The Witch, the Train, and the Pocketwatch
This is a growth based role-play between me and Spam7 on Furaffinity https://www.furaffinity.net/user/spam7/
It contains growth, taurs, taur-trains of the insanely long variety, a lot of paws, and a very mysterious watch.
Enjoy!
Growth Role-play - The Witch, the Train and the Pocket Watch
It was a sunny day in Anthrocity, with just a few clouds floating on the sky. Adam whistled as he walked down the streets. He was an anthropomorphic lizard with a taur-like body, walking on four legs, and having an upper torso. His friends often called him "Dino", since he resembled a green skinned brontosaurus much more than an actual lizard.?
Being sunday, the street was crowded. Anthros enjoyed the fresh air among the shadows of the skyscrapers, headed to the beach, or visited the cinema with their friends - just as Adam did. He looked for his friend in the crowd, but standing with the height of 5'2'', it was not an easy task.
*Hey! Over here!* The 5'3" anthro cat named Imagine called out just as he came into view. With medium grey fur on most of his body that transitions to a darker grey on his extremities, huge blue eyes, slightly oversized digitgrade paws and a 4 foot long, thick fluffy tail, he was a Ragdoll / Siamese mix domestic style cat. Imagine and Adam had been friends since childhood because of their height similarities.
*Hey, Imagine!* yelled Adam, waving with one of his front paws. He tried to approach to his friend, but it was not an easy task in the crowd. *Excuse me... Please, let me through... Okay... Uhm, sorry, sir...* He clumsily bumped into several beings as he crossed the sidewalk. Finally, he stood next to the cat.?
*Hey, buddy!* Adam greeted his friend. He smiled as he noticed Imagine was still just an inch higher than him. *Are you ready for a mind blowing movie? I have the tickets!*
*Hey to you too!* Imagine said with a huge smile on his face when Adam came over. *Oh absolutely! Then let's go see the movie! When does it start?* Imagine asked.
*We still have an hour!* replied the lizard/dino. *So we have to hurry if we want to make it through this huge crowd!* Adam chuckled.
They start walking toward the cinema. Adam went first, while Imgaine followed him behind. After about a minute, Adam turned around to ask something from his friend, when he accidentally stepped on something soft.
*Ouch! Careful, you idiot!* said a female voice. Adam turned back, and saw an angry dragon lady, looking at him wrathfully. His leg rested on hers.
Imagine quickly noticed what was happening, and spoke to the dragoness. *We're so, so sorry ma'am. My friend here can be a bit clumsy at times. He is four legged after all.*
*That's another reason why he should really watch his steps!* The lady muttered. *Would you take off your paws, kid?!*
*Oh, sorry* said Adam, stepping away, but an anthro fox accidentally bumped into him, forcing the lizard to step on the dragon's leg again.
*That's enough!* yelled the dragoness. *If you are so clumsy, maybe you'll learn from this!*?She touched Adam's shoulder, mumbling some gibberish words.
Imagine was silently watching the scene unfold between the dragoness and Adam with wide eyes. He heard the dragoness mumble something when she touched Adam's shoulder. The words he could make out were oddly familiar, but he couldn't quite put a finger on what the words meant or the language she was speaking.
Imagine looked back at Adam and immediately noticed something was different. Adam looked slightly taller. Already at eye level with Imagine. He turned back to the Dragoness and asked *Can I ask what you just did to my friend?*
The dragoness grinned back to Imagine. *Just made a little spell on your friend. Maybe that'll teach him a lesson, and he'll finally begin to watch his steps!* A moment later, the dragoness vanished in the crowd.
Adam blinked confusedly. *What the hell was that?* But he noticed too that something was going on. He was like an inch taller than Imagine, and felt his clothes uncomfortably tight. He also felt his skin on his side itchy. When he tried to scratch it, he felt a little bulge. *Eh, I must be allergic to old, grumpy witches.* Adam sighed. *Should I go to the hospital?*
Imagine's eyes were even wider at this point. *Adam, I think that old dragoness put some sort of growth spell on you.* Imagine noticed Adam's normally baggy clothing was getting tighter on him. *I knew I recognized the words she used. She spoke an ancient magical draconic language I have been learning a little about. Right now I think we should try to get out of this crowd, and quickly!*
Adams' eyes widened even more. *A growth spell? Nah, don't be ridiculous! There are no such things as magic and curses!* However, the tightened clothes made him a bit worried. *Okay, let's head out. I am starting to feel a little weird...*
They started to move on, but after a few steps a warm feeling rushed over the lizard. He felt the bump on his side bulging a bit more, and his clothes tensed even more. He his t-shirt got torn on his back.
*I'm very sure it was a spell. In my spare time, I have been reading up about ancient magics and it is very much real. I was able to hear most of the words that the witch said when she placed the spell on you, but I only know enough to make out a few words. I recognized the words for grow, step, legs and multiply!* Imagine saw the weird lumps on Adam's side and saw the shirt tearing. The cat scanned the crowd to see if there was anybody looking at them, but thankfully there were not. He spoke to Adam *Are you feeling okay?*
*No...* gasped Adam. He sweated as he tried to catch his breath. *I feel like my body is swelling...* Ha made another two steps, but suddenly had to stop, as his t-shirt ripped off completely. Adam blinked confusedly. He already was looking above cat's head, guesstimated his size to 5'8''. *Did I just grow several inches taller?!*
A worried look was very evident on Imagine's face. The cat saw the dino/lizard's shirt rip apart and saw his muscles were noticeably much larger than normal. Imagine had to look up to see eye to eye with Adam, the dino/lizard now roughly 5 inches taller than the cat. *You definitely are about 6 inches taller now. Can you still walk?*
Adam wriggled his toes and took a few more steps. *Yes, I think I can move, so no need for calling the ambulance, or...* He suddenly stopped and held his breath. He closed his eyes, seemingly a rush of pain went through. Sweat beaded on his forehead. Without further warning, his swellings on his side burst out, forming another pair of perfectly healthy-looking limbs.
Adam now stood on six legs.?
*That... was... unexpected...* He nearly fainted. Some of the pedestrians took a strange look on the dino/lizard.
The cat looked astonished as Adam's normally taur like form gained an extra pair of legs. He was now well over 6 foot tall, over 6 foot long between front legs and rear legs, and the tail was considerably longer too. *Whoa... That looked intense. That spell the witch put on you was much stronger than I thought. Do you need to rest at all? We have to get out of here.*
Adam still blinked in awe. He moved his new legs a bit, tried it out, but they worked perfectly, as if he had this many legs all his life. It felt a little strange as a new pair of limbs, but otherwise, he was able to use them as any other of his extremities. After more than a minute of wondering, he spoke.?
*Okay, now I believe you... Honestly, I feel great. I mean, look at those legs... And I'm much taller too! I always hated being underpaw... But you're right, we need to get out of here.*
They started to move on quickly. Adam was so mesmerized by his new pair of legs, he didn't noticed that he already gained another 6 inches in height and a yard in overall length in mere seconds.
Imagine's ears perked up when he heard Adam say he was fine. *That's good to hear. You really are looking a lot more imposing.* He had to move at a jogging pace to keep up with the growing dino/lizard multitaur. Staying directly behind, he was so amazed by how the six legs worked with each other in synchronized harmony, that he didn't notice that Adam was still getting taller, or longer, or the new bumps on his still growing tail.
Adam enjoyed the new feeling, his paws became very sensitive. As he was barefooted, each time he stepped on a pebble, little sparks run through his spine. After a while he stepped on rocks and pebbles on purpose, not knowing that those moves fuelled his growth even more. A few minutes later, a loud stretching noise made him stop - he just grew out his pants, leaving him completely naked. He looked up, and opened his mouth in surprise - he was well above the heads of most of the beings nearby, standing around 8 feet tall. From nose to tail, he could easily be more than 20 feet long. The pedestrians started keeping a wide berth from the giant dino/lizard, looking at him in awe and whispering apprehensively.
