(Most of the songs used in this series are composed by Hiroyuki Sawano- creator of the sound track for Attack On Titan and Aldnoah.0)

"AAACKKK STOP CHOKING ME!!!! I'LL COMPLAIN TO THE DRAGON'S RIGHTS BUREAU!!!!"

The dragon squealed as Jake.. or Mizuki as she now was, wrung the dragon by the neck.

"IS THIS YOUR FAULT!!?" Mizuki screamed. "DID YOU TURN ME INTO A GIRL!!!!? HUHHHH!!!? CHANGE ME BACK!!!"

"Please...." the dragon wheezed, his eyes bulging. "Let me... explain... I can't.. breathe.."

Mizuki let go of the dragon, letting it drop onto her bed, breathing hard.

"Thank you.. I could feel myself turning blue for a minute there." The dragon stammered, panting.

"Y-you..." Mizuki growled. "TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON NOW!!"

You're a player of Tag You're Dead." said the dragon irritably. "Why you were selected and how, I have no idea.. but last night your computer should've given you a message, either that or your game station, depending on which platform you were on at the time of the message.

"Message?" said Mizuki.

"Yes. Don't you remember? Tag, you're it?"

Mizuki froze, her mouth opening with horror. "No.. way. That event.. it wasn't.."

"It wasn't part of the game.. or was it? Hmm.. I have no idea." said the dragon. "They don't tell me this stuff.. I'm just an enchanted PlayStation!"

"So when I selected the avatar for the game.." Mizuki muttered.

"You turned into the avatar! That's correct!" said the dragon. "It's your own fault you're a girl!"

Mizuki glared at the dragon.  That wasn't a fair assumption at all. Whatever, or whoever was behind this freaky incident hadn't at all explained in detail what Jake was getting into.

Mizuki's opinion must have been quite apparent on her face, because the dragon waved it's little claws as if to calm her down. "Now now, this situation is unreversable, the transformation's permanent as far as I know. So there's no use crying over it.."

"Fine.. fine.." Mizuki muttered, sitting at her desk.  "So, tell me what this game is all about then."

"Ehem.." The dragon cleared it's throat as if getting ready to rehearse something that it had memorized in preparation for this moment. "Since time immemorial, Role Playing Games, where one played a character or a controller of a character, have been invented to search for human candidates to play the game currently known in the 21st century as Tag You're Dead."

The dragon pointed at the computer. While it used to be strange board games we used during the medieval era.. we've moved on to video games as a quicker way to find candidates.

"And what qualifies a candidate?" Mizuki asked grumpily.

"Dedication to the character that is played, dedication to the game.. etc." said the dragon. "real life Skill or battle prowess isn't much of an issue we consider. For one thing, if the candidate is already skilled in battle, it isn't as funny."

"Funny?" Mizuki growled.

Recognizing the danger signs, the dragon hurriedly continued on.  "Tag You're Dead is a game beings all across the Universe enjoy watching, in fact, humans aren't the only ones that play it..  Characters of all sorts of RPGs engage in a lifelong game of tag which possesses extraordinary benefits as well as deadly consequences."

The dragon held up both paws indicating it's 10 claws. "Every player has 10 lives they are allowed to use. Each time they are killed, they lose one life... if they lose all lives.. they die for real..  And if their life is taken by another player, that player gains one life.

"The player that is killed by another player however, is marked as 'It' as you would say in a normal game of tag.."

"Okay.. so what happens if you're it?" Mizuki asked.

"You'll gain two Lives upon taking a life from another player.. and only the player who tagged you to begin with.. upon retagging the other player.. both players return to their normal pretagging status.. however.. the tagged player must hurry when doing tag backs.." said the dragon. "For until the player is able to tag the one that tagged them every week, the player's life counter will drop by one."

Mizuki's eyes widened. "This is a death game!! Well.. I'm not playing it!!!"

"You have no choice.." said the dragon. "Having plenty of lives to use is the benefit of the game.. being able to try things that would normally kill a person without worrying about death.. ever wanted to sky dive without a parachute? Or see what it's like to behead yourself? Or even undergo a dangerous operation with only 50 percent of success... or do you have terrible cancer? Having 50 lives to spare.. or even a hundred.. the players of this game will do anything to gain lives.. even relentlessly pursue rookies like yourself.."

