Medallion of Zulo – The sister

 

Zack dumped his bike on the driveway to Adam´s house and ran up the path leading to the front door. He knocked fervently on the big wooden door until Adam opened up and dragged him in.

Zack panted heavily when he asked Adam why he had to come to his house as if his life depended on it.

Adam gave him a sheepish look and stumbled on the words.
“I kinda…
“..turned…”
“…my sister…”
“…into a gerbil.”

“What? You lured me away from home, making me lying to my mom about a sleepover at your house, just so you mess with me? Zack was pissed.

“You will have to trust me! I accidentaly turned my sister into a gerbil to shut her up but I can´t turn her back before my parents comes back home. I will be in deep shit if she isn´t here when they come back home.

“If this is true, turn into her yourself”, Zack retorted.

“Who do think will be in even bigger shit if I´m not here? Me!”
“Don´t question. Just go into her room, close the door and pick up the medallion that´s on her dress on the bed. She had it on earlier.  Hold it tight until the transformation is complete, I need you to impersonate her and holding it a long time will make you act more like her”.

Zack was still doubtful that all of this was true, but he did as he was asked.
He entered Isabel´s room and saw a colorful dress on her bed, and on it was a small, beaten medallion.
“Here goes nothing”, he thought when picking it up.
The medallion zapped him as he touched it. “Ouch!”

“Hold it tight, huh?”
It wasn´t noticeable at first but the room was starting to get smaller to him. Before figuring out what was happening he had grown three inches already.
He whispered to himself in amazement: “No way! I`m changing into her”
 His boyish body began to take on definite feminine traits as his hair changed color and grew longer, and he was getting the shape of a teenage girl as his body matured a couple of years.

On the other side of the door Adam paced back and forth nervously. “Thirty minutes. He should be done by now”.
He heard the door opened up behind him and turned around to see his sister enter the hallway from her room. Or to be more precise, seeing Zack as his sister entering the hallway.
“Phew. You had me worried there for a while”, Adam sighed in relief.
“Shut it twerp”, then he realized what she had said to him. “Sorry, it just came to me”.
“Yeah, you will act a lot like her, just so you know”.
“It feels freaky. I know I´m in her body but I feel just like I´m normal, you know?”
“I´m kinda counting on it”, Adam said.

Adam and Isabel´s parents  came home just a mere hour after Zack had transformed to Isabel. They questioned their daughter on the behaviour of her brother while they had been gone. Satisfied with the answers they began to redy themselves and their kids for bed.

“Now what?”, Zack/Isabel hissed to Adam.
“We will have to wait before we can turn you back. You will have to sleep as her until tomorrow”, Adam hissed back.
“I`m seriously regretting this”, Zack said, using the kind of vocabulary that Isabel used.
He headed back to her room and put on her silk nightgown, enjoying the smooth feeling it had against his skin. After crawling in betwen the covers he turned off the light and went off to sleep, looking forward to the day after so he could turn back.

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An awful ruckus from the hallway outside her door wake her up. “What´s that little shit doing now?”, she thought of her brother….,friend he corrected herself.
 Zack put on a robe and opened the door to see what the commotion was all about. He saw two small boys, one was Adam and one was…herself? Heisface paled as if he had seen a ghost.

Adam saw himand beckoned both her and “Zack” to come with him into her room. He had that sheepish look again.
“I betcha you wanna know why your body is here too”, he began.
“Humor me”, he said with crossed arms and a stern look on his face.
“I kinda needed a “Zack” so I took my gerbil and transformed him into you”, Adam explained.
“Wait, what? Why not using Isabel?”
“She would just mess things up”, Adam said matter of factly. “Lil´ George here is still adjusting to being human. Give him a couple of hours and he will act just like you”.

`Isabel´ felt how anger welled up inside of her. She felt betrayed. Adam acted recklessly, just as usual.
She began to yell at him to grow up and act more mature. She was sick and tired of his antics. One more time and she would tell mom and dad.  Adam just stood there silent and brooded.

“Fine!”, he snapped back, “If you want to act like her you can stay like her!”, and ran off to his room with Isabel/Zack in hot pursuit.
Adam managed to lock the door before he could force his way in. She was pounding on the heavy wooden contruction with her fists, demanding to be let in, when she heard a flush.
“Oh no, he didn´t!”, a horrified thought came to him.

The lock to the door clicked open and an spiteful Adam exited his room.
“There!”
`Isabel´ felt how her limbs got weak in despair. She would be stuck as the sister to her former best frien for the rest of her life.