Climbing into her car, Sue headed for the Gym. Betty had worked out well over an hour before quitting. She liked this gym, it was small and uncrowded. There were times when she had the place almost to herself.
Betty wasn't really in to her workout tonight, worrying about Joe she couldn't really get into it. She got off the Stair Master and headed for the locker room. Leaving the workout floor, she wiped sweat off of her face and arms. She entered her dressing bay, having the locker room completely to herself. She didn't notice another person enter the room. She slipped out of her leotard and panties and went into the showers. She had just tuned on the water when someone appeared in the entrance to the shower. She looked over and saw Sue.
"Sue?! Hi, I didn't know you went to this gym," she said, but Sue did nothing but stare at her with a malevolent look in her eyes. Betty could tell that Sue wasn't here to socialize, and although Betty was scared, she was determined not to show it.
"Well, I can see why Joe likes you so much." Sue huffed. "Anna Nicole's got nothing on you sister."
Betty felt total exposed and trapped, not even realizing it, Betty vainly tried to cover her breasts and genitals with her hands. Her eyes were drawn to Sue right hand as she played with the amulet.
"O, you like this!" Sue said holding it up toward Betty.
The panic began to well inside her at the tone in Sue's voice, she tried to leave the showers, but Sue stepped in front of her.
"It's Greek. It has Magic powers bestowed on it by the goddess Hebe. Do you know who she was?"
Betty shook her head no.
"Well, let me show you." She hissed and chanted. A light built in the crystal and then it shot out and enveloped Betty. Betty felt a strange tingling sensation all over her body. She pushed by Sue to her towel. After wrapping herself in it, she turned and saw her reflection in the full length mirror at the end of the lockers. Her mouth dropped open in shock at her image. She looked closer to seventeen than twenty-seven in only moments.
She walked closer to the mirror, transfixed in shock and horror.
"I guess I forgot to mention, that this could be hazardous to those big hooters of yours" Sue mocked from behind her.
A shiver ran down her spine and as she regressed back to her mid-teens and then early teens. As she slipped back towards puberty, her breasts grew firmer but smaller. Her waist narrowed along with her wide, full hips. She clutched her breasts in a vain attempt it halt their retreat into youth.
"Why are you doing this." Betty pleaded, surprised by the youthful sound of her voice.
"Because! Joe is mine, and he's going to stay mine. Your the reason he broke up with me in the first place. "
Betty's face grew steadily rounder and more innocent looking. Her hair grew shorter and had she could feel herself shrinking. Sue towered above her.
"My God, I'm four feet tall!" she thought as she felt her pubic hair began to fallout.
"Stop it Sue, please." She moaned as she saw her tits shrink down to little cones and then flatten completely.
Another shiver ran down her spine as she slipped to the other side of puberty. She stood numbly looking at herself in the mirror, a sad little ten year old, eight...six... four... three...
"Pweez, make it top. Pweeez!."
Betty felt unsteady on her feet and started to wobble and then flopped onto her pudgy bottom.
Two... one.
Betty's little bladder couldn't help itself and she found herself sitting a growing puddle of her pee. Her tiny fists jammed into her eyes, rubbing them vigorously, she tried to stand, but couldn't.
Sue left her sitting on the cold floor as she crossed to Betty's locker and quickly emptied it of everything. Stuffing Betty's clothes into the empty sack, Sue turned to the infant and stooped to pick her up in Betty's now useless towel.
"There, There. It's gonna be all right princess," she cooed to the infant Betty as she wiped her off with the towel. Laying Betty on the bench, Sue pulled out a diaper and jumper and dressed Betty. Sue picked up the struggling infant and shook her violently.
"Look, bitch, I've already put you in diapers. Do you want to see what else I can do you, then just keep this shit up. Now shut up! I know you understand me. I'm taking you to Joe, and if you cooperate, I'll let you see him. Understand?"
Betty bobbed her tiny head in understanding. The world was huge to her now, normal everyday objects were gigantic and well out of her reach. As Sue left the gym, the receptionist asked if she'd found Betty.
"No, she wasn't back there. I guess she left. Bye," Sue called.
As Sue disappeared around the corner, the receptionist shook her head, she hadn't remembered the woman coming in with a baby.....????
Sue climbed Betty's car and drove it a few blocks away to an underground parking deck.
