Fantasy Howl's Flying Castle (Finished! ---Whoo! (*＾▽＾)／)

She couldn't help but glance up towards those on the wall. Making a face as Seifer started dancing. She had thought that he was too stuck up to do something like that in front of everyone and her nose wrinkled up as she giggled at him before she was startled by the pulse of energy that was emitted from the core once her hand was upon it.


She blinked, dumbfounded and realized she was... dancing? She was on a tower! She jerked slightly as she flopped down onto her belly and hugged the floor. Had she been teleported? Why was she dancing? She looked around, crawling to the edge of the tower to peer down to where she had been, figuring that James could help, and there he was still sitting where he had been before... and there... wait? WHAT?! She raised her head slightly, she was sitting down there with James. Then she noticed her hands where they curled around the edge of the stone. Well.. not her hands, someone's hands. Whose hands? She examined them before scooting back from the edge and looking over her clothing, which wasn't her clothing at all, and that was when after careful examination and remembering who had been wearing this clothing, the she realized what had actually happened and she wasn't entirely sure if she should laugh or cry about the situation.


The notion occurring to her, she looked around at the others atop the wall to see if anything was different with any of them, just using the expressions on their faces to draw a conclusion.


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Serena had her eyes closed, enjoying Seth's lyrics to the song only to find out that...she is singing?? But how can that be-! And it's with Seth's ...voice....???


She stopped in mid-song looking down from where she is sitting and jumped in terror when she realized she was at the edge of the highest point. "What in the-! Who in the-!? Well I'll be a monkey's uncle..." Serena exclaimed, now getting away from the edge and looked over...to where her body is?! What?! Then who...Oh goodness..."Seth? Is that you in my body?" She asked in Seth's voice, hoping that it was him and not someone else.


Renee looked over to where Seifer sat and swayed her hips like how he did it when all of a sudden she's near Echo. "Huh?!" is what she wanted to say...but it came out as a horse's whinny.


She looked down to see hooves with a familiar black coat....then she realized. 'Oh no...Midnight is up there...' Somehow she didn't mind being a horse, used to being part animal with her transformations; it's more like she's afraid her horse would suddenly freak out like how she is right now and possibly fall down...which isn't good. She hoped that her horse isn't freaking out-! That's when she felt someone brushing her coat (that was a weird thought, someone brushing my coat) and looked over to see Echo...or whom she hoped was still Echo. She neighed and bopped her hand with her snout like she trying to tell her that she's Renee...but she doubted it would work.


Echo, on the other hand, was freaking out. She was just brushing Midnight's coat when she suddenly transported to a book on her lap...and it was weird. Then she realized that she was wearing James' clothes and that freaked her out even more. When she looked up, she saw Lydia...and then she screamed in James' voice, panicking at what just happened. "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS?!"


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"We're back!" Announced a bush-less Johnny striding up the worn tower path that led up to their camp.


He had just been talking to Princess Mia and Latifa in that small quiet way he took whenever he was speaking to girls he didn't know about the animals they had just witnessed up close. Though he seemed red and was acting very polite, he looked happy with the time spent in their company.


"Hello, Echo mellow!" he said cheerfully, tightly embracing from behind a seemingly stiff fawn who was looking confused at one of the horses that was bopping her hand with its snout, and planting a loving kiss on her chee ---


"What the saggy humus, mate!" yelled Echo in horror, flinging Johnny away with an arm with so much strength that he fell hard on the stone floor on his buttocks.


Johnny looked up, shocked, and gaping speechless at her. "L-love?" he stammered, looking hurt and bewildered.


At the same time James suddenly screamed like a girl.












"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" yelled Lydia jumping up her feet and in her haste scattering the pages in front of her. She was feeling her face, hair, chest, and then looked under her dress. "Wha-why ---" she breathed, hyperventilating, and looked up the tower to where Seifer was clutching on the stone. "That's my body!" she yelled pointing at the archer.


Up above, Serena was looking at the violin and bow in her hands as though she had never seen a violin before. "What happened?" she said to Seth while wearing a dumbfounded expression.


