Raine wasn't sure who had suggested it, that they spend a few days taking a break in Altamira. She'd agreed anyway, thinking it would be the best shot she could get at something she'd wanted to do. She remembered what Sheena had done. The clumsy assassin had played a host of hypnotic pranks on her and the others. True, she had been partly to blame for suggesting an idea and playing along, but she was out for her revenge, and a fairly peaceful time in Altamira was the opportunity she had needed. They'd arrived earlier in the night,

Quietly, grinning with glee, she approached Sheena's bed. The younger woman was sprawled on the bed, in a deep sleep. Perfect for her plan.

"Sheena... Focus on my voice. You find it very easy to focus on my words..." she said softly, wondering if she could pull this off. Sheena did not stir.

"Sheena, when you awaken in the morning, you will think you have been transformed..."

***

Sheena blinked her eyes open. Had she heard fingers snapping? She clucked a yawn anyway as she began to wake, and then...

...Clucked?

She bounced up, her mind thinking she was a small chicken rather than a human. She buckawed and panicked, running around the room, with no idea how she had been transformed...

Then she realised she wasn't alone in the room. Fearfully, she saw a looming shape, far larger than her.

"Buckaw..." she whimpered as Raine loomed over her.

"What's a chicken doing in here? Maybe Sheena left you here. Something for dinner?" Raine mused as Sheena cowered.

Raine tried to fight back laughter as Sheena cowered in the corner, arms bent up like wings. She decided to reach down, and Sheena screeched, running away flapping her arms. Raine burst out laughing

She was angry! Raine had no idea Sheena had somehow become a chicken and now Raine just wanted to cook her! But how could she explain? She could only cluck, she couldn't speak. Her wings couldn't hold a pen to write a message...

...Raine snapped her fingers. Sheena suddenly realised she was the right size, and had never actually been a chicken. She turned, face frozen in shock, to see Raine standing behind her, tears of laugher pouring down her face

"I got you back for your hypnosis prank!" Raine eventually said. Sheena was still paralyzed and speechless with shock. This had been revenge?

Well, she thought. Two could play that game.

***

Raine had slept well, having enjoyed her revenge immensely. She yawned as she woke, everything seeming perfectly normal until the door knocked.

"Buckaw?" a voice said.

"...What? Who's there? Is that you, Sheena?" Raine asked, thinking that maybe Sheena was joking around.

She opened the door, only to see a chicken, and a smug looking Sheena...

"Oh, so you are up. How come you couldn't recongise Collette's voice?"

"All right, what have you done?" Raine sighed.

"Oh, I'd tell you, but see, if I say the wrong word you'll see me the same as everyone else... In fact if you say it too, it'll happen" Sheena said.

The chicken looked at the two of them in confusion.

"You did this though, didn't you?" Raine pressed on

"Buckaw?" Collette said. Raine assumed she had said "Did what?"

"Sheena's put some kind of hypnotic effect on me to see everyone as a chicken."

Collette began laughing, an unusual thing to see a chicken do. Then she realised there were two laughing chickens.

"Sheena, the wrong word was chicken, wasn't it..."

The second chicken nodded.

It made for a very complicated day. She'd tried to pretend something was wrong with her ears, and when she had to speak to people to get them to write something down. But Sheena had saw this possibility and ever written word was "cluck" "buckaw" and "caw". Eventually Sheena took some measure of pity on her and snapped her fingers to break the semi-trance Raine was in, returning her view of the world to normal...

***

Okay, perhaps she had been childish to get revenge, but it was only fair. Sheena should have been able to accept that they were even, but now, she was playing a game like a little girl. And Raine would soon make sure Sheena knew the real meaning of childish.

This unfortunately backfired as they went to the theme park.

"Why is Sheena..." Collette began as Raine held her head in her hands

"Acting like a little girl?" She finished.

"You didn't get her back for the chicken thing, did you?" Lloyd added as Sheena darted around excitedly.

"I did..."

"I don't see this ending well..." Collette added.

"Come on! I wanna ride... Uh... Everything! With everyone!" Sheena said as she ran up, jumping up and down. A few other park guests were looking at the group with strange expressions.

"Can't you undo it?" Collette whimpered as Sheena started dragging her off to the rollercoaster

"I told her to be like this for twelve hours... And that was only about four hours ago..." Raine lamented as Collette was dragged to her fate.

