Watching Filthy Frank, I got an inspiration.

It's just a prank, sis

In magic high schools, including our Academy of Magic of Japan, students are encouraged to do any type of magic to each other. Naturally, there are even pranksters who do magical pranks to people, bringing them discomfort, pain, death or even long term or eternal imprisonment (turning to stone and similar). And then they put it up on their social media for laughs. Why do wizards to bad magic things? Because magic is highly addicting and so is being mean. Just like most of you are good people who eat animal products, wizards are good people who sometimes do bad magic things to others.

Main reason for the encouragement to do bad magic to each other is to motivate magic students to learn protection against magic. After all, “normal” people don’t believe in magic, most of them can’t even do it, and worst yet, they are completely helpless against enormous powers of magic.

***

A famous YT prankster called Saito has brown spiky hair and does magical pranks. He is mostly known as a magician, and some even say his victims are actually actors. But what do YT people even know? In reality, he really does magic pranks.

It was a rainy spring day in a suburb that was mainly inhabited by magic highschoolers. It was basically a high school dorm, but with houses and apartments instead.

“This prank included a lot of preparation.” Said Saito for a video. “There is this girl called Chika and… I basically had to stalk her to find out what clothes she is wearing most often. So I made a copy of one of her favorite T-shirts, and I enchanted it. Now… She is wearing it today. As she will be coming home from her classes, I will teleport all her clothes away from her, so she will be naked. Then I will teleport THIS T-shirt in place of her real T-shirt. I will also need to teleport her bottom clothes little further away so she takes the T-shirt first, because it’s raining so she will be cold and in hurry. And when she takes on the cursed T-shirt… you will see what it will do to her!”

Then they finally saw Chika, a brunette with straight hair. Camera guy hid in a corner so she wouldn’t see him, and Saito was on the other side of the street, looking at her, waiting for her to get to a desired point where he would be able to do his prank properly. She wore her autumn clothes, including a light jacket.

Then, at one point, all of her clothes suddenly disappeared from her body, and appeared behind her. All of them.

“HEY!” She screamed.

“Shit…” Commented camera man. “He failed to teleport her pants and underpants away from her. Let’s hope she doesn’t take them first because…”

But then her pants were mysteriously kicked away from her other clothes. The invisible kick had also separated the T-shirt from the jacket.

“Fuck you!” She swore at Saito across the street. “You boys are such a bother! Don’t you know how fucking freezing it is in the rain?!”

She quickly took the T-shirt and wore it.

“Oh my, she is wearing it! Good! Now it’s only a matter of time!” Commented camera man.

She then faced Saito, her feet way separated from each other, her hands on her waist. As she was naked, wearing only T-shirt, it was a pretty hot sight, although she as angry.

“You like what you see?!” She angrily asked, as Saito was able to see everything not covered by the T-shirt. Although shaking from cold, she kept her threatening stance. “Do you like it?! Enjoy it while you can, because I will fuck you up! I will find out where you live! You don’t know who y…”

Then she stopped talking. She even stopped moving.

“It’s starting…” Camera man said. He got camera close to her, as Saito crossed the street to be in the picture again.

“She took the bait! Her body is now turning to stone thanks to the cursed T-shirt! Oh my!” Saito said for the camera. “We didn’t expect… We didn’t expect the pose to be this good! Look at her! Oh my, just like in an erotic statue museum! She is wearing only a T-shirt!”

As Chika-chan and the cursed T-shirt were getting grayer and grayer, she was panicking in her thoughts. ‘What?! Why?! Why did you do that?! My sight is fading… Why do you mess with that?!! This is simple sealing!!! Irreversible!!! I can never be turned back now!!!’ She was in complete shock. ‘It’s cold… You could have at least done this in a warmer weather!! But… Why??? Why would you do something so horrible to me??? Don’t you understand that this is permanent??? I will never reincarnated again!!! You cursed me for all eternity!!!’

To explain to you the severity of the situation… Thing called ‘simple sealing’ turns a living being into a non-living matter. Matter that can’t imitate a living organism. It doesn’t work for all materials. For example, if she was turned to wood, she wouldn’t be permanently sealed.

But once a person is quickly turned into material such as stone or silicone, the soul can’t unbind itself in time. Being tied to material not natural for the soul, the soul becomes completely bound to the material. There is no way ever that a soul can be separated from it, not magically, not even if the material was broken in pieces or chemically or nuclearly changed. Since soul’s sensory preceptors are in a specific state as it is happening, they become locked in to that state during their binding. For example, if you were hot as you were turned to stone, you would remain feeling hot. The only exception are senses of sight and hearing, which fade.

