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Hebe Jeebies
by Chronos
Contact the author at chronos@phuze.com
Other Stories by Chronos
Joe had always felt bad about his breakup with Sue. They had dated for two years, but he felt that they had grown apart. He needed to move on. But leaving Sue wasn't going to be easy, she could be a spiteful, jealous woman when she wanted to be.
Joe and Sue had fought off and on for almost all the time they'd been together. Never were there two more different personalities than Joe and Sue. Joe was an easy-going sort of fellow -- standing just above 5'11 and weighing about 180. Athletic and trim, he had light brown hair and beard, and blue eyes that made the girls sigh when they looked at him.
Sue's, standing at 5'5', was a little on the thin side at 115 pounds of temper that flashed as red hot as the color of her hair. It had been nearly a year since he first told her that he wanted to break up. Her response was to smash his windshield with her shoe.
Joe didn't want to be there, but Sue had wheedled him into agreeing to a short meeting. He braced himself as he knocked on the door. It opened immediate, and Sue stood beaming from ear to ear. "Don't just stand there silly, come on in."
"Hi, Sue."
"Hi sweetie" She said. Sue was dressed to kill. She had on one of Joe's favorite outfits, a short little sun dress that showed off her shapely legs and less than generous cleavage. Joe knew what she wanted, but he was going to ask her anyway. "What did you need to see me about Sue."
"I just wanted to see you and apologize for how mean I've been to you since our breakup. I was really hoping that we could patch things up and try to work things out. You know, go back to the way things used to be."
"I'm sorry, Sue but it's over between us." Joe said flatly.
"No, Joe, you and I were meant to be together. I see our future. We'll be married and have a little family."
Sue opened one of the bedrooms off of her living room and gestured within.
"Look," she said, "I've even set up a room for our children when they arrive."
Joe continued shaking his head. "You don't get it Sue, it's over, and it's been over. I've got a great relationship with Betty and both of us are very happy. You'll just have to get over it."
"Nobody dumps me!" Sue said with blistering anger as she turned and locked the front door behind her. Turned toward Joe. "I told you that if I couldn't have you, then no one would. And I meant it!"
"Sue, this is ridiculous," Joe said. "Open the door, I've got to leave. I'm meeting Betty in a few hours and I've got to get changed."
"Changed? Changed? Yes, that's exactly what I have in mind, Joe. Do you know what this is?" she asked as she held up a gold medallion with a large purple jewel in the center. "It s called the Amulet of Hebe. She was the Greek goddess of youth. Legend says that this amulet can bestow youth on mortals. And seeing what this cost me to get it, I think we ought to give it a test run, don't you?"
Sue held the amulet up and began chanting words in a strange unfamiliar tongue. Joe could see a light building in intensity with the jewel. Suddenly a lance of violet light erupted from the medallion and Joe found his body bathed in an pale violet light. A shivering tingling feeling coursed through every part of his body.
"Better look in the mirror, Joe," she purred. "Think Betty will want you now?"
Joe turned and saw his face, but not his face from today, but the one he wore ten years ago. Gone was the 28 year old man. In his place was a younger man of eighteen with a scraggly beard that did not quite cover his face. In a moment, even that bit of beard retreated into his face, leaving him a smooth-cheeked teen of sixteen with a slight case of acne. He notice that he had dropped about two inches in height as well.
"What's happening," Joe cried, as he watched his body grow increasingly younger.
"I told you that I'd never let that slut Betty take my place. I'm going to fix it so she'll never be able to take my place in bed," she said. "Look at yourself Joe, you're nothing but a teenager now."
Sure enough, Joe's clothes were starting to hang on him as his height diminished to under five and half feet, and his weight would be lucky to top 115 pounds. He couldn't be any more than thirteen when Sue, at 5'5", walked over to him, and in his horror, he saw that shewas now at least two inches taller than he was.
"Stop it, Sue, stop it please," he said, noting that his voice cracked, lacking the adult timbre it had only moments before. Joe was finding it harder and harder to keep his pants up as his arms began to disappear within the sleeves of his shirt. As he attempted to hitch his pants, they fell to the floor and as he looked down, he felt his body retreat across the threshold of puberty. He watched in horror as he hair that covered his pubic area tingled and retracted within his body. He was a smooth -- as smooth as the twelve-year-old child he had become.
When his body had regressed to about ten-years-old, Joe tried to get away from Sue and the amulet, hoping his rejuvenation would stop. But as he attempted to break for the door, Sue stepped on the cuff of his trousers, and Joe sprawled to the floor.. As he struggled to escape from the confines of his huge clothes, he could almost feel each beat of his heart taking him back closer to his beginnings.
