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Dj-Rodney after seeing his work on a great comic he made here. Check his work out, it's lovely.
JD ran for his life, sprinting through dimly lit hallways as fast as his legs could carry him. A terrible roar echoed through the corridors, creeping ever closer to him, each horrid crash louder and more frightening than the last. The wox stumbled from one pathway to another against the coming darkness in hopes of finding a way out. Each twist and turn through the winding halls led him to one dead end after another, forcing him to retrace his steps and find another route. The pounding continued to grow with intensity with every second, a constant reminder for him to hurry. Fatigue began to set in, slowing JD down to a forced crawl. With the last bit of strength he had, JD pressed on and slid around another corner. His eyes widened. In the distance he finally saw it - a faint glimmer of light. The frantic wox gained his second wind and made a run for it. He was free, finally free of this nightmare. He closed his eyes for a brief moment and felt his fears slowly melt away. The sounds began to die down, there was only one path to follow, and even with his eyes shut he could feel the light grow brighter. All was right. All would be better. When JD opened his eyes, his fantasy came to a halt.
Reality slammed into JD and knocked him to the ground. He picked himself up from the ground, visibly shaken with pain and confusion. When his eyes came back into focus, the light was gone. Another dead end. The wox leapt towards the wall, desperately scratching and pounding against it and begged for to open as it did once before. The fur on JD’s back stood on end. The rumbling returned, closer than before. The shaking rattled down to his soul as it picked up in tempo. JD’s fearful eyes darted to the left then to the right. No more paths, no more exits. Only he, the dead end, and his pursuer remained. He pressed his body against the wall, flattening himself as best he could. His fearful eyes blinked and darted about as they watched the walls take on a life of their own, bending and widening, giving way to his pursuer and funneling it towards the frightened wox. He turned his head and looked away, hoping that who, or whatever it was would end him quickly.
The noises came to a halt before JD. He opened his eyes with hesitation and gaped at the sight of his stalker. An enormous pair of paws, far larger than any he had ever seen filled the hallway. Each of its furred and clawed toes tapped against the ground, bumping and pressing into each other. All of them as large as he. The thick, brown fur covering them climbed even higher. The giant itself remained motionless, as if it was awaiting JD’s next move. He forced his eyes to return to ground level, back down to its paws. JD soon let them wander once more while he tried to think. Maybe, he thought, just maybe he could find a way past them.
They darted around its large paws and wriggling toes, looking for any gap he could squeeze through and use for his escape. He found one after a quick moment of searching; a small space between its paws. The wox clenched his hands and bit his lip before taking his first few steps. He crept towards its paws, occasionally throwing a glance upwards to make sure it didn’t notice him. When he approached, his tail brushed against the giant’s left paw. It lashed out in retaliation and caught JD in the chest, flinging him back towards the wall. Its toe followed up and slammed against his frame, pinning him against the wall before he had time to react. The large digit held him in place while the rest wiggled along on the ground, squirming wildly like a pack of dogs cornering their prey.
“I finally caught up to you,” the giant boomed from high above. Its voice was familiar to JD, yet it was deeper and more menacing than the one he knew. The figure leaned down to get a better look at its catch while JD struggled to look up. He managed to catch a glimpse from out of the corner of eye.
“R-Rodney?” he stammered with shock and confusion. “Why are you doing this to me? Are you still mad about-” The grizzly’s toe interrupted him, pressing against his taxed frame even harder and rubbing against his face and body.
“I’m not mad anymore,” Rodney said flatly. He shifted his paw away from the wox, watching JD fall limp to the ground, gasping for air. “We just want to have a little fun with you while you’re still a bug.”
JD felt the ground shake once more. This time the rumbling had a slower and heavier beat than the ones that belonged to Rodney. As he lay on his back, the wox’s head turned in every direction. He couldn’t place where the noise was coming from. His eyes glanced over to the wall where it began to crack from the vibrations. An enormous hand emerged from the darkness and reached down for the wall. Its powerful grip ripped it from its foundation and held it in the air before crushing it within its palm, showering debris over the cowering wox. A second pair of paws appeared from the dust and came to a halt dangerously close to JD.
“You made it just in time, Bruno,” Rodney said to the second giant.
His friend chuckled, his voice just as low and menacing as Rodney’s. “I couldn’t pass up something like this.”
