Talks with friends and a prelude to power

"Eris, there you are! Just because you own the city doesn't you can't get marked late!" Paris exclaimed, seeing the nearly of-age girl entering their classroom in Othrys Academy only a few minutes before classes were going to start. The princess rolled her eyes and walked towards her friends. "What's your excuse this time, too much time trying on elaborate birthday dresses? Or maybe you got caught up in making a list of who you want first? I hope I made the cut."

"Paris, you're being horny again," Shena interjected, and the curvy brunette blinked with realization.

"Oh, shit, sorry. Can't always control it. You should have seen me when it first happened."

"We did. You wouldn't stop humping that guy and were always muttering to yourself about how much you wanted to try being milked."

"Guess it's the hucow in me. At least I got these puppies to go with it." Paris pushed her shoulders back to flaunt her admittedly large chest, pulling Eris' attention straight there for a second.

"You can't blame everything on your mom being cow forever. Unless you go turn yourself into one, that excuse is getting old."

"Oh, Paris, you'll look great as a cow! When are you going?" Julianne interrupted, looking at the brunette with wide, slightly empty grey eyes.

"Julianne, she's not going hucow, you misheard," Eris said, fishing a notebook out of her bag and looking at the blonde, who accepted her words without question.

"Oh, okay. I wasn't really listening anyway."

"We know, it's okay." Vera said while Eris gave her a little pat on the head and she smiled happily.

"Yeah, don't worry, if I ever do decide to become like Mom, you'll all know it. Mostly because I'll have tits bigger than my head and be leaking like crazy. But don't try to get out of the question, Eris, what's your excuse today? So excited to join the rest of us that you couldn't sleep?" Eris sat down with the rest of her friends and sighed.

"No, none of my clothes fit right, everything seemed super uncomfortable."

"Do you think it's starting early? The rest of us had to wait until we turned 18 to see if we'd change, but maybe you get a sneak peek."

"The only thing I apparently get early is a bigger butt. Look, my jeans tore; these were my favorite pair too." Eris turned around to show her friends the slight tear just below her ass, immediately earning a whistle from Paris.

"Damn, our girl is too thick for her own good. Good thing none of us are futa or we'd be popping boners all over the place."

"Hey, don't stare!" Eris quickly sat back down, a little embarrassed but also a bit warm. "It's not right to leer at the princess!"

"Oh, stop it. You told us all ages ago not to treat you like a princess. No changing your tune this late in the game." Eris had to admit Shena was right. She, Paris, Vina, and Julianne had all been her friends for years on years and they'd long gotten over the fact that she was technically their ruler. "Plus, if it was any of the rest of us, you'd be staring just as much."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Eris feigned, looking away. No one bought it.

"Are you feeling anything yet? The day before my birthday, I was really tingly and my head was super itchy. Do you think you'll change right away or have to wait for something to happen like me?" Julianne asked, subtlety nonexistent for the girl, though none of them blamed her. The other three were thinking much the same anyways. Of the five of them, Eris was the only one that hadn't had their 18th birthday. The other four had already made the jump to adulthood and entered the realm of the Contagion, the effects of which had been varied.

Paris had been first and was perhaps the least surprising: her mother was a hucow, one of the first, and some part of that had made itself known when she woke up at midnight on the penultimate day with a powerful orgasm, significantly larger breasts than when she'd gone to sleep, and a pretty strong libido to match. Though she hadn't had sex yet, she wasn't above losing herself in horny thoughts from time to time. With how deep the hucow instincts in her seemed to run, the rest of the girls fully expected her to go all the way at some point and lose herself in a milky fervor.

Julianne was second and more of a surprise. Her parents were both Pure and she hadn't shown any sign of transformation when she woke up, but as the day had progressed, the truth had become more obvious. The other four had watched as their social butterfly friend slowly became more distracted and a paler shade of blonde over a few hours until she was a slightly ditsier version of herself, partially bimbofied for no obvious reason. Thankfully, she didn't entirely lose herself like some girls did, turning into little more than cumdumps; it just became a little harder for her to keep what was on her mind from spilling out her mouth and they had to remind her not to tease herself in public occasionally.

Shena and Vina both had their birthdays within a week of each other and had identical effects: nothing at all. For Shena, that wasn't really a surprise, both her parents were Pure and hadn't even been on the continent when the Contagion first spread. They were sociologists and had come to Othrys to study the virus and its effects on society, and had Shena in the process, who had grown into a gorgeous young woman of Asian heritage.

Vera was the mystery factor though. She was one of the children that had been entrusted to the Academy from birth and raised there. As such, no one knew who her parents were or what sort of transformations they might have had. She wasn't unique in that regard, plenty of kids were in the same boat, but Vera was special in that she had befriended Eris when they were just entering school. The two girls had practically grown up together and had many sleepovers in Eris' room in the Citadel through the years, with the other three girls joining as they were befriended. Her birthday had been one of those, and it saw just the two of them sitting and watching the clock tick towards midnight with anxious nerves. When the moment had come and gone with no change to the cute brunette, they had both breathed a sigh of relief, Vera especially thankful not to have her life defined by someone she'd never met. The only evidence that she was even born of anything other than normal parents was her constant slowly shifting hair color.

