The wind gently blew around me, ruffling the fur to my expanding self as I floated mere inches off the canopy with the fizzy assistance of what must have been hundreds of gallons of cherry cola by now all supplied by the engorged slime dragon laid atop me.

"What's the matter? Thirsty again?" He says as he places his paw around my maw again and it opens up to let a pressurized stream of cherry soda in. It quickly made it's way in and the fizzing started again, sending small quakes through my balloon like body as it starts to grow once again.

"I-I know I floated the idea of soda as a way to fly but..." I start as the flow of soda ebbs, "But I knew it would take a lot to get me flying like this!" It was true, I had mere hours ago joked to Kio that if I really wanted to, that I could get my favorite soda and with a ludicrous amount of it, achieve flight like so long ago. Seems like he took it more seriously than I as one moment he said he was just going to stretch his legs as I went about my day and before I knew it soda was flowing back through the slime dragon's tail and right into my belly.

By the time I found him guzzling sodas by the bottle, I had already swollen to the size of a minivan and the sloshing of the drink was making my walking harder and harder by the second! "It will get us home faster, you know!" He says between bottles, taking on more and more into his belly to store and pass along into mine. "But that'll take an entire truckload for that to work!" I say, trying to keep my bloating belly down out of my face. That's when that sharp tooth grin flashed on the slime dragon's face as a voice sweeter than the soda answered...

"...I know!"

In an instant, he whirled around and planted his paws on my belly and shook hard. Before I could even ask what he was doing, it started. Like a balloon set onto an air tank on full blast, my belly, then the rest of me, started to inflate with the fizz of gallons of soda. More and more I rounded out and more and more the slime dragon drank, only stopping to shake me to keep the reaction growing.

It wasn't long before Kio's promise was fulfilled and between him and me we held an entire delivery truck worth of soda and I was gently floating away. Now here, still growing with a slime dragon laid atop me looking rather pleased with himself, all I can do is go along for the ride and hope that I don't end up stuck in a tree somewhere. I really need to get the jetpack working soon if this is his idea of a quick way of travel.

Another paw wraps around my maw and I hear somewhere over my belly... "Drink up! I think I hear your butt dragging again. Still got a few hundred gallons in me and we got a long way to go to get you!" I'm hoping he means get me home as he gives me another shake and I can feel the fizzing start again...