"No one's bound to see your car here for awhile, she said to Betty. Cradling Betty in her arms, she walked back to where she had parked her car. Laying Betty on the seat next to her, she drove home. Pulling her car into the garage, Sue took Betty into the nursery.
Joe looked up in time to see Sue enter the room clutching another infant. He knew it was Betty, her once long blond hair reduced to a smattering of short curls less than an inch in length. Sue dropped Betty into the playpen with Joe.
"I'll leave you two to get reacquainted," she laughed. "I'm sure you'd have a lot to talk about .... if you could talk.
After Betty left, Mike starting thinking. "That Sue's a pretty dangerous woman. She has power, and she's not afraid to use it. Unfortunately she has no discipline. Maybe I could use that against her if we have to fight."
"A baby and an amulet ....hummmm. Not only a baby, but a baby that appears older and younger. I wonder? Now where's that copy of Thancretius's Wards of Power?"
Pulling an ancient book down off the shelf and taking a pad and pencil, Mike began reading and taking notes. An hour passed, then two. He had moved from one book to another. From an ancient scroll to a modern book from a publisher that few people had ever heard of.
It was nearly dark when he stumbled across a reference in a Fourteenth Century manuscript by Simon Magus. Mike's Latin was rusty, but he followed Simon's description of a series of ancient Greek amulets of power. Then he saw it!
"Ye amulete of ye godess Hebee bestoeth youth on mene that invoketh its poewer. Graspe ye amulet in baith thy hands and chant ye these words and unlimited youth be thine. To resoreth ye to thine right and proper age, ye must furst repeat ye these chant and hold ye amulte as before."
Mike wrote down the proper chants and memorized them. If he was right, his friend Joe was trapped in a prison he'd never get out of on his own, the prison of youth. Mike called Betty's house, but got no answer. He tried Joe's phone, but just got an answering machine.
"Think, Mike," he thought. "Where could Betty have gone, she was supposed to wait to hear from you???? The Gym!!"
Picking up the phone book, he called Betty's gym and asked if she was there. Yes, Betty had been there earlier in the afternoon, but had left.
"What time did she leave," Mike asked.
"I don't know, I didn't notice. Some woman and a baby came by looking for her, but her had already left. That was about 4:30."
"Did the woman with the baby have red hair?"
"Yes, she did."
Thanking the receptionist, Mike hung up. "So Sue's got Betty, too? This is going to make it even tougher. Looking Sue's address up in the phone book, Mike locked his shop. Before leaving, he unlocked his safe and removed a small box. Opening it revealed a number of different, medallions, rings, and jewels. Poking through it with his finger, Mike found what he was looking for and removed a large ring with a large runic symbol on it.
He drove over to Sue's house. It had grown dark and Mike had little trouble slipping up quietly to the house. The living room and kitchen were empty, but he could see lights on in the back rooms. Slipping around the back, he peered through the window into what could only be a child's nursery. Seated on the floor of a play pen were two small infants, probably a year or so old, one male, one female.
Tapping softly on the window to get their attention, Mike was rewarded by the look of intelligence and recognition in their eyes as they saw him. Holding his finger to his lips to motion silence, Mike gestured them to hold tight, and that he would rescue them.
Mike stood alone in the darkness for a few minutes gathering his thoughts. Finally he came up with a plan, it wasn't a great one, but it was a plan. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," he thought. "At worse, there'll be three of us in that playpen."
He made is way around the house and found an open windows. He carefully removed the screen and slipped inside. He could hear the television going in the living room. He still hadn't seen Sue. He creep cautiously out into the hallway and down to the nursery. He lifted the two infants out of the playpen and was about to leave.
"What the hell are you doing here!" A female voice said from behind. Mike jumped and nearly dropped Joe and Betty. Damn! He though and started evoking the power of the ring.
"Put them down!" Sue commanded.
Mike was banking on the hope that Sue wouldn't try to use the amulet on him while he was holding Joe. A blast at him current age would reduce him to an egg. Sue picked up the amulet and held it ready. Mike worked his way closer to the door as he finished the invocation.
"Give it up Sue. You can't win."
Sue's face turned red and she chanted.
