Rediscovering Labyrinth
Rediscovering Labyrinth.
NOTE:
This is a first person perspective origin story of how my character became Labyrinth obsessed and then transformed into Jareth, and this includes elements of MC and hypnosis thrown in.
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Having shapeshifting powers can be both a blessing and a curse, and to me it certainly is like that. While I do like being able to transform at will, I like unexpected transformations as well and the transformation in today's story is definitely that, it started on a rainy afternoon and I was at my part time job of being a teacher. I was teaching an arts and drama class and I noticed that since it was raining, it would be a good opportunity to watch some movies...there were quite a few favorites including Shrek 2, and a couple of Disney movies but there was also Neverending Story and a little film called Labyrinth. Although I really hoped Shrek 2 would win (blame the fact I am a sort of brogre on it, but this was before the meme), I was definitely glad that my class picked Labyrinth.
Not only did the movie fascinate the class but it also fascinated me, I had never seen a fantasy movie that looked so whimsical yet beautiful at the same time and with such excellent music. The score and songs were picked out brilliantly, and while I wasn't under its spell just yet...I was beginning to fall in love with the movie and the songs. So much so I had two of my students come up with a Yu-Gi-Oh monster based on the movie's antagonist. A couple of weeks later, I caught the movie on the Disney Channel...it came on right after Finding Nemo, a bit odd but hey...I like surprises and that is when I fell in love with the movie again, the obsession began to surface a little as I ordered myself the soundtrack and listened to it....such an enthralling score and entrancing songs, it was getting difficult for me to try and resist it. Later on, I found out about the artist who did the songs for the movie...a singer that my family adored, a singer known as David Bowie. Of course, prior to this the only album of his I had ever known was 'Heroes' and I scoffed at that one because the title seemed misleading due to the lack of superheroes or comic book characters, of course back then I didn't realize just how powerful of an impact this singer had.
This was an entertainer who was a real life shapeshifter, a fellow shapeshifter just like myself. He had many forms and appearances, and each time he appeared...he had a new outfit or persona. I soon bought and downloaded several of his albums and even made compliation albums with some of his songs on them, and I didn't realize it but...it was like he was placing a spell on me. Fitting, considering his role was that of a spellcaster. I then got the movie on DVD and started watching it several times...and the obsession began to get stronger. This movie had me under it's spell and I didn't realize it, to the point that I was reciting lines from the movie and also did my own performance of 'Magic Dance'..I was never the best at singing though, and my brief attempts at being a musician and actor didn't last long. Many years later I acquired a figure of the villain that was made by NECA, the character in question (named Jareth) was already a rather imposing yet regal gentleman thanks to Bowie portraying him but in figure form he looked even more regal.
At this point the obsession was still at a high-point but not at a point it was beginning to affect my mind, although it wasn't long until I had dreams about trying to summon 'Jareth' and succeeding and even going on Labyrinth style adventures of my own with my friends. Flash-forward to 2016, on January 10th the world was shook by something truly horrifying and that was that David Bowie had passed away. I never thought a celebrity death could affect me as much as the ones of Michael Jackson and Robin Williams, but then the psychic visions started popping up in my mind constantly. These visions started off as nothing more than dreams of me talking to the spirits of deceased celebrities in the clouds but these visions/dream sequences grew stronger throughout that year and throughout 2017. I had been having plenty of Jim Henson related dreams before as I had talked to him in my dreams and I could never forget the dream involving the mystic elevator that took me to the Muppet universe, or the dream about the theater from the Muppet Show being a real theater and of course the one about the various Muppety creatures that followed me around, but the Labyrinth dreams were starting to get a lot stronger.
Once I got the Labyrinth: Ultimate Visual History book for Christmas, that is when the obsession increased and merged with the developing dreams/visions. And now, in the early to late Spring/Summer of 2018...the dreams were coming back, and influencing me...I was in my bedroom one night and in one particular dream I was in the bedroom of my old abode and talking about the deaths in 2016 and as I was talking...I heard a song, a familiar song that was playing and a voice that was singing about Bowie to the tune of 'As The World Falls Down'. It wasn't long until Bowie's spirit started popping up in the visions and influencing me, originating as a voice in the clouds before taking on spirit form and possessing several people including a few female singers. Was Bowie's spirit looking for me? It seemed like he was, and like he knew that I had something in common with him.
