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<blockquote data-quote="Daeja" data-source="post: 5850206" data-attributes="member: 6690636"><p><strong>CDM March 2012 - R1 P6</strong></p><p></p><p>Round 1, Pairing 6 - Daeja Vs. Hellefire</p><p> </p><p>(2430 words)</p><p> </p><p><strong>The Shift</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>What the freaking-</em></p><p> </p><p>"Now, Shanna, it's really not so bad," Felix began, holding his hands up in a placating manner.</p><p> </p><p><em>Not so bad? Look at me!</em> I sputtered telepathically as I squinted at my profile in the mirror. Thank the Goddess we'd learned the telepathy spell already, as there was no way I could vocalize words in my current condition.</p><p> </p><p>We'd been fooling around with one of Master Yevin's spellbooks for weeks now, and it had been my turn to try a new spell this afternoon.</p><p> </p><p>The shift, it was called. Highly illegal, of course, but then, so much magic was. And the norms just couldn't begin to understand how difficult it was to try to master our craft when we were forbidden from performing so much of it. </p><p> </p><p>So, yes, I should have known better than to try this particular spell. Yevin had warned us against any transformations. But the shift came up on my day, and I'd be damned if I'd let Felix call me too chicken to try it.</p><p> </p><p>The Goddess was obviously punishing me for some reason.</p><p> </p><p><em>I'm a freaking shark-gull,</em> I shrieked, hopping from one foot to the next. <em>A Shark. Gull.</em> </p><p> </p><p>Felix nodded sympathetically before he burst into laughter.</p><p> </p><p><em>It's not funny!</em> I snapped my jaws in his direction. My head was now that of a shark, but instead of the sleek body and fins of the fish, I had the body and wings of a seagull. ***image 4***</p><p> </p><p>"It's at least little funny, and really, just look at yourself. You're completely absurd!"</p><p> </p><p><em>You have to help me shift back,</em> I pleaded. <em>I can't go anywhere like this. If anyone catches me....</em></p><p> </p><p>We both looked at the box on the table. It was a sobering reminder of the punishment for my current condition - beyond the condition itself, of course. </p><p> </p><p>The box contained a single foot, long and yellowed, with claws where toenails should be. ***image 3*** It was the foot of one of Yevin's former apprentices, a student who had cast the shift spell incorrectly. He'd turned into a werebeast, losing his mind in the process, and savaged the local villagers for days before Yevin had trapped and killed him. Yevin told us that he kept the foot as a reminder of how dangerous spells like this one could be.</p><p> </p><p>And, I suspected privately, because in order to cast this version of the shift spell, you needed to piggyback off of the magical resonance of someone or something that had already been shifted. </p><p> </p><p>"Of course I'll help," Felix said, smoothing down a page in the open spellbook. He reached for the foot, picking up the grotesque appendage with less hesitation than the first time, when he'd held it to cast the spell. "We just need to figure out how to reverse-"</p><p> </p><p>The door to the room swung open, revealing Master Yevin. "You two better be done straightening up in here. I need a transportation spell prepared immediately! I'm heading for the coast!" </p><p> </p><p>Felix bobbed his head down in a subservient manner, while I hopped around on the desk, my head rocking back and forth.</p><p> </p><p>My movements drew Yevin's attention. His lips twitched when he saw me. "What in the Goddess' name is that?"</p><p> </p><p>"Shanna, sir," Felix admitted.</p><p> </p><p>Yevin's lips twitched again. <em>Master, please. This isn't funny!</em></p><p> </p><p>With a snort - covering up a very undignified chuckle - Yevin crossed the room to inspect my current form. "What have you two done, exactly?"</p><p> </p><p>"The shift," Felix said, pointing to the spellbook with the hand that still held the foot. The thing flopped back and forth in the air, and Yevin's bushy, white eyebrows rose. Felix lowered his gaze to the floor sheepishly and set the foot back down in the box. </p><p> </p><p>"I see," he bent closer to me, running one fingertip over the spot where my shark head melded into my gull body. "Completely seamless. Why </p><p>exactly did you choose a, uh, shark-seagull hybrid?"</p><p> </p><p><em>I was supposed to turn into a seagull,</em> I said, trying to shoot Felix a dirty look. My beady, black shark eyes lacked the expressiveness of my natural blue ones.