The pair looked down upon the helpless wox, their toothy smiles hidden in the dark. JD’s breathing quickened. He began to panic at the sight of two titans looming over him. He picked himself up and ran in Rodney’s direction, hoping to squeeze past his paws and make his escape. The bear took a quick step back and planted his left paw in the ground, blocking his way out. His other paw slammed into the ground, knocking the fleeing JD off balance for a moment before regaining his footing. He changed direction, and dashed towards Bruno. Rodney’s friend was far more precise. The bear caught him beneath his sole. He could feel the wox squirming about, scratching against the bottom of his paw.
“Careful now,” Rodney warned in a playful tone. “I don’t want him to suffer too much. Not before I have my fun with him.”
Bruno lifted his paw and exposed the flattened JD. Rodney’s paw moved in and dragged JD away and into the open before the grizzly lifted his paw into the air. JD’s mouth went wide with fear as the bear’s enormous paw hovered over him, blotting out what little light there was. Rodney’s paw fell to the ground and his sole came to rest on top of JD. Though the bulk of the bear’s weight was on his other paw and leg, JD groaned as he lay trapped beneath him, a mere indent under the giant’s paw. Rodney stifled a laugh as he wox’s body feebly rubbed against the bottom of his sole. He lifted his paw once again and released JD. His body wracked with pain as he lay on the ground coughing after nearly being suffocated under the bear.
He closed his eyes and yelled at the top of his lungs. “I’m sorry, alright!” he shouted between breaths. “I shouldn’t have stolen from you. Is that what you wanted me to say?”
The bears remained motionless while they looked at each other before Rodney’s answer filled the wox’s ears. “I think I can forgive you for stealing from me.”
JD sighed with relief and managed to let a laugh escape his lips. His brief reprieve was broken by yet another loud noise. He turned his head and looked to Rodney’s side. A massive pair of sandals fell to the ground next to the bear and before he the injured wox could rise, a gigantic hand closed in on him.
“Let’s go on a little make up walk and talk things out.”
JD awoke with a yell clinging to the bed sheets in fear. The wox looked around the bedroom, head still pounding with horrors he had witnessed. After some time, he realized he was in Rodney’s room and tried to calm himself down. The beating in his head and chest slowed after he pulled himself up and held his head in his hands, breathing deeply for a moment before letting his body go limp and fall back to the bed.
“Just a nightmare,” JD muttered.
He closed his eyes and covered them with his arm. The afternoon sun filtered through the window and into the warm room where he lay. JD felt himself slipping again while he tried to recollect his thoughts, though he couldn’t concentrate. All he saw were paws. Big, brown paws pressing into him as they walked by, unaware of the poor soul they were stepping on. He could feel each part from heel to toe smash against his body. Even now he could hear them slamming into the ground with heavy thuds, coming closer and closer to squishing him yet again. He was too tired. He couldn’t run anymore. JD held his breath and waited for them to finish the job they started.
“You got a pair of lungs on you,” a familiar voice called out. JD opened his eyes and turned his head. Rodney was sitting in a chair next to the bed. “I heard you from the hallway. Glad to see you’re up.”
JD shrieked and ducked under the covers. Rodney put his hands up and laughed nervously. “Whoa dude, calm down. What did I do to you?” The wox poked his head out glared at him. Rodney scratched his head and chuckled. “Aside from the stuff I did to you yesterday?” JD lay back down on the bed while Rodney continued speaking.
“Yeah, listen about the other day. Sorry I, uh, went a little overboard and did all that to you. I wanted to teach you a lesson and it was the only thing that popped in my head at the time.”
“Really?” JD retorted. “A little overboard? Shrinking me, tying me to a sandal while you and your smelly and sweaty friend traded me like a pair of hand-me-down shoes while crushing me to death between your toes is your idea of teaching me a lesson?”
“Look I’m sorry, alright? It was the only thing I could think of and I didn’t mean for it to go that far. I got caught up in the moment. I’ll make it up to you later, I promise.”
JD uncovered himself from the bedding and stood upright. “I’ll hold you to that.” He looked to the bear again. “But that still leaves us with one little problem. Why am I still small?”
