Sukotto, the shaman in question, was a bit bored. For the most part, the civilization was doing quite well this year in terms of crops and hunting, and there was little need of him and his magic compared to other years. He laid down in his hut, hoping someone would come to him soon and give him something to do.

Ada reached the front door, and wanted to knock, but it turned out to be open.

“Hi? Mister Sukotto?” he approached slowly. The shaman was a powerful and respected member of the village. Ada didn’t want to bother him. “I’m sorry if I came in a wrong moment... But...I would like to ask a favour...” He gulped and stepped closer, trying to gain some confident. “Can you make me... Bigger?” He then explained how he hates himself being so small and bullied constantly by the other dragons. “I don’t ask much... I hope... Just a little bit taller... Can you do it for me? I mean, for the community?”
He looked up at the shaman with big puppy eyes.

Sukotto perked up a bit as Ada came in. He listened to the dragons story and request and thought about it. “Hmm...what you’re asking me for isn’t as easy as you seem to think. The spell to grow crops has not been used on other things, especially dragons, and I have no idea what might happen. However, I can see you want to help the community, so I will just ask. Are you sure you want to try this?” Sukotto was mentally cheering he had something to do and especially that it was this! He always wanted to test this spell on people and see the results!

Ada thought for a moment. Does he really want to change his body? Will it change who he is? Sweet small Ada... But then he decided: yes, it is worth the effort. There are so many advantages!

“Yes, I do want to be bigger! I can finally hunt properly! And reach the top shelves in the community hut! And maybe the others finally look up to me!” He imagined walking into the hut, and everyone drops their mouth when they see little Ada not so little anymore... But as tall as the others! Or maybe even a little bit taller...

Ada nodded his head with a smile, wagging his tail with excitement.

Sukotto couldn’t help but smile at Ada’s excitement. “Very well. Here goes nothing, then.” Sukotto focused as he cast the spell he usually used to help the crops grow, but this time his target was of course Ada.

Ada wanted to jump up and down, but instead tried to stay calm, and not moving too much. He even closed his eyes as Sukotto whispered the magic words. He felt a warmness spreading across his stomach, his body shivered a bit... Then the feeling ended.

“Did it work?” he asked, and opened his eyes. He looked at himself, at his hands, arms, legs, tail – but he couldn’t see any difference. He then measured himself to the doorframe. Nothing. Not an inch. He was still the same old small dragon.

“I guess it didn’t work,” said Ada with a disappointed voice. He looked up at the shaman with broken heart. “Now what? Do you have a stronger one, perhaps...?”

Sukotto stared at Ada, confused. "Strange...Usually the effects are visible right away. I'm not sure why it's not working other than maybe it doesn't effect people, just crops...However, I don't want to give up JUST yet. There is a variant of the spell for when the crops are especially bad. I'll try that next." Sukotto closed his eyes and concentrated, then cast the stronger variant of the spell on Ada.

Just like before, the dragon felt something around his stomach, although this time it was definitely more intense. It was almost like lightning traveling through his body: he trembled, his ears peaked up, his tail wagged uncontrollably.

“Come on! Work! Work!” he growled, trying to stretch, as if that helped any. But no matter how much he tried, apart from the strange feeling, he did not experience anything. Definitely not growth.

Sukotto was confused by the lack of results. “Hmm...definitely strange. I guess it just works on crops...Sorry.”

Ada lowered his head in disappointment. “I guess the gods want to keep me in this way. Well... Thanks, Sukotto, anyway.”

Suddenly another one of the hunter dragons came into the hut, namely Tyr. “There you are, pipsqueak!” he addressed Ada with a chuckle. “Come now! Boss wants to fill the meat list. We need more rabbits to catch. You might fit inside their hole to lure them out!” He grinned. His words hurt much to Ada, but he grinned his teeth in silence.

“Shaman, are you coming, wishing us good luck?” asked Tyr.

Sukotto glared a little at Tyr, as he was not a fan of bullying, but he nodded anyway. "Sure, I'll come. I admit I'm concerned for Ada. I feel he's being treated unfairly, but I'm also curious if there's still a way I can help him, despite my magic not appearing to work at the moment."

“You did magic?” asked Tyr, then he shrugged. The three of them headed into the deeper part of the jungle, where the others were waiting. After discussing the strategies – and making some fun on Ada’s size, as usual, - they spread out. Ada headed north, alone. His job was to seek out the prey and make them run south, toward the others. He was angry a bit, not just because the growth spell didn’t work, but because he was not allowed to hunt down the prey himself.

As he was walking around silently, he suddenly noticed some movement in the distance. Rabbits! He laid low, sneaking closer and closer. He was small and silent – maybe he can catch one after all! Wouldn’t that make the others finally proud? As he licked his lips, a strange warmness spread from his stomach through his body...

Sukotto stayed with the main group. He decided to stay silent for now, but was annoyed at the bullying towards Ada. He was still part of the community, so he didn’t deserve to feel otherwise. However, Sukotto was also deep in thought about the spell, wondering why it didn’t seem to work and what he might do to help Ada despite it.

Ada crawled closer to the bunnies. He noticed a small branch in front of him. H carefully placed his paw next to it, careful enough not to step on it. He looked up, wondering about his next move, when his body suddenly shivered, seemingly out of nothing.

And then his paw broke the branch.

“What the heck” he thought. How did the branch suddenly was under his sole? But he couldn’t think too much of it, because the bunnies ran away hearing the noise. Ada cursed. Now he have to look for another prey!

Sukotto of course had no idea what happened with Ada. He kept thinking what might have gone wrong and what changes he might make for next time.

Ada stood up and headed deeper into the jungle. But as he walked, something felt odd; his perspective was slightly different, but he could not explain why.

Luckily a few minutes later he found another nest of rabbits. This time he decided to chase them back toward the others. He circled around, and suddenly jumped forward. The rabbits ran just as he planned. He ran after them - he usually lost sight after a while, but this time he was able to keep up. This surprised the little dragon.

When he arrived at the hunting point, the others already cought the rabbits.

"Nice work, pipsqueak!" said said Tyr with a chuckle, then he suddenly became silent. Something seemed strange as he looked down at Ada. He didn't have to tilt his head that much this time. Is Ada standing on a pile of dirt?

Sukotto noticed as well and tilted his head. “Hmm? Something seems...different about you, Ada. I not quite sure what yet.”

Ada looked at himself again. He did feel strange, something different about him, but couldn’t tell what.

Later that day, he went playing with the children. He was one of the few adults who did that, and the only hunter – probably because they were similar in size. Except now he seemed a bit above the others. But that might be because the kids likes to crawl and lay low.

This time they played hide and find. One of the players hide an object, an arrow in this case, and the others has to find it. Ada was among the searchers. As he lurked among the trees, he noticed it: the arrow was stuck in the bark, high up. The kid probably climbed up the tree and put the arrow there. Ada walked over, standing on his hind legs while using the branches to reach for the arrow... It was just out of his reach...

Suddenly he felt a warmness spreading through his body again. “Hm. Strange...” he mumbled, and just like that he grabbed the arrow.
He blinked a few times as he went back on four. Did he really managed to reach that high?

Sukotto went back to his hut after the hunt in case other members of the community needed him. While he was alone, he thought about what happened so far. Ada did seem a bit bigger when he came back from getting the rabbits to run towards them. Did the spells actually work then? Although, it wasn’t all that noticeable and it was certainly delayed...What was going on?

As Ada retrieved the arrow, the kids gathered around the hunter dragon.

“Woah! Ada! You grew!”

“I did?” asked the dragon in a confused tone. But once he stood next to a kid, it became obvious – he surely became bigger! And not just taller, his overall frame grew. Judging by the size difference, now he is just as big as the other hunters. Around 5 duut, or 5 feet tall.

“Praise the gods! I’m bigger!” he jumped in the air joyfully. He then turned back and ran right into Sukotto’s hut.

“Shaman! Look at me! I’m finally big! Your magic worked!” He stretched up, and smirked as he finally was eye to eye to him.

Sukotto perked up and looked Ada over. “Oh, wow! You did grow! I’m quite surprised, actually. Usually it doesn’t take the spells that long to activate. Either way, this is good news!”

Ada was so proud of his new size, he showed off to everyone in the village. All of them stared at him in awe and disbelief, some of them praised his new size. No one called him pipsqueak anymore, not even Tyr, although he was still the tallest among them.

“Finally you can be a decent hunter!”

“I already am!” smiled Ada.

The night came, and Ada went back to his hut excited. Tomorrow he can join the hunters, and not just as a chaser, but as one who can catch the pray! He closed his eyes, and dreamed about sweet dreams.

However, a few hours later, he woke up because of some noise, and a loud thud. Ada blinked a few times, before he realised what just happened. The bed, which was previously quite big for him, broke under his weight.

It seemed that during the night he grew again – this time to a whole 7 feet tall. He was as big as the chef of the village!

“Better wake up the shaman and talk to him...” he crawled out of his hut, and headed to Sukotto. He gently knocked on his door.

Sukotto woke up and rubbed his eyes. "Huh...? Who's there?" He had no idea who could be trying to wake him up in the middle of the night, but he knew it had to be important. At least, he certainly hoped it was.

When the door opened, Ada swung his tail back and forth. “Surprise!” he grinned, looking actually down at the shaman. He stepped closer, but hit his head into the doorframe. “Darn...” Ada rubbed his forehead. “Hi, Sukotto! Look! I actually grew, again! Isn’t it fantastic?! You are the best shaman!”

Sukotto shook himself awake at seeing Ada even bigger. “That...that doesn’t make sense. Unless maybe it’s the second spell I cast? It might make sense as the first one was delayed, but...wow.”

“Well, it must be it!” nodded Ada. He felt excitement and happiness. He could look down at anyone, maybe the exception of the chief. The biggest hunter! Finally, he reached his dreams!

As he was standing in Sukotto’s hut, thinking about all the praises he will get from the others in the morning, he felt the warmness in his stomach again. He put two and two together, and finally realized what it means.

“Ooooh! Here comes another one!” Ada wagged his tail, as he started to grow one more tim
e.

“Again!?” Sukotto was definitely surprised and concerned. This definitely didn’t make sense as there wasn’t a third spell cast on Ada. At least, not that he knew of. “What could be causing this?”

“I don’t know... But you can’t say I’m complaining!” Ada grinned, and he looked at himself. Everything on him, every muscle, every scale grew bit by bit. His limbs stretched a little further, his neck and tail stretched longer, his wings widened. Inch by inch his head climbed closer to the ceiling. From 7 feet (or duut) he reached 7 and half... Then crawled up to 8... Then 8 and a half... Until finally, at 9 feet tall, his growth stopped.

Ada gasped. “I... Am... The biggest of all?!” Then he jumped up, only to hit the ceiling. “Auch. I am the biggest of all!” He laughed of joy, his voice also seemed to deepen a bit.

Sukotto nodded slowly, still in shock. “You sure are! Wow! Any idea what you might do with your new size?”

Ada flexed his arms, marveling at his biceps. “Sure! I want to be the greatest hunter who ever lived! I’m gonna catch all the prey... Even the big ones!” he fantasies how he will hunt down a boat – or who knows, maybe a bear? “I might become the leader of the hunters! Oh, and finally I can win the races too. I bet I can run and swim much faster now!” His wagging tail knocked the walls. “Anyway, I don’t want to bother you... I just wanted to show how well your spell worked! I am grateful, and forever in your dept, Sukotto. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
With saying goodnight, he crawl out of the hut, although he really had to squeeze himself through the certainly small door.

Sukotto watched Ada leave and put his hand on the back of his head. He had no idea what might happen now, or if Ada was done growing. One thing was certain. This community was never going to be the same.

Ada growled as he tried to push himself bak into his hut. It seemed that his door was a size smaller than the big dragon. "Uh... Stupid wood..." His hips didn't fit through. He pushed, and squeezed, until with a split the wood finally gave up, and Ada was able to get back into his hut. He let out a sigh, and curled down on the floor, trying to go back to sleep. It was hard, since his heart beated so fast from the excitement, but he managed to do.

Just around sunrise, the village wake up to a cracking and growling sound. More and more heads popped out, searching for the source, which turned out to be coming from... Ada's hut?

"What in the name of the gods?" said Ria, the only female member of the hunters. She, as well as the others, stared with wide open eyes at the scene.

The walls of the hut curled outwards, and was shaking constantly.

Sukotto got up as well and checked it out. He saw the hut looked ready to burst open and had an idea what was happening. “I guess he grew again overnight...his hut won’t last much longer at this rate.”

Suddenly a huge paw smashed through the front wall. At the same moment a lengthening tail cut through the back of the hut, and a few seconds later a head popped out through the roof.

“Auch,” said the now giant Ada as he stood up, shaking down the remains of his home like it was made of bamboo. “That hurt a bit!”

Everyone gasped as they looked up at the mighty dragon. Ada, the once small hunter dragon, the pipsqueak, now stood there with an astonishing height of 15 feet – five times as big as his original size, and two times higher than the previous record holder of the village.

He waved with his big hands, greeting his fellow dragons. He clearly enjoyed the situation. “Hi there! Is something on my face?”

"Ada! You're huge! It seems you just keep growing and growing now!" Sukotto admitted to himself, though, that he did enjoy it, and wondered how big he might end up, if he ever even stops.

“I know it, right?!” the dragon smiled. He jumped, causing a small tremor. “I can finally hunt down the preys!”

All the hunters cheered, except for Tyr and Ria. They frowned and exchanged looks. “How... He does not deserve to be this big!” Ria whispered, and the other dragon nodded.

But the others were just as happy as Ada after they relieved from the shock. An hour later Ada went on a hunt with the rest of his team, and finally he felt like he truly belongs. He even chased and caught a direwolf, one of the biggest animals in the forest! Although he had to lean down from time to time to avoid the canopies, his size and speed was clearly superior comparing to the others. The village chief praised the gods for this blessing on their dear Ada, who was completely touched.

It was simply the best day of his life, a dream coming true!

Sukotto was definitely happy for him and was glad he could help him so much. He still spent time at his hut, though, in case other community members still needed help.

Later that day Ada was playing with the children. They invented a new game they called Weee, where Ada sat still, and the kids climbed onto his back, and then slided down on his back and tail.

“Weee!” screamed the kids in joy. Ada was also happy, bringing so much fun to them. One of the kids poked his arm. “Ada? Can you... Make the slide bigger?”

“I don’t know. Can I?” asked Ada, and he thought how much the kids would be happier if he grew bigger. And right then he felt the familiar warmness in his stomach. “Quick! Everyone climb onto my back! This is so exciting!”

Sukotto didn’t know this was going on it what was about to happen, as he was still in his hut. He did wonder, though, how Ada was doing and how big he might be now.

Ada felt his bones lengthening, his muscles bulging, as he gained inch after inch. With a cracking-growling sound his overall frame climbed higher again, then again, and again. The kids on his back cheered, enjoying the scaly surface stretching under them. One of the kids stood under Ada, jumping up playfully to touch his belly, only to ascend it beyond his reach. The giant dragon hunter smiled and waved his bulging tail as he reached 17 feet... 19 feet... 22 feet... His head reached the lower part of a tree crown just as he stopped growing at 25 feet tall – bigger than any landscape animal they had ever seen.

“I hereby rename the Weee game to Wuu-Huu!” laughed Ada with a deeper voice. The kids screamed in joy, sliding down on the biggest slide of their life.

Sukotto smiled a bit as he let his imagination run wild. He did hope Ada and the rest of the community were doing well, though. Although, seeing as there wasn’t anyone in his hut asking for help, he figured that was a safe bet.

As more and more people noticed Ada in an even bigger version, their initial joy and happiness slowly turned into concern. Especially after Ada accidentally knocked over some boxes, punched a hole on a wall with his tail, and later he flattened the raw clay pots waiting for the furnace.

“Uh... Sorry?” said the giant dragon with an innocent voice. “I’m just not used to my bigger body! Yet!”

Is he still growing? If yes, how much...? If he grows any bigger, could it endanger the village and the villagers? Many whispered these questions.

Later the Chief himself visited Sukotto. “Shaman, you are wise in the forces of nature. Can you provide us some answers to these questions?”

Sukotto sighed. "I'm afraid I can't, Chief. I haven't cast such a spell on anything other than crops before. Not to mention how long it took to even get started was unusual already. I'm afraid this is unknown territory, even for me." Sukotto knew something had to be done to calm the community down, but he wasn't sure what that was. Well, he had ONE idea, but he knew Ada would not like it.