</p><p> </p><p>"I may have been a little distracted," Felix admitted. "I'm reading this fascinating treatise on Corruth's Greywater Shark, and one of the amazing things about it is that it eats seagulls by...." He trailed off, perhaps realizing that I didn't really care right now about the eating habits of Corruth's Greywater Shark.</p><p> </p><p>"The spell took the images from both your minds and made this," Yevin said, tapping my snout. I turned away from him, embarrassed.</p><p> </p><p><em>Please, master, can you help us turn me back?</em> </p><p> </p><p>Yevin snorted. "Well, I certainly can't leave you like that." The twinkle in his grey eyes warned me that I wasn't going to like what came next. "Still, you need to be punished for meddling with magic you obviously weren't prepared to use."</p><p> </p><p><em>Please, master. I'll do anything if you'll help me reverse this!</em> I was not above begging, now that panic was beginning to set in. I didn't want to be a shark-gull forever!</p><p> </p><p>"There's a fishing village that wanted me to investigate some new rock formations," Yevin waved his hand impatiently at the request. "Three days travel. The two of you can go together and perform a proper survey. When you get back, in a week, I'll restore you to your natural state."</p><p> </p><p>My little heart started pounding, <em>But Master, surely you don't mean for me to go out in the world like this? I could be killed!</em></p><p> </p><p>Yevin snorted. "You'll be able to avoid anyone who might be, ah, startled by your condition if you travel off the main roads."</p><p> </p><p>That was the extent of the discussion. Once Yevin gave us a task, we knew it was best to hop to it. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I insisted on bringing the boxed foot with us - as a 'just in case.' I was scared we'd be caught, and at least if we *had* the foot, there was a chance we could reverse the spell before I was slaughtered out of hand as a freak of nature. That could buy us some time to figure out an escape while I was put on trial for casting an illegal spell.</p><p> </p><p>By the start of the second day, the joy I took in flying was overshadowed by the pain I felt in my arms - wings - from overuse. I still found my new body strange, but at least there was the benefit of flight. Felix was suffering as well - our days were usually filled with running errands around the Wizard's Tower rather than riding a horse for miles and miles.</p><p> </p><p>We arrived at the cliff just after dawn on the third day. The view from the top was breathtaking - the water stretched out for miles, reflecting the early morning light. I paused to inhale the salty scent of the ocean, to appreciate the sight of the sun waking up the world. Then I looked down at the beach, spotting a series of rocks down the shore line. There were two more unusual rocks just below us - they must be what the villagers wanted us to investigate.</p><p> </p><p>It would take Felix some time to pick a way safely down the edge of the cliff, but I could fly, and so headed straight for the beach.</p><p> </p><p>Though I'd thought the formations were rocks, when I got closer, I could see that they were more like eggs. No, not eggs - no egg that I had ever seen was so leathery. And these looked like they were patched together, like a beggar's cloak.***image 1*** I touched down on one, lifting one foot and then the other daintily as I felt the heat that the thing radiated. What had looked like seams from farther away, I could see now were closer to veins. They pulsed and bulged, and I did a quick shuffle before lifting off and finding a perch on a rock nearby.</p><p> </p><p>"What is it, Shanna?" Felix called to me, nearly to the beach now.</p><p> </p><p><em>I'm not sure. Not a rock, not an egg. Something else,</em> I tilted my head sideways, considering. <em>A pod? But it's warm, it's... I don't know. Like nothing I've ever seen.</em></p><p> </p><p>"Weird," Felix said, coming up beside me. He moved closer to do his own investigation, bending forwards over the bigger pod, and running a hand over it. "It feels kind of like, uh, well, maybe it's going to...." He frowned as he trailed off, trying to figure out what it was we'd found.</p><p> </p><p>As I shook my head at him, I saw the pod starting to crack open. <em>Felix! Get back!</em></p><p> </p><p>"What? Why?" He straightened and looked back at me, as if expecting the danger to be coming from behind us. Felix's hesitation meant he was directly in the centre of the mushroom cloud of spores that were ejected out of the pod and into the air. The whole thing deflated into a flat, leathery blob.</p><p> </p><p>Felix coughed, and I flapped around him, staying clear of the spores. "What the hell!" He choked and spat, stumbling towards the cliff. "Oh, oh gross."</p><p> </p><p><em>Are you okay?