Gabriella

Gabriella followed some of the girls out of the hotel. No one wanted to go to their room just yet, instead finding out exactly where the hell they were took precedent. Though that was about the only intelligent thing the girls seemed to be thinking about right now. As the girls stepped out of the Hotel and looked around at the large campus space they'd been given Gabriella could already see them fall for the trap Nymeera so seductively laid out. Dana was eager to get new clothes for her new body, and so she, Suki, Patika, and Syn set off towards the Back to School Store to go shopping, acting like it was a trip to the mall with the girlfriends, Lauren and Summer were happy to go exploring around the outer ring of the campus toward the jungle like they were on a fucking vacation. Only she, Crystal, and Victoria seemed to have any semblance of brain power in their heads telling them that this was absolutely not the time to be letting one's guard down.

"So, what are we going to do?" Gabriella asked the other two, as they all watched the others scamper away excitedly. Crystal's sharp, coldly intelligent eyes wandered away from her sister and landed on Gabriella. Some people might be intimidated by her outward expression, but Gabriella was used to shaking hands and making deals with people who were actually trying to intimidate her. Crystal wasn't any danger. Victoria on the other hand...

"How well have you all kept in touch?" Victoria asked, reaching down to smooth out her tiny little pleated skirt. "We're going to be asked to...do things with one another that we don't want to do... Shut up!" Victoria suddenly shouted at seemingly no one, though Gabriella knew that the voice in her head was very real, and there was a hidden condition towards making it take over her body. That was something Gabriella needed to watch out for, who knows what Victoria's 'dark side' was egging her on towards doing?

"I know my sister well enough, she wouldn't actively participate in Nymeera's game, but she might be goaded into it...or tricked," Crystal said, folding her arms under her breasts. The woman was as still as a statue, it was like being in such a ridiculously skimpy outfit didn't even phase her! Even Gabriella was squirming a bit on her feet, trying to tug down her skirt or close up her top a little more. "Right now she's feeling genuine excitement at being in a new place, though there's a residual anxiety in the back of her head about being away from Knead to Eat. I'm trying to keep her rooted in reality, but her emotional state is...loose, like a kite on the wind she just flies away sometimes."

"Well at least your transformation is somewhat useful," Gabriella said, licking her lips as that familiar empty feeling continued to pester her. "Right now we need to assess where everyone stands and where their heads are at, especially with that BP store on our new phones. I'm guessing that was the point for your question coach Victoria?" She was NOT going to call them Ny-Phones...

"You always were sharp when you put your mind to it Gabby... Yeah, I'm very concerned about that."

"Catch me up. I didn't bother looking at it, what can I expect to find?" Crystal said, taking her phone out from between her big tits. Gabriella frowned at the unfairness of having such a convenient storage spot, she had to secure hers in her skirt's waist band, much like Victoria. She felt the urge to put her lips on Crystal's giant slut bags and suck on them, filling her mouth with something soft, and realized she was getting a little turned on. Gabriella took a breath, trying to calm herself down. She really got screwed with her Transformations, they almost fed into each other, and thinking about how unfair it was that Crystal actually seemed to get something useful out of it made the cold blonde even more attractive. Then Gabriella's eyes landed on Victoria, and she conceded that her Transformations could've been much worse.

"It's pretty much all stuff to make us take advantage of each other," Victoria said, taking her own phone out and turning it on. She loaded up the BP store and showed Crystal. Crystal whistled, though Gabriella didn't know why Victoria was making that big a deal out of it...

"Pavlov's Whistle...Date Nite ****...Voice of Command? God these sound awful..." Crystal said, her voice getting more and more disturbed.

"Wait what?" Gabriella frowned in confusion, taking out her own phone. "Let me see, I don't remember anything like that in the store." Victoria showed Gabriella her phone, a long list of purchases were available, but nothing Gabriella recognized:

Playbook- 1000 BP
Allows Victoria to see transformation upgrades her Personal Lesson will cause.

Pavlov's Whistle- 3000 BP
When blown all other Contestants within earshot will line up and listen quietly to Victoria's instructions. Instructions deemed to **** by Contestant may not be followed.

Practice Session- 10,000 BP
Victoria and one other Contestant can attend a 1 hour practice session of the Thursday Challenge.

