(Nerdification)
“Wait no! Give them back!” a short chubby girl shouted as she jumped for a collection of papers held above her by a tall stunning girl with long beautiful platinum blond hair. “Please I don’t have copies!”
The blond girl scoffed, turned away, looked at the paper, and chuckled. “Oh, is this for your dumb nerd game?” she motioned to the four girls behind her to gather around. She cleared her throat and spoke in a fake polish accent. “Mystia Mallor, some dumb witch who fights for her loser friends to save the world from a darkness with the power of hope.” she looked at the paper then back at the chubby girl and laughed. “What is this supposed to be you?”
“Wh-what no!” she stuttered as her face turned bright red while she reached to take back her character sheet.
“Tiff let me see it.” A tall well-built tan girl blurt out as she shoved the nerd to the ground.
“Have fun, Coco.” Tiff sighed as she handed her friend the paper.
Coco looked over the paper a wild grin creeping on her face as she read it. “What are you twelve?” she mocked the girl on the ground. “Renowned throughout the land for her beauty and power!” she laughed. “A beacon of hope, wielding her magic to protect the innocent and vanquish evil wherever it lurks!” she crumbled up the paper and scoffed. “God what a joke.” She tossed the paper over her shoulder the nerdy girl desperately reached for it and a slender fashionable girl caught it and opened it. “You want a peek, Maddie?”
She looked at the paper and frowned. “What is with this drawing?” she turned the paper back towards its owner and pointed to the drawing of a sexy witch in an all too revealing dress. “Is this what you honestly think of yourself?” she stared at her in utter disgust. She looked at the picture again and her frown only grew. “You are missing all of the layers of fat and even then someone is gross as you couldn’t pull off a dress like this, it is a disgrace to fashion that you even drew something like this!” A small doll-like girl with long pigtails grabbed the paper and grinned. “Britt, I wasn’t done!” Maddie shouted as she struggled to grab to take the paperback.
“It’s my turn!” she giggled looking at the paper. “What your Charisma is like way too high for a gross nerd like you! And an elf witch?” her annoying laugh filled the hall. “You seem more fitting as a stupid ugly bridge troll!” she covered her mouth and giggled then started to sing. “Ugstia the stupid ugly bridge troll!”
Tears filled the nerdy girl's eyes as she looked at the four girls laughing at her. She wished that she could become her character and curse the four bullies into oblivion. But this was reality all she would do was lay there on the ground wishing she would just shrivel up and disappear.
“HEY!” Maddie shrieked as the paper was snatched from her hand. “What the hell ASH!”
Standing in front of the group between them and the nerd was a slender woman with a large bust and a prominent butt and the most active face out of the group. She looked over the paper with a disinterested glance her sharp eyes slicing through each fantastical world without mercy. She looked over the paper with disinterest caring more about trilling a lock of her long hair with her finger than the contents of the paper. After she was done she tore it in half. The nerd’s heart dropped. Ashley didn’t even pay her any attention as she tore the halves into two, then again, and again, and again, and again, and finally all that remained of the character sheet was small shreds too torn up to be legible. She stepped in front of the nerd who was finally starting to cry and opened her palm letting the remains of her character sheet snow in front of her.
“Ash!” Tiff shouted stomping up to her. “What the fuck was that! I wasn’t done with that!”
Ashley sighed and brushed a strand of hair from in front of her face. “If you wanted to play with her so much then why don’t you join her little club? Come on our lunch period is almost over and unlike you four I actually want to eat.”
“Hey, like who the hell do you think you are bossing me around!” Tiff shouted getting in Ashley’s face. “I am the fucking queen of this school, I can and will fuck up your life! You are lucky that I decided to let you hang out with us new girl!” The three other girls nod.
“Sorry, I guess,” Ashley sighed. “The last thing I want is a teacher walking by after hearing this girl bawl her eyes out, I don’t need that kind of shit I have better things to do than sit in detention with you again.” she took her disinterested gaze off Tiff and her gaze became razor-sharp as she glared down at the nerd. “And she won’t sequel right?” The nerdy girl slowly nodded. “Come on let's go, bulling this freak is below even you Tiffany.” The four girls scoffed and turned around walking off and talking about the nerd. Ashley lingered behind. “Find a new hobby you will last longer,” she spoke over her shoulder to the nerd. “And try to lose some weight while you are at it…” Ashley followed the group leaving the nerd in tears as she lay in front of the torn-up remains of her character.
“Do you need help?” a friendly voice spoke to the nerd as a soft hand reached down to her.
The five girls sit at their lunch table gossiping about boys and other girls they deemed between them. Tiffany "Tiff" LaRue the most popular girl in school and the captain of the cheer team, Madison "Maddie" Belle the school's queen of style, Brittany "Britt" Monroe the cute man-eater nutritious but irresistible, Courtney "Coco" Sinclair a modern amazon, and the newest member of their click Ashley “Ash” Anderson who was blessed with brains as well as beauty. These five made up the most popular and infamous girls in school, whatever they said goes, and if you went against them they would make your life a living hell.
“So did you hear what happened to Sara?” Tiffany laughed. “So it turns out that Steave was dating her and she got like all mad at me!”
“Yeah, what is her problem!” Madison scoffed. “I mean if she can’t compete it is her problem.”
“Yeah like I know! How the hell is it my fault? Like why does she have to be all pissy about it?” she spoke disgusted at the thought of someone being upset at her for taking what she rightfully deserves.
“I know, it like tots sucks!” Brittany moaned as she flopped to the table. “It kills the vibe!”
“Agreed, wow I can’t believe someone else gets it!” she giggled. “Yeah, it like totally kills the vibe.”
