Now available on Literotica: Becoming Monsters Book 1, Growing Problems!
Chapter 1, so a long way to go before we are done. All 40 chapters will show up here as quickly as i can format them, so look forward to returning to Honoka's adventures with monster girls chapter by chapter as I figure out how to format everything so it fits my vision.
For right now, enjoy the story and join with thousands of people when I say to KEEP HARMONIZING!!
NOTE: I am adding in some metric measurements for my international readers. After trying to understand all the many, many different ways breasts are measured around the world, I have found a few interesting discoveries. First, as any girl will tell you, there is no perfect 1:1 size to bra system in place anywhere, so the System is really just doing the best it can under extremely difficult circumstances. Second, it looks like I've already been using a US/European hybrid for cup sizing, so I will continue to do that. And while band sizing is wildly different for countries, I will instead opt to make it a chest sizing and straight convert everything other than cup size into centimeters. IE, Honoka's first measurement turns from 24AAA-20-22 into 61AAA-50-56. I will also try and catch anything in the text, but my primary focus will be in the stat boxes.
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Chapter 1: Just A Normal Girl
Never mind the sensitivity training people received nowadays, all Honoka thought at this moment was - in her best Boromir -
they have a cave troll.
"Look, I know I gave you Thursday and Friday off," Steve said, his twelve-foot hulking form hunched to push his fanged and grotesque face into Honoka's cubical. Inhuman Steve might be, it was comically offset by his tailored white and blue striped dress shirt, suspenders and gray slacks. His expression, a look Honoka knew as his revulsive way of being sorry/not sorry, told her all she needed to know. "Buuuuttt, management needs the Gremlin Bank plans done by Monday and
I
need all hands on deck."
For the hundredth time since the Change, Honoka wished the System gave her laser eyes so she could melt Steve's troll face. Not because he was a troll but because he was middle management: becoming a troll five years ago just made him more insufferable and gave him extreme body odor. However, instead of speaking up, Honoka nodded silently and looked down at the ground, her natural anxiety keeping her from doing anything. Again.
"Attagirl," Steve said with a tusked smile, gently slapping Honoka's shoulder but still nearly throwing her out of her swivel office chair. "Knew I could count on you." He trudged off, his overly large, clawed and shoeless feet stomping loudly to give the rest of the drones warning the boss was on the prowl.
Honoka turned back to her computer screen, CAD drawings of the fourth-floor basement of the Gremlin Bank stared back at her without sympathy. She couldn't believe it. Steve was forcing her to work during the most crucial weekend of the year, the one time she asked off since the Change. She couldn't do anything. Frozen in impotent frustration, her hands unwilling to move and get back to work. She was so mad she felt like laughing, nothing making sense anymore in the soup of her emotions.
There are three other architects working on the Gremlin Bank,
Honoka thought, desperately trying to keep her mental state in check and the mistiness of her eyes from turning into a crying fit.
Why do I need to give up the only time I've asked off, for this?
"Wow, tough cookies, girlfriend."
Honoka glanced up, startled while she reflexively wiped a hand across her eyes. Meredeth, Honoka's cubicle neighbor, leaned her cyclopean face over the edge of the fifteen-foot tall partition comfortably. Honoka shook her head, trying to play it off. "No biggie."
"It is a biggie," Meredeth replied, her deep alto voice barely keeping in the range of office decorum as she brushed some purple bangs out of her eye. "This was your chance. You've worked hard for it."
Honoka couldn't keep out the palpable bitterness in her voice. "There's always next year."
"Bullsh...crap!" Meredeth caught herself at the last moment, considerate of Honoka's distaste of profanity, but Honoka heard the office hush a bit over the giant cyclops' rise in volume. "You should complain to management. HR might see this as harassment or Racism."
"I...I don't know. I don't want to cause any problems." Honoka hung her head, letting her long black hair hide her face. Realizing she wasn't getting any work done at the moment, she slowly stood up, posture defeated. "I gotta take a Change Break."
