Buh-bump....buh-bump....buh-bump...

"nnggh...."

Shiny's feet were killing her. The trek from this stupid ruin site to Doc's little tower was likely gonna take her all day if her legs didn't snap off first. Of fuckin' course the caravan she arrived at the area with was supposed to stay there so she couldn't hitch a ride back home, how was she supposed to know that was exactly how supply convoys for construction projects worked?! Ugh, this is why she left the logistical shit to Doc and Merky, it sucked.

According to s from some of her fellow merc buddies, this kind of experience was par for the course when taking contracts from the Tool Syndicate. Shiny didn't pay much attention to whatever their creepy leaders brooded about, but apparently they were the ones that called all the shots in Mixholme's criminal underbelly. Not like, they told them exactly what to do, but more like, what not to do. Like uuuh, an apex, alpha predator, establishing dominance on the rest of their territory, that's sort of how Shiny figured it worked. And the Syndicate did this through posing as a weird, fake worker's union, lending loans and requesting 'protection' money at whatever company, gang, or some other big gaggle of dudes wanting to do a really noticeable thing.
Like say, for instance, the renovation of some dusty village ruins from the old world to be made into a new settlement.
Shiny, being a rather intimating woman, was hired to a small squadron of similarly contracted thugs to help a Syndicate agent 'persuade' the head overseer of the renovations into paying their overdue debt. The past few days had been mind-numbingly dull, as Doc was coming up dry with any new developments in her research, whilst Mercutio was busy trying to set up tents and shelter for the Scarves, and apparently that meant they were 'too busy' to let themselves have any fun with her. So, Shiny decided to take on this contract to preoccupy herself with something more suited to her talents, and had spent the entire convoy ride to the site eagerly awaiting to kick some little greedy fuck's teeth in.

The problem however? That bastard foreman co-operated. There was no gunfire, no blade clashing, no violence, the little shit even apologized and gave the thugs an extra payment for three months in advance. The entire exchange went perfectly, not a single hitch in sight, and everyone afterwards just went along their way back home, 15 gold richer, without a scratch on their body.

Disgusting.

Shiny was fuming. She went from walking aaall the way from Doc's tower to the Syndicate outpost, then aaall the way into the forests to the ruin site, and all she could do the entire time was just stand around like a loser while boring nerds just talked and talked and talked about money and loans and insurance-It was insufferable. And now that the job was done, she had to walk aaaaaaallll the way back to Doc's tower, which was hours away on foot, sending her feet into further agony just from the thought alone.

Buh-bump. Buh-bump. Buh-bump.

In fact, right at this moment, Shiny's feet were aching like mad in her boots.

Buh-bump, buh-bump, buh-bump-

They were pressing deep into the interior leather.

Buh-bump buh-bump buh-bump-

Each step squished them, tensed them, straaained them.

Buh-bump-buh-bump-buh-bump-

And oh gods above, how they stung.

Buhbumpbuhbumpbuhbump-

How they pounded.

Buhbumpbuhbumpbuhbump-

How they THROBBED.

BUHBUMPBUHBUMPBUHBUMP-

It hurt, it hurt, it hurt so...soo...

BUHBUMPBUHBUMPBUHBUMP-

So goood.

"fffuuUuuaAAAACK!"

Shiny stumbled mid-step and lurched forward onto a nearby tree just to the right of the dirt path, panting and wheezing as her heart pounded and pounded inside her. Her aching teeth clenched tight as her cheeks began to burn, all while her feet throbbed in her boots. Her toes squirmed, her soles bubbled, and her whole body was shaking and shivering as she whimpered in a futile attempt to stand, opting instead to just prop herself up against the tree trunk. Her gloved hand tried to reach up to grab a branch, but the fingers were suddenly erupting with strength, and she gripped the bark so tightly that the branch splintered and shattered in her palm, prompting a gasp.
Her heart was burning and throbbing.
Her head was burning and throbbing.
Her feet were burning and throbbing.
Her crotch was burning and throbbing.
Shiny started to pant harder.

"Oh...ho-hoho -f-fuck..." A spluttering chuckle tumbled out of the lips of a now sheepish and flustered Shiny, a deep, maroon red blush warming her cheeks as she hunched over tightly. She knew this feeling. She knew it all too well. The craving.
Her feet were sick of being in these boots all day and they wanted out. She was sick of wearing these boots all day and she wanted them off. She needed them off. She need this cloak off. She needed these gloves off. She needed all this armour, all this boredom, all this dull, societal, civilized humanity bullshit, off, off, off. The bestial, savage, hulking rabbit that swam inside her, she needed to breathe. She needed to stretch. She needed to grow- no, she demanded to grow. To expand. To inflate. To swell. Shiny was yearning for it. She wanted it. She needed to be a huge, hulking, swollen, sexy monster babe,
Right.
Fucking.
Now.