“What are we going do about it?” Courtney casually asks. “Want me to beat her up so her “boyfriend” won’t even think about looking at her again?”
“No…” Tiffany let out a long annoyed sigh as she rested her head in her palms and blew a strand of hair out of her face. “Last time you did that we got in deep shit. I was thinking about chewing up Steave for his money and then spitting him back out when I am bored with him…”
“Sounds devious,” Madison added.
“I know right? So what do you think Ash?”
“Oh, sorry what?” she said looking up from her book not catching the conversation.
“What are you reading!” Tiffany exclaimed annoyed. “Why are you reading right now? We are talking about more important things than your damn book!”
“Oh, sorry!” she quickly blurted out shoving the book into her bag fast enough that the other’s couldn’t snatch the book or catch what was written in it. She quickly regained her composure and spoke. “It’s for my class, lame I know right? I was doing more important things than reading so I am now behind and my teacher is super pissed.”
“That sucks,” Tiffany rolled her eyes and sighed. “I guess that is what you get for being in one of those nerd classes.”
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to help you with your homework.”
“Yeah, yeah…” she rolled her eyes. “Now back to what matters!”
A girl slim girl with a fat chest that she made up for with her butt and long neat brown her wearing a tee-shirt, jeans, blue flannel shirt, and a grey beanie sat in front of the five at their table. The girls raised their brows all showing a mix of annoyance and confusion.
“Do you mind if I sit here?” the girl asked.
Tiffany looked at her entourage and then back at the newcomer and frowned. Crossing her arms and staring at the girl she spoke. “And what do you want?”
“I just want to chat?”
“Funny?” she snickered. “You never wanted to chat before.”
“You had your chance.” Madison scoffed turning away from her and sticking up her nose.
“Yeah go hang out with your lame friends!” Brittany jeered shooing her away.
“Get lost.” Courtney rolled her eyes.
“And I don’t get a second chance?” the newcomer said a smug grin creeping on her face as she pushed up her modest glasses. “Are you worried I will cause the school’s princess’ little kingdom to crumble?”
“What did you say?” Tiffany shouted leaning towards the girl. “Why don’t you say that again!”
“You see I am willing to offer a truce.”
“A truce!” Courtney scoffed. “Like why the hell would we need to form a truce with you!”
“A truce of friendship.”
“And why would we need that?” Maddie spoke with a grimace looking down at the smug girl.
“Every empire only lasts so long.” she shrugged.
“Hah like, what do you think you can do to us!” Brittany spoke in a mocking tone. “We can ruin you with the wave of our hands.”
“Oh?” the intruder grinned leaning in. “A pompous ruler without the support of their subjects always ends well.”
“POMPOUS!” Maddie, Brittany, and Courtney all shouted in unison.
Tiffany slammed the table and rose from her seat her regal dominating presence shining down upon the newcomer with the elegant radiance of a queen. She calmed herself down looking down at the intruder and softly spoke. “And what did you call me?” malice hanging off every word. All those who heard this tone would tremble in fear as their social lives were fated to be beyond dead. “What did you just say to me you bit-”
“Don’t start a fight we can’t win,” Ashley spoke up looking at Tiffany, her annoyed glare shattering her regale facade.
“What was that…” pure rage filled her voice causing Ashley to jump and stumble back nearly falling out of her chair.
“Listen to reason Tiff. A majority of the people at school already hate us!” Ashley stuttered her voice small and weak compared to Tiffany’s dominating presence. “If the second most popular girl in school gives them a reason to turn on us then they will!”
Tiffany’s eyes went wide with horror as she froze in place all power stripped from her. Ashley was right, it would be an all-out war of popularity that they would lose. They could threaten, smear, and blackmail all they wanted but it would mean nothing if it was all targeted back at them. Their allies were all superficial and created out of convenience instead of anyone they could trust to have their backs, unlike their attacker and her allies. They were simply outmatched and outclassed in a war of attrition, everything they worked for would come crumbling down.
“Alright, what do you want.” Tiffany let out a slow breath and sat back down ready to negotiate but still unwilling to show any signs of defeat.
“I want to be a part of you click.”
The girls looked at each other and nodded.
“And why do you want to be a part of our click?” Tiffany asked.
“Tell me why do we need to be rivals?” her smug grin grew. “In this world, you need allies and the more people you bully and harass the more people turn against you. You created a crumbling empire of popularity. But I also see it as a goldmine, with the right people backing you.”
Tiffany nodded. “And what is in it for you?”
“Why wouldn’t the two most popular girls want to put their differences aside?” she shrugged. “Think about all we could do working together instead of working against each other?”
Tiffany thought it over in her head and then spoke. “Fine, it looks like we have an agreement.”
“Well, how about we make it official?” the intruder smiled her grin telling all that she had won not just the battle but the war. She closed her eyes and a bright smile formed on her face. “Slumber party at my place Friday and we can make it official!”
“Fine.” Tiffany sighed displeased at the result of their encounter knowing that she lost but that it was the best outcome. The school bell rang. She sighed as she and her entourage got up and left, only Ashley was looking back at the winner of the war.
“You have beef with Sky Smith?” Ashley asked as they walked to their next class.
“Yes, I have beef with that bitch!” Tiffany shouted as she crossed her arms and looked away from Ashley refusing to say another word. “She can go to hell for all I care!”
“Before you transferred here when Sky’s popularity was just starting, Tiffany asked her to join us,” Courtney explained. “But she said no.”
“We did our usual things when someone rejected us.” Madison frowned. “But it didn’t work.”
“She ended up getting even more popular!” Brittney pouted.
“Enough!” Tiffany shouted quickly turning around to address her minions. “We will get her back and she will pay!”
