Your wished has been granted! An Update! The title this time is "You're So Vain", a song by Carly Simon.
Foaly woke up in a metal room. He got up and pounded on the door but it didn't budge. Something felt different but he wasn't sure what it was. He was going to kick the door with his hind legs, but when his hoof made contact with the metal he saw that it was not a hoof at all, but a human foot. Pain came from the impact and he fell back on his human bum, but he didn't notice the pain. Foaly stared at the appendage in shock and surprise. Slowly, almost as if he were scared, he reached out his hand and touched the place where a hoof should be and pulled it back quickly when he realized he wasn't just imagining it. How..? What happened to me? He wondered, moving closer to the metal wall. It reflected his appearance, as he thought it would, so he could see if anything else had changed. The first thing he noticed was his face. His skin was considerably lighter being that it wasn't covered in a thin layer of fur anymore. His hair was longer now, coming down to his shoulders. He looked about seventeen, but it was hard to tell. He looked at himself in the reflection, leaning his head on the wall and sobbing.
Earlier.
"I hope you didn't have too much trouble hauling him back here." The younger pixie smiled.
"Not in the least, Young Mistress. I would like to know what you plan to do with him though." Artemis responded.
She shrugged, "My older self already has plans."
"Yes. And they must be implemented immediately." The Older Opal walked in and glared at Artemis.
He nodded and said, "Yes, Mistress. What would you like me to do with the centaur?"
She smiled wickedly and said, "Place him in the DNA Chamber. We'll have something to do with your DNA after all."
Young Opal looked at her elder suspiciously. She was curious as to what her other self had in mind, so she followed her to the lab. Artemis had managed to get the centaur into the glass tube somehow and was standing near the control panel. He looked composed and serious like he usually did when the older Opal was around, but the younger knew he'd had a hard time with the order. The boy was stronger than he was when they'd taken him, but hauling a centaur would prove a difficult task for anybody. She was impressed that he could do it, and even more impressed that he didn't let it show how hard he had to work. He raised an eyebrow at her and she realized her emotions had been written on her face. Straightening herself and taking a serious expression she took her position to manipulate the controls.
Her elder spoke, "Good. Begin extraction."
Young Opal nodded and began the process. Just as it went with Artemis, a needle came down from the top of the tube and extracted DNA from Foaly. Another of the small tubes was filled, this time with a green liquid.
The older Opal's cruel smile became psychotic as she said, "Now… Erase the code!"
"What?!" the younger exclaimed, "It could kill him! That hasn't been tested yet!"
Her senior's face distorted, her pretty features becoming ugly with rage, "You think I care?! That centaur has undermined me for the last time! Do it now!"
After a look of shock passed the younger began to erase the genetic details of Foaly's DNA, stripping away gene after gene. As the process continued the centaur began to stir and scream in pain. His image was obscured when the liquid was injected back into the chamber as a mist that coated the glass, but they could still hear the screams.
When Older Opal gave her next order vemon dripped from her words, "Replace it. Human DNA should produce an interesting result."
Young Opal hesitated but did as instructed, inserting the human genes where the centaur genes had been removed then injecting the mist into the chamber. The two mixed together forming a color reminiscent of the ocean.
The young Opal glanced back at Artemis. His eyes were fixated on the tube, watching with emotionless eyes. It was impossible to tell if he felt anything, but she liked to think he would. They used to be friends… Surely he has to care? The young pixie thought to herself, then again he did bring him here in the first place.
The screaming faded and eventually stopped. Older Opal gave a deranged giggle, turned to her younger self, and said, "Open it! I want to see my beautiful creation!"
She rushed to the chamber as the doors opened with the other two casually following behind. A human teen fell out of the tube and on to the floor; he looked older than Artemis, but only by a few years. Understandable, Artemis reasoned, fairies age differently than humans. The age would translate to being younger. The group observed the new human. He had a beautiful face and long, thin limbs. He lay there wearing the clothes he'd had on previously, a sweater that was now too big for him, looking like a sleeping child. His shoulder-length hair was plastered to his face, still wet from the mist.
The elder Opal stared down at the teen and laughed manically, "This is perfect!"
She whipped around and stumbled slightly before standing up straight and laughing again, sounding completely insane. The other two noticed her eye twitching, but she continued through the room to the door. She stopped to say, "Oh. Put him in one of the store rooms and lock the door, just to make sure he doesn't get out." Then left.
Artemis sighed and nodded once before hefting the other teen over his shoulder, no easy feat considering the other was a foot taller than him, and took him to a storage closet.
In The Present.
Holly jumped out of bed at the news with an angry, determined look on her face. Juliet shot up too and stood in front of the elf saying, "Where are you going?"
For her part, Holly glared into Juliet's eyes and stared her down furiously despite how weak she still was.
"Get out of my way, Juliet. I'm going to get my friends… and give Opal a piece of my mind." She said.
"You've lost your mind if you think I'm letting you out of here. You haven't recovered from your injury yet!" Juliet replied, glaring back.
Holly seethed and shouted, "I'm fine! And I'm no use to anybody if I just lay here forever! Meanwhile Artemis has been brainwashed and who-knows-what is being done to Foaly right now! I'm going and you won't get in my way!"
"Then you'll have to move me because I'm not letting you through!" Juliet persisted.
Holly balled her fists and replied darkly, desperation in her voice, "Then I will!"
Juliet's eyes widened and she stood down, moving so the elf could get out the door.
She picked up her things from the front desk and quickly changed into her uniform. Holly ran out the front doors and took off, activating her wings. She was going to find Opal, and when she did the psychotic power-hungry pixie would regret ever meeting Holly Short.
"It looks like our little friend is up on her feet again. It doesn't matter though. She won't interfere." Opal said, absently rubbing the spot where the point of her ear had been years before. She glanced at the charts in front of her and looked over the results.
"The experiment went perfectly. We can start collecting the samples and we'll be well on our way to completing stage two of glorious my plan." She continued.
Suddenly, she stood and walked over to a small cube in the corner.
"I think it's about time I rewarded myself. Immortality is just around the corner…" She purred, opening the cube. She smiled and drew out a chocolate truffle.