[Note: the characters mentioned in the last chapter's choices 3 and 4, plus choice 1 from this one are special 'guest' characters that actually belong to G-Writer (72) and have been included as a special crossover thingy with his permission. They were obviously created by him, some of them a long time ago, and were only slightly tweaked to fit with the storylines here.]
Ever since the "incident" with Veronica, you always felt awkward when walking by or through the senior students' section. You knew you were probably paranoid, but you couldn't help but feel deeply uncomfortable, as if you drew many looks while passing by, though it made no sense, you doubted Veronica would've made it public, and neither did you. To your knowledge, absolutely no one else knew that it ever happened, so there was no way that there should be any kind of gossip about you, but still.
Perhaps it was your own conscience chastising you, you didn't even turn her down outright, but as she began avoiding you, you were never able to give her an answer. That feeling of lack of closure was pretty unsatisfying, and at times you couldn't help but beat yourself up over it, feeling that you could've done something better, or that something you did or said was inappropriate. It felt like you had hurt her feelings even though you never meant to.
Besides that, you were never all that comfortable in the presence of seniors, as this was basically Emily's turf, whose encounters with you have been far from pleasant, though luckily your friends have always come to save you before things got ugly. This was also the fearsome Yakuza Princess' domain, though you believed that you were too irrelevant to be a target of hers, or so you hoped.
This early in the morning, the halls were pretty quiet and you guessed everyone had left for their classrooms already, which was a bit of a relief. You hadn't thought about it until now, but if you were to encounter Emily right now you would be in a very precarious situation. You shook your head and decided to focus on the task at hand. Soon, you found the room, which, as Lulu had said, didn't appear to be in use, as the lights were turned off. You then slowly opened the door...
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1) & 2) Upon opening the door, you immediately realized that the classroom wasn't entirely unused. There were some black candles on top of the teacher's desk, with weird, runnic-like symbols drawn on the board and you heard a girl's voice recite something in a language you couldn't identify, but that definitely sounded like ancient and ominous.
Then you saw her, a girl that stood as tall as yourself, but was much larger still. You could tell she must have quite a belly, given the love handles you could see from behind, and most impressively, she possessed an enormous ass that easily put Lillian's to shame, looking ready to burst out of its owner's ill-fitting black jeans. You didn't even know someone like this existed, as far as you knew, Lillian (as she proudly claimed herself) had the biggest butt out of all students, and the only women around that surpassed her to your knowledge were Arianna and Lulu.
Shaking your head, your eyes then widened in shock, you heard rumors of some weird stuff going on in the senior section, but never in your dreams you imagined something like this. Worst of all, the chanting came to an abrupt half as the girl, who was facing away from you, noticed that the door had been opened.
"Shit" She muttered, and before you could do or say anything else, a supernatural, ethereal looking blob that seemed to be made out of multicolored light leapt at you, like a snake striking its prey, hitting you square in the chest. You felt this unnatural energy course through your entire body, traveling and diffusing across it, spreading to every vein, every artery and every nerve of yours. It felt like you were being electrocuted, but rather than heat, you felt cold, as if you were being flash frozen. The shock was so sudden that you blacked out before you could even move, and simply fell to the floor, completely knocked out.
Some time later, you groggily woke up. It felt like you were just recovering from some nightmare, but once you opened your eyes and they regained their focus, you realized that you were still in the clothes you worse to school, and that you were in the same dark room you had passed out in. The surface you stood on, however, wasn't the cold tiled floor that you knew, it was a little soft, slightly warm and definitely felt different. You could even feel a rhythmic thumping beneath your feet.
"Oh geez, thank fuck you're alive" You heard a booming female voice say, it sounded strangely distant, yet it was more than loud enough for you to feel the vibrations in your entire body. You had never heard that voice before... up until very recently. Your heart skipped a couple of beats when you realized that it was the voice of the girl that was doing those weird chants when you entered the classroom. Instinctively, you looked at where the voice came from, which was from above, and much to your confused shock, you saw a gigantic version of that same girl.