“And what are we going to do?” Ashley asked. “We all know that if we touch her then we will go down instead of her.”
“Patience, my dear friends.” Her smugness returned to her as she looked down upon her entourage. “At her stupid slumber party, we will get back at her and ruin her reputation so badly that everyone will abandon her!”
The girls cheered and laughed amongst each other all except for Ashley who put on an awkward fake smile…
-
School just got out and the group parted ways. Ashley sighed as she pulled out her book she looked at the cover that read ‘Girls Of The Plague’ with a picture of a gothic anime girl in a revealing dress. It was a light novel series that she was currently hooked on. She couldn’t believe herself, why did she take it out in front of the others? She was so stupid if they saw her reading it would be as good as dead, but the way the last chapter ended she couldn’t wait even for a second to pick up her story again. But that was the life she led, one of vanity and lies. The delicate balance of an otaku nerd and a popular girl, a fate forced upon her and that she was too deep to escape.
“Girls of the Plague?” a familiar voice called to her from behind causing her to jump feeling like she was going to jump out of her skin. “Isn’t that light novel about a girl who gets transported into another world with a plague that turns people into mindless love-obsessed zombies? I heard that it gets very raunchy.”
Ashley slowly turned around and saw Sky standing shadowing her blocking out the setting sun with her smug grin shining in the darkness.
“Um… I… you see… THIS ISN’T MINE!” she shouted in a panic trying to come up with a believable excuse. The sound of a camera caused dread to fill her entire body. The second most popular girl just took a picture of her clutching a lewd Japanese light novel close to her chest. “Delete that!” she cried begging if anyone saw that she would be done for.
“Awe, but why would I?” Sky hummed as she skipped toward Ashley snatching the book from her hands and looking at it with a grin before returning it to its owner. “My if anyone specifically your friends saw this I don’t know what they would say. Are you interested in this nearly hentai book? One of the most popular girls in school interested in something as nerdy and embarrassing as this?” she let out a little giggle.
“You bitch!” Ashley shouted shoving the book away. “I was the one who talked the others into siding with you!”
Shy circled Ashley looking her over her smug cat-like grin plastered across her face. “Oh, I do remember that.”
“So what do you want?” Ashley spoke recovering from her shock. “You obviously want something from me?”
“Want something me?” Sky faine innocence.
“Look, Tiff and the others are planning to prank you or something at your slumber party. I don’t know exactly what they are planning to do but it doesn’t sound good. There are you happy?”
“More than happy…” Sky grins as she gets close to Ashley. “I had my plan for her and some other guests I invited.”
“Great now delete that picture,” Ashley spoke looking away from Sky.
“I don’t think I will,” she hummed while pulling up her social media.
“Hey, what the hell!” Ashley shouted trying to grab the phone but Sky skipped away.
“Call it blackmail.”
“Blackmail!”
Sky pokes Ashley’s endowed chest and grins. “Make sure your friends come to my slumber party on Friday.”
“Are you worried that I will squeal?” she growls clenching her fists.
“Just make sure they come, this is all for them after all.” she grins looking deep into Ashley’s eyes causing her to shiver. “If you do that I will make sure everything works out for you in the end. Ok?”
“So you think that you can extort me?” she protests.
“With them out of the way you can read all of your naught books in peace.” Sky shrugs as she backs off. “Let's be real you only follow them because you are too scared to say no to them.”
Ashley watches as Sky walks away she tries to retort but she can’t deny the truth, the only reason why she was friends with Tiffany and the others was because she feared the reckoning if she refused.
Before Sky turned the corner she looked back and grinned. “You don’t have to come to the slumber party if you don’t want to. Just make sure your friends show up. Ok?”
Ashley reached out and was about to speak but Sky was already gone.
-
Ashley could not stop thinking about her strange encounter with Sky for the rest of the week. The strange blackmail to make sure her friends showed up to the slumber party but also asking her not to come. What did it all mean, why was she asked not to come in private? She didn’t tell the others out of fear of her private interests being leaked, but Tiffany still forced Ashley to come, but she still wasn’t let in on their prank. She couldn’t figure out if it would be better to ignore Sky and be a part of the prank to keep her good grace with her friend or to take Sky’s advice but turn her current friend group against her. Friday quickly came upon them and Ashley found herself walking late at night to Sky’s house with the other four.
“So what are we planning?” Ashley asked the others.
The four girls looked at each other with smug knowing grins. Ashley knew they were not going to tell her their plan, she was the newest member after all meaning that she would be trusted the least. She noticed that the group’s bags were much larger than she expected them to bring to a slumber party, so something definitely was up.
“So this is the place?” Courtney asked looking at the large house in front of them. It was a fancy suburban home much larger than the five’s homes.
“I hate to say it she definitely has style.” Madison sulked as she looked up at the large house in envy. “I wish I had that kind of money…”
“Whatever it doesn’t matter!” Tiffany declared as she stepped in front of her entourage. “Who cares if she is loaded after tonight she will be groveling at my feet!”
“YEAH!” Brittany giggled gleefully as she pumped her arms into the air.
The five girls approached the door. Ashley was ordered to knock, but the door opened before she could, and Sky stood there with a large friendly smile. “I am glad you could all make it!” she spoke with a playful glee flying off her tongue.
“Whatever.” Tiffany rolled her eyes. “We are just here to make peace and stuff.”
She entered the house with the other four following after her. Ashley felt Sky’s gaze strike her down, she knew that Sky didn’t want her to be at the party. At that moment Ashley regretted not taking her advice.
“Um, like what are they doing here?” Tiffany scowled as she looked at four other girls who sat in the living room.