Mike set Joe and Betty down just as the power of the amulet hit him. The two powers clashed. A green glow of Loki mixed with the purple light of Hebe. Mike rushed Sue and grabbed her hand to take the amulet from her. The powers enveloped both of them. Betty and Joe watched as the two rolled around, fighting for the amulet. The magical powers swirled around them battling each other as well.
Through the swirling glow Joe and Betty could that something was happening to Sue. She was starting to look younger and so was Mike. At one point the lights churned and boiled. Betty was sitting in the path of one of the bubbles as it formed and than burst. She suddenly spasmed and aged several years. She was now eight. She pick up Joe and waited for the next burst.
Sue was now a teenager and still getting younger. Mike looked like he was in his early twenties. Another large bubble formed and Betty moved to it. It burst and bathed her and Joe this time. Betty aged again to about twelve and Joe was now a four year old.
Mike finally pried the amulet from her hand. There was a blinding flash and all was still. Sue, now no more than five and sat weeping on the floor in a pile of baggy clothes. Mike stood and shook his head. He looked down at himself, his clothes hung on his fourteen year old frame.
"Wow! It worked." He said in a cracking adolescent voice.
"Thanks Mike. I owe you one." Betty said, suddenly realizing she was naked and trying to cover herself. She realized that she didn't really have anything to cover yet and they all started laughing at the absurd situation.
Sue, regaining her composer ran for the door and down the hall. Mike held the amulet up and chanted. The purple light leapt out and struck the fleeing Sue. Each step she grew younger until she was just an eighteen month old toddler, jumping in vain to reach the handle of the door. She turned, and even on her infantile face, the look she shot at the three friends was one of pure hate.
Betty shivered at the sight and turned to Mike, "I'm ready to be a woman again." She said and Mike turned and chanted and Betty bloomed and blossomed once again into joyous womanhood. After Betty had been returned to twenty-seven, little Joe piped in, in his small voice, "Now what about me?"
Searching about the house, Joe and Betty found their clothes and dressed. After carefully going over the proper chants with Joe, Mike handed him the amulet and crossed to the far of the room.
"Be careful how you phrase it Joe, there's only one small difference in the chant, and I don't want to join little Suzie," Mike said with a laughed, pointing at who had unceremoniously been dumped into the playpen so recently the home of Betty and Joe. Joe concentrated and in a moment, their friend Mike had rejoined the ranks of adulthood.
"You don't look the same," Betty said.
"Well, I shaved a few years off if you don't mind," Mike laughed.
"Well, what are we going to do with Sue?" Joe said with a sigh.
"I don't know," Mike replied. "I know we can't keep her like this, but its a pure shame to let her get away with the stuff's she been doing. And you know, there's a lot more powerful magical stuff out there that she could get her hands on and really hurt us. I don't know about you two, but I have no desire to wake up some morning as an aardvark, or something worse."
Both Joe and Sue nodded in mute agreement.
>From the confines of her playpen, Sue shouted in her infant's voice, her mouth nearly toothless, "Ouu b'tter chain me ba'. I det ouu 'or dis. May me 'dult. Noooowwww!"
Mike scratched his chin thoughtfully, "You know I might just have an idea, but it might take me a couple of weeks to pull it off."
"What do you have in mind?" Betty asked.
"I'd rather not say at this point, except that it might just solve all our problems and eliminate the threat from Sue as well. But you'll both have to agree to it before I start."
"Agree to what?" they both asked.
"Well, first you've got to promise to not let that little hellion out of your sight. If she got loose we'd never catch her and we'd all be in danger."
"Sure," Joe said. "But how do we do that? Making her disappear isn't too hard, Sue's notorious for going away for weeks on end without telling people. Anyone who knows her knows that. But how do we keep her confined?"
"Well .....we could leave her ....." Mike said, turning toward the playpen.
"Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!" screamed the baby.
Joe, Mike and Betty adjourned to the kitchen to talk out of Sue's hearing. In near panic, Sue looked at some means of escaping. Then she noticed that make had left the amulet on the coffee table. A sinister light shone in her eyes, just let her get her hands on that amulet one more time, and she'd show them what she was capable of doing!
As quietly as possible, she hoisted her tiny body over the top of the pen's bars and plopped noiselessly to the floor. Slowly, quietly and steadily, she crept toward the amulet. No one seemed to notice her. Her pudgy little hand reached out to take it, when over her head she heard ....
"I told you, didn't I, even as a baby, she's a mean one."