</em> I landed in front of him.</p><p> </p><p>"I'll be... fine. I think. That was just... ugh."</p><p> </p><p><em>Should we take samples for Yevin, do you think?</em> I asked, worried about what Felix had inhaled.</p><p> </p><p>"Let's just get back up to the horse before the other one explodes or whatever. I don't want any more of that crap in me." </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The climb back up the cliff took Felix three times as long as the trip down had. I coached him about where to find hand and footholds, cajoling and ordering and generally motivating him upwards. After the first ten feet, he complained of feeling woozy, and by the time he reached the top - a full thirty odd feet up, he was barely able to roll away from the cliff's edge.</p><p> </p><p>"I think... I think I need to rest," Felix said, sneezing.</p><p> </p><p><em>Ah, okay,</em> I looked around and then let my wings carry me away from the edge of the cliff. <em>Let's get just a little bit farther away from the cliff, okay? I don't want any surprises. </em></p><p> </p><p>Felix reluctantly followed me away from the cliff, calling a halt as soon as we entered a small stand of trees. He slumped on the ground, breathing heavily, "Just a little nap...." </p><p> </p><p><em>All right. Are you sure you're okay? You look a little green....</em></p><p> </p><p>Felix shrugged off my concern and curled himself around his pack, falling asleep almost immediately.</p><p> </p><p>While Felix slept, I perched high up in the trees, watching in case anyone should come near us. After about an hour, I heard Felix moaning in his sleep. When I touched down beside him to try to wake him up, I realized he wasn't moaning in his sleep: he was groaning his way through a transformation. </p><p> </p><p>I flew several feet away, well clear of his flailing arms and legs. I watched anxiously as he grew until he was well over fifteen feet tall. His whole body began sprouting what appeared to be grass. His eyes expanded until they were large, yellow and bug-like. His toes and fingers distended into roots, and saplings sprouted from his back. ***image 2***</p><p> </p><p>I'd only read about them, never seen one, but Felix looked exactly the way I'd always pictured earth elementals. I hopped nervously, twisting my head this way and that as though he might look less frightening from a different angle.</p><p> </p><p>He didn't.</p><p> </p><p><em>I know you were eager to shift Felix, but this is a little, uh, extreme. </em>Felix didn't respond. Instead the creature lurched towards me, arms outstretched. He moved awkardly, crashing down to one knee before lumbering back up towards me. <em>Felix? Felix! Stop messing around!</em></p><p> </p><p>Felix, it seemed, was no longer home. I flapped around in a panic for a minute, staying out of reach of the creature. It was getting steadily more stable on its feet though, and I knew once it started moving at top speed, I was screwed. I could just fly away, return to Master Yevin, tell him what had happened and let him deal with it. But by then, it could be too late. What if Felix found one of nearby villages? How much damage could he do as an earth elemental? And what would the villagers do to him in return? </p><p> </p><p>I thought of the werewolf foot in the box, and shuddered mid-flight. No, I couldn't let that happen to Felix. Thinking fast, I decided to try using the shift spell to change Felix back.</p><p> </p><p>I flapped around, above the monster, trying to see where the box with the foot was. I needed it as a catalyst for the spell. I spotted the box peeking out of Felix' pack, on the ground where he had been sleeping. </p><p> </p><p>I dove in and bit down on the end of the box, snapping it up and taking it several yards away from the creature. Chomping down, I splintered the wood and shook loose the foot. </p><p> </p><p>Holding the foot in my mouth, trying not to mangle it too much, I perched on a log facing the monster. Focusing, I began the incantation, telepathically repeating the words that we'd used to shift me.</p><p> </p><p>As the last of the spell's words left my mind, I focused even more intently on the image of Felix as he should be. My mouth started to tingle, wherever the foot touched. I saw the monster start to glow and then it started to change.</p><p> </p><p>But it changed wrong.</p><p> </p><p>When the transformation finished, I blinked hard and then started laughing, the foot caught in my teeth.</p><p> </p><p>My friend was back, but now he had a shark's head, and wings in place of arms. The rest of him, though, was all Felix.</p><p> </p><p><em>What the hell did you do?</em> Felix moaned.