Mandy Monroe a sexy girl with chestnut brown hair with caramel highlights that hung off her head like waves, looked at the newcomers with a mischievous grin. Heather "Honey" Henderson was the spitting image of a blond bombshell bimbo, and she didn’t even acknowledge them as she was too busy taking selfies with her phone. Chloe "Chic" Anderson a blond dark-skinned girl wearing a leather jacket and torn-up jeans, looked more annoyed that the new group had arrived. The last girl Sayuri "Sakura" Tanaka a stunning image of a gyaru with her tanned skin and loose-fitting but revealing clothes, she seemed to be the only one who was happy with the appearance of the other girls. Sky, Mandy, Honey, Chic, and Sakura all of the girl's worst enemies, most hated rivals, and leaders of their clicks were all in one place.
“Wait you didn’t tell me they were going to be here!” Tiffany shouted at Sky glaring down the other guest that arrived before them.
“Yeah, if I knew that the brat pack was going to show up I would have never come!” Chloe shouted as she got to her feet and started to walk towards the entrance.
“Now, now…” Sky softly spoke as she stood in the middle of the two popular girls as they stared daggers between each other. “We are here to make peace.”
“Peace?” Mandy giggled covering her mouth as her cat-like eyes surveyed the group. “Oh, this is going to be interesting…”
“Yay!” Sakura cheered as she pumped her arm. “Tiff-chan in here!”
“Why don’t we all sit down peacefully,” Sky asked the girls. Chloe scoffed and went back to her seat. Tiffany looked at her group, who all nodded and followed suit. But before Ashley could sit down, Sky whispered into her ear, “I told you that you shouldn’t be here…”
Ashley quickly turned around but Sky just smiled…
“So what are we supposed to do talk about our feelings and make up or something?” Tiffany scoffed.
“Like hell, I am gonna talk things out with you!” Chloe growled.
“What was that?” Courtney snapped back defensively. “Want to go, or did you forget what happened last time?”
“Stop fighting you too!” Sakura pouted.
“No, let them fight,” Mandy grinned. “This is just getting fun.”
“Two-faced Mandy.” Madison scoffed as she raised her nose in disgust. “Like anyone would ever trust a peace agreement coming from you.”
“Come on girls, we are all here to become friends.” Sky smiled as she stood in the center of the room. “And I have the perfect way to ensure that we all become best friends by the end of this.” her grin grew but Ashley seemed to be the only one to catch it fearing her intent.
“And how is that?” Mandy chuckled. “I am pretty sure that everyone here besides the bimbo is just waiting for the chance to backstab each other. And I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t waiting to jump at the chance as well.”
“Why do you always have to be so mean!” Sakura pouted crossing her arms and turning away from Mandy who just flashed her mischievous grin.
“I should have known that this was a trap.” Chloe sighed as she slumped back on the couch.
“Come on girls keep it civil.” Sky shook her head and sighed. “I am going to prepare the game, I will be back in a minute so try to be nice.”
As soon as Sky leaves the room Tiffany and Chloe are at each other’s throats with Madison, Brittany, and Courtney joining in. Mandy watched from the sidelines bringing up old gossip to fuel the raging fire whenever she felt bored. Sakura tried to stop the fight but somehow ended up getting involved. Heather was too preoccupied with updating her social media to care. And Ashley just sat there awkwardly wishing she had taken Sky’s advance. This continued for an hour which felt like an eternity, until Sky returned with a strange black box.
“Gees I leave you girls alone for a few minutes and you are at each other’s throats.” she frowned as she put the box down on the table.
“What did you think was going to happen?” Tiffany scoffed.
“Yeah, I don’t want anything to do with this bitch.” Chloe scoffed back.
“Well after tonight I will make sure you will all want to spend time together!” Sky smiled as she pulled out a board game-like board with strange symbols on it.
“Is that a spirit board?” Chloe asked looking at the strange board.
“Are we going summon a ghost!” Sakura shrieked as she ran to Heather for protection who just pushed her away.
“Really summoning a stupid ghost?” Tiffany frowned her face filled with annoyance as she looked at the spirit board looking like she was about to tear it to pieces. “You decided to waste my precious fucking time trying to summon a stupid spirit like a fucking loser!”
“Man, this is a new low even for your Sky…” Mandy stared at the board with a deadpan stare unable to come up with anything witty. “Once everyone hears about this you are going to be a loser for sure…”
“This has to be a joke?” Madison sighed as she facepalmed.
“All of this for some dumb ghost story BS?” Courtney annoyingly growled.
“Lame…” Brittany spoke emotionlessly.
“Come on girls it will be fun!” Sky grinned. “What are you all afraid of ghosts?”
“No, definitely Sakura is afraid, but this is just fucking lame…” Mandy spoke. “Sure this I’m out.” she sighed taking a picture of Sky and the spirit board before walking towards the entrance.
“Oh, but are you sure that you want to miss the fun?” Sky grinned. “What is more lame trying to summon a spirit or chickening out while the rest of the popular girls summon one?”
Mandy rolled her eyes and returned to the couch. “Fine, just do it already so I can leave this lame party.”
“With pleasure!” Sky smiled, “But first I need a drop of blood from each of you.”
“Blood!” The girls cried out in unison.
“Yes, blood to make sure this all works.” Sky nodded as she grabbed a small needle. “Just a single drop don’t be a baby. So who wants to go first?”
