Because I'm an asshat and somehow keep forgetting my own character's design, F5 for updated leg pattern.

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Gabrielle wasn't the best when it came to magic. So it was only natural that Oregene was hesitant when she called him in from the kitchen to the living room to watch her perform.

"I hope you've practised this time." Said Oregene, throwing himself on the couch in the corner and putting his feet up.

"Totally" exclaimed Gabrielle. "This one's going to knock your socks off. In fact, you'll even be thanking me after this."

Oregene had sat through numerous examples of Gabrielle's magic tricks and knew the procedure. Every Friday evening he would cook something easy like burgers or steak and chips while Gabrielle would show off her latest attempt at magic.

Despite how ambitious she was, the purple dragon never seemed to get her spells just right. As far back as early teenagers she had tried to impress others by performing feats of wonder but would always end up ruining the ending in some way. In first grade she had tried to have her homework complete itself. It worked fine up until she handed it in, in which it spontaneously combusted and ended up setting the teacher's desk on fire. Last week she had tried to produce an ice sculpture of a winged Goddess yet was only able to conjure up the same shape in water. Shuddering at the memory of towel-drying the carpet for hours, Oregene dreaded cleaning up whatever mess this latest trick would cause. Despite this, he still tried to show some enthusiasm for her since he knew she took it seriously.

Gabrielle gestured enthusiastically to the coffee table she was standing in front of. "Do you remember the doughnuts we had yesterday?"

Oregene looked down at the coffee table. Sitting on one of the plates they owned were a few remaining cinnamon doughnuts left from yesterday.

"Yup, the rest of them are right there" He said nodding in the direction of the coffee table while glancing at the kitchen entrance. He was starving and wanted to start cooking dinner.

"Not a lot left, are there?" She inquired.

"Nope" He said idly.

"Well, I guess we'd better fix that."

With a grin on her face, she leaned back and extended her hands out over the coffee table. Fixated on the doughnuts, she started to mutter words under her breath. A feint red glow emanated from her hands as she raised up over the table. Oregene shuffled slightly on the couch as she pushed her hands out at the doughnuts and threw a glance at Oregene while finishing up her spell. The doughnuts gradually illuminated a bright red as the light from her hands dwindled. For a brief moment Gabrielle leaned forward in disbelief at the glowing doughnuts, but as the moments passed the anticipation slowly crept into disappointment.

"I was trying to multiply them" she exhahled. "I thought it would be a nice surprise for after dinner"

"You'll get there eventually, Gabe. Don't worry. Besides, there's still enough donuts to share"

Usually Oregene was more supportive of her magic attempts but the burgers he wanted to cook in the kitchen were calling him and he had had a stressful day at work. He sprung up out of the couch and took two strides before something stopped him in his tracks.

He wasn't ravenous anymore. He felt full. His desire for the burgers had completely ceased, and he felt as if he had just had a three course meal. What's more odd is that as he took his last step he felt off-balance. As he looked down instinctively to regain his balance he noticed with a shock that his stomach was now pushing out in front of him.

"Uhh, Gabe?"

She looked over in surprise at his confusion. It looked like he had swallowed a basketball whole. His stomach was swelling.

"What did you do?" He asked, a note of exasperation in his voice.

She looked back at the doughnuts, noticing that they were still glowing red. Her face went red as she realised what had happened.

"I think the spell worked."

"What?" He questioned as his voice raised in volume, looking between her face and his gut. He was starting to panic now as he grasped his stomach with his hands. It continued to grow outwards over his hands like an inflating beach ball despite his efforts.

"The doughnuts are still glowing. I've practised the spell enough to know that's meant to happen, but I've never been able to control where they replicate to."

Oregene let his arms fall as he realised what she was saying, causing his stomach to start to jiggle. "Oh I get it" He said, calming down, a smirk forming on his face looking up at Gabrielle. "This is revenge for me not having faith in you earlier, isn't it?"

"No" She stuttered. She watched as the doughnuts started to work their own magic on his frame, thickening out his arms and thighs and extending all the way to his feet and fingers. Once slender and slightly muscular, Oregene now looked like he had gone on a fast food binge for months.

"Okay okay, I'm sorry I wasn't more supportive of you earlier. You're a wonderful spell caster, now can you please reverse this?"

"I've never seen anything like this before, I don't know how" She said, still in disbelief that this was happening. A small guilty part of her was actually ecstatic of what she had managed to cast, but she stifled that for now.