Even though I could not see him, I could hear him...I could sense him, I guess it comes with the territory. His spirit seemed to always be there. And I could tell that he could sense me as well. Unfortunately though we never got to see each-other because he always would disappear before I caught a glimpse of him, that was until now when those visions started coming back and that was when it finally happened, in the latest vision I was reminiscing about my class and my introduction to Labyrinth with my friends when he finally materialized in front of us. I was taken aback by this and a little bit scared but then I heard that voice.
"It's alright, Nathan...do not be afraid of me."
"I'm just a little bit shocked, that's all. I mean here I am talking about one of the best fantasy movies ever and then you here you are...the g-g-ghost of David Bowie. Yeah, it's awesome that you're finally here and all but woah...I can't help but feel intimidated."
"It's alright, a lot of people reacted in the same way when I visited them."
"I have to ask though...have you been there this entire time?"
"You could say that, to some extent."
"You've been here since 2016?"
"Yes...and i've been present in your Labyrinth dreams too."
"I never thought this would happen though."
"Just because I have taken a long time to get to you doesn't mean that it wasn't possible. After all, sometimes it takes a little time to get there. Besides, I was waiting until you were ready. In case you're wondering why I kept disappearing, it's because well...I didn't want you to catch on."
"Catch on to what exactly?"
"The surprise I have in store for you."
"But you always were full of surprises...I don't know what you could do to surprise me more."
"Oh? But there's one i've been saving especially for you."
He conjured up a crystal ball and made it levitate in front of me, I looked over at it for a bit before turning away. I felt like Sarah in the iconic scene where she first sees Jareth and was more than a little bit mesmerized by the display, in particular the way the ball floated in mid air as images materialized on it. I reached over and touched it, magical energy seemed to jolt through me as I did so.
"Woah...thank you!"
"It's a crystal, nothing more but if you turn it this way and look into it...it will show you your dreams."
"Oooh, just like in the movie! This just keeps getting better."
"And it most certainly does, the best part hasn't even happened yet."
"There's another part to this?"
"Oh, definitely."
"How does that part go?"
"Like this..."
The crystal swayed back and forth in a continuous motion that began to entrance me, I started to feel like I was falling asleep but I was also feeling more relaxed. I had never felt this relaxed before in my life, it was like he knew of my admiration for monsters or villains with hypno powers. The crystal's magic transferred through the ball and into my body as I fell into a trance-like state, I wanted to watch it move and float around and I didn't need to worry if it was going to fall because it just seemed extremely relaxing to watch what was going on.
"Oooh...that feels nice."
"As you should, that's my powers in the crystal affecting you and my powers are in you as well. But to use them, you have to show me your powers as well. This will be easy since you and I have the same powers, we can both transform ourselves. I have been wanting to do this for such a long time."
"You have?"
"Why yes...I have seen you morph into many forms and I know that you were once given Jareth's powers."
"What is it you ask for?"
"Well...I want you to think about the movie and think about Jareth, concentrate on him and focus."
"Alright...here it goes."
I closed my eyes for a bit and concentrated, thinking about the movie and the character of Jareth and the aspects of him which were the most striking and then I thought about my own love of villains and how one of my favorite ways to get MCed was to be turned into one of my favorite movie villains. I thought about how cool it must be to become that particular character and then I thought about wanting to become Jareth and using his powers, and to be able to do all the same things he does, and even more so of the actual labyrinth...what a place that would be to have in the yard and also of the staircase room...which is a room I always wanted to have. I focused for a bit more and as I did, my skin slowly started to lose its imperfection and become a bit lighter in appearance and skin-tone, it lightened more and more with each step, until it was slightly-pale-but-not-ghostly-or-vampiric. My clothes slowly started to change as well, my dark blue shirt slowly turning black and elongating to become a black colored royal one with armor plating on the chest, as the cardigan I was wearing slowly extended and became a cape that made it look like a pair of wings. Along with a jacket and the collar of my shirt slowly growing higher and higher.
