Chapter 4 Who are you?

The summer sun shined warmly on Lilis tanned skin as she stood knee-deep in the cool water of the lake. Lili was looking at her reflection in the water with a mix of pride and concern.

To her amazement, she had now managed to survive a whole 6 winters in this new world. Now Terminator the rooster was no longer taller than her.

By her estimates, she stood close to 100 centimeters tall now. Sure her growth seemed to have stagnated due to her earlier years, but she held out hope for a sudden increase in height to come soon. 

Other than that she was doing pretty great. With an increase in her food intake thanks to her traps and new tools she had also now been able to start exercising. Each day she went swimming and did a few pull ups, pushups and her favorite exercise squats.

Along with this, she had started to practice basic gymnastics to gain the agility she had so greatly lacked in her previous life. Now she could even do handstands and splits with ease. 

Thanks to all of this she had now gained some definition of small muscles on her arms, her chest was flat but she could feel some muscle in there as well, and her 4 pack abs were showing a little with a beautifully sculpted V-shape at the end leading to her most dreaded part of her own body. 

Despite having come so far in her growth that even her glutes and legs were starting to show great signs of growth. One part of her was still missing and that was her reproductive member. And it wasn't just not missing, it simply just wasn't there to begin with. Instead, she simply had what all girls had down there. 

Oh God what was she to do now, what if it never grew? Just looking at it made her feel so worried. If it wasn't going to grow soon then how was she ever going to lose her virginity in this life?

The thought of this bothered her greatly. Sure by now she was quite sure that she truly was a female, but she still held out hope. After all how could she just accept such a ridiculous situation as this?

Also in her previous life, she had heard some people say that a human could achieve a greater height or larger muscles by simply thinking of those things each and every day as they trained. It was said that they could program their brains to change the shapes of their bodies by simply thinking of those changes that they wanted to happen.

Using this theory as her reasoning she had decided to deny her girliness and instead reasoned that she was still just in the early stages of development. She might have already bled once from that place, but surely that was just a fluke, or an allergic reaction or something.

Also she really wanted to cut her long blonde hair, but her mother had specifically told her that she should grow it long because it would look good on her. And so to honor her dead mothers wishes she had indeed done so.

Now her hair reached down to her little developing butt, which was why she always kept it tied up in a ponytail. Other than that she had soft-looking eyebrows, a small button nose, a heart-shaped face and full lips. Overall she found herself to be pretty cute like a little doll which was nice, but on the other hand, it was also a great worry of hers as she didn't look manly at all.

Even if she were to cut her hair and dress up as a boy, she doubted if anybody would really believe her to be a boy.

Taking in an encouraging breath of fresh forest air, Lili looked into her reflection with determination. Just like always, she was not going to give up just yet. No, she would keep on believing in her manliness till the very end or maybe once she actually got some tits then she might lose hope, but not just yet. 

Turning around she looked to her mothers tomb that once was her home and with determination she said. 

"Don't worry Mother, whatever happens. I will be sure to make you proud."

Feeling now confident about herself Lili then got out of the water and put on her rabbit-skin skirt, a skirt that was open on the sides to provide maximum maneuverability. Then she put on her rabbit-skin one-shoulder top that left her stomach and her other shoulder fully exposed. Lastly, she put a tight leather band around her thigh and between the band she placed her leather knife holster that held her small trusty knife in place. 

Looking at her outfit she couldn't help but notice just how good she looked like this. Sure it wasn't intimidating or manly at all, but something inside of her was telling her that this was right, after all she was cute and she kind of did like looking cute.

For whatever reason she couldn't quite understand, her new self really seemed to find cute and pretty things to her fancy. She had some time ago even started gathering wildflowers that she had then planted all around her mothers tomb, which made the place look kind of cute and homie just how she liked it to be.

Having already done her morning swimming practices, Lili felt quite refreshed and ready for the day as she then decided to go grab something to eat. To be precise she really felt like eating something light like berries to start off her day.

So with this in mind Lili began to make her way towards the other side of her mother's beautiful tomb where the garden was. And not only was her mother's tomb beautiful, but her garden was now as well. For the whole garden was now surrounded by tall stick fences that were totally covered in vines that had beautiful flowers growing out of them.