Rodney stood up and walked over to the bed. He knelt before his friend and hunched down, examining the wox’s miniature state. Rodney simply shrugged after some time. “I thought it’d wear off by now. I guess I overdid it.”
JD mimicked his shrug and raised his voice again. “Overdid it? Is that all you have to say about this? Not something, I don’t know, helpful?”
Rodney reached out and pushed him down with a finger. “Cool it.” He waited for JD to pick himself up again before he continued. “I know you’re angry, but this isn’t permanent. Its just lasting a bit longer than I thought it would. Let’s wait it out. You’ll be back to your charming self sooner or later.”
The wox sat down on the bed, arms crossed. “Fine. I don’t know if you noticed, but there really isn’t much I can do at this size. I can’t exactly go outside and run around unless I want to be bird food.”
Rodney pursed his lips and sighed while he listened to JD’s complaints. The sooner this was over with the better. He returned to his seat and placed his paws on the other end of the bed. “You want to just talk then? I honestly can’t think of anything else do right now.”
“I guess,” JD said with a hint of annoyance.
“Alright.” Rodney looked away and tried to think of a topic he could bring up. He turned to the wox after a moment and leaned in close. “I gotta ask. What’d you think about yesterday?”
JD blinked in surprise. “What do I think? Why would you even ask me that?”
“Well, I was curious since I’ve never done anything like that before. And you had a good perspective on the matter, so I thought I’d ask. What was it like down there? How did it feel?”
JD was dumbstruck. He was startled by the grizzly’s constant barrage of questions and the genuine eagerness in his voice. It was like he wanted to learn more about this kind of thing. Might as well be truthful, he thought. Rodney would pester him to no end if he wasn’t.
“It was, well… I really don’t know how to describe it,” he began, pacing back and forth across the bed. “I didn’t know what was going on after you shrunk me. Heck, I didn’t know I was shrunk. I just thought I was tied to a stake or something, though it didn’t hit me until you showed up. I really felt like a bug. Looking up at you, it looked like you could reach the sky from way down there, you know? I knew you have big paws, but seeing them from my size really made that bug feeling sink in. They just… kept going. The worst part was getting crammed between your toes. I nearly got crushed down there, and stench and sweat were horrible. You and your friend really need to clean them better.”
Rodney nodded thoughtfully throughout JD’s report. “I see. It’s pretty interesting to hear what you thought of it.” He turned away and scratched his head. “I kind of liked the feeling of you down there, not gonna lie,” the bear chuckled. “But I hate sandals or shoes of any kind so I guess you lucked out. I hope you learned your lesson, JD.”
“Yeah, I learned not to borrow anything from you again.”
Rodney laughed. “Oh come on, I’m not that mean. At least it’s safe and sound back at your place, right?”
JD froze upon hearing those words. His mind raced and tried to retrace his steps back to before yesterday. He remembered he took it from Rodney’s room when he came over earlier that day and headed home after that. But where did he put it? His mind continued to draw a blank at that question.
He closed his eyes and turned to Rodney, his head hung low. “I uh, I kinda lost it,” he muttered.
Rodney raised an eyebrow and perked his ears. “You what?”
“I-I lost it, alright? I don’t remember what happened to it after I came home. It’s there, I’m sure of it, but I can’t remember!”
Rodney stood up with a look of displeasure on his face. JD craned his neck back as far as it could as his friend’s height loomed far above the bed and himself. The bear brought himself down to JD’s eye level and placed his arms on the bed. His eyes narrowed. “Did I hear that right? Don’t tell me you didn’t lose it.”
JD backed up and planted a feigned smile on his face. A massive hand slid in from behind and blocked his path. He turned to face the grizzly’s frown. “I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for it to happen.”
Rodney closed his eyes and sighed. “You know you’re going to have to make up for it, right?”
JD gulped. “I’m broke right now. I’ll pay you back, I swear.”
The bear shook his head. “Oh no, you’re not getting off that easily.” He moved his chair closer and sat down, resting his large paws on the bed in front of JD. The wox looked up as Rodney’s soles towered above him, toes wiggling eagerly in the air. “If you can’t find it and you don’t have the money, then you’ll have to work it off. If you do a good job I’ll call it even.”
“But that’s not fair!” JD shouted in protest. “I can’t even reach any of it. And what if I happen to find it after all this?”
