"Yo, Sunil!" a loud voice greeted Sunil the mongoose as he read his spell book, causing him to leap into the air and scream. He turned around and glared at Vinnie the gecko, who spoke, and Russell the hedgehog. "Whatcha doin'?"
"Well, I was working on a new spell before you decided to nearly give me a heart attack!" Sunil retorted, clutching his chest and panting heavily.
"Ooh, new spell? What is it?"
"Well, I-I'm still learning how to pull this off, but it's supposed to be a personality-swapping spell."
"Oh, cool, a personality-swapping spell! What the heck does that mean?"
"It means taking one's personality, as well as characteristics I presume, and passing it on to a different character, and that character passes their personality and characteristics to the first," Russell explained, making side-to-side hand gestures as he did so, and grunted when Vinnie responded with a confused look. "Okay, for example, let's say Sunil casts the spell on the two of us. With my strictness and intelligence, and you're... uh..."
"Stupidity!" Sunil coughed.
"Hey! I'm not stupid! I'm only dumb, and those are two totally different things!" Vinnie snapped.
"Keep telling yourself that," Russell chuckled under his breath, smiling nervously when the gecko shot a glare at him. "Okay, I'll use myself and Sunil. With my strictness and intelligence, and Sunil's cowardliness and cobra instincts, if he were to cast the spell on the two of us, he would be strict and smart and I would be cowardly and cobra-berserk."
"Oh, I get it..." Vinnie nodded in full understanding, then shouted with a large smile: "Sunil, turn Russell into a coward!"
"Vinnie!"
"I'm not that much of a coward, you know," the mongoose grunted, crossing his arms in annoyance. "There may be incidents where I chicken out, but that doesn't mean I'm scared of everything."
"Keep telling yourself that," Vinnie snickered; Russell couldn't help but smile in amusement at his friend's comment.
"Whatever, just let me concentrate so I can perform the spell." Turning his back to the gecko and hedgehog, the mongoose began reading the pages in the book again.
"Hey, what's in there, anyway?" Vinnie asked, peeking over Sunil's shoulder to get a better look at the book's contents. He quickly got off and blinked multiple times, much like one trying to adjust to the darkness after looking at a bright light. "Wow... That's some confusion stuff... It makes my brain hurt just thinking about it..."
"Oh, come on, Vinnie, it can't be that complicated," Russell replied before looking at the book. He blinked in surprise and his jaws lower slightly. "Whoa... This is complicated... And you're able to understand this all, Sunil?"
"It's only because I know how this all works," the mongoose replied. "The book is made for only magicians to read and understand."
"Well, can you please just understand that stuff already and cast the spell?" Vinnie asked impatiently, rubbing his eyes.
"Hold on, this is a very difficult spell to learn; it's one of the more advanced ones. But I'm almost done." Sunil took a few more seconds to read the book, then closed it. "Okay, I think I got it."
"All right! Hey, can you use the spell on all of us?"
"Well... the spell should wear off in a matter of minutes, so... sure, I don't see any harm in casting it on all three of us."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Russell interrupted, holding his paws out. "I don't remember volunteering."
"I'm volunteering you," Sunil replied, smiling when the hedgehog rolled his eyes. He picked up his magic wand and began waving it in the air. "You two ready for a whole new you?"
"Yeah!" Vinnie exclaimed.
"So long as it's not for too long, whatever may happen," Russell added with lesser enthusiasm.
"Okay, here goes..." Closing his eyes, Sunil spun the wand to and fro, starting off slowly, and gradually picking up the pace. Soon, tiny purple, blue, and white sparkles began to spark from the end. "Sunilio, Sunilia, to us all, give new persona!"
The wand then let out a blast of purple and blue smoke, shrouded with white sparkles, and when the smoke cleared, the three boys just stood there, blinking.
"Did it work?" Vinnie asked, rubbing his head. "I don't feel different."
"Yeah, neither do I," Sunil replied. "Maybe I didn't perform the spell right..."
"Oh, man, now we have no idea if the spell worked or not! What do we do?" Russell began to panic.
Wait... Panic?
"It-It did work!" Sunil exclaimed with a large smile, then began to dance around.
"Hey, that's my dance!" Vinnie exclaimed.
The mongoose immediately halted and gasped. "I-I must have your... uh... whatever those two words are called."
"Personality and characteristics," the gecko answered with ease. He gasped and let out a tiny squeal. "I have Russell's intelligence! I'm finally smart!"
"Ugh, this isn't good!" Russell whimpered.
"What do you mean it isn't good, this is awesome!" Sunil exclaimed.
"Wow, Sunil, your spell worked better than I thought." Vinnie suddenly blinked. "Hold on. You just said the spell would switch our personalities and characteristics, but you said nothing about talents. However, you just dance my exact dance, and..." He turns and looks behind him. "Wow, this pet shop is a mess. And we actually live in this dump?"
"Yeah, you're right, you're starting to get Russell's sense of organization," Sunil confirmed.
"So what, I'm supposed to have magical abilities now?" Russell asked before smiling. "Aw, man, that's so incredible! Hold on, when did you say the spell was gonna wear off?"
"Actually..." Sunil whimpered. "It was supposed to have worn off about now, but... I still don't fee different from now..."
"Yeah, nor do I. I still feel like a pet version of Albert Einstein," Vinnie replied.
"Now Vinnie knows how to say his full name, and you still don't feel different, which means I'm still the same, and if the spell didn't wear off, that means it'll never wear off, which means we're stuck here forever! We're doomed!" Russell wailed before rolling into a ball.
"Russell, you need to calm down," Vinnie grunted, massaging the bridge of his nose, as if he had a headache. "We'll figure something out. Okay, I have a plan."
"I hope it's a good one, 'cuz I don't really like having your... uh... things," Sunil huffed in irritation.
"Okay, I think that the best way for the spell to be broken is, well, a counter spell, in which only Russell can do now because he has Sunil's magical abilities."
"I can't use magic; I don't know the first thing about it, not to mention I don't even know how to read that dumb spell book!" Russell raised his voice into a whine once he rolled halfway.
"That's why the plan is the three of us get more familiar to our new personas. Sunil practices his dancing, Russell practices his magic, and I practice my organization. We'll feel better adapted to this, and once Russell learns how to read the spell book, he'll study and cast the counter spell, turning us back to normal."
"Whoa, man, you came up with that in, like, seconds!" Sunil gasped in awe before squishing Vinnie's face, who smiled shyly. "You are good!"
"Hold on!" Russell yelled, walking towards the two boys as he rambles on nervously. "We are supposed to get used to our new personas and talents, ignore the thought that this spell may or may not be permanent, expect me to learn how to read Sunil's spell book and memorize the spell before a period of time in which, if the spell isn't permanent, it will be locked down on us forever, and cast the counter spell on all three of us?!" When he finished, he was in the boys' faces, and Sunil fell on his back.
"Piece of cake," Vinnie replied confidently before running off to begin his task, Sunil soon following.
"Actually..." the hedgehog gulped, hesitating before following. "I prefer pie..."
A/N: This is a brand new story I'm working on. Don't worry, it's a three-shot, and I've already completed the second and third chapters, so they should be out as soon as this story goes viral. ^^