"I guess your right Mike, go ahead with your plan," Joe said.
Pulling the amulet out of Sue's tiny hands, Mike looked down on her and said, "Your too much trouble, even as a toddler, I guess I'm going to have to make you a little less independent."
Sue looked up at him with terror in her eyes as he began a chant. A tiny ball of violet light grew within the jewel and like a soap bubble floated across the room toward Sue, who froze as the bubble of violet light struck her in her round little tummy.
Almost immediately, her body clock started running backwards. In 20 seconds, she was down to a one-year-old. Ten seconds later, her legs buckled under her and she fell back upon her fanny. But she felt her body growing even smaller, the last of her teeth disappeared into her gums. In terror, she began to cry, but then she noticed her regression had ceased.
Mike walked over and picked her up. "Well Suzie-girl, I'll see you in a couple of weeks. You be a good little girl and mind Aunt Betty and Uncle Joe, okay?"
Sue jammed her tiny foot into Mike's nose, bringing tears to his eyes.
"Jesus! Even at six months, she's a hand full. Now listen you two: Sue can't walk, talk, or even crawl much by herself, but that doesn't mean she's not dangerous. The only way that I can go off feeling safe is to hypnotize you into both thinking that Sue is nothing more than a baby. Will you agree to that?"
When both had agreed, Mike placed them in a deep trance and placed the unbreakable suggestion that they were minding a baby for Mike's sister for the next two weeks. He removed temporarily all knowledge of what Sue had done to them and what had been done to Sue. As far as the couple was concerned, Sue was a mere baby.
While the two were under the spell, Mike turned to Sue and said, "A nice guy would blank your mind as well and leave you as a normal infant for the next couple of weeks. But who says I'm a nice guy. If the tables were reversed, I wonder just what would have happened to the three of us?" "No Sue, I'm going to leave you entirely conscious during the whole time I'm gone. Joe and Betty don't even remember you at this point, so they won't do anything but treat you like the baby you are. I hope you learn something. I want you to experience what you did maliciously to those two nice kids."
Sue cried in rage, but Mike just turned away and snapped his fingers, waking the young couple up.
"Thanks for taking care of my niece, guys."
"No problem, Mike, glad we could do it," Betty replied.
"It was nice of your friend to let us borrow all these baby things," Joe added.
"Sure, help yourself," Mike answered.
Betty looked down at the tiny naked form of Sue lying on the floor, a questioning look in her eyes.
"Remember Betty," Mike prompted. "You were going to bath and dress her before you took her home."
"Oh, yes," Betty said, scooping up the infant and carrying her to the bathroom. Joe and Mike loaded the cars and Betty returned with the bathed and dressed infant. Mike waved bye as they drove off.
Mike's two week trip actually ran three, but Joe and Betty didn't mind. The baby was fussy at first, but soon settled down, although only once did the couple make love together with the baby in their bedroom. For some unknown reason, she made such a fuss that Joe moved the crib to another room for the rest of her visit.
Finally, nearly a month later, Mike returned. Betty and Joe treated their friend to a wonderful dinner. Mike spent the whole time playing with his niece, although the baby was in a bad mood for some reason and fussed and fought Mike all the time.
After dinner, the three sat down in the living room and Mike put them back into a trance and removed his hypnotic suggestion. The couple instantly remembered their adventures involving Sue. Sue had been left in her little wheel walker, looked at Mike with her eyes glaring.
"Well folks, I have a solution to our "little" problem."
Producing a small infant's bottle from his coat, Mike set it on the table.
"Suzie, you're a girl with a problem. There's two solutions to your problem: one's in the bottle on the table, the other is with a gentleman coming to see us in fifteen minutes. The gentleman coming to see us is Jacques Biret."
Sue's eyes widened in terror.
"Yes, I thought that name would ring a bell. He hasn't forgotten you Sue, nor what you did to his wife and daughter. You'll also need to know that Mr. Biret is totally aware of your current condition and vulnerability and plans to take full advantage of your misfortune. Your only salvation lies in the potion inside that bottle."
"The only thing that will stop Mr. Biret from enacting the "activities" he has in mind is for you to drink the entire contents of that bottle. It won't harm you or turn you into some horrible creature, Sue, but it will remove the threat you pose for ever. What's your choice Sue?"