"There we go, can you feel yourself changing?"
"Yes...I can. Mmmm...feels rather nice!"
"All that supernatural energy is increasing and altering you, allowing the change to be more natural."
He was indeed right, the transformation did indeed feel rather nice to me and I wasn't minding it at all. There didn't seem to be any pain at all...in fact it just seemed natural, like everything was coming full circle. Supernatural energy jolted through me as my chest and torso lengthened, my stomach also following suit as it slimmed...I had always had an average but slightly athletic build but now...wow. My arms slowly stretched and contorted as my hands slowly changed, a pair of elegant black gloves appearing on my hands as my fingers grew a bit longer. My jeans slowly blackened and became a pair of black pants that matched my shirt, not only that but the pants seemed to really look good on me - and sometimes drew attention towards a certain area (an area that I understood had its own following), looking at my shoes I saw them hardening and growing upwards, turning into a pair of black boots. My legs lengthened quite a bit as my feet changed, I tried casting a few spells with the supernatural energy that I had flowing through my being and to my surprise the spells were successful.
"I can do magic now? Okay, this just got awesomer."
"And what wonderful magic it is."
I genuinely did feel extremely good about the process and about my newly developed magical abilities, but even more so once my height slowly changed to 5'10 and my back and shoulders slowly shifted to match the rest of me. My neckline altered quite a bit as it lengthened. The dark blue band I was wearing in my hair let itself fall down as my hair slowly lengthened more than usual, extending to slightly even longer than usual and turning from its normal brownish color to blonde. My hair slowly took on a different style as well, becoming wild-looking and very rockstar-like as my eyebrows did thin a bit and turn black, white makeup applied itself around my eyes - makeup that looked like I had the eyes of an owl as black eyeliner materialized as well. My eyes turned from brown to a rather enticing shade of blue, what was interesting was that one eye was darker than the other (a trait that Bowie's own eyes themselves had), my nose shifted to become a bit more refined in appearance while my lips thinned a bit but became kissable, my cheekbones sharpened and my facial features slowly morphed and reshaped themselves. Looking into the reflection of the crystal I could see I was turning into none other than Jareth himself.
Feeling my teeth with my tongue I could see them sharpening a little, developing pointed tips...specifically the canines which reminded me of how Bowie himself had those kind of teeth at one point and well...it matched my liking for characters that either have claws, fangs or sharp teeth in general like for example the Hessian Horseman, my teeth glistened as my voice altered to match my appearance, lowering and deepening a bit and developing an English accent of sorts, changing to the voice of the character. I not only now resembled Jareth but I sounded like him as well, which is to say...I was a perfect double of Bowie as Jareth, right down to having his voice.
My face slowly finished morphing as it took on the final step and it was now that of Jareth as was my voice, but the last thing to change was my mind as it warped and contorted, my thoughts and memories shifting to match as my personality became that of a devious but also intelligent and seductive spellcaster who was also royalty and also somewhat tragic, I started to remember a girl named Sarah and how I fell in love with her after she wished for me to take away her baby brother and I remembered how brave she was to complete my labyrinth and to make it out. I felt awful for doing what I did, and even more so knowing what happened at the end but I cheered myself up afterwards because I knew that no matter what i'd be there for her. And even if that meant being in the form of an owl to watch over her, i'd always be there for her. A few seconds later, my mind and my regular self were both replaced with the character I was becoming...'Nathan' had disappeared into the proverbial shadows and now Jareth had taken his place, but it was more like I had been resurrected/reborn - as him. My transformation completed itself and I was now Jareth, looking over at Bowie I thanked him for the gift he had given me.