All of a sudden, Renee gave a strange part laugh, part cry of fear and backed off the edge of the stone and was now falling, arms flailing as if she was trying to swim!


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Seifer jerked and cried out as he saw the papers go flying, "Noooooo!!! Not my notes!! What are you doing!?" He sounded exasperated and mortified at the same time as he rose a little more over the edge of the tower to peer over and yell while still holding on for dear life. The horror of his voice only increasing and somehow raising a few decibels in an appalled cry as Lydia looked in her dress, "hey! What do you think you're doing?! GET OUT OF THERE!!!" 


Seifer jerked slightly and ducked as Lydia pointed at him and yelled, "yeah, well that's mine!" He pointed at Lydia with just as much exuberance, "keep your eyes to yourself, bub!!!" He yelled at Lydia in a huff and crossed his arms over his chest before pausing as he noted the muscle of his chest and absently touching in surprise and considered the oddity of the statement he had just made.


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Hearing Lydia screaming about not being her own body and pointing at Seifer's and her own voice screaming, Echo-James quickly looked behind her/himself, now hyperventilating. Her face felt strange like it wasn't used to having to emote fear or panic.


"L-Love? I'm over here Sweet potato pie!" She/ he stood up, shoving the book off her lap (and gaped at how weak her arms were! James needs more training for goodness' sake!) and ran up to her boyfriend. She's already panting a bit. Then she somewhat glared in a confused manner at her own body. "What just happened?! Why am I in your body and why are you in mine!?" 


Then without filtering her honesty, she added. "James, I'm going to help you train because this is ridiculous! Every morning, we're training!...Are you okay my Jolly Johnny?" Echo-James said in concern, her/his eyes wide like a deer in headlights.





Serena-Seth acted quickly and grabbed onto one of Horse-Renee's arms, pulling her back up. She never was this quick before-! "I have no clue...I'm guessing everyone here is confused...Renee? Renee, stop swimming."





Renee-horse whined at the screaming Echo, her eyes widened when she pushed Johnny?! What?! With her tail and used it like a whip, striking on Echo's hip with a very familiar heated glare at ...who she guessed...her brother James.


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"Who cares about your notes?!" yelled Lydia at Seifer as her papers flew farther and farther away with the wind, some of them even being stepped on as Lydia stomped around in panic and anger. "What did you do?! And be careful, I'm going to fall!"


"That is not my sister." said Serena looking at Renee. "Um . . . before I freak out. Let's get down using the ropes?"










"That's what I'd like to know!" said Echo to James. "Bloody trolls --- and no, I'm not your love." she added firmly, pointing at Johnny.


"What?" said Johnny in a strangled voice, and then looked at James as if he was mad when he called him 'Sweet potato pie', and then 'Jolly Johnny'. He gaped between them and then stared at Lydia and Seifer, then at the horse that just tail-whipped his girlfriend and staring heatedly like . . . Renee?


He stood up slowly, his hurt expression turning into grave realization. "You're all not joking?" he looked at James.


"Renee? You're a horse?" said Echo, raising her hands to hold the dark horse's cheeks very hard as if she did not know her own strength. "Did an enemy nearby curse us?" she looked around and patted her chest to get her wand --- oops! She immediately pulled her hand away as though she got burned. "Echo ---er, James, give me my wand." she said to him.


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His expression became frantic and his knuckles white as he clutched the edge of the tower, tears starting to well in his eyes as he watched the complete lack of care Lydia was showing her notes, "you idiot chicken boy!!!" He yelled as his sorrow began turning to anger, "don't you understand that those notes could help with whatever is happening right now?!"


He leaned over the edge as though he were going to jump right off then, his face red with fury and beginning to become tear streaked, Lydia was right to warn him that he was going to fall... or he was right to warn her? Whatever, "you stupendously overstuffed dullard! So help me if you don't get my notes I'll... I'll!!" He huffed and puffed and then grabbed his bow, "I'll snap this in half!!!"