“Then you’ll get the satisfaction of a hard day’s work.” Rodney removed one of his paws and placed it on the floor. He moved his other leg back, letting his paw rest flat on the bed, placing his large toes before JD. “That should be a little easier for you. Now get to work.”
The wox hung his head in defeat, knowing he couldn’t say no to Rodney at this point. He’d only think up another more humiliating task. With a dejected sigh, he walked towards Rodney’s paw and carried out his punishment. His fingers touched the bear’s outer toe first, feeling his skin and paw pads before coming to a rest. They were firm to the touch yet felt surprisingly smooth for someone who walks barefoot, as if he took time out of his day to care for them. JD pressed his hands against the bear’s toe and watched as they slowly sunk into his fur before being pushed back. His hands touched them once more and put more motion into his fingers. They groped at his toe as he moved forward, slowly making his way towards the remaining toes. JD stopped to rest when he reached Rodney’s claw. He turned to look at the remaining digits, awaiting the same treatment. The bear’s enormous toe brushed against his back and knocked him down before it began smothering him.
“You might as well get a better look if you’re going to stare at them all day.” Rodney arched his sole and lifted his toes into the air, freeing the wox from his grip. “They won’t bite much. While you’re down there, be sure to get between them. They can be hard to clean sometimes.”
JD stared upwards, watching his friend’s toes dangle precariously in the air above him. The earthy stench of the grizzly’s paws hit his nose when he neared, causing him to turn his head away and cough. The smell brought back memories he tried to keep buried after becoming far too familiar with it. He held his breath and walked underneath them. His hands reached up and grabbed the bear’s warm pads and resumed their work. Though Rodney held them in the air for him, JD could feel them fall at times, pressing against his head and threatening to flatten him again. The smell was beginning to overwhelm him while he massaged the underside. Even worse, his hands dampened with Rodney’s sweat at times, adding to the stench. His only saving grace was the fan blowing fresh air his way at times.
At last JD finished the first toe. He emerged from beneath and fell to the ground. Rodney’s head was buried into one of his magazines, unaware of what was happening. Hopefully he was getting bored of this, JD thought to himself while he caught his breath. The grizzly flipped through the articles and pictures with feigned interest. His only concern was the touch of his friend’s hands touch against his paw.
Rodney looked away when he realized his servant had stopped. “I don’t feel anything rubbing my toes,” he growled. “Unless you need a little help getting between them that is.” JD kept silent, hoping the lack of an answer would keep things from getting worse. The bear’s lifted his paw and stretched his toes in the air, letting them wiggle about. Without warning his hand moved to the bed and scooped the tiny wox into his palm. JD was lifted into the air, briefly locking eyes with Rodney before moving away. His hand stopped just above his paw and tilted to the side, dumping JD on top of it.
JD fell from Rodney’s hand and onto his toes before they began to grind against one another. The back and forth motion shook the wox from his landing spot, causing him to slip and tumble into the crevasse between his toes. The bear’s plump digits caught JD, each of them squeezing his frame as they wiggled about. Rodney couldn’t help hut giggle at the feeling of his friend being pressed and rubbed against his toes.
After a few gentle movements, Rodney’s toes came to a stop. “I think that’s enough work out of you for one day,” Rodney said, much to JD’s relief.
The bear moved his paw and let it rest atop the bed again, freeing the wox and letting him tumble from between the grizzly’s toes. Rodney picked his paw up and held it in his hands, letting his fingers touch and press into his toes and sole while he examined JD’s work. “Not bad,” he said while he continued to look. “You missed a few spots, but I can definitely feel a difference between the two.” He put his paw back on the ground. “I’ve never had a micro massage like that before. Good job.” A smile crossed his face as he continued speaking. “I’d ask you to do the other, but I think you’ve had enough. Plus you’re still too small to get everything.” Rodney picked the wox up and placed him in his palm once again. He placed his nose close to JD and inhaled his scent deeply.
“And you certainly are smelly now!” the bear said, moving him away. “I better get you cleaned up before I return you to normal. I hope you don’t mind a shower in the bathroom sink.”
“Yes, please. Anything to end today. I’ve had enough of… Wait, did you say return me to normal?”
“Uhm, nope,” Rodney said, shaking his head. “Not at all.”
