FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

(F tf Octopus hybrid, M tf Hermit Crab hybrid)

The RHE agent Jacqueline walks with two guards as escort, to the port town of Deepwater Rest. The Rebuilding Humanity Effort is an organisation that dabbles in genetic alteration using alchemy and magic together in harmony. Unlike simple transformation spells; RHE alters the physical body so that the form remains regardless of mana to maintain spellwork. The problem is, human testing is illegal in most places, forcing them to operate in secrecy. They do have ads for test subjects hidden in the depths of the internet with just little enough information to attract people. Jacqueline assumed this would be the standard reason for joining that she is responding to now. Someone cannot get a job to get by properly in the outside world, so they resort to responding to a shady human experimentation ad.

Deepwater Rest has the look of a nice town, but is not in particularly good shape right now. Business is dwindling, and the town is kept afloat almost entirely due to its fishing industry. It is on a huge inlet known as The Shallow Grave. Even just glancing out on the water you can see the massive metal hull of overturned freighter vessels sticking out of the water. Still more sunken below the surface, and the further down you go the older the ships get- they have been collecting here for thousands of years. A rainbow of coral feasts on the iron remains of more modern ships while the wooden vessels decay feeds softer plant life, creating a sunken forest for thousands of species of marine life.

Jacqueline tries her best to ignore the stares from people on the street. She wore a business outfit, but that in addition to her two body guards calls a lot of attention to herself. There are no well dressed business people in Deepwater Rest these days. She arrived at the home of the couple who signed up and quickly took their invitation to come inside to get away from all the prying eyes. The couple seemed nice. The man is named Moby, seemed an average fellow. He has short back-swept brown hair and a short beard. His eyes are almost an identical color as his hair. He is fairly tall and well built- a dock worker, doing heavy lifting to move cargo on and off ships. While he did most of the talking, his wife loomed just over his shoulders spinning a key-chain trinket on one of her fingers. Nemia is fairly tall herself, and most of it legs. She has long black hair all swept to one side, as if to counterbalance her asymmetrical skirt. Her eyes are a vibrant base blue, and the has rather small, cute facial features- though she has pouty, soft scarlet lips. Her bust cannot be more than B cups- her white top is quite form fit and she still has no real curve to show off.

Unlike Jacqueline's initial guess, their house was not that bad looking- they were not poor. They were both currently employed, so it was not a lack of business that drove them to RHE. Jacqueline had a stack of paperwork for them to read and sign- almost no one actually read any of it before signing up, but it still has to exist to give them the option of reading. RHE needs to keep itself hidden, so if someone is to become one of its latest human-animal hybrids, they cannot leave again. If someone is to leave the island they have a curse seal branded on their tongue that prevents them from typing, writing, or talking about RHE. If their bodies are changed enough that they cannot pass as a normal human; they cannot leave RHE's private island at all, ever. On the up-side, the island is considered a paradise, and their food and shelter will be taken care of by RHE for the rest of their days. While Moby very quickly scan-read the papers however, Nemia spoke up. Unlike most people to sign up for RHE- they had a deal for Jacqueline too.

"Our participating is conditional."

Jacqueline raised an eyebrow. "The contract doesn't really leave a lot of room for flexibility. We make these terms through necessity, so we can't ignore them."

"I don't think this breaks any of your rules. You see, me and my man here need to get to the bottom of something, but we cannot do it as we are now. You offer testing on humans, so, we request specifically aquatic forms, and the ability to do one last deep-dive."

"And what do you need to get to the bottom of?" Jacqueline had a sinking feeling she already knew.

The Shallow Grave. Though not smart enough to be one herself- Nemia is the daughter of a researcher who had been trying to study The Shallow Grave. You see, at the very bottom of a chasm that runs along the outer edge of the inlet is a golem simply known as the 'Supercolossus'. It is the eldest known golem, predating the arrival of the Lost Founder Gods in their world. It is important history as no one is entirely sure where the technology to construct golem came from originally- modern Automancy was reverse engineered from the remains of golem built in the ancient past. The problem is; anyone who attempts to sail over the chasm is utterly destroyed. Most of the ships in The Shallow Grave were put there by whatever defenses the Supercolossus still arms itself with. The golem sleeps without its masters, but it is not entirely dead. The waters in The Shallow Grave are a bit dicy because of how many other wrecks end up there to ram into on accident, but Supercolossus only destroys things that enter its immediate proximity- so if you attempted to leave the inlet back into the open ocean. Nemia's parents attempted to use a small underwater vessel to approach it from under the waves and research the massive marvel of human craftsmanship. They never returned. Their vessel never even appeared among the ruins in the inlet- it is still missing. Nemia and Moby intended to approach the Supercolosssus on their own without using a vessel- thus preventing the golem from targeting them.

