'This feels familiar...' Jason thought, opening his eyes and squinting after his eyelids flashed red from the light emitting from Ren's body. At first, he considered that she might be evolving—even though Lucario didn't have a third stage. But when his subspace orb abruptly exited from his chest and sank into hers, he immediately understood what was happening...
'A Pactio...' Jason noted, equal parts confusion and excitement washing over him as he tried to make sense of what had set the phenomenon in motion.
"Ren feels warm and tingly..." Ren muttered, closing her eyes and tilting her head back as if relishing the sensation.
[Conditions fulfilled. The Aspirant has successfully formed a Pactio with the 1-Star Entity, [Rennae Springfield]. May the world shower its blessings upon you.]
'The world...?' Jason repeated, confused. It had been a while since his Pactio with Lillie, but he distinctly remembered the message about the stars showering them with blessings. He didn't know if there was any real significance behind it, but there had to be a reason the message specified the world in Ren's case.
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Similar to what had occurred in Lillie's case, Jason couldn't help noticing that Ren's breasts had gained at least half a cup size. The diameter of her waist also contracted, causing her muscles to appear more compact. And, last but not least, her thighs appeared to thicken, gaining more volume as her weight noticeably increased.
'I have definitely never harbored a desire to see her breasts increase in volume, so Lillie's hypothesis that the Pactio influences the recipient in accordance with their desires appears accurate...' Jason noted, doing his best to observe and analyze the scene clinically. Fortunately, Ren didn't suddenly gain a human appearance, lest he be forced to make a decision he wasn't prepared to make...
After several seconds of physical changes, Jason's subspace exited Ren's body and returned to his chest, suffusing him with a pleasant warmth and a feeling of connection.
"Ren can feel Jason..." Ren noted, opening her red eyes to stare directly into Jason's with a happy, somewhat terrifying smile. Jason could feel her excitement and anticipation as if they were his own—his heart racing and his temples buzzing.
"For now...please try to calm yourself..." Jason expressed, forcing a wry smile.
"Nn...Ren knows..." Ren responded, nodding several times before closing her eyes and focusing on her breathing. Just as Jason could feel what she was feeling, she could feel his emotions. There was a lot of apprehension, but she could also sense his curiosity, happiness—kept at bay by his need to understand what was happening.
As Jason was beginning to wonder if one would appear, a crystal clear orb emerged from his chest and floated toward Ren, within which was a Bronze, tarot-like card with a complex pattern and a red star that stood out in relief on the back. The front depicted Ren in a heroic pose—naked, much less wearing a magical girl outfit. Instead, what appeared to be two other Lucario flanked her, albeit with drastic changes in their appearance. One was slender, had long ears flanked by a feathery headdress, a large gemstone on the forehead, and notably billowy, cloud-like antennae and fur. The other was burly, muscular, and on all fours, its head encircled by a thick mane of spiky fur.
"Ren feels that something is calling to her..." Ren muttered, extending her paws to grab the crystalline sphere. As she did, both she and Jason were momentarily blinded by a bright pink light.
'So the transformation is imposed the first time, just like with Lillie...' Jason noted, having closed his eyes at the last moment, preventing himself from being blinded. When he opened them, he found a pair of glowing, hot-pink eyes staring back at him, narrowed and feminine. The facial structure was clearly that of a Lucario, but more elegant, refined, and pink.
"Ren feels super warm and fuzzy..." the figure muttered, Ren, her voice still husky but softened, more pleasing to the ear. Notably, she was now considerably lighter, shorter, and more slender than before. Her antennae were now pink, white, and fluffy like clouds. The fur around her neck and covering her torso now resembled a fluffy white dress. Her tail was even longer, fluffier, and tinged pink, and while she still had a spike growing out of her chest—which was markedly larger than before—those on the backs of her forearms had vanished, replaced by billowy, sleeve-like fur.
'Her nipples are gone...' Jason noticed, his gaze lowering from Ren's face to her breasts—modest, round, fur-covered, and featureless in a way that gave the impression her fur could be removed like an actual dress. Below that, she was noticeably missing her spat-like shorts. Instead, the fur of her fluffy skirt split at the front, leaving her crotch, covered in pastel pink fur, exposed. Fortunately, much like her breasts, there was nothing to see. Instead, it was as if her notably long and slender legs were veiled in a pair of fluffy pants or hose...
Sensing that Jason was about to tell her to get up from his lap, Ren took the initiative to do so herself, surprising herself quite a bit as the sudden movement caused her to rise a few centimeters into the air before settling back onto the ground as if she were barely heavier than air. Jason noticed this as well, his brows rising as he climbed to his feet, pulled up her status window, and noted, "Your weight has decreased from 156.1kg to less than a third of that at 44.2. And if I had to guess, based on how pink and fluffy you've become, at least one of your Typings has been changed to Fairy or Flying..."
