Dance, Dance, Dance

Full Moon

Fifteen - Celebration

By Jo Dora Webster

How will Denise and her friends celebrate winning the competition?

Chapter Fifteen - Celebration

[Saturday Day Fourteen of the Enchantment]

Saturday was to be another travel day with a half day back with a special assembly scheduled at 5:00 PM EDT to celebrate our competing and our winning the competition along with our baseball team qualifying for the Georgia AAAA championship tournament, and the end of School.

While our flight out including the commuter flight only took two hours thirty minutes to get to Denver International Airport due to us breezing through security at Lamur's airport and taking in account the time change which subtracted two hours from the local time that we landed. The return trip was going to be much worse. From Union Station in Denver (which was a five minute ride from the Hotel) the A-Line RTD trip to the airport would take an hour. We needed to allow two hours to get through Security at Denver International Airport, a three hour ride on Southwest, Adding the two hour time difference for EDT local time once in Atlanta, a half hour lay over between planes then a one hour Delta commuter jet ride from Atlanta to Lamur. That totals seven and a half hours to get home in Lamur from the hotel in Denver.

The only solution for us to get back to Lamur in time for our celebration was to take the earliest RTD A-line train at 3AM and count on quick processing through the airport security at that time of day to get on a 5:00 AM MDT flight to Atlanta which would arrive in Atlanta at 10 AM EDT add a 30 minute layover to get to the Delta concourse and an hour commuter flight to Lamur, GA we would arrive at 11:30AM EDT if all things went well. That left time for a three hour nap and an hour to get ready for us to attend our celebration at Lamur Institute at 5:00 PM EDT. Whew!

Back tracking from 3 AM, We wanted to leave the hotel at 2:45 AM MDT which meant getting up at 1:45 AM MDT to get ready to go home.

As it turned out getting up at 1:45 AM MDT we were able to get home by 11:30 AM EDT and we had our three hour nap before the celebration. Star and Kendra stayed with Momma and I so that we would not have to do pick ups and drop offs saving that time. The Dooley's went home to their house and drove themselves to the celebration.

It certainly was different being a celebrant rather than a celebratee. We got to crash through a banner held up by two majorettes and flanked on each side by the pep band which played as we crashed through. Then we got to stand in a place of honor on the stage while the pep band repeated the process for the baseball team who after crashing through their banner came up to the stage to their own place of honor.

The baseball team went first and Theresa Lacon, Lamur Institute Headmistress and Star's Mother, came to the microphone. Thank you Lamur Institute for coming back to school after the last day of classes to celebrate our Baseball team for making the state tournament and our cheerleaders by attending and winning the national competition in Denver, CO. First we celebrate our baseball team. Give a hand for team captain Richard Sanders and coach Charles Nestle who are coming up to receive a certificate of appreciation from Lamur Institute for the accomplishment that they have made the single elimination tournament. They are four wins away from the GA AAAA baseball championship.

"Thank you Headmistress Lacon for this certificate of appreciation. We'll bring it with us to each of the playoff games to remind us of the spirit of the Lamur Institute ARMYdillos student body, who have supported us all the way." said Coach Nestle

"On behalf of the team I want to thank the student body and the cheerleaders who have cheered us on to victory, without them we could not have accomplished getting into the playoffs. Thank you, ARMYdillos!", proclaimed Richard

"Now I would like to bring up, Coach Patricia Russell and Captain Hailey Dooley of the ARMYdillos Cheerleaders. Coach and Hailey came up to the microphone with the Headmistress. Hailey came up with the trophy that we had won by being best of the Division seven Cheerleader competition.

"On behalf of Lamur Institute I would like to present this Certificate of Achievement from Lamur Institute for your achievement."

"Thank you Headmistress, We have a special place at school where we will proudly display this certificate. Thank you ARMYdillos!"

"On behalf of the cheerleaders, we would like to present to Lamur Institute this cup that we were awarded for our win so that it can be displayed in the Institute's trophy case. Thank you ARMYdillos

"On behalf of Lamur Institute I accept the cup, Thank you Hailey and all the cheerleaders. Now as it is traditional the baseball team and cheerleaders will lead a parade on foot through the campus of all the student body and singing the original Lamur High School song."

We all paraded out in formation. As we marched along we sung the school's original song when it was originally Lamur High School instead of Lamur Institute which changed when they added the Junior College classes.

"When the Green and the White are flowing over our dear LHS

Your name in fame we are shouting, As we cheer you to success

As we march unfaltering forward, Your future great we hail,

May your glory never lessen and your courage never fail.

Lamur, Honor

Lamur, Glory

Lamur High School

Lamur High we praise your name

When the Green and the White are flowing over our dear LHS

Your name in fame we are shouting, As we cheer you to success.

As we march unfaltering forward, Your future great we hail,

May your glory never lessen and your courage never fail."

We repeated the song until we formed a loop around the gymnasium. At that point we all cheered and went our separate ways

Momma gathered the cheerleaders around her before she would let them get away. Everyone's parents gathered with them too as they were about to go their separate ways. "Don't forget to mark your calendars for the baseball tournament games. Fortunately Lamur Institute is hosting the tournament in our baseball stadium this year. so we will be getting ready out of our own facility at the Institute. Let's cheer our baseball players on to victory. Now you all can go and celebrate our achievements with your family and friends. That's all!"

