So Your Favorite Character is a Griffon, huh?
Linsey Deskaf stared at the strange orange potion riddled with bits and pieces her lover’s hair floating at the top; she was starting to have second thoughts about drinking it. Sure today is the day of their anniversary of when they started dating each other after admitting their love, but she wasn’t sure if she should take it that far. She was about to put it away until she heard her boyfriend, Vin Shafer, entered their bedroom. “Okay, I’m ready for our anniversary’s ‘Good Ending” now!” He called out to his lover in the bathroom.
Taking that as the cue that her time is up, she quickly downed the orange potion into her throat while holding her gag reflex as her boyfriend’s hair touched the roof of her mouth, “Strange, it just tastes like orange juice. Have I been ripped off?” She asked quietly to herself.
*~~~~~~~*
Meanwhile somewhere in one of Equestria’s caves, Gilda the griffon finished making preparations for bed and got her comforter out of her saddle bag. She looked back at the sleeping human and placed a talon on his head and noticed that his fever was dying down and he had a peaceful look on his face almost immediately at her touch. Glad that “the load,” as she called him, is sleeping well, she went back to her spot in the camp and was about to lay down until she ended up flinching from pain on her stomach and wing, the injuries she received when she saved her human.
The griffon looked back at the saddle bag next to her she has and found the small gold potion she bought for herself next to the empty she used to cure the human of his recent sickness. As Gilda popped the potion open with her thumb claw she vaguely remembered the potion’s merchant’s worried look and speech how that potion isn’t supposed to be used for injuries like that and some side effects about connecting or something. She didn’t remember his words completely since she didn’t considered them to be important enough and with that reasoning, she downed the entire potion without any more hesitation. The griffon suddenly felt drowsy and felt better about her injuries.
After quickly getting comfortable, the Gilda fell asleep faster than she usually did and mentally thought that this was a new personal best for her. But strangely, she immediately started to dream about flying and it was over a bunch of houses. She felt that she was searching for something, or someone: Someone who was like her but wasn’t, someone who is supposed to be her but wasn’t right now, someone who was supposed to look like her but wasn’t, and she felt strong sense of righteousness that if someone is supposed to look like her in this place then she’s going to make sure they do, whether they want to or not. She saw something glowing in the corner of her eye and turned around to see the source of the glow was in a shape of a creature almost like the human she’s travelling with. Gilda felt herself making a grin, an almost evil one like she knew she was going to do something bad that would disrupt this person’s plans, and dove down towards the shape at high speed. The last thing Gilda heard, before the dream starts turning on and off like a usual one, was her voice saying, “Found you…”
*~~~~~~~*
“Lin?” Her boyfriend called for her again, his voice dipped with worry.
“Coming!” She called out to him from the bathroom door after giggling about how her somewhat nerdy Asian boyfriend was on edge sometimes, like he expects her to be kidnapped by ninjas at one point. She then came out of the bathroom wearing her violet robe, “I got a special surprise for you tonight Vinny,” she said as she let the robe fall to her feet revealing her dark red lingerie to the surprised man, “I hope you’ll enjoy it.” She said with a seductive smile, which became bigger as she saw the squinty eyes of her boyfriend widened at the reveal of his girlfriend’s sexy outfit. The darkness of the red lingerie’s edges helped compliment her beautiful brown skin, accentuated her sexy long legs, and made her modest body look positively curvy. As she walked toward their bed, Lin was amused at how much of rise she was getting out of her lover and how he was trying so hard to keep himself from jumping into the bed with her right then and there. After crawling on to the bed, Lin got into a sexy pose with her hand on her head and lightly crossing her legs, “See anything you like?” She asked in a flirtatious tone.
Vin couldn’t keep himself from nodding, “Yeah,” he said in his own seductive voice and was about to move into the bed with her, until he saw something strange happening with her chest, like they were getting bigger and the skin looking a bit brighter. “Woah… What’s happening to your breasts?” He asked quietly.
Lin looked down and saw that her breasts were a bit bigger than she saw them last time and smiled inwardly to herself, proud that the potion is working its magic now. Lin looked back up at Vin with a smile, “Why this is the surprise I have for you Vi-” She stopped when she felt a strange prickling sensation at the base of her neck and noticed her boyfriend’s eyes went from being wide in arousal to wide in confusion.
“What’s happening to your breasts?!” He said in almost alarming tone, noticing strange small white feathers were coming out near the top of his girlfriend’s assets.
Lin looked down to notice the feathers growing from her body and tried to raise a hand to feel them but stopped when a numbing sensation suddenly crept over it and the other hand. She brought them to her face and couldn’t believe what she was watching as they turned yellow in front of her eyes. A strong invisible grip forced two of her middle fingers together and started making them merge with each other while Lin felt the nails grow sharper as the other fingers started to look more like points of a clawed glove then human fingers. The middle fingers were still merging together until the space between them completely sealed up, leaving each hand with one finger less than four and the feeling Lin had between those two fingers had all but completely vanished from her senses, almost as if she always had three fingers and a thumb in her entire life. Then the rest of the fingers and thumb finished changing from rounded ends to pointed ends and Lin suddenly felt a sensation that her thumb can move much farther down on her palm if she wanted to. Lin was about to feel disgusted by this revelation when the yellow skin spread from her hand to the middle of her arm, nearly half way up her elbow, leaving one crease from her wrist and another crease just not far from the first one. The yellow skin spread until the middle of Lin’s forearm and met with the light brown fur that came from her shoulders almost as if she’s wearing long yellow gloves.
Lin led her eyes through one of her light brown fur covered shoulders back to where her breasts used to be. Once she realized that there was no trace of her beautiful orbs pushing up against the bra of the lingerie but a light brown fur covered mound instead, Lin was about to cry her heart out but the back of her shoulders violently twitched and convulsed. It felt like something was trying to come out of her back but her bra was in the way, so it kept making her back twitch up and down making her grunt and moan in discomfort. That is until finally, with one final push from the inside of her body, Lin felt two large things burst from her back which were in fact wings.
The transforming woman couldn’t feel herself relax when another strange push from the inside just popped out from behind her lower back. Lin looked behind her to see a long tuft of fur form just above her panties and then she saw and felt it twitch before it just slithered out from behind her like it was a snake with a pulling sensation like someone was dragging a long blanket out of a box. As it slithered from Lin’s body, the large tuft of a fur dragged out a long light brown rope with it, making her feel uncomfortable that she can feel the bed and air from them as it reached its full length as her new tail.
The tail curled inward and brushed at Lin’s legs almost as if it was telling her the where the next changes are about to start. The woman’s thighs thickened and grew like it was a balloon filling with air as the light brown fur covered it. The length of the thighs shortened considerably, making the knees a bit closer to her body. Then Lin felt a large amount of strength moved from her lower legs to her feet making her look down to see that her feet was suddenly getting bigger and longer while the lower legs shrink in between the feet and thighs. She saw her big toe growing thicker like her thighs did earlier while the bottom of it felt strangely rougher and different, meanwhile her two middle toes and her two end toes thickened and merged together to form two separate toes giving Lin three toes on each foot. As the feet grew even longer, the toes were quickly covered in fur as they grew to be just as thick has her original foot. The bottom of each toe darkened quickly and puffed out into the ends of a lioness’s paw pads along with the bottom of her heels that ballooned out into larger paw pad as well, giving Lin’s soles the feeling like she was wearing thick heavy socks, but she can still feel the bed as if it was her own skin. Meanwhile, the toes grew over the human nails, engulfing them completely, and she felt the nails changing into something sharp.
