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(Bishop's POV)

I let out a tired sigh as I watch the rune knights carry off Mammon's minions. After said man's departure, we ended up heading back to the surface, along the way picking up all the defeated henchmen as we did. Julia, Devin, and the mooks were all there but the Blade Mage wasn't. We looked around for him but it seemed like he was long gone which really did not put my mind at ease but at this point, all we could really do was just inform the rune knights about him.

Speaking of said knights, I had reached into my hammerspace and pulled out a communication lacrima that I got after the Lullaby incident and called the local rune knights who promptly came and picked up the criminals. They were upset that Mammon himself died but when it was clear that he had done himself in they were satisfied. The laws were very strict when it came to mages killing people, we could bring them in but not play judge, jury, and executioner.

"It's finally over," I said mostly to myself as I looked towards the setting sun. We would probably have to stay the night in Norden and then head back to the guild.

"At least it was one of the challenging S-ranks rather than those annoying ones. As hard as this was I would rather do it again then have to climb that stupid mountain again." Cana said as she joined me in watching the sunset.

"I would like to thank you two"." Said Bo suddenly from my right as I and Cana turned towards him. He was bowing to us.

"I wouldn't have been able to finish this mission if you two hadn't helped me. I owe ya one. If you ever need help then don't hesitate to find me." I think I'm going to miss Bo a bit. Sure, he was rather...strange but still a good person to have around.

"We won't," I said as I offered my hand for a handshake that Bo took up.

"Now then I must be going. I got a boxing match with the sun and this time I'm beating that flaming ball of gas!"

What.

Before I could ask for clarification Bo bent his leg and jumped. Well I say jumped but that man flew through the sky towards the setting sun before disappearing in a sparkle.

Me and Cana just stared at the spot where Bo had disappeared, unsure of how to react to both his actions and what he said he was going to do. Eventually, Cana spoke up.

"We agree to forget about him for the sake of our sanity?"

"Yep."

I let out an annoyed noise when the train came to a stop and I put up the novel I was reading, it was just getting to the climax as well. After Bo's departure, Cana and I went to Norden and found a cheap hotel to stay the night. Afterward, we were on the first train back to Magnolia.

The town was a welcome sight after the long day I had yesterday. I was looking forward to getting home and heading to my room or the library and relaxing for the rest of the day. Sadly, though Cana and I had to head back to the guildhall. We both needed to be there to give a report due to the job's S-rank status.

We quickly made our way through town, I ignored the looks and waves while Cana absentmindedly waved back at some of the citizens. Despite being in this town more near a century Fairy Tail's current status as top mage guild had somewhat turned us into celebrities both among the mage community and in Magnolia. Most of the guild members loved it since that meant people in town would give them discounts or something. Personally, I found it annoying, especially when I officially got a title. Even now I could just barely hear some of them say 'The Gatekeeper' as we made our way to the guild.

It wasn't long before we made it to the front doors and promptly made our way through them. "Hey, Bishop and Cana! You guys back from your job?" It was Wakaba that asked the question.

"Yes, we got it done and stayed the night at Norden before coming back. It was interesting to do an S-rank mission. Anything happen while we were gone." At my question, Wakaba gave me a chuckle.

"Funny you should say that." Wakaba took a sip of his beer before pointing to a corner of the hall. In said corner, I saw Makarov giving what looked like a stern talking to Natsu, Happy, Gray, and Lucy while Erza was behind them with her arms crossed and a disappointed look on her face

Oh Lovely

"-That's the reason why those jobs are S-ranked! You kids could have not just put the guild's reputation at risk but could have been very seriously hurt too. Now I-" Makarov stops his scolding upon noticing Cana and I getting close.

"Ah good, you two are back. Bishop, I got a little job for you to do." The Guild Master gave a relieved sigh at our presence. Not sure why though, maybe he's just happy that nothing bad happened to us during the S-rank. Either way, I have a job to attend to right now.

Punishing my little siblings apparently.

I make a point to give the four my most neutral and cold look before calmly asking "And what did they do?" My tone and look had the desired effect as the four seemed to shiver at my words. Lucy was giving me a pleading look but Gray, Happy and Natsu knew better than to try and ask for mercy.

"Natsu and Happy here not only went up to the second floor but stole an S-rank to do! They ended up getting Lucy and Gray to come along too. Had to send Erza to get them back." As Makarov said this, he was giving the three a disappointed look.

