Midnight Carnival, by Tainted Sins

Chapter 6
Kids are Cruel - Original beginning

Chapter Description: By Tainted Sins

Midnight Carnival (06Bis/16): Original Beginning to Kids are Cruel

Written several months ago - included because characters and transformation scene is slightly different.

"Wait until you guys see it!" Amy beamed happily as she dug through the large wooden crate resting in the middle of the living room. She had been waiting all night for her parents to leave, and now, finally she could share her discovery with her friends.

Five other girls in the group, all either fifteen or sixteen. It was Friday night and Amy’s parents had gone to catch a late night flight to Vegas for a weekend romp. Having settled in long ago, they were all now dressed in either nighties or long, oversized shirts. They had spent the dwindling hours gabbing about boys, painting fingers and toes, and generally growing completely bored. Now they all watched their friends enthusiastic search, hoping for a little excitement, but doubting it would be found in that smelly old box.

"This is the junk pile from the museum my Dad works at." Amy explained, oblivious to her friends’ skepticism. "A lot of it was never classified and so they just assumed it was fake. But my Dad is trying to find links to a secret cult of druids he has been tracking for years."

A few groans and sighs marked the end of whatever interest was left in the group. They were considered by most to be the most popular girls in their grade. There was cheerleading, dating, and about a million after school projects to worry about, and they all certainly considered things like druids to be way too childish a topic to get excited about. At least, all of them except Amy, who had never completely given up on her childhood faith in the supernatural.

Normally Amy kept this side of her a secret, too much individuality in a group like this was a bad thing. But in this case she felt her find was just too kewl to keep to herself. "Alright, I found it!" She exclaimed as she lifted a metal sphere about half the size of a bowling ball out of the crate. "The Mind" was inscribed on the right side of the ball, while "The Body" was written on the left. A large red jewel was embedded in what appeared to be the front of the object.

"What is it?" Melissa asked, much to the displeasure of the others who didn’t want to encourage this sort of behavior. But Melissa had always been the misfit of the group. Although she was pretty, she came from a poor family, and was still slightly shy and awkward. Normally she would never have gotten in, but her willingness to take abuse from the others gave her the needed appeal.

"It’s called the sphere of life...at least that’s what my Dad says. It is suppose to be able to bring youth to anyone in its path."

"Wow!" Melissa replied, thoroughly impressed.

Seeing an opportunity to punish Melissa for...well for being Melissa, and to have a little fun as well, Cindy jumped off the floor and snatched the object out of Amy’s hand. "How does it work?" She asked, eyeing the object as she turned it around curiously.

"Well, uh..." Amy began. She was a little nervous at giving someone like Cindy the power the sphere was rumored to have... But on the other hand, Cindy was the undisputed leader of the group... And besides, she knew she was just trying to scare Melissa anyway. "You just point the red jewel, or the eye at the subject, then you press on the side you want to affect. The longer you hold it, the younger they get."

"What about it Melissa?" Cindy grinned wickedly as she pointed the red jewel her way. "Ever wonder what it would be like to be a baby again?"

"Cut it out Cindy!" Melissa demanded, her cheeks growing a bright red. "Quit messing around with that thing, like it really works anyway." Her attempt to save face by sounding calm failed miserably, the fear was horribly clear in her voice.

"Oh doesn’t work ’eh? What say we find out?" Not believing it would really work, she didn’t pay any attention to the side she squeezed. But as pressure wrapped around the side labeled "The Mind" the jewel began to glow, and issued a loud throbbing hum.

Cindy was delighted at the terrified screams coming from Melissa as she tried to cover her body with her hands protectively. So much so, that she continued squeezing and pointing for nearly thirty seconds before Amy finally stopped her.

"Alright Cindy, that’s enough!"

"God Amy, you are almost as lame as her." Cindy retorted as she finally released her grip enough to stop the jewel from glowing. "And you," Cindy continued as she turned to Melissa who had finally stopped screaming. "are soo gullible. God, it’s pathetic." With that said, she dropped the sphere to the ground with the thump, and walked off towards the kitchen.

A few minutes later the group found itself preparing to make cookies, with the incident apparently long forgotten. "Saturday night, when Scott takes me out, I have decided I am going to finally do it with him." Cindy confided to the spellbound group, and was immediately bombarded with praise.

"Oh God Cindy, you are so kewl!"

"I can’t believe it, I am so jealous!"

"Every girl in school wants Scott!"

"Do what?"

All eyes suddenly turned to Melissa.

"Have sex dimwit." Cindy rudely informed her.

"What’s that?" Melissa asked innocently, but soon began blushing as she saw how her

friends were looking at her. "I mean, I knew what it was once...oh God! Why can’t I remember? Someone please please tell me what sex is!"

The moment of stunned silence turned into laughter. "Oh my God it’s working!" Amy shouted, now the only one in the room, besides Melissa, not laughing.

"Stop being mean to me you guys! Stop it! Just stop it!" Melissa screamed, stomping her feet.

"Hey Melissa, what’s two plus two?" One of the girls chimed in jokingly.

"I-I don’t know!" Melissa realized terrified. "Hey! Stop laughing at me... I-I’m gunna tell!" But her threats only increased the volume of their amusement, and soon Melissa began to cry. "I want my mommy!" She finally howled in between sobs.

She began pushing past the crowd, but before she could make it she lost her balance and fell to the floor. She was still crying, but managed to utter "Wh-why can’t me no ’member how to walk?"

With a grunt, she managed to push herself up on her hands and knees and began crawling towards the door, her shirt pulled up to her head, giving a rather unladylike view of her pink cotton undies.

The girls followed her as she slowly made her way back into the living room. She had made it about halfway across the floor, and towards the door leading to the outside when she realized her new problem...she really had to relieve herself, but she couldn’t remember what she was suppose to do.

The embarrassment she still felt, and the realization that it was probably about to become worse formed in her mind. "No go pee pee, no go pee pee." But nevertheless, a moment later her bladder betrayed her. She felt herself lose control, she tried to hold it in but the warm wetness continued to grow in her panties and run down her legs followed by a squishy feeling forming on her backside.

The girls giggled and clapped as a large brown stain made itself apparent on their friend’s bottom, and continued to grow... All except Amy, who simply watched horrified.

Finally Melissa collapsed on herself, no longer knowing how to crawl. "Pwease somebody help help baa boo goo nah bah!" She continued babbling, losing all speech capabilities.