"Ah, Shina!" Kija saw the blue dragon, bringing a bowl of water towards him. "What a coincidence. I see Ao is also with you," Kija exclaimed while bring his face closer to the little squirrel, rubbing Ao's belly with his forefinger.

Shina just nodded while Ao let out a small pukyuu to Kija.

"Shina, Ao, would you accompany me for a while to search for more firewood? I probably need some help." Kija smiled lightly.

As he received a nod from Shina and a smile from Ao, he delighted and pointed to the direction he wanted. Ao jumped from Shina's shoulder to Kija's. Kija smiled at the squirrel's behaviour.

They walked as Kija continued to collect more firewood. While Kija did his work, he also told stories about how he wanted to try to picking some firewood in the past but was prohibited by the villagers.

Shina was listening intently to Kija while shifting the bowl once in a while.

After Kija decided it was enough, he announced, "I think this is enough for us."

Shina nodded at him, agreeing with Kija.

Ao tugged his hair while pointing to a certain direction. "Ao…? What is it?" Kija asked as he saw the direction Ao was pointing. There was nothing so he looked at Shina while tilting his head in question.

"There's something…" Shina mumbled and silently walked ahead of Kija to the pointed direction. Kija stared at Shina confusedly, all Kija could see was trees with bushes along the way. But he followed him, anyway.

After a few moments, Shina stopped. Kija looked over Shina's shoulders to see what's stopping him.

He saw a statue.

A pink statue.

More precisely, a pink dragon statue.

"Wha— "Kija was speechless. For them to see a dragon statue was rare. Probably the fact that the four dragons were getting famous, talk of them had reached this town.

Kija squinted at the color. Pink. There was no pink dragon in history. There was a red dragon, of course, and it was Yona. But pink? "Unbelievable…"

Shina looked back and poked Kija who was still staring at the dragon statue, looking irritated. Shina poked Kija once again and pointed a certain direction after Kija looked at Shina.

Kija looked back to see his three allies walking toward the camp. "Ah, Jeha, Yun, Zeno!" He called and waved to the three people.

Said people looked at their direction. They waved and walked toward them. "What are you doing here?" Jeha asked curiously until he saw the pink dragon statue. "Wow, that's a fancy looking statue."

Zeno twirled around the statue and examined it with a playful attitude. "Fancy, it is. But this weird color was…" Zeno mumbled. "There's no pink dragon warrior in the past."

Yun stared at them and squinted at the sight. "What are you guys doing, totally overreacting about a pink statue?"

They looked at Yun, then at the dragon statue.

It repeated until Zeno said, "Well, it's kind of rare to find a statue like this in a forest since the whole Seiryuu incident." Zeno tilted his head in excitement.

Yun sighed at the sight and told them that they should leave soon. He gave them time to enjoy sightseeing the dragon statue.

As he waited for the dragon warriors, Yun leaned on a nearby tree while putting his bags on the ground, massaging his aching shoulders. Shina put the bowl that he brought near Yun, then continued to crowd the statue with Kija, Jeha, and Zeno.

Jeha smirked, "It is rare, indeed. But I need to say that pink is definitely a sexy color." He twirled his ponytail playfully with his fingers.

Zeno hummed at it, "Sexy, it is. Probably the pink dragon warrior was a girl."

Kija dropped his jaw at it, Shina made a questioning look, and Jeha smirked at the statement. "Or maybe the red dragon warrior and the white dragon warrior mate with each other and this was made into a sign," Jeha teased.

"J-J-J-J-Jeha!" Kija stuttered badly, "H-How dare y-you said that! How disgraceful! Both of you!" At that point, Kija's face was totally red.

Zeno laughed it off. Kija's face was definitely so cute and it was clear on his face that he was embarrassed after hearing Jeha's joke—or maybe he didn't consider that as a joke and took it seriously.

Jeha shook his head slightly, couldn't help but smile at the white dragon's pureness. "It was supposed a joke, Kija-kun." Hearing that, Kija calmed himself down.