Honestly just looking at it made her feel so proud. Now it was as if she was not looking at some shabby cottage in the woods, but a magical Elven home that was one with the nature around it. Even the gate to the garden was totally covered in vines that despite this opened quite smoothly to Lilis amazement.

Though as she opened the gate she suddenly froze as she was met with a sight she had never before seen. For there right before her in the garden was a large, black cloaked figure seemingly eating her berries.

From the looks of its wide back this person seemed huge and strong. Was it a man, she thought? Had her father come for her finally?

She wanted to call out to this large figure and greet him, but in that moment she suddenly found herself lost on what to say. She hadn't spoken to anyone except the chickens and herself for so long, oh god what should she even say?

And anyway what if she sounded weird and scared this person off? Wait didn't she look kind of ridiculous dressed in her primitive clothes? What if she smelled, no hadn't she just been swimming? She shouldn't smell, right?

Standing there Lili hesitated, until the figure suddenly turned a little and she saw him holding her best friend Terminator within his hands. Hands that were covered by black leather gloves full of red stains, possibly from the berries, or possibly from something else, something bad?

Oh no, had he hurt Terminator? Though she didn't know what was going on, what she knew was that this man had come upon her property uninvited, eaten her food, taken a hold of her best friend without her permission, all in all this meant that this man was a criminal and as a former officer of the law she couldn't accept this.

Without further thought she rushed forward out of instinct, her legs sent the soft soil of her garden flying as she ran towards this dark figure while frowning. Her hand moved out of instinct to her shoulder almost as if she was about to call for backup, only to realise that oh yeah she didn't have backup, or a radio to begin with.

Nonetheless using her martial arts skills she leaped forward on the unsuspecting man's back. The man flinched in response, but it was too late as she quickly wrapped her legs partially around his strong torso and with her arms took his powerful neck into a choke hold.

She was going to choke this guy out, tie him up and then have a polite conversation with him, right.

The man tightened his neck that felt powerful like a log, but nonetheless she squeezed him with all her might. She had him in something called a Rear naked choke, from experience she knew there was no escaping this, the man was done for, and no matter how much he struggled he couldn't do anything, right.

Seemingly realising this the man didn't even try to fight back as he simply spoke calmly to her saying.

"Hmm, what are you doing? I mean no offence but from where I am from we usually greet each other before hugging, so could you let me go?"

The man was pleading with her right? He wasn't being serious, surely at any moment now he would turn red and pass out. Although no matter how hard she tried to choke the man, his neck didn't give away, it was as if she simply just couldn't choke him out. But how could this be? For Lili it felt so strange, surely she couldn't have failed in such an advantageous position, right? She couldn't be that weak, after all she had trained, she was powerful, wasn't she?

But then the man's large powerful arms moved, one of his hands took a hold of her small right wrist and the other of her right shoulder, and then before she knew it she was sent airborne. Out of instinct Lili went into a ball in the air and then like a skilled gymnastic girl she landed with a light roll on the ground.

Though her landing was smooth and cool, to her dismay she did crush a few of her garden plants by doing it. Having come to a stop she then turned towards the man ready to face him again as she took a low combat stance. Not faced at all by the man's power, she redied herself for battle, but to her surprise the man didn't pursue her and just stood still.

But as their eyes met the man's light blue eyes widened, it seemed as if he was in shock. Taking off his hood he then revealed a surprisingly young face to her, he seemed to be no more than a teenage boy. Even so the boy stood quite a bit taller than she did, In fact he was more than two heads taller than she was making it so that she barely came up to his belly button. Damn he was tall.

Also his neck truly did look strong, he had well defined and strong looking facial features, the boy was clearly well-trained with lots of muscle, even under his cloak and nice clothes she could make out a well-developed body, he even had a nice tan to his white skin.

Plus the boys hair was a beautiful golden blonde, his eyebrows were nice, light blue eyes pleasing to look at, a nice straight nose, perfect lips, a sharp jawline and a noticeable Adam's apple which she sadly didn't have. Overall the boy looked quite handsome and well groomed. By the looks of it, he was probably at least 4 years older than she was or even more.

