Chapter #5Yes, let's shrink Zell! by: Olgon   It was a normal day at Balamb Garden for many: students were coming and going and businesses were strong. Even if the Sorceress' menace was over, SeeDs jobs was not done, as the need for hired mercenaries was still felt, given all the monsters that roamed the wilderness.
However, nothing major was happening, or at least not major enough for the Garden to deploy some of its best soldiers, and many of them decided to use this time to just relax and take some time off while still being ready if needed.
Zell Dincht was not one of them, and many would say he was unable to simply stay still. Since there were no missions for him, he spent days at the Training Center to keep his training going and he enjoyed it enough even if all he did was punching and kicking Grats, because every once in a while a T-Rexaurus could decide to show its ugly mug.
For Zell that was not a normal day however, for more reasons than one, but the first one was that the Garden recently requested and received a supply of brand new monsters directly from the technological paradise of Esthar. Finally he could kick the butt something different than Grats for a change!
And he was in pretty good spirits when finally one of these monsters showed up after Zell defeated its third Grat: it was another plant type, but noticeably bigger and tougher-looking, with a giant mouth taking the place of its face.
"Oh yeah! Finally a change of pace!" Zell said excitedly, ready in his fighting stance and sizing the enemy: it looked a lot like an Ochu, but it was purple instead of green.
Zell didn't waste any time after cracking his knuckles and immediately charged at the monster. It didn't move, but as the blond kid was getting nearer, it raised one of its tentacled arms to slam him. Zell noticed it just in time and leapt sideways. He then kept his charge but didn't punch the monster: he lowered himself and hit Ochu's legs with a slide kick, making it lose its balance and leaving it flailing helplessly with its giant mouth facing upwards.
Zell turned around and noticed a big red gland on the back of one of the monsters' arms. He grinned.
"That's a weak spot if I ever saw one!"
He then jumped up and hit it with a spinning kick, destroying it immediately while the Ochu cried in pain. It wasn't all good however: as soon as Zell destoyed the gland, a purple-ish smoke surrounded him. "W-What the...?"
He said confused, looking around still in his fighting stance, but noticed that he was breathing normally, didn't feel sleepy and, once the smoke cleared, he could see the Ochu's corpse in front of him.
He was apparently perfectly fine, but was pretty disappointed by the quick match, so he decided to call it quits for the day.
Almost as soon as Zell went into his room, he started to feel strange.
"Ngh! W-What is this? Was...it...that...?" he asked himself as suddenly he felt his body growing weaker and almost struggling to keep his eyes open, but it was not the effect of some sleeping magic.
He didn't fall to the floor only because he managed to get close enough to his bed to fall belly up on it, with his legs hanging slightly over its side.
While Zell was unconscious, his body shrank out of his clothes and slid down his now huge jeans and hit the floor after rolling a short distance away. This was enough to wake him up, and he was now facing his enormous bed.
"How did I get so small?!" he asked himself in a mix of anger and confusion. He answered himself almost immediately after: "That smoke...so that's what it does!"
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