Lin was about to wonder how can she see the changes of her legs like that until she felt the feathers growing under her chin and quickly looked down in front of her to see a small pillar of white feathers from under her now long neck along with a few of them being tipped with purple tinges here and there. As if it was waiting for Lin to realize what was going to change next, she felt the wave of feathers suddenly growing all over head as if she was being dragged under water. As soon as the feathers reached her face, Lin felt her head stretching out and becoming rounder like she was being molded by a sculptor. She felt her ears shrink into her head as it becomes bigger than a normal human’s being. She closed her eyes shut as she felt them becoming larger like the sculpture grabbed the ends of her skull’s eyes and pulled them over the other features of her head along with a stinging sensation as the color of her eyes changed. While her eyes were closed, the woman felt the feathers growing around them being a little different from the white feathers. Lin opened her eyes again after she felt three long feathers grew forward from the top of her head as it almost pulled her forward with them, making her realized that her hair was swallowed by the feathers. Then she felt the invisible sculptor pinched her lips with his fingers and dragged them out in front of her as she felt them becoming harder and strangely smoother. Lin felt the pinching in her lips intensify as they were turning into a more definite and thicker shape as she felt the bridge between her nostrils pulled apart from each other and pulled down along her lips with the tip of her nose shrinking into the new beak like a pimple being pushed down into the skin. Lin looked down to see a yellow shape protruding from her face at the bottom of eyes, just where her nose used to be, but bit lower and more like a hill.
After a few seconds of heavy breathing, Lin no longer felt any strange sensations except for her new appendages swaying and twitching about. “Mirror,” Lin suddenly said, her eyes darting around the desks at the side of the bed, “I need a mirror.” She attempted to move quickly but fell down due to not knowing how to move her body properly and poking a small hole in her blanket. But it still gave her enough distance to reach the compact she left on her side of the bed and grabbed it, not caring about the yellow talons that breached her vision in place of her hands. With one flick of her thumb it quickly opened, the reflection of the mirror inside the compact stopped Lin in her place.
There in the mirror staring back at her was a bird that has strange markings on it with an expression showing that it was just as confused as she was. But the bird looked like it came from a cartoon due to its large expressive yellow eyes tipped with its obvious feminine eyelashes. The purple feathers grew around her eyes and eyelids shaped themselves to be a small flame around them, up to the corners of her head. Lin was about to write it off as some sort of illusion until the bird in the mirror started mimicking her expressions like her eyes shifting left and right, blinking at the same time she does, hyperventilating from her beak, and lastly touching her face with a yellow talon like hand. As soon as she saw that her hand and the talon are one and the same her large yellow eyes almost shrunk to dots; and she did the only thing a sensible person would do in this situation: She screamed.
Lin’s screaming turned into a screeching roar that was so loud that it knocked Vin out thanks its combination with the stressed of seeing his girlfriend turned into a cartoon character. The sound of his unconscious body hitting the floor reminded Lin of his presence for the first time since the transformation has began. Filled with worry, Lin stumbled to her boyfriend while tripping and flopping everywhere and looked to see if he’s still alive from her screaming and checked his pulse with the back of her talon. She was then filled with relief that the man she loved was still alive, until another thought crossed her mind: That the whole thing was his fault.
*~~~~*
Vin awoke in the dim lighted room on top of his and his girlfriend’s bed, he looked down to see he was still in his clothes and on top of the sheets, so he wonder if he ever told Lin that he was going to take a nap during their anniversary. Which didn’t seem right for him, he wouldn’t go to sleep on one of the most important day of their lives, especially with all the stuff they went through today. While he was stretching he felt that the bed had another guest and made him smile that his girlfriend’s presence was probably the reason he awoke from his unexpected nap. With a comforting sigh Vin said, “Man, Lin, I just had the weirdest dream. We were about to have sex when all of a sudden you turned into one of my favorite cartoon characters, crazy huh?”
“Oh really?” Lin’s tough and mature natured voice said from behind the man.
“Yeah it’s-” Vin stopped dead in his tracks when he rolled behind to see a cartoon griffon looking down at him in disappointment. He couldn’t believe at what he was seeing, big yellow eyes, brown lion like body with eagle hands and eagle wings, long lion tail, white feathers with a few that is tipped in purple especially at the end, and purple feathers that cover the eyes like a fire mascara of some sort on the eagle head. While some of fur and feathers had some “realistic features” on them, like she came from the latest Smash Bros. game, there was no doubt in his mind that the creature lying next to him was Gilda the griffon, but where was Lin? Wasn’t she behind him?
“Please tell me, how does this dream of yours end?” Gilda said with Lin’s voice that is filled with venom in it, causing Vin to put two and two together.
“Lin? Is that you?” He asked with uncertainty.
But the griffon ignored him growing angrier, “Does it end with you two #$#%^$@ each other?”
Vin was offended at the accusation and sat up from the bed onto his knees, “What are you talking about?”
“What am ‘I’ talking about?” Lin with Gilda’s body said as she sat up from the bed onto her haunches, roughly the same height as Vin on his seat. “I’m talking about your DREAM!” She screamed at the only human causing him to fall off the bed.
He quickly stood up made his ground despite his fear over the angry cartoon griffon, “What dream?!”
“I mean your dream to #$^@ a %$&^#$( cartoon animal!” Lin then stood up on the bed and walked off of it, “So this is what turns you on huh?” She started circling Vin like a lion on a hunt, clearly being able to walk in this body much easier than before thanks to her practicing in the hour when Vin was knocked out, “You can’t find humans attractive anymore and so you fap to creatures like this!” She gestured to herself with a talon and continued to circle around him, “THIS is what your dream girl is like?! THIS is your IDEAL of the perfect girl?!” She stopped and sadly looked down, “I thought I was your dream girl.” She then glared back at her ‘boyfriend,’ “But I guess I was wrong.” Then she continued walking, “Apparently your idea of a perfect girl is covered in fur and walks on all fours. But no, not having fur and feathers is not enough for you isn’t it? This girl has to be covered in all kinds of animal parts for her to be attracted to you. She has to be some sort of freak of nature just so you can get a rise out of one. You want to have sex with THIS THING more than your own GIRLFRIEND!” She stopped in front of the bed, “Well guess what, the only way to change me back to normal is for you to $%^ me,” She suddenly stood on her hind legs so she would be exactly at Vin’s height instead of just barely reaching his chest which she poked him with a sharp finger of her talon, but not hard enough to hurt him, “So it looks like that disgusting dream of yours gets to come true.” Then she hopped back on the bed, “Now hurry up and get on the bed so we can get this done and over with already.”
“No!” Vin said vehemently.
“What?” Lin couldn’t believe what she heard him say. She expected him to either show his true colors or jump at the chance to have it with the thing he likes the most.
“That is not my dream nor is it whatever thing I wanted!” Vin shook his head and swipe his hand across the air rebelliously, he is not going to fall into this kind of trap. “What happened to you?! How did you get turned into a cartoon griffon and why does having sex with you is the only way to change you back?!”
“I won’t tell you!” Lin yelled back with her wings flared up in fury.
