A woman who gave an odd... feline air smirked slightly. "What's the matter with that?"
"Perhaps because it has been done before, Bastet?"
"Yes, but it is a classic, isn't it Artemis?"
"It is also a bit... not me," the bow holder sighed. "I'd rather do something other than that. But I'm not quite sure of what that would be."
Akane blinked several times as she realised that they were serious about this. It meant that they were going to change the Amazon into another form, and they apparently weren't talking about Jusenkyo water. Which told her that they were either very crazy, or more powerful than she thought. The latter possibility had the pit of her stomach dropping and she wished for a moment that there was a way out of the current area.
"Then what would you suggest?" Bastet asked, "I mean, doing a transformation is something that your group regularly does, isn't it?"
"Yes, but we usually try to be original..," Artemis replied.
"Then may I be of assistance?" a male voice asked as a guy muscled his way over to them.
"Dionysus. What do you want?"
"Simply to help," he said, and took a swig from the tankard that he was carrying.
"Not to take a young maiden for your own?"
"Seems that there are plenty around here, and so sacrificing one for a bit of fun won't hurt anything."
"Your 'fun' isn't mine."
"Semantics," Dionysus replied airly. "Listen, this is a party celebrating Amaterasu's new digs and her engagement, right?"
"Yeah, so?"
"'So'... You bring presents to such things, right?"
"Get to the point already," Artemis growled.
"It's very simple. Amaterasu's intended is a hero type. So he needs a sidekick, but one that he can handle. And you're the goddess of the hunt."
"If you don't come out and say it, I'm going to stuff that tankard down your throat."
"Such a temper... I mean for you to turn the little girl into a hound, like the ones in the hunt. Or perhaps a wolf, which would be better for a hero, I would think." The drinking diety shrugged. "Then you could present her to him as a gift, and she'd have to stick around for the rest of her life, but never be able to have him as she'd like. At least until she learned her lesson that is."
"Hmmm... You do have your uses on occassion. I think that will be a good idea."
"Thanks... For the first part at least."
Artemis grinned slightly and looked towards the Chinese Amazon. "Time for you to get a humility lesson," she told the girl before snapping her fingers.
It took a moment to register, but when it did, Shampoo realised that she could already feel her body shifting. Her chest pulled in, her legs shifted and moved, as her arms shortened into legs and her hands became paws. Both her nose and jaw lengthened, coming together to become a muzzle. The hair that had been one of her most prized attributes shrank to near nothing as a fur spread across her body. Each piece of her clothing fell off her body as it moved into a new configurations.
Soon she found herself on all four paws as she pulled her former dress off her head just as it all finished.
Standing proudly, the patron goddess of the Amazons smiled as she took in her handiwork. "Perfect, if I do say so myself."
Putting his arm around her, Dionysus nodded. "Aren't you glad that I came up with the idea?"
"Not enough to allow you to touch me."
Giving a disappointed look, he let her go and stepped away.
"But I do wonder if I could get Hephaestus to make a special collar..," Artemis mused thoughtfully.
On the other hand, Akane's heart was in her throat as she realised that what she had just seen was real. Her eyes couldn't move from the sight of the wolf that had been Shampoo. Even now she could barely here the talk, and wondered what would come next.
But stuck in the circle of rather powerful individuals, she could only stay and watch while:
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