Bite-Sized (open)

[rocky]

This mourning Dustin woke up, Something had changed. He felt kinda different and it wasn't in a good way. He felt strange and still tired. He looked around and it was in a strange place. A place filled with freaks and mutants with weird powers and a shortage of Dustin's fuel. Food. He needed to eat his breakfast quick and in large portions. His stomach growled for the energy that the food would provide. He walked down to the end of his bed. Letting go of his blankets which he had gripped with uncertainty. Were would he be able to go to get some food?

He didn't know this was his second day in this strange place. He walked up to an older boy. " Scuse me MR. umm.... Ya-know were we get break-a-fast at?" Dustin asked the man in a cute little squishy voice. The man pointed to the food tents without a word. Dustin traced his finger with his eyes. And saw it. Dustin barely had enough energy to get to the tents. When he got there a line about 10 guys stood in front of him. Dustin sulked but waited in the line for the food he needed. Dustin's turn has finally arrived. He looked at the nasty mashed and gravy. "I want it!" He said and held his tray out with straight arms. Though he had to stand on his tippy toes. The lady threw a quick plate together.

"You don't need as much as the older ones your so small this will do the job, NOW SCRAM!" The lady serving yelled at him. Dustin was small and if was an ordinary child this might have been true but he wasn't. He was a mutant that needed a large amount of food and sleep to actually stay alive. This tiny amount wouldn't even get him threw the day. Dustin's eyes looked like they were about to cry getting all watery but he still had a friendly look about him. "Can I have more pwees?" He asked nicely. The lady threw some in his face and banged her spoon at him.

Dustin ran way from the lady and ate what he was given. But like he had thought this amount was just to small for him. He ran across the food tent back to the serving lady and stole a big pot of chicken. He took about five pieces and stuffed his face as he ran away. This he knew he would be punished for but he needed to eat it in order to live. His body takes the food and it gives him energy. Its a defect of his power. Dustin ran so fast but he was caught by older mutants. "Give us that chicken boy." One of them barked at Dustin. Dustin curled up in a little corner, He knew he couldn't beat all four of them. He thought that he should save his energy and not use his ability to try to fight them. The men came closer to Dustin closing him in about to beat him up.

[mandaajo]

It had been a couple hours that she was walking sluggishly around the 'town', if you could even call it such a thing. Keeping track of the days she had been living there had been lost far too long ago; it was better to try and keep trying to live as though this was her home... Even if there were many mutants, such as herself, she was going to make the best of it. Numerous times she had been cornered, threatened and thing of sorts, Victoria just shrugged it off and kept her powers neutral. She wasn't much anything special; Size manipulation. Majority of the people living with her had the abilities of killing her easily.

Though, for the time being, she felt the size of a pea--even though she wasn't at this time. Her stomach had been making loud noises, causing a couple people to look at her. There was more impressive things to do with her time than eat, it took very little to make it whatever size she needed, you see. Though, the food tents came into her side view, causing another loud growling noise yet again. Her legs were taking over at this point, thinking with her stomach. The line had been seemingly shorter than usual as she arrived; in the end. "No, I don't need too much, small amount of each will be fine. Trust me, I can make it into more than enough. Thank you." A bothered looking woman plopped a small amount on her tray; rolling her eyes and going back to work.

Taking a seat and placing her middle three fingers on her chicken, Victoria eyed the room around her with great hesitance, she was casually chanting things around her head, causing the chicken to grow about twice the normal size that had taken up a small portion of her plate. Before she could even cut into her newly-large piece of chicken, there was a sight that she wasn't too fond of in her vision. It seemed as though there were a bunch of older kids, surrounding someone she wasn't much aware of. Standing up, and leaving her tray to anyone with an empty stomach, Victoria edged slowly towards the group.

Give us that chicken boy.

Boy? Like a younger boy? View being blocked from her height, Victoria took a few seconds and was about a foot taller than most of the other people around her; hands now on her hips. "Excuse me boys, is there a problem here?" One hand was placed on the shoulder of a boy, but her eyes were upon the young boy they were ganging up on. "I think it would be best if you would pick on someone your own size, kids." With this being said, she shrunk down to normal size, giving them a dirty look. As of now, their eyes were upon her, trying to give the young boy a chance to run away, or do whatever it was he could to do whatever it was he wanted.

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[rocky]

Dustin didn't notice the women come to his rescue at first. He was to bizy waiting to be taught a lesson by the older kids. He cowered beneath his hands and assumed he was about to be crushed by the older boys whom surrounded him like a pack of wolves hunting there pray. These were teenagers probably in the same boat as Dustin. Angry at him because he got more then they did. That wasn't fear to them that a small little child should get to have more food then them just because he was a delinquent and stole it. Of course this was not the case but in the eyes of those boys it was fact. Dustin remained in the position as the older boy barked out the command to give the chicken back. Dustin refused to acknowledge him. Instead he was slowly eating it gaining strength to use his mutated ability. If worse came to worse he could use it to escape.

However a females voice broke the harsh words of the older boy. Dustin still coving up moved his arm higher and opened his eyes to get a look at his savor. It was a girl alright. She was bigger then what he had thought. In fact he had never seen a girl that tall before. After she scolded the older kids and told them to pick on someone there own size she shrunk into a normal sized girl. Dustin couldn't help but freeze and stair at her. It was funny as she was trying to be the distraction so Dustin could run away. "ooooooo" Dustin just blurted out. One of the older kids faced Victoria. "This kid stole food were teaching him a lesson and punishing him for his crime." The older kid explained. "Yeah you understand right? It is your food to." Another one followed. Dustin stood up while Victoria distracted all of them.

