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This novel is set in the universe of the Whateley Academy. It takes place after the first generation characters have graduated, but I was in the midst of writing this before the 2nd Generation Canon came out - my apologies that it doesn't directly tie in there! This is fan fiction for the Whateley Academy, and may or may not match the timeline, characters, and continuity, but since it's fan fiction, who cares? Most likely it will not match the canon of the universe. I believe this is the first work that was written with the ABDL community in mind. What that means is there will be babying, diapers, bottles, and everything a baby does at certain points of this book. If that's not your cup of tea you may wish to find another story. Please keep in mind this story is a work of total fiction, and resemblance to real people or places is unintentional! If you would like to know more about the canon universe visit www.whateleyacademy.net This work is Copyright ©2016-2020 Baby Sofia, and may not be distributed or reproduced on any website or print edition without expressed permission. Emerald Princess ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chapter 11: Bullies ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AS NORMAL I woke up in my crib in Caireen's palace, but Caireen wasn't there. I stood up and grimaced a little at my soaked diaper. "Hello?!?" I asked quietly. I heard nothing and wondered where Caireen would be. I called out louder, "Caireen!?!" Still no one came. 'Calm down,' I thought to myself... I looked around my crib and found Emie next to the bars. I picked her up and held her while I waited and hoped someone would come. Then I waited. Eventually I began playing with Emie to try and distract myself, but still no one came. After what must have been a few hours I felt my stomach rumbling. 'I'm hungry and I'm wet!' 'What would a normal baby do?' I asked myself. 'Is Caireen waiting for me to cry?' I sighed and thought some more before standing up and grabbing onto the bars that hung just at my fingertips. I figured I could jump over the bars as long as Caireen hadn't left a similar spell on this crib. I made sure I had a firm grip and then flung myself over the bars! And then promptly found myself flung back into the crib and onto my wet rear-end. I sniffled. I felt tears going down my face. Then without warning I felt myself begin to wail at the top of my lungs! 'Where is Caireen?' I thought to myself. As if waiting for me to begin crying she suddenly appeared in the room. She picked me up and held me tight. "It's okay baby," she told me. "Where were you?" I sniffled out. "Taking care of some things," she said while bouncing me and shushing me. Nothing she said though was helping me stop the tears. "Let's get that wet diaper changed," she told me. I was gently placed on the changing table and Caireen was gentle as she unpinned the diaper and wiped me gently. I found myself still sobbing though as she finished. 'Why can't I stop crying?' I asked myself. 'Have I truly gone nuts now?' I asked myself again as she had me dressed and I was still crying. Caireen continued to 'shush' me, but in the end sat down in the nursery rocking chair and nursed me at her breast. Embarrassingly it finally calmed my body down. After I had finished nursing, she burped me and asked, "Better?" I almost started to tear up again. "Why was I crying? And why couldn't I stop?!?" She hugged me. "The longer you spend time here in this world as my baby I suspect you will begin to have some more normal reactions. A baby waking up alone, and then crying in a crib for attention, is a pretty normal reaction, isn't it?" "But why didn't you come when I just called your name?" She smiled. "The alert ward in your nursery won't go off unless you're crying." "You tricked me into crying?" I asked upset. She shook her head. "I would have been here in another half-hour or so, but the only way I knew that you were awake and needed me was if you cried." I glared at her. "Would you please change that ward to if I call your name?" I remembered my manners at least, but my tone of voice had her clucking. "You're a baby, if you want my attention before I'm ready to give it you'll just have to cry." "What about..." I started to argue. She put her finger to my mouth. "Do you need your first spanking from me?" I felt my eyes open in terror and quickly shook my head. "No, I'll be a good girl," I told her, fearing how hard a goddess could hit! "Good!" she said. "Then let's get to some magic lessons here." I sighed and nodded. "What's up today?" "More wards," she said simply. For the next several hours I was taught a simple privacy spell and another simple spell to protect something like our dorm room from anyone else coming in. Caireen explained that she had already placed a bunch of wards around the room, but it would be better to continually add layers of them to the protection. After she fed me lunch there, she walked me outside and to the edge of the forest. "What are we doing here?" I asked. "I wanted to show you your tree house!" I looked up suddenly and noticed a beautiful tree house up on top of a thick tree. I could just barely see the stairs that were cleverly camouflaged around the tree up to the top. "Cool!" I said. I climbed the tree's steps and came to a door. I tried opening it, but it wouldn't budge. Caireen had followed me up and said, "It's locked by magic. You have to unlock it first." 'Another lesson?' I asked myself. I sat there for probably an hour trying to feel out how she had locked it with a ward. She had to change my diaper in the next hour while I basically picked the lock. It was frustrating beyond belief, but a part of me was enjoying the challenge. I eventually succeeded in opening up the door and immediately squealed in excitement! "I did it!" "Yes, you did my clever little princess!" She said with a smile when I looked at her. "Now go on in there!" I walked in through the entryway and quickly realized this was another of those weird spells to make things bigger. Inside was huge! There was a play kitchen in there with a modern looking stove and microwave. "What, no wood burning stove?" I asked her with a smile. "Time to come to the modern age on some things," she told me with a smile. I walked through the house and found a playroom, a living room with a TV, a nursery just right for playing with Emie, and a door that led to a deck that ringed one edge of the house. I ran back to Caireen and hugged her. "Thank you!" "You're very welcome Sofia. Before we go back to the castle and put you to bed, I want you to put up those wards that you learned about today. Then you need to lock up the door again too!" I looked up and excitedly said, "Okay!" I walked inside and around the perimeter as I put up the warding spells. When I made it back to the door, I knew everything about how it locked from picking it, so I just created my own custom magical key of a spell to relock it. I closed the door behind me and asked, "How did I do?" "Great!" she told me as she scooped me up. She carried me back to the castle garden and sat down in a chair. One of her servants brought a glass of some sort of juice to her and she said, "You've got to be thirsty and hungry now..." I turned a bit red, but nodded. Caireen moved her dress out of the way and I nursed until I fell asleep to come back to the real world. I RUBBED THE sleep from my eyes as I felt myself get picked up. I blurrily looked up at Hannah and noticed she was already dressed in her uniform. "Good morning Princess," Hannah said to me with a smile. "Morning," I mumbled. My eyes began to focus and I could see she was already dressed for the day. "You already showered?" "Uh-huh," she said as she carried me to the changing table. "I figure a bath at night should be enough for you?" I thought for a second. "I guess normally... but I used to use that to wake up," I told her as she unzipped the sleeper I had been dressed in. "Well, we'll try the normal baby way for a week?" she suggested soothingly as she slid my feet from the feet and pulled the sleeper away from me, leaving me in just a very soggy diaper. I shrugged. "I guess." With that she lay me down the rest of the way and gently cleaned my diaper area with a couple baby wipes. "Umm... Caireen?" Hannah asked hesitantly. I felt her stir and let her come to the front of the focus. "Yes?" "They had a really good idea yesterday about making her uniform blouses actually onesies with the snap crotch there... Would you mind?" I could feel a little bit of magic leave me and the blouse she had on the changing table instantly added a tail. I knew without looking that the others in my closet had also changed. I just sighed; it would probably be easier to keep my soggy diapers from sliding off of me! "Thanks!" Hannah said. She pulled it over my head and said, "You know we could just have this be a one-piece dress almost," as she snapped the crotch shut. "The skirts could be attached like a couple of those outfits that you and Lily have..." "Whatever," I said. Clearly my dressing choices weren't really going to be mine again for a long time - if ever! "What a cranky baby," Hannah said half-teasingly, "let's get something in your tummy and maybe you'll stop being grouchy!" Hannah carried me to the rocker for a nursing session, burped me, then said, "Let's go get breakfast and then we'll get going to our appointments. I can't wait to see what they list as my powers!" she said excitedly. "Super breasts on the MID?" I joked. "Well super stinky diapers must be on yours?" she asked back. "Ouch," I said. I felt the back of my diaper, wondering if I had gone and she laughed at me. "You're not stinky now, Silly," she told me with a smile and then kissed the top of my head. "I'm sure you will be soon, but that's no biggie," she said with a smile and sat me down on the ground. I watched as she gathered my diaper bag and our coats up. I put on the coat she handed me while she put on her own. As soon as she slung the diaper bag over her shoulder, she picked me up and said, "let's go!" We ran into Camille on the way to breakfast, and she asked us about how our powers testing went the day before. I actually learned a lot more about how Hannah's had gone, and by the time we got to our seats with food I mentioned that I had been able to shoot out some green stuff like her. Camille looked at me and asked, "Is it maybe because...? I looked at her and glared. She got the hint. "Because of what?" "Because of her bond? Camille recovered. "Maybe," Beth said. The others began talking about other mutants and how sometimes they managed to influence things. "You could be a little bit of power mimic?" Beth suggested later. As we finished up, I hopped down and then immediately groaned in my head. My body forced itself into a crouch and I was soon pooping my diaper. Hannah grabbed my diaper bag and then asked, "Do you want to walk to the bathroom or me to carry you?" I held my arms out in answer as I did everything I could just to not start wailing. I felt my pacifier pushed into my lips and kept my eyes closed. 'This is so embarrassing! In front of everyone!' 'Sofia, open your eyes,' Caireen insisted. I groaned but did so. 'What?' 'Notice, not a single person cares?' We walked right next to a few girls who were gorgeous and they just smiled at me. I forced myself to smile back. We'd almost made it to the door of the cafeteria to leave when Streaked just happened to walk in. She sniffed and looked surprised for a moment before looking at me and asking. "Oh, did the wittle baby girl make a poopy diapee?" I felt a tear threatening my eyes, but refused to give in. I couldn't help this and I was not going to put up with her bullying. With a single spell I had changed her outfit into a onesie top like mine, panties to a diaper, and then Caireen added a special touch of her own and I watched her squat down and make her own poopy diapee. "I think the wittle baby girl did make a big poopy!" Camille said through her laughter. Other students pointed and laughed at Streaked. "I'm going to get you!" she shouted at me and started to run at us. I quickly put up a shield between us and watched as she ran into it, rebounded, and sat on the ground. I felt for her as I thought about how much that just smashed her mess. She began to try and retaliate again but a member of Whateley security came up right then. "What's going on here?" 'Uh-oh,' I thought to myself. "That little bitch just changed my clothes and made me shit myself!!!!" Streaked screamed. The officers looked at me and I remembered one of them from the other day when she was led away. "Is that true?" I thought about lying, but that never got me anywhere. "She was making fun of my disability and the fact that I was in a 'poopy diapee.'" "Let's go to the security office and chat then..." "Umm... we don't have to do that." Streaked suddenly looked scared. "This isn't the first time you all have had problems, and I'm not going to have an ongoing feud," the man said, "Let's go." "Can I change Sofia really quickly?" Hannah asked. The man looked thoughtfully at us. "Only if Sofia changes Streaked so we don't have to smell her?" There was a bit of a bemused smirk in his expression. I looked at Streaked and used a spell that I wished I could use on myself. A second later she was in a nice clean diaper and I'd even given her a skirt to cover her diaper and the onesie... sort of. The onesie definitely peaked out from underneath the skirt a little! The officer smirked again and nodded at Hannah. "I'm so tempted to spank you Sofia Elizabeth!" Hannah said angrily at the bathroom while she changed me. "She wasn't doing anything bad to you there." I glared at her. "Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is to poop your pants and then have someone say something about it?!?!?" "You're a baby Sofia, it happens all the time! Get used to it!" She said as she slid my pacifier back in my mouth. "Let's go get this over with. Hopefully you didn't just land us both in detention..." "But..." Hannah finished wiping me none-to-gently and put a new diaper on me. She angrily snapped together the onesie snaps, pulled my skirt down, then washed her hands in the sink and then mine too. "Let's get this over with quickly, and maybe we can still make our appointments on time." I pulled my pacifier out of my mouth and said, "I'm sorry Hannah..." She sighed. "I know you are. I just hope they let us off with a warning. As it is, I think you've made a permanent enemy of Streaked for us." I bit my tongue from saying, 'She started it...' When we walked back out of the bathroom one of the security guards was there still standing with Camille. They led us to the security office at Kane Hall with no one saying anything. The feeling of dread of being in real trouble hung over my head like a knife. Just before we reached the Hall, I decided I would do something unasked and changed Streaked's clothes back to her regular clothes. She gasped but smiled that she was back in her real clothes. In return though she gave me a glare that made me glad I was in Hannah's arms. One of the security officers looked at me and said, "No more changing anyone's clothes right now please!" I nodded. "Sowwy," I said around the pacifier. As we walked in the doors, I felt like we had walked into a police station and not some place on a school campus. "The Chief is waiting back there for you all," one of the officers with a name badge that read 'Everheart' on it. I found myself sucking on my pacifier more, but just as we went in the door Hannah pulled it out of my unwilling mouth. I glared at her, but she angrily whispered, "You're going to face this like the big girl that you claim you want to be!" Streaked had already taken a seat in one chair across the desk from an imposing man who I had to assume was the Chief. "Well, this isn't the way I like to meet new students," he started. "I'm Chief Delarose," he said without getting up, "and we seem to have a problem with you all. Please sit down," he motioned to the chairs. Camille took the chair in the middle of where Hannah sat down with me on her knee, and the one Streaked was in. I heard the door shut behind us. "So, let's start at the beginning. Streaked, what's your side of the story?" he asked. I knew it would do me no good to interrupt, so I listened as she wove a tale that made it sound like I was the one to first start picking on her. I gritted my teeth and resisted the urge to pull a spare pacifier from my purse to help me stay quiet. In the end she said, "All I did today was make a comment about a baby having a stinky diaper? What is so wrong about that?!?" "Emerald, you've been really good about waiting for Streaked to say her part, what's yours?" "She started the whole thing up by making fun of Hannah the first day. She made a comment that Hannah must have been some teenage slut," I paused. "Pardon my language," he nodded. "and so I made a comment to shut her up about 'sorry, Hannah really is a virgin and she can't give you lessons.' My friends laughed and she took the hint and left." "Bull... I never said that!!!!" "Streaked I watched Emerald control herself very admirably through your side of the story, time for you to do so too." "The other things?" "She was picking on me another time about needing a high chair, and I made her hair turn into cute pigtails with bows. This one... she was embarrassing me in public and being a bully. I couldn't help myself into turning her outfit into what it was." I felt Caireen stir and knew my voice changed. "Sofia wasn't the one to make her lose her bowels though, that was me. I can't stand bullies and people who pick on children. Her comment was not meant as a cute baby comment." She faded. Chief Delarose looked at his computer before asking, "That was your avatar spirit?" "Yes sir," I said. "You have anything else to add?" He asked me. I sighed. "No sir, I'm sorry, I was mad and am afraid if I don't stand up to a bully like her, I'll deal with them constantly. In my defense she was never harmed." "Uh-huh," he said unconvinced. "Ms. Rayburn, do you have anything to add?" "Only that whatever you decide I'll back you up on. I know Sofia's parents approved of some alternate forms of punishment." "Alternate forms?" I asked and was squeezed into silence. "Yes Emerald, your parents and Mrs. Carson discussed that cleaning up the dorms at Hawthorne for detention would probably not be within your abilities for your size. Several other ideas were given as alternatives..." I gulped. 