Orb of Wonders

Tuesday

Phillip, a 17-years old brown haired boy with glasses, was living a normal live until he found something, that would change his life forever. He and his best friend, Tim, a blond haired boy with bushy eyebrows, were walking home from school, when they found a purple glowing ball lying on the ground.

.

Tim: You see that?
Phillip: I nearly stepped on it, so yeah.
Tim: Try touching it.
Phillip: What?! Why me?
Tim: Becaaaause… My legs hurt…
Phillip: Okay.

Phillip kneeled down, took the orb and stood back up and started walking again.

Phillip: It feels warm.
Tim: Hmm… might be contaminated with radiation.
Phillip: What?!
Tim: Stop worrying, how would something like that lie around here?
Phillip: Hm, you may be right. You want that?
Tim: Nah… I have my karate training in an hour.
Phillip: With your hurt leg?
Tim: Ah, no, the pain just stopped!
Phillip: Asshole…
Tim: Hey, stop it! Just bring it to school tomorrow, so we can check it out and look inside or something like that.
Phillip: You want to break it apart?!
Tim: If I have to…
Phillip: I’m not so sure about that.

They reached Tims home and waved their goodbye.

Phillip was sitting on his bed, looking at the weird purple ball. It stopped glowing and didn’t seem to be warm anymore.

Phillip: Maybe it was just the reflection of the sun or something like that… I should test it out tomorrow. Ugh… and I have PE-class tomorrow morning…
How annoying

He undressed and grabbed one of his mangas and started reading on his bed.

Phillip: The main characters sister is just so sweet… why can’t my sister be like that?

After reading one manga after another, he eventually fell asleep.

Wednesday

The alarm went off, was stopped quickly and Phillip let out a grumbly yawn. Surrounded by his mangas, he shoved some out of the bed with his legs and stretched his arms.

Phillip: Today will be horrible.

Then he saw the ball on his desk.

Phillip: Oh, I nearly forgot.

He started putting on his clothes, took the orb, left the room and walked directly into his little sister, Janine.

Phillip: Hey Janine…
Janine: Heh… You’re not going to the bathroom.
Phillip: And if I need to take a shit?
Janine: Well… then you could just try fucking yourself.
Phillip: You’re only 14, you shouldn’t talk like that.
Janine: And a boy your age shouldn’t read these stupid books.
Phillip: They are not stupid!!
Janine: Right, from the perspective of an idiot, they might not seem that way.
Phillip: Argh, why can’t you just be a normal little sister and look up me.
Janine: Like in your mangas? Let me tell you something: THEY are not normal.
Phillip: They are! And if someone isn’t like that, they should be.
Janine: Wow… you are such a weirdo… No one you’ll ever meet will be like that, not a single person.
Phillip: I wish they would!
Janine: Just fuck off…

The ball in Phillips hand started glowing.
Phillip: OUCH!
It was getting really hot, so he let it fall on the ground.
Janine: What the hell is that thing, it’s glowing.
Phillip: Yeah, and it is mine! Bye.

Phillip angrily walked down the stairs.

Janine: Well then have some greeeeaat time with your magic toy!

He ignored the sarcastic shouts from his sister and left the house.

Janine: Now he’s playing with some weird glowing balls… he’s totally lost it…
Then she went into the bathroom.

Janine: Hmmm… This should be okay…

She looked into the mirror and grabbed one strand of her hair.

Janine: But maybe I could change my hair up a bit.

Janine started brushing her frizzy hair straight, she wondered a bit why, because she has been really happy with this hairstyle for a while

Janine: Where ever this hairclip is coming from, it’s just what I need.

She smiled into the mirror.

Janine: Looking good! This might even impress Onii-chan… wait, why did I say that… It’s this word for brother from Onii-chans stupid cartoons….

Janine: I said It again! And my hair…. I think it’s getting brighter and it’s too cute… this isn’t usually my style. Fuck!

She stormed out of the bathroom into her room.

Janine: Why am I calling Onii-Chan Onii-Chan…. Ah, no! I can’t even say Onii-chans name!

Janine walked up and down restless.

Janine: It’s definitely Onii-chans fault!