He looked in the mirror in time to see a boy of seven change to a boy of six, and then to a boy of five. "Must stop it," Joe thought. "I got to get that amulet!"
Sue stood on the other side of the room, and as if reading his mind, dangled the amulet on her finger. "Looking for this Joemy?" she purred. Pointing at his pre-pubescent groin, she laughed, "Now you can't take it personal when I called you a little prick, you little prick."
By now Joe had gotten so young that his clothes severely impeded his movements. Shucking off everything, he lunged naked toward Sue. Half way to her, his legs buckled and he fell on his hard on his fanny. Getting up, he started forward again, only to realize that the reason that locomotion was becoming do difficult was that he was nearly too young to walk. With a swaying motion back and forth, Joe lost the battle of mobility and plopped down on the floor. His fall both surprised and hurt him more than he expected. He could feel unbidden tears forming in his eyes as his infant body fought against his adult's mind.
The infant won. Joe's tears turned to crying to a hearty bawl.
Sue walked slowly over to him, and with her hands on her hips, towered over the now helpless Joe. Picking him up, she rocked him in her arms. "Now, now Joemy, Sue will take care of you. Sue's pwecious widdle man's all wet."
She unlocked the door and carried him to the back bedroom. Sue's older sister had stored her baby furniture at Sue's while she and her husband were overseas with the army. So Sue had all she needed to take care of Joe. Sue had lured Joe to her house with all intentions of winning him back, or exacting her revenge on him and she had prepared a room as a nursery, just in case Joe couldn't be persuaded to leave Betty for her.
Carrying him into the nursery, she began by placing him in a bassinet. Running water in a small tub, she placed the protesting infant in the water and gave Joe a thorough baby bath. Drying him off, she carried him to the changing table and laid him face down on it. Joe soon found himself being oiled and powdered. And if that wasn't bad enough, Sue grabbed his little legs in both of her hands and lifted his backside off the table and slipped a diaper under her former lover.
Joe struggled and tried to speak, but his movements, speech and abilities had all been reduced to the level of a nine-month old baby. Producing two pins, Sue quickly fastened the diaper to Joe's little bottom, then she encased him in a set of rubber pants. A small shirt-bib completed his outfit. Sue finished by placing small white booties on his tiny feet.
Carrying Joe to the kitchen, she set him in a high chair while she proceeded to prepare a dozen or so bottles of infant formula.
Three hours later Betty knocked on Sue s door looking for Joe. Sue, olding infant Joe in her arms, opened the door. Betty, Joe's new girl as 5'8" and 130 pounds. She was almost the exact opposite of Sue, who tended to thinness, lacking a lot of what Joe called voluptuous. Betty, on the other hand measured a stunning 36D-25-35. Betty could never be called fat, but she had a fullness in the hips, that drove Joe wild. Her hair, shoulder length, was a light brown with blond highlights, that underscored her grey eyes.
"Have you seen Joe?" Betty asked warily. "He left a message on my answering machine saying that you demanded to see him, and he hasn't been seen since."
"He was supposed to come by, I wanted to return his ring, but I haven't seen him. Do you want to wait a few minutes and see if he shows up?"
"Whose baby?"
"My sister's. He's a little handful I m minding him for a couple of weeks. How about holding him while I get his bottle?"
"Sure, I love babies."
Joe struggled in the giant arms of his girlfriend, who merely hummed and rocked him. Sue returned and took Joe back. Placing the bottle in his mouth, she whispered "Drink up little man so you'll grow big and strong."
Joe, helpless, knew that unless he could get a hold of the amulet somehow that Sue could keep him in diapers indefinitely. Sue burped him and placed him on the floor in a playpen. Betty stood up and said, "Well, I'm going on."
Sue looked at her innocently and asked if Betty would return the ring to Joe for her to save them both any further embarrassing meetings.
"Tell that rat if he ever shows up that I've left for the beach without him," Betty said.
Little Joe screamed in rage. Both women turned and looked at him.
"Oops, he gets so jealous when he s not the center of attention," Sue observed. "I think he's getting sleepy and cranky. I'd better put him to bed."
With his tiny arms and legs flailing helplessly, Joe was carried back into the nursery.
"How long?" he wondered. How long will Sue would keep me this way?"
He figured that sooner or later someone was going to miss him. But he had no way of knowing how long she intended to keep him like this. He could go for days without being missed and who would ever connect a 28 year old man with a baby? He'd better figure out something, or else he'd be stuck in this playpen prison for a long time. Joe pondered this for awhile, but the next thing he knew it was night and the house was dark. He looked around and felt the urge to cry. He was able to fight it, but it wasn't easy.
He tried for sometime to scale the crib to no avail. He was hungry, but more embarrassing, he'd lost control of his bladder. His bottom felt cold, clammy and very uncomfortable.
