Disclaimer: I do NOT own TOS or the characters mentioned herein.
Zelos was excited that the adventure was over. He was tired of all the danger and running around after monsters and angels. He just wanted to go home and flirt with some of the local nobility. He wanted to leave for Meltokio just then but Lloyd insisted that they all camp out in the nearby forest. Zelos swore under his breath as he set up his camping gear. They all had dinner and went to bed. Zelos got up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water. He was getting up when he saw Sheena standing out in the woods. He felt like teasing her some more so he went to talk to her.
"Hey good looking."
"Shut up Zelos."
"Hey that's not very lady like."
"I said shut up!"
"Okay, okay id don't need you to rip my head off."
"Hmph…You're always like this."
"I am not!"
"Yes you are."
"Fine…just don't kill me!"
"Well I was just saying…hey do you hear that?"
"Yeah it sounds like snoring."
"Well it's not coming from the camp…"
"Let's go find out."
They walked together through the woods until they saw the flickering lights of a campfire. Coming closer, they saw a lone figure sprawled across a camp bed. He had long graying hair. Even so, he couldn't be much older than Lloyd, he wore black robes and next to him there was a white yew wand.
"Hey look it's a guy."
"I know Zelos."
"Lets wake him up."
"No he looks like a mage, let just leave him alone."
"Bt I could tickle his feet!"
"Zelos you stu…moronic red haired gigolo."
"Hey come on why cant I?"
"Because he could curse you if you woke him up."
"AWWWW I wanna I wanna!"
"Moron now you've woke him up."
"Uhhh…why are you disturbing my sleep…all I wanted to do is sleep."
"Oh hello sir…uhh it was her who woke you up…"
"Hey! That's not true."
"Wait so she didn't and you didn't."
"that's right."
"Well then who do I punish?"
"You could let us both go…"
"But then my sleep will be disturbed in vain…"
"Yeah but."
"I have an idea!"
"Oh good what?"
"I'll punish you both!"
"No wait we can work this out!"
"I don't want to! I want to punish someone!"
"But…. but…."
"Tancred will release his rage NOW!"
With that, the wizard grabbed his wand and Zelos felt himself getting lifted up and saw Sheena floating next to him. He heard Tancred chanting something barley in a whisper. He waved his wand and Zelos' world went black.
Sheena woke with a start next morning. She sat up rubbing her eyes. "That was a weird dream." She thought to herself. She still felt a little groggy so she went to a nearby river to splash some water on her face. She felt the cold shock of the water over her face. She thought she must look tired and peered into the river to look at her reflection. She saw Zelos' face reflected in the river, she thought that he must have been behind her as a practical joke and turned around. No one was there, she turned back and there he was again. "Zelos this isn't funny!" She turned around again, still no one. A horrible thought came to her and she turned back to the river, there was Zelos again she raised her left hand, Zelos' reflection did as well, she closed one eye, so did the reflection. She reached back and grabbed hold of some of her hair she looked at it and her deepest fear was confirmed, it was long and red. She let out a scream of terror and ran back to where she had woken up. There she was fast asleep against a tree. The wizard still slept where they had woken him. "Oh no! I've become Zelos!" Sheena thought "A fate worse than death!"
Zelos woke up with a headache. He looked around and saw the wizard fast asleep. He thought someone back at camp might have made breakfast so he started walking back to camp. On the way he noticed he was walking differently than he usually did. He got back to camp and saw Lloyd getting out of his tent.
"Oh hey Sheena."
"Hello Lloy…wait did you just call me Sheena?"
"Yes I did so…is that a problem?"
"I'm Zelos not Sheena."
"That's not right Sheena, Zelos came back a few minutes ago."
"he did?"
"Yeah he looked really freaked out about something do you know what?"
"No…I guess he must have had a nightmare."
"Well maybe you should go talk to him."
"I just might."
Zelos looked around and soon found himself sitting near the campfire.
"Pssst. Zelos!"
"What?"
"Its me!"
"Zelos?"
"Yeah it me."
"What are you doing in my body?"
"I don't know what are you doing in mine?'
"Trust me I don't like this any more than you do!"
"I bet that wizard knows something about this."
"Lets go get him!"
They both ran into the forest. They reached the clearing and found the wizard yawning and rubbing his eyes. "Hey what did you do to me?" Sheena shouted at him. He took one look at them and fell over laughing hysterically.
"It worked! I can't believe it! It's never worked before!"
"What, you did this?"
"Yes and it worked! Hooray!"
"This isn't funny!"
"Oh but my least favorite ninja lady it is!"
"Maybe for you but now I have a pervert in my body and I'm stuck in the perverts body!"
"And I just cant stop laughing!"
"So I'm stuck in Sheena's body?"
"Yes you moronic person and she in yours."
"Oh sweet I've always wanted to do this!"
"Stop looking down my shirt you pervert!"
"Hey I've gotta live in this body until we fix this problem!"