She was about to continue but Vin slammed his foot, “Why?! Because ‘I know what I did?’ News Flash Linsey: I DON’T KNOW WHAT I DID! And I’m not going to do ANYTHING until you tell me what the heck is going on!”
Lin’s eyes started changing sizes between medium and large in anger, how dare he tried to get out of this like he had no part of this… but then again he does deserve to know why this is happening since she did pull this “surprise” on him without his knowledge. So Lin decided to ease her tone, “Vin, if you truly love me, you would do this right now so I can change back into a human.”
Vin growled angrily, he can’t believe she just pulled that card on him and started taking off his clothes after a few moments, but would stop immediately depending on her answer to this question: “Will you tell me everything when this is over?”
Lin gritted her teeth through her beak, “Yes.”
“Good answer.” Vin replied and proceed toward the bed.
*~~~*
“That… was… amazing!” Lin said, who was completely spent after the rollercoaster of sex they just had. She had no idea that she can enjoy this new body like that and wonder if that sort of pleasure was only exclusive to cartoon griffons since Vin was massaging certain spots on her shoulders at the base of her wings. She lay down on top of Vin’s body, loving the feeling of Vin’s sweaty skin is rubbing off on her soft fur and feathers as it cool her down. She placed her talons on his shoulders while laying her feathery head on one of them.
Vin was breathing happily at the sex they had too, as he was enjoying the smooth and semi-fluffy fur and feathers of his changed girlfriend’s body from laying on top of him. That is, until the wave of bitterness of how this came to be caught up to him, making his smile vanish, “Funny how sex can change a person’s mood entirely.” He said bitterly.
Lin’s breathing slowed down after she took his words to heart, “Yeah, funny…” The griffon agreed in a somber tone, all of the fury she has for the man was simmer down to just a flicker now. She has calmed down enough that she is willing to at least hear Vin out, especially since she needs to understand something that has been bugging her for while now that they’re done, “Why?” She seriously asked, but when her response from him was a questioned grunt, she clarified, “Why did you change the #$#&*&@ into THAT? Why did you make this… enjoyable, when all you had to do is just #$%& me and be done with it? I was angry with you…”
Vin sighed, “Well, somewhere along the way, I figured if this is going to be the last sex we’re ever going to have, I might as well make it enjoyable as I can. You know?”
“No, I don’t know.” Lin sighed from her beak onto her Asain boyfriend’s shoulder, “If you want to make it enjoyable, why not just make it enjoyable for yourself? You didn’t have to include me.”
Vin moved his hand further up on Lin’s back, “Well, the first obvious selfish reason is that I don’t want to get clawed to death by upsetting you even more during our angry sex.”
“That’s true.” The griffon simply said, not exactly happy with the first answer.
“Second, sex is a two way street, if I can’t make you happy, then there’s no reason for me to be happy during sex while you weren’t. It’s the philosophy we’ve been going with since we started dating. It’s actually kind of our thing anyway.” Vin started rubbing her fur a bit.
Lin’s eyes widened for a bit as she realized that she sort of went on autopilot for a bit when she started to feel good during the sex. She just went to make sure Vin enjoy this as much as she did as they went through their usual routine while exploring her new four-legged body for a little bit; but that answer still didn’t fully explained his reason.
“Third, is that I remembered that I love you, I love you more than anything and I don’t know why turning into a fictional character made you doubt my love for you or that I would have love her over you. I just wanted to show you that I DO care for and I DO love you and nothing is going to change that and I wanted you to know that through my actions.” Then Vin started rubbing her fur affectionately.
Lin looked up from his shoulder and stared into his eyes to see the sincerity in them to believe in his words. But she also saw doubt, fear, and sadness in his eyes and she can already guess that that he was worried about their relationship, but hearing him explained his third reason gave her enough satisfaction about his actions. So the griffon smiled, “So that’s also why you never called me by, whatever ‘her’ name is, by the time things start getting good, even though I look like her.”
Vin shrugged and smiled, “And that’s just it, you just looked like her, but you’re not her and that’s why I was able to do it with you. Because I knew that was you under her body, if that was really her, I wouldn’t be able to do anything with her, at all.”
Lin softly chuckled, “You know, your persistence in not trying to swear is sometimes annoying and it ruins the mood. But this time, I find it rather endearing again.”
“I guess that’s why they say love makes you crazy.” Vin said with a smirk before shaking his head to get back on topic, “But still, I never understand why this has happened to you and why did you turned into Gilda.”
Lin raised an eyebrow, “Is that what her name is?”
Vin nodded, “Yeah, so why did this happened to you?”
Lin looked away from Vin as she gathered her thoughts, “It started a few days ago. My friends were talking about this magic potion that transforms the drinker into their lover’s favorite thing and how it managed to improve their sex lives. At first I didn’t want anything to do with it because it sounded too ridiculous and too kinky,” The griffon said with an annoyed look on her face, completely aware of the irony. “But as our anniversary got closer, they got persistent and… I became jealous.”
Vin gave her a sad smile, “Ah, so you gave in to peer pressure then.” Lin was normally a stubborn and tough person when it comes to these things, so it was a bit of surprise sometimes when she showed her softer side to her friends about them, but the woman showing jealously is something you don’t see everyday from her. He could already tell from her large griffon eyes that she felt shameful admitting that, but he decided to pursue the issue, not only for the sake of curiosity and to find the truth of the issue, but to learn even more about his cursed girlfriend so he can help her, “So, what did they say or do that made you jealous of them?”
Lin bit her tongue before looking back at the only human in the room, “Krissa started talking about how she took it to see what her boyfriend’s kink is only to find out that it turns out to be her apparently and she fell in love with him more. The fact that she never changed after taking this potion intrigued me and with you being a romantic and everything, I thought you would be happy when I revealed that I took this potion if I found out that “I” was your kink and not..” She lifted herself up to show off Gilda’s body a bit, “this thing.”
Lin settled herself back on top of Vin, who had a bit of a guilty look on his face mixed with a pleading one to urge her to continue. Although, Vin’s guilt was because of how sad Lin looked right now, he saw a tear ready to stream down from one of her large golden eyes over her purple feathered eye-shadows due to her feather hair covering one of them from his vision. He noticed the twitches from her wings like it was giving her a strange instinctual need to get away from here. It was thanks to Lin’s will power and Vin’s arms wrapping around her torso in a lightly tight hug that this didn’t happen, making Vin aware that whatever Lin is going to confess to him is going to be painful to her, “when I turned into this, animal, monster, freak thing… I thought you didn’t love me anymore, or that you never did and all you wanted was this fictional character. I thought you were one of those freaks who were into bestiality and because of it; I will never give you the satisfaction that I thought you deserve, I will always be second fiddle to that ‘animal,’ and I thought I was going to live with the knowledge that you’ll always be interested in another species instead of a human. If I turned into a movie star, another human, or even a cartoon human, I would’ve been okay with it, kind of upset, but okay. But turning into a griffon is just too much and because of that, like you said; I thought this would be our last sex together as a couple since you love ‘her’ more than me and I was seriously considering dumping you after I give this thing more thought when this is over. But I wasn’t going to live the rest of my life in this body, being the only thing that you sexually crave, so I had to make you do the second part of the potion’s ability so I can change back to normal by tomorrow night.”
