The Genie of the Cupcake

The Genie of the Birthday Cake

The brown furred wolf sat in a chair wearing his favorite brown pants and blue shirt. Sitting on the kitchen in front of him was a single chocolate cupcake with frosting who's flavor could best be described as pink. Pink was its own unique flavor in that it didn't taste like anything but yet was still obviously tasting like something. It was rather strange why the flavor pink was so popular in the choice of cupcakes, but the wolf called Camis wouldn't object. It was after all a gift. Today was his birthday, and while normal people be giving him alcohol or money for alcohol for this specific day, someone had sought to send him a rather pink cupcake. Its pinkness lit up the entire room in an aura of pink. It was enough to give one a cavity just by being within three houses of it. Perhaps the pink cupcakes for actually a conspiracy by dentist to maintain their control over mankind through the creation of new cavities. However, this is now a story of an evil dentist conspiracy as old as time itself. No, this is the story of a wolf named Camis, and his very pink cupcake.

A single candle was sticking out of the bright pink frosting. It was a light blue in contrast to the pinkness that overshadowed the rest of the cupcake. A single yellow flame stood atop the cupcake. When Camis thought about him it struck him as strange. One does not normally find a single cupcake in their mailbox, nor is candle in the cupcake usually already lit. Still, there it had been, and now it stood on the kitchen table. Camis had spent a long time deciding if it would be a wise idea to eat the cupcake or not. It had after all been sitting in the mail box, but there certainly was something alluring about the strange pink cupcake. Still it had been in the dusty mailbox.

Camis shrugged. Either way, he probably needed to put that candle out before he wound up burning down the house. So, he took one deep breath and blew it out, and immediately was covered in a pink puff of smoke.

"Greetings!" It was a strange bear speaking. He was only about four feet tall, and was floating in the air above the cupcake. He had on bright red pants, a brighter red vest, and for some reason pink frosting atop his pink furred head. "I am the Genie of the Cupcake!"

"Genie, of the cupcake?" Camis inquired, having nearly fallen out of his chair when the genie appeared.

"Of course!" Was the genie's reply. "You didn't think it was just the birthday candles that granted wishes did you? I mean, a candle, with magic powers? That's just ridiculous."

"Oh, well, I guess that makes sense." Camis was still a little uncertain about what was going on.

"Indeed!" The genie replied. "Now for blowing out the candle and releasing me from the cupcake you get exactly one wish! It may be anything you want, except for a pinker cupcake."

"One wish?" Camis seemed confused. "I thought Genies granted three wishes."

"One wish per candle!" The genie shouted.

"Wait, does that mean that if I were to go grab more candles and put them in I'd get more wishes?" Camis asked.

"Uh yes, I suppose." The genie reluctantly admitted. "But, I just remembered you only have thirty seconds to make your wish or it's gone!"

"Thirty seconds!? How am I supposed..." Camis objected.

"Twenty five." The genie remarked.

"What if I just wished for additional candles?" Camis tried to ask.

"Fifteen." Was the genie's reply.

"Alright, alright, just give me a second to think!" Camis shouted sounding rushed.

"Five." The genie spoke.

"Alright! I...." Camis tried to think quickly about what he wanted, but couldn't think about anything other than this being the most eventful birthday he had since he was a child. "I wish I was a little kid!"

"Your wish, is granted." The genie's voice suddenly dropped to a lower pitch, and it bursts out into maniacal laughter.

"Wait why are you talking like..." Camis was caught off guard, as he noticed that his voice suddenly sounded much higher pitched than normal. At the same time his clothing was becoming a good deal looser. His fur even felt a little fluffier, and though he couldn't tell it his facial features were a good deal softer. "It's actually happening!?" Camis was surprised, but not really disappointed. The more he thought about it the better he felt. It may have been a hasty wish, but a second childhood would be fun. However, as his body passed twelve years of age and he was still getting younger he wondered if perhaps he should have specified an age. Time continued to flow backwards for his body, back through single digits, and eventually four years old. The strange thing was, his body was still getting smaller. However, he felt strange. He was getting smaller, but no younger. In a moment, he was only a foot tall, and his shirt was falling around his waist. The only reason it was still on him at all was because he was sitting on part of it in the chair. "Hey, what's happening?"

"Oh?" The genie replied. "I hope I didn't mishear you. But I thought you wished to be a little kid."

"I did but.... Ohhhhh, I see what you're doing there." Camis' height would now be measured in inches, and he was able to pull his legs out of his shirt and sit with them crossed on top of the giant mass of cloth.

"Oh, that's no fun. You're supposed to sit there and object until I have to spell it out for." The genie pouted.

"Well....." Camis was down to six inches, and getting smaller. "So far this really isn't that bad."

"You don't feel, just a teensy bit terrified and enraged?" The genie pleaded.

"Nope!" The wolf pup reached his new height of a single inch tall. His body finally stopped changing, and the small brown fur pup was left sitting on top of the giant blue cloth that had once been his shirt. "I mean it will be harder to get around, but it's not like I can't live like this."

"Oh um..." The genie seemed really disappointed.

"Though... I don't suppose you could poof me up some clothing that would actually fit?" Camis asked.

"No! Ahahahahaha!" The genie started to gloat. "Now you see the true curse of your wish! I leave you  mortal, to suffer eternally for your hasty wish!" The genie vanished in a puff of smoke.

"It wasn't really that big a deal." Camis said flatly, then looked up at the table towering above him. "Now, how do I get to the giant cupcake?"