***

Sheena recalled everything when the effect of Raine's hypnosis wore off, and decided that the beach the next day would be her perfect place for revenge. And it had been. Raine had spent the day averting her gaze from everyone.

"So, what's it like?" Sheena taunted.

"This is even worse that seeing everyone else as a chicken..." Raine moaned.

"At least they're human and understandable, right?"

"Yes, but... They're all naked!" Raine moaned, holding her head in her hands.

"Except me unless you say the wrong word again." Sheena said. Raine froze, unwilling to look up.

"It wasn't naked."

"Just undo it, this is really embarrising. I can't even look at people. I hate the beach to start with... It's too close to the sea."

"All right, all right, I'll undo it, and you can go back and wait for us." Sheena sighed, having mercy once more and snapping her fingers...

...Only to find herself entranced. Sheena's body stopped obeying her own commands and simply sat there, staring blankly even as she mentally fought to get it to obey.

"I should have warned you, last night I made it so if you snapped your fingers you'd go into a trance, and obey my every command for the next hour after it. Let's see... How about you remove your swimsuit, and think you're fully clothed?" Raine said. Sheena felt her body move even as her mind was mortified by the prospect.

"Okay, that'll do. Enjoy the next hour. Oh, and have fun when it's up..." Raine said, grinning as she commanded Sheena to act normally until the time was up. Sheena, trapped in her own body that was under the control of Raine's orders, could only watch in horror as said body began walking the entire beach naked...

***

Raine awoke, and quickly realised two things. This room was dimly lit, and she couldn't move. A third and fourth thing soon came to mind. This was the cafe, and she felt cold...

"Nice trick yesterday, Raine. I'm going to be a little more merciful in one respect. You'll notice you're naked now, but not for long." Sheena said, from behind her. Her opponent in this minature hypnosis was walked in front of her, and had she not been frozen in place, Raine's eyes would have widened and she would have cried out in despair.

In her hands, Sheena held one of the bunny costumes worn by the employees. One designed for someone smaller than Raine. Figure hugging wouldn't be the word, figure compressing would be closer, if it could even squeeze on.

"Hang on, just gotta move your pose to get this on..." Sheena said, moving Raine's frozen arms and legs with ease, then toppling her over. She felt like she was as light as a feather as Sheena moved her, but Raine couldn't even move herself. Even though her limbs felt so light they strangely felt so heavy...

"Oh, this is a few sizes too small all right..." Sheena grinned, tugging it up Raine's motionless legs. Eventually, the skimpy costume was in place, and Sheena stood her back up.

"Let's see, a good pose... Well, we'll lean you forward a little... Make you put your curves out... Make you smile... And there, perfect! A lovely little bunny for the customers!" Sheena smiled.

Raine tried her hardest to protest.

"See you this evening. You'll be here the whole day as long as I remember to come back for you. Or if no one figures out the truth first and moves you somewhere else. Oh, by the way, I told Zelos you'd be here too. He'd like to thank you personally for what you made me do yesterday I imagine." Sheena taunted as she left Raine behind, a living mannequin posed seductively in a bunny costume two sizes too small...

***

Sheena had seemed dissapointed no one had really guessed Raine was an entranced, real woman. Raine however, knew more than a few people had treated her too much like a mannequin. Zelos had known, and had happily exploited Raine's inability to move to make lewd comments. Luckily he had done nothing more than ogle and flirt around, but Raine had been worried that her inanimate state and skimpy dress could have resulted in serious problems, but it seemed Zelos had in fact been asked by Sheena to prevent things getting down that road in exchange for both the shows he had got out of this little argument. Perhaps a little more merciful, but still enough for Raine to want to retaliate. And she had the means to do it whenever she wanted.

And with a snap of her fingers when the two were alone, Sheena froze in place, with vacant eyes.

"Let's see, what kind of things would be the worst thing to do in the Casino tonight... Ah yes..."

Four trigger words, four effects, and one fearful Sheena realising after being loosed from her trance that Raine had the upper hand at this moment.

What did she do while I was under? If I ask she'll demonstrate... Has she already done something?

She looked around, seeing nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe she'd just tranced her for a lesson...

