Message-ID: <35486asstr$1014973804@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <jrdss@pobox.alaska.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-ID: <a05100301b8a486c24e7e@[209.112.138.50]> From: J R D <jrdss@pobox.alaska.net> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:29:06 -0900 Subject: {ASSM} Zodiac Coin:Pisces Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 04:10:04 -0500 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/35486> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: gill-bates, dennyw Here's my latest, the next in the Zodiac Coin series. Before I start, I'm giving fair warning. For those interested in stories about transformations and sex, this story is not for you. This is a story about a woman dealing with the consequences of her acts, and as such, the transformation and sex are only lightly touched on. On another note, I've worked out the coin effects for Pisces, Libra (the written stories), Leo, and Gemini. I have some ideas for a few of the others, but nothing fully fleshed out, so any suggestions for the other zodiac symbols will be appreciated. Full credit will given for any ideas that I use. If you want to submit an idea, the rule is simple: each coin grants three wishes, but with a side effect based on its symbol that renders it useless for selfish or vindictive acts. 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 ------------------------- ZODIAC COINS: PISCES 2400 YEARS AGO... He was a trader, traveling from town to town with his wagon full of wares. Unlike many of his peers, he always sought to be fair in all his dealings. At that particular time, he was parked for the night. He saw a shooting star and gave a prayer to Zeus, lord of the heavens, his second that night. He saw yet a third star streak through the night and strike the second (which was actually a repeat of the first), freezing in the night sky. As he offered a third prayer, it was clear that Zeus was not listening, for the meteor, once two, now one, became a meteorite on the exact spot where he was resting. ************ TODAY... Barbara, a plain woman with coke bottle glasses, walked into the house of her sister, Esmerelda, super model and aspiring actress. The house, really a mansion, was unusually silent. Gone was the hustle and bustle of the servants, both those who were supposed to be present and those who were supposed to get the job done while never being seen. It gave the place an eerie echo reminiscent of many horror movies. Barbara walked through the house calling first for her sister, then for anyone, but getting no answer. She was beginning to get worried, particularly since Esmerelda had called her and asked her to come over right away. Ever since her husband had disappeared about a year ago, Esmerelda had been having problems, and about six months ago she had started fighting a losing battle with clinical depression, and Barbara was afraid that she had done something self destructive. Barbara was about to call the police when she walked into the dining room. One wall was taken up with big windows which gave a clear view of the beach part of Esmerelda's beach front property, and when Barbara looked through them, she saw her sister standing at the end of a rock jetty, wearing her full length, mink coat, facing out to sea. Esmerelda was staring down at something in her hand that Barbara couldn't see. Barbara was terrified. Even if Esmerelda wasn't planning something stupid (which Barbara felt was a real possibility), the winds and waves were just high enough that being out there was a real danger. Of course, Barbara's extreme fear of the ocean was no help. Barbara ran out to the beach. The dismal, gray sky making the situation seem even worse. She had to stop where the sand met the rocks. She wanted to climb out there and drag Esmerelda back, but her fear was just too much. She was only able to call out, "Esmerelda! ESMERELDA!" Esmerelda lifted her head, but didn't turn around. "Hi, Barb, you're late. I expected you a half hour ago." "Bad traffic on the freeway. Look, Ez, could you do me a favor and come in off those rocks? It looks real dangerous out there." Esmerelda looked back to her hand. "Yeah, it's real nasty out today. But the weather matches my mood." That terrified Barbara, but before she could say anything, Esmerelda continued, "I've got to go after him, Barb. I've got to go after Jack." "Your husband? Look, I don't know what you're planning, but your husband ran away from you. You're under no obligation to go chasing after him." She shook her head. "He didn't run away. I drove him away. He had to leave because of something he did for me." "Even if I grant that, you don't have to do this personally. We can hire investigators. There are firms that handle this kind of thing." Esmerelda