This is an idea that I wanted to write about for a whole month I believe. I was very excited to write this but this is also a gift for a friend who's planning to leave FA and discord for good. So I do hope you love it!

Judy, Nick, Bogo, and Clawhauser from Zootopia belongs to Disney

It's the first time Judy has ever heard of Bloating Season before and it turns out that Nick has to teach her about it and how to have fun.
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In the large city of Zootopia, just months after the first huge case of the wild predators solved thanks to the help of a rabbit and a fox, Judy’s alarm goes off and wakes the rabbit up from her sleep. To her, she thanks her alarm for waking her up rather than being annoyed by it. Without it, she wouldn’t have made it to work everyday. In fact, she loves her job as a police officer, arresting thieves and working on cases. She even trains her buddy and partner in crime Nick on some of the important tasks to being an officer. Judy had considered trying to do some detective work, but those are the kind they don’t pay well and take months to get hired on a case, unless that’s just called an investigator. The gray-furred rabbit gets up from her bed, stretching her arms and letting out a long yawn. Again, it’s just another day like no other for her. Though she does wish that she could get better cases rather than just thief and break-ins. Though those are very serious when it comes to the crime rate in the city. To start her routine, Judy goes into the shower and turns the handle to its red mark, as she wants to be warm and comfortable when starting her day. A minute later she’s inside, scrubbing her body and cleaning her fur to make it both look fluffy and smell nice. She’s seen others with the dirtiest fur and times she wishes that rather than car washes, they had public people washes. Then again, the economy would try to make it expensive, only because a business like that would need lots of water and soap. Sometimes, she just needs to focus on her own job. After getting cleaned, she gets out of the shower, dries herself off, and puts on a fresh new pair of clothes. The red plaid buttoned up shirt she wears reminds her a bit about her hometown as her family still owns that farm down south. She does plan to meet her parents there over summer, just to see how they're doing and to tell them about her new job. Once dried and clothed, she gets ready for hygiene with these following steps: brushing her fur, brushing her teeth, flossing between her teeth, and finally mouthwash. Judy then gets ready to make some breakfast, which is basically toast with jam spread on two slices. She’s not used to large breakfasts before, with a paycheck that’s mostly used for her rent. Eating her breakfast in the small dining room, her phone buzzes on the nightstand next to her bed. At first, she thought it was a phone call from her work, or Nick who would call her about any new cases they’ll be assigned to. But it only buzzes one, as a text message or a notification from her apps she uses. Maybe she should wait until she’s done, or if it’s an emergency, she’ll need to get it.

Judy does worry that if it is an emergency, she'll be wasting her time sitting in the chair rather than seeing what it is. A bit worried by her paranoia, Judy gets up and goes over to the bed, flopping on her stomach while extending her arm to grab her phone and to check the notification. To her expectation, it was a message from Chief Bogo, her boss and head of the police department. The message reads, [Hopps, you’re taking the day off from work. You need to find Nick quickly. Text him or ask him where he is. It’s that time of the day again]. Now this is most worrying for the rabbit. Why is she taking a day off and what exactly does she need to find Nick quickly? Most importantly, what does he mean by it’s that time of the day? All of these questions could either mean that Nick is in danger of some sort or there is a holiday that’s going on that she doesn’t know about. Looking at her calendar she bought last year, there were no holidays labeled today nor any important events coming up. Unless she’s forgotten one that she needs to be in. Judy is about to text Nick his location but it seems like he was the first to text. Nick texts, [I’m at the hospital, carrots. Hopefully you can find me there.] Now why was Nick in the hospital? Her anxiety goes through the roof as the only thing she can think about is that Nick is injured. And if that was the case, she needs to get to him and see what he did. Putting on her coat, setting the destination to the hospital using her GPS, and exiting the apartment with her car keys and wallet, she quickly heads out of the entire building down the stairs and into the car that’s parked on the side of the road. The rabbit gets in and starts her car up, soon forgetting to get gas yesterday as the meter was just lower than halfway on the meter. “Dang! Hope I can make it by then!” That’s the first thing she hopes, the second is if Nick is going to be alright. As she drives down the road, with her heart pacing with fear and her eyes jolting side to side, she can think of a couple reasons why Nick would be in the hospital. Either that he messed with a couple of gang members who were doing some stealing, or possibly someone he owns money too in which not even his new job can help pay back. Those were the types of situations she could see Nick get involved with. But he could have sprained his ankle during his trip to the station or he fell down a couple of stairs and broke his leg. If those were the case, that should calm her down a little for now. The real panic happens when they get the hospital bill after, that’s the trouble that will haunt the two. Driving through intersections and carefully avoiding any oncoming cars and pedestrians, she arrives at the large hospital, packed with people like it was the flu season once more. Now as she thinks about it more, maybe it was the flu season, which could explain a lot of things. Unfortunately, it takes her five minutes to find a good parking spot as the front and both sides of the building’s parking lots were packed. Behind the large building, she finds an open spot and takes it quickly before anyone else can steal it. Relieved that she makes it, Judy turns off her car and takes her personal items with her. She then texts Nick, [I’m here, where are you at?]. Hopefully he’s not in the operating room.