"HrrraaaaAAAGAaaagh..." The mercenary cried as her whole body rippled, her teeth crackling and sharpening with the opening of her mouth. No-one had followed her, there was no sign of settlements or vehicles for a good few kilometres, and the grassy dirt behind the treeline she was gazing into, it looked so soft, so comfy, so inviting.
Shiny's control slipping and straining to its breaking point, and the idea of denying her poor, poor feet such lovely, squishy textures on the ground over there, denying herself of such a wonderful, satisfying reprieve from all of this unbearable boredom and aching...well it just felt wrong. So, as Shiny wiped the now foaming drool from her mouth, and let herself regain control of her breathing, she simply smiled, and panted out:

"....ah....ah why not? I deserve it."

And with that, Shiny's rippling hands lunged at the clasps of her cloak and wrenched it off, before she stumbled and tumbled herself down into the treeline.

Crck-crr-ck-ck-crrr-cra-a-a-ack.

The changes were wasting no time getting started. Already, her body was starting to stretch and swell, her bones warping and mutating, her flesh bubbling and expanding, tugging the cloth layer of her armour egregiously tight as the metal plates loudly strained. One of her ears began to stretch and slither out from its base, its tip poking through her hair, while her muscles began to writhe and ripple and bulge inside her skin, in time with her pounding heartbeat that was non-stop pumping, pumping, pumping.
Fuuuck it felt so good, the strength rapidly bubbling and boiling inside her, filling her up like a thick fleshy balloon, she was literally inflating larger and larger with each progressively haggard step and she felt like she was going to explode. She just couldn't not hug herself from all the sexy feelings writhing inside her, hunching herself tightly, as she just kept bloating and bulging.

Crrrk, crrrnnn..

Shiny couldn't help it, the bubbling ecstasy was too unreasonably delicious, and half of her mind was on autopilot. So, through the hot, spluttering pants her progressively predatory maw kept spewing, Shiny started to laugh. Giggles and chuckles and snorts of glee spilled through her now razor sharp fangs, her eyes squeezed shut as she squirmed, and writhed, and bulged, and swelled-

CrrrRRRCK-RIPRIPRIIIP-CRA-ACK-PAP-PAP-RIIIP!

-until her arms billowed out against her frames, a slow bulk of growth that throbbed in her shoulders, bursting both of her pauldrons into pieces, before slowly slithering down her biceps, and into her forearms, her sleeves 'SNAP'ing and 'RIIIP'ing and splitting apart across her. The suddenness of this jolt proved to be the final blow towards Shiny's ability to stand, for her bubbling legs tripped against one another, and the mutating lady was sent right onto the ground, cackling all the way.

'Buh-bump, buh-bump' went her heart, pumping and throbbing even harder, as the seat of Shiny's tros suddenly strained tighter, tighter, tighter, until with a
POP!
Her mutating tailbone burst through as her adorably rabbit tail, shredding the strands of black cloth to pieces as it wiggled in delightful freedom.
Panting and chuckling some more, Shiny grunted softly as she just barely managed to lift herself into a seated position against a nearby tree, all so she could ire the rest her changes in all of their delectable detail. And they were, indeed, delicious.

First was her naval, which slithered and writhed before Shiny as it seemed like her legs were sliding away from her, the flesh of her belly churning and expanding before her eyes as the inner cloth loudly stretched and tore against it, strands of the dark cloth thinning and snapping as the armour plating 'snap'ed and 'pop'ed and 'ping'ed away, giving her a wonderful view of the goods underneath.
Next came her hands, the rapidly increasing tightness of her gauntlets prompting Shiny to hold them up to eye level, just in time to watch the metal bracers split and snap into pieces that clattered onto the ground, the gloves straining and straining until the seams loudly split open, letting them slowly peel open across Shiny's hands as, like liquid spewing from a leak, their now meaty, paw-like forms bloomed out from the bursting leather. The soft, snuggly, pearl white fur that covered them then began to crawl up her arms and sprout across the rest of her body, giving her increasingly exposed skin just enough time to breathe and soak in the refreshingly frigid breeze before being slowly coated over.
Shiny could feel some of this fur start to bloom across her face and slowly stretching ears as well, the sensation of the hairs poking through her skin was just barely noticeable through the absolute grinding agony of her face started to warp and extend into that lovely rabbit snoot.