By the time Ada helped cleaning all the mess he caused in the village – while avoiding creating new problems, - it already turned dark. The dragons gathered around the fireplace, and consumed their dinner. Ada needed a much bigger portion, which was not overlooked by some of the hunters.

“I can’t believe him...” whispered Ria to Tyr. The male nodded. “Like an elephant! Look at him! He devours all of our stock! He can hunt, yes, but he costs too much for the village!”

Ada, due to his larger size, had larger sense of hearing as well. He heard every word, and it hurt him. He gulped, then put down the half chewed sheep, and said good night to everyone. As he approached his hut, he realised he destroyed that earlier. With a sigh, he curled up on top of the remains, and closed his eyes.

Maybe tomorrow will bring something new, something better.

Sukotto didn't quite hear what was said, but he could see how it upset Ada and felt sorry for him. He went over to Ada while he slept to keep an eye on him, out of concern for both him and the community. He also talked quietly to himself. "I'm sorry, Ada. I tried to help you, but it seems I've done more harm than good. I'll try to find a way to fix this. Maybe shrink you down to a size everyone can be happy with for you."

Unbeknownst to Sukotto, someone was eavesdropping on him. Rya, the dragon hunter followed the shaman, and heard his words whispered in the darkness.

“So... You did this to him, eh, shaman?” he smirked, and silently sneaked back, to tell Ria his news.

An hour later, the sleeping Ada took deeper and deeper breaths. Something was disturbing his dreams. His limbs twitched, his tail flicked... And then his entire body rumbled like a volcano before eruption...

Sukotto noticed that and tensed up, preparing himself. "Uh-oh...this seems like it might be a big spurt..." He backed up, not sure how big Ada would get this time and how much room he'd need. He only hoped this won't cause more problems for the community or even Ada himself.

Just as Sukotto suspected, Ada was having another growth attack. His already massive frame bulked bigger and wider, his limbs like tree trunks set to fast forward. The tail curled and swirled as it crawled further. Ada snorted, then turned onto his other side in his sleep, stretching his legs – but they went beyond their initial limit, then more, until the dragon placed her big paws against the wall of the next hut. He was already around 35 feet tall, and it seemed the growth did not slowed down at all. On the contrary. Ada’s body seemed like a leather flask that someone was filling up with water. His vast frame bulged... Then trembled and grew bigger... Then again... 40 feet tall... 45 feet...

His paw smashed into the neighbour’s wall, who ran out screaming, but not even that woke up the big dragon.

Sukotto couldn't believe his eyes with how fast Ada was growing! He ran over to try and shake him awake, even though he was sure Ada wouldn't even feel him at this size. "Ada! Ada, wake up! You're getting way too big!"

Ada thought for a moment a bee was buzzing around his nose. Half dreaming he tried to hush it away, before he finally recognised the words.

“Huh?” He opened his eyes and stood up, just to feel dizziness. Why is everything seems so strange...
Then his final growth spurt to 55 feet gave him the answer.

“Oh my gosh! I’m huge! You’re tiny! I’m huge!” his booming, deep voice woke up everyone in the village. All the dragons came out, only to scream, drop their mouth, or simply faint. Only the kids were cheering in joy. Biiig-biiig slide!

Sukotto nodded. "I'm not sure why, but you just got hit with a BIG spurt, literally! You're MUCH bigger now than you were just a few minutes ago!"

The chief called a village meeting to discuss Ada’s growth spurts. Some of them were yelling, some argued against or next to it, some shrugged, others cut into each other’s speech. Meanwhile Ada was standing a bit further, admiring his new size. “My-my head... Is near the top of the trees... If I stand on hind legs, I can peek above the canopies!”

Only the kids enjoyed the situation, and they used Ada’s giant body as practice climbing, while he admires his muscles, tail, wings, paws - even his claws were bigger than some of the prays!

“Look at him! He can’t even hunt!” said Tyr. Ria nodded.
“I can!” replied Ada, and he jumped into the air to look around for something big to hunt. As he landed, everyone fell from the thud, and all the animals fled from the scene, including the birds.

“Ups...” said Ada, curling up smaller. He covered his face with his roof sized wings.

“We have to do something!” yelled Ria. “Who knows how much bigger he grows later? We cannot feed him, and he already caused a lot of destruction!”
She shivered, and licked her lips. Why suddenly she felt... Excited?

Sukotto had a feeling this kind of thing might happen. He hoped they would let Ada stay, but at this rate, exile looked more and more likely unless he somehow stopped growing. He did attend the village meeting and proposed to keep Ada in the village and said he was willing to watch over him. After all, it was his fault this happened.

The chief lifted up his hand, which made everyone silent.
“I have decided. I leave our Ada in our shaman’s capable paws. After all, Ada was always helpful, loyal, and true, he does not deserve a harsh judgement. Also, I believe in our Sukotto, his wisdom and knowledge, who can speak to the core forces of nature. I spoke!”

Everyone nodded; the meeting concluded.

Tyr dragged Ria closer.
“It was the shaman’s spell,” he whispered.
“What?” the female asked in surprise.
“I heard him. He cast a growth spell on him. Guess he overshot it.”
“Damn he did! Any bigger and he won’t be able to catch a boar – or not even a bear.”
“Yeah... But... If you think it through... If someone would be much, much BIGGER...”
Ria shook her head. “What are you talking about?”
Tyr smiled. “Think about it! You always wanted to be the biggest hunter ever! If you were as big as Ada, it would be difficult to catch anything. But! If you were even bigger... a single swoosh with your arm, and you catch half the forest! No one can run from you if you catch them up with a single step!”
Ria shivered. Being even bigger than Ada... The biggest hunter... To catch an entire year worth of meat...
“And we can ask the shaman to shrink you back after your Great Hunt!” said Tyr.
“Why are you suggesting me this?”
“Well... I always kinds liked you... And I would like to see you... Bigger.”
Ria smiled, and then he flicked the male’s nose.
“Then you should.”

Sukotto of course didn't know of their plot, but was glad of the elder's decision. He went over to Ada to talk about it. "Well, it seems you'll be staying with me for now. I'll work hard on getting you down to a size acceptable to both you AND the community. I only hope I can do it before things get even worse."

Ada picked up the kids one by one from his body and placed them on the ground. They made some said noises, then ran away, singing some silly verses about Ada’s giant size.

“Yeah... I think I am too big too. Maybe you can change me back when I was slightly bigger the chief,” said the giant dragon as he leaned closer to the shaman. “So, what shall I do?”

Meanwhile Tyr and Ria sneaked closer to Sukotto.
“We have to wait until he is alone,” said the male. “Then we rush forward, catch him, and force him to cast a stronger spell on you!”
Ria nodded.
“Don’t be too harsh!” added the male. “We need him to shrink you back after all!”
“Still it feels like a hunt...” added the female while he smiled mischievously.

Sukotto didn't hear the two behind him or notice their presence. "I guess try and keep everything under control. I admit I'm worried what the next growth spurt might cause, so I feel we should keep you somewhere you can't cause much harm. I'll be with you, though, so don't worry about that."

“That’s a relief,” replied the giant. “With you around, I’m sure nothing bad will happen! Maybe I stay at this size. I can still catch some fish, I guess,” he wondered how fast he can swim in the water.

“Ah, this is going to nowhere!” whispered Ria. “Change of strategy.” Then she suddenly stepped forward and waved with her paw. “Yo-ho! Sukotto shaman? Can I have a word with you...” she glanced up at the giant Ada, “...alone?”

Ada let out a sigh. “I will be at the lake, if you need me. Probably catching whales.”

“There are no whales in the lakes, pipsqueak,” replied Tyr, which made the giant dragon growl softly, but loudly.

Sukotto raised an arm a bit to signal Ada and Tyr to take it easy, then turned to Ria. "Alright, then. Ada, I'll join you as soon as I can. What can I do for you, Ria?"

Ria waited until Ada disappeared behind the trees – or more like through the trees, leaving kid size paw prints behind, - and then stepped forward, and grabbed Sukotto on the neck. She acted so frightening even Tyr became abashed.

“Here is the deal,” she said with a gentle, cold smile. “I knew you blew up the pipsqueak with one of your little tricks. And you gonna cast it again, this time on me. And a stronger version, if I may ask. I want to grow huge, so I can catch all the preys little Ada frightened away with ease! It’s for the sake of the village, so you cannot say I’m acting selfish! Then you may shrink me back to my regular size... Ah, maybe leaving me at a bit bigger than my current height.” She winked. “And this will be our little secret, right? Let’s just say I was blessed by the gods too... And no funny business! If you try to con me and turn me into an ant or something, Tyr will make sure you won’t be able to shrink poor Ada back with broken hands.”

Sukotto was of course taken aback from from Ria’s sudden threat and growled a bit when he heard her request. He knew he had no choice, though, and nodded as well as he could. “...Fine...I’ll do as you ask. I don’t currently have anything stronger than what I cast on Ada, so I may need time to prepare something. My books are all in my hut.”

“I gladly escort you,” nodded Ria. “I have nothing else to do today. The others try to catch some prey, but I’m afraid unless we do something about it, we’ll have a short dinner...”

Meanwhile Ada reached the lake. He enjoyed the gentle breeze, closed his eyes, and remembered the days when he was small. He hated being bullied by his size... He opened his eyes, and smiled as he examined himself. Being big feels good, no matter what the others say. As tall as a tree, with strong legs, he finally felt confident.
He didn’t regret his decision.

“Still need to get something for dinner for the tribe,” he thought. “Then everyone forgive me, and will be happy again to see the mighty me!”

He slowly descended into the water, giggling as realizing how much more he had to go deeper into the lake to submerge.

Sukotto returned to his tent, escorted by Ria and most likely Tyr. He looked over some of his books and wished he could think of a way out of this, but both were great hunters and could easily break his hands as they said and perhaps even silence him to prevent him from chanting anything. He knew he had no choice but to find a more powerful growth spell.

After a few minutes, he found something that would help him. “Alright. I got it!”

Ria wagged her tail from excitement. “Good! Just tell me what to do!”
Tyr, showing some nervousness, took a step back.

When Ada finally climbed into the water completely, he spread out his wings and used them as fins to swim around. He awed how much faster he could swim, which each flap he swam multiple feet of distance. Fishes dodged the mighty dragon, but they were not fast enough, and some of them hit him in the eye.

“Auch,” said the dragon, rubbing his head. Then he followed the fishes, and grabbed a few easily.
“Hey! At this size it’s quite easy to catch them! A few of these, and everyone will welcome me again with cheers!”

He wondered whenever Sukotto can enlarge meat too, when he suddenly felt a familiar warmness around his stomach.
“Oh, no-no-no-no-no! Not again!” He tensed his muscles, trying to suppress the upcoming growth...

“Just stand there and stay still. I know it seems too simple, but it helps when I have a stationary target.” When Sukotto was satisfied that Ria wasn’t going to move, he focused and started casting his new, stronger growth spell.

Ria clenched her teeth and tensed her muscles. This is it... The moment she becomes the biggest hunter... Who brings honour and glory to her tribe! As the only female hunter she always felt she must prove herself, to be worthy, to be... Big!
A strange warmness engulfed her, she felt her skin vibrating... Then it stopped suddenly.
She looked at herself. She didn’t grow, not an inch.
“That’s it?!” she snorted with visible anger.

Ada felt like trying to hold back a broken dam with his back. No matter where he put his imaginary limbs, water – or in this case, the power of growth – found a way through the cracks. The 55 feet tall dragon, who already fit into the definition of giant, gained a few more feet in height, then a few more. The water dwellers fled from the increasing mass. Limbs stretched, tail curled and swelled, wings cast bigger shadows... 60 feet became 65, only to turn into 70...
“Come on, stop, stop, STOP!” he said, causing bubbles escape from his mouth.

Sukotto held his arms up. “It’s not instant, but I swear the spell was cast. It took a couple hours just for Ada to start growing. I imagine that sense this was stronger, it’ll start sooner.”

Ria let the shaman’s neck. “Hm. I guess you are right. Okay, Sukotto, we’ll see! But if I’m not bigger by the end of the day, you gonna regret it!” With that, she and Tyr left the hut.

As Ada surged higher, he felt his legs touching the lake bed.
“Oh my... Am I already growing out the lake?!” he thought, looking up, seeing the surface coming closer to his head.
Up above, two dragons were fishing with a rod, when suddenly one of them poked the other.
“What?” asked the second one, and the first pointed at the surface in the distance, where the water bubbled and emerged, curling upwards. Something big was about to break through...

Sukotto waited a bit until he was sure it was safe, then headed to where Ada was. He wasn't exactly afraid of Ria, as the spell he cast was indeed a more powerful version of both he used on Ada. He WAS worried she and Tyr might try something against Ada, not to mention being afraid of how big Ria will get with such a spell.

When finally Ada broke through the surface, he started a small wave ripping across the lake. The two dragons covered in water, staring at the 100 feet tall hunter with dropped mouths.

“Aaaah... Hey there!” said Ada, trying his best smile. At least his growth stopped for now. “Look, I helped you guys catching some fish!” He showed up his paw, but there was nothing. They probably escaped during the growth. “Ah, darn... Now they never gonna love me again...” the gigantic dragon climbed ashore, surprised by the fact that now he was way beyond the tree lines. With thudding steps, he headed back to the village.

The two fisher dragons remained completely speechless for minutes.

Sukotto saw Ada as he ran towards the water. Of course, it wasn't hard to miss such a HUGE dragon. He ran over and tried to stop him from going back to the village for now. "Ada! Wait! You're most likely going to scare or worry everyone at that size!"

Ada looked down, noticing the shaman. “Oh, hi Sukotto! My gosh, you are so small!” He leaned down, bringing his hut sized head closer to the ground. “You could fit on my palm! Uh, listen... As far as I enjoyed being big, I might say there are... Certain disadvantages.” He rubbed his neck nervously. “I cannot even walk here without rooting out the trees! Can you make me small again? Not as small as before all this, but you know... 5 or 7 duut tall... That was good.” He opened his plate sized eyes widely.

“What should we do now?” asked Tyr.
Ria shrugged. “We wait, I guess... Maybe keep an eye on that giant clumsiness of Ada. Besides, I want to see his face when he finally meets a REAL hunter!” she smirked. “Where did she go?”
“I think he headed toward the lake.”
Ria nodded. They walked into that direction. As they approached the shores, she suddenly felt a strange feeling around her stomach. She felt all of a sudden... Thirsty. She licked her lips.
The water was calling her.

Sukotto smiled nervously. "Well, I can try. I did read about a spell that might help, but with the way the last ones treated you, I don't know how well it might work. I'll give it a try, though." Sukotto focused and tries the spell he read while helping Ria, something he hopes will shrink her back down as well when she most likely grows as big or even bigger than Ada is now.

Ada sat down, making the nearby trees leaning against his vast body. “Good. Finally I can go back to a more manageable size.” He waited for Sukotto to finish his spell. Strange, he felt the magical energies, and the warmness spread through him just like before, but it didn’t actually felt like a shrinking feeling... Quite the opposite... “Oh no.” He gulped, started to quake heavily.

Meanwhile Ria and Tyyr reached the lake. The female practically took the last steps by running, and she quickly dipped her about into the water, gulping heavily.
“Gee, you didn’t say you were this thirsty!” said Rya, shaking his head. Then his eyes opened widely as he saw the female shivering, like she was cold... And then suddenly Rya started to grow bigger.

Sukotto stopped the spell when Ada said "Oh no." "What's wrong? Are you growing again?" He really hoped it wasn't the spell causing it. Maybe it was just another sudden spurt from the last ones. If this spell didn't work, they may have 2 giant dragons soon, with Ria growing faster.

Ada already gained an extra 10 feet of height. “I never grew two times this close to each other! There are usually hours between the spurts!” He sounded worryingly, as another 10 feet added to his mass. His tail squeezed between two trunks, while his feet was pushing another, and his shoulders made the canopy leaning further from his body. “Sukotto... Help!”

Ria felt the power rushing into her veins, and she enjoyed every minute of it. She knew that the water granted her wish, and with each gulp her frame shivered and ballooned bigger. Her paws dug deeper into the sand, her tail almost hit the surprised Tyr, and she felt sinking a bit deeper. Her original height of 6 feet quickly reached 10, and she knew this was only the beginning.
She stepped closer, deeper into the water, and drank as fast as she could.

“Uh...ok, ok. Let me try again.” Sukotto tried casting the spell again, surprisingly able to focus despite what was going on with Ada. Hopefully, this spell will prevent him from getting any bigger as well as shrink him down to a much more comfortable size for everyone.