There was a lot of things that Lin said that had upset Vin and a lot of things that he wanted to say to prove himself to her that he wasn’t like the things she accused him of, but that last sentence caught Vin’s complete attention and filled him with dread, “You would’ve been stuck as Gilda forever if you didn’t have sex with me within 24 hours?”
While his wording could’ve been different, the completely worried tone in his voice made Lin gave her boyfriend a sad smile as she placed a talon on her over her heart. Then she shook her head and gave Vin a serious look, “I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I didn’t want to risk that chance.”
The human sigh in frustration, “Okay seriously, what is wrong with this potion and the guy who made it? How does that thing even work?”
While it’s a hypothetical question on his part, Lin felt he deserve to know everything what she was risking from taking a potion like that. So the griffon got off of him and sat at the edge of the bed, “Like I said, the potion just makes the drinker take on the form of the thing their lover likes the most. I don’t know how it works by itself, but I do know that the potion only needs something that belongs to the lover added to it for it to work and it can be any part of the person as long as it belonged to them such as their saliva or hair, for example. Saliva was out of the question, because you have the annoying tendency to wash your drinks after you finished them-”
“So when you told me that my hair could use a trim earlier-”
“That was me getting the final part of the ingredient ready so the potion can work.”
Vin raised an eyebrow as he sat up on the bed and crossed his legs, “Okay so what does sex has to do with changing you back to normal?”
Lin shrugged her shoulders, making them appear on her body for a bit before disappearing into her torso, “I don’t know, it doesn’t really say anything other than ‘once you consummate with your partner you’ll have 24 hours to spend the day in your new body before your original one returns to you.’”
Vin groaned in frustration as he buried his hand in his face, “What a weird magic potion.”
Lin just pinched the bridge between her eyes in annoyance, “Tell me about it. That’s why I didn’t want to use it at first, until Krissa’s story convinced me.”
The human scratched his head, “So, what you’re basically telling me is that you risk becoming something else forever, for the sake of some ‘love test?’”
She sighed, “On hindsight, I guess it really does seem like a crazy unfair idea to pull a surprise test on someone’s love for you; especially one as big as this when there are simpler ways to do this.”
“That’s for sure, it sounds like something you should talk about with your lover, instead of pulling this thing out of nowhere,” Vin said as he crossed his arms and looked away, “While I don’t condone surprises and I agree that they are a big part of love, but taking a big risk on your body, one that might change forever, is definitely something that should be discussed or at least be absolutely sure that your lover will like it… Wait a minute, are you sure Krissa didn’t change, ‘AT ALL’ when she took it?” He asked after an epiphany hit him.
His girlfriend gave him an odd look, “Where are you getting a-” Lin was about to asking until she remembered questioning her friend about the potion before buying it and said friend admitting a couple of things which then made her groan in annoyance, “Okay, so maybe there were a few changes, but that doesn’t change the fact that she was still mostly herself, as a human.” Lin added while tapping her finger on the other arm as she started trying to figure out Vin’s question.
“But that doesn’t make any sense Linny, there’s something wrong with that,” Vin said as he lowered his head while Lin became surprised at the sudden use of her nickname, making her forget that she was a cartoon griffon sitting at the edge of their bed. When he change his tone to his serious ‘detective’ mode, as she called it, Lin noticed that he wasn’t exactly treating her differently because of her current shape, but treating her differently because of her attitude towards the change. In fact, he was treating this whole thing like another argument that these two sometimes have when their differences clashed with each other, arguments that mostly end with her winning on a 3:2 ratio. It was at this moment that made Lin realized Vin still cared about her as a person, but she couldn’t think any further than that when she heard Vin started his ‘analysis,’ “You just said that Krissa still experienced a few changes when she took the potion for her boyfriend. That means she still turned into his ‘favorite thing’ regardless if she stayed human. Even if she just grew big boobs or her hair changed color, she is still another version Krissa that her boyfriend wanted her to have but didn’t in reality.”
“Okay, so she turned into another version of herself that her boyfriend wanted. But those changes were very minor; it doesn’t change the fact that she remained the same.” Lin stated as her tail whipped behind the bed angrily, as she tried to figure where is he going with this.
The Asian human lowered his hand before looking back at the griffon “Actually that’s not true, it changes a lot of things, especially about what the potion does. Since she took the potion and it still changed her a little bit despite the fact that she said it didn’t, then that means it’s impossible to remain the same after you take it. You would still transform into something else regardless, even if they were minor or not, especially if you’re a person’s favorite thing. Even I would turn into something else if I took the potion.”
Lin’s yellow pupils have a shrunken a bit as she stared at her boyfriend with her beak open, trying to comprehend the logic that he just put together. She then shook her head to regain her concentration, “Even if that is true, I actually love you for you, there’s no way you’re going to become something else beca-”
“Sam, Winchester.” Vin’s answer made Lin come to a complete stop at her rebuttal and after a few moments, the griffon quickly looked away from the human while blushing as another one briefly occupied her mind. Vin chuckled for a bit, “No need to hide that blush, I already know you liked him since he’s your favorite character of all time after I got you into the series.”
“H-how can you tell I’m blushing? My face is covered in feathers.” Lin quickly replied her large brown wing now coming over to cover her face.
“Well, you’re a cartoon character now; they always blush over their fur and feathers.” Vin said with a smile before the former human looked back at him angrily but still blushing and he had to admit that she looked cute when she’s like this.
“Then I guess that means you’re attractive to cartoon characters since I’ve turned into one,” The cartoon griffon replied, the fury she had before their sex was threatening to return.
The human was taken aback by that response, “What?! No, that’s not what I mean at all.”
Lin regained her defiance, “According to you, Krissa ended up changing into another version that her boyfriend, something that he thought she was lacking but was given to her after she took the potion. This means it gave her the body that her boyfriend thought was attractive to him. Then you had to mention Sam and say that you would turn into him if you were the one who took the potion, and I’ll admit that I find him attractive since you can see me blush and everything, but that’s because I’m a cartoon character right now. Therefore the reason I got turned into one is because you think this animal is attractive to you!” Lin knew what her boyfriend is going to say next and raised a talon before crossing her scaly and furry arms and said, “At least that’s what your logic basically boils down to for me. Would there be any other reason why our bodies would change for you guys?”
Vin became intimidated by his girlfriend’s judging glare that was intensified due to the fact that as a cartoon character her yellow eyes are almost as large as his own hands. He could feel his stance on the argument wavering because of it. Meanwhile, Lin couldn’t keep herself from making a small smirk with her beak, like she caught him red-handed, even though she was really feeling her disappointment in him grow after she saw him flinch a little at her question. But in reality, Lin’s argument almost made Vin forget his line of logic and accept hers as the truth since it made a lot of sense. It was a good thing he didn’t though, as he felt that if he makes the wrong answer here he’ll lose his the love of his life forever. Regaining his courage, he leaned forward toward Lin, “Yes, yes there is.”
Lin blinked at the seriousness of his answer, before raising her eyebrow, “And that is?”
“Our minds,” he simply stated.
“Our minds?” She parroted as she lowered her arms.
