Welcome to Ember's World Small Bargain - Definitive Edition chapter 5 by slappy

Blake let out an exhausted sigh as Ember's belly continued groaning and gurgling away. He had used all his strength to try to escape from her belly, but all he had succeeded in doing was giving her a pleasant fluttering feeling next to her belly button. Seeing that he was going to be stuck in Ember's belly until she chose to let him out, he tried to look on the bright side. For all that the young woman liked having him in her belly, she seemed to care about how it felt for him in there as well. He could think of very few others who would be that considerate. And, to Ember's credit, her natural belly pudge did feel nice and soft all around him.

The next time Blake heard Ember speak, though, it wasn't her normal speech. He quickly recognised the words as a magical incantation, though he couldn't tell exactly what spell she was casting. For a moment, he got his hopes up that she had changed her mind and was now getting him out of her belly. Then, all of a sudden, the world all around whooshed past him, becoming nothing but a blurry streak of every colour in existence all at once. The only thing that didn't seem to disappear into the distance was Ember - a rock to hold onto in a raging river current.

As suddenly as it started, the whooshing came to a stop and Blake saw that he and Ember were no longer in his dorm. In many ways, the room that they were now in resembled his own bedroom. In particular, he recognised some of the magical tomes and arcane instruments on the desk and by the window. However, this room had a lot more red in it and the walls were decorated with posters of young men who he had never seen before. Plus, Blake would never have makeup on a shelf in his room, nor would there ever be a maroon purse and black bra resting on his bed.

"Did ... did you just take us to your bedroom? In your universe?"

"Well, yeah!" Ember replied as if it was the most obvious thing. Suddenly, that fluttering feeling came back as Blake kicked and squirmed to signal his disapproval. Being in her belly was one thing but being taken away from his own timeline was another! But Ember simply smiled and rubbed her belly in response. "First of all, I was in the middle of something here before you pulled me into your world. Second of all, I thought it'd be a good idea to show you how things work in my world. Maybe then you'll understand." She then patted her belly a few times, jolting Blake each time before he could try to argue with her, and made her way over to her desk. The trapped mage could feel his captor's belly jiggling around him with each step she took.

Blake expected Ember to retrieve something from her desk or to sit down at it to work on something. So when she simply stood there instead, he couldn't make heads or tails of what was happening. But then he spotted something - no, someone - peeping out from behind a stack of books on the desk. He gasped when he saw a young man standing only an inch tall! The shrunken man's slight build, pale skin, and black hair almost made Blake think that he was looking at himself. But this guy didn't wear glasses and his clothes were much browner than the blacks and greys that the imprisoned mage usually wore. Whoever he was, Ember must have shrunk him before Blake summoned her. Had she been about to eat him and add him to her belly?

"Ember? Is that really you? What happened there?" the tiny figure asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, Jack, it really is me," Ember reassured him. "Some other mage used a spell to summon me, but it was easy enough to travel back home to see my little bro again." She wasn't sure if it was a good idea to mention that the mage in question was a younger, alternate universe version of their father just yet.

Jack, who Blake realised had to be his son in this timeline, suddenly ran towards his titanic sister with a big, joyful grin on his face and his arms spread wide. As he reached the edge of the desk, Ember lifted him with a couple of fingers and gently held him up against her belly, allowing him to hug its soft flesh and listen to its digestive noises. After a few seconds, Ember lowered her tiny brother safely back onto the desk.

Then, as Jack admired his giant sister's belly, he noticed a funny protrusion by her belly button. "I see you ate someone while you were gone," he remarked with a cheeky smile. "Let me guess, you're the mage who borrowed my sister, aren't you!" Blake was surprised, both at how quickly Jack had reached that conclusion and at how casually he treated the whole situation. Did he not realise that, at his size, Ember could devour him at any moment?

"Listen to me, Jack! I'm-" Blake started to say before Ember's massive hand slammed into him.

"Yep, that's him!" Ember interrupted cheerfully, pressing her hand on Blake to stop him from speaking. "He's actually from another universe, but girls aren't allowed to eat tiny boys there. I think they're really missing out, don't you?" She shook her belly a little and Jack gleefully watched it jiggle. "That's why I gobbled him up before I came back here."

