"Hey buddy, kinda late to be showing up."

"Oh, I'm sorry, were you sleeping?"

"Nahhh, just starting to think about it." Nik lead Johnny in and then kneeled a bit to get closer to his eye level, "What's going on?"

Johnny looked up a bit to the kneeling fox, at his two foot height he looked up a lot. "Well, I'm just bugged by stuff. Tired of being so small."

"Can't do much to help you there my friend, you're a rat, rats are small critters."

"Yeah, but I was at a party, and I got eaten."

Nik cocked his head a bit and looked over his friend, petting his head lightly, "But you like getting eaten, you've nearly begged me to do so before."

"Yeah, but that was by choice. This wasn't, it wasn't anyone I even knew, just a friend of a friend."

"You could call the cops about that."

"Well... I could, but it doesn't really take care of anything, I can't stop it if someone really wants to."

Nik nodded and lightly pulled him closer, then stood back up, hugging his small friend close. "Want me to make you something hon?"

"Hmmmm, I am a bit hungry."

Nik smiled and set Johnny down on the counter, then started up his deep fryer, "You always feel better after some fried mozarella."

Johnny smiled and nuzzled at Nik lightly. He liked the view of his friend near the same height. "Can you make me two?"

Nik grinned, lightly poking the rat's belly, "Two? Overeating will only make you wider, not taller."

Johnny giggled and hopped up at Nik, hugging close. Nik carried him with the cheese out onto his patio and flopped down in a padded chair. He yawned a bit as Johnny munched on the cheese sticks.

"How do you like 'em?"

"Good as always Nik, I'm glad you treat me so well."

Nik smiled and leaned back a bit more, slowly closing his eyes and dozing off. Johnny curled up in his lap, looking longingly at a few more cheese sticks on the platter, but he was absolutely stuffed after two. Staring out at the stars, he smiled as a star shot by, and he quietly wished a little wish to himself before snuggling into Nik's lap and drifting to sleep.

Johnny woke up a few hours later, with hunger pangs in his tummy. He reached over to the platter of mozarella sticks and scarfed down the two remaining, shockingly finding himself still hungry. He gently shook Nik awake.

"Hey Nik, I'm hungry again."

Nik grumbled a little bit, half awake, "Eat the other cheese then."

"Uhhhhm... I did."

Nik fumbled for his glasses before realizing he left them on his face, then looked at Johnny while his vision adjusted in the darkness, "How can you still be hungry?"

Johnny shrugged and hopped down, walking back through the patio door and into Nik's apartment, "Make me something?" he asked, giggling.

Nik followed, and in the light of his apartment, he finally noticed what was going on with Johnny, "Ummmm... take a good look at yourself."

Johnny looked himself over, and giggled, "How'd I get naked?"

"It might just have something to do with you being a foot taller hon!"

Johnny looked around as it dawned on him, everything was a bit smaller. He turned back to Nik and grinned broadly, hugging his leg. "What did you do!?"

Nik looked befuddled as he gently picked him back up and carried him into the kitchen, "I didn't do anything. Whatchya want to eat?"

"Macaroni and Cheese!"

Nik smiled and set Johnny down on the counter. From this spot, he was actually looking up a little bit at his friend, and he smiled as he poked him in the belly again, just like when he made the mozarella sticks. "Well, I guess you can grow taller, not just wider."

Johnny smiled and enjoyed his new vantage point, munching on some of the cheese before Nik added it to the pot to melt. He voraciously devoured a big bowl once Nik had finished it and rubbed at his swollen tummy.

"Ooooogh... I might have ate a bit too much."

Nik lightly rubbed at the rat's belly, trying to soothe it. "You do look quite a bit heavier than you did at two feet, even proportionately."

Johnny stretched and yawned cutely, licking his lips a bit. "Well, let's go to bed, maybe we can figure out what happened in the morning."

"Good idea." Nik lifted Johnny back up and lugged him to bed, laying beside his friend and thinking a bit. He really had no idea what was going on, but his friend's wish had come true, he was bigger now.

