Midas Journal 12

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Truth is, this has been written for a long while, but I only just now decided to split this entry into two parts upon seeing how long it was getting. It's the second part I've had trouble finishing.

Entry: Apr 16

Part 1

Saturday afternoon, Lue showed up at my door. I'd barely opened it before she said, "Hey, you wanna go shopping again? Actually bring some money along this time?"

"Uh..why?"
"Well, if you can be a girl you might as well enjoy doing something girly properly right?"
"..Um, I did tell you my parents don't know about the weird power right? I'm lucky they aren't here right now.."
"So you are! I'll try and be more careful next time. So, you gonna go on and get changed? Find your wallet or purse or whatever?"
"..Look, would it be okay if we hung out for a while without me turning into a girl again?"

"Oh, sure! If you like." She grinned wide, and I knew she was about to lay a trap. I was pretty sure I knew which trap it was, too. "I sure wouldn't mind hanging out with someone as big and strong and handsome as you, anyway!"

I sighed, and started changing my form. "I'll be right back," I said, and went back to my room and picked up my wallet and some random bag while my body was still changing. The bag turned into a purse, which I put the wallet into; my jeans turned into those pants that reach down to the calves, and my shirt turned into a sleeveless top that I was grateful didn't dip down in the neckline too much. By the time I got back to the front door my clothes had changed completely and my body was catching up. Then I was a girl again, and my boobs grew back out to their usual size. And all of a sudden shopping at the mall, trying on clothes, talking with Lue about random stuff, all seemed a lot more appealing. I was grateful to whatever magic messed with my mind to make things like that, and scared of it at the same time. But for now I just went along with her.

It was similar to the last trip, except that this time I actually tried on some different clothes and even bought a few, even though I had no idea what I was going to do with them once I got home and turned back. I insisted on not wearing a skirt, though, that was going too far. I came back that night and hid the clothes I'd bought (which didn't turn into guy clothes when I turned back, unfortunately) as far back in my closet as I could, and that was that. I haven't seen Lue since then, as of today, but I bet she'll show up again soon.

Anyway, on Monday I decided to try something. I wanted to make a friend who was a guy, and who would stay that way even if I accidentally bumped into him or something. So I looked around for someone I didn't know, who I didn't get that 'gonna-become-a-girl' sense about, who looked pretty friendly. It wasn't all that hard, there was this guy who sat in front of me in math class all year and looked like sort of a friendly nerd kind of guy. So I looked for him at lunch time and sat down across from him. "Hey," I said, "I'm Kael."

"Oh, I know that. You sit behind me in math class, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, if you don't know, and I wouldn't be surprised, I'm Aden." He put out a hand to shake, and I shook hands with him. "Nice to meet ya." He was happy to start a conversation with me, and I was relieved to have this confirmation that I wasn't going to turn him into a girl by accident. We talked all through the lunch break, and he said we ought to get together, hang out some time outside of school. I agreed, and suggested that afternoon, but he said he was busy then.

I decided that afternoon might be a good time, instead, to show Rio that I definitely wasn't crazy. I managed to catch her in the hallways not long before the end of school, and asked if she could meet me back at my house. I said I'd figured out what went wrong the last time I tried to show her using my power on myself. She agreed to meet me around 7.

So, she came, and we were in my living room again. "Okay, so first of all, that alternate universe thing is apparently really real. And somehow a file on my computer is also on that Kayla's computer, and it's the same file, and she was able to talk to me through it. I'm not even kidding. And..she suggested I try making myself a girl just physically and mentally, instead of trying to fully change myself, which apparently moves me into a different dimension."

She looked like she was thinking for a minute or two, then she nodded. "...Uh-huh. That makes sense, actually. If your power can do something like that it would try to go to the most accurate and literal interpretation of what you told it to do, so if becoming Kayla includes having everyone else recognize you as Kayla that's the only way it can make sense."

"Okay. So I tried what she suggested, and..it works. I'll show you."

"I thought you were worried about your clothes turning into underwear?"

