Asha was suddenly jolted from hir happy thoughts by a voice. "Hey, I found her!" Qamar shouted. "You won't believe what shi's done to hirself either!"
"Holy fucking shit!" Kibibi gasped as she and the others sprinted up to Asha and Qamar. It felt strange to Asha to be the only person in hir werebeast form at the moment, considering shi hadn't even had hir first shift until a few minutes ago. Kibibi stared at the vulpine werehyena with eyes as wide as dinner plates. "Why the fuck is she a... a...?"
"A fully grown werehyena!" Asha declared, leaping to hir paws with a dramatic flourish.
"You almost look as much like a werevixen as a werehyena," Asanti observed.
"I guess it's because my dad was a werefox," Asha said with a proud smile. "I'm just that unique!"
"What fucking gives?!" Kibibi screamed, trying not to panic and failing.
"I think shi must have found one of Mom's aging potions," Vivi reasoned. "Shi wouldn't be the first cub who was just that impatient to finally shift."
"That's right," Asha smirked, holding the potion bottle in hir hand. "I'm a grown-up now, and that means none of you guys can push me around anymore. I'm big, so there's no more rules!"
"You were so desperate to get away from rules that you aged yourself to adulthood?!" Isra gasped.
"That and I was just that excited to get my werebeast form... and to have sex. Hey, wanna fuck?" Asha gave Isra a suggestive wink, stroking hir cock back to full mast.
"Ew, no!" Isra winced, disgusted. "You're just a little kid!"
"Am not!" Asha sneered. "Just LOOK at this body!" Shi gestured at hir massive tits.
"You may have a grown-up body," Asanti lectured, "but you only have nine years of life experiences. You are not emotionally mature enough to be having sex with anybody, let alone an actual adult!"
"And Asanti and I still intend to babysit you no matter what your biological age is," Kibibi growled fiercely. "We have a duty to your mom, and we don't care if you're nine, eighteen, or a hundred years old!"
"Agreed," Asanti nodded sternly. "You're still a cub in all the ways that count. Your naughty werefox streak doesn't help either."
"Not fair!" Asha screamed, stamping hir foot.
"What do we do about this?" Basma asked Vivi.
"I could always use a youth potion to turn Asha back into a nine-year-old," Vivi offered. "We've got lots of those in stock. Alpha Caleb's mother liked to use those to keep herself spry back when she was running the local werewolf pack. It should just take nine dropes to de-age Asha back into a nine-year-old girl."
"No, don't!" Asha begged, horrified. "I've finally had my first shift, and I can't give being a fully fledged werehyena up!"
"Maybe we can go easy on hir," Najma suggested. "What if we agree that Asha can stay an 'adult' werehyena if shi promises not to have sex for a few years."
"I guess, honey," Qamar shrugged, "but how would we enforce it?"
"We can't!" Kibibi growled. "Asha's a little moon-damned bundle of chaos and cunning. Put hir in an adult body, and shi'll fuck like a bunny in heat the second our backs are turned!"
"But what if Morgana put a geis on Asha?" asked Kathy.
"Hmm, intriguing," Asanti mused. "Please elaborate, Kathy."
"It could be a geis that blocks Asha from having sex with anyone until she turns sixteen or eighteen," Kathy explained. "In real time of course, not biologically. If shi ever tries to have sex before that, shi'll feel an overwhelming aversion and have to stop before shi can even get hir would-be partner's clothes off. My old pride's alpha once had a witch put a geis like that on a really horny tom who kept getting other people's mates pregnant."
"You may have to wait form Mom to get back for that," Vivi said. "I've never cast a geis on my own before, though I could try if you like."
"None of this is fair, guys!" Asha shouted. "I'm totally a grown-up, so you need to let me do whatever I want!"
"Maybe we should let Alpha Selena decide if Asha should stay this way and if shi's old enough for sex," Basma said thoughtfully.
"What makes you say that?" asked Isra.
"Well, she is our new alpha as well as Asha's. It should really be hir rules that decide what Asha can and can't do, when you think about it."
Kibibi scoffed, clearly scornful of the idea of deferring to Selena when she didn't absolutely have to. "Please!" she laughed humorlessly, running a hand over her shaved head as she spoke. "You heard Vivi. Selena's still in her human school right now! Ugh, so dumb!"
"Why so dismissive about the school thing, Kibs?" asked Asanti. "We go to a human school back in Oklahoma."
"Only because my Mom's decided that all of our pack's cubs should do it for some crazy reason!" Kibibi snapped. "It's hir worst decision as leader after not taking the fight to the werelions! If I were our pack's alpha, I'd put a stop to that immediately. I don't like how this Selena's been going to human high school with nobody to make hir."
"Isolation from human civilization isn't the only thing that makes a pack strong," Asanti reminded her mate.
"No, but Selena's been recruiting ex-humans and white people into hir pack," Kibibi countered. "These aren't the kind of people who make strong werehyenas or ones who will respect our ancient traditions."
"We can debate what makes a 'proper' werehyena later," Asanti said. "This is about Selena's authority over Asha."
"Which effectively doesn't exist for the next several hours because shi's in class," Kibibi said firmly. "Selena can't get away to sort this out for a while, so, as the highest ranking pack member here, I'm the acting alpha in the meantime. And I say we either change Asha back into a cub, or we put her under a no-sex geis."
Asha looked on nervously as the bickering adults tried to decide hir fate.