Waking Up to New Memories

Noah woke up Sunday and crawled out of a square shaped hole in her room with Hailey. This had already become normal for her, like brushing one's teeth in the morning. As did the decision over whether to walk or ooze everywhere, which was mainly based on whether she wanted to tire herself out to be faster and less strange to those around her. That morning she decided to ooze everywhere, given that it was around six and everyone else was asleep. Over the course of her time here, a lot had become normal, and it was amazing how quickly she had adapted to being a sapient pile of shapeshifting goo. Her libido was harder to get used to, but it at least meant she now badly wanted to fuck Felix, so that should help... maybe.

Already the knowledge that her date was today bothered Noah, as while one obstacle been removed, she had discovered another one. Her experiments yesterday as a slime girl had taught her that pleasure for her was tricky. She could masturbate, but she always needed the help of an external aid, hence why she found herself fucking a support pillar of concrete yesterday, at least until Hailey came back from her swim and ruined the mood. As humiliating as it was, she had gotten quite close to orgasm that way. So, so frustratingly close.

But she still wasn't sure about it. Would Felix be attracted to her? Her breasts were still so large that if they were on a human woman they'd break her spine, and her ass was similarly just completely ludicrous. However, both were made of red slime, and she wasn't sure how he would feel being touched by it, enveloped by it...

Once again Noah had to shake herself out of sexual fantasies as she oozed into the mess hall. She was up a bit earlier than everyone else because she had decided an early night after Hailey had spotted her masturbation experiments, hence, it was only 6ish when she entered the mess hall. Another reason she sometimes tried to get up earlier than everyone else was to beat them to the breakfast on offer, so they wouldn't have to see her disgusting digestion process. However, something happened while she wolfed down some eggs and bacon that changed everything...

All of a sudden, a large portion of Noah's life, and an even larger portion of Felix's life, had irreversibly changed. The incident, the one that had brought everyone here, and the one that Noah, despite seeing what had happened that day, failed to tell anyone about, had never happened. She could now remember Cammy being in Felix's life, an occasional cameo for Noah, but one that she knew was a much bigger deal for him. She now remembered when he told the friend's group they were in about having a girlfriend, and being happier than they ever had before. When someone in the group asked him about sex, he clammed up in a way that was very suspicious, and caused the kind of joyous laughter that binds a group together. Those memories reflected that Felix became a much larger part of Noah's life in this version of events, to the point where they were in a shared study group, and he was regularly at the D&D games that she hosted.

What had just happened? Noah almost dropped a plate on the ground from the sudden invasion of new memories, and also the sense that the prior set of memories were fading away. Today was going to be very strange for both her and the rest of the harem from these new memories...

Hailey awoke at eight, and her mind was a mess. She now remembered Cammy, and the incident now hadn't happened. As the new memories flooded in, she got changed in a hurry, **** to find Noah, or really just anyone, to talk about what had just happened. After getting dressed, they bolt for the mess hall, and found Noah, who had been pacing around for what seemed like hours at that point.

"You too?" Hailey asked.

"Yeah," Noah said. "Everything has changed. I remember him being in the study group, my D&D sessions, everything. What's it like for you?"

"Basically that," Hailey said. "It doesn't change as much for me but because there's no incident..."

"The original reason most of us ended up here is gone," Noah finished. "What happens to us now?"

At that moment, Felix came in, and was happier than they had ever seen him. Hailey got embarrassed seeing him naked, as if the brightness of his mood emphasized his nudity somehow. When she looked over, she could see that Noah was also shifting uncomfortably, trying to avoid staring at his dick, or the many pleasing muscles his body had. The whole time, Cammy was with him, and was smiling at the group while keeping a hand on her man at all times.

"I think what happens is that everything is better." Cammy said while grabbing some breakfast burritos for her man. Sausage, eggs, cheese, and potatoes, as they both liked them.

As Hailey recovered from the onslaught of new memories, she plated herself a relatively standard breakfast of eggs, sausage, toast, and a muffin for dessert. As she ate her choice of foods, all of which were impossibly delicious by buffet standards as usual, she turned towards the door, curious to see who would come in next.

Jamina and Kei Winters came in next. Just one look could confirm they had also received the new memories. Kei Winters was beaming for some reason about it, even though Hailey couldn't remember her in this new set of memories that Cammy was in. Jamina on the other hand looked miserable, an emotional trainwreck from whatever the memories of Felix's changed life had done to her. They both grabbed their breakfast, and sat down in silence, one in some kind of victory, the other in defeat.

"What happened?" Hailey asked. "Kei Winters still isn't in my memory from before so-"

"But I could be quite soon," Kei Winters responded. "Cammy has shown what is possible for people like me. Hasn't she, Jamina?"