Jacqueline needed to contact the RHE Overseer Tessa Bucset to ask if any of this was possible. In order for their 'deal' to work, RHE would need to have two test subjects outside of the island. RHE ultimately agreed to their offer- already having some sea creature DNA on hand they had been meaning to use. RHE would need to send an escort with them- to make sure they are alright and don't just use it has a chance to make a run for it. And also collect the bodies should their plan fail. For the transformation period however, Nemia and Moby were still brought to the island and shown their home here in advance. They would need to transform fully here, so RHE can make sure their test goes well. Moby was given the gene tincture of a Hermit Crab. Nemia was given an octopus.

For a while after they were injected, neither felt anything different. Their home looked like all of the others on the island from the outside, though was modified on the inside. The homes were single floor, the front of the house was split three ways though not divided by walls to make the living room, foyer and kitchen. Then a hall branching into the bathroom, a walk-in closet and the bedroom. However in their home, the walk-in closet included stairs down to a basement level that was below the bedroom. Half of the basement room was filled by a giant aquarium that looked like it was meant to contain a small shark. The bedroom on the ground floor was also half-occupied by the tank, but only the open top of it. So you enter the tank from the bedroom but the tank itself is in the basement. For this reason the only carpet in their bedroom was a square under their bed- the rest of the floor is tile with a very gentle slope toward the tank so any water on it rolls back into the tank.

They introduced themselves to their neighbors- all of whom were quite unique. RHE did not repeat tests, so all of the subjects living in the valley of RHEIsland were unique. Most were also naked all the time, which took a bit to get used to. Udders, breasts, multiple breasts, multiple udders- a majority of subjects were mixed with mammals for the purpose of giving milk, so titties were always on the menu. But not all subjects. Some had chitin, some had wings, some were giant, and some were tiny. No one was the same, so there is no such thing as 'normal'. There is no consensus here for what is 'beautiful' and therefor everything is beautiful. They live life how they want, one whatever schedule they want. There is something for everyone to do, but nothing anyone HAS to do. RHE will grant one item per month for each test subject to place in their house, brought from the outside world. Television, a PC, and such things comes standard- basic entertainment is considered a living necessity. Unfortunately this is per house and since Nemia and Moby came as a pair- they have the same house, but are still limited to one outside item per month. If you want more than that- you can gain credit with RHE according to how much milk you produce for them to ship out... but neither of them will ever produce milk. If you are willing to do favors, or have a talent or craft to share though- the test subjects themselves started a subject-run market place that runs off trade. If you can't make milk, you trade something else with someone who can. Subjects who can express milk do so all the time, and eventually they run out of things they want- so then they just build an excess of credits they don't actually need.

Both Moby and Nemia experienced the same first change- their clothing became baggy as they shrank! Moby got hit much harder though. Nemia shrank a little bit and her skin felt oddly tight, causing her to squirm a lot trying to flex it and stretch it so it feels normal again but it wasn't working. Her poor tiny B cups shrank even more to nearly unnoticeable A cups! She did not shrink a lot overall through, only about an inch of height was lost- if her clothing had not gotten baggy as a result she may have overlooked the overall size difference entirely. Moby on the other hand shrank a LOT. Even though she was fairly tall for a woman to begin with, he was still over a foot taller than Nemia- he ain't now. He felt dizzy every now and then as he slowly shrank over the course of the day and into the evening. His mind was trying to wrap itself around the concept of his perception being at a lower and lower angle. His proportions were not changing at all, he was just getting smaller overall. His clothes were baggy at first, which he did not mind as much since the same thing happened to his wife. But then by the middle of the afternoon his clothes were barely able to stay on with him constantly having to hike them back into place. By the evening he was forced to be naked and remained indoors- his clothes no longer able to cling to his tiny body. It was a bit odd for Nemia to look at a muscular man who had always towered over her, but was now shorter than she was. He had the height of a ten year old yet still the build of a strong man. Nemia comforted him, saying he was cute as she snuggled with him in bed that night.

The next day Nemia remained indoors all day with him, partly to comfort him but also partly because she kept feeling muscle spasms in her back and did not want to try to go anywhere only to flop over because her body isn't responding how it should. She noticed the lumps on her back first- because the muscles twitched whenever she tried to move her arms. She realized she can control it- but it was like learning to walk, she had to figure out which signals operated which muscles, because there was an entirely new set now on her back just below her shoulder blades. The skin there was solid- the muscles swelling it out, but it wasn't developed enough to really have a shape or purpose yet. It took her a bit longer to notice there is another two side by side at the very bottom of her back- over her tailbone!

Moby went to shave in the morning, rubbed his beard and watched as the hairs fell out to his touch! Oh great, first he shrinks to the size of a little kid now his facial hair is gone, giving him a baby face? He swept the hair off his face, slowing toward his hair line, bracing for emotional impact of his hair falling out but it did not. The discarded hairs only applied to his face, the hair on his head remained where it was. All the prodding of his face however caused a sudden pinching feeling as he instigated new growth! His skin felt like it was stretching and condensing as two small nubs appeared over his upper lip, then stretched into long barbs, then continued to stretch into long thin tubes... whiskers? The skin stiffened into chitin on their surface which darkened to brown as it hardened- matching his hair color as if to imitate a mustache. These are the feelers of a hermit crab- though an actual hermit would have four, not two. Moby also rubbed his arms, feeling the skin was tight there too, and his skin almost felt like leather! It made him wonder just how far the changes were going to progress. Crabs have exoskeletons, so is his entire body going to turn inside out?! The last change he noticed that happened over night is when he turned his hands over and seen his fingernails. The nails were getting much thicker and the base of each one was turning a coral coloration- a halfway between pink and orange.

