This story was written as a serial story for my Yahoo group
The Chamber
By Morpheus
Part 1
The Jennings field was a local landmark, the place where all of the
neighborhood kids came to play since suburbia had crept in over twenty
years earlier. It had a large open space, perfect for such games as
baseball and Frisbee, as well as clusters of old trees around the edges,
which provided ample cover for games of capture the flag or hide and
seek. And to make the field even more perfect, it was right behind the
large cluster of houses, which made up the neighborhood, making it a
convenient and natural place to gather.
Ray Jennings, the owner of the property stood back and frowned, absently
scratching his beard as he looked over the large field behind his house.
He had no problem with kids playing in his field, and even had a long
standing unspoken agreement with all of the parents, that the kids could
play there all they wanted... just so long as no one sued him when their
kids got hurt playing on his property. Such things had happened before,
but the parents in the neighborhood were reasonable sorts and didn't
blame him if their kid broke an arm while playing baseball and sliding
into home. Of course, the fact that he didn't have anything to sue him
for except for an old house and an empty field behind it might have had
something to do with that as well.
After just a minute of looking around the rest of the field, Ray gave
his full attention to the tree. It had always been THE tree. The tree
had been an ancient giant, which grew from one corner of the field and
seemed to dominate the whole area. And until just a few minutes earlier,
Ray had assumed that it would always be there.
There had been a powerful storm the night before, and it looked as
though the tree had finally succumbed to an even stronger part of
nature. The heavy winds had been enough to topple the ancient giant and
send it crashing to the ground.
Ray stood there for a moment, silently mourning the loss of such an old
landmark...and wondering how much firewood he could get from it. There
was no doubt that there would be enough wood to keep his place warm for
several years at least.
But then as Ray walked to the base of the tree where the roots had been
torn from the ground, he noticed something strange. There, caught in the
dirt and roots, was a flat slab of stone. The slab was about four inches
thick and just under two feet across, though what had drawn Ray's
attention to it was that it didn't look like any natural rock... And
there seemed to be some sort of symbols carved into the surface...
"What the?" Ray blinked, staring at the chunk of stone that was caught
in the roots, then looking into the large hole that the roots had
occupied. His eyes went wide as he saw the rest of the slab in the
ground... embedded in the ground and still largely buried. He had a
feeling that he was only seeing a small part of the slab, a feeling that
was magnified when he saw the hole where the piece that was stuck in the
roots had come from. It looked like a real hole... all black and empty.
"What the?" Ray repeated, sticking his arm into the hole in the slab and
reaching around, but without touching anything.
Then Ray looked more closely at the flat stone, wiping some of the dirt
way for a better look and being surprised to realize that there were
symbols carved all over it. He guessed that it was some sort of writing,
but it wasn't any kind of writing that he'd ever seen before.
It was obvious that the stone slab had been carved by someone, which
only made Ray a little more curious. After all, the tree had grown over
it at some point, which meant that it had been there for a very long
time. In fact, Ray wouldn't have been surprised if the tree had been
there since before George Washington had fought his first battle... or
even before Columbus had stumbled across the new world.
"Well I'll be," Ray muttered, realizing that if this stone was that old,
then it might be worth quite a bit.
Ray stared at the slab for a minute more, his curiosity about the slab
and what might be under it growing with every breath. Then he finally
decided that he was damn well going to find out. A part of him suggested
that he might want to call an archeologist, but he shrugged that off. It
was his property and his find... and he wasn't about to let someone else
come in and tell him what he could and couldn't do with it.
With that, Ray returned to his house, coming back a few minutes later
with the things that he thought he might need. He used a flashlight to
look down the hole in the slab, thinking that he saw some kind of flat
stone... perhaps just the ground a bit of distance down, though not
being sure. He decided that the only way to know for sure was to dig up
the slab and haul it out of the ground. For the next four hours, Ray
used his pick and shovel to unearth the slab, finding that it was larger
than he expected. It was old... with cracks all through it. There were
even several more spots with holes through it so that he could get a
glimpse of the empty space below. And each glimpse only increased his
curiosity to keep digging.
In the end, the slab itself seemed to be 10 feet by 14 feet, and only
about 4 inches thick. But as Ray had cleared the dirt away from the
slab, it became more and more clear that it wasn't just a stone slab
that was buried in the ground. It was sitting on something else... on
some kind of stone construction, as though it were a lid or door.
Ray stood back and stared at the massive slab, knowing that he should
probably call in some kind of expert now that he'd revealed so much of
it. But he wasn't about to turn over his discovery to someone else after
all that work, nor was he about to wait any longer to find out what was
hidden underneath the slab. He couldn't help but imagining that it was
some sort of burial chamber or tomb for an ancient king, filled with all
sorts of treasure. There was no way that he was going to let someone
else have it until he knew for sure.
Just a few minutes later, Ray had brought his truck out to the middle of
the field and tied a chain between that and the slab. Ray hadn't been
able to get it around the slab, but he'd tied the chain around a crowbar
and slipped that through the large hole he'd first discovered. And once
Ray hit the gas on his truck, he pulled a bit section of the stone slab
off to the side, while the rest of the slab shattered and collapsed into
the hole that was beneath it.
"Get a load of that," Ray muttered after jumping out of his truck and
staring into the hole that had been beneath the slab.
With the slab now removed, Ray could clearly see what had been beneath
it. It was obviously not just some sort of hole, but something which had
been made by people. In fact, what Ray saw only made him realize that he
scope of his find was even larger than he'd thought. There was a stone
stairway, which went down about 9 feet until it reached the bottom of
the small trench. Then several feet away, along the opposite wall of the
trench was an arched doorway...
Ray stared down at the steps, at the rubble from the shattered slab,
which covered them, then at the open doorway that lead underground. It
was dark, keeping him from seeing where the door went to or what was
inside. But after a moment, Ray realized that the doorway wasn't
entirely dark. There was a faint green glow somewhere on the other side.
"God protect me," Ray muttered to himself, staring into the doorway,
filled with a mixture of nervousness, excitement and curiosity.
Then Ray quickly went for his flashlight, barely taking his eyes off of
the stairway for even a moment. He thought about grabbing his shovel as
well, just in case he needed something to defend himself, but then
decided that he wouldn't need it. The entry had been sealed for a very
long time and he doubted that there could be anything down there that
could hurt him.
Finally, Ray mumbled, "Here goes nothing..." He quickly went down the
stone steps, hesitating at the bottom. He glanced up at the sky above,
took a deep breath, then stepped through the doorway that was waiting in
front of him.
Part 2
Fifteen-year-old Jack stood and stared in amazement at the sight that
was laid out before him. A tree... No, THE tree had been knocked down
and was spread out over half of Jennings field. The truck that belonged
to old Mr. Jennings was sitting right next to the tree, though there was
no sign of Mr. Jennings himself.