Date Nite ****- 1000 BP (per pill)
Pill that causes drowsiness and mild suggestibility when ingested. Pill is tasteless and dissolves quickly in liquid. Side effects include short term memory loss.

Voice of Command- 5000 BP (per spray)
Single use throat spray that causes user's voice to become irresistible. Does NOT affect memory.

Mistress Vibe- 6900 BP
Powerful vibrator that causes orgasms so fulfilling they can even temporarily quell dark thoughts.

"These are completely different from mine..." Gabriella said, looking at her own list of possible purchases. She kept her phone screen to herself, if the stores were different for everyone then did she really want to share what could be valuable information with the others? Particularly Victoria... Though Victoria shared her own store, which could be seen as extremely threatening. Gabriella would have to make sure to NEVER take any drinks from her former Coach. That Date Nite **** was just horrifying!

Targeted Ad- 1000 BP (per ad)
Send an ad to another Contestant's Ny-Phone, ad will cause subliminally influenced desires to rise within Contestant. More than one ad may be required to get them to act on desires.

Poll the Audience- 4000 BP
**** an early popularity poll vote. Votes will come from the audience and will not grant any rewards. Can only be used once per week BEFORE Friday.

Master's Cock- 10,000 BP
Gabriella receives a dildo that is connected to Master's Cock. All pleasurable sensations the dildo feels are transferred to Master till orgasm, which severely reduces her oral fixation.

Chill Pills- 500 BP (per pill)
Soothes strong emotions. Warning: Taking too many can cause suggestibility in user.

Noise Cancelling Headphones- 2000 BP
Gabriella will become unable to perceive a fellow Contestant of her choice while wearing the headphones.

Crime of Passion- 6600 BP
Give another Contestant a Transformation in one currently obtained path. Transformation can upgrade path to next level.

"That makes sense," Victoria said, pointing to the top of her BP Store. "Look, the purchases are divided into categories, right now it's set to 'all' by default, but if you swipe..." She did so, and suddenly the list was cut in half showing only Playbook, Pavlov's Whistle, and Practice Session. "Now it's set to 'Coach,' as you can see in the top. If I swipe again...it's set to Dark Side, and the options are filtered for the other three instead."

"That means our apps are actually our personal BP stores based on whatever Transformations we get," Crystal concluded, pulling up her own store, though not yet sharing it. She frowned slightly... "I'm also going to guess that as we get more Transformations our personal stores will expand, and further, though these seem **** to us now, I'm guessing that as our paths increase in intensity our options will increase in intensity too."

"I mean...Victoria's already seem pretty intense to me..." Gabriella said, feeling a little upset that sexy Crystal was putting all this together so quickly. She wasn't dumb, she knew that...but Crystal was really something else and it aggravated her, and made the gorgeous blonde so fucking attractive...which just aggravated her more!

"I don't think so..." Crystal said, reaching over to swipe Victoria's store back to the 'all' options. "Only one of the Coach options is invasive to us, and that has clear stipulations that we can resist any instructions we find too ****. Whether or not we'd all find the same things '****' or not that is giving us a remarkable amount of autonomy considering what could have happened."

"Like the date **** ****..."

"That's definitely the most intense option, but even then the **** only causes drowsiness and mild 'suggestibility.' I don't know exactly how 'suggestible' we'd become were we to drink something with that **** in it, but the fact Nymeera went out of her way to include 'mild' in the description implies Victoria won't be able to get us to do anything she wants."

"I don't want to- Shut. Up! You bitch! Don't say that!"

"Right..." Crystal said skeptically. "Either way all of her options gives us opportunities to resist things we really don't want done to us, except Voice of Command which doesn't affect our memories, so it allows us to retaliate. Plus as creepy as this whole thing is, I don't get the vibe that the audience wants us to be out **** each other, they voted Victoria Bottom Bitch after all, something Nymeera would know about even more poignantly than us... She even had to go to a fair **** to get Syn some of her more...questionable Transformations, at a personal cost to herself though I won't even pretend to know what 'hate mail' means... Still, I suspect these purchases aren't for making the show into Harem Hotel Date **** Edition."

