So, Jinx and Kid Flash went back to their room and made love several times before finally dozing off and spooning amidst their expensive linens into the morning. As always, he loved holding his sorceress wife, her 95 degree body temperature like the cool side of the pillow next to him. She delighted in the warm soft skin of her 101 degree body temperature husband.
And as always, she got up first. Knowing that the usual early morning tower monitor, Robin, was not likely up on the 14th floor watching over things, Jinx gently but quickly slid out from under Wally's arm and pulled on some clothes before marching up to the communications center. As she'd guessed, Robin was not there, in either sex. So, she went through the checks of every law enforcement agency the way she knew Robin did and was almost finished, just having to review some mundane Interpol communiques when the air in the tower hallway outside the great room suddenly shimmered white for a few seconds. Then there was a puff of smoke and when it dissipated, there was Zatanna.
"Z!" called Jinx, grinning at the sight of her mentor as she made her way over to her.
"Jinx! I got your message about the accidental spell effects," said Zatanna walking to meet her half way. "I came as soon as I could. I think I know how to reverse it so just gather everyone here and-"
Jinx chuckled. "Uh, well, about that, Z, we weren't sure when you'd show and everyone was desperate to get out of their temporary bodies, especially all those Roys. So we all just . . "
"You . . ? Oh," Zatanna's eyes suddenly went wide.
Jinx nodded sheepishly.
Zatanna sighed with a contemplative look on her face. "Well, if it really was old Uru . . "
"I'm almost positive it was. That's why the spell predicate caused extension of it to everyone else in the tower."
Zatanna nodded slowly. "Do you remember the incantation?"
"Uh huh," said Jinx repeating it all from memory till finishing with " . . mahnee tixonamas feg zelthor!"
Zatanna rolled her eyes. "A conjugation like that and she thought it was new Uru just because of the font in the spell book?! Seriously?"
Jinx walked a fine line, not wanting to through Raven under the bus too much but knowing she did deserve a little Trailways tire tread across her face. "I asked her if she was sure. It didn't seem quite right to me but I could have been more forceful, too."
"It's okay," said Zatanna with a pat of Jinx's shoulder. "You're both learning. You've just got to do a little better."
Jinx nodded, happy that Z was taking this in stride.
"So . . you just had a tower wide night of Titan boinking?"
Jinx shrugged. Yeah.
The two sorceresses went into the kitchen and brewed up some tea. As they sipped, seated at the big leather banquette table, Jinx filled in Z on all the details.
". . . all 11 Roys!" Z had guffawed.
"And I think there were another 3 or 4 members that he'd boinked where he hadn't been the lover they most wanted to understand. Bee and Star to name just a couple. He must've tried to rope me and Wally into a three way a dozen times. There is no limit to that boy's urge to merge."
Zatanna just smirked, opening her mouth to say something before eventually thinking better of it and saying "Nope. I'm gonna keep it to myself. Where's Wally right now?"
"Down in our room. I always get up before he does."
"And using the physical spell reversal allowed by old Uru didn't have any side effects for you two, right?"
"Other than my husband now knowing exactly how everything he does in bed feels for me and making our sex even better? Nope. No side effects."
They shared a chuckle.
When they finished their tea, Zatanna gestured for Jinx to slide out her side of the semi-circle leather seat. "Go and get Wally up and have him zip everyone to the appropriate room. Then, after they dress, let's all meet over in the great room."
"You're gonna make sure they don't kill Roy . . or Raven?"
"A little of that. And make sure there aren't any side effects."
A few minutes later, Jinx had Wally out of bed and then in his Kid Flash suit. He sped over to door of the room where the orgy had taken place and took a deep breath before vibrating through into the room.
He wasn't sure what he was going to see. There were naked bodies all over floor and on the bed but, to his great relief, they weren't almost all Roys and they were all still asleep. He heaved a sigh of relief and then tried to figure out in what order to do this. The bodies were mostly in pairs, spooning. For such a post bacchanalia scene it actually looked quite innocent.