Ada felt the warmness slowly fade, and turning into a cold feeling. In his mind it seemed like an erupting volcano on reverse, where the lava was flowing up and back into the belly of the earth.
His growth stopped. Moreover, although he was still shivering, it was on a smaller scale – and he finally started to shrink.
“Huh!” said the huge dragon with a relief. The nearby trees looked relieved as well as they slowly stretched straight again. “You frightened me for a minute!” He dwindled back to 100 feet tall, then 90, then 80. Ada smiled, watching the canopies once again towering above his head.

Not far from there some was going the opposite direction: up. Ria reached 15 feet in no time, she was growing faster than Ada ever.
“That’s enough for a start,” said Tyr with a worrying tone. Ria pulled out her head but only for a brief moment to answer. “Far from it! Need to grow bigger!”
And her wish was fulfilled with every additional bucket of water entering her stomach. She swelled up to 18 feet...20... 25... Bigger, longer, wider...

Sukotto didn't yet know about Ria, seeing as she wasn't quite big enough to be seen over the trees like Ada just was. He smiled as Ada started shrinking, but kept his focus and continued the spell. 80 duut was still way too big for those in the village, Sukotto was sure. His aim was around 5, maybe 7 as Ada himself requested.

Ada continued to shrink, from 70 feet to 60, then 50. He didn’t move since he didn’t want to risk stopping Sukotto’s enchanting. 40 feet, then 30, his head finally descended below the free crowns. He was able to see the forest, the trunks and the ground!
At 25 feet he suddenly stopped. It seemed his body rejected to shrink anymore.

The 30 feet tall Ria climbed into the lake until she completely submerged. Tyr blinked, watching the shadow in the deep stretching wider and wider... He gulped, wondering how big his friend will grow. That spell must be really powerful if she already grew many of Ada’s spurts in mere minutes...

Sukotto noticed Ada stopped shrinking and stopped the spell, panting. "Guess that's...the best I can do for you for now...Hopefully, the village...is ok with it." He was glad the spell worked even that well, and just hoped that it'll be enough to stop the spell on Ria when they meet again. He did wonder how big she'll be, though. The spell he cast on her was indeed potent if he read it right.

Ada stretched his limps, letting out a yawn. “Oh! It feels so good to have some space!” He looked at his previous paw print, which was like five times as big as currently. Good old small Ada could have been use it as a base for a new hut... Ada chuckled. “Thank you, shaman. Not the size I was looking for, but still, I’m not complaining. At least I didn’t shrink to my old size, or even worse.”

The two previous fishing dragons went back to their work, when suddenly the water stirred not far from them.
“What? Again?” asked the second one. The surface bent, just like before... And a second later, a humongous head broke through it. It happened so fast that the wave pushed the fisher dragons back, they rolled onto their sides. When they looked up, they were staring at a 100 feet tall dragoness, who, despite stopped drinking, was still growing bigger and bigger. Her head climbed out of the water, then her widening neck, then the shoulders, wings and back emerged...
“This feels so refreshing!” chuckled the 150 feet tall Ria. Tyr opened his mouth widely. He couldn’t believe how big she had grown already. And her vast frame was still on the rise!
The fishing dragons finally gave up and fled back to the village.

Sukotto nodded. "That's true. I was keeping an eye on you, though, and would have stopped you at around 7 duut if the spell didn't stop you itself. Hopefully, the spell should also prevent you from growing again, but maybe we should stay here just in case. I don't want either of us to get in trouble again with the village."

Ada laid down. He chuckled again, seeing that he was still bigger than Sukotto. “I might want to practice my hunting skills, to get used to my current size. All this size changing makes my head dizzy! I would ask if you can grow preys as well, it I wouldn’t risk it growing as big as a mountain... So let’s not do that.”

Riu stretched higher, reaching 170 feet, then 185, until finally, at 200 feet, her growth spurts halted. The water only covered the lower parts of her legs. She let out a sigh, then smirked. The massive dragoness turned around, and looked at the minuscule Tyr standing on the shore. “Now THAT is a start!” Her deep voice resonated the air around. With careful movements she climbed out of the lake. The massive body of the water followed her movements, feet tall waves rocked back and forth all over the surface. She giggled as she placed her giant paw next to Tyr, comparing her toes to his size.
Tyr gulped, staring at the massive paw that could easily stomp him. He suddenly knew how preys probably felt during hunting.
“So, what do you say?” asked the dragoness. “Shall we find our little Ada?”

Sukotto laughed a bit. "Yeah. That would be a bad idea. Your idea to practice hunting at that size, though, might be a good one. It seems the first two spells won't let you shrink down any more and I don't think you'll be growing any more either. Sadly, I still can't say for certain, seeing how crazy this has all been so far."

Ada stood up, stretching his limbs again. “Give everyone a couple of days, and I’m sure they get used to my size as well! And I can bring in the biggest preys,” he nodded. As he turned around, still trying to figure out his balance, the earth quaked a bit. Then again. Then again, in a rhythm, repeated way.
“Huh?” asked Ada, dumbfounded. “What kind of earthquake it is...”
Then he heard trees bending, twisting and snapping in half, together with a thudding, stomping noise.
“It sounds like a...”
And suddenly the giantess stepped in front of them, towering so high that her shadow engulfed them entirely.
“...giant.”

"W-what the...?" Sukotto definitely couldn't believe his eyes. In front of him and Ada was Ria...but she was TWICE as big as Ada just was! He didn't cast the spell on her that long ago, and yet...He knew the spell would be more potent, but he DEFINITELY didn't expect this!

“Oh, hello, PIPSQUEAK!” laughed Ria as she curled her massive tail around the two like a spikey, thick fence. “Didn’t see you down there! Ah, and shaman... I have to admit, you overdid yourself! Or should I say myself...?” she chuckled. On her shoulder Tyr laughed too, who seemed more like a bug rather than a respectful hunter, comparing to the giantess.
“Ria... What in the name of gods are you doing?” asked Ada with full of surprise. He thought his previous size was beyond good, and here she stood, twice as big!
“Simple. I will do what you were never able to. Hunt.”
She then suddenly leaned down to grab a deer with her vast fingers, but it jumped and ran away from the giantess.
“Darn... I need to grow even bigger so it seems.”
“Even... Bigger?!” Ada couldn’t believe his eyes and ears.

"Ria, that's enough! You're WAY too big now! Even if you do catch a lot of pray, you'll most likely need to eat most if not all of it at your size!" Sukotto figured she wouldn't listen to reason, so he started preparing the shrinking spell just in case. He wanted to wait for the right moment, though, to actually try using it, in case she somehow interrupts it.

Riu leaned closer, not because she needed to hear them better – her hearing was more than good! – but she loved feeling intimidating. Her head size matched the community hut. “Ah, don’t worry about that!” They felt the warmness of her breath. “I gonna catch a meat pile enough for the entire village, and then you can shrink me back. Or... Maybe a better idea...” She licked her lips, almost as if she was thinking devouring the two lesser beings, “You can grow me all the meat I need! So I never have to go back!” Riu laughed, making all the birds flee from the nearby trees.

“You are out of your mind!” replied Ada. “Look, I know being big is uplifting, and the growth is euphoric... But this is madness!”

The giant dragoness snorted, engulfing them in a puff of smoke. “You know nothing about bigness, PIPSQUEAK!”

Sukotto figured now was possibly a good time to try casting the shrinking spell on Ria, as she seemed distracted with her supposed power and position. He only hoped it was able to shrink her down to a size he and Ada could deal with, should she decide to retaliate.

Ria snarled, comparing her teeth size to the smaller ones, which made her chuckle. She didn’t notice Sukotto was casting the same spell that made Ada shrink back. “Oh, just look at you too. So tiny! Can’t wait to go back to the village and see the others... And look into the eye of the chief... Well, if he can climb a tree I mean... And...”

She abruptly stopped when a strange feeling rushed through her body. She blinked in confusion.
“Ria?” asked Tyr on he shoulder. “Are you alright?”

“I...” the giants tried to speak, but the flowing energies couldn’t let her. She knew something was about to change...
And then to everyone’s surprise she started to grow. From 200 feet she swelled to 210 feet, then 220, 230... Her tail sneaked around Ada and Sukotto more, her paws swelled and left a bigger print in the ground, her head shivered and then crawled even closer to the other two.

“Uuuuhm... Sukotto...?” whispered Ada, petrified from the sight.

Sukotto stopped the spell immediately and whispered back. “I tried to shrink her with the same spell I used to shrink you back with. I guess she had another spurt like you did...At least, I hope that’s all it was.”

Ada nodded. “Yeah... Probably you’re right.”

Ria’s growth indeed slowed down. The massive giantess’s face showed a bit of disappointment, and she looked at the morsels beneath her – only to notice a slight dim lighting around Sukotto, like a blueish aura. She wanted to ask what it is, but as she opened her mouth, the aura elongated, right toward her cave of teeth and tongue – she shivered and gained another 10 feet of height.

“Interesting...” thought the giantess. She suspected it was Sukotto’s magic, and only she was able to see the blue aura. And she also had another suspicion...
She took a deep breath, slowly sucking in the air, and with it the dim light. As more of the magic flew into her, the vast body trembled again, and her growth renewed...

Sukotto felt drained. “She’s absorbing my magic! And it’s making her bigger! How is this possible!? What else could that spell have done to her!?”

Ria spread her legs and stretched up, but kept her head low close to Sukotto. She stood in a pose similar to a drinking giraffe, who has to keep her head close to the ground despite her tall size. And not only Ria was tall, she was gigantic, and grew bigger by the minute. Her 250 feet tall frame already dominated the forest, most of the trees barely reached her stomach. Trunks snapped under the weight of her tail, her paws dug up more dirt as they ploughed the earth. 270 feet, 300 feet – she drank the newfound source just as greedily as the water before. And her body welcomed it with spurt after spurt...

Sukotto felt more and more drained, kneeling over and panting. “D-darn it....She’s....getting even bigger....At this point....I don’t know if...we can stop her...”

Just before she completely drained Sukotto’s energies, Ria stopped, and stretched up straight. Her 350 feet tall frame dwarfed anything around her, even the lesser giant Ada. She towered over the trees and mounds, and was visible from even the village. As she swang her tail, she cut numerous trunks in half with ease. Tyr whistled in agreement.

“That will do... For a start,” and with massive steps she left the other two there. She was heading toward the village, to introduce their new greatest hunter...

Sukotto kept panting, feeling very drained now. “S-stop!...”. He knew it was no use but wondered if anything could stop her at this point. If even the shrinking spell just makes her bigger, and he’s become a living energy source for her, he didn’t think he could do anything.

Ada looked at Ria stomping her way toward the village. Her steps caused damage with every thud, flattening the flora.
“She will cause a lot of damage if we don’t do something!” he said to Sukotto.

The dragons of the village stared at the giantess approach. They gathered before the community huts where the chief was waiting.
“Ria! What on earth are you doing?! How did you grow so big?!”
“Let that be my concern,” smirked the giantess as she placed a paw next to the locals. She probably could grab the entire village! “From now on, there will be only one hunter. Me!”
“Are you nuts?! Look what happened to Ada! And he is much smaller! You just destroy everything!” the chief said with anger. “If you don’t shrink back right now, I banish you from the village!”
“Banish me?!” Growled the gigantic Ria, and he stomped on one of the empty huts. The wood and straw vanished completely under her huge sole. As she lifted her leg up, there was nothing, except a 5 feet deep, paw print shaped crater.

"I know, but...what can we do? My magic only...fuels her!" Sukotto kept wondering what he and Ada could possibly do at this point. And how much bigger Ria will somehow become, and what her next trigger might even be. After all, if she can absorb magic, what else might she be able to do to get bigger? Sukotto hoped he could think of something before they found out.

Ada was thinking. Ria was always a bit ambitious. Maybe because she was the only female hunter – for a different reason, but she wanted to prove herself just like Ada. But Ria was also selfish... She would never let her shrink back.
“Grow me back,” said Ada to Sukotto. “By the sound of it she already destroyed something in the village. It’s only a matter of time before she starts a rampage if someone offends her! Maybe someone equally big can hold her down until you figure out a solution, and I am the only one with a head start in size!”

Ria was clearly upset. “You dare to banish me?! I am the biggest hunter ever! I can catch anything! There is no prey that would not fit between my fingers! You all shall worship me!” With that, she stomped another hut into splinters. Many dragons ran away in panic, some drew their weapons – not that they worth anything against a living hill.

Sukotto stared at Ada. "Are you sure? Your reason is sound, but...are you sure you're willing to grow again? Especially that big?" Sukotto knew it may be their only chance, but he still wondered if there was perhaps a way that didn't put Ada back in the same situation he just tried to help him from. Ada seemed determined, though, so Sukotto had to ask.

“I’m not sure, but we are running out of options,” replied Ada. “I already get used to being big, how bad can it be a little bigger?” He gulped. “You also might hit me with a stronger version of that spell... Otherwise I never catch her up.”

“Alright, alright...” The chief help up his hand. “Calm down, Ria! Don’t make it worse!”
“I’m not making it worse, I make everything better! Look!” She leaned forward and reached out with her hand. There was a wolf nearby which she wanted to catch, but the animal slipped through her vast fingers. “Darn! Not again!” She straightened up again, sending smoke clouds through her nostrils. “I am clearly not big enough! Tell you this, boss: I leave now, and won’t come back until I bring you an entire year worth of meat. In my palms!” She laughed, then she turned around and headed toward north. "And then you all treat me as your goddess..." She didn’t look where she stepped, and stomped another hut, and then the trees, leaving a trace of destruction behind.
“She’s gonna destroy the forest, right, chief?” asked one of the dragons.
“I’m afraid she will do more than that. The spirits help us all."

Sukotto nodded. "I might be able to make something stronger, but I admit I hope it's enough." Sukotto decided to try combining all 3 growth spells using different parts of them. He focused and began casting it on Ada, hoping it'll be enough to stop Ria, or at the very least slow her down while they think of something else.

Ada fidgeted, trying to stay calm. By this time he knew what to expect, yet still he was nervous. Just how big he will grow? What if something goes wrong? Will Ria really destroy everything just because she thinks she has to prove herself...?
The strange magic engulfed him once again. This time it felt familiar yet different. He didn't just feel the warmness, but also a sparking, twitching sense as well.
It went away just as quick as it came.
"Is it... done?" he asked Sukotto.

Meanwile, on a highway miles away from the dragons' village, an anthro panther was driving her car. It was a pretty boring trip between the cities, mostly because she took this road every day. But today, something felt different... The car slipped from time to time, as it lost contact with the asphalt somehow. She didn't understand first, but then a few minutes later the panther started to feel the tremors herself...

Sukotto nodded, kneeling over again as the spell used most of the magic he regained. "Yes...it's done...I'm not sure what might trigger your growth, though, so I suggest we try to find out soon....Same with how big each spurt would make you."

Ada nodded. “Well, Ria came from the lake’s direction. So I assume she found her trigger there. It’s logical that mine can be the same, so let’s head back to the lake.” He walked with small steps, leaving the shaman a chance to keep up. The path changed completely as they followed Ria’s footsteps. Trees were missing entirely. Each paw print was 30 feet long, even Ada could lay down in one of them. And thinking it was only the dragoness’s OLD size... Ada shivered.

“Earthquake?” asked the panther. She tried to keep the car on the road, but it became more difficult with each increasing tremor. She wasn’t the only one, every vehicle on the highway had trouble going in a straight line. They drifted back and forth, one of the vans tipped over to its side, many people hit the breaks, including the panther herself.

And then the panther saw it. Right behind the hill on her right appears the biggest creature she ever saw. It was an utterly gigantic dragoness, as high as a skyscraper, as long and wide as a football field... Her steps caused the earthquakes, each paw smashed into the earth and turned anything into dust, leaving nothing but a deep crater behind. Her tail accidentally hit the side of the hill, sending house size chunks flying dozens of feet away.
The giantess stopped right next to the highway, and looked down with curiosity glowing in her huge eyes. The panther shivered, and couldn’t move a muscle out of shock.

Sukotto nodded and followed Ada. “I hope you’re right. I fear Ria will put many at risk with her size. And she’ll most likely keep getting even bigger...I admit I’m glad magic is rare anymore. That’s one of her triggers quite limited at least. Of course, that also means she might come back looking for me to charge another spurt.”

