Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31986068-20160429231407/@comment-31986068-20170206031720

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“This is a transformation stone,” Henry said. “They are all different colors, but this one is blue, meaning it can make the holder shift into several different aquatic forms, depending on who they are and their personality.

Anyone can shift into any form, but if the form in question is in contrast from the user, it will be much harder. In contrast, you can transform very, very easily into a certain form if it is a form in your soul. With practice, you will not need to take out the stone at all but simply keep it tucked away with them.

“Fireblaze sometimes goes up to the peak of the mountain where the Enchanted Pool is, and receives a special stone for someone specific. That stone is colored specially corresponding with the user and holds only the spirits of the forms in your soul.”

Henry turned the blue stone towards the class and moved around the room to show everyone. There was a peculiar pattern on the stone, like a cross. Sparrow didn’t want to risk being spotted so she didn’t move, but the curiosity was overpowering so to let out her frustration she poked Maxim again.

Maxim knocked Bellde over and just about flattened him. Bellde showed his teeth and snarled but Henry hit him on the head and told him to pay attention.

“In order to use the stone, one must trace a claw, hoof, et cetera across the design on the front of the stone. There are other methods, as there are other items used for shifting forms, but the stone is the most common in the state humans call Alaska.”

He lowered his voice. “Except Kobuk Valley, of course--”

Henry jumped a little, as if he was suddenly realizing he spoke out loud, and continued on in his normal voice:

“But anyway, you must do this several times, and as you do it, turn the stone upwards and close your eyes... And concentrate. If you do this properly, you should feel a changing sensation in your body. Without thinking of an animal form specifically, you will always turn into the animal, other than your form now, that is the closest to you in mind.

“If you want a challenge, do the same thing but think of a certain animal, whether it be monster or man. The harder you have to concentrate until you change, the less alike it is to you. Most stones’ colors are themed, so to attempt to become a camel with this aquatic stone would be so unbelievably strenuous you’d collapse on the floor with exhaustion before you got hooves and humps.

“Now, I will proceed to demonstrate. If you wanted to become a crane, for example...”

He closed his eyes, slowly lifting up the stone and tracing the cross furiously with one paw, stretching up as far as possible on his hind legs.

Suddenly, bands of blue light came up around him. They encircled the jackalope and lifted him up into the air. Henry’s fur moved about as if the blue light was creating wind. Sparrow looked closer and saw odd symbols engraved on the bands, like hieroglyphics. And Henry was changing color, his front arms outstretching into wings that grew feathers, his hind legs growing thin, bony and longer than before, all fur changing into only skin and stripes...

Then he fell down, as a crane.

Everyone gasped and leaned forward.

“As you can see,” Henry squawked in a very serene way, “the stone has disappeared entirely. When I wish to change back, I must only close my eyes, think of my original form, and spin about gracefully, and my feathers will turn to fur and my beak shall shorten and my antlers shall grow back and I will be a jackalope again.”

He did so, closing his crane eyes and spinning around in an entrancing, beautiful way, and a single, thin band of blue light followed, turning him back to his old self.

“The whole hullabaloo when you transform will be gone, when and if you choose to master your forms.”

Sparrow, by this time, decided to sneak out again and tell Rain.

Quietly, just as she had come, Sparrow slid out of the room and in the direction of the good smell in the kitchen, hoping they were still there and thinking of herself transforming into a cat.

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