Bells of Love Part 2 - Bakugo and Cheshire Cat (Patreon)

(Bakugo Pov)

“Ahahaha! Nothing can stand in my way anymore! I am invincible!” I laughed as I poked my head out of the mountain of golden coins, throwing some coins into the air because I just want to see it rain. Just the feeling of my naked golden skin surrounded by all this glimmer was getting me turned on. Haaaa~ A dream come true~

Money is Power, and Power is Money. That's one rule I can guarantee you is true. I might not have realized it before, but I definitely know now.

My name is Bakugo Katsuki, but I usually go by Kat now. Kinda weird, but Chesh liked it, so who am I to judge? Also it just kinda fits my body a lot better than whatever I was before. This space has definitely done a lot of weird stuff to me, but I wouldn't exactly call that a bad thing.

After all, now I have money, power and a smart boss with a quirk that perfectly compliments my new powers. Because with me being ‘good as gold’ and him having the ‘treasure sense’, if we work together, nothing will stand in our way! Ahahahaha!

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(Cheshire cat Pov)

How peculiar. How very peculiar. I didn’t actually think we would ever get here, I didn’t think this would ever be possible. And yet, here we are. Maybe I shouldn't have doubted myself so much. We came so far just because of the lies I told. Who would have guessed that?

I go by Jess now, although that name also is nothing but a lie. A lie that has become the truth for the both of us. But in all honesty, I am just a nameless Cheshire cat like so many others. My race is neither rare, nor particularly powerful. We are just smart enough to lead astray a single human, just strong enough to overpower and claim them for a day, and let them go afterwards.

There really wasn’t much more to us. Our tribe doesn’t even have the custom of giving us names, so I didn't have one either. I thought there wasn’t much more in life than that routine, but this place has shown me something I could have never imagined. And it has everything to do with that cutie in gold in front of me. Maybe I should go back to my roots for a little bit…

“Hey Kat. Once you are done fooling around in the gold, do you mind coming down for a moment? There is something I would like to tell you.” I declared in my usual fake, booming voice and Kat reacted instantly. Her golden reptilian ears peaked up and she slid down the pile of gold, then landed in front of me, her whole body still wobbling from rapid movement.

This girl had no shame, or maybe she still hadn’t realized it yet what she was doing. But holy crap that cleavage is a magnet for eyes, and it doesn't help that i have to look down directly into it. Was I doing the same thing to people back then as well? Now that I think about it, I am kinda impressed that Kat managed to ignore them so well…

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(Bakugo Pov)

When I first arrived here, I was pissed. I was in the middle of lunch, on a break from a hero patrol, when I suddenly heard those stupid bells ring. Moments later, I was in the middle of nowhere with no one but a purple bitch beside me. I didn’t know any better at that point, so obviously my first conclusion was that she was responsible for all of that. The teleporting and stuff. Maybe she was a villain, I didn't know at that time. So I don’t blame myself for being on guard.

Naturally I did the only reasonable thing one would expect in a situation like that and lifted her into the air and threatened her. I mean, how else do you get a villain to explain themself. Although before she could even answer me, we both heard words ringing throughout the land.

You contestants, seekers of love, heed this call so true,

Escape before the bell's grasp tightens its hold on you.

In the day's peak and the night's deepest embrace,

The bell shall toll, bringing change to your chase.

Know, it's no punishment, this journey you pursue,

For after three days, joy and love will imbue.

So strive, dear hearts, let love's sweet melody sway,

Break free from the bell's grip, seize your love's bright day.

Ding~

That bell sound shook me to my core, so much so that my strength wavered and the purple catlike girl scratched my arm with her claws and freed herself, landing in front of me with incredible grace, then looked down on me with a stare that could kill. And then she spoke with a cold tone: “Who do you think you are grabbing there, boy?”

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(Cheshire cat Pov)

This was bad, really really freaking bad. Not only did I not know where I was, I was also together with a guy who was ready to kill me at a moment's notice if I hadn’t acted. There are usually two ways to get away from people like that.

One: Be so cute and harmless that he didn’t want to hurt you… Yeah, screw that! I was a freaking innocent cat girl on the floor and he still almost strangled me! No way that worked with him!

So I only had one alternative: Make sure he thinks you are powerful enough that you would give him a decent fight, but show that you are disinterested in fighting him. Even better if you can prove useful to him. I had to go for that approach, so it was time to lie like my life depended on it.

“I was thrown here too. Are you too blind in your rage for fights to see that it's pointless to fight when we are both victims?” I said, crossing my arms under my chest and looking him dead in the eye.

“What was that?!?” He hissed back and his fingers twitched, and even though I was scared, I merely averted my eyes.

“Cease that. You heard me.” I said, undeterred. “You heard the announcement. I don’t like the sound of being trapped and something tells me you don’t like it either. I could lower myself to your level and fight you, but there is no point. That wouldn’t get either of us closer to the exit. Don’t you agree?”

