Jade's Theory - Chapter 1 (Patreon)

 Chapter 1: Living in Paradise

By: Growth Gooru

She rolled out of bed, taking in a long breath in as she stretched her short skinny arms extended into slender and soft hands. Her long silken black hair flowed down past her shoulders, just above her toned chest. She had deep charcoal eyes that had delicate pear shaped curves to them. She shined in the light making her appear angelic as the island sun beamed onto her light cream colored skin. Her complexion was pale as snow, it didn't make hiding her less attractive features any easier. She had a unique blend of eastern beauty, her father was Japanese, and her mother was Korean, her features resembled her mother's mostly, she had her eyes, lips, and delicate face. Unfortunately it was hidden underneath a layer of imperfections, most of all, the dark rings around the bottom of her eyes from all of the time spent staring at computer screens, logging data and assessing research.

As she lazily walked towards the bathroom her pajamas slid down her shoulders, even a young adult sized pajama set wasn't fitted for women under five feet. She struggles with it for a moment, then loosely catches it, trying her best to center the top neckline over her narrow shoulders. The small woman was four foot eleven and had a chest flat as a cliffside, no bumps other than her two hardly noticeable nipples and she had an even tinier hole where her belly button was. She always hated the fact that her puberty never gave her any womanly features, she looked like she was still in her early teens. Her best feature was her pillowy lips, they had a delicate softness to them.

She walked into the bathroom, two and a half feet from the top of the frame, she put her hand around the edge of it, she struggled closing it, as an edge caught on the floor. She rolled her eyes and pulled tighter, leaving a sizable scratch on the floor and locked it, letting loose a long sigh.

Her room was about the size of an average household bedroom, plenty of room for her desk, twin bed, and dresser. A window was facing an open beach and sea, a few palm trees dotted the specks of green before landing into an endless expanse of sand and ocean. The island house her father had been given to conduct his research was tight, but cozy, the plain white walls and modern furniture left nothing left to art or beauty. Most of the furniture was crafted by a local employee of the same company her father worked for just a few months now. Most of her clothes and other items were strewn about everywhere in a big mess. Although notably a single lab coat, equipped with vials, gloves, and a pair of goggles hung on the coat rack near the exit of her room. The ceiling was tall, spiraling into a cone shape, starting from seven feet near the edges all the way to ten feet in height near the tip of the dome roofing.

Inside the small bathroom, she was lazily doing her morning routine sheepishly grabbing whatever she needed along her calculated trip to breakfast and a cup of coffee. She struggled to reach up towards the sink mirror, every day she felt this same kink in her neck from stretching her arm towards the mirror door. Nonetheless she reached towards it and grabbed her toothpaste and started brushing, quickly hitting the shower lever as she heard her father call out, “Jade! Breakfast!”. She didn't respond, now stepping into the shower after rustling off her pajamas. She reached up to the shower head, pointing it into her mouth, gargling and rinsing, and then whipping back the curtain to toss the brush back in. She tosses it forward, landing into the toilet with a tiny plink. Her face twists into a knot, she starts to huff as she looks down at her wet body, unimpressed. She spreads soap across her bare chest, suds form up and then drips down her smooth body, her butt was small, and inoffensive. Her pixie like body was cute at best, at worst she looked like a young boy with very long hair. She never dreamed of having a huge bust or massive bubble butt until recently when her father and her moved to the Goddess Resort.

The Goddess Resort was a soon to be open island spa off the coast of Miami. All the employees at the spa were required to undergo a special screening process, and submit lab work, and specialized training. Everything was pretty low key, and nobody talked much, gossip was rare, and work was abundant, most people kept their mouths shut about any strange happenings on the resort, after they signed an NDA, and a few other official documents. All of the employees at the higher up positions of the company were women, the CEO naturally, also a woman, Cynthia Gray, a philanthropist billionaire who spent her money funding the Goddess Project. Nobody really knows where Miss Gray got her wealth from, some say a large portion was from her husband, Alton Gray, who had passed away a few years prior to the launch of her corporation.

Naturally the resort was bustling with working women, most of which appeared to be under five foot six, the average height for most American women. The resort was free from tourists for now, so the women in question were laborers mostly, the majority of them being men. They spent their days toiling in the hot sun over building plans, using heavy machinery, and discussing different structural techniques as hours passed through the early morning. Most men who worked for Goddess were scientists, Jade's father, being one of them. He was definitely in the minority, as almost all the scientists were women, primarily Asian, as the resort attracted a large number of Koreans, probably due to the film and cinema scene.

