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- -=-NOT MINE, POSTING TO HELP WRITEFRIEND ARCHIVE IT -=-
- >"Hey, I'm here. Open up, Aeris, there's tumbleweeds outside!"
- >A series of knocks filled the living room, rousing the drowsy cat from her slumber.
- >Briefly glancing at the phone on her stomach, she could see it was nine in the morning.
- >Almost on time.
- >Still in a haze from her brief nap, Aeris slowly swung herself off of the couch and up.
- >The knocking continued until she opened the door.
- >With a couple of extra knocks finding their way to her forehead.
- >"Aeris!"
- >"Ugh, come in and have a seat, Penny."
- >Rubbing the spot on her assaulted forehead, she yawned as she made her way to the kitchen to retrieve an aspirin and a glass of water.
- >"You know, you were supposed to be here half an hour ago."
- >"I know, but it's a lot longer walking when it's so chaotic outside."
- >Aeris moved back to living room downing a glass of water, seeing Penny disentangle a tumbleweed from her tail.
- >"If you know it's going to be difficult to get somewhere, leave earlier. I don't think I have to remind you how important this is."
- >"Yeah, I know, I want the prize money too."
- >"It's not just the prize money, it's not needing to work if we win. I just want to relax and not have to worry about getting up at the crack of dawn anymore."
- >"Well I don't work anyway."
- >"Not everyone is so fortunate as you, now go sit down and I'll boot up the console."
- >Penny did as she was told and was soon accompanied by Aeris on the couch.
- >Aeris turned on the remote with her voice and the console with her controller, getting properly set to see Penny demonstrate her skills.
- >That was definitely not skills.
- >That was absolutely awful.
- >Aeris was really glad that she didn't let Penny on her own account to mess up her kdr.
- >She didn't even know it was possible to shoot yourself with your own gun.
- >"Well, as much as it pained me to see that, one thing is clear now. You're not nearly good enough. We have to practice."
- >"Kay."
- >Molding an abyss like Penny was going to be a long dark road for Aeris.
- 01/??
- >"Now do you see what you did wrong there?"
- >"Nope."
- >"I can't believe this, you didn't use the melee button. Remember, you have to melee if you're that close. We really are going to need the few weeks we have to prepare."
- >Aeris rubbed her temples as she slammed back a glass of brand x lemon-lime soda.
- >"How can you play video games all day and be so bad?"
- >"Hey, you can't be bad at video games as long as you're having fun."
- >Aeris stood up with a sigh as she walked off to get the blood back in her legs.
- >Leaving Penny to ruminate on her lack of ability, Aeris went past the kitchen and knocked on a door plastered with stickers.
- >"Alpha, you up?"
- >Crashes could be heard from behind the door as Aeris more than likely spooked the other pink cat in the house.
- >When she finally opened the door, she rubbed her eyes as she adjusted to the light.
- >"I'm up, what's going on, Aeris?"
- >"We got our third here now, why don't you go meet her?"
- >"Cool, we're back on track to win that prize!"
- >"Eh, I don't know if I'd say that."
- >Alpha ran past Aeris as fast as her little legs could carry her.
- >Aeris slowly made her way out of the hallway, thinking of how to best get their weak link up to speed.
- >"Hey, that's pretty good."
- >Her train of thought derailed as Alpha seemed to wrangle the controller from Penny, showing off her own skills.
- >"Alpha, come on. She's supposed to work on her own skills, not watch you play. You're already good, you getting more playtime does us no good."
- >"But look at this! Got him from the back, 20 kill streak, won the game!"
- >Penny seemed completely blown away by Alpha's demonstration of skill.
- >"Wow, I didn't know you could even have a kill streak!"
- >"Okay, so it seems like you two are going to get along just fine. Anyway, Alpha, I have a job for you."
- >"Job? What job?"
- >Aeris peeled out her old and worn wallet, and tossed Alpha $350.
