The guards of the nearby lizard town ended up chasing me for several hours. I would have honestly been super amazed that they were able to keep up with my speed, if not for the fact that they were all riding mounts that looked suspiciously simir to Ouna’s pet. Guess that thing’s meant to be a mount, and not just some big pretty predator? Imagining Ouna riding hers… surprisingly actually fits for me, you know?

  But yeah, mounts, arrows, fireballs… It’s a wonder the clothes that I’m wearing didn’t get messed up!

  -Is what I’d like to say, but me running full force in them with my root legs and tentacles didn’t help to not constantly whip up the edges of them, teehee~! I’d been moving a bit more carefully before so that they wouldn’t get too shredded, but I guess I forgot about it once I had to actually motor. Really, maybe I need to find some more durable clothes that can handle what my body is capable of. Would those even exist in this world? There’s magic, so maybe…? Maybe the elves back in the forest would be willing to make them for me now that I’m all important and stuff? Or maybe I could grow them myself?

  Then again, if I was back in the forest then what would be the point of wearing clothes anymore?

  Anyways, future pns aside, these guys chased me for a bit too long, to the point where I considered just giving up and killing them so that they’d stop. It would be easy to finally just get big and take them out, considering we were already so far away from any towns that I could see, and no supposed dragon-hits had been called on me after all this time. Really, it would be so nice to just get big and have a good snack finally!

  But who am I?

  I’m a pretty pnt of love and justice!

  I won’t just kill lizard people who are only doing their jobs in their nds!

  I’ve changed from my monster-ly ways~!

  …Buuuut maybe I did decide to use the situation as an excuse to get big and scare them back the way they came, heehee~! Please don't bme me for it; I’ve been small for so long that the ache is practically killing me! If my cover’s already blown like this then why not become big already, you know? Again, there’s been no signs of any dragons being called in just yet, and even if they did call one on me, if I scare them back the way they came and then leg it out of here as fast as I can, there’s no way they’ll know which way I went! By the time the dragon gets here, I’ll be long gone and small! No pnt monster left to be seen!!!

  I’m probably gonna have to find some new clothes to wear though; They’ve already seen this tattered junk that I’m wearing. But hey, at least they haven’t seen my face!

  Eh, I don’t pn to stay in their nds very long anyways, so maybe it won’t even be a problem.

  Oh, but wait a minute. Do you think the dragon is communal? Do you think it’s the same dragon for all the territories…? It wouldn’t be particurly good for me if so, since I’ll already have one sighting against me heading into the next area…

  Oh well, it doesn’t matter!

  Either way I gotta deal with this tail on me first!

  Finally, I can get big again!!!

  Like a mushroom springing out of its egg, I shot up, growing and growing, tearing out of the small shell that I had folded and stuffed myself into! Feeling the air and heat touching the parts of me that had been concealed for so many days almost stung, but was equally refreshing. If I had one compint, though, it’s that my body still felt a bit fatigued and achy, like I’d just gotten up from squatting on my raised heels for a long time or something. My movements were a bit sluggish and uncoordinated, as if my body was resisting moving the way I wanted.

  I can’t help but wonder if a bonsai tree that was stuck growing in a certain way would feel like this too if it was suddenly left to grow however it pleased.

  Well, at least my weird jerky movements didn’t look too embarrassingly out of pce to the lizard people who’d been chasing me down; They looked too horrified to really have much to say about it at all! I’m sure that if nothing else, the way I was moving only served to make me look even spookier, which served my purposes just fine!

  Be afraid and don’t try to fight me right now!

  Shoo shoo, before I have to try and have a proper fight with you like this!

  “Agh, m-monster!”

  Well, you already knew that before I even got big like this, though… Didn’t you people shout that at me constantly while you were chasing me? It was like they believed it was my name or something-

  “Dear Spirit, i-it’s horrifying!”

  Hey now… That’s just not very nice at all! I may want them to be afraid of me, but being treated like I’m ugly is absolutely a no! I want to be a haunting beauty! Horrifyingly pretty! I can understand logically why seeing me in my human form with a bunch of tentacles and roots sticking out of me might have been gross to them before, but I shouldn’t be gross to them at all right now!

  I’ll have you know that I fixed my natural form, thank you very much! My body doesn’t look all ugly and janky like it did while mom had it anymore at all! I put it right back to how it looked like before all of that mess, although perhaps I did make a few modifications here and there, for modesty’s sake. Like for instance I may have covered myself up with a few leaves and bark here and there in some… choice pces! No longer will I have to show off my (let’s be completely honest here, not really real) goods anymore!

  And maybe, one day, when I figure out how, maybe I can put some goods there to actually hide!

  Oh and besides the modesty alterations, I did kind of smooth myself out a bit. The petals that make up my ‘skin’ look a bit more smooth and skin-like, and are plush-ably soft to the touch, and the fronds that make up my hair are even longer, coming down to my hips. Honestly, with this super big form of mine, I think I could pass as a gigantic fairy queen, or maybe a goddess of the forest sort of affair, what with how voluptuous and pretty I am right now-

  “Aaah! Kill it! Kill this thing!!!”

  Ah right, I forgot all about these guys ‘cause I was thinking about how my new body looks… While everyone else has been cowering in fear at me, this little guy has finally decided to step up and take matters into his own stupidly wrong hands! Look, he’s even trying to throw a puny little fireball at me!

  =Sorry, but that’s not going to work~!=

  Swatting away a single small fme like that with one of my tentacles is easy. Really, if they’re going to be silly like this then should I hurry up and crush their spirits? It’d be pretty simple to do since they’re all already so shaken up like this. But how should I go about it… Honestly, for all that I profess to be a 'big scary monster', I’m not so well versed in scaring over killing, I think…

  Well, when all else fails, there’s always the age old trick of lunging forwards, raising your arms, and saying ‘boo’, right?

  Here goes nothing~!

  =Rawr!=

  “Aaaaah!”

  No? It didn’t work? Maybe I try again and do a different sound? Maybe 'rawr' was a bit too cute for them.

  =Awoo!=

  “Eeeek!”

  Wolf howling didn’t work either?! What other noises even are there??? Should I maybe just be direct with them instead of beating around the bush? Are they just not getting the hint or something?

  It’s worth a try I suppose~.

  =Piss off already before I actually get angry!=

  “R-run away! Retreat!”

  Oh good, it worked this time~! Look at them all climbing off their mounts and scrambling away; They’re so scared that they didn’t even remember to take them along! Haha, ha… Ha…

  …Hey. Wait a darn minute here… Why didn’t these stupid lizard-things leave? And why don’t they look afraid of me?