A Meeting of Mages Small Bargain - Definitive Edition chapter 8 by slappy

"Sure, give me one second," Jade said as she grabbed her phone and started looking through her pictures. Finding a good one of the girl she was planning to introduce Blake to, however, took quite a bit longer than a second. Blake waited as patiently as he could, stuck listening to the sounds of his sister's stomach behind him.

"Here we are!" Jade lowered her phone down to her belly so that her brother could see the picture of the girl. She had dark skin and was a little bit on the pudgy side. Her blue hair was cropped really short on one side of her head and stopped just shy of reaching her chin on the other side. Her outfit was entirely black, consisting of a crop top, pants, and leather boots. It looked like the photo was taken in a nightclub and this girl was holding a shot glass with brown liquid inside. Judging by how forced the girl's smile looked, Blake guessed that she would rather have been anywhere else but there - a sentiment the mage had no trouble sympathising with.

"She ... uh ... looks nice?" Blake said uncertainly. It wasn't that he thought she didn't, but he wasn't sure quite how to respond to being shown this picture. At the very least, he was pretty sure that Jade would start teasing him again if he mentioned her cute belly. "So what's her name?"

"Faith," Jade told him. "She's kinda weird, really. She does this whole thing where she acts like she's some dark overlord or something, but deep down, she's a nice girl. Doesn't really get out much though. Me and the rest of the crop top gang have to drag her out of her room sometimes. So hey, perfect for a shut-in like you!" She punctuated her last point by poking her brother, eliciting a yelp of pain as he was pressed into her firm abs. With a few grunts that were masked by the groans coming from Jade's belly, Blake wriggled and squirmed until he was in a more comfortable position. At least, as comfortable as one could get being trapped within a girl's belly fat.

Soon, Jade arrived at Faith's house. When she rang the doorbell, all the worries that Blake usually had when he tried to speak to a girl began to flood his mind. He started squirming in an instinctive attempt to get away from it all and needed a couple of gentle pats from Jade to remind him that there was no getting out of this. Then the door opened and Blake quickly recognised the girl standing in the doorway from the picture on his sister's phone. But the picture didn't give him any warning about what he would sense radiating off of her: the aura of either a mage or some other magical creature.

"Greetings, mortal!" Faith said dramatically.

"Hi, Faith!" Jade replied, accustomed to her friend's theatrics. "Mom and dad still out?"

"The King and Queen of Eternal Night are partaking in their usual rituals." Then Faith's gaze was drawn to Jade's belly. Her friend wore outfits that showed it off all the time, but this time, there seemed to be something strange coming from it. It resembled a magical being's aura, but then why was it coming specifically from one spot on Jade's belly? She needed to find out what was going on, but she had to be careful not to give away her own magical abilities. "So you seek an audience with the Countess of Shadows, do you?"

"Actually, it's not just me," Jade said once the two girls were inside. "My brother Blake is here as well."

"Your brother Blake is here? Has a being beyond our ken imbued him with invisibility?" Faith asked, even though she was sure that this was not the work of an invisibility spell.

"No, he can actually do his own magic and ... this is gonna sound weird, but right now he's using it to hang out in my belly."

Faith took this weird news as an excuse to bend down and get a closer look at Jade's belly. Sure enough, there was an odd lump of fat squirming next to her belly button and the aura she perceived earlier was definitely coming from it.

"H-h-hello?" Blake stammered, wriggling anxiously as an excited grin broke out on Faith's face.

"Hello Blake." The sudden softness in Faith's voice only unnerved Blake even more. "What possessed you to take up residence in your sister's belly?" Blake tried to tell her what was going on but his nerves got the better of him and, much to both Faith and Jade's amusement, he just babbled incoherently until a loud gurgle from Jade's belly shut him up.

"He actually turned himself into a pill for my mom's stomach ache," Jade explained. "Then, once he was done making mom feel better, he basically teleported from her belly to mine."

"How curious that you chose to bind your soul to your sister's belly instead of restoring your own body," Faith remarked, her smile not fading even a little. Blake squirmed some more as he struggled to come up with a plausible explanation. He didn't want to give away that he couldn't turn back to normal without his spellbook, but he didn't want to come out and admit that he had a thing for girls' bellies. At least, not yet.

The sensation of her brother's struggles combined with the warmth from his blushing made Jade giggle. "If you want, he can go in your belly for a while," she offered, stroking Blake's spot on her belly. "Trust me, he feels so good in there!"

Faith didn't need to be told twice. She stood up straight once more, giving Blake a perfect view of her pudgy belly. "That notion pleases the Countess of Shadows!" she declared. "Blake Heart, I command you to use your magic to unshackle yourself from Jade's belly and anchor yourself to mine!" She punctuated her command by patting her belly, which began to groan and gurgle loud enough for Blake to hear even over the sound of his sister's stomach behind him.

Blake found himself captivated by Faith's belly. Its pudge gave it a very nice shape and he liked how it jiggled and wobbled ever so slightly each time Faith patted her belly. Her belly button was the perfect size too, both in terms of width and depth. Even the noises coming from it somehow sounded more appealing than the ones that came from Claire and Jade's bellies!

But, as wonderful as the dark-skinned girl's belly seemed to be, Blake felt a twinge of anxiety about the girl herself. Not only did Faith seem excited the moment she learned about him being in Jade's belly, but the aura he detected coming from her throughout the conversation was unmistakably that of someone with some kind of magical power. What would he be getting himself into if he teleported into Faith's belly?