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Changeling:
Alec extends his wings and takes flight heading straight up into the sky towards the purple moon. As he draws closer he opens his mouth and a golden light forms inside, 'Creation Dragons: Roar'. A twister of golden light rushes towards the moon and appears to hit something causing the moon and sky to fracture, and break revealing the real sky and moon.
"That should turn things back to normal now." Alec says, he looks down towards the island and sees a flying shocked Natsu heading straight towards him.
Alec flies out of the way watching Natsu go past him. Natsu momentum begins to slow down and starts to fall back down to the island.
Alec catches Natsu before he gets too far for him to reach out. Sure he can fly to grab him but Alec knows that Happy should be able to catch him if he's nearby.
"Oh my gosh thanks for catching me there, hey you wouldn't happen to know someone named Alec would you? You smell just like him, hold on, you smell exactly like him! Alec is that you?" Natsu questions sitting in the dragon's scaly palm. Alec growls before saying, "Shouldn't you know what I smell like by now, no matter what I look like? At times like these I question if Igneel rushed your training. But then again you sound and act just like him from time to time." Alec states.
"So this is what you really look like. You… look… Awesome! Anyway you'll never believe it but the village is back to normal like it was never attacked." Natsu explains.
"That's good, at least they don't need to rebuild the village." Alec says.
"Anyway, I should probably return to Magnolia for the sanity of the villagers. Also let them keep the reward, I don't exactly need it. Anyway, pray that Happy catches you Natsu." Natsu looks confused before Alec slides Natsu out of his palm and he starts falling once again to the island only to yell, "ALEC YOU BASTARD!" Alec smiles as he just watches Natsu fall before Happy catches him bringing him down to safety.
"Well now that that's settled I'm going home, I'm tired after all this." Alec says as he then starts to fly in the direction of Magnolia.
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In Magnolia Forest, Alec is asleep in a grassy field with a gentle breeze blowing through the trees. "You're destroying the herbs you giant lizard!" An old woman's voice yells in frustration.
Alec opens one of his scaly eyes to see Porlyusica standing there with a vein popping out of her forehead holding a basket and some tools. "This place has been my territory for the last 400 years child, and I'm going to sleep wherever I want. No human is going to change that because of some plants." Alec states, he then closes his eye again to fall back asleep but he then hears Porlyusica going on a rant.
"I don't speak gibberish so I don't understand what you're saying Porlyusica. Is that even a language?" Alec questions, Porlyusica immediately starts to get more angry.
"How dare you say that! Just because you're a dragon doesn't give you the right to act all high and mighty." Porlyusica retorts, Alec realizing he'll never get to sleep again with the old woman around then opens his eyes and gets to his feet.
"You're lucky I need to go give a report to Makarov about the quest I just came back on. So I'll leave but don't bug me again when I'm exhausted I enjoy my sleep." Alec points out to the old woman. "Well then don't sleep where I pick my herbs and I won't have to." Porlyusica counters, Alec transforms back into his human form looking like a 18 year old but wearing a blue jean jacket with a white undershirt and tan pants.
"You still like prancing around in a teenage appearance with no shoes do you." Porlyusica says, "Of course I do, you humans pay less attention to me that way." Alec says as he starts walking towards Magnolia town.
"That woman better wake up soon Alec! You know I don't like humans at my house!" Porlyusica yells, Alec just waves his hand in acknowledgment.
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Alec opens the door to the guild and sees the normal drinking and yelling but surprised no fighting. But then he sees Loki on the floor knocked out by a table surrounded by Lucy, Natsu, Grey, Erza and happy standing on the table. Alec makes his way over to them curious on what they're looking at on the table.
As he gets closer he sees a job request on the table and Natsu starts to say words that sound like an incantation. "No, don't say it!" Alec yells as he bolts towards Natsu hoping to stop him from reading the strange words on the parchment. Natsu finishes saying the incantation and nothing happens. Alec grabs Natsu's collar and yells, "What the Hell have you done you idiot!" The parchment begins to shine a rainbow light.
"Poor kids they're so scared of Masters punishment they did this instead." Wakaba states. "I wonder what's gonna happen now?" Macao adds, the light fades away and everything seems normal before the Grey starts acting weird.
"I'm so cold." Grey says, his body shivering. "What? Ice wizards don't get cold, you big cry baby." Elfman says. "I'm serious you guys, can somebody turn up the heat before I freeze to death in here!" Grey stutters.
"What's going on? My chest feels really weird all of a sudden, like it's heavy and my back hurts too!" Lucy complains. "You doing alright Lucy, your voice seems awfully low." Macao points out.
"What are you talking about I'm-" Grey turns and looks at Lucy and jumps back in shock, "What the!"
Loki then opens his eyes and says "That's weird why am I looking at the ceiling?" Loki then gets to his feet and rubs his head. Alec then says, "That's weird I thought I was the one on the floor and why do I have Natsu by the collar?" Alec releases Natsu and turns his head and sees Lucy. He then freaks and attempts to run before getting grabbed by the collar by Natsu.
