The air was thick and filled with dread. Everything before had been strange but also fantastical up to this point. But the Forest Temple was something else. Link had gone through large waves of whiplash after waking up from his long sleep. The world had turned upside, many people were dead, and Ganondorf ruled them all. With only his fairy, Navi, on his side, he ventured deep into the ominous temple, fighting off the hordes that laid before him.

He eventually came to a room that was strangely circular. The door slammed behind him and bars dropped down, making escape impossible. A Stalfos appeared, it beat its sword and shield, challenging Link to a duel. Link unsheathed his own sword and engaged with the enemy. He fought hard, he fought long, but in the end, he fell down to the ground, his skeleton adversary standing over him triumphantly….

GAME OVER

“Are you kidding me?” Azalea said with frustration. She had been trying out Ocarina of Time for the first time and came to a pretty dainty roadblock with the Forest Temple. Azalea had been struggling on it for hours on end. It got to the point where she had to break her own honor rule and look up a guide due to odd placement of keys and how much she was struggling with the new enemies.

“And if this place is that bad, what terrible things await in the Water Temple? Even Nick says that place sucks!” She took out her phone and looked up a guide for the Forest Temple. Many of the guides proved to be no help, some even having blatantly false information in them which only caused Azalea to waste even more time. “Argh!” She gently tossed the controller at the couch, not wanting to disturb Nick or pay for yet another controller.

“Alright, just take a deep breath, girl…. If I’m calm I should be able to soldier through this…” She went to pick up her controller, but a loud bang from the basement caused her to stop. “Nick?” She raised her voice to call for him, but didn’t get a response. “Oh goddess- what happened to him this time?” She fluttered over to the basement stairs and flew down into the basement as fast as her wings could carry her.

“Nick, are you alright!?” Just a moment later, she could see Nick standing next to a strange machine. It didn’t appear to be hurt, nor did he appear to have done any experiments on himself.

“Oh? Hi Azalea, is something wrong?” Nick said. He grew a bit concerned seeing Azalea’s own concerned face.

“I heard a loud bang and I thought something went wrong,” Azalea explained.

“Ah, sorry about that.”

Nick walked over to a keypad near the large device and started to type on it. Azalea landed and started to walk around the machine, checking it over.

“I can see you made more progress on your… machine.”

“Yes, actually, it’s just about done!”

“Is it now?” Azalea walked up to Nick and looked over at what he was typing. “So, are you finally going to tell me what this machine is or what it can do?”

Nick looked over at Azalea and flashed a warm smile.

“Glad you asked!” He turned to face Azalea and held out his arms as if he was presenting someone with a new car. “This machine is the RW-3000, the RW standing for ‘Reality Warper’. As the name implies, this machine is capable of warping reality.”

“Oh wow! So that’s why you need those strange crystal things?”

“Yup! Though it is still a prototype. It has some restrictions and rules.”

Azalea began to reach for the keypad, not trying to activate it (yet at least), but wanted to see what aspects it could change. “Hey! Don’t touch anything yet!”

“What? I wasn’t going to use it, I just wanted to see what it could do.”

“How about you let me explain first? This machine is quite delicate, and I spent the last few weeks making sure I have made enough safety protocols before it could be used.” Azalea took a step back while Nick began to explain how the RW-3000 worked.

“As of now, the RW-3000 can only change reality on a small scale. We can change anything in a half a mile radius. The device itself cannot be altered no matter what. It also needs to recharge after use. Even a minor use like changing a single person will cause it to need to charge for a few minutes. Changing everything in a half-mile might take an hour and more depending on how much was altered. Honestly, I’m not 100% what the math is, it might be less than what I am thinking,” Nick explained.

“But what about a person’s mind? Can that be altered too?” Azalea asked.

“Well… there lies a small problem….”

“It can’t?”

“No! It’s the opposite. The device will make everyone including the ones altered to think the changed reality was always this way. And I don’t know how to adjust it for humans and demihumans yet…” Azalea looked like she wanted to interrupt, but remained silent as Nick continued. “However, magical beings like gods, genies, and yes, fairies seem to be immune to this and will remember the previous reality.”

“Ah, then you must be glad to have me around!”

“Haha, yup! I need you to help test the device and confirm to me if it is working properly.”

“You sure have a lot of faith in me. I mean, I can do anything I want to you~”

“You can do that already without the RW-3000.” There was an awkward silence between the two that lasted a few seconds.

“You got a point there,” Azalea admitted.

“So yeah, just go ahead and change me and the house if you want. Just tell me what you are turning me into beforehand, OK?” Azalea walked over the keypad and started to look through the menus.

“I mean, it’s not like you are going to even remember being a human man~”

“Yeah, but… I don’t want you making me a four-armed freak or anything!”

“Too late~”

“Who's to say that’s what I want?”

“Pfff.”

