Chapter 4: Changes (Tobias)
I didn't sleep well that night, being in such close proximity to an owl kept me awake and alert all night. I was up first, and decided to test out my new morph. It shouldn't be that difficult.
Ax told us how to combine DNA, which would help us in this situation.
I closed my eyes and pictured how I wanted this morph to look for me. The first thing that happened was height. I grew to Harry's height, my feathers melded into pale skin. My bones shifted grew and became solid.
My organs shifted and some disappeared, changing from a hawk's internal organs into a human's.
When I completed the morph, I walked over to the mirror by the door.
I was Harry's height, pale with a few freckles, my eyes were a deep green with flecks of brown. (DSD: I'm guessing what Ron's eye color is, it isn't specified in the series.) My hair was untidy like Harry's, and was a dark reddish black.
"Tried it out, huh?" Jake asked, coming up behind me.
"Yeah," I replied. "It's actually really cool. I've got a Bristish accent, but what's cooler is that there's this constant tingle running up and down your spine, it's really cool."
"I'll try it out then." Jake closed his eyes and concentrated.
He didn't grow taller, he didn't shrink either, he stayed the same height. His face became more angular and his cheek bones more prominent. He became skinnier, but not unhealthiily so. His hair grew a little longer and turned coal black with red highlights, his hair stuck out at the back. When he opened his eyes, I saw that they had remained brown, just turned darker.
"You're right this is awesome!" Jake exclaimed. Harry and Ron woke up at this moment.
"Wow," Harry muttered. "Now that is cool."
"They look like a mix of us, yet nothing like us," Ron commented. "It's really cool."
"I know," Ax muttered as he came out of the shadow of his corner in the pale sunlight that managed to come through the grimy window.
Ax's morph was different then mine or Jake's. He had obviously combined bits of Jake and Marco into his morph. As he told us, when you combine DNA, it's still there to be combined.
His eyes were Harry's electric green, and his hair was a color mix of Jake's, Marco's, Harry's and Ron's. He was an inch or two shorter then Jake, he had Ron's freckles, but Harry's build. Actually, his morph looked pretty sturdy. He had added in a little of Jake's physique, so he didn't look like a total push-over.
"Huh? Waz going on?" A groggy Marco asked. When he saw us, he added, "Trying out the new morphs, huh?"
We nodded. He said, "Guess I'll try it out too." He closed his eyes and concentrated.
He grew taller, not as tall as Jake, but taller then me. His hair shortened, and spiked out, turning a dull red. His face narrowed a bit, but his eyes stayed the same shape. His physique though, reamined the same, although he did become skinnier.
"Ah crap," Marco snapped. "I need glasses. Anyone got a pair?" Hermione walked in at this moment.
"Someone say they need glasses?" she asked. "Because I have a pair. They were supposed to be Harry's burthday present, but I guess that you could use them more then he does." She handed Marco a pair of modern glasses, his eyes were a placid brown.
"What's going on?" A female voice asked from the door.
I looked over, it was Rachel, had to be. "Rachel?" I asked, throat drying out.
"Who else?" She snapped back, I don't think that she could tell who was who.
Her morph was very attractive. She had Hermione's brown hair, with her own blonde mixed in as highlights, unlike Hermione's, Rachel's hung straight, with some culrs around her face. Her cheek bones were slender and gave her a very pretty face. She had her blue eyes, but they did have some of Hermione's brown, and they had a sparkly fierce intelligence to them. She was slender, and oddly enough, a little shorter then me, obviously the height was from Ginny.
Cassie followed Rachel in. "Wow. I can't tell whose who?" she asked.
"Take a guess," Jake told her.
Cassie was tall and slender, with a narrow face. Her cheek bones weren't as prominent as hers really were, but they worked fine with her light brown complexion. Her eyes were Rachel's blue, with a slight brown cast to them. Her hair was curly and fell to mid-back, it was a beautiful cinnamon color.
"Your Marco," she said, pointing to Jake. "Jake," pointing to Ax, "Tobias," pointing to Marco, "And Ax," pointing at me.
"Wrong," I replied. "Try again."
"Who'd I get wrong?" she asked quizically.
"All of us," Marco supplied.
"Tobias," Rachel said pointing at me. "Marco," pointed at Maro, "Jake," pointing at Jake, "And Ax," pointed at Ax. "Right?"
"Correct," Marco exclaimed, pushing his glasses higher up on his nose. "Let's tell the lucky woman what's she's won."
"Ha, ha, and ha," Rachel retorted. "Cassie you need work on guessing who's who."
"Where'd you get the clothes?" I asked. Us guys were all standing in our assortment of bike shorts and tight T-shirts.
"Hermione and Ginny lent them to us," Cassie replied. "Mrs. Weasly promised to take us to get proper clothing later."
"Harry, Ron!" Hermione ordered. "Lend them some of your clothes."
Harry lent me some of his, I was the only one of the four guys who was close to his height, the other's had to borrow from Ron.
Well, the clothes were pretty big, Harry said that they were hand-me-downs from his cousin Dudly, who weighed as much as a small whale. I guessed it to be the truth, the clothes were big on me and Harry.
I asked him, "You coming with us? Like shopping?"
"Yeah, why?" he replied.
"Rachel's a little shopper crazy, she once bought designer underwater for an android."
"Okay," he replied, looking like he was going to laugh.
We all headed downstairs, and ate breakfast before we left for Diagon Alley.
A/N: I am so sorry about the time it took me to write this! Well, I guess I didn't take SO long to write it, but I might not update again until August, or real late June. It's nearing the end of the school year and us grade eights are all busy preparing for our finals, we don't have it as hard as the grade nines, they've got finals AND provicials. Again I am sorry! Gomen ne!