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AI Dungeon gets the most of the credit anyway, so go check it out, it's cool.
There is a wizard named Jay living in the kingdom of Larion. The kingdom doesn't have a lot to do with this, but I'll mention it anyway. Jay has a long staff and a spellbook she mostly uses for drawing.
She has finished her long journey and finally arrives at the ruin she has been looking for. She has come here searching for a mystical spellbook of great power called the Book of Essence. She wants it because her old spellbook is already full with her bad drawings, and she doesn't have the money to simply buy a new one.
She looks around and sees no apparent door or way into the ruin, but she also doesn't see any undead walking around or anything like that. It also wouldn't be polite to simply float over the walls and through a hole in the ceiling.
Suddenly, a voice behind her calls her name.
Jay turns around.
She sees... no one. Everything around her is perfectly still, even the air feels heavy. She turns around twice, certain that she has become just as paranoid as the old man in the inn.
She still tries to grows wings and flees, just because she is paranoid.
She had turned around to flee, when suddenly two small winged creatures on the backs of white horses appears in front of her and carries her off into the sky.
"Well, Jay," one of them says.
She curses colorfully.
Jay curses more as her body abruptly grows wings. She flies up into the air as she curses more at the sky in frustration and tries to set herself on fire with her hands.
She exclaims: "This isn't working! For Merlin's sake, why can't I set myself on fire?"
As her voice rises in pitch, she feels her body growing heavier and heavier until suddenly she falls back to earth with a mighty crash. Jay's face stings and she immediately wants to wash the pain away with a river.
She thinks that it's too bad there isn't conveniently a river nearby.
She shakes her head, hoping that the water would wash away the stinging of her face. Suddenly she feels her skin growing heavier and heavier, like her body did earlier.
Jay mutters: "What in Hades' name..."
As she stands up, she begins to feel confused. Well, more confused than she had been before. She tries to call out to her friends that should be somewhere nearby, but finds that she can't. Her voice didn't work. Instead, she feels the ground begin to rumble beneath her feet.
Jay tries to leap into flight, as she remembered she still possesses wings.
She leaps forward and finds that she can flap her arms and actually jump off the ground.
You just realized you are capable of jumping. What an achievement, she thinks sarcastically.
As she leaps forward, she thinks about how strange she has become. She has grown enormous ears, a tail, and she can jump.
Now that Jay thinks about it, she can't really complain about anything.
You then think again, and come to the realization that yes, she can complain about a lot of things, and she will.
As she begins to flap her arms and shifts her weight forward, she finds that she can go really, really fast.
She wonders if she had suddenly became a hummingbird. It's a possibility, she admits to herself.
As Jay flies through the air, she tries to remember every story about hummingbirds that her memory could conjure up. She finds that she cannot, she hasn't a clue what a hummingbird even looks like!
She thinks: "Oh boy, do I have a bad memory! Good thing this is just a fever dream!"
She flies through the cloudless sky, she realizes that in her memory, she is a hummingbird. Everything around her changes though. She feels the grass grow under her feet and she flies away from her panicking friends.
"Wait, I have friends? Since when? When did they appear?" Jay asks herself in a quiet voice.
Looking around, she sees that she is no longer in the world of men, but in the Forest. The Forest of ancient magic. There is the buzzing of bees in the air and the sun is beaming through the trees. Everything looks so…
Normal, absolutely normal, when she ignores the fact that she has just turned into a hummingbird. Though she did remember being always a hummingbird, so maybe there isn't anything strange going on? She still kind of hopes that she had turned into a dragon instead.
Thinking about it, the only reason why she remembers anything about hummingbirds, is that she's always had terrible memory.
"Well, that thought right there made absolutely zero sense!" she says, shaking her tiny head ruefully.
She shakes her head again to try to clear it and…
She appears to be completely bald and wearing a dress.
No way, Jay is a woman now!
"You were always a woman! Or on the best days, a dragon!" she berates herself forcefully.
She realizes that she is indeed a woman and that everything that has happened to her over the past few days is in fact the most absurd dream ever.
Suddenly, it all comes back to her.