He decided to remove the girls first. He gently picked Arrowette up off the floor, held her bridal style and vibrated through the wall with her then zipped down the hall and vibrated through the wall of her room delicately laying her down in her bed and covering her. She stirred slightly before he vibrated back out through the wall.
He did this with all the Titan girls, being as gentle and respectful as possible while carrying his naked female teammates. He just slung the Titan boys, Hot Spot, Speedy, Aqualad and, sort of Titan, Red X over his shoulder and brought them back to their rooms laying them down on their beds.
That done, he reported back up to Jinx in the great room and, seeing Zatanna, zipped over to her giving her a hug. "Z!"
She hugged him back, a bit surprised at first as usual. Most all the Justice Leaguers were so into their grim and reserved images. The Flashes could be a nice change. Then she questioned him about what he'd seen. Did everyone look normal? Did anyone say anything? Is everyone accounted for?
He nodded 50 times in a second. As much as he could tell, everything was back to normal.
"Okay, then go check on the couples that reversed places," said Jinx.
"How?"
"Go in their rooms and see if they've changed back."
"What? No way!" he protested. "With speedster power comes great responsibility. I'm not supposed to do stuff like that. Besides, let's say I see a Beast Boy and a Raven. How do i know who's in which body? They could be the same as last night or back to normal and I wouldn't be able to tell."
"He's got a point," said Zatanna. "Let's just wait a little longer and then call for everyone to go up to meet up here and we'll ask them."
Jinx and Kid Flash nodded assent and he zipped off to the kitchen where he proceeded to eat three breakfasts worth of french toast with ham.
A half hour later, Zatanna took the microphone at the communications center desk. Jinx showed her the sequence of buttons to push. "Attention all Titans! Attention all Titans!" her voice could be heard booming forth from the speakers in the hallways. "This is Zatanna of the Justice League. You've all been through two significant magical transformations in the last couple days. Please get dressed and report to the great room up on the 14th floor in ten minutes, I repeat, in ten minutes. We want to make sure there are no lingering side effects. That is all."
A few minutes later, heroes started filtering out of the elevator and stairways into the hall. First out of the elevator were Hot Spot, Kole, Pantha, Beast Boy and Raven. Every minute or so, another load of Titans stepped off the elevator and marched down to the great room. There wasn't a lot of rancor. Everyone seemed a little embarrassed at what they'd just been through and just happy to be back to normal.
Finally, just before the 10 minutes were up, Speedy stepped off the elevator, his trademark smirk in place and a dozen different conversations hushed as angry glances shot his way. But before any recriminations could fly, the ding of the bell on the elevator announced the arrival of one last group of passengers.
It was Starfire and . . Robin. But it was a Robin unlike the one they knew. This Robin looked like maybe the big brother of theirs. Eyes went wide and jaws dropped at the sight of this 6 foot tall Robin with shoulder length hair, just as slender as ever but now too big for that uniform, the cuffs of the pants showing skin at his ankles, the seam of the pants giving way, the shoulders of his top torn and with holes poked holes in his green gloves for his longer fingers.
"Hi everybody. . . . I-I just woke up this way," he said in a much deeper voice than what had been normal for him.
"Um, that's a side effect,Z," said Beast Boy pointing to Robin and eliciting chuckles all around.
As the others were all crowding around their suddenly taller leader, Zatanna addressed the group. "Please, Titans, do any of the rest of you also feel changes?"
"I want to kick the ginger archer's ass even more than before," muttered Argent to widespread grumbled agreement.
"Am . . am I gonna stay like this?" Robin asked Z gesturing to his new body.
"Do you want to?"
"Well, yeah," he quickly answered. "It felt like I'd never get taller than five seven. I thought I'd never get my growth spurt," he said looking around the room and noting that he was now as tall as Beast Boy, taller than Starfire, Raven and Jinx and nearly as tall as Kid Flash and Red X.
