Transient Soul

"Anon, it's been 2 hours, and there ain't a single store open" Applejack frustratingly huffed as she held your arm. "Ah'm beginning to think we won't be able to get the old you back."

Suddenly a loud voice calls from across the street. "YOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO. Oh fellows! Are you looking for a store?"

Applejack perks up happily as do you. "C'mon Applejack, let's see if he can help!" She nods in agreement as you quickly cross the road.

"Oh you two are SUCH a lovely couple" stated the slick looking merchant. "Perhaps you could...come inside, and maybe get a fortune read?"

"Ah don't believe in such hooey, do you Anon?"

"Are you kidding? Everyone knows that fortunes aren't real!"

The salesman looks at you with a sort of blaze in his eyes as her grabs you by the collar.

"Don't you disrespect me little man! Don't you derogate or deride! You're in my world now Not your world, and I'm a man from the other side!"

Suddenly you hear a deep voice call out from inside the shop. "He's a man from the other side"

He quickly takes you and Applejack by the shoulders and pushes you inside as he continues. "That's an echo, gentlemen. Just a little parlor trick. Don't worry..."

He quickly pulls out two chairs, and forces you both down.

"Come sit down and join me.Put your minds at ease. If you relax it will enable me to do anything I please"

Applejack nudges you slightly, "Ah hope he don't mean that."

The merchant quickly grabs Applejack's chair and spins it around, as he begins throwing cards at her. "I can read your future I can change it 'round some, too I'll look deep into your heart and soul"

He quickly turns back to you and pouts. "You DO have a soul right Goldberg?"

He quickly jumps to your chair and begins flailing tarot cards in front of you.

"The cards, the cards the cards will tell The past, the present, and the future as well!"

He fans them out and points them in your direction. "The cards, the cards, just take three Take a little trip into your future with me!"

You pull out a card that shows a bag of money.

"Now you, ugly man, are from the Middle East You come from two long lines of Israelis.Your bank is high But your looks are low...You want a new look to look as good as gold."

"Short stick on the genetics huh playboy?

Now y'all gotta get change, but change takes green. You want it to be free! Have a suit you can be proud of!

"But a suit made of meat! It's the meat, it's the meat, it's the meat you need and when I looked into your future It's the meat that I see!"

"Shake my hand. Come on lad Won't you shake the poor sinner's hand?"

You look at Applejack, who looks back you. You gulp slightly as you nod at her.

You extend out your hand, and grasp the singing merchants hand.

Yes... YES!!!!" The merchant begins chuckling as he quickly flips around your chair. He pulls his face right next to yours. "Are you ready?"

The deep voices began echoing loudly within the shop. "Are you ready?"

The merchant quickly pulls out your wrist and begins cutting deeply into it, causing you a significant amount of pain. "Transformation central!"

Applejack quickly gets to her feet to stop him, but is suddenly cemented to the ground by the noxious purple vapor that was eminating in the room. The voices once more echoed the merchant's words. "Transformation central!"

The merchant pulls up your arm and watches with beastly lust in his eyes as the blood runs down your arm. "Reformation central!"

He quickly bites down on your wound, and you feel a sort of vacuum sucking you out of your body.

The merchant grabs an Action Jim Hot Dog Figureine with Action Kung Fu grip and spits some of your blood on it. "Transmogrification central!"

You feel your sight making its way into the plastic figurine.

"Can you feel it?" He laughs heartedly, you can see the look in Applejacks eyes grow to sheer terror as this is all occuring, as she and the merchant growing taller and taller.

You're changin', all right!"

He holds your plastic figurine self in his hand and smirks a giant grin compared to your miniscule self. "I hope you're satisfied".

He quickly tosses you aside, and you land right in Applejack's lap. She quickly holds you, and stares at the merchant in horror. "But if you ain't

Don't blame me!!"

He opens your previous hosts jaw, and opens his as well. I'm just a man from the other side!"

A great black aether erupts from his body, and flows into the mouth of your ugly host body."

Applejack quickly runs out of the store, with you in hand. Well fuck.