From: "J R D" The Novitiates: The Street Thugs Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 Here it is. The first story starring Anya, Dannie, and Erin. Here's to hoping we see many more. The story takes place at Bikini Beach, and makes certain assumptions about it, so whether or not it becomes official Bikini Beach canon is up to Elrod, ut here's this story for everyone who wants to read it. Now, onto the boring stuff ------------------------- DISCLAIMERS ------------------------- This story contains scenes of an erotic and/or controversial nature, and is not intended for the perusal of minors. Further if perusal of such material is considered illegal in your area or immoral by your religion or personal beliefs, you should likewise bypass this story. This story remains the property of the author. Permission is granted to download, photocopy, copy and repost so long as any such action contains these disclaimers, and no attempt is made to profit from this story. All characters in this story are the creation of the author, and any resemblance to real persons, alive or dead, are purely coincidental. This story may contain aspects of fantastic science or magic. The parameters of what this science/magic can accomplish are completely at the discretion of me, the author, and, as such, I make no apologies for any rules of "real" physics, chemistry, biology, or magic that may be broken within the story. ------------------------- Now onto the fun stuff ------------------------- THE NOVITIATES: THE STREET THUGS "Again!" the Wizard said. Dannie groaned. How many times was she going to have to do this? But when it came to her lessons, there would be no arguing. So she went through the hand motions, summoned the power and cast her spell. The Wizard looked over to the table and asked, "Well?" The small two foot tall woman sitting on a wooden block on top of the table shrugged apologetically. "Sorry, Dannie. Nothing." Dannie groaned out, "Aaagh! Why can't we learn something fun instead of this?" "Dannie, although transformation of the body into different forms has many varied applications, and seems to be something you have a real talent for, it is not the be all and end all of magic. If you're going to learn magic, you need to learn the techniques I am trying, emphasize TRYING, to teach you now. Now try again." Dannie closed her eyes, collected her thoughts, then opened her eyes, focusing on the block on the table. After a couple seconds, Erin the Leprechaun looked down at the block, saying, "I'm starting to feel something," but immediately thereafter, the block exploded upwards. Erin yelled, "Yeee-Haaa," and rode the block first up then down, rolling off when it hit the ground. She then yelled out, "That was fun! Let's do it again!" The Wizard gave a disappointed sigh. Dannie said, "Don't say it! I know. I was only supposed to raise the temperature of the face Erin was sitting on. I was supposed to keep the bottom of the cube cold so as not to detonate the powder underneath it." Then she said, by way of explanation, "It's not my fault Erin's got such a tough hide." "Dannie, it's her tough hide that I wanted for this lesson. Any amateur wizard can raise the temperature of all of an item, and it takes only a little skill to change one part's temperature by a few degrees in comparison to other parts, but it will take real skill to raise the temperature of the top of the cube by enough to get through Erin's Fae resistance to temperature change while leaving the bottom untouched." "I suppose you want me to try again?" "Not right off. I think you need a break. Take a couple hours." The Wizard grinned. "Why don't you take Erin to Bikini Beach? See what Anya is up to, and say hi to her grandmother for me." Dannie wondered what the old man was up to. Whenever he got that grin, she knew he had something mischievous on his mind. But she wasn't one to pass up a much needed break in her studies, so she just nodded and started to the door. Erin got up off her butt and leapt up on Dannie's shoulder. Outside, Dannie asked, "Are you okay? You weren't hurt by that short flight you took, were you?" "Hell no. It takes a lot more than that to hurt me. I once stepped out of the Faerie Channels in front of a speeding semi. Wasn't hurt in the slightest, although peeling myself off the grill was kind of interesting." "You stepped out into traffic? Can't you control where you're going in those Channels?" "Kind of. I think of what I want and step in. The Channels then send me where I'm most likely to achieve my goals. When I went into the Channel that time, I was wondering just how indestructible I was, so the Channels put me where I could find out." Erin giggled. "You can't imagine the look on the driver's face when he found this little human shaped dent on the front of his truck." Dannie smiled. "One other thing. I think you've forgotten that most people can't see me unless I want them to." "Good thing, since you still don't have the energy to clothe yourself in even the skimpiest clothes." "I've got it. It's just not permanent energy, so I choose not to expend it on clothes no one can see. But that's not the point." "What is?" "The point is when you talk to me, it looks to most like you're talking to yourself." Dannie looked around, noticing that a few people were staring at her and muttering. She whispered, "Oops," and