CH 3. SOMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING TO ME
Morning has arrived the next day and Lincoln decides to wake up earlier than his sisters so he can use the restroom while brushing his teeth. The white hair boy notices something is strange in the mirror. He see his own reflection but he notices that his hair was longer kinda how Leni, Lola, or even Lynn (when it's not in a ponytail) "That's odd how could my hair grown over."but before Lincoln could finish his sentence he cover his mouth in panic, since the voice that came out of his was not his own voice. The voice that came out his mouth was more feminine than his normal voice. "Was that my voice just came out of my mouth right now. Dang it could this curse or this legend can be real. No no it's not real Lincoln Loud this is all just a dream and you are still in your room sleeping." Lincoln said as he dumped a cup of cold water hoping that this is a dream but after doing this for several times the loud boy noticed that this is reality not a dream. "Dang it now what I am going to do now I can't let Lori, Lucy, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Luan, or even Lily know what's going on." Lincoln stated as he saw a pair of scissors in the bathroom and started to cut his hair so it looked like his hair was normal, but within a few secends Lincoln's hair started to grow again. "Dang it!" yelled Lincoln.
As Lincoln tried to hide his hair from his sister, Luna, Leni, Lori, Lynn, Lucy, Lily and Luan were outside of the bathroom. "Come on Linc, what are you doing in the bathroom that takes you a long time to get ready, the rest of us have to use the restroom." Lori yells while knocking the door untitled Lynn decided to charge at it and break it down. "That's a good way of using your head Lynn as ram Lynn, get it." Luan said as she was laughing causing all the rest of the sisters groun to Luan's puns. All of the sisters saw that their brother now had long white hair and was trying to hide it from them. "Cool hair due bro, I did not know that you are into metal bands." Luna said. The white hair boy was about to speak to his sisters but then remembered that something was wrong with his voice so he had a fake cough. "Oh poor Lincy are you sick, maybe you should stay home for the day and rest." Leni told her brother while giving him a hug. "Please oh dear god pleased do not let this get even worse or odd." Lincoln thought to himself. After the incident in the bathroom the white hair boy went to his room and change from his normal orange shirt, to a hoodie so he could hid his face, and hair from his sisters.
Meanwhile Rita, Lynn Sr, Lisa, Lola, and Lana's plan have just arrived at the airport where they see uncle Chris Loud. "My favorite nieces are finally arriving, wait a minute where is Lucy, I am going to ask her if she wants to see any literature about the Beast of Gévaudan." stated Chris "The Beast of Gévaudan what's that uncle Chris?" ask Lola. "It's a legend about a monster who attacked people in France around the year of 1764 to 1767. Some people believe that it's a big wild dog, a big wolf, or even a hyena." stated Lisa. "Good job Lisa, I know out of all of Lynn's children you are the smartest one heck you could be smarter than me right now, but you did forget another hypothesis of what the creature might be a werewolf." Chris replies to Lisa's statement.
"Wait, you said werewolf from the movies. That is cool, can we see it?" ask Lana as she was excited to see a big dog, or wolf. Chris then explains that the beast was killed a long time ago and there is a statue near where the attacks were at, and since then there have been a lot of stuffed animals that have been written about it. "Oh that sad, I kinda want to see some cool animals." Lana stated. "Do not worry about my little advenure, you will see some animals on the way to my castle, but before that we are going to the museum of royalty of England's past, then a science fair, puse going to the zoo. But before that let's get something to eat, come on I know a great restaurant called The Slaughtered Lamb." stated Chris as he gave his three necies a hug. "Next family vacation we are going to Florida and this probably gonna be the last time we see Chris." Rita stated into her husband's ear. "Got it." Lynn answered his wife.
Back at Royal Woods Lincoln was on his laptop researching any information about myths about people changing into animal-like creatures like werewolves, werecat, skinwalkers, wendigo, or other types of animals until he found something called werewomen/weregirl. "Ok I think I found what I was looking for, so according to this website the definition of a werewomen/weregirl is that is a type of werecreature who is a man turns into a woman. There are several ways that a boy can turn into a weregirl, the most common way is that a person who became a werewomen/weregirl is either being bite by a victim who is turn into a girl by a witch under the blue full moon. "Ok so that a werewomen/weregirl. Ok please let there be a cure." Lincoln said to himself unforchinitly for him there was no cure for it. "Dang it!" yelled Lincoln before he covered his mouth again realizing that his voice had started to change. Thinking to himself Lincoln should call Clyde, Ronnie Ann, Zach, Stella, Rusty, or, Liman and tell them what's going on but the question would be if they believed in his story in the first place.
