In a small town where the sun painted the sky with shy strokes of orange, there lived a girl named Lily. Lily was not like other girls. She had a bit of a stunted growth, which resulted in her final height being shorter than 5 ft tall.
She had a mane of long, curly black hair with a tint of reddish orange and a very light brown tan hue on her skin with cute brown freckles. She was mixed heritage, with her father being Irish and her mother from Haiti. Her eyes were a piercing shade of hazel, which were often hidden behind a pair of strong prescription glasses that gave her a nerdy appearance that made her seem even smaller and mouse-like.
As she got older and people her age grew substantially taller than her, things began to change for her socially. Her freshman year of college was going horribly. She was left out of party invites, and the boys who she would have crushes on would not even pay her any attention.
Lily was often alone on campus, and even the social outcasts would not hang out with her, as her petite size made her an easy target for others to bully and make fun of.
It was a shame because Lily was really cute face behind her glasses, despite being small and nerdy, she did have a girl next door body. Her breasts were plump but average, and she often wore low-cut jean shorts to show off her legs. She always made sure her fingernails and toenails were stylishly done. Usually polished light pink with white tips and some sort of design like flowers, some small sparkly gems, or an anime reference.
She wore different kinds of ankle bracelets and toe rings and liked to show off her feet in sandals or flip-flops. Whenever she was going to wear something other students were going to be at, she also made sure she wore her push-up bra and a shirt that showed off her body, hoping it would garner enough attention from the people she had crushed on since she started college.
While she had a few friends, between her size and nerdy appearance, she tended to be ignored.
Even Lily's prior friends from elementary school, whom she played with as kids, were now a group of college students who currently towered over her and often took advantage of her. They'd play cruel pranks, teasing her about her height... The laughter that followed their jibes stung more than the words themselves.
When no one was looking, people on campus would knock her around and steal stuff from her as she had no way to fight back.
But Lily held onto her dignity with a grip tighter than the coils of a python, refusing to let their meanness define her. But over time, the increasing damage began to have a lasting effect on her mind. She was depressed, anxious, and, after a particular incident, even afraid for her life.
One peculiar evening, while rummaging through her late grandmother's dusty attic, Lily stumbled upon an ancient-looking book titled "The Grimoire of Diminishing." The pages were brittle with age, but the gold-leafed letters gleamed with an eerie vitality when she touched it.
There were other spell books in the attic, but THIS one in particular intrigued her due to her stature and thought of bringing others down to her size for a bit. She read in the beginning how the intended use was to steal power from their more powerful enemies, which left the enemies diminished , vulnerable and easier to be beaten in battle.
Flipping through the book, she discovered a spell that claimed to shrink any living being.
Intrigued and desperate for a way to even the playing field, she studied the incantation with fervent intensity.
The creators of the book were ancient Irish magic users, and her father was part of the lineage of mages who passed copies of this book and magical ability down from generation to generation. Having his magic in her blood allowed her access and the ability to use the spell.
Evoking it at full strength for the average mage would shrink a person to half of their normal size for about a couple of hours. After that, the magical energy would wear off, and a person would return to normal. Lily did some quick math. Even someone standing over 6ft tall would be a bit shorter than her as she was almost 5ft tall.
But unfortunately, the authors never foresaw a terrible complication. They never expected someone like Lily to be born. For centuries, magical people have had children who have different kinds of magic mixed in their blood. Most of the time, the offspring has no magical ability, two forms limit each other, or one side of magic dominates the other completely, always providing a type of natural limit to a user's magic potential.
Lily obtained Irish magic from her father. Irish magic works by drawing from ambient magical energy in the air and can affect physical changes in living things, one of which is shrinking. Lily also had magical energy coming from her mother's side. Her mother's lineage had a different kind of magic that involved voodoo. Instead of absorbing magic from her surroundings, Voodoo draws its magical energy from the underworld. While it cannot shrink individuals, it can do things like apply curses, interact with a person through their soul, and even absorb soul energy from other people and things.
These two very different kinds of magic mixed in a way that gave Lilly a unique supercharged form of magical aura. Voodoo sorcery and Irish magic were actually boosting each other.
This made any of her spellcasting over 100x more powerful than possible by any of her forefathers, unknowingly giving her an unprecedented ability to cause chaos.
Lily left the attic smiling, expecting she was only going to cause a little bit of temporary payback to a few bullies. She thought this was just enough to get a little relief from people giving her a hard time. At 3 feet tall, she thought of all the fun she would have knocking them over or treating them like kids.
In reality, her finding this book sealed the fate of multitudes of people from now on.
The next day, a group friends gathered at the local park for their usual round of taunts on her. They approached with the same sarcastic playbook. Play like they are her friends and do something mean an terrible. But this time was different. Lily felt a newfound sense of power tingling in her fingertips. She waited until they were all close, their snickers echoing around her, and then she recited the spell she learned under her breath. To her amazement, her "friends" began to shrink before her eyes. They screamed, flailed, and begged for mercy, but their voices grew fainter as they shrank into insignificance.
