The Explorers Club

By Angel O’Hare
(c)2007

Kim Amy was in the back yard enjoying the sun, the cool breeze, and his favorite book at the time. He was reading ‘The Amazon Warriors.’ The book held his fascination because it was very descriptive with detailed accounts of the warrior women and their exploits. They were masters of camouflage and guerrilla tactics. Their hair by custom and long tradition kept unshorn and braided tightly. They wore very little clothing, just a woven belt with a cloth drawn between their legs one week of each month as necessary. They painted their bodies in natural colors that made them blend in easily with their surroundings. If one of them stood still, a man could walk right past them without knowing the Amazon was even there.

Each of them was trained and cross-trained in several skills and weapons. They knew all the forest creatures, the different trees and plants. They easily made medicines, poisons, and many other potions that did many different things. They knew how to move silently, and invisibly, through the forest they called home. It was known that Rome sent a legion into this forest to rid it of the Amazon women. The legion vanished, no one ever ventured into the forest be they a man, woman, boy or girl. If one did enter, they never were seen again.

The Amazon women are very territorial. If a person or family tried to settle nearby, they soon moved away or vanished from the earth. The only time outsiders ever saw one of them outside of the forest meant that she was on the hunt for a mating partner. The male chosen was drugged and brought back to a special place in the forest. There, kept under a drug induced dream state, the warrior mated repeatedly until she became pregnant. The man was then sacrificed to the Amazon’s Goddess Gaia, the Goddess of gain. If the child was born male, he was brought up to serve them all. These boys were trained in all aspects of servitude; the penalty for failure was a slow agonizing punishment that seared their minds to never fail again!

The child if born female was instantly brought within the tribe and their life of training began. Kim was reading of one such female, so like himself. The description so precise and detailed it was like the author was looking right at Kim when she had written this tale. The name given her was ‘Earth Fawn’ for she was born with a tan colored skin, dirt brown hair, and large grey eyes. Soon after she was born, she showed signs of being something special. Her large grey eyes focused, concentrated, and understood things before she was even weaned. She never talked, just used the signing language all Amazons used for communication. She knew how to make the sounds of language and song; she just chose to use them but rarely. She learned quickly, quicker than any other Amazon before her. She was also the smallest of the Amazons, small, graceful, quick, and silent. Her proportions were perfectly matched to her body; a hairless body, save for the hair on her head, eyebrows and long eyelashes, a very beautiful girl, a very deadly girl as well.

The book was fiction, but to Kim Amy it was as real as he was. He read it repeatedly. He knew each character, each and every little thing mentioned and described in the book, he knew with perfect recall. He practiced what he could, whenever he could the things mentioned and described so clearly and precisely in the 777 paged book.

Kim Amy’s back yard was a forest, his father the National Forest’s Ranger, his mother an herbalist and a Registered Nurse. They lived in a large cabin practically dead center in the 180,000-acre forest. The central 80,000-acres were off limits to all but a few research scientists and their team. Kim Amy’s father is the one who keeps it that way and just a helipad and one earthen road were the only easy way in. The road was to narrow for vehicles, horses were the transportation by land, horses and foot power. Motorcycles and powered vehicles of any kind were forbidden access.

A voice invaded Kim’s present visions in his head. He heard.

"Kim, Kim, Kim…"

He groaned, looked up, and saw his mother smiling down at him. She was shaking her head and said.

Kim Amy, what am I going to do with you son? Go to the stream, wash what you can off of you, and come to the cabin. We have visitors and I won’t have them seeing my son naked, with his body painted like a nymph of the forest. Come in the back way, make your way upstairs, and soak in the tub. I’ll be up shortly to scrub the stains from your skin. Now go!

Kim walked to the stream a few hundred yards away. He was laughing inside of himself, and wearing only his smile as his mother chuckled, shook her head, and made her way back to the cabin.

--^^--

Kim has never been shy around his parents and preferred not to wear clothing. Both his mother Jane and his father Richard had tried everything they could think of to get him to keep his clothes on. Nothing worked for long. Kim did agree to wear clothes when others were about and he had to be around them. He agreed to wear clothes into town, to school, and to the monthly church services. Once he got home however, he was soon naked, and his body painted with earthen and plant dyes. One other thing Kim Amy had was his long earthy dark brown hair. He kept this in a tightly woven single braid.

Kim was a very good child, smart, quick and easy to learn things and even quicker to share new things with his mother, especially herbs and other things concerning plants, trees, and anything else earthen. She had taught Kim everything she knew about herbs and their many uses. Now it was Kim who was teaching her knew things. Richard, his father, is not only the Ranger, but he also has a degree in the science of astronomy. He taught Kim everything he knew about the heavens above. Kim learned quickly and by the time, he reached ten-years, he knew as much as his father did concerning the heavens above and especially the stars and planets. Kim would never get lost in the forest. He knew the natural signs pointing the way towards north, east, south, and west. After dark, all he had to do was look up, and he was soon on his way back home, no matter where he had ended up that day.