“Yes, our minds,” He leaned back, “Or more specifically my mind and Krissa’s boyfriend, the potion probably read it, probably at the time when we were thinking about something as our ‘ingredients’ were made. The potion must’ve grabbed the most recent thing that crossed our minds at the moment of our ‘ingredients’ creations and used that memory as the base to change your body into. Another way this could happen is that it actually searches our memories for something that we considered our favorites that doesn’t include you, or as close it as can that it doesn’t include Krissa in her case, and then use these favorites as the models to turn you into these other forms. The potion changed your bodies into our favorite things because we were thinking about them not because we were attractive to them.”
Lin’s eyes twitched a bit, while Vin’s possibilities generally made some sense, they felt too weak, “You can’t be serious.” She said in disbelief.
The human moved closer to the angry griffon, “I am, and I bet the reason you don’t think so is because you still believe that I’m attracted to Gilda.”
“You are! Otherwise I wouldn’t even have her body if you’re not!” Lin shouted as she leaned closer to Vin, their faces almost close to being to nose to beak.
“You keep referring to your current body as the main reason I’m attracted to her!” He shouted back, “Can’t it be the reason you have that body is because I thought of her since she’s one of my favorite characters? Because I sure as heck don’t think of her as attractive over humans in the slightest bit, I can’t think of her as more attractive than you!”
“Don’t you dare twist this story,” Lin said as she grits her teeth.
“I’m not twisting anything; I’m just trying to tell you the truth. I can’t for the life of me find her attractive at all, because she’s not you!” Vin leaned back and sighed while Lin was taken aback by his latest admission. “No matter how many times I try to think back to your side of the argument and try to think of Gilda as attractive, I can only see her as being beautiful to other griffons and characters of her world. Because that’s all she is to me, just a griffon and nothing more and if I try to think of her attractive now, I just feel wrong, and you know why? It’s because she’s not you. The only way I can find her body attractive is if you’re in it, but even that feels wrong because I’m not exactly making out with you both mind and body completely. I’m actually missing your body right now,” He pulled back from her and put his hand behind his head, “In fact I can only think of your body right now as some sort of costume and that’s it. I’m just glad I was able to do it with you in general; I wouldn’t even know what to do if you became Gilda body and mind. I’ll probably just be desperately looking for you at first.” Vin looked back at Lin to see her still thinking about something, which he believed that she’s thinking about what he said to her. Then he saw her look back at him and narrowed her large yellow eyes, he knew what she was going to say so he had to stop her from thinking in circles and leaned forward, “If you still think about the potion changing someone because of their lover found something else attractive to them then think about Sam Winchester again,” before the griffon could even raise a talon to say something the Asian continued, “Think about him for a second. If I were to turn into Sam instead of you turning into Gilda, would you suddenly start loving him and stop loving me because he was technically physically there?”
Lin felt agitated by this question as her tail started lashing behind her nervously, mostly because Vin doesn’t have his favorite character sitting in front of him at this very moment. But as she gave his question more thought, the more she understood his position; while she can’t help but think that Sam is the kind of man that every woman wants, the fact that he just wasn’t Vin won’t let the changed girl think of him as her lover. As her tail’s movement started to slow down, she decided to give him her honest answer while she was looking away, “No.”
The weight of the bed suddenly shifted and Lin soon find herself being hugged by her lover with one arm under her arm and the other over her neck. “And that’s why I won’t stop loving you or suddenly love you more just because you’re in my favorite character’s body, or that you’re in a body of an animal,” Vin said as he rubbed his head against her feathers, which felt soft and a little pointy, “It doesn’t matter what form you ended up being in, as long as I know that it’s you, I’ll always love you and you alone. Sure there’ll be characters and people that I like a lot, and I’ll probably end up thinking about them a lot from time to time, which is the reason why you became one of them in the first place, but neither of them will ever hold a bigger place in my heart than you. I love you Lin.”
Lin continue to let Vin hug her for a few moments before she returned the hug, the feeling of her smooth talons rubbing against his skin felt nice for the Asain, like he was having a massage, while for the griffon, his skin made her feel like she was holding a baby. Vin enjoyed the way he hugged her feathers and fur and they both feel equally as soft, but the feathers of her neck felt like a bumpy cloud against his own neck and arm. Lin liked the way her feathers and fur feel against his arms like they were very slick brushes which helped calm her down. Both of their bodies felt like different kinds of blankets to each other that kept their bodies warm, for Lin it was a combination of cold and warmth and for Vin it was a fuzzy heat. The human and the transformed griffon stayed like this for a few minutes because somehow, just somehow, they can both feel the love for each other through their bodies. But since the griffon knew that the next few minutes was going to be awkward for awhile once the hug was over, she prepared herself before opening her beak, “I love you too, Vin, but…” Lin finally said before she placed her talons on Vin’s shoulders and lightly pushed him away from her, “Will you tell me who the $%*^ is this Gilda character is and why do you like her so much?” She asked in a mostly calm tone with a smile.
“I, um, well…” Vin can only stammer before Lin’s smile turned into a frown.
The Gilda clone scoffed, “Look, the only reason I ended up turning into a griffon is because she’s apparently your favorite character. Out of all the shows we shared together and I’ve seen you watching by yourself occasionally, I have never even heard of her until now, so what’s the deal? Who is this character? Why is she a griffon? Does she really talk? What show did she come from?” After getting nervous grunts from her boyfriend about the previous questions except the last one, the griffon realized she hit the million dollar question, so she asked again, “What show did this character come from?” She saw him looking even more nervous than ever and decided to give him a reassuring smile and placed a talon on his shoulder, “Don’t worry. I don’t think there’s anything else you can say or do from this point on that will make me think less of you.”
Vin gulped, while his transformed girlfriend did helped calm his nerves with that sentence, he can’t help but think about how wrong she’s going to be after he answers this question. He kept the whole thing a secret from her actually, which made him glad that they use separate computers despite the fact that it’s practically common sense nowadays. But now it seems like a good a time as any to reveal his hidden secret to her, especially with their relationship on the line and he loves her more than he fears his embarrassment for telling her this secret. So he gathered up as much courage as he can and answered the question, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” quietly and looking away from her at first.
“What?” Lin asked as her tail stop twitching and she could’ve sworn she heard him say something that she hadn’t heard from a long time ago… or from what one of her friends say recently.
Vin sighed again as he tried to gathered up his courage one more time, but it was weaker, “My LittlePony: FriendshipisMagic,” he was looking at the griffon’s body this time.
“Huh?” Lin moved her head closer to hear his words clearly as they certainly just ran across her nonexistent ears together at the same time.
He finally looked up at his confused girlfriend’s face, only a little surprised at how close she was to him almost being the only thing he can see, but it did nothing to stop him from repeating himself much more clearly and seriously, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.”
Just then it was as if the world had finally stopped moving, like everything around Vin and Lin had just died and the only thing that lived was a completely serious Asian human and a stupefied cartoon griffon. The only living things were frozen like that for a couple of seconds until the griffon moved her head back and narrowed her eyes at the human like he just told her the most useless thing in the world with a straight face and so she applied the appropriate response, “What.”
“Gilda is from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” The human answered seriously once again.
Lin can only make disbelieving noises as she tried to wrap her brain around this absurd answer before she coherently made her next reply, “So you’re basically telling me that Gilda is a character from a little girl’s show, right?... Your favorite character of all time is from a show made for little girls and I just turned into that?!”