moved quickly out of the mall. Outside, Erin asked, "So what's this Bikini Beach your boss asked about?" "It's a local water park. It's girls only, but it's possible for guys to buy passes to get inside." "It's girls only, but guys can buy passes? What's the point?" Dannie smiled. "Simple, once the guys get inside and are exposed to the waters of the park, usually through the shower, they're transformed into girls. The transformation lasts as long as the pass they bought." Erin giggled. "Sneaky. So who's Anya? And who's this grandma person?" "Anya's grandmother owns and operates the park. Anya works there. Although we haven't had a lot of time together to socialize, I consider Anya a friend." The two traveled together the short distance to the water park known as Bikini Beach. Once there, Dannie said, "That's Anya at the entry gate. I'll introduce you." The two walked up and Anya said, "Hi, Dannie! Just one today?" Erin said, "I guess she can't see me. Don't give me away just yet," and leapt off of Dannie's shoulder. Wondering what Erin was planning, Dannie said to Anya, "Actually, I'm expecting a friend. I'd like you to meet her." "When's she going to get here?" "Any time. We can talk until she gets here." As the two chatted, Dannie had to use her utmost control to keep from laughing as Erin danced around Anya, making silly faces and childish gestures. A few minutes later she heard a stern voice angrily say, "Dannie!" She turned and saw Anya's grandmother angrily glowering at her. Before Dannie could say a thing, grandmother said, "Come with me. Bring your friend. Anya, I want you there, too," and turned on her heel, heading back into her office. Anya asked, "What was she talking about? What friend?" As they walked to the Bikini Beach offices, Erin leapt back up onto Dannie's shoulder. "I've kind of got a friend here." "Where?" "On my shoulder right now." "Right. Seriously, what's going on?" They went into the office and grandmother pointed to Erin and said, "You, make yourself visible to my granddaughter." Anya seemed a little shocked when, to her, a two foot tall girl, naked except for a green hat, choker, stockings, and shoes, just appeared on Dannie's shoulder. Erin waved and said, "Hi!" Dannie said, "Anya, meet Erin the Leprechaun." Anya, still a little stunned, just waved to Erin. Grandmother said, "Dannie, WHAT possessed you to bring a female faerie into my park?" "What's the big deal?" "The big deal is that I created this park with the express purpose of giving women a place to go where they could avoid being ogled." "So?" Erin said, "The problem is that female fae are all bisexual and as horny as a teenage boy. I'm as likely to sit around drooling, figuratively speaking, over the patrons of the park as any guy would." Grandmother said, "Which is exactly what I am trying to avoid. The fact that no one here will see her is not a strong mitigating factor. Didn't your Master explain this?" "Actually, he was the one who suggested I bring Erin along." Grandmother's eyes narrowed. "Apparently, I need to have a little talk with a certain Wizard." She stood, saying, "Anya, I want you to look after the park while I'm gone." "What about Erin and me? Can we come into the park today?" Grandmother thought about it and said to Erin, "You will remain invisible to all the patrons of the park except Anya and Dannie. Further, since some very young children can see the fae despite their natural cloak and this is a family park..." She stretched her hand out and dropped a Leprechaun sized bikini on the desk in front of Erin. "You will remain clothed at all times. Understand?" "Yes, ma'am." "I will return as soon as possible." Grandmother walked from the room. As Erin put the bikini on, Anya asked, "How long was she with us?" "As long as I was. I brought her here with me." "Why didn't you say something?" Erin said, "My fault. I'm afraid since I've become a fae, I've become a bit more impish. When I realized you couldn't penetrate my cloak, I wanted to play around a bit before revealing myself." Anya asked Dannie, "Has she ever done this to you?" "No, but I've always been able to penetrate her cloak. I just assumed you could, too." Anya contemplated Dannie's words as Erin posed in her new outfit. The bikini was a basic green the same color as Erin's hat and stockings, with a darker green shamrock on each bra cup. She asked, "How do I look?" "Very sexy," Dannie replied. "Ready to go?" The three of them went out to the locker rooms where Dannie changed into a swim suit of her own, then they spent an hour frolicking about on the various amusements Bikini Beach had to offer. They got something to eat and Erin was happily drinking down a soda as Dannie and Anya chatted a bit. She started slurping at the last bits of her drink and Anya said, "Hey! Bad enough I've got to worry about people noticing a soda drinking itself without worrying about you adding sound effects." Erin cheerfully said, "Sorry. It's been a while since my transformation and I haven't had a good soda since then. As a faerie I don't need food or drink, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a good drink when I can get one." Dannie said, "Erin, why don't you go take a quick swim? I'd like to talk to Anya alone for a bit." "Sure. See you in a bit." Erin jumped from the table and deftly weaved her way through the crowd towards