"Aaar-ribbit!"
...Like Nanaki had just taken meant you'd be hopping mad. Where a red-furred lion-wolf thing once stood, now stood a green skinned frog.
Tifa punched at one that seemed ready to sing the Frog Song, preventing it from transforming her or Cloud into sleeping frogs. The hapless frog-monster/pest croaked as it flew off.
"I really see why you hate frogs now," Tifa said, scrambling for a Maiden's Kiss but finding none in her pack.
"I don't hate frogs, regular frogs are fine. These little - ribbit!" Cloud replied interrupted by frog jabbing, his sword falling from his grasp.
Nanaki had by this point managed to get jabbed again, and was able to use the Steal materia he carried to recover one Maiden's Kiss from a frog, throwing it at Cloud.
"Thanks, Nanaki!" He said, now human again and grabbing up his sword.
"Try steal some more if you can, we're all out," Tifa warned just as a frog got past her defences.
Cloud sliced through a few more as Nanaki tried to get another Maiden's Kiss, finding one on a defeated Touch Me, throwing it at Tifa just as a frog jab struck him.
And then the ground shook, the remaining Touch Mes all paused, and then fled.
"...That can't be good," Cloud noted.
"Ribbit!" Nanaki pointed, and the two humans turned to see a gargantuan toad.
"...That's a big one," Tifa gulped.
"The King Touch-Me. It's supposed to be a legend..."
"Looks like it's a living legend then."
"...Not for long," Cloud said, charging in, but the creature shot his tongue out, slapping him on the face.
"Ow! Well, I'm not a... frog..." He said, feeling woozy, dropping his sword.
"Cloud? Are you okay?" Tifa ran over, only to be struck herself, feeling herself grow faint, and noting that Cloud seemed to be shrinking, and turning green.
"Wha..."
Passing out, Tifa did not see what happened next, nor did Nanaki as he tried to dodge the attacking King. As Cloud shrank, he unusually shrank within his clothing, turning into a frog - and all far slower than the usual near-instant effects of such magic.
Tifa, for her part, underwent the same change, reducing in size, turning green, all nestled amongst her own clothing as she shrank.
Nanaki, alarmed as he noted the seemingly empty piles of clothing, was hit by the tongue, and thrown off. However, for him, there was a different change. Knocked out, the formerly four-legged fighter began growing...
The King ribbited in glee, only for a hail of gunfire and a Fuuma Shuriken to swing his way. Barret, Yuffie, and Vincent bore down on it, with Cait Sith, Cid, and Aerith right behind.
Outnumbered, the King fled.
"What the hell did that big warty asshole do to them?" Cid wondered, watching as Nanaki changed.
Before their eyes, the frogified Nanaki grew not into his old four-legged shape, but bipedal, and humanoid. And, judging by the lumps forming, female. Her hands and feet were webbed, and more like a frog's flippers, but she was definitely human-like, long red hair growing from her green head.
"Oh my gawd, it turned Nanaki into a frog girl instead of a wolfy-dog-lion thing!" Yuffie exclaimed.
At this noise, Nanaki awoke.
"What... *croak* happened... " She said, then blinked.
"I just croaked. And my voice is all *croak* weird."
She looked down,and let out a shriek.
"W-what's going on?! Why do I have arms? Why do I have those things?"
Flippered hands flew to a crotch, followed by a half-croaky whimper.
"Where did my thing go?"
"It is the effect of Touch Me Royals. They transforms targets not into normal frogs, but either into breedable mates... or i they weren't already a frog or a Touch Me, into daughters," Vincent explained.
Yuffie had moved to the pile of Cloud's clothing, poking through it, only to hear an angry ribbit. Aerith, having been investigating Tifa's clothing, heard the same.
Suddenly, from the piles leapt two small, and very strange frogs leapt out. The size of a regular Touch Me, but with clear human characteristics, namely, hair and breasts. The pair stared at each other, one blonde, one black haired. Confused, the blonde ribbited, reaching to the black-haired one, placing a flipper on her leg.
The black-haired frog ribbited back.
"Alright, I'm curing them," Barret said, throwing two Maiden's Kisses, as well as one at Nanaki.
However, something odd happened. Nanaki merely turned from green, to a tanned complexion, with some green spots across her body, mainly around her eyes, cheeks, neck,breasts, pelvis, and outer legs. The webbed feet became more humanlike, but still slightly webbed. The fingers also lost some webbing and became like hands.
Tifa and Cloud, however, grew, still in the shape of frogs at first, until they too became similar to Nanaki, though their webbed limbs remained somewhat more froglike, and their skintones had an undertone of green.
And then Tifa eeped as she realised she was naked, a croak of indignation.
"C-can someone *croak* pass me my clothes?"
Cloud, however, was too shocked to even be embarrassed.
"I'm... a frog-woman?" She murmured.
"Hey, don't worry, guys, I'm sure there's a cure for it all!" Aerith chimed in.
"I hope so, 'cos I'm starting to feel a little inadequate here. How come frog-girls Cloud and Nanaki each get a rack nearer to Tifa's?!" Yuffie fumed.
"That's what you're most worried about, tiny tits?" Cid spat.
"Stop! We need to focus and think of how *croak* we can fix this," Nanaki said.
"Nanaki is right. The trouble is, what research was done into the nature of Touch Mes was stored near the reactor building in Gongaga," Cait Sith said.
"So... it may have been blown up?" Tifa paled, as Cloud ribbited in alarm.
"Or was relocated," Vincent cut in.
"Vincent has it. It's in Midgar... Shin-ra Archives. Or Nibelheim, in the mansion basement," Cait Sith sighed.
"Great. Just *croak* great," Cloud face...flippered.
"...Hey, do you guys have really long tongues now?" Yuffie wondered.
Cloud shot his out at her as proof.
"Hey, yikes, just asking! Chill out, Cloud! And maybe get dressed? Kind of indecent!"
"No offence, y'all, but it's not like any of us guys who're still guys are enjoying the view of frogtits on what used to be a dude and a dude dog lion thing. Hey, Red, what species are you anyway?" Barret wondered.
"...Right now, a frog-humanoid of some sort, and maybe we should switch *croak* the nickname to Green... Also, where am I meant to find clothes?" She sighed-ribbeted.
Vincent offered his red cloak. Yuffie sighed and produced a pair of black shorts from her pack.
"Wait, those are mine," Tifa frowned.
"Yeah, well, you should clean up more," Yuffie shrugged.
"Nanaki can *croak* have them, I just want to know how you got them. I do clean up."
"Uh, let's solve this later and get moving, the Touch-Mes might come back?" Cait Sith chimed in.
"A reasonable fear. We should head for somewhere safer and forumulate a plan," Vincent said.
They began moving, interrupted only by one question.
"Without your cloak how come you're not bursting into flames?" Yuffie asked Vincent.
The former Turk sighed, and Cloud tried to hit her again with her tongue.
"He's not *croak* a vampire, Yuffie!"
"Hey, careful, if you hit me with your tongue I might -" Yuffie protested, only to be hit by Tifa's tongue, and instantly transform into a frog.
A regular one. Another quick jab turned her back to normal.
"Oh, thank gawd, I thought I was gonna be all green an-"
Nanaki then hit her.
"Sorry, Yuffie, but you're quieter ribbiting," The transformed lion-thing sighed.
"...You guys are cruel," Aerith smirked.
"But Nanaki's got the right idea! Cid grinned.
Yuffie croaked angrily, pouting as Vincent carried her.