This is the first of two stories, originally taken from a series done with another author many years out of contact now. Hopefully the short recap at the beginning will help people know what's going on with Jeannie and why. Technically, she's only in the story for the first chapter; the rest is focused on Mindy.
And if anyone wants a better visual of Mindy, here she is on my deviantArt page:
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(Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of I Dream of Jeannie; they belong to their creators. This story is written purely for entertainment and not for profitable purposes. I do, however, own all original characters and the plot. If you would like to use the characters I have created, please ask first.)
Mindy Gets Her Wish
By
Eric Franklin © 2010
~Prologue~
The world had changed drastically for Jeannie almost four months after her adorable Master rescued her. Right at the moment when he should have rescued her for the second time in her life, that time from vanishing into Limbo forever, a very strange thing took place. She watched her smoky surroundings change into something she later learned was called the "Internet" and it existed because of many computers connected to one another. Somehow, the magic that sent her to Limbo in her world 'crossed wires' with the magic of another universe and trapped her in the Internet of that world.
All was not lost, however, as she discovered a window onto the physical world through the computer screen of a young New Zealand resident by the name of Martin. He helped her determine more about what had happened from his tale of strange pink electricity that had engulfed his computer. At that same moment, he had been watching the show that in his world was her life with her Master, and the pink electricity had occurred just as she had vanished into Limbo. They had their answer with that, even if they still did not know why it had happened at all. It was all a powerful mystery and one that would take them time to solve.
Jeannie and Martin had learned in that first day that she could grant wishes in his world even if she could not get out of her Internet-Limbo as they came to call her new 'home'. Granting a wish caused another problem in that she had to connect to a different computer, or one of the dots in the mesh on her side. Then she had to grant a wish to whomever she contacted there before she was released from that computer and could return to Martin. He had become her temporary Master while she was stuck in his universe, and she was serving as best she could as well as granting the wishes of other humans on his Earth. One of those was the young adult by the name of Mindy Baird.
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Gazing at the mesh near her Master's blue dot, Jeannie picked another crossing at random. Immediately, it grew into a new window, revealing a young-adult teenaged-girl with hints of the Middle East in her complexion and facial features, but nothing really strong that Jeannie could determine. She sat in front of Jeannie's screen in a bedroom brightly lit by that Saturday morning's sun and gazing rather amazedly back. Jeannie was getting used to seeing such stunned faces through those windows, so she smiled to the teenager, hoping that would allay any fears. She soon discovered that she need not worry about these humans having any fear of her.
"Oh, my god! You're Jeannie!" the brunette squealed in American English, obviously realizing it was no still image on a website.
"You are correct. And what may I call you?" she asked crossing her arms over her stomach.
"Uh, it's Mindy. Man! Are you really real? I mean, you spoke. And I don't have a mic or anyth—you aren't just some weird artificial intelligence program are you?"
"I am afraid I do not know what that is, Mindy. I am just the same djinni I have been for the last 2000 years or so."
"No way!" Mindy said, her gray eyes narrowing more in suspicion.
Jeannie pointed at the small object Mindy had been rolling around the desk next to her keyboard. "Please take your hand off of that." Mindy did. Jeannie blinked and her computer mouse rose into the air and floated in front of Mindy's face as if it were an animatronics snake. Mindy looked shocked but then smiled as Jeannie continued.
"I am in a place that allows me to connect to the Internet as you see me now," Jeannie said. "I am visiting other humans to try and find a way to release me from this place."
The floating mouse fell and Mindy caught it, still smiling.
"You mean you're trapped there, like you were in your bottle?" Mindy asked, a bit incredulously. Even after what she had seen, nothing like that should have been able to happen.
"Oh yes. It is a place like Limbo, but not at the same time. Unfortunately, my last Master was not able to rescue me from Limbo in time. Then, I was pulled here. Now I help humans in exchange for ideas on how to get me out of here."
"You mean you grant wishes! Cool!" she replied, visibly excited.
