Escalations of Errors

Story by skiesofsilver on SoFurry

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Another request from FA


While the credits to the latest episode of Space Quest rolled on the TV, Safiya looked over to her boyfriend Cam and squeezed his shoulder. The bespectacled young man looked over to her and smiled.

"That was awesome!" he said in a slightly nasally voice. "I never expected Captain Piccolo to use the transflux drive in that way. And the Erisians--wow! They look great! They've really put that budget increase to good use."

"Did you notice the Malivonian at the end?" Safiya asked.

"The Malivonian?"

"Yeah, in the background while Piccolo was making his impassioned speech on the dangers of mind control beams."

"Oh?" Cam furrowed his brow in concentration. "Ohhhh! The Malivonian! My goodness, that means--"

"So much," Safiya replied.

Cam's mind reeled at the implications of the malicious alien's presence in the show.

"Wow," Cam breathed. "I wouldn't have noticed. Safiya, I think I love you."

"I love you too," Safiya said, the sincerity of the words showing in her eyes. "Do you want me to show you how much I love you? I think you're ready."

"Uh," Cam gasped. "Yes?"

"Okay! I'll be right back."

Cam stared at Safiya as she ran to her room and closed the door. Was he supposed to follow her? His relationship was Safiya was the closest he ever had with a girl and he considered himself fortunate to even be invited to her apartment. Many females before had just outright rejected him due to his geekiness. But Safiya...Safiya was special.

He glanced one more time to her door before turning his gaze to the TV. Currently it showed the preview for the next episode of Space Quest. He marveled as the screen flashed from a climactic space battle to Captain Piccolo bravely engaging a lizardlike humanoid in hand to hand combat. Afterwards a commercial for Adventures in Avarice came on, a new series based off the Ichsis books by Leslie Orey.

"Cam?" Hearing a familiar voice, Cam muted the TV and looked up to the source. Immediately he screamed and cowered on the couch.

Standing in front of Safiya's door was not his girlfriend but a snake...thing. It possessed a long tail that extended in Safiya's bedroom. Higher up on its body was a scaled humanoid torso complete with two slender arms and a large snake's head. Seeing two naked breasts on its chest made Cam realize the creature was female. He might have found her more attractive if not for her long fangs and inhuman appearance.

"Agh!" Cam yelled when she drew closer to him. "I don't know what you are or what you did to Safiya but please don't--"

"Shh!" she said, bringing a clawed hand to Cam's lips. "You'll bother the neighbors. It's me, Cam."

"No," Cam whimpered, shaking his head. "I'm Cam."

The snake giggled, removing her hand. "I mean it's me. Safiya!"

"Safiya?" Cam said, adjusting his glasses for a better glance at the creature. He had trouble removing his gaze from her boobs, but was able to tear his eyes away long enough to look in the snake's eyes. They were purple, like Safiya's.

"Yes," she answered. "I didn't mean to scare you."

"Scared?" Cam shook his head. "Er, no you didn't scare me. You just surprised me." He nodded. "Yeah, that's it. Just surprise. No fear at all."

Safiya giggled and rubbed Cam's head. "I'm sorry. I didn't know how else to tell you."

"Tell me? Tell me what? What is this?"

"This," Safiya said, tapping her chest. "Is me truly. My body at least. My whole family is like this. We're not human. We just...pretend to be because we have to. You're my first."

"First?"

Safiya nodded. "I trust you and I really do love you. I figured if we were going to go farther in this relationship that you needed to know. Better than breaking the news on the wedding night."

Cam raised an eyebrow. "Wedding night?" "Just an expression, because usually on the night of a wedding...well, you know. I can't...er, I'm not able to..." Safiya paused. "Without being in this form I can't have sex with you. I would change involuntarily."

Cam's face flushed red. Intercourse with Safiya in her current form was the last thing on his mind. She did seem more attractive now that he knew she was his girlfriend, but still...

"I know," Safiya said, looking down. "I can understand if...if this is it. But please--"

"No," Cam said, getting to his feet. He took one of Safiya's hands. He nearly shuddered just from touching the scaled extremity, but he kept his composure. He would have to get used to it after all. "I love you too. And I thank you for trusting me. I don't care how you look, as long as we can do what we've always done before."

Safiya blinked. "Oh, Cam. You're so wonderful!"

She embraced Cam, hugging him tightly. They pulled away a moment later.

"I didn't think you'd be so accepting. I hoped but...well, if you're really fine with this I have another question. Would you be like me to?"

Cam scratched his head. "Huh?" "I can convert you. Make you like me."

"Like you?"

"Yes. I know it's a lot to ask, but you'll still be able to disguise like me and--"

"No, that's awesome! It's like Jart and Emil in the Caysian Chronicles! A noble change for the something worth it, and you are worth it, Safiya!"

"Really?" Safiya said, taken aback.

Cam got to his knees and looked up at her. He really was warming up to her new form and if he could be strong and reptilian like her, why not? It was like some fantasy story. At the moment he didn't care about her background or why her kind even existed, he just cared about her.

"Yes."

"Oh," Safiya smiled. "Ok. I'll be right back again."

Safiya disappeared back into her room. A moment later she reappeared with a hefty tome and a jar of oil.

"A book!" Cam said. "Does that mean magic--?"

"Yes, though it's not easy as fiction portray it." Safiya said. "I'm a little out of practice but I'm sure I can manage this. Are you ready?"

Cam nodded.

"Thank you again. The last thing I ask of you is that you remove your clothes and lie down."

Cam looked down at his garments and then back to Safiya. She was naked already, so was there really anything wrong with him going nude? He hastily took off his clothing and laid on the ground where she directed, facedown right in front of the fireplace. She knelt down next to him and removed the top off the massage oil. She dipped one hand in the pleasant smelling liquid and held the book in the other.