"Get a load of this," Jack exclaimed to his friends, his eyes going to
the huge hole where the tree had been standing the last time he'd been
at the field, just a week earlier. "It's un-fucking-believable..."
Not only had the tree been knocked over and there was a hole where it
had been standing, but at the bottom of the hole was something that
completely stunned Jack. There were a bunch of stone steps, which went
down into some sort of underground doorway...
With that Jack's two friends came and stood next to him, both silently
staring into the hole as well. They were all equally confused by the
ancient looking stairway.
"Where did this come from?" Jack's best friend Mark asked.
Mark and Jack had been best friends since they were both in elementary
school together, though in spite of them being the same age, Mark was
almost five inches shorter than Jack and could have passes as being up
to two years younger. He frowned as he looked into the hole, shaking his
head in disbelief.
Standing on Jack's other side was Jill, who was probably his second
closest friend. He'd known her nearly as long as he'd known Mark, and
the three of them had grown up together, doing almost everything
together.
Jill was a slender girl who hadn't been graced by puberty quite as well
as some of her friends, though that didn't really bother her much. In
fact, she almost thought of it as a relief. Jill was a tomboy and spent
a lot more time playing sports than fawning over clothes and makeup.
"Interesting," Jill said, pulling her brown hair through the hole in the
back of her baseball cap, an action she performed whenever she was
trying to think and wanted to stall for time. "But where did this come
from?"
"How should I know?" Jack answered, not taking his eyes off of the hole
or the stairway. "Maybe Mr. Jennings knows..." He glanced over to the
truck, then back down to the hole. "Maybe he's down there..."
"There's only one way to find out," Jill exclaimed, jumping down into
the hole.
Jack didn't hesitate before jumping after her, getting to the top of the
steps and then stopping alongside her to stare down. They looked old...
very old. But there were also a lot of broken pieces of rock all over
the place. And they were flat... with strange symbols all over them.
That meant that they would have to be a little careful when going down
the steps, but the rubble wouldn't slow them down much.
"I think I see something glowing in there," Jill said, pointing to the
dark doorway at the bottom of the steps.
"Mr. Jennings probably brought one of those glow sticks or something,"
Jack shrugged.
"HEY MR. JENNINGS!" Mark yelled out from behind them. They waited a
minute but there was no answer. "MR. JENNINGS?"
"He probably can't hear us down there," Jack said.
"Or maybe he went back to his house," Jill pointed out.
They nodded a moment, then Jack was the first to start down the steps.
He reached the open doorway first, then called back, "Last one in is a
rotten egg..."
"That's not fair," Mark, who was standing in the back called out,
especially as Jill had gone down right behind Jack.
Jack stepped through the doorway and saw that he was in some kind of
underground room... It was fairly dark inside, but there was enough
light for Jack to see that there were no other doors or passages. It was
just a single chamber. And obviously, Mr. Jennings was not inside.
The chamber itself was only about thirty feet across and completely
round like a circle, rather than the square or rectangular shape of most
rooms that Jack was familiar with. The walls were all made of stone and
covered with strange symbols, as was the domed ceiling.
However, the most noticeable feature of the chamber was the floor...
Even the floor seemed to have the same kind of etchings and symbols
carved into it as everything else, though it was also quite a bit
different. Specifically, some of the symbols on the floor were glowing
green... A glowing green circle about twelve feet across was placed in
the very center of the chamber. But there were also two other circles
within the main one, with glowing green symbols and patterns, which
connected them all.
"Whoah," Jack gasped in amazement as he took it all in. Then he
exclaimed, "You two stay back for a minute... It might not be safe..."
Jack felt nervous and even just a little bit scared, but that didn't
stop him from going forward. He went to the edge of the glowing circle,
then bent down for a better look. The hairs on the back of his arm
seemed to stand up...
"Weird," Jack muttered, wondering what was causing that glow.
After just staring at the glowing lines in the floor for a few seconds,
Jack reached down to touch one. The circle and all of the glowing
symbols were some sort of thin trench, carved about an inch into the
stone. And at the same time, Jack felt some sort of cool liquid filling
the trench, which was obviously what was causing the glow. But when he
pulled fingers out of the trench and looked at them, they were
completely dry.
"Very weird," Jack said, then grinned, "But kind of cool..."
With that Jack carefully stepped into the circle and moved towards the
center. He could feel something...some kind of force. It grew stronger
and stronger as he moved towards the center. Then suddenly, it seemed to
reach some sort of critical point and exploded within him.
Jack gasped in shock as a strange sensation rushed through his body. It
felt sort of like a cool liquid fire...warming yet keeping him cool at
the same time. And in a strange way, it even felt good.
A moment later, Jack suddenly realized that the energy wasn't just
flowing through him...it was doing something to him. It was changing
him... He'd been so caught up in the sensation of the energy inside of
him that he had almost missed the feel of his body changing.
"Oh," Jack gasped as he felt his muscles all tensing, as he felt his
body tightening, "God this feels weird..."
"What's going on?" Jill yelled from the entrance, coming in and then
stopping to stare at Jack in disbelief. "You're glowing..."
But at that moment, the strange sensations were already beginning to
subside. Jack could no longer feel his body changing...and the cool fire
that had been rushing inside of him quickly faded away.
"That felt weird," Jack exclaimed as he took a step, nearly staggering
before he caught his balance.
"Jack," Jill exclaimed, suddenly rushing forward to help him keep his
balance.
As soon as Jill had crossed into the circle, a faint green glow began to
form around her. And with the next several steps, it grew stronger.
Suddenly Jill announced, "Now I feel weird..." Then she let out a loud
gasp.
"Jill..." Jack gulped staring at her in amazement.
Jill's body was glowing, with the light seeming to come from under her
skin... Or, Jack realized, as though the light was flowing in and out of
her skin. And from the look of her face, she was experiencing the same
thing that he had.
A moment later, Jill let out a loud gasp and grabbed at her chest, just
as it began to swell outwards. Her breasts, which had been nearly flat a
few minutes before, seemed to be growing larger and rounder with every
breath. They hit a B cup... then a C cup... finally stopping at a D cup.
And at the same time, a thousand other changes seemed to be going
through Jill at the same time. Her baseball cap fell off, as her hair
grew longer and more luxurious.
Then as had happened with Jack, the changes stopped and the green glow
faded away. At first, Jack and Jill just stood there, silently staring
at each other, before both turning and rushing out of the chamber.
"Oh shit," Jack exclaimed, not sure what to think of what was going on.
"What's happening?" Mark demanded as Jack and Jill pushed past him. Then
he saw Jill and exclaimed, "Holy shit!"
"Oh my," Jill gasped, staring down at herself in amazement.