The girls awkwardly stared at each other none of them wanting to volunteer to draw blood first. Tiffany pushed Ashley to draw blood first. Sky pricked her on the finger frowning while doing so as she rubbed the drop of blood on the board. Next was Chloe who didn’t even flinch. Courtney followed her not wanting to be one-upped. Then Tiffany, followed Madison, then Mandy, Sky took Heather’s blood while she wasn’t paying attention, and Brittany and Sakura were the last two as they were the most reluctant. With the girl’s blood drawn Sky drew a circle with it around the board. She pulled out a knife, Ashley, Brittany, and Sakura were the only ones to flinch at the blade, and Mandy looked excited. Only Ashley tried to stop her as Sky cut into her hand causing it to gush blood, Sky fought through the pain as she drew a pentagram in the middle of the circle. She quickly wrapped up her bleeding hand and then stood up.
“Are you all ready to begin?” she spoke her voice filled with excitement as if she had been eagerly waiting her entire life for this very moment, the others didn’t seem anywhere near as excited or even interested more annoyed if anything.
“Are you crazy!” Tiffany scoffed.
“A little bit I guess?” Sky grinned.
“This is going to be real interesting or real lame.” Mandy chuckled as she pulled out her phone to record.
Ashley skulked back in her seat taken back by the drawn blood, she wished she had taken up Sky’s offer to ditch the sleepover. She figured it would be just a bunch of popular girls fighting until they reached an unsteady neutral agreement that would only last a week at most. But she couldn’t keep her eyes off the bloody pentagram on the spirit board which made her feel queasy. She jumped in her seat as Sky started to chant some unknown incantation in a language she didn’t recognize. The other girls froze just as Ashley did, while they all told themselves that nothing was going to happen an ominous air filled the room seemingly suffocating them under its dark presence. Lights started to flicker and the blood on the board started to boil. The girls looked at each other, wanting anyone to speak up and stop this madness, but no one had the will to do it, besides Mandy…
“What the hell are you doing?” Mandy shouted as she jumped up from her seat and grabbed Sky pushing her to the ground. This had the opposite reaction she was expecting as the furniture started lifting off the ground. The girls beside Honey who was standing on the couch trying to reach her phone that was floating away.
“Now, my dark lord, I offer you this sacrifice,” Sky shouted her eyes rolling back into her head as she pointed at Mandy who looked at her in utter terror.
“Sacrifice!” she cried taken back and slowly backing towards the door. “What the hell?” she trembled her dominating demeanor now melted away to reveal her true face of a coward. “Take someone else as your sacrifice!”
“I call your name!” Sky shouted, it was too late to back out now not that she would want to. The spell was nearly complete and she grinned as the boiling blood crept its way up her body burning her skin and melting into it causing it to bloat up. She looked at Mandy with a twisted grin as the boiling blood caused her face to twist and bloat. “Sorry, Mandy you were always my second least favorite.”
“S-second!” she gasped as her eyes went wide. She couldn’t figure out if she was supposed to be resentful that she wasn’t Sky’s least favorite or resentful that she was chosen for this sacrifice. She could only stare at the misshapen meat balloon as she backed away. “Pick your least favorite then!” she cried as she suddenly made a break for the door.
“I call upon your name and take my sacrifice Neridia!” Sky shouted at the top of her lungs.
The girls paused at the name… Neridia?
A bright burning light ranged from the table, hands of flames leaped out of the table snaking after Mandy. She reached the door before the hands could reach her, but the door wouldn’t budge. “Help me…” she wept looking back at the girls that she had considered her enemies, but now she pleaded for their help as the hands grabbed her face, breasts, butt, thighs, and crotch searing them with the flames as they pulled her back to the table. The girls just watched helplessly as Mandy cried out in pure terror as she was lifted into the air. Ashley wanted to help Mandy despite how much she hated her even more than Tiffany, but what could she do? Battle a demon and live to tell the tale? Not a chance….
“My goddess take this filth and make her your own!” Sky cried out again as she extended her bulging arms to the heavens as if calling to god himself. “And take me into your womb and rebirth me as your daughter!”
“NO, NO, NO!” Mandy cried in pain as the flaming hands melted her body. It was an ungodly sight as the girls watched her melt like wax dripping into a fine glob of flesh-colored goo. It wasn’t very long until her screams melted into disgusting fleshy gurgles, then into silence. The flesh-colored glob floated in the air as Sky moved her hands around in the air the flames following her every movement as she flattened the goo into a fine sheet. The girls just stood there and watched as Sky shaped the goo. The goo turned a rosy pink and something started to appear on it.
It was Mandy?
Something fleshy took the shape of Mandy but sprawled out like she was lying on a bed in an all too inviting way. The girls gasped as they saw her face twisted into a shy lustful grin. A black maid outfit formed on her body which showed off way too much cleavage and with a skirt so short that you could see her pink striped panties. As if to mock the girls who looked at the twisted perverted image in pure utter horror Sky moved the hands to turn the sheet around showing off an even more twisted version of Mandy. The maid's outfit was torn to shreds covering up nothing letting her large fake boobs flop on her chest and again pointing up at any onlooker and her face was twisted into that of a shameless orgasm. Then the entire form puffed up and started to sink into the table disappearing into the pentagram vanishing never to be seen again.
All the girls looked on at the deformed bloated mess that Sky was turning into, they were scared. They knew they had no way out or to save themselves. They would be turned into something weird like Mandy was or worse. They backed into a corner as fire spewed from the table like a raging volcano.
Something clicked inside of Ashley and a confused but mainly disgusted look filled her face. She spoke up. “Wait did she just get turned into a body pillow?” Before she could get an answer flames enfugled the room and her world turned black….