"Oh, yes. Do you wish something of me? I am afraid that I can only grant a single wish to you and then our connection will be lost. But, I can return to you a second time, if you still need me."
"I doubt it after this wish," Mindy said, giggling. "Because, I wish to be a genie just like you!"
Jeannie dropped her arms to her sides as she frowned to Mindy, and pulled her legs up under her to hover before the window. 'Why do some humans always wish to be Djinn,' she thought to herself. 'Do they not realize that though it is a life of magic, it is also a life of forced servitude? Oh, well. If that is what this one wishes, so be it. I only hope I can connect her to the others or she will be a lonely djinni in this other world.'
"I am sorry, Mindy. That wish is not within my power. But, I do know of a djinni I can summon that can help you. If she will grant the wish, that is. I will blink her to you now," she added, folding her arms once more, as she nodded and blinked, concentrating on the image of the djinni she desired to summon. An instant later, a different version of the same djinni appeared behind Mindy. Jeannie dropped her arms along with her jaw as she realized that this particular human world was so very different from her own.
In Jeannie's reality, her Cousin Mirrilla had honey-blonde hair, and wore a belly dancer's costume of white and cobalt blue silks, gold coins, bangles and plenty of necklaces. However, this version of her had long, sandy colored hair (in braids and ponytail like herself, of course) and an hourglass figure even more exaggerated than the Mirrilla she knew. This new one wore her harem clothes in two tones of indigo blue, darker velour for her vest and waistband, and a lighter silk for her bra and dancing skirt. All hems were trimmed in silver, making her just as flashy as ever. Yet, Jeannie was to be shocked yet again.
"Cousin Jenie! Oh, it is so good to see you again! But, why are you in the computer? You should be out here so I can hug you," she said, and Jeannie knew even more that the Mirrilla before her was not the same one from their mutual childhoods. Although she was sure the human girl only heard what sounded like 'Jeannie' to her ears, Jeannie knew differently, as she was able to 'see' the exact spelling of her name in Mirrilla's thoughts. Mindy, meanwhile, jumped (predictably) at hearing Mirrilla appear behind her and then whirled around to gaze slack-jawed at the beautiful and sexy djinni. She had to bring herself out of her shock some as she heard Jeannie speaking again.
"I am sorry, Mirrilla, I am trapped in here. Oh! It is such a long story, I am afraid," she admitted.
Mirrilla's face darkened with anger at that revelation.
"Trapped?! Jenie! What has this human done to you?" she asked, furious with Mindy as she folded her arms before her to have her wrath with that foolish human. Mindy shrieked at what was happening, jumping out of her chair to back away from Mirrilla. Still, despite what might happen to her, she continued to fearfully stare at the djinni. Jeannie spoke up quickly.
"No, Mirrilla! Mindy had nothing to do with this. It is such a long story; I will have to tell it to you some other time. I brought you here so that Mindy could have her wish to be a djinni granted. You were born a djinni, while I was not."
As Jeannie explained the situation, Mirrilla calmed herself completely, unfolding her arms, and instead, reached out to Mindy.
"Oh, dear! I am sorry for over-reacting like that, Mindy," she said soothingly. Mindy had also relaxed at the sight of Mirrilla's change of mood, cautiously stepping forward to stand near Mirrilla and in front of the computer screen.
"That's alright, I guess. This is just so unreal being in the presence of two real live genies."
"Djinn," both Mirrilla and Jeannie corrected in unison and giggled a little. Mirrilla continued to Mindy, "Djinn is the plural form of djinni."
"Oh. I didn't know."
"That is all right, Mindy," Jeannie replied. "Most humans do not know this fact. Now, Mirrilla, would you mind granting Mindy's wish to be a djinni?"
"Oh, not at all, Jenie! I would be happy to grant that wish. The world always needs more of us Djinn," she said, grinning. She stepped back a couple of paces from Mindy, folding her arms up before her as she asked, "Are you ready, Mindy?"
