Wild Magic Party - Monika and Keisha

"Hey, Keisha! I just got an email inviting me to a post Halloween party on the 6th. Have you got it too?"

Monika heard a few mouse clicks from Keisha's room, "Yes, I got it too. Why? You thinking of going?"

"Of course, Why wouldn't I? Reading between the lines there will be lots of magician's there and lot's of chances to have some magical fun."

"It does sound like fun? But what about the last line; 'Costume required'?"

"Oh! Hadn't noticed that. We already overspent on our costumes for the student union party. And The Party Hub aren't going to give us an extra week's hire for nothing."

"And I don't think the old guy will be willing to overlook a late return either, given the shouting at he got from Treasure for giving us a student discount, when there's a sign on the door saying 'No student discount'."

"Still, it was nice of her to let us have the discount anyway, because we had already paid."

"So, have you got any ideas for costumes we could go in, Monika?"

"No, but I know Andi. I'll have a word with her, she's bound to have some ideas for costumes."

"Who's Andi?" asked Keisha.

"She was the one who won all the non-hired costume prizes; she got best female for her costume, best male for her boyfriend's costume and best couple costume for a costume she made for some friends of theirs."

"Those were amazing, but they must have cost more than hiring one and taken hours to make."

"Yeah, but I'm sure she'll have ideas that we can cobble together, so that we are in costume and don't look like total cheap-skates."

"We usual end up going to these dos in coordinated costumes. Shall we do it again?"

"It depends on what Andi comes up with, do you want to go coordinated again? Though it might make it more difficult of one of us decides to go off on our own."

"Ok, you talk to Andi and we'll talk about what she suggests once you've done that."

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The following evening Monika returned to their living room dragging a huge plastic bag. "I got us our costumes for the magicians' party. I think they'll be great, we just need to do a bit of sewing to make them wearable."

"Are these from your friend Andi?"

Monika nodded and leaned the bag against the wall.

"I thought we were going to discuss Andi's suggestions."

"So did I, but she offered me this and it seemed like too good a chance to pass up. If you don't like the idea, we can talk about the other stuff she suggested."

"Ok, Monika. What is this wonder costume you've got and how much is it going to cost us?"

"It'll cost us nothing, as long as we don't get it dirty; if we do, it'll cost us the dry-cleaning bill. Andi just wants it back in the state she's lending it to us in."

"Ok, you're dying to show me. What is this wonderful costume?"

Monika reached into the bag and pulled out a dress that would not have looked out of place on a grand lady of some, not very well defined, point in history. The bodice was ornately decorated and made opulent with the inclusion of fake pearl beads. The skirt seemed huge, flaring straight out from below the waist and held out by a lot of sewn in petticoats.

"Wow! That's a costume and three-quarters. It looks beautiful. So you've got a costume; what will I be wearing?" Keisha had noted that the bag was now a crumbled heap on the floor.

"You'll be wearing this too."

"Is a two person outfit? I don't think I want to go to the party in the same costume as you."

"No. Andi designed it for the end of term fashion show, but someone vandalised it and she hasn't had time to repair it yet. The plan is:- we wear it to the party, because she's too busy with other stuff to get round to repairing yet, then she repairs it once we get it back to her and I'll model it for her during the fashion show; that's the price for borrowing it."

"That still doesn't explain how it can be a costume for both of us. And do we want to wear a vandalised costume anyway?"

"That's because Andi did a quick repair which we'll have to undo." Monika went to a drawer and pulled out scissors, then holding the dress up made a few snips and the dress fell into two halves. "The vandal ripped out the centre seams so the costume is in two pieces. Andi's original plan was to sew it back together, when she had time, but her idea was we could wear half each and go as a 'shared costume'.

"It's beautiful enough that we might get away with it, but what will we wear on our other halves?"

"The point is we have underwear. Andi's idea was that we would take a half each and sew in a bra and panties to keep it in place; she even gave me a few clear plastic straps that we can use to help keep it from falling off or getting out of shape and, if those aren't enough, I'm sure a few metres of ribbon won't break the bank."

"Ok, but won't it be a bit cold wearing only half a costume, even if we're half-decent?"