Gabriella frowned, looking over her options again... It was true that she had some options that could influence the other girls, but they seemed to be things that she had at least some control over. Even the Crime of Passion purchase allowed her to choose the Transformation path, or seemed to. She really no longer trusted Nymeera not to just swoop in and choose for her, citing some obscure text interpretation.

"You seem awfully calm about this..." Victoria said, tucking her phone away and looking at Crystal almost suspiciously. "...coldly calculating I'd say. How's the weather treating you?" Gabriella blinked, then turned to Crystal as well, looking over her body with new perspective. The air here was warm and balmy, but there was very little wind so Gabriella was starting to feel the heat seep into her skin a bit more. Victoria looked much the same, but Crystal almost seemed to shiver whenever even the slightest bit of wind caressed her pale, ivory curves.

"It's a bit chilly out her for me," Crystal shrugged, flipping through her BP Store for a moment. "Apparently I can buy something to help with that..." Crystal turned her phone toward Gabriella and Victoria, letting them see her Ice Queen store list, but she seemed to be keeping the Twin store hidden. That was interesting...

Wine Cooler- 10 BP (per glass)
An alcoholic drink made from wine and fruit juice.

Heated Panties- 5000 BP
Warms the core and thaws icy bitchiness. Lasts for 2 days. May cause arousal.

****- 10,000 BP
A random meal eaten by another Contestant causes a Punishment Transformation. Best served cold.

Gabriella's eyes widened a bit, this was pretty...unexpected. "What's with the wine cooler thing? Only 10 BP per glass? And it sounds like its just a normal drink? Why would Nymeera put that in-" Gabriella flinched as Crystal's eyes went ice cold and stared at her like she'd just slapped the blonde cheerleader.

"Because she's sick and just wants Summer and I to suffer more than we already have. I won't buy a single one of those fucking Wine Coolers. She could've made them free and it wouldn't matter. This is a punishment because I didn't play her game with the interview, so I don't get a cheap option to buy," Crystal said coldly, her voice remaining low, but stern. Besides the one I wanted to show you was the panties..."

"Don't fucking lie to us," Victoria said immediately, meeting that cold stare with a dark one of her own. "You wanted to show us the **** option. Make it clear that if we tried to mess with you, despite all your claims before about how Nymeera didn't want us date **** each other, or more probably your sister, you had recourse against us." Crystal's face turned from stern to completely impassive in a moment, then a cool smirk formed on her lips.

"Well I won't insult you by denying that that was something that certainly crossed my mind, but I took inspiration from you Coach Victoria. Showing off your BP list to warn us away from you and the danger you posed should your dark side get control." Victoria blushed and looked away, and Gabriella found herself getting upset at both of them...which just meant she started finding both the manipulative bitches kinda sexy... She wasn't fucking stupid!

"Personally, I couldn't care less," Gabriella said, stepping up and drawing both girls' attention to herself. It was time to take charge, and make some decisions. "I won't be showing either of you my list until we make one thing perfectly clear. Are we playing the game, or not?" Gabriella asked, her shorter stature making it difficult to look down on the taller women, but she did her best using every trick in the book. Crystal and Victoria looked at each other for a moment, then back to Gabriella, a light in their eyes fading slightly as they acquiesced to her as the group leader...for the moment at least.

"Let's find somewhere to sit down and discuss this," Crystal said, "The wind is killing me," she explained, shivering in the hot balmy tropical afternoon sun as a warm breeze washed over them.

"I'm guessing there's a cafeteria somewhere. Might be a good idea to get some food..." Victoria said, looking to Gabriella for her consent. Gabriella nodded, though for Crystal's sake she hoped the cafeteria wasn't too air conditioned...

"What the...hell?" Gabriella stared at the, admittedly adorable, little fox animal as its long tail reached up to pull down several platters of food the girls had ordered.

"They're little fox helpers that run the day to day of the Hotel," Crystal said as though she knew all about them. Victoria and Gabriella looked over to her with wide eyed surprise. Crystal just casually shrugged. "Summer told me about them, wouldn't stop talking for a full minute about how cute she finds them. They're everywhere, including at the spa she and Lauren are at right now."

"They're at a spa?!" Gabriella gaped, blinking several times.

