(A/N): Ollo! So, I am really getting into this fiction, so all these ideas are pooping into my head and stuff! Thanks for all the reviews, you guys don't know how happy I am to even get one review, you guys are awesome! :D So...I have a question, it's after the fic, though. Enjoy, read and review though :D
Ralph awakened with a sharp headache and a sudden hunger. His stomach throbbed with a lack of food, and the boy was forced to get up and try to find more berries from where he found them yesterday. Once he reached the bushes, he grabbed a few berries and glanced at a sleeping body that was nearby, his eyes shut and his breathing quiet. Ralph wasn't surprised, he wasn't normally a heavy sleeper whenever he was in his body, but he noticed that Jack's face was covered with the pink stain of berries and his mouth was open.
'Only Jack...' He thought as he kicked the other boy lightly and watched as the dark blue eyes opened slowly. Jack blinked repeatedly before looking up at the tall boy blocking the sunlight and squinted.
"Oh...uh, morning." Ralph rolled his eyes as the other boy slowly started to get up, the stains distracting him and causing the other boy to make a gesture for Jack to rub them off. Jack rubbed his arm over his mouth and yawned while stretching.
"So, are you ready for us the start the meeting?"
Jack blinked again, a look of exhaustion over him, before giving a confused look.
"Wait, we're still doing that?" Ralph nodded slowly while giving an obvious look, and Jack sighed. "Can't we wait until later?"
"Jack. Really?"
"I mean, I just woke up, and I am guessing that you did, too. We should wait until later on in the afternoon before we do anything like make a meeting."
Suddenly a look of awareness came onto the blonde boy as he glanced at a nearby pool of water nervously before walking over to a nearby bush and...started to unzip his pants. Ralph looked curiously at what Jack was doing.
"Jack...what are you doing?"
Jack looked back irritably. "...going to the restroom?"
Ralph's eyes widened before waving his hands frantically everywhere.
"Can't you wait until, you know, after we change back to our normal selves? I mean...well, you know!" Ralph said as an expression of disgust appeared on his face, and Jack rolled his eyes while placing his hands on his hips.
"Ralph, we're both boys here, so don't act like the overly feminine girl you are." Ralph stared at Jack as though a second head just grew out of his neck.
"Are you an idiot?! That's my, er, thing you're going to use, and you don't even care about how I feel?"
"...no? Since when do I care what you think?" The blonde replied before unzipping the shorts all the way and making a hole with his foot. Ralph covered his mouth with his hand in nauseation as the smell of urine soon floated to where he was.
The two boys walked reluctantly side by side while walking back to the beach to begin the meeting, after much persuasion by Ralph's part, and the two boys finally came to the tree stump with the conch shell sitting right next to it. The tall boy smiled while picking the shell up fondly, remembering the memories the shell had given him so far, and Jack could only roll his eyes. Ralph drummed his fingers against the shell while looking out into the bright, beautiful ocean before then deciding to blow into the shell. He pulled the shell up to his lips before realizing something crucial.
"Oh wait...," He muttered, and Jack scowled.
"What is it, now?"
"Nothing, just that...if someone sees me blow the shell, it wouldn't make any sense. I mean, since I am in your body, and everything."
The shorter boy looked at the shell, and a determined expression came upon his face.
"I will blow the shell, then."
Jack snatched the shell and wet his lips before glancing down at the shell in sudden discomfort.
"...you don't know how to do it, do you?"
Jack glanced up at Ralph and snickered humorously.
"What? Of course I know how to do it, I see you do it all the time. Besides, it's probably really easy." The smug expression made Ralph want to take a picture for blackmail purposes, but the boy decided it would be best for the boy to gloat in his own embarrassment. Ralph smirked, his new freckles bringing out the hidden intent in his eyes.
"Then do it." Jack eyes went back to the shell and brought the opening of the shell to his lips before attempting a fierce blow. Nothing came out, and Ralph's smirk widened.
"Not as easy as it sounds. huh?"
"Shut up! You've just had more experience is all!" Jack's face turned a very bright shade of red, contrasting very much so to the golden color of his hair. The blonde continued to attempt at blowing the conch, before Ralph sighed and took the shell from the other boy and brought it to his lips slightly, not all the way so he could talk.
"You have to spit it in, that's the way Piggy told me his friend did it."
"What? No, that's stupid."
The tall redhead sent a shuddering glare towards Jack and the boy shivered.
"So, that's what I look like when I get mad..."
"Jack!"
The other boy sighed before receiving the shell once again and doing as the other boy instructed, and all to his surprise, the conch actually made a very loud echoing sound, and Jack let go pridefully, happy with his work. Ralph smiled and nodded approvingly before watching as the other boys started to rush to where they were. Piggy was with Simon, the first ones there, with Roger, Maurice, Robert, Bill and others following afterwards. The littluns' and the twins came shortly after them, and not long, everyone arrived to where they were. The blonde boy realized that he had the conch, and he gave Ralph a discouraging look of not really knowing what to say. Ralph only sighed before taking the shell away politely and looking at the boys with amusement, but waited until the chattering between them silenced before speaking. Ralph realized it would be hard to tell them without hard, solid proof, but hopefully they would understand.