Morning finally rolled around and Sue came in to get him. "Good morning, little man, and how are we feeling today?" She said as she picked Joe up and carried him to he dressing table. She removed his diaper and took a baby wipe and swabbed his bottom. Taking baby oil and powder, she quickly had him set up in another diaper.
Joe worked furiously trying to get his tongue to form the words he was trying to say. Sue noticed he was trying to talk, and held him up expectantly.
"Shuu, I doont wov yoo, " he gurgled.
Sue's anger was instantaneous. "O! You stubborn little shit!" Sue screeched and grabbed the amulet from around her neck and chanted the words again. Joe could feel himself getting younger again, and his legs buckling as he became too young to support his own weight.
"You WILL love me again Joe. Make no mistake about that."
He flopped on his bottom and felt his head was just too heavy to hold up. He fell onto his back, finally his vision blurred and any control over his arms and leg disappeared completely. It was very disconcerting to have his appendages move as though they had a life of their own. Even his mouth and tongue moved to their own whim.
Joe realized she had reduced him to a new born. "Damn, worse and worse," he thought. Things did not look good and he just messed himself again. Unfortunately his sense of smell was working perfectly.
Time was hard to gauge in this state. He couldn't see further that about a foot and he found himself falling asleep often. When he was awake Sue was in his face telling him that she loved him and that he'd soon realize that he loved her too.
"Fat chance!" he thought.
He must have fallen asleep, because he awoke to the sound of Betty's voice.
"Has Joe been by or called?"
Sue was holding Joe but his little body could only spasm.
"No. Sorry." Sue responded sharply.
"Who's baby is this now?" Betty asked.
"My sister's. You saw him yesterday, remember?" Sue said and at the words left her mouth she realized she may have made a terrible mistake. Joe was a nine-month old yesterday and now he was a newborn.
"Really, I would had sworn that baby was much older." Betty said with suspicion in her voice.
Sue turned sharply away, cursing silently to herself for making such an obvious error.
"That a really nice medallion you're wearing Sue, where did you get it?." Betty said.
"O, this old thing. It's really nothing."
Betty looked closer and noticed the writing on it. It seemed out of place on Sue. It was a large, heavy piece of jewelry. More like a costume piece than everyday wear, especial with the stretch pants and crop top she was wearing.
Sue was feeling panicky, Betty was suddenly asking way too many questions and she was acting suspicious. Sue made the mental decision that she could take care of two babies as easily as one and began fingering the amulet. She would have to hold it in both hands, and that meant putting Joe down.
"Got time for a cup of coffee?" Sue asked sweetly as she moved to get Betty within range of the amulet's power. "It's such a cool day, you might like something warm."
Betty's intuition told her to get out of there. "Not right now. I've got to find Joe. I'll see you later."
"Hold still, Bitch," Sue thought. "You'll find Joe in a minute, but you won't like it.
She began the chant, but before she could hardly begin Betty opened the door and quickly left. She walked only far enough to be out of Sue sight and stopped to listen.
"Well, Joe, your Bitch is a regular Sherlock Holmes. How would you like .... a playmate?" Sue said, laughing wickedly as she went over to where she had stuffed Joe's clothes. She pulled out his wallet and found Betty's number.
She call Betty and left a message on her answering machine. "Hi Betty, this is Sue. I heard from Joe. He's coming over this afternoon and he wants to talk the both of us. Get over here by three. Bye."
Betty was confused. She didn't know what to think. She decided to go see Mike, a friend of both her's and Joe's. Maybe he could help. He owned an unusual antique shop down on Main Street. Betty jumped in her car and drove right over to his store. The shop was open and Mike was in.
"He's not going to believe me," she thought. "But I've got to try."
"Hi Mike."
"Well, long time no see. Betty." He said.
"Mike, Joe's missing and I think his ex-girl Sue is behind it."
"Sue, huh? Well that wouldn't surprise me. She's a cold one, that woman. You know I deal in so-called magical items and Sue has been here a number of times looking for charms and power wards."
"But that kind of hocus pocus doesn't work, does it Mike?"
"Well, Betty, like anything, there's a lot of bunk out there, but I've seen things in my life that could only be explained by so-called magic. Do you have any idea at all about what might have happened to Joe? Or did you see anything strange or unusual at Sue's?"
"The only strange thing was the baby."
"What baby?"
"Yesterday when I went by looking for Joe, Sue had a baby I thought was about a year old. She sad it was her sister's. Today, she still has the baby, but it looked tinier, almost newborn."
"Hummm," Mike said. "Anything else?"
"Well she was wearing a god-awful piece of costume jewelry, which isn't like Sue, she has very fussy taste."