Seifer was serious. He couldn't think of anything else that mattered as much to him as the notes did to Lydia so this was worth a shot... otherwise he'd have to resort to threatening to strip and then everyone would be sorry.


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"Sweetie, I wish we were." James replied, searching for the wand Echo? asked for as he tried to breathe and calm down. This is a nightmare. A total total nightmare. With many pats on his chest, he found the stick of magic and passed it to Echo?, his face turning pale.


"James...or Ec..Echo, are you sure we could even do what we can do? I mean I'm breathless after running up here...and I'm supposed to be strong."


Renee-horse neighed in pain when Echo held her cheeks, shaking her head away from his grip and stomping in place. That hurt-! Once she was free from her death grip, Renee-horse trotted behind James, looking at Echo like she was insane or something. Then she snorted in amusement when she patted her chest and quickly pulled her hand away. Oops, big brother touched something he shouldn't have.





Seth nodded at Serena's suggestion, passing the ropes to her as he tries to calm Renee. "Hey...hey, it's okay. You're safe. Shhh~" Pulling the whinny laughing sister even further away, Seth patted her head like she would do to her own horse. "Shh~ Everything will be okay. I'll carry Renee down so...whenever you are ready, Serena...? Goodness this is weird." He has Renee's wrapped around his neck, making sure that she's holding on tightly as they went down.


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"OKAY, OKAY, STOP!" yelled Lydia, raising her palms in alarm. "Don't hurt my bow. I'll get your notes! And don't cry, merlin's beard, not with my face." she said looking up in disgust and hurried about snatching the fluttering papers. "And you know you just called yourself that, right?" he yelled back.


"Why are you all yelling?" asked Princess Mia, Latifa right behind her and was looking at Lydia and Seifer fighting.


"We all switched bodies!" said Lydia gravely, grabbing the last dirtied paper that got caught in a bush. "Apparently I'm Dubois."


"You are Lydia, honey." said Latifa.


"NO I'M NOT. I'm Seifer, Dubois is in my body. Muses is Pendragon Serious, Lock is Pendragon Crazy, and that horse is Pendragon Chicken Girl." Lydia pointed firmly at the others. "Here, I have all your papers, now get down from there and put me back right!" she shouted at Seifer.


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"We're about to find out, and Echo please don't say mushy words with my mouth." said Echo to James. She then breathed deeply, calming herself. "Choutte Venire." she waved the wand. Nothing happened. "Choutte Venire!"


Johnny looked at Echo who kept on trying and trying, then at James. "So . . . you're in there Echo?" he said, holding James' hand and gazed anxiously into his eyes looking for her.


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Seifer smiled triumphantly, sniffling and wiping the tears from his eyes. He released his grip on the bow and nodded, satisfied with the outcome. He laughed slightly as Lydia tried to act smart, "don't change the subject, you know what I mean," Seifer developed the devilish idea to write Chicken Boy on Seifer's forehead while she had control of his body. The would teach him!


She stayed away from the edge still as the princess and her maid approached and simply watched Seifer explain the situation with a content smile, his eyes widening as Lydia turned and yelled at him. He then looked around for the way down because if it involved any climbing... well at least they still had James to figure it out and use Lydia's notes if necessary, "fine fine.. just a second."


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James' head nodded once, now a bit teary as he watched Echo trying to summon in despair. Is he going to be stuck in James' body? He hoped not. No offense to Echo, but he wanted to stay in his own body, thanks. With a tiny sniff, he looked back at Johnny with a sad form of adoration, like despite being in James' body, Echo still loved Johnny. "Yes...I'm in here...Ech- -sighs- James-! JAMES! It's not working. How about I do it?" She wondered if she should cast the spell, though it could be disastrous...


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Renee-horse heatedly glared at Lydia, knowing that Seifer is in her body based on her nicknames for everyone and prayed that Lydia did something to the idiot. Might as well given the chance that she has. She neighed loudly, stomping her hooves on the dirt in agitation.


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Seth finally got down with a very skittish Horse-Renee, who's neighing and trembling harshly. "...um...what do we do now?"