"The venue will be warm enough, I'm sure, and we can wear coats until we get there. And if I read between the lines of the invitation correctly, I suspect that decency isn't going be to the first concern once we get to the party."

"You've convinced me. I've got an essay to finish up, then we can work on getting the costume wearable, and I'm having the right half."

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At the door the students presented their tickets and someone offered to take their coats for them. They handed them over and the stood underdressed side to underdressed side and walked in.

It took some of the people a little time to notice that Monika and Keisha were not in a single costume, but two mirror-imaged half costumes.

Part way to the tables they were intercepted by Arthur the Archmage, a magician they had met before. "It is lovely to see you, young ladies. And that is a very creative costume; what do you call it?"

"Umm, we don't have a name for it as such, but some friends at the uni have referred to it as our shared costumed."

"Ok. You know it puts me in mind of a fun trick I haven't had the chance to do in years. If you're up for it, I'll send my nephew Fred home to fetch."

"We're always up for a bit of magical fun, aren't we Monika."

"Of course," Monika replied.

"That's a date. It'll take a while to get things organised, so go ahead and get something to eat and drink and I'll catch you later."

Monika and Keisha made their way to their table and switched the nameplates so that their dressed sides were outward.

"I wonder what Arthur has in store for us," commented Keisha.

"You worried that it'll be as potentially embarrassing as the rumoured near naked outfits we are supposed to have worn at one of his shows? People keep saying that they were there, but nobody has shown me any proof and I don't remember it."

"Yeah. I'm beginning to think it is either a conspiracy or running joke that has gone passed its sell-by date, or that it really happened."

"Yes, I'm beginning to wonder if it might really have happened too. We'll see what Arthur comes up with and go from there. Agreed?"

"Agreed."

Monika looked round. "See I was right, decency isn't a priority. The waitresses in bodypaint make me feel over dressed. Hey! Isn't that the girl from the Late Night Sexy Show that became a magician's assistant, and that's the one that had her body swapped with some guy at that show we were talking about. Maybe she knows what happened that night."

Keisha looked at the fellow guests and pointed out the guy that had been given the waitress' body.

The two ordered there meal and watched Quinn escape from a huge tank while tied up and hanging from her ankles.

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They were considering dessert, when Arthur walked up to the stage, where other feats of magic had been demonstrated on and off during the meal.

"Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen. As has become my usual custom, I have lined up a couple of volunteers before we began. They have proved to be excellent hypnotic subjects, but tonight the only hypnosis involved will be the 'don't panic' command. So, let's hear your appreciation for Monika and Keisha."

The students stood and walked to the stage, while the rest of the people watching clapped. On their way they heard complimentary comments about their costume.

Once they were on stage, Arthur began talking. "I know I ought to remember, which of you is Monika and which is Keisha? And why not tell us a bit about yourselves, too?"

The white girl began. "I'm Monika. I'm studying marketing at the uni and we are room-mates; sharing a suite in the halls."

Her dark-skinned friend added, "And I am Keisha, I study law at the uni. There are rumours that we ended up practically naked last time we helped Arthur, but we don't remember for certain." She gave Arthur a significant look, which he took to mean 'we do not want to end up naked this time'.

"And would you care to explain your costume (or is it costumes?) to us?"

"We were looking for something to wear to come to this do," Monika explained, "and this fell in my lap. A friend had made it, but somebody had split it in two, so when I came along asking if she had any ideas for costume for Keisha and me, she suggested that we wear the halves and pretend that we had to share a costume."

"So, would it be good if I could repair it for her before you return it to your friend?" asked Arthur.

"I think that she would be grateful if she could be saved the work of sewing it back together, so long as you do a good job," commented Monika.

Keisha could see a flaw in the plan. "Yes, but if you repair it now, which one of us is going to wear it? 'Coz it'll leave the other one in their underwear." Their faces showed that neither of them want to spend the rest of the evening in their scanties.

"Trust me ladies. In the morning the dress will be as good as new, you will both have had an pleasant and enjoyable evening away from your studies and these good folk will get to see a rarely seen effect that I have not done in ages. Are you ok with that?"

