I AM SLEEPY BUT I WANTED TO GET THIS DONE SO YEET! Claire's POV of what happened to Leon in my last post!
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Claire felt her heart drop to her stomach after Leon opened his eyes after eating one of the fries that she’d gotten for him. His pupils had turned into slits, and the black had been overtaken by a vivid blue. Scales had started to form, dotting under his eyes, face and neck. To her horror, Leon didn’t seem to realize what was happening to him by the way he raised an eyebrow and tilted his head.
“What, is something on my face?” he asked, revealing sharpening teeth. Claire felt dread pool in her stomach as her heart pounded in her ears, watching Leon's face turn to even more confusion as her face fell. Then came the grinding snap pop. His gaze went down, eyes wide as his breath hitched in his throat. Claire followed his gaze down and watched as bone and muscle shift under the skin before resettling, finger nails starting to sharpen, and scales erupted across his arms, as bone and muscle again shifted. Leon’s other hand jolted upwards, pads brushing gingerly across changing teeth. The way Leon’s face turned to that of horror made Claire’s heart pound.
A pained and confused grunt sent Leon lurching forward as something cracked in his chest. Claire was already up, grabbing his wrist and not even stopping for Leon to gain his balance. She just pulled.
“We need to run! Can you run?!” Claire said to him, though she knew he wasn’t paying much attention to her. A worker squawked as she charged past, Leon in tow. She didn’t even need to see the changes happening; she could feel it! Under her hand, Claire could feel the popping snap of Leon’s wrist as she pulled him through the halls, the tough scaled hide forming under her hands. She could hear the fabric tear as it gave way for the dorsal fins erupting from his back, his chest expanding to give room for… Claire didn’t even want to think about it.
“Out…. siiide!” Claire chanced a look behind her, fear welling in her stomach. Oh god he was growing, he had to be at least 3 feet taller than her, scales having completely covered his right arm, most of his left, and his neck, and light brown trailing down his neck and chest. Cyan spikes shuddered as his shoulders jolted up with a snapping pop as they grew in size. His face, oh god his face. Tears streaking down his cheeks, past teeth poking up past his lips, and it was pushing outwards, making it look more muzzle-like. “Can’t!” The word came out pained. At this rate, they wouldn’t even make it outside.
Claire whipped her head forward, nearly squawking as she nearly ran face first into the door. Door! Arm raised, she shoved it open, running maybe 10 feet before Leon broke away from her, again his shoulders jumping as he charged and stumbled. His feet had broken through the inside shoes provided from him, resembling that of the form he took a week ago. The sound of more fabric ripping, and what remained of his shirt fluttered to the ground or combusted at the wave of heat that suddenly came off of Leon. A tail ripped free from a pant leg, whipping in sync with the groaning snarls and whimpers that deepened with each growth spurt, rending anything human sounding an after thought.
A hand was now across her mouth, watching on in horror as Leon doubled, no, tripled in size. And she could only watch with sinking horror the same creature that appeared on the news just a week ago, emerge from her friend. Slowly, the cracking, snapping, popping, and grinding sounds slowed before coming to a complete stop. Claire watched as Leon slowly moved, raising his now massive head to look down at his stumpy looking fingers. A whine filled the air in place of bird song, that only got louder as he turned his head to her, blond hair moving with the motion. Watery blue eyes looked at her in fear, another whine sounding far more reedy slipping past sharp teeth.
Claire swallowed hard, taking a step towards the massive nose that had been stretched out alongside Leon’s mouth. Another whine slipped out, and Leon shuffled slightly, as if he was readjusting himself. His gaze darted to his back side, and covered his eyes with almost useless hands, a whine that sounded more embarrassed than anything slipping out. Claire wanted to laugh, she really did! But she also didn’t want to hurt Leon’s feelings with everything that's happened to him so far. So instead, she leaned her weight onto his muzzle, stopping a rumbling sound midway through his apparent displeasure.
