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Summary:

Slayer's Week 2024, Day 5: Enchanted

Wendy is encouraged to try out a spell on her friends with varying degrees of success.

Notes:

So I did promise that today's was going to be a more humorous one. We've got Wendy trying out a spell she's not quite so confident with and Natsu who is a bad influence on his friends.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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No way was he crazy?!

"Come one Wendy it'll be so cool!"

"Aye!"

She hesitated at the look on her friends faces. Natsu was entirely too fired up for this and Happy was encouraging him as usual.

"I really don't think this is a good idea Natsu, these kinds of enchantments are very strong and I haven't really used them since the war."

"Well it's good practise right?"

he really wasn't letting her get out of it was he. She groaned in frustration and looked around to see if anyone would back her up. most of the wizards gathered around them were watching with amusement.

"Go on Wendy what's the worst that could happen?"

"Yeh we might just prefer them switched around!" That one got a few laughs.

"That's quite enough!" Wendy breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Erza. If anyone would back her up it would be her. She'd seen the effect of that particular spell after all. "If Wendy doesn't want to cast the spell on you two then she doesn't have to." Relief flooded her body as Natsu and Happy both pouted. "However..." Oh no, "it wouldn't hurt to practise it, training can only make a wizard stronger after all and a spell like that may come in handy someday."

Betrayal!

Now Natsu was even more fired up. Erza why? The whole guild seemed to converge on her.

"Fine!"

There was an eruption of cheers as the crowd seemed to double in size to witness her spell.

Wendy readied herself, raising her arms. Scarlet magic dancing on her fingers as the spell activated. She poured everything she had into it. Making sure that she got it completely right. She couldn't risk anything going wrong.

She released it.

Then the whole world went white.

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She came to slowly, with a ringing in her ears.

a quick glance around from her position on the floor showed that everyone that had gathered had been knocked down by the force of the spell. There were several groans as people started sitting up and taking in their surroundings.

Then the first person screamed.

"Hey that's my body!"

Wendy whipped her head around to see... Gajeel? shouting at Lucy??? It took her a minute for the words to sink in.

Oh.

Oh no.

Suddenly there were several similar sentiments as people discovered that her spell had affected a large swath of the onlookers.

The only two people that didn't seem fazed by being switched were Happy and Natsu who were currently celebrating atop a table.

Wendy climbed to her feet and suddenly noticed the added height. As well as the additional weight on her chest. She hesitated to look down and saw... armour. Oh this wasn't good.

She looked ahead of herself and found her own body staring at her.

"Ah, I'm really sorry miss Erza... I tried to warn you I've only ever done it once before." It felt weird hearing her words in Erza's voice.

"Not to worry Wendy, these things happen of course, all we need to do now is cast the spell again and switch everyone back." She sounded all too confident about her plan... there was just one small problem.

"But you don't use enchantment magic! so I can't cast the spell in your body!"

The chaos around them ground to a halt as silence descended on the guild.

"What?!"

Notes:

So I'm going to let you guys have fun with who you think got switched.

Also don't worry after a little help Wendy and Erza manage to get everyone switched back. There is no further encouragement of practising high level spells in the guild hall afterwards.

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