The one who had gasped upon seeing Aleu in her new state was none other than her brother, Kodi, who then exclaimed: "HOLY COW! WHOA! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, SIS? YOU WERE JUST THE SAME LAST NIGHT, AND ALL YOU DID WAS FALL ASLEEP LIKE THE REST OF US!"
Aleu then replied: "DO YOU THINK I'M NOT ASKING MYSELF THAT SAME QUESTION? Wait, Kodi...maybe this is just some kind of messed-up dream. How about we see if it is? You know, poking? Pinching? Other things like that?"
Kodi, calming down like she just had, said: "Yeah...that might be a good idea. This could be some sort of messed-up dream...let's see."
So he walked over and pinched Aleu's belly hard, pulling the giant pawful of blubber he got back just as hard and letting it snap back against her massive belly, causing Aleu to go: "OOOOOWWWW!!!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!! OOOOOOOO!!!! KODI, THAT HURTS!"
"Oh, sorry!" Kodi said. "Nuts! Maybe if I poke you in your belly button and run my claw up that and another part of that region of your belly, instead..."
Aleu nodded and Kodi poked her belly button, causing Aleu to go: "EEEHHHEEEHEE." because, while it didn't hurt, it did feel weird and sort of tickled, and when Kodi rubbed his foreclaw up the region of that part of her belly below her navel and through it and finally above it, it felt even odder and tickled even more, so Aleu said: "AHHEEHEEHEETEEHEEHEE..."
"Drat." Aleu said, but Kodi then said: "Sorry...but wait...I'm also sorry about how this is going to feel, but it's the last possibility of this just being a dream that we've got. Fair warning...it's really going to hurt, but it's either that or giving up on trying to see if you're just dreaming along with me."
"Gotcha." Aleu said, and so it was that Kodi bit her belly as hard as he could and grabbed two fistfuls of fat to go with the mouthful of blubber he now had and he pulled it all this way and that, then, knowing how painful this was for Aleu, he swiftly switched to pushing her belly around and in and out, also this way and that, in addition to licking it and then jumping on and hugging it, making it so that he was no longer hurting her, but was now tickling, hugging and rubbing her, which of course felt much nicer.
The sounds Aleu made were: "AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEAHAHAHAHAHAHAHATEEHEEHEEHEEHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHHH HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..."
After she was no longer lost in the bliss from the soothing relief of what ways of Kodi's touching her belly were hugging and rubbing, she felt his nose touch her belly, his tail sweep across it, his forepaws beat on it as though it were a drum and all four of his feet climbing on up it with some gripping in order to get to the top of it, and when Aleu saw Kodi's face looking at her own following how she briefly laughed from how much it tickled, she then heard him sigh and shake his head along with seeing a disheartened look on his face, which she then echoed on all counts.
"Well, so much for the idea of it just being a messed-up dream." Kodi said to her.
"Yup." Aleu replied. "No question or doubt about it now...this is definitely reality. But seriously, how did I get so fat? I was just the way I had been before prior to falling asleep last night. And I wake up being this much a big, fat load of blubber? Huh?"
Suddenly, though, footsteps were heard by them both, and it would turn out that Balto, Jenna and Niju had recently found out about the effects of the full moon thing and what would happen if someone had slept under it the night that preceded this morning, right after they reacted accordingly to what had happened to Aleu and saw Kodi atop her huge sphere of a belly.
Now, the way that they explained everything after their shocked reaction was...