuse, had made them into this, a body so significantly different from their previous body that it didn't assault their mind with anxiety every time they looked at it... The serpent told them that this was them, and it was so. The world around them had conformed to their new body. Humans out on the street hardly batted an eye, except occasionally a child pointing and asking if they could be a kobold when they grew up.

Geuse had promised Janus wealth as well. Indeed, when the kobold checked their bank account (which, thankfully, they had put under their name and not their deadname, so logging in was no problem) the number in the savings account caused them to have to sit down and think for a while.

Janus sat up, remembering another promise. The gel serpent had also promised them the ability to visit anyone, anywhere on the globe, whenever they liked. Such a specific statement had to mean something, especially in the light of all the other changes in their life. The kobold pondered how they would be able to travel, whenever. Other than by sheer money, of course.

An image struck the reptilian's mind, and they looked down their girthy tail, raising it into a curve up away from the couch and gradually increasing the angle until they had made a circle from their base to their tip. Janus' mind filled with every piece of fiction with some kind of gateway through space as they drew it a bit tighter, a couple feet of tail on either side of the loop.

Twisting the open coil around to be perpendicular to their view, Janus perked a bit. The air inside the loop seemed to be rippling. Reaching out a claw for the tissue box, they balled up a tissue, and threw it through the hoop. It flew uninterrupted through and flopped onto the couch's arm. The kobold sighed, and flopped the coil down on the floor in front of the couch, sitting up properly now. Their foot claws dangled above the floor and their own tail. "I bet Ame could figure this out quickly." They muttered to themselves, thinking of another enby friend, a demigirl from across the country. They lifted their hips up using the muscles in the rear limb and then dropped themselves into the ring, towards what they thought was the floor.

Falling about five feet further than the floor should have been, Janus landed on grass, feeling their tail still resting on the floor now above them. They bent their knees to take the impact, and then looked up in surprise.

There, rippling in the air was a view of their apartment ceiling in front of the couch, in amongst their upheld tail, which in their shock, pulled away from its loop shape, flopping into the grass in a gentle curve. The portal evaporated in the process, leaving them in this new place.

As they looked around, they found that they were standing on a lawn, in front of a house in a suburban area. The change in general temperature and atmospheric pressure (which they had to pop their ears by forcing a yawn to dispel the discomfort from) told them they were nowhere near where they had started.

Janus was suddenly glad they'd been wearing jeans and a tee shirt while lounging at home.

Looking back to the house, they perked. This was Ame's house, as they recognized it from the pictures their friend shared online.

The demigirl in question opened the door not a moment later, eyes lighting up as she recognized her friend. "Janus? What are you doing here?"

Janus looked over their friend, still a human-wait, still? -and started walking that way, their tail asserting its appearance of neutral buoyance that the kobold had found easiest to walk with. "Oh, I just dropped in, was thinking about you..." They remembered hanging out with Ame once at a convention, but mostly conversations online.

"Well, come in! I was just grilling some burgers." Ame smiled.

With cartoonish timing, the short reptile's stomach complained of being empty. "Oh, I could definitely eat." Janus slipped through the offered doorway, their tail trailing behind them like a conga line of extra kobold three times their height in length.

Once the anacondan appendage had made its way fully through, Ame chuckled and closed the door. "Is your tail even bigger? What do you feed it?" The human playfully teased, walking towards the kitchen, where indeed there was quite a bit of sizzling going on.

"My anxieties and executive dysfunction." Janus declared playfully in return. "Didn't need them anymore."

"Good to know even kobolds get the blues." Ame sighed wistfully.

The Kobold planted their tail at the base of a barstool on the opposite side of the kitchen counter from the sizzling range and used the leverage to lift up onto it; their hips settling into place and letting the posterior powerhouse relax. "That's my favorite Uma Thurman film."

The human looked perplexed as she started poking the meat patties with a spatula. "What?"

Janus grinned shamelessly, planting their elbows on the counter and bracing their lower jaw up on their fists. "Even Kobolds Get the Blues."

"Just for that I'm giving you the burnt one." Ame stuck her tongue out playfully. The human fidgeted, tugging on her shirt at her waist with her free hand.

"How dare, I'm a guest." Janus continued playfully, before plopping their forearms down onto the tile countertop. "Hey, Ame?"

"Yeah, Janus?" She replied, prodding a bubble that had formed in one of the patties with the corner of the spatula and watching the excess juice squirt and cause a loud hiss on the griddle.

"Are kobolds, you know... normal?" The kobold squeezed around the legs of their chair with their tail a bit, winding the length around the tapering square arrangement thoughtlessly, until they heard and felt it creak and released pressure.

"Well, yeah. Just another type of person." The human demiwoman responded, gesturing with her spatula. "World has all types, you know?"

"Does it?" Janus was curious about how their predicament was affecting things all the way out here. "Have you met another kobold? Seen one?"

