I'm filling my own prompt for the Hobbit. This is a crossover with the Hobbit and Ranma 1/2: Bilbo fell into the cursed springs and turns into a woman when he's wet by cold water and changes back when the water is hot. He never left the Shire because of that until a meddlesome wizard thought it would be a good idea to have him join an adventure.

I know I'm not done with my other story "An Unexpected Tangle", but I can't help but wanting to write something else. Besides, there are a lot of other members who do the same, so don't judge me.

Reviews might get me to work more so, don't be shy!

I don't own any of the characters, nor the idea of the cursed springs.

- Chapter One: The cursed springs -

Ever since the passing of his parents, Bilbo hadn't been the same. They had died a few years before his majority and the pain never truly eased. A few years after the death of his mother, Bilbo Baggins couldn't stand staying inside the empty smial any longer. Remembering the stories his mother had told him when he was young, he decided to go on a little adventure. Belladonna's favorite tale was the one of the cursed springs.

There is a legend that long ago, a Took had married a fey. When time took it's toll on the hobbit, his wife, heartbroken, had fled to the springs at the very edge of Tookborough and drowned herself in the largest of them all. Her magic bonded with the land, and as the years passed, many creatures and people accidentally drowned in the other pools. According to the legend, if you were to fall into a spring, you would turn into whatever had drowned every time you were wet by cold water.

Bilbo was a Took, but mostly a Baggins and he did not believe such childish tales. It was simply another story to scare children away from water, especially considering that hobbits were very poor swimmers. But the Tooks had a sort of "Rite of passage" for when they turned 33. They had to go to the springs and cross them without falling in any of them. To honour both his father and mother, after Bilbo's coming of age party with the Baggins, he went with a few of his Took cousins to the cursed springs, confident nothing would happen. Of course, if nothing had happened then telling you this story would be pointless, don't you think?

Nobody really knows what exactly happened, Bilbo himself is still very unclear about the incident. But never mind how it happened, the facts are, the poor hobbit somehow lost his footing and fell into the springs. Thankfully, his cousins managed to grab him and drag him out before he could drown. Bilbo spluttered and coughed, trying to move the hair from his face. That was when he realised something was very wrong. His hair was much longer than it had been a few moments ago and his clothes, which had fit perfectly, were now tight around his chest and hips. Looking over himself, he realised he had became a "she", and promptly fainted.

When he woke up, he was at the Tooks great smial, with the elders looking at him in concern. Much to his displeasure and horror, he was still a she. Grandmother Took, the matriarch, explained to him he had fallen into the spring of the lass. As they then tried to figure out how to change him back to normal, the young Palagrim arrived with a cup of tea. But he tripped over and spilled the hot drink all over the cursed hobbit, who yelped in pain. He was about to shout at the clumsy boy when he realised he was a he again. That was when he understood that if cold water turned him into a lass, hot water would nullify the effects.

Now himself again, Bilbo returned to Bag Ends, firmly decided never to speak of the incident to anyone, and keep it a secret for as long as he lived. He mostly never had to worry about it too much, since he rarely spilled anything and never in public, and always avoided going out when it rained. It was still very hard for him to get used to the emptiness in Bag Ends but he had very good reasons to learn to live with it. One thing that helped him greatly was reading the many books his father had been very fond of. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End was a very respectable hobbit, even if most wondered why he spent so much time alone in his smial, and nothing unexpected ever happened.

That is, until one day.

Thanks for reading! Sorry for any spelling mistakes I might have over looked.

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