--^^--

Kim’s new awareness began one early morning as he was exploring a new area for him in the forest. It was just after a severe windstorm that occurred during the night of the new moon. Kim was surveying the new area, to him it was new, and he wanted to know all he could about it. This part of the forest was the oldest part and very ancient. The forest was born in this very area and Kim was slow, careful, and deliberate in his survey.

He had left the cabin well before dawn. Naked, he walked surely and silently as he made his way to the most ancient part of the forest. Guided by the stars still clearly seen in the sky, he soon found himself on the periphery of the ancient wood. He first circled the periphery and slowly and methodically narrowed his circular path survey. He did this until the sun had set, and only returned to survey this ancient wood when the new moon had risen once again.

This new day of the new moon was very significant, because it only happened once in each millennium. It was the seventh day of the seventh month and the seventh new moon of the year. Just last month, Kim had made a discovery that he kept secret. He had found an entrance to a hidden chamber. Long ago, a tribe of people discovered the huge tree and hollowed a chamber within it. In actuality, the tree had been several trees that had fused together to form one huge gigantic tree base. Anyone looking from above or from a distance would only see several large treetops. The trees had fused as one to a height of 7 feet, and then divided into seven separate trees from that single base. The hollow in the tree trunk looked to have been made in a natural way, but Kim walked in to survey it. He only stood 4 feet tall and he didn’t even have to bend his head. Any adult sized person would have had to enter on their hands and knees.

As the sun rose, Kim noticed a pattern from a single beam of light. The pattern was the symbol Δ, and the beam touched a specific spot. Kim looked closer and saw that the beam and the symbol fit into the very same symbol carved into the tree. Kim gently felt this spot with his fingertips. He was rewarded with a soft pulse of energy that filled him and gave him a vision. This vision showed him a girl in the very same spot he was now standing, but the inside was now alive with color and he saw the patterns, as they were long ago, seven patterns in seven specific spots. He knew he had to wait a bit of time before the second symbol would be touched by the triangular pattern and energized by the beam from the sun.

He studied the girl in his vision. She was as naked as he was, but painted with earthen colors. Her skin smooth and hairless, her head, eyebrows, and eyelashes were the only areas she had hair. He was a bit startled to see she looked like a duplicate of himself! The same height, and facial features he had, but her hair was long and tightly woven, into a braid down the middle of her back. It ended at a spot marked by the very same triangle symbol at the center of her body mass. This Kim just knew by what he was feeling within himself and seeing in this vision. Her body was shaped as a woman, not his boyish shape. She also had perfectly shaped small breasts with large puffy nipples. They looked firm, but soft and yielding as well. She turned, looked into Kim’s eyes, lifted her right hand facing it palm up and towards him. The same triangle pattern was on her palm. She turned once more as the beam energized another spot and touched it with her palm. The vision vanished and Kim noticed the beam and symbol making the next carved symbol glow with energy. He placed his palm on it, was rewarded once again with the gentle pulse of energy, filling him entirely and making his body tingle. His hand pulsed, tingled, burned and his mind opened to reveal another vision. The girl was now placing her left hand in a small hollow spot just to the left of the illuminated symbol. Kim found his left hand moving towards that very same spot in his vision. Once her left hand was fully inside the hollow spot, she surged with an energy burst that flowed from right to left, from her right hand, through her body and exiting through her left hand back into the massive base itself. Kim’s mind surged with information, new knowledge, and awareness. It was so powerful and almost overwhelmed him, but just as Kim would have faltered the energy burst lessened and slowly, gradually, the vision showed the girl reaching her right hand palm forward to another energized symbol. Once again, Kim’s hands followed the vision he was seeing. First the right palm on the energized symbol. His hand pulsed, tingled, burned and his mind opened to reveal another vision. Another hollow spot and his left hand found and entered the next hollow. The same burst of energy, new knowledge, new awareness, filled Kim until he almost faltered once more. This was repeated until Kim had touched each of the seven symbols and his left hand had entered six hollows and he had been filled with new knowledge and awareness’s until he almost faltered.

Kim’s vision was now face to face with the girl in his vision. They stood in the very center of the base. Kim noticed her grey eyes looked as a new moon would. Her deep black pupils, now large, surrounded by the grey, which was now a thin, pulsing, living light, of power and energy. Kim’s vision showed the girl holding up her right hand, palm towards him. He knew what to do and moved his palm to touch hers. In her left hand, she held a glowing globe. It had a triangular opening, and Kim slowly inserted his left hand into that glowing globe. His vision showed him and the girl melding as one. They became one, joining their energies, and forming a beam unto themselves.