Goddess had been working on a number of different projects over the past few months, establishing their position on the beauty market by funding and buying out most of the major shareholders to any company involved in HGH, the human growth hormone. Miss Gray couldn't have children of her own, so she spent a large number of her funds donating to women who were less fortunate. With the leading biologists, chemists, and doctors around the world she organized a team of super minds to tackle her latest project; HGH:cX, otherwise known as the Human Growth Hormone: Catalyst X, The X-Catalyst was a lab made Class-A mutagen that allowed the pituitary gland to rapidly expand and overdevelop when used in conjunction with HGH.

Of course most experiments using the catalyst resulted in failure. The ones that were quoted as a success gave their subjects a confidence boost and a small increase in libido and breast sensitivity, but never any actual signs of maturity. The project's goal was to combine the two and create an easy to use growth serum for underdeveloped women, after a brief screening process. To create business and to test the product they decided to open the resort and sell oil massages using HGH:X in an oil based lubricant form, hopefully gaining enough traction to make food grade and edible versions of the products and take over the global beauty market with medicinal growth serums. The project was far from complete though, many tests were still being done, the island was being constructed, and the X-Catalyst was yet to be fully catalyzed with the growth hormones. Jade's father, Kiryu, was part of a team of six other scientists who were to combine the substances and create something “easy to swallow”, the phrase was coined by the head of the advertising department, and stuck with him. It was stressful work, but he was given a fully functioning lab built beneath the highly advanced home he and Jade were staying in.

Jade stepped out of the shower, patting herself dry and walking towards the mirror, still glancing at the toothbrush floating in the toilet. She shook her hair out in the towel, and looked at the mirror. Her shoulders just reached about the sink, she looked like an anvil at the bottom of a long glass, too short, and barely noticeable. She finished drying herself off and headed out to her room. Her dresser was full of fresh clothes, mostly white tank tops, shorts, skirts, and brightly colored floral dresses. She looked at the tag, young adult and twisted her mouth again. She grabbed a tank top, and shorts, and grabbed her glasses on her desk. It was filled with old manga, and sketches of different landscapes, buildings, and faces.

Her desk was littered with pencil shavings, and tiny bits of white eraser dust, from the nights doodling and listening to lo-fi, and k-pop. Before leaving she quickly goes into the bathroom and grabs her toothbrush and winces, quickly grabbing a bottle of rubbing alcohol and pouring it all over. She watched it fizz slightly hearing her father yell another time; “Jade! It's going to be cold!” – ”Coming, Dad!”she raised her voice, barely shaking the glass near her. She had a light and soft voice, she had a cute giggle accompanied by an even more adorable smile. She put on her flip-flops and raced into the kitchen, seeing her father sitting with his smartphone, reading news and other articles relating to science and biology.

Kiryu was tall and handsome for a Japanese man, he was six foot two, he absolutely towered over his daughter, naturally he always felt protective of her, because of her size at her age. His gelled back professional black hair had always been the center of his appearance. He wasn’t old, but small grey streaks began to fill the roots of his hair near his ears and forehead. He wasn’t too grizzled, but he did have a fair share of wrinkles and looked aged, but like a fine wine. He was well built, and used his home gym usually to its maximum, recently after moving he had been losing a bit of muscle and becoming thinner from the hot and wet air around the island. The top of his daughter’s head came up under his shoulders, he could easily lift her without trouble. He toiled hours over human growth hormone research, as his genes didn't even slightly pass to his daughter. He eventually found himself joining the Goddess Company to one day find a way to naturally and in a healthy way, bring Jade up to a normal woman's height to find a husband. He always worried she was never going to find love, at her size, and being in the lab all day, didn't lend her any favors. He had short highly trimmed and professional looking gelled black hair. He usually wore square rimmed glasses, or a set of goggles, his attire was relatively generic, he wore a tie during research and asset management during his office hours, but at home he simply wore a lab coat, with a simple ensemble, as he was not an extremely fashionable man, but a smart one with simple tastes.

“Good Morning, Jade.”

“Morning...”Jade yawned and grabbed the coffee maker, taking whatever was left over and pouring it into a cup, she made her way to sit down at the table as her father grabbed her arm.