The woman next to her didn't respond. Her eyes showed the evidence of tears, exhaustion, and the kind of crushing defeat that Hailey had seen far too many times when she was younger. Looking at her, she had a different memory of when this woman was a male math teacher. Despite no longer being able to recall their name, she could remember how others reacted to him. Most of all, she remembered how Felix complained about the difficulty of his math class was every single study group, and even brought up the idea that it could destroy his ability to graduate entirely.

Even with her prior memories fading, and her lack of knowledge of Felix's life compared to others in the harem, Hailey knew that this was a massive improvement over the prior timeline. That though made what Felix did complain about in her new set of memories stick out more, as the lack of the incident and its associated baggage meant the remaining impediments in Felix's life were obvious, even to an outsider like her.

Next in came Z and Nox. The oni wasn't acting different than any other morning, which made sense as she had no memory of Felix, or the people around him. By contrast, if Jamina looked defeated, Nox looked close to just ending it. Hailey didn't remember much about the boy the goblin used to be, as once again the goblin's former name escaped her for some reason, but even she could remember the asshole Nox used to be as a loud, arrogant, bully of a jock. Why anyone thought being on a high school football team was some massive accomplishment in this day and age escaped her.

As for Felix, he took one look at Nox, rolled his eyes, and went back to breakfast with Cammy. Hailey had memories of seeing Felix bruised, and even cut once, from some scuffle or fight that happened with the boy Nox used to be. It was easy to see why Felix just ignored the goblin, because the level of punishment she had already endured

When the angel flew into the room, for a brief second, everything went silent except for the sound of Z munching on a big pile of meat. Hailey knew why as everyone could still remember Smith, even if she couldn't remember his first name. They still remembered the assistant principal that abused his authority with constant, bullshit punishments for any sign of, "attitude," to hear him put it, and otherwise the utterly unrealistic expectations he had. The difference was that without the incident, the conflict between Smith and Felix was more subtle, but it was still present.

This time when Felix saw her, his smile faded, and he sighed, before going back to talking with Cammy, and enjoying breakfast. Janessa Smith took one look at him, balled one of her fists, and then ripped her gaze away from him, returning to breakfast.

Castelilise was the last to come in, swimming in by canal. Hailey had no memory of whoever the nereid used to be, and couldn't tell anything from the expressions on the face of the naked sea nymph as she went to get her breakfast. Watching her eat revealed a girl that was different, but it was more subtle than Nox or Smith had been. It wasn't a positive or negative change, it seemed instead like she was looking at Felix in a more curious way, like she was meeting him again for the first time.

"Now that you've all gotten the chance to settle in," The demon's voice came with her teleporting in, surprising everyone as usual. "You're probably wondering why you have this new set of memories. I assure you they are not fake."

The demon patrolled around the room, checking in on each contestant, before announcing, "Cammy has reached a most wonderful achievement. She got 100 VP from taking Felix's virginity. You can check the score yourself."

A hologram unfolded in front of the table everyone was eating at.

Noah = 25 VP

Hailey = 5 VP

Cammy = Graduated

Winters = 50 VP

Z = 45 VP

Janessa Smith = 40 VP

Castelilise: 30 VP

"Let this be a lesson to all of you to reach for the highest score," the demon said. "You may just find reality itself will adjust to fit your needs."

The demon teleported away, leaving everyone with the realization of what this would mean going forwards...

Felix's day had started out great. However, as the day wore on, he noticed that as he got used to his new memories, the various limitations of being in the bunker felt worse. The **** exercise schedule, the monotonous grey concrete, and the overwhelming, crushing boredom from there being nothing to do except exercise, eat, or hang out with other contestants. While the demon had used holograms many times, no one else in the group had been able to access them to say, watch a movie, or do anything else.

He noticed another problem he was doing his exercise after breakfast. Today was leg day, which had caused him to understand why people bragged about never missing leg day. While recovering from a strenuous portion of the assigned exercise routine, Felix saw that he was being watched by Kei Winters and Jamina. They were having the kind of hushed, angry whispering argument he sometimes between parent and child. The main though was that he was reminded of who Jamina used to be, when they once had the last name of Winters.

When Winters had been a male math teacher, his expectations were still absurd. Felix had noticed no change from the lack of the incident, and if anything, in this new set of memories it was more obvious how his math teacher had joined a horrific tag team of sorts when Smith was still a human male vice principal. While his grades were better, thanks to being part of Noah's study group, in this set of memories it felt like a **** delaying action, not a successful adaptation. The difficulty of the math class, and how the teacher would sometimes use Felix having an attitude as an excuse to get the vice principal involved, were both part of a setup to get him to fail high school.