Interesting. From the sounds of it, Gray went with them from the beginning but I vaguely remember him being sent to stop them before being pulled along. Wonder what change caused that?

"Which is why I'm leaving their punishment in your capable hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I got a beer with my name on it." And with that, the Guild Master left for the bar as Natsu, Happy, Lucy and Gray looked up at me.

I made a show of just looking at them for about a minute to build up tension before I spoke. "Ok, first off Happy no fish for a week."

The blue cat looked devastated but my cold look seemed to keep him from objecting. " Now Natsu will be next."

Said brother straighten up at my words and gave me a determined look, clearly, he planned to power through any punishment I gave him.

That look last about two seconds before his face went green and ran for the bathroom holding his hands to his face. "The world will be turning for about six hours for him. Now onto Gray."

Said Ice mage gave me a resigned look before straightening up like Natsu and waited for his punishment. At first it nothing happened but it didn't take long got my illusion to take effect. Gray started to lightly pant as sweat start to build upon his face. This got worse and worse until he rushes to the bar, probably hoping for a drink to cool down.

"For about five hours it's going to feel like he's in a scorching hot desert. Now onto you Lucy" At my words the Celestial mage gave me a panicked look.

I applied an illusion and waited for Lucy to notice. After about a minute she spoke up, "What...what did you do? I don't feel any different."

As she spoke, she looked towards me then to Cana who had been behind me this entire time. It was then that she noticed that Cana was refusing to look at her directly. It was Erza who ended up taking pity on Lucy as she pulled out a mirror from her hammerspace and handed it to the blond. It was then that Lucy show what I did to her.

Lucy finally saw that her face looked awful. Her forehead was far too large, she now had a unibrow, zits lined her face, her nose was also too big and her lips as well. She was rather ugly. "Since this is your first punishment, you'll only get three hours but for those three hours, your face is going to look like that. Erza you stay with her to make sure she doesn't just spend three hours hiding somewhere."

Once Erza gave me a nod I left a horrified Lucy behind to head to the bar. I just need to give Mira or Makarov a report on the S-rank job and then I could head home and finally get some peace.

I had a novel to finish after all.

It had been a few days since the end of the S-rank and the punishments. Gray and Natsu were fine afterward but I feel like I gave Lucy a bit of body consciousness since I've noticed her continually checking her face in the mirror she kept around. Happy was at home, depressed that he hadn't had any fish for nearly a week at this point. For the most part, things had died down and it was everyday life now.

Currently, I was sitting at my table with Macao and Wakaba as we read the newspaper and make comments about what was within like the new tax law that the kingdom is going to pass on tea. There was also a little article talking about me, Cana and Bo and the whole Mammon situation. I felt that the writer was putting too much emphasis on me being an Illusionist like I was that make-a-wish kid that people would see awkwardly off to the side of a famous person.

Natsu, Gray, and Lucy were at the table beside me and seemed to be talking about what missions to take next. In fact, Natsu just got up and was heading over to the job board.

Erza and Makarov were off to the side talking about some guild business that I didn't have any interest in. Cana was also with them but looked very bored and wasn't really participating in the conversation besides a few words here or there.

Mira was like usual working the bar, being nice to the good customers and terrify to trouble customers. I could also somewhat see Elfman in the kitchen behind the bar, he sometimes worked in there too, as he puts it, help a lady like any gentlemen should. Still found that change weird.

It seemed like most of the guild members were here today. The only ones I really know that weren't her were Max and Warren who were off on some long-term job if I remembered correctly.

"Hey guys," Said Natsu as he came back from the job board with a paper in hand, "Check out this weird job. It looks like some translation job."

When he set it at the table with Gray and Lucy, I decided to look over and see what he was talking about. It was a very weirdly illustrated job request, it had some weird looking text in the middle with two black and white eyes above it along with the regular alphabet words written off to the side.

"It looks like some ancient text. It looks like they provided a translation in normal letters though." Gray said as he pointed to the left side of the paper.

As this is going on Mira makes her way over to us with some drinks. "Did Natsu find something?" She asked as she sat down some apple juice in front of me. Before I could respond Natsu spoke up.

"Oh hey, your right bro! let's see what it says." With that said, Natsu looked more closely at the paper as he started to read the weird words.