Without realizing it she had quickly found herself lost in her admiration of his naturally good manly looks. Until the boy suddenly spoke to her in his surprisingly deep tone of voice saying. 

"Who are you? Identify yourself."

Hearing this Lili came out of her daze and realized that this fight was not going to be in her favor after all. She didn't want to admit it, but in this new life of hers she was nowhere close to being the man that this boy was. Before this boy she was basically just a little girl, which she kind of was anyway.

Well whatever it was clear now that if she wanted to win and not suffer a great humiliation then she would need to rely on speed and agility in order to win here, oh and her knife. With this in mind, she pulled out her small knife and spoke in a high-pitched girlish voice as she said. 

"Why would I tell you who I am, you you, thief, die!"

Hearing this the man quickly glanced at his hands and seemingly then realised what she was talking about. He wanted to argue clearly not accepting his wrong doing here, which just angered Lili slightly as she then attacked.

Using her little knife she intended to cut his legs as she couldn't reach any higher than that. Although she didn't even really intend to kill the boy just scare him off by cutting him a little.

However the boy was fast to dodge her quick strikes. Again and again she sent her blade towards him, left, right, straight, up and down the blade swiped at the boy, but each time he was a bit faster than she was and seemingly with ease dodged all her strikes.

Taken aback by the boys quick movements Lili felt her heart skip a beat as she took a step back from him now feeling a bit of fear. The boy seeing this merely smiled arrogantly at her and then his hand suddenly shot forth intending to grab her precious knife out of her hand.

Seeing this Lili gritted her teeth in frustration and lunged forward taking the boy off guard and cutting his glove covered hand. Although she only managed to cut the glove after which the boy moved back making Lilis blade merely cut the air.

In rage Lili went all in, she at least needed to get him properly once right? Luckily the boy seemed unprepared to face her girlish aggression as she finally managed to strike at his overly large looking left bicep.

Lili could feel the knife cut deep into the fabric of the cloak and black leather shirt underneath it, but she didn't hit skin. She failed again, but didn't retreat and instead pushed forward to slash at the boys stomach, she would slice this arrogant fuckers stomach and make him rethink his arrogance again.

But just then the boys left hand suddenly came forth with amazing speed and managed to grab Lilis knife wielding right wrist. Immediately he squeezed and it really hurt, though Lili didn't immediately give up and instead tossed the knife into her other hand, that was then immediately grabbed by the boys other hand as she was then pinned to the ground.

A victorious grin came upon the boys face then as he happily said.

"I win, hehe hee."

Her hands were pinned to the ground as he held her legs in between his. With wide eyes Lili looked in horror at this large boy, she didn't want to admit it, but she was trapped. And not only that, but she was totally at this guy's mercy now.

Nonetheless in desperation Lili did her best to resist wiggling her legs around and trying to release her hand from under his.

With curiosity the boy watched the girl struggling underneath him. To him she seemed so cute, like a doll and yet she was surprisingly strong, for such a frail little thing that is. He honestly couldn't help but feel a bit amazed by the girl as he then spoke out his thoughts.

"Huh, you know you're quite something, despite your small size you're quite strong. Honestly seeing you I can't help but wonder what kind of a feisty little beauty you will become in the future, though you're sadly just a small little girl right now?"

Hearing this something seemingly snapped in Lili as she gritted her teeth and angrily roared in a girlish voice saying.

"Damn you, I'm not a girl!"

Seemingly surprised by Lilis response the boys grip loosened on her, giving her a chance to pull her legs against her chest as she then used all her might to kick the boy straight on the balls. Though to her surprise, her legs seemed to impact way more meat than she had expected and a lot larger balls than she ever would have imagined such a young man to have.

No, surely it can't be that big? Can it? She thought to herself right before feeling the boys grip totally loosen as the boys hands moved to his balls and he fell to the side like a rock. It seemed as if the air had been totally knocked out of the boy and he was in a lot of pain by this point, just like he deserved, she thought.

Using this opportunity to her advantage she quickly got up and ran out of the garden and towards the lake where she had her fish trap and her stone spear. Surely with that, she would finally win and show this boy that he had come upon the wrong cottage in the woods God damnit.