The fiery breath slammed into the side of the castle, shattering rock and sending a fusillade of shards everywhere about its grounds. Even the walls of the cathedral, in the innermost part of the castle and protected by wards, began to crumble just a bit.
"They're... they're in the castle!" Whenever in fear or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. "Oh, we're doomed!"
"Princess Sheela!" screamed one of the princess's handmaidens,
High Priest Geo glared at his daughter, Tia Note Youko. "Hurry, Youko! Perform the ceremony!" he barked.
"I'm scared!" Rushie, a little rug rat, clutched to Youko in fear.
"Rushie..." Youko whispered, hugging the little tyke close to her protectively. "Don't worry! It'll be all right."
Rushie looked up, eyes still brimming with tears, but also sparkled with a small hope. The words of Youko's father came back to her, "To save Rushie, you must release the power sleeping within him."
"What's wrong?" asked Rushie, somewhat calmer after being comforted by Youko.
Shaking with fear and uncertainty, Youko blushed as she brought him to sit in the center of the cathedral.
Rushie blinked. "Youko, you're face is all red—" *SMACK!* "—Uuh!"
Bringing her hand down from slapping Rushie, Youko whispered, "Be quiet. Just sit there." Rushie obeyed, just sitting peacefully as Youko knelt before him.
The young priestess leaned in. "Accept..." she began. On cue, the chamber began to glow with holy light. "In the name of Emu Marta, beloved goddess of beauty..." continued Youko, intoning in a mesmerizing voice vibrating with power, "...break now this seal." With that, Youko leaned in and kissed Rushie gently on the lips. They remained that way for a timeless instant, before drawing back against a background of thunder.
Youko blinked at Rushie with confusion. Rushie, in turn, just blinked back guilelessly.
Nothing was happening.
Youko's hair bristled with shock and embarrassment. Had she sacrificed her first maiden kiss for jack-squat?
Youko's father had a different theory: "Youko! Don't tell me you—?!" *BAM!* "—Ugeh!" He fell back, dazed.
"Idiot! Don't go ruining my reputation!" bellowed Youko, her shoe now besides Geo, as she had used it to silence her outbursting father. "I'm an honest to goodness, pure—" Youko paused. She couldn't say that! She coughed and continued. "Anyway, I followed your instructions to the letter, so..." She trailed off. Something was happening. She could feel it in the air.
The body that was to be the Ancient Wizard's twitched as power began to flow into it, coursing through various tissues. The air flashed and crackled around the chosen recipient of the Ancient Wizard's power. At first, it was just a sparkle or two every so often, then suddenly the power exploded around the chosen one's body in an evil red glow.
"Such evil power!" remarked one of the priests.
The glow turned into dark fire, engulfing the vessel of the Ancient Wizard's power. Glowing red eyes glared from under rapidly growing locks of hair.
Everyone stared in horror at the transformation taking place to the one at the center of this conflagration.
With a renewed influx of power, the recipient's body began to swell, growing. The clothes began to tear as the body within became too big to contain. A final burst of white hair emerged like fire from the figure's head, as it surged upward to stand at its full towering height to let out a gruff, proud declaration:
"I AM REBORN!!!"
The flames in the temple flickered.
Standing in naked glory, the Ancient Wizard declared, "At last! At last, I am reborn!"
The five-headed hydra-thing jerked around as if spooked. Kebidabu, standing atop its torso, stared up at the eldrich green glow of the castle in awe. "What's... what's this strange power I sense?!"
The glow vanished in an instant.
Kebidabu blinked. "Huh? Who turned out the lights?"
*byoing byoing*
The Ancient Wizard, Dark Schneider, was brought short by a peculiar jiggling on his chest. "'Byoing byoing'?" repeated the dark sorcerer as he processed the odd, unfamiliar feeling. "That doesn't usually happen..." the Ancient Wizard declared finally, "Nor does this jiggly feeling."
The reborn sorcerous badass glanced about the room and noticed something even more peculiar: every male was gawking at him wearing a furious blush, and none of the females were blushing in embarrassment but rather were pale with mortification. Usually it was the other way around.
Maybe it had something to do with that jiggling on his chest. He looked down.
"GYAAHHH!!! Where the hell did these tits come from!?!" shrieked the reborn dark sorcerer... or rather, sorceress as she brought her hands up to heft the large boobs attached to her chest (quite a bit bigger than Youko's whose body Dark Schneider had just been reborn in). She spread them to check the other vital part. "And where the fuck did my wang walk off to!?!!" she roared in an outraged, rough, yet strangely feminine albeit tomboyish voice.
High Priest Geo found it quite hard to blush and be pale at the same time, but god help him he did it. He was blushing because there was a tall, naked woman with big gozongas in front of him, unashamedly checking out what nature had blessed her with. Dark Schneider found himself in a typical Amazonoid frame: tall, obviously strong as muscles barely peaked through the soft layer of feminine fat, big bust, narrow waist, wide shapely hips and nice plump ass, all on a pair of legs that seemed to stretch on forever until they reached the ground. Long, snow-white hair reached to her knees, her brow knitting together a pair of bushy white eyebrows. The two fangs in her mouth made her look cute, rather than menacing as in Dark Schneider's previous incarnation.
That was why he was blushing. He was pale because this was his daughter's body now hosting the Ancient Wizard, which he had just watched grow from her cute young frame into this ball-breaker. Oh, what was a father to do?
"YOUKO~~~!! WHY~~~?!" whined Geo in a burst of tears that would put Tendou Soun to shame. "Why is it that YOU must host the Ancient Wizard?! Why are the gods so cruel?!"
The onlookers looked on, and chins began wagging.
"You mean Mistress Youko contained the Ancient Wizard?"
"I thought the Ancient Wizard was male."
"What a babe!" (Dark Schneider summarily blasted this person to ash.)
"Was the spell cast correctly?"
"Very likely. If you don't cast a spell correctly, anything can happen."
That last comment got High Priest Geo thinking. Then he figured out what went wrong, and it didn't calm him one bit. If anything, the waterworks only increased. "YOUKO!! It's 'Ino Marta'! Not 'Emu Marta'!!" he wailed.
"*gah!*" Yep, that would do it! "Arrgh! Youko, you little idiot! You fucked up the spell!!" Dark Schneider roared in a rough yet feminine voice. "Now I'm reborn in your body!"
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