Johnny dozed off quickly, happily dreaming as he dozed. In his dream, he kept eating and growing bigger until he was finally large enough to be the kind protector his friend Nik had always been for him. The sun coming in through Nik's bedroom window woke him up, and he found that Nik had rolled over on top of him in his sleep with an arm over his chest. Wiggling against the mattress he figured out why, he was now even larger than he was last night and as he had sunk into the matterss, he pulled Nik towards him.

Smiling at his dozing friend, he gently pulled his paw towards his mouth and nibbled lightly. Nik groaned pleasantly, murrrring a bit and wiggling closer to his friend. Nik oooooed and panted a bit as Johnny started licking at his paw, then sucked on his index finger. Johnny then lightly shook Nik, and Nik lazily woke up.

"Mmmmm... morning Johnny, feeling better?"

The rat rolled to his feet on the floor with a loud thump, "Yup, my tummy feels much better, take a look."

Nik reached for his glasses, then took a good look at Johnny and sprung up in bed, "You're even bigger!!"

Johnny waddled towards the bathroom and stepped onto the scale, "200 pounds somehow!"

Nik sprung out of bed and looked Johnny over, gently moving him against the wall and taking a measurement, "Four foot six. You're one and a half times taller again."

Johnny rubbed over his broad belly, wagging his skinny furless tail, "Ahhhhh... I'm really growing!"

"I have no idea what's going on here pal..."

"Who cares? I'm hungry!" Johnny giggled and pulled Nik towards the kitchen, "I need breakfast!"

Nik obliged and followed, setting a place for Johnny at his table. He gave him a bowl of cereal to start with, then started on making some more for his buddy. Johnny ate anything that Nik put in front of him, having a real continental breakfast as the fox worked at filling his oddly growing friend. Pancakes, waffles, fruits and fruit juices, bacon, eggs, ham, sausages, biscuits and gravy, the rat devoured it all and looked at least 50 pounds heavier by the end of the feast. He rubbed his swollen gut and yawned a bit.

"I think I'm gonna take a little nap."

"Johnny... I don't think that's such a good idea."

"Awww... but I'm sleepy."

"Yeah, but you're gonna shoot up taller again, we should probably keep you from sleeping unless absolutely necessary until we know what's going on."

"Well, you've been asleep both times it's happened so far, you should stay up and watch this time, that way you'll know what happens."

"Argh... you've got me there. Okay, you lay down for a nap, but I'm gonna wake you up just as soon as you start growing, okay?"

"Sounds like a good idea." Johnny wandered into the living room and laid down on the couch, curling up a little bit and then pulling a blanket over himself. "Seeya in a few."

Nik sat down in front of the couch and watched him intently for a while, but nothing happened. He then decided to play a video game to pass the time. He kept an eye on Johnny, but it wasn't until he took a good glance between levels that he saw the Rat swelling up again. He turned and lightly shook Johnny to wake him up.

"Hruh?" responded Johnny, still half-asleep.

"You were growing again."

"Oh, okay." Johnny started to go back to sleep, but Nik gave him a pinch to keep him awake.

"Dude, it's linked, you've gotta stay up. We should measure you again." Nik pulled him towards the bathroom to measure again, finding him to be five feet tall now, and up to 300 pounds.

"Mmmmm... I like being big," Johnny yawned and walked towards Nik's bed, "more sleep now."

Nik held onto him and leaned back, but now that Johnny was heavier, he couldn't seem to pull him back. Soon Johnny was back onto the bed and completely out of it. Nik shook at him for a while, but Johnny wouldn't wake back up. So Nik just left him for a little bit.

"The growth didn't start until an hour in anyway, I'll just wait for a while, he'll get up then."

Nik set a timer and went back to his game, letting his friend sleep again. An hour later, he went back in. Unfortunately, he still couldn't wake Johnny back up, and he was just in time to watch him start growing again. He watched intently as every body part on his friend grew, especially the fattier parts like his belly and rump. After nearly thirty minutes of slow growth, Johnny stretched and sat up in bed, marvelling over his new, broader form.

"Mmmmm... wow... come sit over here Nik."

Nik walked over and sat down beside Johnny on the bed, timidly sitting a bit away until Johnny wrapped an arm behind him and pulled him closer. Nik giggled as Johnny pawed over his belly, "Stop that!"