Meanwhile Luan, and Luna were in their room talking to each other about Lincoln's new look and his strange behavior from this morning. "Hey do you think there's something wrong with little brother Luan? He is not acting like himself" ask Luna as she takes off her headphones. "That you mention, he has not acted like himself since last night after he was attacked." Luan said as she just got done watching a youtube video of Jeff Dunham. "Man I really love this guy's form of comedy. "But yeah I agreed with you Luna, he is acting stranger than normal. Do you think that Lori, Leni, Lucy, Lily, and Lynn notice any of these changes in Linc?" ask Luan. So both the musician, so the comedian starts to ask their other sisters if they also notice their brother stange behaviors .
Both Luna, and Luan found out that they are not the only sisters that notice the change in their brother. Leni said that Lincoln was helping her design a dress and even volunteer to try it on. Lori told them when she was talking to Bobby on the phone and was watching the Love Boat she noticed that Lincoln was crying when the guy did not pick a good girl from the group of contestants. Lynn saw that her brother was reading books that Lori, Leni, and Lola would have read but he was wearing all of his clothes. There were no comic books near the white hair boy that the athlete said. However all of the sisters agreed that all of them did notice that their brother was acting more feminine or girl like. Being the oldest loud sibling Lori decides to have an ermancy sisters meeting to discuss their brother stange .
It was around noon in Lori/Leni's room where the older sisters are having a meeting along with Lucy, and Lily to discuss their brother's odd behavior this morning. "Ok everyone here. Good now let's get this sister's meeting started. You all know that since last night Lincoln is acting differently from what he normally acts like. Lynn asks if Lisa, or Lana saw Lincoln's arm beside the bandage, so Leni said she took pictures of her brother's injury to Lisa. "Ok that good news, so what did she say? What kind of animal attacked Lincoln?" ask Luna. "The thing according to Lisa is that the bite mark was not from any animals that she knows, or have DNA samples that she collects at the community college that she goes to sometimes." Leni stated. "So Lisa thinks that another human bit our brother last night. So some psycho who probably escaped from a mental hospital saw Lincoln and attacked last night?!" Luan said in a panic tone. "If I ever see this psycho I am going to rip all of his or her teeth out of their mouth and bite them back!" yelled Lynn witch followers by chants by Leni, Lucy, Lily, Luna, and Luan. "Due you guys think that it could be a werewolf that bit Lincoln last night." Lucy said. "Yea does that mean if Lincoln is turning into a wolf dose that I mean I can dress him up like I do with Charles." said Leni . Lori then was trying to control the other sisters so they could get back on track.
"Everyone we must keep this meeting on track, also Leni you do remenber that time when you try to get Charles to wear something." Lori said as she slammed her shoe on a desk. "Oh ok then wait then how did Lola, and Lana manage to get Charles to wear a suit then for a dog show?" ask Leni. All of the sisters said they have no ideal how Lola managed to do that, and they do not want to find out. "Hey I have an idea why not take Lincoln to the arcade for a while. Maybe that might cheer him up." Luna sated fellow my Lucy said even though she picks the theme of the movie that they decide to watch tonight , but let Lincoln pick the movie. "Yea that sounds like a good idea to you two, but are you sure that it is ok that Linc picks the movie tonight even if Lucy picks the theme? "I do not nind, besides there are other movies that were made about vampires, and werewolves." Lucy stated. "Ok it is decided that we are taking Lincoln to Gus' Games and Grub." Lori said. So all of the girls went to Lincoln's bedroom and knocked until the white hair boy came out of his room still wearing his hoodie. "Hey Lincoln guse what we notice how you've been acting since last night, so we thought of taking you to Gus' Games and Grub for a few hours." Lori said. Did not want to talk to his sisters since they might learn about his voice. He grabbed a notebook and wrote that sounds fun guys, and I lost my voice. "So that's why Lincy does not feel good, he has to find his voice, so he can talk again!" scream Leni in a panic tone until Luna said that it does not work that way.
