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Incredibly fun commission work!!
I pretty much love the way Usagi's face turned out, I laugh every time I look at it.
Below is a small piece I wrote to go with it.
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“Ami! Look!”
“What is it now Usagi? It's the third time you're interrupting me in half an hour. We have a test tomorrow and you promised you would try this time!”
“I know and I will but you really have to look at this.”, and she pointed at her computer screen. “A funfair is coming to town! Isn't that exciting?”
“Well, ok, it is mildly exciting.”, Ami let out with a defeated sigh. But she could definitely use that distraction to her (and Usagi's) advantage. “You know what? If you pass the test tomorrow with a decent grade – and no, a D is not Decent... - we can all go together.”
“And do you promise to convince Rei too?”, Usagi inquired with a lift of her right eyebrow.
“I promise! Now will you please stop procrastinating?”
…
“Tell me again why I'm here?...”, Rei asked gruffly, glaring at Ami and trying with all her might to ignore Usagi who was practically hanging from her left arm and dragging her along to unforeseen colourfull horrors.
“Because Usagi made me promise.”, Ami said with a small apologetic smile.
“A little fun never hurt anyone.”, Minako exclaimed enthusiastically.
Rei rolled her eyes at that. “Let's hope so...”
“You are allowed to like the things normal people like, Rei.”, Makoto said with a pat on Rei's shoulder.
“Normal? Really?..”, Rei asked pointedly while gesturing towards Usagi with her free hand.
Usagi turned her head towards Rei, seemingly hurt. “I heard that! I'll have you know that I worked very hard for this, you can ask Ami”. Ami nodded. “See?? And I am perfectly nor--- OH! BALLOONS!!!” she shouted at the top of her lungs running towards a stall where a dozen kids were gathered around. Of course hauling Rei all the way there.
The stall was nothing but a small wooden bench covered in a multi-coloured polka dot tablecloth. Behind tha stall was a blue-haired lady with a bold green and yellow striped costume. It had puffy sleeves, baggy legs and was accompanied by a pair of huge clown shoes, one green and one yellow. On her hair she was wearing a pair of very realistic red horns. The lady was smiling at the kids, rappidly inflating balloons of various shapes and sizes with a hose that vanished under the stall and handing them out to outstretched waiting little hands.
Usagi was literally jumping up and down with excitement raising her hand as far up as she could yelling: “ME TOO! ME TOO!”
“Don't you think you're a bit too old for that, my dear?” the balloon lady said to her with a honeyed voice and a sweet smile on her elegant face.
Rei snorted audibly. “Yeah... Good luck with that.”
“NO! I'm only fourteen!” Usagi cried out. “That's unfair!” she said pouting and crossing her arms – eventually releasing Rei – and tapping her foot on the ground.
“It's funfair, actually.” Rei sniggered, obviously pleased with her pun. “And you have to grow up at last.” she added a bit more forcibly.
“B-But...” Usagi stammered, a small tear started forming at the outter corner of her eye.
“Usagi...” Ami tried to console her.
“Look! There's cotton candy!” Minako exclaimed in a desperate attempt to distract her.
Usagi started getting more irritated than sad. “NO! I want a balloon!”
“You are right. You are but a petulant child...” The balloon lady said with evidently much less sweetness in her tone.
Makoto felt the urge to attone on behalf of their cry-baby of a friend. “Look, we are terribly sorry. She's not bad, it's just that she gets excited---” She was cut midsentense by a loud hissing sound.
Black smoke was circling the balloon lady whose face had become vicious, her red horns glowing with an unearthly glow, emanating a terrifying dark aura. Her costume puffed up and her whole torso doubled in size almost instantly forming a large ball. Her arms and legs rounded out as well giving her form the resemblance of a human-sized starfish made of balls. Everyone arround was momentarily frozen into place before the first screams errupted and people started running off in all directions. The five girls were equally stunned, but did not run.
“Do you know what happens to petulant children?” she bellowed, her voice audibly deeper.
“Please inform us.” Makoto cried out as soon as she recovered, assuming a fighting stance.
“THEY GET PUNISHED!!!”, she yelled and threw the stall towards the girls with immense force revealing the huge helium tank she used before. In a flash she yanked the hose with one hand tearing it from the nozzle, and grabbed Usagi with the other making her let out a surprised yelp. Before the girls could react the blue-haired woman lifted Usagi and with a precise movement stuck her to the exposed nozzle with a loud “THUMP!”. Usagi yelped once again, more from the shock than from discomfort. As long as the pig-tailed blonde was mounted atop the tank, the horned lady shoved it under her armpit and started running, her steps similar to the steps of astronauts in low-gravity enviroments.
The girls shouted and ran but they just couldn't keep up with her. All they could do was follow her from an ever increasing distance and watch as their friend was bouncing up and down the round torso of the villain, not being able to free herself from the tank.
The balloon lady carried Usagi to the tallest building in the block and somehow managed to get to the roof without being noticed. The air was cool and refreshing, the sun was beginning to set and all the sounds of the bustling city were immensly faded. Usagi knew that it would take a while for her friends to catch up with them but wouldn't allow herself to panic! “All I wanted was a balloon!”, she uttered.
“And that is exactly what you shall get.”, came the ominous reply from the creature that had just let the tank down with Usagi still sitting on top of it. “The time has come for you to learn why they call me Fuusen Oni.” And with that she turned the valve on the tank all the way, a loud hissing sound coming out of it.
Usagi rather felt than heard it. A muffled “hsssssss” reverberated throughout her whole body and she yelped once more. She wanted to say something but she just didn't know what. For once in her life she was utterly speechless. All she could do was watch her body fill out, her nonexistent curves puffing and her skin stretching rappidly. Her legs were the first to actually form and they became insanely and perfectly round, only her feet sticking out of the puffy balls. She was certain that if she was not wearing a skirt things coulld get rather uncomfortable... Her torso was next. She could feel the air inside her circulate and expand places that she knew weren't supposed to be expanded. Suddenly she had no hips, no waist, no breasts... Ok, she didn't have breasts before either but that's beside the point. She was uniform and smooth and she felt light. So delightfully light! Two sudden “PLOP!” sounds that came in quick succession broke her out of her reverie and she saw her arms gradually become identical with her legs; short airy spheres of puffiness. Ten smaller plops and all her fingers, one by one stuck out from the smaller balls that were now her palms. She squeaked in amusement.
“Wha---?”, Fuusen Oni stared at her incredulously.
“This is so FUNNY!”, Usagi squealed.
“You are not supposed to have fun!!!”, the balloon lady – quite literally apparently – barked.
“Well, too bad. I am!”, Usagi beamed up at her while her head started expanding unbelievably, the column of her neck dissapearing making the definition of her shoulders less and less clear. Before long she was a six-footed balloon and was getting bigger by the minute, laughing and cheering all the time. She couldn't move any of her limbs so her compulsion to clap her hands resulted in an excited wiggle of her fingers which only encouraged her good mood – and enraged Fuusen Oni – even more.
“That's enough!”, the villain snapped. “Let's see how funny you'll find this!”, and with a quick motion she detatched her from the tank and tied a knot where the opening was, right at her knickers, and just let her float in the air.
At that precise moment the girls appeared yelling and preparing to fight with the multi-coloured abomination when Usagi's uncontrollable giggles flummoxed them all into idleness.
The last thing Usagi heard as she was wondrously being blown away towards the sunset by a light spring breeze was the subdued voice of Fuusen Oni as she turned to her friends in pure bewilderment: “Is she always like this?...”
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Enjoy!