Greenborne- Mishaps with Gender
The fiend leaned against a large stone, eyeing the passersby from beneath the brim of his pointy hat. A cool breezed flared up his regal cape, tattered and aged as it was, being quite refreshing. More throngs went by, and he waited in solitude, tapping a finger on the rock impatiently.
"Where is she?" With a flash, a being manifested before him. Bimblesnaff threw his arms up in praise. "Thank ya! I've been waitin' fer -"
"Greetings, matey!" cried out the manifested figure, shorter and much fatter than the one he had anticipated.
"What the? Ya ain't Z'lupe," the lunatic angrily stated the obvious. "At least I hope ya ain't, elsewise ya have really let yerself go to hell."
"Nay, friend," dismissed the stout dwarf, pulling his hands from behind his back. "I bring tidings of good will!" Sticking a heel on the short man's brow, Bimblesnaff thrust with this leg, knocking the dwarf down. That would have been the end of it, but the maniac had, and now glad of it, chosen a spot on a hill. The rotund man tumbled down, bowling over adventurers with his girth. The gifts he brought still cycled in the air and were snagged before gravity got the best of them. Bimblesnaff would never let harm befall free food, especially not to beer. As he munched on the kabob and downed the spirit, a second figure appeared in a flash. This one carried the correct height and apparels with them.
"Ah, 'bout time ya got here," praised the fiend. "Ya wun believe how many weirdos I've punked off while waitin', Kelly." Squinting his beady eyes, he sputtered, "Hey, wait a second here. What's goin' on? Why are ya a... a..."
"Guy?" the man who bore resemblance to the Greenborne's female friend answered. "Well, 'Snaffie, I was just getting tired of all the bad passes people kept makin' on me," he innocently explained in a far from masculine fashion. "And a crazy wizard was offering a special on body reconstruction, so... I bit. Plus, I like how my cape hangs on me in this form." Turning around Z'lupe demonstrated his new found love in his cape. "Wee, look at it go!" Bimblesnaff was less enthusiastic.
"Bah! This won't do at all. We can't be two guys walkin' 'round the place. What would people think?" Sliding up closer, he whispered, "What if someone over heard us?" Just then, two strangers rubbernecked the pair and snickered maliciously to each other. "That's it! This is gettin' fixed now." Casting aside his cloak, he reached down into his belt pouch and removed a staff that should not have been able to fit in such a small space.
"Oh, no you don't, 'Snaff," disagreed Z'lupe of Kelly. "I'm not changing just to make you feel comfortable." Tossing some decorated stones into the air, he thwacked them with the staff, causing them to stick along the shaft.
"Dinna say ya would be the one changing," corrected Greenborn before he started to chant. The markings on the pieces began to glow, as did the head on the staff. In a ball of energy, Bimblesnaff vanished from sight only to return mere moments later.
"Please don't tell me," Z'lupe begged with his face buried in his hand, "I'm too afraid to ask." Finally working up the courage to peer through his fingers, he was sorry for it. Before him stood Bimblesnaff, but not the Bimblesnaff he had grown familiar with.
"This is just freaky," chirped the lunatic, shocked by the sound of her own voice. "I cun believe I was hit on five times in the first minute I became a woman. I really feel bad fer ya."
"You don't actually plan on staying like that, do you? You make one ugly woman," added Z'lupe.
"Of course I dun," swiftly replied the woman wearing green. "I would miss m' beard too much. I have the receipt, anywise. I'll get it switched back in a few, but, until then, tell me how pretty I am." Batting her eyes in the former woman's face, he rolled his.
"Fine, I'll go switch back," declared Z'lupe, defeated. "Just... stop doing that. It's freaky."
"Ya're mean," pouted Bimblesnaff playfully. "Just fer that, ya ain't gettin' any o' this." She followed up by running her hand down her side. "... Ew, I just went too far. Yeah, okay, I'm comin' with ya to get changed back."
"And let us never speak of this again," ordered Kelly.
"Agreed." With a snap of her fingers, the two were before Makeover Magician.
"Hey, what gives?" demanded Z'lupe. "Where was all the show from the last teleportation?"
"Ah, geez, c'mon, doll," sputtered out Bimblesnaff as she opened the sorcerers's door. "You were already impressed once. 'Tis not gonna impress 'gain." With that, they had their bodies properly restored, and Z'lupe was passed at thrice before even leaving the wizard's home.
