she couldn't really explain why it had came to her, nor why she went through with it, but when sheena obtained a pocket watch, the first thing she did with it was wonder if she could try and hypnotise someone. and that someone was colette.

'so you just wave it in front of my face?'

'no, you have to follow it with your eyes.' sheena sighed. though colette had agreed to help her try, she wasn't getting the instructions.

'sorry.'

sheena sighed and began waving the watch again. to her bemusement, colette didn't move her eyes but her whole head instead.

'it'll be easier to just move your eyes...'

'oh, sorry...'

colette began to finally follow the moving watch with her eyes. sheena watched as colette becamed entranced with the watch, and wondered if she was going under. she stopped waving the watch. colette's eyes halted where the watch had been last.

'colette? can you hear me?'

colette simply stared forward, eyes blank. sheena decided now was time to test.

'colette, when i snap my fingers, you'll come out of your trance, but every time i do it after, you'll act like a chicken for thirty seconds.' she said, and snapped her fingers. sure enough colette awoke and blinked in confusion.

'...i'm sorry, did you say something there sheena? i didn't hear you...' she said, and sheena snapped her fingers.

colette's words became clucks. she wandered around the room making chicken noises, all while arching her arms like wings. as the thirty seconds passed, colette came out of her trance to find she was standing on the bed.

'how did i get here?!' colette asked in surprise. sheena simply snapped her fingers in response...

***

sheena put colette under again after snapping her fingers a few more times, and wondered what to try next.

'from now on, when i snap my fingers instead of being a chicken i want you to go into a trance. whatever i say to you then, you'll do. when i snap my fingers after now you'll return to normal.' she instructed and snapped her fingers. colette exited her trance.

'did you understand?' sheena asked. colette stared at her in confusion.

'understand what?' colette asked. sheena snapped her fingers and she immediatley fell into a vacant-faced trance.

'i've been turned to stone. i want you to panic like i really am stone, but if you try to go for help or call out for it, nothing will happen. you'll find it impossible to leave the room or call out for someone.' sheena instructed, snapped her fingers, and stood still. colette immediatley became wide-eyed and horrified.

'sheena! oh no!'

though sheena stood perfectly normal, to colette, she stood as a statue. the ''normal'', ''unpetrified'' girl panicked and headed for the door, but froze. her face twisted in confusion as she found that she couldn't pass the door. she tried to call for help, but the words did not leave her mouth, just faint gasps and croaks. she walked back from the door, looking terrified. sheena snapped her fingers and colette's terror faded.

'ooh, i have another idea.' sheena said, and snapped her fingers...

***

colette was confused now. she had a feeling something scary had happened but she couldn't remember what. and now she...

...she couldn't move. why couldn't she move?!

i feel kind of cold... i can't move... i can't speak...

suddenly, she began turning. she was turned to face a mirror and the sight before her confirmed her fears. she stood petrified staring at herself in the mirror! sheena stood behind her, and colette didn't realise the other woman was grinning at first.

oh no, i really have been petrified! sheena! help me! she wailed in her mind, but to her surprise, sheena simply walked around her and tried to move her stone arm

what are you doing?! you'll break me!

'hmm, you really are into this. you're not moving an inch.' sheena grinned, and snapped her fingers...

***

after she had instructed colette to believe she would be petrified, sheena had intended to spin the statue-still, but not petrified, blonde around to face herself in the mirror. her ''stone'' face betrayed no emotion, but to sheena's surprise, she did mumble her thoughts out loud.

'i feel kind of cold... i can't move... i can't speak...'

sheena smiled at this and span her around.

'oh no, i really have been petrified! sheena! help me!' the ''statue'' said. sheena walked around colette, looking her over.

'wonder what happens if i try to move part of you myself...' sheena pondered, and began tugging colette's arm.

'what are you doing?! you'll break me!' colette whimpered

'hmm, you really are into this. you're not moving an inch.' sheena grinned, and snapped her fingers. colette became normal, and since she had been in trance, was very confused to find herself looking in the mirror now.

'...um, what keeps happening here?'

'oh, right. i forgot to tell you, it worked. i hypnotised you a few times.' sheena said. colette was pleased.

'that's good! but, i don't remember any of it.'

'don't worry about it. you shouldn't.' sheena said, and colette suddenly had a thought.

'um... what did you make me do?'

