click click click
"Alright, now turn to the right. Back to the camera. Tail up, please."
click click click
It had been a few weeks since Evan agreed to let Levi help bulk him up. Now, the lion stood in a makeshift photo studio the bulky horse made in a spare room of his house. Clad in only y-front briefs to show off as much of his body as possible, Levi was snapping photos of the lion's body from all angles to document Evan's progress.
And progress had been made. Levi went through Evan's diet and made some drastic changes. The lion, he found, was eating pretty much only enough to keep his body going.This wouldn't do, Levi had told Evan. There'd be no way for the lion to put on muscle if he wasn't properly feeding his body. In fact, Levi continued, there would be no point in trying to pack on some muscle until the lion had some serious calories stored away in his body. The horse laid out a diet plan for the lion. Three big meals, plenty of snacks, and (what Evan assumed) protein shakes. Levi would greet the lion with a large shaker bottle of light brown liquid when he came over to the horse's home to work out in his private gym. Evan would suck down one bottle before hitting the gym. Levi had the lion only working on light exercises, cardio and the like, which was a lot to a lion who had never been in a gym before. Afterwards, the horse had another shaker bottle ready for Evan.
And Evan liked was he saw was happening to him. The lion looked "fuller". His ribs no longer showed, his cheeks weren't as sunken. The lion developed a layer of pudge around his body, particularly on his midsection and rump. But this didn't bother him. He figured that all of it would be burned off when he started hitting the weights after going through his diet plan more.
"Tail up, Evan! Show the camera those buns!" said Levi from behind the camera.
"Oops, sorry!"
click click click click
"Okay, that'll do it for the photos. Now, let's get to the kitchen and get another shake in you!"
The lion stood at the kitchen island sucking down a shaker bottle of protein shake. "So, when do we start the weight training? I think I've been making good enough progress to start pumping iron!"
The horse shook his head. "Yes, you've been making progress. But I still think we need to keep nourishing your body. You've been so underweight for so long that any sort of intense exercise will ruin all the work you've done so far."
"What? Really?" Evan said disappointingly. "I was really hoping to start weight training soon. Is there anyway of, you know, speeding things up a bit?"
The bulky horse thought to himself for a moment before heading over to his pantry. Inside, it was filled with massive jugs of various kinds of powders, powders the horse had been using for Evan's shakes. It was from here that Levi pulled out two large containers and placed them on his kitchen counter.
"We can add another shake to your diet plan. This," said Levi, pointing to the bright red jug, "is a bit of a trade secret." The label on the jug read GLUCAMAX in giant font. "Bodybuilders swear by this when they need to bulk up in a hurry. It's faster, cheaper, and healthier than any kind of dirty bulk. But the stuff's finicky. You have to follow the instructions on the side exactly as they say. This stuff," Levi pointed to the green jug which read VITAMOST on it, "is probably the best vitamin supplement there is. You body hardly absorbs those multivitamin pills you get at the grocery market. But this stuff lets your body absorb all the nutrients. I've never actually used the stuff before, so I'm not sure if works or not. I could let you take this one home if you want to see if it works for yourself."
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