"Kinda," she said, but had more to add. "But, I want my harem clothes to look just like Jeannie's, and I want my body to be more like yours. Just make it so that I still look like me."
"Oh, that is not a problem, Mindy. I will show you," she said, and then nodded hard as she blinked, her magic sounding like a belly dancer's zils clicked together once. It made Mindy cease to exist for a couple of seconds. Mirrilla still had her arms folded when Mindy returned to the physical world accompanied by the sound of zils rhythmically clasped together, a very changed girl.
Dressed in the same pink harem clothes as Jeannie, she had gained a body as voluptuously curvaceous as Mirrilla's with her much longer brunette hair all done up in proper djinni braids and ponytail. Despite the obvious changes to her physique and clothes, she still looked pretty much as she did before. However, she quickly became overly giddy with excitement.
"Oh my god! Look at me, Jeannie! I look almost just like you! This is so amazing! I just have to try out my powers, too!" she said, quickly folding her arms, nodding, and blinking herself out with the high-toned sound of a single pair of zils allowed to ring. Both Jeannie and Mirrilla giggled with their happiness for the new djinni. Mirrilla then took a seat at the computer to better talk to her cousin.
"I think we have some time now, Jenie. I dearly wish to hear what has happened to you," she said.
"Alright, Mirrilla," Jeannie agreed, and began to tell her story of the Internet Limbo she where she resided and of how she had made Martin into her Master. It was temporary, she said, at least until her release from Limbo so she could return to her old Master and love. Mirrilla tried to comfort her in her plight, letting Jeannie know that she agreed with her plans to try returning to her last Master.
"Thank you, Mirrilla, I truly appreciate that. But, I must tell you; you look very different than the Mirrilla I have always known. I think the world I have been thrust into is like my own, only very different in many ways. My Master even showed me a 'DVD' he called it, of a TV show all about my last Master and me. He said that he did not think that there were still Djinn in the world. Is that the world you know, too?"
"No, Jenie, it is not. I and all the rest of the Djinn of the world have long since left the physical, and are now in a world of our own making in Limbo. Yet, we can still go back and forth between it and this world when we desire to. However, very little remains in this world to attract us to it anymore. I do believe that there are a few Djinn still trapped in bottles throughout the world. So, in a way, this is much like what has happened to you, just a different form of bottle."
"Well, do you think you have the power to release me from it?" Jeannie asked, hoping she did, being an elemental djinni and thus, more powerful than herself.
Mirrilla lowered her eyes as she looked at her hands in her lap. "I am afraid not, Jenie. Nor, is there a single djinni in Limbo that can release you. You will just have to discover the method on your own. I cannot help you even in that."
Jeannie looked at her 'cousin' a bit puzzled, wondering just what she meant by that comment. She would have to see if she could summon other relatives and get more information from them. At that moment, though, Mindy reappeared at Mirrilla's left side with the soft 'chaaps' sound of zils clasped together without ringing. She immediately squealed in utter glee and happiness, jumping up and down in her excitement, hugging herself, and was then hugging Mirrilla just as much.
"Ohhh, Mirrilla! This is so wonderful! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she squealed out some more, letting go of the djinni to stand up straight and settle down just a bit. Yet only a bit as she excitedly related all of her magical adventures in an almost incomprehensible rush of words.
