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November 28th

The next morning, things only seemed to get worse for me. Chris had fallen asleep on me that night, and when I woke up, I made sure to be extra careful. It was kinda hard to see him at first, but I found him laying on my chest, just staring up in awe at my new size. I had to remember he was nearly a mile tall at the moment, and to me he was barely bigger than a finger.

"This is just...wow..." I barely heard him gasp up.

"Yeah. Wow." I muttered, my voice itself causing him to cover his ears, being so close.

"Sorry." I whispered.

"Could you put me on the ground big guy? The others might need me to talk to you." He stood up fully, looking around from the new height. I nodded, gently picking him up between two fingers as gently as I could, placing him on the ground.

I could barely see Nicolas now, but he seemed to be testing his arm, finally getting some function back into it. That was a relief.

And still, just a few days ago, I was looking up at him, amazed at his size and strength. Now, it was nothing compared to me. To me, he basically was an insect, and anyone smaller was less than that. I felt horrible thinking those thoughts, but it was true. I had basically given up hope that I was going to stop growing. Chances are, by the end of the week, I would be bigger than the planet itself at this rate.

It really just left me with the question why? Why was I bothering to still hold back? Why not just go and explore to see how the rest of the world looked from this perspective.

Because, it wouldn't look much different than it does now I figured. City were just becoming gray masses in a fields of green and yellows. Honestly, it was like I was starting to see the world as a map itself, the splotches of blues being bodies of water, and even the mountain range near me was comparatively small. If anything it was the only thing large enough anymore to compare myself to. Course, if I wanted to do that, I would have to stand up and walk over to them, something I don't those below would like without some warning. But, I could at least try to visualize what they looked like to me, and honestly, it was like something a student would bring to a science fair.

I wonder what it would be like to see an avalanched happen simply brushing my finger along the top? Another horrible thought, but I knew better. If anything, it made me glad I had fur so I wasn't freezing being so high up. Hell, it made me question even how I was able to breathe at the moment. Usually mountain climbers needed tanks of air to make it up a mountain and reach its peak because of how thin the air was. But I was still breathing fine. Another side effect of whatever was growing me?

I didn't care. Nothing made sense once we started growing, so why question it now?

I finally looked down near me to see Chris trying to get my attention, probably for some time now since his arm waves were starting to get pretty slow. Reaching slowly down, I laid out my hand for him to get, gently bringing him to my face so the g-force wouldn't crush him.

"What's the word?" I whispered.

"Well, there was a dispute." He rubbed the back of his head, looking at his paws.

"About what? More rogue macros?" I asked, wondering what it could possibly be.

"Hon, they want to blow you up. They believe you're a danger even though you are trying to kill anyone."

It was like cold water was dumped all over me. So that was it. Despite all I did, all I went through, it was going to be for nothing, wasn't it?

"When are the missiles coming?" There was no emotions behind my words. I couldn't feel anything.

"No!" He screamed up. "No. We aren't allowing them, don't worry. Everyone stood by Shawn when the word came up to him. He said if any attempt on your life was taken, everyone here would all go after the military and crush them. The threat seemed to work, and they backed off. So you're safe hon."

I didn't know what to say. I couldn't believe everyone would stand up for me like that. I wanted to thank them, to just be with all of them again, but it was impossible now.

"Tell them thank you hon. I'll do my best to not cause trouble." I sighed out, not wanting to cry, knowing it could cause floods down below.

"I will. And don't worry, not only is our group helping to evacuate people near you as best as they could, but others are coming as well after hearing you taking down the Rogue leader. Any remains of that group are going into hiding as best as they could, pretty much freeing up any cities taken captive. We won." He smiled up. I smiled back, nodding.

"Good, I'm glad to hear it." I bit the bottom of my lip, realizing what was going to happen tomorrow.

"Chris, if I grow after today. I won't be able to hear any of you, or communicate."

There was a bit of silence between us.

"Yeah. You know I love you right? No matter how big you get, even if you can't hear, I'll do whatever I can to protect you."

The pain I was feeling now made the pain from the fight with Markus seem like nothing. What was worse, there was no way for me to express it either, since I knew I could injure innocent people. Instead, I choked back the sobs, took a few deep breaths to suppress the tears, and nodded.

"I love you too."