“So you're the one who turned Dee into a copy of me?” Delia demanded, looking from where the former human man had just passed out on the bed she was sharing with the lucario's fiancee to Velvet, the zoroark cringing under the furious fighting type’s glare. “Well then, what are you waiting for? Change him back right now or I’ll-”

“Do what?” Amelie interjected, her eyes flashing dangerously as she moved to stand between her sister and Velvet. “Attack her? Because if you even TRY that, the only two hits in that fight will be me hitting you and you hitting the ground!”

“You're defending her!? After what she did!?” Delia demanded, her own fighting aura blazing as she squared off against her sister. “After she and Dee humiliated me at my own wedding!?”

“The wedding YOU ran out on to fuck some random dude!” Amelie barked. “Oh, you better believe I’m going to have words with Dee, but as far as I’m concerned, you BOTH fucked Helios over and you’re BOTH on my shit list!”

Delia hesitated, her aura fading slightly before backing down with a huff. “I can’t believe my own sister’s siding against me…”

“Oh believe it! I’m SO done with your crap!” Amelie turned to glare at Dee who had only just begun to come back to her senses. “And as for YOU…”

“Amelie!” Helios shouted, waving his hands to get the furious lucario's attention. “Hey, I appreciate the save, but… I know about Dee already, she told me before we got here. This is… all consensual.” He blushed as she moved to cover his tented underwear. “Please don’t mega punch my new girlfriend?”

“Your-” Amelie froze. “Wait… you knew?” She looked back to Velvet, a look of dawning horror spreading across her face. “YOU WERE RIGHT!?”

The zoroark smiled weakly. “I’ve always been pretty good at gauging these things. What you said in the car had me second guessing, but…” She looked past Amelie to give the slowly rising Dee a wink. “I take it everything worked out for the best?”

“It's been-” Dee began, but was cut off by Helios.

“Perfect.” The charizard took her paw and squeezed it reassuringly. “I’ve never been happier.”

“Oh...” Dee blushed and wrapped her arms about Helios’s chest. “Good!”

“Not GOOD!” Delia snarled, once again rising to glare at Dee. “I don’t care how mushy and saccharine these two are, THAT BITCH STOLE MY FACE! And I want HIM to give it up NOW!”

“HEY!” Amelie snarled. “That’s WAY out of line! If Dee’s using she/her now then-”

“I’M OUT OF LINE!?” Delia interrupted, her voice raising to shout over her sister. “SOME FURRY FUCK IS TRYING TO STEAL MY LIFE!”

“OH YES, YOU'RE THE VICTIM IN ALL OF THIS!” Amelie roared, the two sisters advancing on one another, their fighting auras once again blazing to life. “JUST LIKE EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE, IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT AND YOU’RE JUST THE INNOCENT VICTIM!”

“Girls…” Helios began, but immediately backed down as both Lucarios glared at him before returning to their shouting match.

“YOU’RE ONLY TRYING TO DEFEND THIS SHIT BECAUSE YOU’VE ALWAYS HAD A THING FOR MY FIANCE!” Delia screamed, her face going red.

“I’M GAY, ASSHOLE!” Amelie pulled back her paw, curling it into a fist. “I JUST THINK HE’S A NICE GUY AND YOU'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM!”

Before either lucario could throw a punch, Velvet suddenly leapt in, grabbing Amelie around the waist and yanking her back with all her strength. This proved only minimally effective, the much weaker dark type failing to move the powerfully built fighting type, however the unexpected pull caused Amelie to turn her blazing eyes onto the zoroark. “WHAT!?”

“PLEASE STOP SHOUTING!” Velvet screamed, her voice wavering as tears began to form in her eyes. “You're going to give me a panic attack!”

“I…” Amelie hesitated, then allowed the shaking zoroark to pull her back across the room and away from her still fuming sister. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you…”

“I-It’s okay…” Velvet said, rubbing at her eyes. “People screaming like that just… makes me really anxious and freaked out.”

Amelie let out a deep breath and then hesitantly pulled the zoroark into a hug. “Sorry, I’ll try and be better about that… my family is just kinda fiery.”

“Pussy…” Delia snorted.

“THE FUCK DID YOU JUST-” Amelie began, then quickly stopped herself as she felt Velvet tense. “I mean… Delia, I understand how upsetting this must be for you, but you can’t misgender Dee and you can’t… punch holes in doors and threaten to beat people because you're upset.”

“FINE.” Delia rolled her eyes. “Then tell your little girlfriend to turn Dee back NICELY and I’ll NICELY leave you losers alone forever! I just don’t want her pretending to be me anymore!” She pointed to Dee. “Deal?”