gave Barbara a half-snort, half-laugh. "No investigator or firm is going to be able to find him." Esmerelda looked out to the sea. "I know where he is, Barb. He's out there." "What? On a boat? That doesn't mean we can't find him. Boats have to dock, Ez, for food, for gas. He's going to leave a trail. We can find him." Esmerelda laughed, but it was a laugh tinged with desperation and a touch of insanity. "Oh, god, if only it were that simple. No, Barb, he's not on any boat, and he'll never walk through any port ever again." Very afraid, Barbara asked, "Did he throw himself into the sea? Kill himself?" fearing that if the answer was yes, that that meant Esmerelda planned on doing the same. "Yes... and no. He threw himself into the sea, right from this jetty, but he didn't kill himself. He's alive, Barb, out there." Barbara was afraid her sister was fooling herself. "Jack was never a strong swimmer, Ez. If he threw himself off these rocks, he couldn't have made it. You'd have to be part fish to make it out there." Whatever Esmerelda was holding, she clutched it close to her breast, looking up, and laughed insanely. After she calmed down, she said, "If you only knew." "Ez, I'm trying to understand what you're saying, but you're talking..." Barbara almost said crazy, but decided on, "in riddles. What happened to Jack?" Esmerelda turned around. "I suppose you should know that, so that you know what to expect." "Maybe I should get a chair." Barbara actually wanted to go call for help, but Esmerelda stopped her by saying, "If you go, I won't be here when you get back." Barbara said, "Okay, Ez, just keep talking. Tell me what happened to Jack." Barbara figured that as long as Esmerelda kept talking, she wouldn't be doing something worse. "You remember how Jack and I met?" "You went to high school together." "Yeah. He was a year ahead of me, but he followed me around like everybody else." Barbara cringed. It was a sore spot with her that as plain as she was, Esmerelda was that beautiful. But now was not the time to rehash childhood jealousies. "I don't know why I chose to let him take me out. He always used to say it was destiny. From the first, I knew there was something special about him. He was always so loving and caring, but that wasn't enough for me." She clenched her hand tight around whatever she was holding, clenched her eyes tight, and yelled, "OH, GOD, WHY COULDN'T I BE CONTENT WITH WHAT I HAD?" "Ez, stay focused. Tell me what happened, and then we can find a solution." "What happened? What happened is that I was too selfish for my own good." "Little more detail, Ez. Tell me what happened. I can't help if I don't know what's going on." "Sorry. So Jack and I were married, in secret so that I didn't have to worry about the protests." Barbara remembered that. Mom had exploded when Esmerelda had come home and told them. "Then we moved in together and started our lives, me as an aspiring model, he as an electrician. Anyway, there was only one real problem. Jack had no real ambition. He was a construction worker and content to be nothing more. From the first day back from our honeymoon, I kept pushing him to try to be more, but the most he ever became was a supervisor. "I finally got him to do something by telling him he was holding me back. I told him that the hiring agents didn't think that the wife of a simple construction worker was upscale enough for their clients. I knew that he'd do anything for me. I thought I could shame him into changing." "So what happened?" Esmerelda wiped a tear from her eye. "It worked, just not how I thought." "Ez, this is like pulling teeth. Tell me what happened." Esmerelda held up what she had been clutching, a gold coin about the size of a quarter. "This is what happened, the Pisces coin. I don't know where Jack got it, but I wish he had never gotten his hands on it." "A coin? What's so special about a coin?" "It grants wishes. Oh, I can see your disbelief, but it's true. Do you remember ho my career just took off out of nowhere? Jack wished for me to get that. He didn't tell me what he had done. Suddenly, I just had jobs lined up around the block. I still wanted Jack to be more than was, but I was too busy to really make an issue of it." "Sounds idyllic." "Should have been. Then I had my accident, after only a couple months. The car accident left me with some scars. Looking back, they weren't that bad. Hell, I could've covered them with make-up, but I was such a drama queen. I kept ranting and raving about how my career was over. It didn't matter that I was still getting plenty of offers, I wasn't perfect, so I had to whine. I pushed everyone away: you, mom, dad. I even tried to push Jack away, but he wouldn't let me. "I guess the crying finally got to him, because he came to me with the coin. He explained