Both girls agreed that they were happy to be involved with some magic and if it helped out the friend who had lent them the dress, that was good too. "What is this illusion you're thinking of using on us?" asked Keisha.

"I'm not sure it ever had a name, but it will be a unique experience for both of you. And everything will be alright in the morning."

Keisha, with a lawyer's grasp of the importance of wording, asked, "You keep saying things will be alright in the morning, but what about the rest of this evening?"

"The rest of the evening will be a unique experience, but I would guess that it would not suit for much longer than that. So, give it a go! And if you don't like it I'll put things back as they were and send you tickets to volunteer at my next show."

Monika looked at Keisha, then, at some signal that nobody else could detect, said, "That sounds fair. Ok, We'll do it. The most important thing is not to damage the outfits."

Arthur beckoned off stage and Freddie emerged pushing a person sized cabinet. The cabinet looked a little shabby, but solid. It also looked barely big enough to fit one of the girls in, especially with their voluminous half-skirts.

Freddy parked the cabinet in the middle of the stage and returned to the wings.

The girls got a better chance to look at the cabinet. The front was not what they thought they saw a first sight. There was a wooden panel a little less than shoulder-width wide and glass panels about half as wide on each side. The wooden panel had a face hole at about the right height and central on the wooden panel and a hand hole at about waist-height, as indicated by the faded diagram on the panel.

"Ok, let's get you in," suggested Arthur.

"There's no way you'll get us both in there, even without the skirts of these dresses."

"It's not the skirts that worry me, I need you to take your shoes off, so that you don't damage the cabinets. Then I can fit one of you in this cabinet and the other in that cabinet." He indicated the second, very similar, cabinet that Freddie pushed on stage and stopped next to the first, but some feet apart. The main difference was that the female image on the front was putting the opposite hand to the hand hole at waist-level.

Both girls took off their shoes, then Arthur said, "Ok, I need Keisha to get into this cabinet. I know it's going to be a bit a squeeze in those skirts, all you have to do is step over the board in the bottom there and put your shins into the notches in the side, a hand through the hole and you face to the face-hole, clear?" While he spoke, he opened the side of the cabinet and pivoted the glass panel on the same side to allow a little extra room for manoeuvre.

"Monika, you can get into the other cabinet, Freddie will give you a hand if you need it." Freddie opened the side and glass panel.

Both young women found it a struggle to push their skirts before them as they side stepped into the cabinets, but placing their leading hands into the hand-hole helped. Soon they both were standing astride the notched board in the base of the box with most of skirt visible through the glass section on the opposite side from which they had entered. Volume of the skirts meant that their hips were pushed sideways, so that the edge of the scantily clad halves was visible, when Arthur and Freddie closed the opened glass panels and the side doors.

"Now that you've got us in here what happens next?" asked Monika.

"Yes," agreed Keisha, "We've provided more entertainment, get into these boxes, than you have so far, so where's the magic?" Monika wondered if her friend had drunk a little too much this evening, while being inclined to agree with the sentiment.

"We just need to move the cabinets together. While we do that you'll see a hole in the top of the cabinet. Please put your hand up through it."

Each girl looked up and found the hole to be in the outer edge of the bit of cabinet roof above their underwear clad sides which were being pushed together.

"That's good. In a moment you'll be able to hold hands. Please do so."

As the two cabinets bumped together, Monika and Keisha felt their fingers touch and, once the cabinets stopped moving they interlaced their fingers.

"Freddie, would you go and fetch the last part of this, while I lock the cabinets together."

Freddie disappeared into the wings, while Arthur fussed with locking the cabinets' wheels and fitting the catches that connected the cabinets together. The girls felt a bit vulnerable, because the doors they had used to enter the cabinets were now locked against each other.

There was noise of squeaky casters as Freddie pushed the final section of the apparatus on stage from the wings, but far enough upstage that the volunteers could not see what was coming. What the audience saw looked like another cabinet, but open-fronted, open-topped and about half the width of the cabinets containing the girls. The sides of this new cabinet seemed be made of metal.

