Gwen spent hours looking through Charmcaster's spell book to see if there was a reverse process to the transformation spell. She looked up from the small book to check the time. Her alarm clock read 8:30pm.
"Time to tell them the next lie" she said with a groan. She hated lying especially to her friends & family. She quietly crept out of her room, down the hallway to the staircase and stopped halfway down the staircase so she could see both of her parents sitting in the lounge room reading. Her mother looked up from the book she was reading.
"I'm going to bed now."
"Honey its only 8:30. You can stay up if you want to."
"No. I have an exam coming up so I need to get some early nights."
"Alright then. Good night Gwen."
"Night mum. Night dad."
"Good night sweetie. We love you"
As Gwen quickly ran up the stairs she felt a single tear on her cheek as she walked down the hallway into her room.
"I love you guys too."
Gwen grabbed her small bag and put it on her desk. She put Charmcaster's spell book in it. She then looked at it with a thought in her mind.
"It should be big enough to put Kevin's ID mask in."
She then heard the sound of light switches clicking. She knew that her parents went to bed at 8:40pm every night. She looked over at her alarm clock and it read 8:40pm as if on cue.
"Well I'd better start heading over to the garage."
She picked up her bag & put it over her shoulder. She then opened her window & created some manna platforms so she could get down without making a sound. When she reached the ground she ran off in the direction that lead to the garage.
Kevin was underneath his car when he heard footsteps approaching him. He slid from underneath the car to see Ed, the bigger mechanic who ran the garage.
"Hey Ed."
"Kev some of the guys are going to a party. Do you want to tag along?"
"Nah. Not my kind of thing and I have plans tonight anyway."
"You work on your car all the time."
"I have plans with Gwen."
"Finally asked her out did you?"
"No! I'm working on it though."
"Yeah sure. That's what you said last time. Don't forget to lock up."
"I always do."
As Ed left the garage Gwen came running in and sat in one the chairs to catch her breath.
"Did you run all the way here?"
"Yes"
Kevin got and walked into the office connected to the garage. He grabbed a bottle of water that was sitting on the desk. He went back into the garage & gave the bottle to Gwen.
"Thanks."
"I know it's not cold or anything…"
"That's ok."
Gwen unscrewed the lid & gulped down the warm water.
"That's better."
"So uhh…how's this spell thing going to work?"
"Well you'll need to be asleep when I perform it but at the chime of each hour I'll say the spell word & what ever material substance I'm removing and it will come off you."
"Then where does the material go?"
"Back to its rightful place in nature."
"Okay when do you start the spell?"
"Midnight."
"What should we do until then? I mean its only 9:00 now"
"Do whatever I guess."
"Gwen… why didn't you tell me you were looking for a spell to cure me?"
"Because you would have pestered me all the time!"
"Would not."
"Gwen, have you found a spell yet?" Gwen said mocking Kevin
"Okay but I know that is not the reason why you were looking for a spell."
"It's because I want to see you happy again Kevin."
"What?"
"You're so miserable and isn't fair how you have to go through this again. I'm just trying to fix it so you are happy again."
Kevin took in everything Gwen said to him. She wanted him happy. He didn't understand why. He had been a jerk to her in the past few days & she was still trying to help him.
"Oh you'll need to take off your I.D. mask too Kevin."
Kevin took off his mask to reveal his true self. He hated seeing his reflection in the mirror. Every time he saw it he wanted to break the mirror. He had done that to Gwen's small make-up mirror when she showed him what he looked like the first time. He was going to have to buy her a new small make-up mirror.
"Hey Kevin how do you work that mask?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Something to pass the time."
"Okay I'll show how to look like…"
"Me. Just program it to like me."
"Okay."
It Kevin a couple of seconds to re-wire the mask properties but when he put it on again he looked a clone of Gwen.
"Awesome Kev. Now take it off again."
"Why are you so interested in I.D. masks all of the sudden Gwen?" Kevin inquired as he took off the mask again.
"Just because it's… an interesting piece of Alien Tech. Anyway give it to me."
"Why?"
"So I can give it back to Grandpa Max when I see him."
"Okay Gwen."
Kevin handed Gwen the mask & she put it in her bag.
"Let's get some sleep. I'll need to have all energy I can get later tonight." Gwen said as she set an alarm on her mobile.
"Okay and Gwen…"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you."
Gwen smiled at Kevin.
"Your welcome."
Kevin got up and sat in the chair next to Gwen. It wasn't long before the two had drifted off to sleep.
Gwen's mobile started going off at 12:55am waking her up. She looked over to Kevin who was snoring and "dead to the world". She knew nothing could wake him up.
She got out of her chair, went to her bag and got Charmcaster's spell book. She then walked over and stood in front of Kevin. She checked mobile again. It read 1:00am.
"Zubale woodus" Gwen chanted.
Kevin's legs started to glow pink then white energy lines came out of them and went to Gwen's legs. In moments Gwen's dark jeans had turned into wooden legs.
At 2:00am she chanted "Zubale rockus."
Half her body and face was covered in stone.
At 3:00am she chanted "Zubale metalus."
She felt the cold metal cover the rest of her body. All that was left was the left side of her face.
At 4:00am she felt tears go down the left side of her face as she chanted "Zubale Crystalus." The left side of her face became solid and rough.
She went into the bathroom to look at her new "look". Her hair was half stone and half crystal. Her green eyes stood out on her face of stone and crystal. It looked like she had a black leotard on but she couldn't tell as the light in bathroom wasn't really good. She tapped her solid wooden legs. Hoping they might break off and reveal her true legs but they didn't even split. Gwen exited the bathroom, grabbed her bag and put on the I.D. Mask on. To any other person she looked like herself. Before she left she went over to Kevin who now wearing his blue over shirt with a white shirt underneath, his dark jeans and his boots. Gwen bent over and kissed him on the cheek. She then went to door next to the garage door. Before she left she looked back over at Kevin who was sleeping peacefully.
"I hope your happy Kevin" she whispered as she left the building and headed back to her home.
Charmcaster sat meditating in her new rock prison. She was trying to gain any manna she could but it just wouldn't work.
"Ahh I hate this. I only have a quarter of my power and…"
She stopped in mid-sentence as she felt a strong surge of power coming from somewhere. It surged four times.
"What was that? Hmm… wait a minute it surged four times which means that… dear little Gwen has used the transformation spell. Oh this is too perfect. I'll bet Kevin and Ben don't know what she has turned into which means I'll have to expose her for the monster she truly is."