"Hullo, everyone. I wanted to make a meeting, because there is something Jac-, uh I mean Ralph and I would like to say. Something very important."
The blonde looked up in apprehension as Ralph passed the conch shell to him and stood closer to his side.
"Y'see, something happened the night before, and we have no clue what happened, really. Now, once we tell you, we don't want any of you guys to get upset, because that would be the one thing we wouldn't want. However, when me and Ralph woke up earlier this morning, we have come to realize that we...switched."
The silence that followed them caused Jack's cheek to blush madly while letting his hand cover his face in shame. Deafening and awe-stuck, the crowd of boys exchanged looks of shock before their faces turned more comedic. Loud, erupting laughter came out of the boys, and Ralph shook his hands madly.
"N-no! Please, we're not joking!"
Roger, being the loudest, slapped his knee repeatedly before trying to keep his breathing maintained. The black-haired boy stood up, still laughing, and walked over to the redhead before taking the conch from him forcefully.
"If you can really prove that, which I doubt you can, then prove it, smartass." Roger hissed, while some of the other boys kept laughing. Ralph exchanged looks with Jack before the blonde took the shell from Roger and hissed.
"Dammit, Roger, this is fucking serious. Do you really think that if I were in my body I would joke about something like this? Well, fuck you if you do!"
Roger looked at Jack, or in his eyes Ralph, and gave a look of skepticism, and Ralph's eyes widened as the blonde boy landed a solid hit in Roger's chest. The noirette fell to his knees before Maurice and Robert came to his side to help him. They glared at Jack with an intensity that could kill even the strongest lions.
"...Ralph?" Piggy stuttered, feeling his eyes widen as the blonde boy looked up in fear at what had just happened. The dark blue orbs looked around everywhere to not find a single happy face, and he started backing away slowly, the anger still bubbled up to the brim of release. Needless to say, the rest of that meeting didn't end on a high note as Jack quickly ran away in fear into the jungle while dropping the conch, with Ralph following right behind him.
Ralph picked up a sharpened rock he found on the ground and started aimlessly sharpening a nearby twig he found just stranded on the pathway he was walking. It was still afternoon, and the boy watched as Jack, who was still in front of him but who was no longer running, keep glancing at the ground. A melancholy silence filled the atmosphere around them, and Ralph bit his lip before deciding to start a conversation.
"I can't believe they didn't understand." The redhead muttered before glancing at Jack stopping in his tracks. He turned away quickly before stepping up to him and pointing a finger in his face. He looked like he wanted to say something, his eyes searched the other boy's to say something he couldn't really grasp the words to, but Jack slowly looked away and fell on the ground sadly. Ralph smiled slightly.
"Well, it will come in time. Everything has a tendency of coming together in the end, doesn't it?"
Jack looked up and smiled slightly too, although it was uncharacteristic, and the boy found himself standing up again and stretching his arms. The sun was bearing itself down on them, and both of the boys watched as something rustled within the leaves. They stood, prepared for whatever it is, Ralph being defensive with his twig, and Jack stepping in behind the taller boy, and watched as a certain boy came through the leaves. It was Simon.
Both boys sighed in relief as Simon walked over to where they were. Jack remembered that out of all the boys who laughed, Simon was not one of them, and the small boy smiled widely.
"Hey Ralph, Jack. How's the switch coming for you guys?"
Ralph and Jack exchanged glances of surprise before passing it on to Simon, who was standing and having his hands behind his back shyly. Ralph opened his mouth to say something, but Jack beat him to it.
"Wait, so you believe us?" The little boy nodded, and Ralph smiled appreciatively.
"That's great!"
Simon's eyes showed a happiness that could come from the green orbs that colored the small boy's personality, but Jack still wasn't convinced if the little boy was being sincere, or playful.
"How do you know that it's true, though?"
"I know because if you guys never did switch, if everything was normal, then Jack would never have been holding the conch. It's always either Ralph or Piggy," Simon said. Ralph smirked towards the shorter boy who wet his dehydrated lips in agitation.
"Fine, fine, good to know we have somebody on our side now," Jack stated patting Simon's back and letting the cool breeze from the ocean lift his hair up. Ralph looked at Jack and let his mind wander about what ways to convince at least some of the boys that they were being true, and Ralph knew if there was one person he should try to convince again, it should be Piggy, considering that Piggy's intelligence was the key thing that could help them figure this crap out.
The tall boy explained the situation a littler clearer to Simon, and the little boy actually volunteered to help the two boys with whatever they may needed, so whenever Ralph suggested they go and tell Piggy about it, Jack snickered and shook his blonde head.
"Why should we try to get help from that fatty? It was obvious before that he was too thick-brained to help, considering how he didn't believe you before."
Ralph smirked before pulling Simon and hugging him from the side.
"Yeah, yeah, but now we have Simon, so at least we have someone, right? Simon can help try to explain to Simon, and since Simon and Piggy hang out a lot, Piggy would find it hard not to agree." Simon nodded in agreement as Jack still looked doubtful. He looked up slightly and blew some blonde bangs away from his eyes before nodding slowly. Simon and Ralph smiled at each other as the three boys walked away and tried to find Piggy.
