SPAZ: 2 Spooky 4 U - Part 1

SPAZ Short Story
2 Spooky 4 U

Part One: Poof!!

  Tejina was in a wonderful world full of clouds. She was floating among them, comfortable and relaxed. There was a soft breeze that ruffled her short hair and it carried with it the faint smell of fall leaves and coffee. The sun was warm and welcoming and in that moment she was content. And then, of course, she woke up. More specifically she woke up to the sound of a siren blaring through the hall ways.
  she was running through the corridor before she could even see straight, her bare feet making soft padded sounds as she went. Into the portal room she skidded and surveyed the situation.
  Nasha was, as always, in her comfortable box of a control room. She probably hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and was still in her customary green turtle neck sweater, long black pants, and white lab coat. Katana was in the room as well, in a simple green tank top and (rather short) black shorts. Next to her was Sora, her black and blue streaked hair a mess and falling all over the too big green t-shirt she wore.
  There was no obvious threat or indication why the siren had gone off. Usually it meant an uninvited guest had arrived via a portal, but the room was still and no portal was open. She sent a questioning look to Katana, who just shrugged.
  Tejina moved out of the way when she heard two more pairs of footsteps coming down the hall. Kin-Ti and Yumi ran into the room soon after and also looked around.
  “What’s going on?” Kin-Ti shot grumpily, seeing that nothing was going on.
  Nasha excited the control room and shrugged. “I am as puzzled as the rest of you. There is nothing to suggest that we are in any danger.”
  Kin-Ti made a face like she was very very annoyed. Mostly because she was very very annoyed.
   “MISS, can you explain?” Yumi asked before her friend had a chance to swear at someone.
  “I didn’t start the alarm. Although sensors are picking up some rather disturbing things.”
  Katana moved towards the control room, “What type of things?”
   “I am still calculating. ”
  Nasha crossed her arms and glared at the ceiling, which was probably her default setting when talking to the AI. “Would you care to elaborate?”
  “Nah, I thought I’d leave you all in suspense for the time being.”
  “MISS…” Nasha growled.
  “Just a joke, my lady. It seems were are in a Class PD situation."
  Everyone in the room stood in stunned silence. It was broken when Nasha ran back to her computers to double check this information.
  Sora tilted her head, “Class PD…” she muttered thinking, “that means…” it took her a few seconds and then her eyes widened as she remembered. “No.” she whispered.
  “Yes.” Nasha said coming back out of the glass box, pulling on her green gloves. “The alarm was turned on because-“
  -it was a Plot Device.
  Everyone turned and there standing in the door way was a mass of black smoke, swirling and curling around to make the vague outline of a human male with shinning yellow eyes.
  “Aaah oh no it’s Zanna I totally didn’t see that coming.” Kin-Ti said in a flat voice with a blank expression because that was an example of sarcasm.
  Zanna frowned. You could try to act a bit scared.
  “Do we have to?” Tejina asked, “I think it’s pretty well established that you never actually do anything to us other than act creepy and give us a plot for the week’s story.”
  “What story?” Yumi asked.
  “Don’t worry about it.”
  “How did you get in here?” Nasha asked, not so much in anger but in curiosity.
  Well obviously I um…flew here. With magic. Because I’m special like that.
  “I guess we’ll write that down to another plot device.” Katana muttered.
  “There’s going to be a lot of that in this episode, isn’t there?” asked Sora.
  Yes.
  “What do you want, Zanna?” Nasha said getting things back on track.
  Oh yes. Zanna cleared the throat he didn’t have, and made his voice sound deeper and more dramatically threatening, You troublesome fools have called me a monster many a time, and now you shall see what it is like to truly be a beast! He snapped his fingers. There was a POOF sound and suddenly things in the portal room became very different.
  The walls were now a colorful fall orange, and many swirling designs of witches, pumpkins, leaves, and other things were embroidered on it in black. Jack o’ lanterns sat on the half wall that separated the portal area from the rest of the room, the carved pumpkins glowing from flickering candles inside them. Plastic bats hung from the ceiling while fake spider webs draped themselves in the corners with plastic spiders placed delicately in them.
  The girl’s also changed as well. Fake ears, plastic fangs and various shifts in attire suddenly appeared on their bodies.
  Kin-Ti wore a black cloak and her face was painted to look more skull like. In her hand appeared a plastic scythe.
  Katana wore a green and brown ragged dress with knee high boots, strapped to her back were sparkly glittery green wings.
  Sora was suddenly in almost skin tight black clothes, black whiskers were drawn onto her face and a pair of furry ears attached to a head band was on her head. A fuzzy gray tail was clipped to the back of her pants.