Imagine saw the last shreds of Adam's specially tailored pants fall away. What was revealed astounded him. He noticed there were sets of bumps in the middle of his lower torsos and another set of bumps on his tail behind his rear legs. *Uh oh. I think you are going to have to brace yourself soon. It looks like six more legs are developing as we speak!* The dino/lizard was over 9 foot tall now and still growing. There were also a few people growing curious and getting closer to the dino/lizard multitaur, but one fox got too close and when Adam shifted his weight, he accidently stepped on another foot.
The poor anthro jumped from the pain, while Adam kept telling how sorry he was. However, the step made his body tingling. Adam closed his eyes, grinned as pain and joy run through him at the same time. The six new limbs bursted out, making the dino/lizard even longer than before.
The crowd shouted, some of them fled, while others stepped closer to the giant.
*Hey!* Adam gulped, staring at his legs, all twelve of them. *Did I just become a caterpillar, or what?!* Some of the anthros took pictures of the giant. Adam took a few steps as he turned away from the flashes. Suddenly, without warning, he grew up to 12 feet in hight and 35 feet in length.
*Actually Adam, I think the term you are looking for is taur-train. You are becoming a really, really long taur-train. A really amazing, handsome taur-train. Could you kneel down to me? I have something to tell you.* Imagine steps back and pulls out of his pocket a very large gold pocket watch of extremely ornate design, and what looks like at least a dozen little knobs around the perimeter of the watch, while patiently waiting for the big multi-legged dino/lizard to co-ordinate his limbs enough to get back down to eye level with his friend. Imagine speaks quietly.
*I kinda have a secret to tell you. You see this watch?* Imagine opens the watch to reveal the face of the beautiful looking gold watch. What was inside was not what you would expect from a pocket watch. It has many dials and many more hands, and a lot of very unusual symbols all over the 4 inch diameter face of the watch. Some hands were spinning very quickly while others were slowly moving counter clockwise, while most were staying still. *I inherited this watch from my grandfather. It looks very unusual, I know, but that's because it has several different powers that seem to only affect me. I only know what that dragoness said because this watch translated some of her words into what I could understand. I cannot help or alter the spell on you, because as I said, this watch only affects me. You might want to step back a bit.*
Imagine pulls and twists one of the knobs on the perimeter of the watch, causing several dials and hands to shift, then snaps the cover closed. Imagine then starts growing, clothes and all, quite quickly. In a few seconds, he was standing taller than Adam, at about 15 feet tall, where he stops at that height.
*A taur-train, eh? I like the word.* Adam gazed at the amazing pocket watch, its design, mysterious dials and symbols marvelled the dino/lizard so much, he forgot his situation for a moment. When Imagine described its functions, Adam's eyes opened even more. *You... can... grow?!*?
He stood back, watching in awe as his friend gains more and more size and mass, reaching 6 feet, 7 feet, 9 feet, and was still growing upwards. The crowd yelled uh-s and ah-s - they didn't see a grower before, and now there was two of them!
Adam stepped back more as his friend reached his final size with 15 feet. He opened his mouth to ask a question, but a familiar rumble stopped him. Because of the steps, he started to grow again.?Meanwhile the police arrived, two cars parked next to them.
With a much deeper voice, Imagine spoke, *Yes. I can grow. From individual parts of my body to everything. There are infinite possibilities on what I could do. I could even go all taur-train like you, but right now, I'll go with two legs.* The big cat's ears perked up when he heard the police sirens approaching. He quickly placed his now 1 foot diameter pocket watch back in his pocket. When three police officers started approaching, Imagine spoke to Adam. *Stay here. Try not to take another step. Let me handle them.*
The big cat took a few steps away from Adam as one of the officers, an anthro Doberman, approached. Imagine spoke to the officer. *What seems to be the problem officer? My big friend behind me here seems to be caught in an uncontrollable growth spurt that we can't stop. We are on our way out of the city. Could you help us?*
Adam tried to hold still, but he was forced to lift his paws and take tiny steps because of weight shifting. He did his best not to take huge steps, but it was not an easy task with his many legs. His growth ceased at around 20 feet in height and 60 feet in length: from nose to tail he was longer than a regular bus. Each of his paws reached nearly 3 foot in length. His heart raced, tail wagged back and forth; eyes levelled with the second floor of a building nearby.
The officers were looking at the growing giant, then turning to the cat. *We have to ask you to leave this area immediately* said the Doberman. *Also, we demand to suspend any further growth and size increasing. If you resist, we're authorized to use force.*
Imagine looked back at Adam, shocked again to see he had grown so much more, more shocked to see twelve more pairs of leg nubs starting to emerge from Adam's flanks. The cat had to think quickly. The big dino/lizard taur-train is going to double in length in about a minute!
He thought about what he could do. He suddenly came up with an idea, quickly turned back to the Doberman officer, saw the other officers tense up and drew out their tazers, slowly pulled out his beautifully ornate pocket watch to show it wasn't a weapon, and calmly spoke. *I sincerely apologize, officer. We were trying to vacate the premises as quickly as possible. My friend here cannot comply with your demands. I can see you are already familiar with this device, so could I ask for your permission for me to grow to about, say, 300 foot tall? I could carry my friend out of the city and into open space outside of town, provided the streets are vacated. I am asking this because it's an emergency. He is going to increase in size again very, VERY soon, and if I don't get him out of here, he is going to cause a lot of damage to the city.*
The Doberman balked, speechless, but slowly nodded. The Doberman turned back to the other officers and told them to stand down, and to evacuate the streets leading to the outskirts. Meanwhile, Imagine opened up his pocket watch and started pulling and twisting some knobs on his watch, then snapped it shut. The immediate area was already clear of people as the cat braced himself for the impending growth. He had never tried going this big, this quickly on purpose before. In mere seconds, the cat was already 30 ft tall, when his shirt literally exploded off his body, but his pants kept up with the rapid growth. All around, there were people watching him and taking pictures of him through the windows of nearby buildings. Muscle fibres all over his body tensing and relaxing as he quickly grew. After about a minute, he topped off at about 330 ft.
*Woah! What a rush! Guess I forgot to include my shirt in the settings.* Digitigrade paws each now as wide as three lanes of road, tail now 250 ft long and 40 ft wide in itself, the cat still had enough space between buildings to manoeuvre himself easily. Any crater he left behind where he stepped quickly repaired itself somehow. He knelt down and brought a paw in front of Adam, as the new legs finished growing in. The Dino/lizard taur-train now has 24 pairs of legs, and was 30 ft tall, and now well over 200 ft long. *Don't just stare! Hurry and get on!*
Adam nearly fainted when he saw his friend growing up, and up, and up. His head roses high into the air, quickly surpassing many of the buildings and office blocks, even some of the skyscrapers. His paws puffed, gaining more and more mass, becoming the size of a small house.?
Adam was only able to mumbling. *What... How... What... Eh? How...*?
He didn't even notice that his own size surged up to 30 feet, not to speak of his length of 210 feet with the new pairs of limbs. His swinging tail destroying several abandoned vehicles.
When Imagine knelt down, Adam was stone-still, mesmerized by the sight of the gigantic cat. Imagine's deep voice was like a drum on a concert to his ears, he quickly jumped into the huge paw. Despite its multi lane width, Adam still had to curl up because of his length. The giant cat lifted him up high into the air.
*Hey, I can see my house from here!* said Adam after he managed to recover his consciousness. The gigantic cat rumbled as he chuckled. Carefully, Imagine moved out of the city, following the wide street. He avoided stepping on the abandoned cars, phone booths, lamp posts and other objects. He rested his mighty paws only on the concrete, which cracked by the weight of the giant, but quickly repaired itself after Imagine lifted his paw up. Adam wasn't even surprised anymore.?But as they moved on, after each earthquaking step, Adam felt his space less and less comfortable. The gigantic toes tightened around him more and more. Adam's first thought was that Imagine was shrinking or holding him too tightly, but then he realized the truth.
Despite his own paws didn't touched the ground, he was still growing.
While carrying the still growing dino/lizard taur-train out of the city, Imagine spoke as quietly as he could, which was still a loud rumble to Adam. *I realize you want an explanation as to why I did what I did back there. I think you already figured out my watch repairs any damage I make. Also, I think I figured out the effects of your spell. Every step you take will make you grow, and the number of legs you have will now double randomly, causing you to make even more steps, causing an uncontrollable chain reaction that will increase exponentially, eventually making you impossibly enormous! You might want to move up my arm and onto my shoulder though. I can feel you still growing.*
The big cat had to keep paying attention to where he was walking. He could feel the Dino/lizard multitaur crawl up his arm, over the shoulder, then shift across his back to the other shoulder. He could feel his friend take up more and more space! Imagine had to lean forward so Adam could use his back to stay on, but also had to use the tail.