Nemia had the same problems, but hers did not come into effect till almost noon. She was looking in the fridge for something to eat for lunch and when she slapped the door closed, the gust of air from it closing knocked some hairs loose from her head. She ran her fingers through her hair to scan for loose hairs and her heart tightened when her hand came back with more lost hairs than she would have liked. She went over to the garbage can at the end of the counter and started to run the fingers of both hands in her hair again and again, but each time they returned with nearly the same number of discarded hairs- leaving her head increasingly bare. Oh no... an octopus definitely does not have any body hair... she is going bald! Nemia's eyes watered, about to start crying when they suddenly shut from a bizarre feeling. She grabbed the top of her head as the skin felt like it was squirming, but the movement was so much that she took her hands away so she would not screw up whatever change was trying to happen. The sensation was making her shiver repeatedly because it was so weird. As it slowed, she touched the top of her head gently but could not figure out what she was feeling. Was that... hair? Why would she lose nearly all her hair only to grow it back again almost immediately? Nemia went to dash to the bedroom to look in the full body mirror to figure it out but Moby was turning from the bathroom.

"Hey, what the hell is on my head?!"

Moby cocked an eyebrow at her for a moment. "Your... hair? Did you put gel in it or something?"

Nemia sighed, more confused than ever and went past him into the bedroom. When she looked in the mirror- it did look like hair. It definitely was not hair, but it looks like it is. Not all of her hair fell out before the change started. What is on her head would most accurately be described as a membrane- it is flesh, but the remaining hairs on her head became fused into it, now acting as a fibrous framework to strengthen its structure. The membrane is black, so the same color her hair was anyway, and follows her exact former hairline. It hangs exactly as low as her hair used to, and looks like wet, heavy hair when left alone. When she picked it up and pulled it away from her head though, the hairs cannot fall individually because they are all connected by skin. It can stretch extremely far- when fully stretched out the skin becomes translucent and you can see the hundreds of thin black lines through it that used to be her actual hairs. It grew from her head roughly in a teardrop shape, so if you were to pick it all up and pull it off from her head, you would be able to see the middle of her scalp through the hollow middle of it. When underwater, it streams off her like hair would anyway. Because it is flesh though- it is closer in similarity to the crest-like fins on a squid. It basically looks like she has black hair that is just perpetually wet. Her eyebrows remained completely untouched though, and a short while later her pubes fell out- and were not replaced by anything, so her privates are now naked.

Moby however was having a hard time keeping his balance- his toes were shifting proportion as his skin continued to stiffen. His bones were actually getting softer, becoming more like cartilage as the materials were being stolen and brought out to the surface to convert his flesh into the chitinous exoskeleton of a shellfish. Like his nails, this eventually started to turn his skin the color of coral as it got stiffer. He would flinch and feel an odd pinching feeling and look down to see a forming seam at a joint- where two chitin plates met but were not fused. It was like his body was forming callouses rapidly. The skin got denser and became like armor but he never stopped being able to feel through it- it just felt more distant of a sensation than normal because the chitin is a lot harder. The plates even when fully formed are not really hard, just very stiff. He thought he was getting acne on his chin at first too, but when he touched it he realized they were bubbles of chitin. His chin was getting a bit larger, his jaw line more defined, and the skin on it stiffening into chitin, with small spike-like bumps more toward the chin and very edge of the jaw in an almost uniform spacing. The feelers below his nose continued to grow longer and longer as the day went on. By the time they stopped he could touch the ground with them if he pointed them straight down- even when standing straight.

Moby's legs seemed to harden to chitin much faster than his arms, even though he noticed his arms changing first. That was because they had a lot more changes to look forward to. His middle toe on either foot vanished- regressing into nothing while the stolen mass caused all of his remaining toes to be exactly the same size as one another. A cleft formed where the missing toe was as the skin turned to chitin, making it almost look like the toe was cut off. The muscles in his legs started to respond incorrectly. He would go to step and the muscles in his leg would tense but his leg would not move forward, causing him to stumble constantly. A tail also started to grow out of him, quite wide at the base. Unlike his leg changes though, the growth of the tail was not annoying and actually felt pretty good. When it grows it is the same feeling as getting a good stretch after having sit for too long- the newborn muscles enjoyed flexing and testing their limits.

Nemia seen he was a bit nervous about his changes and not really sure about the whole thing, so to distract him from his body she led him to the couch and plopped down to show him some of hers. The bulges on her lower and mid back were now quite large bubbles! She sat cross legged with her back to him and told him to touch one. He gently poked it and it squished inward- quite soft. Then suddenly it became hard and slithered away from his hand! It changed position on her back! He went to poke it again and it moved to dodge his touch. Nemia giggled. When he did not attempt to catch it again, it instead lifted out off of her back and touched his finger on its own! The bubble stretched into a long cone-shape!