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(Bakugo pov)

For the first time in my life, I was actually kinda impressed with someone. Yeah, she was right. Fighting pointlessly wouldn't get us anywhere and she also wasn't the one responsible for this. After all, she was trapped here too. So I followed her, keeping a keen eye on her every move the entire time.

Night came faster than I anticipated and walking through open fields when it becomes dark is a dangerous endeavor even for the most veteran of heroes. You are basically asking to get ambushed. So I was asking the cat girl where we going, as she seemingly knew what to do from the very beginning.

“I was going to find us a place to stay. I hope you appreciate that.” She said and turned around to face me. And I just had to stare in awe for a second. Behind her was a huge cottage that I didn't even notice we were walking towards. How did I miss something like that? I still wonder.

Anyway, that night, in that cottege’s bed, the real fucked up strange things started to happen. The moment midnight came…

Ding~

… the sound of a bell could be heard everywhere and my body immediately cramped up. I had trouble breathing and moving, as I felt myself contorting. I felt my waist and shoulders being compressed by some invisible force, while my hips and ass did the exact opposite. I could even feel some pressure on my chest back then…

When it was over, my balance was all of, which was understandable. My hips were wider than my shoulders and there were lumps on my chest. If I didn’t know any better, I would have said I looked like a girl. Although the weirdest part was definitely the golden specks that had appeared on my right arm.

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(Cheshire Cat Pov)

I haven’t mentioned anything about last night to that explosive guy, but my body felt vastly different from before. I somehow felt bigger and broader, with less curves over all. My hips especially felt skinny as well as my chest. Did I lose a cup or two back there?

In any case, I needed to push forward and take the lead again, as showing weakness would lead to my demise. That's when the guy who now looked a lot softer asked me a few questions that I more than dreaded.

“We haven’t really talked much yesterday, so I guess I should introduce myself. I am Bakugo Katsuki, also known as the hero Dynamight. My quirk is to blow anything and all up whenever I want.” That sentence alone made me sweat bullets, but then he continued. “How about you? Who are you and what's your quirk?”

No time for hesitation, I needed to sound as convincing as I possibly can. “If you really need to know, I go by Jess. I am from the Cheshire Cat tribe, and while I might not be a hero like you, you better not take me lightly. My quirk is that I am able to find anything I want, be that weaknesses of enemies or treasure. If I can imagine it, I can and will find it.”

Well, I think I could have come up with a better superpower, but I really couldn't think of anything else at the moment. I needed to sound intimidating and explain the day before's major coincidence with that cottage. Holy crap that scared the shit out of me when there really just appeared the house in the exact right moment. But I'll take it and run.

Although, right after I said that…

Ding~

Another bell rang out, it must have been around noon. Bakugo almost collapsed instantly, but I somehow remained standing through it again. I felt myself shifting, growing again, a weird feeling I couldn't describe. It felt like my face was being squeezed and pulled ever so slightly, as if to make my features a little sharper. I also felt my waist getting a bit wider, reducing my curve even further. But even weirder, I felt something small appearing between my legs, something that I was both too scared and too ashamed to check out.

At that point I still had hope I would stay a cat girl, but little did I know at that time.

In any case, Bakugo was hit much harder. His changes were very simple and straightforward. His chest jumped up like two sizes and his ass expanded backwards to even overtake mine already. And I was still sporting a pretty nice butt, if I may say so myself.

But most importantly, I noticed that his right hand had almost entirely turned to gold… That's when an idea came to me.

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(Bakugo Pov)

“Might you tell me why we are looking for gold again? I still don’t understand!” At that point I was still ignorant of Jess’ brilliance, as where she was guiding me was still unclear to me. Though I am actually surprised I didn't get all that angry at her. Maybe I already started to trust her at that point.

“Simple. Your quirk is clearly changing to the legendary power ‘Good as Gold’, hence why your arm is turning gold.” She flatly replies, crossing her arms under her now way less impressive bust. Maybe a C-cup? Definitely not the impressive mounds she had before, and yet, her frame was even more imposing than when she had them.

“And because ‘Good as Gold’s power depends on how much gold is in your possession, if we collect enough of it, you would become powerful enough to break us out. Now we only need to find the right rocks to break for gold and luckily for you, I think there should be a treasure nearby.” She declared, to which I naturally became a tiny bit irritated.

“Aha, and you expect gold to just fall out of rocks when we blast them away?” I asked sarcastically.

“Exactly.”

“You are insane. Look, that’s not going to happen. And I can prove it to you!” I hissed, balled my fist and blasted a rock half the size of me open with a small explosion to prove a point.

And though a miracle that I still couldn't even comprented, a lump of pure gold was left in the rubble of the stone.

