Fantasy Body Swap

A strong force suddenly pulled you just as you hovered a little closer to the thief. You tried to flew away but found out you were unable to do so. In a split second, your ethereal body was sucked inside and you lost consciousness.

*****

It was just another fine day for Nadya. She got quite a lot of gold that day. Some came from flirting, some were directly taken without the owner knowing, more from a mix of both. For a thief of her caliber, nothing is too difficult as long as it involves drunk men in any taverns or inns.

Nadya travelled far from town to town, from inn to inn, from one drunk guy to another, preferably those with lots of gold. She only came back to the same inn after weeks to avoid detection, just in case things went bad. Well, nobody would suspect that a pretty, flirtatious young woman such as herself has the guts and skill to openly pickpocket people inside a crowded inn or tavern, anyway. Especially not drunk or horny (or a mix of both) males. Nadya was also quite skillfull with knifes, for self defense or lock-picking. Nadya never hurt anyone that did not provoke her, and she even ocassionally shared some coins to beggars.

Nadya was ready to steal another drunk man's coins from his pocket, just like any other day, not knowing that it will be the last day that a female thief named Nadya trully exist. Just as she extended her hand, she felt something invisible entered her body.

Nadya felt extremely cold that she could not move at all. Her extended hand, though, fell on her side, lifeless. She could not feel her legs and arms, and it spread to her chest. She stopped breathing, but she could feel her heart beat slowly. And then she lost all feeling from neck down.

All of this happened in less then 5 seconds, but to Nadya it felt almost like an eternity. For once in a very long time that she could not remember it, Nadya felt fear. If she could scream and cry, she would, but her body no longer obeyed her mind. She was only able to stare helplessly, waiting for the next horrible thing that would happen to her. She was hoping that all of this was just a bad dream, or at least an effect of a temporary paralysis poison or spell. But Nadya was aware that this was real, and she personally knew how paralysis felt and this was far worse than that.

Then she felt a ripping sensation inside her head, as if someone forcefully yanked out the content of her brain; her memories, thoughts, feelings, knowledges; the pain was unbearable. Nadya lost consciousness shortly after that, never waking up again.

*****

You woke up with a jolt while breathing heavily. You found yourself sitting on a bench, just beside a heavily drunk man. You immediately felt foreign sensation all over your body. Looking down, you see yourself dressed in a black dress, with a generous low cut top to show your breasts. Huh, that's new. Last time you remember, you were a male, and a male doesn't have gorgeous breasts like these. But now you have a pair.

Then the memory of reading a killer spell book which turned you into a ghost came back, and you also remembered that you seemed to enter a female thief's body, sucked in against your will, inside the inn. You put two and two together and concluded that you had possessed her.

At least now you had a body again, but a new problem arised. You didn't know who this thief was. Who knows, maybe she had a really high bounty that can make a single mistake resulting in you lost another body. And then a new set of memories struck your mind like a war hammer. Actually, that was an understatement. The sensation was so overwhelming that you screeched at the pain while clutching your head with both hands, and then fell down to the floor.

The sensation disapeared only after 10 seconds, but it had given you a life-time memories of Nadya, the real owner of the body you were inhabiting. No longer you felt foreign sensations or feeling uncomfortable in her body. Everything felt natural, as if you had been using that body all your life.

By the time people started noticing you who were kneeling on the floor, you already got back up on your feet. Looking at your hands, you shuddered. You as Nadya still remembered what she felt during the possession, especially at the last part. You felt somekind of identity crisis. You knew you were not Nadya, but you also felt angry toward yourself for taking Nadya's body... And her life. Somehow you knew that the real Nadya was dead, and you just had her memory.

You have two options now. Either found out whatever that spellbook was that caused all these mess and maybe reverse all that it had caused, or you could just live out Nadya's life; being a pretty young thief with a skill that you sure quite unmatched in this region.