When Ada reached the shores, he looked around for clues. The massive paw prints clearly came from the water, and he couldn’t find a matching entrance. “Ria grew in the lake, that’s sure.” Then he rushed into the water, but still couldn’t feel a thing. “Hm, okay. Maybe if I drink it?” He dug his snout in, gulped down the liquid greedily. Still, nothing. No warmness, no growth. As he stood there, lost in his thoughts, something touched his legs...
And all of a sudden a tingling sensation ran through him, and the dragon blew up to 30 feet.
“What the heck is this?” he asked, and grabbed the thing. As his fingers curled around the slimey skin, another tingling spread through his body, and he gained an extra 5 feet again. He pulled it over the surface. It was an electric eel, or sparky eel as Ada’s tribe knew it.
“This? This will make me grow?” Ada shook his head in disappointment. The eel finally managed to escape due to its slippery skin, giving a last shock to his captor, which resulted only a tiny growth of 2 feet.
The hunter dragon sighed. “That’s nothing! And we cannot sit here figuring out my true trigger! We have to go after Ria. Maybe we get lucky and find a better trigger on the way!” He grabbed Sukotto and placed him on his back, then galloped, following the tracks of the giantess.

Sukotto kept a mental note about eel making Ada a bit bigger. “Hmm...if it was the eel’s electricity, now would be a good time for a storm. Good thing shamans tend to know spells to call some in case they’re needed for harvests. Try and find a clearing, Ada! I might be able to help after all.” He just hoped his storm could come with enough lightning to make a difference. Especially as he had no idea how big Ada is or might be getting.

“Sure thing, shaman!” said Ada in his running. “As soon as we get out of this jungle!” He headed upwards, following the hills, but kept an eye on Ria’s paw prints. It wasn’t hard. “Thank the spirits they seem to remain the same size...”

Meanwhile, the gigantic dragoness leaned down and picked up a car, which happened to be the panther’s. Holding between her fingers, she brought it closer to her eye. The tiny driver was screaming, looking right into the pupils, which were just as big as her vehicle.
“Strange box,” said Ria to Tyr. “Look, there’s a person in there! I don’t think it is considered a prey. Do you think I should squeeze it, like a grape?”
The panther luckily couldn’t understand a word, since Ria spoke a different language. Otherwise she would have fainted right there. She still shivered by the sheer power of the giant dragon’s deep voice.

"So far, at least, yes. We at least know for sure she isn't finding magic, and it seems no other trigger source is around either. Let's hope it stays that way...especially in case this plan doesn't work." Sukotto couldn't help but wonder, though, what else might trigger Ada's growth besides electricity, and what besides magic caused Ria to grow in the water...He also looked at where the footprints were headed, wondering if perhaps she was looking for a larger water source or anything specific at all.

Finally, the trees seemed to became less frequent. After a few more minutes, Ada arrived at a clearing on a high plateau of the hill. “This should be good enough for your weather thingy,” he said, and helped Sukotto climb down from his back. “Sooo... Where should I stand?” He really hoped the shaman knows what he’s doing.

“I-I think you should put her down,” said Tyr. He loved Ria, especially since she became a living giant, but he didn’t want her hurting anyone. And this... Person was clearly a person, of some kind of strange tribe.
Ria examined the car for a minute, then she placed it down. “I guess you’re right.” Then she laid down, and sniffed the asphalt, causing the nearby cars rolling closer to her snout. “Strange... What kind of material is this? Seems like stone, but smells funny...” she stood up, and looked both ways of the highway. “I suspect this leads to their tribe. I want to check out their village. Maybe they have some strange, exotic beasts to hunt down!” With massive, earth quaking stomps, the highway between her legs, she marched forward, following the highway.

Toward the nearest, big city.

Sukotto took a look around the clearing just to make sure everything was good. "Alright. Just stay still. You're still bigger than me, and should attract any lighting that comes, which thankfully won't seem to hurt you." He then focused and cast his storm calling spell, still hoping the lightning it brings will be enough. At the very least to let them catch up to Ria and see if he can come up with a better strategy. The fact that he still didn't know what might cause her to grow even bigger still worried him. Her growth spurts were fast, after all. She could end up MUCH bigger if she ends up in the wrong spot.

Dark clouds gathered around the hillside out of nothing. They swirled around, constantly changing shapes with a growling sound, turning into deeper and darker colours... It was a bit frightful sight. Ada leaned down by instinct, curling his tail around him. Thunder echoed through the land, then again, and it started to rain. But the strange weather only happened on top of the hill... Then a lightning struck, not far from Ada. He jumped from the sudden blast; even if it did not hit him. Then another lightning struck, this time closer. “Holy spirits, Sukotto! I’m scared!”
Then nothing happened for minutes, besides the rain and the dark cloud formation moving around. They started to disappear, one by one...
Until, with one final attempt, a lightning hit the ground just in front of Ada’s paw.
It didn’t hit him directly... Yet a fraction of the massive voltage jumped into his skin. It was much stronger than the eel, Ada felt it immediately. His entire frame tingled...

The sirens of the city turned on, warning the habitats of the upcoming danger. Police officers and military warned the citizens across the street, which at first sounded as a joke. A giant dragon approaching the city?
But those who lived at the edge experienced the event from close. The suburban area already suffered from serious damage as the giantess marched through the houses, not realising they were “huts”. She examined everything, sniffed, poked and touched, but eventually she stomped on everything she didn’t like.
And she didn’t like what she didn’t understand.

"Sorry Ada. I know it's scary, but it's the only thing I can think of that'll help. At least, until we know more about what causes you to grow now." Sukotto noticed that the last bolt missed for the most part, but also caught Ada just a bit. He wondered how big Ada would grow from it and watched. He still had no idea about Ria and the city just yet.

For Ada, it was nothing like the warmness before. It felt more like lava bubbling inside his stomach, erupting as a volcano. His body swelled up faster then ever, his 40 feet tall frame grew to 50 in just a second, then 70 with the next. He grew so fast every pebble he touched turned into a deadly projectile. Luckily none of them hit Sukotto, but the shaman still had to retreat fast to avoid hit by a giant, growing paw. Smaller lightning bolts jumped from toe to toe, his bulging tail sparkled as if it was an electric eel itself. Another growth spurt hit him, and he ascended to 100 feet, then another added 30 more feet to his height. As his head ascended higher, he saw further into the distance, and he found the highway, together with Ria’s unrivalled marks of destruction. He wanted to tell Sukotto, but the last spurt, the strongest so far, interrupted: his vast body exploded, sending him up to 200 feet of immediately.

Then the sky cleared, and everything became quiet again.

“Ugh... I feel dizzy,” he mumbled. Not just the electricity, but the sudden change of perspective made the huge dragon disoriented. “Sukotto? Are you okay?”

Luckily, Sukotto managed to get to safety. "I'm alright. But WOW! You grew quite a bit! You're as big as Ria before she ate my magic! Maybe we have a chance at stopping her after all!" Sukotto smiled at that thought and how things were actually looking good for them. Of course, he didn't know how long that might last. Especially since he didn't know where Ria was or if she grew since the last time they saw her. She surprised them during their first encounter, so Sukotto knew not to take things lightly until they caught up to her.

“Yeah, but I still feel it won’t be enough!” the giant dragon rubbed his massive limbs. It was the second time he was this big, yet the feeling was still new to him. He have to learn to coordinate his movement if he don’t want to fall by stepping on his own giant paw. “Come, let’s go! I can see her trails!” He gently picked up the even smaller shaman. As he ran downhill, causing a smaller avalanche of rocks, he hoped that there will be plenty of sparky eels where they were going.

Otherwise they will most likely be screwed.

Sukotto held on to Ada's hand as he followed Ria's trail. He hoped Ada wasn't hurting anyone, but he also knew anyone around here most likely evacuated at the sight of Ria, if they weren't unfortunate enough to get in her way. The city was also unfamiliar to the shaman, so he didn't know what to expect or what might be there that may cause one of the dragons to grow.

This village was simply ginormous. Ria could only describe it with that word. When she finally saw people inside the strange boxes, she realised this is a village – and what a strange village! There were all kind of huts, small and big, rectangular and circled, triangle roofed or flat. It stretched for miles, and toward the center many of them stretched even higher than herself! And their materials...! She could only described them as smooth stone and unmelting ice. She could see reflections on their vast surface.
“Seriously, I feel small!” she noted to Tyr with a chuckle.
She also enjoyed the fuss around her. This tribe had like a gazillion member, most of them fled from her in tiny moving magic boxes, just like she saw before on the roads. But some of them were gathering at her feet, shooting at her with strange bows, and yelling in an unrecognisable language. But for the mighty Ria, their stings felt smaller than the bees’. She shook her head, and lifted her front leg, enjoying the tickling feeling as she stomped the magic moving boxes to plates. The people jumped out and avoided the giant toes by a millisecond.
“Who knew there are such peculiar tribes out there!” she said. “But I guess I stay for a while. This place seems worth to conquer!”

As she stomped toward the center to see the taller huts from close, she felt something inviting from there.
Deep below a pyramid shaped building, untouched and undiscovered by this tribe, the giant dragoness felt an ancient pool of magic. It was calling her...

Sukotto started hearing people panicking and crying in the wake of Ria’s walk towards the city. “We must be getting close. I’m a bit happy and surprised she still seems to be the same size that we last saw her. Maybe we stand a chance to stop her after all.”

Ada was just as amazed by the city as Ria. The number of buildings, the office towers, the warehouses, the streets, the skyscrapers, the thousands of vehicles, they were are like wonders to him.
“Have you ever seen anything like this before?” he asked as he carefully walked toward to center. Unlike Ria he watched his steps to minimize the destruction, so he used mostly the dragoness’s paw prints. “Seriously, even Ria can be lost in this hut-jungle!”
He saw the tinies approaching. He tried to explain them that he came in piece, but they attacked him, or at least they tried. They had moving boxes, but also some mechanical flies as well, buzzing around his nose.
“Can’t blame them. They probably think I’m a god. And if they already met Ria, they think both of us descended for conquering.” The giant dragon shook his head, then carefully stepped over the tanks. As he continued his path, he saw a vast shadow in the distance. “Hey, I think I found her!”

Sukotto also looked around in wonder. He heard of these kinds of villages, but didn’t see one before until now. He also made sure to stay safe when Ada was attacked. When Ada said he think he sees her, Sukotto looked.

Ria headed towards the building, which happened to be a library built on top of an ancient temple of a long forgotten race. This was unbeknownst to the locals: magic was unknown to most of the modern civilised world. Maybe that's why they couldn't explain the sudden appearence of the gigantic creature.

Dragons were common, just as any other type of anthros, but they saw nothing like this before, at least in size. They quickly realized that the creature was hostile, and their military and police forces quikly acted, helping evacuating the city and preparing counterattacks.

But so far nothing, not even the biggest guns seemed to scratch her vast skin. She marched through tanks and barricades like a pile of sand, her body crumbled buildings on touch, her paws sank deep into the concrete. And worse of all, another dragon was approaching. Although this seemed a it smaller and somehow less dangerous, they could not afford to handle him any friendlier than his female companion.

"RIA!" yelled Ada from the end of a street. The dragoness turned around (knocking down a tower building with her tail accidentally), and smiled mischievously.

“That’s enough, Ria! There’s no where to run, so leave this odd village alone!” Sukotto was sure Ria wasn’t going to listen, but he wanted to at least try to avoid as much damage as possible to the city. He still had no idea how this might actually end, though.

“Ah! Pipsqueak is here!” smirked Ria. She stood there, in the middle of a street cross which was barely wide enough for her giant size. Still, her hips squeezed the neighbouring buildings, and the end of her folded wings rested on the rooftops. The flies, which were actually military planes and choppers, constantly attacked her, but she didn’t even care about them. She just occasionally waved her paw. “You seem to gained some weight! Don’t you worry that you can’t hunt enough food for yourself?”
“Don’t you?” asked Ada nervously. He still didn’t have a decent plan to stop the giantess.
“Are you kidding me? Look around! This tribe alone can feed me for weeks!”
“I won’t let you attack a newly found tribe! They can easily turn out to be friendly!”
“Really? Are you serious?" frowned Ria with a tilted head as she flicked a machine gun equipped aircraft. The pilot catapulted in the last second.

"Yes, Ria, we're serious! They're only attacking because they're confused and feel threatened. Rightfully so, from the looks of it. I'm sure if we showed we can be peaceful, they can be great allies for us." Sukotto was sure she wouldn't listen, but he still hoped she might leave peacefully anyway. At the very least, he wanted to give him and Ada time to think of a way to stop her should they have to. Even if by force, if they even could. Ada was bigger now, but she was still bigger after eating his magic before. He didn't yet notice the magic nearby and figured they were safe from such a thing repeating.

“Of course they feel threatened! They should!” laughed the giantess. “After all, I am a superior beeing here!” With that, she hit the side of a building. It collapsed into a pile of brick, shattered glass and debris immediately. “Now if you excuse me, I have some growth to do. I want to grab an entire of these supertall huts, and drop it in the middle of OUR village!” She turned back, and continue her ways to the magical source.

“We have to do something!” said Ada to Sukotto. Without having a better idea, he jumped forward, and grabbed Ria’s massive, road thick tail. With all of his strength he started to pull, hoping he can stop the giantess at least from some stomping.

“Ah, Pipsqueak... You are so cute...” said Ria, then suddenly her body trembled. The windows shattered, cracks ran through the walls from the sudden earthquake. She felt an uprising power within her, and three words echoed in her mind:
Pull... Stretch... Grooooow...

Sukotto knew what was about to happen, even if he didn't know why. He felt maybe hers was time-based after all as well and it finally hit that time. "Crap! Careful Ada! She's growing again! From the looks of it, it'll be a HUGE spurt too!" He was definitely afraid how much bigger Ria will get after this spurt. He didn't remember seeing one so violent yet.

The earthquakes became stronger, and a violent rumble echoed through the central city. Car sirens turned on, plaster pieces fell onto the streets, storage containers vibrated and moved inches.
All that before Ria was even started her growth.
Pull... Stretch... Grow...
The spell awakened inside her – she finally found another trigger. It was not just water or magic absorption.
Pull... Stretch... Grow...
Ada turned around, holding the end of the tail like a sand bag, standing on his hind legs, and slowly walked in the other direction, not realising the consequences of his action. He actually thought that he managed to pull the dragoness back – in reality, with every step Ria’s tail went with Ada, but the front of her body remained in place... but it occupied more space.
An entire nation watched through the broadcast as the bigger dragon started to ascend further in size. She was already as huge as the fictional monsters in the movies, and she tended to overdo them all. 350 feet of height surged to 370 feet, then 400 feet, 450 feet... Her legs smashed and demolished the buildings, the paws ploughed up not just the roads but the roadside shops and vehicles as well, her hips knocked apartments over like dominoes. And Ada still haven’t notice he was the cause of it – he was so focused his brain didn’t even register the tail thickening between his arms with each step.
Pull... Stretch... Grow...

Sukotto did realize it and tried to stop it from getting any worse. "Ada, stop! I think you pulling her tail like that is making her grow!" He stared up and up at the growing dragoness, starting to feel like there was no way to stop her after all. At least not without knowing what might make Ada grow to compete with her.

“What?!” asked the dragon in surprise. “That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard!” Fortunately, for speaking to Sukotto he had to stop. But the tail tip resting on his shoulder did not, as it still stretched and lengthened and widened, pushing over the lesser dragon. Ada fell back on four, and it was only by luck that he didn’t flatten an entire school bus.
“What the...” gulped Ada, watching the tail marching further with the speed of a prey. He turned his head back with a racing heart, fearing what he will see...
A 700 feet tall dragoness stared back at him, laughing with a much deeper voice.
“Oh, Pipsqueak! You should have seen the look on your face!” By now even Ria’s chuckle caused lesser earthquakes too. Her legs opened multiple streets together, and once where stood many proud buildings now lied a pile of junk under her belly.
The citizens could not believe that the dragoness that previously was as big as a football field now became an entire stadium in size.

"N-no way...!" Sukotto couldn't believe how intense her growth spurts were! Ada's surge from the lightning's charge seemed decent enough, but this...At this point he wasn't even sure if the spell he used on Ada WAS more powerful, or even strong enough to help them stop her...Sukotto started to feel Ria really was too powerful now.