It was little surprise to the onlookers, when Freddie, with a little guidance from Arthur, lined the new cabinet up with the central glass section of the combined cabinets and began to push it through. Monika's and Keisha's facial expressions announced to all the watchers when the blade sides of the new cabinet first touched them. Both girls first felt an edge against their pantied buttocks and after a small increase of pressure there was another touch against their shoulder blades.

Keisha was the first to notice a potential side effect of what was the obvious intention of this part of the illusion. "Hold up! What's this going to do to our underwear?"

"Don't worry, that will be alright in the morning too. Ok, time for some magic. Freddie, Push!"

Freddie leaned against the rear of the blade section and the casters squeaked forward. Monika and Keisha, felt the familiar tingle as the blade began to separate their sides from the rest of them. Soon the tingly lines had joined from shoulder blade to buttock and up the rear of their shoulders and down their naked thighs. At this point there was an unfamiliar sensation as their bra straps and panties' waistbands were severed at the back.

"Hey! I thought you said our underwear would be alright."

"In the morning!" said Arthur.

Keisha was not particularly happy with this response, as the prospect of an evening in damaged underwear did not appeal.

While this conversation was happening the tingly line advanced down the backs of their legs and up onto their shoulder and the blades continued their journey forward propelled by Freddie. The blades began to emerge from their shins first, but soon the only parts that were still in front of the blades' edges were the girls' breasts and the fronts of their feet. Freddie made a effortful grunt and the front edges of the blades slid forward to line up with the fronts of the cabinets containing Monika and Keisha.

Freddie did not stop there. He continued pushing until the small glass cabinet between the blades had been pushed forward further and out from between the remaining sections of cabinet. He parked the cabinet that contained the sides of Monika and Keisha to the side of the stage, while Arthur freed the wheels under Monika and pushed her cabinet against Keisha's.

Freddie returned to pull the section of blade that had been left behind covering the sides of the truncated cabinets. Monika and Keisha both felt the feeling of being reunite with parts, but this time it felt different. Monika tried to move her shoulder, but found that there was some resistance.

"Alright ladies, it's time to get you out of those cabinets, which will require a bit of cooperation from you both." Arthur bustled about undoing the latches that now held the two halves of the combine cabinet together. "Are you ready, Freddie?"

Freddie came to Keisha's glassed in section, which contained mostly skirts, and took a hold. When Keisha turned her head to look at him, he smiled and then winked. Arthur took up a similar position on Monika's end of the cabinet.

"Ok, we are going to pull the cabinets away from each other and we need you to step out as we do so, but as I am sure you are already aware there is a complication. So we will part the cabinet a bit so that you can put your middle foot on the floor. On three. One. Two. Three."

As the cabinets parts, the girls felt that there was space under their foot, but putting it down to the ground proved problematic, until Arthur suggested that they bend their other knees. The audience could not see much at this point because the edges of the cabinets cast shadows on the gap between them.

It took a few extra seconds until the girls had the foot on the floor. Then they were asked to stand on it and lift their other foot, using the hand hole to help them balance.

With a little bit of coordination between the men, the cabinet was slowly pulled apart, reveal what had happened to Monika and Keisha.

It took the audience slightly longer than the girls themselves to work out that they had been conjoined. They stood together on three feet; the one at the end of their middle leg had six toes, including two big toes. The other two legs were concealed under the skirts, but their middle leg showed in the gap between the two halves of their dress, as did a section of belly, a bra covered breast and the shoulder-like area between their heads. The skin visible in the gap shaded from Monika's paler tone, with a hint of residual tan, to Keisha's ebony, but the garments that bridged the gap, their bra and panties, switched suddenly in the middle from the colour that Monika had been wearing to the colour that Keisha wore.

The two stood there feeling a little unsteady, then Arthur and Freddie stood either side of them and helped them bow.

As the audience's enthusiastic applause fade, the magician and his nephew, guided them into the wings.

"Well, that's a first for us. We've swapped clothes and even body parts, never before have we been in the same body," commented Monika.

"I did mention that we did not want to be in a two person costume; and now look what's happened. And the dress isn't even repaired and our underwear got cut up too."

"Stop, bellyaching, Keisha! We were promised a unique experience and we got it. So we take a little time to work out how to walk, better than the shuffle that got us off stage, then we've got the rest of the evening to enjoy."