Tricks and Treats from Clowntopia
Part 8: The Grand Finale
by Hugo Prosperio

As Katie looked around, she tried to spot anyone not dressed as a clown. She saw few and made a note to keep tabs on them. She moved through the party, trying not to make any kind of a scene.

“Nice nose.” She said to one of the clowns who smiled and nodded in appreciation.

She moved on, but had she stayed, she would have seen something that would have truly been eye opening.

“Lord, look at all the clowns.” Said one young man as he watched Katie walk off. He then felt a tugging on his pant leg and looked down to see four figures, all looking like clowns, but all each less than a foot in height.  The leader of this tiny group had a large pointed head, it seemed like it. In his hand he held a tiny wand, which he waved around.

“You should join our club.” The clown said, tapping the man’s leg with the wand.

“What the hell is this ab…ouuuuuut” he said, his voice trailing as he suddenly felt himself being pulled downward. His fox costume began to drape over him and soon hit the floor with a thud. Seconds later a tiny naked man crawled out. He went to scream at the tiny people who had done this to him when he saw they were all at least a head taller than him.  He looked at the man with the oddly shaped head and gasped as he saw the face of his younger brother beneath the odd looks of a clown.

Egghead looked down at the man and chuckled. He waved the wand again, causing the man to feel a wave of tingles. His head began to push up like Eggheads, but not only that, his head was getting wider. Soon it was shaped like a strange football, causing a mental mindfog to overtake the man.  All of his hair was now bunched at the top, and it turned a shade of pink.

The rest of his body turned orange as a painted on beard appeared around his lips. His nose turned black and puffed up a bit, but didn’t go fully round. He groaned as he felt his feet stretch forward, getting huge for his tiny body. They were even larger than Eggheads.

A new costume began to magically form around him. A flannel shirt with patched holes, but instead of pants, he had a frilly pink skirt. Long torn leggings stretched down his legs and cute pink sneakers wrapped around his huge feet.

“Glad you could join us, Teeny. Brothers gotta look after each other.” Egghead said, ruffling his “big” brother’s hair. Teeny tried to grasp on to some form of his former life but he looked down at his costume and began to giggle, and out of his head flew the last memory of his old life.

“Thanks, Big Bro.” he said. The other small clowns all laughed, and together they ran off, leaving the fox costume as the only evidence of the former human.

Out in the foyer, the candy bowl and trunk still sat there, waiting for anyone to come out and explore their wonders.

A young woman dressed as Marilyn Monroe came out looking for something to drink. Oddly she saw a bottle cap in the bowl of candy and began to pull out a full bottle of soda it seemed.  “Balloon Fizz” the label read. The cap twisted off and the hiss of carbonation was heard. She smiled and began to drink the soda, her intense thirst growing stronger as the hiss of the soda reached her ears. She chugged it and was blissfully unaware that she was undergoing a very strange metamorphosis. Her whole body was inflating. Her belly rounded out into a huge ball that stretched out her costume comically. She continued to take swig after swig from the bottle, the sparkling soda seemingly never ceasing to flow into her open mouth. Her body lifted off the ground, floating up as her costume tore off. Her limps were being absorbed into her body. Her breasts and butt had flattened and smoothed as had her privates. She looked like a ball with hands and feet and a head. She let out a satisfied “Ahhh” as she finished the soda and let the bottle drop.

Her head  wobbled as she began to belch, letting out a huge burp that echoed loudly through the foyer. As she burped, her entire body was getting smaller. It wasn’t losing any of it’s roundness, just shrinking in size. Her skin was also getting see through, and nothing was inside but the air that the fizzy drink had filled her with. Her skin had turned a pinkish color, and stopped shriking when she was the size of a small soccer ball. Her hands pulled in, and her feet moved down and twisted together, forming a knot at the bottom.

Her head then pulled into the round form of her body, the blond wig she was wearing drifting down to the ground, now useless, and after a few blinks, her face smiled out from directly in the center of her body, now shaped like a balloon. She had no thoughts except how nice it was to float in the air of the room. The drink’s fizz had not only transformed her, but made sure she’d think like a Balloon from now on.

Katie wandered out into the foyer and saw a balloon drifting towards her

“Hi Katie!” The face on the balloon said as it went past her and towards the main party. Katie’s jaw about dropped.

What she didn’t see was a strange mist pouring out of the chest, making it’s way towards her. She turned around and saw the mist take the form of a humanoid shape, then it engulfed her.

“Ack!” she said with a cough. The smoke smelled of carnival food like cotton candy and popcorn.

“Kaaaaaatie.” whispered a voice in the mist. “Your party is almost ready. We just need a leader to take ussss home.”

She felt as if the mist were feeling every inch of her body. “Who are you?”

“I am a spirit of fun and mischief. I want to you to smile. Don’t you want to smile?” She didn’t know why, but she did. She wanted to. She then shook her head.