Kim was now alone standing in utter darkness. Yet he was not alone, he felt her presence within him, he felt her smile and he knew what to do. Kim smiled, pressed both of his palms together, and in his mind made light. The darkness vanished, in its place he found himself standing in the center of a globe. A globe made of nothing known to humankind. It was just a part of a much larger vessel. A spacecraft, which had known travel through time and space and of immeasurable journeys whose inhabitants, had one mission. A craft that no longer could function as it was intended, but all the knowledge it was to share was still intact and waiting for someone to inherit it all. That someone was Kim!

He now strode with a new confidence and purpose. His goal was to reach the two glowing symbols suspended in space and time, one a circle, the other the triangle. He was to stand, slip his right hand into the triangle, and then slip his left hand into the circle. He was then to bring them together by pressing his palms together. It was his choice to make. He must choose of his own free will to make the decision to either complete what was shown to him, or to decline and wake up on the surface with no knowledge of what had taken place this day. If he chose to go through with what his visions have shown him, and if his body and mind survived, he would know what to do from then on. Kim also knew that if his body and mind didn’t survive, his life force would join the innumerable others that are constantly expanding the universe. There was something else as well. Something or something’s, but he wasn’t sure of whit it or they were, or even what they wanted.

Kim freely chose to go on and complete his task he saw in his visions. First, he concentrated in his mind the vision of the triangle and the circle, he then pressed his palms together, and the symbols burst into living pulsing colors. Colors that had no description, no names, and were pure and faultless; Kim reached up his arms, slipped his right hand through the triangle, then his left into the circle. He was bathed in energy, his body pulsing and quivering with their power. Seven pulses, seven pure colors of energy fought to stay separate and pure unto them-selves. Their power was sure, powerful, and had a purpose of survival. They wanted to remain as they were, separate pure entities, but Kim fought with determination to make them become one as was originally intended so long ago. Slowly, with great effort and purpose, Kim brought his palms together. He was almost there; he was a fraction away from joining his palms.

Each of the seven colors in turn tried to make a deal with Kim. Three he sensed were feminine in how and what they offered him. Three others were masculine which Kim determined in the same way. The six bantered and offered different gifts of beauty, health, gifts of healing, and many others. The seventh color offered untold wealth, ego, power over men to rule and wage war, dominate and subjugate humankind to do Kim’s bidding. Unlimited and unhindered sex, the power to take was his!

It was then Kim drew on the power of the girl that was now within him, and combined hers seamlessly with his own. His palms came together easily, and then it happened!

Kim was overwhelmed and fell to his knees. He noticed a seat materialize out of a section of the floor. He crawled over to it and was just able to pull himself up and sit down. The chair molded itself around Kim and he seemed to become one with parts of the ship. Slowly he was made aware of certain parts and functions of the ship. He was also more keenly aware of the girl that now permanently resided within him. As he became more aware of the ship and its functions, the more the girl was becoming more a part of him as well.

Kim began to understand and use the power of what was, a few minutes before, seven separate powers or entities. Kim became aware as he powered up and accessed progressively more of the ship and its functions, the entities now joined as one, were responsible. He also noted that, certain functions, required him tap into the girl and she tapped into him for even more of the functions to work and power up. Instead of being drained and exhausted, Kim was now full of energy and even felt renewed as if his body had been transformed into something else.

The ship was now almost fully powered up and almost all of the functions were online. Kim’s awareness and knowledge was being lifted to ever-increasing levels as was his happiness and certainty he was doing the right thing. The girl within him was more of him now. He felt their minds melding as one and his image of her was of himself. She was his equal almost now. There was one more level to go through and utilize, to make everything as it was meant to be so long ago.

Kim saw in his mind a section of the ship he had to get too. He knew the path and the girl within him agreed. Kim pictured his destination in his mind, brought his palms together, and vanished, only to reappear, a nano-second later in the designated section of the ship.

It was the medical section to correct any physical limitations and or damage. To power up this section of the ship fully, Kim had to release the final untapped power that remained within him. What was once the seventh and most cunning entity it previously gave life too. To do this he and the girl had to fully meld. Kim knew with his new awareness and knowledge that to do so meant certain bodily changes would occur overtime. Not right away, but slowly and surely. The girl reassured him and he reassured her, everything would be as it was meant to be so long ago. He sat in a chair meant for him that materialized out of the floor. Once again, it molded to him and he and the girl became one in body and mind. He knew all about her, from her earliest recollections and all the rest. She now of course, knew all about him until seamlessly they melded. Well, they are almost melded completely.

As he was in a dream state now, he accepted and solidified his new memories as his own and became aware of something very similar done centuries ago by the girl that was now him as much as anything else.