</p><p> </p><p><em>I probably saved your life, so you're welcome,</em> I giggled. <em>You, the monster you, must have been really focused on Shark-Gull-me. That image melded with my image of you and....</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It took us three full days to get back to the Wizard's Tower as we had to steer well clear of any dwellings or other signs of life. When we arrived, Felix kicked the door rapidly. </p><p> </p><p>Yevin opened it with a scowl, took one look at Felix and roared with laughter. "Come on you two. I'll teach you how to reverse the spell, and then we'll have a long talk about casting spells before you've studied them."</p><p> </p><p>***</p><p> </p><p>FINIS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daeja, post: 5850206, member: 6690636"] [b]CDM March 2012 - R1 P6[/b] Round 1, Pairing 6 - Daeja Vs. Hellefire (2430 words) [B]The Shift[/B] [I]What the freaking-[/I] "Now, Shanna, it's really not so bad," Felix began, holding his hands up in a placating manner. [I]Not so bad? Look at me![/I] I sputtered telepathically as I squinted at my profile in the mirror. Thank the Goddess we'd learned the telepathy spell already, as there was no way I could vocalize words in my current condition. We'd been fooling around with one of Master Yevin's spellbooks for weeks now, and it had been my turn to try a new spell this afternoon. The shift, it was called. Highly illegal, of course, but then, so much magic was. And the norms just couldn't begin to understand how difficult it was to try to master our craft when we were forbidden from performing so much of it. So, yes, I should have known better than to try this particular spell. Yevin had warned us against any transformations. But the shift came up on my day, and I'd be damned if I'd let Felix call me too chicken to try it. The Goddess was obviously punishing me for some reason. [I]I'm a freaking shark-gull,[/I] I shrieked, hopping from one foot to the next. [I]A Shark. Gull.[/I] Felix nodded sympathetically before he burst into laughter. [I]It's not funny![/I] I snapped my jaws in his direction. My head was now that of a shark, but instead of the sleek body and fins of the fish, I had the body and wings of a seagull. ***image 4*** "It's at least little funny, and really, just look at yourself. You're completely absurd!" [I]You have to help me shift back,[/I] I pleaded. [I]I can't go anywhere like this. If anyone catches me....[/I] We both looked at the box on the table. It was a sobering reminder of the punishment for my current condition - beyond the condition itself, of course. The box contained a single foot, long and yellowed, with claws where toenails should be. ***image 3*** It was the foot of one of Yevin's former apprentices, a student who had cast the shift spell incorrectly. He'd turned into a werebeast, losing his mind in the process, and savaged the local villagers for days before Yevin had trapped and killed him. Yevin told us that he kept the foot as a reminder of how dangerous spells like this one could be. And, I suspected privately, because in order to cast this version of the shift spell, you needed to piggyback off of the magical resonance of someone or something that had already been shifted. "Of course I'll help," Felix said, smoothing down a page in the open spellbook. He reached for the foot, picking up the grotesque appendage with less hesitation than the first time, when he'd held it to cast the spell. "We just need to figure out how to reverse-" The door to the room swung open, revealing Master Yevin. "You two better be done straightening up in here. I need a transportation spell prepared immediately! I'm heading for the coast!" Felix bobbed his head down in a subservient manner, while I hopped around on the desk, my head rocking back and forth. My movements drew Yevin's attention. His lips twitched when he saw me. "What in the Goddess' name is that?" "Shanna, sir," Felix admitted. Yevin's lips twitched again. [I]Master, please. This isn't funny![/I] With a snort - covering up a very undignified chuckle - Yevin crossed the room to inspect my current form. "What have you two done, exactly?" "The shift," Felix said, pointing to the spellbook with the hand that still held the foot. The thing flopped back and forth in the air, and Yevin's bushy, white eyebrows rose. Felix lowered his gaze to the floor sheepishly and set the foot back down in the box. "I see," he bent closer to me, running one fingertip over the spot where my shark head melded into my gull body. "Completely seamless. Why exactly did you choose a, uh, shark-seagull hybrid?" [I]I was supposed to turn into a seagull,[/I] I said, trying to shoot Felix a dirty look. My beady, black shark eyes lacked the expressiveness of my natural blue ones. "I may have been a little distracted," Felix admitted. "I'm reading this fascinating treatise on Corruth's Greywater Shark, and one of the amazing things about it is that it eats seagulls by...." He trailed off, perhaps realizing that I didn't really care right now about the eating habits of Corruth's Greywater Shark. "The spell took the images from both your minds and made this," Yevin said, tapping my snout. I turned away from him, embarrassed. [I]Please, master, can you help us turn me back?