"I've no idea at all. I have a bad feeling all round about this." Cloud sighed, as Tifa told him he had the choice.
"Me too, but it doesn't seem we've got much of a choice but to try a door." She noted.
Cloud shrugged.
"If we had any clue which one was the first door we could try that, but without any information I don't trust any of the doors."
"First door, you say..."
Cloud raised an eyebrow at this as Tifa scanned the room again.
"Well... Venus is the symbol for females, and they do say ladies first..." Tifa noted.
Cloud didn't have much of a comment on it. It was the kind of logic that seemed to be applicable in so many situations like this...
"Well, we have to go somewhere. I don't want to force the exit to go out in the cold... And none of the other doors are really any different in how much they appeal to me."
The two approached the door with the Venus symbol.
"Soo... Ladies first, right?" Tifa said once more, opening the door to find...
"...Another hallway?"
There was just a short corridor, a few meters long, with another door at the end. A sign warned that the other door would only open with the Venus door closed, and that all other doors were now locked, a claim verified by the sudden but quiet sounds of clicks and sliding metal. Clouid crossed over to the Mars door, tugging and pushing it, but it refused to move an inch, the lock rattling as he tried to open it.
"Well, that narrows our options down..."
"On we go I guess." Tifa said, as Cloud joined her in the small corridor and shut the door.
The Venus Door clicked shut, and the exit also clicked as the lock opened. Tifa turned the doorknob, but as she swung it open, she was distracted by a cry of surprise from Cloud.
"What's wrong?!"
Cloud did not reply, falling to his knees and clutching his head while groaning.
For Cloud, his whole body seemed to be burning. Arms, legs, chest, head, crotch, stomach, everything felt like it was on fire for a second... And then it started to gently contract in some areas. Arms and fingers became more slender, as did the stomach and overall body shape. Facial features started to feel a little softer, a strange tingling as his jaw grew thinner. His legs too tingled as they were affected. His scalp and hips tingled too, but this change was not a reduction as such.
For Tifa, she saw a few changes. Cloud's hair, for example, was growing and growing, becoming a somewhat unkempt sheet of blond cascading down his back, even as the main spikes of his hair stayed in place. His face seemed to become more slender, and as he groaned...
"Cloud?! Are you all right?!" She asked, racing to him as his groans...
...Seemed to get higher pitched? An echo from the corridor or...
Cloud's own sensations were now changing. His chest felt strange, like something was growing there. There was also a strange tingle between his legs... And then he realised.
His chest was expanding, and a certain part... was shrinking.
She shrieked in surprise as it occurred to her. Most of the tingling and the burning pain was gone except a lingering tingle at the hips and down there, but... There was no mistaking it even as she shot to her feet, feeling a little extra mass on her chest and head, and the feeling of something not being there.
"T...Tifa, I..." She stammered as the... other... woman stared in bewilderment.
But it seemed the change was not over. Cloud's clothing glowed, and began to shift. The legs of the jumpsuit merged and like liquid, the dark blue clothing began to flow around. Some flowed down her arms, as the legs began to expand outwards, and the belt shrank and shifted. Her boots began to change shape, size, and colour into blue high-heels, and her socks began to flow up her legs, becoming a semi-transparent tea-coloured, stretchy material as the hemline of the forming dress rose up to about knee level. The newly formed arms of the dress ended at the elbow, his gloves transformed into thin white silk that went up to just below the elbow, and the neckline of the dress plunged a little.
And like that, Cloud had become a woman, wearing a short blue dress.
"...What the hell just..." Tifa stared as Cloud was frozen in shock.
She snapped out of it as the other woman burst into laughter, and with a burning sensation on her face, Cloud almost screeched her response to this.
"Tifa! This isn't funny! I got turned into a girl in some stupid dress and you laugh?!"
Tifa calmed herself down, and wiped tears from her eyes. Tears of laughter, that was.
"I'm sorry, Cloud but... It is kind of funny. And you do look cute now your clothes have changed."
She approached the former male, who then gave a very girly shriek as Tifa yanked the helmine up.
"...I hope your underwear transformed too, by the way, because even I wouldn't wear underwear like that..." Tifa smirked as Cloud's face burned.
"...Sh-shut up..." She tried, only for Tifa to smirk.
"Still... At least you could still pass for a guy if you cut you hair and wore different clothes."
Cloud, being more concerned at having breasts than the fact they were relatively small, allowed this one to pass over her head as Tifa sighed.
"Look, Cloudia..."
"...Cloudia?! What the hell, Tifa, why are you changing my name?!" The newly-christened Cloudia protested.
"...Cloud, whatever. I'm really sorry about laughing like that but... Oh, wow, if we went through the Mars door..." Tifa trailed off.
"Cloudia" shook her head.
"Never mind that. We should keep going and... Try to turn me back, or at least find more practical clothes..."
Beyond the exit, the pair of women found...
"Argh! More doors?!" Tifa cried out.
This hall was just a hallway. Only six doors stood here this time, with no exit door, being locked out by the now sealed Venus door.
This time, it was a Tiny door at the end of the hallway beside another Clock door. Down from that, a Frog and Nanaki door sat across from each other.
But the Mars and Venus doors were replaced by "Gallery" and "Store", two written signs rather than symbols.
"...Okay, this time, let's try not to turn ourselves into anything cute..." Tifa said, getting a glare.
"What? Come on, you are cute!"
"...Just pick a door out already." Cloudia huffed.
Extra/Omake!
"Look, Cloudia..."
"...Cloudia?! What the hell, Tifa, why are you changing my name?!" The newly-christened Cloudia protested feeling like the name had already stuck, as if some cosmic narration had began to use it to refer to her as she was...
"And shut up, Deadpool! Why are you even here?"
I'm narrating! Jeez!
"He's crazy. And how come he's still a guy?" Tifa asked.
"I know I asked that, you moron. You're lucky you have some healing power or I'd kill you again."
Cloudia sighed, even as the totally hot girl with much nicer boobs threatened the sexy and... Gha! Uncle! Uncle! It doesn't move in that direction, ladies!