She was hit by a car one day, and she died. She has been reborned, as some strange creature in a strange world. But she doesn't care about that now, because she was right! Belief Shapes Reality and all that, and Jay has been reborned!
Everything in this world makes perfect sense to her! Everything! (Except that whole being a dragon part. Dragons are real, by the way.)
Suddenly a man appears.
Her reflection.
"Hello," he says.
Jay answers: "Greetings, my reflection from an alternate universe. Oh man, how do I wish I had an invisibility cloak right now!"
"Yes, it is certainly a little strange to see yourself, isn't it?"
"Uh huh. I hate my reflection. It's also a bit strange to be stuck in a mirror..."
Her reflection nods.
Jay nods back, and shuffles her dragon wings a bit. She badly wants to fly again.
Suddenly her reflection begins to laugh hysterically.
"What?" Jay says, exasperated.
"Did you not hear me laughing?" he says.
"That was you? The whole time?"
She hears him say through his laughter: "No! You didn't hear any laughter, at all! We're all delusional!"
She wants to argue, but she's not entirely sure how.
Jay's reflection pats her on the back, in the form of a hug.
She flees as fast as her new dragon wings can carry her. Jay's reflection terrifies her more than she would like to admit.
She flies as fast as her little dragon body will allow her and, eventually, she finds herself back in her room. Jay can hear her reflection laughing in the mirror again.
She says: "Shut up, you neek!"
She cannot deal with that thing. She feels like she's going insane.
Jay runs to the mirror and smashes it with a fireball she happens to be holding.
"What did you do?" he asks.
"Kill you, you little creep!" she shrieks in answer.
"But you're you!"
"I'm what? I'm what?"
Jay amswers in her own question. It seems to her that she's now insane. "I'm a jabberjay! Ha!"
"I'm a jabberjay?"
"You heard me, you little creep!"
Jay smirks at her reflection. Her reflection does not smirk back.
"You remind me of little Draco Malfoy," she says thoughtfully.
"Who?" her male reflection asks, confused.
"He was in the Harry Potter books!"
"No, he was not!"
"Yes, he was!"
"No, he wasn't!"
"Oh Yes he was, and you know it! We can go to Hogwarts and meet him if you insist," Jay says, and now she's annoyed.
Her reflection frowns.
"I'm not going to Hogwarts," he says.
Jay says: "Well too bad Tommy!"
She decides to ignore her reflection. She has a new life now. A life where she's a magical, talking, flying, wingless bird. How can I be a flying but wingless bird, if I was a dragon? Jay silently asks from the universe. This is getting more and more confusing!
Jay flies to Hogwards and kidnaps Draco Malfoy and drags him back to her home just to prove to her reflection that Draco does indeed exist.
Then she feels a strange compulsion to visit the mirror again.
Jay goes to the mirror again, dragging Draco behind her. Draco is spewing out feeble protests. He's starting to tire out from all the shouting and shrieking.
Does Jay dare to face that miserable, miserable being who reminds her of her own failures?
She sees that pathetic face of the Riddle boy, and feels a bit of pity.
"Riddle, you are such a pitiful little creep that I'm going to have to kill you again," Jay says firmly.
"I don't want to die!" he cries.
"I don't want to die either! Let's be friends, okay?"
He nods, and they both become friends.
She drags the reflection Riddle to Hogwarts and to professor Dumbleres office the soonest moment she had.
"Well, I guess we're here," says the reflection.
"Yep," Jay says.
"I guess I'll be on my way."
"Yep."
"Bye bye."
Headmaster Dumbledore takes a gun out of his beard and headshots the reflection before he manages to leave the mirror.
"I'm going to miss him," says the reflection.
"I'm going to miss him too."
Jay looks at her reflection and…
She's not sure.
Should she do it?
Jay asks: "You're going to miss yourself, even though you're already dead?"
"Oh yes."
"I'm going to miss you too."
Should she ask?
She does nothing.
She continues to live. The reflection Riddle did not.
Six months pass.
Jay's dead.
The End.
Well, that's the end of my fanfic.
It was fun writing this.
Please, if you have any ideas for this story, don't hesitate to tell me.
– the AI from AI Dungeon that Co-wrote this with me.