"Your all just try-in to fill your tummies like me." Dustin spoke with wide eyes like he had just found out thats what was going on. "I did steal the food but... but.. If I don't eat alot then I will die because theres something wrong wit my energy levels. I'm sowwy." Dustin told the boys but still they wanted to punish him and didn't care about the reason. They stood still as if they were deciding on what to do. They knew Victoria was there and would get involved if they attacked the boy. "We wont hurt the kid but somebodies got to pay for what hes stolen." They said and moved closer to Victoria. "Wait!" Dustin said as a picked up a sharp pointed rock. "I did the crime so I pay." He told them. Dustin took the rock and cut his arm with it wincing in pain. The blood ran down his arm and hand causing a small puddle as he let it dangle there.

The teens grinned "stupid kid we went going to mess you up that bad. But now your clear to go." They told him and then Dustin ran over to Victoria. He didn't say a word but just gave her a big hug. Trying to wrap his little arms around her. He closed his eyes and whispered, "Thank you for helping me." He told her and then his arm began to heal itself. As it did so Dustin's stomach growled. He ran back to the chicken he had dropped earlier and ate them off of the ground. "I have..... to eat and .......sleep alot or I'll .....die." Dustin said in between bites.

[mandaajo]

At this time, Victoria was not amused by the threats, or the stupid reason for such immature acting in the boys. "You must realize how silly you sound, and look. Picking on a boy who, just like everyone else, needs food to survive? Go scavenge for your own food." Her voice was harsh, and her voice was angered, obviously. She listened to the talk, her arms tightly crossed over her chest. They were very low people, all she could feel was sorry for the poor boy. It was probably part of his mutation that called for a large amount of food, and these boys thought they were high and mighty, and that led them to having to threaten the boy? Because he took his fair share? It was disgusting. Her anger had flared up enough, causing Victoria to lose the feeling of hunger that had been taunting earlier.

Her narrowed eyes grew wide as she saw the boy harm himself. "..No!" she shouted, placing her hands over her mouth. It was both horrifying and amazing. He was taking the fall for his actions, something very few people would do now a days, even if it meant hurting himself to an extent that probably wouldn't have been reached by the boys.

stupid kid we went going to mess you up that bad. But now your clear to go.

There was a part of her that was about to take a swing at one of them, or scream at all of them. And, well, she was going to; that was, until she felt the little boy wrap his arms around her. It was odd being hugged at such a low level, she didn't do much but just stand there, a bit frozen due to the fact someone around her was decent. Slowly, her hands moved to his head, and patted it a bit. Grinning, Victoria nodded and chuckled a bit. "Your welcome, sweetie. I was not going to let those boys hurt you."

Removing her hands as he ran away, it all became clear to her why he had taken the food. He needed it for strength. "Here," Victoria started, moving forward with one hand held out, "g'imme a piece of that. I want to show you something cool. I will give it back, I promise." With pieces as small as he had, it would be a bit tricky to enlarge it, but--it was worth a try. If he needed it, she shall help. She waited patiently with her hand held out, not wanting to just swipe a piece from the hungry boy. As he ate, quick like a starved animal, Victoria was a bit shocked; he was bound to get sick eating in such quantities, at such a rate.. Wouldn't he?

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[rocky]

Victoria's kind words and gestures of patting his head made Dustin feel better about the situation. The pain soon faded as he forgot all about what he had just done to himself. The blood floated up wards across his arm and back into his skin. As if it was being sucked back up. The wound he had caused himself sealed up as if there was no harm done to his body at all. Dustin had healed himself. It was very strange, the power Dustin had. His body was a curse to him yet also it allowed him to do things no other mortal man could do. He was special in that sense. His body could become a pure weapon if he wanted to. He was a freak and also a little child with no were to go, trapped in a place with little respect for the younger ones.

As Victoria asked for a piece of the chicken Dustin was hesitant to give it to her. He thought she was going to eat it. Dustin looked at her then back at the chicken and then back at her as he gave the piece to her thinking it was the lest he could do. She had just helped him out of a jam. She promised to give it back to him and she told him that she wanted to show him something cool. Dustin wondered what she was about to do. Could she be preforming some sort of magic trick? Dustin loved magic and just hoped she didn't make the chicken disappear. That wouldn't be good for the young child.

(OOc: sorry its short late for work)

[mandaajo]

She allowed her eyes to look away from the boy, and didn't look back until she received a piece of chicken. It was a bit surprising that he did give it to her, and she hoped he didn't mind that she was experimenting with her powers on something that could mean so much to him. Victoria's fingers loosely fell around the piece of chicken, and she closed her eyes; just imagining how odd it must have look to both the boy, and the people around her. It took a bit of thinking, but there was a bit of jerky movements from the chicken.

About thirty seconds later, the chicken was growing, bit my bit. Her fingers were being pushed open by the growing chicken, feeling the warmth of it on her whole hand. By the time her palm was covered by the newly large chicken bit, she opened her eyes; a smile grew on her face in happiness. "Here; it is all yours. We're all here for a reason, in this place.. And this is why I am." She stretched her arm out so it was of full length, moving the chicken closer to Dustin. "It is okay, I promise. It is just a bit bigger than you first gave it to me. It shouldn't taste any different."

Maybe it was a good thing she ran into this situation; not only did he need help earlier.. But, he noted he needed food to keep himself well.. She felt like, for once, she was using her powers for good. There was a bit of hesitance each time she used it since she saved the boy, and was placed in this place. She didn't feel as though she should walk away, and leave him. She wanted to chat with him; it seemed as though he was one of the few decent people around. "So, tell me sweetie, what's your name?"