With that, she walked into her brothers room and stood there angrily, looking for something suspicious.

Janine: It’s magic, it’s definitely magic, I don’t even know that word… what the hell is happening.

She looked around, started looking on his bed, then she threw the pillows on the ground and looked what could’ve been underneath them.

Janine: Nothing here! Not even any porn…Onii-chan… what did you do to me…

Janine looked back on the bed and her face turned bright red.

Janine: I’m getting flustered! Just by being in Onii-chans room, the place where Onii-chan does… no stop that thought!
Didn’t Onii-chan say something like this, I should be a better sister? This… this glowing ball thing! That was it! It really is magic!
I’m not sure what Onii-chan said, but I think it glowed after Onii-chan started wishing for something, for me being a sister like in these mangas…
I have to get to Onii-chan, I have to get that ball!

With that, Janine ran out of the room, pulled out shoes and grabbed a short pink jacket. For a few seconds she was thinking how she never saw either that jacket or these shoes and they were,
where her clothes usually were, but she had to hurry and left the house

Janine: I know, where Onii-chans school is. I hope I can catch up.

Tim: It stopped glowing?
Phillip: You see it glowing? I don’t.
Tim: Well yeah, but… did you do anything?
Phillip: No! It was like that when I pulled it out of my bag! But it got really hot and glowed bright for a few seconds this morning all of a sudden.
Tim: That is strange, was it lying in the sun?
Phillip: No, I was only talking to my sister. No light, no water, no fire, nothing.
Tim: Well… give it to me. I’ll get bored in class anyway so I could check it out and see if something can make it glow.
Phillip: Fine by me, take it.
Tim: Yeah! Thank you

After a few minutes, they reached the school gate.

Tim: So, I’m off to class. Mr. Davidson again… you know.
Phillip: I don’t but I can imagine it.
???: Hey Phil!
Phillip: Oh, hey Giselle!

Giselle, a classmate and friend of Phillip, walked up to him. She wasn’t the prettiest girl, but she had some weird cuteness to her.

Giselle: How’s it going!
Phillip: Nothing much…
Giselle: Are you mentally prepared for another round of PE?! Your chance to strengthen body and soul!
Phillip: Can you ever be prepared for something like that?
Giselle: Yeah! With some training beforehand.
Phillip: You could’ve just said ‘never’… Same meaning, but far shorter!
Giselle: You lazy bum!... let’s get going.
Phillip: Yeah…

They wanted to leave, but then Giselle saw someone coming. A girl with pink hair, pink jacket and pink shoes. Otherwise she was dressed weirdly plain.

Giselle: There is a girl running up to us. You know her?
Phillip: She might be my sisters age.
Janine: Onii-chaaaan!
Giselle: Did she just…
Phillip: Wait, for real… This can’t be Janine…

With that, the screaming girl finally arrived huffing and then looking up to her brother.

Phillip: Janine? What the hell, is that you?!
Janine: I… I suddenly started acting … different. And then I must’ve shrunken on my way here.
Phillip: People don’t just shrink
Giselle: Is this some type of game you’re playing
Phillip: Shh Giselle!
Janine: You wished for something, Onii-chan. With that weird ball! I think that’s why I’m this way.
Phillip: Wait? The clothes too?
Janine: I don’t know where they come from, I grabbed them when I started running and thought they were mine.
Giselle: Could you please expla…
Phillip: Tim has the ball!
Janine: But what’s going to become of m… m-…. Me- ko-chan.
Phillip: What’s wrong.
Janine: It’s m- ma- mi- ko-chans name.
Phillip: Who is Miko-chan
Janine: It’s Ja…Niii… n.
Phillip: You mean…
Janine: Yeah, Niko-chan can’t… No, stop it. It’s Ja-ni-ko! No! JaniKo! NiKo! Niko! Niko! Niko!
It is NiiiiKoo! Yeah, that’s it! Niko-Chan got it!
Phillip: Get a hold of yourself, you are Janine!
Niko-chan: It is? But Niko feels so much more right for Niko-chan.
Is Niko-chan going to become like one of the girls in Onii-chans mangas?
Phillip: Not specifically… What do I even care, I have to call Tim!
Giselle: Shouldn’t we get to PE?

