Chapter 4: the incredible shrinking Peter
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" screamed Lois in horror when she saw her husband.
"AHHHHH!!" shouted Peter in fear, awaken by Lois' shout "Lois, are you nuts? Why did you scream like that?" Being awakened by a loud shout wasn't for sure a pleasant way to start the morning.
"What the hell?" said Brian, who was also waked by Lois' voice.
"Pe…Peter…look at you!" said Lois', too disturbed of the sigh of her spouse. Brian was also looking him in disbelief.
Peter then looked at himself.
"What? I don't know what you are referring to… Hey, you said pee, hehehehehe" said Peter, totally oblivious. His retarded mind wouldn't find out what was wrong with him.
"I mean…doesn't everything… look…bigger to you?" asked Brian, very concerned.
Peter stared at them blankly. But slowly, Peter realized (finally!) that indeed, everything was bigger: the bed, the pillows, the room, even Lois and Brian. In fact, Lois and Brian were giant-sized in Peter's view. Why? Because, for some "unknown" reason, Peter was now 4 inches tall!! His clothes also shrank with him. Even the clothes who was not wearing. Don't ask me why.
(A/N: As all Europeans (minus the English), I use to work with the metric system, but I guess that most of my readers are Americans. Anyway, 4 inches are approximately 10 centimetres)
"Mom! I've heard you screaming! What the-AHHHHH!!" shouted Meg who burst in her parent's room, and saw her father's new size.
"AHHHHHH!!" shouted Peter again "It's King Kong!!" screamed in terror, pointing Meg, and trying to cover with the sheets.
Meg, like her mother, was too shocked for consider Peter's remark.
Chris and Stewie also walked into their parent's room, wandering why everybody was screaming.
"Vile woman!! I demand you to tell me why you interrupted my dream of being with Justin Timber…uhh, I meant, being the world's overlord!!" shouted Stewie, angrily, while holding his dear Rupert.
"Hehe, a doll who looks like dad!" laughed Chris happily when he saw Peter.
"Hey, I'm not a doll, you idiot!" complained the little man.
"Hehe, a doll who looks like dad and curses like dad! I want one too!" laughed again, while clapping.
"Wow, the Fatman's now a midget" said Stewie flatly.
"Yes, this is even worst than Peter's last journey to France" said Brian.
Flashback
Peter was visiting Paris, while being a huge battle in the city, which was conquered by England, but the French Army was trying to recapture Joan of Arc was leading the armies of France.
"Hey, Knight-woman, I can see your neckline!" shouted Peter to Joan.
"What?" said Joan confused while turning Peter. Then an arrow hits her in the chest, making her fall form her horse.
"Oh, no! Joan has fallen!" shouted in horror a French soldier.
"Now we can't take back our beloved nation!" complained another.
"It serves you right for count on a woman for doing men's job!" said Peter to the French army. "Hehehehe, fighting women, how cute…"
End Flashback
"Wait, was Peter born when that happened?" asked Lois a bit confused.
Moments later, everybody was in the kitchen, discussing about Peter's size change.
"I still can't understand how this happened" said Brian, still atonished.
"I…I may know why" said Meg a bit nervous "Maybe…was the Losing Weigh Spell I cast on him two days ago"
"Haha, seems that it worked!" laughed Stewie, who was amused of not being the smallest in the family, at least by now.
"This must be what Seamus talked about" said Brian "And yes, Peter has lost weigh, but not the way we would expect"
"I can't believe that book is really magical" said Lois, a bit scared.
"Maybe I can find a way to reverse dad back to normal" suggested Meg.
"Ok, enough chatting, I must go to work" said Peter while leaving the kitchen.
"Peter, are you insane?" asked Lois, with an angry tone "You can go to work like that!"
"Why?"
"WHY!? Do you really need me to explain you?" said Lois. How could Peter be so irresponsible?
"Come on Lois, being small is not an obstacle for working" said Peter.
"Dad's right" said Chris "Look at Rey Mysterio"
Cutaway
In the WWE, Smackdown brand, Rey Mysterio is in a fight against the self proclaimed World Strongest Man, Mark Henry. Mysterio, obviously, has all the tickets to lose the match.
Mark Henry then lifts the Mexican wrestler and throws him out of the ring.
"Wow, Rey Mysterio is used to high fly, but this was just too much for him!" said Mick Foley "It seems that Henry will win the match soon".