“N-no... No, it can’t be!” said Ada. His own body shivered, feeling weakness and helpless, he had to sit down. The cracks under his weight were negligible comparing to the titanic Ria.
“I hope you learned your lesson, boy!” said Ria, pointing at the doll sized (at least to her) dragon. “You never become a big hunter! Or a hunter, at all!”
“Good saying!” cheered Tyr who climbed into Ria’s ear by the time.
“Thanks, dear. And now, before you get any more ideas...” with only two steps she stood before Ada. Her shadow covered the entire dragon, and two other streets as well.
Before Ada could react, Ria picked up the dragon one third of her size, turned around herself and threw him into the other district of the city like a hammer throwing Olympic champion. Ada flew a thousand feet before he crushed into a series on buildings, demolishing almost as much as Ria with her latest growth spurt.
The dragoness laughed, the sight really pleased her. Then she turned around, paying attention again to the mystical underground temple.
What she didn’t know that she tossed Ada into the worst – or best – place imaginable.
Right next to the City Power Plant And Electricity Distribution Center.

Sukotto was still on Ada when Ria grabbed and threw him, but somehow managed to hold on and stay relatively safe. “Ugh...are you ok, Ada?” He was also unfamiliar with cities, so he also didn’t realize where exactly they landed and how fortunate it would be for them.

Ada pulled himself together. He wiped out a huge amount of debris from his head, and then he slowly stood up. Actually he didn’t have to be careful – there was not much left around him to save.
“This is a disaster!” he said with a pale face, watching Ria marching through entire city blocks.
As he stood there, figuring out their next move, a buzzing noise filled the air. Ada looked behind him, and noticed a series of strange, metallic trees – coils – stretching through dozens of yards, all of them humming louder and louder. And not just that, they started to glow in a strange, blueish hue. The dragon’s curiosity won, and he carefully stepped closer to take a closer inspection on the strange contraption.

Inside the power plant the panic was complete. The controls were broken, pipes leaked, walls collapsed. Since the arrive of the dragoness they managed to keep the energy situation under control, giving the extra help people needed during the evacuation. But the plant and its crew did not prepared for the earthquake cased by the impact of a 200 feet tall creature.
And now the still working monitors became haywire. They showed an abnormally high energy peak flowing through the system in a very strange, and truly unbelievable way. Judging by the numbers it seemed that rather the plant giving energy to the city, it was absorbing it back into the coils...

Sukotto was also drawn to the strange coils and tilted his head. “Huh? What are these? Their humming almost sounds like magic, but Ria would probably be drawn to them if they were...”

The city watched the two dragons arguing, and that when the bigger one threw the smaller away. The leaders started to suspect that maybe the male dragon didn’t want to cause any harm, so they focused all of their forces on the female.
Thus, luckily, no tank or airplane was around Ada...

“It’s so... Mesmerising...” Whispered Ada as he leaned even closer to the humming coils. His snot, which was the closest, started to glow with a blue aura as well. Lighting arched between the coils, sparks flew all over the place... Until one giant lightning bolt hit the dragon, and then another, and another. The dragon’s body illuminated, for a brief moment his skeleton became visible. Ada roared, but more in a surprise than pain. The way too familiar feeling filled his cells. The imaginary dam exploded, the energies boiled his blood – and with that the giant dragon started to grow with unprecedented speed.
His 200 feet tall body rushed to 300 in no time, his enlarging paws swiped the debris further like a massive broom. With a blink of an eye he already arrived at 400 feet, double the size he was just a few moments ago. His cracking bones and stretching skin were almost as loud as the coils’ hum, but not as loud as the tremors and earthquakes following the shivering, increasing mass.
Ada couldn’t speak even if he wanted to. The huge waves of energies tensed a his muscles. The power plant shrank under his belly as he ascended further into the skies. 600 feet, and he already caught up with Ria. 800 feet, and he became taller than most of the skyscrapers in the city. 1000 feet, a landing airplane had to modify its course to avoid colliding with the giant’s vast neck. And the growth continued much to the world’s astonishment. No science was able to explain how the gigantic dragon was able to grow bigger... And bigger... And bigger...

“W-Whoa! Looks like things might finally be turning around for us!” Sukotto managed to stay safe from the electricity, and even managed to cast a protection spell for himself. He did worry if he jinxed their luck by saying what he did, but Ada’s growth looked VERY fast and promising for them both.

Ria did not know what was happening behind her a few miles away. She was enjoying herself too much, stomping across the streets, listening to the screams of the tiny ants, and watching how fragile was the huts in this strange village.
“How can something so tall yet so weak,” said the giantess as another building collapsed by only a gentle touch. “How am I supposed to bring one of these home if they break so easily?!”
“Uhm, dig them up?” suggested Tyr in her ear.
She had no choice but to grow bigger. Or at least that’s what she repeated to herself. The truth was she enjoyed the growth and the superior size waaay too much. Also she found her previous village and tribe less and less significant...
A few minutes later she arrived at the library. Beneath the building she felt the magical energies sizzling and flowing, ready to be freed.
Layer by layer the dragoness tore the building apart, her claws cut through the bricks like paper.
The leaders of the city, suspecting what might happen soon, ordered a full retreat. Wise people.

Sukotto had no idea what Ria was doing, mostly watching Ada’s growth and seeing just how big he’ll get. He admittedly even wondered if he should summon another storm to try to help, although Ria might sense it and come to try eating the magic first. Of course, he didn’t know she found a much better source for that.

Ria reached the ground level in seconds, but she didn’t stop there. She used her massive forelegs, moving the pile of dirt, clay and rocks under her belly. Just like a dog finding bones, she dug just as greedily, except he moved tons upon tons with each move.
The people watching the broadcast couldn’t understand what she was doing, until she hit into a giant, perfect cube shape rock. Ria’s heart heated faster, throwing the cube rocks behind, some of them smashed into the so far fortuned buildings.
In just a few seconds she get rid of the roof of the ancient temple. The underground pyramid shaped building opened up its belly when Ria removed one more stone. Golden, unnatural light shined the surroundings, long forgotten magic items welcomed the surface again...
Only to be smashed be a giant dragon’s paw. Ria stepped into the hole of light, and focused on the sucking feeling, just like she did when she stole magic from Sukotto. The light swirled, then engulfed her paw, then her entire body. She shivered heavily...
“Brace yourself, Tyr. We are going to join the gods.”

Sukotto heard the destruction somewhat, but figured it was Ria’s usual rampage. He kept his eye on Ada and how big the electricity from the strange coils was making him. “This is great! I think we can help subdue Ria now!”

Ria moaned and growled as the magic flew into her in waves. Each wave added a great amount of mass and size to her already huge frame. Her limbs stretched into four different directions, each one added more and more to the destruction tolls. 700 feet became 1000 in no time, then 1200 with another spurt. Despite leaning down she towered over the city lines. A strange, golden colored dust started to swirl around her, conjuring a mystical sandstorm, wich grew with the dragoness, hiding her vast frame from the eyes. The storm - and the dragoness inside - grew bigger, wider, and taller; it covered the entire city center and grew bigger than the mountains, making it impossible to tell the citizens how big the dragoness actually was...
Only the sound of destruction and her moanes echoed through the landscape forshadowed that her growth was speeding up - and up, and up...

Sukotto heard the sounds and saw the sandstorm. He panicked. “W-what the heck is happening!? Ada, we should probably go check it out once you finish growing! I have a very bad feeling about this...” He was sure the sandstorm was magical, which meant Ria had more of a source to get bigger. MUCH bigger from the looks of things...

Ada couldn't pay attention to Sukotto, he felt his brain was like a thunderstorm. Sparks and lightning bolts ran across his body, from toe to scale, from horn to spike they jumped all around. The coils started to melt from giving all their energies to the massive dragon, who let out another roar, and he surged to even bigger heights. 1500 feet was his new size, but not for long, as with each spurt he gained more and more. Buildings vanished under his toes, which surged forward and consumed everything they touched. His tail waved above the streets, filling the view of the few people who still stayed behind. They pointed up, witnessing as the scales grew bigger than vehicles high above their heads. The 1700 feet tall dragon was still consuming the electricity, growing to 2000 feet, and causing blackout across the entire city. Although there was Ria's sandstorm as well, the city was not in a complete darkness: the sparks and the golden particles cast an eerie shine across the tormented city.

Sukotto didn't even realize how big Ada grew before, and he was definitely surprised by how big he just got! "Whoa...then again, this still may give us an advantage!" Of course, Sukotto didn't know how big Ria was yet, with the sandstorm blocking the view. Not to mention if she'll devour said sandstorm and grow from THAT, seeing as it seemed magical in nature. Sukotto was still surprised there was so much magic in such an odd village. Could that be where there shaman lived and kept his magical belongings? Or was this village protecting something? He wasn't sure.

A few more bolts jumped into Ada, then the blinking lights faded. The coils became silent, but they were still glowing as they melted into liquid metals. The only sound filled the area was Ada’s stretching body, which slowed down and eventually stopped, leaving him at an astonishing 2500 feet.
“Ten times...” whispered Ada, and he surprised the power of his own voice, which now could blow the airplanes back. He also sounded very deep, like a mountain troll. “I grew 10 times as big from this thing!”
He carefully tried his limbs. His claws alone stretched more than 50 feet, the toes were closer to 100 feet long, and his paws rested on different city blocks. He also sank into the ground like yards deep, pressing the earth into harder materials under his humongous weight.
Only the world’s tallest skyscraper could be a match in height, but that was at the other end of the world. Here, he absolutely dominated the landscape.
Expect there was the mystical sandstorm covering the city centre, stretching so high that it merged into the clouds.
“What the heck is that?!” He asked the shaman. Before he got an answer, he quickly moved toward the center of it. He had a feeling Ria was inside the middle, and he was afraid how much of a bigger dragoness will they find.

Sukotto answered anyway. "It's some kind of magical sandstorm. I heard Ria destroying things and when I looked back, this was there. Be careful. I have no idea what it might be hiding...or how big Ria is at this point. Although, after that growth spurt, I feel you might be tough to beat still. I hope..."

“Yeah, like, how big she was? 700 duuts?” Ada tried to go as fast as he could and as careful as possible at the same time. But it was a difficult task when every step made the earth rumble, and nothing was able to withstand the weight of his paws. “I can pinch her down easily. There are no major water source nearby, and I doubt a hundred shamans would be enough her to grow bigger. We’re good, right? I mean... The sandstorm is made out of sand, and they are super tiny, they cannot contain so much magic, yeah?” he sounded more like he tried to calm himself.
Some choppers flew around his eyes but he barely see them. They still provided video footage of the situation, which made the entire world nervous.
The leaders of the world discussed the situation, consulted with scientists and professors, but none of them could explain the impossible growth of these two mountainous creatures. These gods already levelled the center of a city, and the nations have to protect themselves.
They all agreed that in the end they might have to arm their biggest weapons, before the giants start to destroy the countries.

"I wish I could be as sure as you, Ada. I still can't see and her while the sand in the storm may be small, the storm itself is MASSIVE!" Sukotto was definitely starting to worry now. The fact he couldn't see Ada was a problem, as there was just no telling how big she was now or what she might be up to. Plus, she was a hunter like Ada, so she'd know how to take advantage of a prey's blind spots, even if they WERE bigger.

Ada had to partially cover his eyes as he entered the sand storm. He couldn’t see further from his snout, let alone the streets beneath his feet. He only hoped that he didn’t stomp on anyone. He couldn’t even tell what she stepped on, everything felt just like walking on sand. But at least he could speed up his walk.
That is, until he jumped into something. Ada frowned, it couldn’t be a “hut”, since no matter how tall they were they shattered easily. But this... This material was hard.
When a deafening laugh filled the air and stirred the storm, cleaning it up a bit, only then realised what Ada was looking at.
It was a paw. An utterly gigantic, super massive, super thick scaled paw belonging to a female dragon. It was twice as big as Ada’s entire frame, rested on the entire city center, the toe claws curled above the district, the heel was more than half a mile further back. As it ascended into the heavens, house sized debris fell back from the soles, and Ada’s entire village could fit in the print left behind, both vertically and horizontally.
“By the spirits...” gulped Ada, and the second biggest creature of the planet felt very, very small.

"N-no way..." Sukotto couldn't believe his eyes. Was Ria TRUELY that big, or was the sand playing tricks...Surely it had to be the latter...right? After all, Ada was HUGE! All these "huts" were nothing in comparison, and yet...Ria's paw alone was bigger than her was! Did they gods truly favor her and keep them from ever stopping her?

The paw descended toward Ada, and before the dragon could react it pinned him to the ground. Ada growled as he lied on his belly with stretched legs, the sole covered his entire back and more. Moreover the increasing weight pushed him further into the ground, sinking hundreds of feet deeper.
“OH, PIPSQUEAK!” The 5 miles tall Ria’s voice sounded godlike. Good thing her head was far above the clouds, otherwise Ada would have deafened by its volume. “YOU CANNOT IMAGINE HOW IT FEELS! I SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO YOU AND TO THAT MORSEL SHAMAN...” She curled her toes, squeezing poor Ada’s skin more. “AS A REWARD I PLAY WITH YOU FOR A LITTLE LONGER BEFORE I SQUISH YOU INTO NOTHING. HOW DOES IT FEEL, BEING THE TINY PREY? OR IT DOES NOT DIFFER FROM ANY OF YOUR PREVIOUS DAYS, FITTING UNDER MY PAW...”
As the gargantuan dragoness was paying attention to Ada, the sandstorm stopped, and the dust fell, covering the remains of the city like a golden coloured snow.
“Sukotto...” moaned Ada, fighting with the pressure. “If you have any ideas... Now’s the time... I hold her in one place... Sort of...”

Sukotto nodded absentmindendly. He honestly didn't have any ideas...Ria's massive size left his mind black. At least at first. When coherent thoughts did reenter his head, He realized the source of the magic she absorbed must be nearby. He doubted it had much...or any magic left, but he wanted to see what could possibly hold so much in the first place. Plus, he wasn't sure what else to do at this point. "Sorry, Ada. I'll have to leave you with her for now." He got off Ada and looked around for any clue as to where the magic came from.

“I will be... right here...” moaned Ada. The next moment the squeezing force eased as Ria placed her destroyer paw to somewhere else, but then it came back in an instant. This time she curled her fingers around him, and lifted high above the clouds.
“LET ME SEE YOU FROM UP CLOSE.”
Ada gulped. It will be a long wait. He just hoped Sukotto quickly put together a solution.

A few hundred feet away from the massive female toe stood a child alone, looking up in awe. Her name was Liz, a 3 year old girl, who also happened to be a dragon. She left behind accidentally during the evacuation, and she walked closer to the giants. It reminded her to her favourite cartoons her family used to watch with her, where the hero grows big to save the day. She was curious, and due to her age didn’t realise the danger she was in. If Ria places her paw just a tiny bit to the side...
As Liz looked up, drooling at the sight of the seemingly never-ending sister-in-species, she noticed a movement from the corner of her eye. It was a person climbing down from the lesser giant. Her attention quickly changed, as it happens so often with younglings of her age, and she quickly followed the person.

Sukotto didn’t notice her, but continued to look around for the source of magic. “Hmm...it’s got to be around here...”. That’s when he noticed the giant hole. He ran to it and noticed all the magical artifacts below. “That’s it!” He managed to get down and looked around to see if there was anything he could possibly use.

“Ria... Please... I beg you...” Ada had no better idea than talk. He either manages to convince her to change her mind, which seemed impossible, or give enough time to Sukkoto to create something that shrinks them back. Slightly less impossible.
“SORRY, PIPSQUEAK, CAN’T HEAR YOU! WHAT WAS THAT?”
“Just look around... You destroys everything! You cannot see the preys anymore, yet alone these people!”
“MUST HAVE BEEN THE WIND. THERE ARE SOME STRONG BREEZES UP HERE.”

Liz followed the strange person toward the hole. Who is this mister? Does he want to play with the big boy and girl too? He came from the shoulder of one of them, so he might knows the way back. And then she can ride on the back of the giants! Liz almost clapped with her paws in joy, but then she remembered they told her it's rude. She didn’t want to disturb the mister. She is a well behaved kid (well, most of the time), who wants to make her parents proud!

Sukotto looked though the items and was glad that some actually seemed to retain a little magic. There was even a cauldron with some left! He knew how to make potions, and with his knew knowledge of spells, he felt he could make some kind of shrink potion. He even managed to find some materials nearby and started preparing the potion. He just hoped it would work to bring Ada down to a manageable size.