Most of Jill's clothes seemed to have become brittle and torn apart as
her body transformed. She gasped and tried to cover up her now generous
breasts. And now that she was out of the chamber and in the light of
day, the transformation that she had undergone had become much easier to
see.
"You're... you're..." Jack stammered as he stared at Jill, "You're
gorgeous..."
Jill stared down at herself, gasping again as she took in just how sexy
and curvy her body had become. Instead of being behind the curve on
puberty, she seemed to suddenly have jumped ahead quite a bit. Her waist
had become firm and slender, her legs long and shapely, and then there
were her breasts...
"What did that place do to me?" Jill gasped, not sure whether to be
horrified at her sudden transformation or excited.
"I was in it too," Jack reminded himself, then looked down to see what
might have changed.
It took Jack a moment, but he realized that from the way his own clothes
were tight on him...even torn a bit at the seams... and from the way
that Mark now seemed just a little bit shorter, that he seemed to have
grown just a little bit taller. But more than that, Jack took off his
shirt, which was now far too tight, revealing the rest of the changes to
his body.
"Holy shit," Mark blurted out, staring at Jack. "You're ripped..."
Jack looked down at his chest and stomach, being amazed at the sight.
Instead of his normally thin body, he saw one that was much more
athletic and muscular. In fact, he could even see the obvious shadows of
six-pack abs.
"No way," Jack exclaimed, flexing his arm and seeing the noticeable
bicep.
Just as Jill's body had become sexier and more mature, the same seemed
to have happened to Jack. He had become a little taller... and a lot
more muscular. He wasn't anywhere near as bulky as a bodybuilder, but
there was little doubt that he was now one of the most muscular and
ripped boys in his entire school.
"What happened to you in there?" Mark demanded.
"I don't know," Jack answered, "But it feels great..."
"Yeah," Jill smiled, looking both a little embarrassed and thrilled at
the same time, "I think I like it..."
Mark stared at his two friends for a moment, feeling incredibly amazed
at what had happened to them... as well as envious. He took one more
look at Jack's newly athletic body, then turned and rushed down into the
chamber himself.
When Mark emerged from the chamber a minute later, he too had been
drastically transformed. Jack and Jill stared up at Mark, who was now
not only a little taller than Jack, but older looking as well. Mark now
looked as though he were eighteen or nineteen years old, rather than
just fifteen.
"Wow," Jack and Jill exclaimed as one, while Mark blushed at his
completely shredded clothes yet admired his older body.
Mark was now taller and older looking than Jack, though he wasn't as
athletic. That didn't bother Mark though who was quite pleased with just
how he had changed.
"This thing is absolutely incredible," Mark exclaimed, grinning broadly
while Jack and Jill could only nod agreement.
"Yeah," Jack grinned back, "All that you have to do is go into that...
that chamber, and you come out all changed."
"You come out better," Jill added.
Mark smirked a bit as he looked over her sexy body, "Definitely
improved..."
"I don't know if I should punch you or kiss you for that," Jill teased.
"I'll take the latter," Mark grinned, earning a punch in the arm
instead.
"So," Jack said slowly, "what are we going to do now? I mean, how are we
going to explain this to our parents and everyone?"
"Who cares?" Jill grinned, "I just can't wait to tell Karen... She'd
kill me if I didn't share this with her..."
"I can't wait to show my brother," Mark exclaimed, "He thinks he's all
that, but now I'm taller than him..."
Jack, Jill and Mark all just stood there and laughed as they thought of
the possibilities...and of how jealous everyone else would be when they
found out. They had no idea how that weird chamber had done what it had
to them, but there was no doubt that things were going to be very
different.
"This is going to be so much fun," Jack said as they walked away from
the hole in the ground. "This is going to be great..."
Part 3
"Take a look at THIS," Jill exclaimed as she slowly turned around so
that her friend Karen could get a good look at her newly transformed
body. "Can you believe it?"
The two had been friends for several years and shared many of the same
problems at school. Karen was sixteen, a year older than Jill, though
few would guess it. Karen was shorter than Jill, standing only 5 foot 3,
and she was even less developed than Jill had been before her
transformation. And much to Karen's frustration, she was frequently
mistaken to be twelve years old.
Karen just stared at Jill in shock and disbelief, sure that someone had
to be playing some sort of a trick on her. She'd seen Jill the day
before and Jill had certainly not been anywhere near that developed. She
would have suspected padding, but it was quite clear that this was not
the case.
"Wow," Karen finally gasped, not sure what else to say. "How... I
mean..."
"You like it?" Jill asked proudly, sticking out her generous breasts a
bit and showing off her sexy body even more.
"Yeah, but..." Karen stammered, feeling as though she had to be in the
middle of some sort of dream.
"It happened so quickly," Jill exclaimed excitedly, "I mean, I burst
right out of my clothes... I had to rush home and get some of my
mom's... Thank God she wasn't there... I mean, I don't know what to tell
her about this..."
Karen blinked in surprise. "It just happened..."
However, Jill giggled and continued almost as if she hadn't heard, "I
don't like wearing my mom's stuff, but the only thing that I have that
still fits are my shoes... I mean, even my mom's stuff doesn't really
fit me... Her butt is bigger than mine and these pants are pretty loose
there... And my chest is a lot bigger than hers now, so this shirt is
kind of pinching..."
"But what happened to you?" Karen demanded, finally putting enough force
in her voice to get through Jill's excitement. "I mean, how did this
happen..." She pointed at Jill's body, feeling a stab of envy as she
had.
The two of them had always been less developed than the other girls
their age in school, which was something that brought them together.
Sometimes it had felt like the two of them against the world... But now
that Jill had suddenly changed, Karen was already feeling left behind
and almost abandoned.
Jill took a deep breath, then looked at Karen. It was obvious that she
could barely contain her excitement as she explained, "I was at Jennings
Field with Mark and Jack, and there was this big hole in the ground with
a sort of secret passage into an underground temple or something... I
just went inside and this happened to me..."
"You just went inside?" Karen blinked, feeling confused. She'd never
really been to Jennings Field more than once or twice, but she hadn't
seen anything like what Jill had described. And if it hadn't been for
the evidence of Jill's drastically altered body, she never would have
believed a word of it.
"And you should see the guys," Jill shook her head in amazement, "Jack
is like totally ripped now...and Mark looks like he's in college..."
"They changed too?" Karen gasped, the possibilities forming in her mind.
Jill nodded, looking down at herself and tugging on her too tight shirt.
"I've got to get new clothes... C'mon," she grinned, "let's go
shopping..."
Karen stared in disbelief at her friend, who seemed so little like the
tomboy that she knew so well. "But you HATE shopping?"
"Well I need new clothes," Jill said defensively.
For a moment, Karen just stared up at Jill, then she blurted out,
"You've gotta show me this temple... Please, you've got to take me
there..." She gave Jill the most pleading look she could...
