Chapter 12: Feminine I felt slightly agitated, but nothing else happened. Mei Ling plucked the syringe out and stared at it. "Everything went in." she remarked. I noticed Xorten standing in the doorway looking curiously at us. "What's going on?" he asked. "Nothing..." I quickly replied and Mei Ling pulled me into her lab. She stuck a syringe into me, drawing out my blood and placed a drop under a microscope. "I guess the serum lost its effect after all those years of not being used. Your female DNA still got slightly pumped up though. It'll be way easier to turn you into a girl now." she explained, looking up from the microscope. "How easy?" I had to ask. My chest was tingling slightly. "Let's say you accidentally walk in on Alexis taking a bath." she said thoughtfully. Xorten stayed to look around the house for a bit and then he logged off normally. Roy, who had gone out earlier to try and get some info on Saevio's whereabouts, returned. "No good, his whereabouts are known to everyone as much as pigs knowing what quantum physics is." he shook his head. "Nice simile." Alexis remarked. "I DID overhear something though. A black market rumour says that there's a special armour that's supposed to make the wearer invincible. Some guy said his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather got his hands on it once, then it got stolen. I have no idea where it is now, although it would help to have it." Roy sighed. "Think we should go look for it?" I asked. "The guy said the name was Torteliangra's Armour or something like that." Roy mumbled. A few minutes later, while I was taking a dip at the pool, "That suit of armour is cursed! Ivan, do not approach it!" the Dark Dragon suddenly burst out. "Cursed it may be, but it might be the only way to beat Saevio." I said. "You have a point, but that armour is supposedly only usable by female archers. You're an archer, but you're male." the Dark Dragon thought. "But......" I remembered Mei Ling said I could turn into a girl again if I got the right stimulus. "That's an idea. I can sense a strange energy floating in the air, probably that armour. It was probably brought up just recently, since I didn't pick it up all those years ago." "I think I'll go out for a walk." I grabbed my Golden Arund. Just as I put one foot out the door, I remembered to tell Alexis to follow me. "What is it?" she asked as we proceeded to the taxi. "I'm going to find Torteliangra's Armour now. The Dark Dragon said it's only wearable by female archers, and that little episode with the syringe just made me easier to turn into a girl, soooo......" it was kind of awkward. Alexis just smiled at me and said, "Typical of you." "The strange energy is coming from the golem's temple." the Dark Dragon thought. "Right where the Demon Stone was." We arrived at the golem's temple after half an hour of trekking. As usual, the place was crowded full of golems. We easily dispatched them and went where the Dark Dragon told us to go. "Hey, isn't this......" my jaw dropped. We were standing in front of a temple with a pedestal on the summit. "The Demon Stone used to be here." I stared at the pedestal. "That way." the Dark Dragon pointed my head at a stone door. We walked towards it and I put a hand on the stone. Runes immediately lit up all over the door and it swung open. However, once I tried to walk in, a barrier blocked my path. Alexis couldn't get in either. "I think...... this is where I have to turn into a girl." I muttered. "Are you sure?" Alexis asked. "I need to see a naked girl for me to change now." I nodded. She nodded back at me and flicked open her armour straps. Her armour completely fell off, leaving me staring at a naked Alexis. My arms and legs seemed to grow shorter as I felt a new energy inside me, changing my very body. My chest inflated and my hair grew longer. "I guess you can put your armour back on now." I said in a girl's voice. "Hello again, Artemis." Aleixs grinned, fixing her armour back on. I let out a low grunt and walked through the door. I passed through the barrier without a problem this time and walked towards a door at the end of the corridor. As I walked, torches lighted around me. I opened the next stone door to find a huge amount of bones on the ground and a single golem that was shining gold in front of the next door. The view was sickening. Blood and disembodied organs lay on the ground everywhere. I accidentally stepped on a liver and felt like vomiting. The golden golem's eyes opened and seemed to scan me. "You may pass." it stepped aside. "Huh?" I stared at it. "Just go." the Dark Dragon urged. I opened the next door. The entire room seemed to be made out of ice and there was even icicles hanging down from the ceiling. A coffin lay in the very middle of the room and I walked towards it cautiously, noting the spikes in the wall. I stepped on an icy floor panel, which dropped a centimetre and held my breath. Nothing happened and I took another step towards the coffin. Suddenly, the coffin swung open and a golden glow emanated from inside. There was a skeleton inside, and it was wearing an armour that reflected light. The top area was nothing more than a sheet of gold-lined metal around the back with writing on it and a piece of cloth covering the chest. Gold-lined steel plates served as arm and leg plates while again, the lower torso was just a bikini lined with gold. The waist and neck were uncovered. Quite revealing on a girl. I shrank back a few centimetres. I slowly reached my hand into the coffin and touched the chest of the skeleton. The golden glow intensified and the skeleton disappeared. The armour was left there like a shell. "Come, put me on, young one." a strange voice said in my head. I seemed to lose control over my body as my hands reached to my back and slipped off my Dark Linnex. It dropped to the ground, leaving me naked. I grabbed the top of the armour and unbuckled the cloth front and slipped the steel part onto myself. The cloth front flew back on and the top became skintight. It exposed quite a big portion of my chest. Next, my hands reached into the coffin again and drew out the bottom part of the armour. I lifted a leg and stepped into it. Instantly, it shot up my leg and came to rest on my lower torso, instantly becoming skin tight, again, exposing part of my buttocks. Next, came the leg and arm plates. I slipped my arm into the arm plate. It extended a few centimetres to follow the length of my arm and tightened. The leg plates were easily buckled on and became skintight. Once it was all done, I reached my hand into the coffin again and pulled out some golden gloves, pulling them up over my hands. The entire suit of armour instantly began to shine and a mirror appeared in front of me. I stared into it for a second. With this armour on, a large portion of my chest, part of my buttocks and my belly button was exposed. The armour was skintight and I realized removing it wouldn't be an easy matter. It appeared that my chest and my buttocks were growing larger. The armour hadn't finished with me yet! I walked into the room with the golden golem. My new armour jingled on me, and I was holding my Dark Linnex over my shoulder. The golem was silent this time and I walked out of the temple. Alexis gasped when she saw me wearing the armour. "That's......" she smiled at me. I smiled back and we returned to Kerning City. |
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