For ages, people have asked what causes a person to be truly evil. Is it a seed that exists at birth that makes one evil or is it the people and circumstances that cause one to be evil? Meet Nathan Cadwell. A 15 year old boy who is a soldier fighting a war to free humanity.  He doesn't know it yet but he will take a journey that will try to answer this question...a journey into The Size Zone.  

"I can't go any further than here" the man said stopping the pickup truck. "I understand. It's almost curfew" I said looking at the setting sun. I waved thanks as he drove off. It had been a long trip for me. I still don't know why the Resistance ordered me to come Sacramento. Ever since the Goddess enacted her martial law on the country, you could only travel during daylight. Makes it hard to cross the country or for me just the state of California. I've been fighting this war against the Goddess since I was 10. Yeah, some childhood I had. Running from safe house to safe house planting bombs hoping the goddess would step on one. Nothing anyone has done has come close to truly killing her. How can you kill someone who can grow so big only a weather balloon can see her face?

I remember seeing her for the first time. That freckled face, those shocking green eyes that looked like they could pierce you soul. Hair so red you’d swore she used blood to dye it. That day...

I try not to remember that day. It was the worst one of my life. Thankfully, I saw a coded message pointing me to the Resistance chapter for the city. I hurried to get off the street. The Goddess wasn't in town but she had spies everywhere. Spies that wished to curry favor from her. I was led to a destroyed college campus and saw the message. I pulled out my codebook and verified it was genuine. I wanted answers as to why I had to hitchhike for days to get here. Surely there were better soldiers for whatever they had planned. I knocked on a door on a building marked "physics lab".

"Tempus?" a voice called out. "Fugit" I said authenticating the password. The door opened and a resistance solder stood at it. He ushered me inside and closed and bolted the door. "Anyone follow you?" he asked. "Of course not. I stuck to the alleyways as I got near the safe house" I said looking around. It didn't look like the average safe house. For one thing it had electricity. Power was a luxury these days. The Goddess preferred a low tech approach for her global empire. So much that we haven't heard from Europe or Asia in damn near 4 years. Well, truth be told, no one expects anything out of Europe. Not even survivors by this time. Not since that desperate attempt to kill the Goddess.

The soldier led me to a door that led to a basement. It surprised me to see computers and machines in such good condition. My god a laptop! Hadn't seen one of those working since I was just a kid! "Glad you could make it Pvt. Cadwell" a woman in a lab coat said walking up to me. "Glad to be here miss...”

"Call me Stacy. You're probably wondering why you were called here. Where should I begin? Hmm...well how much do you know about the Goddess?" she asked. "Slightly more than the average guy. I...I was there when she first appeared. In Chicago. After that just stories. Those days were kinda chaotic." I said. "Tell me what you heard" Stacy said. "Well after destroying Chicago she made her way to St. Louis where the U.S. military tried nuking her. She used the same size she used to destroy Chicago to avoid the nuke and we got a crater where the Gateway to the West used to be. We know now she used St. Louis as an example for not attacking her with nukes but I'm getting ahead of myself.  Nobody knows who she really was. Her name and age and her place of origin is speculative. What we do know is she can alter her size at will. Some have seen her as small as 7 ft. and as tall as 6 miles. How she does that is a mystery" I said. "Go on" Stacy said.

"She outclassed any weapon used on her and crushed the military...literally in some cases. Within a month she conquered the nation. The death toll is unknown but some say it is as high as 90 million. Then she marched on to conquer the world. She swam the Atlantic. That alone killed tens of thousands due to the tidal waves and then she stepped into England. By that point the surviving superpowers decided to break bad and launch a full nuclear strike on the U.K. in an effort to kill her. This time however she somehow shrank the missiles.  She somehow knew they were coming and shrank them to the point they were as harmless as a firecracker. She somehow always knew when something could actually kill her was coming. If only she used that power on the missile that hit St. Louis. People tried to evacuate as far as possible. Any who survived her campaign of conquest fled to either Africa or Asia. Fat lot of good it did them"

"Seeing the devastation and the failure to kill her. The nations of the world surrendered.  She now wanders the world killing on a whim or those who dare defy her rule. We've been looking for a way to kill her ever since" I said. "What if I told you we found a way" she said pulling a book out of a box. "What's that?" I asked. "Something from your hometown" she said handing me the book. "Lake View High School class of 2015" I said reading the title.  "How does a yearbook from a Chicago high school help kill the Goddess?" I asked. "I bookmarked a page and circled a picture" she said. I found that page and the picture. I couldn't believe it! It was the Goddess! She was a teen in the picture but it was definitely her! "Clarissa McKenneth. That's her real name. Face recognition software gave us a 99.9% match" she said.