Jill just stared back at her for a few seconds before breaking out into
a broad grin. "Sure... And if it makes you better too, we can go get new
clothes together..."
"Deal," Karen responded eagerly, nearly drooling at the thought of
changing...of getting better like Jill had. She was tired of everyone
always thinking of her as a little girl and treating her like she was
helpless, just because puberty hadn't been as generous to her as to most
girls her age. Then she gulped, "I hope it works..."
"Well c'mon," Jill grabbed her and tugged on her arm, "Let's go find
out..."
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"Here we are," Jill announced after she had led Karen to the field and
the base of a fallen tree.
Karen carefully stepped closer and stared down into the large hole,
which went down three feet before it hit the top of the steps that
descended into a dark doorway. And even from where she stood, Karen
thought that she saw the faintest flicker of a green glow on the other
side of the doorway, though that could have just been her imagination
after hearing Jill's description of what it was like on the way there.
"Go on down," Jill urged her, "It's what I did..."
"And I'll change too?" Karen asked, feeling a bit nervous and even
afraid.
There was no doubt in Karen's mind that she wanted to change, but at the
same time, she was afraid of what it would mean. And of course, she was
afraid of the disappointment she would feel if it didn't work. She would
feel like a fool for even thinking that such a thing was possible...
After waiting there for a minute and just staring down at the doorway,
Karen finally began to move. She carefully climbed into the hole and
almost immediately lost her footing on the dirt and stone. But still,
she made it to the stone steps without falling and let out a sigh of
relief as they were much sturdier to stand on, though still a little
treacherous with all of the rubble which covered them.
Karen paused about halfway down the steps to look back at Jill, who
stood back with an expression of excitement and curiosity. It was
obvious that she was looking forward to Karen changing too.
"I can do this," Karen muttered to herself before continuing down the
steps.
From the outside of the doorway it had looked dark within, though once
Karen had stepped through she was surprised to find just how much light
there was. The only source of light within the chamber was the large
glowing green circle, which covered much of the floor, as well as all of
the symbols within it, but these provided enough light to see by.
And for a moment, Karen stopped and stared at the circle, suddenly
thinking that it looked like it might have been drawn on the floor with
the contents of one of those light sticks that they used for Halloween.
But one thought of Jill and what she had become was enough to remind her
that this was no Halloween prank. This was something much more real.
"Where did you come from?" Karen whispered as she slowly looked around
the chamber.
She could see symbols that were either written on or carved into the
walls, though they were still covered in shadow enough that she could
not make out many details. Still, she could see enough of the symbols to
know that they were nothing that she recognized.
Karen took a deep breath, knowing that this place was ancient... She
could feel it... And though she had no idea as to the chamber's origins,
she could feel that there was a power and importance to that place which
even time had not been able to completely erase.
Then finally, Karen turned her attention back to the glowing circle and
began to move into it. She could feel a tingle like static electricity
as she crossed the circle, and it quickly grew stronger... more
powerful. Karen could feel something flowing through her body, though
she had no words to describe it... other than that it felt good.
"Oh my," Karen gasped in amazement.
The sensations... the energies, which rushed through her body, were so
intense that it took her a moment to realize that they were doing
something to her... They were changing her...
"It's working," she exclaimed in delight.
Karen tried to focus, to pay attention to just how her body was
changing, though it was not easy. Still, she could tell that her body
seemed to be expanding in nearly every direction at once. Her clothes
were getting tighter and tighter, until they suddenly started to burst
and shred. It was as though they had somehow become so brittle that they
would tear at the slightest pressure. Even her shoes burst apart at the
seams as her feet grew larger.
"My favorite shirt," Karen whispered, almost immediately forgetting
about it as she tried to absorb everything that was happening to her.
Her body continued to surge and grow larger for several more seconds
before the changes began to stop. Then it came to an end and the burning
energy that filled Karen's body quickly faded away.
Karen staggered for a moment as her whole sense of balance had been
thrown off. Then taking a deep breath, she looked down at herself, eager
to see exactly how she had changed and bursting with curiosity.
The first thing that Karen saw were the large breasts which now pushed
out from her chest. She gasped at the very sight, never having expected
to be nearly so lucky... They were big... big, round and firm. They were
everything that she'd ever dreamed of having up top.
Then Karen looked past her breasts to the rest of her body, gasping even
louder as she did. Her body was definitely larger than it had been
before... and ripping with tightly packed muscle. She ran her hand over
her stomach, completely stunned to feel the rock hard abs and the well
defined six pack.
"My God," Karen gasped, feeling dazed by her transformation.
After just a moment, Karen hurried out of the chamber, eager to get a
good look at herself in better light. She paused at the doorway,
realizing that she was now completely naked, without a stitch of
clothing on her. But when she turned to look back at the glowing circle,
there was not trace of any of her clothing there. It was as though her
clothing had just disintegrated after it had fallen off of her.
"KAREN?" Jill gasped in surprise from the top of the hole, staring down
at her in amazement and disbelief.
Karen quickly hurried up the steps, thinking that they didn't seem as
long as when she went down. And when she climbed out of the hole a
moment later, she was stunned to find herself looking down at Jill. In
fact, her friend looked rather short.
"Holy shit," Jill exclaimed, staring up at Karen, "You're like seven
feet tall..."
"My God," Karen exclaimed, too stunned to know what to think.
At that, Karen stood straight to her full height of 6 foot 8. With her
long sexy legs, generous firm breasts and statuesque body that were
tightly packed with muscle, she looked every inch as though she could be
some comic book super heroine.
"Holy shit you changed," Jill said, slowly moving around Karen and
staring at every inch of her body. "How do you feel..."
"I feel..." Karen started slowly, looking down at her transformed body
and smiling, "good. In fact, I feel absolutely great..."
Karen took a deep breath, taking in the sensations from her new body.
She felt so strong and powerful... And the way that she looked down to
see Jill... It was exciting. It was great to actually be bigger and
stronger than Jill for a change. In fact, Jill almost looked a little
intimidated of her size. And Karen rather liked that too as she had
never been able to intimidate anyone before.
"I feel fantastic," Karen grinned, flexing one of her arms and seeing
the solid muscle that formed. It wasn't all huge and bulging, at least
not like some bodybuilder guy, but it was definitely a solid muscle. "I
feel like I could do anything..."
"Well the first thing you're going to need to do is get some clothes,"
Jill pointed out, smirking a little. "My clothes were pretty shredded
when I got done, but not that bad..."
Karen looked down at herself again and blushed. "Oh yeah..." She quickly
looked around, afraid that someone might be staring at her while she
stood there completely naked.
Jill stared at her for a moment more before suggesting, "Why don't you
wait down there where no one can see you like that, and I'll go find you
something to wear..."