Nick replies back quickly, saying, [In the waiting room. You might have a hard time finding me in the crowd, and I don’t mean by how many people there are here.] Puzzling this message is, Judy didn’t think of it as he thought he was joking, somewhat. She rounds the sidewalk to the hospital entrance, where she passes by this large alligator, with his belly hanging out and his clothes tighten. His gut was about the size of a small car, like Judy’s. He doesn’t notice the small rabbit, with his belly blocking his view in front of him. He whimpers as he lets out a couple of belches out of nowhere. “Oh gosh….I feel like I’m gonna pop!” Judy assumes he must have eaten too much food. She watches the alligator get inside what could be the largest truck, but with an ambulance look to it. He gets in the back of the trailer with a couple of workers helping lift him up. To Judy’s surprise, it had taken two of these workers to carry him there and these guys weren’t larger than the gator, more like half the size than the fat gator. She would have expected more than two unless they’re strong. Shaking her head to get her mind back onto the trail, she enters the hospital where she meets a short line of people, some with bellies sticking out as well with belches and whimpers escaping their mouths. They were all large animals, with buttoned shirts, or even no shirts since they were male, with round bellies that looked like they ate beach balls and boulders.

The rabbit didn’t know if she had the time to wait in line. She texts Nick back to tell her about the situation and to ask how bad his state of body is. Just seconds later, he doesn’t give her a proper answer besides, [You’ll see.]. He texts these things to her like he’s playing a joke on her, or possibly being positive about being in the hospital. This wasn’t right. As the line in front of her gets shorter, with these fat furries belching to the waiting room, Judy finally speaks to the receptionist, a female llama who was working on the computer. “Name please?” She said with a crackling tone.

“Judy Hopps. My friend is here, Nick Wilde. He told me that he’s in the waiting room.” Judy, because of her impatience, couldn’t help but to tap her lower foot on the ground repeatedly and her fingers tapping against her arms as they were crossed against her chest.

The llama types Nick’s name onto the computer and as expected, he’s on there. “Ah, yes. He told me to expect you to come, miss. You may find him in there unless he’s ready for his checkup.”

Checkup. The one word that Judy has a hard time believing to be the only word she loves to hear. It’s a relief that Nick is just here for a checkup, something that he hadn’t told Judy these couple days. “Phew. Thank you.” Calming down and back with a smile on her face, the rabbit follows the sign above that reads the waiting room above the double doors.

“You are lucky that you aren’t one of them, miss.” The llama speaks. “I’m sure that I am as well.” Judy had no idea what she meant by that. She was about to ask the llama what the idea was behind those words, yet she could tell how busy the receptionist is at the moment.

So Judy continues down the hall and reaches the double doors. But as she gets closer to the doors, the sounds of multiple belchings can be heard on the other side. “What the?” That’s something she shouldn’t be hearing at all in a hospital, not when these belches are long, loud, and followed by whimpers and sighs after. What exactly was going on? She opens the door carefully, just to make sure she’s not going to knock a few people over in case they were near the doors. And there, it was a nightmare of her dreams. This whole room was filled with large fatties, belching and their bellies as large as the gator’s she saw before. Somewhere twice their body size as others were just smaller. She’s hesitant to enter the room in case one might accidently crush her or knock her body over with their gut, then again, Nick isn’t safe from these either as he’s just two feet taller than her. She ducks, dodges, and passes a few of these strangely fat furries, yet something was off about them. None of their bellies didn’t have that saggy or droopy look to them, more like tight and light as a feather. Even their limbs look larger, or possibly puffy like marshmellows unless their fur is very thick.