"Yeah, Summer was feeling cold, probably due to my Transformations..." Crystal frowned, her expression turned to guilt for a second before she managed to smooth it over. "Anyway, she decided the spa was the best way to warm up, since having someone massage you can be seen as sexual, but the attendants were all foxes, not people."

"Who's going to massage her then?" Victoria asked, wondering how Nymeera planned to take advantage of them with cute little foxes...

"Lauren..."

"Ah..." Victoria suddenly understood why no one else was at the spa to give massages.

"Can you focus?" Gabriella asked, wondering just how...noticeable the connection between the twins was.

"I'll be fine," Crystal responded coldly, taking a seat at one of the tables with a hot bowl of some sort of spicy ramen placed before her. She took out some chopsticks and began to eat while Gabriella and Victoria sat down with her and started on their own meals. Gabriella had a turkey sandwich with spinach, olive oil, tomatoes, and cheese, while Victoria just got herself a giant slice of pepperoni pizza.

"Fuck me..." Victoria said, taking a bite of the pizza, almost looking orgasmic as the warm, melted cheese drooped off her slice. "I forgot how good food outside of prison tastes..." Gabriella and Crystal looked to each other uncomfortably and decided to just let that go without comment.

"So," Gabriella said, watching in fascination as Crystal took a weird looking spoon and began to assemble it with a bunch of different ingredients from her spicy ramen before eating the thing whole. "Where do we go from here? Nymeera obviously set up this whole 'harem' thing to get us to sleep with the 'Master...'" Gabriella blinked, a warm, blissful feeling swept through her, ending between her legs. Crystal snickered and slurped down some noodles along with the spicy broth.

"Forget about that already? You can't call Damien anything too submissive, or it'll be...distracting."

"But I didn't call him M-" Gabriella stopped herself just in time. "I didn't say it in a deferential way... I was trying to be sarcastic," Gabriella complained, taking a bite of her sandwich and trying to ignore how the pleasant feeling just...lingered in her loins.

"Guess that doesn't matter. Though I'm curious as to whether that would help 'thaw' me a little," Crystal mused, taking another bite of ramen ingredients in her weird little bowl spoon thing. "Eh, might try it out and tell Summer if I think it would help her. She's not used to being a bitch like me, I'd like to help her out. To answer your question, I don't intend on sleeping with Damien at all," Crystal said defiantly. "I don't know him, for one, and I'm resentful of being put in this situation to begin with. If I end up taking that out on him a little, I won't lose any sleep over it, and if the audience doesn't like it, they can make me Bottom Bitch all they want, I'm not changing my mind. Still...that doesn't mean I'm not going to play the game at all. And I haven't ruled out the possibility of sleeping with Damien, just to be clear. I just don't have any intention of doing so at this time. If I can help Summer, I'll do whatever I need to do. Even burn you both to the ground to do it..." Crystal's icy blue eyes stared daggers at Gabriella who took a quick bite of her sandwich to cover her discomfort. Victoria didn't back down though...

"I think that's awful and short sighted. Doing whatever it takes might sound good right now, but take it from me, you don't know how far you can fall when you leave limitations behind. Shush! I want that wish, but I'm not going to compromise myself to get it. I'd like to work with you girls, not against you...if you are willing to take the risk that my 'other half' comes along with me, whether I want her to or not." That was definitely something Gabriella had found difficult to get off her mind...

"What's...erm...she saying right now?" Gabriella asked, not really sure how best to phrase the question, but morbidly curious as to the answer.

"Don't worry about it..." Victoria said, eyes looking down at the platter where the pizza slice had been completely devoured with forlorn dread. A purple fox with another platter containing a fresh pizza slice, balanced supernaturally on its tail, set down the replacement and walked away without a word. What a world they lived in now... "I'm not going to act on those thoughts, and my faith will keep me strong," she said, gripping onto her crucifix for a moment before going back to eating her pizza, now with an almost relieved expression on her face. Until Crystal scoffed...

"Please gag me..." Victoria looked at Crystal sharply, eyes suddenly intense, but Crystal only continued at a smooth, even tone, her voice was cold as ice. "You think Nymeera is gonna let you keep that up? What happens when she forces you to break and all your dark thoughts stopped being bottled up, very healthy by the way, and started coming out in this environment, where your actions aren't just not punished, but could be outright rewarded!"

