"So... what are we going to do about Persephone?" Beth asked, when they'd finally been satisfied and managed to clean up the stables. Bill and Pholus were both aware of a constant undercurrent of need coming off of her, but it wasn't like they didn't feel the same from each other.
"What do you mean?" Bill asked., his brain still swimming from all the recent changes, and the amount of hormones in his objectively minutes old body.
"This is insane. My life is entirely different. I'm... like absurdly happy that I can be with you two, but I was planning on being a biologist. Nobody's going to take me seriously with blond hair and tits the size of udders."
Pholus nodded slowly, not really hearing over said udders.
"Good to see you got over your fear of women." Bill managed, nudging him.
Beth rolled her vibrant eyes and decided to ban all adjectives associated with her from her train of thought. A moment of staring at Bill's perfectly white teeth made her extend it to the three of them. Her libido shrugged; it was still going to have mains voltage running through it at all times. "Ok, so you two are running through the 12 labors of Hercules, guessing off the stable, the brass birds, and the girdle."
"Here it is, by the way." Pholus said, grabbing it off a hook in the wall. Beth automatically refastened it, sighing as her weight was redistributed.
"Thanks, but what other ones have you two gotten?" Beth asked.
"Hydra, Bull, Apples, Stable, Birds, Boar, and Girdle." Bill listed, and Beth winced.
"And... we're halfway through and you two are huge dicked supermodels with the only cow in the world large enough to take you? And we have the Mares left." She shivered at what that could imply.
"Mares, Lion, cattle, Cerberus, Hind." Bill confirmed.
"And what triggered all this again?"
Bill slapped his forehead and dragged his hand down, wrinkling his strong but delicate visage. "I asked for a lover who's dick was bigger than a centaur's."
"Hence you being a centaur because Pholus's dick needs to be bigger than that?" Beth asked.
Pholus grinned and nodded.
"What did you ask for?" She asked Pholus.
Pholus's grin shrank. "I wished for someone who would protect me, accept me for who I was, and appreciate me for all of me."
"So... both of those appear to be... fulfilled." She said, "Did you two tack on anything else?"
"I... like big muscles... so I brought up Hercules." Pholus said.
"So... that's the reasoning, you need to complete the 12 labors?"
"With a new time changing transformation for each one. And I swear they've been getting more extreme." Bill confirmed.
"Alright, so we probably want to try to avoid them?"
Pholus laughed a bit glumly. "She has a very broad interpretation of what the tasks mean."
"Ok, but let's try to approach this rationally. What could the Mares mean?" Beth asked, as Bill shifted his weight, causing his oversized stallionhood to come back into view.
"Hey, all this baby batter needs to go somewhere."
"You think so? That seems... a bit... like wrong? They're not... aware."
"Probably not, she hasn't had us do anything like... morally gross. Just weird and big." Pholus said.
"Having hundreds of kids would probably qualify as 'stealing away mares.'" Bill said. Pholus and Beth looked at each other, a tad tempted. Beth's nipples sending all the right signals up her spine as they pressed against the warm leather, while Pholus's cock extended a few inches.
"Is it wrong that I sort of find that hot? Like not with horses, but people who can realize what's happening." Pholus asked. "Like, you're already a stud..."
Bill rubbed his forehead. "You two want to talk about this over coffee or something? My brain is starting to hurt." He got to his feet, and walked out of the building, stark naked. Beth and Pholus looked at each other trying to figure out if this was a kink he'd been retconned with or if he was just fed up with everything. Beth finished latching her corset, while Pholus squeezed himself into his jockstrap and a tunic.
The dressage festival was partially done, so there were a few competitors hanging around the stables as they had fallen out. The sight of an 8 foot tall hunk definitely turned more than a few heads, and it just became greater as Pholus and Beth joined. "Man, we are not doing favors for anyone's self esteem." He murmured to Beth.
She nodded. "It feels like half my memories are of me reassuring friends that they're not worthless. Seriously, I got Mary-Sue'd so hard. Did you know I was the youngest cow-taur to ever win both a child beauty pageant and break 1000 kilos at the local weight lifting competition? And I think child beauty pageant are gross! Fucking retcon."
Pholus blushed. "Yep... because I remember meeting you at one of the pageant. I don't know why, but I remember meeting you there."
They both shuddered. "We need to get off this timeline as soon as possible." Bill agreed, opening the door for the other two. "We're close to the up-our-own-asses singularity, from which only bad ideas come."
"What's the plan?" Pholus asked, pouring the other two coffees. His newly improved metabolism frowned at him, offering more energy, but at this point it was for more for a semblance of normality rather than tempting yet another intrusive memory of being borderline worshiped in the shower.
"We need to figure out a change that affects a wider swath. Something that shifts it from 'Three supernaturally beautiful, kind, and strong sex gods appeared and were worshiped'." Bill said.
"Why the sudden push?" Beth asked. "You seemed to be more willing to go along with the flow."
"Then what was just happening to me and my best friend extended to you, and now it's causing serious mental harm to people around us. There's no way that we're 'solving' teenage inadequacy by being good friends. We need to trigger another change that affects a broader swatch of humanity, or gets us confined here just fucking. Either are fine by me."
"So... which one?" Pholus asked.
"I... don't know." Bill sighed. "I'd rather not just be stuck in a room, but if it was with you two, I can think of worse fates."
"And affecting so many people seems like a... recipe for unintended side effects. I'm not sure if I want to be the focus of a fertility cult or something." Beth said. "Either of you want milk? I'm feeling a tad full."
Pholus passed his mug towards Beth, and she added milk until it was nearly full, waiting for him to say stop. When she looked at him questioningly, he shrugged. "I like you a lot more than coffee."
Beth blushed and adjusted her corset again, trying not to preen too hard. She reached out with her hand and held Pholus's, already imagining what they'd do later that night. Judging by the sound of straining fabric underneath the table, Pholus was doing the same. And, from the small flock of confused looking horse girls that had been accumulating, they were going to be featuring in some fantasies.
Bill slammed his fist down on the table, breaking the spell. "Dammit, this is what I'm talking about. Beth, Pholus, I think I love you two. You are amazing and generous, and I've known you my entire life. And I also know you're both insecure weaklings who got lucky enough to be blessed to not be... that. Like me. And ... that's a big deal, but... fuck... I don't know how much more I can take. Does the sound of a herd of hundreds seem amazing? Hell yeah. Endless pregnant bellies, huge spires between people's legs, people being milked, playing video games, working out, whatever. I really really want that. But... what it implies for so many people and what we know about each other and how we'd get there? I don't know. It's wrong."
The flock of interested horse girls had stared dispersing as his rant got louder and more intense.
"Bill..." Beth said, taking his hand.
"Who fucking cares? Either they'll remember and they'll find it hot after the next change or reality will be rewritten and it doesn't matter." He sighed and lay his head on the table. "Fuck, my body is telling me that I need to go work out, eat, fuck something, in that order. And I want to do all of it. But... why the fuck is something being imposed on me, despite it being literally what my brain is programmed to want to do, so fucking annoying?"
Pholus had been remarkably quiet, sitting there and drinking his milky coffee. "Alright... I think I might have a solution. This is Persephone having fun, right? We just need to reach the end in such a way that it's not fun for her."
Beth looked at him. "What do you mean?"