Azalea messed around for a bit, talking to Nick and learning the ins and outs of the machine. After quite a couple of minutes spent on learning the ropes and entering what changes she wanted, she turned to face Nick. “Alright, I entered all the changes I thought would be cool.”

“So… what’s the reality going to be?”

“I’m turning you into a lamia witch, with four arms, because why not~”

“That’s it?”

“No, going to turn the house into a large witch’s mansion and… going to turn myself into a Zelda fairy~”

“Ah… Where are you in OoT right now?”

“Forest Temple.”

“Having troubles yet?”

“...I don’t want to talk about it.”

Azalea turned back to the keypad and pressed the enter button. At least three warning screens appeared, complete with Azalea having to enter a password at the end. “You are really scared of someone misusing this.”

“Well yeah. If I could make it so only me and you could use it, I would. This is just what I have to do instead for the time being.” After finally getting through all the security measures, Azalea pressed the enter button again and watched the magic happen.

The device began to rumble, electricity appearing at the top sphere which began to glow rapidly. The device grew louder and louder before a wave of light started to emit from it. Azalea looked back at Nick who was clearly affected by the device and was reacting to it. Azalea grinned as she started to see the changes begin to manifest.

The first changes that occurred were not Nick or even Azalea’s body changing, it was the room they were in. The lab and the equipment in it began to reform into more primitive versions of themselves. Test tubes became generic potion-like bottles, Nick’s chemistry table became an alchemy table, various brewing stands formed and many of the machines (besides the Reality Warper) became much bigger and more complicated. The convenience of today became the slowed-down version from yesterday. The room became far more wooden and more natural with even roots and glow plants replacing the lights.

After the room had changed, Azalea could feel a small tingle in her body. She was starting to change as well, but the transformation would be the least drastic of them all. She simply shrunk to a more traditional fairy size. Her clothes did change size to accommodate the new body, but she herself didn’t seem to be affected. One look at her reflection on the keypad made it clear that there was one change she couldn’t immediately see. She looked like a glowing bulb of light with wings, exactly how fairies were represented in many Zelda games.

“Ah, I thought there would be more to it…” Azalea said out loud. She looked over at Nick to see if the machine was reforming him. Indeed it was. Azalea did miss Nick’s hair growing, but got a glimpse of his face changing. It was the typical change she was used to seeing. His face became softer and hairless, with puffier lips, a narrower nose, and prettier eyelashes. Nick’s female face didn’t look that different from any of his other female forms. Though there were two noteworthy differences. A few cyan scales had formed on his cheeks, and his ears became long and pointed (though his hair covered them up for the most part).

Nick would usually be grunting and making many shameless sounds as the changes occurred, but for whatever reason he was silent. He was still reacting to the changes but it became clear to Azalea that Nick didn’t seem that bothered, or rather, surprised by them. “Huh, can’t imagine what his mind must be going through,” Azalea wondered.

The changes made their way down to Nick’s torso. Many of the expected changes occur. Nick lost all his body hair and his muscles began to become thinner and less pronounced. His smooth and flawless skin matched his face and made him look incredibly girly. Azalea couldn’t help but giggle as she saw something just below Nick’s armpits. Flesh began to grow out from those points in a cylinder-like shape before becoming something far more human. They grew as long as Nick’s arms and five pointed members stuck out from each end. In a matter of seconds, those ends formed into hands as Nick’s new pair of arms finished forming.

At this point, Nick looked like he was frozen in time. He was still clearly breathing and blinked every now and then, but he no longer reacted to any changes that occurred. That disappointed Azalea as one of her favorite moments when transforming Nick was his reaction to forming boobs. She sighed as two mounds of flesh began to push out from under Nick’s shirt. His nipples were fully erect and his growing melons did a number on his shirt, enough that Azalea could see his newly formed cleavage. “At the very least, Nick’s still got some killer bodongas in this reality~” Azalea giggled.

Due to a lack of reaction, it took a moment for Azalea to realize that Nick’s waist was going through some major renovations. She couldn’t quite tell when he became a she. Nick’s clothes made it impossible for Azalea to tell. She imagined it likely happened sometime after his ass exploded (which wrecked Nick’s pants) and his hips widened. Azalea considered checking herself to see if the change occurred, but she stopped herself, thinking something might happen if she interfered with a reality change.

While Nick was no longer a man, she still had a few more major changes to go through. Her shirt and pants started to reform themselves into something far more fitting. But as those changes occurred, Nick’s legs began to fuse together. It was subtle at first, the feet seemed to fuse first before it slowly made its way to her crotch. Before the space between her legs could fully fill out, Nick’s fused feet started to grow in the opposite direction.

Her feet had smoothed out and became quite round. Her now growing tail just kept growing and growing. By the time Nick’s tail had finished forming, her clothes had finished changing as well. Her shirt was now a very revealing brown top of sorts. It only covered what was necessary, making nearly all of Nick’s boobs on full display. While more modest, Nick’s pants formed into a skirt that still had some sex appeal to them. A few deliberate tears existed, possibly for Nick to show off as much of her thighs as possible, maybe even a panty shot for the lucky few.