Dj-Rodney after seeing his work on a great comic he made here. Check his work out, it's lovely.JD ran for his life, sprinting through dimly lit hallways as fast as his legs could carry him. A terrible roar echoed through the corridors, creeping ever closer to him, each horrid crash louder and more frightening than the last. The wox stumbled from one pathway to another against the coming darkness in hopes of finding a way out. Each twist and turn through the winding halls led him to one dead end after another, forcing him to retrace his steps and find another route. The pounding continued to grow with intensity with every second, a constant reminder for him to hurry. Fatigue began to set in, slowing JD down to a forced crawl. With the last bit of strength he had, JD pressed on and slid around another corner. His eyes widened. In the distance he finally saw it - a faint glimmer of light. The frantic wox gained his second wind and made a run for it. He was free, finally free of this nightmare. He closed his eyes for a brief moment and felt his fears slowly melt away. The sounds began to die down, there was only one path to follow, and even with his eyes shut he could feel the light grow brighter. All was right. All would be better. When JD opened his eyes, his fantasy came to a halt.
Reality slammed into JD and knocked him to the ground. He picked himself up from the ground, visibly shaken with pain and confusion. When his eyes came back into focus, the light was gone. Another dead end. The wox leapt towards the wall, desperately scratching and pounding against it and begged for to open as it did once before. The fur on JD’s back stood on end. The rumbling returned, closer than before. The shaking rattled down to his soul as it picked up in tempo. JD’s fearful eyes darted to the left then to the right. No more paths, no more exits. Only he, the dead end, and his pursuer remained. He pressed his body against the wall, flattening himself as best he could. His fearful eyes blinked and darted about as they watched the walls take on a life of their own, bending and widening, giving way to his pursuer and funneling it towards the frightened wox. He turned his head and looked away, hoping that who, or whatever it was would end him quickly.
The noises came to a halt before JD. He opened his eyes with hesitation and gaped at the sight of his stalker. An enormous pair of paws, far larger than any he had ever seen filled the hallway. Each of its furred and clawed toes tapped against the ground, bumping and pressing into each other. All of them as large as he. The thick, brown fur covering them climbed even higher. The giant itself remained motionless, as if it was awaiting JD’s next move. He forced his eyes to return to ground level, back down to its paws. JD soon let them wander once more while he tried to think. Maybe, he thought, just maybe he could find a way past them.
They darted around its large paws and wriggling toes, looking for any gap he could squeeze through and use for his escape. He found one after a quick moment of searching; a small space between its paws. The wox clenched his hands and bit his lip before taking his first few steps. He crept towards its paws, occasionally throwing a glance upwards to make sure it didn’t notice him. When he approached, his tail brushed against the giant’s left paw. It lashed out in retaliation and caught JD in the chest, flinging him back towards the wall. Its toe followed up and slammed against his frame, pinning him against the wall before he had time to react. The large digit held him in place while the rest wiggled along on the ground, squirming wildly like a pack of dogs cornering their prey.
“I finally caught up to you,” the giant boomed from high above. Its voice was familiar to JD, yet it was deeper and more menacing than the one he knew. The figure leaned down to get a better look at its catch while JD struggled to look up. He managed to catch a glimpse from out of the corner of eye.
“R-Rodney?” he stammered with shock and confusion. “Why are you doing this to me? Are you still mad about-” The grizzly’s toe interrupted him, pressing against his taxed frame even harder and rubbing against his face and body.
“I’m not mad anymore,” Rodney said flatly. He shifted his paw away from the wox, watching JD fall limp to the ground, gasping for air. “We just want to have a little fun with you while you’re still a bug.”
JD felt the ground shake once more. This time the rumbling had a slower and heavier beat than the ones that belonged to Rodney. As he lay on his back, the wox’s head turned in every direction. He couldn’t place where the noise was coming from. His eyes glanced over to the wall where it began to crack from the vibrations. An enormous hand emerged from the darkness and reached down for the wall. Its powerful grip ripped it from its foundation and held it in the air before crushing it within its palm, showering debris over the cowering wox. A second pair of paws appeared from the dust and came to a halt dangerously close to JD.
“You made it just in time, Bruno,” Rodney said to the second giant.
His friend chuckled, his voice just as low and menacing as Rodney’s. “I couldn’t pass up something like this.”