"Good idea," Karen giggled, quickly jumping back into the hole and going
down the steps. "But can you hurry? I don't like the idea of being stuck
out here without any clothes..."
"Sure," Jill grinned, shaking her head in amazement. "I'll be back as
soon as I can..." And with that, she turned and hurried away.
As soon as Jill left, Karen looked over her body yet again, still
completely amazed that this was actually her. She loved it... She never
would have imagined being turned into some kind of Amazon, and she never
would have asked to be made so large and muscular. But now that she had
been...she couldn't imagine going back.
"I love it," Karen laughed aloud, knowing that she would never be the
smallest girl in her class again, and that no one would EVER mistake her
for a twelve year old. "From now on, things are going to be
different..."
Part 4
Brandon leaned back on his bed and smiled as he looked at the centerfold
of his magazine. He had a half dozen 'adult' magazines sitting on the
bed next to him, though his favorite was Playboy. It didn't show quite
as much as the others, but he liked the style of the pictures and
thought that the little cartoon pictures were hilarious.
Of course Brandon told himself that he didn't need the magazines and
that he could get girls like that if he REALLY wanted too... He didn't
really believe it himself, but it was comforting to his ego to have that
occasional silent reminder.
At seventeen, even if only by less than a month, Brandon was fairly tall
and athletic, though certainly not the tallest or most athletic in his
school. Still, he was above average and popular enough that he did tend
to draw the attention of girls, just not of any of the ones in his
magazines.
"Oooh, nice," Brandon smirked as he flipped the page and saw a
particularly hot looking model. "I'd like to..."
But just then, Brandon's thoughts were interrupted by a knocking on his
bedroom door. That was immediately followed by the sound of his younger
brother Mark calling out, "Hey, let me in. I've got to show you
something..."
"Just great," Brandon grimaced, quickly scrambling to hide his
magazines. It was at moments like this that Brandon wished that he was
an only child rather than the oldest of three.
"C'mon... you're going to be so jealous," Mark laughed through the door.
Brandon scowled at that, wondering for a moment of Mark sounded just a
little different. But he quickly shrugged it off as he went to answer
the door.
"This had better be important," Brandon snapped as he opened up the
door.
Just as soon as Brandon had opened the door and got a good look at his
younger brother, he let out a loud gasp and froze, staring in disbelief.
Mark just stood there smirking, not looking at all like the Mark that
Brandon knew so well. There was no doubt that it was indeed his brother,
but he was different... For one, this Mark had to be 6 foot 3, two
inches taller than him, not to mention looking two years older.
"You like it?" Mark smirked as he posed, letting Brandon get a good
look.
"What the..." Brandon blinked, trying to make sense of what he was
seeing. There was absolutely no way that his little brother could
suddenly get about eight inches taller and two yours older in a matter
of a few hours. It was some kind of trick... Some kind of joke... But
when Brandon looked at Mark's feet, expecting to see him standing on a
box or wearing platform shoes, he immediately realized that this wasn't
the case. "How..."
Mark just laughed at the look on Brandon's face, grinning, "This is so
cool... I can't believe that I'm taller than you now... I guess this
makes me the big brother..."
"You can't be Mark," Brandon gasped, then with more determination added,
"No one changes like that all of a sudden... Who the hell are you? Did
Mark hire you to impersonate him?"
"Who else but me knows about those magazines you have hidden under your
dresser?" Mark asked, "And what about that movie Jack and I caught you
watching... I'm sure mom would be pissed..."
Brandon grimaced, knowing that this HAD to be Mark. No impostor could
possibly be that annoying. But still, he eyed his brother suspiciously
for a moment, shaking his head in disbelief before finally asking, "How?
How the hell did THIS..."
"Well," Mark started, pausing for just a moment to think it through, "I
found this great secret place that can change you... It makes you bigger
and better..." He shook his head, "You should see Jill now... She looks
like she could be in one of your magazines..."
"Jill?" Brandon blinked, half sure that Mark was just making that bit
up. Jill could never be a model like that... But then again, one more
look at Mark made him change his mind.
"Yeah," Mark grinned, "she is totally hot..."
"Where did this happen?" Brandon demanded. "Where is this place you said
did this?"
"I'm not telling you," Mark smirked, looking quite pleased with himself.
He loved the fact that he was finally bigger and older than Brandon and
he wanted to enjoy it as long as possible. "That's for me to know and
you to find out..."
Brandon just glared at his brother, getting more and more annoyed with
him by the second. Then he paused for a moment and said, "It's in
Jennings Field... Isn't it?"
"How'd you know?" Mark asked in surprise.
"I didn't... until now," Brandon smirked back. "But I know that's where
you and your friends were going when you left..."
"That sucks," Mark grimaced, hating being tricked like that.
"Show me where it's at?" Brandon demanded, glancing at Mark thinking
that this place might be quite interesting indeed if it could do that to
Mark.
Thoughts of being bigger, stronger and older went through his head. He
could just imagine being able to suddenly have all the models from his
magazines hanging all over him.
Mark grumbled for a moment then nodded. "Okay... It's not like you
couldn't find it anyway now..." Then he shook his head before asking,
"Can I at least borrow some of your clothes before we go though? I kind
of grew right out of my own and this stuff I grabbed out of dad's closet
sucks..."
A few minutes later, the two brothers hurried out of the house, neither
of them noticing that the bedroom door across the hall from Brandon's
was cracked open. And as soon as they were gone, their ten year old
brother Chad stepped out of his room, staring in amazement at the
doorway where he had seen his older brother Mark such a short time
earlier.
"WOW," Chad exclaimed, "that was incredible..."
His mind raced at the thought of this magical place in Jennings Field
that Mark had described, and he felt jealous that his two older brothers
were both going to be changed by it. He grinned, knowing that he was
going to have to go there too...
"Did you hear that?" Chad's best friend Mikey blurted out excitedly.
"Boy Mark god big..."
"Of course I heard it," Chad responded with faint annoyance, "I was
standing right here too..."
Mikey looked down in embarrassment, "Oh yeah..." Then he suddenly
brightened up again, "Let's follow them there so we can get big too..."
"Not yet," Chad said, grabbing hold of Mikey to keep him from running
off. He grinned broadly as he added, "Let's go get the others first..."
---
When Brandon arrived at Jennings Field with Mark, he could immediately
see why his brother had told him that he'd be able to easily find the
special place by himself. Brandon used to play in the field when he was
growing up, along with most of the other kids, but he hadn't really been
there in over a year. Still, the sight of the old tree, knocked down and
spread out over the field, along with the truck parked next to it would
have immediately caused him to go and investigate.
Because of these things, Brandon wasn't at all surprised when Mark told
him that the place, which had changed him, was down in the hole at the
base of the tree. "It's a weird underground room," Mark had explained,
"It even has old stairs going into it..."