“Yes, but the show she’s from is not the kind of little kid’s show that Disney turned the current and “proper” Mickey Mouse show into. The characters in this show have so much more context about them when you see them that it’s definitely more deep than some cartoon shows.” Vin quickly answered before crossing his arms angrily and looked away, “Still, I wish Disney made the Mickey Mouse Shorts into a proper show instead of something wedge between their real shows.” He muttered under his breath.
“Apparently you like a villain from this show, right?” Lin said with her arms crossed as well.
“What makes you say she’s a villain?” Vin said with a raised eyebrow after dropping his arms.
The griffon shook her head, “Non-pony characters are either villains or side characters,” she noticed the curious look in her boyfriend’s eyes, “I used to be a little girl too you know.” She added with a tempered look on her face, even though she really only watched a couple of episodes when she was younger and wasn’t really that interested in the series all together.
Vin sighed sadly, “But all the characters still show so much depth in them, even if they’re simply there just to advance the plot.”
“But seriously, you, a full grown man, watch a show made for little girls?!” The transformed woman yelled incredulously and would’ve continued her tirade if she didn’t stop herself and breathed in deeply to calm herself while she had her talon raised in the air to keep her boyfriend from responding before she finished saying what she wanted to say, not even noticing her raised wings were closing at the time. The griffon sighed after she finished calming herself down and asked, “Before you explained to me why you like this character, will you tell me what made you interested in that show in the first place?”
“I saw the characters fighting monsters.” He answered simply and quickly.
Lin made a chiding smirk, “What with rainbows and talking about their feelings?”
Vin calmly shook his head, “No, with a punch in the face and a tail jack hammer attack from the dragon.”
Lin only stared at him with a surprised look on her face, clearly impressed, she wanted to say something else but reconsidered, “Oookay, how about you just tell me more about Gilda, like, was she a recurring character?”
The human scratched his head, “No, but from the looks of it so far, she was supposed to be a one shot character.”
The griffon’s eyes widened, “If that’s true, then how did you ended up liking her so much?! Was she like some sort of tough villain that nearly took over the world or something?” She caught herself getting too upset again and quickly calmed herself down because the incredible situation she found herself in is taking its toll on her once again. She sighed, “I’m just finding it hard to believe that a one-shot character became your #1 favorite of all time.”
“She’s only one of my favorite characters,” Vin immediately said, “Anyway, I think for you to fully understand why I like her so much is to first explain her episode to you.” The human suggested.
Lin nodded, “Alright, just let me get comfortable first.” She nudged Vin with a talon to lay down on the bed so she can lay on top of him. She doesn’t understand why it’s more comfortable for her to lay on top of her boyfriend, but she really likes the feeling of his skin against her fur. Once she finished getting ready, the griffon flicked her talon in front of his face to start the story.
“Right so, the episode begins with Rainbow Dash, a rainbow mane light blue Pegasus, finding out that her friend, Pinkie Pie, a pink pony with a pink poofy mane and tail…” Vin stopped for a moment as he noticed his griffon girlfriend rolling her eyes at the ridiculous description of the ponies, just like how she remembers it. Then Ven continues, “Anyway, Dash finds out that Pinkie likes to play pranks on ponies just like she does, so they pretty much spend the first day playing pranks on their friends. Then on the next day Pinkie Pie meets Rainbow Dash’s old friend Gilda the griffon, who shares Dash’s fondness over cool and awesome things and their love of racing over the skies. Pinkie wanted to spend the day with Dash, but she made plans to hang out with Gilda at the moment and is happy to meet up with the pink pony later. But apparently that pink pony doesn’t the understand the meaning of the words “later” or “soon” as she shows up again in the middle of Gilda and Dash’s hang out time, and this time Dash invites Pinkie to hang out with the both of them, if she can, considering both Dash and Gilda spent most of their time in the air, and it turns out that the pink pony really CAN, thanks to her crazy flying inventions that only she can make. Soon, Gilda starts making short races with Dash to get her away from Pinkie so she can have Dash to herself, but no matter how hard she tries, Pinkie always seem to find her way back to Dash and Gilda, interrupting their hang out time together. So it gets to the point that Gilda basically has to threaten her to get rid of her since her ‘subtle’ cues weren’t working on the flightless pony.
“So in case viewers didn’t get that Gilda is supposed to “the old friend is obsessive and evil” cliché by now, Pinkie witness Gilda scaring an old lady with a prank, by making her think the griffon’s tail is a snake, stealing an apple from a stand, and then do the classic “bullying the unlucky sap who bumps into her” by making one of the kindest ponies in the show cry. So Pinkie comes up with a plan to change Gilda’s attitude by throwing her a welcome party. Which doesn’t sound too bad, right? Except, that party is full of pranks and the guest of honor, Gilda, keeps setting them off and this is what makes Gilda think Pinkie Pie threw a party full of pranks just to humiliate her in front of friend Dash and the whole town. So when she finally explodes and basically tells Pinkie and the other ponies the G-rated version to suck it and calling them lame-os, Dash reveals herself to be the one who set up all the pranks in the party and that all of them weren’t meant for her. It was basically her bad luck, combined with her arrogance to be the star of the party; -of course they never said THAT PART in the show- that she set off those pranks. So being the butt of the party once again Gilda decided to treat the all the ponies except Dash like crap and tried to get her old friend to leave the party with her. But Dash was outrage that her old friend treated her new friends like that and told Gilda if she was so intent on being cool then she might as well find cool new ones than be friends with her. Upset at finding out that Dash is siding with the ponies, Gilda made one last lame insult at Dash and left. Then the episode basically ends with Dash writing a letter about how she learned that old and new friends shouldn’t treat each other like dirt and learn that people can have other friends or something like that.”
Vin gave out a long sigh as he gathered his breath, “You’re probably wondering why I became so irritated when I got to the end of the episode. I feel like this was the crucial moment where Dash and Gilda’s friendship was destroyed and it was all because Gilda never HAD a prank party before. But let me back up, the reason I ended up liking her because I feel like she was one of the only “evil childhood friends” that come off as more sympathetic than any other character who was placed into that role. If they went with the usual evilness that comes from that role, I wouldn’t mind Dash ending her friendship with Gilda. The problem is that I didn’t see any of the actions she did to be really evil, just her being a jerk and a bad mood and I can only see she sort of became that way because of what happened earlier in the episode. I mean, think about it, you decided to pay your old best friend a visit to hang out with them and revisit good memories. Then all of a sudden this third wheel appears out of nowhere and has that same interaction with your best friend but more on a recent level. You either become jealous or uneasy about interacting with this stranger you never seen before in your life, but she is apparently a big part of your friend’s life now that you’re gone. All you want to do is just hang out with your best friend for the day, is that too much to ask? Apparently yes it is, as the next thing you know you’re the target of all the pranks at this stranger’s party. Once you had enough, you basically let everyone at know how you feel about them including your best friend whom you didn’t know who was in on the pranks. But now you come out as some sort of bad guy and your old best friend side with these strangers over you and then you’re left all by your lonesome trying to figure how did you ended up losing your best friend.