"So you know her real name. Doesn't give us a way to kill her" I said. "Oh but it does" she said walking out of the room. I followed her into a much larger room with a platform with power cables running to it. "What is this?" I asked. "A time machine. My friend built it years ago. We had to work out some kinks but it finally works correctly. I'm proposing to send you back 5 years in time to kill her before she can use her powers to conquer the world" she said smiling. "Wait a minute. Why me?" I asked. "We picked you for two reasons. The first one is your age. It's possible that you might have to get up close and personal to kill her. She's more likely to drop her guard around someone her age and the fact you will have to hang around a high school helps you blend in. And second, you once lived not for from the location you're going. I saw that in your record and...not many Chicago natives are left. We need someone who knows the terrain so to speak" she replied.

It was an ugly truth. When the Goddess took out Chicago barely 3,000 people were left. No surprisingly seeing how much damage and destruction a mile long foot can do. "Why don't you get some rest? We still got a few hours until you're ready to go" she said. "Alright" I said finding a quiet corner to doze off in.

The ground shook so fiercely that the street cracked. The booms shatter windows and set off car alarms. "Mom what's happening?" I asked my mother. People were running towards us screaming about a giantess coming. Then she came into view. She was 50 stories tall! I'd never seen a girl so tall before. She was so pretty to me but as she got closer I could see something scary about her eyes. She was naked. The first time I've ever seen a naked girl before. I heard from my cousin once that girls had no penis and I called him a liar. Now I saw he was telling the truth. A shock of red bushy hair was there. I watched her bend down and scoop something off the ground. You could hear faint screams coming from her hand. It was people! A few fell out of her hand and literally bounced on the pavement as they hit. I watched her with awe as she dropped them into her mouth before swallowing. "Run all you want! You're still gonna die!" she said raising her bare foot over a fleeing crowd before slamming it down.

The shockwave made me and mom fall to the ground. "The age of your goddess is here!" she yelled. She was growing bigger! Mom tugged my arm. "We have to go Nathan!" Mom yelled. We ran and ran so long but the tremors got bigger and closer. I looked behind me and saw a bloodstained dirty sole in the air coming down. It slammed behind us a block away. The quake knocked us down again just outside of a subway entrance. I stood up but mom tried and fell down. "Ah my ankle! Nathan go down into the subway!" she yelled at me. "No! I wanna stay with you!" I yelled. "YOU WILL DO AS YOUR MOTHER SAYS! Now go..." she said. A shadow loomed over us. I looked up to see her foot rising into the air. "GO!" she yelled. I took off running and was soon at the subway steps. I turned around to see mom limping towards me and then like a flash that giant foot came down on her.

Her toes flexed. Those enormous toes, each one bigger than a charter bus, had my dead mother under them and the giantess was wiping out the evidence of my mother’s existence. The wall of hot smelly air slammed into me and knocked me down the flight of stairs. I looked up just in time to see the entrance collapse. There were people down there with me. Many were waiting for the subway just as the attack began. The roof cracked and groaned. People screamed that we were going to die. We expected either the roof or a giant toe to come crashing through and ending our lives. It didn't though. The attack was over in less than 6 hours. It took us two days to find a way out of those subway tunnels and what we found topside we'd never forget.

The skyscrapers were rubble. The Sears Tower was broken on the ground and a goopy liquid covered the remains. I learned later that she used it as a dildo. I ran to where mom had been in a childish hope she might have survived. I found a large hole with 5 smaller holes in the front. It was her footprint. I saw a splatter of blood and a hint of yellow. I started crying knowing that was mom. Yellow was the color of her dress that day. It was her favorite color. I screamed as I stood in that giant footprint. "MOOOOOM!"

Damn, it's been awhile since I had that dream. I stood up and yawned and went back to where this time machine was. "Oh good. I was about to wake you. Did you sleep well?" Stacy asked me. "Not really. How soon can we get this going?" I asked. "The final touches are done on the time machine. We just have to calibrate the temporal anchor" she said picking up a wristband. "The problem with changing the past is you change as well and then you get a paradox. This is the solution to that. This will create a pocket of your original time around you. This way you can change the past and it won't affect you. Hence the name temporal anchor. It uses a specially designed nuclear battery that has a charge that will last a month. So you got a month before you crash back to this time" she said. She put the wristband on and I saw a counter on it. 30.23.59.55 it said. "Months, days, hours, seconds. Now that's done. Here's some special equipment. A pistol loaded with hollow points and a Remington sniper rifle loaded with special subsonic breakable rounds. Maximum killing power. We can begin as soon as you step onto the platform" she said.