What did surprise Brandon though was that when he got to the edge of the
hole and went to look at the stairs that Mark had described, he saw that
there was someone down there already. There was a girl... a naked girl.
"Jill?" the girl asked as she looked up towards him, freezing when she
saw who was there.
For a moment, Brandon could only stare at the girl in stunned disbelief.
She was not only naked, but even from where he was standing, he could
see that she was BIG. She was extremely tall and her whole body seemed
to be nearly solid muscle, though he had to admit that she had plenty of
curves and in all of the right places. And then, Brandon realized that
there was something familiar about this girl...
"What the hell are you staring at?" the girl demanded for a moment,
glaring at Brandon and making him feel as though he should turn around
and run.
"Who... who are you?" Brandon managed to ask, averting his eyes, though
he couldn't help glancing back.
"I'm..." she paused, looking a bit self-conscious.
"Karen," Mark exclaimed as he stared at her.
Karen nodded, then dropped her hands from where she was trying to cover
herself. She took a deep breath, standing up tall and deciding that she
had absolutely NOTHING to be modest or embarrassed about anymore. In
fact, she knew very well that her new body was something to be extremely
proud of.
"I see you found that chamber," Mark grinned, staring at Karen's new
body.
"Jill showed me it," Karen said, then admitted, "and I'm stuck here like
this while she goes and gets me some clothes. I wish she'd hurry up..."
Mark grinned. "It looks like the chamber changed you a LOT."
"Yeah," Karen grinned back.
Brandon could only stare at her in disbelief, as well as amazement. He'd
never hung around in quite the same circles as Karen, though he'd known
who she was. She was the little girl... the one who liked to hang around
with Mark's friend Jill and who looked like puberty had skipped her
entirely. But obviously, that was no longer the case. In fact, the word
'little' no longer seemed to describe her at all.
"Do you like it?" Karen asked, flexing her arm to show her muscles. She
was obviously proud of them, though a little self-conscious at the same
time. It almost seemed as though she wanted to be proud of them and show
them off, but she was still afraid of what other people would think
about her changes.
"Wow," was all that either Mark or Brandon were able to say.
"I've just GOT to get in there," Brandon exclaimed, licking his lips, as
he thought about getting that big and muscular. After all, if that weird
chamber that Mark mentioned could do something like that to a girl, he
couldn't wait to see what it would do for him.
But Karen just glared up at him at that, then crossed her arms and said,
"Maybe I don't want you to go in? Maybe I'm not going to let you..."
Brandon just gasped in surprise at her unexpected aggressiveness,
realizing at the same time that if she wanted to prevent him from going
down there into the door behind her, then he wouldn't have much chance.
After all, he was fairly athletic, but he had no illusions as to his
chances against someone as big and muscular as she now was... even if
she was a girl.
"It's not yours," Mark pointed out after a moment, obviously enjoying
the way that Brandon was staring at her. "You don't have the right to
say who can go in and who can't..."
Karen nodded after a moment, apparently enjoying her little display of
power but not having taken it very seriously herself. It was then that
Brandon realized that she'd been teasing him more than anything. For
someone who had never been able to intimidate anyone, the ease with
which she could do it now was obviously amazing to her.
"Well you're sure as hell not coming down here as long as I'm stuck down
here with no clothes," Karen announced, this time leaving no doubt that
she was indeed serious.
"Damn," Brandon muttered with a sigh, feeling a bit impatient.
Then he decided that since he was stuck at the moment, he might as well
take a few more looks at Karen. She was a lot bigger and more muscular
than he preferred in women, but he had to admit that she was still very
good looking. There was no doubt that what the chamber had done to her
was an improvement.
Fortunately, it was only a few minutes later when Mark exclaimed,
"There's Jill..."
Brandon looked to where Mark was pointing and saw her walking towards
them with a big garbage bag over her shoulder as well as carrying
something under her arm. It was obviously a bit of an effort for Jill to
carry those things, but she was managing fine on her own.
As Jill got closer, Brandon couldn't help staring at her in amazement...
as well as a bit more. Jill had always been the plain looking tomboy who
had hung around with his younger brother, but now she was anything but.
Like Karen, she had changed a great deal, though definitely in a
different way.
"You were right," Brandon muttered to Mark, "she could be in one of
those magazines..."
Jill was taller than she had been, perhaps now about 5 foot 9 or so, and
very sexy looking. Brandon could easily imagine her posing in his
favorite magazines, especially Playboy. If it wasn't for her face, he
never would have recognized her at all. But even Jill's face had changed
a bit, looking a bit more mature and sexy... though obviously still
being hers.
"It looks like the titty fairy came to visit," Brandon commented, not
sure what else to say to such a hot looking girl that he'd completely
ignored until then.
Jill just glared at Brandon, then turned to Mark and asked, "Did you
have to tell him about this?"
Mark only shrugged at that, but then Karen called out, "Hey, don't
forget about me..."
"I didn't," Jill grinned, grabbing the garbage bag and calling down to
her, "I didn't know what kind of clothes would fit you, so I grabbed
pretty much everything I could get my hands on..." Then she paused,
revealing what she had been holding under her arm and proudly
exclaiming, "I brought a mirror too... I figured that you'd want to use
it..."
"Hell yeah," Karen grinned, climbing right out of the hole, not seeming
to care that she was completely naked and in the open. She snatched the
mirror right out of Jill's hands and stared into it gasping, "Holy
shit..."
"Hey," Mark exclaimed, looking down into the hole. He grinned greedily,
"I was thinking that maybe we could charge people to go in there..."
"What happened to the we don't own it thing?" Karen pointed out.
"Well we're the ones who found it," Mark said defensively, looking to
Jill for support. But she was too busy digging clothes out of the bag
for Karen.
"I just wish I had a bigger mirror," Karen muttered. The one in her
hands was a square mirror that Jill had taken off of her living room
wall, and it was only a foot and a half wide. "I can't believe it..."
Mark looked up at Karen, feeling a bit jealous. Now that she was out of
the hole and he could see how big she really was, he felt short again.
He liked being taller than Brandon, but with Karen that big and with his
brother about to go into the chamber, he felt almost like he might lose
the advantages that the chamber had given him.
"I have an idea," Mark exclaimed. Then before anyone realized what Mark
was doing, he jumped into the hole and ran down the steps and into the
chamber.
"He's going in again," Jill gasped.
Brandon stared into the doorway, feeling nervous as he did so. It was
already weird enough that Mark, his little brother was taller than him
and looked older than him, but if he came out as big as Karen... Brandon
gulped at the thought.
But when Mark came out of the doorway a minute later, he didn't look any
different than when he'd gone in. He stared down at himself, ran his
hands over his chest and sides, then shook his head in obvious
disappointment.
