[Silver Spoon]

Well, here's a first: I'm putting up the chapter here before I do on writing.com! I'll fix any spelling errors or any things you see here later tonight (or tomorrow).

Chapter 12: Maki's Expanding Swim Team

Although it took them much longer than it would if they were still big, Kiseki and Chikara made it back to the stadium, only to notice a crowd of people around their 240+ foot tall friend. Families were taking pictures next to her, guys looked around her to see if she was real or a robot, and some just simply wanted autographs from the giantess. Overall Maki seemed a lot happier than before the two left to match her in height. She was smiling and laughing the whole time, it seemed. As they inched ever closer to their giantess friend, she was quite surprised by what they saw.

“Kiseki? Chikara? You guys are normal sized again!” a shocked Maki gasped as she leaned her head to the ground to get a better look at her friends. The now huge size difference between them and their friends caused Chikara to frantically get behind Maki quickly.

“Hi, Maki”, Kiseki began. “We finally found a way to restore your normal size.”

“Really? With what?”

“This”, she replied as she pulled out a normal-sized cookie. This prompted Maki (and some of the crowd around her) to laugh in response.

“A cookie!?” Maki snickered, trying to hold back her laughter. “You’re saying a store-bought cookie is going to make me small again? Where’d you get that idea from? ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?” Maki then took the “normal” cookie and plopped it straight into her mouth. As it was barely the size of a crumb to her, it didn’t take too long to gulp it down.

“It’s pretty good for something this small”, Maki stated, not knowing that she was slowly shrinking in size, her clothes shrinking along with her. As she began to shrink, the crowd that once flocked to the tall, pretty girl began to leave, and she was confused as to why they were doing so. By the time Maki figured out that she was shrinking, it was already too late. And she was normal sized once again.

“Aw….I'm going to miss being big”, she sighed unhappily.

“That’s okay, Miss Maki. I still think you’re tall in my eyes”, Chikara tried to cheer the girl up by saying. Maki didn’t buy it, but she thought it was pretty funny to hear that from someone barely 2 inches taller than her.

“Well, I guess that’s the end of our being big”, Kiseki said, feeling relieved that she no longer had to watch her every movement. “I don’t think I want to be that big ever again!”

As if she was on cue for something, a large rumble began to shake the ground below Kiseki and her friends’ feet. At first they thought it was an earthquake…until they looked up in the sky and saw a 300 foot tall person a few hundred feet north from the stadium.

“Looks like someone else found the water”, Maki commented in a monotone manner.

“Oh great, more giants”, Chikara sighed. “As if this day wasn’t long enough for me…”

“Do you know who it is, Maki?” Kiseki asked as her friend squinted her eyes to get a better look.

“Hmm…..she seems to be about as tall, if not taller, than I was a few moments ago. She has long…purple hair, fairly full but kind of curly as well…”

As the giantess stepped closer and closer to the girls’ point of view, Maki began to easily make out more and more of the girl.

“…her eyes are light green, and she has a fairly skinny build…but a fairly large chest. Her legs are long and skinny, and she seems to be wearing a long, white dress.”

As the girl stepped ever closer, the three girls started to see her clearer and clearer as she moved forward. They eventually saw her face and found out who it was.

“Is that…Miyabi?” Chikara asked Kiseki and Maki, squinting her eyes as well to see the giantess from afar.

“It DOES look like her, now that you mention it”, Maki added.

“Um…..who’s Miyabi?” Kiseki asked, feeling so confused that she could have put a literal question mark above her head at that moment.

“Miyabe Toniguchi. She’s also on my swim team at school”, Maki explained. “She’s a very nice girl, though her boyfriend often makes her do weird or embarrassing things."

“Eh? Then why does she continue to be his girlfriend?” the confused Kiseki asked Maki.

“Because despite his weird demands, he’s a relatively nice guy. He’s never cheated on her, and the two even celebrate holidays and their own birthdays together. They’ve been together since apparently elementary school, and are practically inseparable.”