As the massive cat reached a large plot of farmland far away from the city, he knelt down to let Adam off, only to find that he was now over 60 ft tall, and with not 48 pairs of legs, but 96 fully formed pairs of legs, and more nubs were already showing! With roughly 20 ft long torsos between those powerful legs, he was now well over 1900 ft long! As Imagine brought out his now 22ft diameter pocket watch, pulled and twisted a couple knobs, the cat quickly shrunk in size to about 100 ft. The watch and pants shrunk with him. *Whoa! I didn't think you would grow that much! How did you stay on?*
Adam looked at himself; a nearly third mile long taur-train with many-many legs, and each paw required a space of a SUV. His head was above the apple trees nearby. *I feel incredibly strong, vigorous, and ashamed at the same time.* said the dino/lizard. He flexed his muscles, admiring his naked, muscular body. *I still can't believe that witch did this to me... I mean, growing is a wonderful feeling! But it's a bit dangerous too, isn't it?* He looked around, saw nothing but farm fields, apple trees, a few granary and an old tractor. The contour of the city was barely visible from this distance. The last of the used to be 330 feet tall cat's paw prints healed itself, filling the cracks with fresh earth.
*So...* Adam turned to the still not negligible sized cat. *Should I stay in here without any movements, or what? Because to be honest, I feel like I would run miles and miles!*?He wiggled his toes, digging out a great amount of dirt.
The big cat pondered a bit about Adam's question, and said. *Well, it looks like you are going to be growing wether you like it or not, so I say enjoy it. Just try to watch where you, and your many, many legs are going. Your caboose is already getting closer to the tractor over there.* With that said, the next sets of Dino/lizard legs grew in. Making a total of 192 pairs of legs. The entire length of Adam's body had to curve in a tight, continuous "S" shape as his third of a mile length more than doubled to nearly a mile and a loud "CRUNCH" sound was heard when his rearmost right paw stepped on the tractor.
Adam shivered, his body filled with the feeling of growth again. His muscles tensed, as he was surging up again, gaining more and more height, like his body wanted to compensate its immense length. He quickly reached the cat's size, then even surpassing it, reaching 120 feet. He wiggled his widening toes around the shrinking tractor. *You're right, I do enjoy this!*
Soon, the tractor was nothing but a flat metal plate under the mighty sole of the taur-train. During the growing, his other paw reached a granary, demolishing it into splinters. The sharp wooden planks send sparkles of joy through his body, which fuelled his growth even more, reaching 200 feet in height and 1.5 miles in length. His tail sneaking into the woods, his paws swelling to the size of a house.
Imagine was still amazed by the amount of power the big Dino/lizard taur-train has in just one of his hundreds of paws. Anything the big cat steps on quickly repairs itself, while the damage the Dino/lizard causes is permanent. Imagine reached up to touch a section of the long body that was getting close to the cat, and he could feel the powerful muscles tensing and relaxing through the tremors of growth as the taur-train continuously shifted his weight. Imagine was careful not to get stepped on by one of those hundreds of paws. He could see more legs starting to come in again along each of his lower torsos. The big cat readied his watch again as he knew there was going to be another growth spurt. *I think we should start moving again. It is starting to get a little crowded over here.*
Imagine stepped back several steps and opened up the pocket watch, he had a big grin on his face as he pulled and twisted several knobs again, snapped everything closed, and braced himself. He doubled his 100 foot height in less than a minute, and kept on going to just under 300 ft tall. His pants still kept up with him, but his digitigrade footpaws grew disproportionate to his body. More than three times the size they should be at his height. He held up his watch, and faced Adam, saying. *Would you like to have some fun? Infinite possibilities!*
Adam moaned from the exciting pleasure that coming from all the stepping and growing. His paws were really sensitive, he felt every little pebble and blade of grass under his increasing soles. When his newly minted feet reached the apple trees, they felt for him like stepping on soft sponges. Trees toppling over from the pushing of the ever-growing toes. The taur-train quickly reached 300 foot in height, looking directly at the eyes of the grown cat. His own tail was so far away he wouldn't have been able to see the tip of it if he had stood in a straight line.
A helicopter appeared above them; they must be terrified of the sight of the growing, lengthening dino/lizard. Uncountable paw prints filled the land, slowly destroying everything on the farmland and beyond.
*What kind of fun do you speak about?*
Imagine splayed and flexed his enlarged toes. *We could try running for a start. There's a 40 mile long stretch of abandoned farmland just west of here. Let's see if that News Helicopter up there can keep up. Plus, with how long you are, even if you run full speed, it'll take a while before your tail starts moving forward, and you are going to need a lot more space to grow.* Imagine looked back to the nearly ten mile long taur-train, and saw his next sets of legs were already starting to grow, soon going to be 384 pairs of legs. *Brace yourself though, you are going to explode in height as soon as you start running.*
Adam blinked confusedly. *But-but-but... I-I-I will be huge! Think of all the destruction!*
But Imagine already started to run, his enormous paws quaked the earth. Thanks to the powers of his pocket watch, the earth changed back immediately, leaving the 5 foot deep paw prints for only seconds. Adam still worried about the catastrophe he could cause, but then he changed his mind. *Hell, I'm going to grow anyway. Why not have some fun!*
He broke into a run. First he was just able to move slowly, one paw sank into the earth after the other. But soon he sped up, his fore body lumbered through the land, quaking the earth even more. Adam was in heaven. Every single step, every time he pushed his paw into the soft ground he shivered. His size rocketing upwards, reaching 400 feet in a minute, then 500 feet in half a minute. Each of his legs became longer then a skyscraper, his paws widening more and more. Huge amount of earth wiped out - and his tail still rested, only moving by the growth, pushing the trees aside. The broadcasting helicopter tried to follow the gigantic taur-train, but had to fly further as the back of the giant approached, reaching 800 feet, then 1200 feet in height and so many miles in length. A single toe was bigger then a house, and he was still growing.
As Imagine ran, any trees and structures he damaged quickly reformed as if it never happened. The now comparatively minuscule cat was quickly being caught up as he could hear a strange thundering rhythm coming from the growing taur-train as Adam ran.
The news helicopter stayed by the tail end of the long taur-train and watched the legs and tail rapidly grow. The news crew inside witnessed the next sets of legs finish growing in, causing the massive tail, and the newest set of rearmost legs to move backwards slightly, heading back towards the city.
Imagine quickly brought out his watch again and set it to make him grow to roughly 2000 ft tall while still running. He kept his footpaws oversized, each now about 600 ft long and wide, and he made sure his pants still kept up, especially when he upped the muscle mass considerably all over his body.
*Follow me!* The Imagine suddenly took a left turn as he neared the end of the old farmland. He stepped on an old dilapidated farmhouse, barn and grain silo all with one paw, and it completely reformed a few seconds later. The big cat was now heading towards the foothills of a large mountain range.
Adam was mesmerized by the sight of the shrinking landscape. His steps were growing, the earthquakes increased so much that seismographs registered them in the nearby cities. His muscles tensed as he run, his paws dug out more and more earth. A barn disappeared under the humongous weight like it was never existed. A kicked rock flew hundreds of feet. Two old cars merged into a single metal plate.
In a few minutes, the taur-train's end quickened, joining to the run. A skyscraper-sized tail swished back and forth, nearly hit the relatively minuscule helicopter. Adam's height quickly reached the now 2000 feet tall giant cat, and in less than a minute, he doubled his size to 4000. A single paw now would easily be able to cover a city block, while his length was comparable with a large metropolis itself.
When Imagine turned left, Adam tried to follow, but his body was relatively too big and long for his brain, and the taur-train turned a bit slow. The sudden weight shifting blew him up to an astounding 1 mile.