'Somehow I think Hannah is going to be getting me as soon as we get back to the dorm too...' Caireen seemed to nod. 'I'm sorry Sofia, I should have helped you remain a little calmer... but the truth is that little witch deserved it.' I forced myself to not show the smile I thought at that. "Sora, do you have anything to add?" "Well, in all honesty Chief this was a harmless prank by Whateley's standards, and you know Streaked was egging her on. It was a green flag day..." Chief Delarose glared at all of us before saying. "Here's the deal. My first instinct is to punish both Emerald and Streaked for their actions. The truth is though Sora is right, and I think the better thing is to right now tell you all this." He paused and glared. "You will stay away from them," he said to Streaked, "if I hear of any contact I will give you two weeks of detention cleaning the worst rooms in Hawthorne." I watched Streaked shrink down in her chair. "And you Emerald will leave Streaked alone. If she flat out attacks you, then by all means you may defend yourself, but any more magical changes of clothes, appearance, or other tricks on her by you will result in the alternative forms of punishment that were suggested." I nodded, feeling my diaper warm. "Yes sir," I said. I heard other voices join mine before he said, "Okay you all, get out of my office and I'd better not see you back here!" With that we all split from the building as quickly as we could. Streaked ran off as fast as she could, which was pretty fast, leaving just Camille with Hannah and I. "I need to get to class." Camille sighed. "I'll see you two tonight after class!" I watched her run away and Hannah checked her watch before hurriedly walking us towards our appointment with the health services doctor. I could tell Hannah was angry still as she opened the door to the clinic with a crash and it startled me a bit. Unintentionally I let out a whimper. She looked down at me and sighed. "Sofia, I'm sorry, it's going to take me time to get used to all of this. My instinct since you changed Streaked's clothes has been to take your diaper off and give you a spanking." I whimpered again. "I won't do it this time though," she told me. "This time?" "That's one of those alternate punishments Sofia." She gave me a hug as she said it and rubbed my back. "But..." "Yes, your cute little butt can and will get spanked if that happens again." She pushed me a bit farther back from her face to look into my eyes. "Caireen, that's your tush too. Don't you dare do something like that again." I felt Caireen stir and take over, she was angry. "Silly little girl, you think I will let you just abuse Sofia? Yes, maybe it was impulsive and I took on a bit of Sofia's immaturity, but at the same time that was a calculated attack by me. If we didn't respond then I can guarantee Streaked would cause us all way more trouble." "What do you mean?" Hannah asked as she started to move again after looking at a clock. "I mean she had a plan to use a spell right then to do to you, what we did to her." I went 'huh' at the same time as Hannah said it. "Alright then... Caireen, you must know there will be a time or two as a mother I may need to spank Sofia." "If she deserves it, I'll let you do it." I grumbled in my head as she let me take over. Hannah tightened her hold on me and kissed my head. "Sorry for doubting you." I just plopped my pacifier back in my mouth and leaned my head against her shoulder as she walked into the office. She walked up to the receptionist desk and said, "Hi I'm Hannah, and this is Sofia, we're here for our medical checkups?" A plump lady looked up from her computer and said, "Oh my land, aren't you just the most precious thing?" Her accent was the most stereotypical Georgia peach accent I had ever heard. I felt my body blush from my toes to my red hair. "Sofia..." Hannah prompted. I sighed. "Thank you ma'am." "Well don't you have great manners young lady." She gave Hannah the look of someone judging her for being a teen mother. "Thank you," I said, "my mom back home tried her best to teach me." I saw her eyes open, she looked down at her list, and said, "I'm so sorry sweetheart..." "It's okay Ma'am," Hannah said for us, "it's been a weird couple weeks for us and we don't expect strangers to figure out the facts on sight." The lady nodded. "Well..." she seemed to try and think. "Okay..." She looked down at her desk. "we have all of your information from your registration and yesterday. So, you'll just need to wait for Doctor Tenent, and we can get you both all sorted." "Thank you," I said wearily. Hannah carried me back to a chair in the lounge and I sucked contentedly on my pacifier. "You thirsty?" she asked me. I looked at her as if 'not again,' and she laughed. She produced a bottle of apple juice that she exchanged with me for my pacifier. Just to be safe though she clipped my pacifier onto my blouse. "So that's getting old..." she said aloud. I whispered, "well you could nurse me in front of her... that'd convince her I'm yours for certain." Hannah giggled and muttered. "behave Sofia!" Thankfully we were late and didn't have to wait too long for the Doctor to come out. "Hannah? Sofia?" he asked. "Right here," Hannah said and stood up. "We can either take you one at a time or just do both at once?" he suggested. He seemed to linger with his look more at me. "Might as well both go back. It's not like there's an inch of my body to hide from Hannah," I told him with a shrug. "Same here," Hannah added. Doctor Tenent led us through a typical corridor of a doctor's office before opening a door up to an examination room. I thought it was a little unusual that a nurse hadn't done that for him. He seemed to sense my thoughts. "My normal main nurse is busy taking care of an emergency case down the hallway, so you just get me today. Really there's not a lot of tests that a nurse would do that haven't already been done yesterday during your initial workup." "Oh, okay," I said aloud. Indeed, he had two massive folders in his hands that must have contained all of our medical records ever, as well as everything they had done to us yesterday. "Sofia, why don't we start with you." He said gently. "Hannah, would you set her down on the table here?" Hannah gently set me down and he then said, "Okay, I know you were just given a full physical Sofia, but with everything that we see here it's just best to do everything again here." "Everything?!?" I asked nervously. He shrugged. "Everything." "This sucks..." "Sofia..." Hannah scolded me. "Hannah, Sofia, if you could go ahead and strip her down to just her diaper?" He said, "Here is a gown for her and you as well if you'll change into them." "This is a... full physical?" I noticed Hannah finally getting it. "Yes." "This sucks..." she repeated. "Hannah, language..." I mock-scolded her and received a glare that would have burnt me to a crisp if I was still a boy. Luckily my new girl shield protected me from it! Doctor Tenent left and we followed his instructions. "Your diaper is wet Sofia, but I have a feeling he's going to want in there anyway..." Hannah told me. "I know..." The next hour was embarrassing for both of us. Doctor Tenent proceeded to do a full physical on me before he had Hannah dress me and she had her own. He had her pump a bit more milk out for additional testing, as well as performed a physical that was even more thorough than mine. I tactfully sat in a chair away from them drinking a bottle while hers was done. "Okay," Doctor Tenent said, "you both seem to be healthy. Hannah you are lactating far more than a normal mother would be. We did take the sample you provided yesterday and tested it. It obviously isn't showing any harmful effects on Sofia, but our lab would like to perform some experiments with it before we say it's okay to feed any other babies... or others. We believe it probably is safe, and might even have some healing properties, but until we're sure it's best to play it safe." "Okay," Hannah nodded unsurprised. "Anything else that we need to be aware of?" "I think you're going to probably be filling out and maturing the rest of the way into your early twenties fairly quickly based on your hormone levels from the blood samples we took yesterday. I would like to see you again for a checkup in six weeks." "And me?" I asked. "Sofia, there is no doubt that you are the healthiest baby in existence. I don't see anything wrong with you at all. Realistically I think you can probably skip a routine visit for another six months unless something comes up." "What about her incontinence issues?" Hannah asked and I blushed. "Unless she grows, or changes in some other way, I don't believe there will be any real progress there. Everything about her is normal for a twenty-month-old." "Twenty-months?" "You should get a full report later, but the test you took last night showed that your dental structures, bone structure, and everything else developmentally in your body is right on target for an eighteen to twenty-month-old." "So, I could be really an eighteen-month-old? I'm not even two years old?!?" I whined. "Well, we're not necessarily putting it in the system like that," he smiled at me. Hannah hugged me and then asked, "Okay, so what else do we need to do here?" He shook his head. "You're all finished. We'll finish analyzing blood work and such, but I think for now you're both cleared from a medical standpoint." "Could we have a few minutes of privacy in here before we head off to Sofia's martial arts testing?" He looked at her and said, "Of course, if you need to nurse here there's not a problem. I'm also noting in your file that considerations for nursing or pumping must be accommodated discreetly for you." "Thanks," Hannah blushed. He closed the door and she said, "Please?" I couldn't tell that he had really taken another sample from her... she seemed to be full again already! A half-hour later she changed my messy diaper, and we headed to the building I was told to meet with Sensei Rogers. In the locker room I asked Caireen, 'May I please have my Gi?' She seemed to smile. 'Sure,' she said. In a flash I had a replica of my Gi from back home, but in a smaller size. She'd even added my black belt with the second stripe. The only thing that didn't make sense is it didn't quite feel right. I moved the fabric back a bit at my waist and saw that she had somehow made a onesie attachment. 'Why?' 'It works better with your blouses and will probably help with your diaper not falling off during your training,' she told me. 'Oh.' "You look so adorable!" Hannah cooed at me. I sighed and walked with her out to the main room where there were a few other students in groups practicing. An older gentleman who seemed to exude experience saw us and came over. I bowed respectfully to him. "Sensei, I was told I needed to see you for martial arts placement." He bowed to me as well and replied, "You are Sofia?" "Yes Sensei." "And that makes you Hannah?" She seemed awkward in her regular uniform and responded, "Yes Sensei." "It is a pleasure to meet you both, I am known to most of the students as Sensei Ito. I see Sofia you wear a belt with a second degree. Which style?" "Tae Kwon Do," I responded and spent a few minutes having a respectful conversation where he asked my thoughts on my strengths and weaknesses. "You have just tested for that belt though?" he asked after a while. "Yes Sensei." He led us to a mat. "Then let me see your forms," he started off. Over the next two hours he put me through my paces completely. "Not bad," Sensei Rodgers said, "I can tell you're still getting used to a new center of gravity, but you're not off by much. Would you mind sparring with some of the advanced students now?" I nodded enthusiastically. "Sure!" It would be the most adult thing I had done since I changed! "Efferous, would you please come over here," he called to a girl on the other side of the room. As she came over, I could see that she was probably close to my old height... which meant she might as well be a giant now! Her eyes were an odd amber color with the mutant glow coming from them. "Hi," she waved at me like I was a real baby, "what's your name?" "Sofia," I said. "Came dressed up with you mommy today for testing?" she asked. Apparently, she hadn't paid attention to my forms at all. "Something like that," I said. Her eyes shifted a little, but before she could say anything else Sensei Rodgers said, "Efferous, I would like you to spar with Emerald here." She looked up at Hannah and asked, "Is she going to change first?" I laughed and Hannah looked worried. "I'm Emerald, not her," I told her. "You want me to spar with a baby?" "Yes." "Okay Sensei," she said respectfully. You could see she had her doubts. "Take your places," Sensei ordered. I stood opposite of her and bowed. "Shee-jawk!" he ordered and I watched her try to decide what to do. In the end she wasn't willing to do anything other than circle, so I decided to attack first. I jumped in the air with a kick to her stomach that seemed to surprise her completely by how much it hurt! She went to grapple with me, but I managed to wriggle free. At one point she nearly made me cry with a loud animal like howl, but I kept moving. I continued to leap and kick at her for several minutes with her only managing to land one blow on me when Sensei Rogers concluded the match. "You're stronger than you look!" Efferous said woozily. I shook the hand that she leaned down to me and said, "Thanks." "Remember Efferous to never underestimate your opponent by their appearance!" Sensei reminded her. "Yes Sensei," she said and smiled at me. Sensei Rogers had me spar with two other individuals, and I was collecting quite a crowd on the sides. It took several shocked opponents before I had one get the best of me. A girl codenamed Celer was a speedster. I figured out quickly Celer was like in 'accelerate.' I tried doing the same kicks and punches that I had been doing, but she was so fast she would dodge in and out. She finally went around and around me like some cartoon, and I got caught off balance trying to follow her. She jokingly spanked my bottom at the time and said, "Bad baby..." I was embarrassed but had forced myself to laugh to save face. She actually gave me a hug after we bowed and said, "I so want to hang out with you sometime! You're too cute!" Sensei Rogers led us to an office and said, "Okay Sofia, it is clear you will do very well in my advanced martial arts class. We will work to round out your education with some other styles though. As accomplished as you are at Taekwondo, you should be able to learn and advance in several other styles very quickly." "Yes Sensei." "Hannah I would recommend you join the entry class. I think it will be invaluable for you to study and train. Sofia here can help tutor you and you should be able to learn quickly." "Yes sir," she said. With that he dismissed us saying. "Thank you for stopping by. I'll pass along my recommendation for placements to Mrs. Carson. I believe she's handling you two personally?" We nodded and Hannah said, "We're supposed to meet with her after lunch." "Then you probably should get a move on if you want to change Sofia and eat before that meeting!" I frowned, sure enough we went to the locker room and I had a dirty diaper to have changed. I did my best to act calm as the next class of girls came in to get changed for their class. "She's sooo adorable!" One girl said with a smile right when Hannah had a wipe on my butt. I was mortified. Once Hannah had a new diaper on me, Caireen changed us back into my uniform with magic. Hannah washed her hands and we made our exit with about half of the girls still cooing over me. I pulled my pacifier from my put away purse and pouted while I sucked on it. Hannah patted me on the back and said, "Once we get some lunch in your tummy, you'll feel better." I sighed. "I really want a shower." "I didn't even think of that... I don't think we really have time though." "How about you, how are you doing?" I asked, thinking it had been a few hours. "I snuck away and pumped while you were testing," she told me. She carried me to the Crystal Hall and we quickly made our way through the line of food and to our usual table. We arrived as Camille was telling Esmie about Ewe apparently trying to pick on another student that morning. The kid apparently ended up transforming into some sort of spider and sent Ewe screaming away just by his appearance. "I'd be scared by a ten-foot-tall spider too though," Lizi admitted. I nodded. I hated spiders, so I would have been crying and running too before the change. Now I think I would just send one of my spells at it... Hannah had sat a bottle of her milk on the table in front of me and I found myself nursing it about halfway through my plate of food and ignoring the plate. For some reason I was kind of craving that taste more than the fettuccine alfredo on my plate. Hannah gave me a sideways glance and a concerned look, but didn't say anything. I think she and I both knew I was getting nervous leading up to our meeting with Mrs. Carson. 'What's my schedule going to be like?' I thought. 'It'll be fine Sofia,' Caireen cooed at me. 'But... Also, what am I going to do with getting to classes on my own? I haven't even walked across the campus by myself once yet.' 'You were fine an hour ago sparring, you'll be fine getting across campus,' she reminded me. 'Besides, all you have to do is make one cute look at a girl, put your arms up, and I guarantee you they'll happily carry you across this planet.' I nodded to her mentally and realized my bottle was empty. Hannah picked me up right then and I felt her discreetly check my diaper. I looked at her and she shook her head. "Dry," she mouthed. I was surprised, maybe that's why I was craving the bottle. 'You might be dehydrated from sparring,' Caireen said. 'You're probably right...' I acknowledged. "Come on Sofia," Hannah said to me. She grabbed my diaper bag and we sat off to Mrs. Carson's office with a chorus of 'good lucks' from our new friends. "It'll be okay Sofia, I promise!" The hug Hannah gave me helped me really believe that as we made our way out of the Crystal Hall. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chapter 12: Results ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WE WERE SENT into Mrs. Carson's office by her secretary not long after arriving. "Come have a seat over here on my couch ladies," she told us. Being in the principal's office was at least a little bit less scary then. "Okay, I'm very busy this time of year, but I wanted to make sure I took care of getting your schedules done personally due to your... umm..." "Weird?" I suggested. "Odd," Hannah suggested with a smile. "Unique," Mrs. Carson said with her own smile, "unique circumstances." "Thank you," I said simply and Hannah's voice was overlaid on mine. "You two must have been great friends before all of this?" she asked. "Us and our friend Jacob... we were like the three musketeers," I told her. "We grew up with each other," Hannah added. "Well, that's been good for you two now it seems." She paused to shuffle some papers. "Okay, well first thing is to let you know what your powers testing showed." Hannah squeaked and started to shake just a little bit. "Hannah, since you haven't been told anything yet at all, let's start with you." She paused and pressed a few times on the tablet she held. "First you're an Exemplar Level 2, meaning you're definitely at genius human levels mentally and about as strong as a normal human can get. Next you're an Empath Level 2, in other words you can feel emotions from others and you can tell who is feeling what. You seem to be Level 2 in Danger Sense. Your main abilities seem to be related to the Pyrokinetic blasts you can make. They rated you a 4C in Pyrokinesis, volcanic level heat with gun accuracy, and Telekinetically a 2C, able to lift up to 200lbs remotely. The power is fairly useful since you seem to have control like if it was your hand picking it up. The final thing they noted was that you seem to be a Regen Level 5. Meaning you should heal very well if you get hurt." I smiled at Hannah. "You're a tough cookie!" "Yes, you are," Mrs. Carson agreed. "Don't get overconfident around here though," she advised. Hannah nodded and squeezed me. "What about this one?" "Sofia's tests were interesting. We already had a foundation with hers from Los Alamos of course." She smiled at me. "But, we have the ability to test here beyond theirs. The device you went through last night is one of a kind built by one of the devisors we have on staff that has helped our accuracy improve. So far it seems to give about the same results as our established tests, but once in a while picks up on some powers that slip by us. We may actually ask Sofia to come in for some additional tests in a few weeks to confirm the device." "What changed?" I asked. "Well, obviously your main talent is your Avatar talent. We agree with the Level 5 from your previous testing there. Esper Level 3 also did not change," I nodded. She took a deep breath and said, "We're labeling you a Power Mimic Level 1 due to the fact you seem to be able to take on Hannah's talent. We think this is likely due to your nursing from her?" She shook her head. "Not really sure. It lets you have the equivalent of a Level 1C Pyrokinesis test though." "Cool," I said off-handedly. It was kind of in a way. I wondered if I stopped nursing if I would still have it though. "Next your Exemplar Level stayed at a Level 4, borderline Level 5. One of our technicians was leaning towards five, but the device went with four, so we're sticking with that." Not much had changed so far, the way she was speaking before made me wonder about my Wizard level. "The last power that showed up obviously is your Wizard power. Here Mrs. Grimes and the device both seemed to think that you're actually a Level 7 here." I looked at her and said, "You're joking right?" She shook her head. "I'm afraid not. It's probably partially due to Caireen being involved, but you definitely fit the description simply by the way you interact with Ley Lines. Mrs. Grimes noted that you also blew through her protection circle easier than anyone else she's had before." She sighed and seemed to age a decade in her posture. I watched her pull her glasses off her face as she looked at me. "Sofia, I have to implore you to be very careful with your use of magic. Level 7 wizard traits very often lead to self-destruction... You have a lot of power at your fingertips." I nodded. "The whole with great power thing..." Hannah squeezed me reassuringly again. "So, did the device come up with any other results?" Mrs. Carson nodded. "Age regression seems to be a common side-effect with high level exemplars, so the device has the ability to pinpoint the exact age of a student to help out with determining their age. Hannah you're showing up as being 16." "Wait, what?" Hannah asked. "I feel like I got older... not younger?!?!" Mrs. Carson shrugged. "I'll be honest, the device hasn't been wrong yet. I think you may just be perceiving the changes brought about by your Exemplar trait?" "And what about me?" I squirmed. She looked at me and gave me a kind smile, like she was about to pronounce a death sentence or something. "Well, this is where the device and our doctors really can't make up their minds. The Device is saying eighteen months..." I nodded. "That's what the doctor said earlier." I sighed. "but...?" "But the doctors think based on your dentition, height, and skeletal structure you could be more like right at twenty to twenty-two months." "So, are you changing my MMID data?" I asked. She shrugged. "I'm going to leave that up to you. We probably should split the difference and change it to twenty months. However, I have seen enough out of the machine to believe it's probably more accurate at eighteen-months." Hannah squeezed me in a hug and I just nodded. "Go ahead and change it to eighteen-months, I guess... I definitely qualify for free everything at restaurants now, right?" Hannah laughed behind me. "Somehow I don't think your appetite is what they have in mind for 'kids eat free.'" Mrs. Carson cracked a small smile herself. "There's one other thing that the Device did seem to confirm on you Sofia... We can run the test again in a few months, but the results indicate that you aren't aging." "I kind of figured that. I guess I'll spend a lifetime as a baby..." I felt a tear going down my cheek which Hannah wiped away and kissed the top of my head. "Hannah, I won't be surprised to see you reach eighteen again with your body and then freeze at a certain age as well. The doctors have made notes that they'll test you both again in three months." Hannah nodded. "Well, here are your new MMIDs and your official student IDs," she said handing over two new cards apiece to us. "Sofia, do you have your old MMID so I can destroy it?" I nodded and reached into my storage place for my purse and to give it to her. She smiled at me and said, "You both have great pictures on these!" "Okay, now that we have all of your test results out there, I think we need to talk about your coursework. I know both of you were almost done with high school and were taking very advanced courses." I sighed and nodded. "So it's official, back to preschool for me?" She laughed. "No, but I think it would do both of you good to consider this a chance to explore some of our more specialized course work. Because of your abilities in your other subjects I think you two could benefit though from working on this for more than just six months or even a year." Hannah nodded. "So sophomores...?" I couldn't blame her for trying, even with the discussions on Sunday about us being as freshmen already. Mrs. Carson looked thoughtfully but shook her head. "Because you're coming in so late this year, and already rooming on the freshmen floor, I really do think it would be better for you both just to go ahead and be freshmen." "I'll never make it to college..." Hannah groaned. "We will be sure that you work on some coursework over the next couple years that will make it to where you can enter college as at least a junior. It'll make up for that a little bit," she said. "I guess," I heard her grouse behind me. I leaned into her and turned around to give her a hug. "Thanks Sofia," she told me. We spent the next hour putting together our two schedules as best as we could. We both ended up with Costume Shop I, Powers Theory, Powers Lab, and Calculus II together. I had Intro to Magical Arts, Intro to Magic Theory, Intro to Basic Mystic Concepts, and an Advanced Martial Arts class separately from Hannah. Hannah had Esper I, World History, Intro to Psychic Arts, and a Firearms Basic Safety class. I wanted to take the Firearms class too, but there just wasn't room in my schedule. As it was, we would both have a class after dinner each day. Mrs. Carson tried tweaking the schedule as best as she could to allow us to meet up at least every other hour even if we didn't have classes together. "Thank you for your help with this," Hannah said politely as we wrapped up. "It's my pleasure," she told us both. "Try and make it by the bookstore in the next couple hours before they close so you can get your materials and supplies." "Okay," Hannah said before we left her office and bundled up in our coats. Ms. Carson's secretary gave us an odd look as we walked out the doors, past the reception area, and out of the building where we could see snow flurries were starting up. "Remind me to wear tights tomorrow..." I said to Hannah. Suddenly the air around me was warm though. "What did you do?" I asked her. She looked down at me and shrugged. "I guess I can warm up the air too?" "That's cool... I guess we don't need coats when you do that?" I suggested. All of a sudden it was cold again and I glared at her. "Well, I guess I haven't quite got the knack for that yet. Maybe you can learn a spell," she said with a bashful smile. Caireen said to me, 'There is one, but I think tights would be good until spring comes anyway...' I just sighed. "Where are we going now?" "The bookstore like she said?" "Are you going to make it any longer than my diaper is?" I asked. For once I noticed it was squishy without someone else telling me. "Our room first?" she said with a grimace. I nodded. Unfortunately, Poe seemed to be the furthest building away from anything! Hannah walked quickly though and it wasn't too long before Hannah carried me through the doors and sat me down on my feet in the lobby. Ms. Potter stopped us as we passed her room and said, "There were a bunch of boxes that came for you two today. I took the liberty of putting them by your door." "Thanks," Hannah said and smiled at me. "Shall we go see what our mommies sent us?" I smiled. "I'm hoping for cookies!" She laughed and patiently waited while I walked beside her up the stairs to the second floor on my own two feet. It wasn't that I moved that slowly, I just had a very wet diaper that seemed to have gravity trying to pull it off my body even with the help of the onesie. I grimaced since my skirt seemed to be having issues too. 'Caireen, do you think you could make some of these outfits with the skirt attached to a onesie?' 'Sure.' She seemed to smile at me. 'I thought it was a good idea yesterday too, but didn't want to push you into that one.' 'Thanks, but I think it'll be easier to deal with for us...' As we walked down the hallway to our room, I noticed the dorm seemed almost eerily quiet with all of our friends and fellow students off at their classes. A large pile of boxes sat in front of the door to our room. "Wow, our moms went a bit overboard?" Hannah suggested. I looked at the pile as she unlocked our door and shook my head. Hannah and I dragged the boxes in and began opening them up. We put the contents on the ground where I could help sort them. My mom had sent several large boxes of diapers, more bottles, pacifiers, bibs, clothes, hair supplies, shampoo, toothpaste, and even some stuffed animals - including the bear Hannah had given me in the hospital. I shrugged at most of it as just being boring necessities - some of which we had already been given by Caireen and the school. The real treasures she also sent me were framed photos of the pictures we had taken Saturday, pictures of our family before my mutation, and even pictures of my grandparents and extended family. I had a few tears going down my face with homesickness as I looked at a picture of Lily and myself from the other day. In another box I found a pink Disney Princess backpack which had Belle, Cinderella, and Rapunzel on it. Mom had thoughtfully stocked the front pocket with pens and pencils, but I couldn't help but notice the kids backpack was big compared to me! Even being smaller it was like two thirds my size! I looked at it thoughtfully and then instinctively used magic to make it shrink in its outward appearance. 'Caireen, how do I make it larger inside like you've done with this room?' I could feel her pride as she instructed me how to do it, and I then made the main compartment much larger than any normal backpack would be, and divided it into several sections. I would be able to keep some spare diapers, clothes, my books, and maybe a bottle or two in there and still have some spare space. Hannah had stopped opening boxes to watch then. "That is so cool!" I smiled. "And the backpack fits me and looks 'totes adorbs,' right?" She laughed at me. "Please don't ever say 'totes adorbs' again?" "Why, I am according to Esmie!" "I am never letting you talk to her again!" I just laughed. "You want me to do this to your backpack too?" Her mom had sent her own well used purple Jansport backpack out to her. "Please?" I just smiled and motioned for her to hand it to me. She grabbed a few things from the main compartment first and then I began working to help her have the space in there for stuff for her and anything she might want to carry for me in there too. It was now the world's best student backpack, and diaper bag, a young mom could need! "Thank you, Sofia!" she said with a big smile and she stocked it for herself. We sorted through the rest of the makeup, clothes, and other supplies her mom had sent her. "They did send cookies!" Hannah said as she opened the final box. Inside was a care package of microwave popcorn, homemade cookies, and even some dried red chile pods! It was nearly an hour later that she had changed my diaper, nursed me, and we were on our way to the bookstore with her backpack on her shoulders. I wore mine as well, and enjoyed the novelty of actually walking across campus on my own two legs. Mrs. Carson had mentioned that our IDs held money that our parents had loaded into them, as well as any money we might earn on campus jobs, to spend there. Following the directions we were given, we soon found the campus store. "Whoa..." Hannah said when we entered the doors. "I can't really see anything," I told her. She leaned over and picked me up so I could see. From a taller vantage point then I could see that we were in a store that would rival Walmart for supplies. It seemed to have electronics and components in one section of the store that made even a Fry's store seem pitiful. Hannah noticed there were traditional shopping carts sitting next to the door. I waited in her arms while she grabbed one, put the seat down, and then set me down in it. Unlike a regular cart seat though this one seemed to sense a baby, and automatically buckled a belt across my waist. I frowned. "This isn't fair..." Hannah laughed. "You haven't actually been in one of these since you mutated, have you?" I shook my head. "Mom never made me go into Walmart or the grocery store. The closest we might have been, would have been the stores Saturday, but you all pushed us in the stroller or let us walk...." She smiled reassuringly. "I promise I'll let you out if there's something you really want to look at." I huffed and spent the next ten minutes looking at her rather than the store from my fixed viewpoint. She would grab items from shelves, and that would be my only real opportunities to see what was there. "Please let me out?" I asked. She sighed. "Alright, but you have to stay with me!" I nodded. She poked at a button on the buckle and released me from the restraint before setting me down on the ground. I still couldn't see past the aisle we were on, but at least I could look around it! As we followed the maze, I got the impression you would never have to leave the campus for anything. There were your basic necessities for hygiene, groceries, clothing, movies, games, the electronics and computers, and finally the books and supplies that we came for! It took us a half hour of looking at our course schedules and the required texts to find all of the books for both of us. We found some needed supplies for the courses. My magic courses had some specific items needed and she needed a gi for her beginning martial arts class. We carefully split off each other's items into two separate piles at the cashier. "Why aren't you the cutest little girl?" the cashier asked of me. I smiled. "So I hear." She looked blankly at me for a moment but processed our items. "Okay, that'll be six hundred and ninety-four dollars," she said with a smile at Hannah with my pile. Somehow, she seemed to be missing me handing her my student ID. "Ma'am, that stuff is mine, here's my ID." The lady looked at me suddenly like I'd grown two other heads. "Umm..." "I'm a student," I reassured her. She looked like she was about to faint as she ran my card and then passed me a receipt. I had only purchased my books and a few other supplies, so I pulled my backpack off of my shoulders, took the shopping bags she had placed the items in, and shoved it all easily into my backpack before placing it back on my shoulders. I couldn't help but grin at the lady as she looked like she was about to faint. She caught herself though and quickly rang up Hannah without saying another word. She'd picked up more items than I had, but she was also able to throw everything in her enlarged backpack. Hannah picked me up and placed me on her hip while surreptitiously she checked my diaper. "Come on Sofia, let's go find the restroom before we head back to our room." I was able to watch the lady practically have her eyes pop out of her head as Hannah carried me into a nearby ladies' room. We both giggled as she pulled down the changing table on the wall. THAT NIGHT AT dinner Camille and our new friends all pumped us for information on her powers testing and our class schedules. "Now we just need to figure out who can go with Sofia to each class..." Hannah finished. "Well I have Magic Theory at the same time," Camille told her. "and Knag and I both have Magical Arts at the same time too." Lizi nodded at the mention of her name. "We can just go straight from lunch over there," she assured Hannah and I. "I have the same section of Powers Lab too," she added. "I have the Advanced Martial Arts class with her," Volango piped in as I watched her munching on what had to be her fourth or fifth banana. Beth was obsessed with them, even if she tried to deny it! "That only leaves Mystic Concepts," Camille said. "Anyone taking that section?" She asked the friends sitting around the table. I watched as everyone shook their heads. "Guess I get to be on my own for once," I said sort of happy and very scared at the same time. Hannah frowned. "How far is it from my history class to there?" "It's pretty much on the other side of the campus," Hailey said. "Look, it'll be okay, I'm not ever really alone," I reminded her. She nodded. "I guess." "So, you both are starting tomorrow?" Esmie asked. "Yeah," I said before popping my bottle in my mouth. Esmie smiled at me. "You are so cute!" I just blushed and kept nursing the bottle until it was empty and Hannah replaced it with my pacifier. I just took in the conversations around the table and tried to keep track of everything. From the stories of feuds like Streaked and me, to villains' actions in other towns, to horror stories of the MCO and Humanity First there was always something being discussed that made everything feel completely unreal. Everyone finished eating and I jumped down from the table to go back to the dorm with everyone. I thought I was going to get a chance to walk, but Beth picked me up and put me up on her shoulders for a piggyback ride. "The view better up there?" She asked me. I sighed. "I miss this being the view." Or at least, sort of said that through my pacifier. "You'll get used to it," she assured me. "Trust me." I didn't say anything in response as we walked back to Poe. Once there everyone ended up in our room for some last details. "Okay, so Sofia can't change herself. It looks like I'll be able to be there for a lot of her changes, but if she needs it, can you all change her?" Camille smiled. "I'll be happy to!" Beth looked a bit uncomfortable. "I've never changed a diaper before," she admitted. "Well, there's a first time for everything," Hannah said and suddenly put me up on the changing table. "Do you..." I started to say and then felt the warning look from Hannah and the internal warning from Caireen. 