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"No, summoning is a very imprecise branch of magic, you can accidentally summon an evil spirit." said Echo to James. She looked down at their holding hands and briefly karate chopped them apart.


"Ow! Easy, Echo --- I mean, James." said Johnny rubbing his hand.


"Don't touch my body, don't call my body gross affectionate pet names and do not gaze into my eyes." said Echo to Johnny sternly. "Same with you." she added to James.


". . ." Johnny sighed and seemed to look at Echo with longing.


"And do not look at me that way --- bro, what the ding dong?" said Echo, freaked out, looking away.


"I can't help it, you're in my girlfriend's body." explained Johnny, exasperated. "And you have to let us hold hands, Echo might need it."


Echo sighed, looking up at the sky. "Fine."


"And you cannot touch, pee, poop, nor take a bath with Echo's body from now on." said Johnny firmly. He looked at James. "Echo, if you need to pee don't look down, I'll hold it for you."


"No, you can't hold me there." said Echo, startled. "And I can't live without peeing or pooping."


"I'm not going to let her hold it, James. And you have no choice, you have to hold you bladder until both of you are back to normal." said Johnny to Echo, seriously.


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"Ow!..."James turned his teary eyes at Echo, rubbing her reddened hand.


"James...please be more aware of your strength. You might crush a person's bones if you keep that up." Then his face turned red as Johnny and Echo discussed about looking at each other bodies and screamed again in a high pitch.


"AHHH!!! Okay! Okay! but James, you must understand: I rather try summoning something then do nothing about it!...Unless you can figure out what happened or what caused this?" He asked in a panicked tone, holding onto Johnny's hand again as he needed an anchor right now. While he might not understand magic like Echo or Johnny, he wanted to at least try.


Are they really having this conversation? Renee-horse looked at each of them, feeling really amused at the conclusions they reached. Wow...She snorted again, looking at Echo as she reached over and bopped Echo's hand with her snout again, a glint of 'just let him try' appeared in her eyes. She might not care about being in a horse's body, but Renee still preferred to be human, thanks.


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Seifer clumsily scrambled down the tower, trying not to die as he was not used to this type of exertion, he actually managed to completely tumble down the last bit and hit the ground hard on his butt, "oooowie..." he grimaced as he rubbed his butt, pouting out his lower lip. Whether Seifer was used to doing these kinds of things or not, Lydia definitely wasn't used to it and despite his physique, it was still Lydia's mind inside.


While Lydia took pleasure in the idea of doing something not so nice to Seifer's body while she occupied it, she dreaded the idea of what Seifer could do to her own body and was more interested in keeping herself not only chaste, but in one piece.


Seifer looked to the others, grinning slightly. Even if it was a hassle and this definitely wasn't the time to be experiencing something like this, it was actually pretty funny. With a sort of oddly chipper attitude, he sauntered over to Lydia and collected the papers she had gathered, they were a mess! Maybe it would be easier to just look through the journal, that was a bit more organized since the pages were bound. With that thought, he slumped in front of the book, reaching for his glasses... which weren't on his face. He looked at the pages and was slightly delighted at not needing them.


"Let's see... translocation? Not teleportation... magical artifacts..." he mumbled and became more and more incoherent before looking around for the magical items that James had gathered, "James? It was probably one of the things you found, right?" his brow furrowed slightly, he didn't see what else it could be, but at the same time, why would the core react to Lydia's touch but not James? Maybe he had handled it differently or Lydia had put her hands in just the right... or wrong spots.


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"Renee, I don't know what you're trying to say." said Echo patiently, patting the horse's snout. "We need to find a way for you to communicate, and no I won't let you summon anything, Echo, conjuring my summons won't help us anyway."