[/I] Yevin snorted. "Well, I certainly can't leave you like that." The twinkle in his grey eyes warned me that I wasn't going to like what came next. "Still, you need to be punished for meddling with magic you obviously weren't prepared to use." [I]Please, master. I'll do anything if you'll help me reverse this![/I] I was not above begging, now that panic was beginning to set in. I didn't want to be a shark-gull forever! "There's a fishing village that wanted me to investigate some new rock formations," Yevin waved his hand impatiently at the request. "Three days travel. The two of you can go together and perform a proper survey. When you get back, in a week, I'll restore you to your natural state." My little heart started pounding, [I]But Master, surely you don't mean for me to go out in the world like this? I could be killed![/I] Yevin snorted. "You'll be able to avoid anyone who might be, ah, startled by your condition if you travel off the main roads." That was the extent of the discussion. Once Yevin gave us a task, we knew it was best to hop to it. I insisted on bringing the boxed foot with us - as a 'just in case.' I was scared we'd be caught, and at least if we *had* the foot, there was a chance we could reverse the spell before I was slaughtered out of hand as a freak of nature. That could buy us some time to figure out an escape while I was put on trial for casting an illegal spell. By the start of the second day, the joy I took in flying was overshadowed by the pain I felt in my arms - wings - from overuse. I still found my new body strange, but at least there was the benefit of flight. Felix was suffering as well - our days were usually filled with running errands around the Wizard's Tower rather than riding a horse for miles and miles. We arrived at the cliff just after dawn on the third day. The view from the top was breathtaking - the water stretched out for miles, reflecting the early morning light. I paused to inhale the salty scent of the ocean, to appreciate the sight of the sun waking up the world. Then I looked down at the beach, spotting a series of rocks down the shore line. There were two more unusual rocks just below us - they must be what the villagers wanted us to investigate. It would take Felix some time to pick a way safely down the edge of the cliff, but I could fly, and so headed straight for the beach. Though I'd thought the formations were rocks, when I got closer, I could see that they were more like eggs. No, not eggs - no egg that I had ever seen was so leathery. And these looked like they were patched together, like a beggar's cloak.***image 1*** I touched down on one, lifting one foot and then the other daintily as I felt the heat that the thing radiated. What had looked like seams from farther away, I could see now were closer to veins. They pulsed and bulged, and I did a quick shuffle before lifting off and finding a perch on a rock nearby. "What is it, Shanna?" Felix called to me, nearly to the beach now. [I]I'm not sure. Not a rock, not an egg. Something else,[/I] I tilted my head sideways, considering. [I]A pod? But it's warm, it's... I don't know. Like nothing I've ever seen.[/I] "Weird," Felix said, coming up beside me. He moved closer to do his own investigation, bending forwards over the bigger pod, and running a hand over it. "It feels kind of like, uh, well, maybe it's going to...." He frowned as he trailed off, trying to figure out what it was we'd found. As I shook my head at him, I saw the pod starting to crack open. [I]Felix! Get back![/I] "What? Why?" He straightened and looked back at me, as if expecting the danger to be coming from behind us. Felix's hesitation meant he was directly in the centre of the mushroom cloud of spores that were ejected out of the pod and into the air. The whole thing deflated into a flat, leathery blob. Felix coughed, and I flapped around him, staying clear of the spores. "What the hell!" He choked and spat, stumbling towards the cliff. "Oh, oh gross." [I]Are you okay?[/I] I landed in front of him. "I'll be... fine. I think. That was just... ugh." [I]Should we take samples for Yevin, do you think?