“See, what did I tell you? I can find anything I want, even gold. And I also know all the weak spots and how to get to them. You believe me now?” She asked, leaning forward and down towards me. I was in awe. I didn't even realize when she became so much taller than me, but that quirk of hers was amazing. Somehow, this event furthered my trust in Jess a whole lot…

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(Jess Pov)

We spent the rest of the day blasting rocks. How I was doing that thing was still beyond me. The first rock was a complete fluke. I didn’t even say anything and he just blasted it… and then there was gold. Honestly I was just as stumped as he was. But every rock after that, I somehow had a feeling in my gut. Just a feeling, an instinct. Some rocks just felt valuable and some worthless, I pointed at the valuable rocks and gold came flying out. I could even predict roughly how much gold was inside, just by how strong that feeling was.

It made me wonder if I really had this amazing ability that I had been pretending to have the last day? This ‘treasure sense’, as I called it.

Anyway, as night fell I led us back to our cottage, all the gold Bakugo collected included. It's amazing what that boy could carry… or maybe it's that improved strength because of the gold I have been talking about all day? Who is to say?

As we arrived at the cottage, I told Bakugo another lie. I predicted that something big was happening that night in particular and that we should stay together just in case.

The reason I did that was mainly because I had noticed the trend of the bells ringing every twelve hours, at noon and at midnight, so I basically said that to impress him. And since his hand was almost entirely gold, I also told him that he is probably going to turn a lot more gold that night, because of how much we collected. But I didn’t yet know how right I was.

Ding~

The bell rang and the transformative feeling returned, even more intense than before. It felt like my body was aggressively straightened out, losing all curves for a wider build. My waist curve was gone, my butt turned flat and my hips became barely wider than my waist. My chest however expanded while my shoulders grew, although in all the wrong ways. My breasts as a whole, were practically gone, so bras were useless from this moment forward. But still, my chest became impressive in another way, in a manly way.

Which brings me to the final change… yes, before I could close both eyes and pretend it didn’t exist, but not any longer. There was no mistaking it now. I had become a guy.

Although interestingly, compared to how intense Bakugo was changing, my race practically stayed the same. I still had my two purple cat ears and my tail, I just was on the other side of the gender spectrum. I wonder when I started talking so sophisticated… huh…

In any case, speaking of Bakugo, his changes were even more intense. What were only extremely noticeable breasts before grew to outright huge mounds, way bigger than mine had ever been. His ass also exploded outwards, it was a sight to behold, although all in all he didn't look much bigger than before. In fact, he looked smaller. Cuter. Barely half my size now, but that wasn’t all.

The golden color on his arm spread further down his body, leaving nothing from his old skin color behind. And wherever it went, it shifted his body quite drastically. As it spread down his arms, they grew in size and almost looked like they were turning into reptilian claws. Then the gold appeared from his legs, tearing his shoes apart as his feet were turned into golden claws as well.

Golden wings sprung out his back when his torso got completely covered and a thick golden reptilian tail sprung out from his massive behind, making him pant very heavily as the golden color moved further down. His groans and moans became louder as the golden color seemed to move towards a particular spot. From his stomach downwards and from his legs upwards, until they finally met, which caused Bakugo to let out a very uncharacteristically girly scream that echoed throughout the building.

And from context clues and his reaction afterwards, one thing became abundantly obvious: Just as I was completely male now, he was now completely female.

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(Bakugo Pov)

Once again, Jess was completely right. That night was intense, just like she said. Well, just like he said. It feels like he is always looking out for me no matter what. If there is something good coming, he tells me how to get it. If there is something bad coming, he warns me and helps me brace for it. It feels like he always has everything under control, and I kinda like that.

After getting as much sleep as I could after an eventful night like that on Jess’ recommendation, we set out in the morning to test another new skill of mine that I apparently now had. To be honest, my body felt so small, yet so powerful. I was barely half the size of Jess anymore, yet my chest was easily bigger than his head, and it felt like it was packing a lot of power too.

When we got a bit of distance between the cottage, Jess turned around and gave me another then cryptic command. “Breath fire on the gold ore.”. He also then added that he wasn’t sure what it would do, but he knew that it would help. Not that I needed to hear another word.

This might have sounded absurd before. I am an explosion master, not a fire breather. Also nothing should realistically happen when I do it, but who cares about logic?

So I took a deep breath and… actually breathed out golden flames on the pile of golden ore in front of me. I was astonished. I once again learned something new by listening to Jess. Sasuga Jess-sama.

When the flames subsided, gone was the gold ore and suddenly there was a messy stack of golden coins. My flames had just turned gold into gold coins. And it also feels like my strength has gone up once again, as those coins now seemed infinitely more valuable than just raw unprocessed ore.