"You shouldn't make that joke." Kija looked away and crossed his arms, pouting embarrassingly. Watching the other three dragon warriors joked, Shina let out a small smile, feeling content at the situation.

Yun giggled as he saw the four dragons joke around. Those four probably will never change at all, they're too precious, people would say.

"Some people said that there's a hidden statue on the forest that will insert a bomb countdown on your body."

Suddenly, Yun remembered the talk with the clerk before. "H-Hey guys, we should get out from here and leave the statue alone."

The four of them looked at Yun, confused. Yun looked at the statue and saw that Ao and Zeno had put their palms on it.

"H-Hey!"

It was too late for them.

A pink smoke came out from the dragon's mouth, surprising the group. "No!" Yun jumped towards them and the smoke blinded the six of them—including Ao.

"Wha—What is this?" Jeha exclaimed with a strained voice.

Zeno also sounded like he was struggling with something, "C-Can't move…"

Kija also complained about the same thing as the other two.

Shina just gritted his teeth while struggling to move. Yun, who was trying to reach for them, experiencing the same problem too. However, the squirrel just tilted her head and let a small and confused pukyuu.

After a while and some struggling, the smoke cleared. All of them fell down to the ground.

Jeha was the first one who sat up again, "Ugh, what was that? I was totally okay after that weird smoke!" a light voice said instead of his normal deep voice. He felt something heavy around his chest, trying to ease his curiousity, he rubbed his chest and found something squishy on it.

Kija followed after that. He sat up and rubbed his pounding head. "My head feels totally dizzy." He combed his long bangs away. After he combed it, he widened his eyes. Wait… long?

Shina's mask fell off, he searched for it, and put it on his spiky hair. When he put it on, his mask fell off again. He felt his hair softer and straighter than before. He took the mask and wore it with his hand, holding it so it wouldn't fall.

Zeno was still on the ground, facedown, too lazy to sit up. But he sat up after a few moments anyway, after he realized something was wrong. His landing was softer than he usual, especially around his chest.

Yun sat up fast when he realized he was down. He brushed off some dirt on his clothes but he felt something abnormal inside his clothes. Something like a mound of soft things.

Zeno blinked at Jeha first. "Hey, Ryokuryuu, what happened to your chest?" His voice was lighter than usual. He widened his eyes at that, he tried to make sure if it's actually true or not.

Jeha stared at Zeno and shrugged at it. He glanced at Kija, "Kija-kun, is your head okay…wait a second." Jeha crawled toward Kija and looked intently at Kija's face.

Kija backed off, "Wh-What are you doing, Jeha?"

"Kija-kun… Your hair…" Jeha said slowly as if he was mimicking Shina's way of talking. "Your hair is longer than before!"

Yun stared at them for a bit before looking down at himself, confused. What's with these two mound things? It's weird and he never had them before.

Shina tilted his head while staring at them, confused at the situation.

However, Zeno was the one who got an answer. "Guys," He called and everyone looked at him. "We've got a problem here." Zeno sighed. "I think we got turned into girls."

One blink. Two blinks. Three blinks.

The four of them couldn't say anything. Ao hopped to the center of them, "Pukyuu!" she said. After the small pukyuu, the whole forest was shaken. Shaken because of the loud shout of the four boys—I mean, girls—who didn't believe what Zeno said.

"H-How could this happen?" Jeha asked confusedly. She tried to feel her—former—manhood between his legs but she was shocked. "T-This can't be. It isn't here!"

Kija couldn't believe what Jeha said. She tried to feel his also. But she received the same answer as Jeha. She felt two soft mounds on her chest, not big but it they were noticeable. "Th-This can't be happening."

Jeha was more panicked than the other four. "Is this called karma for flirting with girls?" she wept dramatically.

Zeno scoffed while examining what changed other than her medium-sized chest. "What about Zeno, Ryokuryuu? If Ryokuryuu says something like that, then we're also cursed like you."

