The Results

"And the votes are in!" Circe's exclamation earned her a mix of curious and incredulous looks from the contestants. Catherine was the first to find her voice. "Already? I mean, you just told us what the choices were."

"Don't worry darling, our dear viewers had plenty of time to make their choices." Circe answered with a smug grin. "So, without further ado, let's start us off with the popularity poll!" She then gestured to the side, where a previously unseen screen lit up, revealing the results for everyone to see.

1st Place : Catherine Baker + 500 BP

2nd Place : Alice Milner + 250 BP

3rd Place : Alexandra Anderson + 200 BP

4th Place : Wilhelmina Hartman + 150 BP

5th Place : Bethany Hawthorne + 100 BP

6th Place : Jared Hicks + 50 BP

"Now, while this vote was quite stable, there are two big gaps in the popularity scores, the first being between Alex and Miss Hartman, whose score was neck and neck with Miss Hawthorne's, before we had an even larger gap between her and our poor Jared. But don't beat yourself over it, our male contestants tend to start as the least popular. As a last note, our dear Master here will also earn 500 BPs at each of these popularity polls. Spend them wisely!"

The reactions to the first poll were quite varied, with Catherine being flattered, Alice trying to hide behind her hair again, Alex and Bethany being somewhat disappointed at their respective positions, and Wilhelmina and Jared not caring, the latter only rolling his eyes at Circe's platitude before he snickered as he noticed something on the screen, then turned to face the woman at his right. "Wait... Your name's Alexandra Anderson?"

The redhead raised an eyebrow as she answered the strange question. "Yeah. So?"

Jared didn't get to answer, merely sighing as Circe cleared her throat. "Now, now, you'll have time to discuss later. We still have seven results to go through! And I hope our viewers are as excited as I am~. Starting off with Catherine, Holstaurus was the winner, with 42.37% of the votes!"

Catherine suddenly gasped as she could feel her body changing once Circe's announcement was over. Her scalp and ears tingled as the former changed color, her blond hair turning white with a few black streaks, while her ears reshaped themselves into those of a cow. But it wasn't all, as she also felt a slight pressure on the sides of her head and right above her butt as she grew a pair of cow horns and a cow tail. Finally, she also felt her clothes getting tighter as the last of the changes took place. Her breasts grew at least a full cup size bigger, bringing her up to a generous D-cup, while her hips and butt grew slightly as well, with the rest of her body becoming a tiny bit thicker to even her out.

"Holy shit!" Going by their shocked expression, Alex voiced what the contestants were probably all thinking, even as Catherine looked and poked at her transformed body, as if making sure it was real. The initial shock passed a lot faster for Marcus however, replaced by a growing eagerness to see how the rest of the contestants would turn out.

"Let's keep going in the same order we've used so far, meaning that Miss Hawthorne is next!" Circe only waited a moment before moving on to the next contestant, who turned pale at being addressed. Bethany's eyes quickly flickered across the room, but she found no escape. She took a deep breath to try and calm herself as Circe announced her fate. "I hope you like cats, because our viewers certainly do. Of your three choices, Nekomimi won with 50.91% of the votes!"

Even knowing what was coming, Bethany couldn't help but be surprised at the weird feeling of her ears moving up on top of her head, the way they tingled as they reshaped into cat ears, and the pressure of her new cat tail growing out. She also had to blink a few times as her pupils became more oblong and some of her teeth turned into cute cat fangs. She crossed her arms as the change concluded, her ears and tail twitching in unspoken annoyance as she sent a glare Circe's way.

The hostess completely ignored Bethany's glare as she was already turning towards the next woman. "But let's not dawdle here. Alex, your vote was the most decisive, and it looks like our viewers agreed with you on dragons being awesome, because Wyvern won with a whopping 52.59% of the votes!"

Unlike the others, Alex was practically vibrating in anticipation. She held out her arms before her as she felt them tingle while red scales sprouted out of her skin to cover them before they reshaped into bat-like wings, though she winced as the skin membrane connecting them to her sides tore open the side of her shirt. Similarly, the pressure of her tail growing in wasn't pleasant, at least until it finally burst through the back of her jeans and kept growing until it was nearly twice the length of her legs. Her feet suffered a similar predicament, with her growing toes turning into talons and ripping their way through both socks and shoes as her feet became saurian-like and digitigrade, to the point she almost missed the feeling of her horns growing in and some of her freckles turning into scales as well. As a last touch, her pupils turned into slits as she blinked.

"Well, it looks like someone's eager." Circe commented as Alex's changes concluded, causing the redhead to grin at her, wings held high as she answered. "Of course I am! Oh, I can't wait to try these!"

Circe chuckled at Alex's antics, shaking her as she moved on to the sole male contestant. "Now, Jared, I'm afraid that our viewers weren't so nice to you as Fairy, the one of your choices you were dismissive about, won with 48.78% of the votes!" Jared let out a sigh of disappointment, but he then cast an inquisitive look at Circe when nothing seemed to happen. "... However, I have decided to take pity on you by using something I have yet to reveal : the vetoes. You see, during each of these votes, I have the ability to overrule up to two of the results of my choosing, and I have decided to grace your poor, unfortunate soul with one of them. So, seeing as Kobold would be redundant since Wyvern just won, I am choosing Imp as your vote's new winner!"