"Nothing happened," Mark exclaimed, frowning as he climbed out of the
hole, "It doesn't work anymore..."
"NO," Brandon gasped, staring at the door and feeling afraid that he had
just lost his opportunity... All of those hot women hanging on him...
Now it would never happen...
"It worked for me," Karen pointed out a bit uncertainly.
Jill nodded. "Maybe it only works once..."
She looked towards the doorway, briefly thinking about going down there
again to try but quickly deciding against it. There was no way that she
wanted to risk losing all of the improvements to her body that she'd
just gained. And with a glance up at Karen, she knew that she didn't
want to end up that big either.
Just then, Mark looked back to the stairs and blurted out, "Hey...what
happened to all that junk on the steps?"
"Those rocks?" Karen blinked. "I threw all those out while I was stuck
waiting down there..." She glanced at Jill. "I was kind of bored." Then
she looked just a little self-conscious as she added, "And I kind of
wanted to test out my new muscles..."
Brandon didn't know what rocks and junk they were talking about, only
that he was getting impatient and wanted to check out this strange
chamber for himself. He glanced at Mark and the two girls, then turned
and jumped into the hole.
When Brandon stepped through the doorway and into the chamber, he let
out a faint gasp of surprise. The whole place was obvious VERY old...
and mysterious. He could make no sense of the strange symbols, which
covered the walls, or the glowing ones in the middle of the floor. All
that Brandon knew was that this was not like anything he had ever heard
of before... at least not outside of some movie.
Then he stepped forward, into the glowing green circle. The power from
it flowed around him...and then flowed through him. He could feel it
rushing through his veins... through every bit of his body. And Brandon
could feel it changing him... from within and without.
"Oh," Brandon gasped aloud, to overwhelmed by the sensations to truly
make any sense of just how he was changing. All that he knew was that
his flesh was reshaping and his clothes were no longer fitting right.
They were getting looser in some spots...and tighter in others. His
clothes even started to tear a bit in the spots where they were tight.
"This feels so weird..."
It only took a minute for the changes to stop and the power to fade
away. Brandon remained where he was, staggering slightly as he realized
that his entire sense of balance had shifted. He felt more... top heavy.
Brandon looked down, gasping at what he saw. He looked down even
further, feeling his heart jump up into his throat. His eyes widened and
he shook his head, sure that he had to be imagining things. Long hair
brushed his shoulders...
"What the hell?" Brandon blurted out, wondering what had gone wrong. He
hadn't become bigger, older or stronger like Mark and Karen... at least
not that he could see. Instead, from what he could see, something quite
the opposite had happened.
With that realization Brandon hurried out of the chamber and into the
light of the sun where he could get a better look at himself. From the
shocked gasps that he heard from Jill and Karen above, he knew that his
worst fears had come true.
"Oh my God," Brandon gulped as he looked down at himself again, the
grabbed the large round breasts which burst from his chest. "I've turned
into a chick..."
Brandon quickly looked down over the rest of his body, seeing that he
had indeed been transformed into a woman. And from what he could see of
himself, from the parts of his body that weren't still covered with
poorly fitting clothes, and even from what he could see of himself
through those clothes, he was obviously a very well shaped one.
"Brandon?" Mark gasped in shock.
"Is that you?" Jill asked in amazement, though the answer was obvious.
"Oh shit," Brandon grimaced, climbing up out of the hole, feeling too
stunned for words. He felt so strange... But oddly enough, he didn't
really feel that bad either...
"I didn't know that it could change you into a girl," Mark exclaimed,
sounding as though he were trying to apologize for how Brandon had been
transformed, "I didn't know..."
But Brandon didn't really pay much attention to Mark. Instead he reached
for the mirror that Jill had brought and stared at his reflection.
Brandon immediately gasped at the sight, feeling even more stunned than
before.
"I look like Paris Hilton," Brandon blurted out in disbelief.
However, Brandon already knew that this wasn't exactly true... His
reflection did indeed look a LOT like the famous heiress... but it was
not completely hers. In fact, it looked like a hotter... sexier version
of her...
"But you've got bigger boobs," Mark pointed out what Brandon had already
noticed.
"Yeah," Jill agreed, "you do look like her though... just... curvier."
Brandon just gulped as he looked down at himself, then back into the
mirror. It wasn't just his curves... but his face. It looked just a bit
more mature... a bit sexier. His lips were just a little poutier... a
little more kissable.
"My God," he whispered, knowing that he was now hot enough to be on the
cover of any of those magazines that he liked looking at. He looked like
a super sexy model... or even a porn star. "I'm hot..." Then Brandon
couldn't help laughing as he thought about who he resembled, "That's
hot..."
For a moment, Brandon just stared at himself, then he absently ran his
hand over his body, amazed at how different it felt. Normally such a hot
looking girl being so close to him would have been enough to make him
immediately hard. But now... for some reason it was making him feel all
warm and gooey inside instead. It took him a moment longer to realize
that he was feeling turned on.
"God this is weird," he muttered again.
"What are mom and dad going to say?" Mark demanded, seeming even more
shaken up by the transformation than Brandon was.
Then Brandon couldn't help smiling faintly, thinking that he didn't
really feel all that bad. In fact, he felt surprisingly good. He licked
his lips absently as he thought about just how hot he looked, and about
how good that made him feel. He didn't quite understand why, but he felt
a strange pride in the realization that he was the hottest looking girl
in the entire town... and quite possibly even the state.
"What are you going to do?" Mark gasped out while Jill and Karen just
stood back.
"I don't know," Brandon admitted, shaken by the whole thing, "I don't
know..."
But even as Brandon stood there, trying to make sense of what had
happened to him and knowing that he would have a LOT of problems because
of it, he didn't really feel as worried about it as he thought he
should. In fact, a part of him seemed to whisper that it might even be a
good thing. There was a part of him inside which actually seemed
thrilled by the prospect of being a hot and sexy looking woman.
Brandon took a deep breath, knowing that he couldn't share these
thoughts with Mark or the girls. They wouldn't understand. Then again,
he didn't really understand his own feelings either. All that he knew
was that this was how he felt.
"Let's get out of here," Brandon suggested, looking at the others, "I
think we're all going to have a bit of explaining to do..."
Part 5
Ten year old Chad quietly looked at the kids around him, then adjusted
the helmet that he wore. It was an old soldier's helmet, the kind that
his dad had called a steel pot back when he had been in the army. The
helmet was a little too large for Chad, but it served its purpose as a
symbol for the current spokesman of their club.
The club was not a large one and it had no official name, though the
members would frequently try to come up with one. At one time they had
come close to officially naming their club as the No Girls Allowed Club,
though this plan had been abandoned, as one of their members was a girl.
