Jester opened his eyes and bright light immediately blinded him. He blinked a few times before he was able to keep them open. Jester stood up. He looked around trying to remember what had happened. He was alone near the forest. 'I do not get it. Who was that man? What did he do to me? Am I still me? Was this just a dream? Did I sleepwalk here?' Jester thought hopefully. Jester put his hand to his neck. The bite marks were still there.
"No, Not a dream…" He said swallowing hard. The taste of blood was still lingering in his mouth. It tasted irony and warm. But he did not spit it out. He stood in the same spot for a few moments trying to puzzle it out. The memory of the pain was enough to make him close his eyes and shiver. 'It was a man I am sure of that. But why would a man bite me? And what was with his eyes.' Jester shook his head. 'No, this is ridiculous, people do not do that sort of thing. It must have just been a dream. But the bite marks…' Jester starred at the castle. 'Should I tell the king?' He wondered. Then decided otherwise. 'I am not even sure it was real. And the king would most likely no believe me anyways.' Jester started to walk back to the castle. He tried to think about anything but what had happened, but he could not. He walked into the castle walls to see that no on was up yet. He looked to the sky. The sun was barely even in the sky. 'But why does it feel so bright?' Jester thought. He blinked and looked down at his feet. It was then that he noticed the blood on his shoes. 'Great. Now my shoes are soiled!' He thought as turned to go back to his room. He walked to his room and shut the door. He was not tired for he had slept for quite a few hours. He sat down on his bed and began to take his shoes off.
"Yup, there ruined!" He said to himself rather disappointed. They were not his only pair of shoes, but they were his favorite. He set them down on the ground and flopped onto the bed trying to think. It had all happened so fast he had no time to get a good look at the man. All he knew was he was tall and strong. 'Very strong!' Jester thought rotating his shoulder. Then Jester remembered what he had forgotten. He had lifted that man up with one hand. 'But he was nearly ten times my weight! And how did I throw him back. I did not even move my hand and he…' Jester blinked and stood up 'No No No! This is stupid. It was just a dream. I must have sleepwalked and must have gotten myself bitten by some sort of animal! It was just part of my insomnia!" He told himself, but he could not shake the feeling something was different about him. He looked at himself in the mirror. Jester almost yelped. He turned away and then looked back at himself. 'Is it me?' Jester walked up to the mirror to get a better look at himself. But what he saw starring back at him was not the short blonde boy with grey eyes, but a tall man with dark brown hair and eyes as red as blood. He raised his hand just to see if it was him. The "reflection" raised his hand as well. Jester ran over to the table by his bed and picked up the hand-held mirror. Sure enough, the reflection he had seen in the other mirror was there as well. Jester stared at his reflection while sinking onto the bed. "What is happening to me?" He wondered aloud. He walked back over to the large mirror and looked in again. 'I do look rather, nice.' Jester thought touching the side of his face. Aside from the eyes, he looked , well, down right handsome! 'It is not that I do not like this, appearance, but no one will recognize me.' Jester looked down at the desk the mirror was on and saw something that was not his. It was a large silver cross with a ruby in the middle on a sterling silver chain. Jester picked it. He wondered how it had gotten here. Just then the ruby in the necklace started to glow. Jester was about to drop it when he saw the words "Put It On" appear in gold in the gem. Jester debated putting it on. 'What if it is to hurt me?' He thought but the words in the gem grew more visible and larger. Jester decided it was smarter to put it on and carefully brought the chain around his neck. He immediately felt sick, like he was going to throw up. The feeling subsided after a few moments and when Jester looked back up into the mirror, he was himself again. The boy with blonde hair and grey eyes. But he was still tall. He leaned in towards the mirror. Yes, he was him again. He felt vaguely disappointed at this. He looked down at the necklace. The words on it had disappeared and it was now rather ordinary. 'I wonder. If I take it of, do I turn back into…' The thought was cut off by a thud upstairs. Jane was up. 'And dragon must be up there too.' Jester got down on his hands and knees and looked under his bed. After a few moments he found what he was looking for. A clean pair of shoes. He quickly threw them on and once again checked his appearance in the mirror. "Still ordinary" He said. He looked at the necklace dangling from his neck. It had quite a long chain so it hung just above his ribs. He decided it would look rather strange to be wearing a necklace and tucked it under his shirt. He swallowed hard. 'What is happening to me? Will I always have to wear this necklace? Why is this happening?' He frowned at himself, then walked away from the mirror and out the door.