-
Ashley slowly started to regain consciousness. She clutched her head as it felt like hammers were pounding on it making her brain ring like a clapper inside of a bell. Her entire head hurt as she tried to remember what happened, she was at a slumber party then Sky did some kind of ritual and turned into a fleshy blob monster or something like that. Then there was Mandy…. Ashley could have sworn that she watched the annoying popular girl’s flesh melt she couldn’t unsee it. She watched Mandy melt in front of her eyes, it was horrible even for someone as horrible as Mandy it was a fate that she would have never wished upon anyone. But it happened and there was no amount of convincing herself that it didn’t happen. She could still hear her terrified screams that melted into a gross gurgle in her ears. But that last part still confused her, the disgusting blob of flesh and bone that she melted into was turned into something. But that something is what made her so confused she swore she saw a body pillow the same kind that a loser otaku would fap to. But no, that can’t be right. Can it?
“Ashley!” A frightened voice called out to her. Ashley slowly and painfully opened her eyes and saw Sakura’s tear-ridden face as she helped her up. “Thank god you are ok!” she cried more tears flowing from her face.
Ashley looked around as she held her head. She saw the other girls all in a mix of confusion and annoyance. But the room they were in changed it was some weird bedroom much larger than any of theirs, but it was filled with all kinds of anime and nerdy memorabilia. Posters, figures, both mangas and comics of all kinds littered the messy room. It was like a nerd’s heaven.
“Where the hell are we?” Ashley muttered as she collected herself.
“Like we fucking know!” Tiffany shouted as she glared daggers at Ashley. “What a fucking bitch! I mean what the fuck!”
“Tiff,” Sakura softly said trying to calm her down, “Let’s calm down being upset won’t help.”
“Fuck that!” Chloe lashed out at Sakura pushing her to the ground. “That crazy bitch did some fucked up shit and now we are in some loser’s bedroom!”
“This is so gross…” Brittany winced as looks around the room her nose twitching. “It smells like whoever lives here hasn’t bathed in weeks…”
“And it is such an eyesore.” Madison scoffed and crossed her arms, she tried to turn away raising her nose to the messy nerdy room but the entire room was a mess so she couldn’t find a sightly place to turn to.
“God just looking at this place makes me want to beat up whoever lives here.” Courtney sighed as she cracked her knuckles. “I bet even the nicest person would want to pick on the nerd that lives here.”
“We can beat them up later or whatever.” Tiffany groaned as she looked around the room. “We need to get out of this shit hole first…. Everyone look for an exit or something?”
“And who thinks that you can boss the rest of us around!” Chloe snapped again as she stomped towards Tiffany getting up in her face. “You may have your click, “But the rest of us are smart enough to know not to trust you, or anyone else here!”
“Listen I don’t care if you like me or not?” Tiffany rolled her eyes. “I just want to get out of this shit hole and take a shower.” She sniffed her arm. “God this stupid stench is rubbing off on me.” She walked past Chole and frowned. “Listen if you want to sit on your ass like that bimbo over there, fine by me!” She groaned pointing to Heather who was busy trying and failing to get a signal on her phone. “So just help me find a way out of here or we will leave you here. Got it!”
Chole rolled her eyes and walked away. The girls besides Heather who was still fiddling with her phone and Tiffany who was supervising inspected the nerdy bedroom to try and find an exit. The group quickly found that the windows were fake as they were just screens with an anime facade of the outside world on them as if the owner didn’t even want to think about the real world. The only door led to a bathroom, so at least they had that. The vents were both too high and too small for any of them to fit and even then they were bolted on tight. Ashley and Sakura looked for a trigger to the secret exit hidden amongst the figures, shelves of manga, and the posters on the wall much to the amusement of the others. Nothing, there was nothing, no way to escape. The group stood in a circle exhausted.
“Like, what the fuck!” Tiffany screamed.
“Damn it, this sucks!” Madison joined her.
“You know what fucking sucks!” Heather finally spoke up. “I have no cell signal or internet!”
“Oh, boo fucking hoo,” Courtney mocked her. “The world won’t end if a bimbo like you aren’t posting twenty-four-seven!”
“No, she is right,” Ashley spoke up.
“What, you can’t be series?” Madison frowned looking at Ashley disappointed that she would even entrain Heather. “God and I thought you were meant to be smart?”
“No this is serious!” Ashley spoke up pulling out her phone and looking at the screen noticing that she had no bars either. “We are trapped in this weird bedroom with no way out and no way to contact anyone!”
“Shit.” Chloe gasped as she put everything together. “We are truly fucked…”
“At least we have food…” Sakura spoke up her tone disheartened making it obvious that there was some kind of catch. She sighed and held up a large family-sized back of greasy and fatty chips. “I found this and others like it stashed away.”
“Ew, gross no way in hell am I eating that!” Brittany cried stomping her foot like a child.
“Yeah fuck that!” Courtney shouted snatching the back from Sakura and tossing it to the ground. “No way in hell am I eating junky shit like that!”
“Well, it is all we have,” Ashley spoke up in a disheartened voice as she looked at the
smashed bag. If it meant living off of chips until they found a way out she would accept it and the pounds.
“God, fucking dammit!” Chloe shouted. “This is bull shit!”
“Whoever the fuck put us here show yourself!” Tiffany shouted in a fit of rage as she looked to the heavens.
The sound of a door opening caught their attention. The girls looked at a door that magically appeared on a blank spot in the wall as if it was always there. The door slowly opened. The girls readied themselves for whoever or whatever was about to come through. A large round shadow stood in the doorway, Courtney, Chloe, and Ashley were ready to pounce. As the shadow entered the room Courtney and Chloe dove at it, but Ashley paused upon seeing the figure. Before the two could even get near the figure they were bounced back landing softly on a pair of large bean bags.
“No fucking way…” Ashley gasped upon seeing the figure.