“Carrots!” She can hear Nick’s voice just from over at the seats against the back wall, crowded with more of these large anthros. Looking around, she finds the orange-furred fox with his usually light green buttoned-up shirt and gray pants, sitting down on a seat. He waves over to Judy, showing her his location. The rabbit smiles as she can see that he is okay, but as she gets a closer look at him, something is not alright. His belly is big, like he has a basketball in there. It even made his shirt wide open for his belly to expose itself in public, like the rest of these belching furs. “Thanks for coming. I was waiting for you.” He said with a smirk, not even worried about his tummy.

Judy is flabbergasted, standing there even though Nick had saved her a seat next to him. “Nick…..did you just get fat?” That’s her first thought. She had trained him for months to be in shape and flexible for his job, and now he’s got a belly that makes him look pregnant?

Nick looks down, smiles, and gropes at it while rubbing it from his underbelly. “Oh this? You like it?” He teases. “I mean, it’s just a couple more inches bigger than the last time this happened. Heh.” Still Judy isn’t amused by this. Looking back up at the rabbit and seeing the expression on her face, he realizes that she doesn’t know the truth. “Wait a minute, you don’t know about this?” Something was rising up into his throat and he knew what’s coming. He blows up his cheeks and lets out a mean burp like the rest of the anthros here. “BRRAAAAAAP!”

She cocks her head to the side, a bit bewildered. “About what exactly?” If he was going to make up some excuse to avoid admitting that he’s fat, she’s not having it. “Just tell me, did you eat at the buffet across town or did those donuts that Clawhouser gave you some extra pounds? You know I’ve worked my butt off to keep that belly in shape!” She shouts at him, but with the continuous belching from the others, they drowned her volume down.

He laughs as a response, like she’s crazy in the head. “Carrots, I’m not fat! I’m just inflated!” That’s a sentence that Judy has never heard before. “Or in your case, bloated with gas.”

If it weren’t for the loud burps, this room would be in silence. “Inflated? How?” Did Nick play with a bike pump and go too far? She can’t see how he can be humongous by gas itself.

Nick pats his paw on the seat he saved for her. “Sit down and I’ll explain…if you can even hear me with all of this…BUUUUUUURP….belching going on.” She doubts that she can’t hear the fox. His voice will be the only thing she can listen to, once she ignores the sounds of the gassy release through their mouths and snouts.

Sitting down, she’s ready to let her friend explain this. “Alright, tell me everything.”

“Well I can’t tell you all of the history of the bloating season.” Nick says.

“Bloating season?” Judy has never heard of this before. Was it a holiday? A contagious disease like the flu? If so, she might have put herself in danger.

“Yeah, bloating season is a random event where the bellies of…certain species….have their stomachs, and their bodies, expand with gas. It’s something that’s been around for centuries. I’m surprised you’ve never heard of this.” Nick would have assumed that Judy knows the events that happen around the city, especially this one. “BUUUUUUUUURP! Phew, excuse me. That wasn’t a friendly burp. Hehehe.” Nick takes this more playfully than seriously. Then again, he did say that he’s experienced this before so he’s certainly confident in his own problem.

Judy didn’t know if she could still believe it. Yet it could explain why these anthros look rather bigger than they should be, and the fact how two paramedics from outside had easily carried that alligator without any issue. If their bodies were made up mostly of gas, they’re like barely mobile balloons. “Really? I don’t know why I didn’t know about this before.” And by how Chief Bogo told her to look out for Nick, there must be some complications to this season. “What I don’t understand is what you mean by certain species. And why is everyone belching?” She has more questions than that, but she believes she’ll get them soon after Nick’s checkup, whenever that is.

Nick wraps his arm around Judy’s shoulders, pulling her near the side of Nick’s chest and belly. He even lays the bottom of his snout on top of her head, either to give her comfort on his illness or to give himself comfort and just because of how soft her head looked. “Look around you carrots, tell me what you see.” He gives Judy a test of her surroundings and to give her an understanding on why he’s bloated but she’s not. “What do all of these people have in common?”