Mizuki shook her head angrily. "I didn't agree to such a game. It's not like they can tell whose a player and whose not!!! I'll go about my normal.. normal... "

Mizuki had been on the verge of saying 'life'. But she stopped.

She had morphed into a girl.. how the hell was she supposed to go back to school!? Or even face her parents-...then again.. her parents already hated her.. so that was one problem solved.

"If you're wondering about going back to school, that issue's already solved." said the dragon. "Got any family photos in the house?"

Mizuki nodded.

"Go take a look at them!"

Mizuki was stunned in the next few minutes to find that all the family pictures of a young Jake had been replaced with pictures of Mizuki.

A 4 year old Jake opening up a teddy bear for Christmas was replaced with a 4 year old Mizuki opening up a plush pony.

"All memories of Jake whatever your last name was.. all of that has been deleted from everyone in your family ever met, except for those you know who might have been playing the Game of course. " said the dragon.  "Your parents don't know you exist, and all pictures and articles pertaining to childhood memories have been altered..That's all to keep the Games a secret from the rest of the planet after all. Your Earth is too primitive to comprehend the Grand Galactic Counsel of Game's decisions on-"

"Then that's great. That means I can resume my life.. even if it is.. in a less than desirable body.." grumbled Mizuki. "BYE!!"

Mizuki opened her closet and to her horror, she found her clothes had all been replaced by female clothing..

Gritting her teeth and pulling on the female version of her school's red skirt uniform, and trying to ignore the fact she was wearing girl's underwear, she shouldered her bag and walked out the door.

"I FORGOT TO MENTION!!!" the dragon stammered, climbing onto Mizuki's shoulder. "You have re-registered to your school as a New exchange student, Mizuki Tsukoyomi!!! You'll be treated as somebody new and... and DOESN'T THAT BOTHER YOU!? None of your friends will remember you!!! THE OLD YOU!!"

"I don't care.. I never had friends to begin with.." Mizuki growled. "But now I have to get used to the fact that I'll probably be getting PERIODS now!! SO THANK YOUR STUPID FRIGGIN' COUNCIL OF GAMES OR WHATSIT AND GO AWAY!!!"

"I am duty bound to follow you wherever you go." said the dragon. "My name is Soni by the way, normal humans can't see me either.."

"WELL WHOOP DE F*CKING DOO!!" Mizuki roared as she kicked her door open.. to find a silver haired girl there with two long twin tails, dressed in the same school uniform.

"OH crap.." Mizuki stammered. It was her landlord alright. A girl whom Jake had never bothered to get to know the name of.  And further more, Jake was a GIRL now, meaning she must appear as a trespasser, and the 16 year old landlord would probably call the police.."

"H-hello!!" stammered Mizuki. "Landlord!! Er.."

Mizuki wondered if she could fool Landlord into thinking she was Jake's sister.

The girl's eyes widened for a minute, not recognizing Mizuki. Then her eyes fell on the shoulder where Soni was perched.

"Well.. I was just here to collect your rent." said Landlord haughtily. "You know, before we walked to school after all.. care to pay up yet!?"

"It's not due till next month! You know that!!" Mizuki stammered, feeling relief wash over her.

"Well be SURE you pay on time!!" Landlord growled, harrumphing and walking away. "Ya coming idiot!? We've got to get to school!!"

"Wow.. your Council people are thorough.." Mizuki muttered. "I was sure she'd kick me out and call the police!!"

"We make sure the memories of those in your place of residence are altered as well.." said Soni. "But.. something's odd about that one.. did it look like she could see me?"

"How should I know, you're the one whose supposed to be invisible to humans right?" Mizuki said. "Now shut up.. this day's just a whole nightmare waiting to happen and I want to get it over with.."

As Mizuki walked into the streets, making her way to the closest train, she spoke up. "Yo.. Songi.."

"Soni." Soni corrected.

"Yeah that." said Mizuki. "Your people deleted the memories of my parents on me.. and altered the memories of my landlord.. but my school.. why didn't you do the same thing to my school that you did to my landlord? Make them think I was a girl all this time?"

"Memory magic is limited, and less powerful when used on many people.. it was simpler to just wipe away the memories when dealing with your entire extended family, and a large school filled with children." said Soni.  "And please stop acting that way towards me.. I didn't CHOOSE to get this job.. I used to be your PlayStation before you were chosen.. an inanimate object!!"

"Right sorry.. so what is your job?"