The pair looked down upon the helpless wox, their toothy smiles hidden in the dark. JD’s breathing quickened. He began to panic at the sight of two titans looming over him. He picked himself up and ran in Rodney’s direction, hoping to squeeze past his paws and make his escape. The bear took a quick step back and planted his left paw in the ground, blocking his way out. His other paw slammed into the ground, knocking the fleeing JD off balance for a moment before regaining his footing. He changed direction, and dashed towards Bruno. Rodney’s friend was far more precise. The bear caught him beneath his sole. He could feel the wox squirming about, scratching against the bottom of his paw.
“Careful now,” Rodney warned in a playful tone. “I don’t want him to suffer too much. Not before I have my fun with him.”
Bruno lifted his paw and exposed the flattened JD. Rodney’s paw moved in and dragged JD away and into the open before the grizzly lifted his paw into the air. JD’s mouth went wide with fear as the bear’s enormous paw hovered over him, blotting out what little light there was. Rodney’s paw fell to the ground and his sole came to rest on top of JD. Though the bulk of the bear’s weight was on his other paw and leg, JD groaned as he lay trapped beneath him, a mere indent under the giant’s paw. Rodney stifled a laugh as he wox’s body feebly rubbed against the bottom of his sole. He lifted his paw once again and released JD. His body wracked with pain as he lay on the ground coughing after nearly being suffocated under the bear.
He closed his eyes and yelled at the top of his lungs. “I’m sorry, alright!” he shouted between breaths. “I shouldn’t have stolen from you. Is that what you wanted me to say?”
The bears remained motionless while they looked at each other before Rodney’s answer filled the wox’s ears. “I think I can forgive you for stealing from me.”
JD sighed with relief and managed to let a laugh escape his lips. His brief reprieve was broken by yet another loud noise. He turned his head and looked to Rodney’s side. A massive pair of sandals fell to the ground next to the bear and before he the injured wox could rise, a gigantic hand closed in on him.
“Let’s go on a little make up walk and talk things out.”
JD awoke with a yell clinging to the bed sheets in fear. The wox looked around the bedroom, head still pounding with horrors he had witnessed. After some time, he realized he was in Rodney’s room and tried to calm himself down. The beating in his head and chest slowed after he pulled himself up and held his head in his hands, breathing deeply for a moment before letting his body go limp and fall back to the bed.
“Just a nightmare,” JD muttered.
He closed his eyes and covered them with his arm. The afternoon sun filtered through the window and into the warm room where he lay. JD felt himself slipping again while he tried to recollect his thoughts, though he couldn’t concentrate. All he saw were paws. Big, brown paws pressing into him as they walked by, unaware of the poor soul they were stepping on. He could feel each part from heel to toe smash against his body. Even now he could hear them slamming into the ground with heavy thuds, coming closer and closer to squishing him yet again. He was too tired. He couldn’t run anymore. JD held his breath and waited for them to finish the job they started.
“You got a pair of lungs on you,” a familiar voice called out. JD opened his eyes and turned his head. Rodney was sitting in a chair next to the bed. “I heard you from the hallway. Glad to see you’re up.”
JD shrieked and ducked under the covers. Rodney put his hands up and laughed nervously. “Whoa dude, calm down. What did I do to you?” The wox poked his head out glared at him. Rodney scratched his head and chuckled. “Aside from the stuff I did to you yesterday?” JD lay back down on the bed while Rodney continued speaking.
“Yeah, listen about the other day. Sorry I, uh, went a little overboard and did all that to you. I wanted to teach you a lesson and it was the only thing that popped in my head at the time.”
“Really?” JD retorted. “A little overboard? Shrinking me, tying me to a sandal while you and your smelly and sweaty friend traded me like a pair of hand-me-down shoes while crushing me to death between your toes is your idea of teaching me a lesson?”
“Look I’m sorry, alright? It was the only thing I could think of and I didn’t mean for it to go that far. I got caught up in the moment. I’ll make it up to you later, I promise.”
JD uncovered himself from the bedding and stood upright. “I’ll hold you to that.” He looked to the bear again. “But that still leaves us with one little problem. Why am I still small?”