“I ended becoming sympathetic to Gilda’s plight because I feel like she didn’t deserve what happened to her. Sure she was a jerk, but she shouldn’t lose her friend over it, especially if said friend is at least making her be nicer. All she wanted to do was hang out with her friend and I feel like she would probably ended up liking Pinkie Pie too if she also found out that Pinkie does pranks as well. But Pinkie let Gilda found out about that by putting her into a party full of pranks, and since it’s kinda clear that this is her first one, Gilda didn’t enjoy it in the least. I feel like she should have become a good person if things turned out differently or if the writers did another take on showing her being an evil jerk i.e. a proper villainess, I wouldn’t feel as sorry for her as I do now. The problem being is that any of that stuff that happened to Gilda can happen to anyone else in real life. Not everyone can just be a jerk without having a lot of stuff happened to them that made them that way at least. I just can’t stop myself thinking about how Gilda could still become a good person and from the way this episode ended, she literally can go either way from being totally bad or be redeemed if the writers wanted her to. Although, I wonder if I’m really feeling sorry for Gilda or just the situation she just ended up in. In the end, I still believe that-um, why are you staring at me like that?”
Lin in Gilda’s body’s eyes were widen with a curious awe as she stared back at her human boyfriend, “Because I’m being reminded why I love you so much.” She then quickly dived her head down to Vin’s and pressed her beak to Vin’s lips. Her beak felt hard and pointy but strangely not as sharp as one would normally expect from a beak. He rubbed his lips against the smooth hard surface of top part of her beak which felt like hard lips and enjoyed the tip of her beak’s form of dipping downward the bottom of his lips as Lin rubbed her beak against the bottom part her human boyfriend’s lips, somehow knowing when to apply just enough pressure on it to be enjoyed by the both of them and when not to apply too much for the beak to become a danger to him. Lin was kissed like this during their sex earlier, but it was a brief short peck last time and this time she wanted to enjoy it like she and Vin used to do before this whole mess started. Lin’s tail was swaying in pleasure from the kiss while she held her human lover by his shoulders with her talons and her wings were fanned out and open in the air as if they’re waiting for the griffon to take off into the air and drag the man with her. Meanwhile, Vin was holding onto her body tightly from the hug he was giving and enjoying the kiss that he received from Lin along with the rubbing of her fur against the skin of his hands and body. Both of their legs were wrapping around each other as they quickly kiss again in a different position although it was more like legs wrapped around large feet. The griffon enjoyed the cool warmth her human boyfriend’s leg provided on her foot while the human enjoyed the mixed sensation of the cool skin of the paw pads and the fluffy feeling from the fur of the three toes of her foot. They stayed like that for several moments.
Vin chuckled as Lin parted her beak from his lips, “Woah, slow down with that dive there will ya? I wouldn’t want end up with another hole on my head.”
Lin chuckled as well, “You #$%#@*&, I wouldn’t even know I could do that with my beak if you didn’t kiss me during our sex.” She looked at the hole she made on the bed with her beak when she tripped on it before she got used to her body, making it hard to believe that she can kiss someone one without ripping a part of their lips off. She made a mental note to test this out later before she regains her body, before she looked back at Vin.
The human gave her a playful smile, “I told you I have a kissing fetish, and it wouldn’t change because your lips turned into a beak. Besides you still have your teeth under it, why wouldn’t you be able to kiss anybody with it?” He said before his smile became a confusing frown, “So why are you be-”
The griffon placed a yellow finger on his lips to interrupt him, “Shut up, now it’s my turn to talk.” She said softly before clearing her throat with a soft exhale, “Vin, when you first told me about Gilda and what she did in the show, I still don’t understand what you see in her to make you like her so much. She sounds like a possessive thief that enjoys harming people for the sake of her own amusement, and the only argument you have that she’s even remotely nice is that she was friends with Rainbow Dash and she only acts nice around others when she’s around. I’m sorry, but that’s not enough to convince me that she’s good in the slightest and quite honestly, she’s sounds like a #$%*&. But then you started talking about how you felt sorry for her, how you were sympathetic to her plight, that’s when I finally understand why you like her so much and why I have fallen for you. You see the good in people in almost everyone and everything; you actually sympathize with them and try to make others feel the same. You would actually bring about new perspectives on people that I wouldn’t even considered thinking about, like something could have happened to Gilda before she reunited with her friend. Your sympathy is one of my most favorite parts about you.
“I’m glad now that I can understand that you were actually just worried about Gilda instead of being attracted to her and…” Lin looked away from Vin for a second before looking back at him with a sad smile, “I learned that I should’ve been okay with you liking other things, no matter how much I want you to be mine and mine alone. I shouldn’t try to make you feel guilty about thinking about them besides me. There is nothing wrong about that; your thoughts are your own after all and just because you think about them, it doesn’t mean you always will actually try to make all of them a reality.”
Vin returned the same sad smile, “Well, I learned that love and life is always changing, and that means there are always new things to learn from other people as they change and grow and the thrill of discovering new things about your loved ones is always an experience. Granted that it’s not always easy, but when you do learn more them it’ll stick by your heart for the rest of your life. I thought I had learned everything about you since our first date, but it turns out that I was wrong and that there is more to you than I had thought. I learned more about your softer and angry side today than I did in our entire year dating together and I also learned how much I have affected you throughout our relationship as well, meaning that I will always enjoy learning more about you as we grow closer as a couple while we change and affect each other.”
Lin softly chuckled, “Looks like we both learned a couple of things tonight,” at that moment Vin suddenly thought of making a joke about sending Princess Celestia a letter as he saw his griffon girlfriend turned her head away from him with a blush, but decided against it. Then he thought whether she wants to learn more about the show or not is something she’ll have to decide later on her own though. The man snapped his mind back to reality when he saw Lin about to speak again in a quiet serious tone, “Thank you, for putting up with me tonight and I’m sorry that you had to go through this.”
Vin shook his head, “No, I should be sorry that you had to go through this. If I wasn’t thinking about Gilda,” He looked down, “especially during our anniversary, then this wouldn’t have happened.”
The former human smirked, “That’s right, thanks for reminding me that you were supposed to think about only me on our most important day. But since this is our first anniversary, I’ll let that slide for now,” She said with a grin, letting Vin in on her joke, which made him laugh. “How about from now on,” she placed a talon on her boyfriend’s cheek and brought her large eagle head closer his Asian face as she narrowed her eyes seductively, “I accept that you have other things to think about while you worry more about real people than cartoon characters, okay?”
“While I think it’s an impossible to do,” The human smiled as he joked before getting serious, “I promise from now on, that you’ll be on the top of my worry list and I’ll try my best to uphold it.”
Lin brought her boyfriend up with her to give him a strong hug, “I suppose that’s as close as I’m going to get from you.” She joked while he returned the hug.
“So, what do we do now?” Vin asked after a few minutes has passed when the couple let go of each other.
Lin looked up at the clock and a sexy smile crossed her beak, “There’s still some time left for our anniversary, and we haven’t done our ‘Good Ending’ yet…”
Vin made the same expression, “You know what? After what we’ve been through, I say we deserved it.”
Lin only giggled before she kissed him once again and with that move; the couple proceeded to make true love.
*~~~~~~~~~*
Gilda’s eyes snapped open before groaning lazily in her slow wake. She looked around the area she was in and found out that she was still in the cave she and the human had camped out last night. At the mouth of the cave Celestia’s sun is beginning to rise for the morning. The griffon got up and ruffled her fur and feathers of any dust while trying to make sense of this strange dream she had. It was about, with what she could assume, a human female and a different human male about to make love until the female turned into a griffon exactly like her.