However, Shiny didn't exactly care, her flickering, slowly darkening and yellowing eyes were not gazing at her nose. No, they were locked squarely on her legs.

Blub-blub-blurrr-rrbb-blublblugurrrrgle.

Her swelling legs.

"Heee...."

CRRRK-POPCLANG! PAP-PAP-POW!

One after the other, the side skirts of Shiny's leg armour creaked, strained, and then burst off her limbs, for her thighs were slowly swelling and inflating thicker and thicker and thicker against their confines, the cloth of her tros straining and stretching until it 'snap-snap-rip-riiIIIP'ed into strands digging and squishing their fatty forms. Fur was bulging out from the increasing amount of gaps within the cloth, and the knee guards soon suffered the same fate as the side skirts, snapping clean off her ts. Even the shin guards, which normally stayed relatively intact during her changes, they too found themselves straining, creaking, groaning tighter, tighter, tighter, until with a 'POP, POP!', both of them snapped off her shins, tumbling to the ground as the freed flesh throbbed and swelled even larger.
Shiny knew exactly why this happened however. The clunkiness of this transformation was on purpose, and most of her changes were just for completion sake, even as her legs swelled and swelled even more, ballooning out as her tros ripped and split into shorts against them, it was all supplemental.

So that she could put all of her focus into pumping up her feet.

Sprk, crack-crack, bmmpphhh-BUH-BUMPBUHBUMP-BUH-BUMP!

"HaaaaAAAGH!"

Even in their human state, Shiny's feet were still pretty impressive things, as strong, thick and chunky as a lady's soles could get. But inside her boots, and per her mental commands, these feet were already starting to warp and mutate into far more monstrous things. Five toes bloated and coned into four, as their bottoms and the balls swelled into glistening pads. Nails fused into the bone, darkening, thickening and then jutting forth into sharp, gleaming black claws, as pearl white fur raced across the non-padded skin. Bones began to strain and stretch out, growing longer and broader, lengthening and broadening, changing from plantigrade into something far more inhuman. All before the bubbling, rippling, soft and squishy flesh began to expand, puffing and puffing out as the feet rapidly started to fill the boots up, stuffing the leather to the brim as they swelled fatter, and fatter, and fatter, and-

"NNGaaagh, haaagh...th-that's the stufff..." Shiny giggled and groaned, her heart pounding and pumping as she giddily watched her boots strain and stretch. "C-c-come on girls, q-quit being such teases and g-g-ge-ett o-out of those th-thiiIIIngs will y-ya? I nnEEED these ssstrrrupid fffucking shoes ooaaaaAAAFF! Just...j-just, fuckin', grrrrRROOOOOW!"

Fatter, fatter, fatter, Shiny's 'girls' were happy to obey, their forms swelling and broadening to ridiculous size, stretching the leather so tight that it started to discolour.

"Thaa-AAA-aaaaAaat's it girls..." Shiny hissed gleefully as the boots pinched like mad. "Jussst... grow. Grow, and grow, and grow, aa-aand g-grow, g-g-grRROOW-HGCK-Ngh!"

Crunckle-crack-buh-bump, buh-bump, buh-bump

The feet were pumping now. Pumping, and pumping. Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump-

"M-more...c-c'mon moooore!"

CrrrnnnnnnnnnNNNNNN-BUh-BuUMP-bUH-BUMP-BUH-BUMP-BUHBUMP

By now the feet had assumed their more paw-like forms, and per Shiny's request, they swelled again. And swelled some more. Swelling, and swelling, and swelling, the paws were pumping and throbbing in just all of the best ways, the overstuffed boots now starting to loudly groan and creak in protest.

"Ju-just...a-a-a l-li-IIttle...th-thickerrrr!"

Throb.

Oh the girls got thicker alright. Monstrously thick. And then they thickened even more, swelling and fattening to the point of getting noticeably heavy even for Shiny's increased strength. In fact they were getting so thick, so fat, and so swollen-

pik

-that the seams of her boots started to split.

"Hnnnngk-g-gkk-nnnggghhgGRRRRGH!"

Pik-pik-strik-ri-iri-rii-i-i-iiiii-

In fact, the boots themselves were starting to split, with tiny cracks and gashes bursting open across the leather and connection stitches, thick, fuzzy, swelling paw flesh bouncing and bulging out from the widening gaps and holes, as the paws just kept getting fatter, and fatter, and fatter.

"Gck!"

Soon enough,

Ri-

More stitches started to pop. And split. And burst open.