Imagine stopped running and looked back when he heard the rhythmic earthquake like rumbling start to quiet down, he saw the titanic, towering taur-train had catastrophic understeer issues. *Oh, I forgot about that. Laws of physics and all.*
Imagine's ears perked up, tail puffed out and his eyes went wide when he realized Adam was on a direct course to a massive metropolis! What's more, the big guy's next sets of legs were well on their way. He's going to be hundreds of miles long very soon!
The big cat hat had to think fast. He pulled out his watch again and quickly set it to make him grow massively. He needed to be at least 3 or more miles tall for his plan to work. Watch in hand, he quickly started sprinting towards where the growing Dino/lizard will be in less than a minute, while the big cat's growth took effect. Every part of Imagine's body ballooning in size and mass. The pants exploded in a shower of confetti, leaving him in a pair of white briefs that remarkably kept up in size and held whatever was inside firmly. When he was close, he started skidding to slow himself down in time. He stopped just in time near the suburbs of the vast metropolis with seconds to spare, now over 4.2 miles tall. He latched the watches chain around his neck and prepared to deflect Adam's movement south wards back towards the mountain range.
Jun, the anthro rabbit was about to lay down his blanket to start his picnic, when he first felt the tremors. He stood up, perked up his ears. The ground was shaken rhythmically, with an increasing speed and intensity. His mouth dropped, when he noticed the rising mass of a shadow on the horizon, quickly growing bigger as it approached. He wanted to flee, but his legs took roots instead. Soon, the shadow took a form of a gigantic, running cat. Jun forget how to breath; the anthro cat was soo gigantic, it swished aside the clouds with his chest, a single toe was bigger than a skyscraper, the paws were like two rumbling, flying mountains. Its body blocked the sun, the enormous tail was large enough to swish a whole city district. A tornado hit his face, yet somehow the rabbit was able to stand still. He just looked up and up and up...
Then Jun spotted the snake-like creature behind the giant cat.
*Mommy...*
Adam was frightened; he realized that after the sped up he has troubles with turning or even slowing down. The growth made his situation even worse, the growing mass, the increasing number of legs, his widening, inflating paws leave a long trail of destruction behind the dino/lizard. He was now really like a train on the lose - a really, really huge and long, massive train. He thought that 1 mile was beyond enormousness; but reaching 2 miles made him worried, 5 miles terrified. And worst of all, he was about to rush trough a whole city!
Taking deep breaths, the mega macro cat prepared himself for impact with the out of control taur-train. He was very worried that his plan to save the city might not work. He dug his huge toe claws deep into the ground. Hundreds of feet deep. He locked eyes with the now 5 mile tall Adam and told him, *I'm so, very sorry that I have to do this, but it's the only way to save the city. You might want to lean left a little. This might hurt a bit.* Imagine then twisted his body and brought his left arm back as far as it could go, paw in a tight fist.
More and more inhabitants of the city were stopping what they were doing to witness the mega macro cat in his underwear. A very unusual earthquake started. It had a strange rhythm that increased continuously. Coming over the horizon, speeding towards the city at hundreds of miles an hour, was another huge macro. This one a Dino/lizard with what looked like an endless train of legs. That Dino/lizard wasn't slowing down, either! It looked like he couldn't slow down, or even turn! The inhabitants were starting to panic as the earthquake worsened as the macro was barreling down on them!
Some inhabitants saw the massive cat start to move again, twisting his body and balling his paw in a huge fist. Just as the Dino/lizard came close to the cat, his fist swung fast, and made contact right at the front hip of the long macro. The resulting shock wave was devastating to the city. Flattening several structures. The cat was sent flying through the air, and leaving an unbelievably deep and wide trench straight through a large part of the city before he came to a stop in the suburbs on the other side. The other macro, the one with many legs was somehow successfully deflected! He was now heading southward! All of the legs that have yet to turn were successfully making the turn as well! The inhabitants that survived the initial turmoil, including Jun and his mother, were now witnessing the previously flattened structures start to reassemble themselves! Anything that was destroyed was amazingly repairing itself! Even the people that were hurt, fatally injured or worse were healing quickly! In a few minutes, it looked like nothing had happened to the city at all!
Imagine was dazed by his flight through the city, but uninjured. He slowly got up, dusted himself off, checked his watch that was still around his neck. It looked fine and without any scratches, but most of the hands were spinning very rapidly. He closed the watch and started jogging towards the mountain range.
Jun couldn't help but watching the gigantic, 5 miles high taur-train running into the also enormous, 4.2 miles tall anthro cat. The impact was so loud, so powerful that Jun thought it could be similar like the one that almost caused the extinction of the dinosaurs millions of years ago. He closed his eyes, waiting for the apocalypse, but apart from the crashing noise and the rumbling earth, nothing happened. When Jun opened his eyes, his maw dropped as he saw a flying, monstrous cat, demolishing his path - but the collapsing buildings quicky stood back as they were. Jun felt like watching a video backwards: debris flew back to their place, cars flew back to their parking space, trees grew out replacing the old ones.
Unlike the trail of the ever-growing taur-train, who seemed to manage to turn, heading southward. Its growing paws left nothing but pure, ragged, hundreds of feet deep craters. But at least it showed the sign of slowing, both in speed and growth.
Adam watched his friend as he was waiting for him, grown, closed fists. He tried to yell, he wanted the cat to dodge, but before he could anything to say, the impact was already happened. He saw that Imagine flew back, and hoped for the best for him - he didn't want to hurt anyone, especially not his friend. He literally yelled at his body, ordering it to stop this madness. And very slowly, his body obeyed. The currently 8 miles high dino/lizard was slowing down.
After a lot of walking, and some height adjustment, the massive 10 mile tall cat was able to catch up to the front end of the humungous 1,500 mile long taur train deep in the mountain range. Imagine's digitigrade footpaws were now properly proportionate to his body. He gave an apologetic look to Adam and said, *I'm so, so sorry Adam. I didn't know that was going to happen. I feel it's all my fault for making you run. Did I hurt you at all when I helped you turn?* Imagine looked around and clearly saw the curvature of the planet, but still couldn't see the tail end of the Dino/lizard's long body. *Heh, it's been a while since I've been this tall.*
Adam gasped, he was exhausted. Finally managed to stop, the 10 mile high dino/lizard look at his friend. *No, didn't hurt at all. I thought I was the one that hurt you!* He looked around, the landscape was unbelievably small. It was a huge, greenish-brownish chequered blanket. A single paw - roughly 2 miles long - would able to cover a whole town, forests seemed like extremely soft and fine grass, mountains like small hills.
*Look, a tiny-biny town!* Adam leaned foreword, examining a settlement at his claw. The villagers were already mesmerized by the mountainous toe-claw, and nearly fainted when a gigantic eyeball filled the sky. The wind was getting stronger, coming from the immerse nostrils.
*I'm fine. Didn't even scuff the watch.* The big cat started inspecting every detail of the massive taur-train. Every paw, every toeclaw, every leg, all of the musculature, down to the scales of the incredible dino/lizard. *Be very careful now. At this size, one wrong move and you could easily wipe that small villa clear from existence. You have already cut off some of the main roads leading to that particular town.* Imagine said as he continued inspecting Adam's body for any more signs of growth. Then he saw it. More legs were still growing in! A lot more slowly this time, but the bumps were definitely developing between each lower torso as far as the eye could see.
*Uhhh..... Adam? I hate to break the news to you but it looks like you are still acquiring more legs. It's impossible to tell how long you are now, but pretty soon you are going to more than double that. Right now, I estimate your length to be roughly 2000 miles long. Could be longer than that. What do you think we should do? We could try going back to Anthro City to find that witch, but it would be like trying to find a single speck of dust inside a vast beach. Or, we could still ride it out. Walking slowly and carefully until the growth reaches it's peak. What do you think?*
Adam felt the bumps too; he also noticed that despite he stood still, he was slowly growing. With each tremoring heart-beat, with each whirlwind-like breath his frame pumped up more into the air. It seemed that the built up growth was still in effect. In order not to wipe out the town, he stepped aside, but that just caused another growth spurt. The 11 mile high taur-train sighed, the spurts felt like a massage to the brain.