Oregene's smile began to falter and he let out a small gasp as he looked between Gabrielle's worried face and his own enlarging frame. His doubt had come back double-fold as he realised she wasn't playing a trick on him. He could now feel the doughnuts replicating inside of him, each one helping to expand him outwards as much as they could with their caloric richness. He looked around from his rapidly widening belly to the left side of his body and watched helplessly as his thighs and butt fattened out from the strain of the doughnuts. His whole body was swelling faster than a hot air balloon. In a desperate attempt to stop this entire series of events he childishly reached out his flabby arms as far as he could to try and hold his stomach in, but his belly now stretched out so far in front of him that his feeble arms couldn't even reach the circumference of his vast belly. He staggered and hurled his right foot forward slightly as the weight of his expelling girth threw him off kilter with a slight thud that echoed around the room. His engorged belly was now wider than the rest of his body, and still growing.

"Gabe, can you please do something about this!?" He screamed, causing his entire body to ripple with the exertion.

Gabrielle whipped her head around the room frantically, hoping to see something that might help the situation. She heard Oregene's stomach gurgle as the doughnuts added another roll of fat to the side of his swollen belly. Her eyes finally fell on her old spellbook on the other side of the room. She raced to it and flipped the cover open, hoping there was some vital hint about reversing the spell.

"I can't hold my gut much longer!" His voice rising at the end. His arms wavered, stretching underneath his enormous belly as his muscles trying with all their might to stay the inevitable. Massive rolls were spilling out from his sides, spurred on from the relentless thickness of the doughnuts as if eager to explore the entirety of the room. Jealous of the attention that the front was receiving, his ass widened and bulged out with their fair share of fattening pastries and threatened to reach the couch against the back wall. His legs and thighs were now so wide they would put to shame the thickest of tree trunks.

Oregene tried to take a step while cradling his boulder of a belly but almost rolled over like a ship in a storm. His thick tail swished heavily to counter the shift in mass and knocked over the shade lamp to the side of the couch with ease. Despite his mass, he still managed to stand. He could feel his grip loosening on his stomach as the pull of his belly increased each second as well as his arm span shortening as fast as his arms were widening.

Gabrielle flicked through the pages of the spellbook frantically until she came across the chapter on replication. She raced her eyes over the words but her concentration was finally broken when a loud blow rang throughout the house. Startled, she looked up to see Oregene's belly engulfing most of the living room. The excessive mass had finally won out and came crashing to the floor, spilling out of Oregene's hands onto the floor and shaking the walls like thunder.

What stood before Gabrielle was a whale of a dragon. She looked up in horror at the yellow globe that was Oregene's belly and the accompanying moobs that jiggled like ripe fruit and could make out his swollen cheeks and face looming over everything. His fat rear now blocked up the entire back wall and his behemoth of a stomach blocked any path around the room. The coffee table that held the culprits to this predicament strained under the weight as part of his stomach engulfed it. The couch, as adept as it was at handling people sitting on it, shuddered as it creaked from the exerting pressure upon it, and now his entire frame threatened to bulge the walls and roof off the house.

"Well?" He burped accusingly. He threw his fat stumps he once called his arms on the ample amount of hip he had in anger at the whole situation. The last time one of her spells had gone awry and wrecked the house it took a handful of much more experienced spellcasters and a week of living in a hotel to fix it. He didn't want his blimp of a body to cause that again.

"Th...there's no way to stop it..." She trailed off as she closed the book with a snap. "The book says it's irreversible."

His submarine of a tail pressed against the back wall from the sheer pressure of his immense fat exponentially growing, followed by his ass cheeks. His goliath belly followed suit on the side of the walls. He felt his head hit the ceiling. The room creaked as cracks started to form on all surfaces of the wall and the roof.

"I'll alert the neighbours. Hopefully they can leave before your fat ass crushes the surrounding neighbourhood" she said as the last of his vision of her was removed by his encompassing stomach. She tossed aside her spell book to the floor, the pages flinging open at the chapter she was reading beforehand.

"But look at the bright side" She said raising her left hand behind her head with a nervous grin.

"You always wanted to have a more rounded personality"

Oregene rolled his eyes as his bloated face went from a scowl to a small grin.

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Had this on my computer for weeks as well as some other artwork that accompany stories but I've never wanted to upload it since I kinda feel guilty uploading stuff about my own characters. I don't consider myself a great novelist or anything and I'm pretty sure I went a bit too heavy handed on describing things but eh, I guess it's better off uploaded than just sitting on my hard drive. I'm happy to hear any feedback on the story and if people seem to like it/no one gives a damn either way then I might do some more in the future.

I have the inflation contest result inked and I'll finish it up tomorrow even if it kills me from exhaustion and shame.