[/I] I asked, worried about what Felix had inhaled. "Let's just get back up to the horse before the other one explodes or whatever. I don't want any more of that crap in me." The climb back up the cliff took Felix three times as long as the trip down had. I coached him about where to find hand and footholds, cajoling and ordering and generally motivating him upwards. After the first ten feet, he complained of feeling woozy, and by the time he reached the top - a full thirty odd feet up, he was barely able to roll away from the cliff's edge. "I think... I think I need to rest," Felix said, sneezing. [I]Ah, okay,[/I] I looked around and then let my wings carry me away from the edge of the cliff. [I]Let's get just a little bit farther away from the cliff, okay? I don't want any surprises. [/I] Felix reluctantly followed me away from the cliff, calling a halt as soon as we entered a small stand of trees. He slumped on the ground, breathing heavily, "Just a little nap...." [I]All right. Are you sure you're okay? You look a little green....[/I] Felix shrugged off my concern and curled himself around his pack, falling asleep almost immediately. While Felix slept, I perched high up in the trees, watching in case anyone should come near us. After about an hour, I heard Felix moaning in his sleep. When I touched down beside him to try to wake him up, I realized he wasn't moaning in his sleep: he was groaning his way through a transformation. I flew several feet away, well clear of his flailing arms and legs. I watched anxiously as he grew until he was well over fifteen feet tall. His whole body began sprouting what appeared to be grass. His eyes expanded until they were large, yellow and bug-like. His toes and fingers distended into roots, and saplings sprouted from his back. ***image 2*** I'd only read about them, never seen one, but Felix looked exactly the way I'd always pictured earth elementals. I hopped nervously, twisting my head this way and that as though he might look less frightening from a different angle. He didn't. [I]I know you were eager to shift Felix, but this is a little, uh, extreme. [/I]Felix didn't respond. Instead the creature lurched towards me, arms outstretched. He moved awkardly, crashing down to one knee before lumbering back up towards me. [I]Felix? Felix! Stop messing around![/I] Felix, it seemed, was no longer home. I flapped around in a panic for a minute, staying out of reach of the creature. It was getting steadily more stable on its feet though, and I knew once it started moving at top speed, I was screwed. I could just fly away, return to Master Yevin, tell him what had happened and let him deal with it. But by then, it could be too late. What if Felix found one of nearby villages? How much damage could he do as an earth elemental? And what would the villagers do to him in return? I thought of the werewolf foot in the box, and shuddered mid-flight. No, I couldn't let that happen to Felix. Thinking fast, I decided to try using the shift spell to change Felix back. I flapped around, above the monster, trying to see where the box with the foot was. I needed it as a catalyst for the spell. I spotted the box peeking out of Felix' pack, on the ground where he had been sleeping. I dove in and bit down on the end of the box, snapping it up and taking it several yards away from the creature. Chomping down, I splintered the wood and shook loose the foot. Holding the foot in my mouth, trying not to mangle it too much, I perched on a log facing the monster. Focusing, I began the incantation, telepathically repeating the words that we'd used to shift me. As the last of the spell's words left my mind, I focused even more intently on the image of Felix as he should be. My mouth started to tingle, wherever the foot touched. I saw the monster start to glow and then it started to change. But it changed wrong. When the transformation finished, I blinked hard and then started laughing, the foot caught in my teeth. My friend was back, but now he had a shark's head, and wings in place of arms. The rest of him, though, was all Felix. [I]What the hell did you do?[/I] Felix moaned. [I]I probably saved your life, so you're welcome,[/I] I giggled. [I]You, the monster you, must have been really focused on Shark-Gull-me. That image melded with my image of you and....[/I] It took us three full days to get back to the Wizard's Tower as we had to steer well clear of any dwellings or other signs of life. When we arrived, Felix kicked the door rapidly. Yevin opened it with a scowl, took one look at Felix and roared with laughter. "Come on you two. I'll teach you how to reverse the spell, and then we'll have a long talk about casting spells before you've studied them." *** FINIS. [/QUOTE]
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