*You can shrink, right?* He surged up another half a mile. *I think you should go back and find the witch...* 12 miles. *I will try to do my best...* Adam took a deep breth, then tensed all his muscles - another huge spurt hit him, blowing up to 15 miles. Adam suddenly felt something wet back there. His tail tip just sneaked into the ocean.
The villagers panicked as they saw the mountainous green toe standing next to the town growing, rumbling through the neighbourhood.
*Yes I can shrink. Very easily. Remember I shrunk a bit after I carried you out of that city, right?* Imagine checked his pocket watch, still attached to a chain around his neck like a necklace. Several hands have slowed down considerably, but most were still moving quickly.
*O-Okay, I understand. I feel I want you with me, but with how big you are now, it'll be a nightmare. I'll go find her and bring her back to you as soon as possible, ok?* Imagine checked the Dino/lizard's status on the new bumps, and saw that they were still progressing, slowly developing the bone structures. *It might take me a while to find her. Be as careful as possible where you step. It looks like you are going to be much larger by the time I get back. Try to keep your growing length in the ocean if you find it to avoid destroying civilization as we know it. There's no telling how long you will get either. Be safe!* With that said, the big cat started jogging off toward Anthro City.
A female feline news anchor was getting ready to go on air in three, two, one... *Hello and welcome to Channel 24 News. I'm Elena Gordon, your news anchor. We now bring you this Special News Bulletin. Over the past few hours, a very large multi-legged being appeared and had grown all across the Country. Somehow it has avoided any largely populated areas as it effectively split the country in two. We have live satellite feeds showing it has now reached over 4500 miles in length and growing rapidly, speeding up at an exponential rate. Experts say it will double that in 10 minutes time, and it will encircle the planet in 30 minutes. The main torso of the being looks to be over 17 miles tall at this point, and we are in the process of trying to gain communication with it. We now go live with the news helicopter that has kept up with the tail end ever since this being became known....*
Adam looked down the shrinking cat. He felt lonely, his giant friend leaves him behind, far above the clouds. But that was necessary. It was essential to find the witch, and beg her to undo the curse - or, if that does not work, threatening her. After all, he could just stomp on her, destroying not just the spect-size dragoness, but the whole city as well...
He felt that his body was still lengthening, gaining more and more mass and size. His toes approached to the village, and despite all his efforts, he had to step aside. And not just from that particular village; other parts of his body was getting closer and closer to cities, towns, villages, populated areas. And all those weight shifting just fuelled his growth even more. He had dozens, then hundreds of pairs of feet standing in the ocean now, his widening tail pushed over many ocean-liner, sneaking more into the open water. He was already 20 miles high, and just mere minutes elapsed...
*Thanks, Elena! As we can see, the creature is unbelievably enormous! What you see on the screen is nothing less than the mighty tip of the tail, estimated about 2 miles in width. The authorities forbid any ship to cross these waters, but it's hard to follow its speed. By the way, the tail is not moving because the creature walks backwards, its mere growth causes this! Those gigantic pillars in the distance are just a few of the uncountable quantity of legs! Wait, we just got orders from the military to leave the area, so back to the studio...*
When Adam heard a tiny voice, he thought he was hallucinating. Then he spotted - thanks to his increased vision - the tiny-biny satellite, circling around his snout. He heard a feline voice coming from it; although understanding the words was not easy. *Elena... Drown... Forces... Who are... Piece... War... What causes... growth?!*
Adam shook his head. *Could you speak up?* But the power of his air-trembling voice nearly blew the tiny machine away. His sudden surge to 25 miles did not help either.
Imagine kept his 10 mile tall size for ease of transportation, but he had to duck between the still growing legs of his friend several times, each time he had to was a little easier than before, until he arrived close to the city. There, he pressed a reset button on his watch to quickly dwindle his size back to his original 5'3" height. Still in his underwear, he had to dash back to his house as quickly as possible. On the way back to his house, a lot of people were staring, pointing and whispering at him. He ignored them.
Once inside, he quickly got changed into normal clothing, and stopped in front of his Grandfather Clock. Like the watch, Imagine inherited the clock from the same benefactor. The case was ornately carved out of wood and the dial looked like an ordinary clock, except the carvings and markings on the dial and pendulum looked exactly like the patterns on his watch. He placed his watch in a hidden compartment in the grandfather clock, which made it glow in an ethereal way. This was to recharge the watch. He started touching the symbols and markings on the clock in a specific order before moving the hands to the 10:10 position. The clock started chiming a strange tune. He closed his eyes and started to meditate, getting visions of people within the city with magical abilities. That is when he located her. The dragoness was sitting in a cafe watching the news unfold of his big friend. He opened his eyes, retrieved the watch, and dashed back out of his house.
*This is Elena Gordon bringing you coverage on the developing story of this large growing being overtaking the planet. The male lizard like dinosaur creature has still managed to keep away from all largely populated areas as his body continues to lengthen and grow. The creature has already encircled the planet twice already, and is still increasing in speed. Satellites show the main torso is over 60 miles tall at this point. We are making another attempt at establishing communication with the creature, that can somehow still speak even though his head is now clearly outside the atmosphere. One satellite has successfully landed inside the being's ear canal, and another has landed on his shoulder. We will be back with you shortly if communication is successful.*
Adam literally felt the Earth shrinking beneath him. He already met his own tail, when it encircled the planet, the tip rushed next to him; it was like looking out from a window of a train seeing another train coming. Meanwhile, his body continued enlarging, widening even more and more. Although being so enormously big had some advantages - after a while he was able to step on small towns, because the whole settlement fit under the curve of his mighty sole. His heel was next to one side of the village, his toe-claws were on the other. Surging up made more space for the towns, although their sky was nothing more than a scaly, gigantical foot. When he reached 100 miles in height - encircled the planet three times - he calmly stepped on bigger cities without causing any harm to them.
However, under his unimaginable weight, Adam feared he might crush the planet like a christmas sphere.
The dragoness witch took another sip of tea. She smiled, watching the news with the ever-growing dino-lizard, stretching out like an indestructible, blowing balloon. Satellites showed images of the Earth, which resembled a birthday present with a taur-train strip. *I don't think that kid had learnt his lesson yet.* The dragoness gave a massage to her paw, which was still in pain, but just a bit.
The blue sky darkened to pitch black, the stars shone brightly over the mighty dino-lizard. Above his head laid the infinity of space, silent, calm, and cold. However, at his feet, it was like the spawn of apocalypse and hell. Despite all his effort to save the population, mountains erased, valleys filled, and new mountains created, even bigger than the previous ones, all because of a weight shifting or a toe-bending. Adam moaned, it was like the whole planet tickling his soles. Even the deepest points of the oceans couldn't cover a single paw of his.
Then Adam sharpened his ears. He definitely heard something. *Walter Remec here, United Air Forces, Millitary. Do you copy?*
Adam nodded, although he wasn't sure where the voice came from. But before he was able to answer, a very intensive rumble run through his body. One of his paws cracked the surface of the earth under the sea, causing melted lava flow into. Within a single heart-beat, Adam doubled his size, exploding to 200 miles. The rear half of his body floated into the space.
Imagine quickly arrived in front of the cafe, feeling earthquakes created by his still growing friend. Before he entered, he pulled out his watch again and set some non visual changes to his body, including super strength and adding extreme mass and density to his footpaws, 1000 times their original weight, without making them bigger. He entered the cafe, and sat down at the table where the dragoness was sitting. He ordered a cup of tea from the waitress, then looked up at the dragoness with a very angry expression.
Imagine spoke with a calm voice. *I believe your little lesson involving my friend has gone too far. Was it your intention for him to grow so many legs?*
The dragoness spoke calmly. *Oh! I still believe he hasn't learned his lesson yet. I'll admit though, I only intended for him to have 10 pairs of legs.* She glanced at the golden chain that his pocket watch is connected to. *Nice watch you have there.* The fresh tea arrived at the table.
