Rick looked out the hotel window and sighed. The yacht just barely had enough fuel
left for them to reach port. The captain took a big gamble leaving the traffic lanes since
they could have been stranded at sea. That wasn't what was bothering him though. It
wasn't even the fact that he wanted to be a little girl with his whole being. What was
bothering him was a sense that something wasn't right. He couldn't figure out what it
was which made it difficult for him to go to sleep.
Sighing again Rick turned from the window and looked at the sleeping forms of
Maylene and Dennis. After Kurse had been defeated he had wanted to marry Maylene
but now that desire was growing smaller and smaller. He wanted her to be happy and
didn't want to hurt her but he was beginning to believe that their marriage wouldn't be
a happy one. His desire to be a little girl would make him unhappy and perhaps
suicidal. He couldn't put Maylene or Dennis through that so it would be best to call off
the wedding now. Maylene would be hurt but she wouldn't go through the worry she
was sure to go through if she were to marry him. He had made up his mind to tell her
in the morning before they left to go back home to the United States. It was likely that
she wouldn't want to speak to him ever again especially after sharing a bed tonight
but he had to do it. Shaking his head he climbed into the bed and eventually fell
asleep.
******
Rick found himself walking in a dark forest following some fireflies a kid again. Not only
was he a kid again but he now had long hair and was wearing a simple dress.
Pressing his hand against his crotch he was pleasantly surprised to not find a dick. He
didn't know how it happened and didn't really care. He was just happy that he was a
little girl now and giggled as he followed the fireflies.
Rick came upon a clearing and stopped short seeing three women in it. One of the
women had only one eye and half her face was deformed. He knew these were the
witches that had started the curse which eventually gained sentience and became
known as Kurse. The one with the missing eye saw him and smiled. The other two
noticed the first smiling and looking saw why she was smiling and smiled themselves.
"Joella," all three of them said at the same time.
"Uh my name's not Joella," Rick said shaking his head.
"We know," the one with the missing eye said sighing. "But you look so much like our
Joella right now so I hope that you won't mind us calling you that. It's a better name for
a girl anyway. You know who we are?"
"Yes I do," Rick said nodding. "You're the witches that cast the curse on Glendale.
You're Gommorah, Golgatha, and Gaal."
"We prefer Grisele, Goldwyn, and Gita now," Goldwyn said smiling. "Those were our
names when we were little girls like you."
"How can I be talking to you when you're dead?" Rick asked cocking his head to the
side. "The wolf pack killed you."
"What they killed was the madness that took us and was separated from us when we
died," Gita said looking sad.
"We are dead and our punishment is to remain here never to see our loved ones until
Glendale forgives us," Goldwyn said looking down.
"You're not dead though Joella," Grisele said with a smile. "You're here because we
need your help."
"My help?" Rick asked looking shocked and surprised. What could they need his help
for? Were they going to try to use him to come back to life?
"Come here and we'll tell you why we need your help," Goldwyn said looking up with a
smile. Rick shrugged and went over to her. She wrapped her arms around him as he
sat in her lap and she continued, "There's a major problem growing which could be
worse than Kurse."
"Worse than Kurse," Rick said shocked. "How could that be possible?"
"We don't know what will happen if things continue on as they are," Gita said sighing.
"A turn of the curse created the leomans and their true love powers. They included the
true love power so they could bring their families into the pride but unfortunately the
curse didn't stick to their intent. Instead it's spread to friends and their friends and their
friends. Those that know that it's happening are calling it the leoman cascade."
"If this cascade is allowed to continue then there won't be many humans left," Grisele
said shaking her head. "There's where the problem arises. Reality has to rewrite
history to account for the leoman and with each new leoman the more history is
rewritten. Eventually it will spread far enough that it will affect our families. When that
happens we'll become leomans in the past and that will create a paradox."
"Because doing what you did would be uncivilized," Rick said nodding.
"I see you know at least one leoman," Gita said smiling. "I don't think we have to tell
you what could happen with a paradox."
"Reality just may give up and wipe us all out of existence," Rick said shuddering. "So
what do we do to prevent that?"
"You must go to Glendale before the curse is destroyed," Goldwyn said. "Find a
woman called Madam Serenity and a female leoman named Gillie. You'll also need to
find someone with a turn. Once you have found them you need to find where the
center of our rune is. This is the place where the curse is at it's strongest where the
magic is most concentrated. You need to stand in the center of the rune and the three
others around you. Make sure the one who has the turn will transform you how you
want them to and have them transform you while you're standing at the center of our
rune. It will be best if you become female since a female can hold more magic easier
than a male can. Once you transform you should be flooded with magic which will
ingrain itself into you. After that you will need to cast the spell to strip the leomans of
their true love powers and stop the leoman cascade."
"What's the spell?" Rick asked.
"You'll come up with it," Grisele said putting a hand on Rick's shoulder. "You'll have to
hurry once you're back in your body though. Once the curse is destroyed it will
become much harder to stop the leoman cascade."
"You also need to be standing in the exact center of our rune for this to work," Gita
said placing a hand on Rick's other shoulder.
"Please do everything you can to succeed Joella," Goldwyn said giving Rick a little
squeeze. "We don't regret what we did trying to make the world a better place but we
don't want to see it wiped out of existence. Good luck and come back to see us."
******
Rick woke up to sunshine streaming through the window. Looking at the clock he was
relieved to see that it was still early and they had plenty of time before their flight. He
was disappointed that he was a man again and would have normally chalked up his
experience with the witches as a dream. However with what had happened to them on
the island he wasn't going to just write it off as a dream. If there was a leoman
cascade then there was the possibility of a paradox looming on the horizon. He would
need to go to Glendale and see if Madame Serenity and Gillie existed. If they did then
that would mean he wasn't dreaming and the threat of a paradox was real. He looked
at Maylene and decided not to tell her he thought it was best to call off the marriage. If
things panned out reality would fix itself so that there was no talk of them getting
married. They would both be happy and have no memory him as he was now.