Then Raine said something and Sheena felt a quick sensation of being colder. A glance down and she realised she was naked! She quickly covered up, seeing the crowds around her... Totally ignore her?

"You tricked me into thinking I'm naked?" Sheena hissed.

"Maybe. Or maybe I tricked you to think everyone was ignoring you and tricked you to think you were fully clothed before. You won't know because you can't trust anyone. Have fun..." Raine said, and walked away, leaving Sheena still pondering the problem of what the deception was...

***

She had decided to risk asking someone. One of the female employees dressed in a bunny girl suit walked past, and Sheena got her attention.

"Excuse me, this might sound weird, but does anything look out of the ordinary about me?" She asked.

"Um... Not really." The bunny girl replied. Sheena then realised maybe she'd hear the right answer to that kind of question...

Then Raine walked past and said something else.

"Thanks. Say, when do you finish working?" Sheena asked the girl. She was pretty hot...

"I... I'm sorry?"

"I'm saying, maybe we can go for a drink or something later?"

The employee looked mortified.

"B...But we're both women!"

Raine approached and for a second, Sheena was struck by the realisation of how hot she was. And then Raine spoke again and Sheena realised what she had been thinking she was for the last few moments.

Raine had made her think she was a man.

The employee took her cue to leave, hoping the strange woman's friend could control her, not realsing that of course, that was the entire problem.

"What else have you made me do?!" Sheena said in frustration. She still had no idea if she was really naked, and now Raine was making her flirt with other women by making her think she was the wrong gender!

"Oh, nothing much. Just two more, and I think it'll be fitting to let you share them both at once." Raine said, though Sheena didn't catch the last two words. What she did do, was freeze in place like a mannequin. But her mouth was now speaking her every thought.

"You've made me freeze? Oh, that's original... Hey, watch my arm! Don't touch me there! Don't!" Sheena said as Raine began posing her.

"There. Have fun..." Raine taunted, leaving.

"You can't leave me! Get back here! I swear I am going to get you back for this!"

The bunny girl from before had walked back up, seeing the frozen Sheena posed. She stood legs wide open, one arm on her hip and the other pointing to the sky.

"...This woman is crazy." She muttered as Sheena began a stream of insulting "thoughts" aimed at Raine...

***

She'd decided to call a truce by apologising. Sheena had thrown in the towel.

"I'm done. This is just getting too much. We're going to get injured or arrested or something if we keep playing with each others minds like this." Sheena had said to Raine when she eventually had let her free.

"I'm glad you see it that way. I'll apologise for what I did, if you do the same. And we make sure we remove each other's triggers."

"Okay."

The two then entranced each other, and removed their metal triggers. Peace in the Hypnosis War had come.

For all of an hour, that was.

***

Sheena had been unable to resist trying it. To give Raine a trigger in her sleep, to do something and not remember the effects of the trance at all. She went back to bed, knowing it was wrong, but not expecting any side effect.

Raine then woke, having guessed (Correctly, but she didn't actually have proof) that Sheena would break the truce. She inserted her own trigger, unaware that she was doing exactly what Sheena had done to her.

Both felt confident they'd get the last laugh and emerge the winner with the other unaware. Both were sure their plans were foolproof.

The fact neither knew the other had the same plan meant that when they both decided to use the trigger words at once, both became entranced.

Sheena was confused to be here in the middle of a human settlement. Why was she, a monkey, here? In front of her, a confused human stood, but soon went on all fours.

Raine was also confused to be standing on her hind legs suddenly. What had made a dog like her stand like a human? And why was the human in front of her crouching and making ook noises?

"Um... What are they doing?" Colette asked, watching the two adopt their odd postures. Zelos shrugged.

"Whatever it is, it's probably going to be good. It might last a while."

At this, Sheena spotted the bananas, and leapt towards them. Raine saw a cat out of the window and bounded out of the door, barking.

"Last a while? Why?"

"Because neither of them is able to take the other out of trance."

Colette watched the commotion as Sheena snatched the bananas and fled past a startled looking bunny girl. Outside, Raine was barking and a cat was meowing in terror. The bunny girl stood utterly mortified.

"...That weird woman again..." She moaned, trembling. Zelos and Collette looked away quickly, especially when Lloyd entered wondering why Sheena was up a tree eating bananas with Raine barking at the cat beside her...