"You are most welcome. Now, you can use this gift anytime you want to become who you are now or to become me in general. You can summon this in your dreams/visions and outside of them. This gift of me may have taken a few months to get to you but now that it has, it is yours to keep forever."
"I won't let you down."
"That's what I like to hear. From now on, we share a psychic bond. And more so than that, we share the same traits as well and now that you are Jareth and everything, you too can spread the gift that I have given to my fans and followers and keep my legacy alive for many more years to come. I may be gone but my spirit lives on. And it lives on in you, don't you forget that."
"I'll never forget that, at all.."
"Good, now the first thing you must do is start working on gaining your own army. You can use your hypnotic voice and powers to put any person you know and love under your control and much more than that, you can give them forms that are befitting their new soon to be new rules. Spread my influence to them and transform them. Show them the gift that you can bestow on them."
"You mean Bowie-fy them?"
"Why yes, exactly."
"I'm definitely going to be doing a lot of that."
"And you can hypnotize Pokemon into serving you as well."
"This just got even better!"
"And now...are you ready?"
"I most certainly am..."
And thus with that, I got up and concentrated. I focused on a barn owl and within a few seconds I morphed into the same species of owl and flew off into the night to begin work on my brand new army. As for what happened to me later, it wasn't long until I had more visions and dreams and until the Bowie influence began to become a really useful tool that aided me in my powers and turning people into multiple David Bowies to be part of my army, and also hypnotizing Pokemon into serving me. Of course what I really wanted was a pet or companion, someone to be my companion. And that's when I was told of 'were-Pokemon' as in shapeshifters that were werecreatures that transformed into were-versions of Pokemon, and I was taught about Lycanroc, that fierce wolf-like Pokemon with a great amount of loyalty to its trainer and I learned of its Midnight form, which was akin to a werewolf.
I thought to myself that would be the perfect pet/companion and set out to locate one. Of course I eventually did find one and he became a loyal companion of mine. I fully embraced the new role I had and the powers I had, and also of the gifts I had bestowed on others. After all, if you were the goblin king...you'd probably embrace it too.
NOTE:
This is a first person perspective origin story of how my character became Labyrinth obsessed and then transformed into Jareth, and this includes elements of MC and hypnosis thrown in.
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Having shapeshifting powers can be both a blessing and a curse, and to me it certainly is like that. While I do like being able to transform at will, I like unexpected transformations as well and the transformation in today's story is definitely that, it started on a rainy afternoon and I was at my part time job of being a teacher. I was teaching an arts and drama class and I noticed that since it was raining, it would be a good opportunity to watch some movies...there were quite a few favorites including Shrek 2, and a couple of Disney movies but there was also Neverending Story and a little film called Labyrinth. Although I really hoped Shrek 2 would win (blame the fact I am a sort of brogre on it, but this was before the meme), I was definitely glad that my class picked Labyrinth.
Not only did the movie fascinate the class but it also fascinated me, I had never seen a fantasy movie that looked so whimsical yet beautiful at the same time and with such excellent music. The score and songs were picked out brilliantly, and while I wasn't under its spell just yet...I was beginning to fall in love with the movie and the songs. So much so I had two of my students come up with a Yu-Gi-Oh monster based on the movie's antagonist. A couple of weeks later, I caught the movie on the Disney Channel...it came on right after Finding Nemo, a bit odd but hey...I like surprises and that is when I fell in love with the movie again, the obsession began to surface a little as I ordered myself the soundtrack and listened to it....such an enthralling score and entrancing songs, it was getting difficult for me to try and resist it. Later on, I found out about the artist who did the songs for the movie...a singer that my family adored, a singer known as David Bowie. Of course, prior to this the only album of his I had ever known was 'Heroes' and I scoffed at that one because the title seemed misleading due to the lack of superheroes or comic book characters, of course back then I didn't realize just how powerful of an impact this singer had.