"I'm a guardian. I instruct you on the rules of the game and act as a sort of referee." said Soni. "Trust me.. there are tons of ways one can break rules in this game."

"Good thing I'm not playing, so you can just sit back and relax." said Mizuki.

"Keep telling yourself that Mizuki-san.."

"MY NAME IS JAKE!!"

"Really!? Jake the girl! Yes, that's definitely NOT going to make your classmates laugh at you!" said Soni angrily.

"..." Mizuki went silent, Soni had a point here. She struggled to hold back the tears that had been threatening to emerge since the moment she realized what happened in the mirror.  Her entire life had been robbed of her.. all because some alien race somewhere wanted to amuse themselves..  and now.. she had to live her life as a GIRL.. there.. she said it..

Jake never envied females. Apart from bleeding out of their butts every month, there was Pregnancy, not to mention all the EMOTIONS.. emotions just spewing about everywhere!

Jake highly respected girls, mainly for the fact that their lives were so amazingly painful from a biological standpoint. And now he would have to live it out. And to top it off, he didn't know how to go to the bathroom!!

"Fin the Human and Jake the Girl, the fun that never ends, It's Play Tag Time~." sang Soni. "Huh, has a nice ring to it."

When Mizuki got to the station and stepped on the train, she noticed Landlord staring at her from a distance.

Never had this happened before.. and the way Landlord was staring at her was sort of unnerving.

It was a deep glare.. a glare filled with anticipation, as if something exciting was coming.

Mizuki looked away as she held her hand to the pole in the train, and tried to look at the other passengers stuffed in the train.

She immediately regretted it. Most of Jake's male classmates also rode this train, and they were all staring at her with bemused expressions.

She understood of course. Jake would've done the same exact thing when confronted by such a beauty.  As soon she got off the train, she heard murmurs.

"- does that girl go to our school-?"

"-She's so cute!-"

"-Is that hair natural? It's so pretty-"

Mizuki groaned as she dismounted the train. Soni chuckled. "Popular now are we? You did a good job at designing your character."

"Shut up.." Mizuki growled.

Mizuki dismounted the train and tried to ignore everyone staring at her all the way back to school.

Sakura High School was a unique school near the center of Akihabara, which meant it was always in the presence of Anime style culture, and during their free times, students could go out to maid cafes, manga shops and etc.

In fact, quite a few students worked at the maid cafes and diners.

Jake worked a diner near the edge of Tokyo however, So rarely ever socialized with his other working classmates.

The school was an expensive one, with high class students only accepting high class grades. Many Japanese Majors who dual enrolled in college came to this school to study, Jake included.  Due to the expensiveness of this school, the kids who attended tended to come from immensely rich families.

Jake was the exception. Between the costs of travelling to Japan and the costs of housing here, he was the very definition of Japan's stereotypical Poor High School Student.

Or.. now.. She was.

Indeed, it was as Soni told her. It seemed as if Jake Sanders had been wiped from the memories of every person in school.

Every time Mizuki brought up Jake's name on her way to the class room, everyone would give her a confused look..

Though of course they could just be distracted by her beauty... and indeed many of the guys were responding with a "Ugha?" instead of a "I don't know who that is."

 Of course nobody saw Soni, just as Soni said himself. He would chatter about to Mizuki and nobody would take notice..

Later.. Mizuki found herself standing in front of the class that she had attended this past year, and being introduced as a new student.

"This is Tsukoyomi Mizuki." The teacher said lazily, sipping her coffee with a rather unenthusiastic sigh. "Write your name.. and well.. you know the drill right?"

Mizuki attempted to stop herself from rolling her eyes.. Gon-sensei was always a rather lazy and uninteresting teacher.

She had to stop herself from writing Jake Sanders, hastily erasing a J before she wrote out a combination of Kanji and Katakana.

"Please treat me well." Mizuki muttered, bowing, attempting to cover up her blushing. The skirt on her uniform felt WAY too breezy.

Landlord was sitting up in the front, staring intently at Mizuki. However, she wasn't the only one.

Many of the guys were dumbfounded, their jaws hanging open.

The girls on the other hand looked like they were watching a romance movie, their eyes were sparkling, their hands were clasped together, staring at Mizuki with admiration.

"Sooo CUUUTE!" Squealed one girl.

"So COOOL!" stammered another girl.

"Sit next to me!!" stammered a girl.

"NO NEXT TO ME!!" yelled a blushing guy!!"