What was intriguing is that the once towering figures of her tormentors were much becoming much smaller than she expected. Instead of being slightly shorter than her, they were now mere specks on the grass. Lily's heart raced as she looked down upon them, feeling both terrified and exhilarated by what she had done. She initially had never wanted to hurt them, but the thrill of their fear was intoxicating. The power she had been granted was electrifying, and she felt it power pulsing through her veins like a heady elixir.
College kids who used to tower over her, were now the size of ants, huddled together with their eyes wide with terror as they stared up at her now godlike form.
Lily stepped forward placing her sandal just a few inches in front of the crowd. It was her regularly worn thong footwear that was brown and a thin sole. Normally she wore foam wedges that added a bit of height, but she wanted something she could somewhat run in if things didn't work out as favorable she expected. In comparison none of the young adults were taller than the tops of her shoes. In fact, they were about the size of the tiny rhinestones decorating the top of her toenails.
Lily knelt down, her shadow looming over them like a dark cloud. She decided to indulge in their fear, to let them feel the weight of their own cruelty. "You see me now, don't you?" she said with a wicked smile, her voice echoing in their tiny ears. "You see that I'm not so weak after all." A satisfactory broke out on her face as she realized that her the people who she was so jealous of were now beneath her.
Lily specifically looked for Jessica. Jessica was a star female basketball and volleyball player who used to be head and shoulders above over Lily like real giant. Jessica was 6ft tall and was white mixed with Puerto Rican with beautiful eyes and shape of a model. Jessica dated Adam the star football player at school. Adam was 6'3 Black athlete who was built like a linebacker.
Jessica found out Lily secretly had a crush on Adam began to rub things in Lily face as a cruel joke. Jessica would leave pictures of them both having good time in Lily's locker. Adam even began to get in on the jokes by recording clips of them roasting Lily and posting online. Getting humiliated by someone you have a crush on is the nastiest kind of pain. Jessica and Adam used to do that several times a week.
These two in particular always made her feel the worst. She constantly heard them bragging about their relationships, opportunities and how people respected them. All things Lily felt she never would get in life because of her stunted growth.
Lily had a flashback to when extreme jealousy turned to abstract hate and fear when one day Adam and Jessica and few friends got drunk and unexpectedly busted into her dorm room.
One of the girls took some masking tape and wrapped Lilly up arms and legs and placed her on the ground on her back facing up.
Lily screamed but then received a sharp kick to her side. Which made her wince and groan in pain.
When Lilly opened her eyes she saw Jessica standing over her with both feet on the side of her looking down. Lilly screamed again and in response Jessica slipped her foot out of her basketball shoes.
Jessica reached down and peeled her sweaty sock off of her foot and stood back up.
Then Jessica held the sock over the face of Lilly and let it drop. Jessica's sock hit lily in the face and with Lily bound up like fly in a spider web, Lily had to wiggle her head to get it to slide off.
"Aww.. Lily you look so cute down there" Jessica stated in condescending way. "Almost like a kitten or little puppy"
Jessica continued with her drunken tirade "Tell you what little puppy, if you clean my feet properly then maybe we will let you be our pet.."
Jessica then slowly lowered her foot onto the helpless and horrified face of Lily. Jessica's cute feet wiggled showing Lily glimpses of her toes glossed with clear gel. Jessica foot made contact with Lily face and covered her mouth and nose.
Lily had a hard time breathing, and to make matter worse Jessica began to put her weight on Lily's face causing more pain.
"Go on Lily. Lick my feet like a good little doggy and ill stop." Jessica mused to Lily as other watched enjoying her humiliation.
Finally Lily could not take it anymore and gave in. She began licking the feet ad toes of her rival Jessica. Lily began crying hard but not stopping. She saw and heard others recording and taking pictures of her humiliation and knew before the night was over this event would be all over campus and social media.
To add insult to injury, Adam walked over to Jessica and stood over Lily as well. Then he looked down at Lily and smiled. Then he turned to Jessica and they began making out. Jessica and Adam kissed and fondled each other all while glancing down and making sure Lily watched them and continued to force Lily to worship the feet of Jessica.
After some time Jessica removed her foot and put it back in her shoe and jokingly spoke to Lily "well puppy.. that was not too bad. I think we will keep you"
Then Jessica had an wicked idea for the final humiliation. " You know, my feet were pretty dirty. I appreciate you cleaning them, but now your face is dirty. Adam would you mind washing her face off??"
Everyone in the room gasped as they knew what the insinuation meant. Some even felt that this was going a bit too far, but no one cared enough to actually step in to stop it out of morbid fascination.
Adam in his drunken state of mind at first did not get it. But then, he smiled too and unzipped his pants. He pulled his underwear back and in front of all his friends and teammates pulled out his dick.
Jessica squatted down and said "it's you lucky day. you have always wanted to see Adams dick. Well here you go and a nice golden shower as a bonus!"
Adam then proceeded to piss all over Lily completely emptying his bladder. After that everyone hurried and left Lily tied up on her own wet and stewing in the foul smelling urine. It took about an hour for Lily to wiggle free of her bonds and she showered for several hours trying to remove figuratively wash away the mental torment she just experienced.
It was that day she vowed to fight back.