Aisha Clan-Clan walked down the streets of Sentinel 3, in her normal kind
of saunter. She checked behind herself to make sure she wasn't being
followed, and then slipped into an alleyway. "Time for me to get my stuff'
she thought to herself. She began to purr lightly at the thought of
getting into mischief again, and began her trek to find what she needed.
She exited on the other side of the alleyway, and walked up to a small shop
with a sign that read, Potions and Magic Shoppe. She sauntered through the
door, and up to the man behind the counter. "Hi, I'm Aisha Clan-Clan. I
called in here earlier about reserving a book and a few items that I would
need," she told the clerk. The man thought for a moment, then smiled.
"Yes miss Clan-Clan. Here is your book about human transformations. That
will be 300 Wulong for the book, and the items you needed," the man told
her with a smile. Aisha grumbled slightly, and pulled some money out of
her pocket. She handed the man the money, and took the book and
ingredients from him. "Did you have to say that so loud?" Aisha
complained. The man counted the money, and handed her the change. She
shook her head, and shoved the money back at him. "Keep it, as a token of
my appreciation," Aisha responded. The man thanked her, and Aisha left the
store in a rush.
As she walked through the door to her room on the Outlaw Star, she
quickly shut the door behind her. She pulled a large pot out from under
her bed, and dumped her supplies on top of the bed. She opened the book,
and propped it up against the wall. She began to read the instructions out
loud, taking her time with each step. "Step 4: Stir in the hair of a
human, with the hair of your own kind," Aisha read aloud. She pulled out a
strand of hair from her head, and dropped it on the bed. She crept out
into the hall, and walked into where Gene was staying. He was asleep on
his bed, so she crept in and pulled out a hair from his head. She rushed
back to her room, and dropped the two hair strands into the pot. After
awhile, Jim walked into her room, wondering what the smell was. "Hey,
Aisha. What is that smell?" he asked as he walked through the door. Aisha
looked up from her book, and stood slowly. "I'm just making a Ctarl-Ctarl
soup for myself," she lied. Jim looked up at her, and shrugged as he
walked out of the room. Aisha closed the door behind him, and sighed in
relief. "Now to get back to my potion," she thought to herself. After she
finished, she had to let the potion sit for a while, to cool down. She
left the room, and went for a little walk before she came back to the ship.
What she didn't know was that Jim had walked back into her empty room, and
was peering at the potion. Jim sniffed it, and decided that Aisha would
probably want some salt to go in there. He took a saltshaker from the
kitchen, and sprinkled the potion a bit. It started to bubble slightly,
but it quickly calmed down. Jim didn't notice because he was returning the
saltshaker to its original place. Aisha walked back into her room, not
before grabbing a ladle from the kitchen, and poured some of the potion
into a cup. She held it up for a moment, and said, "Here is to being a
terran," she said to herself. She quickly downed the glass, and set the
cup on the sink. Just as she put it on the counter, she bent over at a
pain that was rising in her gut. She looked around, trying to find a
mirror. When she finally found one, she was too small to see into it.
"Wait a minute," she thought to herself, "I could see the mirror before.
Am I shrinking or something?" She finally stopped her transformation, and
looked down at her paws and body. "Holy crap, I've become a teenager," she
screamed at the top of her lungs. Jim rushed into the room, and gasped
when he saw that Aisha was sitting on the floor, as old as him.