- >"Go buy food, we're out."
- >"Why do I have to get it?"
- >"Because Penny and I have to work this out. Now scoot."
- 02/??
- >Alpha kept the money tightly held in her hoodie pocket, wondering what she could buy with the change.
- >What Aeris didn't know wouldn't hurt her, after all.
- >As the small cat entered the sliding doors, she made a beeline for the snack section with her small cart.
- >She'd get the biggest bag of discount gummy worms she could carry.
- >As she walked into the aisle, she did not see the snacks she expected.
- >It was all just boxes with discount stickers on them.
- >Where were her precious gummies?
- >Where did the milk balls go?
- >And what the everloving hell was CalorieMate?
- >Incensed at this takeover of her sugary treasure trove, she read the boxes to figure out what these strange things were.
- >"Balanced food? Daily energy? Is this a meal replacer?"
- >Alpha gave the box a sniff and could smell something vaguely sweet within.
- >Then an idea began to form in her head.
- >These boxes were light and easy to carry, they were on sale, and there were a lot of them.
- >Making a snap decision, Alpha shoved the boxes into her cart as high as they could go.
- >By the time she was done, the cart was close to overflowing.
- >There was thankfully still room on the bottom for her to stash some milk.
- >As the cart was pushed to the cashier, Alpha had garnered quite the number of odd stares as a knee-high cat purchasing enough food to feed a small army.
- >She didn't care, all she wanted to do was get out of the store and back home.
- >She tossed the grubby moneywad at the cashier and retrieved 25 cents in change.
- >After getting a couple of gumballs, Alpha waddled out of the store with her stuffed bags under her arms.
- >Alpha attempted a small victory dance, but realized she could barely move.
- >She groaned as she realized she had a long walk ahead of her.
- 03/??
- >"Delivery!"
- >Alpha punctuated her return with a kick to the door, swinging it open a few inches before Aeris opened it fully.
- >"It took you long enough."
- >"I got stubby legs, sue me."
- >Alpha handed off a bag to Aeris before moving on to the couch and tackling her way onto it.
- >"I don't wanna exercise like that again for a week."
- >The small cat took off her pink hoodie and sighed in relief as the cool air washed over her.
- >"What the hell is this?"
- >"Groceries, like you wanted."
- >"This isn't groceries! This is just a bunch of boxes!"
- >"The boxes have the food in them, duh. I swear you say the silliest things, Aeris."
- >"Did you spend all my money on this!?"
- >"Well, not exactly. I bought a gumball, too."
- >Alpha blew a large bubble, which soon popped as Aeris grabbed hold of her neck scruff and brought her face to face.
- >"You just blew all my money on snack food and gum."
- >"Would it help if I said it was on sale?"
- >"No."
- >"I don't get the fuss, it's pretty tasty."
- >Alpha fell to the floor as Aeris turned to confront the nightmare next to her.
- >"PENNY, NO!"
- >Alpha definitely owed Penny a favor as she took Aeris' mind away from her imminent murder.
- >At current, Aeris seemed to be on her knees in despair as she held the empty box and wrapper, making this an impossible return.
- >"Sorry, already ate that one. This one says it's maple, try it."
- >The box landed in Aeris' lap, Penny still oblivious to the amount of financial ruin she just condemned her host to.
- >"Uh, there's milk, too."
- >Alpha slowly rolled a bottle of milk to Aeris, landing it upright and right between her knees.
- >"Aw sweet, two points!"
- 04/??
- >"It's still food, you know."
- >"Shush, no talking in the time-out corner."
- >Aeris buried her eyes into her palms as she watched Penny march ever onward to some semblance of actual skill at video games.
- >"They're even better in the microwave, you should try it."
- >"Penny, please."
- >Aeris sunk into her couch, wondering if she could sell enough of her blood to buy food for the rest of the month.
- >"Whoo! I got a kill!"