Ada felt his hind legs hanging in the air. It was not s pleasant feeling. Who knows how much hurt if Ria decides to let him fall? Or throw him even higher?
He laughed nervously on Ria’s words. “He-he... Nice jokes, Ria... Can you... Can you put me down? Okay, you want me to say it? You are the greatest! The one true hunter, who can catch anything! The biggest dragon who ever lived!”
Ria smirked so widely Ada thought for a moment she wants to swallow him.
“DAMN RIGHT, PIPSQUEAK! I’M GLAD YOU CAME TO YOUR SENSES.”

Liz was a little above Sukotto’s head. She lost sight for a moment a few minutes ago, so she didn’t know where the shaman managed to climb lower. She had to use her hearing to locate him again, but she ended up in a different place.
As she looked down, she noticed she was right above the cauldron. “Is mister cooking a soup? What kind of? Like the one mommy does?” As she leaned closer, her leg accidentally kicked a vial, which tilted over, and its content poured right into the cauldron with a small splash. The liquid in the cauldron changed its colour, but only for a moment.
“Ups...” said Liz, hoping the mister didn’t notice her clumsiness. She looked at the empty vial, wondering what it could be. “Hope it’s not garlic” she thought. There was a picture on it, but she couldn’t interpret it. On the picture was the stylistic face of a surprised man with a question mark above its head. “Phew! Definitely not garlic.”

Sukotto didn't notice the vial or the color change, as he was gathering more ingredients. "I'm really surprised all of these are here and still in good condition. I wonder what the people who used to live here needed them for. Or why the people above berried them down here...Oh, well. It's probably best I don't focus on that. I don't want to mess this potion up. We need all the help we can get right now." He starts putting in the final ingredients and nearly finishes his potion.

Ria enjoyed playing with the lesser dragon so much. From up there everything seemed like a playground, which she thought more and more of that. She fidgeted her paws just to feel the districts crumble beneath her soles, and she used her tail as a mountainous whip, cutting entire ravines into the ground. No one can stop the mighty dragoness!

As Liz was watching Sukotto cooking the “soup”, the earth started to quake again from Ria’s massive stomps. Plaster fell from the ceiling, dust flew everywhere, and with the next tremor she lost her balance. The little dragon girl yelped as she fell over...
...right into the cauldron.
She dug out her head and spit some of the liquid out after she accidentally gulped down a decent amount. She looked up at the very much surprised Sukotto. “Uhm... Hi mister...? You need more salt into your soup...” She knew she was in trouble, so did what she usually does in these situations at home: put on her most innocent face.

Sukotto was definitely surprised and way more scared than mad at this point. A child that should have been evacuated just fell in to his shrink potion and the one chance they had to stop Ria! It seemed there was still some in there, which was good, but the worst part was she seemed to speak a different language than he did. He tried his best to get her out of the cauldron, though. "Hey there, little one. Don't worry, I'm not mad. I just need you to get out of there." He even tried to gently pick her up and out of the cauldron, hoping she'd let him even though she didn't know him.

Meanwhile the military threw a new wave of weapon arsenal at the giantess, but their effort almost seemed laughable. It was like attacking a brick wall by throwing tooth picks at it. She didn’t even have to touch the attackers, she simply blew some air, and the strong winds immediately blew the airplanes and missiles away.
“ANNOYING LITTLE BUGS. I WISH I COULD STOMP THEN TO NOTHING WITH A SINGLE MOVEMENT. WHAT DO YOU THINK, PIPSQUEAK? SHOULD I GROW BIGGER?”
Ada felt dizzy hearing her words. Bigger?! How much bigger does she want to be...?!

Liz let the mister grab her by the armpits and lift her out of the cauldron. She giggled as it tickled, and she also found the mister’s unrecognisable words funny. “You speak silly!” she laughed.
Then they heard the explosion coming from up above. They were the missiles hitting Ria’s skin – with no effort, as even the smallest scales stretched over 50 feet in diameter.
Liz yelped again in surprise, and with that, she felt something strange. Like when she suddenly sits up – although this time she did not do such a movement. Little did she know that her accident with the shrink potion changed the effect drastically, turning her into a grower too; and that her previous height of 2 feet now was closer to 3.

Sukotto didn't notice her growing as he was distracted from the explosions. He also didn't see how big the child was originally anyway, so it was hard for him to tell. However, he did notice she felt...heavier all of a sudden. He was sure she wasn't wearing clothes, so it's not like she didn't make it to the bathroom, but...He shrugged it off and placed her down gently, trying to figure out how to stop her from shrinking due to the potion.

Although all of the missiles targeted Ria, some of them managed to hit Ada, who was still hanging from the gargantuan dragoness’s hand. At first they tickled them, making him fiddling around... But then something else changed. Just like when the eel touched him in the water, a familiar power rushed through him, resulting another growth spurt. Although it was a ‘smaller’ one of 500 feet, bringing him up to 3000 feet of height in total, he was still surprised. Also he fidgeted so much Ria hadn’t notice that her captive became heavier and bulkier.
“Ria has multiple triggers too... Maybe these bee stings are my second kind?” He wondered. Maybe somehow he can turn this to his advantage... He wished Sukotto was here to give some ideas.

The noises coming from the surface distracted Sukotto and Liz down underground. The slightly bigger dragon girl listened to the noises and the tremors, then something shiny caught her attention back in another segment of the dark room. She left Sukotto there, wandered around, and disappeared behind a door.

Sukotto was looking up at the time, wondering what all the noise was. When he looked down he panicked at not seeing the dragon girl. "Oh, crap!" He didn't think she shrunk QUITE that fast, so he wasn't worried about that, but he did want to find her to make sure she was safe and to try and find a way to help her when she did start shrinking. He started looking around.

Liz looked around in the room, which was smaller than the previous one, and probably functioned as a storage room. The walls were filled to the brim with shelves, and there were dozens of strange artefacts, most of them covered in gold. The dragon girl dropped her mouth. “Toys!” she said, and walked toward a nice looking bird statue. She climbed on her hind legs to reach for its but it was just out of her grasp... Then she slipped, and fell on her back.
With that the magic of the potion brought alive again, blowing her bigger, to 5 feet. She stood up and rubbed her side to ease the pain. As she looked around she noticed the room changed... Somehow. She didn’t realize it was her who changed.
Now being as high as an adult she could easily grabbed the bird statue. But as she placed her hand on the side of the shelf, the thousand year old furniture snapped, and leaned forward. Dozens of items landed on her, not to mention the heavy wooden shelf as well. Liz yelped once again, she covered her head... And the magic reactivated again. This time with a single spurt Liz doubled her size to 10 feet, making her almost as tall as the room. She didn't hurt, and tossed the remains to the side with ease. She sat down, thinking about how strange this room looked like now.

Sukotto heard the furniture crash and ran over to the source...to see the child now bigger than him! “N-no way!” It was supposed to be a shrink potion she fell in, so how did she get bigger!? Could he have made a mistake somehow? At the very least, Sukotto was now glad he didn’t use it on Ria after all.

Liz placed her hand behind her back, and accidentally hit Sukotto. She turned around, frightened by the suddenly appeared shaman. “Ah, sorry, mister! Didn’t see you... Down there?”
As she wondered how her new friend seemed so small, the magic came to life once again. Her body trembled, and with the next moment blew up with immense speed. She quickly grew to 15 feet, then 20 – when she hit her head into the ceiling.
“Auch!” yelled the giant kid, and seemingly out of nothing her growth skyrocketed. She instantly doubled her size to 40 feet, technically exploding out of the room. Her leg smashed through the walls, her tail broke the opposite one, and her head was already banged into the next level...

Sukotto got knocked down, but stood up quickly. He saw the kid growing FAST and wondered if he hit head head during that fall. “What the...!? How is she growing that fast!?”

Each thing surprised Liz fuelled her growth further – and there were a LOT around the kid. Her head smashed through ceiling after ceiling, her lengthening legs broke down walls, monuments, and sculpture; her tail curled up in rooms before it exploded out too... The entire temple that survived thousands of years and even the destruction of two massive dragons of a jungle tribe could not withstand the destructive nature of a growing child.
Luckily Liz grabbed a doll as she grew out the place, which happened to be Sukotto himself. Otherwise he certainly would have been flattened by a giant and swelling rump. 100 feet was nothing a few seconds later, and Liz already crawled closer to 200. Her head appeared at the surface, like a swimmer emerging from underwater. She was still sitting, now in what only looked like a small hole in the ground. Her legs and tail dug new tunnels, and her wings already swiped the debris Ria previously caused. She looked up, and surprised that the still gigantic dragoness’s paw looked more like a hill than a mountain as before... And Liz more than doubled her size again, reaching 500 feet in no time.

Sukotto was just as surprised as she was, trying to take everything in. From what little he COULD wrap his head around, a child fell in to the cauldron that he was using to try and create a shrink potion. That child is now somehow GROWING, and fast! Faster than even Ria was before! He also noted that the child saved him, for which he was thankful. Other than that, his brain was pretty much turned off from the shock.

Ria was still enjoying playing with Ada, squeezing him from time to time like a doll. She forgot about the attacking forces a long time ago - they caused so little trouble that her mind simply ignored them.
What she could NOT ignore was the gentle squeeze at her feet. As she looked down, she almost dropped Ada in her surprise.
Down below was a small child. Well, small was totally relative in this situation, becaue the kid was around 1000 feet in hight. Barely bigger than her toes, but a respectable size nonetheless.
The kid, who seemed like a young girl of the local tribe, poked her toes with her claw.
"Big!" she giggled. "And squishy!"
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE SPIRITS," said Ria. "WHAT THE TWO OF YOU TROUBLEMAKES DID?!"
Ada couldn't belive his eyes as well. Did Sukotto messed something up again? Why is this girl big? And how did she grew up so fast? And does it mean she can increase her size further just as easily...?
"Sukotto?" he asked, hoping he could sill hear his explanation.

Sukotto snapped out of his shock a bit. He tried to answer Ria and Ada, but doubted they could even hear him. “I tried making a shrinking potion to use on Ria, but somehow when this girl fell in to it, it caused her to be able to GROW instead!”

Ada's ear flitched as he heard what Sukotto's said. Luckily his senses grew bigger with his size; and the same was true to Ria.

"YOU DID WHAT?!" asked the dragoness in disbelief. "YOU LET A CHILD FALL INTO ONE OF YOUR POTIONS? AND YOU THINK I AM THE ONE WHO LOST HER MIND?!"

Liz looked up. She did not understand what the dragoness said, but she had a feeling she was mad. She stepped away from her in sadness, she didn't want to cause any trouble... And with that she stepped on a warehouse. She shrieked as her leg sunk deep into the ruins, and that triggered another growth spurt. She quickly grew to 1500 feet, which caused her to trample around. Many times she almost lost her balance, and each caused another growth spurt of increasing amount. In just a few seconds she already reached 3000 feet, as big as Ada, who looked down with a puzzled look.

"Oh, spirits... These kids grow like a weed these days!"

Luckily, Sukotto managed to stay safe despite all the child’s moving around. “It’s not like I meant for it to happen! I still don’t know what is causing her to grow so big so fast, though! This is crazy!” Sukotto didn’t know what will happen next, or how big the child will get.

The world fell into chaos. All across the globe, in all nations, the news were full of the giants' growth and the destruction of the poor city. And not only there were already two of these gigantic, impossibly massive creatures - a third one appeared! And this one looked like a child... A few minutes later they announced an even more unbelievable news: the child is a local citizen called Liz. Neither academics nor amateurs were able to give an explanation how a kid, who showed no abnormality in her medical record, suddenly started to grow to such humongous sizes.

One of the broadcasting choppers flew closer to Liz, and they used a megaphone to speak to her.

"Liz! Liz! Were are from Channel 4! Can you tell us what caused your fantastic growth?"

However, Liz didn't expect a fly buzzing near her ear and speak to her. She hiccuped in surprise, and she looked around searching for the source... Unfortunately this triggered another series of powerful spurts. As her body grew, the serum had more and more base magic to work from, which resulted an even more agressive expansion... The child already reached 1 mile in height, causing the chopper to retreat. They almost hit her hips when she doubled her size to 2 miles, and again to 4 miles. Another district of the city was bulldozed into nothing under the humongous paws.

She was very close in size to Ria, the dragoness who thought no one can grow bigger than her.

"W-whoa!" Sukotto really couldn't believe how fast she was growing! If it DID end up as a shrinking potion as intended, it would definitely have helped them against Ria, it seemed. However, as a growth potion, it just caused them another problem. A HUGE and growing problem with no signs of going away soon!

Ria was the most dumbfounded of all. A few seconds ago there was this shrimp beneath her feet, a CHILD, who has probably never hunted before... And now she was looking right in the eyes without tilting her head down much!
“STOP IT... STOP... I MEAN IT!” Ria growled in a defensive mode, but the kid didn’t get the message.
“BIG SIS!” she screamed in joy, forgetting about all the previous series on clumsiness. As soon as she reached the bigger dragoness’s size, she gave her a hug. Ria moaned, surprised by the strength of the kid.
Unfortunately, Ria was still under attack, and some of the bombs and missiles now hit Liz... One of the projectiles exploded right in front of her multi hundred feet tall eyeball.
“AAAAUUU! FLASHY BUGS!” she bit her lips as tears ran down on her cheeks, enough to fill a swimming pool in volume. Her upcoming massive tremor shook the entire city, and right there and then the gargantuan Liz TRIPLED her latest size, towering to 12 miles in height. Her paws swallowed up the city, stretching ten thousand feet across, the once tiny toe-claws curled above the skyscrapers (at least those who still stood). She officially became the tallest object of the planet, putting even the biggest mountains in shame.
To the entire planet’s surprise, if that was even possible, she lifted the less than half her size Ria up in the air, as if she was just an oversized doll to the kid. The earth moaned of relief beneath the adult dragoness.
“WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!” yelled Ria with a slight dear in her voice. “SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SHE’S DOING! WE HAVE TO STOP HER GROWTH!”
“Oh, now you are a pro-shrinker?!” asked Ada mockingly. “A minute ago you were threatening the world by growing and destroying!”
“THAT WAS DIFFERENT! I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!” she fidgeted, trying to escape from her newly grown prison, but the kid’s hug was too strong even for her.

Sukotto knew Ria was right, but wasn’t sure what to do. “Well, I’m open to suggestions! After all, it seems all my plans end up backfiring! So, I’d rather not risk something else going wrong right now.” Sukotto hoped he didn’t jinx it by saying that.

“We have no choice, Mr President. We have to go nuclear.”
In the office of the leader of the greatest nation gathered the people of the highest rank of the government, as well as military forces. All of them watched the news, satellite images, local reports and prediction charts on many monitors.
The lion president shook his head. “But she is just a child! The other two may be aliens, but she is one of us!”
“Experts say the other two are members of a so far undiscovered southern jungle tribe. But this does not matter. Whatever made them big doesn’t seem to stop or even slow down. If everything goes this direction, the countryside can vanishes in an hour. Our nation will live less than a day. And then comes the entire planet. We have the confirmation of the other leader nations; they see no other solution but to eradicate them form the surface while we still can.”
Silence fell to the room. They watch as every step of the massive child made by just readjusting her feet caused more damage than the previous natural disaster.
“We... Informed the parents as well. They had a difficulty to accept... Understandably... But we convinced them that their sweet little innocent child is no more. There is no other way.”
“Can’t we shrink them?” asked the president with hope. “Is there a super secret military experiment that even I am not informed of?”
“I’m afraid there is no such thing,” replied one of the generals.
On the monitor the mountainous child crouched down, picked up an entire portion of the earth with numerous buildings on it, and started playing with it by poking it with her mile long snout.
The president sighed. “I never dared to think the possibility that I would be the first president to order a nuclear attack on his own country... But... It’s time to push the red button.”

Sukotto of course had no idea what was going on, and just kept trying to survive it all at this point. He knew any idea he could come up with will most likely not work and may even backfire, so he just decided to not think of anymore for the time being. He also hoped Ada and even Ria were able to hold on.