"More arms. They still have a lot of forming to do though."

"Octopus tentacles, huh?"

"Weeeell- technically an octopus has no tentacles. Which is ironic because they are always thought of as the standard for them. And octopus' limbs are technically classified as arms. Hermit Crabs are also not crabs at all. They are a close relative, and still decapods- but they only use four legs to actually walk on."

"Didn't know you took after your mother's big brain so much."

She blushed, pointing to the PC. "We get the internet here- I have just been looking up stuff, since we are turning into them. Sort of. Like my hair; we might end up getting traits that neither species had, by mashing traits together that they do."

That night, Nemia decided to forgo her shower and instead did a belly flop into the pool in her room, sinking into the basement tank. The bottom had a layer of stones and a bit of sand from around RHEI, with a huge driftwood log and some stalks of kelp. She will probably collect more stuff to put in here eventually. Nemia wants to decorate the entire basement to be more scenic, since it can all be seen through the glass sides of the tank. There are no lights in the basement right now, but thin lights along the entire top and bottom rim of the tank, so the waters are illuminated and dimly light the basement that way.

Nemia held her breath for almost a full minute- something she had been practicing before they even signed up. She got nervous though and returned to the surface to look over to Moby who was trying to read by the light of a nightstand.

"Hey... can you uhm, be on standby?"

"Why? For w- what are you planning to do?!"

"Breath underwater."

"You can breath underwater and above?"

"I dunno- we are about to find out."

"WHAT, wa-" And she was already under the surface again.

Moby quickly scrambled over to the waterside to see if she was okay. Nemia was hovering a foot under the surface. She is nervous- she wants to take a breath but if it doesn't work she just got a lung full of water. She had to fight her instincts to hold her breath only. An octopus can only breath underwater, but can hold its lungs for quite a long time. Hermit Crabs can breath above and below water naturally- they can seal the water into their gills above the surface allowing them to function above water exactly the same as below. Nemia finally built herself up enough to do it and inhaled some water- immediately coughing and sending Moby into a panic. She raised a finger knowingly for him to see, telling him to wait. She isn't coughing because her body couldn't filter the water, she is coughing because she was so nervous she also swallowed some water the wrong way. After she settled down she surfaced again with a smile.

"Wooo~ I did it! I can breath underwater and on land thanks to being half n half!"

Moby still looked concerned. "Even if your lungs can filter the oxygen out of the water, what happens to the stagnant water afterwards? Do you just barf up water every few breaths?"

Nemia turned her head and lifted an ear forward showing him a round vent just behind her ear! Her body has a secondary path to eject unwanted water!

She playfully grabbed his erect dick like a joystick. "Now, shall we tackle this problem next?"

Since they can no longer properly wear clothing she had noticed he had an erection for most of the day. Moby did not even know why, it just did not want to go away. Since Nemia was wet and already ready to go, they did not return to the bed, they just laid back where they were beside the tank. Nemia climbed over him as Moby lay on the floor. She sat her plump mound against the base of his dick and made subtle thrusts to grind her slit along his shaft, getting it nice and wet along the way. She moved a tiny bit more forward each time, till she slid her pussy so far forward that the head of his penis caught on the underside of her clit when she tried to pull back. Nemia got up slightly, using her clit to pull the penis up and then placed a hand at the base to hold it there as she moved her hip forward a bit and then sat down on it. After only a few moments of bouncing on his hotrod she started to feel pleasure all over, not just in her groin. Extra pleasure started to throb with her faster heart rate in each of the blobs of muscle and skin on her back! They were fattening into girthy noodles, and then beyond. They are growing outward much more than in width now, starting to look a lot more like limbs now. Little undulating rings of muscle became partially visible on the surface- the development of suction cups. She only had four budding octopus limbs because her transformation considered her human arms and legs when counting how many limbs she should have. A squid has ten limbs, octopus only has eight. The growth did not feel this pleasurable before, but it seems having sex while the changes were also going on confused the nerve signals to make it feel like a warm, radiant pleasure all over! As good as it felt though, Nemia started to slow down, because Moby's dick was throbbing like crazy like he is about to blow already and she was not done with him.

Even when she came to a nearly complete stop, he was still throbbing like crazy. Did he get too close to edge back? No, something wasn't normal. His scrotum drew in tighter as if about to orgasm, but the skin started to stiffen- his scrotum turning coral colored as the formerly soft rubbery skin instead turned to chitin to armor the tender bits. At the same time he felt an internal stiffness surging out through his taint and into his shaft, almost feeling like a sudden powerful erection... even though he is clearly already erect. It felt suddenly like he was hit with an orgasm but nothing shot out. Rather than convulsing in pleasure his cock just went as rigid and tense as possible and held there, feeling almost like the muscles in his groin were going to cramp. He thrust into Nemia, forcing her to catch herself with her hands on his chest. Moby's brain was too numb with this strange orgasmic pleasure that did not relent so he did not notice in the moment- but Nemia's eyes went wide at the feeling. Her head lulled back and she let out a long moan as she felt his cock digging deeper into her, dragging up the front side of her pussy! His cock is growing!