And at the moment, the six members of the club sat in the wood shed,
which served as the secret hideout, wondering why they had all been
called there. However, the reasons didn't really matter, only that this
seemed to promise them some adventure.
"I bet you're all wondering why I called you here," Chad announced,
looking around the small room at his friends.
"Not me," his friend Mikey grinned.
Chad rolled his eyes, then silently looked over at the others. He
adjusted his helmet again, quickly wondering if maybe he shouldn't have
called everyone else just yet. He was feeling more and more impatient by
the moment, though he was even more impatient to tell them what he had
found out.
Tony was ten years old and the fattest of the six kids who were present.
He ate a potato chip while he was waiting, then offered some from his
bag to the boy sitting next to him.
Next to Tony was Norris, a boy who was nine years old and quite his
opposite. Norris was very thin, with a pair of heavy glasses resting on
his nose. And as if to add to the possible stereotyping, he even had an
asthma inhaler in his pocket.
Katie was nine years old and the only girl in their club. With her short
hair and tomboy nature, the fact that she really was a girl was often
overlooked, sometimes even forgotten entirely. And when Chad had first
come up with The No Girls Allowed Club as a possible official name, he
had even made her into an honorary boy so that she could still be a
member.
The last member of the club who was present was Billy, Mikey's seven
year old younger brother. He was young enough that the others would have
left him out of the club entirely, if it weren't for the fact that their
club house was in his and Mikey's back yard, and they were left with
little choice but to include him if they wanted to stay there.
Suddenly, Tony exclaimed, "Hey, where's Timmy?" He looked around,
noticing that one of their members was noticeably absent.
"His dad took him to Disneyland..." Katie pointed out. "Remember?"
"Oh yeah," Tony responded, a bit embarrassed to have forgotten that.
A round of, "Lucky..." went around the hideout as they thought of all of
the fun that Timmy must be having.
"Hey," Chad called out, trying to get everyone's attention again, "I've
got something to tell you..."
"Oh yeah," Norris blurted out, "I just remembered that my mom said I can
have a sleepover next week..."
"Hey," Chad repeated, "You can talk when you're wearing the captain's
hat..." He tapped on his helmet to remind them of their rule that
whomever wore the helmet was the one who was supposed to talk. However,
it was a rule that was frequently forgotten or overlooked.
"So talk already," Katie told him impatiently.
Chad frowned, then stood up straight and announced, "Mikey and me found
something really cool..."
"Mark was the one who found it," Mikey pointed out, earning a glare from
Chad.
"There's something over in the field which can do cool stuff to you,"
Chad continued as though he had not been interrupted. "It can make you
older and stuff..."
"And bigger," Mikey added. "Mark got real big..."
"Yeah," Chad nodded, "It makes you bigger and older. I mean, that would
be so cool... Can you imagine being old enough to do whatever you want?
No one would tell us what to do..." He grinned and proudly announced, "I
figured that we could all go there together..."
"I don't know," Norris said with a frown, "It sounds kind of...weird."
He looked pretty doubtful, as though he didn't believe what Chad had
told him.
"You should see Mark," Mikey grinned, "He got even bigger than
Brandon..."
"Really?" Tony asked, looking interested.
Katie stared at them for a moment, "Sounds kind of cool..."
"Yeah," Billy echoed, "it sounds cool..."
"What would you know?" Norris demanded of Katie. "You're a girl..."
But Katie stood up at that and held out her fist, "I know that I'll
pound you one if you don't shut up... You know I'll do it too..."
They all nodded at that, knowing very well that Katie would indeed
follow through with her threat if she was pushed. They'd all gotten them
angry at her at one point or another and they all knew that she hit
hard... for a girl. She hit hard for a boy too, though they'd never
admit that.
"Well I think we should go check it out," Chad said.
Norris frowned, relieved at the distraction. "It sounds like some kind
of joke..."
"Then don't come," Mikey told him. "We'll all be big and stuff and you
won't be..."
"Yeah, we'll be big," Billy echoed his brother.
"C'mon," Chad said, taking his helmet off and making sure to leave it in
the clubhouse as they always did. "Let's go..."
As Chad and the other club members rushed out the door, Norris stared at
them skeptically. But then he shrugged, deciding that at least it might
be a fun game and followed along behind.
The group hurried towards Jennings Field, each of them eager to try out
this magical place that Chad and Mikey had told them about. However,
they had only made it halfway there when they found their path blocked
by two older boys on bicycles, who were waiting just ahead of them with
nasty smirks.
"Oh no," Chad gulped as he recognized the two neighborhood bullies who
seemed to take a cruel delight on picking on him and his friends. Those
were the same bullies who had broken up their old hideout in the back of
Jennings Field... "Nick and Eddie..."
Nick was fourteen years old and well known among them as the
neighborhood criminal. His very name was a word of fear among the
smaller kids. He had an old stitched up leather jacket and had black
hair that was greased back. And all of the kids knew that Nick even
sometimes stole his dad's cigarettes and smoked them.
The other boy was Eddie, Nick's sidekick. He was thirteen, a year
younger than Nick, but he was one of the biggest kids in the entire
neighborhood. He looked like he could have even been fifteen. And
everyone knew that Eddie was just as dumb as he was big. They all
figured that he did what Nick told him to because he wasn't smart enough
to figure out how to pick on everyone all by himself.
"Well well," Nick gave them a cruel grin, "what do we have here? I think
it's the Peewee Gang..."
"Yeah," Eddie agreed, "the Peewee Gang..."
"Leave us alone," Chad tried to say, though his voice shook with fear.
Nick just snorted. "And where are you brats running off to like that?"
"We're going to a magic place in Jennings Field," Billy blurted out
defiantly, "and it's gonna make us all bigger and stronger than you
guys... And then we're gonna come and beat you guys up..."
"Yeah, right," Nick laughed, "you guys couldn't beat me up if I got down
on my knees and let you..."
"Yeah," Eddie echoed, "they're too small..."
Then Nick grinned, "Maybe I should beat them up to show them how it's
done..."
Chad and the others all gulped and began to nervously step backwards,
looking for a way out. And when Nick suddenly jumped forward and yelled,
"BOO!" they turned and ran as fast as they could.
"Look at em run," Nick laughed, "little chickens..."
"Yeah," Eddie agreed. Then he asked, "What were they talking about
anyway? The baby said something about a magic place in the field..."
"Just some stupid game they're playing," Nick shrugged.
Eddie nodded at that. "Are we gonna follow them?"
"Maybe later," Nick frowned, "right now, I swiped one of my dad's
beers... Let's go find someplace to drink it..."
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After the group of kids had recovered from their run in with the bullies
and regrouped, they quickly returned to what they had been doing and
went towards Jennings Field. However this time, they took the longer
route so as to avoid running into Nick and Eddie again.
"I can 't believe you told them," Chad glared at Billy as they wer