Piggy didn't know what to believe.
As much as the boy wanted to believe that Ralph was just high-strung from the lack of society to give that punch to Roger and cause the boy to have a severe bruise on his body, he just couldn't believe that Ralph would do something so...spontaneous. True, Jack's character fitted that attitude perfectly, but could he really try to believe that what the two boys were trying to convince him before...was true?
The fat boy shook his head, trying to be rational. It couldn't be true, it just wasn't done that way. The only realistic point the boy could make was his first assumption, about Ralph being hysterical due to a lack of sleep, maybe, or just the fact that he could have been frantically homesick. Whatever the reason may be, Piggy couldn't believe something as stupid and fictional as two souls actually...switching bodies.
Piggy left his shelter and sighed to realize that the sun didn't look like it was going down anytime soon. The sun still shone brightly, scorching the fat boy's skin with its merciless rays and causing his cheeks to catch a glimpse of sunburn. Even after all these days, weeks, maybe even months of being on the island, the boy still could not be used to the hot sun and the occasional weather changes, like the pouring thunderstorms and the random hurricanes. It was weird, compared to the constant raining in London, but the boy knew he could adjust to the weather here. At least, mentally, but the sunburns that appeared on his arms and legs begged to differ.
The boy decided to check on the signal fire again, to make sure that if there was a ship out there, they'd be able to see the smoke and come to rescue them. He cleaned his specs before walking into the jungle to find some wood, before seeing a rather familiar figure running through the trees. Actually, it was not one, but three figures that kept approaching him, and out of fear that the figures were coming to kill him, considering that the Beast could be anywhere, Piggy feel and started to plead for forgiveness.
"Oh, Lord, please forgive me. I know I have not been the best, but surely I am too young to die? Just forgive me and give me mercy!" The boy's eyes squinted closed and his hands found themselves in a praying gesture, and a snicker could be heard in the silence. Piggy opened one of his eyes to find that Jack, Ralph, and Simon were standing above him with smiles and laughter coming out of them. Piggy glared angrily.
"You...you scared me to death, you did!" Piggy shouted, standing up and straightening the glasses that became crooked during the entire scene. Ralph looked at his friend, and his eyebrows furrowed together in the look of interest that could only appear on the face of Jack Merridew, and the tall boy began to speak.
"Listen, Piggy, we know that during the meeting you didn't believe us, but can't you please believe us, now? I mean, Simon understands, so if I manage to, maybe, persuade you to believe..."
Piggy's eyes still held that frightened look within them, and the fat boy shook his head strongly before starting to walk away. Simon caught up to him with a pleading look, and Jack ran in front of him.
"Listen, fatty, I don't like you as much as the next guy, but listen to Ralph, okay? He's telling the truth." Piggy glanced from Jack to Ralph tediously, and the fat boy put his hand over his head with a sigh. Ralph made a gesture to the other two boys to convince them to leave the other two boys alone, and Jack took Simon's arm before leading him off somewhere else for the time being. Piggy watched as Ralph smiled.
"Piggy, don't you believe me?"
"..how can I believe you, Jack? I mean, tell me something. Tell me something only Ralph would know about me, then I will believe you." Piggy placed his arm back at his side again and smirked challengingly at Ralph, while the redhead looked up and bit his lower lip in thought. This was hard, especially since that Ralph hadn't known Piggy for very long, but an idea flashed with the boy's had, and the smile that was there before came on again.
"What about your auntie's shop? It was a candy shop, right? You told me...you told me whenever we were on the beach the day we landed, right? Oh, and we found the conch shell together, you told me that your friend spat into the conch and blew it like a horn, right? And I told you to watch over the littluns while Jack, Simon and I went exploring the island that first day, right?"
Piggy's expression of doubt suddenly turned into a look of complete shock and he raised his hand up to his mouth in disbelief.
"Oh my God...," the fat boy whispered as the redhead nodded in agreement.
"I had to tell you Piggy because I know you're smart enough to help me and Jack get back to normal. You'll help, won't you?"
Piggy couldn't speak. He attempted a nod, but took off his glasses and put them on again, just to make sure he wasn't turning batty or dreaming.
"I just have to get used to it, is all...but, yes, I will help." Ralph smiled and gave the boy a thumbs up before summoning Jack and Simon, who weren't that far off, back to where they were. Piggy apologized to Ralph that he didn't believe him, and Ralph just shook it off before looking at the other three boys with a smirk.
"It's fine. After all, now we have the people we need to get this taken care of."
The three boys walked off from where they were as their stomachs began to growl, beckoning them to grab something to eat, and afternoon sun still hung in the light blue sky like a huge golden ball as the three boy began to further discuss the situation. Now that Piggy and Simon were with them, Ralph was sure that they would be able to figure this out...or certainly die trying.
Hey guys, so I was wondering...am I making Jack OOC in any way? I feel like I keep making his character so not-his-character, but I don't want to! Also, critique me please: Am I using too much dialogue and not enough action? Answers to these questions would make me very happy :D Thanks for reading!