Tim: So, he talked to his sister… But how do I get you to glow… What do you need from me?!
???: Hey Tim, your phone is ring… What’s this… orb you’re talking to?
Tim: Oh… Natalie… It… It’s nothing!
Natalie: Okay? Have you… trimmed your eyebrows? Looking good!
Tim: What? No!
Natalie: Oohkay… must’ve been my imagination… so, uh, see you later.
Tim: Yeah… W-wait Natalie! Wait!
Natalie: What is it?
Tim: Okay, I tell you.

Tim: This ball thingie… I found it yesterday with Phil.
Natalie: That guy you’re hanging out with all the time?
Tim: Yeah… He had it this morning and it started glowing, when he talked to his little sister.
Natalie: Whow! So you’re trying to trigger it by talking to me?
Tim: Uh… yeah.
Natalie: Well, it’s not glowing… maybe you have to be related by blood
Tim: I don’t have any siblings
Natalie: I could test it with my two big sisters

Then, Natalie grabbed the orb.

Tim: But… I want to test it!
Natalie: No siblings, no luck. I’ll keep it for the time being.
Tim: Can I at least come over to watch it?
Natalie: Sure! Oh, I think Mr. Davidson is coming.

Tim sat down and Natalie passed him, but stopped bent down and grabbed something from the floor while Tim was searching for his world history book under his table

Natalie: You know who this belongs to?

She held a pink ribbon in her hand, but Tim was too focused on searching his book.

Mr. Davidson: Natalie! Get to your table right now!
Natalie: Ah, sorry, yes sir!

Natalie put the ribbon on Tim’s table and walked to hers quickly.

Tim: Yeah, got it! I should really clean up down here…
Wha… what’s this ribbon doing here… Wait… did I forget to put mine on?!

He grabbed his neck with a shocked expression and quickly started tying it around his neck.

Tim: There! Done and good to go!

Giselle: But is it really okay for me to leave?
Phillip: It’s nothing you can help with! And someone has to say something to Mr. Banulli.
Giselle: Okay, I’ll think of something and you continue looking for that class!

With that, Giselle turned around and ran away.

Phillip: And Janine, why exactly do you suddenly have a pigtail?
Niko-chan: Niko-chan found this super-cute rubber band and wanted to show it to Onii-chan.
Phillip: Do you think, you change further?
Niko-chan: Not much has happened, so it’s alright, Niko-chan thinks it stopped.
Phillip: Good to hear, I think, his class should be right here.

When they knocked, they could only hear the scream of the teacher… and there was no getting into that room, so they had to wait for a break.

Niko-chan: Niko-chan’s lost weight!
Phillip: I thought it stopped… What do we do if it gets even worse?
Niko-chan: Niko-chan is sure, Onii-chan will think of something!
Phillip: What makes you so sure?
Niko-chan: Becaaause… Onii-chan is the coolest guy ever and knows everything!
Phillip: Wow… I never thought, I would say that, but I miss the old Janine…
Niko-chan: Janine?! Is she Onii-chans girlfriend! Niko-chan doesn’t approve!
Phillip: No! No, it is you, you are Janine… don’t you remember you were not always like this?!
Niko-chan: Niko-chan doesn’t like that name. Niko-chan is Niko-chan! When Niko-Chan was different, Niko-chan wasn’t this happy! So this is right, this is the real Niko-chan!
Phillip: I really hope they open the door soon…
Niko-chan: Some of these lockers are open, can I look inside.
Phillip: Yeah yeah…

Meanwhile…

Giselle: Yeah! I did it! 50 push-ups!
???: Sorry to interrupt your celebration, but your story is still bugging me.
Giselle: There is always something bugging you, Anthony. Always.
Anthony: Yes, but this is different! First you come late, then you tell us, Phils sister lost something and he’s helping her look for it… in this school!
Giselle: I was trying to come up with something else… but I thought I should stick to the truth.
Anthony: And most importantly… you are not even Giselle!
Giselle: Now this is getting ridiculous, even for you.
Anthony: No, it’s not! You are definitely smaller and your face looks different!
Giselle: It does?
Anthony: Well, I… I think so, it’s still similar… But you are definitely smaller!
Giselle: Maybe you are just bigger?
Anthony: Now stop this nonsense! My deduction is, you are Giselle’s little sister. I don’t know what you are planning, but I’m going to find that out!
Giselle: I don’t even have a little sister!
Anthony: You might say that and the teacher might not believe me, but I’m going to find that out!