The ship showed them each of the humans that tried and failed over the centuries. Each giving into one of the entities or one of the seven separate powers before they chose to force them to become one. The girl, Earth Fawn, remembered several of the earliest humans and Kim remembered several of the later humans that had tried and failed. These humans hadn’t felt they had failed however, they felt they had succeeded in becoming what they deserved to become. They turned out to be rulers, entertainers, and figures of intensity now recorded in history. All in the past for they were all now dead, save one! Each was famous, or infamous, some just locally, but most were know widely. Kim was given as much knowledge about them that he cared to assimilate. The one still living the ship gave Kim full knowledge of what Kim had to know to vanquish this super human.

It was now time for the final step and Kim closed his eyes and relaxed fully. Kim’s body jolted as if he was being electrocuted. Instead of sweat, power and energy forces were flowing from his pores, every one of them, back into the ship. Kim’s palms and the soles of his feet were infused with the ships forces. Much more was flowing in than flowing back out. Kim felt and saw the changes he would undergo in the future and he smiled. He felt the changes to his body commencing and hidden just underneath his skin. Kim and Earth Fawn were now one and more!

--^^--

It was done, Kim now knew himself to be more than human. He was now both male and female in one body, just waiting for a certain length of time to allow his body to conform to his new image. By the time the new moon rose again, Kim would be whole.

Kim using his new knowledge and power began to shut the ships systems down. It wasn’t long after, that just the bare minimum of the ship was still pulsing and alive. The rest of the ship was dormant and still.

--^^--

Kim took the only thing he needed and that was a book, a book with 777 pages and disguised to appear as his favorite book, "The Amazon Warriors."

If anyone else were to see this book, that is what it would appear to be, just a fictional account of a race of long ago woman warriors.

Kim made his way back home and to his favorite spot. He appeared to be doing what he loved to do, being naked, skin colored with the different earth tones from plants, lying next to his favorite tree reading his favorite book.

--^^--

A voice invaded Kim’s present visions in his head. He heard.

"Kim, Kim, Kim…"

He groaned, looked up, and saw his mother smiling down at him. She was shaking her head and said.

Kim Amy, what am I going to do with you son? Go to the stream, wash what you can off of you, and come to the cabin. We have visitors and I won’t have them seeing my son naked, with his body painted like a nymph of the forest. Come in the back way, make your way upstairs, and soak in the tub. I’ll be up shortly to scrub the stains from your skin. Now go!

Kim walked to the stream a few hundred yards away. He was laughing inside of himself, and wearing only his smile as his mother chuckled, shook her head, and made her way back to the cabin.

As she walked back to the cabin she was still chuckling, but also trying to put her finger on what was different about her son. She knew there was something, but she couldn’t seem to figure it out. She made it back inside, excused herself from her husband and the visitors, made her way upstairs just in time to meet Kim who had come up quickly and silently from the back way. She took the special soap her son had made and soon he was standing in front of her, all dried and looking perfect, beautiful, and appearing just half his actual age.

Kim was now 14 years old, but he was just 4 feet tall and weighed just 50 pounds. He appeared to be about 7 years old to all who saw him and some said even younger. Often mistaken for a girl, his beauty and feminine features could not be hidden. His eyes were what set everything into balance and was always the focus of those meeting and seeing him. The smoky grey color with the brilliant blue speckles in them just drew each person to look into his eyes. His shy smile and his musical voice just complimented everything else about him. His body matured slowly, but his mind was alive and active, soaking up and seeking understanding for everything he saw and heard.

In school, the other children learned quickly that this little child was nothing to tease or bully. Some learned the easy way, but some had to learn the hard way. With quickness and graceful movements, Kim taught those children never to mess with him again. He would help them up afterwards and with a penetrating gaze, a few understanding words, they became friends. That was the way it was for Kim. In school, in town, everywhere Kim went, he had that confidence only few adults would ever truly understand.

--^^--

Kim chose to let his mother choose his clothing. He often did that, she enjoyed it so much it would make him giggle, which she soon joined doing as she dressed him. Giggling together, he was now wearing a soft, sheer tan pullover shirt; the light silky bikini cut underpants she always bought him. This pair being a pastel green, his European cut tan shorts, and his open toed, brown leather sandals. His hair now brushed and tied into a long ponytail, he was ready to meet their visitors.

Kim kept his smile the same as he was introduced to each of the four guests. Four of the researchers that were part of the government team Kim’s dad help protect along with the inner 80,000 acres of ancient forest. Three of the researchers Kim met he felt as warm, friendly, and open enough. It was the fourth, Dr. Elizabeth Greenway he felt was all wrong. Her smile was just as false as her words. She had a look in her eyes that was predatory and he felt from her a feeling of taking not giving. She was a good actor; she hid her true self, well behind false words and actions. She was pretty despite her years. She must be in her late 30’s to early 40’s. Kim would be wary of this one, but he hid it well, his smile was equal for her as for the others.