Rodney stood up and walked over to the bed. He knelt before his friend and hunched down, examining the wox’s miniature state. Rodney simply shrugged after some time. “I thought it’d wear off by now. I guess I overdid it.”
JD mimicked his shrug and raised his voice again. “Overdid it? Is that all you have to say about this? Not something, I don’t know, helpful?”
Rodney reached out and pushed him down with a finger. “Cool it.” He waited for JD to pick himself up again before he continued. “I know you’re angry, but this isn’t permanent. Its just lasting a bit longer than I thought it would. Let’s wait it out. You’ll be back to your charming self sooner or later.”
The wox sat down on the bed, arms crossed. “Fine. I don’t know if you noticed, but there really isn’t much I can do at this size. I can’t exactly go outside and run around unless I want to be bird food.”
Rodney pursed his lips and sighed while he listened to JD’s complaints. The sooner this was over with the better. He returned to his seat and placed his paws on the other end of the bed. “You want to just talk then? I honestly can’t think of anything else do right now.”
“I guess,” JD said with a hint of annoyance.
“Alright.” Rodney looked away and tried to think of a topic he could bring up. He turned to the wox after a moment and leaned in close. “I gotta ask. What’d you think about yesterday?”
JD blinked in surprise. “What do I think? Why would you even ask me that?”
“Well, I was curious since I’ve never done anything like that before. And you had a good perspective on the matter, so I thought I’d ask. What was it like down there? How did it feel?”
JD was dumbstruck. He was startled by the grizzly’s constant barrage of questions and the genuine eagerness in his voice. It was like he wanted to learn more about this kind of thing. Might as well be truthful, he thought. Rodney would pester him to no end if he wasn’t.
“It was, well… I really don’t know how to describe it,” he began, pacing back and forth across the bed. “I didn’t know what was going on after you shrunk me. Heck, I didn’t know I was shrunk. I just thought I was tied to a stake or something, though it didn’t hit me until you showed up. I really felt like a bug. Looking up at you, it looked like you could reach the sky from way down there, you know? I knew you have big paws, but seeing them from my size really made that bug feeling sink in. They just… kept going. The worst part was getting crammed between your toes. I nearly got crushed down there, and stench and sweat were horrible. You and your friend really need to clean them better.”
Rodney nodded thoughtfully throughout JD’s report. “I see. It’s pretty interesting to hear what you thought of it.” He turned away and scratched his head. “I kind of liked the feeling of you down there, not gonna lie,” the bear chuckled. “But I hate sandals or shoes of any kind so I guess you lucked out. I hope you learned your lesson, JD.”
“Yeah, I learned not to borrow anything from you again.”
Rodney laughed. “Oh come on, I’m not that mean. At least it’s safe and sound back at your place, right?”
JD froze upon hearing those words. His mind raced and tried to retrace his steps back to before yesterday. He remembered he took it from Rodney’s room when he came over earlier that day and headed home after that. But where did he put it? His mind continued to draw a blank at that question.
He closed his eyes and turned to Rodney, his head hung low. “I uh, I kinda lost it,” he muttered.
Rodney raised an eyebrow and perked his ears. “You what?”
“I-I lost it, alright? I don’t remember what happened to it after I came home. It’s there, I’m sure of it, but I can’t remember!”
Rodney stood up with a look of displeasure on his face. JD craned his neck back as far as it could as his friend’s height loomed far above the bed and himself. The bear brought himself down to JD’s eye level and placed his arms on the bed. His eyes narrowed. “Did I hear that right? Don’t tell me you didn’t lose it.”
JD backed up and planted a feigned smile on his face. A massive hand slid in from behind and blocked his path. He turned to face the grizzly’s frown. “I-I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for it to happen.”
Rodney closed his eyes and sighed. “You know you’re going to have to make up for it, right?”
JD gulped. “I’m broke right now. I’ll pay you back, I swear.”
The bear shook his head. “Oh no, you’re not getting off that easily.” He moved his chair closer and sat down, resting his large paws on the bed in front of JD. The wox looked up as Rodney’s soles towered above him, toes wiggling eagerly in the air. “If you can’t find it and you don’t have the money, then you’ll have to work it off. If you do a good job I’ll call it even.”
“But that’s not fair!” JD shouted in protest. “I can’t even reach any of it. And what if I happen to find it after all this?”