'This is what I'm talking about Sofia,' she said. I sighed. "Get it over with please..." I looked at Hannah. "Okay Beth, you've at least got a good baby here to change. She doesn't wriggle around like her sister!" I smirked at that! Lily was a wriggle worm most of the time when she needed changed! "Okay, first thing you're going to do if you've got a table is strap her down so she can't accidentally roll off," Hannah instructed her and had Beth do it. She was clearly uncomfortable with it, but did it anyway. "Now she's got this skirt on, just push it out of the way underneath her." Beth timidly pushed it up. "You're not going to break me," I told her. "Sorry, I..." "Didn't grow up thinking you were going to have to be a mother?" Hannah smirked. Beth shook her head. "No..." She looked almost a little upset, but she said, "Okay, I'm not going to break you Sofia... Next is this onesie I'm guessing?" After that she gained some confidence and made it to my diaper pretty easily. "Go ahead and get another diaper ready to put underneath her," Lizi suggested. I turned red as I realized I had become the ultimate doll for all of the girls here. With the pull of the two tapes on my diaper she had me exposed. "Wipe her really well front to back," Hannah instructed. I was having a hard time keeping my composure now as I had three of my friends and Hannah working together to change my wet diaper. "If it's a dirty diaper use the back of the diaper to wipe as much off of her as you can," she added. After a seemingly interminable amount of time I was in a dry diaper and the onesie had been snapped shut. "Why don't we leave the skirt off Sofia," Hannah suggested. I just shrugged, since Caireen hadn't gotten around to attaching the skirt to the onesie. My friends had just seen me at my most vulnerable, what more embarrassment could really come? Hannah grabbed my backpack that I had modified and showed everyone where we were going to keep my diapers, wipes, bottles, pacifiers, and extra clothes. "It's a good thing you can do magic," Lizi noted. "I don't know how you would have made it around without it." "Simple, a diaper bag," Camille said, shaking her head while smiling. "Most mothers don't have magical babies and they get along just fine." Eventually they left to go do their homework and Hannah closed the door to gain some privacy. A nursing session was needed for her sake, and then I was able to get onto the sweet computer that I had on the desk. I discovered that there were special games that were only available to students here on a test basis and downloaded a couple. Before I could do more than make a character in one though Hannah said, "You want to call Jacob with me?" I shrugged, but walked over to join her at her desk. She used her computer to go ahead and setup a video chat with him. "Hey Jacob!" She said. "Hannah, Ni... Sofia!" He was somewhat excited. "Where are you two?" He started. "Your pictures were all over the news. They said you were wanted for a terrorist attack." I sighed. "We're at a special school for mutants. We were attacked at the mall and defended ourselves." "You're okay then?" he asked. "Yes," Hannah said, "Just in a bit of shell shock." "Wait... Hannah, why are you there?" "My parents didn't call you?" she asked, a little annoyed. "My parents grounded me from my phone, they may have called it." "What did you do?" I asked. "I might have decked a guy for making some rude comments about you..." he answered sheepishly. Hannah shook her head. "Well Jacob I'm here because I mutated too." "Wow!" Jacob said. I noticed him adjust something on his computer and I was sure he was zooming in on Hannah. "You have the same eyes as Sofia now." "Yes," Hannah said simply. We spoke together for an hour before his mom banged on his door and he said goodbye quickly in a panic. "Something tells me he wasn't supposed to be on his computer." I said. "Nope!" Hannah sighed. "He's going to be in so much trouble," she shook her head. "typical Jacob!" "Wow, it's late Sofia, we both have classes tomorrow." I sighed. "Bath time?" She nodded. I followed her to the bathroom in just my onesie and drooping wet diaper. In the bathroom I noticed that two of the bathtubs were being used by the other girls, but the one I had used last night remained open. Hannah started a bubble bath for me with some of the soap mom had sent and plopped me inside the tub. While I played with the bubbles, she washed my body and hair. "Okay Princess, we don't need you wrinkling away!" she said as she picked me up and dried me with a towel. She wrapped me in it and carried me back to the room in her arms like an infant. The routine of diapering me, dressing me in a footed sleeper, and then nursing me to sleep while singing a lullaby was truly becoming that... a routine. IT WAS ALSO becoming routine to wake up in Caireen's castle. Like yesterday she wasn't in the room as I woke up. I had some dolls in my crib with me so I began playing like I had been with Lily. I had to have been playing for a while when I felt a quick cramp and found myself squatting. 'I can cry and get her attention... Or just keep playing...' I told myself. Right then though I found myself squatting a second time and went the crying route. Caireen was in the room within a minute and picked me up. "Oh now, do we you have a poopy diapee Princess?" she cooed at me. "Shhh... I'll get you all cleaned up in a moment." She laid me on the changing table and worked to clean my bottom off. Routine was the action at this point, and I only squirmed a little as she worked to get me into a new diaper. A quick nursing session, burping, and she said, "I have to get some things done in court today, I want you to come with me." "Court?" I asked. "It's one of the things you have to do as Queen sweetie, you'll see," she assured me. One of the servants showed up at that time and bowed before saying. "All is ready for you, Your Majesty." "Thank you," she said. "We'll be ready in a moment." "Yes, Your Majesty," he said and exited the room. "Let's get you dressed properly!" Caireen said with a smile. She sat me on the ground and I followed her over to a wardrobe of dresses that were fantastic. One of them looked very much like the Sofia dress that I had in the real world. She didn't hesitate on picking that one and began dressing me in a petticoat and then the dress. My hair was piled onto my head quickly and my tiara appeared in her hands. "Well Princess Sofia, I do believe you're ready to see what being a Queen is like for today." I shrugged and said, "So do they believe I'm your daughter in this kingdom?" She nodded. "You are my daughter and my chosen successor here." "How can I..." "Someday... not anytime soon. Relax!" She smiled at me. "Behave and watch today." She picked me up and carried me down corridors and stairs until we came to a small receiving room with couches and a small fireplace. Here she sat me down and said, "You will wait here for a minute and then my advisor Elizabeth will let you know when to enter." I felt nervous as she went through a door and down a hallway that I supposed must lead to a throne room? The door in my room shut with an ominous thud, and I then heard one do so further down the hall. I felt my diaper grow wet from my nerves. I paced a little bit and sillily practiced curtsying for no reason other than boredom. My dress was pretty and I enjoyed twirling around in it for a moment too. I was wondering how much longer it was going to be when I was surprised by a voice. "Princess Sofia." A lady had snuck up on me and curtseyed. "Your Highness, your mother is ready for you in the throne room." The lady was dressed in a simple but elegantly styled emerald green dress. "May I ask your name?" "I'm Rosemerta," she said. Something inside me for some reason had an alarm bell ringing. I instantly wondered what happened to Elizabeth. Caireen had very clearly said it would be Elizabeth coming for me. "What happened to Elizabeth?" "She's waiting in the throne room." "Mother told me Elizabeth was coming for me. Go get her and have her come." I said. Something was not right here and I began drawing in power to protect myself. Suddenly the lady before me scowled. "Come along you sniveling little baby!" As she reached for me, I screamed and fired one of the energy blasts I had been taught to make at her. Rosemerta managed to jump away from most of the blast so that only a bit of her arm was hit. "You little bitch!" she cursed and lunged at me again. I dodged her and then attempted to kick her in the head with a flying kick. I missed and hit her chest instead. She cursed again and managed to get a hand on my foot and dangled me from the air. "Little girls do not attack their elders!" She screamed at me and smacked me hard on my face. I felt her try to rip my tiara from my head, but all it did was make it feel like she was ripping my hair off! I charged up another charge and managed to get her to drop me. Just as I rolled to a standing up position Caireen and a dozen guards ran into the room. "Seize her!" Caireen commanded. Rosemerta cackled and said, "Oh no, I don't think so!" Somehow, I watched as she shapeshifted into a bat of all things, and then flew out the open door. Caireen missed her with a spell and we watched her fly away into the distance. "Secure the castle!" she said to her guards and two of them left to carry out her orders. The others took up places at the two doors inside and out. "Oh no, Sofia, are you okay?" Caireen asked me as she picked me up. I could feel my face was bruising and my leg hurt from how she had suspended me in the air. "I hurt," I answered simply before I began bawling. Caireen called out, "I need a fresh diaper and a new dress for Princess Sofia." One of the guards bowed and said, "Right away Your Majesty." I was still incoherently crying. I thought the castle would be safe from anything! "Who was that?" I managed to sob out. Caireen shifted me in her lap to where she and I could see her face. I could see her own tear streaks and anger evident in her face. "One of many enemies I have..." She paused. "You remember my anger with the vampire comment you made?" I nodded and felt my eyes open wide shaking my head. "You're kidding?" She shook her head. "They're not like your culture thinks of them. They don't drink blood; they drink the essence within their victims for their own twisted magic." "And they can turn into bats?" I asked. "That's real?" "Some of them..." She shuddered in anger. A woman in a servant's uniform walked in then to the room carrying a change for me. Caireen laid me down on the floor and quickly changed my soaked diaper and dress. "Are you thirsty, baby?" she asked me when she was done. I had mostly stopped sniffling by then and nodded. Without any sense of shame of the guards being present she carried me to a chair and presented me with her breast. For once I didn't even feel shame or a need to resist, I just nursed for a long time until she burped me. While I was nursing, I could feel my essence refilling and my face seemed to hurt less. She eventually stood up and said, "Court is cancelled for today for security reasons Princess, but I want to meet with my generals and you to come with me." With that she carried me down the hallway she had disappeared to earlier. I nervously sucked on my thumb as she another door to the throne room was opened by a guard and my mouth opened in shock. The room was gilded in gold accents with a patterned wooden floor that was extravagant enough on its own. The room was decorated in paintings like European castles often were, but this room somehow made the most luxurious castle I'd seen pictures of look like my parents' house. On one end opposite to us there were a set of doors fifteen feet in height and massive. I guessed that is the end visitors came through. To my left I saw a raised platform with six stairs leading to the top. On the platform a large throne and a much smaller, but otherwise identical, throne next to it. Both thrones were covered in green fabric and gilded legs and frames. I could see emeralds inlaid to the frames and I couldn't help but think, 'mine?' Caireen walked to the top of the dais and sat down with me in her lap. "Your Majesty, Your Highness, General Reginald is here with his staff," a herald stated. "Send them in!" I watched as a giant of a man walked in with five other men behind him. They bowed before us and said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, a million apologies for my failure to protect Princess Sofia, I will be stepping down..." "No, you won't," I found myself saying. Somehow, I knew that this was a good guy and it wouldn't have mattered who it was, the vampire lady would have made it in anyway. "Your Highness I failed you and the Queen, there is no other option." "My daughter is right, General Slane, even if a little out of turn here," I blushed at her light rebuke. "I do not believe this was an attack that could have been prevented. This creature managed to get through my wards, something I did not believe was possible. I'm at least as much at fault as you are." I felt the sadness in her words. "But..." "Your oath was until death or I release you from your service, correct?" I felt Caireen squeeze me slightly in a hug. "My daughter does not wish for you to be released and neither do I. All I want is to find out who put this creature up to this and make them pay." "We think we know that," he said and motioned an advisor forward. "Your Majesty, we believe King Camulus and Queen Damara met with this Rosemerta this week." "How dare they!?!" Caireen said angrily. "Fine, if they want to play this way. Do you know of any other movements by them yet?" "No, but I would recommend..." After several hours of discussions of plans we left the throne room to return to my nursery. Everyone was under the impression that since Caireen turned down the marriage offer they were going to force us into it. With our kingdom under their control they would be a force to be reckoned with... and not a good one either! "I was scared," I told her as she changed my diaper. "I can imagine. How did you know that lady was a fake anyway?" "Well I had an instinct that something wasn't right... she didn't come from your throne room hallway for one... and you told me your advisor's name was Elizabeth," I reminded her. She nodded. "Simple, but you were able to figure out the deception. Luckily for both of us they didn't take that part further." "Am I safe now?" I asked. She kissed my still slightly sore cheek. "as safe as I can make you. Truthfully Sofia I think this is going to mean war. As soon as I confirm they were behind all of this I'm going to make them pay." I nodded but didn't say anything more. She nursed me to sleep and I wondered which could possibly worry me more, a war with what amounts to gods and goddesses in my dreams, or going to high school as a baby... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chapter 13: First Day ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE NEXT MORNING, I woke up to a worried shriek from Hannah. "What happened to your face?!?" I groaned. "I'm trying to sleep here." "Sofia, your face has a horrible bruise on it!" I groaned and opened my eyes, looked around, and then it dawned on me what she said, "Wait, I have the bruise here?" Hannah gave me a piercing look. "What happened to you?" She looked at a clock. "Talk quickly while I get you dressed." I blinked again and sighed. "It's a long story... Last night someone tried to kidnap me from the castle." "What?!?!" Hannah shrieked. Caireen pushed to the front. "Hannah, please calm down. Sofia fought back against the lady and was able to hold her own until I got there with my guards." "What about this bruise?" Hannah asked exasperatedly, she looked like she was about in tears. "I'm surprised by this, but apparently Sofia carried an injury back to her corporeal body. Give me a moment and we'll have her healed up." I felt Caireen do something and my face instantly felt better. "Is she safe now?" Hannah asked. "I think so for now, but my world will become increasingly dangerous for a while... I definitely won't be bringing you in for some time." "What about Sofia?" she asked worriedly. "Believe me, she'll be as protected as anyone possibly can. She should be safe." "Should?" Hannah asked. "Just change our diaper and get moving Hannah. You can interrogate me later, but I don't want you two to be late to your first day of classes." With that I felt her move to the back and I took over again. Hannah didn't say anything as she quickly changed my diaper and then sat down in the rocking chair. She bared her breast for me to nurse, but other than patting my back I could tell she was angry at me. After I had nursed her other breast, she burped me. "Hannah, I'm sorry, I didn't choose to be in this life. This isn't Caireen's fault either," I added. "Well it doesn't matter, does it!?!" she asked. Before I could reply she popped my pacifier in my mouth and I decided to leave her alone. She put her coat and backpack on, my coat on me, then helped me with my backpack before picking me up and settling me on her hip to go to breakfast. I decided it was in my best interest just to be a good baby and stay quiet while my 'momma' was mad. I never liked being around Hannah when she was this angry, but unfortunately, now I couldn't exactly get away from her to let her cool off. By the time we reached the dining hall I was just hoping she'd get over her anger that day! She sat me down to get food and I held my tray through the line again. At our table our friends were chatting about lots of things and Lizi finally asked, "Are you excited to start classes today Sofia?" I shrugged. "I'm glad to get to be doing something again... who likes to go to classes though?" I asked with a smile. "We could just take you to daycare instead," Hannah said. I sighed. "Please Hannah..." "Whoa... are you two fighting?" Camille asked. "Yes," I said to Hannah's "No." She glared at me. "This is not fighting..." "It certainly is Hannah, you're mad at me for a bruise that wasn't even my fault..." "Huh?" Camille asked, "What bruise?" I could see she was looking us both over. I took a moment to perform one of the privacy warding spells Caireen had been teaching me. She nodded in approval as Camille said, "Wow, that's a really good ward!" I shrugged. "I had to keep this private... Each night when I go to sleep, I don't really sleep..." I explained how I went to her castle each night and even though I could feel Caireen was a little annoyed at how much I was sharing, I knew I could trust my new friends. "Anyway, last night Caireen was getting ready to introduce me to the court for a session and while I waited for my summons to go in, I was nearly kidnapped." The others looked stunned as I explained everything more. Camille's eyes flashed sort of and she said, "Your Highness you should be careful, I can feel your future value to this world... if you die in Caireen's world you will likely also die here." Hannah whimpered next to me and picked me up to hold me tight. "You can't keep taking her there Caireen..." I felt Caireen come back to the surface. "Hannah, as much as I like you would prefer to lock Sofia away in a safe bubble for the rest of her life, that's not her future. She is meant to be a great leader in my world, and will do much good in this world. Yes, she's going to be in danger sometimes, but I promise you I will do everything I can to protect her." I felt Caireen slide to the background again and just shook my head. "This is never going to feel normal..." It took a few more minutes for everyone to reassure Hannah before I felt like she was at least no longer angry at me. It annoyed me that she had been in the first place! Especially given I was the one in danger! Eventually though it was time to go to our first class at our mutant high school! It would have sounded so much cooler if that class hadn't been Calculus! We walked into the classroom and introduced ourselves to the teacher. He directed us to two seats that weren't occupied and happened to be on the opposite side of the room from each other. Hannah looked pained about it, but I shrugged and said, "We can't be together all the time" as quietly as I could. I ended up standing on my chair much of the class so that I could see the board and what the teacher was doing. I was just grateful that we had covered the same stuff at our school a week or so ago! The cool thing that I noticed though was that as I went to copy my notes down, I didn't have to worry about glancing up at the problem every other second, my new exemplar memory let me remember without doing that! I debated about not even taking notes then, but I was sure I would land myself into trouble that way! Towards the end of the class the teacher came to speak with me and looked over a couple of homework questions that he had asked us to start one. To my relief he pronounced my answers correct and just shook his head. "I can't believe a baby can do those equations that quickly," he added with a smile. I just smiled back. Hannah and I visited the restroom before our next class so she could change my diaper before we went into the Costume Shop. While we weren't behind the students in Calculus, we both felt dismay at how far behind we were in this class! The teacher, Mrs. Ryan, came up to us at the table she had assigned us. "Ladies, do you have any ideas on your costumes? Remember as you're making them that for your time in the Arena you do need a costume and a mask." "The Arena?" Hannah and I asked. "Oh dear... I assume you've heard about the combat finals?" "Someone mentioned it and said we might not have to do them since we came in late?" I said remembering a couple of hints. "Well, let's not count on that just yet..." she began walking us through things the class had already done. She spoke of materials that were bullet proof, fireproof, magic proof... The sky was the limit if you had tons of money! I shook my head. "So we have like two weeks to do this?" As I sat there panicking Caireen mentally poked me and I smiled. "Okay, we've got this." "What?" Hannah said, clearly afraid. "Don't worry. May I see some of these fabrics you mentioned?" Mrs. Ryan looked at me skeptically, but led me over to cabinets with massive racks of bolts of fabric. Hannah ended up holding me up as I touched and felt everything she had there. Caireen and I were able to get a good handle on the fabrics and how they worked. 'Is that enough do you think?' I asked her. She seemed to nod at me. "Before we start working on our costumes Mrs. Ryan are there any rules that we need to be aware of?" "Well copyright... you cannot have an identical costume to another established superhero or villain. It has to have at least color differences in the design so you can be identified as unique." "What about design?" She and I had a ten-minute conversation before I looked at Hannah and said, "Okay, we can do this by the end of the week!" Mrs. Ryan looked skeptical. "Umm... you shouldn't rush through this sweetie." I grimaced but said, "There are no rules about using magic, correct?" She looked taken aback by me asking that, and said, "No..." "Okay, we've got this!" "I do need sketches before you begin," she told me. "Okay... Hannah and I'll have them for you tomorrow." With that it was time to switch classes. I had almost forgotten that Hannah and I were separating then when Camille met us at the door. Hannah handed me over to Camille and said, "Be good!" I sighed. "Yes Hannah." "She needs changed," Hannah whispered to Camille. Camille squealed. "I'll take care of that." I groaned but just stayed in the good baby role as she walked down the corridors and eventually into a bathroom. She pulled down a changing table that looked rarely used and made quick work of what I was sure would just be a wet diaper, but instead was a poopy one. "There, I bet you feel all better now without that poopy diapee," Camille said to me with a smile. I just said, "Thank you," while finding myself in shock that I hadn't noticed and no one had said anything. Camille hugged me after she sat me down and washed her hands. "It's okay Sofia, no one minds." "I do," I said quietly. "Come on, let's get to class. Mrs. Chulkris really doesn't like late students!" I groaned but accepted that. She carried me into class and Mrs. Chulkris looked at me with wide eyes and I returned the favor. Mrs. Chulkris was covered from head to toe in vines and flowers! I knew this to be a case of GSD, and knew she was harmless, but I couldn't help but take a breath in as it was kind of shocking to say the least. For her part she seemed to be looking at me similarly. "I'm Sofia Hammerstein," I told her as Camille carefully stood me up on a desk at the front of the room. "I'm Mrs. Chulkris," she said with a smile. "I see we both are shocking the other. You have so much power you're obviously not really a baby, and I know I look like some sort of overgrown vine." I laughed. "Can't judge a book by its cover, huh?" I said with a smile. "We're going to get along just fine. Why don't you join Camille at her table since you seem to be friends with her." I thought maybe I would be just sitting on the table or something, but Mrs. Chulkris suddenly performed a spell that made a highchair like seat appear. It was made of something that looked like living tree limbs woven in a beautiful pattern. As much as I disdained the idea of a highchair, at least it was a beautiful one. She looked on at me expectantly and I said, "Umm... thanks." Before Camille placed me into the chair, I grabbed the textbook for the course and was actually pretty happy I could sit in relative comfort for this class. It really was a good thing, because as much as I liked her, she was definitely a voice that would make me sleep if I wasn't awake! I seemed to become the object lesson though as she was discussing gathering essence. "How do you do it...?" She paused. "Anyone?" Camille's hand was up, but she called on me. "Sofia?" I grimaced. "Well... I can sense the ley lines and I just kind of use them for the power." I heard a couple intakes of breath around the room. "You only mean minor ones, right?" A girl that looked a little bit catlike asked. "Umm... Not really? I haven't found one I can't tap yet..." "What do you feel around here?" Mrs. Chulkris asked inquisitively. "Well there's an artery going through a big one right underneath the Crystal Hall. It passes close enough to here, I can easily tap it..." "Let's not do that just yet..." she said hastily. "Hmm... If what you say is true then you will never suffer with a loss of essence you can't recover from." "Camille, how were you going to say...?" The topic shifted from me and I quickly gathered that the most powerful would only grasp at the smaller veins, not the main arteries. I kept getting stares through the rest of the class and I couldn't help but wonder if I had pooped my diaper again. Eventually we were told to work in our groups at our table on a set of questions. "Camille... Why was everyone staring at me?" She looked around and then back at me. "Umm... Sofia... Most people can't do what you say you do to collect essence. The ability to tap into minor ley lines isn't unheard of, but very rarely has anyone been able to say they can tap into a main line like you mentioned." "Oh..." She smiled at me. "That just means you're cooler and more powerful than others." "It means I'm more of a freak..." Caireen mentally spanked me, but I just shook it off. "Sofia, you're not a freak... Well, not any more than the rest of us!" she said with a smile. She reached over and grabbed me from the highchair like seat and sat me in her lap. "Okay, let's get this done..." Camille was a great person to work with as she was easily the most brilliant person in the class. Towards the end of the lesson her voice changed. "You are going to be an interesting little girl to be around." "Who are you?" "You should know by now that names are a dangerous thing," she said. "You are one of Queen Aunghadhail's sisters, correct?" Caireen asked, taking over. "Yes, I am, and I know who you are as well," she said before Camille's voice changed. "Well that went well..." she said in her normal voice. "Yeah," I said as well. "I guess we know each other..." She shook her head. "the great thing about having an avatar spirit attached is all of the information you get..." She paused. "the tough thing is all of the baggage!" I smiled. "it's even more awkward with mine... maybe we can talk more privately later," I said as I looked around and saw Mrs. Chulkris coming our way to check on us. She smiled. "so I think that's about it with this question..." At the end of the class she surreptitiously checked my diaper as she carried me down the hallway and off to our dorm. We met up with Hannah in our common room. "Hey Hannah!" "Sofia!!!" she said excitedly, and afterwards. "Hi Camille!" I felt my eyes narrow a little bit and found myself quickly captured in her arms. "I missed you so much," she said to me as she squeezed me tight. "Umm... I missed you too," I told her. "Sorry... I don't know what it is..." she said, suddenly turning red with embarrassment. "You're a new mother with separation anxiety," Camille and I said at the same time. Her tone was joking, mine was resigned. I hugged her around her neck and she said, "Thanks Camille for taking care of her." "No problem, I'll meet up with you at lunch?" "Sure, we've just got to take care of a few things first and then we'll be over at the Crystal Hall." "Sounds good, bye Sofia," she said and waved at me with a smile. "See you in a bit," I called after her trying to maintain some maturity. Tough to do when you're being carried back to your room to be breastfed... 'LUNCH' AND LUNCH progressed quickly and without incident, leading to my handoff to Camille once again for Intro to Magical Arts. With each of the non-traditional classes I couldn't help but feel overwhelmingly behind all of my classmates. The three months they had before we came had obviously been packed with valuable information. My worry of course bled through to Caireen. 'Sofia, don't worry about it,' she reassured me. 'How can you say that?' 'What did Dr. Tenent say was the principal behind essence?' I thought back and repeated, 'Essence is free energy that flows through the universe and can be tapped for magical spells...' 'So, what are you worried about?' 'What do you mean...?' 'You have a perfect memory now Sofia. Worst case scenario you have to sit down with your books and your friends notes over Thanksgiving Break and read them. You'll have perfect responses on tests.' 'As long as it's just regurgitating! If I have to use it...?' "Sofia, here's Hannah, I'll see you later Princess," Camille said with a hug as she passed me over. "Huh?" "In la-la land huh?" Hannah asked. I just nodded and looked over her shoulder at the passing students. She patted my back reassuringly before shifting me to her hip to where I could at least look forward. A number of students waved at me and smiled; some obviously did not know yet that I wasn't a regular baby. Before long though Hannah walked through the doorway to our Powers Theory class. I felt her check my diaper briefly as she sat me down with a smile and whispered, 'It should be okay through this class.' I was glad something was okay through the class... I right away realized that we were behind in the material, but also that the class was not the most interesting one I would have. Once again, I found myself being the object lesson of the teacher though as they began talking about powers that day and how power and major changes came into play. As far as the class was concerned though I had been a teenage girl a week ago... At the end of the class Knag met Hannah at the door and I was passed off once again. "That diaper's a bit wet, if you don't mind changing her on your way?" Hannah asked. "Sure!" she said with a smile. I could see her face though and could tell she was nervous about it. I giggled. "It'll be okay, I'll help you if you get stuck - it's just wet." She squeezed me slightly and we found a bathroom on the way to class. I helped her by handing her a new diaper, wipes, and a changing pad from my bag. She picked me up nervously and set me on the table to change me. It took about four minutes longer than it should have, but she had me out of the wet diaper and into a new one without too many corrections! As soon as we walked in the door for the class, I could tell the word was definitely out from the teachers about me as there was a bland high chair sitting next to the seat that Knag took. Powers Theory in general seemed like it could be interesting, but once again I could only groan in dismay at how far behind everyone I was. 'I'm going to have to read every moment of the day over Thanksgiving Break...' I complained mentally. 