“Ummmm…..” The only thing she can see in common out of all of them are the fact they’re inflated like semisized parade balloons. “Well they are big. And not by their original sizes, I mean their bellies.”

“Yes but not quite. Look more.” Nick squeezes her body a bit tighter, just to help her feel relaxed and comfortable with his round tummy, using it as her large pillow to place the side of her arm on.

Again she looks, focusing on the anthros standing in front of them and on the seats between the two. “Hmmmm, I can’t think of anything.” She’s lost and possibly gives up.

“I’ll give you a hint, carrots. Look at their faces, their snouts, and their paws. Tell me what you see when you look at their mouths.” Nick gives her what could be the easiest hint in his book.

“Well…..” Looking at their faces, they had sharp teeth that could tear food apart easily, snouts that are longer and more vulpine and canine from some of the people in the room. They were also large and Judy felt as if she was sitting next to only….. “Wait a minute….” She turns to Nick in surprise. “Are they all predators?”

“Bingo, carrots!” He’s impressed she actually got that, though Nick knows that she’s smart enough to answer these clues. “It’s only the predators that are affected by this strange season. BUUUURP!”

It does explain why Judy is still skinny, making her feel very lucky she isn’t a predator like a wolf or a bear. “But why? I still don’t understand.” She still has lots of questions and hopefully Nick knows the answer.

“Yeah….I don’t know the full story but basically an adult predator, after turning twenty-one exactly, gets gas built up into their bellies by no explanation. It usually takes days to deflate back to normal, just as long as you keep belching that is.” Nick explains.

“Belching?” Judy asks. It makes sense to belch gas out to deflate overtime but she believes there are other ways to get rid of it. “What happened to medication like those gas-resistant pills?”

“Sorry carrots, medication doesn’t do anything to help. Belching is the only cure.” He knows this because he’s seen people, even himself, try it out. The medication is basically like a placebo to these gassy predators.

“I mean, if belching is all you have to do, it’ll be easy to survive this. Right?” Only a snort comes out of Nick’s nose as a sort of reply for his rabbit friend.

“Yeah, it’s not that easy.” The fox rubs the rabbit’s back, still with that smirk on his face.

Judy was just about to ask why, until there was some shouting coming from down the hall Judy had just come through. Soon the doors burst open with two parmedics rolling an orb-shaped ball, a strange one too with a furry tail and paws flailing around panicky. “Move out of the way! We got a roller!” One of them said as the bloated predators in the room made it a bit hard to clear space for the paramedics.

Looking closely at this giant ball, Judy recognizes the tail easily as it had black and white stripes. It was a raccoon, inflated to the point where his entire body was round as a boulder and with his paws, feet, and half of his head shown outside. The poor raccoon whimpers as he can’t stop belching. “H-help me! I’m gonna…..burst!” Luckily, the raccoon was taken down the hall after the waiting room, possibly to the ER to get deflated quickly.

Judy was in shock and in awe at the same time. Never would she have seen an anthro transformed into a gas-filled balloon, like it was on some cartoon show. “What happened to him?”

“An example of what I was going to say. Basically that is what happens when you play around with this sort of thing, especially if you drink anything with carbonation like soda. It just increases the production of gas and inflates your body at exact speed. He’s the lucky one.” Judy doesn’t want to know who or what counts exactly as unlucky. “Then again, it does look fun.” Nick said with the intention to do something like that in the future, just whenever he feels confident or prepared enough.

“Nick Wilde!” A voice on the speaker on the corner of the room says the fox’s name as Nick is ready to be treated and checked out.

“Perfect timing.” Nick gets up from his seat, stretching his back and rubbing his bloated gut once more. “Meet me outside of the hospital.” He pats Judy on the head before walking to the next hallway over onto the left, the same path they saw the round raccoon went. Judy gets up from her seat and passes her way back down the hallway into the lobby, then towards the exit where she plans to wait for Nick by the bench right near the sliding double doors. As she sits there, she ponders at the fact that all of her life and almost a whole year in this city, she didn’t know about this condition. If someone were to tell her years ago, she would have seen this as a myth or a joke.

Thirty minutes later, Nick comes out of the building, not deflated nor bigger than Judy would have expected. “There you are, carrots.” He waves to Judy as the rabbit gets up from her seat.

“Hey Nick. How did it go?” She asks.