"God is stronger than me or Nymeera, and through Him I-"

"Bullshit," Crystal cut in, leaning toward the disgraced coach. "I'm perfectly happy to let you suffer whatever delusions of grandeur you want, so long as it doesn't affect me or my sister, but this definitely affects my sister, and myself." Gabriella thought to interject here...but Crystal's voice was starting to rise, that calm, cold demeanor was starting to crack and something heated and angry was showing through.

"Delusion?" Victoria suddenly relaxed and sat back in her seat with a smirk on her face. "I get it, you're just some non believer who thinks we Christians are dumb or ignorant. You have no idea what I've been through, the...the darkness inside me," Victoria's voice cracked for an instant, as though she were about to start crying. Her hand gripped her crucifix hard, knuckles turning white. "You don't know what it's like to feel powerless before an overwhelming **** coming from within, tempting you to act in ways that hurt people...people who you're supposed to care for...supposed to protect. I know I'm not strong enough to fight against such temptations...but by giving myself to a higher power, trusting in Him to bolster my will and through my faith allow me to overcome these trials... I can overcome. I can be better than I was. You don't under-" Victoria cut off as Crystal began to cry, her expression remained fixed, and she didn't make a noise, but tears were streaming down her face that she couldn't stop.

"You'd be fucking surprised..." she said, standing and turning to go towards the cafeteria bathroom. Victoria turned to Gabriella, who just shrugged. This alliance she was pondering might be more unstable than she thought...

Damien turned off the television, rubbing his temples as he began to realize the scope of the mess he'd been thrown into... Crystal obviously had some baggage with her and her sister, and it looked to be deeply traumatic for her. He wasn't a therapist, but he suspected that a show like this was not the healthiest place to deal with these types of deep seated issues.

"Aw that was just starting to get good," Nina- no Nymeera pouted, her soft curves wriggling against him as she moved up his body to look him in the eye. "Well, I guess we don't want to drag too long on just one girl's perspective. Who shall we look at next? I know that you're curious about Summer and Lauren." Damien had to admit that his cock twitched approvingly once it was revealed that Lauren would have to give Summer a massage, though he couldn't imagine Lauren would feel very comfortable about that...but it wilted instantly once Victoria and Crystal's argument started heating up.

"I'm starting to get the feeling that I shouldn't be prying in on these girls' private conversations..." Damien stated dryly, "I'm also not keen about you setting up Suki and Victoria together, and what is with the private BP stores?"

"Hey," Nymeera said, almost sweetly, "Let's focus on the important bits here. Lauren and Summer are alone, together, one giving the other a massage that's supposed to help her 'warm up.' Hmm? Doesn't that sound so much more interesting than boring old BP personal shops? Honestly the initial shops are barely worth mentioning. Just a few items to help fuel some drama, and help make Transformations more manageable. See? I can be a nice girl..." Nymeera's smile on Nina's face certainly looked kind, but that was just an illusion. The smiles the fox woman typically made were far more sinister...

"Right..." Damien said, unconvinced in even the slightest. Nymeera just tittered and slowly moved her hand toward Damien's crotch, rubbing gently to encourage blood to flow back into the wilted organ.

"I can be very nice...if you let me. It's important that you understand your girls, they're going to be members of your harem after all, Master. Getting to know them through their eyes will only help you to empathize with them more, understand them more, connect with them more...and then, and only then, will you be in a position to help them more..." Damien knew that Nymeera just wanted him to connect with them so they'd be more willing to have sex with him...but she was right. If he didn't understand the girls and their issues more, he wouldn't be able to help them, and if he wasn't helping them, he was just going to be their tormentor for a month...possibly even longer. The fact that Nymeera's touches were starting to have an effect on him weren't helping him to come up with alternatives.

"Lauren and Summer are probably done by now..." he protested weakly, his cock, now more youthful and sensitive already rising back up to a throbbing hardness.

"Oh silly Master!" Nymeera giggled, pushing her curvy body back against him as she guided his fingers to the remote, hovering just over Lauren's name. "This is Harem Hotel. It's never too late to watch something sexy happening..." Damien's finger descended on the button, hoping that he really would be able to help these girls when all was said and done...even if his initial motivations weren't truly pure...