She knew that the human male in her dream was different because his eyes were much smaller and narrower than the one that’s sleeping right now and after walking up to him and taking a closer look at him she noticed that their skin colors were different. The one that’s right beside her had almost the same dark color skin like the female while the female’s boyfriend is of a much paler color.
Gilda tried to perform the usual duties she does in camp after waking up and tried to clear her head, but her mind kept going back to that dream and what it means. Why did the human female turned into her when she tried to make love to her human? Was it because a thought crossed her mind that if she was human as well she would get hers to notice her? Then, did the dream forcibly turned that human into her double to show her she shouldn’t need to be anything different to get a lover? Gilda shook her head after making an angry grunt and putting out the camp fire. That couldn’t be it; the griffon isn’t one to make these kinds of romantic thoughts, she isn’t the kind of griffon to be a romantic period. All she cared about is making into her homeland’s flight team so she can be the coolest flyer in all of Equestria and beat her rival, Rainbow Dash. Gilda sighed sadly when her former friend crossed her mind and then eventually her mind ended up drifting back to that dream.
The human and her clone talked about her in the dream, the human seemed to agree with her about how she felt her visit with Rainbow Dash should’ve turned out, but her clone on the other hand disagrees and was okay with her best friend booting her out like that because she was according to what her clone called her a “@#$^%.”
Gilda’s talons scratched the ground, the more she thought about this double of her. She can’t even begin to think for a second without getting angry that the dream griffon was supposed to be her in some way. Sure her double seems to have some of her personality like her anger, that was classic Gilda, but she was totally sure that she would never cry or worse, giggle like a school girl in front of other people. It made no sense to her, but to see her body dismissing herself as something that shouldn’t be Rainbow’s friend, all with a smile, felt too wrong to her and she was beginning to feel annoyed that she was getting angry at a dream, but that’s where the crux of this problem dream lies. If this was just a normal dream or nightmare she would have normally brush it off or forget it by the time she was fully awake, but this dream felt too different, too weird. It was like; these people in her dream are real. It was like she was actually in the room with them and listening to them talk about her while she was hiding somewhere so she wouldn’t be discovered, but that wasn’t too accurate of how the griffon felt about the dream, she felt much worse than that. It was more than just a feeling that the dream felt too real, that she was actually watching them from a seat somewhere; it was more like she was ONE OF THEM, she was that former human female, she was CALLING HERSELF A “@#$&*,” and IT HURT.
Gilda felt sick to her stomach and almost stumbled from her stance. The Gilda she dreamed about can’t be her, it was just a dream, a dream she actually took part of and acted out like she was a part of a play. The griffon felt like she was CONNECTED with another version of herself in a completely different world. In the dream, she can feel the actions of her other self move, but she was behind or being pulled by her dream self. Gilda closed her eyes and tried to remember feeling the actions that her dream self was doing: the walking, the talking, and… the kissing and other self’s admittance that she had no idea she could do that. The griffon quickly sat down on her haunches with an annoyed look on her face, of course griffons can kiss each other and other people if they want to. It was another part of their magical abilities, like manipulating and standing on clouds, to change the hardness of their beaks whenever they want; it was a matter of not thinking about it too much, like when some ponies can hold things in their hooves sometimes when they shouldn’t be able too. Of course that reminder about her species’ abilities made Gilda wonder why she even thought about kissing in the first place, until she saw her human stirred in his sleep. “If you’re trying to get me together with that guy, you’re doing a pretty cruddy job at that,” Gilda muttered under her breath.
It was then the griffon remembered why she was with him in the first place, she finally got a chance to prove herself to her homeland’s flight team but due to her performance in dealing with other teammates, even though her assigned partner just left her to take all the blame, she was in danger of being expelled from the team for the year until her boss gave her an ultimatum due to her awesome skills. She is to escort this human to a temple on the other side of Equestria and then safely bring him back to their base, she’ll be let back into the team. She thought it would be an easy job, but it turned out that the human was more high maintenance and… suicidal, then she thought. Like what just happened yesterday when he almost killed himself to save some monster cubs in the river and got himself sick with an Equestrian disease from it, while Gilda ended up hurting herself when she save him further down river and just before the waterfall. It was just luck that she found a potion pony merchant that can help both of them, although the one she had to take would heal her but had a bunch of side effects that she didn’t bother to pay attention to, as she was more worried about making the human better and herself better so she could protect him.
Gilda blinked and looked up at that thought, she knew she needed to help the human to get her job back but it was odd for wanting to protect him with more than just a feeling in obligation. The griffon hoped because she was becoming his friend and not because she was falling in love with him, because they only knew each for about a week. Her mind ended up drifting back to the dream she had and speculated the reason why the words of her dream self affected her so much. Gilda figured that it was because she heard the same meaning of their words from her human when she told him the summarized story about Rainbow Dash when he asked about what had happened between the two of them after she caved. She ended up tripping him with her tail when it seem like he agreed with her only to say that it was still her fault, because she was being a jerk and needed an attitude adjustment. So when Gilda saw her other self saying that it makes sense as to why she lost Dash like that, it ended up hurting her.
She shook her head with a sad smile because she really didn’t want to think about it, she really didn’t want to admit it, but it seems like it took this crazy dream to make her think about what others had see her because of how she acted. Gilda brought a talon to cover her face as she can’t believe that she’s thinking about on how she’s acting and the possibility that it may be her own fault that this is all happening to her. She brought her talon back down as she looked at the still sleeping red sand-skinned human as the morning sun covered his back. Gilda made a smirk as she thought of a good way to get him back for making her think about all this and waking him up. As she walked toward the human, her smirk turned to a frown as a strange thought crossed her mind, which had her mentally ask, “Why do I get the feeling, that I’ll be seeing her soon? She’s just a dream, right? There’s no way that it was my fault she ended up looking like me… right?”
*~~~~~~~~~*
Vin was laying down on the bed with his girlfriend after they enjoyed their “Good Ending.” He was becoming very comfortable with the sheet covering the both of them since Lin is currently a warm and furry cartoon griffon holding onto most of his body. He was about to sleep until his griffon girlfriend’s hold slowly becoming a clutch and heard her saying something about how she’s not “her” and not wanting to complete the change. Vin carefully placed his right hand on Lin’s favorite spot on her back and she calmed down, luckily saving himself and the bed from getting red smears.
As Lin calmed down, a smile crossed her beak and she hugged Vin tighter. “As long as you’re here, I have nothing to fear from this Vin,” she muttered in her sleep.
Vin returned the hug while he started to wonder again why Lin turned into Gilda. The griffon was one of his favorite characters yes, but she wasn’t among his top favorites like Wonder Woman or Fiona from Burn Notice. He can’t but shake the feeling, that maybe; something else was the cause of his girlfriend’s transformation into a cartoon griffon like, there’s another reason why she became like she did. Just before Vin was about to entertain an idea he thought was crazy, like she’s truly Gilda’s counterpart and the reason she turned into her is because of something bigger is happening in an Equestria, Lin hugged him tightly for a second before relaxing herself which made the human very tired. He stroked his girlfriend’s wing and back before he drifted off to sleep and missed seeing his girlfriend kick backwards with one leg while muttering it was someone’s fault that she was thinking that way.
The End…?
Author's Note
Somehow this turned into a mini preview of a new story series set in Equestria, that I might write about once I'm finished with the current one and it's much bigger than the current one as well.
