Four furs sat around a single coffee table, a fire blazing in the fireplace with a large Christmas tree standing in the corner of the spacious living room. It was Christmas morning, and these close friends decided they’d spend some time enjoying their morning before opening any presents. A plate of cookies sat in the middle of the table, the amount of said cookies slowly being diminished by those surrounding the plate.
The couch surrounding the table went in a half-circle around the piece of furniture, each fur sitting somewhat evenly apart from each other. Going from one end to the other, the first of the group was a light gray lynx named Tsuki. She had dark gray eyes, and a shock of hair went between two black ears. A stripe of red hair went on the underside of said hair, and it was groomed quite well. She had a pattern of dark gray fur on her chest that looked like a crescent moon, and each of her cheeks had one smaller, darker moon on them as well.
Next on the couch was Mouse, named quite simply after what he was: a mouse. He had light blue fur and a stocky figure, along with emerald green eyes that seemed to almost contrast his fur. Normally, he wore a red cape around his neck, but for now it was merely at his side as he munched on a cookie of his own. He was more than happy to accept the invite from Tsuki to come over for Christmas, and ended up being the first to arrive out of anyone else.
Third along the line was Debri, a wolf with mostly white fur on his body. The top and back halves of his head, along with a line down his back and tail, had fur as black as coal. His forearms and lower legs were a very dark gray color, while it faded to white as things got closer to his shoulders and knees. His body, as mentioned before, was completely covered in white fur. He had bright blue paws and eyes, as well as a light blue nose on the tip of his snout.
Last, but certainly not least, was Poppy, a hybrid between rabbit and cat. He had amethyst colored fur on his sides and back, paired with a white furred underbelly. His forearms and the upper halves of his legs were the same amethyst color as his back, followed by white rings of fur around his limbs at his elbows and knees. Below these rings, his arms and legs were a much darker shade of purple. He had a fluffy tail, much like Debri and Tsuki, although his was the longest out of everyone’s, at a full two feet in length, and it went quite well with his long, floppy ears. Both had that same amethyst color up to their ends, and then they gained that darker shade that belonged to his forearms and calves.
As the four continued chatting and eating, Debri unknowingly picked up a cookie that had been prepared differently from the rest. In its core was a single berry, of which was capable of turning anyone into a creaking juice-filled orb. He quickly devoured the cookie, much like he had been doing with most of the other ones he picked up, and before long he felt unusually full. He placed a paw on his stomach and looked down, suddenly finding himself sporting a dome of a belly. With a concerned and confused look on his face, he turned to his friends and pointed out his concerns. “Uhh… hey, do any of you feel weird?”
Tsuki spoke first, immediately seeing what was wrong. “No… but you’re awfully blue…”
The lynx wasn’t wrong. Debri’s fur had rapidly turned blue, and in merely the few seconds it took for that small exchange to happen, his stomach had swelled to the size of a basketball, causing his chest to start inflating while a low gurgling sound began to emanate from his middle. He stood up and moved away from the coffee table, trying to get away from any sharp edges that could possibly puncture his stretching hide. He could feel his belly vibrating as he cradled it with both hands, the juice inside bubbling vigorously as it multiplied within his body.
Soon, as his inflation picked up speed, Debri’s arms and legs were starting to fill with juice, causing the former to slowly stick outwards, becoming rigid as they filled with too much juice to easily move. He widened his stance as his legs became fatter and fatter, the juice pushing into them and taking up every bit of space they could. Debri’s hide was tingling all over from being stretched far beyond its normal limits. The wolf’s cheeks were puffed out to comical sizes, essentially sealing his snout shut and rendering him unable to talk. An attempt to move caused him to topple over, prompting a surprised whimper while he rolled onto his bloated back, beaching himself while he kept growing steadily.
While he grew and grew, his arms and legs kept becoming wider and wider, eventually becoming nothing more than hills atop his spherical body. Even his neck had bloated up and formed a sort of cushion around his head. His hands and feet poked out from these hills, wiggling every so often as Debri made the occasional struggle against his virtually immobile form.