Ame looked confused, before her timer went off. "I thought you said you fed your insecurity to your tail?" She recovered, as she started to remove hamburgers onto a plate. "Wish I could do that..."

Janus slipped off their stool to start around the counter. "Have a tail or get rid of anxiety?"

The human sighed. "Oh, both. But the anxiety thing first." She fidgeted with her top again, and grunted. "I really shouldn't bind when I'm home alone but seeing my boobs in my peripheral vision just sets me off, you know?"

"Trade them for a tail?" Janus probed curiously, the start of a thought forming in their mind.

Ame tugged the fridge door open, starting to dig through it. "Hell, just squish them down and put that fat on my hips, that's enough." She re-emerged with condiments in her hands and set them on the counter, letting the fridge close due to gravity as she dug around for the hamburger buns. She turned, holding the bag, to face Janus. "Gods, I wish I had your hips, Janus."

"You can, if you want." The kobold smiled, leaning against the counter.

The human burst out laughing. "I thought you said you didn't get flirty in person?"

Blushing, Janus stood upright again. "Thas'not what I meant."

Ame chuckled. "Oh, so what did you mean?"

The kobold pressed themselves up on their tail to get closer to eye level and a level where they could construct their burger more easily. "I wasn't a kobold yesterday morning."

"What kind of bullshit is that." The demigirl scoffed.

"I mean it." The reptilian wobbled atop the spire of their rear appendage. "I was a dysphoric AMAB human, and now I'm this androgynous fantasy creature. No one's questioned it except for me."

Ame rolled her eyes. "RP online is one thing, but you can't go around talking like this in person, you know?"

The kobold scrunched their muzzle up, then perked, and grabbed the closest condiment and the lower half of a bun. From what felt like muscle memory, they drew with the mustard, a chaotic sign in yellow. Setting the mustard down, they grasped the top part of the bun and plopped it down, before twisting the two halves with their claws. "Geuse."

"Goosh?" The human asked, confused.

The dishwasher flopped open abruptly behind them. "Calling me again so soon, Sweetie?"

When Janus looked, the serpent was still forming, its head already the width of the appliance as it pressed into the open. Unlike before, it appeared to be made of an opaque yellow paint, or perhaps... "Why are you mustard?"

"You drew my sigil in mustard, silly." The entity crooned parentally, rearing up to nuzzle along the smaller being's chest.

Ame had squeezed half of her ketchup bottle out onto her bun, staring in disbelief with her hand clenched.

Janus hugged the broad snake's head, feeling the semisolid squish between their arms and chest. "Starting out really big too..."

"I'm sure you didn't call me just to admire my corporeal form." Geuse teased warmly, its length continuing to spill into the kitchen, crowding around Janus' tail and giving an affectionate squeeze.

"Oh!" Janus nodded. "Ame here won't believe what you did for me because you made it so she remembers me always being a Kobold. Could you fix that?"

"There are consequences for such a thing." The serpent spoke cryptically, eyes turning towards the human. "Are you prepared for them?"

Starting as the snake appeared to see her for the first time, Ame shakily put down the ketchup bottle. "I... I think I'd prefer to know than let my mind be altered."

Geuse hissed affectionately. "Not so much your mind, but reality itself. Your perception is merely a side effect. But I can insulate so that your memories are unaffected by the changes..."

Janus nodded. "Will you do it?"

The glossy yellow tip of a serpent tail reached up and lightly booped the human on her nose, and she staggered for a moment.

When Ame recovered, she was staring not at the immense snake but at her friend. "Holy fuck you're a kobold how are you a kobold." She looked at the snake. "I just took it for granted before but you really did this?"

Geuse chuckled, extricating itself from the kobold's grasp, loops and coils oozing in reverse motion back into the too-small dishwasher.

"Wait; don't go; make me a kobold too!" Ame cried out, and looked shocked at the desperation in her voice.

The mustard snake chuckled. "My work here is done..."

"But... can't you help her?" Janus looked between their friend and the unknowable serpent.

Geuse's voice echoed from inside the small metal box as its head retreated within. "You can do it yourself, sweetie..."

The kobold propelled themselves off their tail towards the dishwasher. "But how?" But by the time they got to it the appliance had shut. When they yanked it back open it was just a mundane dishwasher, dishes waiting to be cleaned sitting in racks inside like there'd never been any mustardy serpent.

Ame looked a bit overwhelmed, but was gazing right at their newly reptilian friend. "H-how did they change you?"

Janus perked. "Well, Geuse took me into its coils and molded me manually... err... caudally."

The human looked over her friend's long tail. "Well, your rump rope seems potent enough."

The kobold squinted. "Don't call it that. If anything it's an industrial cable, like on suspension bridges." Janus broke into giggles, dropping their faux annoyance. "I guess it's worth a try, to the couch!" They pivoted and hip-swayed their way that way, tail forming an undulating wave in their wake.