Imagine was fuming visibly, but still kept his voice mostly calm. *He never had 10 pairs though. It went from 2 pairs, his original legs, to 3, then 6, then 12, then continuously doubled from there, to this!* He pointed to the television, clearly showing Adam has wrapped the planet almost completely, and the length out in space has also reached, engulfed the moon, and is continuing on into space. Another earthquake rumbled through the city. *Very soon, the entire planet will be crushed by his weight!* Imagine brought out the watch and started swinging it side to side. The dragoness stared at it with wide eyes, almost hypnotized with its beauty and design. *I figured out something. I know you did that to him because you already found out somehow about my watch. Correct?* She slowly nodded. *Then I think it's "time" for your lesson!* He lifted his overweighted paw in the air over her still hurting footpaw, and stomped hard, crushing that foot completely, making her yelp in pain. A second later, her pain ceased completely as her foot healed back. Even the bruises caused by Adam were gone. *Want me to do it again?! Change him back to normal!* He drank the still piping hot tea in two gulps, making him wince.
The dragoness looked shocked as she glanced back and forth from her paw back to him. *Now that's a neat trick! I thought for a moment there that I would be permanently disfigured. My bruises are gone too! I have never seen healing done that way. There's one problem though about your friend. The changes are permanent. Can't reverse it.*
If the cat wasn't fuming before, he certainly was now. He was starting to yell. *What do you mean permanent?! You wanna let him outgrow the entire universe?!? Ugh!* He was about to stomp on her foot again, but she held her hands up and said...
*Wait!!! There is one way, but it's a long shot, and not guaranteed it will work. Did you know your watch has a twin? I did some research on the master clockmaker who built your watch and it's matching clock. He always made two of everything. There's a likelyhood that the other still exists somewhere, and your friend might be able to activate it.*
The cat looked skeptically at the dragoness. *Why are you saying this, and why should I believe you?*
*I don't know. You're just going to have to believe me. There's an antique clock shop next door. You know what to look for. I don't.*
Imagine sighed, *Ohhh, fine. Just don't try any tricks. I will know.*
*Elena Gordon here, reporting for Channel 24 News. The entire planet has been crippled by the growing creature we now know is named Adam. We have established communication with him and he has confirmed with the military that he has no malicious intent. He has told us that it all started with an incident with a somebody in Anthro City. That incident evolved into what he is now. There is nothing he can do except prevent further damage as he continues to increase in height and length. We advise everyone to stay in your home. Satellite imagery shows a large section of his long length of legs has already drifted into space, traveled to the moon, completely engulfed the moon, and continued to drift for several million miles. The estimated length is impossible to determine, but the main torso, still on the planet, has reached 800 miles tall.*
Olive Rust, the owner of the About Time antique clock shop was polishing the glasses of a century-old cuckoo clock. She crooned her favourite song, which was actually one of her favourite clock's hourly played song. Being an anthro bat, she had to lean over the old device, because she had some serious sight problems. But that fact didn't stop her from taking good care of her precious little machines. *Coming!* said the middle-aged bat, flying to the entrance door after she heard a knock. But it wasn't a knock, it was that earth-rumbling noise which shook the building itself, rumbling its foundations.
*Stupid kids!* sighed the bat for the hundredth time, before she went back to work. It started hours ago, and the noise just kept growing. It seemed that today those hooligans really wanted to piss her off.
Adam felt really ashamed of all the trouble he caused. He felt sorry for making the situation nuisance, inconvenience, and uncomfortable for everyone, and also he felt sorry for those dozens of - fortunately evacuated - cities he accidentally stepped on. Because of this and his shyness, he really, really didn't want to be an interviewee of the Channel 24 News, the military or any broadcast channels. He gave only the most essential answers to the questions, his name, his intents and how this curse happened.
Meanwhile, he tried to move most of his body parts into the space, saving the Earth from the increasing burden. It worked well for a while, he was encircled the planet only twice, while most of his legs floated into the space - but when he reached 1200 miles in hight, he accidentally kicked into something solid. The Moon to be precise. The impact dislocated the huge object, and the curse hit again, growing the giant taur-train to 2500 miles in height. Another sets of legs grew, destroying any space object they hit. Adam's head alone was bigger than a country, his paws reached out from the thermosphere - at least those resting on the ground or in the ocean -, and mountains could hide in the creases of his soles. Even the smallest scales was dozens of miles in diameter. One more doubling and he can easily give a hug to the planet.
*Hurry up, Imagine, wherever you are...*
Imagine quickly reset his paws and strength back to normal while the dragoness knocked on the door to the About Time Clock Shop. He didn't want to cause any accidents. *You'd better explain how you know all this. I'm still mad at you. Still don't trust you either.* Another rumble shook the city. Signs rattling and car alarms going off, but no damage.
The dragoness sighed, waiting for the door to open. *Fine, I'll tell you. My great grandfather was an apprentice to your watchmaker. I didn't know this until recently. Found some old documents pertaining to the fact that he always made pairs. I recognized the signature on the watch fob you had hanging out of your pocket. Your watch was made after my grandfather left the apprenticeship, and found out later that it had powers. By then though, the watchmaker had long gone. Everything disappeared, until I saw that fob.* The door to the shop finally opened.
A middle aged female anthro bat with extremely thick glasses greeted them. *Why, hello there! Welcome to the About Time Clock Shop! Come in! I'm Olive Rust. How may I help you?* After the two entered the store, the cat looked around the shop and saw all different kinds of timepieces. From anniversary clocks to carriage clocks to mantle clocks to wall clocks to grandfather clocks.
Imagine stepped forward and said, *I'm looking for an extremely rare clock. One with a unique tune when it chimes and with this signature, as well as the carving style found on this. I really don't want to say this, especially in a clock shop, but we don't have time.* The dragoness snickered. He pulled out his watch and showed it and the fob to the clerk. The bat leaned in very close to inspect them.
*Oh my. That is a very impressive piece there. I admit I can't see very well. Please bring it to my desk and let me get a closer look.* The bat went to her desk and pulled out what looked like a six inch long pair of binoculars connected to a wireframe headpiece. She pulled them over her thick glasses, turned on a lamp, and picked up the cat's pocket watch and looked it over. Another rumble shook the city again, causing some clocks to unceremoniously gong as they rocked. *Oh dear! What's causing all that racket!* She went back to inspecting the piece. *Your watch is exquisite! You're saying you are looking for something made by the same maker as your watch? I think I have something with a tune I have never heard before. It is my absolute favourite! It's just over here.* She pointed to something with very familiar features. It was hidden in the back between two other large grandfather clocks.
The cat walked up to it, the dragoness and bat behind. *That's the one alright. Has different symbols than mine but it is definitely a match.* He checked the price tag on the door. It had a price of $3,500 on it. The cat pulled out his credit card to purchase the clock, and was outside with it in less than a minute.
The bat looked forlornly at the clock as it was carried away. *I'm going to miss that clock.* She turned around, humming its tune as she closed the door. Another rumble again. *Stupid kids!* After walking a block, Imagine put the clock down in an open square in the city. The dragoness still with him.
The dragoness spoke. *I think your friend has finally learned his lesson now. Can I come with you to see your friend and apologize to him? He's really cute.*
*I don't know why I'm saying this, but you can come. You know your magic doesn't work on me or this clock right?* The cat pulled out his watch again, set it to make him grow tall enough to fit the clock in one paw while the dragones had a hand on her chest and was mumbling her magic phrases. He set his legs to lengthen many thousands of miles before picking up the clock as the growth took effect. The dragoness still on the ground mumbling as he shot up to space very quickly. When his legs stopped, he reset them, leaving him with a height of 30 ft. Clothing and clock still with him. What he saw astounded him. Adam was so large that his head alone was the size of the planet and still growing, not to mention the uncountable number of legs that drifted so far off, that they were hitting almost all of the other planets in the solar system, and already orbited around the star several times, and is also in the process of replacing the asteroid belt with more body.
The dragoness looked at the cat, watching him jumping to the air, leaving the clouds behind him with very fast speed. She was still mumbling his phrases, but meanwhile she thought about her healed paw. Yes, without the pain, her anger was blown away. She even felt a bit sorry for the giant dino-lizard.
*Maybe I should be a little more careful with my curses.* The dragoness shook her head. *Well, at least with irreversible curses... But god, he is so cute with that size!* She blinked as she saw the sky changing into a giant, scaled, dino-lizard toe-claw.
