Gina held her menacing stance over me while Jessica fetched our cage.  She did her best to intimidate me, but after being small enough a single strand of her hair posed a threat to my life it took more than a stern look to make me think twice.  I simply looked up at her, thoroughly unimpressed with her attempts to make me feel small.

Unwilling to humor her right now I moved to step past her and walk over to Fulda, but she side-stepped to block my path.  After I bumped into her leg she chuckled and said, “Going somewhere, half-pint?”  Gina flashed a toothy grin down at me, and without saying anything I jumped to the right and tried to out maneuver her.  Again she placed a leg in my path, stopping me entirely when I ran into the fleshy pillar.

Out of patience I decided to dive between her legs, but Gina must have anticipated my move.  Almost the instant my feet left the ground I felt a sharp pain on my back followed by the wind being forced out of my lungs as I was stomped into the carpet.  Her foot ran the entire length of my back and then some, and she pressed it down hard, making my bones creak and joints pop under her weight.  “We’re both so lucky,” she teased, easing up a little.  “You, because you weren’t flattened by that, and me, because I can really bully you now.”  She pressed her foot down again, causing me to grimace in pain.  “Actually, me and Anni can tag-team your worthless ass, she’s huge to you too!”

Thundering footfalls heralded Jessica’s return, followed by the door slamming shut.  “-don’t want to, though,” Anni said, the start of her sentence covered up by the closing door’s crash.  “In fact I think you should get off him right now.”  A shadow fell over us as Jessica returned to the circle, standing tall over our bickering trio.

“-gonna make me?” was Gina’s retort, the first bit drowned out by Jessica’s butt slamming into the ground.  In a flash Anni was on Gina, slamming her shoulder into Gina’s gut and forcing her off my back.  The two fell to the floor in a tussle, but Gina quickly overcame her surprise at the sudden attack and retaliated.  A swift knee to her gut made Anni release her hold, and before she could recover the tiny titaness was back on her feet.  She reached down and wrapped her arms around Anni’s torso then effortlessly lifted, holding her upside down.  Anni yelped while Gina fell backward, suplexing her sister’s friend.

An enormous tanned hand encroached on the wrestling pair and secured Anni with two fingers.  With a light jerk Fulda yanked Anni out of Gina’s grip and set her down beside the cage.  “You two just gave me an excellent idea,” she boomed, bringing her hand back toward me.  She plucked me up as carefully as she could, then deposited me at the cage’s open door before saying, “I’ve never really indulged in tiny blood sport before.  All of you, get in the cage.”

I moved to the doorway but Gina stepped over me, making sure to clip the back of my head with her foot while she strode in.  She moved toward the center, hunching over so she wouldn’t bang her head on the ceiling, and I hopped over the threshold after.  Anni came hot on my heels, her knees pressing me forward until she was an arm’s length from Gina.  I stood between the two, looking up at the women towering over me on either side while Fulda loomed over the cage, her magnificent face alone dwarfing the other two.

“My fellow giantesses!” Fulda declared, turning away from us.  “I present to you the first ever Tiny Fighting Championship!  In the cage tonight we have three shrunken combatants.  On one side, measuring in at a towering four inches, an unstoppable juggernaut against these two gnats, my sister, Regina Stein!”  Jessica and Mary let out ear-piercing whoops while Gina stepped closer, planting her legs on either side of me so that she could glare down at Anni.  “And on the other side, hoping to cut her down to size, just cresting an impressive two inches, my long-time friend and confidant, Anni Williams!”  Alyssa let out a shout at her name while Anni grimaced.  “Now last but also least, the agent of chaos in this fight helping whoever he wants, not even breaking the one inch barrier, the undersecretary of being underfoot, my boyfriend!”  No one cheered, and I nervously cringed beneath Gina.

“The fight will last until one side either submits or is unable to keep going,” Fulda continued.  “There are no rules, no rounds, and I expect no quarter.  Try to make it fun for us to watch so that we don’t get bored and interfere too much.”  She punctuated that with a sly smile before sitting back on her heels.

“What do I get when I win?” Gina asked, beaming confidently at us.

Fulda thought for a second before answering.  “You’ll be in for a surprise when I grow you back tomorrow.  And before you ask, if the loser survives they’ll have the indignity of spending another day at this size.”

“What about him?”  Alyssa pointed at me while asking, and it was nice to see someone was concerned about me for once.

“Oh, don’t worry about it,” Fulda replied.  “He’s a special case.”  She turned her attention back to us facing off against each other.  Anni and Gina had been trying to stare each other down the whole time Fulda spoke while I planned the most expedient way to get out of this situation.