'Yeah, but it'll be okay,' Caireen reassured me. By the time she passed me off to Volango, I was aching to do something other than sit still. Apparently, babies don't like to sit still all day? She helped me quickly change a slightly damp diaper before Caireen helped me into my gi she created the day before. Instead of carrying me out of the locker room though she held her hand out to me that I reached up to take. She led me to where the other students lined a mat. I took a similar stance to the others and waited for Sensei Ito to appear. "Good afternoon class, before we begin today, I would like to introduce a new student who has joined us today. Some of you met her briefly yesterday. Emerald, would you please come here?" I stood and bowed to him respectfully. "Yes Sensei Ito." "Emerald may look like she is a baby, but she is actually like many of you having changed significantly when she manifested. I expect there to be no differences expected towards her or from her than anyone else in the class." "Yes Sensei," the other students responded. "Very well then, today..." he began our class much as I had back home in Los Alamos, but there were definitely differences in the way he taught stylistically. Overall though I enjoyed the class as he took us through some techniques I knew slightly differently and had us practice. Volango ended up partnering with me for much of the exercises before he started having us spar. Much to most of my opponents' surprise I was able to give as good as I got with most of them. Only the speedsters like Celer seemed to be able to easily outmaneuver me. Sensei Ito began stepping in then though and began instructing me how I could find other advantages there. It was the one class of the day that when it ended, I was genuinely disappointed! After I changed out of my gi I found Hannah waiting for me outside the locker room. She gave me a big hug. "I missed you!" Seeing her tears. "I missed you too, but see everything is fine!" I smiled at her. She didn't dilly dally on getting back to the room really quick, nursed me, changed me, and then we headed to the Crystal Hall for a quick dinner of solid food. "You two better get going," Camille advised us not long after we sat down. I sighed, threw another fry in my mouth, and then stood up. "Are you sure you'll be okay?" Hannah asked worriedly as she zipped up the coat I had put on when we came to dinner. "Yes, Mommy," I told her quietly so no one else could hear. I thought it would feel odd, but oddly it felt normal to call her that. Her eyes welled up, but I just hugged her and said, "I'll see you after class!" In theory I knew where this class was since it was near where I had my testing for magic powers. I wasn't one-hundred percent certain on the exact room location. I kept walking around and jumped when I heard from behind me. "Sofia?" I turned and saw Cate coming towards me. "Hi Cate." "Where are you going? Why are you alone?" She asked somewhat worriedly. "Basic Mystic Concepts," I told her. "You?" "Same thing! Let's see if we can't find you a seat near mine!" With that she led me down one last corridor and held the door open. I felt Caireen gasp a 'Really?!?' as she saw the teacher. To her credit the teacher seemed to do the same thing and I let Caireen take over. "How are you doing Circe?" She hesitated a moment. "I'm doing well Caireen. I never thought I'd see you bound to a human... but somehow it seems fitting you would find a baby to bond with, you always did show them way more affection than I ever understood." I actually felt Caireen blush at that. "It's been a surprise to both of us. I'm going to let Sofia take control again, she's got questions, I'll try and answer them later." "So, you're my new student, Sofia?" Circe asked me a moment later. I sighed. "Yes ma'am, it seems you and Caireen know each other." "Yes, we do, but it's been a good relationship, so don't fret." She smiled at me. "I see you know Efferous, why don't you take a seat next to her." I smiled and moved to the table and just went ahead and duplicated another of the raised chairs that seemed to be more comfortable than the other chairs at this point right next to Cate. "That's got to be awkward," she said quietly to me. "You have no idea..." I responded. The class itself was genuinely intriguing. I found myself flipping through the textbook and frowned when I came across a page on vampires. I read things about them that I now knew from first-hand experience. I felt some phantom pains then and stopped flipping through the book and paid attention. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chapter 14: Costumed Life ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AT THE END of the class Cate carried me back to the dorm and passed me off to Hannah who immediately hugged me. We both called our parents before immediately sitting down and working on our homework. I used the computer to begin drawing up some sketches of costumes for the two of us. For me I started to sketch out an idea with the dress I'd had my picture taken in, but in purple with tiny green emerald stones on it. I simplified the skirts so that it would be easier to fight in when needed. I ended up making the dress shorter like a normal baby's dress with that typical bell shape to it. I figured bloomers were necessary and white tights could be the basis for covering my legs with some armor. They said we should have masks, but I wondered if a pacifier covering my mouth would be enough? I designed one that had a big emerald in the middle of it thinking I could get one of the kids I'd overheard talking about building stuff could maybe make a gadget that would help me maintain my breathing through it even. "That looks cute!" Hannah said. "Why don't you just make it with the onesie built in though instead of the bloomers though?" "The tights should keep my diaper up?" I asked hesitantly. "I guess. I think it would still be easier to build it in, or make it one piece like a swimsuit that you step into from the top?" She bounced ideas off of me for about a half hour while I messed with software on the computer that someone had developed just for this. I finally asked, "What about yours?" Hannah shrugged. "I really don't know..." "Hey, I never saw your MMID yesterday, what's your codename?" She blushed. "I couldn't really think of one... So, I started thinking about some of the things I learned about my powers. She told you yesterday that you can knock out electronics or people's nervous systems?" I nodded. "Yeah, she said it was a lighter version of yours?" She nodded. "I can limit my power to do it too, and I knocked out a bunch of computers that they let me try it on." "Huh, that's really cool!" She smiled. "I guess... Anyway, since you're the Emerald Baby I thought about Emerald Mommy... but that would be a little weird," she laughed nervously. "There are already a few other Emerald codenames out there so it'll get crowded soon... So that's when I remembered EMP - for ElectroMagnetic Pulse, and came up with Emped." "It works!" I smiled at her. "Of course, I might have to talk about how that imp messed things up for everyone..." With that she came over and started tickling me mercilessly. "Stop it," I told her after a while. She sat up and held me. "You made me wet more!" I told her while sticking my tongue out. "Like you wouldn't have anyway?" she teased. She picked me up though and quickly changed my diaper before saying. "It's getting late Sofia, why don't you finish up on my costume tomorrow. You probably have some other homework?" I groaned. "Yeah..." She gave me a hug before setting me back down in my little desk chair. I eventually got tired of sitting in it though and splayed my calculus book and the three problems I had left in front of me on the floor. Fortunately for me I was able to knock them out pretty quickly. I had just started skimming through the Magic Theory chapter we were supposed to be on when there was a knock on the door. Hannah opened the door. "Oh hi guys, what's up?" Camille, Volango, Knag, and Esmie came in. Camille saw me laying on my stomach staring at her and apparently couldn't help herself, she came and sat down on the floor and dragged me into her lap. "I was kind of doing homework," I told her a little annoyed. She tickled me. "We'll leave you to it in a moment." I hated the forced giggle I made before she squeezed me. "You do realize I'm not a doll, right?" She laughed. "Really?" She tickled me for a few more moments while everyone else watched me giggle. I grunted when she finally stopped and asked, "What are you all up to?" "Well we wanted to see how your first day went?" Lizi asked. "We're never going to catch up in some of these classes," Hannah moaned. I nodded. "I have like four hours of homework left and probably should have gone to bed two hours ago..." "Anything we can do?" Esmie asked. I shrugged. "I think it's just a matter of getting the time in. We have two more days until the weekend and Thanksgiving Break begins, I'm hoping we can get caught up then..." "Same," Hannah said morosely. "Well, we'll ask what we were going to ask then quickly. Apparently, you are going to be asked to do the combat finals this term?" Camille asked from behind me. "I think so," I told her. "Well, your best bet for training for them is always to be on a team. Would you be up to joining our team?" "Just you all on it?" Hannah asked. Esmie answered, "Maybe Hailey will join too, but she's got another team trying to get her to join too. She actually said it depends on if you two join us or not. If you do, she thinks she'd be able to help the other team more." I looked at Hannah and we basically communicated without talking for a moment. Caireen nudged in, 'Do it, they're a good match for you two.' I shrugged and Hannah nodded. "Okay," we said at the same time. "Great!!!" Camille said as she squeezed me tight. "Not a doll...?" I reminded her. She tickled me mercilessly again in response and suddenly stopped saying. "I guess I should let you two get back to your homework." As quickly as they came, they were gone. I looked at Hannah. "This place certainly will never be boring..." She laughed and said, "Ten more minutes on your homework, then I'm going to give you a bath and we're going to go to bed. There's no way we can catch up in a week." I signed and agreed. I quickly used my new ability for recalling things I'd read and decided I could probably quickly skim through all of my required reading in that period if I trusted it. When I was done with the last book Hannah said, "You know just staring at the pictures won't help, right?" I smiled at her and handed her the book I just finished the section out of. "Here, read along with me. I closed my eyes and began reading from the top of that page and kept going word for word for a few paragraphs." "That is so not fair Sofia!" I shrugged. "At least if I'm stuck in diapers I can study faster!" She picked me up and pulled my school uniform off and wrapped me in a towel before carrying me and a caddy full of baby soap stuff down the hallway to the bathroom. Sadly, it was a quick bath that I had before she diapered me and carried me to the rocking chair to nurse me. Apparently, it's a good thing for Hannah that I just go on autopilot when I'm nursing, because I was asleep within two minutes! I WOKE UP with Caireen cleaning me up from a diaper change and saying, "How about a bath this morning?" I smiled and she took me down the hallway to a room that had anachronous clawfoot tubs there that were empty. I watched her do a quick spell that filled the tub with water and bubbles. As she sat me down, she asked, "Want to learn a neat trick?" I sleepily looked up at her and nodded. I watched her do a really simple spell to turn a bubble pink. I giggled and smiled. "Cool!" "You try!" she suggested. I pointed at a larger bubble and did the same spell but thought purple would be better! Soon I had a whole rainbow of bubbles in the tub as she washed my body and hair. I would watch them explode and turn the water underneath them that color. I couldn't help myself; I was having fun! Eventually I noticed I was hungry. "Breakfast?" I asked her. She smiled and carried me down the hallway to a small sitting room we had met my parents in one time. She sat me in a waiting highchair, placed a bib on me, then proceeded to feed me a bowl of oatmeal. I made faces a bit at it, but she just tapped me on the nose and kept feeding me. By the time she was done I squirmed a bit at the misses she had made that were on my face. "Let's take care of that," she said while using the bib to wipe my face. I figured she would take the bib off, but instead she left it on as she picked me up and walked to a small armchair and proceeded to nurse me. I couldn't help but feel content as she did so. "Okay Sofia, it's time to start training you on more combat magic," she said as she pushed me back onto her knee looking at her. I nodded. "Probably smart..." She looked pained. "Sofia I wasn't totally honest with you and Hannah yesterday. Our kingdom is very powerful and alone we should be able to hold out against Camulus and any other henchmen he comes up with, but if we have multiple kingdoms start helping him..." I shrugged. "We'll find a way Caireen," I told her with a smile and leaned in to hug her. She sighed. "I hope you're right, little one." With that she carried me down the hall to the staircase and wound her way to below the first floor. "How far down does this go?" I nervously asked. "About another fifty feet." "There are so many weird things with this castle," I told her. "Well just because it seems like we're in the nineteenth century doesn't mean we are Sofia." She kissed my head lightly and squeezed as she came to a landing at the bottom. We traveled briefly down a corridor that felt like a dungeon before opening a door to a large room with a huge circle laid down in the middle. Somehow, I knew that this kind of circle would not be one I could defeat easily and shuddered. "You really are powerful enough that you could break out if you needed to," she reassured me, "but do not worry baby, I would never keep you indefinitely in a circle!" She carefully sat me inside the circle and I instantly could feel the walls. I doubted her words of breaking through this circle, but I trusted her nonetheless. For the next several hours, with only a break for a diaper change, she taught me how to use my magic to send fireballs, wind, and even solid objects flying around. "This is like being the Avatar..." I joked. She laughed at me. "you know some of those TV shows you've watched before are quite funny. Especially when they make it seem so easy to teach most." "What do you mean? You just taught me all of that?" She shook her head. "I just re-taught you all of that. You still have some access to my memories when we're here. I can't sense your thoughts, and neither can you sense mine here, but we can both access our shared memories." "Huh..." I said. She continued teaching the lesson for a bit after that before saying. "Sofia that will be enough for today. Come on out of the circle." "Umm..." I said. "You can get out on your own, just think about it for a second." For a good ten minutes I sat there thinking about how to do it. Just as I thought I had a solution I felt myself squat down and groaned. 'No time like the present,' I told myself trying to ignore my disgusting mess. I pulled in the magic I had access to and found the little points of failure and pressed at them all at once. With that the circle disappeared on the floor in a blaze of green fire and vanished. Caireen picked me up and said, "Good job Princess, let's go get this stinky baby all nice and clean!" CAIREEN JUST PLAYED with me for a bit before putting me to bed, and then I woke up to a new day again. Life for the next couple days until the weekend just seemed to flow together as endless days. Before I knew it, I was done with my final Friday class of Advanced Martial Arts. Our evening classes didn't meet that night, so we had the whole weekend in front of us! Hannah and I had just gotten into our room to sit stuff down after class when there was a knock on the door. I walked to the door and reached up to pull down on the handle that I could just reach and pulled the door open. "Hi Sofia!" a smiling Anna said to me. "Hi Anna," I said back to her. "Come on in," I added politely. "Hannah, right?" she asked as she came in and I watched her eyes widen at our room. "Yep, what's up?" Hannah asked. "Well I mentioned this to you all a couple days ago, but Venus would love to have Sofia come join us." I sighed. "What does that involve?" "Well first you'll have to come to our meetings every so often. We have one tomorrow at two for instance." I looked at Hannah and shrugged. "Okay, where do we meet you?" She gave us directions and handed me a form to have my parents sign. "I don't have to have my parents sign this though," I told her. "What?" I sighed. "I'm technically eighteen still," I told her. "Oh... okay... just bring it tomorrow then. Why do they have you on the freshman floor then?" Hannah sighed then. "They decided we both needed to start as freshmen here." Anna nodded. "You're not the first that they've thought that for. I've got a few friends like that, and I'm technically twenty-one, but they didn't list that on my MID. How did you manage that?" "I don't have a regular MID," I told her. "Hannah and I both got Military MIDs because of our parents working at the labs in Los Alamos." "Okay, I'm totally jealous now, that is awesome!" I shrugged. "It definitely helped us out getting away from the mob last weekend..." Anna smiled knowingly. "Well I better get going, my boyfriend has plans for us." "Figures you're not single." I winked at her. She laughed and walked out. She didn't close the door as she left, and I decided it wasn't worth bothering. I had just logged onto my email when I felt Camille walk into the room. "Hi Camille," I said without turning. "How?" she asked as she came and hugged me. "Your magic," I told her simply. She patted me on the head and asked, "So what are you two up to?" "What is there to do?" Hannah asked as I kept looking at my email. There was one from Mrs. Elizabeth Carson, Headmistress that I double clicked on. Good afternoon Sofia, I had a representative from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that would like to meet with you Saturday if possible. He's available to meet you at just past noon if you could meet? Please let me know if you're interested and available tonight if possible. Mrs. Elizabeth Carson, Headmistress "Hannah," I said and got her attention, "what do you think?" Hannah knelt down to my level and I felt Camille join her. "It's up to you sweetie," she said. Without another word I typed a reply saying we'd be happy to meet with him. "Okay, so diapee change, and then the movie?" she asked. "Huh?" I said. "You weren't paying attention, were you?" I shook my head, in the end she ended up re-explaining the movie plans downstairs in one of the two mini-theaters. "There's a movie theater downstairs?" I asked. She just sighed as she put the second tape on my new diaper. "You're such a scatterbrain sometimes..." She smiled though and said, "Nightgown tonight?" I shrugged and she found a pretty nightgown that she pulled over my head. She grabbed her backpack and carried me down to the elevator and pressed a button for the basement. We found Camille and several others already there with just one remaining sofa seat that Hannah took. "Does that thumb taste good?" Camille asked me. I turned red and pulled out a slobbery thumb. Hannah pushed a pacifier in my mouth and said, "Don't worry about it." "What are we watching?" I asked around my pacifier. "Well it has to be rated G here for the baby girl," Hannah teased. I glared at her. "Don't worry Sofia, we're just going to watch the latest superhero trash Hollywood put out." Esmie said. "You actually watch those?" I asked, a little surprised. "Why wouldn't we?" Camille asked where she was seated beside us. "Well..." "What are you too good for a bad movie?" I