about the wishes. I thought he was talking nuts. Like you're thinking I probably am. Don't worry. I know how crazy this sounds. I wish it was just craziness on my part. But when he wished that I was as beautiful as he saw me, I knew different. I was perfect, more than perfect. "I wondered why he hadn't used the coin in the first place, but I didn't want to risk anything by asking too many questions. I should have asked, though. I should have asked before he made any wishes. You see, Barb, there's a cost to using the coin, a cost Jack didn't tell me about. "Jack started losing weight. He also rounded out and became more cuddly. I wondered about it, but I was too caught up in my own career to make much of an effort. Then I came home from an international shoot feeling horny as hell. I cornered him in the bedroom, ripped open his shirt, and found that he had grown a pair of breasts. They were still pretty small, about your size, but they were unmistakably breasts. "He was so worried that I'd reject him. He didn't know that I was bisexual. Not that I'd ever cheat on him, even with another woman, but I loved looking, and since the breasts were on my husband, I enjoyed the touching. After a night of hot, heavy sex, he told me that he was changing into a woman. He said it was the cost of using the coin. I told him that I'd stay by him no matter what he changed into." When Esmerelda paused in recounting her story, Barbara asked, "So what happened? Did the female Jack fall for some guy and run off?" "No, if that were it, I could live with it. No, Jack was faithful to the end. But Jack hadn't told me the full cost of the coin. For five months, I watched Jack grow more and more feminine, more and more beautiful. His breasts grew large and round, and his face became inhumanly beautiful. He became more beautiful than I was... from the waist up. From the waist down, nothing happened. "I asked him about it, but he avoided the question. It took me a while, but eventually I pinned him down and got an answer. You see, Barb, the coin doesn't turn you into a woman. It turns you into a mermaid. After the first wish, you have two years before the change is completed. After the second wish, whatever time you have left after the first wish is cut in half. And if you make a third wish, you are immediately transformed. "I was shocked. I dug the coin out of the dresser where he had put it and started wishing on it. When that didn't work, I became a real mess, shaking and yelling at it to work. Jack casually got out of bed, wrapped his arms around me, took the coin, and tossed it into the drawer. Then he sat me down and explained the coin. "As long as the coin hasn't been wished on, it can be given to anybody. After a person makes a wish, they're locked in; only they can use it until they either use all three wishes, their time limit expires, or they die. All three wishes must be used on the same person, whereupon the coin passes into their possession. "I broke down in tears. He had wished for me; he had given up his life for me." Esmerelda wiped another tear from her eye. "He had sacrificed everything because I couldn't be satisfied with what I had. "The next day I went berserk. I hired a construction crew to transform the basement into a huge pool. I invested in immense filtration units, oxygen pumps, and anything else anybody suggested. Jack asked me not to use up our last time together, but once again I wouldn't listen." "So what happened?" "The final day he was human I woke up alone in bed. When I looked out the window, I saw him standing right where I'm standing now. I came out here in my nightie and a robe and asked him to come back in. "He told me that he couldn't. I begged him to give the pool a chance. He gave me a weak smile and explained that, although mermaids could spend a few days close to the surface, they were actually deep sea creatures, and, short of investing in thousands of dollars of pressure tanks, there was no way that he could stay close to me. I was tempted to ask, but that would have meant condemning him to a life living in a space barely larger than he was. Not even I'm that selfish. "What came next was the worst, though. You know what he did? He apologized! Here he was giving up everything because of my selfishness, and he blamed himself for the fact that we weren't happy together. Then he held the coin, ran to the edge of the rocks, and leapt. As he sailed through the air, he called out, 'I wish that you can find the one who will love you more than anyone else.' I ran to the edge of the rocks, only to see a large fish tail sink below the water." Esmerelda paused once more. When she didn't seem to want to continue, Barbara asked, "Didn't his wish work? You haven't been with anyone since Jack disappeared." "Oh, it worked. That's the irony. When