The conversation over dinner was varied and invigorating. Kim joined in as an almost equal when the subjects were of things he knew. A little pretty boy that looked to be 7 years old did not get the respect and attention an older male would get. He did surprise them with his knowledge of the plants and the forest though. Dr. Greenway became very interested when Kim’s father let them know that Kim knew the forest better than anyone and that included him. She began asking Kim questions and it was then that Kim knew she was looking for something other than parts of the ancient forest for research and study. These people were here to find the ship! He couldn’t let that happen and he instinctively knew what he had to do.

Kim gave them directions to parts of the forest that matched the descriptions they gave him. Parts of the forest that were far away from the site the ship was located. He knew that they could never find it, it was so deep in the earth, but he didn’t want to take any chances or cause the forest to be damaged too much by there so called research activities.

Kim kept feeling these probing and invasive tingles in his mind. He looked into the eyes of each of the guests and then met Dr. Greenway’s eyes. They locked together, each probing, invading, and the battle was on!

--^^--

It soon became obvious to my parents and the other three guests that Dr. Greenway and I were participating in a battle of wills of some sort. I felt the power within me grow as needed. Nothing as a surge or overpowering strength, it was more like an increase to just surpass the power she was using. This went on for a few minutes until my father shouted.

"Enough, this dinner was supposed to be a respite from your labors. Dr. Greenway, I must insist you stop your intrusions and leave my son be."

We broke eye contact, or I should say Dr. Greenway broke the contact. She betrayed nothing that had just went on by smiling her false smile and saying.

"Ranger Amy, your son Kimmie is now part of our project. Not only does he know why we are here, but also what we are looking for. As for my intrusion of your son, I think it is more accurate to say, his intrusion of me.

"Now, since we are her as a respite from our labors, why don’t we just enjoy the rest of the evening? I’m now sure that our project will surge forward and progress well ahead of schedule. Of course, first thing tomorrow, Kimmie will be joining us back to our field headquarters. As Kimmie’s parents, you both are welcome to join us if you wish."

It was with some surprise that my mother looked at me and I heard her clearly in my mind as she thought.

~ Kim, what have you got yourself into now? ~

It was even more surprising when I’m sure we both looked surprised as I answered her without saying a word out loud.

"Mother, I’ll tell you what I can, as well as father when our guests have gone."

Dr. Greenway smiled watching our exchange and my mother gave her a look that informed me that Dr. Greenway had eavesdropped into my mother’s mind as I answered her. I would have to be careful about that. Mother didn’t have the power to shield her thoughts. Well, not yet anyway. My father stood and addressed everyone.

"We as a family will do as requested, but I will be talking to your superior Dr. Greenway. I believe you know the channels in which these matters travel. My wife and my son have known nothing of what your teams have been actually doing here over the years. I gather my son now knows more than anyone else does here about these things. As such, we will now eat and relax until it is time you and your team to leave Dr. Greenway."

I could tell Dr. Greenway was about to protest, but my father held up his hand and continued.

"No Dr. Greenway, you and your team will leave this evening. There will not be discussion nor will I relent on this issue, it is a fact. Now, let us enjoy this wonderful meal my wife has prepared for us all."

The remaining three members of Dr. Greenway’s team knew that something of great import had occurred, but they were the only ones to really enjoy the meal. It was Dr. Greenways actions later that ended the evening’s relaxations abruptly. She tried to probe my mother and then my father, which I took acceptation to and gave her a mild mind sting. My father knew as well as my mother what Dr. Greenways was trying to do. He ended the evening right then and there.

--^^--

Of course, Dr. Greenway tried to assert herself using her supposed authority, but my fathers hidden skills and reputation quickly had the others urging Dr. Greenway to leave with them. I helped the matter along as I gave her another slightly stronger mind sting. She quickly got the hint as she gave me one final glance. As soon as she left our cabin, she was on her phone as we watched the four of them quickly start their long trek back to their camp.

I knew what was coming next, and I knew what I must do. I held up my hands and told my parents I would be back in a minute and tell them everything I could. The smiles I received in reply let me know that my parents were more relieved than worried. I did wonder why that was though.

I went to my room, stripped the clothes off, and went within myself to commune with whatever this power and entity would share with me. My body tingled all over, my mind surged with an overwhelming need and was as a dry sponge suddenly immersed in a tub of hot water.

What I learned neither shocked or surprised me. It was as if whatever I learned was a fact and that was that. I accepted whatever it was as soon as I understood it. It was as that old song Doris Day sang, "Whatever Will Be, Will Be!"

