Sylph

Joseph sighed as he listlessly clicked through another page of images, head propped up on his hand as he leaned on the desk.  The silence and privacy of the dormitory during the weekends left him with ample time to himself, though recently this was often spent on the computer for lack of anything better to do.  It wasn't that he didn't like the quiet - it beat being woken up at 3 AM by his dorm mates stumbling in - but rather that the quiet and solitude began to emphasize more and more just how alone he was.

A stray breeze blew through the room and he shivered, straightening up in his seat and rubbing his arms to warm himself.  Standing, he crossed the room to the window and pushed it shut before drawing the curtains.  Strange, he thought; it was so warm outside.

Stranger still was the slim, pale, six-inch woman in front of his face as he turned around. "Hello!" she chirped.

Joseph let out a yelp of surprise as he stumbled away, smacking the back of his head against the window before falling on his ass.  She dove, her dragonfly wings beating as she hovered in front of him. "Oh my!  I didn't mean to startle you!"

He groaned, rubbing the back of his head. "No, it's okay, I'm..." He trailed off, staring at her as he let his arm drop. "I'm talking to a fairy."

She giggled, her wavy, deep green hair cascading down her shoulders. "Oh, don't be silly.  I'm not a fairy!"

He blinked. "Oh."

"I'm a sylph!  We're quite different, you know."

His mouth hung open for a second as he tried to come up with a reply, not sure of what to say to a sylph.  Not that he knew what to say to a fairy, either, but still. "...okay."

"You know, you're really cute when you're flustered."

"I am?"

"Yes!" She cupped her cheeks, fidgeting in midair. "Oh, they always tell me I'm too forthright, but I just can't help myself!  You see, you're the reason I'm here.  It's always so noisy and busy here, so I couldn't explore, but one day when it was quiet I managed to sneak in.  I thought it was empty, but then..."  The sylph clasped her hands beneath her chin, gazing at Joseph. "I saw you!  You were so noble and handsome, and I thought that even if I was human you wouldn't notice someone so plain as I."

Joseph took a moment to boggle at the thought of what "attractive" was amongst nymphs if the one in front of him was merely "plain."

"But I couldn't content myself with merely watching.  I had to take a chance, and so here I am!"

"That's... that's a story, alright." He climbed back to his feet, the nymph continuing to hover around him.

"Truly!  And now that we have met, we can consummate our relationship!"

He stared, hoping it wouldn't be a recurring theme. "Consummate."

She nodded.

"You mean..." He made a circle with his index finger and thumb on one hand, moving the index finger of the other in and out of it.

She nodded eagerly, blushing.

Joseph looked at his the circle and his finger, then back at her. "I don't think that's possible.  I mean, you're kind of... small."

"Do not worry," the sylph said.  She pirouetted in the air, glittering points of light sparking around her before fading. "With magic, anything is possible!"

Just as Joseph opened his mouth to ask if she didn't realize how corny that line sounded, the sylph suddenly shot up an inch before slowly continuing to grow. "You see?" she said. "Size is no barrier to love!"

"It sure isn't.  I guess."

The sylph giggled and bobbed in midair, her formerly trim stomach now wobbling from the movement.  While she was getting taller, her arms and legs were getting thicker, her breasts larger, and her belly and ass wider at a far more rapid rate.  Joseph would have called her plump except that none of her body had any rolls or signs of weight and, as she passed two feet by his reckoning, she quickly surpassed "plump," her torso taking on a rounded shape as her waist disappeared and her breasts were pulled flat.

Her wings beat faster as she struggled to stay airborne with her increasing size.  She slowly drifted to the ground, only abandoning her attempt at staying aloft once her plump feet touched the carpet.  She leaned against the side of the desk with one arm, panting for breath; Joseph couldn't help but notice that despite her stature it was probably thicker than his own.  "Well!" she exclaimed. "Maybe I should have landed before I started."

"I thought you used magic to fly," Joseph said.  He stood up, noting that she was already up to his navel.

"We do!" She waddled to the center of the room as she spoke, gesturing with wide, conical arms and fattened hands as she spoke. "We harness air currents to fly with magic and use our wings to keep us balanced.  I just can't use it to keep me -up- because it's all going -in- me."

"In you."

She nodded enthusiastically, causing her entire body to jiggle for a second.

"You're full of air."

"-Magic- air," she replied, patting the curve of her belly.

He nodded slowly. "Right."

The nymph giggled before leaning forward, looking up into his eyes.  The top of her stomach pressed into his own, and he could feel it slowly pushing his shirt up as she grew, her rounded face coming closer to his own.  "So cool and collected, too!  Truly you are-" She leaned back, surprised. "Oh!"

"What?  What is it?"

She squeezed her eyes shut. "I think it's..." There was a series of soft "bwoomp"s as her arms and legs swelled up between the joints, gaining definition yet still looking for all the world like two balloons stuck together. "...almost..." A series of "pop"s heralded the growth of her hands and feet as they doubled in size, fingers and toes rounding out. "...done..."  Her body shook for a second before surging out another two inches, becoming nearly translucent in the process. "There!"  She pirouetted on one foot, a strangely graceful gesture considering her size. "How do I look?"

She looked like an over-inflated parody of a woman.  The entirety of her body was a sphere that had to be over half her height across, her legs were wider than his body, and her arms and hands were so puffed up as to be nearly useless.  Even her head seemed a little full of air.  Overall it was like looking at a miniature balloon for an X-rated Thanksgiving parade.

Joseph knew better than to say -that-, though. "You look... great!"

"I knew it!  Now come!" She reached out and hooked her arm around his as best she could, her body creaking and groaning ominously as she tried to pull him towards his bed. "It's time to consummate our relationship!"

He babbled incomprehensibly for a few seconds as he dug his heels into the carpet, finding her to be remarkably strong despite her bulk. "B- but it, I-"

"There's no need to be ashamed!  Let's..." She turned and hooked another arm around his, giving him a fierce tug. "Go!"

The next few moments went by in slow-motion for Joseph: He lost his footing, finding himself being pulled forward by the nymph.  He collided with her arm first, and the two of them went sailing to the floor.  The nymph landed first, laughing, bouncing into the air before Joseph landed on top of her.  There was a loud creak as he sank into her stomach, her skin bulging, and she exploded in a deafening bang.

Joseph hit the floor face-first, groaning in pain as he pushed himself up.  Noting the nymph's sudden absence he glanced around, only to find that both he and his room were now covered in a glittering golden dust.

As he tried and failed repeatedly to understand what just happened in the past five or ten minutes, there was a quiet grunting outside his window, followed by the sound of plastic sliding against rubber.  He turned, doing a double-take as he spotted another small, winged woman pushing his window open and climbing through.  She put her hands on her hips, letting out a huff of annoyance as she scanned the floor.  "Damn it, she did it again."  Looking at Joseph, she continued. "Hey, have you seen oh -damn- you are -fiiiiiine-."


*****


"Hi, administration?  Can you send the campus cleaners to dorm room 727, east building?"

"Can you tell us the nature of the problem?"

Joseph brushed off his shirt, sending a cloud of multicolored glitter into the air. "Don't.  Ask."