"Don't underestimate Mysterio, Mick" said Michael Cole "He's prone to overcome hard situations like this. I'm sure he will surprise us again"
Rey Mysterio then sneaks under the ring, searching for some item. Mark Henry then goes down to finish the match, but to his surprise, Rey Mysterio pulls out a flamethrower from under the ring, aims at Henry, and incinerates him. However, the referee didn't see this hardly fair tactic, and gives Mysterio the victory.
End Cutaway
"You're not going any where" said Lois, who picked Peter with one hand and lifted him with extreme easiness.
"Let me go, let me go, let me go!" sobbed Peter, as he tried to escape from Lois' hand, but it was futile. "You're nothing but a big bully!!" shouted Peter in a childish manner.
"Peter, while you're this size, you can't go out of this house. I mean, people could stomp on you!" said Brian, trying to make him understand the situation.
"I will call to the brewery and say that you're sick" said Lois as he left Peter in the floor again"And don't try to escape from this house! Right?" said Lois to her husband in a menacing tone.
Surprisingly, despite of his wife was now enormous in his view, Peter wasn't intimidated by her. Maybe was his natural contempt for women, maybe because his stupid mind didn't allow him to realize how easy was for anyone to kill him.
"Also, we cannot let anyone to see Peter like this" stated Brian wisely "I'm sure that if we don't keep this as a secret, soon some government scientist will take him away and will do nasty experiments with his body, you know what I'm referring to"
A few days passed since Peter's size change. Meg tried to find a way to reverse the spell, but there wasn't anything she could do for growing her dad back to normal. Luckily, the spell only would last a few days, so the only thing what remained to do was wait until the effect passes out.
Peter and Brian were sit in the couch watching the TV. Lois, Chris and Meg walks downstairs.
"Honey, I'm going to take the children to the school" said Lois. The she tried to kiss Peter in the cheeks, but she kissed him in the whole face. "Brian, keep and eye on him. I don't want him to do any stupid stuff" whispered to the dog, but Peter heard it.
"Hey! I don't do stupid stuff!" complained Peter.
"Don't you remember when you kidnapped the Pope?" asked Lois.
"Or when you feigned your own death and Death almost took your soul away" said Brian.
"Or when you pretended that I was dying to prevent the cancellation of Gumble 2 Gumble" said Chris.
"Or when you disguised as a teenager assisted to my school" said Meg
"Well, maybe-" tried to say Peter, but was interrupted.
"Or when you almost get me killed by the Mafia" said Lois again.
"Or when you founded your own nation" said Brian again.
"Or when you tried to convert me to Judaism because you though that would make me smarter" said Chris again.
"Or when you tried to break a Guinness record, losing your sight in the process" said Meg again.
"Or when you-" tried to said Lois.
"OK I GOT IT!!" said Peter angrily, after hearing a small part of his 'achievements'.
"Well, goodbye, I'll be back in a couple of hours" said Lois before she and her children left Peter and Brian alone.
"Oh, man, being so small sucks!" complained Peter "I can't go anywhere! I can only stay here, eat and drink a lot and watch TV" said while he was drinking a can of beer, which by the way, has the same size as Peter.
"…" Brian stared at him.
"Hey, it isn't that bad" said Peter after thinking about it. "But it's still worse that my last medic check"
Flashback
Peter is in a doctor's office, sit in a table, when his doctor arrives. It's tall, dressed informally, with black short hair, a small beard and hobbled helped with a walking stick.
(A/N: guess who is)
"Well Mr…Griffin, what's your problem?" asked the medic.
"I feel the stomach funny…like it's swelled" said Peter. Suddenly, the doctor hits him in the guts with his stick.
"What the hell are you doing!?" asked Peter in pain.
"I was searching the focus of the pain" said before taking a vicodin.
"Are…are you sure you know what are you doing?"
"Oh, no, I'm a freshman medic that has just earned his title and I don't know what I'm doing" replied sarcastically "It's only gases. Look better what do you eat. You can go back home".
"Wait, If it's only that, why did you hit me?" asked Peter, still in pain.
"Because it was funny".
End flashback
"And I've not told you the worse"
Flashback
Meg is sit in the couch watching TV
End Flashback
"Do you know how is to be trapped under Meg's butt being this small? Under MEG'S BUTT!?"
"And how about…sex?" asked Brian.
"Just fine" said Peter.
"Just fine? How can you make love with Lois being so small?" asked in disbelief.
"She uses me as a sex toy"
Brian then stared at him astonished. One of his eyes started to twitches.