Adam sighed as his body rumbled again, quickly shooting up to 15,000 miles. He wondered how he can breathe in the airless space, but after being cursed and seeing Imagine using his mysterious watch to grow, he did not question magic, which was surely kept him alive. When he doubled his size again, reaching 20 thousand miles in height and a length that he encircled the whole solar system many times, he tried to release the giant beachball sized planet. However, because of his own gravity caused by his gargantuan weight, the planet simply stuck to him, as though it was covered by glue. The dino-lizard pushed it away, but it seemed that he can't release it.
As his body snaked through the space - encircled the Sun itself five or six times -, bumping into planets, asteroids, planetoids, alien ships, comets, crushing or kicking them hundreds of miles away, the curse kept him growing and growing, getting more and more flesh, muscles, weight and legs. Soon, he reached 50 thousand miles in height, which meant a single paw was covering the whole planet. His skin was hitting the surface with great force through his heartbeat - Adam feared that it could be counted as "stepping on it" to the curse, and his fears quickly realized when he tripled his latter size to 150 thousand miles. He enclosed his toe-claws around the marble sized globe to protect it, although it covered the sky pitch black everywhere on its surface.
?The more than titanic taur-train stared at the little blue marble. *How breakable it is!* whispered Adam. The feeling that he held this tiny globe in his paw mesmerized him. *I promise I'll be more careful with you in the future! Well, at least if I will still able to see you...* said the giant as the planet shrunk again, becoming fingertip-sized.
Allowing a few minutes for the 50 ft tall cat to adjust to the vacuum of space, Imagine looked up when darkness was surrounding him. He was shocked to see a footpaw dozens of times bigger than the planet itself start to wrap around and enclose almost entirely. He had to think fast. He allowed the clock to float beside him as he set the watch to make him grow a second chest and arms below the first one, making him 5 ft taller, so he could hold the clock and use the watch at the same time. Somehow his shirt evolved to include two more sleeves as he grew. He grabbed the drifting clock with his lower arms, preparing himself for the next step. When he began to see light again, he set his watch to provide propulsion. It increases in diameter slightly so he could hold it with his upper arms like a steering wheel. Holding it above his head, he pressed a button on the side, activating the propulsion. It doesn't go slowly, it practically pulls him along at insane speeds without expelling any sort of exhaust. Instead, it leaves a faint trail of white light behind the cat as he moves in space. He had to steer the thrust provided by the timepiece very carefully to direct him towards the front of the incredibly large muzzle belonging to Adam. It took him longer to get there than he thought. Adam was growing fast. His growth was accelerating at an insane rate due to all the steps being compounded by the seemingly infinite number of legs as they stepped on, touched, bumped into, and grazed anything and almost everything in the entire solar system. Even stepping on his own body compounds it even further.
After several minutes of travelling at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, the comparatively microscopic feline finally reached the front of the supermassive Dino/lizard's muzzle. Eyes the size of the largest gas giant planet in the solar system following the white trail left behind by Imagine's complex little contraption. The cat turned off the propulsion and started fiddling with his watch again.
All of a sudden Adam could hear the cat loud and clear. *Adam, can you hear me?* The big guy slowly nodded. *I have established a telepathic link with our minds. Just think on what you want to say. I have some good news and very bad news. The bad news is that the dragoness's curse is permanent and can't be reversed or stopped by any conventional magic. Don't be mad at her though, she's got a good heart. The good news is that, with her help, we have actually been able to find something that might help, but it also might not work. It is a matched pair to my watch. There's one thing though. It has to be activated. When I activated my own machine, I accidentally cut my paw on the hands of the grandfather clock it came in. The watch was in a hidden compartment inside the machine. That method might not work for you now, your blood cells are the size of cities. A tear or sweat might work though.* Imagine looked around. Adam was much bigger again. He was already 10 times taller than the sun's diameter. The leg section has already made hundreds of very large elliptical orbits around the solar system, similar to the orbit of the farthest planet.
*Elena Gordon, Channel 24 News. The whole planet became dark, as the ever-growing dino-lizard, Adam, outgrew our planet. Experts say that the sky we're looking at is just a tiny fraction of his sole now, as the giant became bigger and bigger with an increasing speed. Unfortunately our satellites cannot provide any good images, showing nothing but the rugged surface of a scale larger than the size of Earth. As we speak, all the leaders of all religion now joined together, praying to the gods to save our souls. In an hour we summarize what we know about the giant called Adam and his incident happened only a few hours ago, but now our reporter is on the line. Hello, Judy, tell us what you see in the square, where millions of people get together to pray...*
Adam did not grow any more. Everything else shrank. At least he thought that way - floating in the infinite space the only visible objects were the Sun and all the planets nearby, and all of them became smaller and smaller spheres. He did not see the Earth anymore, only thought about it as a grain, a speck of dust stuck into his ball of his fore paw, and probably becoming a bacteria sized globe in a few minutes. The planet Jupiter was about the size of a golfball, but Adam knew it will be much, much smaller soon. The Sun was the only measurable object nearby, holding its massive size comparable with the gigantic dino-lizard's 1 million miles height. Adam shrugged, knowing that the warm globe will follow Earth under one of his toe-claws very soon. He already imagined how would feel to encircle the whole Universe. Twice, at least.
That was the moment when he heard Imagine's voice, the first time in the last hour's of suffering. He was only managed to nod to the cat's explanation, since he was speechless from the joy. His heart - 60 thousand miles in diameter, just for the record - filled with hope again. His friend had a plan. He can be always trusted... He was a true friend. He did not understand the details, even wondered how could a planet size sweat save him from crushing the whole existence, but there was a plan, and that was enough for him.
*You can find sweat drops at my soles, any of them.* Said the gargantuan taur-train. *Although, they can be the size of the Venus...* Another growth spurt hit him, letting the incredibly huge dino-lizard hit the 8 million mark, his tail bursted out of the solar system, snaking to the direction of other star systems. The sun just shrank to paw size. *...Jupiter.*
A canine figure appeared on the news screen standing behind a massive crowd. *Thanks Elena, I'm Judy Hart, and what you see behind me is the crowd that has gathered here to pray for their safety. There are also claims of a new religion that just popped up called The Great Paw. We don't have much detail yet on this group. We will get back to you on this subject later. In this period of worldly unrest, we have to find a way to keep safe. Back to you, Elena!*
The grey cat sighed *You know, I am situated at the tip of your muzzle. It'll take me forever to head back down to one of your paws. Could you bring up one of your foot-paws from your incredible supertrain please?* Imagine smiled at his own words. *Incredible Supertrain, heh, sounds like a name for a superhero.*
The cat waited as the ultra-massive Dino/lizard slowly shifted a section of his legs nearby, and nearby meaning several million miles away. They got closer and closer until the cat had not one, but three extremely gigantic super paws so big, the claws alone were larger than the sun, up near Adam's mega muzzle. Each one had their own atmosphere and weather system consisting of nothing but musky, super strong smelling sweat.
As the cat used his watch to travel close enough to actually land on the center paw offered, the number of paws in the big taur-train's face increased to five as the legs doubled again. The sheer size of the massive paws astonished the cat. He landed in a crevice where two scales meet, right between two toes, and it seemed like he was in a canyon so big, it looked like several super gas planets could fit in this area alone. He stopped the watch propulsion system when he came across a "drop" of sweat. This drop though was more than 10 times the diameter of Jupiter. The cat decided it was time to prepare the clock he brought with him to make it ready to activate. Even though the cat was still 55 ft tall, he could easily handle the 6 ft tall grandfather clock. The cat splashed some sweat on the face of the clock while moving the hands to the 10:10 position. The clock started glowing while making a strange tune. A clicking sound was heard when the secret compartment unlocked. The cat went to that compartment, and opened it. What was inside it was much like what he found in his own clock. Inside, was a watch with similar markings and knobs, but made in white gold, as well as a note. In that note, which Imagine relayed word for word to Adam, was instructions on the functions of the watch, and, the fact that if blood wasn't used for activation, it will only work for 24 hours, before deactivating. Imagine quickly set the white gold watch to grow to fit Adam's size, then threw it towards the big super muzzle before it got too big for the cat to handle. It quickly grew to the diameter of the sun and continued to increase large enough for the Dino/lizard to handle with two paws.
