By the time Tetra's hurried steps against the floorboards came to a halt, it was already too late. The three goddesses had determined your fate.
The pirate princess took her last movement forward, her toned knee shooting up into the air - along with your whole body. You could feel her sandals' worn leather rising behind your back, pushing against it. The only thing visible above was the bronze expanse of her foot's high arch. Soon, the rise of Tetra's leg reached its climax; you barely had a second to fill your lungs with salty sea air before your platform shot downwards.
It felt like the world was rapidly rising up around you. The only thing you could do was hold your green-clad arms out and scream - hoping that high above, your voice could slip into a valley of her ear.
An Earth-shaking THUD surrounded your body. The sole landed. Instantly, you felt the full weight of this behemoth pushing down on your twig-like body. How could a girl with such a fast running speed (that you just experienced firsthand) be exerting THIS much weight down? Even when she froze in front of her desk, the ship's slow rocking was disorienting. Back, and forth... Back, and forth... Your face soon turned as green as your tunic.
"Hmmm... No, that doesn't match Zuko's maps at all! Unless..."
By the echo of her voice in the cabin around, and the distant sound of a quill touching paper, it sounded like she'd just found some clue that could lead to treasure. And now, she was counter-checking them against existing notes. With her body finally still, you tried squirming out from the mighty weight above. With the sandals leaving Tetra's feet open, you'd just have to move aside, and you'd be free on the ground again. Right?
Reality crashed down on you like a smelly anvil. Throwing herself more into note-taking, she leaned forward. The ball of her foot pressed hard against your face, engulfing it in her flesh. You called out again, only to have a drop of salty water forced down your mouth. For just a split second, your tongue could feel the individual whorls and ridges forming the texture of her sole, like complex runes.
At that point, pushing back was hopeless; your gigantic captain stood firm, unmoving. The simple pull of gravity rendered you unable to move your little arms. You could only hopelessly flail your legs around, hoping she'd feel your tights.
Every attempt at breathing, with the pirate's skin smothering you, only had your nose fill with... How to describe it? Seawater wasn't adequate for cleaning clothes or bathing, and their crew went long periods with limited freshwater. The clash of odors generated from earlier quests, as a result, had little to clean it away - save the thin strand of your saliva from before. It was putrid, and yet...
You know this smell. As disgusting as the situation is, being with Tetra as long as you have means you've picked up faint whiffs of it before. As your lack of air forces you to breathe in again, you can almost pinpoint the exact moments that contributed to this musk. Like the time you two were on shore, looking for treasure - all you managed to get was a fairy in a jar. You were starting to feel sorry for that fairy now.
"Oh, when you're facing Northeast - THAT explains it." The voice above, all at once, pulled you back to your senses and makes the memories feel more vivid.
Like the walls of an ancient dungeon moving, you felt her pressure on your body release slightly. For a split second, she forced down even harder, coming horrifically close to squashing your insignificant body into her leather sandal. Then, you felt her body fly upwards, and - THUD.
Thankfully, that wasn't her titanic foot landing this time; you didn't know how much more punishment your body can take. There was a ringing in your ear, like a warning alarm. It seemed Tetra plopped her globe-like rear end on a chair. The impact sent a vibration through your body, shaking it to the core. But at the very least, The Hero of Winds no longer had to carry the weight of an massive girl on his shrunken shoulders.
You used the opportunity to call up. This left you with another mouthful of Tetra's salty skin. Spitting out, you rolled to the side slightly, shouting again.
For a second, the motion froze. Did the colossal captain hear you? Did she feel your little body wiggling below? Suddenly, you felt your worn platform shift at a sharp angle. You slid past the ball of her foot; you glanced back to see her heel lifting; finally, her toes stop you, the middle one pinching your body against a perfectly-matching indent in the leather below. It slips over your torso slowly, as if trying to identify you.
"Huh?" The young woman mumbled above. You kept your ears up and hold your breath, hoping she might have noticed you. The words thundered: "How the heck did a pebble get down there?"
A pebble. That's what you were now. Your hopes sank to the undersea ruins.