Ame watched, cheeks flushed in a bit of a blush, before she too followed.

Janus used their tail to put themselves up onto the couch cushion, before curling and looping their tail on the floor in front of them. "I guess... sit down and I'll do what comes to me. It's how I got here, after all."

The demigirl sat down onto a loop of reptilian tail. "You never did explain that."

"Well, I kinda... made a portal using my tail by accident." The kobold fidgeted, starting to ease the powerful length of their heavy rear appendage around her form. "I was thinking about you, then stepped through a loop in my tail... then you came out and greeted me."

"So... just think about me being a kobold?" Ame asked hopefully.

"I hope it's that simple." Janus curled their toes and splayed them whilst readjusting on the cushion, making sure they had their full length to work with. "Just relax... I think I'll use my claws too, since I... you know... have them."

The demiwoman nodded her understanding and closed her eyes. As she relaxed, her frame was cradled and kept from slumping too much by the loose coils around her.

Janus wondered where to start, or if it had indeed already started and they couldn't tell yet. "I guess, we could start with the change you suggested before..." They turned their friend around to face them with their tail, giving a squeeze.

Ame nodded again, swallowing nervously.

Awkwardly, the kobold put their hand claws over their friend's bust; mostly flat from the binder they were wearing under their shirt. The reptilian held her still as best as they could, and closed their eyes, pressing forward with purpose.

Fabric loudly ripped.

Janus looked up and down the body of the human to see what had ripped, but couldn't find it. "That didn't hurt, did it?"

Ame shook her head. "No... just... the pressure changed from my chest to my back."

"Oh, that must be your spine preparing to elongate into a tail." The kobold reasoned, giving a squeeze with their tail, before starting to carefully feel at the sides of the human's face.

As they did so, human features started to warp, pulling along with the claws and revealing newly glossy scales where stretch marks or tears might have appeared.

"Thad feels weird..." Ame murmured, her voice a bit warped by her jaw re-shaping. She shifted in the coils, tilting her head back.

Janus squeezed again with their tail, and gasped in surprise as the whole human seemed to contract in size, scales bursting forth from under where their tail was pressed. "Oh, it's definitely working now..."

The soon to be former human gave another experimental wriggle, before the coils squeezed down again.

The elder reptilian kept at it, looking over her head, her torso, her legs, her newly appearing tail, her wings- wait, wings?!

"Ame... I think I know what that tearing sound was now." Janus said softly, and reached out to stroke one of the still forming appendages jetting forth from their friend's back.

Ame gasped in surprise at this new feeling. She opened her eyes and looked over her shoulder. The increasingly less of a human's tail started to thrash around behind her as she gawked at the powerful wing-arms growing stronger and the broad membranes between them gaining width to catch more and more air, most of the displacement of mass from her body seeming to go there. "I'm an Urd!"

"I'm sorry, I guess I pushed too hard to get rid of your boobs..." Janus swallowed, not sure how to react quite yet.

"I don't care, I have wings!" She beat them for emphasis, sending papers around the room fluttering, her voice starting to lighten in tone as her voice box became smaller like the rest of her.

The long-tailed kobold perked. "Oh... oh you like it! Oh good." Janus stammered a bit, rubbing the side of their head and closing their eyes, deciding to let their tail guide the final changes. They felt a length of their tail smooshing against Ame's feet as they turned into claws, pressing closer to their hips. At the same time, the steadily swaying, forming tail continued to grow, bumping into the coffee table's leg with each return swing.

Janus reached forward, letting whatever magic they had guide their hands, and felt their claws moving through her hair, rubbing and stroking. Unlike how their own had become two horns, in the enby's fingers they felt a crown of five form from the crest and sweep back.

When the kobold felt the changes slow to a stop, they opened their eyes.

There sitting on the ground in front of them was another kobold, smiling blissfully. Her ears weren't as long, elegantly following the same curve of the new crown of horns underneath the furthest on either side. Her wings had folded comfortably along her back, the spiked thumbs of the wing arm just a bit higher than her horns. Her formerly human clothes hung off her baggily, especially the top and wrecked binder, which the wings had taken care of.

"Ah... I think I know why Geuse changed me while I was naked." Janus offered lamely, rubbing the back of their head.

"I don't care, I hated that thing anyway." Ame tore off what was left of her shirt and binder, before feeling over her flat chest. "Gods, I've missed this. Puberty sucks ass."

"For each of us in different ways." The wingless kobold agreed. "So... think those burgers are still warm?"

The newer kobold jumped to her feet. "Aw shit! I dumped a whole bottle of ketchup on mine!" As she moved, however, her baggy pants, threatening to fall off her hips, seemed to snug up back to how they had fit before the change.

Janus noticed this, and looked around the room. On the walls photos of Ame at various points in her life were rippling, changing from a human into someone smaller and far more reptilian. "Oh... t-thanks Geuse."