A little fact about Hermit Crabs she had not discovered in her breif research- they don't like to leave their shell for any reason. So in order to have sex while half of their body is wedged inside of a shell- they have absolutely massive dicks! Inside of her, its shape was also changing. The normally tiny and almost unnoticeable bumps along the corona shrank in number but grew in size and stiffness, becoming firm bubbles that dragged on the walls of her pussy. Their growth caused the corona to stretch out which changed the glans to an oval shape rather than a mushroom cap, and the bumps spread to cover most of it. The penis grew longer much faster than it grew wider- and poor Moby's brain was completely whited out because to him the entire process felt like an orgasm that never stopped. The phallus ultimately did not look entirely human nor hermit- blending features resulted in a phallus that was unique only to Moby.

The large bulbous end of the dick shoved her insides wider, then the muscles of her love tunnel squeezed tight in reaction to the pleasure, causing the space to collapse back behind it. When she pulls up again and the dick slides outward, the stiff bumps on the bulbous head catch on and pluck at the muscle ribs in her inner vagina like the strings of a guitar. After a minute, she had to nudge herself forward a bit, because his cock was overgrowing her! The head was starting to shove against her cervix- the end of the line. Now he was hitting the end of her vagina with a full inch of the base of his shaft still outside of her! Then two inches, then three. His penis was quickly making up for the rest of him having shrunk so much.

His entire body bucked and went rigid as he hit his actual climax, which fired the already orgasmic pleasure to a level he did not know existed till now. Nemia had to scoot forward another half inch because the jet of liquid out of his cock was so strong it was pounding the inside of her pussy. It felt like she had shoved a scepter into her cooch- there was a good bit of 'handle' still outside of her. Though, their transformations were still not finished- maybe she could fit it all later. Rather than pop off his rod, she just flopped over on top of him- prodding his chest with her hard nipples. They both lay there for quite a long time breathing heavily and trying to wrap their heads around what all happened. When his dick popped itself out of her and flopped back between his legs its shape had returned to human. The bumps and deforming of the glans only happen when he is fully erect. The head was at his knee caps though even flaccid- so his cock was still obviously a lot bigger than before even when asleep. His balls were a bit bigger, but had mostly remained the same- only his scrotum was now chitin so his balls were held up against his pelvic floor even when relaxed.

The next day, Nemia once again tried to wander from the house and met with Test Subject 63; Ruby. Ruby is a fun woman to be around. She has a subdued humor, and a bit of an odd body shape... although that was not saying much on RHEI. Ruby's torso was adorned with not two but six D cup breasts and her torso was unusually long. Because her body was long, her back had a hard time staying upright for long stretches of time without developing a nasty lean, so Ruby always walks with a cane, even though there is nothing wrong with her legs. Her nails are all tiny claws, and she has a very large bushy tail- with the only fur present on her body other than her converted pubes. Ruby was hybridized with a weasel- which is also why she is the same height as Nemia even after she shrank a little herself.

Unfortunately for Moby that meant his wife was not present in the house when his legs stopped working entirely. He collapsed in the hallway on the way to the living room again, and the muscles in his leg started to pulse on their own. Because the surface already evolved into a chitin carapace the change created a very loud, high-pitched splintering sound as his legs split down the middle! The cleft where the missing toe on either foot is, split all the way up! He now has four legs at half the girth of his original, and each foot has only two toes. It seemed a rather pointless change at first, because he could not move the legs individually- they were too close together, in order to move one he also had to move the other. The next change quickly fixed that as the base of his still growing tail got so wide that its growth also yanked his hip longer, pulling out the new leg joints. It paused for a moment so Moby made the mistake of thinking it was done and attempted to get up. He fell forward onto his hands as his legs started to stretch now! The two toes grew longer and started the chitin started to fuse together. The sole of his foot stretched out massively, becoming a third segment to his legs, and the joint of his legs to his hips shifted- his legs can pivot to the sides much easier without pulling a groin muscle.

The chitin on his tail formed bands all the way around its length, and the tail itself was absolutely massive. Nearly as big around as his torso itself, the tail easily doubled the length of his entire body and was still growing. He was filled with the urge to flex its muscles, so the tail naturally coiled itself up into a huge spiral and squeezed in on itself- what a hermit crab would do to latch onto the inside of a shell. With everything else happening he barely noticed tiny little noodles of tissue forming out from the base of the tail as four more limbs started to develop out of him!

Holding himself up off the floor as his legs shifted proportion drastically- his arms started to change now too. The chitin on his left hand almost looked like it was melting as it rapidly grew forward. His nails no longer existed- they became chitin as his flesh turned to chitin so the two just blended together. Now it extended off the ends of his fingers forming perfectly straight, sharp points! If he pursed all his digits together it would form a spear of coral toned chitin! His other hand was doing a completely different change however. The chitin expanded on his right hand as well but instead of forward it was just getting much, much thicker. His entire right arm throbbed as the muscles tightened and swelled bigger with each involuntary flex! The chitin on his fingers did not get any wider because then his digits would rub together, but it continued to grow further off from the back of his hands- so his fingers looked like a stack of plates when viewed from the back! When all his fingers are aligned- his right hand resembles a large pincer! One hand designed to stab and cut prey, the other made to hold and crush! A bodybuilder would be able to match the strength of his right arm, but no living human could match its grip. Moby could crush a cinder block with his right hand as if it were made of chalk.