That lead him to thinking about Smith as Felix got back to his workout. Even Felix couldn't remember what the first name of the vice principal had been before she was an angel named Janessa, but he could remember that they used to be a human man. Without the incident, the memory of which was fast fading from his mind, his conflict with the vice principal was different, but still seemed on the road to him getting expelled.

In this alternate set of memories, Felix would constantly show evidence contradicting Smith to the main principal, and in the process, humiliated Smith repeatedly. He hadn't done this to hurt the vice principal, but because he constantly had to prove that no, he hadn't made stuff up when he been attacked by people the vice principal loathed punishing. This had put him on Smith's shit-list, and so the vice principal looked for every possible reason to punish him, hoping to build a case that would get him suspended or expelled. In a way, the vice principal's behavior was even worse, because it was more obvious now why Smith had chosen to try throwing Felix under the bus in the first place: He was an easy target. He didn't have parents that were well connected, or that had the time to raise a massive stink at a parent-teacher conference when their child was punished by the school. That realization enraged him all over again, and too much of the joy from that morning had already faded again.

There were other memories, such as of the bully Nox used to be. What was most strange was that Felix couldn't remember his name. It didn't make any sense for how often he encountered the bully day to day in this set of memories, or how often the prick kept sliding off of punishments despite clearly assaulting him or similar. Still, he had once **** the school to punish the asshole when he showed a recording on his phone, but that just caused the school to institute a no phone policy to avoid such embarrassing revelations in the future.

This reminiscing came to an end with Felix's workout being completed, in this case after a very erotic, painful feeling set of stretches. He then went back to the master suite to shower, and hoped he could find Cammy. Whenever he wasn't around her everything felt worse...

Kei Winters had every reason to gloat. After breakfast, she dragged Jamina back to the room to train her in being a woman, and on how to seduce Felix. Whenever the younger woman tried to whine about her being a **** or similar, all she had to was something like, "If you don't get to 100 VP, the demon could just decide I should have the real set of memories instead of you."

This crushed Jamina. Kei could also tell that her new memories were only further destroying the woman's worldview, and snuffed out any hope she had gotten from meeting with the other contestants behind her back. She had known what was going on yesterday while she watched Felix workout, she just didn't care. Her reputation with the master was secure, while Jamina's reputation was subterranean with Felix at this point, and she doubted the new set of memories from Cammy changed that.

Soon, the time came for Felix's exercise. While Kei knew the boy hated it, she loved watching him sweat so, so much. While her memories were fake, her desire for young men and women hadn't changed a bit. That Cammy had shown a willingness recently to play with her, even if it was just for foreplay with her boyfriend, filled Kei Winter's heart with joy. She was no stranger to seducing young couples after all, and adored every chance she got to share in young love.

As they entered the gym, Kei could see it was leg day for Felix. It would be both good for him and her, because she would get to see his leg muscles at work. It was easy to imagine him fucking her with those legs while he did things like ham string exercises, and this made her happy indeed.

Jamina was frustrated, for reasons that were obvious. She was attracted to Felix, but didn't want to admit it, because it would mean giving something up to Kei Winters. The last bit of dignity that the show hadn't yet taken.

"If you really want to prevent my set of memories from being real, I suggest you grow up and play the game in front of you," Kei Winters whispered in triumph. "I know you're attracted to him, because even if I couldn't see you stealing a glance at his muscles when you think I'm not looking, I know what our last transformation did to you."

As expected, Jamina fell for the bait. "What? Made me a pervert like you? I can at leas-"

"Control yourself?" Kei asked. "You're like someone malnourished refusing to eat because the only food on offer you view as repugnant. Throwing away something you desire because it disgusts you is not only futile, but in this instance, helps me replace you."

"I'm at least-"

"Real?" Kei Winters asked. "Tell me your former first name, and you'll have a point."

The final nail in the coffin of Jamina's hope had just been struck. Reality had already started to alter, and the young woman was on the wrong side of it. If this had happened from just one contestant reaching 100 VP, what would happen when another reached that lofty goal? While Winters was now the one with the highest VP who hadn't graduated, Z was coming up quite fast, and showed no compunctions when it came to fucking the master.

Rather than respond, Jamina ran from the room, bawling her eyes out. Kei Winters had gotten her full **** for what had happened in the last competition, and the constant sanctimonious arguments around things that hadn't even happened. She would later need to pick up the pieces, and actually get the woman to compete, but for now, she could enjoy a feast for the eyes that felt like it was just for her...