"Ren feels super light~" Ren chimed, bouncing gracefully and lightly into the air, performing a series of graceful pirouettes. She had felt so light on her feet, so after experimentally bouncing on just the tips of her toes, she descended into a deep squat and pushed off with all her strength, leaving Jason slack-jawed below as she launched herself so high that she felt like she might pass the clouds. In reality, she only ascended a little more than one hundred meters, but that was without the use of her Aura or Fighting-type energy.
Reaching the pinnacle of her ascent, Ren instinctively spread her hands out to her sides, causing her to become suspended in the air—her fluffy sleeves billowing in the wind. At the same time, the dark pink pads on the bottom of her feet glowed with the pink hue of Fairy-type Energy as she began prancing through the sky, producing glowing pink ripples where her feet made contact with a non-existent surface.
"Ahahaha! This is so much fun~!" Ren chimed, increasing the length of her bounds and performing an impromptu dance in the sky. She had never felt so light and unrestrained before.The only downside was that she couldn't feel much power in her arms and legs, as if they might break if she tried to exert the usual amount of force she used to hit things.
Deciding that she had had enough of prancing about, Ren descended to the ground in several graceful strides, her final step causing a pink pulse and illusory flowers to spread across the ground before they vanished as an imperceptible mist.
"That was very graceful, Ren. Well done..." Jason expressed, nodding approvingly before stepping forward to cup and caress the sides of Ren's face, his fingers and palms immediately registering that they were softer and warmer than he remembered. And compared to her previous height of 154cm, the current Ren was barely 135, albeit with a tail that appeared as long as she was tall. If not for its apparent weightlessness as it snaked slowly behind her, it would be sweeping across the ground.
"Ren wants to try her other form now," Ren responded, her glowing pink eyes gleaming with expectation as she confirmed Jason's suspicions that the form she was currently in wasn't her only one. Her bronze Pactio card showed two, so after a fleeting moment of consideration, he nodded, took a step back, and said, "Go for it."
"Nn..."
After supplying a nod of her own, Ren's body began emitting a stream of pale pink energy as she rose several centimeters into the air. Said stream quickly formed a swirling caccoon around her, forming a large sphere that abruptly transitioned from pink to a mix of storm-cloud-black and vibrant, electric-yellow.
KA-KROW
Following the reverberating sound of a thunderclap, the sphere dispersed outward, followed by the transformed Ren falling heavily to the ground on all fours. Now, instead of being various shades of pink and white, she had regained many of the colors of a standard Lucario. The biggest difference, other than the fact that she was more than two meters tall despite being on all fours, was that the soot-black sections were more jagged, vying for dominance with patches of electric-yellow. The beige fur around her neck had also become like a mane, and, as if to assert that she now possessed an Electric Typing, there were lightning bolt patterns along her butt. That, and at the end of a long, thin, black, lion-like tail, she had a lightning-bolt-shaped fin that might earn her a copyright claim from a Raichu.
ba-dumba-dumba-dum
"Ren feels strong! Super strong...!" Ren exclaimed, her excitement sending sparks of electricity dancing across her body as she began hopping on all fours like an excited dog. Notably, each time her paws met the ground, a weighty, ground-shaking reverberation was produced, reflecting that she now weighed an impressive 774.6kg.
"You look strong..." Jason confirmed, nodding. Ren's parameters hadn't changed, but as the System only reflected stat modifiers, not base stats, that wasn't surprising. The pressure she was emanating, however, was on par with even Tapu Koko.
"Not just strong! Ren is fast...!" Ren asserted, having been conferred with an intuitive understanding of her powers. As a result, she was able to spin around, granting Jason an unobstructed view of her thankfully featureless backside, before she took off like a bullet fired from a gun, leaving behind an arcing path of electricity along the ground as she reached the opposite end of the 100m battlefield in the blink of an eye.
'That's more than fast...' Jason noted, his eyes wide and his right hand moving to his chest. His heart was racing, but he suddenly felt cold and heavy, as if he had been completely drained of energy.
Sensing the change in Jason's condition, Ren bolted back to him, her body erupting into a cloud of electric-yellow smoke that dispersed from the force of her acceleration, revealing her original form as she moved to brace the former's collapse.
"Is Jason okay...!?" Ren exclaimed, visibly and audibly panicking. She knew that her transformation was fueled by energy she received from Jason, but she hadn't expected that simply moving to the other side of the battlefield would have such a large impact on him.
"I'm fine..." Jason responded, more focused on reassuring Ren than the condition of his body. He felt like all the blood had been drained from his body, but as Ren held him, the chill that had pervaded everything from the tips of his fingers to the core of his brain gradually abated, replaced by a tingling warmth.
Noticing the improvement in Jason's condition, Ren held him tightly and comfortingly in her embrace. His body felt cold to the touch, but as she continued holding him, willing him to feel better, he gradually regained the warmth she cherished more than anything else.
"..."
Though he felt compelled to reassure Ren that he was fine, Jason gave up on the idea and entrusted himself to her embrace. It was a little awkward, as she was still topless from before, but it was also comfortable. So much so that, the moment he consigned himself to her care, he succumbed to a dreamless slumber...
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