Taking responsibility - Part 2

It didn't take Martha and Amelia long to find the transformed couple. The two rabbits sat in the same meadow Martha and Amelia had left them originally behind in. Martha squatted down in a few feet away. "Here... Come here..." she called them.

To her surprise, the two rabbits looked at her.

"Come here! I want to help you."

As if they could understand Martha, both rabbits cautiously jumped closer. Still, they kept a distance in case Martha would turn hostile.

"I want to make you human again." Martha promised.

Now both rabbits jumped just in front of Martha.

Martha reached out and touched both rabbits. She closed her eyes and sensed the magic signature around the rabbits. There was still a strong trace of the magic that had forced the couple into their new forms. Martha reached inside and sensed the magic pattern of their minds. They were still different from the rabbit-pattern of their forms. Their minds were still mostly human. Martha let the rabbits go and they jumped away.

Martha stood up. "They are still human in mind. " she said to Amelia. "Can you wish them back into their human form now?"

"I got a better idea!" Amelia fetched her mobile from the pocket and made a call.


About 30 minutes later, a woman in her late 40s met Martha and Amelia in the park. "Hello, I'm Frau Kohlschneider. Susanne is my daughter. You said you know where she is? "

"Good day, my name is Martha and this is my friend, Amelia." Martha introduced herself and Amelia. "Frau Kohlschneider, this will sound very strange to you, but this rabbit here is your daughter. She was transformed by a genie." Martha presented one of the rabbits.

Frau Kohlschneider gave Martha an angry look. "Listen, I have no time for this stupidity. My daughter has been missing for months and you have the guts to tell me a fairy tale. I'll call the police." The woman took her mobile out and began to dial.

Martha decided to go all in. She blinked and changed into her green genie form. The mobile fell from Frau Kohlschneider's hand. The woman fainted.


A few seconds later, Frau Kohlschneider regained her consciousness. Martha was kneeling next to her and cradled her head in her lap. Then she saw the now green-skinned Martha. "Ok, so you say you are a genie. And you say that my daughter has been transformed into a rabbit. How do you know that and why are you telling me?"

"I know it because it was I who transformed Susanne and Marcel into this pair of rabbits. And I tell you this because I want to redeem myself for what I have done." Martha put her lamp into the hands of Frau Kohlschneider. "You are now my mistress. I will grant you three wishes exactly the way you state them. If you wish for it, I will turn Susanne and Marcel back into humans. And you can still use the remaining wishes for your own benefit."

"Are there any limits to the wishes?"

"I can't kill, I can't bring the dead back, I can't bend the free will of a person, you can't wish for more wishes nor can you wish that I'm bound to you any longer after your last wish is granted." Martha counted the rules.

"Alright, I'll give it a go." Frau Kohlschneider stood up with the help of Amelia. "First, the most important wish: Martha, I wish that you turn these rabbits back exactly the same way they were before you transformed them, and besides that, you do nothing else."

"Your wish is granted!" Martha blinked. Instantly, the two rabbits grew into the shape of Susanne and Marcel. Even their clothes appeared on their bodies. Bewildered, Susanne and Marcel looked around.

"We're human again!" Susanne said.

"Yes, we are human again!" Marcel replied. He jumped forward and embraced Susanne. When they parted again, both, out of an instinct, raised their upper lips, exposed their frontal teeth and nibbled on their lower lips – a behavior typical of rodents.

Frau Kohlschneider rushed forward and embraced first Susanne and then Marcel. "I'm so glad to have you back. Say, how did she turn you into rabbits? Was it a wish?"

"I... I don't remember." Susanne replied.
Marcel shook his head too. "We were here at the park and suddenly, we were rabbits. Maybe you should ask the genie."

"I will!" Frau Kohlschneider turned towards Martha again. "Tell me genie, why did you transform these kids into rabbits?"

Martha didn't want to answer the question, but as a genie slave, she was forced to answer it. "I heard that Marcel was cheating on another girl with Susanne, here. So I decided to punish them and turned them into rabbits."

"You turned them into rabbits because of such a thing?" Frau Kohlscheider asked angrily.

"Listen, I'm not proud of what I did. It was wrong, ok, but now I have turned them back. So, no harm done, right, hehe...?" Martha made a forced laugh.

Suddenly, Susanne interrupted. "Where are our babies?"

"Babies?" Frau Kohlschneider and Martha asked, in unison.

"Well, soon after we had been transformed into rabbits, we developed the instinct to procreate. The result was a litter of three. They must be somewhere, around here." Susanne explained.

"Are you telling me, you have three rabbit babies?" Frau Kohlschneider asked.

Susanne nodded. "Genie, will you grant me a wish, too?"
Martha agreed.

"You're not going to wish these rabbits into human babies, are you?" her mother asked, before Susanne could state her wish. "Three children, you have no idea what that means!"

"Do you want to let them starve? They are my children and I won't give them up." Susanne replied. Frau Kohlschneider remained silent. So, Susanne state her wish: "Genie, I wish that you turn my little bunnies into well-developed and well-cared human babies of an according age."

Martha blinked. "Your wish is granted." Suddenly three rabbit babies appeared on the ground and turned into three human newborns.

Frau Kohlschneider shook her head. Then she spoke to Martha again. "See what you've done? You ruined their lives. It's all your fault. But now I will make sure you won't destroy anybody else's lives: "I wish that you will be locked inside your lamp for the rest of time."

Martha was shocked, but she remembered, what Sami told her recently. "Sorry, mistress, but a genie can be trapped only for a limited time. I can't grant that wish."

Frau Kohlschneider took a deep breath and thought intensely. She had to word that wish very carefully. "Alright, genie, I wish that for the next one million years, you will be locked away inside your lamp, all alone, with no other being trapped inside with you and with no person able to summon you unless you have served your time."

Martha gulped. "Your... your wish is granted," she said, with a very sad voice. Martha blinked and was instantly sucked inside her lamp.

Frau Kohlschneider passed the lamp to a shocked Amelia. "Here, you can have this. I don't need that lamp anymore." Without saying another word, Frau Kohlschneider returned to her daughter, Marcel and the babies. They left the park and went home.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Part 1: [link]

Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]
Part 5A (with codeword "Goddess"): [link]
Part 5B (with codeword "Mouse"): [link]
Part 6: [link]
Part 7A: Martha's human side has won the argument: [link]
Part 7B: Martha's genie side has won the argument: [link]
Part 8A Check Sylvias State of mind first: [link]
Part 8B Go and ask David or Amelia for help: [link]

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The backstory of Susanne and Marcel can be found here: [link]