Tetra's toes began moving slowly, pushing against your body. You can feel the folds in them curling and uncurling they squeeze your body into the smelly ball of her sole. Crap - was she playing with her footwear? Her ankle gradually, almost teasingly, shifted upwards. It pulled back out of the sandal, the slender digits dragging you along for the ride. Your body rolled against the brown landscape, alternating between facefulls of smelly, moist indents, and the tanned sole that shaped them. How long had she been wearing these?
The foot pushed back in. This time, the ball just rubbed against you, without pulling forward. The sigh you hear above would be gentle and sweet, were it not so loud. You barely have any time to react before her heel crashed down, knocking the wind from your body. It's all you can taste, smell, touch, or see. And she's still moving her foot - quite literally rubbing it in your face. All your attempts at motion are losing their vigor in the warm embrace.
Embrace? Yes, that word was the first to pop in your cranium. There was something undeniably intimate about the bare skin surrounding you, giving a close-up view of each individual wrinkle and fold moving in uneven waves. Your body started heating up, and it was hard to tell how much of that is from the pirate's own body temperature. It was breathtaking - and not just in the sense that you had more and more trouble breathing every second underfoot.
You felt Tetra's idle fidgeting brush your hair back. Slowly, her leg lifted again. Your shrunken arms hurt too much to move - and both your ringing ears and intense heat are twisting your mind. But for once - and maybe for the last time - you could see the mountainous figure of your tormentor in full. The blonde swirl in her hair like unreachable clouds; the red bandana bobbing slightly as her back leaned forward; the little twinkle in her beautiful, deep eyes as they follow the motions her pillar-like arms make while jotting notes on a paper...
Again, you paused on your own thoughts. Beautiful? That didn't do it justice. When those bronze toes wiggled above you like meteors waiting to crash... When you find yourself dazzled by the sheer scale of each limb, and ease with which they move...and she can't even bother to peek down at the green "pebble"... At this moment, Tetra inspires more fear in your heart than the three goddesses, or the beast that brought Hyrule to its knees.
But still, the slight, graceful flick in her gigantic wrist as she wrote... It might be your mind slowly failing, but there was something more there. She was sliding her foot back in - no, now the tip of her large toe was just slightly touching your nose, twirling around softly. Staring into the whorl as it paws you around was almost hypnotic, especially with the short hums that let loose from her lips above. They're slender, but not lanky; the arch rests high, the curves in her sole above like hills and valleys. And without the impossible pressure it once exerted on you, they felt soft, supple. Dainty. No matter how long she's worn these sandals, no matter how effective pirates' hygiene could be, and no matter how much the seas had trained and shaped Tetra's body... This foot belonged to a princess.
Slowly, the boulder of a digit wrapped around you, compressing your body in the tight space between her toes and her foot's ball. This was where the odor was at its strongest - once again, this girl was all you could experience. Memories keep floating in your head, different faces showing up. Aryll. You feel your body lift from the ground, as your captain moves it to scratch an itch on her other foot. Grandma. The grinding motion scrapes you harshly against both surfaces, and even though you feel something tearing, you've lost the energy to scream. Tingle... Would he ever find those fairies?
The motion and pain were so intense, it felt like her simple motions were causing a second apocalypse. But somehow, the touch feels... It's like you're drifting deeper into another world with every twitch and breath, and it's not unpleasant. Somehow, you had a feeling you'd die in this pirate girl's service... You just didn't expect said service would be acting as her... massage bead... foot toy... pebble...
Familiar. That's how it felt. Seconds before falling to the welcoming void... right before your consciousness blew out like stray dust... that was your final thought: it's familiar.
...
"HYAH!?"
Your spine shot up as you began panting. The floor under your rear end was hard, sturdy. There wasn't any pressure on you. A dream? No, that was impossible - you could still see the cabin's walls stretching out miles into the distance. Your green tunic was damp, and smelt of... well, Tetra.
A fluttering sound crossed your ears. When you gazed up, a fairy waved to you before flying away. The one you caught not long ago! She must've restored you to full health, just after Tetra killed you! Without a word, she disappeared; leaving your shrunken body standing...
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