“Eh, the same thing usually. They just tell us not to drink anything carbonated and just to keep…..BUUUURP….burping.” Nick scratches underneath and the sides of his belly while adjusting his belt so he wouldn’t have to deal with the tightness or risk it bursting off of him. “You wanna stay at my place or yours?”

Judy would suggest her place, but then again, Nick wouldn’t be able to squeeze his body through her tiny door. He had a hard time before the expanded gut, but now it’s like he can’t enter until he can shrink his belly or upgrade her door frame. “Let’s go to yours. All I can hope is that you’ve cleaned up the place.” Nick wasn’t much of the guy to clean up his place, or that was until Judy ordered him to ever since she’s been staying at his place a couple of times before.

“Oh come on carrots. How do you expect me to bend down with this lovely balloon belly?” He teases, swaying it in front of her face, though she’s not amused by this. “Ugh, fine. But you gotta help me along the way.” He’s not going to try to clean everything with a belly that blocks the view of his legs and feet.

“I will help you, don’t worry. Now let’s get into a bus and get you home.” She plans out their trip back to Nick’s house. The fox nods his head as he follows Judy to the bus stop. Judy knows that her car is still in the parking lot behind the hospital and she’s deciding to keep it there for a bit longer, maybe tomorrow if it doesn’t get towed. But suddenly, her phone rings out of nowhere. “Huh?” She wasn’t expecting anyone to call her today, unless she’s being called back into work or it’s her parents. Looking at her phone, it was what she feared, Bogo. “Oh great. Hold on, Nick.”

Nick raises his eyebrow and leans his back against the bus sign. “Heh, who is it?”

Judy doesn’t listen to Nick and she answers the call. “Chief, did you need something?”

“I need you at Clawhauser’s place, now! We had an emergency!” What she wasn’t ready for was his tone to sound fearful and abrupt. There were also sounds of whimper and cries of help coming from the other line.

This changes Judy’s attitude about the situation. “Chief, is everything alright!? Is Clawhauser okay!?”

“I have no time to answer your questions, Hopps! Get here now! And bring Wilde if you have too!” Bogo hangs up the phone, leaving Judy in distress.

“Carrots?” Nick wasn’t able to hear what was going over the phone besides some shouting and Judy’s fearful tone. Judy turns to Nick, grabbing his paw before running with him back to the hospital’s parking lot around the back. “Geez! Slow down! I’m not athletic today!”

“No time! Clawhauser may be in trouble!” Judy has grown a relationship with the fat cheetah ever since she started as a newbie at the academy all the way from her big case. She considers him as a good friend and hearing what could have been his screams, makes her worry badly. They arrive at Judy’s small car, almost half than Nick’s side with his inflated belly. She unlocks the door and pushes Nick onto the passenger seat while she quickly gets into the driver's seat.

Nick wasn’t comfortable, with his belly pressed against the dashboard and the window with no chance of the seatbelt being able to reach all the way to the clip on the other side. At least if they get into a small crash, he can use his belly as an airbag. “C-carrots, you sure I can fit in here?”

The rabbit would care less about how squished Nick is right now. Well, she does care about his well being too but Clawhasuser is probably in a terrible state at the moment. “Sorry, it’s the only choice we got.” Like a madwoman, she rushes the car out of the parking lot and into the road. If she had her sirens attached to her car, this would’ve been easier to deal with the traffic ahead of her. Today has to be one of the wildest days Judy has experienced, and it’s not the first time she’s ever felt scared for a friend.
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They made it to Clawhauser’s apartment on time, just parked across the street as the two saw a crowd standing in front of the building, with the police guarding the entrance. Whatever is happening here must be serious. Judy gets out of her car, along with Nick who’s most relieved to give his belly it’s own proper space back rather than being in the smallest car he’s ever been in. Judy crosses the street and passes by a couple of the bystanders, some who are the bloated predators by their belches and the groaning coming from their tummies, so she can get in front. Nick follows her behind, a bit nauseous after the drive. It comes to a point where he wishes that he was just big enough to barely move, just so he can have some excuse to stay home. In front of the rabbit was a large rhino, blocking the front doors. He looks down at the rabbit, unable to recognize her since she wasn’t wearing her outfit. “Sorry, I can’t let you in, miss. Chief’s orders.”