“Fight!” Fulda declared, the syllable hitting us with the force of a brick dropped from a roof.  The two exploded into action, Anni grabbing for one of Gina’s legs while Gina tried to wrap Anni up in her arms.  While they struggled I went for Gina’s other leg, confident that the only way Anni could win is if we worked together.  I jumped off the springy surface of the cage floor and clung to her thigh like it were a tree truck.  Quickly I shimmied up Gina’s thigh until I was at the base of her shorts, then planted a foot in the back of her knee.  With a firm kick I bent her knee forward while Anni yanked her leg up, throwing her off balance.  Gina collapsed with a resounding clang as her enormous body landed on the metal mesh.

Unfortunately she landed on Anni and brought her to the floor as well. Thinking fast Gina spread herself out over the smaller woman, pinning her beneath her mass.  I let go of the leg and ran toward the action, hopping over Gina’s butt and running along her back.  She swatted at me as I went and her hand made solid contact with my shoulder, sending me spinning off of her.  After a couple staggering steps I fell, rolling along the rough floor until I came to a stop against Gina’s arm pit.

Before I could get back up a hand seized me by the waist, picking me up off the floor.  With a grunt Gina launched me as hard as she could into the wall.  My head hit the metal with a hard crack and my vision exploded with stars.  Dazed, I could only sit there waiting for my senses to come back while watching Anni struggle under Gina.  Though she was incredibly strong, Gina was several times her size, and no matter how hard Anni pushed she could hardly budge her.  Gina smiled with satisfaction as she pressed herself harder against the former amazon, driving her into the ground.

The arena went dark as a hand descended and fingers wrapped around it.  “Bo-ring!” Fulda shouted, then turned the cage on its side.  We plummeted toward the new floor, much narrower than it had been previously since Fulda decided to stand it upright.  I landed hard enough to be dazed again, and it didn’t look like the other two fared better.  Luckily it had been enough of a surprise that Gina couldn’t keep pinning Anni, and the two laid next to each other in shock.

 Anni got up first and scrambled to sit on Gina’s chest.  The smaller woman straddled her and squeezed her diaphragm with her thighs, trying to drive the air out of her lungs.  Gina thrashed, slapping at Anni to try and get her off, but her legs were like a vice around her chest.  When pressing against her knees failed to move her Gina decided to slide her hands in and pry Anni’s thighs off.  Her greater size came with an appropriate increase in strength, and she was easily able to wedge her hands under Anni’s legs.

Gina was free once more, and with a solid shove forced Anni off her.  With a solid kick to her gut she pushed her unsteady opponent back, nearly tripping over her own feet as she went.  Anni’s shoeless heel caught in the grating and she toppled over backward.  Her tremendous body landed on me, her butt firmly landing on my gut and her back slamming my head into the floor again.  Weakly I pushed at her, but did not have nearly enough strength to move the slab of muscle.

We both stayed in a heap, groaning from our respective pain, until I felt the weight lift off me.  Gina had grabbed Anni beneath the armpits and hoisted her into the air, her stance spread so that she stood astride me.  She swiftly raised her foot and stomped it down onto my chest, causing me to gag.  I clawed at her foot and squirmed beneath it, trying to get out from under her massive sole, but it was no use.  My hands found no traction on the mammoth sock, and she weighed enough to keep me securely in place.

Gina grunted and tossed Anni aside, a loud clang rattling the cage when she flew into it, then turned her attention to me.  “You’re loving this, aren’t you, twerp?” she taunted and ground the ball of her foot into my chest.  She continued to speak over my shouts of pain.  “We are all so, so much taller than you.  I know I love it.”  I looked to where Anni had landed and saw her lying still in a corner, her chest rising and falling with shallow breath.  “Granted, in a few years I’d be this much taller than you naturally.”  Bile rose to my throat when she leaned on her heel, pushing it into my stomach.  “It’s honestly a wonder no one’s ever mistaken you for a bug and crushed you.”

Black spots appeared on the edges of my vision and I was no longer able to draw breath.  “You’re probably expecting me to shrink you, right?” Gina asked, increasing the force of her foot atop me.  “To finally smash you and end your pathetic existence at our feet?”  She grinned and I became more lightheaded.  “I think you’d like that too, so I’m not going to do it.  I’m going to leave you with the shame of getting beaten up by a little girl instead.”  I fought to remain conscious but it was a losing battle, and all my limbs felt even weaker than normal.  “You’ll be seeing me again I’m sure, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to see you.  Sleep tight, pest.”  As if on cue my hands fell from her foot and I drifted off.

* * *

My eyes opened to an assault by bright white light and blurry shapes.  I tried to cover my eyes, but the resulting pain that shot though my arm quickly convinced me not to.  Everything hurt.  The pain was comforting in a way: it proved that I wasn’t dead after all.  Slowly my senses came back and I found the strength to at least groan.

“Oh good, you’re awake,” said a booming voice that resonated all around me.  I might not have been dead, but I was still tiny.  “I was worried that I hadn’t gotten Gina off you in time.”  My vision steadied, and I realized I was lying between two bronze-colored ridges hundreds of feet long capped by long white coverings atop a deep red field.  The white caps at the end swayed back and forth, and there were large bulges and furrows the whole length of the ridges.

