Authors note:
Some folks were upset that the previous chapter wasn't a fully complete story despite clearly being marked as "Chapter 1". So allow me to elaborate further. Fantasy Family is planned as a serial publishing endeavor. Each chapter builds on the last. Some will be erotic, some will not be, very few will be stand alone. You have been warned.
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"You want to explain? Fine! Explain it to me then, I'm all ears." I shouted at Alice, my anger getting the best of me.
"Look Mikey" She sighed, taking a seat next to me on my beat up futon and resting her hand on my knee. "I don't know all the specifics, we were just kids when it all happened, but it happened a few times. You'd get sick, or get hurt, and one of us was there to take care of you, but after a few days of being side by side like that, you'd start to show our powers." My older sister couldn't meet my gaze as she explained.
"Mom can probably tell you better than I can, but when you were nine I stayed home to babysit after you broke your leg. After day 7 you were fine. Like shape-shifted fine. The bone was fully healed and you accidentally made yourself three inches shorter on the right leg only. I panicked, I called mom, Atlas stepped in. They swore me and mom to secrecy and expedited Macy's license just to hold her to an oath." As Alice explained to me, my mind was racing with fragments of memories that felt like dreams. Fuzzy and vague, distant, but very much there.
"Mace called Mom already. She's on her way to talk to you, I'll be next door if you need me but I'm sure you have a lot to think about" Alice offered. I could only stay silent on my own part, too many conflicting emotions running through my mind. I had so many questions. I knew Atlas's academic requirements had never been difficult, but was that because I was secretly stockpiling brain power? Did I stay slim from the strength and metabolic boosts of others? How many powers had I actually copied, Just my family, or more?
My mind was swimming when Alice got up and left, too confused to say anything else to her. I was jolted out of my stupor when I heard the front door closed. Getting up, I stumbled to the bathroom to look at myself in the mirror. I had a portion of Alice's power, she told me that herself. If I really was a super I should be able to use my power like flexing a muscle. An unused, undertrained, nearly forgotten muscle. Hopefully reflex would carry me at least a little.
I urged my body to listen to my commands, trying to force mind over matter quite literally. I wanted to change the color of my eyes. Nothing. Maybe my hair? Nothing. Piece after piece I'd try something cosmetic just for it to fail. I was practically ready to give up when I resolved to my final attempt. Height.
If I could make myself just an inch taller, half an inch even, it would prove without a doubt that I had powers. I flexed my mind, hell I even flexed some of my muscles, pushed, pulled, held my breathe, shut my eyes, anything that would help. I didn't feel a thing. Defeated and despondent I opened my eyes with a resigned sadness, only to see my bathroom had shrunken. No! I had gotten taller. There was a pressure in my chest like I was holding my breath, and when I relaxed, I shrunk back to my original height.
I had powers! I could sort-of shapeshift!
Overwhelmed by finally having the only thing I had ever truly wanted, I felt tears of joy spill from my eyes and I couldn't help but laugh. It was a colossal relief. I'd finally fit in with my family, with my "friends". For once in my life I wouldn't be the odd one out in every single situation.
I spent the next several minutes testing each and every part of my body and gradually becoming more comfortable with shapeshifting. The muscular analogy stood true, every single time I used the power it felt like it got just a fraction easier. The limits on the shifts were still remarkably small, minor growth at most. But by the time I heard mom knocking on the door, it wasn't much of a strain at all to hold a single minor shapeshift. I made my shoulders just a tad bit wider and moved to open the door, hearing mom overriding my security system with her master access code before I could even get to the top of the stairs.
"Mikey? Honey? I just got off work, we need to talk!" I heard her call from downstairs. Shit. That meant mom was coming as Madam Mystery, not Jennifer Connors. I let my shoulders deflate and grabbed a nearby pillow to hold over my lap. I never could get used to seeing her in that costume, especially not in person.
When mom crested the top of the stairs, the first thing I could see was the top of her black satin top hat, and I bit my lip because I knew what was coming. Her blonde hair, those shining blue eyes, the perfectly sculpted lines of her face. God her lips look so red with that lipstick on. She was wearing a white bow-tie today instead of black, not that I ever understood the ties. Her costume doesn't even have a shirt. She wears a tight white corset underneath her tailed halter-top tuxedo jacket. The hem of her outer garment barely comes past her stomach, but the tails droop significantly lower, unfortunately hiding the curve of her ass. No pants either, just a black leotard that seemed to come out from under her corset to hide the edge of her fishnets and the most shameful portions of her pelvis.
The full breadth of her hips, and the soft pale cheeks of her ass are on full display under the fishnets, the bottoms barely covering her pelvis. My god did those legs go all the way down too. She wasn't anyone's assistant, she was the whole damn show. Only, this show would be at home in a strip club as much as a gallery stage.
"Yeah mom, I'm fine" I sigh when she comes around the corner, already feeling my cock stiffen in my pants in response to the simulating sights.
"Oh baby..." I hear her coo as she walks over. I glance up just in time to see her bouncing cleavage headed directly towards my face. I stifled a moan as she wrapped me in a hug, forcing me face first into her exposed chest. "I'm sorry you had to find out this way, really I am, I was just trying to keep you safe" mom explained, her voice wavering with emotion.
"Keep me safe mom? Safe from what?" I asked indignantly, pulling away from her hug to see my mother staring back at me with tears welling up in her eyes.
"The last time you copied a power sugar, it was mine..." She sighed, casting her gaze to the floor.