Meanwhile 2…

The class of Mr. Davidson was ending and he started packing up his material while the other students started talking to each other.

Natalie: This… is so wrong! I watched you the whole time, I could see your hair growing! And what is this bow your wearing?!
Tim: I don’t know that! It was lying on my desk and I absentmindedly put in on.
Natalie: Nobody does… You know what, screw it! What’s with your body, you’re so small.
Tim: I don’t know! I’d really like to find that out too.
Natalie: But things like that don’t just happen! That’s some kind of weird hocus pocus!
Tim: Yeah! Whatever happened, it’s getting worse… I start to think weirdly about Onii-chan all the time.
Natalie: Onii-chan? Who is that?
Tim: Oh right… um… brown hair, wearing glasses and hanging around with me all the time.
Natalie: Phil? So he has something to do with this? What did he do, did he do anything strange?...
Wait a minute… this orb! It might be magic!
Tim: Oh damn! Onii-chan said, it was glowing this morning.
Natalie: I’m going to check on that, and I know just the person. Just wait here for a few minutes.
Tim: What? No, I’m coming with you.
Natalie: Nah, it’s Sally, this goth girl. She won’t talk if I bring someone she doesn’t know.
Tim: But… you know her?
Natalie: I’m in her tabletop-RPG group. But not important, wait here!

Niko-chan: Onii-chan! Look what I found, isn’t this cute!
Phillip: Wait a second, Janine. Class is over, they are getting out any second now.
Niko-chan: But…
Phillip: No, we have to reverse this somehow! This is just not you.

Niko-chan’s eyes started to become teary and she wanted to say something else, but was stopped when the door of the classroom flew open and a girl sprinted out into the other direction.

Phillip: This will be fixed in a few seconds, don’t worry!

Phillip: You can’t be serious! Tim?!
Tim: O-onii-chan! I’m so h-happy to see you!
Somehow this happened… I believe it might be that ball.
Phillip: It really was that ball and I know how to reverse it!
Tim: Onii-chan is so smart!... Argh, I can’t stop these thoughts!
Phillip: Don’t worry, just give it to me.
Tim: The ball?
Phillip: Yeah!
Tim: I gave it to Natalie
Phillip: You can’t be serious! Where is she?!
Tim: I don’t know, she went looking for some girl.
Phillip: I can’t believe this, you’re changing too and sent away the one thing, that could reverse it.
Tim: Does Onii-chan mean that he didn’t want this to happen, and it’s happening not just to me?

Phillip: No, Janine here is changing too, just like you.
Tim: I don’t see Nee-chan.
Phillip: Nee-chan? So that too, huh. She’s standing just…
uh… Janine?
Tim: I don’t think Nee-chan came in here.
Phillip: Why are all these problems stacking up! I have to find her.
Tim: But Natalie said…
Phillip: I don’t care! Just stay here!

Phillip started running through the halls looking left and right for his sister.

Tim: Onii-chan! Wait!
Phillip: Why are you following me.
Tim: I-I didn’t want to stay behind alone. I w-want to be with Onii-chan!
Phillip: Well fine… but we have to find Janine fast! I don’t know what further changes will happen.
Tim: W-what does Onii-chan mean?
Phillip: Well, can you still say your name?
Tim: Y-yes, I-I’m Tim
Phillip: You are both calling me Onii-chan. And Janine suddenly started being really nice to me, couldn’t say her name anymore at some point and even forgot how it has been before.
And after that, she kept shrinking and started acting weirder and weirder.
Tim: N-no! We have to stop that. I really want to b-be Onii-chans little sister, b-but I still know it’s is wrong.
Phillip: You are stammering a bit, you know that?
Tim: I’m so sorry! Every t-time I s-say something I start to think if I really should say something. I don’t want to make O-onii-chan angry.
Phillip: I’m not…

Suddenly they stopped on the stairs. Standing in front of them was another little girl but not Phillips sister, this girl had black hair with two pigtails and was wearing a girly pink and white outfit.