The louds kids are all crowded in Lori's car so they can go have some fun at Gus' Games and Grub, but before that Lynn ask how are they going to fit eight people in Lori's car since it is not big, also the van is in the airport and Lynn Sr, and Rita have the keys so Lori could not just drive to the airport and bring the van home for awhile. "Hey guys guess what now you know clowns fell in getting into that small car at the cruise." Luan said as she was laughing. All of the sisters told Luan to shut up with the jokes for a while. Once the louds kids arrive at Gus' Games and Grub, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, and Lincoln all fall out of Lori's car, while Leni is in the front holding Lily. The first thing that the louds did was a good old fashion game of lazer tag. Since they are eighth of them they decided to split into two teams to play the game. One team was Lori, Luna, Lincoln, and Lucy while the other team was Leni, Lynn, Luan, and Lily. During the game the louds kids were having fun but Lynn kinda got a little overboard on winning until she decided to calm down and take a breath. While playing laser tag Lily did notice something odd about her older brother. What she saw surprised the baby of the family as she saw her brother look like a girl in his face then his normal look. Lily then went to the other sisters and tried to tell them what she saw but the other sisters thought that Lily wanted to play a different game.
The louds kids spent about two to four hours at Gus' Games and Grub playing some other arcade games. One they all return home, Leni tells Lincoln even though Lucy has picked tonight, and orders some pizza. Out of all of the werewolf theme movies that the loud family have were the Twilight series, The Wolfman (2010), Ginger Snaps, American Werewolf in London, but the movie that Lincoln points at was Ginger Snaps which surprise all of his sisters that their brother has chosen that movie since it's a metaphor for girls growing up into a woman. "Is anyone confused? He picked that movie I figured it would be the Wolfman, or American Werewolf in London." Luan asked. "Well Lincoln is in middle school right now so maybe we want to learn about how a girl grows up. After all he is getting to the age where boys started to notice girls differently. Granted this is an odd way to explain it." Lori stated as she got off her cell phone to call a pizza delivery place. "Um how come Lincoln can't just ask us or talk to us about puberty?" ask Leni witch followers my Lori said it would be odd for her, Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lynn talk to their brother about the changes that a girl goes through during puberty. "Yea that is true since boys go through different stuff than we do when we hit puberty." Leni said. Shortly later the The pizza delivery guy came up to the loud house and dropped off the pizza while mumbling to himself that he doesn't get paid enough to drop off pizza to the biggest family in Royal Woods.
While watching the film with his sisters Lincoln started to feel funny like his own body started to change. So Lincoln told his sisters that he will be right back because he is going to put his pjs on. While in his room Lincoln removes the hoodie and notices his face is now smooth. Out of nowhere his heart beat is going faster, and faster than normal. The white hair boy started to yell in pain when he saw his hand. It was small, thin, and dainty; far from the meaty fingers he was used to. He looked at his other hand just in time to see it shrink down to match. A cracking sound brought his attention back to his upper body. His shoulders had been snapped down to a more delicate frame. gasped, his body was covered in sweat and he trembled with exhaustion and fear. The pounding in his head had not gone away, in fact, it had just gotten faster with his heartbeat. He started to stand up again, but then another wave of changes hit him as he noticed that his chest started to change into a body structure of his older sisters. Within a few minutes the transformation is done, so Lincoln decided to look in the mirror. He sees his own reflection but he notices that his body is similar to either Luna, Luan, or Leni, his white hair is longer, his skin is smooth. Trying not to freak out Lincoln started to examine his new body and started to check if this is a miss up dream or is this reality. "No, no this can't be happening to me, why can this happen to someone else's but me." scream Lincoln as his voice started to sound more like a girl. What was the nail in the coffin that made the loud boy learn that this is not a dream is he notices that something important is gone. "I have to remain calm, come on man try to stay calm!" yelled Lincoln at his reflection.