The one shock I did get was when I saw my appearance in the full-length mirror mounted on the back of my bedroom door. I was also shocked when I noticed the time that had elapsed when I was within and now. I had been within for over an hour, when it seemed to be only seconds to me. I glanced to my bed and both my parents were sitting there staring at me with smiles on their faces. Some how they knew, but how was that?

I looked back at the mirror and watched my hands follow my new shape. I had small breasts now, along with my manly bits, just under them I had the female bits. I was now actually intersexed, wholly and completely, I just knew this as a fact. I was now both a fertile male and a fertile female all in one package. My hips were wider, my chest a little larger with of course full ‘A’ cup breasts. My muscles are now fully formed to a perfection and fullness I never had before. I was always in perfect shape, but now I surpassed that in spades. Even my male bits looked as if they belonged. Moreover, are now part of the whole package, they did not look out of place at all, and that was surprising considering my new appearance. Perfectly proportionate with everything else of my appearance, they were part of me and that was that.

My mother stood up and helped me get into a robe. My father stood and said.

"Kim, we know, somehow we just know. We came upstairs to see what was taking you so long, we were worried that you might have left us to try and protect us from what surely will be trying times ahead. There is no need to explain, we now know what we must know, nothing more, but nothing less either. There is nothing to worry about tomorrow. The research team will learn what they are allowed to learn and that is that. This will soon reach levels far beyond your mother and I can deal with. Just know that we will be with you no matter what happens.

We hugged and kissed, one of those very tender moments only families can truly share. They retired to get some much-needed rest and I began to prepare.

--^^--

I quickly discarded the robe, wove my hair into a tightly woven ponytail, and then wove that into a tightly fitting cap to my head. I then made my way silently to my mothers and my greenhouse where I proceeded to gather the necessary parts and leaves of the plants to make what I needed.

I now had the powders, paints, and solutions I needed to proceed. I used the first solution and applied it to my male bits. I watched and felt them shrink and withdraw within my body. I applied the next solution to the small opening left from my male bits withdrawing within my body and watched as the opening closed. I now looked fully female. I painted my body and marveled how I could sense just what I was doing clearly even when I did my back and areas I could not see with my eyes. That done, I wove several plants into a cloth and immersed them in the final solution I had made.

I wrapped it between my legs and around my waist, giggling as I tied a neat and pretty bow just under my belly button. I walked out under the stars into the clear half moon lit night. The night was cool and I felt my nipples tighten and harden into smaller points. I giggled again feeling the different type of body tingles this had caused. I calmed myself and stood still, going within as I put my palms of my hands together.

As I came out from being within, I found that I could barely see myself. My body now blended in almost perfectly with my immediate surroundings. I sort of knew this is what would happen, but seeing it for myself made me that more confident in my abilities and that what I had learned and now knew, were factual. I stood still and used my heightened senses to scan the area. I was immediately aware of intrusions and sounds. I made my way towards the area these were coming from. Silently, I made my way closer and closer until I was standing very near several men in camouflage fatigues and painted hands and faces. I almost chuckled seeing how ineffectual their individual paint schemes actually were. I could see clearly not like I was wearing night vision goggles as these men were, but as if it were daylight. I was aware of what time it was and of the night, but I still saw things as they appeared during a bright lit sunny day.

The men were placing mini-cams, and listening-devices along the pathway my parents and I would be taking in a few hours as we walked to the main encampment of the researchers. I eavesdropped in on the whispered conversation one of the men was having into a small communicator. I was surprised to hear and then see the soldier look around quickly scanning the area I now stood intently. I had just heard that included with a few of the devices being set up were thermal imaging devices. Oh my, they saw me on their monitors, but the men couldn’t see me. I paused for a second and I felt a tingle as I then heard.

"Echo-one to Black-three, we lost the image."

I decided to have a little fun and retraced the path almost back to the main encampment of the researchers. What I found was startling to me, a mini-military base complete with various forms of ultra-modern weaponry. I was now able to sense much more and was aware of several other protection and warning set-ups. Pressure and temperature change alarms, motion detectors and various other ingenious and inventive devices. Before I would trigger any of them, I found myself pausing, and feeling that tingle before I made any further progress. I did a thorough scan and exploration of the camp and the surrounding area. It was then I found myself near another encampment.

Yes, this is where the main researchers were. I sensed an elaborate underground complex as well as the few buildings on the surface. Their explorations of the forest were mostly being done underground through using tunnels dug through the earth. I sensed that each tunnel had a unique machine leading the way. It actually used compression to dig and force the earth it removed into super hard and dense tunnel walls. The tunnels were round until the very bottom, where they were flat at a four-foot wide span.