Fully bound soul does not affect the world around it, and cannot be affected by the world around it. The soul still oscillates, which is different physics than ours, and it can only be detected and visualized with a device called chakrogram, described in ‘Introduction to Sealing’ story. If the statue’s material was a vital substance in your body, for example salt, you could consume it, and the presence of a human soul would not affect you in any way, because it is bound too tightly. It would feel and act and go through your body like ordinary salt.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have just pranked Chika-chan!” Said Saito. “Now she will be living stone forever! Worse yet, she will feel cold rain on her body, which is extremely uncomfortable. And she will remain naked haha! That all must be really messed up! But hey, it’s just a prank.”

After catching every angle of statue of Chika, our prankster duo left the scene, and Chika remained there, completely colorless, completely motionless. In the evening the rain stopped and her fellow colleagues from the suburb had seen her statue.

“Chika-chan…” One of her actual friends worried. “Why? Who did this to you?”
“It must be some pranksters or something… She should have looked after herself. Now she can never change back.” A random girl said.
“This is too lewd for the streets. I need to call someone.” Another girl said.

From then on, Chika was just a statue. Blind, deaf, feeling constant cold. Even when she dried up, she felt cold water all over her body, and her weight under her feet, because that’s what she felt the moment she started turning. She knew that now everyone could see the… the consequence of her only wearing a T-shirt and nothing else. You can imagine her thoughts of despair, embarrassment, regret and panic, or… You can’t! Imagine if you were condemned to be freezing in the rain, literally endlessly, without a possibility to move a muscle. That’s how she feels. Just like she said, she would never reincarnate again.

In normal life, everything has a beginning and an end. But not in the life of a person petrified through ‘simple sealing’. Not even for those who were petrified under the influence of a volcano. For them and our poor Chika-chan, there is only one infinitely small moment repeating itself, not for thousand years, not for millions of years, but for all eternity.

And that is the guilty pleasure of being a wizard. You do things that are way more horrible than locking animals up until you kill them. But just as you can be a good person and eat animal products, a wizard can be a good person while doing way worse things to their fellow human beings.

***

That summer our pranksters’ prankster lives were coming to an end. But they had decided to do some more – not for the money, but for the joy of bad magic.

“So, a lot of parents are after us…” Said Saito for the camera. “Which we expected. You know, for pranking their daughters and some of their sons with simple sealing. If they did that to my little cousin, I would feel just the same. We might have to kill ourselves soon, so let’s do a few more pranks this summer and then we’re out.”

Then he went to a stand with some rocks.

“It’s early morning,” he continued, “so no one is here, but later it could be crowded. This looks like an artistic stand full of rocks. But it is a vibration stand. These guys are going to demonstrate how sand is made from rocks. They’re gonna vibrate those rocks until they break into sand. There’s this girl, Mizuki, who doesn’t know that. And we’re gonna prank her.”

“Some of you know that someone can temporarily pose as a statue. A thing called ‘delayed-binding transformation’ is done to them, which is pretty complicated, so we bought this expensive tiny vial of cursed water that does that to a person. Hopefully we weren’t scammed. Anyway, for those of you who haven’t had that in sealing classes, you need to know it’s a type of transformation and sealing that doesn’t immediately bind the soul to the material, so you can turn a person back from it. But after an amount of time, 6 hours with this vial, if you don’t turn them back, it’s just like simple sealing – their soul binds and they can never leave.”

In this realm, a soul cannot really go through walls. So, if a soul was trapped in a room without a gap, it would remain there until released. So, when a person is turned to stone or something, and the binding is delayed, the soul cannot leave the concrete. The binding to the matter still exists though, and it is strong. For example, if you broke a statue in half and turned the person back, you would get a body ripped in half and the person would bleed out. Unless certain time had passed. Then the delayed binding expires and the person is fully bound to the statue, just like in ‘simple sealing’.

“There is this thing called ‘posing challenge’. You do a delayed-binding transformation to a person that consented, and they remain like that for an amount of time, and then then you turn them back. It is a challenge because, when a person is petrified, they totally freak out. My friend behind the camera and I tried that once with each other, it was a total shocking nightmare! You can only imagine how those sealed FOREVER feel.”

“So this girl, our friend Mizuki, who actually knows us and trusts us, is going to do the posing challenge, for both thrills and money. She doesn’t know of our YT channel, and hopefully she didn’t find out in the meantime. And more importantly, she doesn’t know that this beautifully-looking stand is a huge vibration device, and we will challenge her to do the posing challenge on it! Shes not from around here, and she’s never up to date with events where she goes, so she probably didn’t yet find out the occasion here.”

“All these people will be ordinary. They don’t use magic. Oh… There she is! Hey, Mizuki-chan!”

Mizuki waved at them from the distance, smiling. Her hair was blonde and wavy. They met up at the stage. Mizuki said for the camera:

“Hiii, to whomever is going to watch this! I am going to transform into a stone statue on this stand over there, for everyone to see, and then in 4 hours… 4, right?” She asked, getting the positive answer. “In 4 hours they will turn me back, and I will jump from the sand, and people around will think it’s some kind of a trick.”