"What did this jewelry look like?"
"Oh, it was gold, about three inches around with a jewel in the center -- purple I think. And it had writing on it, but nothing I could make out or understand. Oh, Mike, what are we going to do?"
"Well, Betty, I'm going to do some research on what you told me. That jewel reminds me of something, but I've got to be sure. YOU stay away from Sue. Don't go near her. She's up to something no good and she probably hates you just as much for taking Joe as she is with Joe for leaving her. So watch out."
Betty left Mike's shop and headed home. After listening to her answering machine, she got worried. Maybe I should go by and see if Joe shows up. But then Mike's words of warning came back to her and she decided not to go. Instead, she decided to head to her gym for a workout. Maybe there she could work out some of the stress she felt under. Changing to her workout clothes -- skintight to show off her delectable charms -- Betty climbed into her car and started for the gym.
It was almost three o'clock, so on a whim she pulled up to where she could see Sue's house, hopefully without being seen. The hour came and went without Joe showing up. Betty sighed and started her car and pulled away.
Unbeknown to her, she had been seen. Sue was fully aware that Betty had staked out her house.
"Wearing her workout clothes," Sue mused. "That means she's headed for the gym. I wonder ...." Turning back to infant Joe, she took the amulet in her hands and spoke a different chant. This time the violet beam that engulfed Joe aged him. He awoke to find himself growing, but his elation soon vanished when he remained an infant.
"I've made you nine months old again, Joe my dear. You're a little easier to maintain, but still too young to move around or talk much. I know you're lonely and bored, so I'm going to go and get you a little playmate .... Betty! I want you to sit here and be quiet. If you make any fuss or try to escape, I'll make her so young, she'll be nothing more a grease spot. And you know, I'll do it. So sit there and shut up."
Leaving Joe ensconced in his playpen, Sue gathered up a few basic baby needs and placed them in a bag. Then she took another empty bag with her. "I'll need someplace to hide Betty's clothes after I shrink her."
Climbing into her car, Sue headed for the Gym. Betty had worked out well over an hour before quitting. She liked this gym, it was small and uncrowded. There were times when she had the place almost to herself.
Betty wasn't really in to her workout tonight, worrying about Joe she couldn't really get into it. She got off the Stair Master and headed for the locker room. Leaving the workout floor, she wiped sweat off of her face and arms. She entered her dressing bay, having the locker room completely to herself. She didn't notice another person enter the room. She slipped out of her leotard and panties and went into the showers. She had just tuned on the water when someone appeared in the entrance to the shower. She looked over and saw Sue.
"Sue?! Hi, I didn't know you went to this gym," she said, but Sue did nothing but stare at her with a malevolent look in her eyes. Betty could tell that Sue wasn't here to socialize, and although Betty was scared, she was determined not to show it.
"Well, I can see why Joe likes you so much." Sue huffed. "Anna Nicole's got nothing on you sister."
Betty felt total exposed and trapped, not even realizing it, Betty vainly tried to cover her breasts and genitals with her hands. Her eyes were drawn to Sue right hand as she played with the amulet.
"O, you like this!" Sue said holding it up toward Betty.
The panic began to well inside her at the tone in Sue's voice, she tried to leave the showers, but Sue stepped in front of her.
"It's Greek. It has Magic powers bestowed on it by the goddess Hebe. Do you know who she was?"
Betty shook her head no.
"Well, let me show you." She hissed and chanted. A light built in the crystal and then it shot out and enveloped Betty. Betty felt a strange tingling sensation all over her body. She pushed by Sue to her towel. After wrapping herself in it, she turned and saw her reflection in the full length mirror at the end of the lockers. Her mouth dropped open in shock at her image. She looked closer to seventeen than twenty-seven in only moments.
She walked closer to the mirror, transfixed in shock and horror.
"I guess I forgot to mention, that this could be hazardous to those big hooters of yours" Sue mocked from behind her.
A shiver ran down her spine and as she regressed back to her mid-teens and then early teens. As she slipped back towards puberty, her breasts grew firmer but smaller. Her waist narrowed along with her wide, full hips. She clutched her breasts in a vain attempt it halt their retreat into youth.
"Why are you doing this." Betty pleaded, surprised by the youthful sound of her voice.
"Because! Joe is mine, and he's going to stay mine. Your the reason he broke up with me in the first place. "
Betty's face grew steadily rounder and more innocent looking. Her hair grew shorter and had she could feel herself shrinking. Sue towered above her.
"My God, I'm four feet tall!" she thought as she felt her pubic hair began to fallout.
"Stop it Sue, please." She moaned as she saw her tits shrink down to little cones and then flatten completely.