She had long messy brown hair that looked more like a shaggy mop than anything, she was pretty short and very portly with a prominent but not fat belly, and a pair of large meaty breasts that looked like they were ready to pop out of her shirt that had a pair of D20s and read “Yes they are natural” covered by a baggy hoodie, and she had some of the thickest and fattest tights they had ever seen supporting a very large butt that looked like it was about to tear her short jeans in half. Most noticeable she wore a pair of large round glasses and a brace-filled smile.
“Hey’ya girlfriends!” she snorted with a dorky giggle.
“S-sky!” The girls shouted upon recognizing the chubby girl as the once stick-like girl. She was barely recognizable in this new fatty dorky form. They didn’t know where to be horrified or burst out laughing at her new appearance, but they all held their tough fearing what might happen if they did not want to suffer the same fate as Mandy.
Tiffany was the first of the group to speak up as she stormed to the front of the pack, but still close enough that she could summon her bodyguard Courtney if anything happened. “What the hell is going on!” She shouted stomping her foot as she placed her hands on her hips. “Like, one minute everything is fine then Mandy gets turned into a freaking body pillow and you are now a fat ass!” she stormed closer and pointed her finger in Sky’s face. “I demand answers!”
“Yeah, you better tell us what is going on!” Chloe joined in approaching the fatten Sky.
Sky started to sweat, and her panic was evident as the two girls confronted her. She just held her hands up as she awkwardly smiled trying to think of a way to explain all this without upsetting the others even more. This wasn’t going to plan well this part anyway way, all of those years of confidence she mustered were crumpled up and thrown out like an empty bag of chips. She knew there were going to be side effects from the curse but this was unfair! Madison, Brittany, and Courtney joined the pair in their relentless questioning.
“Shop it!” she squeaked her face bright red as she stomped the ground.
The room shook knocking everyone off their feet. When they looked back up they saw Sky standing there flustered with a chubby pair of bat-like wings that Ashley doubted could hold her off the ground, a chubby tail that ended in a heart-shaped point, and a pair of curved horns. She looked like a demon, a particularly fat and non-threatening one who was more reminiscent of a chubby otaku low-budget generic demon cosplay than a real one. But after what she witnessed early Ashley wasn’t planning on pushing her luck to find out if the nerdy version of Sky was bluffing or not.
The demon nerd Sky took a few long and deep breaths to calm her nerves before struggling to hover in the air due to her portly body. She put on an overly confident grin that appeared to be more of an act mimicking something she saw from an anime villainess who could acutely pull off a smug sexy grin rather than genuine confidence.
“Beware foolish mortals!!”
The girls looked at her more dumbfounded than scared or anything as she spoke in a too-cute nerdy lisp instead of the threatening voice she was hoping for.
“You all soon regret all of the torment and torture you brought upon the world and I the NERD DEMON will punish you for your sins! Your justice will be swift and humiliating!”
The girls looked between each other and rolled their eyes as her threats fell flat on them due to her non-threatening appearance and her massive lisp making it hard to understand her.
“Hey dork, what the hell is going on!” Tiffany snaped. “You turned into some fat ass demon, like what do we have to do with this?”
Sky puffed up her already puffy cheeks and a look of anger filled her face, but then it faded as she grinned. The room shook again but this time a massive TV rose from the ground. The screen flickered to life showing a video of a group of schoolgirls. The group stared at the screen Madison was the first to react as she gasped covering her mouth. Tiffany squinted her eyes and hissed.
“Hey, what is going on?” Ashley interjected herself between the two and the screen.
“Nothing.” Tiffany scowled waving her away. “This was middle school, like early middle school right Maddie?” she turned towards her friend.
“Yes,” she nodded. “I don’t know how you got footage of us as kids you creep!”
“Just watch, the show is about to begin…” Sky frowned as she pressed play on a remote.
The recording played the young Tiffany and Madison talking in the hall, then a chubby girl began to walk by. Tiffany tripped the girl who fell face first onto the hard floor spilling her papers throughout the hall and worse of all one of her glass’s lenses broke. The girl blindly tried to pick up her papers. Tiffany stepped on them crumpling and tearing them up, but a particular piece of paper grabbed her attention it was a DnD character sheet. She snatched it up and began reading the embarrassingly written character sheets falling into all of the typical self-insert OC holes.
Ashley turned and looked away from the screen in shame and at the pair who just grinned as if they were reliving a pleasant memory. It made her disgusted, they always had, maybe she should have heeded Sky’s warning. But she was too weak to stand up for people like that girl and stand up for herself. The video went on with the girls teasing the poor nerd, Ashley froze and her eyes shot wide.
“I will give this back to you if you be my little piggy slave.”
“No, please…”
“Aw come on? Don’t you want your dorky little elf or whatever back?”
“N-no, it is alright…”
“What, but I want you to take it back.”
“Please, just stop… you can keep it…”
“Listen hear piggy.”
The young Tiffany grabbed the girl’s messy hair and yanked her forwards causing her to scream in pain as her hair w
as nearly torn from its roots and she was shoved agist the hard metal locker painfully.
“I want you to be my little gross slave who does whatever I tell her to or else I will make your life hell. Got it?”
“No, please….” she grunted painfully.
“Yes, please you don’t want me to spread horrible rumors about you? Make a dork like you become the laughingstock of the school? That doesn’t sound fun does it?”
“F-fine…” she cried giving in.
“One month as my little chubby pigging then I will give you back your elf.”
And just like that the poor girl becomes Tiffany’s slave constantly humiliating herself and doing everything that Tiffany asked her. She hated everything but most importantly herself to meek and scared to do anything or tell anyone due to the fear of her master blackmailing her turning her school life into endless torment. She was stuck in a month-long hell mentally broken and exhausted but the fated day of salvation finally came.
“Well, I guess a deal is a deal?” Tiffany shrugged handing back the girl's character sheets.