Ria finally dropped Ada as she fiddled so much between Liz’s arms. The kid wasn’t really paying attention to her ‘doll’, she was busy playing with the city. She knew she grew big, but somehow her brain had trouble realising the unbelievable truth, and thus she believed the landscape around her was just s big model. Which she can play with as it pleases, as no adult was around...
Ada landed with a thud. Luckily his frame was massive enough to survive the multi mile high fall, which to him was more like falling from a tree. A few minutes later Liz finally released Ria as well, who landed on her rump.
The city, once a proud habitat spanning across miles had less and less standing buildings remain.
“ANY IDEAS?” asked the giantess, rubbing her mountain sized rump.
“You can start with an apology.”
“OH, COME ON, PIPSQUEAK! I JUST WANTED TO BE THE BIGGEST HUNTER, WHICH YOU CANNOT BE!”
“Why not...?”
“BECAUSE... BECAUSE...” Ria sniffed and cleaned up a lake sized tear. “BECAUSE I CANNOT BARE ANORHER MALE THROWING INTO MY FACE HOW MUCH BETTER AND BIGGER HUNTER HE IS...!!!”
“Oh.” Said Ada, and he sat down next to Ria’s leg. Despite his own giant size he didn’t reach its top. “I would never do that, you know. I always thought you are the greatest hunter among us.”
Watching a gargantuan kid toying with city with ease snapped some sense into Ria.
“I WAS A JERK, EH?”
“Kinda.”
“SO... WHAT NOW?”
“I have no idea... And if Sukotto doesn’t have either... I dunno... Maybe we should try to outgrow her, to keep her at bay?”
Ria’s eyes widened. She looked down at Ada to figure out whenever he was joking or serious. Did he really just offered what he was against in the first place?
That kid’s gigantification definitely brought a chance, that’s for sure!
“WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT HER TRIGGER IS! AND EVEN IF WE KNEW WE CANNOT EXPLAIN TO HER HOW TO AVOID!”
They remained silent for a while.
“...BUT MAYBE IT IS WORTH A TRY.”

Sukotto nodded. “Well, if my shrinking ideas have led to growth, then maybe I can think of something for that. I guess it’s just about all we CAN do now, unless something miraculous happens.”

Ada's ears flapped. He was the first noticing the strange fly approaching them - probably because something stirred in her guts.

"Something is coming," he said, smelling the air. He was able to tell that is was similar to the peculiar tribe's previous flies, which were spitting tiny rocks at them - well, mostly at Ria. He remembered that one time they hit him hard, and that caused him a smaller growth spurt.

This lonely fly carried someting with a greater potential, he could feel it.

"Ria! Can you see that?" he pointed at the approaching thing.

"YEAH? IT'S JUST A FLYING BUG, IGNORE IT AS I DO."

"No... I think that might help me grow bigger! Can you flick it toward me so it hit me?"

"YOU WANT TO BE HIT?" asked the giantess, looking down the smaller dragon with a surprise.

"Yes!"

"WELL... OKAY..." she reached out. Liz didn't notice the approaching 'fly', she was still busy playing with the city, now using it as a sandpit, piling up the debris into a mountain between her legs. She placed a skyscraper on top of it as a flag.

When the fly was close enough, Ria as gentle as she could placed a finger on top of it and with a slight force she pushed it toward Ada.

When it exploded, a blinding flash filled the air, the temperature skyrocketed around the giants, and a gigantic, mile wide fireball engulfed them, or at least part of them. The shockwave blew the remainings of the tormented city, destroying it completely, even the nearby forest burned into coal immediately. The mushroom that formed a second later seemingly reached the heavens. A roaring sound followed the shockwave at a much slower pace, trembling across the empty lands.

"We have a direct hit!" People were cheering in the office. The president leaned back in his chair with a shaking hand. "Now we have to wait until we can reconnect to the cameras for visual confirmation..."

Sukotto shielded his eyes from the brightness of the explosion. He wasn’t sure how he managed to get so lucky to get out of these situations unharmed, but he was thankful for it. When he could see again he check on his tribemates. “Are you guys ok? That was crazy.”

Luckily tiny Tyr was perfectly safe within the caves of Ria’s ear. He had to cover his eyes although. Ria felt the full power of the nuclear bomb, but her massive amount of absorbed magic created a very efficient protective film around her skin, which saved her from any harm. She still felt the almost burning, itching heat. She shook her head, because for a brief moment the explosion blinded her completely.
“ADA? ALL YOU ALRIGHT?”
Truth is the lesser dragon was more than alright. At the moment of the detonation the radioactive energies bombed his body, but not in a way that anyone else. Just like before when he leaned closer to the coils, an enormous amount of power rushed into him, except this was tenfold comparing to that. His body billowed, and he let out a roar as he surged to 1 mile in an instant. The next second he doubled his size to 2 miles, then TRIPLED up to 6 miles. Ria had to step further to give more space to him; she looked up in awe to a now towering dragon.
But it was still not the end for Ada’s growth. Despite he already competed with the tallest mountains, and his feet together with the hill sized tail ploughed up the remaining of the city, he still grew bigger, higher than the mushroom the bomb left behind. His muscles tensed, the gargantuan dragon panted heavily, then he let out a deafening roar echoed through the countryside...
And then like the bomb itself, he exploded in growth, and QUADRUPLED just in a second, all the way to an unbelievable height of 24 miles.
Nothing remained under his 4 mile long soles which carved a new Grand Canyon into the earth. The city, a wheat field, a forest, a nearby hill, everything vanished and bulldozed into a single ravine. Coal turned into diamonds under the heat and pressure his fantastic weight caused, his wagging tail cleared the skies in miles, and loomed over the next village. Even the smallest scales were measured in hundreds of feet in diameter, and everything else were bigger than that: claws alone rivalled with the tallest anthro-made structures, the legs were pillars to heaven, the belly replaced the skies...
He slowly shook his head up in the Stratosphere, and finally opened his eyes.
“RIA? WHERE ARE YOU?”

"We're down here, Ada! You just somehow got a HUGE growth spurt!" Sukotto was sure Ada couldn't hear him, but he wanted to at least try. Plus, there wasn't much else he could do at that point. It seemed every time he turned around, someone would be growing somehow, and he felt at this point, he might as well just stay for the ride and try to enjoy it.

In the office of the leader of the greatest nation, the camera screens turned back one by one. They managed to reconnect with the satellites, and with that they glimpsed at the location of the impact.
What they saw cased a collective gasp.
“Imp-p-p-p-possible!” whispered a general, and he fainted.

Ada swiped the entire mushroom cloud with a single tail wag, cutting it in half, and then blasting the remainings away. He blinked a few times in confusion, and then finally he looked down, only to see a dragoness only a fifth of his size.
“RIA?! OH MY GODS, YOU LOOK SO SMALL!” he gargantuan dragon chuckled. “I COULD PICK YOU UP LIKE A DOLL!”
“NOT FUNNY. I WAS ALREADY SOMEONE’S TOY! WHICH REMINDS ME, WHERE IS THE KID? CAN’T SEE HER.”
Ada looked around. He couldn’t see her either. She should be like twice the size of Ria. Maybe she shrink back? Ada’s mountain of tail hit the ground a few times from excitement.
Then he noticed the mountains in the distance.
Mountains much bigger than HIM. Stretching on both sides in the distance. Ada gulped as he realized they were oddly the size of a dragon’s leg in a sitting position...
High above him, way up the thermosphere, scratching the edge of the outer space, an utterly humongous head started to cry.
“THAT HURT! I WANT MY MOMMY!”
Half the globe felt her shivering body, the tear drops created new lakes during their impact.
An entire world screamed as they saw a 250 miles tall dragon girl sitting on the entire countryside, sobbing uncontrollably. Her tail ended up in a different country than her paws, which were towering over another city, turning their sky seemingly night time with their shadows. The soles alone were longer than the city’s entire width.
She probably didn’t even notice that. For her, the whole world was flat, curving at the distance.
“SUKOTTO...” gulped Ada, looking up, seeing nothing but scales around. “PLEASE TELL ME YOU CAN REVERSE THIS...!”

Sukotto gulped as well, unable to do much else. Even after deciding to try to sit back and go along for the ride, this still surprised him. Wait...surprised? Could that really be it? "I don't think I can shrink her, sadly, but I think I know what her trigger is! I think she grows whenever she's surprised or startled by something!"

Ada snapped his forehead. It all made sense now.
“SURPRISED?!” asked Ria incredulously. “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EASY TO SURPRISE A KID?! THEY WONDERS AT LITERALLY ANYTHING!”
Ada nodded in agreement. “THIS IS BAD, REALLY BAD...! SUKOTTO, YOU MUST GO BACK WORKING ON THE SHRINK POTION! I DON’T THINK WE HAVE ANOTHER CHOICE...! AND TO AVOID FURTHER CATASTROPHE, ME AND RIA WILL BE THE TEST SUBJECTS.“
With that Ada used his increased eye sight and helped the tiny-biny shaman down from Liz’s leg. She didn’t even felt the removal of the ‘morsel’. Ada placed him down near the a ancient temple. “I HOPE YOU STILL FIND SOMETHING USEFUL...”
“AND WHAT DO WE DO IN THE MEANTIME?” asked Ria.
“WE HAVE TO CONTAIN THE CHILD SOMEHOW. IF ONLY WE WERE BIGGER...” then he felt something in the air. He took a deep breath, sucking a lot of clouds in, but something salty in the air too. He felt a huge body of water nearby – only a few dozens of miles away. “HOW THIRSTY ARE YOU, RIA?”
The smallest dragon of the trio licked her lips.

Sukotto smiled a bit as he saw Ada planning. He nodded up at him. “I’ll do my best!” He went back to the cauldron and managed to find enough water nearby to clean up what was left of the last potion. He then started work on the next shrink potion, doing his best to get it right this time and hoping nothing else went wrong.

Ada led the way. His 24 miles tall frame would have been quite impressive, if a certain girl had not been towering over them with an ever bigger body. His steps still made the earth growl, and his paw prints left new craters behind. He also turned the upper layer of the earth more dense.
A few minutes later they arrived at the edge of the ocean. It looked like a lake with standing water – the waves were microscopic for both of them. Ria took a deep breath, the salty water tickled her nose.
“GOOD FOUNDING, ADA! YOU ARE A GOOD SEEKER.”
“DID I JUST HEARD SOME COMPLIMENTS?” asked the bigger giant with a smile. Then he had an additional idea: as the giant dragoness stepped into the water, and leaned down for her drink, he gently pinched her tail and started to pull it...

Sukotto didn't quite know what they were up to, but he hoped it would be enough to at least give him some time. He constantly looked at the cauldron to see if it looked off at all as well as up and around in case there were others in the area that may mess things up like the child did. He couldn't see anyone, but he still worried. After all, none of his plans seemed to have worked out that well so far, and he didn't see any reason this one will be different.

Ria smiled looking at the seemingly endless water before them. Neither of the jungle dragons saw an ocean before, so they thought it was only a huge lake - which, considering their sizes, was not far from the truth.

The 5 miles tall Ria marched into the ocean, causing lesser tsunamies around. Her paws already sank so deep into the soil her toes dug up old ships and all kind of treasures, but all of those were minusculed comparing to their vast sizes.

She dug her snout into the water, and gave it a lick.

"UGH! SAULTY!"

"TRY TO DRINK IT ANYWAY," suggested Ada. He was holding the tip of Ria's tail, and gave it a gentle pull. Ria saw imagine stars fleshing in front if her eyes, and she felt dizzy. But she already felt the growth renewing in her veins.

Pull... Stretch... Grow...

She forced her head back into the water. Luckily the growth filled her with endorphins, which lessened the strange taste on her tongue, making it easier to gulp. As she sucked up enough water to fill a swimming pool with each second, her growth sped up drastically. From 5 miles she grew to 7 miles, then to 10 miles in no time, and then jumped to 15 miles... Ada had to step further and further as the tail lengthened between his fingers.

Pull... Stretch... Grow...
Sweet, sweet liquid...
20 miles - only a head smaller than Ada, and they only started the process a minute ago.
Pull... Stretch... Grow...

"ONCE YOU GROW MASSIVE WE JUST HAVE TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO JUMPSCARE THE KID," noted Ada, and he applied even more forces to the pull.

Sukotto noticed his potion actually looked good and seemed to be almost ready. He just needed a couple more ingredients, which thankfully were around. He hoped it worked this time, but also knew he had to wait for Ada and Ria to get back so he can test it on them. Just in case.

It was the same cycle Ria felt at the lake, except at a much bigger scale with a much faster pace. With each gulp her body shivered, blew bigger in size, then she had to step deeper into the water. Drink, grow, drink grow... But this time Ada's tail pulling helped her as well.
In no time she surpassed her hunter partner. With her 30 miles tall frame she also cast a shadow to the nearby fishing villages - then her colossal paws, each growing to 5 miles in length, bulldozed them entirely.
It was a miracle that all of them were evacuated, however even the nation's evacuation plan was running out of possible locations...
40 miles became 50 miles, which turned to 70, and her growth was still speding up. They were able to measure the drop of the level of the ocean, forst by inches, then by feet. 100 miles, 150 miles, she already multipled her previous size with a factor of 30. Ada found harder and harder to pull the vast tail that surpassed his entire body. Then the tail rushed through him, and he found himself at the base of a colossal leg...
Ria reached 250 miles in height, just like Liz. She stopped drinking as she couldn't take anymore, but the residual power still grew her a little bigger - just a humble 50 miles extra.
Ria was the biggest dragon of them all once again, one who became an entire nation on his own, each legs deserve a different zip code.
"THE EARTH CURVES AT THE HORIZON," said the dragoness with a voice shaking the continent. "WE SHALL INFORM SUKOTTO THAT IT IS NOT FLAT AS HE PREVIOUSLY TOLD US," her chuckle caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2.

Sukotto felt the shaking even from his location, but he managed to maintain his balance somehow. He just hoped that the potion didn't get affected somehow. He put in what he thought was the last touch, and just waited for the dragons, one of whom apparently much bigger than he last saw her, to get back and test it.

Ada looked up at the 300 miles tall giantess. “NOW YOU ARE BIGGER AGAIN!” He turned around to get a glance at the child: thank the spirits she was still the same, sitting on the once existed city, and piling up the earth as if she was in a sand pile. She created bigger mountains than ever existed on the planet.
“HER SIZE DIDN’T CHANGE.”
“GOOD.” Ria stretched, ploughing another village with her multi mile tall toes. From up there the surface of the planet looked like a patched blanket, even the major cities looked like tiny specks of rocks and light. Mountains and valleys were nothing but scars, the forests were carpets with the softest fibres, rivers looked like the path of a rain drop. She even took breath carefully because it stirred the atmosphere. The clouds couldn’t reach her ankles.
“GO FIND SUKOTTO. I TRY TO KEEP THE CHILD AT BAY, WITHOUT SURPRISING HER.”
Ada nodded. With a single move he turned around and found the tiny hole he suspected the shaman’s local. “SUKOTTO! TELL ME YOU ARE FINISHED WITH THE POTION! I DON’T THINK WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THE KID IF SHE GROWS AGAIN.”

Sukotto winced at Ada's loud voice, but smiled up at him and nodded. "Everything's all set! Just need someone to test it and make sure things actually work as intended this time!" Sukotto knew either result might be interesting, though. Either the one who uses the potion shrinks and they can use it to bring the child back to normal, as well as the two hunters to a good size, or they grow, possibly allowing the hunters to keep up with the child.

Ada leaned even closer to Sukotto, his humongous snout nearly touched the ground. He had the same logical line of thought as the shaman, namely they need to test the potion first. "QUICK! TOSS IT INTO MY MOUTH! WORST CASE I CAN HOLD THE CHILD DOWN EASIER UNTIL YOU WORK OUT THE KINKS." He opened his vast cave of mouth. His teeth alone were 2500 feet long each, not to mention his street long tongue and the entrance of a throat capable of swallowing an entire village.

Meanwhile, Ria slowly approached the child. When Liz looked up, she surprised by the sight of the nearly equally big adult, resulting a 'smaller' growth spurt of 50 miles. New they were the same, but because she was just a youngling, she seemed to be the bigger.

"NO, NO, NO! DON'T BE AFRAID! AND DON'T BE SURPRISED!" said Ria with a sweet tone. She knew the kid can't understand her, but maybe her tone can calm her down, preventing further growth spurts. It seemed it worked; the child was watching her with a tilted head, her tail even wagged playfully. The landscape changed again under the massive organ hitting the ground repeatedly.

Sukotto was a bit intimidated by Ada’s huge maw, but he still trusted him and managed to lift the cauldron and get the potion in to his mouth. He only hoped it would work this time.