Judging by his surprised expression, Jared obviously wasn't expecting Circe's sudden charity, though he didn't get much time to dwell on it as his body started to tingle. His body shrank until he was about a whole foot shorter, his clothes becoming loose as they remained the same size. While he was shrinking, his new red coloration spread across his skin, erasing any body or facial hair it came across, his eyes turned golden with slit-pupils, his ears became pointed, two short curved horns sprouted from the sides of his head and his spine extended into a long and thin spade-tipped tail. But that wasn't all as his body also became dainty and more delicate, with his features become softer and more feminine, before he yelped, his voice cracking into a high-pitched girly one as he reached for his crotch when he felt his genitals retreating inside him and reshaping into a brand new vagina, swiftly followed by his chest, hips and butt growing slightly, leaving him with a perky set of breasts and an undeniably feminine figure.

"What the..? Why am I a girl?" The still-smiling Circe let out an obviously faked gasp at the question. "Oh, right, I didn't tell our contestants yet, did I? There is a theme for this season; it's the monster girl season, and being a girl is an obvious part of becoming a monster girl." She said with a shrug. "Now, considering how many of our viewers wanted to see a Fairy, I believe it wouldn't be fair of me to not show them one." Right as she said this, Circe shrunk as well until she was about as short as Jared now was, though her clothes did adjust to her change in height, and her ears also became pointed as she grew two colorful butterfly wings, which she immediately put to use to hover back to her original height, a smug look on her face. "I hope you're not jealous, as you wouldn't have been able to fly yet if I had let you become the fairy. Luckily, I am not bound by the same rules as you are."

Circe then fluttered up to Alice, who was trying to appear as small as possible. "Moving on to Alice, our second most popular contestant, it should come as no surprise that Usagimimi won, with 47.75% of the votes! But that was a little too predictable, don't you think? Still, I know better than to deny our audience their bunny girl, so, rather than changing which choice won, I'll just use my second veto to tip the scale and make it tie with the runner-up, Dullahan! Meaning that you get both. Enjoy!"

Alice eeped as the changes swept through her, her ears reshaping into bunny ears as they moved on top of her head and her new bunny tail growing out until it poked out of her clothes, while her hair turned white and her eyes golden. As it looked like the changes were done, Circe then suddenly appeared behind Alice and pushed her head lightly, making her cry in surprise as her head fell off on her legs, though she managed to catch it before it could go any further. Circe was giggling as she circled back before her while Alice was putting her head back in place.

"Careful now, wouldn't want to lose your head." Circe said with a last giggle before she fluttered up to Wilhelmina. "And now for our last contestant, the result is a tie! Indeed, both Mermaid and Selkie ended up with 34.26% of the votes! However, unlike what I did to our previous contestant, this time the two winning choices cannot be combined, so I will have to act as a tiebreaker! Now, if we take a closer look at the vote, we can see that Selkie was the most popular option for the majority of the time, with Mermaid only beating it at the very start of the vote and never afterwards. What to do here seems pretty clear to me, meaning that I hereby break the tie in favor of Selkie! But that's not all! You see, Miss Hartman, your situation is unique here since _I _will not be transforming you, and instead will just give you this..." True to her word, Circe held out a bundled garment, apparently made of seal skin, and dumped it on Wilhelmina's lap when the latter kept glaring instead of reaching for it. "... And leave the rest to you. To become a Selkie, all you need to do is wear this cloak and get underwater, which should be quite an easy task. You should also know that this coat will only work for you, and that using it will both restore the use of your legs, but also bind you to the coat so that anyone else taking it will be able to order you around."

Wilhelmina was about to retort, but Circe was already turning away and fluttering up towards Marcus. "And, last but certainly not least, we of course have our dear Master! Now this vote was pretty close at first, but Slime won in the end, with 37.75% of the votes!"

Marcus had nearly forgotten about that, but rather than trying to complain he just wore a resigned expression as he was subjected to the disturbing, though thankfully not painful, feeling of his body liquifying, turning into blue slime as his features melted, making him look like a slightly thicker than normal mannequin for a second before his body started to reshape. His waist thinned as his chest and backside grew, and soft features sculpted themselves on his face while some more of his substance pooled further up and draped down to his shoulder, in emulation of long, lustrous hair.

Circe gave a satisfied nod as Marcus gaped at his new form before hovering aside to address everyone else at once. "Seeing as everyone is a monster girl as ordered, I should mention that your new forms all come with some blanket changes and protections. Firstly, while people will notice your new appearances, they won't make too big of a deal about it, meaning that you won't have to worry about being chased out of town, being studied on or having people wanting to dissect you, for example. And secondly, your bodies have received some minor, but I believe necessary upgrades, such as allowing your orifices to handle far larger insertions without damage, though it might not be without discomfort, all the while retaining their tightness, as well as ridding you of some inconveniences such as body hair, sagging, or cellulite. And now that we're done here, it is time I take you to the accommodations where you will stay until the end of the show!"