I took the weapons and holstered the gun and put the rifle on my back. I stepped onto the platform. "You're going to feel weird for the first few seconds so make sure you don't move. Breathe deeply. I'm setting the temporal coordinates for September 17, 2015. One month before the attack on Chicago. That should be enough time to find and kill her. Good luck Nathan" she said pressing a button on a console. I heard an electrical hum from the platform. Then I felt an earthshattering tremor. "Oh god..." I muttered. It been a long time since I felt something like that but there was no forgetting that. "Stall her! For god sakes stall her! We need another minute!" Stacy yelled. Another boom and the walls cracked. I faintly heard gunfire and screaming. "Hmmm....what are you up to tiny things? I sensed the power from all the way from Catalina. So what would my tiny subjects be using that much power for?" a booming voice overhead said.

Part of the ceiling collapsed nearby. The hole led up to the ground floor. "NO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Stacy yelled at the hole. After she had said that, two giant fingers plucked her from the ground and pulled her through the hole. I could hear her screaming. "NO DON'T EAT ME!" she screamed. Then I heard her screaming muffled and then horrible crunching. It finally ended with a loud gulp.  "Now to see what you were doing" the voice said. My vision was filling with an intense light. I saw an enormous eye looking through the hole and then a bright flash. There was a sensation of falling. I do remember that. My eyes opened and I looked around.

My head hurt like hell and at first I thought I was hallucinating. I saw an inflatable pool and someone's backyard. I stumbled out onto the street. Cars! There were parked cars! One drove down the street! I hadn't seen anyone driving cars this pristine since I was a kid! Ever since the Goddess took over, gas was a valued commodity. Only food trucks were mostly seen on the streets. I looked around and saw homes undamaged. One guy was cutting the grass. In his driveway was a cherry red Camaro. The license plate said "HOT ONE". It was an Illinois plate and it had an expiration date of April '15. My god. It actually worked! I'm back in Chicago! I'm back before the attack! Wait...she got the year right but what about the day? I walked to a 7-11 and while on the way there I stashed my rifle in a storm pipe leading to a drainage ditch. I read the newspaper inside.

"September 17, 2015" it said. Stacy had got it right on the mark. Too bad I couldn't tell her. She deserved better than to become a convenient snack for a giantess. She was...nice. "You gonna pay for that? This ain't no library kid!" the shop clerk yelled. I put the paper down and grabbed some food. Jesus, hadn't seen Twinkies since I was a boy. Got those, some chips, a soda, and a coveted snickers bar. "Here" I said handing him a gold coin. Ever since the fall of the governments around the world, paper money was fucking worthless. Precious metals were the coin of the world now. Gold and silver mostly. Singlehandedly, she had regressed the Earth by a thousand years. "What the hell is this?" the store clerk asked. "Gold. What's it look like? Here add this" I said slapping down a map of Chicago. I was regrettably lost. Keep in mind these streets were intact when I was a kid. If I failed my mission, this area along with most of the city would be just a crushed footprint within a month. I walked out of the store leaving the dumbfounded man there. I realized I had to find some money for this timeframe. As I sat down to pig out on junk food, I saw a sign on the bench. "Pay cash for gold" I followed the street to where it was and stepped in. "Something I can help you with kid?" the owner asked. "My...gramps left me some gold coins. Came here to sell them" I said. I dropped 5 coins on the counter. I had more but I kept them just in case. "Hmm...I'll give you 100 dollars for them" he said. "Nice try dude. Those are 24 karat" I said. "Fine. Hold on" he said pulling out a phone. Wow...haven't seen those....well you get the picture. "Current market price is 1100 dollars. I'll give you 600. Take it or leave it" he said. I took it.

Now with some money, I had the means to track my target and pick a good time to kill her. I double backed to get my rifle. I hid it under my long coat. Man wearing this thing in September makes me stick out. I caught an actual bus that took me to the street that had the school she went to. I kept getting memories surfacing as the bus made its way through the nice neighborhood. There was a pizza place mom took me when I was 9. My blood ran cold when the bus drove past the location mom died. All I could think of was her screaming as that giant sole came down on her. "Next stop Lake View" the driver announced. This was my stop. I got off and was a stone’s throw away from the high school. Fortunately there was a hill across the street that gave a good vantage point. Nobody was nearby. I got out my rifle and scoped it. I didn't see anyone. I looked at my watch that I set as the bus passed a bank. "Hmm...2:17" I said to myself. I remembered as a kid getting out of school around 3. Maybe it's the same for them? I saw teens heading out just after three.