I was happy to sense that none of the tunnels appeared to be going in the direction of the ship and that these tunnels though deep, were not deep enough even if they did pass closely by the buried ship.

--^^--

The researchers were all sleeping and that surprised me. I had thought they would be busy setting a trap for me, or something similar that would make me stay here once we arrived in the morning. I probed deeper and was surprised to sense Dr. Greenway sit up quickly and scan her room. She quickly dressed and that is when I made my way back home.

I silently made my way passed the busily working soldiers, and made my way back into our cabin. My parents were waiting up for me, knowing I had slipped out. Even inside the cabin, I was hard to see. They sensed my appearance before they focused on me. My mother said.

"Kim Amy, I won’t have you scaring us to death even if you are what you are. Before you go gallivanting about, you will tell us if you can before you do it. Do you understand me young man?"

I couldn’t help it and giggled as I then paused, putting my palms together. I was visible again, but still painted and garbed with my little micro-bikini. My father just shook his head and my mother went and got the robe I was wearing before. She said.

"Being that you no longer appear as a little boy when you are naked, I think you had better cover up at least in the presence of your father."

My father nodded and sighed, I giggled and apologized, my mother smiled, chuckled, and said.

"I think we need to go shopping young lady. I don’t know what you have done with your littler boy bits, but you are a pretty girl and we need to get you some bras and other clothes that fit your new shape."

I replied.

"Mother, the shopping trip will have to be put on hold for a while. Tomorrow our lives change. I think our soon to be employers will be providing us with everything we need and ask for. You can however pick and choose my clothing of what they offer us mother."

We then sat and talked about what would happen in a few hours. I mixed a batch of super coffee for my parents. It did the trick and they were as wide-awake and as fresh as if they had slept all night.

I used my fathers computer set up he had in his hidden office. He chuckled as I opened the hidden door and entered without a thought. I entered a few rapid commands and hooked up to the sensors and other devices set up along our future path to the complex. It was an impressive array of surveillance, with overlapping systems and devices. I also knew that when we made our way to the complex they would see and detect my parents, but nothing of my presence. That should unnerve a few people there.

--^^--

Dr. Greenway dressed quickly and summoned several people by pressing a button near her bed. As she made her way outside, she said.

"Kismet is here somewhere. She just scanned me, get everything operational now!"

The officer in charge chuckled as he remembered a character of the same name in a ®Marvel Comic Book series. A super heroine, if he remembered correctly. He hoped this creature was a heroine and not some evil alien being. He also remembered how he had gotten assigned this detail. It was over some nutcase genius that found several obscure references in an even more obscure code while doing research in the secret archives of the Vatican. Some correlation was drawn from the advanced thinkers and leaders papers stored within those ultra-secret walls. That had led the research team that he was assigned to go with to this middle of nowhere post.

--^^--

Just as they were prepared to leave the cabin and make their way to the main encampment, they stood and watched several helicopters make their way to the encampment. Kim just smiled as he then paused, put his palms together and seemed to vanish in front of his parents eyes. He sent them on ahead as he delayed for just a few minutes. He quickly fashioned a small tool by weaving several plants together and using a few drops from another plant, made his little tool as hard as steel. He coated it with some of the solution he had made earlier and the tool seemed to vanish in his hands. Kim smiled knowing this little thing would have the desired effect on those reluctant to listen.

Kim quickly caught up with his parents as they chatted along the way. Chatting about everything and anything unimportant to those now watching, scanning, and listening intently on every sound they uttered and every facial and body movement they made. They could see the mother and father talking to the son, but they couldn’t see the son nor sense his presence with any of their equipment. Dr. Greenway looked worried at this turn of event. She was counting on at least one of the sensing devices to work in spotting the Kismet. None seemed to pick up on her presence. Dr. Greenway relied on her present knowledge gleaned from the Vatican research that Kismet was a she, not a he and therefore, the one who would wield the power necessary to help her government defeat its foes.

She left the encampment with a few others, soldiers of the special Delta Force and one other, some woman sent directly from the president. They walked and met up with Mr. and Mrs. Amy. Dr. Greenway said.

"I’m glad you decided to come, but where is Kimmie?"

Kim’s father answered.

"Why, he’s right here Dr. Greenway. Haven’t you been watching and using all of those fancy sensor devices as we made our way here?"

My mother added.

"Kimmie will meet with you once he knows his parents are safe and will not be harmed."

The woman the president sent made her identity known as Ms White and promised no harm would come to anyone. She was actually acting as the president in these matters and wanted to meet with me as soon as possible and alone.

It was then I had a bit of fun with Dr. Greenway. I stood directly in front of her and linked with her through her eyes. I held her immobile as I probed deeply and completely learning everything, she wished to remain hidden. She knew her secrets were now revealed to me and tried to make an escape. A very stupid thing to do and reactionary to a fault, I quickly announced whom and what she was as the Delta Force fellows quickly had her in hand.

