This choice: Grows to the size of a bodybuilder • Go Back... Frank arrived home feeling exhausted. Without doing anything else he headed upstairs to his room to change and go to bed. The alligator made his way to his room and closed the door behind him. He then reached for his dresser to get his pajamas on. The mirror beside the dresser caught his eye and Frank stood in front of it.
He couldn't help but feel sorry for himself. He felt like such a loser and there was nothing to do about it. Frank figured the best thing for him to do was to live with it. As he took off his shirt to change into his sleeping shirt, Frank stood in awe. His chest looked leaner than before. He didn't have any solid muscle but he saw some slight definition on his chest and arms. He had no idea where it came from.
Frank wondered how did the sudden change happen. He hasn't worked out in a long time and, even if he did, he would never get results this fast. Then it hit him, the sensation he got from the swamp. Frank wondered, "Did the water do this to me?" The swamp water did make him feel strange and gave him a sensation in his muscles. It had to have been it. Frank quickly put his shirt back on, slipped into a pair of swim trunks, and rushed back to the swamp.
Frank found himself at the harbor. He wasn't entirely sure why he came back. Maybe out of hope. If the swamp water truly bulked his body slightly when Frank splashed himself, could it do it again if he swam in it. Frank took off his shirt leaving his trunks on. He looked at his reflection in the water again. Hopefully, it would be the last time he would see himself like that. Frank took a deep breath and dove into the swamp. The was a moment where it seemed liked the world had frozen. It was almost an agonizingly slow descent into the water. It wasn't until he felt the cool water engulfing his body that time started picking back up and he burst through the surface of the water into the cold beneath.
It enveloped his body like a thick blanket, seeping into every pore of his body. He expected it to be chilly, but it seemed much colder than it had been before. It wasn't like it had been before, this kind of cold was... unnatural. It dug into every fiber of his being, almost making him screaming and forcing out a great deal of oxygen. His lungs felt like they were going to explode from the air slowly being processed inside, with no means of letting it out. He had to squirm wildly before he actually found the bottom with his feet and he pushed up, tilting his head upwards towards the filtered light.
The moment his head broke the surface, a shrill cry of pain tore through his body as his face burned with an agonizing intensity. It was like he'd started bathing in acids, he could almost feel it eating at his body as he clawed at the wood deck that hung on one corner of the water and he tried pulling himself up with all his might, sinking his claws into the wood as he hauled himself, but with each inch of his flesh exposed tot he air, the burning became far more intense, the air setting his body alight with a fire that burned deep beneath his scales.
Frank gasped weakly as the all consuming pain threatened to overwhelm him. This water was contaminated with something, he didn't know what, but it felt like whatever it was had been eating away his body from the inside. His thoughts spun around the idea that he could possibly die from this. "I... I can't die.... why do I have to die?" His head slumped back as the burning intensified with each breath and he figured this was the end of him.
Suddenly there was a new sensation. It started off as a light tingle that danced across his scales, almost like someone was running their hand across his body. Wherever the sensation moved across, the burning would dull, as if someone had poured some kind of cooling gel onto his flesh. Suddenly there was this odd sensation a cross between the burning and the tingling, although now it felt like his flesh was buzzing. He had only found enough strength to sit up when he cried out as the sensations spread up his arms, which suddenly began to pop and the bones groaned loudly as his biceps started flexing rapidly in the midst of a powerful spasm.
Every movement his arms made felt both painful and almost numb at the same time, as he stared down his eyes widened in complete shock as he found his arms actually growing bigger. They had been so lean before and now the bicep was ballooning like someone was pumping it full of air. One in, then two, then four, suddenly ten whole inches of pure muscle rose from what had once been lean and below average arms. Compared to the rest of his body it looked like he'd been taking steroids, except the growth only happened in his arms, making him look deformed.
When he felt a pop in his chest as he ribs shifted around his oxygen supply suddenly cut off and he found himself trying to gasp futily for air. He had to hold back his tears which threatened to spring up as his chest actually started widening beneath his gaze. It looked fairly strange as the bones shifted and moved under his scales, giving him a very bony and unpronounced chest, when suddenly he felt that tingling again burrowing down into the deepest parts of his muscles. Suddenly those bony pecs were rising up like great hills, expanding and spreading wider as his shoulders worked to adjust themselves to his now very large and throbbing biceps.
His mind couldn't even begin to process what was happening to his body. It was like he was turning into some sort of monster, a seriously buff looking monster. He let out a small cry as he hunched over, his stomach burning painfully, against his now massive chest it felt like his skin was on fire, radiating heat like a furnace and he had to lean back as much as he could before his back rested against a pole that helped steady the dock above the water. His stomach suddenly looked like he had something alive squirming just under his scales.
The idea frightened him to the point he was almost crying before the movements began slowing, the stomach suddenly now sporting a very impressive and hard six pack abs. He hadn't even realized his muscles had been developing through the pain. To anyone else his lower body would appear deformed to the rest of him, like he had been physically disabled from the waist down so his lower half looked frail compared to this hulking new upper body, but with this tingling burning down his legs that was about to change.
Frank tilted his head back, trying his best to keep his breathing under control, but with the burning that grazed his body like molten metal it was almost impossible. He could feel the muscles in his legs exploding with growth, each second his legs twitched and had a spasm as the muscles thickened, his thighs swelling up with muscles that had once been barely lean. As they grew bigger and bigger, Frank felt a very painful constriction on his waist. It was like his body was fighting off this new and amazing change that was morphing his body. He was scared that his body would suddenly reject this change and he would shrink back to how he was before.
When he looked down, he almost felt a smile spread of his cheeks at his own silliness as he realized that it was his swim trunks causing him so much pain. The sturdy fabric wasn't meant to withstand such an immense change in size. These shorts were much too small for this new body, and as his legs suddenly expanded a bit more, there was a large rip as the shorts tore apart. Once that horrible pressure vanished, so did the burning and the tingling that had held his body in it's powerful grip.
It took several minutes for his heart to finally calm down, and a couple minutes longer for him to actually move. This body was so much bigger than his old one. The muscles, especially his biceps, would grind up against his chest uncomfortably and he had to practice walking back and forth along the dock before he could figure out how to walk without rubbing his arms against his body. When he paused to look down at the water, the sight almost took his breath away.
There was no longer a scrawny little gator he was staring it. It was if that kid had never existed. His eyes were still the same, he could see his brown eyes reflecting the light into the water, but it seemed like it was a dream. His body looked... incredible. His muscles bulged hotly even when they weren't flexed. It was amazing. nothing ever felt so strange or so wonderful.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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