My shoulders ached from stress and tension. I began looking at them through the scope. Their smiling faces. Those happy expressions and laughter. All that would be gone if I failed. They would either be a stain or food come Halloween. "Bitch where the fuck are you?!" I yelled. Damn, she didn't get on a bus did she? Then I saw a girl with red hair. I immediately scoped in on her. 200 yards. I've shot further before. My scope followed her. I wanted her to be alone. Less chance of hitting someone who crossed into my line of fire. It struck me as I watched her walk that the other teens had friends with them but not her. She was alone and held her head down as she walked. Dammit! She's getting out of my line of fire! Take the shot Nathan! I steadied my aim. No head shot. Go for center mass. Steady my breathing. Shoot between heartbeats. "Hey you there!" a voice called out behind me.

I looked behind me to see Chicago’s finest bearing down on me. "Perfect" I muttered. I quickly got up and ran. "Freeze! I said freeze!" the cop yelled chasing me. I was fast. You had to be when running missions for the Resistance. He had trouble keeping up with me. A squad car was driving up toward me. I ducked into an alleyway and ran down it. I head footsteps behind me. I hadn't lost them. I ran so long I ended up in someone's neighborhood. There was nowhere to hide. No dumpster, no alley, no sewer. A third car approached me. This officer jumped out and pointed his gun at me. "He's armed! Shoot him!" he yelled. I dashed to the right as I head those rounds go off. I jumped onto a fence and then I felt three rounds hit me in the back. I fell over the fence. I was blacking out. Just as the world faded to black I felt a tug on my arm.

I awoke groggy. Whatever I was laying on felt so soft and smelled so nice. "Heaven?" I asked. "Not quite" I girl's voice said. My eyes immediately locked on to the voice. I could barely see her in the low light. She turned on the light and I damn near pissed myself. It was her. What cruel fate led me here? Of all the homes to end up in it had to be hers. Somewhere God is laughing I shit you not. "Let me see how bad it is" she said coming closer. I felt her hand touch my shirtless back. I recoiled immediately. "Don't touch me!" I yelled. She was surprised at my reaction. "I wasn’t going to hurt you man" she said. "Just...just stay back" I said. I looked around for my weapons. "Where is my stuff?" I asked. "Over there. Your jacket thingy saved you" she said pointing to my TAC vest. She was right. If it wasn't for that those .45 rounds would have landed me a one way trip to the afterlife instead of the room of my enemy.

"Who are you? Why do you have those guns?" she asked. I looked at her and then got out of the bed. "You're not afraid of me?" I asked. She shook her head. "Why didn’t you kill me?" I asked. She looked surprised by my question. I put my gear back on and headed out of the room. "Wait! At least tell me your name!" she said. "...Nathan" I said heading down the stairs. Downstairs I expected to see a family member. There was one. A woman in her late 30's passed out on the couch. It was obvious she was her mother with that hair. I opened the door and looked outside. The coast was clear. I glanced back as I ran from that house to see her staring at me. It was nighttime now and I need a place to crash and get my head together. I found an extended stay hotel. A rundown place but the price was right. 500 a month. I stocked up on food and supplies. It seemed this mission would take a bit longer than planned.

I knew where she lived so I didn't have to camp out at her school. I waited in a hedge with my rifle for her. I could see her coming down the street. I zeroed in on her head. At this distance I wouldn't miss. A car was coming. I decided to wait for it to pass to shoot. A dog, little more than a puppy, wandered into the street. With awe I watched her run into the street and dive for it. She snagged the dog and barely missed being ran over. The car skidded to a stop and the driver yelled at her. Impossible. She would risk her life for some stray dog?! It couldn't be! This was the same one who made us call her a Goddess! Christ! Before that she was called the Destroyer, the Breaker of Nations, the godamnned Antichrist! I was so lost in thought she walked right past me.

I went back to the motel. Stacy must have screwed up. This girl just looked like her. I watched TV to relax. First time in a very long time. The news talked about a teen going missing near the Lake View area. Seems that a bunch of teens had been going missing lately. Maybe Stacy wasn't wrong. I had to shadow this girl called Clarissa to make sure. I followed her to school the next morning and there were no surprises. I left my rifle behind but kept my gun hidden in my clothes. Just needed that confirmation she was the Goddess. She left school later that afternoon and I followed her. Maybe I should just shoot her to be sure. I saw her cut through a playground and was stopped by a boy our age.

