Shela entered one of the many cargo bays on her newly acquired ship, known as “The Goldmine”. The Sable Shetland Sheepdog had always loved space, and wanted to have a career that could allow her to spend a lot of time out among the stars. However, until recently, it seemed like it would be utterly impossible for her to amass the funds she needed to buy her own ship.
The day it all became possible started with a knock on her door, of which came on a rather uneventful Saturday afternoon. Answering it, Shela was soon told that a very distant relative had passed away; someone she had never met before yet still had a relationship by blood to them. The money they left behind was supposed to go to the “youngest blood relative” according to their will, and with how things went that ended up being Shela.
The amount of money was somewhere in the billions, possibly very close to even a trillion, and hearing that made her elated. She immediately started searching for a spaceship she could fly, and even began the needed training to be legally allowed to fly one. Finally, after about two years of work and time, she had finally bought her own cargo ship, and gotten a secure job as an interplanetary cargo shipper.
Shela still knew that if things went south, she thankfully had enough money left to still live comfortably, but she wasn’t about to let anything stand in the way of her and a life in space. Her first load wasn’t due to come for another week or two, and she had only just finished fully moving into one of the numerous cabins in the ship itself. She’d need to get a crew together as well, and it was more than likely that a few of her close friends would be willing to work with her, literally.
Shela let out a sigh as she thought about how she could pass the time until she left with her first batch of cargo. Slowly, an idea formed in her mind, along with a smile on her face when she remembered one of the things on her ship. A quick trip to her room and back resulted in her carrying a single, small capsule in her hand. She had retrieved it from a bottle of the things in one of her boxes, and the knowledge of what it was made to do excited her.
Without hesitation Shela popped the thing into her mouth and swallowed it, smiling as it quickly went to work. Immediately she felt a pressure in her stomach, like something was pressing outwards from inside her, and then a faint hissing sound alerted her to the slow, but constant expansion of her stomach. The capsule she had swallowed was reacting with her stomach acids to produce what would soon be an extremely large quantity of helium, which would then result in Shela being turned into a floating dog-balloon.
Shela put her hands to her stomach and felt it steadily expanding under her palms. She was now sporting a noticeable dome for a gut, and she felt somewhat lighter with the helium inside her. A very faint tingling feeling arose in her hide as well, signaling that her hide was stretching outwards to contain the gas inside. The speed of her expansion picked up slightly, and soon she was sporting a basketball sized belly. A playful pat on her stomach gave her a drumlike sound, making Shela giggle in a much higher voice than normal.
Moments later, Shela’s belly was as wide across as a tire, and the tingling in her stomach had intensified greatly. She couldn’t stop herself from rubbing her belly, and soon she felt herself floating upwards from the ground as her chest started blowing up along with her stomach.
Time passed, and eventually Shela completely lost herself to the imminent pressure daze as all of her thoughts were pulled to the immense pressure inside her body. Her arms and leg started to inflate too, the helium pushing into any possible area it could fill. She was as big as a car, and her body was hovering about halfway towards the ceiling when the hissing stopped, announcing the end of her expansion.
Shela’s neck had puffed out around her head, giving it a sort of cushion while a pair of cheeks that clamped her mouth shut had blown up to comical proportions. Her arms and legs were now domes on her spherical body, and her back had expanded along with her sides. Her hide was tingling all over in a pleasing way, and currently, Shela could ask for nothing more than to just float where she was.