Maria was ready to snap. Fridays at the gas station she worked at were always busy, but tonight was on another level. Not only was there a nigh constant stream of customers, meaning she had very little downtime to do her various chores, but it felt like every single of of them was a fucking jackass.
There was a lady who bought fifty dollars of scratch and wins—composed of almost exclusively one and two dollar tickets—unconcerned with the growing line behind her. Another customer came in angrily shouting about how the gas pump was broken and wouldn't take his card and she needed to come out and fix it, only for it to turn out he was putting his card in backwards. Some other piece of shit had gone off on a minutes long anti-government rant when she told him the store doesn't carry candy flavoured vape fluid! Then there was that lady who asked for smokes by package colour, somehow having gone half a decade without noticing that they're all brown now, and got huffy when asked which one she meant!
The instant she got an opportunity to escape this hell, Maria did. She locked the door, put up the "back in 5 minutes" sign, and slipped into the bathroom to take a break. She didn't need to use the bathroom, but it was the only place she could both sit down and not be seen by any customers through the windows. She had been sitting on the toilet lid for a bit now, enjoying being off her feet for the first time since her shift started. She pulled out her phone to check the time. It was 10:31pm. She had less than a half hour left on this gods forsaken shift.
Reluctantly standing up, Maria walked over to the mirror as she mentally prepared herself for the home stretch. She was of an average height, her modest bust and wide hips giving her a somewhat pear-shaped build. For this month's hair colour she gone with a bright red, the crimson locks cut short in the back with long bangs that hung partially over her brown eyes. Her skin was a light copper, though most of it was covered by her face mask, gaudy, bright yellow uniform shirt and her black work pants.
After taking a moment to hand-comb her hair and straighten her shirt a bit Maria left the bathroom, hoping that there was no one waiting outside so she could get started on her various end-of-day chores. Sadly this hope was shattered by the older woman—dressed in jeans and a "There's two ways to do things: my way and the wrong way" shirt—waiting outside, who immediately went over to the chip shelf to slowly sift through each brand and flavour.
While the woman was still contemplating which chips to buy another customer wandered in as well. This one was a college-age looking guy in shirt with a print of Tifa Lockhart in a bikini so small that Maria internally questioned if he should
really
be wearing it in public. He strolled up and down the coolers, as if the drinks inside would change the next time he looked.
Maria could do nothing by stare at the clock from behind the till as these two wasted precious time she could be using for actually important things. Her eyes lazily moved across the store—a moderate sized affair with three shelves breaking the space up—as she waited for the two customers to finish. As she waited a strange force washed over the store settling over the woman still picking out chips.
A pale shade of blue washed over the woman's skin and her brunette hair darkened to an inky black. Her eyes turned bright yellow while their sclera darkened. The shirt she was wearing was stretched taut as the breasts beneath them exploded out into a pair of massive, perky watermelons. The garment itself then changed to better fit the woman's transformed figure, its text having been re-written to now read "Sorry for having great tits and correct opinions." Though not to the extent of her chest, her hips and ass also grew a few sizes larger. Her thighs also puffed up, but only to unravel into a quartet of dark-purple tentacles each. These tentacles fanned out around her hips as her pants became a "knee-length" skirt. Beneath the folds of this skirt, right between her foremost tentacles, grew a thick, forearm length cock with a matching pair of balls following right behind.
Despite this sudden and extreme transformation taking place right before her, Maria didn't even flinch. And why should she? That woman has
always been just as she was now
. At least, that's the truth as far as she—as well as most of the world—were concerned. Even the woman herself could not even conceive of being anything but an extremely curvy, dual-sexed, octopus person.
This change in reality was not perfect however, and there were people who slipped through the cracks. One such person was the other customer, who yelped out in shock when he rounded the corner. The confused stares he got from the two women stopped any further questionings however, and the man slinked over to look at the candy shelf.
Perhaps encouraged by the man's strange outburst, the woman quickly gathered up a dozen or so bags of chips—using a few tentacles to carry what wouldn't fit in her arms—and made her way up to the till. Glad that the woman would be leaving soon, Maria quickly rang in her purchases while the man grabbed a bag of chips and got in line.
While Maria already didn't have the most positive impression of this man already, having come in less than an hour before close only to waffle about for several minutes, the way he was staring at the other woman creeped her out. She was a little worried that he might try follow her after leaving the store, but the fact the woman's car was parked right outside meant that she would be long gone before he finished paying.
"Can I also get two packs of smokes?" asked the man after his chips and soda had been rung in. He still glanced over to the woman getting into her car occasionally.
Maria took a moment to decide if he looked young enough to bother IDing, and ultimately decided that he did. Wanting to get this guy out of the store ASAP, she skipped filling out the ID sheet and just made sure the photo looked vaguely like him and that the DoB was good. Everything was in order so she grabbed the smokes out of the case behind her and rang them up.
"That lady
did
transform into a tentacle monster, right?" The man suddenly babbled some nonsense as he pulled out his debt card.
"You mean the Scylla?" Maria's customer service facade dropped a bit, hostility creeping into her tone as she began to lose patience with this guy. Thankfully that was enough to get the man to shut up and just pay. As he tapped his card however, he began to transform just like the woman before.
His previously toned limbs plumped up, with his thighs especially thickening into a pair of melon-crushers. His feet lengthened into digitigrade paws while his hands gain retractable claws. Bubblegum pink fur covered his legs to mid-thigh and his arms to just below the elbow. His shorts shrank down into a pair of booty-shorts that did little to hide the bulge of his massive feline sheath and balls—behind which a pussy had formed. These shorts also had a hole in the back through which a pair of thin tails grew.
The man's chest burst forwards and his waist pinched in, the shirt looking more like a crop top—which it the literally became as it wrapped around his basketball-sized tits. The image on it was still Tifa, but she was now in her iconic white top and black miniskirt; however, the martial artist was now a centaur, her equine body covered in a pair of black shorts that did nothing to hide her massive ballsack that—in this new reality—was responsible for just as many sexual awakenings as her breasts.
Last to change was his face. The scraggy peach-fuzz that covered it faded away as his jaw and cheekbones rounded out. His lips plumped up as pink lipstick covered them. His eyes grew larger, their irises becoming a slightly darker shade of pink then his fur. This colouration spread to his hair, which grew down to his mid-back before being pulled into twin-tails by a pair of scrunchies that popped into existence.
"Would you like your receipt ma'am?" asked Maria. She was glad that the Nekomata would be out of her hair soon so she could get ready for closing time.
"Ma'am? I'm a man!" the Nekomata's shouted in his high-pitched, squeaky voice.
"Oh, sorry!" Maria was legitimately apologetic. While this person had been annoying, that didn't mean she was justified in misgendering him. It had been a bit rude to simply assume he was a woman just because he was a Monsterborn. Though, she could've swore she saw an "F" on his ID, (though she couldn't remember
why
she had IDed him to begin with) but he could have simply not bothered to change it.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? What happened to me!? Why do I have tits!?" The Nekomata's sudden outburst startled Maria. He was hyperventilating as he looked over his body in horror. Maria thought he might be having a panic attack of some kind.