"Leave me alone Craig" I heard her say. "Now don't be like that Clarissa. I just wanted to talk" he said. "I’m not going to help you cheat" she said. The boy grabbed her by the collar and yanked her up. She was on her tip toes. "You get me those answers or I'll beat your ass into a coma. We'll see how smart you are then" he said. I was just 20 feet behind him. I could see her eyes glow slightly and then she saw me. "Nathan...” she muttered before being hit in the face by Craig. She fell to the ground and Craig began punching her more and more. Why did I do what I did I don't know. Instinct maybe? All I know is I grabbed the boy and punched his ass. He wiped off the blood from his lip.  "Defending the nerd?" he said ready to throw down. I pulled out my gun and aimed at him. "Fuck off" I said. He nearly pissed himself as he hauled ass from us. Damn he got her good. She was bleeding from her mouth and nose. "Can you walk?" I asked. She silently nodded. At that point my hotel was closer so I took her there. She was barely able to stand. I had her sit on the bed as I pulled out a first aid kit. I cleaned the blood off her face. Those bruises on her fair skin pissed me off. It shouldn't. There was a good chance she might be a killer.

She looked at me with those intense green eyes. Something was very wrong. Her eyes were exactly the same as the Goddess. Right down to the flecks of grey in that emerald green.  There was no mistaking that. She was my target. The odds of someone having the exact same eyes were a million to one. Even more so living in the same city and the same time.  "Why did you help me?" she said with a pitiful voice. "I should ask you the same thing" I said. "I...I thought you were cute" she stammered. "So you helped a stranger who had guns, who was being chased by the cops, because he was cute?" I asked dumbfounded. She was silent and looked away. Nothing was adding up. While her back was turned, I pulled my gun out of my jacket sitting on the chair. I raised it and pointed it at the back of her head. The barrel was only inches from her scalp. I slowly cocked the hammer.

My finger squeezed the trigger slightly. "You never answered my question Nathan" she whispered. Her voice, so soft I barely heard it. I found myself easing the hammer back. "I don't know why. I just...didn't want to see you hurt" I said. I put down the gun on the table. She turned to me. "So you did it out of pity" she said. Tears began streaming out of her eyes. "No, not pity. Pity is something I haven't seen or done in a long time. At least until recently..." I said thinking the last part. "Nathan who are you? Your eyes look so sad" she said touching my face. This time I didn't recoil. I could smell her. She smelled like lilacs. "Come. I'll walk you home" I said taking her hand into mine and having her stand up. I felt her squeeze it as she did. We were silent the whole walk back. Now and then I saw her stare at me when she thought I wasn't looking.

As we neared her front door, it flew open. Her mother was standing there looking pissed. "Clarissa, I've told you to...what the hell happened to your face?! YOU! Did you do this!" she yelled at me. Her eyes, the same ones as Clarissa's had a faint green glow to them. "Mother no! He saved me!" she said leaping between us. She was shaking. She was really scared. "Then I thank you. Come inside Clarissa" she said pulling the girl in and slamming the door. Well that left me with even more questions. I saw now Clarissa wasn't evil. You can't risk your life for a stray dog and be evil. So something must happen to cause it. Something within a month pushed her over the edge. Her mother. The way her eyes glowed. That shit ain't normal. Come to think of it, Clarissa's eyes glowed too.

For the next three days I mulled over what to do. I knew what was on the line and killing her was the most efficient solution but not the human one. Even I couldn't kill a girl who had done nothing wrong. As I ate a burger and watched TV I saw another teen reported missing. A location further away but the same MO. Damn, if I only had more info of what was happening in the city at this timeframe. I went to the area where the boy was last seen. Of course I found nothing but I did hear something. "Pretty lady come back. The light was so pretty. That pretty green light" a bum on a bench was saying to himself. "What did you say old timer?" I asked. "A pretty lady. Red hair like blood. She sang to a boy and then a pretty green flash and he was gone. I want to see that pretty light again" he said. Shit! I was a fool! I should have known they were behind those disappearances! Red hair and a green light? No fucking way that was a coincidence! The question now was who did it. Mom, Clarissa, or both?