"I must make Meg to shrink me too" muttered.
"Did you say something?"
"Nothing!" said Brian quickly, as he turned on the TV.
Cutaway to TV
"In local news, James Woods' student Connie D'Amico has been arrested for drug possession" said Tom.
"That's right Tom. The school's principal found cocaine in her locker, although D'Amico claimed that it wasn't hers, so she will be expelled form the school. But this is not the first time, I mean, a kid in possession of drugs, right Tom?" Teased the anchorwoman.
"Diane, please, don't start talking about that again" said Tom pissed. "And now Ollie Williams will expose his opinion about this incident. Ollie?"
"DRUGS ARE BAD!!" shouted Ollie quickly.
"Thank you Ollie"
End Cutaway
"It seems that Meg went a bit overboard with that curse" said Brian.
"I love watching the news in bad times" said Peter "It reminds me that there are people who are in a worse situation than me"
"Interesting point of view" remarked Brian "I'm going for another beer" said before leaving the living room.
However, when he came back, Peter wasn't there. Brian, worried, searched for him across the whole house, but found nothing.
"Peter, where are you?" shouted while searching, as the dog was losing his temper. "If this is a joke, it isn't funny!!"
Brian waited until the rest of the family arrived, then he told them about Peter's disappearance.
"Oh my god!" exclaimed Lois "How could you let him get out of home!" said Lois to Brian angrily.
"I only went to the kitchen for a beer, and when I came back, Peter wasn't there! I don't know how he could leave the house so fast!" said Brian.
"Well, if dad's so small, he couldn't go too far" said Meg "Streets are much bigger for him, and he couldn't take the car"
"Let's find him before something else happens" said Lois.
The Griffin family went outside and started the search of Peter looking around the street. It was a hard search, due to Peter's small size and the fact that they couldn't answer anybody about that, or they would be mistaken as a bunch crazy people.
"Brian, do you find any clues?" said Chris, a bit worried.
"Sorry, but don't. I lose his track when he left the house. Is like he vanished" stated the dog.
"Oh, my dear Peter, where are you? I will die if something bad happened to him" cried Lois.
"Really!?" said Stewie in a very exalted way.
"Well, let's continue searching" said Meg.
They split around Quahog in a vain attempt to find Peter. After hours of searching, at nightfall, they were back at home, in defeat.
"Any luck?" asked Lois.
"Nothing" said Meg
"Me neither" said Chris "I've even used a metal detector" and indeed, Chris was carrying a metal detector.
"Chris, why did you search a human of bone and flesh with a metal detector?" asked Brian.
"I always found things with it when we go to the beach" said Chris.
Flashback
Chris is walking in the beach with the metal detector. Then it starts to whistle at fast rate. Chris, touched, start digging in the sand. Suddenly, Megatron bursts out of the sand, and fires his weapons towards Chris.
"DIE, HUMAN!!"
"Ahhhhhh" shouted Chris as he ran in fear.
End flashback
"Well, it seems we must continue the search tomorrow" said Lois depressed.
When they entered in the house, to their surprise, Peter, who was now normal sized, was sit on the couch watching TV.
"Hey guys, what are you been doing?" asked nonchalantly.
"PETER!!" shouted Lois as she ran to hug him "where you were?!"
"In the clam with my friends. The shrinking spell effect ended few hours ago, and I went there to celebrate it, the same way I celebrate all things, even our anniversary".
"Anyway, it's a relief to have you back to normal" said Lois, still overwhelmed by the emotion.
"So, it seems that the book you gave Meg is indeed magical" said Brian "And this must be was Seamus was talking about".
"Don't worry, I promise since now that I will use a more responsible use of it" said Meg, a bit worried of the fact that they may want her to ditch the book.
"I don't know" said Lois "If something like that happens again…"
"If something like that happens again I will burn it, I promise" answered Meg.
"Ok, you can keep it, but be careful" said Lois.
"Oh, and Meg, I think you went to far with cursing Connie" said Brian " I know that she's a bitch, but there's a limit even for bitches.
"Are you referring to the drugs in her locker?" asked Meg.
Brian nodded.
"And who said that it was part of the curse?" said Meg with a self pleasured grin in her face.
End of Chapter
Author's note: I'd like to thank all the people who has added this story to their favourites. Also, I'd like to ask to all the people who read this story to review it, nobody does it besides Malcolm Fox, and is something that I'd really appreciate. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.