I just looked at Jess with an amazed look, but he didn't even react. He knew this would happen. He is just that smart and good. And I even knew exactly what I was going to do that entire day.

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(Jess Pov)

I have noticed that ever since she has turned into a girl, I have been calling her Kat more and more. I know her name is Katsuki Bakugo, but Kat just seemed to roll off the tongue easier.

Also that theory about me gaining some sort of special ability might be spot on. I just felt something would happen if she breathed fire and that we had to make some distance from the cottage to not ruin it. And would you look at that? Now Kat is all excited turning ore into coins, making herself more powerful while happily giving me a sight that is so pleasing on the eyes.

The only thing I don't know is whether or not she is doing that on purpose or not. I mean, she practically flaunts her massive ass and tits with every move she makes. Not that I complain. For some reason I have come to enjoy this sight a whole lot. That being said…

Ding~

The bell rang another time, though this time Kat was the one who barely changed. Her clothes just basically melted into a single very skinny black bra that really didnt do a good job over covering her massive mounds, some very short pencil skirt that barely covered her ass and a collar around her neck. That's it. I doubt she even noticed it while she was so engrossed in her golden endeavor.

My getup, on the other hand, went through a lot more drastic change. To be honest, I didn't think that my purple skirt fit my new body particularly well anymore, so there was a part of me who really appreciated this change a lot. In essence, my clothes became a lot bigger and covering, then changed their color to black. Instead of a skirt, I now wore suit pants, and instead of my blouse, I now wore a suit top. even a tie appeared around my neck, which made the whole thing just look a lot more professional.

It was definitely a bigger change than Kat, but then again, Kat also was wearing barely any clothes. It feels like we are dressed exactly how we are supposed to, me being the businessman who comes up with the strategies and tactics to catapult us to the top, while Kat is the Eyecandy and executive force, who will bring my plans to fruition.

And with every minute that passes, this dynamic between us two seemed to become more and more true. Fascinating.

Although there was another feeling, that kept welling up. Something that appeared on the first day and I never managed to shake off ever since then. In fact, it has only grown within me.

…I might need to tell Kat about it sometime soon.

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(Kat Pov)

Another successful day has come to its end, although I felt like today was a little bit special. Wasn’t it like the third day after that three day challenge was announced? Eh, couldn't have been so important. Jess didn't even mention it once.

Also, around that time I felt like Jess had been calling me Kat a lot, which I guess made more sense now as a nickname. With me being a huge boobied golden dragon girl and all. So of course Jess would come up with a perfect nickname for me. He always has the best ideas. Ehehehe!

It was on me to transport all the coins back to the cottage, obviously. If there is physical work to do, then I am the girl for the job! It was easy for me thanks to the wealth we had already collected. And when I dropped all the coins into the courtyard I instantly looked at Jess with shining eyes and he gave me a nod with his usual cold smile, meaning I was allowed to have fun with the coins! Yay!

So I jumped in, swimming through the mountain of gold we have amassed. With this, my power will be unstoppable and all of Jess’ even more elaborate plans will surely come to fruition! Nothing can stop us! Ahahaha!

Although, while I was having fun, I noticed that Jess was still deep in thought, which usually meant that he was coming up with another brilliant plan. I couldn't wait.

“Hey Kat. Once you are done fooling around in the gold, do you mind coming down for a moment? There is something I would like to tell you.” He finally said, which brings us to now.

There I stood, right in front of the, compared to my height, huge cat boy in a professional suit, looking far more professional than I could even hope to be. But that wasn’t what mattered at that moment. Jess clearly had something important to say…

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“Kat, may I ask, what is your dream? What would you like most?” Jess asked in a serious tone.

“My dream… huh?” Kat replied slowly.

“I am dreaming of creating an empire, a company so large that I can claim the world. And I truly think that together we can achieve that.” Jess spoke in an inspiring tone, then closed his eyes. “That being said, the thought of using you like a tool pains me. So I want to fulfill your wishes too. Would you tell me your wish so that I can grant it for you?”

At this point Kat was a bit speechless, but then went to think. The reply she came up with wasn't nearly as sophisticated, but it was the best she got. “I want power. Money is Power, and Power is Money. That is something I have learned from you. If you want to have the world, then I want all the money in the world! How is that for a dream?”

“A fine dream indeed!” Jess spoke, grabbing a nearby wine glass and handing it Kat, who just stared at it for a little while. That's when Jess raised his own glass and spoke in his booming voice: “A toast to us and our dreams! May they become reality soon!”

“Yeah!” Kat grinned back, and as the glasses touched…

Ding~

…the final bell sound rang through the night. That’s when both of them silently swore to themself, that they would do anything in their power to make their partner's dream come true, no matter what. That their own dreams weren’t as important to them as they let on, was something they would never admit to each other now.

They were partners in business, partners in gold, partners in crime, and most importantly…

Partners in love.