After saying that, she once again examined her own body. Zeno started to think that her chest might be a slight bigger than Kaya's—his old wife—chest. Zeno blushed, thinking of the time he had accidentally noticed Kaya's chest.

Jeha sat down. She noticed that her hair was softer. Before the transformation, his hair had been a bit dried up and hard to maintain due to him not having enough shampoo to keep it clean. "At least, my beautiful hair is back," she murmured. Jeha herself couldn't get used to her own voice. She started to think that this was torture.

On the other side, Shina was amazed how soft her hair was. Different from the others, her hair was short, barely touching her shoulders. Her chest wasn't as noticeable as the others. It was small and covered by her thick clothes. "The change… astonishing," she murmured.

Shina's murmur was loud enough for Kija to hear.

"H-How astonishing it is…" Kija said sarcastically. She didn't even have the courage to sit straight.

She was totally proud as a dragon warrior who protected her princess, a dragon warrior that was totally strong. After the sudden change, she felt down. She never thought that this would happen.

Yun just sighed. Yun's girl form wasn't that different from the form she used on tricking Kumji. Her hair was long. Her chest was quite noticeable, she just sighed at the fact. She couldn't do anything about the change. She simply thought that the change only affected the dragons, since it was a dragon statue. But the change actually affected her as well.

"Uwaaaa!" Zeno shrieked, surprised.

The others looked Zeno's way. Jeha asked what happened to Zeno, then Zeno replied by showing her collarbone. "What's this?" It was a countdown of something. It was written that they only had 23 hours, 38 minutes, and 12 seconds left.

Jeha examined it carefully, Kija and Shina following after. Yun just stared at the countdown. She remembered the last conversation with the clerk.

"Some said they got a curse or something, some said nothing happens, some said it will make you sick and eventually die."

"O-oi…" Everyone looked at Yun, "I've heard from a clerk earlier when I bought the pots." Yun looked at the countdown on Zeno's collarbone. She was sure that that was the countdown they had mentioned before. "They mentioned about the statue and when the countdown reaches zero, they said that they could get a curse or worse, like death."

Zeno only looked at Yun, dumbfounded. "Zeno doesn't have any problem with that," she simply said as he stood up. "I mean, Zeno is immortal. The worst that it could do to Zeno is blow Zeno apart."

"True enough…" Jeha slowly said, releasing the tension from earlier.

Kija, on the other side, looked a bit worried, "B-But what if Zeno got sick or got a cancer or— "

"Calm down, Hakuryuu." Zeno patted Kija's head slowly, "Zeno couldn't get sick, you know?" Ao jumped to Zeno's shoulders and rubbed her cheeks against hers.

Shina who was staring at the countdown, "Smoke…"

All faced at Shina. "What?" everyone asked in unison.

"It might… spurt a smoke… after it reaches zero," Shina said slowly, like always. "It might change… us back… to normal."

All of them considered what Shina said. It was logical.

"It might change them back to normal."

All of them thought the same thing.

Ao made a sound at Zeno and Zeno patted her. "Then, it means we're going to be stuck as girls for… let's see." She glanced at her collarbone, "Uhh, 23 hours, 14 minutes, and 8 seconds left."

Kija sighed gladly, "Thank the dragon gods… We can turn back to normal."

Jeha laughed forcefully, her frustration was clear on her voice "Even if we don't, I doubt the dragon gods want a girl to be their warrior." She sighed. "The least they could tolerate is probably a dragon warrior that has a pretty face."

"Hey!" Yun scolded.

"Just kidding, Yun." Jeha raised her arms in surrender.

Zeno stood up and took her bag of vegetables. "Let's go back. Musume-san and Nii-chan might be worried if we stay any longer."

"Okaay!" All of them chanted as they took all their belongings and started to walk, returning to the camp while complaining once in a while that being a girl might be a fascinating thing but it might not.