"And where the hell do you think you're going bud?" Natsu says menacingly, causing Alec to sweat. "You good Alec? Hey why do I sound like a girl?" Lucy questions. "I'm no doctor but I bet my money it's because you are one Lucy" Macao says, "Why is everyone behaving so foolishly?" Happy asks firmly and composed. Erza gasps and turns to Natsu and says, "Hey Natsu check it out!"
Loki turns to look in the direction of Erza, "Check what out I can't see anything, the room is so dark." Loki says in frustration.
"I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure I haven't always had these. Have I, have I?" Erza says, grabbing her boobs. The men in the guild look in awe, Happy looks in horror and goes to kick Erza only to be met by armor sending tremors throughout his body.
"I don't know what's happened to me. I've never felt so tiny and weak before. It's almost like I've turned into a cat." Happy glooms.
"I'm starting to get freaked out, first I'm totally freezing and now there's a complete look-alike of me." Grey states, "What are you talking about? whoa I'm seeing another version of me!" Lucy says.
"How can you be such an idiot? Can't you see what's happened to us? We've all switched bodies." Happy points out, "You're correct about that, and it's because of that parchment Natsu read." Natsu calmly states.
"You know how to fix it then right umm..." Happy stops speaking not knowing who's in Natsu's body.
"I've only heard of the spell but never experienced it firsthand. So my knowledge on it is very limited. What I do know is that it can be undone and it has to be done within the 30 minutes of which the spell was originally cast at least that's what I heard, it could just be hearsay though. However I'd say it's been about... 14 minutes since it's been casted therefore I'd like Levy to research and decipher a way to change us back to normal. I would do it myself, but I don't trust whoever's in my body right now." Fake Natsu says as he continues to glare daggers at Alec, causing everyone in the guild to be shocked that any Natsu, despite it not being him said anything about research and not fighting. "The way you're glaring at Alec makes me think you're Alec in Natsu's body…" Wakaba says.
"I guess you're not as stupid as I thought you were Wakaba." Natsu now revealed to be Alec says with a smirk.
"Yup you're Alec alright. So who's the rest of you." Cana says taking a break from her booze.
"I'm Grey." Fake Lucy says, "I'm Lucy." Fake Grey says with chattering teeth. "I'm Happy." Fake Erza announces. "No it can't be, Happy is in... my body." Fake Happy says in horror. "Seriously, someone turn on the lights or I'm going to burn this place to the ground!" Fake Loki shouts. "That's obviously Natsu then that must mean you're in my body Loki." Alec says.
"It appears the Changeling spell has been cast." Makarov says in the doorway of the guild. "Master!" Erza says happily, "Gramps you're back!" Natsu says as the two run to the door.
"You kids have really done it now. But it's not my problem because you're the ones who cast it and I guess this will be your punishment. And here I was so looking forward to punishing you myself. But you did it to yourselves." Makarov grins, Alec releases flames around him out of anger.
"Hey kid… should I remind you that one of your… precious… children are in my body and could probably switch back into my real form at any time, possibly destroying the town and guild, along with killing people if they give into negative emotions. Do you want that on your conscience till you die?" Alec growls, Makarov turns pale realizing the danger of Alec's warning.
"Maybe I could help a bit… Levy go decipher the parchment. I'll go to the library to find any books that could help." Makarov commands, he goes up to Natsu and takes Loki's sunglasses off so he can see.
"I can see again thanks Gramps." Makarov sighs and heads towards the library and Levy goes to the table where the parchment is and gets started on deciphering it.
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"I did it! I finally know what it says!" Levy shouts in excitement, "Well come on what does it say!" Grey impatiently demands. "It says… 'Everyone who's been switched by the spell will live happily ever after you're so lucky!" Levy says enthusiastically, this hit like a bombshell.
"Oh no way are you telling me we're stuck like this forever!" Natsu yells in anger.
"We wanted you to lift the spell, not read it remember." Grey says. "Oh that's right, sorry everyone." Levy says embarrassed. "No that's okay, you got this, I have faith that you've got to work a little faster okay. Maybe there's a hidden code or secret message in it, something like that." Lucy says. "Yeah good idea!" Levy, now ready for the challenge, gets back to work. Jet and Droy are behind her cheering her on for support.
9 minutes go by and Levy groans in frustration, "I'm still not seeing any kind of pattern here. It doesn't make any sense."
"Three minutes left." Macao reminds the group. "Not helping!" Alec yells at Macao. "This is it, eating fish three meals a day. I've worked so hard till now only to be trapped in Happy's body in the end." Erza glooms. "Its gonna be alright Erza, here this should make you feel better." Happy hands Erza a fish. "A fish!… I don't wanna." Erza cries.
"Can you be anymore clueless!" Lucy shouts.
