I shook my head violently, fist clenching tightly on the plastic strap of the bag with Sam's shirt in it. "I don't think so Amy."
Amy blinked and stared at me, "What are you saying!? He's bonded to six girls, do you want to be crushed to a pulp?" I shook my head again and grinned, "I think that he's more bark than bite. If we hit him hard right away he'd probably be too..."
"Yo! Dickless wonder!" The words were shouted at me, and a hush settled over the crowd as I turned slowly to look at Greg, Amy at my shoulder. "What do you want?" I managed to keep my voice level and polite as he sneered at me, his women looking haughtily across at me. "I want you to admit that your cousin and her bondsman are both cheaters. There's no other way they could have beaten my brother." I frowned slightly and shook my head. "I'd love to, but I can't. It was a fair fight, and your brother lost." Greg's jaw visible tightened and he said, "I don't have to take this shit from a woman-less little prepubescent ass like you." He spread his legs slightly and shouted, "Mary! First Form, unlocked!" One of the girls with him smiled, her teeth elongating into six-inch needle fangs that distended her mouth wide as her limbs lenghtened, extra joints popping into existence as she lunged forward skittering on all fours.
I blinked and mouthed, "First Form?" and then flung myself back as Mary took an enormous bite out of the stand we were in front of, Amy next to me now as I cursed, "Shit. Too late." One of those long deformed arms swept at me as I dodged backwards, barely catching me but sending me spinning, ribs flaring in pain as I stumbled into Amy and almost fell. "Shit, James! We can't take her." I shook my head and said, "Wrong." As I stood again I extended a hand and forced my will out and shouted, "Glacias!" a huge sheet of snow erupted into being before me, and came crashing down on the monster girl attacking me. I'd used the knowledge from my earlier wish to cast a rudimentary spell, but as soon as I did I was suddenly drained, bone tired.
The crowd had already formed a circle around the group of kiosks Amy and I had been shopping at. Greg was oblivious and simply shouted, "Fucking spells! Sarah, Lynnea, Jane, First Form, unlock!" I cursed and turned to Amy. "Damn. I don't think I can manage that again." As the three girls started to change, one gaining huge amounts of muscle and a hard dark shell, another growing enormous bat wings and a tail tipped in wicked spikes, the last's skin splitting and thrashing chains pushing out. "Do you trust me Amy?" She nodded, fear clear in her eyes and I held out my hand to her, "Will you be mine!" Recognition flashed in her eyes now and for a moment she hesitated, but as the three others bore down on us she nodded and held my hand, "I'm yours!"
There was a sudden warmth that flooded me, reinvigorating me just in time to jump out of the way of Jane's lashing chains and shout, "Amy! First Form, revealed!" She shivered then...