Surprisingly, Debri wasn’t leaking juice from anywhere, but as he reached the size of a small car, he finally stopped growing. He couldn’t even moan to express his relief, though, as the majority of his thoughts were being pulled towards the amount of juice inside his own body. The way it was pushing outwards in every direction, trying to break free from the confines of his hide, but failing as it held together with surprising ease. Despite his previous confusion, Debri was fully enjoying the experience. He barely even noticed through his dazed state as the other furs rolled him to where he could see the rest of the room, everyone else laughing at his predicament.
Once Debri had been rolled to a suitable viewing angle, Poppy, Mouse, and Tsuki decided to move to the tree, which had plenty of gifts under it for the four attendees. They all set aside the gifts for Debri, deciding he could open them when he had been fully juiced, and began to tear into their own presents. It wasn’t long though before Poppy opened one of the presents with his name, and sudden click was heard before a muzzle shot out from the box, clamping itself onto Poppy’s snout and forcing a hose into his mouth.
Poppy struggled on instinct, trying to pull the muzzle off but to no avail as a hissing noise emanated from a tank within the box. His belly started rounding out at a steady pace, filling with whatever was being held within the tank in the newly opened present. Tsuki looked over at the tank, not wanting to get too close in case it shot a muzzle at her too, and saw that it read “helium” across the top.
The substance was further confirmed when Poppy began to rise upwards, his belly already reaching the size of a beach ball. The tank in the box was inflating him rapidly, his chest expanding as well while the hose acted as a rope to keep him from floating all the way to the ceiling. His sides and back began to bulge outwards, and his hide started to creak and groan from being stretched past any normal limits.
Poppy’s limbs were starting to puff put as well, the helium filling into anywhere it could within Poppy’s body. He moaned as he felt his hide start to tingle, much like Debri’s hide was already doing. The creaks and groans from his hide steadily became louder and louder, growing in length as well as volume as his limbs were reduced to mere hills atop his ball-shaped body. His hands, feet, and head poked from these domes, and they were even sucked down into the hills to a considerable degree.
However, just as Poppy felt himself being put on the verge of popping, the hissing from the tank that was inflating him slowed down until it stopped completely. The muzzle released him and let him float up to the ceiling his cheeks suddenly puffing out enough to clamp his snout shut. He moaned as he tried to resist the incoming pressure daze, succeeding at least somewhat. In the meantime, Tsuki and Mouse decided they should just relax with a drink or two, Mouse volunteering to retrieve some beverages from the kitchen.
While Mouse got the drinks, though, he sneakily replaced Tsuki’s drink with a special slime that would surely give Tsuki a “filling” experience. He reminisced in how well his other two traps had worked on Debri and Poppy, and he fully expected that this third prank would go according to plan. As he approached Tsuki though, with the cups in his hands, the slime suddenly jumped out and latched onto Mouse’s face! Tsuki, surprised, didn’t manage to react, but instead, she just watched as the blob forced its way into Mouse’s mouth, causing his cheeks to bulge before it went down his throat.
Mouse chuckled nervously, not expecting the slime to have gone for him over the lynx. He quickly approached the nearest table and set the cups down, a gurgling noise coming from his stomach as he felt the slime already starting to grow. All three of his methods of inflation were supposed to be quick, and this was to be no exception.
Suddenly, his belly ballooned outwards, lurching in size and pressing up against the table before causing Mouse to stagger backwards, falling hard on his rear end. His stomach continued growing outwards in his lap, though, not stopping for him to recover as the slime pushed into his chest too, causing it to start expanding.
The slime could be heard within Mouse’s body, audibly gurgling as it continued to grow inside his body. He was looking rather pudgy, though, instead of becoming spherical, like Poppy and Debri. His sides and back started expanding while his stomach pooled outwards in front of him, and he could feel as his arms and legs began to grow heavy from the slime as it pushed its way in that direction too. Eventually, he had to lay back, his body getting too heavy to keep sitting upright.
Even while he was on his bloated back, Mouse’s body kept growing, Tsuki only now coming to her senses about what was going on. She laughed to herself as she retrieved the safe drink from the table Mouse had set it down on. By the time Mouse had finally finished growing, he was looking like a very nice cushion, rivaling the size of a truck from the amount of slime in his body. She took a seat and leaned into his humongous figure, sinking in slightly and sighing with a smile as she sipped from her glass of beer. Today truly was a nice Christmas morning, and she hoped she’d have more like it…