The Wizard's New 'Helper'

Tix hummed happily to herself as she dragged the giant human cloth across the shelf. She still didn’t get why this was important, but if she got tasty treats for doing it every few days, then who cares?

The pixie fluttered back to the cloth’s home spot and dropped it. Tix flexed her arms, feeling the subtle signs of muscle developing in her spindly limbs. It had been hard work doing all the human’s tasks at first, but after three moons of work and a steady diet of more sweets than she could hope to eat, she was really starting to build up her strength! She might actually get to be a matriarch someday if she kept this up!

Tix imagined herself as an Elder Fae and couldn’t help but giggle. A pixie as a matriarch! The council would go mad! Hehehehe! It would be hilarious!

Oh, right! There was more to do before she could play! Tix smacked her cheeks to refocus and zipped over to the human’s meal area to use the good-smelling but bitter bubble liquid to wipe the food surfaces.

Tix had ended up staying at the human’s home after her best friend Aico left before she woke up. Aico had known the way to the human’s flat-tree and Tix was really bad at finding places, even places she’d been to before, so… she was stuck.

But the human was actually really nice! Even though Tix and Aico had eaten some of the human’s liquid lump-berry without permission, she was still letting Tix stay until Aico eventually came back! At least, Tix was pretty sure that was the agreement. She still didn’t know many human words and the human’s magic air drawings were sometimes hard to understand, but she was pretty sure that’s how it was.

She couldn’t just stay here without doing anything, though. Grandma Brownie always said that staying at someone’s home meant that you owed them, and Uncle Redcap always said that you should never forget to repay a debt. So Tix had watched the human for a few days to see what she could do to help. It was hard since humans are so giant, but eventually, Tix found things that she could do! Dragging cloths across a bunch of surfaces, smearing bubble-liquid on the food areas, getting all of the dirt and leaves out of the flat-tree, and lighting up the soft white sticks at night with magic were all things Tix could manage, so she started doing them before the human could.

And the human liked it! Even if Tix couldn’t tell what the human was saying, that smile and the offering of sweet human foods were unmistakable! She’d even given Tix a bunch of soft things like feathers and strips of cloth to make a nest out of! And she fed Tix all the sweets she could eat every day! If Aico had stuck around too, it would be a perfect haven!

The busy pixie spread the bubble liquid on the food surface (constantly fighting the urge to lap it up) and started wiping it away again with a different cloth than the surface-dragging one. She was just finishing up when a loud creaking and a change in air pressure told her that the entrance to the flat-tree had just been opened. The human was back! And that definitely meant food!

Tix dropped the bubbly cloth and darted into the main area. Sure enough, the human was walking through the openable part of the wall. She closed it behind her and pulled the top of her long covering down to uncover her head. Tix didn’t know why she wore that long covering when going outside or what she did when she went outside, but she did know that there was very likely something for her inside of the covering! Something tasty and delicious and belly-bursting and just for her!

Her stomach rumbled loudly. She fluttered around the human, impatient for her food. The human laughed. Then a hand reached out from underneath her covering, holding… what? What was that?

Tix approached the thing in the human’s hand wearily. It was a long leather thing with a length of cloth attached to it at two points and a strange holey part on one end. Tix was baffled. This wasn’t something sweet. This wasn’t even food. What was this? She stared up at the human blankly.

The human chuckled. She brought out her other hand and gripped the holey part. She pulled and the part separated from the leather thing with a satisfying *pop!* Tix was even more confused for a moment before the smell overtook her. Sweet! The rich scent coming from the hole where the holey thing used to be overwhelmed Tix’s nose, her mouth overflowing with saliva from mere seconds of sniffing.

A moment longer and Tix actually began to recognize the scent. A long time ago, a band of humans caused trouble and were dealt with by Ferne. Their human trinkets and stuff were destroyed, but their food was free for the taking. Among those foods was a large, hard, red berry of some sort. Its flesh had hard and a bit bitter, but its insides were crisp, juicy, and perfectly sweet. All of the pixies had fallen upon it, devouring it in less than a minute, but the few bites Tix had managed to scarf were amazing!

But why was the scent of berry coming from this leather thing? Even if the thing was big enough to hold one of those berries, the opening was much too small to fit one in. Tix glanced hesitantly up at the human. She was nervous about what strange human magics might be at play here.

Once again, the human laughed. She raised the leather thing above her head and tipped it to where the opening was above her open mouth. Tix’s eyes widened as a sparkling golden liquid poured out of the opening and into the human’s mouth for a brief moment before she tilted the leather thing back again and the pouring stopped.

Liquid berry! Just like the liquid lump berry, the humans had made liquid… uh, the red one didn’t have a name. Uh… liquid… liquid heart berry! Because it was large and red just like a beast’s heart! Even if it was yellow while a liquid for some reason!

Tix began to vibrate with excitement. Human treats were always incredible, but the things humans had done with fruit were also incredible! She couldn’t wait to try this newest gift! She shot up to the thing and peered down into the opening. It was just baaaarely too small to fit her shoulders through! How was she supposed to get the liquid heart berry if she couldn’t fit in!?

The pixie started as the leather thing started moving. She quickly realized what was happening, though; the human was slowly tipping it, making the liquid berry move towards the opening. Perfect! The human always seemed to know exactly what to do! Tix bounced excitedly as she grasped the edges of the opening and waited for the liquid to get close enough to reach.