“Don't forget, to change.” He points at her flip-flops as she stops clapping them against the wooden floor. She looked at her father, still staring at her phone, not paying attention to her, still pointing with his left hand.

“Yeah...I got it.”Jade rolled her eyes, and sat down, watching her dad methodically click the side of his smartphone screen, then raising his head towards her with renewed vigor. “Good! We are going to try the first catalyst today, so be ready.”

“Really? This soon?”

Jade knew the science behind the whole scene was going well, but her father's calculations seemed a bit overzealous for the amount of time that has gone into the project thus far. “Yes...well we've made some major findings, I got back a positive match for the sample I submitted. Now eat, I'll be downstairs waiting, and the shoes please.” 

She nodded, and looked down at her wheat cereal and milk as it bubbled a bit before becoming soft. She finished her cereal quickly leaving one left in the bowl, patting her stomach. She would get full easily, being so small, she only needed a little bit to keep going. She watched it float around, imagining herself on it, sailing across a sea of cold cascading milk. She watched a sea of flowing milk crash over her wheat ship sending her into an ocean of white. She stopped daydreaming and grabbed her spoon, finished the last bite, and drank all the remaining milk. A single trail of milk dripped down her cheek, she wiped her face clean and left the bowl in the sink. She stretched her short arms hardly reaching above her head, then yawned and headed to her room, to change and get ready for the experiment. The dresser drawers flung open as her tiny arms reached in and into each of the drawers and suited herself up. Her clothes were neatly stacked and folded, probably by the maid. She started gathering up her long black silken hair, delicately holding her hand with a scrunchie tying her hair in a ponytail, letting it fall afterwards, swaying from side to side. Placing the lab coat over top, one knot first in front and then in back for her lab coat, which admittedly was most likely a halloween costume, due to her comically small size, but it did the job regardless. She looked into the mirror putting her oversized goggles on, looking at how unprofessional and boyish she looked and scoffed on the way towards the basement elevator, leading to the personal lab.

The metal door had a small number pad on it and a thumb-print scanner, Jade placed her thumb on it as it scanned, releasing a small cone of light that beamed over rigid stuck out thumb. The door released and made a ding, as the elevator made its way back towards the top of the surface level of the island. Jade stepped in and pressed the basement level key as the door shut and the elevator box shunted downwards quickly. Jade thought to herself about the catalyst; “I wonder why the growth hormones haven't catalyzied yet. There could be a hundred reasons why, but I'm thinking that it needs more complex organic matter, rodents aren't enough at this point, I'll ask dad about it.”

She heard her phone ring, she popped off one of her gloves and frantically picked it up; “Hello?”– ”Hey Good Morning! It's Ashley from Goddess, how's your father doing?”– “Hi, um... yeah he's fine, what's this about?”– ”Oh! That's great. Good to hear. How is the project proceeding? Miss Gray requested an immediate notice for any findings, so I apologize for any urgency.”Jade rolled her eyes and continued, in a less enthusiastic tone; “Nothing yet, but I'll call you as soon as we find something.” – ”Good. Keep up the good work. Tell your father the same sentiment. Have a good day.” She put the phone back in her lab coat pocket and started fidgeting with her glove starting to picture Ashley's smug face behind the phone. In truth Ashley was panicking, her work phone was ringing off the hook. She was shuffling papers on her desk trying to schedule every last man on earth who wanted to eventually step foot onto the island.

The chestnut haired woman was taller than most women at five foot ten, she towered over some men and especially over Jade, she was almost an entire foot bigger than her. She had beautiful straightened long golden brown hair, fair complexion, and stunning ocean blue eyes, she was an absolute catch to most people. She was blessed with an ample chest size of 38D, and had a nice round booty, which wasn't really noticeable, she wore long skirts usually, hugging her legs to the knees. She wore a simple white blouse, with most of the buttons off, as it was scorching hot on the island resort. Beads of sweat were scattered across her breasts, leaving small stains on each of her bra caps. Her hair was a bit damp as she reached and turned the fan on the highest setting at the edge of her desk. She huffed inwards and out, trying to cool herself down as the stress started to get to her; “Man...It's hot! Susan didn't mention the heat when she offered the job. Oh well, at least there's a beautiful view...”