However within a few minutes Lincoln started to yelling and screaming which caught all of his sisters attention so all ten of them went to their brother door and knocked on their brother's door but no one answered so just like this morning Lynn decided to charge at it and break the door down. "Really Lynn again." Lori yelled at her athletic sister but the rest of the sisters saw a shocking face. "Uh guy you need to see this!" Lynn yelled " "Is Lincoln alright?" ask Leni .Lynn then ask depends on what you think is alright, soon all of the sisters see what Lynn was talking about instead of their brother in his pjs there was a girl who looked like Lincoln. "Lincoln!" yelled all of his concerned sisters. "Hey guys I think that urban legend of Bittie Beth is true." said a scary Lincoln.
All of the loud sisters can't believe what they see in front of their faces but it is real their brother has turned into a girl."Bro how did this happen to you?" ask Luna, so "Lincoln '' explains what happened last night when he saw the ghost of Bitte Beth, and she attacks him to due him trespassing on her land. "Wait, the old legend is true I thought it was just some make up story." Luan saidin a confused voice while without a pun. As Lincoln continues his story that after Lucy talks about the full blue moon, and was thinking about the curse he decides to go on his laptop to find some information about this cure. "What found out was that there is a thing called werewomen/weregirl and he was curse my being attack by Bitte Beth since in the legend the boy was transform into a girl by a witch." Lincoln answered his sisters while crying.
"Oh poor Lincy, sorry that this happened to you." said Leni. "So what are we going to do guys, mom and dad won't be back till Sunday in the morning, they are going to be mad since Lincoln is not himself. "Lori said. "She is right dudes mom and dad probably wouldn't be happy to see Lincoln look like this." Luna stated "Does Lisa have a machine or whatever to change or edit someone's memory? Maybe we could use that to cover this up until we found out what to do." said Lynn but was told that was not a good idea by Lori. "So in the meantime what do we call Lincoln now since it's going to be odd for us to call a boy's name to a girl. The older sisters notice that Lily was saying the word A. Luna noticed this and said maybe we should Linka since it's close to his nickname Linky. "Oh that is such a cute name ,Linka Loud thank you Lily for helping us with the name issie." Leni said. Then Linka asks her sisters if they are enjoying this, Lori said yea its kinda funny what happened to Linka, this causes a small chuckle. But after the sisters had their laugh they said that they will find a way to turn Linka back into Lincoln. All of the girls give eachother a family hug since they got till Sunday to change their brother back to normal.
As his sisters went to bed Linka was about to fall asleep until she heard a voice coming from her reflection in the mirror . "Hey in a way this is somewhat of an improvement do you agree." stated the strange voice from the mirror. "Who saids that?" ask a scared Linka, but the white hair girl got her answer. "Oh it's me, well it's the current you. I am Linka, the girl side for you." stated the reflection of Linka. "Ok I turn into a girl, now I am talking to my own reflection. This is not my day." Linka said with a loud sigh. The reflection version of Linka started to laugh and ask the real Linka this is what she always wanted. "What do you mean that I want this, my name is Lincoln Loud." Linka stated with prid. "You used to be Lincoln Loud, but now you are Linka Loud. Besides, you are not seeing the big picture of this gift. Now all of us louds kids are not on the same playing ground. No more feeling like a black sheep of the family. A family that is mostly girls, think about no more fights, no more different opinions about stuff and the best part of this no more feeling left out due to your gender." stated reflection of Linka which did cause Linka to think all of the fights, arguments that she had with her sisters when he was Lincoln. "You might have a point but what about my own hobbies, friends, and dreams." ask Linka "Oh come on you do realize that there are girls who love reading comics books. As for your friends they have to get used to it. As for our dreams and goals they are still the same when you were a boy. Come on you have taken on the bright side of this transformation trust me."stated reflection of Linka. After the weird talk to her own reflection the white hair girl went to sleep and was thinking what her reflection in the mirror said.
so part of Lincoln think staying as Linka would means a better life for the white hair kid, while the other half miss being Lincoln Loud. Also it is nice that the louds sister want to help their brother (sister) to turn back to normal since they do care for him. In the chapter the day of the week is monday so the the louds sisters have till sunday, while Linka have a week to think what her reflection self said.