Momma and I got home and we both were ready to rest and talk about the last few days. We had a note from Jenifer Sanders that she had swept the home for 'bugs' and had found no audio or video devices. She also assured us that the magical wards around the house were intact so we should be able to talk freely.

"Kiddo, it's a relief that it's finally okay to freely talk. What happened to you, Denise? I can see you are not wearing any makeup but your lack of flaws screams that you do wear some. You also have had your looks and build altered in a subtle manner. What gives?

"Oh Momma I have lots to tell you about what happened on Thursday at the competition when Miss Holt came to get me. She actually turned me over to Dr. Ariel who had a portal waiting generated by Hera back to Georgia and Hera's Shrine. Of course Dr. Ariel getting me directly would have raised too many questions with "The Club". Something wonderful happened. I was taken to an audience with Hera and I remember everything and I did not pass out afterward."

"Is that the real reason that you took two hours to get back?"

"Time flows so much slower in Hera's inner sanctum. It was only 20 minutes in Hera's inner sanctum for me but it was two hours spent in the real world.

"Kiddo I guess that you won't have much use for makeup anymore"

"Hera made me her daughter and removed the enchantment that Erida placed on me and gave me her own enchantment which leaves out the extreme of Identity Death in any consequence even though it still has the same consequences of becoming permanent if you become pregnant or if you are transgender. It's becoming Hera's daughter that gave me my looks now with the change to include some of Hera's features. I have two mothers now, you and Hera. It also made me immune to the PTSD. Hera fixed it so that I will never fear the trauma or have flashbacks. Hera made me overcome my PTSD. That's why I did so good at dress rehearsal."

"Kiddo, Wow! That's what I have been seeing that I could not explain. Your father's resemblance is gone and you now are solely a child of Hera and I. I guess that makes you a demigoddess."

"I think I am a Demigoddess but I have no way of tapping into that power yet unless Hera opens it for me. I think that if I revert to being male then I also revert to being parented by you and Daddy. This may be a temporary gig but that may be what allows me to save 'the club' and get them out of Erida's clutches with lots of help from Hera's Circle and from Hera herself."

"Denise you know that you can come to me with any problem. We'll work it out "

"Momma, I have realized something from spending so much time away from Richard lately. I love him but it's a chaste pure love. Richard's outside is 100% male but inside there are male and female aspects doing battle. It's that battle that allows us to be put in close situations yet not be tempted and if I kiss him it's like kissing Daddy. I feel no lust or sexuality, just chaste pure love."

"Denise, I guess that you are in flux inside too so it may not be until you both get sorted that you will be able to see if this love is going somewhere. Of course even then if Erida is not defeated yet she could use that love against the two of you"

"Thank you, Momma. I enjoy listening to your wisdom. Hey that trans adult friend of yours who is in the Hera circle might want to consider getting the Hera version of the enchantment since there would be no identity death and she could become a real woman.

"Well she already is a real woman but I get what you are saying, Kiddo. Why don't we get into our nightgowns order pizza and turn on PIXL and we can settle in for a evening of romance movies?"

" That's a wonderful idea Momma. Let's do it! I'm off to go upstairs to get ready for bed and slip into my night gown."

We both went upstairs and got ready for bed and got into our nightgowns. Momma had pulled out our convertible couch bed and had made it up when I came back down. I turned on the TV and selected the FRNDLY app and tuned to the PIXL channel that airs great romance movies without commercials 24/7 streamed over the internet . I looked over at Momma's laptop which was displaying the Pizza tracker and I noticed that our Pizza was already on the way to us. Isn't technology wonderful some times.

I had been watching all the moon phases and noting from the almanac data what time each night the moon was due to rise. I had watched it shrink from the full moon bit by bit until it was only a sliver last night. I had heard that women are ruled by the moon and I realized that the lunar cycle matched a woman's cycle usually. According to the almanac it was well past time for the moon to rise yet I could not spot the moon in the sky anywhere. I decided to ask my Mom."

"Momma, where is the moon tonight?"

"Kiddo, It's New Moon which is the opposite of Full Moon and the entire face of the moon is dark tonight. It happens when the moon is half way in the lunar month. More importantly for you it means that the first half of the enchantment on you is over when the enchantment helps you be a girl. For the last half of the month you won't be influenced to conform to girl's norms. You will be able to examine your girlhood and learn if it is coming from your mind which would make you a transgirl or only from your body which would mean you are really Dee Jay"

"I know that I will still have the skills that I will need as a girl since due to my mimicking ability I've learned what it takes to be a girl. But I will have the freedom to know my own mind instead of being forced down any particular path. I'll get to know deep in my soul if I am a girl or boy. But starting tomorrow everything gets a little harder to live since none of it will be done for me any more."

Sooner than I had expected our pizza and sodas were at the door . Momma took them in and placed our pizza buffet with drinks on the coffee table. I selected a paper plate and filled it with my favorites and also selected a soda. We sat on the edge of the bed while we were eating while watching the romance movie on PIXL. Finally we had gotten our fill of Pizza so Momma put up the leftovers up in the kitchen. We both got into bed sitting up and watching the movie. We finished that one and started another movie and we both laid down on the bed still watching the movie.

At least I knew that I was under Hera's enchantment instead of Erida's now so if I were a transwomen or if I became pregnant, I would stay a female but my history would not be rewritten and I would not have an identity death. I wondered what the two weeks starting with the new moon would have in store for me. I lasted through the second movie but sometime during the third movie, I drifted off to sleep.