Spies this deep within our government we did not need, especially now!

To say my sudden unviewed presence unnerved a few people would be an understatement. They did take it better than the average person would though. I walked along side Ms White, whom I soon learned through a gentle but insistent probe was actually Ms. Amelia Shaw. I said.

"Ms Shaw, what plans have our government made concerning my parents?"

After the initial jump and startled squeak of a sound she made, she assured me that we would be together as often as we wished, but that my parents would have to remain here for their own safety and so our government could protect them fully.

My parents were glad of that. They loved this huge forest they considered their own. They loved their cabin and all that went with it. They also loved the solitude and peacefulness from the busy and confusing outside world. I loved it as well. I could now rely on this being my home and the ship I knew would be safe for at least another millennia.

We finally arrived at the encampment and were met by an even larger contingent of soldiers and other people of various import, and from various agencies. I scanned each and selected only two from them that would be needed. The others were left behind to get as mad as they wished and some were very angry indeed!

A woman from some interior agency began talking with my mother, and they were soon chatting away and when I found my mother later on, she was busily picking things for my future wardrobe including new furnishings for my bedroom. I giggled because she seemed so happy and very serious about what she was doing. The woman with her was asking her for my sizes and my mother kept stalling her. It was then I put my palms together and appeared fully in front of anyone for the first time other than my parents. The startled look I got from that woman was a missed Kodak moment for sure! Here I stood practically naked in front of her. Just in my micro-bikini bottoms and painted body.

Ms Shaw who stayed with me for the entire time was just as startled, but adjusted quicker. She said.

"You are much smaller than I imagined you would be, but more beautiful as well."

The secret service agent that also accompanied Ms Shaw couldn’t take his eyes off of me for some reason. It took a wink and a smile from me to make him snap out of his little trance. We all had a good giggle out of that one, well; he didn’t but we sure did!

--^^--

We stayed at the encampment for three days before returning to our cabin. I would be leaving in two days time to meet with the president and several other world leaders and important figures. This was it and my new life would begin in earnest now. Many packages and other things had arrived by helicopter and mother was having a blast rearranging my bedroom and putting my new clothes away. I stayed appearing as a full female with my male bits hidden away. They still were there and still functioned as they were intended to function. Let us say they are in a suspended animation mode for the time being. My clothes ranged from the silly little girl styles to the very fashionable. At least the other woman whom mother calls Agnes made mother see a bit of reason. I still was made to parade around in a frock my mother adored and I along with my father thought was silly, but mother loved it and I humored her for the day. I was her little girl and that is what she had longed for. I wore the frilly rumba panties, the petticoat, and all the trimmings. The Mary Jane shoes, frilly socks, and even the hair ribbons. At the end of the day mother thanked me as I changed into a more practical top and shorts set. I giggled seeing my new bedroom. A girl’s dream room it was. Complete with vanity; make up, perfumes, and everything else a girl could ever desire. The closet was full and thankfully only a few ‘little girl’ outfits and dresses were there.

--^^--

I was able to make my way back to the ship secretly and safely the night before I was to leave. It was at that visit I was given my own clothing and accessories more fitting to my new identity. I was also given a few gifts to give to a few others I would meet, but that’s another story for some future time.

As I boarded the helicopter and after the tearful goodbyes, kisses and hugs from my parents, and wearing an outfit my mother and I compromised on, I gave them a final wave and the door was closed.

We rose up and were away quickly. I took my garment bag and entered the bathroom. I changed into my uniform, paused, and pressed my palms together. Yes, I would make a good impression on those I was to meet soon. Kismet was here and she would soon let those who needed to know she meant business wherever she showed up. I made my way back to the sitting area and received a few gasps and I even saw a few agents shudder. Yes, this uniform will do nicely. With a thought and visualization, I could change its appearance to be open and friendly or closed and very menacing. I changed it to be open and friendly and watched as almost everyone relaxed a bit.

Funny how this is, appearances can mean a lot and often do set the tone for whomever you meet. As with the real world and the true reality, it is what’s within the person, which truly counts, and is really the true reality, but the world and its peoples rely on their visual queues and that is their reality. It is sad to say, but all too true, and all so false and wrong.

We land in a secure setting far from prying eyes and I walk in to a large area set up as a meeting room. I see those I am to converse with and to whom I am to work with. A very impressive gathering of who’s who in the power and struggles games of the world.

Well, all this is for another story, another chapter as I meet me destiny and try to fulfill the entities true purpose for me and for each of us I say.

We are all here for a reason. We might not know the exact reason, but if we just are our true selves, we won’t have to worry about that, we will be living it.

Huggles All

Kismet