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.

To Rule a World

Not too sure how I feel about this one, really. But I figured it might be likeable to someone.

EDIT: It would appear that blogger's new interface has messed up the way my captions usually show up when you click them to see the image. Instead, right click the picture and hit "Open link in new tab" or whatever your browser's equivalent is. Then you can view the original image, and zoom in so it's readable.

Foxy

So, here's one of the two captions that were being voted between. It was actually a tie at the end, but the internet wish was winning when I started writing this in earnest. Whenever I get the other one done it should become pretty clear why I thought they were a little too similar.


For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the previous caption had the following after it:

Unrelated to the above caption, I have a couple of ideas that I suspect will end up with similar-sounding captions. I may hold off on doing one of them a while after the first one. So I guess I'll ask you which one you think I should do first...a caption involving a wishing website, or a caption involving an enchanted pendant? (This will be deleted once I've made the decision, probably after I finish writing the first one)

Pixie's Prank

Vague Wishes

Midas Journal 11

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Entry: Apr 9

Today I tried out what Kayla suggested last night, but it wasn't exactly how I had planned to do it. Well, I guess I'd better start from the beginning again.

I was walking home, alone this time because Carla had some practice to attend, and I was cutting through a park. There was someone jogging or sprinting around the path, for exercise, I guess, and we didn't see each other. He ran into me, and I was knocked flat on my back, probably because he was running faster but he might have just been stronger too, or something. I pushed myself up with my arms, ready to apologize for not paying attention, but I stopped when I noticed that I had that feeling about him. I'm fairly sure this is about the third or fourth time this week I've had someone run into me and turn into a girl, and honestly it's getting a little annoying. I'm starting to wonder if they're doing it on purpose or if getting run into is some kind of weird part of my power that I can't control. But anyway, I knew I couldn't stop it so this time I just looked up and watched.

I noticed that he was an older guy, his hair was gray and he had some wrinkles and even some scars from old cuts. I didn't really know what to expect, I don't think anyone I've changed before was much older than young adult. He was tall and looked like he was fit, not too skinny or fat, and he was wearing a jogging suit, one of those matching sweatshirt-sweatpant sets. It didn't take me long to notice he was getting visibly younger. His hair's color was turning to a bright brown, and his skin was starting to smooth over and turn a brighter color, and even the scars looked like they were healing.

His clothes started to get tighter and thinner, and from about the top half of his legs up they were turning a brighter color, too. I could see that this guy was really strong and muscular at first, but then his arms and legs started to get slimmer and lose all the tone to them. His sleeves were getting shorter, but his shirt was getting longer. He looked like he must be in about his twenties now, and I looked at his face to find it was getting a little bit rounder and smaller. His stomach looked flat under the shirt, and now it was getting thinner, too, and I noticed he was starting to lose height.

His hair started to grow out around his face, and a small part on one side of the forehead tied itself up in a pink rubber-band thing. His shirt was now completely white, except for the ends of the sleeves, the edge of a collar that had formed on the top, and the part that had grown out, all of which had both turned a darker pink. The bottom part, which reached about halfway to his knees now, suddenly spread out and folded itself together into a skirt, separating from the top part. Then I noticed that the top part of his pants had separated from the bottom part and was getting shorter, and tighter between his legs. I looked farther down and saw thin, tight black stockings covering his legs the rest of the way down.

I looked back up, trying to keep my eyes off of the tiny bright thin cloth at the top of his legs, and saw that the skirt and sleeve edges had turned to some kind of striped or plaid pattern, I don't know what it's called, with some different shades of pink on them. I also noticed that two dark blue straps had formed on top of one of his shoulders and were growing downward, and then I saw that his chest was forming little bumps on each side.

I was fairly sure he'd turned into a girl by now, and I could see the bumps swelling out while some kind of tie in the same pattern as the skirt grew down between them, reaching about the middle of her stomach before it was through. Pretty soon the straps from earlier had grow into some kind of huge bag, a purse, maybe, but it was big. I looked back up to her face and found out the chest had stopped growing at a pretty noticeable size, and for some reason there was a piece of toast in her mouth. Yeah, that was different.

Without using her hands at all, she somehow managed to pull the whole piece of bread in her mouth, eat it and swallow it in what felt like just a few seconds. Then she looked down at me, as if she hadn't even noticed I was there before. "Hi!" she said, "I'm Lue, and you?" (I think that's how it's spelled). Her voice was really high and cheerful.

"Kael."

She came closer and bent down at the waist to get her head closer to mine. "What'cha doin' on the ground, Kael?"

"Uh, I just fell."

"Well I can do something about that!" She reached her free arm forward, grabbed my hand, and pulled me up, and I found out something that I did not expect. She was really strong. If I had tried to stay on the ground I feel like I could've had my arm pulled out. Once I was standing up in front of her, and I had to look down to see her face, she said, "So what happened to me when you fell over?"

"I'm really sorry, I can't control it, I've been trying but--" I was cut off by her laughing.

"Don't be silly! What are you apologizing for, being a fountain of youth? But I do wonder, if you can do that to me, can you do it to you, too?"

"Well, um, I guess so."