“Deal.” Amelie sighed, her eye twitching as she visibly restrained herself from flying off the handle again, feeling Velvet’s shaking slowly subside as the zoroark nuzzled into her chest. “Hey, Velvet, can you change Dee back real fast so we can all just be done with this nonsense?”

“Wait, I don’t want to turn back though!” Dee spoke up from the bed, her eyes going wide as she looked fearfully at Delia. “This has been, I mean, I feel like I’ve just discovered this part of myself I never knew existed and Helios and… I don’t want to go back to being a man!”

“Tough!” Delia snapped.

“Wait, I can…” Velvet hesitantly pushed herself away from Amelie’s chest, blushing as she noticed the tear stains she’d left on the lucario’s clothes. “Sorry, I’ll pay for the dry cleaners...”

“Don’t worry about it.” Amelie soothed, blushing a little herself as she took a step back from the wedding planner. “It's no big deal.”

“Are you sure, because-” Velvet started before catching sight of Delia’s impatient glare. “Sorry, what I was saying is that I can fix things so everyone is happy, if you’ll let me?”

“I doubt that…” Delia grunted.

Velvet took a deep breath. “So, Dee wishes to remain a lucario woman, but Delia does not want her to remain a copy of herself, correct?” She lifted a hand, dark magic forming above it in a shimmering orb. “So instead of undoing the original transformation, I can rework the form she’s in a little. She’ll still look somewhat like Delia, but more like a sister than a twin. Would that be acceptable?”

“Sure!” Dee beamed.

“Hell NO!” Delia glared. “I don’t want this bitch looking ANYTHING like me!”

“Tough.” Helios glared back at his former fiancee. “Because after the stunt you pulled, you're not going to have a choice in the matter.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Delia demanded.

“It means,” Helios began, looking at everyone else. “That right now, everyone is going to be wondering why you were posting pictures of a guy you were sleeping with on our wedding day and NO ONE in either of our families is going to let that slide.”

“Whatever…” Delia huffed, but looked somewhat nervous as Amelie began to grin. “What?”

“Oh, just thinking about how mom and dad are DEFINITELY going to cut you off after they find out how you humiliated everyone at the wedding by blowing it off at the last second and ended up needing the best man to fill in for you.” Her grin grew. “Didn’t think about that when you pulled your little stunt, did you? Didn’t think about how anyone other than yourself was going to react to this latest stunt?”

“Yeah well…” Delia began, but seemed at a loss for words as the ramifications of her actions began to settle in on her.

“Not to mention the criminal charges we COULD press about the breaking and entering.” Helios added. “So if you want to fight Dee being able to just be a lucario who only looks a little like you, we CAN take this all up in court, without your family's money to bail you out or…”

“Or?” Delia asked, already beginning to look defeated.

“Or we tell everyone that the photos were just a poorly timed automatic upload from an affair you had had earlier in our relationship. An affair that’s LESS bad than cheating on our wedding day, but still enough to have caused us to tragically break up shortly after the ceremony.” Helios explained. “Then after the break up, you met Bill and I met Dee…” He looked to the lucario next to him on the bed. “We’ll probably have to come up with a new name for you, honey. But, I met her and we all ended up happily moving on with minimal hard feelings… even though I don’t think ANY of us ever want to see each other again, right?”

“Agreed!” Delia gritted her teeth. “And the criminal stuff?”

“I got really mad at Helios because of the break up, but we talked it out and now we're best friends again!” Amelie added quickly, putting a hand on Velvet’s shoulder. “And I, by which I mean Velvet here, will pay for the damages to the property owners!”

“I will?” Velvet asked.

“You will, because you still made this mess in the first place.” Amelie gave the lucario a warning look. “And because you ruined my nice wedding clothes with all these tears and snot and runny makeup.”

“It's not that bad!” Velvet blushed. “And I promised to… oh… fine…” She sighed, her blush deepening as Amelie pulled her back into a side armed hug. “You're lucky you're cute…”

“What was that?” Amelie asked, color rising in her cheeks as she looked down at the zoroark.

“I said I should get to transforming Dee!” Velvet said more loudly, her face going as red as her mane as she walked to the bed. “Come on dear, let's make this quick.”

“Okay…” Dee swallowed, feeling Velvet’s paws on her shoulders as the zoroark began to work. “Will I still look pretty after you're done?”

“Honey, after everything I’ve put you through today,” Velvet gave Dee a reassuring smile, “I’m going to make you gorgeous!”

TO BE CONTINUED...