Another shiver ran down her spine as she slipped to the other side of puberty. She stood numbly looking at herself in the mirror, a sad little ten year old, eight...six... four... three...
"Pweez, make it top. Pweeez!."
Betty felt unsteady on her feet and started to wobble and then flopped onto her pudgy bottom.
Two... one.
Betty's little bladder couldn't help itself and she found herself sitting a growing puddle of her pee. Her tiny fists jammed into her eyes, rubbing them vigorously, she tried to stand, but couldn't.
Sue left her sitting on the cold floor as she crossed to Betty's locker and quickly emptied it of everything. Stuffing Betty's clothes into the empty sack, Sue turned to the infant and stooped to pick her up in Betty's now useless towel.
"There, There. It's gonna be all right princess," she cooed to the infant Betty as she wiped her off with the towel. Laying Betty on the bench, Sue pulled out a diaper and jumper and dressed Betty. Sue picked up the struggling infant and shook her violently.
"Look, bitch, I've already put you in diapers. Do you want to see what else I can do you, then just keep this shit up. Now shut up! I know you understand me. I'm taking you to Joe, and if you cooperate, I'll let you see him. Understand?"
Betty bobbed her tiny head in understanding. The world was huge to her now, normal everyday objects were gigantic and well out of her reach. As Sue left the gym, the receptionist asked if she'd found Betty.
"No, she wasn't back there. I guess she left. Bye," Sue called.
As Sue disappeared around the corner, the receptionist shook her head, she hadn't remembered the woman coming in with a baby.....????
Sue climbed Betty's car and drove it a few blocks away to an underground parking deck.
"No one's bound to see your car here for awhile, she said to Betty. Cradling Betty in her arms, she walked back to where she had parked her car. Laying Betty on the seat next to her, she drove home. Pulling her car into the garage, Sue took Betty into the nursery.
Joe looked up in time to see Sue enter the room clutching another infant. He knew it was Betty, her once long blond hair reduced to a smattering of short curls less than an inch in length. Sue dropped Betty into the playpen with Joe.
"I'll leave you two to get reacquainted," she laughed. "I'm sure you'd have a lot to talk about .... if you could talk.
After Betty left, Mike starting thinking. "That Sue's a pretty dangerous woman. She has power, and she's not afraid to use it. Unfortunately she has no discipline. Maybe I could use that against her if we have to fight."
"A baby and an amulet ....hummmm. Not only a baby, but a baby that appears older and younger. I wonder? Now where's that copy of Thancretius's Wards of Power?"
Pulling an ancient book down off the shelf and taking a pad and pencil, Mike began reading and taking notes. An hour passed, then two. He had moved from one book to another. From an ancient scroll to a modern book from a publisher that few people had ever heard of.
It was nearly dark when he stumbled across a reference in a Fourteenth Century manuscript by Simon Magus. Mike's Latin was rusty, but he followed Simon's description of a series of ancient Greek amulets of power. Then he saw it!
"Ye amulete of ye godess Hebee bestoeth youth on mene that invoketh its poewer. Graspe ye amulet in baith thy hands and chant ye these words and unlimited youth be thine. To resoreth ye to thine right and proper age, ye must furst repeat ye these chant and hold ye amulte as before."
Mike wrote down the proper chants and memorized them. If he was right, his friend Joe was trapped in a prison he'd never get out of on his own, the prison of youth. Mike called Betty's house, but got no answer. He tried Joe's phone, but just got an answering machine.
"Think, Mike," he thought. "Where could Betty have gone, she was supposed to wait to hear from you???? The Gym!!"
Picking up the phone book, he called Betty's gym and asked if she was there. Yes, Betty had been there earlier in the afternoon, but had left.
"What time did she leave," Mike asked.
"I don't know, I didn't notice. Some woman and a baby came by looking for her, but her had already left. That was about 4:30."
"Did the woman with the baby have red hair?"
"Yes, she did."
Thanking the receptionist, Mike hung up. "So Sue's got Betty, too? This is going to make it even tougher. Looking Sue's address up in the phone book, Mike locked his shop. Before leaving, he unlocked his safe and removed a small box. Opening it revealed a number of different, medallions, rings, and jewels. Poking through it with his finger, Mike found what he was looking for and removed a large ring with a large runic symbol on it.
He drove over to Sue's house. It had grown dark and Mike had little trouble slipping up quietly to the house. The living room and kitchen were empty, but he could see lights on in the back rooms. Slipping around the back, he peered through the window into what could only be a child's nursery. Seated on the floor of a play pen were two small infants, probably a year or so old, one male, one female.
Tapping softly on the window to get their attention, Mike was rewarded by the look of intelligence and recognition in their eyes as they saw him. Holding his finger to his lips to motion silence, Mike gestured them to hold tight, and that he would rescue them.