I had already started changing. "Well..the last several times that didn't happen. So it should be okay." As I started to get shorter, and my hips started loosening, I expected my jeans to get tighter, like usual, and pull upward in between my legs. This time they did something very different. First, they split at a little below my thighs. Then the lower part started rapidly getting softer and pulling tight against my legs, changing them, like the first time I changed. But at the same time, the upper part also become softer and more cloth-like, and the part between my legs started to fall down and get looser everywhere except right around my waist. I wasn't prepared for that; my boxer shorts had already lost most of their leggings so I was starting to show a little bit of skin now as the leg-holes in my opens opened up so much they combined, and finally the whole thing spread out as one big hole.

By now I was a girl down there, and it felt like there were no clothes surrounding my panties, like the first time I changed. But I was also aware of this piece of cloth loosely touching my legs from all sides. I could feel heat in my cheeks while my chest started loosening and growing out.

"You're blushing.."
"Well, my pants never turned into a skirt before now, is all."

She giggled. "Oh, is that all? It's not that big a deal, trust me. Anyway, it looks like it works just fine. You make a really cute girl, too!"

I didn't know how to respond to that for a second, but something told me it was definitely meant as a compliment. "Um..thanks? Anyway, uh, I also found out the other day that I can actually make certain kinds of changes to this form. Like, I can actually change my age..but I'm not going to make myself seven years younger again."
"Hmm."

"And I was able to do other small changes, like hair length or color."

"Interesting. So in theory you might be able to change the nature of the changes you've made to other people if you want to. But I wonder just how much you can change by will, though.."

Rio seemed to be thinking for a moment. Then she said, "Say, you know how Rhia's a neko? Cat-person?"
"Yeah."
"How about you try to make yourself one of those, and then go back to human again if it works. Just to see if it does."
"Um, okay.." I thought of trying to turn myself into a neko..a person with the ears and tail of a cat and whatever else came along with being one. And I immediately felt my ears growing, and something unfamiliar falling down behind my skirt, growing longer. I twisted around to get a look at it and saw a cat-tail, like Rhia's, but in the same color as my hair. By now my ears were twitching, and I swear I could hear stuff all the way outside with them. "I guess it worked?" I said, and Rio nodded.

"Yeah, so it looks like you can at least imitate changing your race entirely. That's pretty impressive. Now I wonder..try to make yourself a werewolf."
"Um..okay." I tried to turn myself into a werewolf, thinking be a werewolf, and the cat ears and tail went away. And I looked like a human again. "I don't think it worked."

"Don't jump to conclusions, werewolves are easily able to look entirely human. Try turning your hand into a werewolf paw without letting your usual power work, if you can."
"Okay.." Every time I'd changed something so far, I'd poked myself somewhere. This time I didn't, willing my right hand to turn into a fur-covered part-wild-dog paw-like thing. And to my surprise that was exactly what happened. I jumped at it at first, then stared at it for a minute, turning to the front and back to get a good look. Then I turned it back just as easily.

"See? It looks like you can actually completely change someone's magical race if you wanted to. Werewolf to neko, elf to human, all sorts of things! That's a pretty big power if I ever saw one. Then again, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising, considering when you changed me it gave me a whole bunch of magic potential that definitely wasn't there..."

"Should I be happy or worried about this?" I said, turning myself back to a definitely-really-human.

"Well, as per our discussion earlier about giving people new superpowers, I guess this means you technically can do that, so you should probably be careful. But you can make of it whatever you want, really. Now I have one more thing I want to test out. Would you mind moving your age back just a couple of years, and going back to being a neko for a moment?"
"Um..sure?" I did that, and she nodded once I was done.

"Now try turning back to a guy, without losing those two changes."

I tried that..and immediately felt myself growing again, the tail pulling back in and disappearing, the ears shrinking back to human size and shape. And I was Kael again, normal human guy.

"That is odd," she said. "I'm not sure if it's because you need more control over your power or because it simply doesn't cover that...too bad, really. It means if you wanted to give yourself magic powers you don't normally have you'll have to turn yourself into a girl first, at least for the moment."

"..That's fine, I think just the one bizarre uncontrollable power is enough for me."

She laughed. "I thought you'd say something like that. Anyway, thank you for telling me about this. Sorry I couldn't be more help in figuring out how your power works and stuff, but I am still just an apprentice, after all."
"It's fine."

Fashion

A classic example of writer's block has been going on all summer. It might have also effected the quality of this one. So, sorry about that.

There's something new off to the right, if you'll take a look. EDIT: And I just figured out how to get rid of the image lightboxing that was making it impossible to read a caption just by clicking on it.