“Aw, that’s kind of cute”, Kiseki said as Miyabe approached the girls closer and closer, now only 150 feet or so away from them. As she proceeded forward to the trio, she kept scratching her head in frustration, wondering what to do or where to go next. When she finally got close enough to them, she sat down on the ground on her butt, extending out her extremely long legs as she did so (being careful to not have them collide with anything on the ground below her).

“Good afternoon, Maki”, Miyabi said to her friend as she picked her up and placed her on her lap, quickly doing the same for Kiseki and Chikara. “How are you?”

“Um…..fine, thank you”, Maki nervously replied, kind of shocked by the height difference between her and Miyabi. Now she knew how Kiseki and Chikara felt a little while ago.

“Seems that I, too, have found the fountain of growth. I guess I’m not the only one…”, Miyabi sighed as she played with Maki’s hair with her right pinky finger.

“What do you mean ‘not the only one’?” a worried Maki asked her, watching Miyabi’s expression change from sad to worried.

“Um…..well, you see……” Miyabi hesitated to say, pausing for a very long time before she continued.

“Well, what?! WHAT!? TELL ME, TONIGUCHI!!” Maki screamed in demand, watching her fellow teammate scream in shocked reply.

“I’m sorry, Maki, but Mayumi and Mizuno have found it about the water as well and may be in the process of becoming bigger, too!”

“Oh crap…”, Maki sighed. Like with Miyabi, the two girls were also a part of Maki’s swim team. But whereas Miyabi was a sweetheart of a girl, Mizuno was the exact opposite. The 5 foot 4, fairly endowed, black-haired, blue-eyed beauty had the best swimming skills on the team, but she resented Maki and was unsatisfied when she lost to her at a big swimming championship a few months ago. She also made it a point to deride and belittle anyone smaller than her, especially Maki. Mayumi, on the other hand, was as gentle as a feather, kind and forgiving. She was also quite the beauty, with medium-length, gorgeous brown hair and pretty, hazel colored eyes, with legs that looked like a supermodel’s. She was also very tall at the height of 5 feet and 9 inches, and she had one of the biggest chests in the entire school. However, she was extremely clumsy when it came to memorization and eye coordination (she often didn’t wear the glasses she was prescribed to), and she was arguably one of the worst swimmers on the entire team, if not the worst. Still, there were times when she managed to show some surprisingly great swimming skills, and her swimming prowess seemed to shine quite brightly in tournaments and other competitions. Plus, her beauty helped gathered up attendance from the male students of the school. But when it came to swim practice, she may as well have been swimming inside a bathtub. Maki froze in fear of their being taller, let alone giantesses.

“Maki? What’s wrong? You’re sweating quite a bit”, Kiseki asked her friend, attempting to hand her over a tissue to wipe her sweat off her face (which she greatly took).

“Um….we may have a little trouble here…”, Maki replied, looking a little worried. “Miyabe, do you still have some of the water that made you grow?”

“No….I only gathered what I got to help Miss Mizuno grow....she forced me to get water for her, but I ended up spilling it on myself. At first it made my breasts grow, so much that I fell straight to the ground! I had to grow the rest of my body to counter my grown breasts, but it seems I used too much…and now I’m like this..”

Miyabe then stood up on her feet once more, reaching her left hand out to Kiseki, Maki, and Chikara. The three quickly climbed on it and soon found themselves in her dress pocket, located directly above the girl’s bellybutton area.

“L-L-Let’s go find Miss Mizuno”, Miyabi meekly muttered.

“You can do it, Miyabi!” Kiseki cheered the giantess on.

“Yeah!” Chikara added, making the giant girl feel a little better. Maki simply gave the girl a thumbs up.

“Thank you so much, everyone! Let’s go!!” she said with a lot more confidence in her voice, running (albeit fairly slowly) to the town. They would (hopefully) find Mizuno there…and perhaps Mayumi as well.