- >"It's something, at least.
- >In her melancholy, Aeris felt her hand brush against the box of maple treats beside her.
- >Her rumbling stomach told her she needed to eat something, and she was far too distraught to trust herself near a cooking range of any sort.
- >She gave in to her depressive laziness and tore into the box, intent on sampling the bars Penny had helped herself to.
- >As the broken off cube of cake lied in her hand, she could tell it smelled decent enough.
- >Popping it into her mouth, the taste was smoother and more pleasant than she imagined.
- >Not the most amazing sweet she'd ever had, but it was not an instant regret.
- >She could not say it was worth the rest of her wages, however.
- >The rest of her box entered into her mouth without a thought, until the amount caused her to to pause for a bit of something to drink.
- >While it was room temperature, the milk Alpha brought back was better than getting off the couch and to the fridge.
- >A quick pop of the top was all it took to enjoy the white gold hidden inside.
- >As advertised on the box, Aeris' hunger had subsided.
- >Her mind seemed to resign itself to her fate with less rage than she anticipated.
- >"Has it been an hour yet?"
- >"No."
- >Perhaps a little 'less' of a less now.
- 05/??
- >"See, told you they were good."
- >Aeris blushed as she turned to face Penny, realizing what she had just done.
- >"They are not good, I'm just not going to starve because Alpha was swayed by low prices."
- >"So why are you opening a second box, then?"
- >"Just focus on learning how to strafe and bounce a grenade right."
- >Aeris brushed off Penny's prodding, but she was not wrong realizing that she was indeed opening a new box.
- >Not that there was anything wrong with that, as the boxes were small.
- >Small and very easy to open.
- >Penny's sudden binge demonstrated that well.
- >One after another, they took the place of their fallen comrades.
- >"Ha, take that! Final kill, and fifth place!"
- >Aeris stopped glancing at Penny's snack attack long enough to notice that Penny had improved.
- >Not by a very wide margin, as she was still far from the top of the board, but it was definite improvement over her inability to compete before.
- >Aeris, by way of having more than two neurons to fire off at one time, pieced together a hypothesis of Penny's improvement based upon her eating.
- >While disgusting, it was something she could use to her advantage.
- >Perhaps she was too hasty in exiling Alpha.
- >"Hey, you did improve."
- >Looking down, Aeris could see that Alpha had broken her sentence.
- >"Who said you could leave?"
- >"You did?"
- >"When?"
- >"Just now."
- >"You know very well what I...you know what, fine. You can stay."
- >Alpha smiled up at Aeris, only to be hit in the face with a box.
- >"But your stupidity has cost you chore duty for the rest of the month."
- >"Oh, come on."
- >"You wanna pay me back my money instead?"
- >The color drained from Alpha's face as she began stuffing her mouth with chocolate goodness to have an excuse for ending the conversation.
- >As their staring match was cut short by the sound of a round ending, a glance at the screen painted a good picture.
- >The prize money would soon be a real possibility.
- 06/??
- >"Hey, you cheater! Blue shells are unsportsmanlike."
- >"My house, my rules."
- >"Is it really your house if you won it in a bet?"
- >Aeris gave Alpha a smug smirk as she banked a green shell off of the upcoming wall and knocked her firmly out of second place.
- >"You bet it is."
- >"That pun was awful."
- >Penny was right, that pun was awful.
- >Not as awful as the gap between Penny and Aeris, however.
- >Aeris, testing out her initial hypothesis, gave Penny a fair few bars of CalorieMate to see if her game performance really was tied to her eating.
- >Well, it probably wasn't the eating exactly that did it, more likely that she was just in the zone and the chewing kept her in the zone.
- >If baseball players can chew gum and make billions while doing it, there wasn't any harm in continuing their trend.
- >The pink cat's train of thought was interrupted as Penny hit a box and managed to force a brake right into her car at the moment the shells appeared.