"NO ME!!"

"Come on! I've got a space here!!"

"NO SIT NEXT TO ME!!"

"Hey! I'm sitting here!!"

"You can move!! COME ON OVER HERE!!"

Everyone jumped out of their seats and began crowding Mizuki, causing her to be sandwiched in a terrible crowd of overenthusiastic fans.

"YOW!!" Soni screeched as somebody accidentally grabbed his tail and pulled.

"Oi!! Sensei!! HELP!!"

"Oh... no.. stop." said Gon-sensei muttered. "Don't do that.. kids.. oi... eh.. Sorry, they won't listen.."

"YOU JERK!!!" Mizuki screamed as she was buried in her fellow classmates.

Some time later, Mizuki managed to sit down at her desk.. and once more was lost in the drone of her teacher's unenthusiastic lectures.

For a minute, Mizuki forgot all her troubles. Everything felt too normal to remember that she was now a female weirdo.  She even turned to one of Jake's old acquaintances to comment on something they had been talking about the other day.. only to realize by that acquaintance staring at her breasts that 'Mizuki' didn't know the guy.

Remembering her new female identitiy, Mizuki clammed up and resumed staring at her book. And still as she began copying down notes, the Landlord continued to stare at her, fingering one of her twin tails.

Finally, after what seemed like a lunch that took forever.. and a few more lessons, Mizuki found herself running out of the classroom, sighing with relief that she was finally able to leave.

"I thought that would never be over." Mizuki groaned. "Now.. I just need to... to.. OW!!! Hey! What the hell are you gripping my shoulder like that for!?"

Soni was gripping Mizuki's shoulders with her claws, quivering, his yellow eyes were wide with what appeared to be anticipation.

Mizuki slowly looked at where Soni was staring.. There was her landlord.. standing about 20 feet away.. and.. she had a dragon on her shoulder too..

This dragon was blue, and had an X shaped scar over one eye and a rather larger overbite. On it's side was an Xbox logo.

The blue dragon fluttered it's wings impatiently. "Well, she does seem to be one.. a rookie though, I can tell her guardian was only just born.."

"Well well well.." said Landlord with a sinister grin as a strange pressure began to explode from her. "lucky me.. somebody I get to rip a few Lives from.."

"D-damn it!!!" Soni stammered. "I warned you didn't I!? I WARNED YOU THEY WOULD COME FOR YOU!!"

Mizuki stared at Soni fearfully. "Wait.. that's a GAMER!?"

"The name's Destra!!!" said Landlord with a confident laugh. "And never did I imagine I'd get to kill my own tenant!!"

"Hold it Destra." said the blue Xbox dragon. "She's a rookie. rules dictate that I ensure you give her a penalty, allow her 5 seconds to commence her transformation to battle mode before you start."

"B-Battle mode!?" Mizuki stammered. "H-How do I do that!?"

5.." said the blue dragon, beginning the countdown.

"I-I.. don't remember!!" said Soni.

"4." continued the blue dragon.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW!!?" Mizuki screamed. "SOME GUARDIAN YOU ARE!!!"

"JUST RUN!!!" Soni squealed. "EVEN WHEN NOT IN BATTLE MODE YOU'VE GOT 10 times the strength and agility of a fully healthy human!! GO!!!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Mizuki began to run, screaming..

1.." finished the blue dragon. "Eh? She's running..

https://youtu.be/DVVn64_gzSI

"It doesn't matter.. it's not my fault her pitiful guardian can't even teach her the basics of battle!" said Destra, raising a hand to the sky. "SPRING THROUGH THE SKIES!!! ALEXANDRIA!!!!!"

Immediately, a tremendous light exploded around Destra, turning into a sphere of pure electricity.. when the sphere disappeared.. Destra was wearing a white zipper hoodie jacket over black t-shirt that stopped around her midriff, with short shorts.. On the back of her jacket. was a black lightning bolt.. her ears were now pointed. 

In her hand, was a bow made of pure electricity..

"WHAT THE-!?" Stammered Mizuki as she ran. "That's an Elf Mage Archer, from the Star Light Hills DLC in Hall of Myths!! No way!! She made an avatar from the DLC!?"

"NO TIME TO BE IMPRESSED!!! RUN FASTER!!!" Soni exclaimed.

Soni was right about her physical attributes, Mizuki found that she was easily able to outspeed a passing car nearby.

