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Growvember

November 8th

I woke up the next day to a buzzer going off. Immediately I thought I was back in my room and the whole thing was a dream. Snapping my eyes open, I saw a blue sky above me.

Nope. Not a dream.

As I got up, I noticed I had grown once again, this time more noticeably. Looking around, most of the others did too, but this was the first time I saw some furs didn't seem to have changed at all. What was different? Why didn't they grow?

My first thought was only the ones that fought grew, but even Nicolas still towered above us all. So that wasn't true. Based on species? Predator or prey? But none of it was making sense. Whatever was causing all of this was just chaotic and made no sense!

Again the alarm went off, and I could see it was coming from the helicopter once more.

"Would everyone please come to the front of the encampment for an announcement?" It spoke, repeating a few times to make sure the message was heard. Chris and I found each other and wanted to talk, but loudspeakers had apparently been set up over night, and the general's voice could be heard.

"Attention everyone! First, I'd like to thank you for coming to our defense yesterday during the attack of rogue giants."

Some whoops and cheers went out.

"Second, as some of you noticed, you began growing again, some of you at least. This new revelation has only complicated our efforts in figuring out what is exactly going on. We have checked your blood, DNA, and checked every resource and reference we could find. We also tried to recreate the effect on plants. But still no effect. Although usually this is kept quiet, I feel with your deeds yesterday, you deserved to know this."

The mood in the group fell somewhat.

"But we are working with scientists around the world on this, and hope to have a solution soon. In the mean time, since most of you seem to be growing again, the scientists are going to go back to the laboratory and continue their work there. We are also looking to find a better location for you to stay at until we find a cure."

There was a bit of a murmur going on, but that was the end of the speech. The next surprise was apparently they were able to create some simple board games for us to play, Mostly tic tac toe and checkers, with letters carved on the back to replicate chess pieces. They must've been huge to the normal furs, but to us, they looked like regular playing pieces.

I wasn't interested in them at the moment, and walked off with Chris to talk.

"Hey, sorry for not talking to you yesterday, you seemed pretty busy." Crud, I sounded too jealous in that. I didn't mean to, but I did. He quirked a brow.

"Its not my fault. I don't know why they thought I was a hero." He glared.

"Sorry, sorry. That came out wrong." I took a deep breath. Maybe I was a bit jealous, I had the chance to shine and blew it.

"I'm glad you did it. I know you were looking to me at first, but I couldn't. I froze. But you, you were pretty brave, and it led the rest. Good job." I held out my hand. He blushed and shook it.

"Well, I was scared too. But I just reacted and didn't realize what I was doing till I did it." He blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "So, do you think they'll be back?"

I looked out where the battle happened, how torn up the landscape was. And how if we grew, they did too.

"Yeah. And it'll be worse next time. I just wish I knew what their motive was." I sighed, tapping a foot.

"You'll think they'll let visitors in again? I really do want to see my mom." Chris sighed, his tail drooping a bit as he looked out towards the city.

"I'm sure if you asked and explain it they will. I mean, you were the cause of saving their butts." I pointed out.

"True. I'll head over right now. Hopefully they can find her." He quickly started heading back to the front of the camp. Meanwhile, I decided to look around once more to try and find the owner of that voice.

I talked with the wolf I met yesterday, but he hadn't heard anything weird going on, except some still having the conspiracy theory that the government is still all behind this. I asked him to point out who they were. He didn't know names, but once he said a fox, I figured that had to be Kevin. But his voice definitely wasn't one of the two.

I gave my thanks and looked around for my suspects. One was a crocodile. He stood slightly taller than me, and definitely had the muscle to go toe to toe with someone in fight. I didn't talk to him directly, but I hovered around him to hear some of the stuff he was saying to a few others. His voice didn't match, but he was definitely talking about how this relocation was really just a move to their secret base so they could eradicate us.

Hearing enough, I moved on to my next target, a striped Hyena. I had a head over him in height, and we pretty much matched in body type. His voice also didn't match, but he was talking to another giant I had never seen before, a white wolf with one blue and one amber eye. Had I never noticed him before? Was he knew?

His eyes darted over to me, seeing me staring. Realizing my mistake, I quickly started to move on, but was too late, there was a hand on my shoulder.

"Where are you going?" He barked, forcing me to turn around.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to stare. I just never seen a wolf with two different colored eyes before." I quickly fibbed.

"What? You think I'm some kind of freak?" He shoved me hard in the chest, causing me to stumble back before catching my footing.

"No! Ease up! I said I was sorry!" I tried to deescalate the situation quickly. The wolf seemed satisfied for now.

"Turn tail and get out of her bunny. I don't give second chances." He growled. I quickly turned and started to head away. The wolf was bigger than me, and I didn't want to start a fight where I was going to be outnumbered.

"Nice one boss." A voice tried to whisper lowly.

I almost stopped in my tracks as the voice spoke. That was it again. The same voice!

"He's one of the ones that fought yesterday,best to keep an eye on him." Another spoke low as well.

The second voice!

I wanted to turn and see who they were. I didn't notice anyone else around since I was doing a quick pass by, but they were right there! If I turned around, I could see them and know! But I could feel the wolf's eyes on my back, waiting for the second I turned my head to jump me.

Instead, I quickly made my way off to the side, not heading directly towards the front of the camp to draw attention, but instead to just wait for Chris.

It took a bit, I assumed he finally got to talk to his mom, but Chris did come back to our usual spot and sat down with me.

I began to tell him everything about the strange white wolf and hearing both voices this time.

"Dude, you gotta go tell them!" He whispered urgently. I quickly put a paw on his mouth, noticing out of the corner of my eye a raven watching us a bit before moving on.

"I don't think I can. And probably you can't either. We're being watched." I said as low as I could. I could see fear in his eyes.

"How many do you think?"

"I don't know, but we're gonna have to plan something to get the military's attention and warn them." I looked around again, not sure who I could trust.

"Do you think, some of the rogue giants invaded our camp?" He leaned in closer to talk lower.

"I think so. I don't remember that white wolf at all. I think he was probably from there, or another group, or something. Either way, this isn't good." I thought I saw a red wolf looking at us, but he kept walking.

"Okay, tomorrow morning, we try to wake up before anyone else and warn them." Chris suggested. I nodded in agreement.

We weren't safe here anymore.