- >As soon as she had managed to close the gap, it widened once more.
- >It wasn't long before she realized she was jockeying for second with Alpha more than trying to get back the lead.
- >Losing should have made her a bit more cross, but she realized that she needed this.
- >The better Penny got, the more realistic that the money was going to be rolling in.
- >If the girls managed to strike it big their first time out and kept it on, they could very well get popular enough to land sponsorship deals.
- >Forget prize money, being a corporate sellout was way more lucrative.
- >The greed penetrating her mind knocked her off her game enough that Alpha snuck out of third and into second.
- >"Ha, I did it! In your face, in..your..oh, that victory dance was a mistake."
- >The usually energetic girl was as short on breath as she was on height.
- >Guess a sedentary lifestyle and a monotonous diet of meal replacers was not a recipe for physical fitness.
- >"Fine, you won. Now go put some clothes on."
- >"Can't...too...tired..."
- >"Was it really that draining?"
- >Aeris' only response received was a labored wheeze.
- >"I can feel that. It's been hard to get to and from my house to here."
- >"You don't even live a mile away."
- >"I know."
- >Penny punctuated her statement with a yawn.
- >"I don't think I could even make it back home today. I'll just crash here tonight."
- >Aeris wanted to argue about the sudden decision to just stay at her home, but it was actually smart to get Penny to stick around.
- >Less time walking around meant less time wasted not training.
- >Plus, if she could get her to pick up some of the chore pace that Alpha lacked, lazing around would be a breeze.
- >"Sure, but you're on dish duty."
- >"Aw."
- >"Whoo-hoo..."
- >The situation resolved, Aeris continued the fun for a while longer before letting Penny get back to her training.
- >And finding a good plank of wood out back to pry the fallen butterball of a cat up.
- >With her wide butt out of the shower, Aeris could take a shower herself.
- >A lot less of her got properly wet than she expected, and much more of her hit the side of the smoky glass door.
- >The towel didn't seem to want to close on her as well, letting her stomach show through the wide gap that barely covered her chest.
- >Aeris was definitely going to have to get a new wardrobe.
- >Some cheap secondhand clothes she could scavenge out of the Sears that closed down a few weeks ago would do.
- >In the mean time, it looked like it would be the lazy Saturday special of no pants.
- >Not a very pressing problem for anyone to have, surely.
- 3/13
- >*knock knock*
- >"Alpha, go get that."
- >"I'm busy here! If I don't clean these bottles out, we're gonna get ants."
- >"Well we can't get it, we're busy here."
- >"Busy whooping your butt."
- >"Shut up!"
- >Distracted by her momentary outburst, Aeris was taken out by a well-bounced grenade.
- >The game of 1 v 1 was over.
- >Aeris had only managed 5 kills to Penny's 25.
- >While she had wanted Penny to get better, this bruised her ego.
- >Success always has a price, it seemed.
- >Penny jumped for joy as she beat her mentor, a smug victory smile on her face.
- >Well, what passed for jumping when your ass was too big to leave the couch more than a half inch.
- >The impact of the rotund cat tush caused the couch to creak, followed by a longer one as Aeris got up to answer the door.
- >"OK, you're getting too good. Stop it. Also, don't break my couch, dammit."
- >Aeris moved as fast as her legs could carry her, shuffling on the carpet with her socked feet.
- >As she opened the door, her hand was greeted with a zap from the static she made.
- >A brief recoil and replacement later, she opened the door to see a familiar face.
- >"Oh, Shima, what's up? I haven't heard from you since you declined to be our third member."
- >Her neighbor looked at her in stunned silence.
- >"Uh, hello? Earth to Shima?"
- >Her eyes fluttered briefly as she seemed to come out of her sudden stupor, clearing her throat and fixing her expression.
- >"Yes, it has been a while. I came over because I wanted to get back my camcorder."
- >A sudden memory flooded back into Aeris' mind, realizing that she was so distracted with training she forgot she had that device on loan.