Phillip: Don’t tell me…
Giselle: Onii-chan… care to explain?!
Tim: I-is this Nee-chan?
Phillip: No… it’s Giselle, I think.
Giselle: Yes, I am. I found these clothes in the changing room and couldn’t resist putting them on. After people were looking at me strangely, I realized that I was a little girl.
Phillip: Yeah, well about that…
Giselle: This is, what happened to your sist… your s… Nee-chan…
Aaah! See, even the things I say are changing!
Phillip: Uh… yes that’s part of it. And yes, this is what happened to my sister.

Tim was looking at some ribbons lying on the ground. This other girl was so self-conscious, just like he was before, at least he thought that.
At the same time, that girl was also really cute, so maybe that was part of the trick to being self-conscious. With that thought, she grabbed the ribbons.

Giselle: Just stop it! Did you at least find Tim?
Phillip: Yes, but it’s not helping us, he gave the ball away.
Giselle: Is this guy serious?! I mean, I dressed in pink before, but this is too much!
Phillip: But in some way, you chose these clothes.
Giselle: Because my mind is going haywire, Baka-Onii-chan!... Another of those word scrambles, great!
Phillip: I’m sorry, okay?!
Giselle: What do we do now, that Onii-chans friend has screwed up?
Phillip: First, we have to find Janine, then we look for this friend of Tim. Tim is this girl by the way.

Phillip: Oh, aand he has made some pigtails into his hair.
Tim: I-I’m pleased to meet you, N-nee-chan.
Giselle: Whoa, is this really Tim. Annoying, smart-ass eyebrows-Tim?
Phillip: Yeah… You still remember your name?
Tim: Y-yes… I’m T-tim…-mari. Oh no, i-is this how it starts?
Phillip: I think so, Janine was trying really hard to stop it.
Tim: O-oh… then Ti-m-mari-chan has no chance.
Phillip: Okay, let’s try this. Say Tim.
Tim: T-tim!
Phillip: Cling to this name, it is your name.
Tim: My name… Tim! I am Tim-mari.. T-t-… im… mari.
Phillip: No Mari, cut that part.
Tim: I am t-trying. My name is… Timari… n-no still wrong. No Mari, so it’s Ti? T-that must be wrong, n-nobody would be called that way.
So then it’s… Imari? Yes! Imari-chan did it.
Phillip: Sadly not.
Imari-chan: O-oh… S-so Imari-chan wasn’t called Imari before?
Giselle: Oh. So this is going to happen to me too?
Phillip: If we don’t find a solution soon, yeah.

After running around for a while, they stopped in front of the girls changing room.

Phillip: She might be in there.
Giselle: I can look for you.
Imari-chan: I-I can look too
Phillip: Okay, just try not to change too much in there.
Giselle: I will watch over Imari-chan, so she doesn’t do something clumsy.
Phillip: No more Nee-chan?
Giselle: It’s getting difficult, because I have two sisters now… wait they aren’t really… augh… I hope I get out still being myself

With that, the two went inside and surprisingly found Janine in there.

Giselle: Niko-chan.
Niko-chan: Hey, Giselle-chan, hey Imari-chan, what are you doing here.
Giselle: How do you know our… forget it, Onii-chan is waiting outside. We have to continue looking for that ball.
Niko-chan: Onii-chan is here? I got lost in this school and was really scared.
Giselle: Okay, then let’s leave.
Imari-chan: W-wait please…
Niko-chan: What is it Imari-chan.
Imari-chan: You are both d-dressed so cute, so I thought… maybe… I c-could…
Giselle: Imari-chan, we talked about that!
Niko-chan: Don’t be that way, Imari-chan is dressed a bit weird. Niko-chan’s found a lot of clothes in here.
Giselle: Even more?! It’s like this magic is laying down clothes into our way. But still… Onii-chan said…
Niko-chan: Don’t be a party pooper! Onii-chan will be really happy, when he see’s Imari-chan in a cute outfit!
Imari-chan: Y-you really think so?

