Alrighty, Jon thought to himself, let’s do this. But what do to...
Jon looked at the four beings in front of the table, trying to describe what to change first and how to do it. He figured the easiest way was to use himself as an intermediary, swap a change to himself and then on to the other family member. But he was having trouble deciding what to change. And there was the added factor to of doing the swap fast enough so he could not get too debilitated by any changes he makes, such as swapping something from Nikita like a paw.
Speaking of, the first thing on his mind, Zoe. She was sitting there dismissively, but at the same time Nikita was incredibly eager to have attention paid to her. So, what to swap between the two of them.
Well, Zoe doesn’t want to be here and Nikita does, so let’s do this then.
Jon raised his index finger towards Zoe and his other towards Nikita, he had planned to aim at once and aim at the other while saying the spell twice over quickly, ideally swapping between the two of them fast enough to not mess up the timings or leaving Jon in a swapped state himself, “Give me that body below the neck including clothes!” he said.
In an instant, Zoe lost several feet in height; Jon had achieved the desired outcome, with a bit of an unexpected result. Where Zoe was sitting a moment ago, perfectly normally for a human, was now a golden retriever sitting on its hind legs, its fur all bright and vibrant along its torso, right up until it met a very human neck, complete with Zoe’s head. Her human neck perfectly joined with Nikita’s former body, as if she’d been born that way.
On the floor, Nikita still sat on all fours, albeit with a very human and gothiclly dressed body, watching for any scraps of food dropped by Mickey. The animalistic head covered in gold fur contrasting very distinctly against the pale human flesh and dark clothes that the body was wearing.
Jon really wanted to go and take a look at some photos to see exactly how much reality had changed, but he realized something first. He’d made a mistake with the swapping power and it shouldn’t have acted the way it did. He expected to have to swap between the two bodies himself for it to work, but in his haste, he accidentally pointed at two targets at the same time and the result was swapping directly between them instead. Whether by accident or design, Jon had just discovered another dimension to his swapping ability.
Shrugging that off for the moment, he watched as Zoe could no longer play with her phone while sitting at the table, now she was having to feed herself directly, like any animal, leaning down and grabbing various chunks of food in her mouth without the ability to use hands or any utensils. Obviously the reality warping of his wish meant she’d been doing this all her life, at least form her perspective, so she was obviously very competent at eating the food on her plate, and the obvious side effect of what Jon had intended was that Zoe was no longer dismissing anyone else at the table, she had to engage as she had no way to use her phone while eating.
Jon leaned over and saw Nikita, also slightly affected by the reality modifications of his spell, she was sitting cross legged in Zoe’s body, watching at the table, still patiently waiting on the floor despite easily being able to reach the table top and steal any food she wanted. Jon reasoned that the reality alteration effect of his spells must try to keep reality as close to it was when a change occurs, shortest path, least resistance, all that good fun nerdy stuff.
Satisfied with the change, and that Zoe was now talking to his family again, he turned to his mother and younger brother. Jon was tempted to swap their heads too, but he’d done that once and he didn’t really want to do anything that would overly sexualize Mickey either, the kid was a kid, Jon didn’t want to see him get tangled up in anything weird, so he mused on what he could possibly do between the two of them.
Then it occurred to Jon, raising his index fingers, as to ensure that neither of them would be aware of the change, he spoke the words of the spell, “Give me your height”.
In an instant, Mickey suddenly shot up in size compared to his mother, and likewise, Linda Gibson, matriarch of the Gibson family, shrank by several feet. The 10 year old was now nearly 6 feet tall, while their mother was now a diminutive 4 foot. They continued their conversation completely unaffected. Mickey still talking like an excitable squirrel on caffeine, and the now dwarf mother patiently listening and trying to settle him down.
It was funny, but still a bit odd, swapping their height had obviously changed a few things around, Mickey’s clothes had grown in size to match his new 6 foot height, and their mother’s shrank respectively to fit her normal body.
But Jon felt he could do more, raising his two fingers again, he spoke, “Give me those clothes”
Instantly Mickey and Linda had swapped. Mickey was now wearing and appropriately sized clothes his mother was wearing previously. Instead of a transformer t-shirt and some knee length shorts, Mickey was now sporting a button up blouse with frilled cuffs, a red knee length skirt tied up with a belt and the socks Linda had worn to the table. Likewise, Linda was now wearing a diminutive sized transformers t-shirt and knee length shorts, both sized appropriately for her.
Admittedly, Jon felt that transformation was tame, but it was his mother and his kid brother, bit of a hard job to work with without going really weird or exposing his brother to stuff he shouldn’t be really involved with until he was older.
Satisfied with the changes, Jon excused himself headed into the lounge room to watch some TV for the rest of the evening, maybe something else would come up.