the closest water ride. After Erin was out of ear shot, Dannie said, "Alright, what's wrong?" "What do you mean?" "That blow-up you just had. Erin, may not have noticed, but I did. You were overly harsh towards her." "You're not worried about her drawing attention by slurping her drink?" "Spare me. This place is so busy right now that nobody's going to notice some slurping sounds from a cup sitting on a table. You've been a bit icy to Erin all day. What's up?" "Well, wouldn't you be? You admitted that she was playing jokes on me when you two walked up to the gate." "So? I've seen you do worse on people who knew you were there. You're going to tell me that if you were able to remain totally hidden, you wouldn't take the opportunity to make a few silly faces? It's not like she pantsed you. What's really going on?" Anya remained silent for a bit before saying, "I should've seen her. I should've had the training to see right through her cloak." "So?" "Sometimes... I'm just confused as to what I'm going to be doing with my life. Am I a sorceress, learning to manipulate forces of nature that most people don't even know exist? Or am I a businesswoman, learning to haggle, make deals, and correct paperwork snafus?" "Which do you want to be? Which do you like more?" "I'm not sure. Both have aspects I enjoy, but both have annoying little detail work that bore the daylights out of me." "So?" "I want... I want both. It just doesn't seem there's enough time in the day to really learn both." Seeming to change the subject, Dannie said, "You know, I once asked the old man why, with all his power, he seemed to enjoy running a little store and making seemingly meaningless transformation. He told me, 'Why do I run a store? Businessmen and wizards have a lot more in common than it first appears. Both need to see patterns where no one else can. Both need to know how to get the upper hand in any deal they enter. Both need to be aware of what their opponents are doing when there's no evidence of whats really going on. As for why I do meaningless transformations, even with your incomplete training you must realize that there are connections that aren't apparent with a surface glance. Nothing, Dannie, is truly meaningless.'" "What's your point?" "The point is you don't have to choose. As a businesswoman and sorceress, you're learning skills that complement each other. It may take a little longer than it would if you devoted yourself to either one singly, but you'll be a better person for the learning. And somehow... I think that's what your grandmother intends. The ways of wizards can be grand and mysterious. Sometimes you've just got to accept they know what they're doing." Before Anya could reply, one of the park's security guards came up and started whispering something in her ear. Anya stood, saying, "Great." "What's wrong?" "A disturbance at the front gate." "Need help?" "I wish I could say no, but probably. Come on." The two got up and headed to the entry to the park. When they got there, they found a group of seven rowdy street thugs terrorizing the women at the booth. A few of the thugs had even taken some women as hostages. Anya stepped right up and asked, "Is there a problem here, gentlemen?" The guy who seemed to be the leader of the group said, "Yeah. You see, we own the beaches around here. Now using those beaches safely just requires a small fee to us, but then there's this water park. Instead of people paying us our rightful dues, they come here and blow their money on you. Now since you're cutting into our monopoly, I figure you can compensate us by cutting us in on your income. Say eighty percent of gross takes." "And if I don't?" "Then we'll just have to shut you down - permanent like." "No need to get violent, gentlemen. I'm sure we can work something out. It'll take me a little while to get the day's receipts together. Perhaps you'd like to avail yourself of the park's facilities? I'd ask you not to harass the patrons. You wouldn't want to destroy your return business, would you?" "Sounds like a deal. Boys, let's go have some fun." The thugs, dragging their hostages with them, walked past Anya and Dannie into the park. Dannie stepped over to Anya and asked, "What's the plan?" Anya whispered, "I'm connected to the park. All we have to do is get them into the water, any water and I can not only change them but change reality so that they are and always were stupid bimbos. No one will even remember these thugs. It's just a matter of getting them into the water." They watched the thugs walk into the park. Both girls assumed the boys would pass up the showers, and were almost right. Just as they were about to go past the changing rooms, a couple girls, totally naked, stepped out, shrieked, and ran back in. The two men at the back of the group said, "Be back in a minute." The leader nodded knowingly and the two ran into the shower room. What none of the men had noticed, but Dannie and Anya did, was that the girls weren't real. They were nothing more than illusions that no one but men or women with some magical training could see. Neither of the two had cast the illusion, but were sure they knew who had. The two men who had followed the illusions wandered through the lockers, encouraging the "girls" to come out of hiding. Neither one saw the two foot tall woman in green sitting on the shower handle, and