Brad spoke above the two others.

"So, who wants to start?"

Melissa, Anne, and Brad have been friends forever. They met in elementary school, where they were put in the same class, and bonded quickly. Since then, their friendship lasted all the way through high school and beyond graduation, too. They were like a BFF trio, neither of them preferring one to another, always hanging out together and having fun. Following a common interest in studying the magical arts, they all three went to magical college and got a flat together. This hasn't changed their relationship a bit and they are still as close as they were at any time in their life. However, things started to get more... interesting as they learned more about magic and the different ways it could be used to alter reality. Since it transgresses the usual laws of physics or limits of chemistry or biology, magic can really becomes a powerful tool to brighten up an evening and have some fun. That's when the traditional Card Fridays started happening.

"How about you Brad?" said Anne with excitement. "Enough with being a gentleman, pick first for once!"

"Alright then", said Brad, who loved to see what his friends picked first before going in next. "But only this time! After that, I go back to being a respectable man with proper manner."

"Yeah right, stop shuffling the deck already and PICK ONE!" That was Melissa, eager to get tonight's game started."

The «game» isn't one with a board and rules and dice and winners and losers. Prior to the night, they would each imbue five cards with different magical properties that will affect the person that picks it from the stacked deck. Before getting started, they shuffle the cards, pick one each, have a good laugh about everyone's transformation (or whatever the effect of the card was) then drink a bunch of beer and have fun.

Brad looked at his friends, all three sitting in a circle on the living room floor like they always did, and gave the deck to Melissa. She split the deck and presented it to Brad who took the card furthest to the right.

"What is it?" said Melissa.

"Looks like... We're having a girl's night!"

"YES! I knew you'd pick this one!" said Anne. "I put an additional charm on it so you were drawn to it more than the others!" She had always been the cleverest one of the three.

"That's cheating!", said Brad as the card vaporised in his hand. The symbol on it represented the male and female gender symbols intertwined together. "But I..." *cough* "..guess it's too late to... argue now!"

Speaking those last few words, Brad's voice had become increasingly higher pitched than before, a big contrast compared to his usually deep voice. His beard, arm and leg hair were already drawing back inside his body while his hair were growing at a ridiculous speed. They soon reached below his shoulders, but still kept their bright red color. He stood up and removed his shirt, a gesture that the girls approved with sarcastic applause. The muscles on his chest were mostly gone, as were the hair, and twin bumps were slowly rising from the skin around his pectorals. He reached past Anne behind the couch and pulled out a small plastic bag containing pieces of clothing.

"I'm always prepared for this one", said Brad with a now completely feminine voice.

She took the bra out, quickly snapped it on and let the cups get filled with her newly formed breasts. She tried to undress from her pants, but her movements were becoming imprecise as the changes in her new body were hard to get used to. Her arms were more slender, and kept shrinking in length, as were her legs, and what looked like gnomes' feet were now delicate pieces of art with fancy colored nails. Her hands also shrunk to the size of a lady's, which caused her now humongous thumb ring to fall on the floor. Thighs, waist, belly, shoulders, neck, biceps, jaw, everything was melting away so it could fit the frame of a young girl in her twenties. When she finally sat down, Brenda wore only a shirt and shorts.

"I kind of like this body though", said Brenda as she tied her hair in a ponytail. "I feel so much hotter than you two now!" The other girls started ranting and jokingly insulted her in various imaginative ways. "And look at those boobs!" She grabbed her new breasts and gently squeezed them, smiling at her friends as she did so. Her shirt brushed against the skin of her stomach, which was now flat. She was gorgeous.

"Don't get too excited about it", said Melissa. "Next time I do one I'm gonna use a six months TimeWarp and a MemoryRewrite on it so people forget that you ever were a boy once. We'll see how you handle being on your period."

"We should all switch at the same time! It would be fun to adapt our entire lives to a sex change, I guess. Your turn now, ladies! Picking simultaneously as you always do?"

"Of course!" (said both Melissa and Anne in unison.)

"It's even more fun this way!", completed Anne.

They locked eyes together, put their fingers on one card each and chanted :

"One..."

"Two..."

"Three!"

They both picked and looked at their own card, then at the other's and laughed.

"What did you get?" inquired Brenda.

"Almost the same thing actually", said Melissa, "but I get to pick my nose while Anne has to ask me to!"

"I won't do that", replied Anne while rolling her eyes.

They flipped their cards over to show Brenda. The black symbols both represented a human body with red lines crossing over some body parts as to indicate missing limbs. The symbol on Melissa's card was left only with a right arm while Anne's had no limbs to speak of. The cards vanished and the effects started on the two girls' bodies.

"Damn, I should open a beer before this is done!", Anne said in a hurry. "Brenda, could you fetch a long straw from the cupboard for me?"