"Any time now would be nice, beautiful." Loki calls out, Alec hits him in the head. "Don't say that in my body dipshit, it's disgusting!"
"One minute left!" Macao says. "Can you stop doing that!" Natsu says in anger.
"Okay, I think I got this last part worked out." Levy says just then Elfman can be seen joining Jet and Droy in cheering on Levy. "Work it Levy, yeah! You're on fire!" Elfman cheers. "He's too good at that." Wakaba sweat drops.
"I've found nothing else to help Levy in the library besides the books I've already given her." Makarov says.
"If I'm stuck in Natsu's body then you're going to have to deal with Loki being a dragon on your own because I ain't gonna be apart of that!" Alec declares.
Grey yells before saying, "We're not gonna make it!" Grey then tries to take Lucy's top off of him. Lucy quickly grabs her arms to prevent him from doing so. "Taking my shirt off isn't going to change anything Grey!", "Let go of me!" Grey demanded.
"You guys got about 40 seconds left." Macao states, "Shut up!" Alec yells.
"I just remembered something about the spell. Although it is possible to lift, it must be done one at a time." Makarov says.
"We don't have time for that we just need to do it all at once and hope we get put back in our correct bodies." Alec says. "How am I supposed to flirt with girls as a big lizard!?" Loki grabs his head in pain with both hands, he then unintentionally releases some magic power that causes everyone in the guild to struggle to breathe due to the pressure being produced by Alec's magic. "Loki… calm the fuck down… You're choking everyone… with magic!" Alec gasps. Loki, though does the opposite upon seeing his friends falling unconscious one by one from the magical pressure he's producing with his emotions.
Alec struggles to get onto his feet and makes it over to Loki. He then grabs Loki by the shoulders and looks him straight in the eyes, then gets close to his ear and says, "Calm down Leo… everything is going to be fine, but you need to take a deep breath and calm down. Everything will return to normal soon after." Loki upon hearing the name Leo breaks him out of his panic and looks at Alec seeing ragged breathing and sweat. "It's weird hearing Natsu tell me what to do even if I know it's you Alec." Loki somberly says.
"Yeah well, I don't normally need to tell someone how to control their emotions." Alec comebacks.
"Listen carefully Loki, you're going to need to use my magic here okay. Focus and don't let anything distract you, concentrate on what I'm saying alright." Alec says, and Loki nods. "20… seconds." Macao says from the floor.
"Close your eyes and picture the world around you frozen in place except Levy and myself. Once you get that mental image make a T with your hands and this is important… keep the image the entire time even after you say this because if you don't, everything will move again. Anyway, say creation magic time out. Hopefully what I'm planning works." Alec explains, Loki closes his eyes makes a T with his hands as instructed and says 'Creation Magic: Time Out'.
The world begins to slow down but not to a complete stop but slow enough to buy time. "Good job Loki." Alec then lets go of Loki and rushes over to Levy.
"Levy! Wake up, we don't have time for a nap!" Alec then slaps Levy and she wakes up in pain.
"Ow that hurt Natsu!" Levy cries out.
"Still Alec Lev, not Natsu… anyway we managed to buy a little bit of time but not much. We need to figure this out now before Loki loses concentration or the mental image. Now tell me what you've managed to figure out so far I might be able to help."
"Okay well, I've managed to figure out that the words themselves have no meaning. So I was thinking that if I say them backwards it will undo the spell." Levy explains, "That makes sense… hey if you switch me and Loki right now I'll keep this time spell going while you switch the others one at a time. We don't want you accidentally switching everyone in the guild into each other's bodies." Alec states, Levy's eyes go wide.
"That thought never occurred to me. I'll do it right now!" Levy and Alec walk over to Loki where you can tell he's struggling to keep the spell going. "Okay, go over beside Loki and I'll chant the spell in reverse." Levy says, Alec sits down and closes his eyes.
"Alright I'm ready, just so you know you might feel a little nauseous because after Loki and I switch bodies, I'll need to cast the spell again. Especially since the spell won't be released correctly and will be overlapping this current one, just be prepared for it." Alec explains, Levy nods and she begins to chant the incantation in reverse.
Alec feels a jerk on his soul before he hears the world around him in chaos again. Upon muscle memory Alec creates a T with his hands and with an echoed voice says, 'Creation Magic: Time Out'. This time, everything and everyone except Alec, Levy, Loki, Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Grey and Erza are completely frozen in time. In fact the group notices that the environment has a tint of blue to it.
"What's wrong Levy are you sick?" Lucy asks the hunched over Levy covering her mouth.
"I'll… be fine… I was told this would happen." Levy explains, "Hey why am I in Natsu's body now!?" Loki questions.
"I switched you and Alec so he could use his magic to give us time to switch everyone back to normal properly." Levy explains.
"You figured it out!" The group shouts, Levy nods with a smile. "Yeah, now let's get you all back to normal."