"Well, like I said, my clothes don't fit, so I guess I'm a little bit bigger," Eris finally said after a bit of consideration. "I'm aroused, I guess, but I have been for, like, the past year, so I wouldn't say that's new. I do keep...seeing things, though."

"Like what?" Vera asked quietly. She never spoke much in the first place, but was particularly quiet today, only ever looking at Eris out of the corner of her eye.

"Like smoke or something, but around Gifted people. Paris, I keep seeing little bits of it around you, colored white, and I just know you have little bits of hucow in you. Same with Julianne, but pink and less."

"Woah. Can you just see it or can you do anything with it? Your mom's been showing you how to do magic for ages," Paris asked, leaning forward with interest. Her tits squished together enticingly but Eris didn't focus on that.

"I don't know, let me try," the princess said, first trying to influence the smoke with her magic, which she only barely did, and then reaching out to grab it. To her surprise, she actually managed to grab hold of it, the stuff losing its ethereal-ness in her hands. She experimentally tugged on it and Paris suddenly moaned, eyes wide. More of the smoke billowed out of her unprompted until it took physical form in Eris' hand, a small white crystal about the length of a finger, and Paris jerked up with surprise. The five young women watched as her top deflated a little, the chest pushing out against it receding.

"Are you okay?" Shena asked immediately, obviously worried, but Paris nodded quickly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. More than that, I'm not horny anymore. I'm always horny. Ever since I turned 18, I've been...Eris, what did you do? What is that?"

"I think I pulled the Contagion out of you," the princess said, staring at the little crystal in her palm, the insides of it slowly shifting. "I can tell you aren't Gifted anymore, you're Pure."

"I though that was impossible?" Vera asked, looking inquisitively at the thing in the princess' hand. She reached to touch it, but Eris closed her fingers and pulled back quickly.

"Don't touch it, it'll jump inside you and infect you!"

"Couldn't you just pull it back out?" the brunette asked, looking Eris straight in the eye for a second. Both girls almost immediately blushed and looked away, making the other three trade glances. The only people those two were fooling were themselves.

"I don't know what I did in the first place. This is supposed to be impossible. My parents can suppress the Contagion in people, but even they can't remove it entirely."

"Cool, just prove you're better than all of us again, why don't you?" Paris said jokingly. "Can you put it back in me though? I don't like my girls being this small. Plus it feels...weird. Wrong."

"Are you sure? You don't want to-"

"Nope, back in. Now please." The brunette said insistently, even holding out her hand for the little crystal and wiggling her fingers. Without any other idea of how to undo what she had done, Eris just plopped the crystal in Paris' hand, watching it immediately break apart and dive back into the girl, flowing right through her skin. "Ooooohhh..." Paris groaned, shuddering with obvious delight as her body became infected again. Her chest swelled back up and her hips jerked, eyes fluttering for a second before she got control of herself again.

"Thanks," the reinfected girl said with a sigh. "It was nice at first, but the longer it was out of me, the more wrong it felt. I think I might have tackled you for it if you hadn't given it back. Fuck, I'm drenched down there."

"I'm going to have to ask my parents about this," Eris said, looking at her hand and the whisps of Contagion flowing off Paris again.

"Yeah, that's really weird, but also super cool. Do you think you could do other things with it? Pull a crystal out of someone and give it to someone else? Give one person multiple? Amplify the effects?" Shena listed off a number of possibilities before Julianne interrupted.

"Ooo, could you make mine be more? I always wondered what those other girls feel when they're bent over and taking a big dick from behind and screaming and cumming and..."

"Oh fuck, Julianne, stop or I'm going to start finger fucking myself," Paris begged, eyes wide and struggling to keep her hands clasped together.

"Oh, sorry."

"I'll ask Mom and Dad if they can help me figure this out. This is crazy..." Eris mumbled, deep in thought herself. Vera saw this and opened her mouth to say something, then closed it again as she lost her courage. She did it twice more before Julianne huffed and said "Eris, Vera has something she wants to ask you." The princess quickly looked up and towards the brunette, who shot a frustrated look at the half-bimbo.

"What?"

"O-oh, I was just...wondering if I could come over tonight, have one last s-sleepover. It...it won't be the same anymore. And you stayed up with me for mine, so I just thought..."

"V-Vera, you...you know what's going to happen, probably. I'm going to-"

"Th-that's okay, I-I-I can leave once it gets close to midnight. I just...yeah..." Vera trailed off timidly, looking at her hands in her lap nervously. Julianne, Paris, and Shena all looked at Eris, hoping she'd make the right decision. Vera had told them all how she felt about the princess ages ago and they were happy to finally see the sparks flying between the two ignite.

"Okay, if...if you're sure. We can stop by your room after classes so you can grab what you need." Vera nodded silently and the rest of them smiled, content to stay out of the couple-to-be's way, though Julianne looked like she was having a hard time not squealing for joy. Besides, they all knew their most perverse dreams were sure to come true sooner than later around Eris. Giving the two oldest friends some space for a night was a small price to pay.