"Owo daro raso chibaro-" "Natsu wait! Don't read that text!" Shouted Makarov as he rushed over to the table with Cana and Erza behind him. Unfortunately, though it was too late.

"Cania?" With the last word spoken a somewhat blinding light emitted from the text and forced me to close my eyes as I looked at the paper.

For a second, I felt a rush of air before the feeling disappeared and the light from the paper died down. Instantly I knew something was wrong. First off, I was now standing instead of sitting down. My body felt weird and there was a heavyweight on my chest. When I opened my eyes, I saw hair on either side of my vision, hair that was a more a bit more of a darker shade of brown than my hair.

I looked around to see everybody in a confused state but the thing that stood out to me the most was the fact that I was looking at my body across from me, sitting down in a chair and looking very confused.

I quickly head over to a nearby window and angle my eyes to see my reflection.

I saw Cana staring back at me.

The next few minutes was rather hectic. It hadn't taken too long to figure out we had switched bodies with each other but the shock took some time to get over. So, me and Cana had switched bodies, she had been spending the entire time just oddly staring at my hand for some reason. All I knew was it was weird not just to see my full body but to see it more expressive as well.

Mira and Natsu had switched bodies which become very clear when Mira had cursed up a storm until she was forced to deal with the rather large amount of liquid fire that was leaking from her mouth. Natsu was mainly just complaining about his chest being far too heavy and that heels were hell for him.

Lucy and Gray had switched which was shown by Lucy shivering an insane amount and having to keep chunks of ice from falling from her mouth. Gray like Natsu was complaining about his chest being far too heavy and that his back had a painful ache to it.

Erza and Makarov had switched and the guild master seemed to be too amazed by his newfound youth to take control of the situation. Erza was the opposite as she was busy loudly complaining about how she was too tired, too sore, and all the other fun things that came with age.

And finally, both Wakaba and Macao had been switching but that had taken me far longer than I'd like to amendment to figure out. Those two were just so similar that it took Macao complaining about his trouble breathing for me to figure it out.

Everybody else in the guild was fine and for the most part, was minding their own business. When you were a part of the Fairy Tail guild you were used too weird and people swapping bodies was something not that weird compared to some other stuff that had happened in the guild. Like that mug that was still stuck to the ceiling. The only one to really come over was Elfman who wanted to check on his sister before heading back to the kitchen to keep from burning some food he had cooking.

I was just trying to stay quiet and think over the situation. Unfortunately, that was rather hard considering the headache that I couldn't get rid of. I think it had something to do with the fact that my emotions were still dulled and this brain wasn't used to not feeling emotions full force. At least this is definitive proof that my problem was soul rather or something like that rather than a mental condition that somehow followed me from my first life.

"Everybody settles down!" Shout Makarov who seemed to have finally stopped looking over his new body.

Once the guild master had gotten everybody's attention and had them settled down, he spoke once more. "Ok, what just happened is that Natsu read off an ancient magic spell known as Changeling. It basically swaps bodies around. I had noticed it this morning on the job board but," He took a moment to look embarrassed, "I forgot to take it down."

As soon as Makarov finished his words every stared complaining to him. I was also about to voice my complaints until a feeling came over me like I knew the Changeling spell from somewhere and after a few seconds of thought, I remembered I had read about it a bit. I had also remembered a rather chilling detail as well.

"Wait," I shouted and caused the other to quiet down and look towards me, " Doesn't the Changeling spell need to reverse in thirty minutes or else it becomes permanent?!"

At my words, everybody paled but before anyone else could say something Makarov spoke. "Your right Cana... I mean Bishop. But while I don't know how to reverse it, I do know how to at least give us a little more time." Once he finished talking, he closed his eyes and started speaking.

"Coolo guso hans liftia namo."

As soon as the guild master finished his odd words a pink light swirled around use for a few seconds before disappearing. "There now it should be about twenty-four before the Changeling spell becomes permanent. That should give us plenty of time to-."

Makarov stopped for a second and nearly fell to the ground before grabbing a table for support. Mira and Gray were about to move to help him but he waved them away. "I'm fine. Just not use to Erza's Core and Channels. I don't think it helps that I used a type of magic that her body isn't familiar with. Just give me a minute. You lot need to start figuring out how to reverse this.

Everybody calmed down a bit before we started to discuss what to do. "You already knew about the spell Bishop. Do you know anything else?"