As soon as the golden liquid was close enough for Tix’s tiny tongue to reach, she began to greedily lap at it. It was just as delicious as the non-liquid heart berry had been! No- it was even MORE tasty! It was even sweeter! And there was no hard, bitter skin to deal with! And she didn’t even have to chew! She could just slurp and slurp and slurp and fill her mouth and belly with as much sweet as she wanted to!

Tix submerged her mouth in the liquid and began to drink in earnest. She made sure that her mouth was never bare of sweetness as she guzzled the liquid berry as quickly as she could. She could never get enough of this! Never! Never, never, never!

Before too long, Tix was needing to crane her neck to keep her mouth underneath the surface of the liquid. It was almost out of reach again! She started furiously tapping the side of the leather thing again, hoping that the human would figure it out. And she did! She tipped it just a bit more, nearly sending Tix’s head underneath the pond of deliciousness. Humans were so smart!

The pixie lost track of time as she drowned herself in blissful berry. But her happiness couldn’t last forever. Her belly was not like the Abyss, after all. It was beginning to feel very tight. Tix’s bottom covering was failing her yet again, her lower belly feeling more and more bare as she kept on gulping. But still she drank. Of course she did! She couldn’t stop until it was gone! She wasn’t going to share! Never! It was hers! All hers!

Once again, Tix found her mouth slurping air as well as berry. She tried to crane her neck again but somehow ended up even further away. Why was the liquid leaving her? She fluttered hard, shoving her shoulders into the opening as best she could. She couldn’t get all the way in, but she managed to get herself close enough to the liquid again to continue her feast.

Tix was groaning between each hefty mouthful of liquid heart berry now. Her poor belly was starting to hurt, her skin taut from too much liquid. She reached down to start rubbing it with both hands. It was so massive! How was it so big already? Tix has just barely gotten started, yet she was having trouble finding her belly button!

No! She couldn’t stop!  Not yet! Tix started drinking even faster, making her own little stream of liquid right into her belly. If she drank fast enough, maybe she could fool her belly into taking more even once it was totally full! Maybe she could even finish the whole leather thing! She couldn’t tell how much was left, but it was hers to drink! Hers! All the sweetness she could want! And she wanted it so very, very badly!

Her belly was gurgling so loudly. It was aching and aching, but she didn’t sop. Her skin was as hard as a boulder, but she didn’t stop! More! MORE!

Suddenly, tix couldn’t reach the liquid berry anymore. Her tongue met only the humid, rich air of the insides of the leather thing. Then, much to her dismay, she tasted the cool air of the human’s main area again. She tried to plunge herself back into the opening, but it was moving further and further away above her!

Tix struggled in vain to fly up, but… her wings were too tired. They were beating as fast as possible, humming in time with the groans and glorps of her belly, but they could no longer support her. She was sinking in the air belly-first towards the ground far below. Tix strained, reaching in vain towards the leather thing one last time. She cried out mournfully as it only grew farther from her grasp. Dammit! She wasn’t done yet! She wasn’t-

“URGH!” The glutted pixie collided with the ground. It wasn’t a hard landing, but her belly was so full that the sudden pressure made her feel sick. She just lay on top of her own belly, wings fluttering weakly and limbs limp. Ooooh, her belly hurt so badly… but…

It had been sooooo worth it…

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Eliza could never get enough of watching this gluttonous little piglet of a pixie feast.

She’d been surprised enough when two extremely reclusive fae had appeared in her larder three months ago and had stuffed themselves so full of jam that they could hardly move. Then after the cookie incident, one had stuck around and even started mimicking her! It wasn’t very good at doing chores, but hey, it was adorable to watch it try.

The wizard knelt down next to the pixie and chuckled to herself. The tiny thing had really outdone itself this time. It has guzzled enough apple juice to more than match its own body weight. No wonder it had lost the ability to fly. It seemed to have fallen into a food coma once again, so Eliza did as she usually did and helped the poor thing back to the makeshift nest it had made. As she did, she couldn’t help but notice that the pixie felt heavier than her waterskin did at that moment. The little glutton had drunk over half the damned thing!

Eliza gently set the pixie down and went to grab her sketchbook. She’d taken to drawing the pixie just about every day now after its substantial meals. She hadn’t been sure if it was safe for the tiny thing to eat so much sugar every day (absurd quantity of total food aside), but comparing her first sketch to the glutted pixie still before her, she saw that there was nothing to be worried about. It hadn’t put on any weight at all.

The only thing that had grown on it was its appetite, with its swollen notably stomach larger now than in previous sketches. It seemed that the pixie was able to eat more and more every time Eliza fed it. She wondered if there was an upper limit. If the pixie stuck around long enough, maybe she’d find out one day… she really hoped that it would.

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I've been thinking a lot about fairies lately, so have more fairy tum! This one is kinda sorta partially inspired by this sequence, though not nearly as extreme, obvs. I'm not into bursting or, like, extreme burst teasing, but the softness and 'gravity' of that sequence just really hit something in my brain...

The next fic will be up sometime between the 13th and the 15th. And yes, someday, I will eventually upload on not the last day. Someday.