She looked over at Seifer who called her. "Of course, yes, you're right, it was the deteriorated construct core. I think it had magical residue that was unstable. I brought up some old magical artifacts." she explained loudly to everybody, picking up a cracked rune-engraved stone that was looked partly made of wood from the ground. "Me, James, and the magical residue in it decayed spontaneously causing this conudrum. But don't worry, me and Lydia --- who's inside Seifer --- will fix it as quickly as we can. In the meantime, just carry on . . . normally" and he went over to Seifer to help; Lydia loomed around them asking if there was anything she could to hurry it up.


Serena looked at Seth. "Okay, so, before I go help them . . . I heard Echo and Johnny talking about not peeing or pooping. So . . . how do you want to do this, Serena? Personally I don't mind if you need to pee, poop, or take a bath in body." she went over to Renee and petted her hair talking in soothing tones. "Also, where's your violin case?" she raised her violin and bow.


Johnny held James hand and secretly gave a swift kiss on his knuckles. As much as it irked him, Echo was probably wanting some comfort, so he did it anyway even though he felt like he just kissed an ampalaya. He glanced at James who was taller than him, then at their clasped hands. This is going to be difficult . . . though a small chuckle escaped Johnny's lips. "This is weird and funny."


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"Right...same, but...I promise to not look if you promise to not look." He's trying to be calm about this, remembering all the times she caused some sort of accident with her mentor. Seth pointed to where her case was, in it's usual spot on her horse's saddle and decided to put Horse-Renee next to Seifer while he looked for an answer.


"Over there by Splashes...I'm going to talk with Princess Mia and Latifa." Then he walked towards aforementioned women, waving his hand at them in a silly manner.


Renee-horse snorted again, following Echo in curiosity. She wanted to know what caused the strange switches. Though she neighed at Lydia when she's being impatient, bopping her shoulder lightly with her snout and tapped one of her front hooves. As if she wanted Lydia to stop being annoying again. Then when she saw her own body leaning forward and eating grass with her mouth, it made Renee feel embarrassed. Her body is moving around on all fours and grazing since apparently Midnight is hungry...


James jumped a bit when Johnny kissed his hand quickly before clapping their hands together and chuckling. He had to agree: This is strange.


"...Heh..heheh...you're right. Well...it can't get any worse..." As she checked that Echo wasn't looking, James leaned down and kissed Johnny's forehead, blushing a bit. This is really weird-!! Johnny's usually taller than her so to lean down instead of reaching up was a new sensation.


"Sorry...I know this is James' body and you probably didn't want to be kissed by his lips...Sorry." She weakly chuckled, sounding a bit girly for a guy.


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"Yeah, I-I can't." laughed Johnny, looking a little grossed out as he looked away. "I feel like knocking you out with an upper cut. Echo, please don't kiss me for now, not that I don't want you to. Just not with . . . James' face." he said squinting his eyes and looking at James lips with distaste. "Unless you really need it --- no, no, no, never mind. Please don't. Though I don't mind kissing you if you really, really, need it." he looked at Echo hesitantly. "Though I'm going to have to be honest with James."


Johnny felt like a very good boyfriend. The prospect of kissing James on the cheek the way he kissed Echo was tantamount to drinking a concoction of ampalaya, slimy slugs, and expired acid orange juice, through a sweaty fat man's smelly sock.


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Laughing lightly, James covered his mouth as to hide his warm grin, a bit of mirth swam with the despair and panic in his eyes. Johnny is such a good boyfriend...


"No no...it's okay. I won't kiss you until I have my body back and you don't need to kiss me either." He understood how Johnny felt, not minding his honesty as he appreciated it. He was about to lean down and nuzzle him but then he stopped and leaned back, looking away with a bit of a pained face. This...is going to be lot more harder than she thought...


He squeezed Johnny's hands lightly, like how he usually would when he was Echo but then he squeezed a bit tighter. James wasn't strong physically so he can squeeze his hands and not worry about hurting him. Okay...maybe there's some nice quirks...He still wanted to go back to his body though.


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Seifer theorized that they had been put under some sort of translocation transformation spell that was basically just errant magic released from the core. Now he was questioning how they could return to their normal bodies and if it was possible to do so through the magic left in the core or if its last bit of magic had been depleted when it switched their bodies. For now, he opted not to touch the core at all, at least not with bare skin again just in case something worse should happen.