Apparently, she was completely clueless about the prank. They agreed she’d get money in advance, so they paid her. She received an equivalent of 500 US dollars. Going on the stage, she was very frightened, which she would mask with feminine laughs and comments like “No, I can’t do it.” In 15 minutes she finally gathered courage to climb on the stage, holding a tiny vial in her hand.

“You will turn me back, right?”
“Yes, after 4 hours.”

Then she drank the vial, threw it to the ground, took a pose and – froze. She stopped breathing, and started becoming grayer and grayer until she really looked like a statue.

Her clothes didn’t turn to stone. So our 2 pranksters took them off.

‘What? What are you doing???’ She thought. ‘This is so embarrassing! Give me back my clothes or I will be really mad!’

That poor embarrassed girl was fully naked. Luckily, she would be just a statue in the eyes of the crowd, and luckily, they weren’t wizards, so she cared less about her honor amongst them. But she was pissed that the 2 friends took liberty of enjoying the sight of her naked body – even though she actually knew it might happen, and she even secretly wanted it. But when things you want finally happen, they sometimes feel the way you did not expect.

As the time went by, there were more and more people around. Mizuki already started begging them to turn her back, of course, in her thoughts. After all, she couldn’t move a millimeter, not even breathe, and if they weren’t around to turn her back, she would remain a statue forever. But she ‘knew’ they were gonna turn her back. Also, unlike fully bound souls, she could use her spiritual receptors to see and hear, so her environment didn’t seem to be darkness and silence.

But in 3 hours it was 10:30 AM, and the occasion started. A guy went in front of the stand, saying in the microphone that they were going to turn that wonderful set of rocks into sand using vibration.

‘What?!’ Mizuki thought. ‘This… That was not the deal!!! Saito!!! Seto!!! Get me out of here!!!’

And then the guy moved from the stand and the vibrations were supposed to start soon.

‘Noo!!! Save me!!! If they turn me into pieces, you will never turn me back in time!!! I will remain sand forever!!!’

And then the vibrations started. Mizuki’s fell to her back. Once she started breaking, she thought ‘NOOOO!!!!! PLEEEAAASEEE NOOOO!!!’ But yup. That was it. Poor Mizuki had been progressively breaking into tiny particles of sand, and our 2 pranksters had been filming it the whole time. Mizuki’s body felt seriously disarranged, although not painful. Just imagine your left arm distributed in 1 meter in radius, in a big mush, part of it inside your chest. It was then that Mizuki felt true terror. Even if they turned her back, she would die, but… They would first need to separate pieces of her statue from other pieces of sand. There was no way for it to be done in time.

She got it. ‘They were pranking me… They are pranksters and I didn’t know!!! Why didn’t I know??? Am I being punished for being so careless my whole life??? Please, turn the machine off!!! I will be trapped forever!!! Please, somebody save me!!!’

The machine had been turned off at 14:00. 6 and a half hours after Mizuki had been transformed. So Mizuki was supposed to be fully bound to the sand that she became. How did she know she had reached a point of no return? Her severely disarranged spiritual vision faded, her spiritual hearing faded, and the feeling of vibration stopped.

“Can you look at that?” Saito said for the camera. “That’s what happens when ‘posing challenge’ goes wrong. Anyway, you should be really careful about who you trust.”
“Yes.” Said camera man. “You should always have someone you full trust around, like a family member or a close friend. But her parents wouldn’t let her, and so wouldn’t her close friends, so she didn’t tell anyone. That’s at least what she told us.”
“Yea, of course they wouldn’t let her. Her friends would probably notify her parents.”
“Sure. They would keep it shut if she would get drunk, take drugs or skip class, but ‘posing challenge’ is too dangerous to be a secret.”

Then the sand was poured in a truck and was furtherly meant to be used for construction or other things, like decoration or beaches. The only thing that matters, from outer perspective, is that Mizuki had turned into simple sand that doesn’t affect its surroundings in any way. Just simple, normal sand, mixed with other sand from that stand.

And for Mizuki, it had become endless prison of darkness and silence, where the only thing she had were her thoughts, and the sensation of being a pile of sand on that stand. The last thing she felt was herself being a pile of sand, so even when she was distributed furtherly, she felt like she was on the same place and in the same “position”. It was a feeling of complete disarrangement, which would follow her for all eternity.

Although despairful, her fate is at least better than Chika’s. At least Mizuki wouldn’t feel cold, which is, let’s be honest, way worse sensation in the long term.

Our 2 pranksters would soon after kill themselves, before parents and friends of their victims have chance for vengeance. Unfortunately for them, once doesn’t remember their past life in their new life. All they did would remain long forgotten for them.