Ada gulped, hoping that the shrink potion will work this time. He couldn’t feel a thing, the cauldron was so minuscule it was smaller than a mote to him.
“I GUESS WE NOW WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.” He then sat down, waiting for the effect.
Liz in the meantime turned her head away from Ria, and noticed the 10 times smaller Ada near her paw. “BABYDOLL!” She shrieked and lifted him up in the air. Ada felt the ground flying further beneath him with a speed of a horse. “AH YOU ARE SO ADORABLE! WITH A TINY BELLY AND FEET!”
“CAN YOU PUT ME DOWN, CHILD?” Ada looked at the multi mile wide eyes of the girl. Liz, who could not understand him still noticed he was asking something. “A TALKING DOLL! TICKLE-TICKLE-TICKLE!” She patted his head and back and played with him as if he was some kind of toy.
Ria shook her head. “AT LEAST YOU KEEP HER BUSY, ADA.”
“VERY FUNNY,” snorted the dragon, and he fiddled in the massive paw as the gargantuan fingers ran across him. But then a claw-finger touched his sensitive soles, and Ada shivered suddenly.
“OH, YOU ARE TICKLISH ON YOUR PAW!” she laughed, rubbing his soles more.
But it was more than that. Energies rushed through Ada once again. He hoped this time it will be a shrinkage...

Sukotto noticed what was going on and also hoped it was going to be a shrinkage. However, if it did turn out to be another growth, though, he kind of hoped it would be enough to help them deal with the child in case things went worse.

“UH-OH” said Ada as he realized this will NOT be a descending. On the contrary... Before he could warn Ria or even the child, he rapidly expanded – from 24 miles to 30 miles, then 40, then 60... “SUKOTTO! I’M... GROWING...!”
Liz shrieked, surprised from the ‘doll’s’ sudden size changing. As a result she started to grow as well, up to 320 miles, then 340... She accidentally knocked Ada, who lost her balance, and fell right through Liz’s mountainous tail.
Liz’s tremble quaked the entire planet.
Both growing dragons sped up their fantastic biggering from unbelievable to incomprehensible numbers. Entire nations vanished under a child’s rump, leg or tail. She grew all up to 500 miles, while Ada reached 100. Liz dropped her ‘toy’ as her own body grew uncontrollably, and the massive dragon hunter fell to the ground with a thud, sinking mountain deep into the surface. Her paw landed on top of Ria, who held her arms up to protect herself, but this meant she touched Ada’s hypersensitive soles – Ada tripled his ginormous size to 300 miles, shaking the very tectonic plates under his vast mass.
“OH NO... I THINK TICKLING IS MY NEW TRIGGER...” Ada gulped as he followed Liz by growing to 500 miles tall.
The entire planet suffered from the two dragons as they grew bigger... And bigger... And bigger.. .

Sukotto facepalmed as the two grew and grew yet again. Another failure. Did the gods hate him as a shaman or something? Although, deep down he enjoyed watching them grow, but he was SURE it would be a shrinking potion this time! He really didn’t know why he kept messing up, but a small part of him was actually glad he did.

Both dragon’s head pierced the atmosphere. Ada blinked rapidly from the change of the surroundings – he saw not just the shrinking patches of earth around him, but the curvature of the planet, and the darkness of the outer space as well. Luckily the potion gave him and Liz – and Ria as well – the ability of survive even in the most harsh environment, including the cold space without oxygen.
The 1000 miles tall dragons outgrew even the biggest rivers on the planet. Their vast bodies span across the nations, their tail replaced lakes, mountains and planes, their feet squeezed the tectonic plates further from each other. Magma bulged wherever they stepped, cities vanished under the toes, airplanes and satellites hit the gargantuan scales. 1200 miles turned to 1500 miles, and they still grew bigger, racing with each other who can be the most gigantic creature ever...

“Wow...well, it at least seems the potions were potent.” Sukotto went back in to the mindset of just sitting and enjoying the ride since there wasn’t much he could do at that point.

Ada felt the curvature under his feet. He saw the giant planet around him, which was slowly dwindling in size. Nothing survived under the destruction of their ever-growing bodies, no terrain was able to withstand the forces they represent. At 2000 miles both dragon spread across an entire continent. The nations launched an all-out nuclear attack, but they were no bigger than mosquito bites. Even their combined power were not enough to trigger a growth spurt at Ada, not that he would needed it.

"SUKOTTO!" his voice shook the very planet. "TRY TO MAKE A GROWTH POTION! MAYBE YOU MESS IT UP ENOUGH TO FUNCTION AS A SHRINK POTION!"

Then he leaned down, searched for the bug sized Ria - who, despite being the third biggest creature in the universe, was minusculed by the other two -, and grabbed her by the tail. Ria gulped as he ascended into the atmosphere, but with that she started to grow as well.

"I NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS CHILD BEHAVE," said Ada.

Liz, who was growing faster than Ada, played with the planet by picking up entire landscapes and put them somewhere else. Her giggle alone caused earthquakes off the scale.

Sukotto was somehow still able to withstand their voices and nodded. “I suppose that does make sense. I’ll give it a try, Ada!” He looked around to see what ingredients were even left and went to work on what he planned to be a growth potion this time.

Unbeknownst to them they already grew bigger than the Moon. At 3000 miles, their paw prints sank so deep magma bulged to the surface. At 3500 miles, the tectonic plates started to slide like ice floats. At 4000 miles, Ada's tail hovered over a different continent, while Liz's legs redistributed the water in the oceans...

"THIS IS NONSENSE!" said Ada as he roared, bulging up another 1000 miles higher. Each of the two bigger dragon occupied one hemisphere of the planet; their vast paws became the skies as they stepped over the landscape. "THIS BALL IS SHRINKING BENEATH ME..."

Liz giggled, giving a hug to the dwindling planet under her. So far it was like a giant beach ball to her, but it was no question that it's about to change in the near future.

Sukotto kept working on his growth potion, unsure what might happen with it. So far, his only successful shrinking was when he first tried the shrink spell on Ada, but he knew that wouldn’t work. Ria would absorb the magic and Ada’s body already rejected some of it, and he and the child would most likely repeat that at still massive sizes. He just hoped this “growth” potion did the trick.

As the two dragons had less and less space to move around, Ada constantly bumped into Liz. "SORRY... SORRY!" he kept saying, but of course Liz couldn't understand a word. With another growth spurt to 7000 miles, the titanic Ada hit her with his tail that already occupied half of the continent... The gargantuan child yelped, and vanished behind the other half of the globe.

Ada kept pulling Ria's tail to make her taller as well, and she already reached 1000 miles in height. "WHERE DID SHE GO?" asked the lesser giantess, trying to see over the horizon.

Then a vast shadow engulfed the entire planet. Both Ada and Ria looked up... and up... and up...

A truly gargantuan draconic child head, as big as the entire planet, loomed over them. Liz's body was floating behind, claiming more and more of the vast space.

"CHRISTMAS BALL!" she shrieked, curling his fingers around the continents.

"UHM... SUKOTTO?!" asked Ada, shivering. "IF YOU STILL HEAR US, WE MIGHT NEED YOU!"

Sukotto finished his potion as soon as he could. He still hoped it would shrink instead, but at this point, more growth might help after all. “Alright, guys! I’m finished! It should be ready to test on someone now!”

A single growth spurt of thousands of miles became laughably small by the giants. With each passing moment they grew and grew so vast, that on the surface ont their body enitre new continents could fit by the minute. Soon Ada became just as big as the whole planet, and he hovered into the space; while Liz, this once sweet and innocent small child was ten times as big, and still bulged and ascended further. She never saw the outer space before, and the Moon, the Sun, an every star was a surprise to her, fueling her growth beyond comprehension.

"I WILL TAKE THAT, THANK YOU!" said Ria, and she reached down to the earth while Ada was still holding her tail up in the atmosphere. Between her fingers entire cities could hide, and she picked up the one she suspected Sukotto could be. She tossed the whole country into her mouth. Luckily, the sudden breeze blew Sukotto away, right onto her snout; like a snowflake in the wind, he landed softly on the gargantuan snout.

Ria gulped, waiting for the result of the supposedly growth potion. "I HOPE YOU MESSED THIS UP TOO, OTHERWISE WE SOON BECOME ONE WITH THE HEAVENS!"

Sukotto obviously panicked at almost being eaten, but was glad to have been saved. “It’s really hard to tell if I have the favor of the gods or not...They’re protecting me, yet causing everything I try to just grow you all and not shrink.” Sukotto doubted Ria could hear him, but he was mostly thinking out loud to himself anyway.

Down on Earth they couldn't even see the giants anymore. They only saw a gargantuan claw filling the skies, or a massive scale squeezing the oceans like a rain drop between two planes. Some continents whitnessed the growth of a Moon sized eyeball above them, some experienced the heat waves of a toe...

Ria was getting lost between the celestial sized giants' scales together with the planet - until the latest growth potion kicked in. With a blink of an eye she quadrupled her fantastic size, then again, then again, joining them in their endless growth.

"LOOKS LIKE OUR SHAMAN KNOWS ONLY HOW TO BLOW THINGS UP," she said, her voice boomed through the space despite there was no air around. It seemed that Sukotto's magic broke the laws of physics a long time ago.

The three giants were still growing, making their home planet look like baseball... then a golf ball... then a pebble... They were reaching millions of miles in height and length, and approached two millions... five millions... ten millions... Even the Sun looked like a lightbulb - or in Ada and Ria's case, a firefly.

Sukotto sighed a bit at the fact that his potion did cause more growth, but he decided to sit back and try to enjoy it. He looked up at all three growing dragons and watched them continue to grow. He did wonder, though, if his potion caused Ria to have another trigger.

Ada awed at the vast space – and the dozens of micro sized orbs around them. A moon here, a planet there... They were tickling his soles as he grew bigger and smashed the celestial objects, but it only fuelled his growth more. Liz reacted similarly, these surroundings were so different that anything she saw at home that her size increased with an almost impossible speed. Soon they left the millions of miles behind, and entered the billions. Down on Earth, which was stuck between Ada’s massive toes, they measured the gods in AUs, astronomical units.
But none of the two was prepared for Ria’s upcoming spurt.
The dragoness, who was stuck under one of Ada’s claw, felt a tingling sensation. She took a deep breath, trying to get rid of the irrigating feeling...
Then she let out a powerful sneeze.
With that, the latest growth potion unlocked it’s true powers, and the dragoness blew up in size – not doubled, not even tenfold, but she grew A HUNDRED TIMES BIGGER.
She waved at the other two, before she exploded A HUNDRED TIMES MORE again...
10 thousand AUs, or 0.1 light year in just a few seconds... The entire solar system laid around her gargantuan body.

"W-whoa!" Sukotto really couldn't believe how fast Ria grew! He did notice that each spell/potion did seem to get more and more potent than the last, but he still didn't expect this speed and these kinds of results! He smiled, though, and did wonder if she'll overpower the other two dragons at this rate. He even couldn't help but wag his tails slightly at the thought and curiosity.

Ria grew into a supermassive celestial being, smashing anything her body touched. Suns, solar systems, even black holes disappeared between her scales, stuck between her toes, erased near her ears, or just flattened by her scales. She became as big as the Nebulas, but it was still not enough for her body, which only grew bigger... and bigger... and bigger...

Then she hit a wall. When she looked up, she saw the toe-claw of an even more colossal being - Liz, who was so amused by the strange surroundings and the super-growing dragoness, that her own growth exploded by many order of magnitude.

"SMOL DOLL!" She laughed, grabbing the "tiny" dragoness who was smaller than a flea next to her. She laughed, then expanded to 100 light years tall.

Galaxies swam within her reach.

“Whoa! Guess Ria’s potion wasn’t QUITE as potent as I thought!” Sukotto kept staring at the dragons growing, unsure of what else to do now and sure there was nothing else he COULD do.

Liz caught Ada too, and she decided to tickle his paws. She laughed, massaging the soles bigger than nebulas, causing the dragon explode in size. His body consumed everything in the galaxy, and then other galaxies. Entire civilizations, alien races, small and big, vanished between the cells. 20 light years, 50 light years, 100, 200... He became the biggest creature in the known universe, and still grew more and more colossal by the minute. A thousand light years became 5thousand, then 10 thousand, until he grew so big clusters became toys...
And just when he thought he lost sight of the other giants, Ria sneezed so loud it shook the fabric of the universe. She instantly grew ten times as big as Ada, swallowing supervoids, and then grew even bigger.
“IS THERE A LIMIT AT ALL?” the million light-year tall gisntess asked, her voice filling the observable universe.

Sukotto just kept watching, starting to not even be surprised anymore at this point. “It doesn’t seem like there is one! Only one way to find out, though, seeing as I apparently can’t shrink you guys down.” He still wasn’t sure whether to be upset about that or not.

They grew out each other constantly. At one time Ria was the biggest of all, spreading hundreds of light years across the outer space, then Ada took over, reaching thousands. He growled, trying to get rid of the ever-increasing force inside his stomach, but then he bumped into a belly of a dragon girl... Liz giggled, giving a hug the the two lesser giant, and pulled Ria's tail just for fun, only to make her exploding in size once again, who tickled Ada's sensitive paws accidentally.

A million light year was enough to measure their body for a few moments, then it became too small to measure even their toes. Their growth was accelerating, consuming every object occuring in the universe, no matter how small or big were they. The three giants quickly replaced the fabric of the material world. Galaxies lived within their cells. Atoms loomed over solar systems. Quarks floated together with giant stars and planets...

Ten million light years... Hundred million... A billion...

Then everything vanished as they reached the size of the entire observable universe. There were nothing left they could compare themselves to, except for each other, and judging by the size alteration, they were still growing bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

"NOW WHAT?" asked Ada in the endless darkness.

“I have no idea.” Somehow Sukotto was still with them, also confused as to what might happen next. “This whole thing has been confusing and unusual, so it’s definitely hard to tell what’ll happen next.”

Silence fell on the giants. Ada looked around, but no matter where he turned his head to, there was only black emptiness. Ria shrugged, "GUESS THIS IS OUR LIFE NOW... BABYSITTING A KID WHO IS BIGGER THAN THE UNIVERSE."

"AND HER CARETAKERS TOO," added Ada, pushing the giggling dragon kid further, who in response blew ten times as big as the adults. But they quickly grew up to her.

This went on for a while which Ada felt like an hour - time seemed to stop working at this size as well -, when suddenly they bumped into something, that was neither a limb nor a back or a tail.

"What is this?" asked Ada. It felt like a wall. He moved his fingers across the surface. It felt rough, like the side of a wooden furniture. Ria snorted, then she also placed her paw on it.

They they grew bigger again, and felt the same thing on the other side. It felt like getting squeezed inside a box!

"Donno... Come on, let's push it!" she said.

And the two dragons placed a leg against the back, and pushed the front with all their might. Liz saw them, then she decided to join their effort.

When the wall finally broke through, the three dragons rolled outside.

"What the hell?!" asked Ada in surprise. They were in front of Sukotto's cottage, near their village.

And they seemed to be... normal sized again. Even Liz, who chuckled, and ran toward a flower pot.

Ada looked back. Behind them was a wooden crate; its side wide open, and inside... nothing, just dark emptiness.

"Uhm... Sukotto? Are you here?" asked the confused dragon carefully.

Sukotto nodded, confused as well. “I’m here, but...I don’t know what’s going on either...” He was honestly confused and looked around at the oddly familiar surroundings. “This is so strange...”

Much to their surprise, Tyr walked out of Sukotto's hut, scratching his head. He seemed big again, at least bigger than Ada, much like before all this happened.

"I had the strangest dream," he mumbled, looking at the other dragons. "What in the name of the spirits happened?"

Ada shrugged. "It seems that... we arrived right back where we started."

"I think I get it," said Ria as she stretched her limbs. "The shaman promised us to shrink back... So we shrank back... In a way. Like, remember that the entire land was spherical when we were massive? If you walk too much toward East, you end up on West. If you grow too much, you shrink."

"That makes absolutely no sense," replied Ada.

"Then how do you explain this...?" she pointed at their village.

"Uhm... magic?"

"Ah, there you are!" Suddenly the chief appeared. "Do you know how much damage you've done?!"

"Uhm... Hi boss!" Ada waved with his paw. "It's good to see you again properly!"

"Very funny! And who is that?!" he pointed at Liz, who were still playing around.

"Uhm... Someone we must escort back to her village..."

"Whatever. Come with me!"

They followed the boss, who led them into the forest, right behind a hill... Where an utterly gigantic, mindblowing sized valley occupied the lands where previously was an endless field of trees.

The toe part of a much bigger paw print, streched across miles upon miles upon miles.

"Ups," said Ada.

"Ups indeed!" yelled the chief, and he started a lecture how recless and dumb and irresponsible they are were, including the shaman Sukotto.

None of them noticed that Liz followed them. "Woah!" gasped the little girl when she saw the gargantuan paw print. She started shivering...

The End(?)

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