"Sorry hon, just had to make sure you could still talk, you went all quiet on me."

"Well... can't quite get used to you being bigger than me Johnny."

The rat nodded and smiled, then hopped up to his feet, shaking the room a bit, "Let's see how much bigger!" He ducked under the doorway into the bathroom and Nik followed after finding a stepstool to measure above his friend's head.

"Seven feet, six inches. Seems you doubled from where I interrupted the growth."

"And how heavy now?" asked Johnny as he stepped onto the scale.

"Twelve hundred fifty."

"Oooo, only have to get 4 times heavier until I can easily eat you." Johnny grinned as he stepped off the scale and fluffed Nik's headfur with a paw.

"...until you eat me?"

"Well yeah, you got to eat me when I was two feet tall and eight pounds, shouldn't I get to turn the tables when I'm the big one?"

Nik gulped a bit and blinked while looking at his large friend's belly.

"Oh don't worry, I'll only do it if you don't mind!" Johnny pulled Nik close to his belly and hugged him, causing Nik to release a long sigh of relief.

"So now my chef, what's for lunch?"

Nik looked over Johnny and rubbed his chin while thinking, "Actually Johnny, I was thinking... we should probably see what happens if you don't eat. You've been stuffing yourself each time, I'm curious to see if that is having any effect on it."

Johnny's belly gurgled a little bit, and he thought for a second. "Well... I can try, I'm not really hungry right now, I think my tummy's still working on breakfast."

"Okay, then let's play a game."

"But I left my controller back at my place."

Nik grinned and took Johnny's paws in his own, twining fingers with ease, "I think your big paws can use mine with no problem."

Johnny smiled broadly at this, realizing that he can finally play with the devices marketed to larger furs. They took a seat and played games for a while until Johnny started getting tired again. He rolled up on the couch and gently nuzzled at Nikolas.

"You get yourself something to eat while I take a nap, you haven't had anything all day!"

Nik nodded and left Johnny to sleep on the couch. He prepared a modest lunch for himself and then wandered back out into the living room once he was done. Shocked at the sight in there, he shook Johnny to wake him back up.

Johnny kept his eyes closed for a bit, twitching his nose, "Okay, what happened this time?"

"You shrunk back down."

"Awwwww..." said Johnny as he opened his eyes back up and swung his paws to the floor. "Let's measure again then."

Nik followed him and did the weigh in, finding that he was 300 pounds and five feet tall. "Okay, so if you eat you get one and a half times bigger, and if you starve, you get one and a half times smaller."

"That's not really fair, I'm gonna have to sleep in shifts to stay normal!"

Nik thought for a moment, then grinned as he came up with another idea, "Well, each time you've eaten, you pigged out. Maybe if you just eat modestly, you'll stay the same."

"Worth a shot, I need dinner." Johnny headed for the kitchen, and Nik gave him the leftovers from his lunch. Johnny stopped when he started feeling full, and went to play more games with Nik.

"So, now that we have a bit of control over your height, how big do you wanna be?"

Johnny contemplated a bit and nestled in next to Nik, lightly nuzzling him, "I think I like this size best so far."

"Really? Didn't you like being bigger than me?"

"Well, for a little while. I definitely don't like being small, but I do like being a little smaller than you."

Nik grinned and hugged closer to his friend, before yawning. "How about we get to sleep so we can see if eating light keeps you this size?"

"Okay Nik! I am getting a bit sleepy."

The two toddled off to bed and cuddled up close to each other, soon drifting to sleep.

Come morning, Nik woke up to find Johnny the same size as when they went to bed. He was ecstatic, and decided to surprise him with breakfast in bed. Unfortunately, Johnny woke up from the smells drifting through Nik's apartment and waddled out to the kitchen as Nik was plating the breakfast up. Nik chuckled and set a breakfast for both of them down.

After they started eating, Nik looked to Johnny, "So, now that you have this ability, you're not gonna get vengeance for anything are you?" he asked, grinning as decided to sow a little seed of evil in his friend.

Johnny contemplated while chewing, and then grinned broadly at Nik, "You gonna start making lunch? I'm feeling really hungry..."