  Yumi’s outfit turned all red and became a low cut v neck and a short skit accompanied with thigh high boots. Twin plastic red horns were put on her head and a limp red tail ending in a point was clipped on the back her skirt. In her hand appeared a plastic red pitch fork. On her back there was strapped black and red wings.
  Tejina’s feet were covered in pointy shoes and under them were green and purple stripped stockings. Her dress was  black and wispy looking, with long sleeves that ended with fitted points, the hem of her dress had the same style. On her head a pointy hat appeared. In her left hand a badly made broom took place and in her right hand a narrow wand happened.
  Nasha went through the least change, as only her face became painted light green and her pants were replaced with a shiny metallic looking long dark green skirt.
  The girls looked around.
  “What am I supposed to be?” Nasha wandered allowed.
  “Kitty!” Yumi cried in joy, pointing at Sora.
  “Meow?”
  “Am I a fairy?” asked Katana.
  “I am pleased with this.” Kin-Ti smiled, looking down at her robe.
  Tejina was very much not pleased. “Are you kidding me with this, Zanna? A stereotypical witch? Really? Just because I use magic? And you gave me a wand? Really? Really Zanna? REALLY??”
  “All costume design put aside, I don’t get why this is so bad.” Katana said to the smoke man,
“Are you going to make us suffer by forcing us to have a Halloween party?”
  “I’m impressed.” Yumi told Zanna, “If the whole evil bad guy gig doesn’t work out, you could always be an interior decorator.”
  Do you really like it? The walls are what catch your eye, but I think the bats really bring the place together.
  “Most definitely.” agreed the girl now dressed as a demon.
  “Excuse me but can we not talk to our nemesis like he is our “bff” from next door?” Nasha butted in.
  “Right…”
  Anyway.Zanna pressed This is just step one! Step two and three are where things really get fun. he began to laugh manically and then stopped short. Fun for me, not so much for you. he clarified.
  “I think we understood that.” Nasha growled.
  Well aren’t you clever. MAGIC ZANNA POWERS GO!!! he snapped his fingers and the sound reverberated through the room. Suddenly! Nothing happened.
    The girls looked around. “I don’t see anything-” Katana started when Nasha suddenly fell forward.
   “Sis!” Sora cried in concern and ran towards her. She stopped short when she saw why the other girl had collapsed.
  The green skirt she was wearing started to cling tightly to her legs while simultaneously melding them together. They began to elongate as her skin became thick and scales popped up. Her fingers became long and curled. She looked up and there were a few gasps when the group saw her eyes were now a pale yellow and her pupils were nothing more than black slits. She tried to say something but instead a small forked tongue just slipped out with a hisssss noise instead.
  “Nasharrmmmerow!” Sora called out. She squeaked in surprise and covered her mouth, only to realize her hands were being covered in a thick gray fur. She squeaked again removing hands and her tail whipped upward. She raised her now paws to her head to find the fake ears were now real and in the top of her head. “MrrOOow!” she cried in surprise.
   “Sora, are you ok?” Katana asked when there was another shout of surprise behind them.
  Kin-Ti was staring at her hands with wide eyed horror as the skin and muscle beneath began to melt away leaving only her bones. “Ew.” She said and looked up at her friends. Her eyes became clouded until they were only a blank black. The skin on her face became sunken in but didn’t disappear. She made a curious face. “Did you get smaller?” she asked Katana.
  “Now is not the time for short jokes.” The moose snapped.
  “No, she’s right. Katana you’re shrinking!” Yumi exclaimed.
  “I’m what!?” Katana looked at her self and, obviously frantic, her wings began to flutter quickly. Her feet lifted a few inches off the floor. “Okay that’s kind of cool, but I’m getting smaller! And that is NOT cool!!” They watched as their friend slowly shrieked down to the size of five inches. There was a squeaking noise and they were pretty sure that was the sound of Katana swearing profusely.
  Yumi felt itchiness over her body as her wings melded into her back, the horns embedded into her skull, and the red tail attached to the base of her spine.
    They looked at Tejina who stood there wondering why nothing was happening. She let go of the broom but it floated in place. “Oh…kay.”
  Now, don’t you all look like a group of freaks. Zanna smiled. Are you ready for step three? I bet you’re not. he was positively gleaming.
  “What are you planning, Zanna?” Kin-Ti demanded.
  You’ll find out soon enough. Ready?
  “No.” Sora mewed.
  Set.
  “Stop.”
  GO! Zanna snapped and the girls disappeared in a swirl of black smoke.
  That never gets old. He chuckled. He looked down at his wrist as a watch materialized on it, Oh my, I’m very late! Zanna also disappeared with a puff of smoke, leaving portal room empty and silent once again.