"Oh, ok." Meredeth wanted to say more, Honoka was sure, but the Change brought on too many, well,
changes
to let anyone interfere with what social media and civil rights activists insisted was a private matter.
Making sure to grab her canvas bag (purses don't hold enough, and her messenger bag was pink, which made it cute), Honoka moved quickly, trying to avoid the stares she imagined from her coworkers, posture slumped on her way to the restrooms. The norm of the old world gone, three doors greeted the young woman as she walked past Male and Female, pushing open the larger Changed door at the end and entering an empty unit. The Changed Room's design was different than a traditional restroom, stalls of various shapes and sizes available, each its little private space with sinks, mirrors, biohazard disposal, harnesses, vacuum pumps and whatever else was needed in the modern era. Honoka couldn't hear anyone so she counted herself lucky, closing the door behind her for a regularly sized chamber with only a simple toilet, sink and mirror setup.
"Welcome back, today we have a treat. Our guest, Dr. Sputenmeiker, is here to talk to us on the fifth anniversary of the Change."
Honoka nearly jumped out of her skin, letting out a little shriek before putting her hand up to her mouth and stifling herself. It appeared there was someone else in one of the stalls, likely following the age-old corporate philosophy of Paid To Poop while they watched a video on their phone or tablet. The volume wasn't loud, but in the otherwise silent restroom, Honoka picked up the broadcast without any other clue to whom was in here with her.
"It is good to be back, Lucy, and I hope people can forgive my appearance, I'm currently molting."
Honoka paused, wishing they would leave soon, but the pressure increased dramatically, causing the young woman to sweat. Knowing what would come in only a few minutes, she rationalized no one would discover it was her. Taking only a moment to hang her bag on a hook in the door, Honoka softly walked to the toilet. A simple styled one - though she knew there were other more exotic pieces of porcelain in different stalls - she didn't need a deluxe model. And besides, the greatest taboo in the world today was talking about other people's Change. Honoka went to work removing her clothing without any more fuss.
"No problem at all, Doctor, I'm sure plenty of our viewers relate. To start us off, can you or any of your colleagues give us answers yet as to why or how the Change happened?"
For reasons of her Change, Honoka restricted herself to a peach blouse and white skirt, pants being impossible for her now. The skirt was simple and ruffled, reaching down to just above her ankles. The young woman fumbled at the clasp, trying to get it off but her hands were clammy and she felt a straining tension. Typically Honoka tried to strip before taking care of business, but she foresaw today might be more urgent so she settled for just the skirt. Finally, she unhooked the clasp and pushed the garment to the ground, exposing her Change to the cold air of the stall.
"No one knows, and nothing can scientifically explain it either. One day the human race was minding its own business, going about its Pre-Change reality when everyone in the world got hit at once with a blue screen announcing we would be subject to Levels, Classes and - as in my case and the case of nearly a third of the world's population - a change of Race. Even now, anyone can bring up their Status and find a numerical summary of abilities and individual information. I've personally dedicated my life to understanding the phenomenon and I realize we as a people are barely beginning to scratch the surface of all the many options there are to explore."
Glancing in the mirror, Honoka always felt shame whenever she looked at herself, even before the Change. Five feet and nothing inches (152cm), ninety pounds (40.4kg) soaking wet, her mixed African and Japanese heritage gave her all the wrong parts and only made her look like a mongrel freak. Black skin the color of creamy cocoa - the only feature she inherited from her father - the rest resembled her mother's family. Long black hair straight and thin, slanted eyes and high cheekbones, five years ago she might have been able to pull off exotic even if the rest of her fell repulsively short in the womanhood department. Honoka retained the same body she had when she was ten years old, only her regular period proving she was a twenty-six-year-old and fully adult woman. Honoka knew better, she resembled her Honda grandmother only with dark skin, but the tiny women of Nagasaki looked like emaciated dwarfs to the giants of America and Western clothing sizes were laughably limited for her proportions. She wore a tween sized bra to keep her nipples in check - nothing up there needed support - and she used to buy her panties out of the children's section - her butt and hips were so small - all the way up to the Change. Now, though, she bought her panties special-order.