IMAGINATION'S PLACE
FICTION
JOURNEY TO THE LIGHT
By; Speaker Gerald Polley
All rights reserved.
Chapter 21
They finally came to an area at the very stern of
the ship, or Carol thought that was what it was called anyway. There
were huge doors and the smaller ship sat inside the great area.
Carol could not believe it could've overtaken them! People were
hurriedly attaching tubes to it. A man was directing them.
A man and a woman walked up. "Good day!" the man announced.
"I'm Christopher Morgan. This is my wife Beverly. We need
your help. Can we go some place private?"
Tin indicated a room nearby. They entered and
Morgan continued. "You need to switch us," he announced.
"You've got to give me what she's got, and give her what I've
got. We're desperate! We can't stand this much longer.
Somehow we got in the wrong bodies and we've gotta have the right ones."
Carol stared at them in disbelief. "You want me to
do a sex change?" she asked. "You followed us in that ship to
have me do a sex change?"
"You have to!" Morgan pleaded. "I'll pay you six
billion dollars, half my wealth. That's all I have accessible.
But I'll give it all to you if you can fix this."
The door suddenly opened and Cher came in,
panting. "My God!" she muttered, "I was right! I knew I
smelled you! What in the hell are you doing here?"
"There was a foul up," Morgan answered. "We
got in the wrong bodies. We need her to fix it. We can't
get out of them. We've even tried to kill ourselves twice and
failed!"
Cher laughed. "This is comical!" she managed,
"Absolutely comical!" She turned to Carol. "Do it, will
you?" she asked. "I'd like to leave them this way, but it
wouldn't be right." She turned back to Morgan. "You'll
behave, right, spend the rest of this life and not cause any trouble?"
"Anything!" Morgan answered, "Anything! But we've
got to hurry! We've got to start back or we'll never make
it. They're refreshing the ship's systems and loading more
provisions. But we've got to hurry."
"I don't think I can!" Carol sighed. "We'd need surgery. I couldn't."
"Maybe I can!" Tin remarked. "I don't know
why, but I think you've activated my transfer power when we gather and
give part of ourselves to make a new. I'm not sure but I could
give it a try."
"Do so!" Carol snapped.
"Lay down there," Tin snapped, indicating a flat
broad top of a console. The two laid down. Tin extended a
hand over each of their heads. Suddenly a blue glow rose out of
each of the individuals. They shivered and stopped breathing.
Carol noticed the glow out of the man had a feminine shape and the glow
out of the woman had a male shape. Tin quickly brought the male
shape over the male body and pushed it in. The man's chest heaved
and he began to breathe. He put the female over the female and the same
thing happened.
"Oh! God!" the woman sighed, moaning some more.
"Thank you! I don't think I could've survived another month in
that body! I aways thought males were gross, being one proved it
to me!" She sat up and looked at her companion. "You all right?"
she asked.
"Yeah!" the man answered, "But ditto! If I had to go through one more month of that woman thing, whoa!"
"Isn't so bad," the woman answered, "with the
rewards it brings. She looked at Cher. "Doin' all right
sugar?" she asked.
"Don't call me sugar!" Cher snapped.
The woman smiled. "Haven't changed a God damned
bit!" she giggled. She looked to Carol. "He might have done
it," she snapped, "but it was with your power. Do you have any
conception how strong you are?"
"Not really!" Carol admitted, "But I wouldn't suggest you try to find out."
The woman smiled again. "I assure you,
darlin'," she answered, "I have no intention of challenging you!
I'm not suicidal! I'm only 250 years old. I intend to get
my full thousand years."
"You know," Cher put in, "if you become a good guy you could get eternity!"
"Yeah," the woman answered "but I wouldn't have half
as much fun! I think winged and obnoxious did this and I wanna
get even."
"Well, not for a while," Carol snapped. "You owe me
six billion dollars and I will expect payment! For the next few
years you will be angels and be doing good deeds all over the world
until that money's gone."
"Oh, please darlin'!" the woman sighed, "Let's not
be obnoxious! We'll do what you ask but don't ever mention the
word Angels? We don't get along. A certain one of them has made my life
miserable!"
"I'll say!" Cher answered. "Your husband didn't last that long."
"He was weak!" the woman snapped. "I don't
know how he managed to do what he did. And if he'd kept his zipper
zipped we'd have accomplished a lot more. He was an idiot!
I was glad when you know who deep fried him! He deserved eternal
death. Well, we'd better get out of here. Even with our skills we're
gonna have trouble getting that ship back to Earth. The pilot
thinks getting here was all his doing. Though he did do a good
job."
"Make sure he's well rewarded!" Carol snapped.
"He will be!" the woman assured. "All right.
Should take us about twelve years, six billion dollars. Might be a good
front. No telling what we might find. Come on, Newt!" the
woman snapped.
The man got up and followed her out back to where
the ship was. "We'd better go to the observation area," Tin
remarked.
They had barely got there when the great bay began
to open. The little ship turned around, maneuvered out, and then
a rush of flame came from the back of it and it shot away. Cher
fell to the floor and began to convulse with laughter. "You all
right?" Carol asked.
"I will be!" her friend managed. "He did do
it! I felt his energy on them. Oh, that was precious, that
was just precious, doing that to those two!"
Carol sighed. "Was that who I think it was?" she asked.
"Uh huh!" Cher answered.
Carol shook her head. "Sometimes," she
remarked "you wish legends weren't real. Sometimes you wish the
stories were just fables."
"And how!" Cher agreed. "Her and her husband
were the ones that turned me, so seeing her in this predicament was a
particular joy, a real particular joy! Oh, I wish she had had to
give herself over to you. that would've been precious!"
"Will they keep their word?" Carol asked.
"Oh, absolutely!" Cher assured. "Once
their word is given they never break it. They'll fulfill the
terms of the agreement exactly. That's not saying they won't do some
nasty stuff on the side. But they'll keep their word!
That's something that's never broken. Because they never know
when they might need a Lord Of Light again."
Carol smiled. "I'm not a Lord Of Light," she assured.
Cher returned her smile. "Could've fooled me!" she teased.
"Me too!" Tin put in. "What's that duck thing he always said?"
"Oh," Cher giggled, "if it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck most likely it is a duck."
"I like that!" Tin laughed. "They say he had
no sense of humor. I always thought some of the things he did
were quite humorous!"
Carol looked at her friend. "Not to the people
he did them to!" she assured. They didn't think they were funny
at all! Now that this insanity is over, I've gotta get back to
the children and then try to get some more readings."
Everybody grinned at each other and hurried back to
their particular duties. Of course what happened had never
happened. The ship had never been there. That was made very
clear to everyone. It had never happened. No record was
made in the ship's log. No one spoke of it, and no one would.
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