She looked down at them, they were scribbled over and replaced with insults lashing out at her. Tears filled her eyes and she started to cry. The girls and onlookers started laughing at the crying girl.
This wasn’t fair…
She thought to herself she did everything she was asked. She suffered and humiliated herself just for nothing. Why did she have to be punished while they got away with it? What did she do to deserve this?
PPPPFFFFHHHHTTTT!!!
I loud gassy fart filled the room and everyone’s laughter only grew as the girl let out a wet juicy fart. Her stomach started to churn and gurgle.
No, not now. Anything but that!
A second loud fart filled the room but this time it was wetter and smellier. The girl stood there her emotion shattered as she bawled even harder, as a large sticky turd sat in her underwear. She clenched her legs and clutched her belly as more logs filled her underwear and a yellow trickle crept down her legs and pooled beneath her. She was standing in a puddle of her piss and underwear filled with her shit. She looked at the pair as Tiffany complemented Madison for coming up with the idea of sneaking laxatives and other drugs like that into her food. The two girls that caused her so much torment laughed their asses off while she suffered after she did everything they told her. She became their slave and yet she still suffered utter humiliation on the likes that she couldn’t even imagine existing, an entire month just for this…
“What the fuck!” Ashley shouted grabbing Tiffany by the helm of her shirt. Courtney quickly stepped in and punched the girl in the face sending her crating to the ground.
“What?” she chuckled laughing at the video on screen. “You don’t think it is funny?”
“You…” Ashley muttered at a loss for words. “I thought that you were nothing but a spoiled bitch…”
“Oh, how cute,” she spoke in a harsh tone barely even glancing down at the girl not wanting to address the dirt under her feet.
“How could you…” tears started to well up in her eyes.
“What, are you a big baby like her now?” she softly chuckled her eyes not moving from the screen.
Ashley choked up and wiped her tears away.
The screen flicked to a new video, it was some children’s pageant. A little girl was walking up onto stage, she was quite cute and looked like she was surely going to win. But just as everything was hopeful a bucket full of paint fell from the rafters covering a grow mucky brown. The footage cuts to a young Brittany and her mother who set the entire thing up so she could win. Then it cut to a looker room with a bright and hopeful young athlete getting ready for a big meet, but she didn’t notice Courtney sneaking up behind her as she broke the girl's leg and threatened her if she told anyone. Then it was Chloe’s turn who turned against her old friend group blackmailing them to the point that they were the laughing stocks of the school just to impress a group of popular girls. Honey spreads false information about cheating to get a girl ostracised by everyone just because she was dating a guy that Honey was someone into but lost interest in shortly after. Sakura ran a persona smear campaign against a girl that she simply didn’t like spreading lies about her to the point where she was expelled. And finally Ashley the odd one out who was simply following along with Tiffany, Madison, Brittany, and Courtney. The footage continued showing each of the girls' continued bullying.
Ashley covered her mouth and her knees felt weak. She was a monster, she knew or at least wanted to tell herself that she wasn’t as bad as the others but, she participated in it. She could have stopped it or at least tried to stop it but she was too afraid to end up like the poor victims in the video. She was just as guilty as the rest. She looked at them and they just watched either unfazed or grinning ear to ear at the worst of their crimes. She felt sick.
“Hey, what do you think happened to the messy pig?” Tiffany asked Madison casually.
“Like I would know?” she shrugged not caring enough to put any real thought or care into her answer. “She stopped coming to school so who cares?”
Ashley threw up a little in her mouth at Madison’s response. “WHO CARES?”
The two looked at her confused and shrugged.
“Hey, if piggy didn’t want to be picked on she could have done something.” Tiffany sighed. “Well what ever happened to her doesn’t matter now, she is long gone probably shitting her bowels out in a barn or something.”
“You are sorely mistaken…” Sky spoke up.
The screen changed once more showing Sky the fit and popular Sky rising into popularity and setting up everything between the girls to lead to this very moment.
“Wait don’t tell me…” Tiffany gasped and turned to Sky
“Yes, I am back and ready for my revenge!” she cackled, “All of these years trying to change myself to be accepted by people like you. And then I found out about my Goddeth and her power. Now it ith my turn to toy with you!” Lighting cracked, the room shook, and the ground beneath the girls. The earth started to crack and the girls were trusted to the ground. They tried to stand but the shaking was too much. The cracks grew larger.
“Tiff” Brittany cried as she reached for her friend dread filling her face as the cracks formed around her growing larger each second. Tiffany just watched as the ground beneath Brittany crumbled away and she fell into the darkness calling for her friend until her voice could no longer be heard, but Tiffany could care less if her friend survived the fall. One by one each girl was consumed by the empty void crying for help that none of them would have given to the others. Ashley and Tiffany sat alone as the last two survivors.
“This is all your fault!” Ashley spat at Tiffany as the ground below her fell.
Ashley closed her eyes and let the darkness take her, she figured she probably deserved this after all she did. Call it karma or something like that. She kept falling and falling until she felt a soft thud, it felt soft and squishy like a bean bag. She slowly opened her eyes to see the other girls all of them sitting on a large puffy couch in a black void with a large TV in front of it, each girl was equally confused as she was. The Tiffany landed next to her.
“What the hell?” she hissed mixing confusion and spite on her tongue.
A big TV rose from the ground like an ancient idle from a cheese B-move.
The sound of chuckling and snorting descended from above. Sky slowly flew down her wings trying their hardest to keep the rather heavy woman in the air. She looked at them with a smug grin across her plump face as she put her hands on her fatty hips. The screen flicked to life and what looked like a torment bracket was shown on the screen with a picture of each girl.
“Welcome Ladies to my Punishment Game!”