When Ember took her hand off of her belly, Blake began wriggling to try to draw Jack's attention so that he would listen to what he had to say. But before he could get a word out, everyone in the room heard Ember's belly rumble hungrily. Jack watched avidly as the rumbles made the giantess' belly vibrate. Blake felt those same vibrations course through his entire body.

"But you know," Ember continued teasingly, "my rumbly belly still wants to digest a tasty little brother." Then her hand swept down to the desk, picked Jack up, and raised him up to her mouth. The last expression Blake saw on his face was not terror but elation! Was the tiny young man glad to be his colossal sister's snack? As he heard Ember snap Jack up into her mouth with a "Nom!", her hums of approval as she tasted him, and the big gulp that sent him down her throat, he began to feel sick. Despite his best efforts, he had been unable to stop the greedy giantess from gobbling up another shrunken boy. More loud gurgles came from Ember's stomach as the acids inside melted Jack down so that her body could absorb him.

*URP!*

As Ember rubbed her belly and slowly walked over to her mirror, happy with her brother snack, Blake tried to gather his thoughts about what had just happened. He was sure that Jack was going to end up just like him - nothing more than a living lump of fat on his big sister's belly. So why was the miniature brother so eager to be eaten? Sure, Ember's belly pudge was surprisingly comfortable, but was that really worth giving up his freedom and not knowing when (or if) he would ever get it back? Maybe he trusted her not to abuse the power he had over him. Blake began to wonder if there was anyone back in his universe he would trust with that kind of total power over him.

Before he could think of anyone, though, Ember took her hand off of her belly. Blake found himself looking at the reflection of her belly once again, but this time, there was an odd lump of belly fat next to her belly button on the other side from him. This lump, which was undoubtedly Jack, was squirming and wriggling a lot like he did when he awoke as part of Ember's belly.

"Making yourself comfortable in there?" Ember asked her brother playfully. "Or are you trying to see how much you can jiggle my belly from in there?" In response, Jack wriggled around even more, which caused the belly pudge around him to wobble even more, much to his big sister's delight. After a moment of enjoying the sensation of Jack jumping around in her belly, Ember placed her hands on the sides of her belly and shook it up and down for a few seconds. Blake and Jack both screamed, the latter more joyfully than the former, as the giantess jiggled them along with the rest of her cute, pudgy belly. Once she stopped, her brother let out a content sigh and leaned towards her belly button.

"Alright, that's enough!" Blake yelled. "Take me back to my timeline and let me out of your belly this instant, young lady!" He hoped that the dad speak might get through to Ember.

"Hey, don't take that tone with me, dad! Right now, I'm the one in charge!" Ember yelled back. Her eyes widened immediately when she realised that she had let slip the identity of the mage she had swallowed earlier. "Oh yeah, forgot to mention," she said awkwardly to Jack, "that mage who summoned me? The one in my belly with you right now? He's like an alternate universe version of dad, but from the past. But you can't tell anyone, alright?" While Ember waited for her brother's reaction, she silently resolved to be more careful about what she said. She would be in a world of trouble if her mom or her original dad ever found out.

"Don't worry about it, big sis. If I had lips right now, they'd be sealed," Jack replied. Whatever thoughts he may have had about this version of Blake, he wasn't about to ruin the good thing that he and Ember had going.

"Thanks, little bro. Anyway, I'd better get going now." With that, Ember went over to her bed, picked up her purse, and slung it over her shoulder. When Blake heard screams coming from inside the purse, he dreaded to think how many more shrunken people were in there. Were all of them as excited about the prospect of being eaten as Jack was, or were they scared and confused like him? Whichever it was, there was nothing Blake could do about it. He was stuck as part of Ember's belly, stuck listening to it groan and gurgle non-stop, stuck jiggling like the rest of her pudge with each step she took towards her destination.

Inside Ember's purse was a plastic container. Small and white, its clear lid had a few small holes in it. But the important thing was what was inside: a bunch of other young men that Ember had shrunk, all screaming as the purse they were in swung back and forth. Too many for Ember to eat all by herself. However, she never planned on eating them all by herself. There were other ladies who she was going to share these tiny guys with so that they could experience the pleasure of having little men squirming inside their bellies. Meanwhile, the little men got to experience the pleasure of being inside the bellies of giant women. As the facilitator of this fun win-win scenario, Ember found her services to be in high demand, so she had to be choosy about who got to eat whom at what time.

Who was Ember going to see this time?