"Look! There it is!" exclaimed Yuna, pointing at a tiny glowing orange sphere nestled tight in the forehead of an odd metal statue. Problem was, said statue was embedded in a cliff face, and it was pretty high up. "So how do we get there?" asked Paine in her matter-of-fact tone. "Oh, I got this!" Rikku replied. "I'll climb it!" Not waiting for any sort of confirmation, Rikku immediately ran, and jumped off the bridge at the cliff. Then, she dexterously climbed her way across, until she was underneath the statue. "Be careful!" called Yuna, concern in her voice. Rikku did not respond, but rather climbed up. In a matter of minutes she was level with the statue. It was old and worn, about twice the size of her fist, in the shape of a man's head. She didn't recognize who it was, but that wasn't what they were there for. The sphere, however, was. Rikku grabbed it, feeling a slight jolt of electricity run through her hand as she touched it. "Yow!" she recoiled, hanging on with one hand as she shook the other. "It's trapped!" Reaching behind her and unhooking one of her daggers, Rikku tried to lever it out. Eventually she succeeded, the sphere popping out with a satisfying thunk. She barely managed to catch it in her palm. Perfect. "I got it!" she exclaimed in triumph, pumping her fist... as her handhold crumbled and she fell down the side of the cliff, into the river, screaming. With a large splash, she collided with the water. She quickly gathered herself, swam to the shore, and rejoined her companions.  "Told you I got this!" she grinned, showing off the sphere in her hand. "Now can we go back? I'm freezing!" I watched as the three girls left the river.  ______________________________ "So what do you say, fellas? Good enough?" I asked.  "Seriously dude? Girls?" complained Denys.  "Look - we're running out of time, and beggars can't be choosers." I said. Denys only grumbled. "Was that Yuna? As in, Summoner Yuna?" Rioc said, his voice betraying his excitement. "Ooh, that's exciting!" "At least someone's on board." I said. Truth was, we didn't have much choice anyway. See, we weren't really alive. We weren't Fayth, or Pyreflies or anything like that. Most of that had perished when that very same Yuna and her friends had defeated Sin for good. No, we were something else.  It was hard to explain. We were normal humans, long ago. then, Sin... happened to our home, and we died. Except not entirely - our flesh was dead, but through whatever perverse magic that kept Sin coming back... we came back too. And we stayed.   We couldn't be Sent - we had tried numerous times, wanting to be freed. Instead, we had roamed the earth, still physical but not really alive, until Sin died. By then, we had gotten used to this 'living'. With Sin gone, we had to find another way. This was our way. ______________________________ "So how do we decide who gets who?" I asked. "I can't believe you're forcing me into this" Denys pouted.  "No one's forcing you into anything!" I retorted. "Would you rather just disappear after so long?" Denys had nothing to say. Instead, he grunted and turned around. Rioc, however, had a grin on his face.  "So I take it you're not entirely upset with the situation" I asked, turning to face him. "So who is it?" I winked.  "I wanna be famous!" Rioc exclaimed. "I want Yuna!" Rioc had been only fourteen or so when he had died - a good half decade younger than Denys or myself. Despite it having been a couple of centuries, some of his childish mannerisms persisted. "That's it then, isn't it?" Denys asked. "Why even bother asking?" "So she's not your type?" I teased. Denys grunted again, for what seemed like the tenth time in as many minutes, and walked off. What Denys meant was the sphere. It was imbued with a huge amount of Sin's magic - and it was the thing that kept us around after Sin's demise. As the one who had set the magic into the sphere in the first place, I was most tightly bound to it. That meant, that I would be the one to infiltrate the girls' ship through the sphere. And I would be forced to take over the body of whoever had imprinted the most on the sphere. That meant, I had to make do with Rikku. And make do I would. ______________________________ "Why was that water so cold!?" Rikku complained.  "Why'd you have to go and fall in?" Paine retorted. "Well you weren't exactly volunteering to get the sphere, were you?" "Can we chill out please?" Yuna interjected. "We got the sphere, after all!" "I'm chill - I'm too chill" Rikku said with a laugh, wrapping her towel around herself. Yuna giggled.  "Well at least your sense of humor is intact! We should get some rest, it's been a long day." After a few more minutes of idle chatter, the girls each retreated to their rooms.  Later that night, Rikku saw what looked like Pyreflies circling around.  "Hmm?" she mused. "Where did you come from?" She stepped towards them, and they retreated. Following, she found them in the storage room - floating around the sphere she had picked up earlier that day. "Does this mean that we actually found something valuable?" Rikku thought. From within the orange sphere, my consciousness stirred. For the first time, I saw my quarry in detail. Rikku was short and petite. Her blonde hair was done up in a bit of a messy ponytail, with long thin braids down the side of her head.  Surprisingly, even at this hour, she was still dressed for action. In her case that meant a blue bandanna, a yellow bra, matching scarf and billowy white sleeves that didn't even connect, leaving her shoulders and belly completely bare - not to mention giving anyone who wanted a nice look at the shape of her modest boobs.  Below the waist she wasn't dressed much more than that - a short brown skirt that barely went below her ass, and short lace-up boots.  "Pick me up... " I whispered from the sphere. Rikku, did not show any sign of hearing me, but I knew she had. As expected, she picked up the sphere, and took it to her room. She was mine. Rikku sat on the bed, idly playing with the sphere. She held it in front of her face, staring at it intently. Now was my time. The sphere glowed, and Rikku continued to stare, as if entranced. My consciousness flowed from the sphere into her hand. Even as my essence left the sphere, its light dimming ever so slightly, Rikku did not notice. She held it, mesmerized, as I continued to get myself set up. I had infiltrated her arm, half her torso and one of her legs, and she was none the wiser. Then again she had no reason to be. If she tried to move them, they would still respond. It did not take me long to completely leave the sphere behind. It's glow ceased, and Rikku seemed to snap out of her trance. But it was too late. With one effortless thought, I asserted myself as the dominant being in her body. Immediately, a barrage of sensations assaulted my new senses. While before everything was dull, now it was bright. The air on my skin. The soft sheets on my back and my legs. Even just the sensation of breathing, as I let out a content, feminine sigh. Then, I looked down and admired my new body. I touched my midriff with my slender fingers, and marveled at how nice it felt. I hadn't felt touch like this in so long, and had forgotten what it was like. My hands moved up, and touched my bra. I'd also never had boobs before... Curiosity getting the better of me, the bra and other few meager clothing items on my upper body were soon discarded, and I gazed at my chest. A feeling stirred within that I could not describe, and lewd thoughts began to run through my mind. The sphere needed some time to charge before I could use it to bring one of my friends into it, so I did have time to kill. And it would be a shame if I were to get distracted tomorrow by any new sensations, and raise suspicion that Rikku wasn't herself anymore... That night was the most amazing in my recent memory, with my hands exploring - in painstaking detail - every inch and sensation of my new body. ______________________________ I woke very early, as the sun was only rising. I quickly did a once-over of my new body, mentally reliving last night's session of getting acquainted with my new self. It almost made me want to uh... confirm the results, but I had bigger things to do. I picked up the sphere, now brighter than last night but still dull, from the bed stand where I had left it yesterday. A whispered word or two began the process. I watched as the intensity increased, but taking on a purplish hue instead of the orange it was before. So Rioc had primed himself next. I had to go find Yuna. Quickly putting on the few clothes Rikku had available, I took the sphere and went to the next room. As luck would have it, it was Yuna's. It was still far too early for anyone sane to be about, so I snuck into the room as quietly as I could. Yuna was asleep, face up, and lightly snoring. One of her hands had fallen out from under the blanket. Excellent.  I put the sphere in her hand and closed it. Now, she was locked in for Rioc. "Rikku?" Yuna asked. "What are you doing?" "Good morning!" I said chirpily. "I noticed something with the sphere from yesterday, and had to show you right away!" "But... what time is it?" Yuna asked, yawning. "Dunno, I couldn't sleep." I replied. "Check it out!" Yuna took the hand with the sphere, and looked at it. "Wasn't it orange yesterday?" she asked.  "Yup! That's what I wanted to show you!" "Huh..." she brought it closer to her face, and it started glowing. I stood back and watched with interest. There wasn't much to watch, unfortunately, as Yuna continued to stare at the sphere, mesmerized, as the brightness faded. Then she blinked, and her eyes went wide. "Whoa!" she said, out of character and louder than expected. I was sure it was Rioc, but I had to play it safe just in case. "Shh, keep it down, Yuna!" I whispered. Yuna's hand went to her mouth, touched her lips... and then she broke out into a grin. "This is sweet!" she whispered, eyes wide with excitement. She threw off the blanket, revealing that unlike Rikku, Yuna at least had more standard sleeping clothes - a semi-transparent blue nightgown that went just below her waist.  Yuna stood up - she was a little taller than me - and admired herself. She looked at her hands, down at her body, lifted her legs one at a time as she turned around to check out her own ass... "Dude, I'm actually Yuna!" she whispered. "Of course you are!" I smiled, before giggling a little.  "What now?" she asked - but she was a little fidgety. "Well we need to wait for the sphere to recharge, and we need to wait for Denys to prime it."  "Oh. " she said, looking a little disappointed. "What's up?" I asked. "Well... wait does that mean we have nothing to do for now?" her eyes lit up. I nodded, and I saw a perverted grin form on her face. With one swift motion, Yuna took off her nightgown, revealing a matching set of blue bra and panties. She cupped her boobs, moaning a little as she did so. Then, she stepped right next to me and cupped mine. "I think mine are bigger..." she breathed in my ear. "Want to check?" A shiver went down my spine as she reached around and unclasped my bra, and pressed herself against me. I felt her bare skin touch mine, and she pulled me in so I couldn't escape. Not that I even wanted to. I returned the favor and undid her bra, the two now hanging in place only by virtue of us pressing so close against each other. That didn't last long as they were quickly thrown away, leaving the two of us completely topless in our embrace. The rest of the early morning was spent with Yuna - and me - getting very intimately acquainted with our - and each other's new bodies. ______________________________ "What the hell is going on?!" a loud voice yelled, waking both Yuna and me. Paine stood over the bed, with a look of anger and disgust on her face. She was already fully clothed, and pissed. On her were many belts - which were around her waist, hanging around her shorts, and around her otherwise bare midriff, what looked to be suspenders and garters keeping thigh-high black tights in place, as well as what appeared to be a black shawl over her chest, and black elbow-length gloves over her crossed hands.  Meanwhile, blankets were strewn all round, covering the two girls still on the bed, but not leaving any question as to their prior activities. "What do you mean?" Yuna said in a small voice. "I mean this! You two are cousins for crying out loud!" Paine yelled. Yuna went red, and grinned. "Um... oh..." she stuttered, shaking her head.  "Whatever, I'm out. I can't do this." Paine said, before turning around. Yuna and I shared a glance, before looking at the inconspicuous green sphere on the bedside.  I grabbed the sphere, while Yuna tackled Paine to the ground. "Get... off!" Paine yelled, trying to shove Yuna off. I leapt in, Denys's sphere in hand, and grabbed Paine around her waist. Soon, one of her hands came to loosen my grip, and I grabbed it with the same hand that held the sphere. As I pressed the sphere into her palm, her eyes widened. "The sphere! That's what it is!" she said as the realization dawned on her. But it was too late. Yuna, arriving at the same conclusion as I had, let her go and stood up. Paine sat, on the floor of Yuna's bedroom, and almost as if against her better judgment, brought the sphere to her face to examine it in detail... The sphere's light began to dim. "I can't believe you idiots set this up" Paine said, the tone of her voice now completely different. She looked at us, still naked, with an intrigued look on her face. "And put some clothes on!" "How about you take yours off?" Yuna countered. Paine did not need too much convincing. I think the three of us were going to have a lot of fun in our new bodies...