“Did you do strange things to my guests?” She said.

“Not me. The chest of magic. It let loose some magic amongst your guests to make them silly and smiley. I can do the same for you. Don’t you want to smile?”

The repeated phrase stuck in her head. She did. She really did. She tried to break free, but she found herself asking to smile, to smile so wide and pretty.

“But of course, dear.” The mist said. It then started pouring into Katie’s mouth, filling her up. At first she seemed shocked, but then she felt good. Really good. Her chest began to push forward, growing larger. It wasn’t a huge change, only a few cup sizes, and her red ladybug dress didn’t tear, but rather stretched to grow, although it changed, becoming sequined with orange and black sparkling jewels, and it became a lot more form fitting. Her hips widened a bit, and her butt became a touch bigger and perkier. Her feet grew, but not much, just enough to make them clearly bigger. Orange heels formed around them.

Her skin went white as snow as she felt shivers running up and down. Her eyebrows were replaced with black lines, drawn in elegant squiggles. Her hair became a vibrant orange with a stripe of black down the side. It was styled like a prom queens might be, big and filled with ribbon like curls. Orange circles formed on her cheeks, and lastly a big red smile formed on her lips that plumped and curled up into spirals at the edges.

“I feel so silly.” She said as the mist began to pour out of her and drifted back towards the chest. As it entered, the lid slammed shut, and the chest disappeared in a puff of orange smoke.  Left behind was the bowl of candies and a small wooden door.

She grabbed both and headed back into the main hall. Most of the party goers were now clowns of various shapes and sizes. She stood up and got the attention of the crowd.

“Hello, it’s me, Sammie Hain, your lovely queen of the party. I do hope you are all having a wonderful time. If you have not joined the clowny theme, please come up and see me. It’s time for your treat!.

She grinned as she held up the candy bowl.

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In the Joke Shop, Chuckles was preparing to close when a customer walked in, the horn going off. It was a younger man who looked excited.

“It exists!” he said with his hands clasped together.

“Are you talking about my little store?’ Chuckles asked.

“Yes, the gateway to another dimension, another land, a world of care free and silly folk.” He said happily.

“You have done your homework. The internet I presume?”

The man nodded. He looked at the counter and saw a painted pumpkin who winked at him, and a plastic bobblehead toy who looked a bit sick.

“Oh, don’t mind Bobble. He just had a major transformation. He was a guy earlier today, then a balloon, and now he’s a toy of sorts. It’ll pass.”

“So you really transform people into silly things. Can you transform me?”

Bobble opened his eyes wide at this, Chuckles coughed loudly.

“Not often I get requested to do that. But it’s Halloween and I am game for that kind of fun always. How about a treat?’

The man grinned and took a small candy bar from the bowl on the counter and ate it quickly.
A few seconds passed and then he felt the need to eat more candy. He reached in and grabbed as many pieces as he could and began to shove them into his mouth

His body began to widen, gaining weight quickly. As it did his skin turned pink except around his eyes and mouth, a standard Auguste look. His clothes burst off his body soon, his weight soaring above 300 pounds. His feet burst out of his shoes growing longer wider and thicker than he could have imagined. He laughed and ate more candy as his body continued to change. His hair shot straight up and turned blue and looked more like cotton candy than hair. His front two teeth grew bigger and wider, and his jaw shifted giving him a prominent overbite.

“Hyuck, it feels as good as I hoped.” He said as he ate more, and his ears wobbled and grew wider. His nose blew up into a tennis ball sized round red orb on his face and his lips got very thick, complimenting his new teeth.

He looked in a nearby mirror just in time to see his height drop down to 4 foot even, making him look even fatter, his thighs thick as could be. Another surge of weight gain then happened directly in his butt that made him giggle. He was now decidedly bottom heavy and he slapped his huge ass and watched it wobble in his reflection.

The changes soon ceased and he was no longer any shadow of the man before. Chuckles helped him pick a new colorful outfit (a ruffled one piece jumpsuit with pom pom balls running up the middle) and huge floppy clown shoes.

“I think I’ll call you Sweet Teeth.” He said looking at the shorter fatter man.

He honked his nose as Chuckles directed him to the portal.

“Thank you, Chuckles. It’s a dream come true!

“Happy Halloween!” Chuckles said shoving him into the portal. He hear laughter all the way down, making him smile.

When he re-entered the main store area, he saw a chest sitting on the floor, locked up.
He went over and opened it and grinned as a pink mist rose out. As it rose it became more solid and revealed his girlfriend Jen-Jen.

“Worked like a charm.” She said. “That was even more fun than the prom. I left a door for them so they’ll be along to the city soon.”

“Well, that was certainly a fun idea. Glad it went as planned. We all had a good day. I even made some new friends.” He said pointing to the two sitting on the counter.

“But the day is done, November approaches, and it’s time to close for the night.” He said as he kissed his girl and locked the door.

It had been a real treat.