As the air escaped the balloon, Dani felt a tingle run through her body. She felt the strange sensation of the room seeming to rise up slowly all around her, like riding on an elevator, only the whole world was suddenly moving.
Standing across the room, Jim watched as inches of her height dwindled away.
"Whoa," she said, her voice starting to sound a bit squeaky. She put a hand to her head. "I'm getting dizzy." Soon she was eye to eye with Jim. "What the hell is going on?" There was a real helium quality when she spoke now. She looked down at the ground rising up closer to her. It was then that she noticed her body changing shape. "What the fuck?" she squeaked.
Her stomach and chest seemed to be squeezing in smaller and smaller, while her legs got shorter and narrower near the bottom. All the while, her breasts, hips, and maybe even her ass stayed the same size. She held up her hands and watched as her whole arms, hands and all, shrank smaller in front of her. She was dumbfounded. It took Judy's voice to draw her attention from her hands, not so much for what she said, which was a brief "Wow," but for the fact that the kid's voice seemed to come from above her. She looked at Judy and found the girl now standing taller than her, a 9-year-old girl!
Dani kept shrinking. She looked up to Jim desperately. "No, stop it!" she squeaked, her voice even higher-pitched than Judy's now. "Please." The shrinking continued for a few seconds more, and then Jim stopped up the balloon again and said, "Release." He let the balloon fully deflate and calmly slipped it into his pocket.
They all stood there in amazement. The girls were simply speechless after witnessing their first real magic spell. Jim was just blown away that his "exception" spell had worked so well. Their eyes were all on Dani now.
She now stood about 3 feet tall. Her once long legs were short and stumpy, terminating in a pair of tiny bare feet, which even Judy's shoes would be too large for now. The legs widened dramatically as they rose up to her absurdly wide hips. Of course, the hips had not changed at all, but compared to the short legs below them, they seemed huge. Her hips still held on to her jean shorts which fit them as tightly as ever. Her body narrowed down dramatically at her waist and stayed small up through her chest, but that was hard to tell on account of her C-cup breasts, which had not shrunk either and covered up most of her chest. Her sleeveless top and bra hung loosely on her now, showing off much more dramatic cleavage as her breasts were now naturally pressed together by her small ribcage. Her arms, which she held out before her, were much like her lower legs, small and seemingly useless, as were her tiny hands. Above it all, resting on her shrunken neck, was her head, still the same size as before. Only now it seemed comically big on top of her absurdly short hourglass-shaped body.
"What did you do to me?" she asked. The squeak in her high voice was almost painful to listen to now.
"I think that's pretty obvious," Jim said matter-of-factly. "I shrank you. You were always putting me down for being small, so this is payback."
"B-But my breasts?" she put her tiny hands against them, which only made them seem larger. "My hips? Why are they so... so...?"
"...so big?" Jim finished her sentence as she trailed off. "I just simply excluded them from the spell. Your head, your breasts, your hips and ass, as well as your, well, lady parts are all the same size as before. They just now happen to be attached to the rest of your shrunken body."
"Turn me back," she said in a weakly demanding tone as she now sounded like a chipmunk. "Please," she added more softly.
"Maybe later," Jim said, "if you behave. First, I have something else to do."