Niko-chan: Look, Niko-chan found this jacket, it would look really cute on you, much better than that brown sweater.
Imari-chan: It does look c-cute.

With some really fast moves, Niko pulled the sweater off over Imaris head and wrapped the jacket around her.

Niko-chan: See, so cute.
Gisele: And I found this super-kawaii hair clip, so you can get it a bit out of your face.

Niko-chan: A cute skirt and you are nearly done!
Giselle: Imari-chan is still missing some super-kawaii shoes, like mine!
Imari-chan: You are the best sisters in the world, thank you!
Giselle: Oh, you stopped stammering.
Imari-chan: I only do that around strangers… and Onii-chan.
Niko-chan: But well… we’re done. Good work, Chio-chan!
Giselle: Ch-chio-chan? That wasn’t my name, was it.
Niko-chan: Uh… yes it was.
Giselle: Wasn’t it something like Gi… Gio? Chio… hmm nevermind, don’t know why Chio-chan thought so.
Niko-chan: We’re all a little nervous, visiting Onii-chans school.
Imari-chan: Yes! This is so different from our school. It’s so big!
Chio-chan: But this is our school!
Niko-chan: In a few years, it will be!
Chio-chan: R-right…
Imari-chan: Isn’t Onii-chan waiting outside?

“ONIII-CHAAAN” was squealing out of the changing room with three girls coming out.

Phillip: Oh man, first you’re in there for half an hour and of course you changed clothes… But at least you are back sis…
Niko-chan: Who changed clothes?
Phillip: Uh… Tim.
Niko-chan: Who is… Tim?
Phillip: Right… I mean… uh… Imari of course
Niko-chan: We didn’t change clothes. We only fixed Imari-chans hair.
Phillip: But she went in dressed different!
Imari-chan: Imari-chan w-wasn’t dressed d-different? I-is something looking wrong?
Chio-chan: You’re looking super-kawaii, don’t worry.
Niko-chan: Niko-chan only got lost and went in there because there were so many people outside and they came looking for me. Onii-chan sent them, right?
Phillip: But this outfit is…
Imari-chan: D-doesn’t Onii-chan like this? Imari-chan really took a long time p-picking this out this morning…
Hey eyes were getting teary.
Phillip: No, you look so cute in it, just… perfect.
He had to think about, that this was his friend Tim as a shy little girl dressed overly girly.
Chio-chan: And we found this super-kawaii hair clip! Look!
Phillip: Okay… Um… Now we just have to look for Natalie, right?
Niko-chan: That’s a girls name, who is that?
Phillip: Just a classmate of Tim... uh, I mean Imari
Chio-chan: Chio-chan in the same class and she doesn’t know any Natalie
Phillip: Ah… you are Chio-chan?
Chio-chan: Onii-chan, why would you forget that?
Phillip: Um… my mind’s just foggy. And you really forgot Natalie?
Chio-chan: Chio-chan has a totally sugoi memory, Chio-chan doesn’t forget anything.
Phillip: But you don’t remember being in my class?
Chios face was turning red.
Chio-chan: I-it would really make Chio-chan happy, being in Onii-chans class!
Phillip: Oh, so you are now in elementary school?
Chio-chan: It’s junior high school, baka! You know Chio-chan is a first year with Imari-chan

Phillip came to the conclusion that these girls now must’ve been around 12 to 14, his sister has been 15 before, but the others were his age and they
definitely seemed younger than 12… but Anime-rules might be different.

Phillip: Okay let’s forget this and start looking for Natalie!
Niko-chan: What about Hanako-chan?
Phillip: Who is that? I haven’t met anyone else, you three should be the only ones.

One hour before

Natalie: … and then I came running to you.
Sally: So you are saying, that piece of shit is magic?
Natalie: It must be, how else would someone turn into a girl?
Sally: A good surgeon could do some…
Natalie: Stop kidding around! He was changing and getting younger in front of my eyes!
Sally: Just give it to me, I’ve held some magic artefacts before.
Natalie: For real?!
Sally: And I’ve tried drawing a witch circle.
Natalie: Did it work?!
Sally: As no one’s died a painful death, no, it didn’t.
Natalie: Augh… just take it!