He was panting from exertion from all the sudden changes washing over him. By the time Moby shoved himself off the floor back fully onto his feet... well, he did not really have feet anymore. The toes fused together into a single digit which just came to a dull spiked end. His legs were quite long but narrow and it took some time to get used to walking around on them. He grew four more limbs from the base of his tail, also encased in chitin, but these limbs were tiny compared to all his others and tipped with two lil grabby claws. These mini limbs in the back were meant to grip the inside of a stolen shell- they are too small to use as legs or arms- they are for gripping only. When it was all said and done, Moby still had normal human flesh on the entire front of his torso and all the way around his midriff front and back. The insides of his four thighs was flesh and the inside of his arms and hands are all flesh, and his entire head save for the feelers are human flesh. The rest is a coral colored chitin plating- very large plates like armor. Where the chitin was the most hard and thick it darkened to orange and almost brown like his hair color. His chin and his right arm were the most dense spots- and both these locations had rock-hard little nubs, like rounded spikes that were near-brown in color. Nemia would have a surprise waiting for her when she returns home to find Moby fully transformed. He turned out a bit more crustacean than he was hoping for, but it didn't seem bad. Everything worked like it was supposed to anyway.

Meanwhile, Ruby was showing Nemia around the island, glancing at the chubby, floppy limbs still growing from her back. "Won't you dry out if you remain out of water too long?"

Nemia laughed. "I hope not! I am still half human, so I will assume I have most if not all the human advantages out of water, and the octopus advantages in the water."

Ruby flicked one of the octo arms oh her mid-back, watching the soft flesh shuffle around from the touch. "Should be convenient having so many arms in and out of water. They call this a cowgirl island but there are quite a bit of subjects now who aren't bovine at all... and several who are species incapable of lactating."

Nemia blushed a bit, glancing at the six pack of boobs on her. "Do you...?"

"Express milk? Yea." She squirmed her torso a bit so all six rubbed on one another. "Each one doesn't make a lot, but I have six of 'em. "

Nemia flopped her octo arms. "The new arms are sort of awkward. The lower ones are sort of like tails, so I just let them hang. But the top ones just hanging there feels weird, so I don't know what to do with them half the time."

The two of them wandered the streets around the middle of the valley- it was relatively quiet here because most people hang out in the north area at this time of day or are off doing something outside of the valley town.

Ruby motioned to the rectangular pool as they approached. "Plenty of places to re-hydrate anyway. The pools are good places to meet others as well."

"Do you ever get lonely? I came here with my husband, but you aren't married..."

Ruby laughed, leaning heavily on her cane, stretching her body into a long arch. "You kidding? The other test subjects are everywhere. You need someone to talk to, you can walk in any direction and find someone interesting. As for someone to fill my bed- well there are breeder boys we can call on, but I don't really need 'em. I can uh... handle myself." Ruby leaned in close to whisper. "My body is reaaaally flexible- I can roll into a full circle. To... get down THERE."

Now they were both blushing. That was quite the contortionist trick. Nemia has never heard of a woman able to do autocunnilingus. Nemia squirmed a bit a moment later, tensing her back muscles and then turned and motioned to her proto-limbs to Ruby.

"Hey, can you pull on them? They feel sort of cramped, I think they are trying to grow..."

Ruby went to grab them, but the flesh was so soft it just slipped out. She tried again with a tighter grip but the skin is so smooth it still just slipped out of her hand! It was like trying to grab a half-inflated water balloon covered in soap!

Nemia stretched them out herself, reaching as far back with them as she could. The limbs got thinner the longer they became, and they also became a lot more solid because of the muscle inside tensing. "Here, try now."

Ruby gently touched them just to lift them a bit, looking on the forward side and the now developed suction cups. She grabbed around the arm so her palms were flat on the suction cups which promptly grabbed onto her flesh. There, she wasn't going to lose that grip. An octopus' grip is so strong that if you give one a jar or something to play with you have to be careful the lid not on too tight- the octopus can just twist the entire jar in half and shatter the glass. Ruby pulled back slowly- not sure when was too much, especially since the arms were slowly growing. There isn't a single bone anywhere in them, so the only thing connecting them to the rest of the body is entwined muscle. When relaxed they are short and extremely wide and soft, but they can stretch thin and quite long. It felt like Ruby was having an oddly positioned arm wrestling match- the octo limbs were pulling on her grip and she was trying to pull back the best she could. Both women started to lean away from each other and then Ruby had to start taking steps back because the limbs were still getting longer. Ruby almost jumped a moment when she felt something brush her legs only to look down and see Nemia's twin octo-tails slithering around her legs, coiling higher and higher. They were growing too, not just the ones Ruby was yanking on. Nemia hummed at the feeling of them stretching. She wanted them to grow more!