Understandably, Judy pulls out her wallet which had her police badge in it, as it was her backup badge in case she’s in situations like these. “I’m officer Judy. Chief Bogo told me to come inside.” She said with assertion.

“Oh! Officer Hopps!” The rhino finally recognizes her now. “I’m very sorry about that. Come right in.” He moves the barrier behind him for her to get through.

“Thank you. Oh, and he’s with me.” She said, pointing at Nick, closely to his gas-filled gut.

“Of course.” The rhino lets Nick through as well. Once the two pass the barriers, they make it to the lobby of the building. Judy presses the button on the elevator and once it comes down and opens its doors, Judy wastes no time getting in with Nick. She knows which floor and room number Clawhauser lives at. Now thinking about it, Clawhauser is a predator so he can be experiencing the bloating as well as Nick. Then again, with how fat he is, his swelling won’t be noticeable. Then why would Bogo demand Judy to come here immediately? Up on the eighth floor, she and Nick hurry down the hallway to Clawhauser’s room. Both can hear what sounds like belching and whimpering on the other side of the door, just like on the phone.

Judy knocks on the door. “Chief? Are you in there?” Not even a second, a large muscular buffalo wearing his uniform opens the door.

“There you are, Hopps! Get in here you two!” Bogo wasn’t happy to see them late. Behind him was what Judy had feared and yet unexpected. It was Clawhauser, but he’s rather large. And not just in fat, he was the roundest blimp like a parade balloon! The poor cheetah’s body was squished inside his tiny apartment, from the ceiling, walls, and floor with his fat, bloated head sticking out unlike his puffy paws that were halfway sinking into his squished orb-shaped body. He whines as he lets out gassy belches, louder than Nick’s. Nick and Judy can’t tell if he inflated like this without clothes or if they had ripped onto the ground. They were lucky they were seeing his frontside, but they’ll like to believe he is wearing those stretchable underwear Clawhauser had yapped to them days ago when he found a product that he can’t accidentally rip apart. Bogo slams the door behind him and locks it, possibly to make sure no one else comes in uninvited, like the reports outside of the building.

Nick felt more jealous in a teasing way that Clawhauser was bigger, like he thought of this as a competition to see who can be inflated the most. “Geez, blimp! I didn’t know the season affected you like this!” But Nick wouldn’t want to end up near popping.

“Nick!” Judy softly punches him on the arm in anger before looking back at Clawhauser in fear again. “How did this happen!?”

“Mmmmfh!” The cheetah muffles, unable to speak through his full cheeks and chin. “Mmmfh! BUUURP!” Except for the belches.

“He forgot it’s bloating season.” Bogo answers for him. The chief crosses his arms and looks down at the rabbit and the bloated fox. “Or I think. I don’t know the details besides him calling me an hour ago, screaming that he’s swelling up like a balloon.” He then picks up what was an empty plastic bottle, with the labeling of a soda company called soda-o. “Then I saw these on the ground, about three of them and confronted him. And so a long story short, he made the mistake of chugging three of these soda bottles and built up the carbonation, turning him as Nick said before, a blimp.” Bogo was disappointed in how Clawhauser did this to himself. But in the cheetah’s defense, if he could talk again, he can’t tell if he’s bloated or not due to the amount of fat surrounding his body.

“Oh my. Will he be okay?” Judy asks.

“Hopefully.” Bogo bluntly says. “The only reason why I called you two up here is to watch over him while I find the best people to save his butt.” He pats Clawhauser’s side as the cheetah yips and whimpers more. “Plus, you two are the only ones who were free today as the other prey officers are busy with their own work and the bloated predators are basically like Clawhauser and Nick here. Now, make sure he doesn’t pop. I’ll be right back.” He passes by Judy and Nick before leaving the room, slamming the door behind him as they can hear his heavy footsteps fading away.

Judy, who promises to keep Clawhauser safe, goes up to the giant cheetah balloon and rubs his outward-curved chest. “Don’t worry, big guy. We’ve got you.” Judy eases and calms Clawhauser in hopes that he would stop whining once in a while. “Keep belching so you won’t have to grow bigger.” Clawhauser knows the dangers of keeping his gas in and lets out monstrous belches. “Perfect!” She encourages him. The way she's treating Clawhauser puts a smile on Nick’s face. It was her first time dealing with the season of the inflated predators and she’s doing the best job of it. If only she can do that to his belly as well. Unless he can play the right cards and convince her. Nick goes up behind her, slowly waddling his legs closer to her back in hopes to get her attention. The front of his belly pushes her back just slightly but enough for her to turn around. “Careful Nick, I’m not as strong as you think I am around you.” She’s only saying that because she wouldn’t want to hurt Nick if needed so, like if he were hit by those infectious blueberries from her case.