Jack wished his wish, I knew, without a doubt, that there was no one else who would love me as much as he did. I also know exactly where he is. I've taken a boat out to where he is, but I'm limited to what money can buy, and he's down so deep that even the toughest subs would be crushed by the pressure." Esmerelda held up the coin and said, "The only way down there is to wish for someone and become a mermaid myself." She looked from the coin to Barbara. "That's why I asked for you to come over, Barb. As a kid, I mistreated you. I cared more for my popularity than your feelings, so I've chosen you to wish for." "Look, Ez, I appreciate the thought, but you were actually a lot better than anyone else, and I don't want to lose you, so just put down that coin, come in off the rocks, and we can find another way to get to Jack." Truth was, Barbara assumed that her sister had cracked. She assumed that Jack had jumped off the rocks, and the coin was her sister's way of both denying it and rationalizing the guilt she felt. Esmerelda just smiled. She looked over the coin at Barbara and said, "I wish that you'd become as beautiful as you could possibly be." Barbara didn't figure on anything happening, but her eyes went all blurry. She yanked her glasses off, figuring something must have gotten on the lenses, only to find that her eyesight was now perfect without them. She then realized that her sister's story was true. Esmerelda started, "I wish-" But Barbara interrupted, "Ez, wait. No matter what our problems, I don't want to lose you." Esmerelda got a sad, almost tragic, look on her face. "I know, Barb, and I am sorry. I felt the same way when I found out that I was going to lose Jack. But the process has already begun, and there is nothing you or I can do to stop it. Ironic, I guess. The coin's effects were designed to keep it from being used for selfish reasons, what's the point of asking for fame or riches when you're eventually going to wind up in the sea, yet I manage it." Esmerelda wiped another tear from her eye. "I'll try to come back on your birthday, Barb. I wish that you'll become a successful writer. That is your chosen career, right?" Barbara nodded. When Esmerelda held up the coin, Barbara said, "Ez, please." "I'm sorry, Barb, but I have to go to him. I wish that you'll meet the one who will love you more than any other." With that, Esmerelda turned, ran, and jumped from the rocks into the water. As she ran, she let the mink she was wearing slide off her, revealing her nude body underneath. Barbara heard herself yell, "NO!" and run out on the rocks. She saw the mermaid that used to be her sister sink beneath the waves. She called out, "Ez! Esmerelda!" After a few seconds, Esmerelda's head popped back up. "Barb?" Before Barbara could think of anything to say, Esmerelda said, "Wow, I never figured that you'd ever get out on those rocks." Suddenly Barbara realized where she had run to and her irrational fear of water took over. She went to her hands and knees, saying, "Oh, my god! Oh, my god! I'm gonna die!" "Look, Barb, just turn around and head back. You won't even have to stand up." "No, no, I can't. I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!" "Barb, take it easy. You can handle this." "No, I can't." Barbara was going to panic more, but instead she heard singing, singing that drove all panic and fright from her. Her only thought was to get to that voice. Not even thinking about it, she stood, ran, and jumped into the water. Esmerelda caught her and carried Barbara back to shore, using her enchanted singing to keep Barbara calm. When they got close to the beach, Esmerelda threw her sister to safety. Barbara took a rough landing, then, her own thinking restored, scrambled away from the water. She turned and saw her sister waving. Esmerelda called out, "Are you okay?" After a cursory check, Barbara yelled back, "A couple bruises, no biggie." "I love you, Barbara. Remember, I'll be back on your birthday. I'll come back to the boardwalk at midnight. It's got a high rail, so you won't have to be afraid of falling in." Esmerelda turned, yelled, "Take care of that coin!" and dove into the sea. Barbara stared out at the place where her sister had disappeared for a few minutes, then looked down at the coin. Somehow she had held onto it through everything after it had come to her hand after Esmerelda had wished that third wish. She suspected... No, she somehow knew that that was part of the magic of the coin. As long as she hadn't started wishing, she could give it away, hell, even throw it away, but she couldn't lose it. The coin was a gold color, about the size of a quarter. Embossed on its surface was a pair of fishes, each chasing the other's tail. Barbara also knew that the coin had a name, the Pisces coin. The coin had a name, a