Lydia's hovering was quite irritating and Seifer swatted at her and told her to just be quiet because she made it hard to think. It seemed that the real Lydia was not too bothered by the fact that she was in Seifer's body, even though it was a little uncomfortable for many different reasons. There were more important things at hand.


"James, can you read the runes on this?" Seifer gestured at the core, figuring that if he couldn't, they could compare runes with his notes and the ones in the Ogre book. The whole body switching thing made him question if the core used living souls to power the golems and he hovered over that slightly unnerving thought for a moment, developing a relatively thoughtful expression as he waited for a response from James.


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"Yes," said Echo and examined the core for ten minutes, turning it with a toothpick and writing down the runes she could make out. "Some of the runes are scratched and faded though. Seth, can you feel out the enchantents on this?"


"Let me see . . . " said Serena carefully taking the stone in her hand and muttering some words in the arcane language.


"Seth, can you sit like a girl properly?" said Echo immediately looking way. Serena sat daintily on the stone floor, very poised and continued feeling out the magic in the rock. "I barely feel anything, I think the last spell destroyed all residues of whatever enchantment was on this core. We're going to have to examine the magical residues of the spell on each of us and then weave a counter spell that'll reverse the effects."


"Alright, let's get all the highly magically inclined individuals in our group and start examining the others.' said Echo. Unfortunately, Seifer's body was not magically inclined and couldn't detect magical residues clearly. Echo started on Midnight, whispering arcane words to identify the enchantment that bound Renee to the horse; Serena sat still and whispered words in the wind that Seth commonly used when breaking seals or arcane locks.


Lydia looked at Seifer and said, "How do I do what they're doing?"



　


It seemed that figuring out a way to reverse the effects of the spell was going to take much longer. The storm clouds that had been threatening to rain finally released their torrents that night.


Thunder rumbled overhead as Echo, Serena, and Seifer worked on the counter spell inside Johnny's tepee which had the widest space to accomodate them all, including Midnight, after the horse had been given a thorough scrubbing and didn't smell anymore. Renee may be a horse, but she was still their friend and sister.


Echo and Serena kept on rubbing her neck and petting her snout comfortingly as they worked, and Princess Mia gave her a cauldron full of oatmeal and fresh vegetables for dinner. It meant no more vegetables until they get to Holt, but they didn't want to feed Renee, who's mind was inside the horse, grass and plain oats.


Outside in the rain, Johnny was taking first watch with Meatballs frolicking in the mud. And for some strange reason, Renee could understand his barking and growling.


"Mud is delicious, mud is delicious! Play with me! I love your hand, it tastes like mud!" panted Meatballs licking Johnny's hand that was petting his cheek. "I feel happy, rub my belly now! I feel sleepy and nice. Your little hand under my chin smells like white deer's human."


She could also understand the horses.


"I am standing in the rain."


"It is dark at night."


"I am standing in the rain."


"It is warm."


　


Later that night, Lydia walked in on where Seifer was working and plopped down a bag of beauty care products beside him. "Lydia, you need to take a break and let me take care of my face and hair." she said solemnly as if this was some sort of important daily medication, and without waiting for any consent, applied a wet sponge on Seifer's face.


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James looked over and nodded, asking Echo how he can help and what does he need to do. He didn't want to make mistakes and accidentally harm anyone with magic. Seth did the same thing and asked Serena on what he needed to do.


Later when it started to rain, Midnight stayed calm as Echo and Serena rubbed her neck and petted her snout while working, which is an improvement from earlier during the wash down. She was freaking out from all the hands touching her and it made her feel helpless and invaded. She couldn't do anything, not even push them away in fear of hurting Serena and Echo's bodies and hurting James' and Seth's feelings. Despite the nervous stomping and trying to shake away the brushes and hands, they still didn't understand that she rather stand in the rain.