This was an entertainer who was a real life shapeshifter, a fellow shapeshifter just like myself. He had many forms and appearances, and each time he appeared...he had a new outfit or persona. I soon bought and downloaded several of his albums and even made compliation albums with some of his songs on them, and I didn't realize it but...it was like he was placing a spell on me. Fitting, considering his role was that of a spellcaster. I then got the movie on DVD and started watching it several times...and the obsession began to get stronger. This movie had me under it's spell and I didn't realize it, to the point that I was reciting lines from the movie and also did my own performance of 'Magic Dance'..I was never the best at singing though, and my brief attempts at being a musician and actor didn't last long. Many years later I acquired a figure of the villain that was made by NECA, the character in question (named Jareth) was already a rather imposing yet regal gentleman thanks to Bowie portraying him but in figure form he looked even more regal.
At this point the obsession was still at a high-point but not at a point it was beginning to affect my mind, although it wasn't long until I had dreams about trying to summon 'Jareth' and succeeding and even going on Labyrinth style adventures of my own with my friends. Flash-forward to 2016, on January 10th the world was shook by something truly horrifying and that was that David Bowie had passed away. I never thought a celebrity death could affect me as much as the ones of Michael Jackson and Robin Williams, but then the psychic visions started popping up in my mind constantly. These visions started off as nothing more than dreams of me talking to the spirits of deceased celebrities in the clouds but these visions/dream sequences grew stronger throughout that year and throughout 2017. I had been having plenty of Jim Henson related dreams before as I had talked to him in my dreams and I could never forget the dream involving the mystic elevator that took me to the Muppet universe, or the dream about the theater from the Muppet Show being a real theater and of course the one about the various Muppety creatures that followed me around, but the Labyrinth dreams were starting to get a lot stronger.
Once I got the Labyrinth: Ultimate Visual History book for Christmas, that is when the obsession increased and merged with the developing dreams/visions. And now, in the early to late Spring/Summer of 2018...the dreams were coming back, and influencing me...I was in my bedroom one night and in one particular dream I was in the bedroom of my old abode and talking about the deaths in 2016 and as I was talking...I heard a song, a familiar song that was playing and a voice that was singing about Bowie to the tune of 'As The World Falls Down'. It wasn't long until Bowie's spirit started popping up in the visions and influencing me, originating as a voice in the clouds before taking on spirit form and possessing several people including a few female singers. Was Bowie's spirit looking for me? It seemed like he was, and like he knew that I had something in common with him.
Even though I could not see him, I could hear him...I could sense him, I guess it comes with the territory. His spirit seemed to always be there. And I could tell that he could sense me as well. Unfortunately though we never got to see each-other because he always would disappear before I caught a glimpse of him, that was until now when those visions started coming back and that was when it finally happened, in the latest vision I was reminiscing about my class and my introduction to Labyrinth with my friends when he finally materialized in front of us. I was taken aback by this and a little bit scared but then I heard that voice.
"It's alright, Nathan...do not be afraid of me."
"I'm just a little bit shocked, that's all. I mean here I am talking about one of the best fantasy movies ever and then you here you are...the g-g-ghost of David Bowie. Yeah, it's awesome that you're finally here and all but woah...I can't help but feel intimidated."
"It's alright, a lot of people reacted in the same way when I visited them."
"I have to ask though...have you been there this entire time?"
"You could say that, to some extent."
"You've been here since 2016?"
"Yes...and i've been present in your Labyrinth dreams too."
"I never thought this would happen though."
"Just because I have taken a long time to get to you doesn't mean that it wasn't possible. After all, sometimes it takes a little time to get there. Besides, I was waiting until you were ready. In case you're wondering why I kept disappearing, it's because well...I didn't want you to catch on."
"Catch on to what exactly?"
"The surprise I have in store for you."
"But you always were full of surprises...I don't know what you could do to surprise me more."
"Oh? But there's one i've been saving especially for you."
He conjured up a crystal ball and made it levitate in front of me, I looked over at it for a bit before turning away. I felt like Sarah in the iconic scene where she first sees Jareth and was more than a little bit mesmerized by the display, in particular the way the ball floated in mid air as images materialized on it. I reached over and touched it, magical energy seemed to jolt through me as I did so.
