A Mutating girl
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 115337
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"No!" screamed Fred in horror, flinching back and throwing her little arms up in front of herself as a shield. "No, you can't!" And all at once, just before she'd finished the last word, she had no idea what she was yelling about, or why she was on the floor, or where she was. She looked up in bewilderment at the man standing over her, and down at herself. "I'm a girl?" she said in puzzlement. "Of course you're a girl, you silly thing," chided Belboz. "I've just bought you for the purpose of potions testing. Come, let me show you your new room - I do hope you'll like it." The girl was still feeling very fuzzy, and very wrong, but she accepted the wizard's proffered hand, slipping her little one inside it, and went with him to a room that, yes, seemed very fitting for a little girl, but made her wrinkle her nose. So much pink! "How come I don't remember anything?" she asked. "Oh, because I erased all recollection of your old life," said Belboz. "You won't be doing anything with those memories anyway. Don't you worry, I'll take good care of you." The girl, who Belboz called Hannah justbefore shutting the door, struggled to thikn of what exactly seemed wrong with this setup. If she was a little girl, she needed taking care of, and the man seemed... well, seh wasn't really sure how he seemed, but he'd given her this nice room, so maybe he wasn't so bad. But she couldn't help feeling there was something she had to get back to... but what important task could a little girl such as she possibly have? Now, Belboz wasn't in the habit of exceptionally high security - his last subject had just run off, after all, and what harm could this amnesiac child do anyway? - but indeed, Hannah stuck around, fearful of heading out into the big, unfamiliar world. She didn't like the testing he used her for, but it wasn't constant or too frequent, just every couple of weeks or so, on average. Most of the changes were of a physical nature, like turning her hair to flowers or making her grow a cat's tail or turning her belly button into a toe. They were always strange and unpleasant, and quite useless on their own, but he was trying to concoct much larger transofmration potions and these were helping him to fine tune them. Belboz generally met Hannah's needs, and, though he didn't suffer her to misbehave, his punishment was usually a simple sleeping spell, which tooke ffect immediately, such that she could be sent to her room without food for the rest of the day - regardless of the severity of her transgression. She quickly learned it wasn't worth it to mouth off. After about a year, there had been a couple potions that, unfortunately, took such strong hold that they could not be reversed: Hannah now had several deep violet tentacles falling from her belly, such that all her shirts and dresses had to be grossly oversized to be comfortable, and one of her feet had become a hand. Her body had become convinced by the potions that these changes were a part of her true form, so even if he administered a full potion to make her into something else, they would always still be there when that potion wore off. Hannah was disturbed, but eventually got used to each of them.
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