2 - Welcome to PARADOX//Battle
Two teenagers, dressed like rejects from a primary color-themed Halloween party. Their stance was copied wholesale from a 90's album cover. Even though they were practically tiny to her now, she could see their faces clearly.
They were each wearing an opulent mask, decorated with colored gems and gold threading. The boy was in an oversized blue hoodie, and the girl was in a fancy green Victorian dress-coat.
Both of their outfits were monochromatic. Her father, a costume designer for a popular traveling theater troupe, would have fainted at the sight of them.
'It's all too much,' he would say.
The sheer thought of him made her heart clench, but there was no time for that now.
Her giant body turned to watch them intently. The boy rushed over to the muscular man she'd tossed aside like a candy wrapper and raised his hand high up.
A large blue ring appeared over his hand, and though she was more than incapacitated she swore she could hear dubstep music coming out of it. In line with the sort of music that was popular nowadays.
Even monster part of her was a bit irritated.
The man had started to fall, but he stopped in mid-air above the ring. Slowly, the boy lowered his arm and the blue ring followed.
As she took a closer look at the man, she could see that he was vibrating; as if somebody was blasting him with a gigantic blow-dryer. The ring disappeared as it touched the ground. The man came down along with it.
It didn't look like a very soft landing, but it looked better than going splat all over the pavement. He didn't seem to be bothered either, taking one look at his costumed saviors and running off without even a passing glance at her.
Finally, the two of them turned their attention to her.
"Stop!" the boy said, raising one of his hands. "You're destroying the city!"
"Azure, do you really think whoever that is understands what you're saying?" the girl said angrily, gesturing at her monstrous form. "They're completely consumed by the Raw Noiz."
"That's what you get for stealing from Phantom Thieves!" Azure said haughtily.
"It wouldn't have gotten stolen if you had gotten up to grab our delivery instead of spending the next hour or so reading those Gaelic culture forums after it arrived!" the girl reminded him.
"Verdant," Azure complained, drawing out the syllables in the strange name. Their exchange confused the girl inside the monster, but she was curious and wanted to watch it all play out. Maybe she would find out what was going on if they kept talking.
The monstrous part in control of her body didn't agree. It's large clawed hands lashed out at costumed strangers, quickly closing the gap between them and almost catching the girl's flowing green cape and coattails.
Though she was very fast, Azure and Verdant were even faster. They were so quick to jump that it seemed like they'd practically teleported six feet up.
Yesterday, or even a few minutes before, she would have been surprised by the sight of two teenagers leaping a few feet straight up with no preparation, but that was before she'd become a giant clawed girl.
Correction; a giant clawed monster girl.
She caught a glimpse of myself in the mirrored glass behind them and saw that she'd grown a large, red snout and huge, floppy ears. Her body was covered in red fur, and her feet were now stubby paws, barely visible under a large belly.
Her eyes were a piercing shade of jewel-tone red that stood out against it all, full of a strange unrecognizable fervor.
She looked like a jolly stuffed animal with rabies.
"What's going on?" she finally said. It was the first time she'd opened my mouth since this had all started. Seeing her reflection had made it all so real, too real.
The monster's large snouty mouth opened, but no words came out. Instead, it let out a a rough terrifying howl. The two costumed teenagers were disoriented by the noise, falling to the ground in a disorganized mess of knees and elbows.
The monster growled loudly, and the girl's hopes of ever being saved quickly disappeared as it closed in on her supposed heroes.