Desperately gasping for air I open my eyes. The cold wind assaults my body and the grass on my back tickles me unpleasantly. I breathe heavily. No matter how much air enters my body I still feel like I am choking. My heart beats so frantically it seems its going to pierce my chest.
“D-Did it work?” I don’t recognize my own voice. This sweet, high pitched voice could only belong to a little girl. This can’t be my voice.
“W-What is happening?” I sit and stare down but don’t recognize my own hands. These small, delicate hands can’t belong to me. I open and close the hands to test them. These hands are definitely mine. That’s when I notice I am naked. This petite body is that of a young girl. I quickly close my legs.
“W-Wha… for real!” I feel my fingertips run across my figure. This is my body. I can feel the tall grass under my butt and the cold wind moving my long hair. This is definitely my body. I stare at my flat chest and notice my hard nipples. A reaction to the cold temperature? After hesitating for a while, I slowly move my hands towards my chest. I deviate my gaze to the side in shame as I fondle my own breasts and that’s when I notice it.
On my left arm, a creature I have never seen before. A darkish brown colour and roughly the size of a tennis ball, this furry bug looks something like a spider or a crab. It has no thorax nor head, just a round flat butt and a weird tube between its many eyes. Its eight short legs are clinging to my arm but I cannot feel them. In a panic I quickly stand up and slap the creature off my arm. It dives into the grass and disappears. The unpleasant sensation of bugs crawling on my skin invades me but after frantically spinning around slapping my own body I can confirm there is nothing on me. I also don’t see any bug bites.
Having calm down I look at my surroundings. Tall trees and yellow leaves all around me. Grass as tall as my calves. A cold breeze that forces me to hug my arms. This doesn’t look like any place that I know. That monster bug was like nothing I have seen before.
“It worked!” I proclaim loudly with a smile on my face and start laughing like an old witch. “HA HA HA HA HA it worked!”
The spell was a success. To be honest, I had my doubts when I first found that weird site on the darkweb. Promises of ascending to higher dimensions by ritual suicide are very common among cults. Only an idiot would fall for that but after investigating for a while, I decided to try it. I didn’t want to believe it at first but this weird place and weird body are proof that it worked.
“Maybe I was some great wizard all along and I didn’t know it” Although I would have preferred to stay a man this body is not bad either. I want to look at my face.
I look around and notice a river on the distance. After stumbling for a while I finally manage to walk straight. Making it all the way to the river on these short legs took a while. I drop to my knees exhausted and look at my reflexion on the water.
“I-Is this really me?” A cute face decorated with delicate features. Big, beautiful violet eyes with vertical slits for pupils, almost like a cat. Skin as pale as snow and as soft as a cloud. Small sharp ears, smaller than a fantasy elf’s but definitely not human. Long, messy, pink hair with bangs covering my face and going all the way down to my butt. “Am I some kind of demon girl?” I continue to admire my face and body for a long time, occasionally fondling around here and there. At some point some weird hud appeared in front of me. I could not touch it and I could not read it so I decided to ignore it. It disappeared as soon as I looked away. After playing with my hair for a while I decide that I am very cute.
“What should I do now?” The sun is starting to get low. If there are more bugs like that one in this forest I don’t want to say here. Wild animals may also be a problem. I start walking without a direction in mind and discover a village after a few hours. I almost start running but stop myself on the edge of the forest. I am naked. I can’t enter looking like this. I need clothes. After thinking it for a while and making sure the people walking the street don’t notice me, I make a run for it and hide behind a house. I repeat this a few times and after sneaking around a few alleys I reach the main street. Hiding behind a barrel I think to myself that I really need to buy clothes.
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This place looks like a normal medieval village, with wood buildings and dirt streets, but that’s where the similarities end. Walking among the normal humans I spot tall, blonde, elf looking men and small girls with triangular furry ears on top their heads. The humans and elves all dress like something out of a fantasy book, casually strolling around with swords and shields on them like it is normal. The beast girls all have collars and their clothes are far more simple and dirty than everybody else. “Slavery is a thing in this world? I wouldn’t mind getting a cute catgirl slave.”