- >"Oh, heck, I completely forgot! I'm so sorry, I really meant to get that back to you, but I got distracted with training for the competition."
- >Aeris stood aside, making space for Shima to enter.
- >"Why don't you come inside? I'll go look for it, feel free sit wherever."
- >As Aeris went on to plumb the depths of her room to find Shima's property, Shima looked on in astonishment at the state of her neighbor's home.
- >There were empty milk bottles all over the floor, crumbs, empty boxes, and most worrisome of all was the two other cats in her residence.
- >Alpha was far larger than she remembered her being.
- >Not in length, but width.
- >And there was barely a shred of clothing on her.
- >What was on her she was fairly certain was just a skirt she had failed to get past her hips or her arms, masquerading as a shirt.
- >The other one she hadn't seen before.
- >She was wearing a proper shirt albeit one with severe damage.
- >It looked ready to fail at a moment's notice.
- >"Heya! Why don't you take a seat?"
- >She gave Shima a genuine smile, and patted the section of cushion to her left.
- >There was a serious groove left in it.
- >Shima, not wanting to make a fuss, simply sat down on the couch.
- >Then, as if she wasn't there, the girl went back to playing her game on the television.
- >Shima briefly wondered if she was dreaming or not, as the situation she found herself in was such a surreal deviation from what she expected.
- >Looking over to the mountain of feline beside her, Shima saw just how big she was.
- >She was only a bit smaller than Aeris everywhere but her bust.
- >Though she definitely wasn't taking advantage of that with her wardrobe.
- >She was both bottomless and barefoot.
- >Did she live here now?
- >Is that why she was so underdressed?
- >So many questions began to swim in Shima's mind, until she heard a couple of grunts from the nearby hallway.
- >She politely excused herself and got up from the couch.
- >It was likely she wasn't even noticed.
- >When she made her entrance into the hall, Shima saw Aeris in her doorway.
- >Holding one arm on the wall, desperately trying to pull herself through.
- >Shima slowly approached her, and waited until Aeris had finally noticed that she was there.
- >"Shima, what-"
- >Aeris found a digit placed upon her lips.
- >Shima kept it there for about ten seconds before she took a long breath in and a slow exhale out.
- >"Aeris. What is this?"
- >Shima took her hand from Aeris' head, and placed it upon her monstrous midsection.
- >"Look at yourself, you're...big. Really, really big."
- >"Hey!"
- >"I mean, just look at this. You did this to yourself in a few weeks, it's unthinkable, unhealthy, and...so interesting."
- >"Interesting?"
- >Shima cleared her throat and clasped her hands together at her own stomach.
- >"Aeris, I have a proposition for you. I know that this is far beyond how your home usually looks, and that your preoccupation is with your training. So, I figure you could use some help and in exchange for that, I could film you and the others."
- >"Film us? You're going to try and turn us into some sort of Netflix documentary, aren't you."
- >"Aeris, I assure you I am not doing this for personal financial gain. It will be both edifying and informative to document what's going on in here."
- >Aeris gave Shima a glare of disbelief and slight annoyance.
- >Shima responded with a big grin, hoping that Aeris would buy her little spiel.
- >Of course, Shima did have an entirely honest interest in documenting the happenings in the house, but that didn't also mean she didn't have bills of her own to pay.
- >"Ugh, fine. I'm not going to turn down doing less chores, after all."
- >"Wonderful, I'm sure this'll be enlightening for future generations."
- >"Yeah, yeah, can you help me out now?"
- >"Oh, sure."
- >Shima took hold of Aeris' free hand and pulled her with as much might as her much smaller body allowed.
- >Aeris came free after much effort on both ends, coming free with a ripping sound to follow it.
- >Shima looked at the surprised expression on Aeris' face and tried to stifle a giggle.
- >"Old clothes, I presume?"
- >"Shut up."
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