I shake my head at Erza's question, "No, unfortunately, I just happen to read it among a list of known ancient spells. It didn't say much other than what the spell did and that it come from the Kingdom of Dimi and was used as a punishment for criminals."

Everybody seemed to deflate after I said that until Lucy's eyes brightened up. "What about Levy?! She knows a lot about ancient magic and even if she doesn't know how to fix this, she can at least help us find out how to reverse this."

Makarov nodded his head at Lucy's suggestion, "That sounds like a great idea Lucy… you are Lucy, right?" When Lucy nodded her head the Guild Master he turned to the library and shouted.

"Levy I need you out in the common area! We got a bit of a problem going on right now!" I heard a surprised yelp from inside the library and the sound of a few books falling on the floor before I saw Levy jog out with a frantic look on her face.

"Yes, Erza! What's the problem?!"

"Well first off I'm Makarov," At the Guild Masters words Levy gave him a really confused look, "There was an incident with an ancient spell being accidentally cast. Everybody here ended up switching bodies. Erza is in mine, Bishop and Cana switched, Lucy and Gray switched and finally so did Mira and Natsu."

Once he was done talking Macao spoke up, "Hey old man me and Wakaba ended up switching too!"

Makarov looked surprised for a second before rubbing the back of his head. "Really? Kinda didn't notice that you two ended up switching."

While Macao and Wakaba grumbled to the Guild Master, Lucy went up to Levy and took her hands. "Please, Levy you got to help us! I already lost my looks temporarily, I don't want to lose them permanently!"

"Lucy?" Said a still somewhat confused Levy before she shook her head and put on a determined expression.

"Right! My guildmates need me! Where's this spell you read?"

With a quick finger point from Lucy to the paper that was still on the table, Levy got to work as she started examining the contents. While she worked the rest of us took the time to calm down a bit more. Upon looking towards Cana, I saw that she was still staring at her hands, a look of concentration on her face.

"You ok Cana?" At my question, she looked up started for a second before shaking her head slightly and speaking back.

"I'm fine Bish...just still taking this in, I guess. It feels weird being in your body. It feels like I'm wearing another person's skin." I nodded my head in agreement with her words.

"I know what you mean. It just feels... off being in your body. I'm missing part that I'm used to and now have parts that feel out of place." It was taking a lot of while power to ignore the awkward weight on my chest, seriously how does she live with these things?

"What… what if we don't reverse the spell in time? What then? I-I…" The area around her started to get blur as she talked. She looked in shock at her now blurry surrounding before they the blur disappeared.

"Calm down," I said in the best soothing voice I could, "You're using my magic by accident when you're overworking your mind like that but since you don't know how to form illusions it just blurs everything."

She nodded her head and closes her eyes as she calms down. After about a minute she reopens her eyes and smile at me which looked weird and off-putting on my face. "Thanks, Bish I guess I was still in shock." I nodded my head once more at her words but before I could speak Levy decided to address us.

"Ok everyone," She said getting our attention, "Luckily for you all after I lost in the S-class trials I up my training, both for magic and for studying old magic. I'm at least somewhat familiar with this text and I think that I can put together a reverse spell but it's going to be about five or six hours."

"Can't you do it any faster?" Said Natsu still looking very uncomfortable in Mira's body.

Levy shook her head before speaking once more, " I could but in my experience this kind of stuff is very tricky. One wrong word could lead to all of use turning into babies or forgetting who we are entirely. I'm not taking any chances as long as I've got the time to make sure everything is right."

Everyone grumbled a bit about the time but we ended up accepting the answer. Before anyone else could speak up or doing something Makarov spoke.

"Ok everyone let's leave Levy to her work. I want everyone to just go about their day like normal for now. I'm also going to ask that the people who switched bodies stay together. Keep an eye on each other and make sure nothing bad happens. Everyone got that?"

We all nodded as the group started to disperse. I looked over to see Cana with her face in thought as she looked out the window. After a few seconds, her face lit up as she looked like she had an idea. This was proven true when she looked over at me with a mischievous grin that looked just wrong on my face.

I wasn't going to like what she had planned was I?

AN: Just wrapping up the remains of Mammon arc and setting up the next chapter. I wanted a bit of a break before heading into the Phantom Lord arc and I figured the Changeling filler would both be fun and a nice way of developing some characters. Looking forward to writing the next chapter, betting it's going to be fun.

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