Yes, she hated to feel this helpless that much. Don't get her wrong: Midnight appreciated their efforts on trying to calm her down, even to let her stay inside of Johnny's tent and give her all of the vegetables and oats to keep her fed; It's awesome to know that they care about her that much and included her in...


...but for goodness sake, she felt violated with how helpless she is and she didn't like it. At. All. Midnight was so used to doing things for others that she couldn't handle being 'pampered' like that. To her, it just felt wrong. Not because it was a nice thing, no. Far from that. She's really happy about the fact that they care. It's just her pride of being able to do things on her own, being independent from others with even the most basic of things, is what's suffering here and she can't take the embarrassment very well.


Midnight blinked lazily, mulling over everything in her thoughts as she couldn't talk or draw or anything and felt bored while listening to the animals' talking (In Meatballs' case, nonstop chatter.). Though...she did enjoy the petting and rubs...it's comforting...


She really hopes they can break this stupid thing already-!!


Renee was sleeping next to James who's watching over her, lightly raking through her hair with his hand as a way to keep her calm. Her head was on his thigh as a pillow of sorts and James is aimlessly thinking. Seth is nearby too, braiding thin braids on her long white hair as he talked quietly to James. Somehow this scene still made sense despite who's who. It was almost normal to see James and Seth near Renee since they are brothers and sister.


The funny part is that the real James would probably never be this affectionate towards his siblings when they are okay nor would the real Renee be this physically relaxed around her brothers if there's nothing to do nor would Seth stay in one place for too long to do anything for his siblings when there's nothing wrong. So it's rather strange to see this scene too, kind of intimate for any of the siblings...and it made Midnight feel embarrassed again.


She snorted and looked away from the odd scene, concentrating on the comfort that her brothers' were nearby. This. This is her norm. To know that her brothers would do something when there's an issue and put all their efforts into it. This is what calms her down fully: to see her brothers be together with a set goal and somehow succeed. It's why she wants to help so much; James, Seth and Sen always worked hard to support the family and she didn't want that they overwork themselves nor did she want to stop them. So Midnight, or rather Renee herself, wants to support them in anyway possible. It's why she learned how to do the laundry or how to cook: So they can wear clean clothes while in work or in studies and come home with dinner ready on the table.


...Wait...


With a jerk from her head and neck, Midnight neighed a bit, sounding happy and relieved. That's it...that's what calms her soul...Holy Merlin-! Ohh...maybe being a horse wasn't that bad after all...


No, she takes that back. She wants to be human, more so ,to be herself.


Later on that night she snorted again, but in shock this time when Lydia puts a wet sponge on Seifer's face. A second later, neighing like laughter can be heard from outside the spacious tent. The imagery-! Oh the imagery-! It's too funny-! Midnight stomped one of her hooves on the ground like she would when she falls over and hits the floor with her fist whenever she laughed that hard.


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A hand rubbed the horse's neck under the rain and Midnight would look to see that it was Johnny standing beside her and giving her a look as though wondering what was the funny neighing all about.


Inside, some of the people peered out of the tepee to see what was wrong, to which Johnny gave them a reassuring thumbs up. "How are you this fine wet night, miss Renee Pendragon?" he asked jovially looking up at one of the horse's beady black eyes.


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Surprised, Midnight flinched a bit when Johnny appeared out of nowhere and looked back at him. She wondered...would Johnny be able to understand what she's saying?


'I'm doing fine. More then fine. I think I know what calms my soul now.' Midnight answered back just as cheerfully, blinking a bit as she turned away from Seifer and Lydia's funny moment. She didn't want to bring much attention to them.


@Zer0

Johnny just looked at her expectantly for a few seconds. Nope, he didn't understand her. He must have sensed something a bit, because he then said, "Would you like to be transfigured into a sheep? I would be able to understand you and I believe you would be a tad warmer."


@Katsuya

Ah...She guessed he didn't understand her...


After a second or two, Midnight nodded her head once, feeling a little bad for her horse when this whole body switches thing is over. She hoped he wouldn't hold it against her. 'At least Midnight would be warm...when we switch back.' She thought.


@Zer0