Mike stood alone in the darkness for a few minutes gathering his thoughts. Finally he came up with a plan, it wasn't a great one, but it was a plan. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," he thought. "At worse, there'll be three of us in that playpen."
He made is way around the house and found an open windows. He carefully removed the screen and slipped inside. He could hear the television going in the living room. He still hadn't seen Sue. He creep cautiously out into the hallway and down to the nursery. He lifted the two infants out of the playpen and was about to leave.
"What the hell are you doing here!" A female voice said from behind. Mike jumped and nearly dropped Joe and Betty. Damn! He though and started evoking the power of the ring.
"Put them down!" Sue commanded.
Mike was banking on the hope that Sue wouldn't try to use the amulet on him while he was holding Joe. A blast at him current age would reduce him to an egg. Sue picked up the amulet and held it ready. Mike worked his way closer to the door as he finished the invocation.
"Give it up Sue. You can't win."
Sue's face turned red and she chanted.
Mike set Joe and Betty down just as the power of the amulet hit him. The two powers clashed. A green glow of Loki mixed with the purple light of Hebe. Mike rushed Sue and grabbed her hand to take the amulet from her. The powers enveloped both of them. Betty and Joe watched as the two rolled around, fighting for the amulet. The magical powers swirled around them battling each other as well.
Through the swirling glow Joe and Betty could that something was happening to Sue. She was starting to look younger and so was Mike. At one point the lights churned and boiled. Betty was sitting in the path of one of the bubbles as it formed and than burst. She suddenly spasmed and aged several years. She was now eight. She pick up Joe and waited for the next burst.
Sue was now a teenager and still getting younger. Mike looked like he was in his early twenties. Another large bubble formed and Betty moved to it. It burst and bathed her and Joe this time. Betty aged again to about twelve and Joe was now a four year old.
Mike finally pried the amulet from her hand. There was a blinding flash and all was still. Sue, now no more than five and sat weeping on the floor in a pile of baggy clothes. Mike stood and shook his head. He looked down at himself, his clothes hung on his fourteen year old frame.
"Wow! It worked." He said in a cracking adolescent voice.
"Thanks Mike. I owe you one." Betty said, suddenly realizing she was naked and trying to cover herself. She realized that she didn't really have anything to cover yet and they all started laughing at the absurd situation.
Sue, regaining her composer ran for the door and down the hall. Mike held the amulet up and chanted. The purple light leapt out and struck the fleeing Sue. Each step she grew younger until she was just an eighteen month old toddler, jumping in vain to reach the handle of the door. She turned, and even on her infantile face, the look she shot at the three friends was one of pure hate.
Betty shivered at the sight and turned to Mike, "I'm ready to be a woman again." She said and Mike turned and chanted and Betty bloomed and blossomed once again into joyous womanhood. After Betty had been returned to twenty-seven, little Joe piped in, in his small voice, "Now what about me?"
Searching about the house, Joe and Betty found their clothes and dressed. After carefully going over the proper chants with Joe, Mike handed him the amulet and crossed to the far of the room.
"Be careful how you phrase it Joe, there's only one small difference in the chant, and I don't want to join little Suzie," Mike said with a laughed, pointing at who had unceremoniously been dumped into the playpen so recently the home of Betty and Joe. Joe concentrated and in a moment, their friend Mike had rejoined the ranks of adulthood.
"You don't look the same," Betty said.
"Well, I shaved a few years off if you don't mind," Mike laughed.
"Well, what are we going to do with Sue?" Joe said with a sigh.
"I don't know," Mike replied. "I know we can't keep her like this, but its a pure shame to let her get away with the stuff's she been doing. And you know, there's a lot more powerful magical stuff out there that she could get her hands on and really hurt us. I don't know about you two, but I have no desire to wake up some morning as an aardvark, or something worse."
Both Joe and Sue nodded in mute agreement.
>From the confines of her playpen, Sue shouted in her infant's voice, her mouth nearly toothless, "Ouu b'tter chain me ba'. I det ouu 'or dis. May me 'dult. Noooowwww!"
Mike scratched his chin thoughtfully, "You know I might just have an idea, but it might take me a couple of weeks to pull it off."
"What do you have in mind?" Betty asked.
"I'd rather not say at this point, except that it might just solve all our problems and eliminate the threat from Sue as well. But you'll both have to agree to it before I start."
"Agree to what?" they both asked.
"Well, first you've got to promise to not let that little hellion out of your sight. If she got loose we'd never catch her and we'd all be in danger."
"Sure," Joe said. "But how do we do that? Making her disappear isn't too hard, Sue's notorious for going away for weeks on end without telling people. Anyone who knows her knows that. But how do we keep her confined?"