"I can hardly believe all the things I have done with my magic! When I blinked out here, I made myself reappear only three inches tall on a counter behind the phone and looking out over the breakfast table. I could see both of my parents watching TV, so I blinked, and made what they were watching change into I Dream of Jeannie! They were so stunned, and I was about to laugh out loud, so I blinked myself out, and reappeared already laughing aloud as I stood full-size in the garage. I then blinked their cars into shiny new ones, and blinked the garage all neat and orderly. I can hardly believe I really did all that! Then I blinked out again, and reappeared instantly out in the Sahara desert. I was so excited that I did not even think about what I was about to really do when I just blinked myself into a camel! I could still talk, and laugh, and giggle, too! It was better than Mr. Ed on TV! Then I blinked myself back into a girl, but as a camel-girl! That was really different but I loved how it felt! So, I blinked myself into a foxgirl, too! I left myself like that, and blinked myself out again, and reappeared instantly in front of a friend of mine in her bedroom. She did not recognize me at all, which is good. I do not think I want to let her know that I am a djinni yet. I just giggled to her, blinked her clothes into green harem clothes like mine and put her sandy hair up into braids and ponytail, then blinked myself out again, and reappeared invisible this time in the breakfast room where my parents still were. I could see that they were back to watching the show they had originally had it on, so I blinked it back to Jeannie, making it permanent this time! I giggled from where I stood then, making them look right at me. Then I just blinked at them, and made them forget they heard me. Then, I blinked myself out again, and reappeared here, all-human again. Ohhh, I still cannot get over what this is like, Jeannie! Thank you so much for bringing Mirrilla here to grant my wish! I cannot thank you enough!" she almost yelled, hugging herself as she jumped up and down again.
"You are most welcome, Mindy, but I do need to go soon. I can come back and visit if you like, but I am afraid you cannot visit me. You might get trapped here with me if you do," Jeannie explained to her. "Only, since I did not actually grant the wish myself, I still need you to make a wish that I can grant. You can wish for anything but my release from here, or have Mirrilla turn another human into a djinni for you. You are also not powerful enough to release me with your magic, or grant the powers of the Djinn to humans. That is because we were not born Djinn. We were humans first, and then turned into Djinn by the ones that were born with their powers. However, you are powerful enough now to do anything else. Do you understand that?"
"Oh, yes!" Mindy replied. "I subscribe to an online newsletter that is all about the show, and one of the writers explained all of that in much detail. I am also on several mailing lists and message-boards where this subject has been brought up in discussion. Those lists and boards even have people that write fiction stories about you and your adventures. I think I will blink myself into them sometime…"
"Well, just be careful about doing that. Let Mirrilla guide you in the use of all of your powers so that you do not get into trouble like me. I would not want to learn of you being trapped in Limbo like this. It would sadden me greatly."
"Oh, I will not, Jeannie! I would be happy to learn more from Mirrilla," she said, turning her head to look at Mirrilla just as that one looked back up to her new 'pupil' and grinned.
"I promise I will not let her do anything foolish, Jenie," Mirrilla said.
"Thank you, Mirrilla. Now, Mindy, I need to grant you a wish before I can go on to connections with other people, okay?"
"Okay, Jeannie. But, I am so excited about being a djinni right now, I can hardly think straight!" she replied, still visibly showing the thrills she was experiencing from having powerful magic available at the tip of her eyelashes, so to speak.
"Well, then let me calm you more," Jeannie said, and blinked at Mindy. Immediately the teenage djinni calmed considerably, letting her arms relax at her sides as she stood still, smiling to Jeannie.
"Oh my, Jeannie! That did the trick wonderfully! Now, I can think of a wish for you to grant," Mindy calmly replied. She even held up her left elbow with her right hand in a pose exactly as Jeannie would do when she was thinking. She got the impression that this girl had watched the show not only a few times, but almost religiously. If she had wished for blonde hair, too, Jeannie would have had to say that they would have made a fair set of twins. Other than their heights, as Mindy was obviously a few inches taller, she observed.
Mindy picked that moment to come out of her thoughts with a big bright grin on her face and clasped her hands together before her.
"I know just the wish, Jeannie! I wish for the Master of my dreams!"
"As you wish, Mindy," Jeannie said, folding her arms and blinking. As soon as she had her head up from her blink, a tall man wearing an Air Force uniform and holding a bottle very much like Jeannie's appeared on Mirrilla's right. Jeannie's mouth began to slide open as she gazed upon a man that looked almost just like her Anthony!
Jeannie was so stunned, she did not even notice as the window began to close, until only her pink Limbo remained and a deep depression was welling up inside. She could not help herself as she burst into tears, and just let it all out, crying and even screaming out her pain at losing Anthony.