Celestial Storm: Blazing Eye

Chapter Two: Transformation Mage

Tamira and I played several more games before a young woman about my age came in. Her hair and skin were extremely white. She looked around the guild for a moment then let out a cry of joy when she spotted Flame. She ran up to him and hugged him around the neck as she jumped into his lap.

"Hello, darling, I'm back!" she said happily to Flame.

"Hmm, yes, it's nice to see you too," Flame said.

"Good afternoon, Cynthia!" Murina and Irina called out happily.

"Hello, Murina and Irina," the woman said cheerfully, "Guess what, Flame? I did my R ranked mission all by myself with no trouble at all."

"How wonderful," Murina said.

"Good job!" Irina said.

"Oh, yes, very impressive," said Flame sounding disinterested.

He seemed oblivious to the fact that a woman was sitting in his lap. Cynthia looked around the guild and finally noticed me. She squinted at me for a moment then looked down her shirt.

"Dang," she said, "This new girl's breasts are huge! You haven't been cheating on me, have you Flame?"

Her tone was very suggestive.

"I don't cheat. I play by the rules, however, I use force when necessary," Flame said glumly.

"I don't think you understand what I mean," Cynthia said.

Sreldes sat down at the bar again having returned shortly after Cynthia had spotted me.

"I don't think the boy understands the concept," Sreldes said.

"Of course he does. He's just too embarrassed to admit it," Cynthia said.

"I want cheese," Fryn said from next to me.

"Here you go!" Cynthia said pulling a large wheel of cheese out of her bag and throwing it to Fryn like a frisbee.

Fryn caught it in his mouth.

"Thank you!" Fryn said when he had taken the wheel of cheese out of his mouth.

Fryn started tearing chunks out of the cheese and eating it.

"Oh, it's so adorable," Cynthia said, "Fryn is just like our child, isn't he, Flame?"

"Uh, what are you talking about?" Flame asked sounding fairly clueless.

"Yeah, I'm not that young," Fryn said between mouthfuls of cheese.

"Who is that girl?" I asked Tamira.

"Her name is Cynthia. She uses transformation magic. In other words, she's a shape shifter. She can turn into other people and animals. She thinks that Flame is her boyfriend," Tamira replied.

"But Flame doesn't act interested in her at all," I pointed out.

"Yeah, but she's convinced that he's just too embarrassed to admit that he likes her," Tamira said with a shrug.

"Who's the new girl? Will someone introduce me to her?" Cynthia asked as she jumped off Flame's chair and walked over to sit next to me.

"My name is Lucina. I'm a celestial mage," I said.

"And I am Cynthia, a transformation mage. For example..."

Cynthia transformed into me clothing and all. I was staring at myself almost as if my reflection had stepped out of a mirror.