"The growth spurt was waiting for him to experience the complete sexual satisfaction," said Starfire with a nod of her head.
"Which he only did . . . as a woman?" muttered Raven to guffaws.
"The Speedy and I made him scream," nodded Starfire again.
Kid Flash and Jinx advanced on the still smirking archer. "You took advantage of him like that?!" shouted an outraged Kid Flash and he punched Speedy knocking him to the black marble floor. Jinx fired up pink energy from one finger tip and was about to blast Roy when he threw up a hand and pleaded.
"No! I was gonna. But when I got to the door to his room I realized I shouldn't but he . . she . . Robin dragged me in."
"You seriously want us to believe that someone, anyone, had to force you to have sex with them?" asked Jinx still brandishing hissing pink energy from one finger.
"It's true," came the deep voice of Robin from behind them. "When I was Star I-I couldn't control myself."
Zatanna stepped forward and pulled heroes away from Speedy who now got to his feet. That was when she noticed.
"Oh gods," she whispered looking at the teen archer. "You have a spell mask. How did I not see it before?"
"A what?!" he asked.
"He has a spell mask," repeated Zatanna. "Can you see it," she asked looking to Jinx, Raven and Argent in turn, the three sorceresses in the group. "He has a spell mask. Look at him just off center, like doing a magic eye."
The three sorceress all stepped forward to be closest to Roy and stared at him intently.
"I don't see it," admitted Argent.
"It's fading every second now," said Zatanna. "It must have re-set after the transformation. Raven," she directed. "Make a background of pure black energy behind him."
Raven did as told, putting up a jet black wall of energy behind the archer.
"Now, Speedy. Turn a quarter turn to your right."
With that, Jinx, Raven and Argent could see a faint and diminishing goat mask in front of Speedy's face though none of the others could.
"He does!" gasped Jinx.
"What's there, hon?" asked Kid Flash.
"It's a goat mask. Its disappearing but it's still there."
"I don't see anything."
"It's almost gone and if you're not used to looking for things crossing into the ethereal plane you can easily miss it," said Jinx.
"What's it mean?" he asked, voicing the question for everyone else.
"It means he's had a spell over him. Possibly for a long time now," said Zatanna gesturing for Raven to stop projecting black energy behind the archer.
Speedy shook his head. "I've never fought any wizard or magician or whatever who ever put any-any," he made rabbit ear quotation marks with his fingers "spell mask on me."
She looked him right in the eye from two feet away. "You honestly don't remember someone casting a spell on you?"
He looked at her like she was crazy.
"What? No. I'm not like the nerd Flashes getting myself turned into puppets and shit."
The other Titans smiled at Kid Flash grinding his teeth.
"It's definitely a mask of a goat's face. From some of the markings I'd say it was of American Indian origin, Navajo," added Raven.
"What'd you say?" asked a suddenly interested Roy.
"I said I think it was a Navajo mask," said Raven.
"I lived with the Navajo for two years," said Roy. "What does this-this mask that no one can see look like?"
Kid Flash zipped away from them and a second later was back with one of Jinx's oversized sketch pads and a pencil. She started sketching from immediate memory, recreating the mask the sorceresses had seen. Everyone watched her drawing, creating with just a few lines the image of the face of a goat that they'd seen in front of Speedy's face.
Roy turned to Raven, "What . . what does a spell mask like that do?"
She shrugged. "It's hard to say. It might be the ongoing form of a spell cast on someone. It could be simply symbolic as a sort of a marker for someone with abilities in sorcery to identify you."
"Why a goat?" asked Kid Flash.
Raven rolled her eyes. "Well, symbolically, a goat stands for unconstrained appetite."
Speedy patted his tight 8 pack abs, obviously not the product of overeating. "Hey!"
"Sexual appetite, primarily," continued Raven, "with a lesser association with food. Wanna contest that?"
The entire gathering of Titans gave Speedy hard looks that left no doubt whether they thought the primary symbolism was apt.