"If you don't want me to cut you dick off while I'm in here you'll stop!"
"Nooooo okay! Okay! I'll stop! I'll stop! Please have mercy!"
"Okay you two do you want to have your old bodies back?"
"Yes please oh mighty one!"
"Well that's too bad! I'm to entertained by this to put it right now!"
"But…but, I don't want to be in Zelos' body forever!"
"Oh you won't but first you two must do something."
"What we'll do anything!"
"Sheena, you must truly accept Zelos as the pervert he is."
"Okay sounds tough but I'll try."
"Zelos, you must stop being a flirty bastard and find the one woman you truly love."
"Wait you said theses would be hard, not impossible!"
"Oh it isn't I just want to drag this out as long as possible."
"You son of a bitch!"
"I am really!"
"All this because we woke you up?"
"And felt sorry for it."
"What?"
"You should have seen what I was going to do to you if you weren't."
"Your are not very nice."
"An you, chosen are not very smart."
Tancred spun around and vanished in a puff of smoke. He left Zelos and Sheena alone in the clearing very angry and confused.
"Well what now Zelos?"
"I say we head back to camp and then I'm going to Meltokio."
"No your not."
"What why?"
"Because everyone will think that you are me and I am you so you get to go to Mizuho."
"Awww but I don't want to!"
"That's to bad! I have to live in that hellhole you call a house."
"Hey that's not very lady like."
"You're the lady here you moron!"
"I am not!"
"For now you are!"
"Okay, okay but remember you're the guy then."
"I know but I wont like it."
They walked back to camp and found everyone cleaning up camp. Lloyd looked up at them as they walked in.
"Hey Zelos, hey Sheena."
"Where have you been?"
"We were uhhh…"
"Having a romantic moment!"
"Sheena, whats up you don't usually say such things."
"No we didn't she slapped my face an called me a pervert."
"Zelos?"
"No I didn't we had a romantic talk and kissed and made up for last nights argument!"
"Sheena?"
"No you slapped my face remember?"
"Oh yeah right and I was about to do it again!"
"Ow that's no very ladylike Sheena!"
Lloyd walked away shaking his head. Sheena looked back at Zelos with fury.
"Romantic time?"
"Hey I need to get into character, that takes time!"
"Well hurry up."
"You weren't doing a very good job either."
"But you would call me a pervert…I mean I would call you a pervert if you tried saying that."
"I know but you are not you, you have to be me!"
"Arrgh I cant take this! Dear god are mine really that big?'
"And noticeable!"
"Hey stop that!'
Regal looked over just in time to see Zelos slap Sheena's face.
"Zelos you can't slap a girl!"
"But…but she wag touching my…her…"
"I don't care what she was touching you don't slap a girl!"
"But…"
"But nothing you cant do that!"
Regal stormed off and Sheena looked back at Zelos.
"You forgot huh?"
"Well its hard Zelos!"
"Yeah I know."
"Well I hope I accept you for you soon!"
"Why?"
"Then this stupid curse breaks and I can get on with my life."
"Hey!"
"An you'd better stop being so flirty!"
"Hey I can do that it'll be easy."
"Yeah that's not true."
Sheena stormed off. "Does my hair really look like that from the back?" Zelos thought he might enjoy Mizuho, he could go and eat the local food, maybe flirt with the ladies…He might need to avoid that, or maybe not, if Sheena ever did get her body back…then she would have to deal with the fallout from his actions and she would be none the wiser.
He didn't even think that Sheena was thinking the same thing about him. As Lloyds group left the clearing, Tancred appeared he was still laughing but it was quietly to himself now. "I just found something to entertain me for some time now." He said to himself. He knew for a fact chances are he would be the only one entertained with this. He wished he could look into the future and see what would happen, unfortunately he couldn't so he decided to go to Mizuho and talk to Sheena's father. He arrived just in time for his morning exercise.
"Hello Mr. Father sir."
"Oh it's you…what do you want?"
"I was going to tell you that your daughter is coming this way."
"Oh good I was getting worried."
"well you don't need to."
"Thanks Tanc. I owe you one for looking after her."
"Yeah…looking after her…. right."
"That's what you were doing right?"
"Of course…why would I have done anything else…?"
"I don't know but you are a very flaky person so it wouldn't shock me if you pulled some prank on me."
"That would be…silly I don't know why you even…think that."
"I know you can be trusted, you have looked out for her since she was born."
"yes I have and I have never wavered in my duty."
"Why do you look after her?"
"I was the first person her poor mother saw."
"Oh that's awful."
"well you two should have fun."
"Oh why do you thonk that Tanc?"
"I have my reasons just don't be too shocked."
"At what?"
"Oh this and that some other things."
Tancred vanished into thin air, leaving Sheena's father with a feeling of foreboding, Tancred was powerful and not to be trifled with, even if he said he hadn't done anything, Sheena's father still worried for his daughter's well-being and safety.