"I didn't see you bringing me any girl's clothes, sweetheart", she said, twisting her neck to inspect her butt. "You're on your own."

"How about you Melissa?! Pretty please?"

"I have my own beer to handle, thank you." She reached behind her and grabbed a can from the case, putting her right hand on the ground to have better reach. By the time she sat back in the circle, half of it had already vanished. "Come on, Anne! Run! I think you'd better go to the kitchen now while you still have feet."

Anne frowned and pushed the deck of cards aside. She quickly reached for her case, opened her beer and rushed towards the kitchen. It was only a couple of steps away but when your feet and your legs are receding inside your body you can never be sure how long you can trust them.

"They're either above the sink or in the cupboard under the spices!" shouted Brenda as she struggled to open her beer. She wasn't quite used to her new muscles and had to put more effort than she thought in opening the can.

Melissa spoke softly in her ear.

"...she's never gonna make it.."

They both giggled. Melissa was changing faster than Anne since the card's magic had one less limb to evaporate. Holding the can against her chest with a handless arm, she opened her beer using her left hand but spilled some over her top. She quickly moved the can away from her clothes and sipped the overflow of beer from the can while she wiped the excess off her chest using her stump. The spell soon reached her elbow and knees.

Still visible from the living room, Anne stood on the kitchen counter on her knees, looking for straws. Her feet, now without any toes, were dangling off the edge. She moved jars and plates around the packed cabinet with fingerless hands but couldn't find anything to drink with.

"Dang it!"

She climbed down the counter but lost her balance due to her lack of toes. She ended up on all fours in front of the cupboard and opened the door from below using the remains of her wrist.

"Got 'em!" said Anne excitedly as she spotted her target.

Fortunately enough for her, the pack had already been opened. She sat down and reached in with her two forearms to grab it and put it upside down over her mouth. After she managed to secure two straws using her lips, she dropped the pack, dropped on all fours again and worked her way back towards the living room. Melissa took a sip from her beer and spoke :

" The teachers are right when they say magic works exponentially. I mean look at us! I'm already done while she still has so much left!"
She laughed at what she said and the two girls cheered while waiting for Anne.

She was right, though. Melissa's transformation was now complete, her sleeveless top made that explicitly clear. Her right shoulder was now round and showed no signs that an arm had existed there about a minute ago. Her collarbone and scapula met as usual to form a shoulder and she could still move it around but her skin was smooth and lacked scars. It didn't look stretched out or poked in, as if she was born this way. She laid her hand on her head near her ear and ran it down her neck, her shoulder, over the absence of arm on her side and down to her hips. These now lacked any sort of legs or stump. Her body simply ended with her ass. Leaning on one side, then on the other, she folded the empty legs of her pants behind her and sat back on it.

Anne was close to being done, too. Now out of breath and laughing between her teeth, she had just lost her articulations and used her upper arms and legs to crawl back to the circle. Good thing I decided to wear shorts today, she thought to herself, as the lingering fabric would've made crawling a lot harder for her. As the magic continued it's work, Anne's face grew closer to the ground as her limbs shrunk back inside her body. Soon, her limbs were so short that her boobs began brushing against the floor and by the time she reached Brenda, who was closest to the kitchen in the circle, her last bit of limbs vanished. She was left panting on the floor, resting on her breasts. She tried to squirm forward, without success, but managed to roll on her back and stared up at her new girl friend for the night.

"A... a bit of.... a bit of help... help please??"

Brenda smiled and tilted her head sideways.

"Of course beautiful.", she said with a soft voice.

Brenda picked up Anne's reduced body and pressed it against her chest. Now having boobs herself, Brenda was surprised to feel them against Anne's and repressed a laugh. She bent down and put her extremely light friend in front of her beer. Then, she put one straw inside the other to make a longer one and put it in the can. She gave the other end to Anne, which she grabbed with her mouth. Conveniently enough, Anne could use the couch behind her to lean on it to avoid losing balance and falling face first on the floor. Just like Melissa's right shoulder and hips, Anne's body showed no sign of limbs, as if she had always been this way.

"A great night in perspective, as usual", said Melissa, taking another sip of beer. "What should we do now? A game of beer pong?"

Melissa and Brenda both exploded with laughter and poked at Anne's empty shoulders and hips. She frowned again at first, but watching her best friends laugh together got the best of her and she managed to smile and take a sip of beer using the straw. As she drank, she squirmed her shoulders up and down as if to say: "Look mom! No hands!" and all three laughed even harder after that.

The only rule of this game is that the effects imbued in the cards must run out when waking up in the morning following the night. But in the end, even with cards that remove limbs entirely, it's always a great deal of fun to be had.