sighed. "No... but..." I said before leaning into Hannah. "I give up." "Good girl," came several voices in unison. The movie was as bad as I expected, even worse now that I had been exposed to real superpowers. Actually, after a while I began to appreciate why everyone else wanted to watch it as we jeered the movie and the characters throughout. Towards the end I found myself actually enjoying it. "What's next?" I asked as the credits rolled around. There were some arguments before a strange anime movie was selected. While I found myself somewhat intrigued with it, I found myself quickly nodding off too. BY THE NEXT morning I felt like a small routine had become somewhat normal for me, just in time to welcome our week off for Thanksgiving basically. Hannah and I worked on homework and catching up on stuff we'd missed all morning. Our costumes had both been approved for designs, so I spent a half-hour working on magically making them. I was even able to completely copy multiple properties of the cool fabrics that our teacher had shown us. In the end it meant that both of our costumes were fire, bullet, and stab resistant. Caireen had even shown me how to add the anti-wrinkle spell to them, along with another that would allow the fabrics to heal themselves. "You should try it on now!" Hannah said as she watched me tweak it on a magical dress form Caireen had suggested. I shrugged. "I think it's good enough." Like she had been excitedly waiting for the invitation to do so she picked the outfit off of the dummy, grabbed the tights that were sitting nearby, and then grabbed me and sat me down on the changing table. "You're a little wet, but I think it'll wait a bit," she told me with a smile. I cringed. "Maybe you should change me anyway? It's going to be tough to get that off of me to change me later." She looked at me and shrugged. "what's one more diaper change, huh?" After Hannah quickly had me changed, she started by helping me pull the tights on. These were all white, but were the same fabric as the rest of the costume. It scrunched my diaper up underneath a bit, but seemed to be a good fit. I watched her fiddle with the back of the rest of the costume next as she unbuttoned a clasp and unzipped it. She helped me thread my legs through the leg holes I had designed and pulled the top up top my shoulders like a swimsuit. Hannah fiddled with the zipper and the clasp for a moment before saying. "You look totally adorable like this!" I started to stand up to see. "Hold it Princess," she said to me in a mommy voice. "What?" "Let's get your tiara and pacifier in place first." She smiled at me. With that she went over to a jewelry box that my tiara was currently sitting in. She must have played with my hair for a good ten minutes before handing me the temporary pacifier I had created. "So, you're going to get a gadgeteer to do something else for you with this?" "I'm going to try... I need to find out who would be good for that first," I said before I plopped the pacifier in my mouth. I had designed it with an extra-large shield, a large actual emerald for the button, and a few magical enhancements to it until I could get a gadgeteer to help me out. For now, the magic helped conceal my face by blurring it if I wanted, as well as helping me breathe better. It was also just as soothing as any regular pacifier was to me too! With that Hannah picked me up and sat me in front of the full-length mirror that let me see myself. I smiled around the pacifier, but you couldn't tell. I looked adorable, like I was either wearing a Halloween costume, or some really fancy baby dress. The actual 'dress' part of the outfit ended just above the leotard like diaper cover, leaving just a hint of the diaper below it. I designed the outfit by modifying the look from Sofia the First like my previous signature outfit, but it had some differences - to avoid copyright infringement if nothing else! Instead of white petals being on the shaped skirt pieces, they were made of thousands of tiny emeralds attached to the fabric. The green emeralds against the purple and white of the dress really did look pretty! I had included some diamonds as well to help add some sparkle. "What do you think?" I asked her. "Well, I'm pretty sure you're going to take everyone who attacks you just with the cute card first." She knelt next to me and hugged me from behind. "Then I have a feeling you're going to beat them up and they're going to be soooo embarrassed that a little baby girl beat them up." She giggled as she said that. "Are... are... those real gems?" she asked a moment later. I nodded. "Don't tell anyone else." "That outfit..." "Is expensive," I smiled. "It doesn't mean much when I can just magic more into existence." She nodded to agree. "Now to your costume?" I suggested. "Actually, Sofia let's get going to lunch, you still have that meeting with the FBI to go to." "Should I just stay in costume for that?" I asked her. She shrugged. "It's up to you, but remember I'll have to totally undress you to change your diaper." I thought for a moment and then said, "Well, when you have to change me you can put me in something else then?" She giggled again. "You really just want to show off your new outfit, don't you?" "Maybe..." I said with a blush. "Shall we go?" "Don't you need me to nurse first?" I asked her. "I pumped while you were looking over the costume." "Oh..." I said, not really disappointed, but it had become so standard to do so at lunch. She tickled me. "You can have some in a bottle at lunch," she reassured me. I blushed and held my hands up to her. Lunch itself was pretty normal with some of our friends absent doing other things. In general Crystal Hall seemed a bit quieter today. Esmie came up as I was finishing the bottle Hannah had promised me. "Oh my God, how can you get any cuter?!?!" "I have my ways," I joked. The other girls laughed then too. "So, are you wearing your costume to meet with the FBI?" Hannah asked me quietly. "Should I?" "Maybe?" About that time, I felt things change down below and I said, "Umm... You're going to have to change me anyway right now..." Hannah squeezed me tight and tried to keep things from getting messier as she gathered her backpack and said, "We'll see you all later," to our friends. As we got to the bathroom, I had a thought. "Caireen, can I put this costume somewhere and pull it on like I do with my dolls clothes now?" I felt her think... "I think I'll let you do that for now." "Hannah, can you just set me down on the ground for a second?" "Umm... sure, while I pull this table down," she told me. I sat there for a second and used the magic to put my costume away leaving me naked except the messy diaper. "Well, that should make it easier to get to that diapee," Hannah said with a smile. I just smiled back and was happy to have her get me out of that mess! A HALF-HOUR later we were back in the administrative offices waiting for Mrs. Carson to finish talking to the FBI representative before allowing them to see us. She walked out with a tall man that looked like he came from a recruiting poster. 'Definitely a mutant,' I said to Caireen. 'Yep,' she answered. "He's got to be an exemplar," Hannah whispered to my ear. I giggled. "Caireen and I just said that to each other," I told her back quietly. "Sofia, Hannah, this is Agent Sanders, he's the Agency Liaison to Whateley." "Nice to meet you," I said as Hannah rose to meet him. "Nice to meet you both as well! You said we could use that conference room, correct?" He asked Mrs. Carson. "Yes Matt, that will be fine." "Thanks," he said to her. "This way please ladies." We didn't go far but ended up in a conference room. He pulled out a small micro projector and turned to us. "Sofia I'm really glad that you agreed to meet with us." "It seemed like you would be a better option than the CIA," I told him honestly. "What exactly do you have in mind though?" Hannah asked protectively behind me. "Well, first of all if you agree to help us out Sofia, you'll be fast- tracked to join the Agency once you finish school. Either here from Whateley or College, whichever you prefer." I nodded and he went on. "For our part what we would be doing is making you an offer similar to JROTC does for the military. You will be a little more official than their officers are though in that we'll give you full agent status for signing on." "What about Hannah?" I asked. "Does she have to come as part of the package?" he asked. "Well she doesn't necessarily have to be on assignment with me every time." I felt her stiffen there. "but in general we'll probably be better off if she is in some way involved with the effort." "Sof..." she started. I turned around and cut her off. "If I do this it's like any other agent, that means my mommy can't always be there for me." I gave her a quick hug and did my best to ignore her tears. Agent Sanders looked like he was in a room with two females getting ready to fight, definite deer in the headlights look, so he did what he could and continued. "We can go ahead and sign you on too with the same conditions Hannah, but I'll be honest Sofia is the asset we're trying to gain here." Hannah sighed, squeezed me in a hug that said she would get over it and said, "I understand you may not be able to have me with her all of the time, but I would appreciate it if I could come along for the ride as much as possible." "Fair enough," he said, "for your time and efforts, you both will receive a monthly paycheck to your school accounts." "Really?" I asked somewhat excitedly. "Really, but don't get too excited. Unless you're on an assignment for us it's going to be a small amount; four-hundred dollars per month until you leave school." "Okay..." I said, completely happy with the thought of getting way more than my allowance out of the deal. "And when she's on assignment?" Hannah asked, getting to the important point. "It'll be based on an hourly wage. That includes sleeping if she's on an undercover assignment, which will be most of her assignments." "How much?" "Well currently I'm going to suggest around fifty an hour there." I felt my jaw drop. "Okay, say I do this and go for this as a career. You mentioned starting this like a JROTC setup. What pay grade do I go into when I do go in full time?" He looked at me with a smile. "Smart question to ask there Sofia. I've been authorized to tell you if you go straight in from Whateley we'll higher you as a GS-8. If you'll hold off and keep our part time arrangement and get that college degree first it'll be as a GS-10." I found myself smiling at that. "I think I could live with that. Does the same deal apply to Hannah? You really need to think of her as a permanent handler." "We can make that offer too," he agreed. With that we spent a good hour going through forms and agreements, signing my and Hannah's lives away essentially, before he turned on a projector he had set on the table. "Okay, you're not being given a full go yet on this mission, but I was told to go ahead and brief you if you agreed to join - as it's pretty likely we'll be asking for your assistance in a few weeks' time." "Already?" Hannah asked. "Yes, it will be really quick here if we call you up for this. I'm going to recommend you both get some special firearms training above and beyond what you're already doing Hannah." I thought for a second about the fact Hannah hadn't even once commented on her Firearms class. 'I'll have to ask her about that later...' I thought. 'She's doing well with it,' Caireen told me. 'How do you know?' 'We've talked when you've been napping.' I groaned mentally and watched as he began. "Sofia, we believe that most of the times we are going to need you are going to be undercover in situations where we know children are at risk. I'm going to warn you that some of these situations are going to be really awful situations. We're hopeful though that with your help we can avoid real children and babies being at risk longer while we investigate than they normally would be." "That's kind of what I figured," I told him. Hannah had meanwhile grabbed a tighter hold on me. "We're currently in the middle of investigating a ring of what we think is a combination of abuse and pornography." I grimaced as he brought up a map. "we've managed to ID several of the children in some images and they have one daycare in common. The children are too young unfortunately to be useful at pointing out who has been doing this to them." I felt Caireen's anger rise as I felt sick over what he was saying. Fortunately, he didn't show any images. "So is it just pictures?" "We don't know. Disturbingly we haven't been able to find out anything despite our best efforts to identify the employee or employees responsible. We keep hoping a job will come open at the center for us to get an agent in undercover, but they seem to have very stable employees - and subs when needed." "That's really weird for a daycare," Hannah said, "I think the one that Sofia's sister goes to must turnover at least a couple employees every month..." He nodded. "That's one of the things we're concerned about. It just doesn't feel right." "None of their parents have said anything?" "None, although we've been very discreet in speaking with the few we've approached." "What kind of kids are these sickos going after?" I asked. "Well the ones that can't speak up for themselves. Looks like the average age is between twelve months and two." I felt myself throw-up a little bit in my mouth, Caireen's anger boiled to match. He looked a little unnerved a second later. "Did you know your eyes can glow?" "Huh?" I asked. I turned to Hannah and she said, "That's different. I guess I know when you're pissed off..." She grabbed her phone and took a quick picture before showing me. "That might be a problem," I said. 'Don't worry about it Sofia, I'll teach you a spell to change our appearance tonight.' 'The one you promised me?' 'Yes, but I'm going to ask that you only use it to change this stuff for a week or so still.' 'Deal.' "Umm... Sofia, are you okay?" Agent Sanders asked. I looked at him. "Yes sir, whenever you need us, we're ready to go. We'll be happy to find this scum and help you remove them. One thing the spirit that's attached to me and I completely agree on is we despise anyone who would hurt a baby." "Can you do something about the eyes? That could give things away." Caireen took over unbidden. "I will make sure she can completely change her appearance by tonight. Would she be better off as a younger baby for your purposes? Different color hair, eyes? Anything you know to make us a better lure we will change." That led off to a discussion for another half-hour about what he knew. "I think we'll be in touch about the same time as your winter break. We'll probably introduce you as the baby of a mother who's going to work as a seasonal worker to begin with..." I nodded. "Okay by me." "We'll also give you a fuller briefing when we get to that point. Tomorrow I'm going to have some special sessions setup for you to begin training with firearms Sofia. Given your strength levels you should be able to handle a pistol just fine. We'll work on getting one made small enough though for you to feel comfortable with. I'll fast- track that, and if possible, have it dropped off at the range before your appointment at two tomorrow. Any other questions?" I thought about where we were heading next and asked, "Is there any problem if I agree to modeling jobs as well?" I watched him make a face for a second before asking. "You'll be able to change your appearance for assignments?" I nodded. "I think it'll be fine." He thought for a second. "I'll run it by my superiors, but it might even be a good idea since you would then 'look like' that baby from that commercial. Might actually help on some assignments. Nobody would actually expect a celebrity baby." I smiled. "Okay then, I think that's it!" He led us back out of the conference room and Hannah led us directly to the small restroom we'd become familiar with. "I really need to pump or something Sofia," she told me. "Well find a seat and put me up there, I think I'm faster than the pump?" She seemed to agree. "And then you can change my wet diaper?" She squeezed me tight and took a seat on a bench that was conveniently by the door. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chapter 15: Oops ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AFTER HANNAH AND I finished up we hurried to the dedicated 'clubhouse' where the Venus, Inc club meeting was held. As soon as we walked in the door it seemed like every girl there turned their attention directly on me. "How old is she?" one girl cooed and quickly asked, "I've seen you around, but was scared to ask!" "Supposedly eighteen months," I said to their surprise. "Wait, the baby talks?" one girl asked. "Of course, babies talk!" a beautiful blonde girl nearby said as she walked over. "No, I mean..." "No, I'm not a real baby," I said... "Well, at least I used to be older..." The next few minutes my story, or at least most of my story, was told. For the sake of Poe's security, I had always been a girl and Hannah had been my best friend. Really the only lie there was that I hadn't always had a girl's body... The leader of the group wrangled everyone's attention in then and they discussed some of the business of the club, and some of the upcoming clients and shoots they had coming. Hannah and I were both accepted as new members during the meeting and asked to stay afterwards. "Sofia, do you mind if I contact Proctor and Gamble and Kimberly Clark about you?" the girl who was clearly in charge asked. "I know we have a few clothing designers that would be interested in you too." From the rumor mills it was apparent Amanda Kensington, became the club president by being voted the prettiest woman on the planet. She didn't look like she was in high school by any means! "Umm..." "Yes, that'll be fine," Hannah answered for me. "Do you have some time right now that our photographer could go ahead and create some sample shots for them to look at?" I swallowed but said, "I guess." "Hannah, we can get started with what she's wearing, but would you mind going back to your room and getting a few other outfits?" "Like...?" "Some dresses, rompers, t-shirts, and maybe a few sets of pajamas?" I sighed while Hannah happily said, "Sure!" "Okay Sofia, we can get started with what you're wearing for now." I had by now learned the girl's name was Mandy at least. She led me along to a place in the corridors that was made up of dozens of scenes and backdrops. I was posed in a few dozen scenes with my clothes on before she said, "Okay, I think we need to do some diaper shots to try and get those companies attention." I groaned, but had figured that was coming. She helped me get out of the one-piece romper I had been dressed in and discovered the wet diaper. "Well, I guess you really are a baby?" she asked with a smirk, but didn't seem to be picking on me. I dropped my head. "Sorry." She took her finger and brought my chin up. "It only makes you cuter Sofia. Did Hannah leave you a spare diaper?" I looked around and saw her walking back in right then. "I'll change her really quick if you want," she said. I gave Hannah a quick hug and she embarrassed me by just laying out the changing mat there and getting it done. I glared at her. "Sofia, you're a baby, get over it," she practically hissed in my ear. I sighed. We spent three hours when all was said and done taking pictures showing off how good I would be for print ads, doing a couple video demos without lines, a couple with lines, and on and on. With the videos with lines I had to be sure I pretended to speak like my sister - which wasn't easy! As Hannah carried me towards our room afterwards, she said, "You know you're going to have to get used to being that baby for that assignment for the FBI." "Yeah... I'm not quite sure how to do that though." "Well we'll have to work on that," she told me as she closed the door to our room. We had a brief nursing session before heading to dinner at Crystal Hall. "We have so much homework to do..." I complained as we left and our friends mentioned getting together and having fun messing around. "Yes, we do," she agreed morosely. After dinner we both worked on homework for the rest of the night. I was happy though that I managed to get all of my current homework caught up from the weekend and had read through most of the stuff I'd missed in Magic Theory and Magical Arts. I watched Hannah struggle a bit more since she didn't have my new memory. I felt bad about that! About ten that night she pronounced us both done. "Come on Sofia, let's get you a bath and go to bed!" CAIREEN PICKED ME up out of the crib where I had been crying to get her attention. The messy diaper definitely influenced the crying, but I had become more comfortable with just crying in general to get her attention. "Good baby girl," she told me as she wiped me clean. "You're starting to see what you need to do to fit in." I wondered a bit at her words as she dressed me, but I didn't say anything else. She nursed me and then fed me some fruit this morning before saying. "Let's go back downstairs, we need to start working on helping you to be able to disguise yourself." As she carried me, Caireen kept up a running baby talk session that was driving me a little crazy, but I let her continue to prattle on. I made sure to giggle every now and then when it was called for. When we walked through the doors through to the room we were in before though she changed personalities. "Very good Sofia, this is the best I have seen you deal with babying." I sighed. "I'm trying... It's probably the toughest thing ever to do though to let go of everything when as a kid you've fought for every freedom you can. Beginning with using the potty, to deciding who you want to play with, what you want to play with, and the list goes on. Let alone being a teenager and being an adult..." She patted my head. "I think you're doing way better than you were before Sofia. Let's begin your lessons today. I want to first of all teach you a good spell to hide your eyes..." As powerful as I had gotten, I wouldn't have expected this type of magic to be so difficult, but it took me hours just to get my eyes to go to a more normal hazel color. Once I finally got it though, it wasn't too difficult to shift to blue, brown, black, and even purple for the heck of it. We stopped for lunch then before she began helping me change my hair color. This wasn't as difficult to learn since it was similar to what I'd been doing on my dolls for some time, but it took forever to get every strand of hair to change! By the end of that lesson I could at least change my hair and eyes. Just before we called it quits for the day I asked, "Before you said the illusion you would teach me, I couldn't be touched to maintain it... Is that the case with these too?" She shook her head. "This one works slightly differently than that. We can do other things with your skin tone and shaping your face some. When you start trying to make a BIG change like going from being a thirty-four inch tall baby, to a nearly six-foot tall teenager it's a lot more fallible." I nodded before she picked me up and took me upstairs resuming her coddling and babying of me. As much as it annoyed me, I was feeling content and very safe by the time she lay me down in my crib. THE NEXT MORNING Hannah woke me up about seven and we began a morning of continuing to try and catch up with everything. I was pleased that I had finished catching up in Magic Theory and Magical Arts completely! I had even read up two chapters beyond where we were in both classes so that I was prepared for the next week! Powers Theory was much slower for me as the book was even drier than a new diaper... Mystic Concepts at least was interesting enough that I was halfway through the stuff I'd missed in that class when Hannah told me it was time for lunch. We only had about another hour before the range time so we both chose to take a break instead and walked around exploring the campus some more. It had certainly turned much colder in the last couple days, and I was grateful for the warm coat I had on. Hannah though was dressed just in jeans and a sweater and was fine. "How can you walk around like that?" I finally asked her as I skipped along beside her. She shrugged. "I guess it's my pyrokinesis ability, I could probably walk around in shorts and a tank top right now." "Not me," I shivered. At some point she picked me up and began carrying me to Whateley's Range Two. It was mostly a ghost town as we came in, but one gentleman looked like he was waiting for someone. "Emerald and Emped?" "Yes sir," I responded. "I'm Sergeant Harris, you can call me Gunny. They asked me if I could go ahead and give Emped some additional firearms training and also start working with you Emerald." "Great!" I said and extended my tiny hand to him. He shook it lightly. "The Bureau had some people up late last night working on a pistol for you Emerald," he said as he held up a small locked box. "Emped you'll keep working with the nine-millimeter that you've been training with so far. They would also like to see you start working with some distance and rifles here soon." Hannah nodded and carried me along. "Emerald, have you fired a firearm before?" I nodded. "Yes sir, my father taught me when I was growing up." He looked at me for a second and I saw a smirk on his face. "Yeah I know it doesn't look like I did much growing up," I said which made him laugh. "We're going to get along just fine here," he told me. Hannah set me down on the table in the range stall, and sat down a box that he was carrying. Sgt. Harris opened the box, and inside I saw what looked like a mini-Glock 9mm. "What kind of rounds does it fire?" I asked. "From what I was told they're modified twenty-two caliber rounds that somehow pack the punch of a nine-millimeter." "Cool..." I said a little disbelieving. "I had the same doubts, it shoots straight though, and the results look like at least a nine-millimeter." "At least?" He shook his head. "I'll never figure out what those devisors do. I shot it first to be sure that it was in fact safe." I nodded. "Okay, I'm guessing you know all of these things, but we're going to go over range rules before we go any further." In the end he actually handed me a pencil and a paper test to take to verify I understood. Luckily for me with a perfect memory I was able to do it in two minutes. "I'll never get used to seeing you all doing that, but seeing a two- year-old do it..." "She's not even two Sergeant," Hannah said. With all of the safety stuff out of the way he showed me how to load the clips, something I already knew, and then I finally had my chance to start trying it out. I aimed down range with his instructions and fired at the paper target that was only fifteen feet down range. Much to my pleasure my strength meant the gun kicked less than I'd ever dealt with before, and I quickly emptied the ten-round clip into the target. "That is so not fair Sofia," Hannah whined. "What?" I asked. "I can barely get three rounds to hit the target in a clip right now, and you land all ten in the bullseye?" I giggled. "It's not that hard." Sergeant meanwhile looked at me incredulously and didn't say a word as he sent another target out to further out. "Twenty-five feet," he told me at my look of curiosity. I shrugged, reloaded, took the gun off safety, and waited for his instruction. "Range is hot, fire at will," he said loudly. I took the next ten off just as easily as the first while Hannah shot ten at fifteen feet next to me this time. Her rounds were all on the paper, but only one came anywhere near the bullseye. "You know with your ability to move objects you should be able to tweak your rounds," I told her as my target was just now reaching me. I looked and saw everything was once again in the ring and smiled. "What?" "You can lift and grasp things, right?" I asked. "So, can't you make sure they go into the zone?" A few minutes later my target was as far down range as possible in that range, one-hundred and twenty feet, and Hannah had hers reset again to fifteen. This time as we were told to fire, I saw the look of concentration from her. A moment later I saw a problem as I pulled the trigger to my pistol, as instead of Hannah directing her bullet to the target it ricocheted off an unseen force and headed straight for me. "Shit!" I said while simultaneously putting up my shield with four ley lines. Hannah shrieked as she realized what had happened and the round bounced harmlessly off my shield. "Umm... maybe we should figure out another way for you to practice that Hannah," I said as she tried grabbing me before I dropped the shield and ended up getting zapped. As she fell down, I groaned. Sergeant Harris felt for her pulse immediately and called for a medic team. "She'll be okay Sergeant," I reassured him. "I guess I need to come up with a loophole for that spell for her to touch me..." He looked on incredulously at me as I set the safed pistol down on the stand and removed the clip and rounds. "How many more hours do I need to do to get permission to carry?" The medics came in then and he said, "With the way you shoot?" He shook his head. "Come back in for another two-hour session next week and we'll get you signed off for it. You're worse than my Master Sergeant from the SEALS! No one should be able to shoot that well!" I watched as they picked Hannah up and carried her down the hallway that I followed. 'How long is she going to be out, Caireen?' 'Probably a couple hours, you had way too many lines involved... It might be overnight actually.' 'Crap...' I said. 'Can I speed it up any?' 'Probably not.' 'What do I do if she doesn't come around by this evening? 'Well I'm guessing we'll have to find you a babysitter...' I groaned. SEVERAL HOURS LATER I was pleased to see Hannah awake in the bed and was apologizing to her while she was crying and apologizing to me. "I was so stupid Sofia!!! You could have died!" I shook my head and got a little loose of her grasp. "Hannah, even if it had hit me, I wouldn't have died." "What?" "Regeneration would have taken care of that even if it had hit me in the head," I told her. "But..." "I was more worried about you getting the shock you did from me," I told her honestly. After about a half-hour of apologizing to each other her doctor came in. "I'm glad to see you're awake Hannah. I'd like to keep you overnight for observation just to be safe though." We both groaned. "What about Sofia?" she asked. "Well... umm..." "I'll go back to the dorm Hannah, I'll get Camille to help me out tonight," I told her. Just as I said her name she came running in. "We just heard! Are you okay Hannah?" She groaned herself. About an hour later it was decided that I would go back to the dorm and I was to 'mind my babysitter,' Hannah told me quietly. Before I left, I nursed to help her out before Camille carried me home to the dorm. By the time we made it back to my room I had a very leaky diaper. "I hope Hannah can come back tomorrow," she told me. "Why?" "Well, as much as I like babysitting, my family is supposed to meet me in New York City for Thanksgiving." "Wait... New York City, really?" I said a little incredulously. "They'll let that trip happen? Even after...?" She laughed. "They long ago decided it doesn't really matter where students go for a break, it's inevitable they'll get in trouble." I nodded but thought of the fact I had heard of the issues with mutants in Boston on break even when I was back home. That was before I heard about the stories from much closer sources! "Where's your key?" she asked me. "In here," I said as I pulled my purse out and tapped my rarely used ID card on the door lock to open it. A moment later she had me laying on top of the changing table. "Sorry sweetie, but this outfit has had it for now," she said as she pointed out the very wet romper I'd been wearing. I shrugged. "Not the first time..." All of the sudden she squealed and started treating me like I really was a baby. "Who's the cutest little baby ever!?!" She said as she taped my diaper shut. I groaned but let her have her fun. "So, I guess you'll get to see your baby sister over break?" I asked her. "Yep! Can't wait to see her too!" I smiled and sighed. "I wish I could see Lily..." "Maybe you could get your parents and Hannah's parents to come out for Christmas Break? They could stay in the Village?" I shook my head. "I think I'm going to be undercover then..." "What?" "Didn't I tell you about yesterday yet?" "No?" She sat me down on the floor and sat cross-legged across from me. "So?" "Well the first day we met with Mrs. Carson she asked if I would want to let any of the CIA or FBI recruiters through." "Makes sense, you're like the most perfect espionage tool ever!" she said with a smile. I nodded. "I said the FBI though, which Caireen approved of because she figured we'd be good for helping out with kid's cases." I saw Camille's eyes narrow a little in concern. "So, did you meet with the FBI yesterday then?" "Yeah, and signed up basically for something like a JROTC program." "That's kind of cool actually, so you'll have a job when you graduate?" "With better pay and at a higher level depending on if I finish college first too." "So undercover over Christmas?" "They have some daycare they've been watching I guess, and haven't been able to get anyone employed there to investigate. As a baby they shouldn't suspect me." She nodded. "So what's the crime?" I told her and I watched her face turn white. "Sofia that's really dangerous, what if..." I shook my head. "Between my magical ability, Caireen as a help, and the other abilities I have I'm not really worried about it. They'll have backup for me too," I reassured her. "That's still scary, I can't imagine sending a baby in..." I shrugged. "I'm not really a baby though, am I?" I watched her face change. "No you're not... are they going to give you any lessons before you go in?" "Huh?" "Sofia, how old are you supposed to be?" "Well my MMID says eighteen-months... They said maybe twenty to twenty-two?" "Okay, we'll call you eighteen for the sake of this, most eighteen- month old babies only have about 10-20 words at most they say." I nodded. "I know..." "What do they play with?" "Baby toys?" I suggested. She sighed. "Okay, let's look in this toy chest and see what's right for you to be playing with in the daycare..." Before I knew it, she had a Cabbage Patch doll, along with baby care accessories, a speak and say, a bead maze toy, and a few other 'age appropriate' toys out. "Okay, next let's figure out what words you can say..." I groaned. Pretty soon we had a written list that started with 'mommy,' had 'diapee,' 'baba,' 'owie,' and some other very basic things including 'no.' I looked at the list and groaned. "what do I use if it's not on here?" "You make up nonsense baby sounds. Didn't you ever do that as a kid?" I shook my head. "I'm sure I did, but I don't remember it. I do sort of remember the sounds Lily made last year..." She helped me to play for a little while before the knock on the door happened and Mrs. Potter came in. "Well... umm... Sofia I just came by to see if you were going to be okay tonight without Hannah?" I looked at her and smiled. "I have my babysitter here, I'll be fine." "You sure?" She looked at Camille. "Yes ma'am, we're taking the opportunity to help Sofia learn how to blend more for something she has coming up." "Okay then," she said, "Camille, Hannah told me to tell you that there is milk in the fridge for Sofia." I blushed a bit then. "Got it! Thanks!" Camille responded. "Baba?" I asked her as I was thirsty. "Aww..." she said. She walked over to the small fridge that was in the corner and opened it. "Wow, she wasn't kidding when she said there was milk in here?" I looked. "Whoa..." I said seeing shelves of milk stored in there. She grabbed a pouch of milk and poured it into a bottle. "How does she heat these up?" I started to say something but instead smiled at her babbled nonsensically. "Well why am I asking you, huh? Mommy just normally gives it to you right from her, huh?" She smiled at me. "Guess I'll just have to use some magic?" I watched her chant something and could tell how she had used her magic to do it. She picked me up and carried me to the rocking chair. She put the nipple in my mouth and I nursed contentedly on the milk that was the perfect temperature that Hannah would have given it to me. I didn't intend to sleep, but it happened anyway. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please consider leaving me a comment in the reviews if this is your first time reading this about what you think! I do have up through Chapter 19 of the revised postings up on WattPad if you don't feel like being patient for the next postings. 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