“It’s ok.” Claire couldn’t stop, the words just tumbling out. “It’s going to be ok. We’re going to fix this!” Claire held her breath as she felt his jaw move, and a puff of moist warm air blasted her midsection as a soft crooning(?) sound left Leon. “Your going to be ok! I just… Rebecca, I need to get Rebecca, ok?” Another croon, this time sounding more whiney. “I’ll be right back, ok! Right back!” Claire pushed off Leon’s nose, another crooning whine leaving him as she jogged to the building’s entrance, having to shove past the growing crowd ogling at Leon with bright curiosity. “Move! This isn’t a dinner and show, GO!” Claire hollowered, scattering a few of the onlookers. She had to ignore the quiet rumble from Leon as she vanished further into the building.
Thankfully, it didn’t take long for Claire to find Rebecca, given the fact that it seemed everyone seemed to be whispering about what had just happened. Don’t think it helped that they nearly smacked into each other racing around the corner. Rebecca’s expression was wild, and she was slightly winded as if she’d been sprinting.
“Leon?” She asked, and Claire only nodded, pushing herself back into a sprint as Rebecca followed suit, hot on her heels. More people had gathered, many of them looking horrified(One had their hand over their mouth, trying to hold back retching as another led them away), some looking pale, and others clearing the way for the two. Leon was making a sound that Claire could only describe as a wail, or at least, as close to a wail as a lizard could make. He was still laying flat on his belly, hands pressed against his head as he tried to keep talons from digging into his skull.
Claire once again brought her hand to her mouth. Whatever was happening to Leon, wasn’t stopping. He shrank, he grew, scales vanished then reappeared, pupils trying to return to black only for the blue to remain. Leon was at war with his body. Claire charged forward, Rebecca still at her heel, and skid into the grass where Leon was pressing his now small head into the grass. It was still muzzle shaped, teeth still poking over his lips as near pure blue eyes stared up at her, tears welling in his eyes before dissipating against his heated skin. Scales pebbled thickly over his face, trying to make way for smooth skin.
“Huuuuuurrts….” Was all Leon managed to get out, posture stiff as his back arched to the sky, the dorsal fins jumping at the growth spurt only to resettle. A weak moan of pain spilled from his misshapen features as Claire pulled his head into her lap, another wailing sound spilling out of him as Rebecca started to take his vitals. Leon raised an arm, ready to wrap it around Claire before freezing and thinking better of it, and let it drop to the grass.
“I know… I know…” Claire hummed, her own voice thick with emotion as again, the sounds of bone and sinew rearranging slowly came to a stop(Leon let loose a soft wailing moan when it finally did, tears still spilling from him). Rebecca looked to Claire, her gaze filled with worry as Leon wheezed in relief. Still he shuddered, and Claire didn’t blame him. This wasn’t how she was expecting her day to go, by any means, wake or form. Though… Claire’s gaze briefly darted down before landing back to Leon's pain filled features. The poor man had nothing to cover himself with. And anything they did, would have been dirty(Turning into a 25 foot tall lizard and back was not going to be good for his clothes. Leon lets out another whining rumble, softer than before, but still loud.
“We’re going to figure this out, Leon.” Claire hummed, ignoring the soft feeling of something stirring in her chest. Seasonal allergies. That's what she could attribute to the others. She could worry about the burning fire in her lungs at a later date.
OOOOOOOOFFFFFFF! OH MAN POOR LEON!!!! YIKES. This ALL sounds REALLY painful, especially since he's crying! THIS WAS AWESOME THOUGH! Love how Leon was gradually changing before Claire got his ass out of the building, and his little sad rumbles he kept making after!
Oh man though, the part where his body kept fluctuating between forms was BRUTAL. You could tell that SHIT HURT and him finding some relief with Claire was very sweet!
(Not gonna lie, This makes me want to draw some body horror of him being stuck between stages.....( ✧≖ ͜ʖ≖)
ALSO THAT END with Claire feeling a bit off?! OOOOOOOOO!!!! LOVE IT! ( ಠ‿<)
THIS WAS STUPENDOUS! Thank you so much for sharing this!