After a few moments Nemia looked at Ruby over her shoulder. "I... think I am fully transformed now?"

They both let go at the exact same time, catching Nemia by surprise- since she had been leaning so far forward; when Ruby let go she launched forward into the pool! For a second it looked like an actual giant octopus had flopped into the water. Her long octo limbs writhed around her before she got her balance in the water. They slapped against the side of the pool first because they had the longest reach, and she pulled herself back out. Her flesh got progressively darker the further down the tentacle limbs it went, becoming glossy smooth black skin a third of the way down, matching the odd crest of hair-fin on her head. Her forearms, shins, and the top of her breasts and collar had scattered spots that were also pitch black to match this- and suuuper tiny ones across the bridge of her nose like freckles. Normally a human has peach-fuzz like fine hairs all over their body, but Nemia was now forever bald; her eyelashes and brows are the only hair on her entire body. So lacking even the ultra fine fuzz; her skin feels abnormally smooth and soft. When fully relaxed, the octo arms on her upper body were half the length of her human arms but almost three times the girth, and jiggle a lot when she moves. When fully extended they are just as thick as her human arms, but considerably longer.

Nemia flexed her fingers, noticing a final change that had happened between her stretching and getting out of the pool again. There is a completely translucent layer of dense but soft skin between all her digits- including her toes! They are all webbed to aid her swimming! An octopus has a membrane that connects its limbs toward their base as well. The two arms that acted as tails for her were somewhat extended by default, so they appeared longer by default but were almost exactly the same length. Because they are longer than her legs; to prevent the suction cups of the twin tails getting dirty on the ground, the two limbs turned to face one another and the suction cups adhered to each other- making the two tentacle limbs actually look like a single tail. Nemia smiled at Ruby as her tail lashed around behind her in self-examination.

"Oooh, neat huh?!"

Ruby chuckled. "And definitely unique. Every time you think RHE has run out of ideas, they hit you with another wild one. Good to see you enjoy it too. Some test subjects struggle a bit at first, either changes they did not expect or just so much change that their life has to shift abruptly. You seem to be taking to your new shape fast though, which is awesome."

"Hehe, ya! Well... RHE made me and Moby this way, but we are the ones who requested these types of forms. So it was a little more back and forth dealing than most probably had. We had our own demands of RHE." She looked surprised a moment. "Oh! I better get home now that my transformation is done. Moby will want to see the new me!" She dashed off, half-turning to call back to Ruby. "Oh, and I will make sure I bring Moby out of the house next time so you can meet him!"

Ruby just smiled and waved. "Phew, another energetic one, eh? She will fit right in."

Moby looked over to the doorway from the couch in the living room as it slowly opened, but there was no one there. He furrowed his brow as it slowly creaked open seemingly on its own. A half second later, black tentacles started to slither around the doorway and Nemia slipped inside, but also flicked the light switch off as she entered to set the mood. Once she was in the field of view she dashed quickly over to him so he had no time to think or react really before her octo-limbs were writhing all around him and she hopped up onto his lap! She put her hand back, onto the remote on the table behind her to turn the TV off without even looking at it.

She stared into his eyes seductively while slowly rolling her extra arms around him. Moby seen something she has not yet- her pupils are sideways ovals; halfway between a horizontal rectangle like an octopus, and round like a human. She then leaned away a bit and actually looked him over. "Hey, it looks like you finished too."

He let out a nose laugh. "Yes, how good of you to notice in your attempt to gank me in the dark."

"No need to get Crabby that I took so long to see something was Fishy. *snirk*"

He lowered his brows. "Okay..."

"Your like a hermit all by yourself in the house like this."

"Okay, I get it."

"If you want sexins, we better get Kraken!"

"Good lord, please stop."

She put her hands up and spread her webbed fingers. After a moments hesitation Moby opened his own and put them up to hers. Her entire left hand was only big enough to cover the palm of his right hand, even though his body is smaller than hers! Her right hand was exactly the same size as his left though- at least if you do not include the long narrow chitin claws. She shifted her hands just enough to lock her fingers between his and dove in for a kiss, pushing him back down on the couch. Her tail tentacles wrapped around his thighs and spread his legs a bit while she rubbed his shaft awake with her cooch again.

"Oh, you color change now huh?"

Nemia was surprised, quickly looking at herself but when he told her, she was already changing color again! When Moby spoke up about it, she was neon pink, then when she was surprised and tried to check it was turning red, and then as she actually looked it was darkening and finally returned to black. She narrowed her eyes in concentration a moment but nothing happened.

"I can't control it I don't think."

"Your color?"

"Octopus can change the color and texture of their skin to match surfaces to blend in perfectly. I guess I have the ability to, but no cognitive function to control it, so it is just automatic. I guess I am like a mood ring."

Only the smooth octopus skin was able to change color- so the parts that were black by default, including the freckle like spots on her upper chest and face. Neon pink was her arousal color, apparently. She loosely wrapped a tentacle around his cock as it was starting to stand on its own now; to aim it up as she lifted herself up to ride him again.