She had the most gothic or emo look you had seen in anyone, with spiked black hair, black makeup on her eyes, kinda exaggerated eyelashes and black lipstick. Under normal circumstances, you would've given someone with this kind of look a wide berth, simply because you weren't the type to go picking fights and didn't like to provoke others, yet at the same time you had some awareness that you shouldn't judge people on their appearance alone, but this was highschool and literally everyone seemed to run on that premise, so it was hard not to fall into it yourself.
"Hmm?" She raised an eyebrow at your lack of response "Hello? Earth to little guy... you still alive?" She said, slowly waving a finger before you, trying to see if you reacted to it.
"God fucking damnit, please don't tell me I fried his brain too" She muttered and you finally snapped out of your shocked trance.
"H-Hey!" You awkwardly waved at her, feeling extremely vulnerable. You were alone with a complete stranger that somehow made you incredibly small. Going by your rough calculations, comparing yourself to what you could see from her palm, on which you stood, you concluded that you were about half an inch tall.
"Phew" She sighed in relief and wiped her brow with her other hand "You gave me quite the fucking scare of my life, you know?"
You gulped, unsure how to answer to that. She looked at your face and her expression softened.
"I guess it's not entirely your fault, but still... what the hell did you come here for?" She asked.
"Ms. McAllen sent me to grab her art supplies for her class, she said she left them here" You said.
"Oh..." The girl looked to the side and you instinctively looked in that direction, seeing that there was quite a large bag full of the stuff Lulu had mentioned, it was on one of the front student desks.
"So, uh... could you please change me back to normal? I need to go get this for her and head to class" You asked somewhat timidly.
"Wow, you just shrank to the size of a goddamned bug but you seem to be taking this awfully well" She laughed a little.
"You're tough. I respect that" She added, patting your head with her index fingertip.
"I... I wouldn't say it's being tough... it's more like I'm so shocked I've just gone numb... and I've seen so much weird bullshit happen that honestly at this point I just roll along and keep going" You flatly replied. It was mostly true, though you were deeply shaken on the inside, but since you never liked making a fuss about things, you tried your best at keeping it together. At least this girl seemed to be fairly civil about this thing too.
"Well, I hate to say this, but for the time being you're shit-out-of-luck" She said, looking away in shame.
"You interrupted me in the middle of a spell I'd been developing, and this was a completely unintended side effect... I don't even know HOW to undo it... I'll probably need to look up in many old books"
"Wait what" For the first time in your life you truly understood that thing that you saw in anime, when a character comically petrified and then shattered after hearing something way too terrible or embarrassing. You could almost hear your psyche getting smashed to thousands of little pieces, breaking like glass.
"And I don't suppose you'd like to go back to Ms. McAllen in this condition, right?" She then said, and this is when your heart skipped at least three or four beats. You hadn't even thought about that. Being this small in her hands, only God knew what she'd do, considering what she already did when you were normal sized, and taller than her at that. With a hard gulp, you vigorously shook your head, to which she giggled.
"I guess you'll be stuck with me for the time being... Since it's technically my responsibility and all that" She said in a somewhat condescending tone that didn't entirely convince you, though it gave you the impression that while this girl wasn't usually very nice, she was trying... You silently prayed that this assessment of her character turned out to be right, or you'd be in way deeper trouble than you first thought.
"Name's Jade, the pleasure's all yours" She used her pinky to do a sort of handshake, and while her phrase made you raise an eyebrow, the way she said it and the ensuing giggle seemed to indicate she was just messing around.
'Oh god, what have I gotten myself into?' You thought
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Thankfully, the room was quiet and empty, but you could still see pretty well under low light, so you didn't even bother to turn the lights on and simply reached for Lulu's bag, which was on the teacher's desk as you expected.
3) You pick it up and head back, hoping nothing else happens along the way.
4) You suddenly feel like you're wildly spinning as you fall down, and once you faceplant on the cold, hard tiled floor, you realize that somehow you shrank to less than an inch tall.
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May 12, 2023
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