Finally, an array of cyan scales began to form along Nick’s tail. The human flesh-like color was quite uncanny to Azalea and she let out a sigh of relief as the tail became a snake’s, or rather, a typical lamia’s tail. Nick was now a four armed, female lamia witch through and through. The RW-3000 started to calm down as the sound noise it made died down. Azalea looked back at the machine and checked the keypad, making sure everything was still working as it was intended.

“So, have you activated the RW-3000 yet?” A voice feminine voice said from behind Azalea. She turned around (a fairy sound from the N64 Zelda games chimed as she did). Nick was no longer frozen. A hat and materialized on her head and she held a staff and book with her arms. She didn’t seem to be bothered at all by the changes, probably because she had no idea she just transformed.

“It appears so, Nick!” Azalea said.

“Nick? Why did you call me-” The lamia’s voice trailed off as it slowly dawned on her. “Ah! Was I perhaps… a man before?”

“You really don’t remember?”

“Of course I don’t! I’ve always been a lamia girl my whole life!”

“Yeah… The machine worked alright… Uh…”

“Uh what?”

“Do you go by Nicole?”

“Come on Azalea,  you had no problem saying my name earlier today!”

“Nick- Nicole, remember that you don’t know what the previous reality is like. I do. You were a human man named Nick. You had no magical powers and only two arms.”

“Pfff, for real? I can’t imagine being a human man!” Nicole let out a laugh, the thought of it being too absurd for her.

“Yeah… I do prefer you as anything else to be honest,” Azalea said. Nicole slithered up to the keypad and looked over it. Azalea noticed the confusion in her face.

“Weird, didn’t I make this device using wood and arcane magic? Why is it made out of metal?” Nicole said, though she didn’t seem to be directing the question at Azalea.

“Ah, well, because you- in normal reality built it that way. Remember, the machine is not affected by reality warping.”

“But that’s-” The thought dawned on Nicole. She looked down at the keypad with a sad look. “That means this is not the original reality?”

“Yup, I know it comes as a shock to you, but-”

“Nah, I’m OK Azalea! I’m sure we can one day make this device memory proof! Though we should make it so the original me is the one in control- as much as the thought of a human man being my base form is absurd.”

“Well, the device worked at least! How long until we can use it again?” Azalea asked. Nicole began to type away at the keypad, though it was in a strange way that Azalea was not used to, and not because Nicole had four arms.

“Hmm… 48 hours. You’ll just have to live in this reality for the time being,” Nicole said.

“Ah, well then, how about we play some video games? You can be player 2 and 3?” Azalea joked and began to laugh uncontrollably.

She didn’t even hear a peep from Nicole. “Are my jokes really that bad?”

“I… don’t know what a video game is.”

“What?”

“Is that something that exists in the original reality?”

“Uh… Nicole, you said the device only alteres things within a half-mile radius from the machine, right?”

“Yes… Oh… Um….”

“TVs and video games should still exist then! How did-”

The two girls looked at each other and then back at the device. Another bit of evidence that the device worked was a log from it. A radar-like view of Nicole’s house appeared with the waves moving out from it. According to Nicole’s (or rather Nick’s) calculations, the device should have only performed changes to things in the nearby area. Azalea’s heart dropped as she watched the wave keep going until it had engulfed the entire planet.

“Oh goddess….”



“I see… I have managed to cause a global transformation. Hmm, pretty… Crazy actually.”

“Yeah… Um…”

“Well if it can do that then surely we can reset it easily!” Nicole said cheerfully, not nearly as affected by this revelation as Azalea was.

“Well um… I’m not sure how that… goddess would react. She would know what’s up.”

“Goddess? Do you mean Lady Nagisa? She- oh right, she wouldn’t be affected by it now, would she?”

Azalea shivered a bit, not sure what Nagisa would do or react to something like this. She felt a hand cusp her and a finger rubbed the top of her head.

“Relax Azalea! I’m sure Lady Nagisa would understand. Besides, it was my invention, if she should be angry at anyone it should be me!”

“Wow…” Azalea felt a bit relieved and flew up. “Your body has changed, and your history as well, but you are still the same Nick I knew.”

“Haha, I’m the Nicole you always knew!”

Nicole lifted a few magical items around her lab and placed them all into a bag near the staircase.

“Oh, Azalea, will you be joining me in fighting the dark lord?” Nicole asked.

“The dark lord- oh, I had no idea what this world is like.”

“Don’t worry, he’s not that dangerous! As long as our friends are nearby, he’s powerless!”

“I mean… I guess I’ll tag along.”

“Awesome!” And so Nicole and Azalea joined up with a few friends to defeat the dark lord, but that is a story for another time~