“Then you’ll get the satisfaction of a hard day’s work.” Rodney removed one of his paws and placed it on the floor. He moved his other leg back, letting his paw rest flat on the bed, placing his large toes before JD. “That should be a little easier for you. Now get to work.”
The wox hung his head in defeat, knowing he couldn’t say no to Rodney at this point. He’d only think up another more humiliating task. With a dejected sigh, he walked towards Rodney’s paw and carried out his punishment. His fingers touched the bear’s outer toe first, feeling his skin and paw pads before coming to a rest. They were firm to the touch yet felt surprisingly smooth for someone who walks barefoot, as if he took time out of his day to care for them. JD pressed his hands against the bear’s toe and watched as they slowly sunk into his fur before being pushed back. His hands touched them once more and put more motion into his fingers. They groped at his toe as he moved forward, slowly making his way towards the remaining toes. JD stopped to rest when he reached Rodney’s claw. He turned to look at the remaining digits, awaiting the same treatment. The bear’s enormous toe brushed against his back and knocked him down before it began smothering him.
“You might as well get a better look if you’re going to stare at them all day.” Rodney arched his sole and lifted his toes into the air, freeing the wox from his grip. “They won’t bite much. While you’re down there, be sure to get between them. They can be hard to clean sometimes.”
JD stared upwards, watching his friend’s toes dangle precariously in the air above him. The earthy stench of the grizzly’s paws hit his nose when he neared, causing him to turn his head away and cough. The smell brought back memories he tried to keep buried after becoming far too familiar with it. He held his breath and walked underneath them. His hands reached up and grabbed the bear’s warm pads and resumed their work. Though Rodney held them in the air for him, JD could feel them fall at times, pressing against his head and threatening to flatten him again. The smell was beginning to overwhelm him while he massaged the underside. Even worse, his hands dampened with Rodney’s sweat at times, adding to the stench. His only saving grace was the fan blowing fresh air his way at times.
At last JD finished the first toe. He emerged from beneath and fell to the ground. Rodney’s head was buried into one of his magazines, unaware of what was happening. Hopefully he was getting bored of this, JD thought to himself while he caught his breath. The grizzly flipped through the articles and pictures with feigned interest. His only concern was the touch of his friend’s hands touch against his paw.
Rodney looked away when he realized his servant had stopped. “I don’t feel anything rubbing my toes,” he growled. “Unless you need a little help getting between them that is.” JD kept silent, hoping the lack of an answer would keep things from getting worse. The bear’s lifted his paw and stretched his toes in the air, letting them wiggle about. Without warning his hand moved to the bed and scooped the tiny wox into his palm. JD was lifted into the air, briefly locking eyes with Rodney before moving away. His hand stopped just above his paw and tilted to the side, dumping JD on top of it.
JD fell from Rodney’s hand and onto his toes before they began to grind against one another. The back and forth motion shook the wox from his landing spot, causing him to slip and tumble into the crevasse between his toes. The bear’s plump digits caught JD, each of them squeezing his frame as they wiggled about. Rodney couldn’t help hut giggle at the feeling of his friend being pressed and rubbed against his toes.
After a few gentle movements, Rodney’s toes came to a stop. “I think that’s enough work out of you for one day,” Rodney said, much to JD’s relief.
The bear moved his paw and let it rest atop the bed again, freeing the wox and letting him tumble from between the grizzly’s toes. Rodney picked his paw up and held it in his hands, letting his fingers touch and press into his toes and sole while he examined JD’s work. “Not bad,” he said while he continued to look. “You missed a few spots, but I can definitely feel a difference between the two.” He put his paw back on the ground. “I’ve never had a micro massage like that before. Good job.” A smile crossed his face as he continued speaking. “I’d ask you to do the other, but I think you’ve had enough. Plus you’re still too small to get everything.” Rodney picked the wox up and placed him in his palm once again. He placed his nose close to JD and inhaled his scent deeply.
“And you certainly are smelly now!” the bear said, moving him away. “I better get you cleaned up before I return you to normal. I hope you don’t mind a shower in the bathroom sink.”
“Yes, please. Anything to end today. I’ve had enough of… Wait, did you say return me to normal?”
“Uhm, nope,” Rodney said, shaking his head. “Not at all.”
Category Story / Paw
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