Suddenly, two muscular humans bump into each other and start yelling in a language I don’t understand. Things must have gotten pretty heated because they draw their swords. Their blades clash and a crowd forms around them, blocking my view. Before I can feel disappointed, a pillar of fire rises above the crowd and is then consumed by a wall of darkness. The sword battle has turn into a magic battle. I can’t tell if the crowd is cheering them or telling them to stop. All that reaches my ears is a mess of meaningless sounds. Not that I care about what they are saying, my eyes are glued to the bits of fire and shadows I see dancing in front of me. I knew magic was real already but I am still astonished by it. That’s when two knights completely clad in armor got involved. They used their swords to draw strange symbols in the air and the magic fight stopped. They then proceeded to disperse the crowd and grabbed the men. “So, are these like cops? Better stay away”.
I see an old lady getting away from the crowd and I decide to call her.
“H-Hi…Er hello, Is there any clothes shop around here?” No reply. She just makes more confusing noises and stares at me. It seems we really don’t speak the same language.
I repeat my question again, just in case, and that’s when I feel a cold, heavy hand on my shoulder. A female knight wearing the same armor as those cops starts making noises at me. The silver and gold armor completely hides her figure, almost making her look like a robot instead of a person. An oversized blade that’s taller than me rests menacingly on her back. The only human attribute she has are the piercing, scary eyes staring at me behind the helmet. I have no idea what she is saying but it can’t be good. A naked little girl in the middle of the street harassing an old lady has to be a crime. In a panic I scream and start running, accidentally pushing the old lady to the ground. The knight stayed behind helping her get up and that gives me enough time to get away.
This is bad. I need clothes. This is an urgent matter. After walking around some corners I find a building that looks like a store. Inside all kind of cheap looking weapons and armor are on display. Behind the counter two clerks stare at me. The one that looks like a woman on her 40s turns to talk to her partner, a young elf with breast bigger than my head. A naked little girl walking into a store has to be a weird sight after all. The elf speaks to me in a scared voice, I wish I knew what she was saying. Is she inviting me in? I timidly walk inside and the old one yells at me. I don’t understand what is happening. I am confused. I walk closer and point to the pair of trousers full of belts on the counter. I tell them I want to buy some clothes. The old clerk shoves my shaking hand to the side and starts screaming. They must think I am a thief.
A blade appears next to my face. A tall, young looking elf holding a sword is standing behind me. The elf starts talking with the clerks in a very calm voice. In a panic I start running towards the door but I bump into a huge man bigger than the frame of the door. He grabs me by the arm and drags me outside. No matter how much I scream and struggle he doesn’t let go. The elf is closely following us. They are taking me behind the store. I scream at the top of my lungs but no one helps me. The elf lifts me up from behind and the huge guy presses his body against mine. I can’t move. I scream and cry but no one comes. I start punching the big guy with my free hand but it does nothing. The elf grabs it from behind to stop me and licks my cheek. That’s when it happens. A weird black gust shots from my hands and surrounds them. In their confusion they let me go and I start running as hard as I can. With tears in my eyes, I don’t care who sees me or where am I going. I just run.
“What is happening?”
“Why is this happening to me?”
“What I am going to do?”
“I don’t deserve this”
By the time I calm down it is already dark. The streets are empty. I decide I need a place to sleep. After walking around some alleys I find a somewhat secluded space. I sit between some boxes and a barrel. A somewhat hidden place like this should be safer, after all it is dangerous for a little girl to sleep on the streets. No one is going to bother me here.
“I am a cute and small girl now, it would be really bad if someone attacked me while I sleep”. I don’t want to be kidnapped. I don’t want to get arrested. I don’t want to end up like those slaves I saw today.
The temperature seems to have dropped now that the sun is gone. I hug my legs to keep warm but it doesn’t work. The memories of those men keep repeating on my head and tears keep forming on my eyes.
I didn’t sleep that night.