I'm really sorry for the super-duper-mega late update guys. I'm also sorry that this is so short.
Disclaimer: I do not own Love Live! School Idol Project
Previously:
Eyes widened for the second time that day.
"Ehhhh!?"
"Ehhhh!?"
What they saw was not what they had expected. Maki's hair was relatively shorter but still the vibrant red it had always been. Hair was slightly mussed up from wearing the bear head and Maki's eyes were smaller and a bit sharper than before. Even with the bear suit (minus the head), they could tell right away that this wasn't Maki. Not the Maki they knew anyway.
"The truth's finally out, huh?" Nozomi mused. Eli just sighed. She'd been doing a lot of sighing, huh?
Umi smiled reassuringly at Maki. The others were looking at Maki in shock, the room in the air tensing with each passing minute.
"M-maki-chan! What the...?" Nico uttered out, still in a state of shock.
"H-here's the reason I was wearing this weird-ass bear suit." Woah, even Maki's voice was deeper. "I tell you, it was so hot in this thing." Male Maki said while slightly shifting the bear head in his hands.
"Uh, hello?" Maki said while a waving a furry hand. Everyone seemed to snap out of the trances they were in.
"Ehhhh!?"
"So, let me get this straight, Nozomi and Eli knew that you had somehow turned into a boy, while Umi had a slight idea of what was going on." Nico said while pinching the bridge of her nose.
She was greeted with a nod from the redhead.
Nico then asked the question that was on everybody's minds. "How the hell did you turn into a boy?"
Maki shrugged. "I have no idea, really. I just woke up and bam! I'm a boy."
"Did some symptoms show up, maybe? Prior to your transformation that is." Umi asked.
Maki thought for a moment. "Well, my excuse to you guys wasn't a total lie. A few days before, I was feeling pretty under the weather."
"Under the weather?"
"The symptoms were like the start of influenza, so I called in sick. I just thought I was going down with something, not this."
Eli tensed. Nozomi seemed to notice this. "Elicchi? Is something wrong?" Eli waved her hands around frantically.
"N-no! N-nothing's wrong, Nozomi."
"The cards say otherwise." Nozomi held up a card. The Moon. "Elicchi, is there something you're not telling us?"
"...I'm beginning to wonder if I could hide anything from you, Nozomi."
Nozomi smiled. "No, you can't. Because I'll make sure to know everything about my Elicchi."
"...That sounds kinda creepy but okay."
"I hate to interrupt your blatant flirting but, Eli, what are you not telling us?" Nico asked with impatience.
Eli tugged at her collar. "I, uh, may know how this happened..."
"What?! You do?"
"Y-yeah...hahah.." Eli rubbed the back of her neck.
"Stop stalling already." Maki demanded. "Spill. Now."
Eli sighed. "Alright. Well, remember when you found me in the science lab?"
Maki walked into the science lab one afternoon, wanting to grab the few notes she had left here earlier. What she found was Eli in a lab coat and protective goggles, a test tube and a small beaker in hand.
"Eli?"
Eli looked up from whatever she was doing and smiled. "Oh, hey Maki. What brings you here?"
"Just came here to pick up a few notes I left here. What are you doing here?"
Grabbing another pair of protective goggles, Eli quickly pulled Maki to her work space and shoved the goggles into her hands.
"Wear these. I'll show you what I've been working on."
Maki did as she was told and put the protective glasses on. Eli got a test tube filled with a reddish substance and got a dropper as well. She sucked up a bit of the substance with the dropper and put one drop of it inside the beaker she was holding earlier. A little blast of red smoke puffed into the air. The liquid immediately turned velvet in color.
"And... What am I looking at here?" Maki asked.
"This, my dear Maki, is my newest creation! It turns you into the animal you are visualizing after drinking it." Eli explained. "And it tastes like chocolate! Artificial flavouring."
Maki looked really weirded out. "...Why on earth would you create something like that? Chocolate flavoured no less."
"Because I wanted to." Eli replied.
Maki looked at Eli with a serious expression. "Eli, are you sure you don't need a physician? Because it looks like you do."
Eli crossed her arms in adorable fashion and whined. "You're so mean, Maki!"
"I was being serious."
Eli was about to retort when she suddenly thought of an idea. She smiled at Maki sweetly.
"Maki, dearest,"
"Who the hell are you calling dearest?!"
"Would you like to try it?"
Eli held a little shot glass filled with the substance to Maki's face. Maki eyed it wearily.
"Of course not. Do you think I'm an idiot to try something that will potentially harm me. I'm sure that you don't even have the antidote to that, do you?"
"Hey! I was getting to that part." Eli retorted.
Maki huffed and crossed her arms. "In any case, I am not trying that chocolate flavored abominatio-" Maki felt something cold drench her school shirt and blazer. She looked down to find a very familiar velvet substance slowly seeping through her clothing.
Eli had accidentally(?) tripped and thrown the shot glass filled with the substance onto Maki. She scratched the backside of her head and smiled sheepishly.
"Oops?"
Eli made a run for it.
"Wait, so you're telling me your hair-brained creation was the one that turned me into this?" Maki asked, bewildered. Eli shrugged.
"I'm not really sure but this is a start. Assuming that my creation was the one that turned you into a boy, then I may be able to make an antidote. Though I'll have to change some ingredients since my first attempt failed." Eli sighed.
"...I knew I should have strangled you."
Everyone stood in silence after that. Kotori was the one to break it.
"So...What now?"