Natalie handed Sally the orb.

Sally: Maybe the people holding this orb will change… and you just cursed me.
Sally smirked, saying that.
Natalie: You wanted to hold it… wait, that means I’m cursed already!
Sally: Do you feel anything strange?
Natalie: I don’t know, but now that you mention it… I feel really weird
Sally: You look the same to me. I don’t think this fucking thing is magic… You’re just wasting my time.
Natalie: It is magic, I saw him change! I saw that, in front of my eyes.
Sally: Yeah, I wish I could see the same happening to you…

The orb began glowing and was getting hot. Out of shock, Sally let it fall to the ground.

Sally: Oh fucking hell! This thing IS magic!
Natalie: What happened, it got all glowy for a moment!
Sally: I-I’m sorry! I think it might be a some sort of wishing orb.
Natalie: Wishing orb? But you wished for… You can’t be serious!!
Sally: Listen, just let me grab it and wish you normal again.
Natalie: Then do it quick!

Sally bent down and grabbed the orb.
Sally: I wish, Natalie wouldn’t become a younger girl or boy…

The orb showed no reaction

Natalie: Did it work? What if I turn into a hag now?!
Sally: I didn’t feel anything this time… But hey, I wish, Natalie wasn’t affected by any wishes.
Natalie: Give it to me!

Natalie grabbed the orb with an angry look.

Natalie: I wish, I would stay like I am now!
Sally: That fucking thing doesn’t work anymore, see. Maybe it was three wishes, or it has a time limit.
Natalie: Okay, then let’s continue testing this. I have to get back to Tim.
Sally: I’m coming with you.

As they were running through the halls and pushing through the other students, they reached the classroom.

Natalie: I wish I wasn’t affected by Sally’s wish!
Sally: Still nothing aaaaand your hair is longer… and has a different color.
Natalie: Am I getting thinner?
Sally: Maybe, but it looks good on you.
Natalie: Goddammit Sally, you’re not helping.
Sally: Helping isn’t really my style, yeah.

Natalie angrily stomped into the class, just to come out a few seconds later.

Natalie: He’s not here…
Sally: And now?
Natalie: Let us… Let us go into the theatre club.
Sally: Why would I go into that fucking room.
Natalie: Why not, I’m part of the theatre club!
Sally: Yeah, great, taking part in stupid plays as fucking princess and shit like that
Natalie: It’s fun, okay?!… And nobody’s there right now and I can’t have everyone watching me change
Sally: Okay then… Up to the theatre club.

With that, they started running again.

Entering the room, Sally started smiling.

Natalie: I wish I wasn’t affected by any wishes!!! This stupid thing!
With a lot of anger, she put it on the table.
Sally: You have purple hair! You look somehow goth, I always knew you had it in you.
Natalie: I don’t want to change into a goth, I want to stay being myself!
Sally: Still, purple hair is your thing!
Natalie: Stop screwing around… This is horrible… Everything is getting foggy somehow…
Sally: Oh! What do you mean?
Natalie: Well, I can’t see any…. Oh
She took of her glasses.
Natalie: I can see without glasses! That is somehow great!
Sally: Well, you’re changing for the better.
Natalie: Sally…
Sally: Just kidding, what exactly do you plan on doing.
Natalie: Well, I’m need to find Tim and Onii-Chan.
Sally: Onii-chan? Don’t tell me you’re a weeb.
Natalie: What?! No! It’s weird, I only talked to him a few times, but I really want to see him… And I feel he is Onii-chan.
Sally: Is that orb fucking with your head?!

Natalie wanted to grab the orb again, but instead grabbed a headband with a blue flower on it and put it on her head.
After seeing the orb still on the table, she grabbed that.

Sally: Well aren’t you becoming a pretty little princess!
Natalie: Could you please just be helpful? This isn’t funny anymore!
Sally: Of course, your highness!

Natalie: Stop it Sally.
Sally: You’re the one with a fucking flower on her head!
Natalie: This is a curse, Sally, it’s changing me, and all you do is making fun of me!
Sally: Y-you’re right, I’m sorry… princess.
Natalie: Oh god! You just can’t stop it! I wish you were going through the same thing!