And yet the paws swelled even more

-Ii-i-i-iii-iii-iiii-

Split, split, split-split-split-split-split

The paws got bigger.

-iiiiiIII-

Seamlines soon started to rupture, peeling across the billowing flesh, as the flesh still thickened further.

"Haaaagh!"

-iIiIiIiIiiiiiIIIIIIIII-

Pads throbbed, and bulged. Toes throbbed, and swelled. The girls just kept getting bigger. And the boots started to pop.

-pPAP-PAP-SNAP-POP-RIIIP-

The boots were popping, snapping, splitting wide, bursting and bursting across arches and soles and heels as Shiny's thick, meaty, bare feet ballooned out into to snapping, splitting leather, swelling even fatter, to burst out even more.

BMMPH-POP, PAP, RIIIIP!

The paws were growing, swelling, thickening, getting fatter, and fatter, and fatter, waaaay too big for the boots to fit.

RIP! RIIP! RIIIP, RIIIP, RIIIIIP!

"GgggGAAAAAAAAAAAAH-"

So, as a result:

RIIIIIIII-III-IIIIIIP

They burst off her feet.

POP-POP-PAP-SNAP

First the left papped apart into scraps

BMMMPPOP

Then, the right split open, and snapped right across the top of her arche.

BMMPH, BMMPH.

"Gaaaaaagh, haaaaaaaa....."

All so that the hulking, beefy, swollen monstrosities Shiny calls her feet could flex and strrreeeetch out into the icy afternoon breeze of whatever forest she was currently in, toes splaying out wide in blissful relief after hours upon hours of mindless, useless strain, the soreness of the long walk replaced by the satisfying throbs of a nice and freshly transformed pair of huge, meaty bunny paws.

Shiny herself meanwhile just chuckled and groaned in relief and satisfaction, as she felt her body fussily try to transform the rest of itself. She simply just let the changes happen, let her right ear hastily catch up to her fully changed left, let her fur rush to cover whatever human skin was still visible, let the rest off her body bulge and swell and crackle to have some form of reasonable proportions to her legs, all while she just laid herself against the tree and let herself relax, absent-mindedly scrunching the leather scraps of her boots between her toes, as lovely bird song danced in her ears.

Crck-crackle....crick-crick-crick.

BUH-BUMp...Buh-bump....buh-bump....buh bump....buh bump....

"Hooo....thaaat's better...." Came the now fully transformed rabbit mutant's sigh, as the last little twinges of her changes slowed to a gentle conclusion. "Muuuch more comfy~." This was nice. Shiny needed this after such a tedious day. In fact, she was feeling a lot better now after such a change, re-energized even, the stresses of the past seeming like such a petty thing now that she was surrounding herself in so much lovely, peaceful scenery. Who know that having the power to turn into a giant rabbit monster at will could be so cleansing? Who knew that...nature...was so cleansing? This...she really liked being in a forest, actually.

Though, Shiny knew she couldn't stay here all day, she did have a plague doctor girl she needed to get back to after all, so after a few more seconds of just sitting down, listening to the soothing sounds of a nice, tranquil forest, Shiny chuckled and hopped back into a standing position, shuddering and grinning at how nice and soft the more natural ground felt against her pads. Her cloak wasn't actually damaged from the transformation since she took it off beforehand, so with a shrug of her shoulders, Shiny slipped it back on, giggled at how much less of her it was able to cover, before scooping up the rest of her clothing scraps, and continuing her way back home. Still...on...foot. Dangit.
Although, ittedly, Shiny could now halve the total time it'd take her to walk back to Doc's tower, seeing as her rabbit legs were far more powerful than her human ones, so she could speed through this return trip no problem.
But...then again, Doc wasn't actually expecting Shiny to come back any earlier than what they predicted, and this forest was such a nice reprieve from civilisation that Shiny was feeling a little attached to.

So... why not take the scenic route? Let herself actually enjoy a little trip home for once?

Her paws needed some nice refreshing soil to walk on after all...So, this was an unexpected one. A friend recommended  SepiSnake as a potential artist that could render my Engrievion characters very well, and for a time I was hesitant because I wasn't quite sure how their commission system worked, or how best to approach them.

But then, just last night (at the time of writing this), I noticed that they were streaming a sort of coloured sketch commission raffle, so I ed the stream, tried my hand at the last two raffles of the night.

And won the very literal last one, which had unintentionally ended up far behind Sepi's usual schedule, meaning that we both stayed up incredibly late just to see it through.

Hella worth it though. 10/10, would completely undo all my progress on fixing my sleep schedule again.


..........

Also happy new year


Artwork by:  SepiSnake