name that she hated. If this damned coin had never come to Jack, he and Esmerelda could have worked things out. At the very least, Barbara would still be around. Barbara grew so angry, she flung the coin out into the ocean. With a muttered, "Good riddance," she stormed back to her car. On the way home, she was pulled over by a cop. As the officer walked alongside, she said, "What's the problem?" When she looked up at the officer, her heart skipped a beat. The officer was a good looking, athletic, blond woman. For Barbara, a closet lesbian, the cop was a walking fantasy. The cop said, "Nothing to worry about. You've got a taillight out. I'm not even sure why I bothered, but I need to make sure you've got a current I.D." Barbara said, "Sure, I understand," as she got her card out of her purse. The cop looked back and forth from the card to Barbara's face a few times. "You know, this picture only barely looks like, and, according to this, you're supposed to be wearing glasses while driving." Realizing that the truth would probably get her put in a funny farm, Barbara said, "Laser eye surgery. I don't need them anymore." The officer took out her ticket book, tore one out, and handed it with the back up, to Barbara. "Read this." It was a bunch of small print about how to pay and/or fight the fine, and Barbara found she could read it easily. After a paragraph, the cop said, "Okay, if you've memorized that, there's no way I'm going to catch you in a lie. You need to go down to the D.M.V. and get this updated. Other cops may give you a really hard time." After she handed the card back, the officer asked, "So, where ya headed?" It had felt like a casual question, but Barbara thought she had felt an under current of personal interest. She thought she might be imagining it, but decided to take a chance. "I was thinking of checking out a bar I'd heard of, The Express. Know anything about it?" It was a lesbian bar that Barbara had heard of but not yet gone to. Her risk paid off when the officer said, "I go there whenever I can. You realize that The Express only caters to a specific kind of girl?" "I had heard that." "I was about to get off. Would you care for an escort?" "I'd really, really like that." "You know where it is?" "Not exactly." "I'll go call in, then you can follow me there." Barbara watched the officer retreat and thought, "Ez, I hope you're happy, wherever you are. And I hope this cop is the result of that last wish. God, she's got a cute ass." ************ IN A CITY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA... It was a city of mermaids, each resident looking like a half-woman, half-fish, even the males. Although each mermaid's top was a straight man's wet dream, the one man floating at a table in the bar was particularly beautiful. He had received many offers, but he had turned them all down. Most thought he was a bit stuck up, but the bartender knew better. She knew that he was a transformee, a human changed by magic into a mermaid, and all transformees had a period of readjustment to life under the sea. This one was just a lot longer than most. Suddenly, a voice called out, "JACK!" and the transformee looked up as a new mermaid shot into the bar and slammed into him. The bartender was going to swim over and separate them, but the new lady didn't seem to want to hurt Jack; she just held him tightly, professing her love. Jack eventually got the new girl back a little to see who it was. "Ez? What are you doing here?" "I had to. It was your last wish. It showed me that no one would ever love me as much as you. I was so selfish. I never realized what a good thing I had until I lost you. Please forgive me, Jack." Jack kissed her. "Of course I'll forgive you. I love you, Ez." Finally happy, the two swam off together. ************ ON A BEACH A FEW MILES FROM ESMERELDA'S HOME... It was just growing dark and the beach was empty of any visitors. It was late enough in the season so that even in the middle of the day there hadn't been a lot of patrons, and it would probably be the same tomorrow. Even so, sommebody would eventually notice the glint of gold from a quarter sized coin with a pair of embossed fishes on its surface. -- "This is reality, not T.V. Can't you tell the difference?" "Sure, I just like T.V. better." jrdss@alaska.net ICQ#37222294 J R D -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: <ckought69@hotmail.com> | | FAQ: <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/faq.html> Moderator: <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Archive: <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org> Hosted by Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository | |<http://www.asstr-mirror.org>, an entity supported entirely by donations. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+