The panic was much, much less than authorities expected. It seemed that most of the population accepted their faith, living - or dying - in the dark under the paw of an enormous, ever-growing creature, who was about to humiliate all the existence with its mere size. Of course there were religious fanatics, The Church of the Great Paw suggested anthros walking on bare foot, The Ever Dark Brotherhood refused to use electricity, living like the Amish and lightning their cities with candles and torches, and the Fellowship of the Scale clothed with crocodile skin and used trains as the only and true way of travelling on the dark planet.
A bit of irony of the fate that believing that Earth has only hours or days left, all wars, conflicts and enmity were gone. Technically, the godlike dino-lizard brought world peace to the planet.
Adam quickly approached to 1 astronomical unit in height, nearly 100 million miles, while his length enclosed a lightyear. A single breath was so powerful, the exhalation blew the planets - which weren't caught on his own gravitational field - away, while the inhalation almost drew them in his nostrils or mouth. The Sun, the once bright globe was nearly the size of a grain now.
Adam listened carefully to the instructions which Imagine told, nodding continuously. His eyes were looking for the white watch, which he quickly noticed after a while: an amazing, little spot, which grew and grew, much faster than the dino-lizard himself, reaching the relative size of a water drop, then a marble, then a golf ball. *Supertrain, yeah* Adam tried to find his lost sense of humour. *They will make fan t-shirts and mugs with my image... And what will they draw to the sky with a spotlight when they want to call me? A growing locomotive?*
Meanwhile, the white pocket watch reached 20 million miles in diameter, just the size of a paw of the beyond gigantic taur-train. Adam grabbed the device eagerly, as his last hope for having a normal life. Sort of.
*I have to admit, I like being enormous... Although not this enormous... How about returning to a bit bigger size? You know, 10 feet tall, for example... And no more than my good old 4 legs!* He set the device as the cat told, then activated it. His body's rumble stopped. *What, you said if blood wasn't used for activation, it will only work for 24 hours. What the hell does that mean?! Will I grow again after a day?*
Imagine scanned the note again, noticing some fine print on the back. It wasn't easy trying to read a note when you are a 55 foot tall cat. To Imagine, it was like trying to read paragraphs of 200 year old writing from a postage stamp. *Oh, here it is. It simply states that the powers go dormant until needed again. Also states that if the user has been put under a curse, it has the ability to nullify the effects of that curse permanently.* The cat looks up at the humungous eye looking at him. *So, it means that whatever size you are when the 24 hour period is up, you stay that size until you want to re-activate it. Should be enough time to restore everything, and customize your body to whatever you want.*
The dragoness concentrated - she used all her magic to restore the mighty dino-lizard's destruction. She was a powerful witch - well, she casted an infinite growth spell creating a solar system large taur-train after all, and that is not negligible. Although, manipulating such forces was still a pretty hard task. *If you can hear me, oh mighty cat...* spoke the dragoness in her head, *A bit of help might be... Needed.*
Meanwhile, in the sky, the darkness moved. Everybody held their breath in, waiting for something to happen. Is this the end of the world? Has the final moment of crushing already arrived? A town size cell of the mighty sole-skin rumbled - and it became a bit smaller.?
Adam finally started to shrink.
It was a happy moment, seeing all the space object becoming bigger. The Sun, the grain sized Sun swelled, the gas planets were ballooning out, and his so many legs shortened, returning to their bump state, then disappearing, one by one. A few minutes later his mighty tailtip was already in his original solar system.
*Good lord!* sighed the still mighty, but slowly shrinking god-dino-lizard, *I almost believed I was going to outgrow the universe itself! What a relief... Hey, Imagine! Thanks! I owe you! A lot! And I really mean a lot!* The dino-lizard shook his head. *Okay, this still might keep going for hours. I think you should help on Earth, if it still exists... You know, explaining, calming down the people, and stuff.* His body encircled the growing Sun less and less times. *And don't forget to mention that I'm deeply sorry...*
Imagine quickly checked over the still massive but steadily shrinking dino-lizard to make sure he was shrinking properly. Legs on his Taur section were disappearing quickly, height was dwindling at a good pace, everything was going fine. *You are very, very welcome. I couldn't have done it without the help of the dragoness that started this mess in the first place.* The cat started heading back to earth, but stopped to look back to Adam. *Your watch will help restore all displaced celestial objects back to their original orbits. It will also help heal the Earth's geographical displacements, and that trail you left behind earlier. I should know. The first day I had my watch, I overdid a setting before going to sleep. When I woke up, I found out I had exploded to galaxy size. Took me a while to figure out how to restore everything. Found out the stars and planets return to their original orbit as I shrunk. I will do what I can to comfort the citizens. It's fine. I should be the one who's sorry. We lost those movie tickets.* The cat continued heading back to the planet.
*What do you mean galaxy size?* The dino-lizard shake his now planet sized-head. *You mean you have been in this before?! How am I not remember anything like this in the news?* His continental sized, but still shrinking nose touched the surface, but the wound healed almost immediately, just like the roads did after the cat's growth. *Ah, I get it! Woah, so now I have some sort of superpowers? You know, I can change my size at my will using this simple watch?* The taur-train lost more and more legs, as he became smaller. Soon, he was able to fit his twelve feet on the ground. Although he did this really watchfully, it was completely unnecessary. The watch restored every damage he caused.
Meanwhile, the dragonness smiled. Adam shrank further, meaning that Imagine's plan was successful. *I think I owe you one last thing.* spoke the dragoness to Imagine telepathically. *Check your pocket. There should be two tickets... So you don't miss a thing.*
*Yes, Channel 24, it is officially confirmed. The danger has passed, the giant, godlike dino-lizard is dwindling further in size. Cities are restored, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but all the damaged enviroment, properties, buildings, everything is healing themselves! Experts say that he will eventually return to his original size in a few minutes. Our reporters try to catch this creature bringing the very first interview to our audience, but it is hard to foretell its final location...*
Imagine smiled. *I'll tell you more about that later, but here's a hint. There's more functions with these watches than just growth.*
The cat still had Adam's clock with him in his lower set of his four arms and was still 55 ft tall. He used his watch again to reduce his height down to 10 ft but still kept the four arms, the large grandfather clock still in his lower arms. As Adam stopped shrinking at 8 ft tall, Imagine looked behind the Dino/lizard taur and saw that there was still 12 legs there. The cat frowned. *I thought you said you wanted to have four legs.* He smiled. *I must admit though. You do look rather impressive. Come on. We need to get this clock in a safe place.*
The cat heard the dragoness, and checked his pockets. Sure enough, there were a couple of movie tickets to the same movie they were going to watch before their adventure started. It would start in a few hours. He contacted the dragoness back through telepathy. *I can't thank you enough. Thank you for all your help. I can't help but wonder though. If mine is yellow gold, the second is white gold, then there's a chance there might be a third one somewhere that is rose gold.*
The cat looked to the horizon and saw a huge convoy of reporters, journalists, news crews and photographers heading their way. *Uh oh. I think we should be going. You know how to use the invisibility setting and the propulsion setting right? Then let's get going! We need to get to your house to drop off this clock before going to the movies.* The cat held up the tickets with an upper paw before pocketing them. Then he brought out his watch and turned on his invisibility before turning on the propulsion. He waited for Adam to do the same before heading off back to Anthro City.
Adam gasped when he reached his 8 foot tall height. He felt a bit small - of course, half an hour ago he was about to tear the Milky way apart. He looked back at his 6 pairs of legs. After some re-calibrating on the watch, he was standing only on 3 pairs, with a total length of 20 feet from nose to tail. Not too big, but not insignificant. His favourite size.
*You know, I might keep a few of these. You can never tell. They can be useful, you know, during walking... running... stomping...* He giggled while he was wiggled his toe-claws. His sole was still sensitive. Which reminded him that he was still naked. *Uhm, I might need some...* He couldn't finish his sentence as Imagine turned on his watch, making himself invisible. Adam nodded, doing the same adjustments. *Definitely better... And we still have a movie to see! I should keep this invisible-thingy on, I think my face is recognizable everywhere on the world... And some other solar systems... Um, but hey, thanks. You are a best friend indeed!*
They walked towards Adam's house. The dino/lizard was optimist again, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping - at least until he step on another paw again!??
The End?