He looked down, embarrassed and was saved from further scorn by Jinx stepping forward with her sketch. Raven glanced at it as she went by her. "Yup. That's it." She stepped next to Roy and flipped it up to face him.
"Have you seen this before?"
He examined it closely but said "No, never."
Zatanna narrowed her eyes, clearly calculating things. "Yor, rebmemer woh ouy tog ruoy lleps ksam!" she called out in that slightly dramatic delivery she gave to most of her reverse spells.
"Are you still sure?" she asked him.
He started to utter another denial. "N-" but immediately caught himself. "Oh my god," he whispered, adding "Red Owl."
"Who's Red Owl?" asked Jinx.
"She was the tribe shaman's daughter," said Speedy. "She . . she wanted to go out with me but I was seeing Blue Sparrow. I wasn't interested in Red Owl. I . . I told her that," said Speedy starting to whisper now at the return of memories that had been beyond his recall for years.
"I-I told her that I wouldn't go with her that I . . . that I wasn't looking for anything but the girl I cared for."
He was silent a few seconds.
"And then?" asked Jinx.
"And then the . . the next night . . in the middle of the night, I woke up to the sound of her laughing. I woke up and there was something on my face. That-that mask was on my face. And I pulled and pulled but I couldn't get it off and she just kept laughing at me. Blue Sparrow wasn't in my hut. She'd gone home earlier that night. It was just me and Red Owl. And I looked in my mirror and the-the crazy freaking mask was me. When I opened my mouth the goat mouth opened. When I blinked the goat eyes blinked. I felt my face and it was alive like it was my face. I-I had a goat face."
"She just kept laughing at me and I got really angry. I told her I ought to smack her but . . . she said that if I did I'd never get it off because she had cast a spell on me. She said she'd turned me into a goat, which was crazy since I could see the rest of me and I was still me. But I had the face of a goat. A freaking goat! And she said I'd become completely a goat in the next day."
"Wait, let me guess," Jinx interrupted. "She offered to remove the mask saying you only had to accede to some part of the spell, right?" asked Jinx.
". . . yeah . . . How did you know?"
"It's what it looks like," nodded Argent.
"I was shaking her by the shoulders. I told her to get the stupid thing off me. And-and she said that she would . . . only . . . I-I had to repeat some exact sentence . . . "
"With something about accepting the underlying spell?"
"Yeah, I remember something about accepting some . . . some navajo words I wasn't completely sure what they meant."
"And the mask just went away,right?" suggested Jinx.
"Yeah, it did," said Roy snapping out of it and looking directly at Jinx. "It just sort of disappeared like smoke in a light breeze and I touched my face and I was me again."
"But you weren't really, were you?"
He shook his head with a very long sigh.
"That's when you started seducing guys, girls, everyone you could, right after that, wasn't it?"
"I-I banged my friend Leaping Lynx. He-he was like a brother to me and so cute. All of a sudden I-I just had to have him. What a sell job that took! Afterward I couldn't believe what I'd just done . . with another boy! But I did a girl later that day and another the next morning. I . . I had to have everyone good looking. That's what it felt like. Everyone. Absolutely everyone. It didn't matter if I did some hot chick. If another hot one or a good looking guy walked by as I was leaving her room, I had to have them. I-I couldn't get enough of it. I saw Red Owl the day I left the reservation. She said 'So long tlizi', the navajo word for goat."
"So that's why this you've been fucking everyone with a pretty face within a thousand meter radius these last few years?" said Argent.
"I . . guess so," said Speedy suddenly brightening at the prospect that maybe he could get out from under his complete sexual mania. He turned to Zatanna.
"Can you get it off?"
"Well, because she got you to accede to the spell under false pretenses, not making it clear to you what you were leaving in place, it should be possible to remove the spell," said Zatanna.
"So I . . won't be so out of my mind horny all the time?" he asked.
"You're still a 19 year old boy," answered Zatanna to chuckles from all the girls. "But not as much as before, no." Zatanna.