In fact, she was now a moon-elf, which made her red-hair rather unusual, actually. Whether her male form was the same was something that had not yet been determined, but something she was going to learn about as soon as she could.
For the moment, she only noted the size of her ears and the way sounds seemed to be so close. Or the way that she could see detail on a leaf a hundred yards away.
But she was not the only one changed. To list them all in the order in which he had met them in, the changes were as follows.
Akane's hair was now a brilliant, almost bloody, red. The muscles in her arms and legs were much better defined than they had been, and she was fairly covered in a variety of tattoos, mostly just symbols, that she must have gotten sometime in the last night.
Ranma thought her jaw was a little bit different, wider maybe, but it was almost unnoticeable, even to her. The increased chest size was certainly easy to note, however. And despite the new punkish look, she still managed somehow to look, if no longer cute, then sexy.
After all, not all red-caps were butt-ugly. And Akane was now that exception that made the rule.
Next was Nabiki, and she had changed both less and more than Akane. Nabiki's ears were now black-furred tufts that went quite well with the black and white tail she now had. She didn't have fur, save on the tail and ears, but her brown hair had been replaced with something black and white.
Akane may have lost her cuteness, but Nabiki, even without any other change, now seemed unbearably so. She still had the same body-shape and face. Even her expression was one of smug satisfaction that was common to Nabiki. But all of it now seemed just incredibly cute. That was just how pooka were.
As for Kasumi, long white wings with black tips grew out of her back, and she sported a pair of ears much like Ranma's own. She was cuddled on one side of Ranma, with an angelically serene expression upon her face. Her wings carefully avoided by the press of bodies.
After Kasumi came Kodachi. And Ranma actually had to look closely at the slender gymnast to recognize her for who she was. Only now it was like someone had printed a negative of a photograph of the girl. The slender, gymnast's body was an ebony black and her formerly jet hair had become purest white. She was clinging contentedly to one of Ranma's legs.
As for Shampoo. The Amazon was in cat-form, a fact which surprisingly did not scare Ranma, though she hadn't yet noticed it. The white and purple cat was quite comfortable, wrapped in herself upon Ranma's chest.
Ranma was, at the moment, thinking that at least Shampoo was normal. But he would be proven wrong pretty soon. As a hengeyokai of the cat variety, Shampoo could now control her changes. Though, given a full human and full cat form in addition to her hybrid form, she could certainly pretend that no changes had occurred.
The last of the fiancees was Ukyou. She had green hair and a very tan body, but otherwise she seemed herself. Her head lay close to Shampoo's cat form as she was trapped between Akane and Nabiki. The free dryad, a dryad without the protection afforded by a tree but also able to wander at will, looked quite happy.
Ranma heard a snoring nearby and her eyes rolled up toward the top of her head. Reaching her hand up, she retrieved a happily snoring Mariko. The brunette had a pair of beautiful butterfly wings as she continued to snore in a rather loud fashion, especially as small as she was. Though Ranma seemed to remember that those same wings had been much bigger the night before.
And that left looking back to see what "pillow he had been resting on when he'd awakened. That was where Natsume and Kurumi were.
Natsume seemed much paler than he remembered her, and her every breath came out as a misty vapor such as happened when one breathed in the cold, save that it was only mid-summer. Otherwise she seemed normal.
Kurumi, on the other hand, had joined the red-heads with Akane and Ranma. And while Natsume evoked a pleasant chill, Kurumi was a comforting fire. They resting at angles near each other and seemed quite comfortable despite the new physical differences.
Ranma was nearing a point of hyperventilating now as he tried to think of what happened.
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