both were amazed when she spun the handle and they were suddenly deluged with cold water. Their amazement lasted only a couple seconds before their bodies became round, curvy, and incredibly top heavy, and all thoughts of anything but boys, clothes, and make-up left their empty bubble brains. And then there were five. As the thugs passed out of the entry area, the first thing they noticed was a large pool surrounded by tropical foliage with a couple slides dropping scantily clad girls into its depths. The leader said, "Let's check it out." The five of them wandered over. They were a bit surprised that none of the girls seemed to even notice them, particularly since they didn't even see any other guys in the park. They were unaware that Dannie had cast a spell making the group unnoticed by any of the park patrons as the girls handled them. One of the girls in the pool finally noticed them and climbed out and walked over. "Ooh, what are such handsome guys doing alone without female escorts?" One of the guys asked, "Want to be our escort?" "I don't think I'm girl enough to handle more than one of you. Which one though? I know. I'll go wait in the pool. The two fastest can take off towards the slides. Whoever goes down their slide and gets to me first, wins." The girl took off to the pool, diving in as soon as she could. The two thugs who weren't holding hostages ran to the ladders on the slides, pushing others out of the way. Both went up as quickly as they could and dove down the slides head first. Nobody questioned the two extra girls sliding into the water. None of the thugs questioned that the girl who had just climbed out and met them had disappeared, and no one noticed Anya climb out of the pool on the opposite side. And then there were three. The three lost interest in watching the girls and moved on. They circled around and encountered a small pool (compared with the one they just left) with a river running from it. At the pool end, people were getting into two man rafts and riding down the river having fun bouncing along. As the thugs approached, they saw a pair of twins getting into one of the rafts. Just before they took off down the river, the twins turned in unison, blew a kiss at the thugs and set off. The two thugs turned to their leader with questioning looks in their eyes. He just said, "Go ahead." They dropped the girls they were holding and ran to the ride. They pushed others out of the way and jumped into the first raft they could. A second later a raft with two airhead, big breasted bimbos traveled down the ride. And then there was one. As the lone thug moved with his hostage, he grew nervous. What had possessed him to do this alone? He got really nervous when he saw the women from the gate confront him as he neared a large water slide. Anya said, "Why don't you let the girl go and end this?" He pressed his knife tighter to the hostage's throat and growled, "Got my money?" He didn't hear Dannie muttering under her breath. Dannie focused on the spell she had been practicing earlier. She had to do this right the first time. If she heated both ends of the blade, the hostage would suffer a nasty burn to her throat. She concentrated and let loose. The guy yelped in pain and dropped the blade, but the hostage was unaffected. Before he could recover, Anya used a bit of power and forced his arms apart. No one but Dannie and Anya saw Erin run, jump up and barrel into his chest, knocking him into the pool at the bottom of the slide. No one, the hostage included, even remembered the thug as another bimbo raised her head out of the pool. And then there were none. Anya, Dannie, and Erin did a three-way high five and Dannie yelled, "Yeah! Now that's girl power!" Anya said, "One thing I don't understand, though." "What?" "Grandmother has defenses against this sort of thing. Spells to keep street thugs from being interested in Bikini Beach. How'd these thugs get through them?" Dannie shrugged. ************ Across town, the Spells 'R' Us Wizard said to Anya's grandmother, "They did well. Better than I expected." Grandmother responded by slugging him in the side. "OW! What was that for?" "You tamper with my defenses, risk my park, my patrons, and my granddaughter, all to teach Dannie a lesson about a spell?" The Wizard snorted. "Hardly. You were the one who said you felt that Anya wasn't getting the point of the dual lessons you were teaching and was neglecting her magic studies. Now, she gets it, sees the value of magic, Dannie got her lesson, and there's one less bunch of thugs terrorizing the local populace. A winning situation for all." "Uh-huh. And what did the girl Leprechaun get out of it?" "She had fun. What more does a faerie need?" "Well, she expended energy in Bikini Beach's defense. Energy of particular value since you inform me she has so little gold, so..." She reached into her purse and pulled out a single gold coin. "Give her this." "Will do." "You still owe me for tampering with my park." The Wizard just smiled. After Bikini Beach's owner and proprietor left, the Wizard looked into his scrying globe. Anya, Dannie, and Erin made a surprisingly good team. He expected they'd have many more adventures together. But those were tales for another day. ---------- All comments, suggestions, etc. may be sent to me at jrdss@micronet.net I can be reached while online at ICQ# 37222294