Nick scoffs and chuckles a little, but wouldn’t dare distract her from rubbing Clawhauser’s body. “Sorry, I just saw those rubs you gave him and got a little jealous.” His tail wags and rests his arms on his belly. “Back at the hospital, I really wanted you to give it a couple pets. I’ve seen workers done to the bloated predators a lot of times during this season.”

“Oh really? Why didn’t you ask? I would have done it for you.” Nick is her close friend after all and by all of the times they’ve worked together brings her tons of joy, even if Nick is somewhat stubborn and risky to trust from the beginning.

That’s all Nick wanted to hear. “Great! After this, my place. No one else, just me and you.” He can’t consider this a date, as neither of them had thought about being mates. Not to mention that if a prey and predator were to date, people would question it. Until the mayor can resolve this issue, maybe they can give it a try. Unless Judy had someone else in mind, someone that Nick doesn’t know and would absolutely get jealous over in a more serious matter rather than the teasing kind he’s always done for her ever since he joined the police force. “Oh, and I give out the best snuggles. UURP!”

To Judy, she giggles at the thought of Nick snuggling her, not that she would refuse an offer like that. “I won’t doubt that.” The rabbit places her paw underneath Nick’s belly and scratches him softly, making Nick smile with pleasure as his tail wags faster like a dog’s. “Heh, looks like I’m gonna be rubbing both of your bellies.”

“Mmmmfhhhh…..BUUUUURP!” Clawhauser enjoyed the belly rubs as well, making him feel safer with Judy and Nick around. He still feels like he’s going to pop but hopefully that never happens. Once he finally deflates, he’ll have to stay away from carbonation until he’s back to his normal self in a few days, then he’ll ask for more of those belly rubs. He wonders if he could have both her and Nick to rub his belly here again, maybe once his bed isn’t crushed and buried underneath his body.
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Hours later, with the sun setting down and the sky getting darker, Chief Bogo had finally brought the professionals to Clawhauser’s place to treat and get him deflated back to normal. Judy and Nick were both grateful that the cheetah will be fine. They were back at Nick’s place as Judy had still promised to take care of him until his belly isn’t large enough to put the fox in a limited mobility. She’s impressed that Nick had used his paychecks from his job to spend rightfully on the items he bought for his new place. Like a soft bed, not too expensive yet not too broken down. He’s gotten himself new appliances like a dishwasher, an oven, and a refrigerator. He also had enough for a TV, a box television to be exact. He does plan to upgrade it soon enough he gets a couple more paychecks. Judy could say that his place is much better than hers. Nick lays on his bed, on his back, and takes his buttoned shirt off just so he can be shirtless for the night. “So carrots, tell me the truth. What do you think of this special season for us predators?” He wants to know her opinion on it.

Judy didn’t know what to think of this bloating season. Maybe happy that the prey are safe from it, or a bit freaked out this morning from Bobo’s message about Nick in the hospital. “Honestly, you seem to enjoy it a lot. Why don’t you tell me what you like about it?”

“That’s easy. Two things: The belly rubs and how I adore my inflated gut.” Nick squeezes his gut as much as he can, forcing the gassy burps out of his maw.

“Seriously?” Judy didn’t think of Nick as someone who has always wanted to be bloated with gas. “I mean, that does explain the pumps you have in this closet here.” Judy opens the small-spaced closet, filled with bike pumps of all sizes, ones with handles and others that are foot pumps.

Nick rolls his eyes and chuckles heartedly. “Yeah, and I’ve been thinking of doing it another day when I’m skinny again. Maybe you should be the one to pump me.” He flirts, winking his eye at her with his crossed wrists pinned behind his head.

The rabbit wishes that she can say no, but she also wants to see how much Nick loves it. “Alright, but just as long as you don’t try to pop on me. We can do it next week if you’re free by then.”