“Is that you, Fulda?” I finally managed to croak, hopefully loud enough for her to hear.

“Yeah, it’s me,” came the rumbling reply.  Her hand came over the azure tent spread above and set down next to me, dimpling the sheets.  “Do you mind if I pick you up?”  Something must be up, she never asked that before.  She always just grabbed me and flung me around like a toy.

“Uh, sure,” I said.  “Go for it.”  Fulda’s finger slid into the mattress and under me, holding me steady while her thumb came down.  Gently she pinched me between her thumb and forefinger, barely applying enough pressure to even keep me in her hand.  Carefully she picked me up from the sheets and carried me over her skirt to where her breasts bulged under her chemise where her other hand was waiting.  Slowly she set me down in the middle of her palm and let go, making sure her hand was steady before leaving me on it.

“I am so, so sorry about tonight,” she said, her powerful voice tinged with concern.  “I just thought I’d have the girls over, we’d have some fun giving people their just desserts, that sort of thing.  I didn’t expect Anni to pick you, didn’t think Gina would shrink the both of you, didn’t think she’d brutalize you so much in the cage…”

“Why did you even do that?” I asked, feeling safe enough to question her now.  “Out of all the things you could have done with us, you had me fight someone four times my height who has expressed, multiple times, a desire to crush me?”  Fulda winced, and I knew I had hit on something.

“I thought it would be a fun game, we’d just watch a fight and – and we got carried away,” she admitted with a sigh.  “I put you in too much danger, and before I could do anything Gina had knocked Anni unconscious and was well on her way to knocking you out.  The only thing I could’ve done was flip the cage again, and I didn’t want to break your neck.”

I stayed silent for a while.  Nothing I could say would change what happened, and she clearly regretted putting me in that situation.  “Are they still here?” I finally asked to break the silence.

“No.  Alyssa and Mary both went home after I dragged Gina out, I think they’d had enough by then.  I put Gina inside a shoe box and told Jess to watch her for the rest of the night, make sure she doesn’t sneak over and do anything stupid.  Anni’s on your bed resting, she got pretty banged up.  Not too bad, nothing’s broken or anything, but she’ll be feeling it for a while.”  Fulda looked me over and asked, “And you?  Everything where it should be after Gina’s onslaught?”

“I’m pretty banged up,” I admitted.  “Everything from being inside Anni’s stocking to under Gina’s foot felt like it was going to break something, but didn’t.  Got a few scrapes, and I’m sure I’ll be sore for the next few days, but it just hurts.  Everything hurts.”

“Want me to kiss it better?” Fulda purred, and I grinned back up at her.  She began lowering her face toward me, licking her lips as she drew closer.  Her mouth encompassed my entire field of view, and I quelled the niggling fear of being tossed inside.  Softly she touched her lips to me, moistening my whole body and part of her hand where they had set down.  Briefly she raised up then came down again, this time letting her tongue poke out to twirl on my chest.

The third time Fulda’s lips touched me I reached up, fighting the pain that accompanied any sort of movement to grab her top lip.  I began kissing her as vigorously as I could while she rested her mouth on me, occasionally adjusting her lips.  Each time she puckered them I was lifted out of her hand, giving me a shock before sliding back down into her palm.  Finally I pinched her bottom lip, telling her to stop, and she lifted her head away.

“Hey, what time is it?” I asked, curious how long I had been out.

“Um, a bit after three.  Why?”

“Just wondering.  Shouldn’t you have been asleep a while ago?”

“Yeah, but I wanted to make sure you were okay,” Fulda elaborated.  “I wouldn’t have been able to sleep anyway.  I’d just be lying here wondering when you were going to wake up, running through what I was going to say when you did… You’re not mad, are you?”

I thought about my response carefully, fully cognizant that I was literally in the palm of her hand.  “Being mad wouldn’t stop my ribs from hurting, would it?” I finally answered.  “Like, I’d rather it hadn’t happened, but you stopped it before she could kill me, and it seems like you regret it too.  Besides, if it weren’t for you I’d still be lost in the carpet of Gina’s room.”

Fulda smiled, her pearly white teeth half my size brightening my mood.  “Glad to hear it.  I should probably be getting to sleep now that I know you’re okay though.”  With her free hand she unzipped her skirt, then shimmied her hips back and forth to work it down her legs.  With a triumphant kick she flicked them off, sending them into a crumpled heap in front of her door.

She began lowering me to the bed and set her hand atop her pillow.  Careful to keep my balance I limped down her fingers and stepped onto the puffy red surface below and collapsed almost immediately.  Fulda set her head down in the middle, causing me to slide down until I bumped into her cheek.  After a quiet giggle she said, “Good night, tiny boyfriend,” then turned off her bedside lamp.

“’night, mighty giantess,” I replied, then curled up against her and tried to get some sleep.