'nothing...' sheena lied. and then snapped her fingers again.

***

colette was really confused now. every time she had bumped into someone in the crowd, she'd tried to aplogise but the words got trapped in her throat. if sheena wasn't there to excuse her clumsiness, she'd be in big trouble. why couldn't she apologise to anyone?!

eventually they left the crowded street and sheena snapped her fingers. colette stared in confusion.

'how did we get here?'

'we're looking for raine. i've got something to test out with the hypnosis...' sheena smiled. colette felt worried.

'um... i don't want to be a bother but what is it you're making me do?'

'nothing. just after i next snap my fingers you'll think you're raine and the original raine is you.'

'oh... wait, what?' colette aksed. sheena snapped her fingers, and ''raine'' became confused.

'sheena? what's going on?'

'we're looking for colette, raine. she wandered off...'

***

sheena tried to hide her laugher, since it made the real raine suspicious, but colette was completely oblvious to it. colette was getting annoyed while raine was getting confused.

'colette, i don't know what's got into you...' raine said

'why do you keep calling me by your own name? what's got into you?' ''raine'' replied.

raine turned on sheena.

'is this something you did? it is, isn't it?'

'sheena's doing nothing, colette. but if we can be serious and stop joking around we were looking for you.' ''raine'' said, the real raine ignored her.

'it was you, wasn't it?'

'yeah, okay. it was. i hypnotised colette into thinking she was you.' sheena confessed, and snapped her fingers. colette returned to normal, but to sheena's surprise, raine wasn't annoyed much.

'you hypnotised her into thinking she was me? i've got an idea now...' raine said.

'you did what?!' colette squeaked in surprise. sheena and raine ignored her as they spoke, raine's suggestions making sheena grin in agreement.

***

raine's suggestion was simple. to use hypnosis to swap personalities more convincingly and confuse someone who was none the wiser. unfortunately for raine, she hadn't realised that sheena was in a mischevious mood and had another joke lined up first. when sheena snapped her fingers, raine took one look around her and screamed.

'it's not even ankle deep!' sheena laughed as raine bolted out of the water. to stay the inevitable anger of raine, she snapped her fingers again and really went through with the plan.

'raine, when i snap my fingers again you'll think you're colette and that colette is you.' she instructed. she then told colette the opposite and snapped her fingers. ''colette'' began stifling a smirk, while ''raine'' became angry

'if you ever play a prank like that again...' colette fumed, surprising sheena.

'uh... sorry. couldn't help it. anyway, let's go find someone to play the real prank on...'

'shouldn't you swap our personalities so i think i'm raine first?' raine asked, naturally unaware she already had.

'it doesn't matter, i can do it anytime and no one will notice.' she said, snapping her fingers,

'oh, i see.' the real colette said, finishing off the conversation raine had started. sheena snapped her fingers again, and the two swapped personalties once more, oblivious to the fact.

***

trying it out on presea first was a bad idea. she didn't respond in any way to the fact the two others seemed to switch personality. sheena sighed.

'okay, maybe this'll work better if she joins in...' ''raine'' suggested.

'are you sure we're swapping? presea, are we acting weird?' ''colette'' asked.

'yes.' came the blunt and simple reply.

'i think col... raine had an idea there.' sheena said. it didn't take long until presea was under and being given suggestions too...

***

lloyd was confused. every time sheena snapped her fingers, the other three would finish someone else's sentences. they'd answer to each others names. they'd act like each other. one minute presea was presea, the next she was colette and colette was raine.

'...what's going on here anyway?' he asked, exasperated.

'what do you mean...' ''colette'' began, as sheena snapped her fingers and raine then thought she was presea.

'...lloyd?' presea said, now thinking she was colette.

'presea, why do you think you're colette?'

'i don't. i know i am me.' raine replied.

'are you okay, lloyd? you seem to be acting strange...' colette, thinking she was raine, said.

'colette, you and the others are acting weird!'

'i didn't say you were acting weird, raine did!' presea said defensively

sheena burst into laughter, as did ''raine''.  eventually, things were explained to loyd.

***

after that was over, loyd had convinced them all it would be for the best that sheena cease the prank, and remove the hypnotic suggestons. she did so... at least, she said she had. they'd be unaware of swapping personalties every time she snapped her fingers when she was careful to make sure no one was around to give the game away...