"Well .....we could leave her ....." Mike said, turning toward the playpen.
"Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!" screamed the baby.
Joe, Mike and Betty adjourned to the kitchen to talk out of Sue's hearing. In near panic, Sue looked at some means of escaping. Then she noticed that make had left the amulet on the coffee table. A sinister light shone in her eyes, just let her get her hands on that amulet one more time, and she'd show them what she was capable of doing!
As quietly as possible, she hoisted her tiny body over the top of the pen's bars and plopped noiselessly to the floor. Slowly, quietly and steadily, she crept toward the amulet. No one seemed to notice her. Her pudgy little hand reached out to take it, when over her head she heard ....
"I told you, didn't I, even as a baby, she's a mean one."
"I guess your right Mike, go ahead with your plan," Joe said.
Pulling the amulet out of Sue's tiny hands, Mike looked down on her and said, "Your too much trouble, even as a toddler, I guess I'm going to have to make you a little less independent."
Sue looked up at him with terror in her eyes as he began a chant. A tiny ball of violet light grew within the jewel and like a soap bubble floated across the room toward Sue, who froze as the bubble of violet light struck her in her round little tummy.
Almost immediately, her body clock started running backwards. In 20 seconds, she was down to a one-year-old. Ten seconds later, her legs buckled under her and she fell back upon her fanny. But she felt her body growing even smaller, the last of her teeth disappeared into her gums. In terror, she began to cry, but then she noticed her regression had ceased.
Mike walked over and picked her up. "Well Suzie-girl, I'll see you in a couple of weeks. You be a good little girl and mind Aunt Betty and Uncle Joe, okay?"
Sue jammed her tiny foot into Mike's nose, bringing tears to his eyes.
"Jesus! Even at six months, she's a hand full. Now listen you two: Sue can't walk, talk, or even crawl much by herself, but that doesn't mean she's not dangerous. The only way that I can go off feeling safe is to hypnotize you into both thinking that Sue is nothing more than a baby. Will you agree to that?"
When both had agreed, Mike placed them in a deep trance and placed the unbreakable suggestion that they were minding a baby for Mike's sister for the next two weeks. He removed temporarily all knowledge of what Sue had done to them and what had been done to Sue. As far as the couple was concerned, Sue was a mere baby.
While the two were under the spell, Mike turned to Sue and said, "A nice guy would blank your mind as well and leave you as a normal infant for the next couple of weeks. But who says I'm a nice guy. If the tables were reversed, I wonder just what would have happened to the three of us?" "No Sue, I'm going to leave you entirely conscious during the whole time I'm gone. Joe and Betty don't even remember you at this point, so they won't do anything but treat you like the baby you are. I hope you learn something. I want you to experience what you did maliciously to those two nice kids."
Sue cried in rage, but Mike just turned away and snapped his fingers, waking the young couple up.
"Thanks for taking care of my niece, guys."
"No problem, Mike, glad we could do it," Betty replied.
"It was nice of your friend to let us borrow all these baby things," Joe added.
"Sure, help yourself," Mike answered.
Betty looked down at the tiny naked form of Sue lying on the floor, a questioning look in her eyes.
"Remember Betty," Mike prompted. "You were going to bath and dress her before you took her home."
"Oh, yes," Betty said, scooping up the infant and carrying her to the bathroom. Joe and Mike loaded the cars and Betty returned with the bathed and dressed infant. Mike waved bye as they drove off.
Mike's two week trip actually ran three, but Joe and Betty didn't mind. The baby was fussy at first, but soon settled down, although only once did the couple make love together with the baby in their bedroom. For some unknown reason, she made such a fuss that Joe moved the crib to another room for the rest of her visit.
Finally, nearly a month later, Mike returned. Betty and Joe treated their friend to a wonderful dinner. Mike spent the whole time playing with his niece, although the baby was in a bad mood for some reason and fussed and fought Mike all the time.
After dinner, the three sat down in the living room and Mike put them back into a trance and removed his hypnotic suggestion. The couple instantly remembered their adventures involving Sue. Sue had been left in her little wheel walker, looked at Mike with her eyes glaring.
"Well folks, I have a solution to our "little" problem."
Producing a small infant's bottle from his coat, Mike set it on the table.
"Suzie, you're a girl with a problem. There's two solutions to your problem: one's in the bottle on the table, the other is with a gentleman coming to see us in fifteen minutes. The gentleman coming to see us is Jacques Biret."
Sue's eyes widened in terror.