"Would you show me?" She had wide eyes and this huge eager grin. I didn't really want to do it, since I hadn't changed anywhere but my own room before, but then I thought, Well, it's only fair I guess. I know that doesn't make sense now, I'm still not sure why I did it. But, after a quick look around to make sure there was still nobody else to see (and there wasn't) I crossed my arms in front of my stomach so each hand was touching the other arm, and focused.

This time I focused on becoming a girl, but only physically and mentally. I wasn't really sure what that meant, being mentally a girl, but I guess I hoped my power would know. I guess it did? In only a second or so, I could feel my arms tightening again, the hair on the arms my fingers were touching receding. Then my shirt changed, buttons forming all down the middle, the collar pulling down to a V shape, and I could feel a bra attaching itself to my back and shoulders. My face tingled for a second, and then my hair grew out past my shoulders. The..blouse, I guess it was, started getting tighter on my stomach, and my stomach shrank under it.

Then I started to get shorter, and it felt different outdoors. It was like the whole world around me was getting taller, trees rising, grass getting closer, Lue in front of me getting taller until I was barely any taller than she was. At the same time, my jeans were getting tighter on my legs, and my legs were pushed tighter and thinner. My hips loosened, stretched, whatever, and I could feel my boxers underneath getting shorter and tighter the whole time. Then I felt it happen, I was female again, and suddenly I wasn't attracted to the girl in front of me anymore.

It was so weird: I knew she was attractive, but it was like I suddenly felt none of that attraction myself. It was kind of a relief. I mean, being attracted to someone is really kind of awkward, especially in my situation. I was suddenly aware that I wouldn't mind physical contact with her, that it wouldn't be awkward, that she would be okay with it too. And....something about that...I liked. It felt like we could be friends without any risk to it. While all these thoughts were running through my head, I could feel my chest swelling again, until it had filled the bra and given the blouse some cleavage to show.

Lue was grinning. "Say, why're you blushing? You make a cute girl!"

"W-well, I've never done this in front of anyone before," I said, trying to cool off the heat in my cheeks that I only noticed now that she'd pointed it out. "This is the first time I've, used my power on myself anywhere but my own home."

"Wow, really? Then you should stick with it for a while!" She suddenly got beside me and put her arm across my shoulder. It was a gesture of..friendship, I guess, and I returned it without even thinking about it. "What do you say we go to the mall or something?"

"Sure, okay," I said. She'd been stronger than me as a guy, and girl-me was much weaker. I'm not sure I like that...but the point is, she was starting to pull me along with her, and I couldn't physically resist her. Somehow I didn't really want to, too. While we were walking, I said, "You seem to be taking this whole 'bizarre magical power' thing really well."

She laughed again. "Well, I'm a loon, love to bark at the moon. It's easy enough for me to accept anything."

So for the rest of the afternoon I guess I got a real experience of being what a girl is like. After the first five minutes or so it didn't feel unnatural the way it has before. My voice and my body felt like they were mine, like I'd had years to get used to them. When we got to the mall I found out something really weird: I actually knew about fashion somehow. I mean, I could look in the window of a women's clothing store, I knew what everything in it was called and I even had some idea of whether or not I would look good in certain clothes. Even weirder, I caught myself sizing up guys walking around a couple of times. It didn't even occur to me at first that I'm usually a guy, and that scared me a little. I guess all that shouldn't have surprised me so much, since I told my power to make me a girl mentally, but I really don't like knowing I have a power that can alter a person's mind so much they don't even know the difference if they're not really thinking about it.

And, is that really what a female mind is like, or is it just what I think being female mentally means? I actually think it's just what I think it is, but if that's so I think that makes me sexist of some kind, and I don't like that. I didn't even think that some of the differences I noticed were things I thought girls in general had or did or thought, but I can't really think of any other explanation.

Lue was with me the whole time, and we were mostly just walking and talking back and forth. She's..weird, that's about the best way I can put it. She would say really bizarre things out of nowhere or change the subject in the middle of a sentence, all with this cheerful tone like she didn't even know she was doing it. I can't say for sure I really learned anything about her, even though I know I told her some things about myself. After a few hours we left and I changed back before going home.

After a while it occurred to me that my power actually changed Lue's age by at least a decade. I mean, I don't remember for sure but I don't think anyone else really got that much younger, definitely not that much older...and I started to wonder if I could actually control age changes. So tonight I turned myself back to the physically-mentally female form, and then tried using my power on that form again to be a couple of years younger. It worked, which means I can actually change a form once it's finished changing--or at least my own. I'm not sure if it would work as well on someone else. But, anyway, next I tried going up a few years, to about twenty. That worked too. I tried going much farther in the young side, to age 11, and, it was really weird going through backwards puberty as a girl. It was even weirder going through it forward again in the span of about two minutes to get myself back to my actual age. I had these huge, fast mood swings while I was changing, and even for a minute or two after that, and when I was over them I decided not to send my age that far back again.

After that, it occurred to me, like I said earlier, that I can actually make changes to, at least my own form, after I finish going to it. So I tried making a few small changes and then going back, just to see what I could do. I was able to turn my hair red, blonde, and even an unnatural blue color. I could make myself a few inches taller or or shorter. I found out I could even change the clothes I was wearing, the color or material. I don't think any of this has a real use or anything (I mean the small changes in look, I know being some kind of bizarre fountain of youth would probably be helpful to some people), but I guess Rio would tell me knowing more about my power is a good thing.