The baby looked at the bottle and the door in terror.
"You've got to make a choice Sue, if he gets here and that bottle isn't empty, I won't lift a finger to stop him."
All four jumped when they heard a car pull up, stop and a door open and close."
With tears of panic, Sue reached out to the bottle outside of her grasp.
"Are you sure, Sue?" Mike asked, and the baby nodded vigorously. Picking her up in his arms and cradling her, Mike put the bottle to her lips and she began to drink as fast as she could. In what seemed like just a few moments, Sue had emptied the contents of the bottle.
Her eyes grew distant and vague, as a heavy knock boomed on the door. Both Joe and Betty jumped at the sound, but Mike handed Sue to Betty and calmly walked to the door an opened it. A large stocky man in an overcoat stood in the doorway.
"How was that Mike, did I do okay?"
"Sure Arnie, thanks a lot. Here's $20 for you trouble."
Joe and Betty sat there with their mouths hanging open.
"No that wasn't Mr. Biret. If it had been, nothing would have stopped him from coming in here and throttling Sue. Sue .... well, let's just say that Sue cost him the lives of his wife and young daughter. No I had to make the threat real enough to make Sue drink the potion of her own free will. That was important. Magic works best when people freely embrace it. There was no way Sue would drink it freely, unless she so feared the alternative, that she begged to take it herself.
"What have you done to her," Betty whispered.
"I've erased the old Sue, that's all. The old Sue was mean, temperamental, violent, petty, you name it. That potion eliminates negative character traits and allows the more generous aspects of our personalities to emerge and become dominant. Sue will be a better person from now on. She'll remember every mean thing she's done, and will be ashamed of herself. She'll spend the rest of her life trying always to be the best person she can be."
Out of his pocket, Mike produced the Amulet of Hebe. He asked Betty to get a robe and drape it over Sue and remove her diaper. Making the familiar chant, Sue began to age, slowly at first, but steadily until she once again stood at her normal adult height.
"Are you okay, Sue?" Mike asked.
"Yes."
"Do you remember what's happened to you?"
"Yes."
"How do you feel about it?"
"I ........ I feel ........ I feel ..... sorry."
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Joe and Betty were married that April. Mike was their best man. Sue wrote both of them a nice letter apologizing for her role in making their lives difficult and asking for forgiveness. She didn't expect an answer, she wrote, but she wanted them both to know how she was trying to turn her life around.
In June, Joe got an offer for a better job and both he and Betty moved to another city. Although they tried to stay in touch with their friend Mike it was hard. That December, for the first time since moving, Joe and Betty were back in town. They decided to drop in unannounced on their friend.
As they entered the shop, they heard a woman humming softly. She came around the corner with her back to them. She stood about 5'5" and weighed about 140, giving her a wide, pleasantly plump posterior.
"Excuse me," Joe asked, and jumped when the woman turned and they saw it was Sue.
"Joe! Betty! You startled me! Oh, Mike will be so pleased to see you."
The couple couldn't get over the look of happiness and joy on Sue's face when seeing them.
"Mike! Mike! Joe and Betty's here!"
Mike, beaming came out of the back room and the three hugged and shook hands all around.
"Well, I'll leave you all to talk," Sue said, making for the exit.
"No, honey," Mike said. "Please stay. I've got some news for the two of you. Sue and I are engaged."
"Don't laugh," he said, laughing himself. "We're in love, damn it!"
Sue, looking down and blushing, slowly slid her arm around Mike's waist, and nodded in agreement.
"This calls for a celebration," Joe shouted, and the four-some went to a local restaurant for dinner.
While Mike and Joe talked about the business, Sue and Betty chatted pleasantly.
"I'm so happy, Betty. I never thought I could feel this way before," Sue said. 'Mike loves me despite my faults, and I think he's the greatest."
Sue couldn't help but notice that both Joe and Betty had been trying not to stare at her new shape. Sue laughed and said, "Mike likes his women soft and plump, especially in the fanny. He says it gives him something to hold onto. Well, I plan to have that man holding on to me for the rest of my life, so I made my butt big enough for him to latch onto. The extra weight didn't hurt me in the tits department, although I'll never be big like you, Betty.".
That spring, Mike and Sue were married. Joe was best man and Betty was matron of honor. And as far as anyone ever know, both couples lived happily ever after.
The End