"Woah...thank you!"
"It's a crystal, nothing more but if you turn it this way and look into it...it will show you your dreams."
"Oooh, just like in the movie! This just keeps getting better."
"And it most certainly does, the best part hasn't even happened yet."
"There's another part to this?"
"Oh, definitely."
"How does that part go?"
"Like this..."
The crystal swayed back and forth in a continuous motion that began to entrance me, I started to feel like I was falling asleep but I was also feeling more relaxed. I had never felt this relaxed before in my life, it was like he knew of my admiration for monsters or villains with hypno powers. The crystal's magic transferred through the ball and into my body as I fell into a trance-like state, I wanted to watch it move and float around and I didn't need to worry if it was going to fall because it just seemed extremely relaxing to watch what was going on.
"Oooh...that feels nice."
"As you should, that's my powers in the crystal affecting you and my powers are in you as well. But to use them, you have to show me your powers as well. This will be easy since you and I have the same powers, we can both transform ourselves. I have been wanting to do this for such a long time."
"You have?"
"Why yes...I have seen you morph into many forms and I know that you were once given Jareth's powers."
"What is it you ask for?"
"Well...I want you to think about the movie and think about Jareth, concentrate on him and focus."
"Alright...here it goes."
I closed my eyes for a bit and concentrated, thinking about the movie and the character of Jareth and the aspects of him which were the most striking and then I thought about my own love of villains and how one of my favorite ways to get MCed was to be turned into one of my favorite movie villains. I thought about how cool it must be to become that particular character and then I thought about wanting to become Jareth and using his powers, and to be able to do all the same things he does, and even more so of the actual labyrinth...what a place that would be to have in the yard and also of the staircase room...which is a room I always wanted to have. I focused for a bit more and as I did, my skin slowly started to lose its imperfection and become a bit lighter in appearance and skin-tone, it lightened more and more with each step, until it was slightly-pale-but-not-ghostly-or-vampiric. My clothes slowly started to change as well, my dark blue shirt slowly turning black and elongating to become a black colored royal one with armor plating on the chest, as the cardigan I was wearing slowly extended and became a cape that made it look like a pair of wings. Along with a jacket and the collar of my shirt slowly growing higher and higher.
"There we go, can you feel yourself changing?"
"Yes...I can. Mmmm...feels rather nice!"
"All that supernatural energy is increasing and altering you, allowing the change to be more natural."
He was indeed right, the transformation did indeed feel rather nice to me and I wasn't minding it at all. There didn't seem to be any pain at all...in fact it just seemed natural, like everything was coming full circle. Supernatural energy jolted through me as my chest and torso lengthened, my stomach also following suit as it slimmed...I had always had an average but slightly athletic build but now...wow. My arms slowly stretched and contorted as my hands slowly changed, a pair of elegant black gloves appearing on my hands as my fingers grew a bit longer. My jeans slowly blackened and became a pair of black pants that matched my shirt, not only that but the pants seemed to really look good on me - and sometimes drew attention towards a certain area (an area that I understood had its own following), looking at my shoes I saw them hardening and growing upwards, turning into a pair of black boots. My legs lengthened quite a bit as my feet changed, I tried casting a few spells with the supernatural energy that I had flowing through my being and to my surprise the spells were successful.
"I can do magic now? Okay, this just got awesomer."
"And what wonderful magic it is."
I genuinely did feel extremely good about the process and about my newly developed magical abilities, but even more so once my height slowly changed to 5'10 and my back and shoulders slowly shifted to match the rest of me. My neckline altered quite a bit as it lengthened. The dark blue band I was wearing in my hair let itself fall down as my hair slowly lengthened more than usual, extending to slightly even longer than usual and turning from its normal brownish color to blonde. My hair slowly took on a different style as well, becoming wild-looking and very rockstar-like as my eyebrows did thin a bit and turn black, white makeup applied itself around my eyes - makeup that looked like I had the eyes of an owl as black eyeliner materialized as well. My eyes turned from brown to a rather enticing shade of blue, what was interesting was that one eye was darker than the other (a trait that Bowie's own eyes themselves had), my nose shifted to become a bit more refined in appearance while my lips thinned a bit but became kissable, my cheekbones sharpened and my facial features slowly morphed and reshaped themselves. Looking into the reflection of the crystal I could see I was turning into none other than Jareth himself.