The orb began glowing and fell to the ground once more. Sally could only watch with a shocked expression.

Natalie: Oh damn… oops…

Sally: You stupid bitch!
Natalie: I didn’t do it on purpose! Sorry! Really!
Sally: You just FUCKING CURSED ME!
Natalie: Sorry! Sorry!!! Maybe we can just use it again?

She picked up the orb from the ground, but realized, it wouldn’t work and put it down on the table again.

Sally: IT DOESN’T WORK YOU SHITHEAD! I SAID IT’S TIMED, BUT YOU JUST HAD TO FUCK UP THE ONE CHANCE YOU HAD AND DECIDED TO CURSE ME INSTEAD.
Natalie: S-stop screaming at me! We can just wait until it can be used again!
Sally: YOU’RE ALREADY A LITTLE GIRL… AND NOW I’M TURNING INTO ONE TOO, BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO STUPID FOR ANYTHING!

Natalie started crying and ran to the small changing room behind the curtain.

Sally: STOP HIDING AND COME OUT! I’M NOT DONE!
Natalie: Then stop screaming…
Sally: I WILL SCREAM ALL…
She heard the sobbing behind the curtain.
Sally: Okay okay… I will stop, but come out, we have to get a hold of ourselves and change back when the orb can be used again!
Natalie: So… you’re not angry?
Sally: Ugh… no… I’m not angry.

Then, Natalie came out.

Sally: Oh for fucks sake… Why the stupid pigtails?
Natalie: Because they are cute.
Sally: You forgot that we want to change back, not to change further.
Natalie: Look, I found this. Is it yours?
Natalie held another headband, this time pink with a big ribbon on it.
Sally: Thank you.
Absentmindedly, she put it on her head.
Sally: But don’t you see the problem?
Natalie: What problem?
Sally: You made yourself…. Argh… You’re changing, even more, I can’t even recognize you anymore.

Natalie: I was just trying something out.
Sally: It looks cute on you, sis. But try to remember what we have to do.
Natalie: Find Onii-chan?
Sally: Yeah, that too. But I’m talking about the orb!
Natalie: The orb that changed us?
Sally brushed some hair out of her face.
Sally: Exactly, we have to turn back! We have to remember who we were.
Natalie: You were bigger.
Sally: Yes, and your pigtails were not that long.
Natalie: I like this length.

Sally: It’s really just like you, sis. But it was shorter before, so we should remember that.
Natalie: Hair grows, it’s always shorter before.
Sally: You know what I mean.
Sally giggled, and began braiding her hair.
Sally: We have to look out for each other, so that curse won’t get to change us too much.
Natalie: Yes, I feel uncomfortable.
Sally: See, it’s the curse, it’s making you feel weird.
Natalie: Also the clothes?
Sally: Like Onii-chan always says “Wear what feels right!”
Natalie: These feel wrong.


Natalie bent down and started pulling off her boots.
Natalie: These Boots are wrong.
Sally: They don’t have the usual Hanako-Style, but they look fine.
Hanako-chan: They are not cute.
Sally: Oh sis, you have to cheer up a bit.
Hanako-chan: I won’t cheer up. I wear stupid clothes.
Sally: Me too, but this is why we are here.
Hanako-chan: Why are we here?
Sally: To try out different costumes.
Hanako-chan: I don’t want that.
Sally: Sorry for forcing you into something like that.
But look, I’m dressed all weird too.
Hanako-chan: Does something like this make fun, sister?
Sally: Of course it does! Dressing up is fun.
Hanako-chan: I don’t understand that. I like to dress in my clothes.

Sally: We can just stop, our clothes are still hanging there on the rack
Hanako-chan: Ah! It’s my dress! I’m so happy to see it again!
Sally: I told you, nothing would happen to it… Just try to have some fun!
Hanako-chan: I tried and it was no fun.
Sally: Maybe next time… But still, we wanted to do something else, didn’t we?
Hanako-chan: Still the same, get back to Onii-chan.
Sally: R-right… we should get back, he might be worried.

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