"Ok," she said. "This is just going to feel like a massage."

She began to rub his back while chanting words from the book in a sibilant whisper. At first nothing happened, but then dark black scales began to spread across his back, replacing both skin and hair. While his back was converting, she moved her hand to his legs and began to rub between them. Immediately the same colored scales spread across them and then the limbs began to fuse together. Cam shuddered not entirely uncomfortably at the strange sensation of the flesh merging together and growing longer, the bones realigning and buttocks smoothing out as his lower half formed into a thick, sinuous serpentine tail.

Safiya smiled as she moved her hand to his left arm, containing to chant as she ran her hand over the appendage, ending the run with a squeeze of his hand. While scales replaced the skin on that arm as well and the fingers grew into claws, she moved onto the next arm and did the same. With both of Cam's arms similar to hers, she put down the tome and dipped her other hand in the oil. She placed both hands on his head, rubbed his hair, and then moved down to his scaled shoulders. It was here that she truly massaged him while his cranium changed. His hair shed while his ears melted into the side of his head. Scales covered the skin and his skull flattened and widened slightly. His eyes changed into reptilian slits while they moved further down either side of his now serpentine visage. Inside his mouth his tongue narrowed and forked at the end and his teeth dissolved to dust save for two at the front that lengthened into venom tipped fangs. In the meanwhile, his neck became thinned slightly as flaps of scaled skin like a cobra's hood grew on both sides. Cam hissed in contentment as Safiya ran her hands down his sides.

It was when she reached his hips that Cam became to feel an uncomfortable pressure, not where her hands were, but on his upper chest. It became more than a little painful so much so that he abruptly sat up and examined the area. His serpentine mouth fell open as he saw that perched on his chest were two rounded lumps that were only growing. He brought a hand to one and squeezed it, shivering at surprise by their sensitivity.

"Safiya," he said. "Safiya!"

Safiya looked up and her reaction was must the same as Cam's except she didn't touch them.

"Cam," Safiya said, reaching for the book. "Just stay calm."

"Calm?" Cam squealed. "I've got breasts--brea--urhh!"

Cam sat up further as he felt his manhood suddenly stand erect. He looked down at the reptilian member. It quivered momentarily, grew softer, and then began to withdraw into his crotch. Cam wailed and grabbed at it, but the shrinking member slipped easily through his oiled hands and into a waiting slit. He shuddered as a new set of feminine folds engulfed it and then widened slightly, forming a puffy slit. His engulfed testicles moved up his new love tunnel, converting into ovaries and taking their place within the new uterus. The new female looked down in horror at her womanhood and curiously extended a hand towards the opening. One touch was enough to confirm the change was very real.

"Safiya!" Cam weeped in an increasingly high-pitched and feminine voice. "Safiya! What is going on? Why am I a girl?"

Safiya looked up from the book and at Cam's new sex. She hissed in surprise and then glanced down at the book.

"I-I" she stuttered. "I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know? I thought you knew what you were doing?"

"Hold on!" Safiya said. "I'll be right back." "Safiya!" Cam called as her girlfriend retreated into her room. The former male looked down at her feminine body and sobbed. She brought both her hands to the alien mounds and pushed them up. A few seconds later, Safiya returned.

"I called my brother," she said. "He's on his way."

"Your brother?" Cam cried. "He can't see me like this!"

"I'll get you a bra. I've got to get dressed too."

"No! I won't wear one. I'm not a woman! Turn me back!"

"I can't! I don't know how!"

"Well at least try!"

Safiya picked up the book and flipped through the pages. Finally she landed on one that caught her attention.

"Ok," she said. "If I'm reading this right, this should work. Just...hold still."

Safiya extended a hand to Cam's abdomen and began to chant again in the same sibilant tone. Cam squirmed as energy surged through the extended hand and into her abdomen before it leaked...below. In her womb she felt something spark within.

"Er..." Safiya said, watching as Cam's breasts swelled, now heavy with milk. "I--"

"You made it worse!" Cam groaned in pain while multiple eggs grew within her womb, making her look a bit bloated.

"Made what worse?" A new voice asked.

Safiya turned her head and caught sight of her brother Antef in human form. At the sight of the females, he shifted to his snake form and his clothes changed as well thanks to being a more proficient shapechanger than Safiya.

"Antef!" she said. "I--"

"What have you done?" he said, looking to Cam. "That's your boyfriend? Why is he female and...is he gravid?"

"Gravid?" Cam screeched. "That means pregnant!"

"Let me see that!" Antef said, ripping the book from Safiya's hands. "My goodness. Why did you cast a fertility curse?"

"Curse?" Cam yelled.

"I did-didn't mean to," Safiya said. "I thought it was a reversal spell!"

"How did you manage to botch up the conversion so he ended up female?" Antef asked. "It's so simple, I don't understand--"

"It was a mistake!"

"And then mistaking a curse for a reversal? An escalation of errors! You're not to perform magic again unless I'm around!"

"Antef, really I--"

"Uhn," Cam cried out, silencing the bickering siblings. She pushed with muscles she hadn't possessed minutes before and breathed a sigh of relief as a slimy small, round egg rolled out of her sex and onto the floor.

"Oh my," Antef said. "What are you standing around for, Safiya? Get a towel or something at least for the sake of the floors and some coverings for your boyfriend as well."

Antef bent down and helped Cam sit up.

"It's ok," he said. "Just keep on pushing."

Cam looked up at the male. There were more of them on the way? At this thought, she felt another egg drop into place, ready to be pushed out.

"My apologies," Antef said. "But welcome to the family."