"Yes, I thought that name would ring a bell. He hasn't forgotten you Sue, nor what you did to his wife and daughter. You'll also need to know that Mr. Biret is totally aware of your current condition and vulnerability and plans to take full advantage of your misfortune. Your only salvation lies in the potion inside that bottle."
"The only thing that will stop Mr. Biret from enacting the "activities" he has in mind is for you to drink the entire contents of that bottle. It won't harm you or turn you into some horrible creature, Sue, but it will remove the threat you pose for ever. What's your choice Sue?"
The baby looked at the bottle and the door in terror.
"You've got to make a choice Sue, if he gets here and that bottle isn't empty, I won't lift a finger to stop him."
All four jumped when they heard a car pull up, stop and a door open and close."
With tears of panic, Sue reached out to the bottle outside of her grasp.
"Are you sure, Sue?" Mike asked, and the baby nodded vigorously. Picking her up in his arms and cradling her, Mike put the bottle to her lips and she began to drink as fast as she could. In what seemed like just a few moments, Sue had emptied the contents of the bottle.
Her eyes grew distant and vague, as a heavy knock boomed on the door. Both Joe and Betty jumped at the sound, but Mike handed Sue to Betty and calmly walked to the door an opened it. A large stocky man in an overcoat stood in the doorway.
"How was that Mike, did I do okay?"
"Sure Arnie, thanks a lot. Here's $20 for you trouble."
Joe and Betty sat there with their mouths hanging open.
"No that wasn't Mr. Biret. If it had been, nothing would have stopped him from coming in here and throttling Sue. Sue .... well, let's just say that Sue cost him the lives of his wife and young daughter. No I had to make the threat real enough to make Sue drink the potion of her own free will. That was important. Magic works best when people freely embrace it. There was no way Sue would drink it freely, unless she so feared the alternative, that she begged to take it herself.
"What have you done to her," Betty whispered.
"I've erased the old Sue, that's all. The old Sue was mean, temperamental, violent, petty, you name it. That potion eliminates negative character traits and allows the more generous aspects of our personalities to emerge and become dominant. Sue will be a better person from now on. She'll remember every mean thing she's done, and will be ashamed of herself. She'll spend the rest of her life trying always to be the best person she can be."
Out of his pocket, Mike produced the Amulet of Hebe. He asked Betty to get a robe and drape it over Sue and remove her diaper. Making the familiar chant, Sue began to age, slowly at first, but steadily until she once again stood at her normal adult height.
"Are you okay, Sue?" Mike asked.
"Yes."
"Do you remember what's happened to you?"
"Yes."
"How do you feel about it?"
"I ........ I feel ........ I feel ..... sorry."
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Joe and Betty were married that April. Mike was their best man. Sue wrote both of them a nice letter apologizing for her role in making their lives difficult and asking for forgiveness. She didn't expect an answer, she wrote, but she wanted them both to know how she was trying to turn her life around.
In June, Joe got an offer for a better job and both he and Betty moved to another city. Although they tried to stay in touch with their friend Mike it was hard. That December, for the first time since moving, Joe and Betty were back in town. They decided to drop in unannounced on their friend.
As they entered the shop, they heard a woman humming softly. She came around the corner with her back to them. She stood about 5'5" and weighed about 140, giving her a wide, pleasantly plump posterior.
"Excuse me," Joe asked, and jumped when the woman turned and they saw it was Sue.
"Joe! Betty! You startled me! Oh, Mike will be so pleased to see you."
The couple couldn't get over the look of happiness and joy on Sue's face when seeing them.
"Mike! Mike! Joe and Betty's here!"
Mike, beaming came out of the back room and the three hugged and shook hands all around.
"Well, I'll leave you all to talk," Sue said, making for the exit.
"No, honey," Mike said. "Please stay. I've got some news for the two of you. Sue and I are engaged."
"Don't laugh," he said, laughing himself. "We're in love, damn it!"
Sue, looking down and blushing, slowly slid her arm around Mike's waist, and nodded in agreement.
"This calls for a celebration," Joe shouted, and the four-some went to a local restaurant for dinner.
While Mike and Joe talked about the business, Sue and Betty chatted pleasantly.
"I'm so happy, Betty. I never thought I could feel this way before," Sue said. 'Mike loves me despite my faults, and I think he's the greatest."
Sue couldn't help but notice that both Joe and Betty had been trying not to stare at her new shape. Sue laughed and said, "Mike likes his women soft and plump, especially in the fanny. He says it gives him something to hold onto. Well, I plan to have that man holding on to me for the rest of my life, so I made my butt big enough for him to latch onto. The extra weight didn't hurt me in the tits department, although I'll never be big like you, Betty.".
That spring, Mike and Sue were married. Joe was best man and Betty was matron of honor. And as far as anyone ever know, both couples lived happily ever after.
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