Feeling my teeth with my tongue I could see them sharpening a little, developing pointed tips...specifically the canines which reminded me of how Bowie himself had those kind of teeth at one point and well...it matched my liking for characters that either have claws, fangs or sharp teeth in general like for example the Hessian Horseman, my teeth glistened as my voice altered to match my appearance, lowering and deepening a bit and developing an English accent of sorts, changing to the voice of the character. I not only now resembled Jareth but I sounded like him as well, which is to say...I was a perfect double of Bowie as Jareth, right down to having his voice.
My face slowly finished morphing as it took on the final step and it was now that of Jareth as was my voice, but the last thing to change was my mind as it warped and contorted, my thoughts and memories shifting to match as my personality became that of a devious but also intelligent and seductive spellcaster who was also royalty and also somewhat tragic, I started to remember a girl named Sarah and how I fell in love with her after she wished for me to take away her baby brother and I remembered how brave she was to complete my labyrinth and to make it out. I felt awful for doing what I did, and even more so knowing what happened at the end but I cheered myself up afterwards because I knew that no matter what i'd be there for her. And even if that meant being in the form of an owl to watch over her, i'd always be there for her. A few seconds later, my mind and my regular self were both replaced with the character I was becoming...'Nathan' had disappeared into the proverbial shadows and now Jareth had taken his place, but it was more like I had been resurrected/reborn - as him. My transformation completed itself and I was now Jareth, looking over at Bowie I thanked him for the gift he had given me.
"You are most welcome. Now, you can use this gift anytime you want to become who you are now or to become me in general. You can summon this in your dreams/visions and outside of them. This gift of me may have taken a few months to get to you but now that it has, it is yours to keep forever."
"I won't let you down."
"That's what I like to hear. From now on, we share a psychic bond. And more so than that, we share the same traits as well and now that you are Jareth and everything, you too can spread the gift that I have given to my fans and followers and keep my legacy alive for many more years to come. I may be gone but my spirit lives on. And it lives on in you, don't you forget that."
"I'll never forget that, at all.."
"Good, now the first thing you must do is start working on gaining your own army. You can use your hypnotic voice and powers to put any person you know and love under your control and much more than that, you can give them forms that are befitting their new soon to be new rules. Spread my influence to them and transform them. Show them the gift that you can bestow on them."
"You mean Bowie-fy them?"
"Why yes, exactly."
"I'm definitely going to be doing a lot of that."
"And you can hypnotize Pokemon into serving you as well."
"This just got even better!"
"And now...are you ready?"
"I most certainly am..."
And thus with that, I got up and concentrated. I focused on a barn owl and within a few seconds I morphed into the same species of owl and flew off into the night to begin work on my brand new army. As for what happened to me later, it wasn't long until I had more visions and dreams and until the Bowie influence began to become a really useful tool that aided me in my powers and turning people into multiple David Bowies to be part of my army, and also hypnotizing Pokemon into serving me. Of course what I really wanted was a pet or companion, someone to be my companion. And that's when I was told of 'were-Pokemon' as in shapeshifters that were werecreatures that transformed into were-versions of Pokemon, and I was taught about Lycanroc, that fierce wolf-like Pokemon with a great amount of loyalty to its trainer and I learned of its Midnight form, which was akin to a werewolf.
I thought to myself that would be the perfect pet/companion and set out to locate one. Of course I eventually did find one and he became a loyal companion of mine. I fully embraced the new role I had and the powers I had, and also of the gifts I had bestowed on others. After all, if you were the goblin king...you'd probably embrace it too.
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