“Deal.” Nick does love negotiating with her. “Now come up here and rub my belly like you promised.” He hadn’t forgotten about that and Judy wasn’t planning to skip that part. She gets up the bed, with her butt sitting on his legs and her chest leaning against Nick’s gut. Then, she starts from the sides of his belly and massages. “Mmmmmmm….BURP…….that’s the spot!” He felt like a dog for sure, enjoying these pets and demanding to be pampered with love. “You’ve really made me happy the whole day, carrots!” He pants as she moves onto the front and the surrounding area around his fur-covered navel.

She laughs as she keeps going for a little longer, though not much as she does have to get some rest for work tomorrow. Maybe by then, Nick’s belly would be smaller for work as well so she wouldn’t have to work alone. “So where are those snuggles you said before? Seems like you’ve lied about that.”

“Oh, about that….” Nick has something else in mind by his devilish grin. “I got something else, come closer to my face for me.”

“Hmmm?” Judy wouldn’t expect anything worse out of Nick, besides how sneaky he is with his ideas. Trusting him, she scoots her body up to Nick before Nick helps by adjusting his body to the side while letting Judy get in front of him, laying on her side as well. Nick wraps his arm around her head and pulls her in softly, with both of their lips touching. Of all the things Judy had thought of, a kiss was something that wasn’t on her list. It was smooth and yet deep. Nick knew how to make her feel right at home for sure. “Mmmmmm…..” It was the best kiss she’s ever gotten, her first too. Of course, it turns out that was Nick’s trap all along as his neck expands with gas coming upwards and through his cheeks, once the gas was inside his maw, he opens wide and traps Judy’s upper and lower lips instead before letting out an aggressive belch. “MMFH!?” This alerts Judy as her cheeks blows up and can feel Nick’s burp moving down her own throat and into her stomach.

“BRWWWWWWMP!” Nick couldn’t hug tightly around her with his arms so he uses his legs that were better at holding things tightly. They wrap around Judy’s butt and squishes her body against his gut, creating the belch to be longer than he was planning. Judy’s once flat belly begins to swell out like a balloon. She puts both of her paws on her gut as the buttons on her shirt pop out in an instead. With how much force Nick is putting into this burp, she’s about the size of a basketball in less than a minute. She felt as if she was either pregnant herself or filled her belly up with food from a buffet, a joke that she had made to Nick the first time she saw him today.

When the belch weakens down, Nick lets go of her. Judy coughs and catches her breath, expanding and deflating her belly by a little, though it wouldn’t help fix the size. “What was that!? You inflated me!?” She was mad to the boiling point. It would have been better if Nick asked rather than trick her way to it. “Really!? I look……” There is something that puts it to ease in her mind when she looks at her bloated gut. “Cute?” Is she loving it or was this Nick playing another trick on her? She rubs her belly again, this time focusing on how it feels. “Wow….”

“Heh, I knew you would love it.” He did not but he loves to look smart and understand what people like to do. “Such a blimpy rabbit you are. Now you know why us predators are more dominant.” The fox pokes at her gut while the rabbit winces in embarrassment. “Now you get to know what it's like being one of us.”

Is that why Nick did this, she thought in her head. Was it a way to show her how fun it is to blow up like a balloon? Maybe he was right, but it is her first time so she can have mixed thoughts about it. “I guess…..maybe we should get some rest.” She said, laying on the bed with her belly pressed against his. “BUUURP!” And hopefully soon enough her belching can deflate her belly until the next morning. The belch does make her shy enough to keep her mouth closed until she’s alone. She doesn’t want Nick to make fun of her for that anymore.

Nick lays next to her, with his lay on top of her’s and his snout nuzzling against the top of his belly. “Nice one, carrots. You’re just as gassy as me.” He jokes, just what Judy fears.


Judy didn’t know if she should kiss him again or threaten to pop him. “Sometimes Nick, you never take anything seriously.” And Judy has so much proof of that. The warmth building up from the fox’s fur was just like her blanket back at her place, giving her both comfort and relaxation. It takes Judy minutes to pass out, probably because she wakes up early in the morning and wasted her energy from the stress built from worrying about her close friends. With the rabbit out, Nick spends the rest of his minutes adjusting his body to a more comfortable position before he closes his eyes and rests on his pillow. What a wonderful day this was for both the bloated fox and rabbit.