"Please don't make this boring.." sighed Destra as she aimed her electric bow at Mizuki's retreating back. She put a two fingers into the bow and drew them out.. pulling out a shaft of pure lightning with a massive arrowhead on the end..

"Thunder Shot."

She let it go, and there was a static 'twang' sound.. and the lightning arrow exploded forward in the form of an electric beam of light.

Mizuki tripped, and it was a good thing she did, because just as she fell forward on her hands. the electric beam exploded through a house.. blasting a molten hole straight through it.. and then decimating a nearby garden with immense destructive power..

Mizuki stared at the devastation, an overwhelming fear clenching her heart.

She couldn't do this..

She wasn't a fighter..

And yet here she was.."

Mizuki turned slowly to look at Destra who was walking forward at a leisurely pace, aiming her bow once more.

"Hold on a sec.. I guess luck got ya that time." said Destra. "I won't miss now.. Thunder Shot."

Three more beams of lightning blasted from Destra's bow, and Mizuki was forced to leap high into the air, landing on a nearby bus, as the street exploded into three molten craters.

Mizuki tumbled on the bus roof for a second.. and managed to regain balance.. standing up shakily.

"Nice jump."

Mizuki screamed and staggered back. Destra had just appeared on the other end of the bus roof, standing there calmly.

Destra grinned deviously as she once more aimed her bow at Mizuki. "Jeez Jake.. I'm going easy here you know. Enemy or not, you're still my tenant.. so I'm trying to give you a little leeway to fight back... but it's become pretty apparent now.. you're nothing but a stinking coward..."

That struck a nerve.

Mizuki glared at Destra. "Shut up.. I'm not a coward!!!"

"What do you call that just now then? Running from me.. screaming.. quivering like a cat that just got a shot from a fireman's hose?" Destra shook her head. "You're a disgrace to the Game! Why the Game Masters chose you.. I will never know!!! Better I kill you 10 times over the next week and end your pitiful life!!!!"

Destra fired another Thundershot from her bow.. and Mizuki once more leapt into the air to avoid the blast that cratered another street.

This time she landed on the passing train, and Destra followed, jumping with immense speed and ease.. electricity issuing from her body allowing her to land lightly without trouble.

It was the Pledge Monorail, a train that had been built in 2020 to commemorate the Pledge Company that had designed most of the new technology in the city.

As the train shot in between the buildings of Tokyo.. Destra aimed her bow at Mizuki again. "So.. I guess this is goodbye..  till I kill you tomorrow that is.."

"A coward..?" Mizuki whispered to herself.. is that.. what I look like? No... NO!! I REFUSE TO BE SEEN AS A COWARD!!!"

Mizuki clenched her fists and screamed into the air.. her shout echoing through the city as an amazing pressure exploded from her body. "I REFUSE!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Wha-?" Destra staggered back in surprise. "What the-!?"

Suddenly, it was as if Mizuki knew what to do.. the words coming to her lips as naturally as breathing.

She raised a hand to the sky. "FREEZE MY FOES!! GRINDLEHEIT!!!"

There was a burst of frozen light in the sky, and the sword Grindleheit fell out of the sky and into Mizuki's hand. The moment she clutched it.. a tremendous power began to flow through her.

(the first 3:30 of the video is Mizuki's transformation theme.)

https://youtu.be/nFf_KZ9Kgbo

Immediately.. Mizuki's eyes glowed with a brilliant cold freezing light.. a massive blizzard began to sweep through the sky and through Mizuki's very body.. swirling around her in a cyclone of freezing air.

Ice began to coat the roof of the train...

"Y-YOU DID IT!" stammered Soni. "B-but how!?"

Then a massive icy swirl swept up around Mizuki coating her in a giant diamond shaped chunk of ice that beautiful to behold, reflecting the setting sun like a prism, scattering rainbow light everywhere.

Then the ice shattered, and Mizuki emerged from within. She was wearing the sailor uniform and black coat of that her gaming avatar originally wore, Grindleheit was in her right hand.. letting out a deep chill.

A shockwave exploded from her as the cold air dispersed and she stood up straight to glare at Destra, Soni on her shoulder.

Destra stared at Mizuki for a minute, then she grinned. "Now... THAT's got my blood pumping."

Mizuki didn't say a word in response.. instead, just like a cold hearted ice demon.. she fixed her eyes upon her prey.... and charged for the kill..