Ashley looked around the office, it was practically a ghost town, nobody was in sight. She got up from her leather office chair, leaving a sizable damp butt shaped spot from hours of sitting. She paced towards the large glass doors, clicking her heels on the marble floor, she felt a coolness from the long metal handle on the glass pane. She pushed the door open letting a salty ocean breeze waft through, blowing her blouse wide open. Feeling refreshed, she reaches towards the bottom of the door and jammed a notebook as a wedge to hold the door open. She stood there feeling frequent cool gusts of wind billow past her waving the palm trees and grass along with it's trail of wind.

Aside from Ashley's good looks, she was quite an accountant and businesswoman at heart, she was raised by a family of bankers, accountants, and tax men. Her own father, Johnson Jenkins, owned a large share of Goddess Resort, he had brought in a large amount of funding, from his own Textiles company for the spa beds, blankets, pillows, and other linens. However, Ashley was set on becoming famous herself, through hard work and dedication, and had no interest in taking from others, She was righteously independent, tending to tread her own path refusing most job offers from her father mostly because of nepotism. She had a lot of pride for her work, plus she had no interest in knitting scarves as she quaintly put it.

Jade watched the elevator come to a halt as she rustled herself awake, trying to maintain focus. She walked into the lab, which was separated by two levels, the top level was devoted to chemical mixing, testing, and dissection procedures. The bottom half was almost entirely devoted to data analysis, recovery, and storage. The lab was about sixty feet in length, but only thirty feet wide. The two floors of the lab were separated by a dumb waiter, created to easily travel several chemicals to storage at once. A ladder led to the second level, parallel to the waiter and an even eight feet in height each, sixteen feet from the bottom floor, past the second floor to the ceiling of the underground laboratory. The elevator had gone down several hundred feet to the guarded lab. Jade had been assessing yesterday's notes now, quickly fingering through papers and taking mental notes as she heard her father call her; “Jade! I could use some help please.” – ”Coming, Dad.” She put down her notepad and clipboard, heading up the ladder.

Kiryu was holding a beaker in one hand and a vial in the other. “Extract the catalyst, while I hold the formula.” Jade nodded and reached for a dropper, taking the smallest pea sized drop of the cherry red liquid into the dropper. She carefully moved the dropper over and placed the tiny drop into the clear white liquid inside the other test tube. As the red liquid hit the HGH it immediately turned pink, it frothed a bit and began to thicken into a smooth and silky liquid. Kiryu placed the tube into a rack and placed the x-catalyst down on the counter top, closing the top tightly. They watched curiously as the pink liquid kept expanding, growing in size every few seconds, from just an ounce of HGH, now filling the glass vial halfway.

“Seems very unstable. Another failure, Jade please dispose of it, use the salicylic acid to break down the compound.” – ”I was thinking maybe...we need another catalyst? “ Jade turned red, looking at her father's face who was instinctively twisting to disapproval. He frowned looking at the pink substance pulse again in size, now closing in on the top of the tube. “Jade, honey, please let's try a different mixture, let's prepare the components and start from the beginning.” – ”Dad! That's going to take another twelve hours, we're so close, look it's expanding in size... at least can we try to-” Jade was cut off by her father, now point and hoisting his finger in the air in an authoritative stance; “Science doesn't bide for time, you know that, if you want-” Jade hopped in with a final sentiment, “-results, you have to proceed with patience. I know, Dad, we're just so close...” – ”Just dispose of this and let's get to work, Ok?” Kiryu was looking exhausted, he had stayed up last night to perfect the solution, and appeared slightly defeated, but his resolve wasn't totally gone. He smiled at Jade as they both began to move back into their work routines, she didn’t look back, and continued with her duties looking sullen.

Jade reached to the table and put on her protective gloves and grabbed the tube, turning to the small transport box, placing the tube inside one of the rack slots, sending it on it's way. She climbed down and opened the door, glancing at the test tube, she for some reason took off her gloves and grabbed it. She started pulling it closer, taking a glance above her to the ceiling dividing her and her diligent father still toiling away at the formula's list of complex ingredients. Jade held the vial in her hand, it briefly rattle for a moment growing in size, leaving a small crack on the vial. The vial was cool to the touch, the mixture inside was almost like a strawberry shake in color and texture, filled all the way to the top with the catalyzed formula. It still had no smell, but appeared edible. Jade thought to herself; 

“My new hypothesis; If the catalyst is introduced into a proper human specimen, under the age of thirty and under the minimum height requirements of five foot five, will offer beneficial effects on their human body, such as increase in estrogen and confidence...decrease in depression. I’ll have to document the side effects as I go along, but Dad can’t find out...”