"Mmmm, I wanna ride that white whale~"

"White wh-? Oh. My. GOD."

"Moby's dick."

"That's it." He grabbed her thighs and stood up, forcing her to fall back onto the table while remaining on his penis. "You lost your privileges to be on top."

She just giggled in response as he started to thrust into her and she gripped the table with one of her upper tentacles so she did not just slide off the other side because of her smooth skin. They both moaned as his dick started to over-inflate, the head deforming and the bumps hardening as it stretched out to its full massive size! This time he was not forced out of her! He still did not really fit into her entirely, but her skin now had additional flexibility! There is a huge bump pushing her belly button forward from inside- the head of his cock! He put his hands on either side of her on the table to brace himself and her other upper tentacle coiled its way up his left arm, completely wrapping it with a tight grip. He moaned and almost fell forward when he suddenly felt another tentacle push its way into his ass! She used the tentacle in his butt to tease his prostate lightly while also controlling the speed and force of his thrusts by how much she tried to shove in him. Nemia decided she wanted some of that herself, and her last tentacle curled around and rammed its way into her own butt while Moby was in her pussy. She got really turned on when she realized she could feel his cock on her tentacle through the wall of her own colon! It was like giving him a handjob through her own intestinal lining while he fucked her! Their unified climax was so powerful his legs gave out and he tumbled over her and they flipped the entire table over- laughing at each other tangled up and trembling in climax on the living room floor. Their first time in their new bodies. The first of many.

Moby and Nemia went missing from the island for a bit though- not something that happens normally. RHE sent an escort team to help them back to their home for one last trip. The RHE agents did their best to clear the area and make sure that no prying eyes were on them to see their new forms in the outside world. They did not have to hide them for long though- because their objective was below the surface. There was no guarantee Supercolossus would not still attack them. They were betting on it not targeting them because they are not in a vehicle, but no one knew if that would work. The way Nemia figured- if the Supercolossus attacked everything, including lifeforms, then there would not be so much fish and such in the inlet, because the golem would have killed them trying to enter it. Moby mostly carried the bags and underwater flashlight to illuminate the path, since the water got dark FAST. Just outside the inlet was an unfathomably deep chasm the Supercolossus rests in- the only possible way it could be completely submerged.

To call it simply a very big golem would be a vast understatement. It is so large that there is an entire city built out of its backside. There is another city inside of its body, a giant palace inside of its head, and a cluster of towers essentially made up its arms. Supercolossus is basically an entire walking kingdom. They were both very nervous approaching it, but it made no move to acknowledge their presence. The first thing they noticed when they were close enough to see its form better- one of its arms is completely annihilated. There is a giant crater where its arm used to be. The legs are badly damaged as well- it could not move from this spot even if it were fully woken up. The details of their adventure in and around it are a story entirely on their own. The most important note- she found the ruins of what had been the submersible her parents came down in... and recovered her mother's notes, as well as an heirloom ring to remember her by. Unfortunately they could not be given a proper burial- trying to move them and the wreck held too high of a risk that the Supercolossus would target it again as a perceived threat.

Nemia learned a lot, from her mother's notes and from what she seen down in the darkness of the ocean's abyss. So much that RHE was also eager to hear her knowledge. Moby noticed it even before Nemia herself did, and RHE confirmed it- Nemia is actually a great deal more intelligent than she used to be. It isn't as though she magically gained knowledge, but her potential to learn and retain knowledge has skyrocketed. An octopus has a neural network dedicated for each of its eight arms- not complex enough to call a brain, but more of a signal relay. That means all eight of its limbs are capable of reacting on their own. Nemia only has this somewhat in her four added limbs- but the neural complexity also rubbed off onto her actual brain. Octopus are extremely intelligent.

Ruby came by when they arrived back on RHEI- this time for keeps, but Nemia was too busy to come to the door. She spent a few more days toiling in their basement, putting to use the information she gleaned from the Supercolossus.

Ruby tried again a few days later, and could feel minor tremors in the ground as giant footsteps came toward the door! A giant knight in shining armor answered the door, needing to duck to be able to walk out and properly greet Ruby!

"Greetings, fair maiden! What can thy doest for you on this fine day?"

Nemia slithered around his towering legs. "This doesn't count! Come out of there and greet her properly!"

"B-but..."

She crossed her tentacles and put her hands on her hip. Oh, fine. The helmet came off and the tiny hermit crab man emerged from the top to stand on its shoulders! The suit of armor is run on Automancy- its a golem! His body is only big enough to fill its chest and helmet. Which means... the suit of armor is his shell. Moby, or TS52 would forever after be known on the island as 'The Knight'. Nemia, or TS51 is 'The Kraken'.

Ruby blushed, pointing at Moby with a raised eyebrow. "Are all of those...?"

Moby glanced away. "Not hickeys."

His entire body looked like it was covered in hickeys! Nemia raised a tentacle, flexing the suction cups on its underside. Ruby nodded in understanding.