I followed Clarissa from school the next day. She seemed so normal but looks can be deceiving. "Hey Clarissa!" I shouted. She turned around and smiled at me. The girl ran up to me. "Hey Nathan!" she said grinning. "Want to grab a burger?" I said. She nodded happily. She watched me wolf it down. "Geez. Slow down. You act like you haven't had a burger in years!" she said. "You have no idea" I said finishing. "You heard about those disappearances?" I asked. She looked away nervously. "That why you were following me?" she asked. "How did you know I was following you?" I asked. "Just did" she said. "Yeah" I said answering her question. "You were worried about me?" she asked smiling. She was dodging my question. "Is there somewhere we can talk...alone?" I asked. "We can go to my house. Mom's at work" she said. 

We walked to her home. She stepped onto her porch and her foot slipped. "Ow!" she yelled twisting her ankle. I led her inside and had her sit down. "Take off your shoe and sock. I'll get some ice" I said. I came back and her foot was resting on the coffee table. She had small feet for her size but they were pretty. Not one blemish on them. She winced as I put the ice on it. "You know a lot about first aid" she said. "And you get hurt a lot" I replied. It was time to ask her some important questions.

"Clarissa how do you do that thing with your eyes?" I asked. "W-what are you talking about?" she asked. "I mean that glowy thing. I saw it in your eyes when that guy was beating the shit out of ya and again in your mother's eyes the other day" I said walking behind her. I pulled out my gun and cocked it. She began to turn around. "Don't. Don't turn around. You turn around and look at me with those eyes and I'll kill you" I said coldly. She began shaking. "Nathan you're scaring me!" she cried. "I asked you a question" I said pushing the barrel to her scalp. "It's complicated" she said. "Uncomplicate it" I said. "I can do things. Things with energy. My eyes glow when I'm about to use my powers" she said. "Powers?" I asked. "Yeah, I can take or give energy from things but they change size when I do it. I was about to use them on Craig but then I saw you..." she said. "And you mom can do this too?" I asked.

"Yes" she said quietly. "Are you responsible for those teens coming up missing?" I asked. "No I'm not...that was mom" she said crying. I could tell she wasn't lying. Seeing that emotional streak in her mom supported her answer. "Please don't kill me Nathan! I...love you" she whispered. My heart skipped a beat. I felt bad holding a gun on her but she was too dangerous to trust.  I took the gun off her head. "Nathan?" she asked feeling it. "Don't turn around. Look, I believe you Clarissa but I can't trust you. Not with what's at stake" I said. "What do you mean by what's at stake?" she asked. "Do you really want to know? Do you truly want to know? It's not pretty" I said. "Yes" she said. And like that I told her the truth.

"On October 17, 2015 you destroy the city of Chicago. You somehow use you powers to grow 500 to 30,000 ft. tall and destroy this city. You crushed and ate the inhabitants till barely 3000 were left. You killed my mother. You go on to destroy more cities and eventually conquer the world. By the year 2020, you have the world calling you Goddess and all worship you if they don't want to end up like the countless millions you killed. You become known as the biggest mass murderer in human history. I've been sent back in time to kill you before that happens" I said. "You're lying. YOU'RE LYING!" she screamed. "I'm not. I saw you do it. You crushed my mom to death under that foot you have propped up on that coffee table. Fuck, I even remember what your feet smell like" I said.

"So why didn't you kill me?" she asked. "When I looked into your eyes I didn't see a killer. Just...a sad loneliness" I said. She started crying. I put my hand on her shoulder. "You should kill me if you say that what I'm going to do" she said sobbing. I didn't need to hear that. I wanted to hold her despite what I knew her future. I had feelings for her. I lowered my gun. "I can't. Even though I know the future I can't do it. When I look at you I feel..." I said breathing hard. "Can I turn around now?" she asked softly. "Yes" replied. I gripped my gun ready to kill her if she glowed those eyes. They weren't glowing green. Just a natural shade of red from crying. Our eyes met. We kissed. Her kisses were soft to my lips. "Guess you won't kill me now" she said cracking a smile. "This isn't funny Clarissa. If something happens within the month" I said. "Then you can kill me" she said.

She asked if I could help her to her room. I ended up carrying her upstairs and putting her on her bed. "Can you stay awhile?" she asked. "I should get going. Your mom might be home soon and that's a problem I don't want to deal with today. Come by my hotel tomorrow. I remember that there's no school on Saturday" I said. Later that night I thought about what she said. This girl wasn't evil. That promise of killing her if it came to that was genuine. If I had changed history I wouldn't know it. They only way of knowing would be to wait.

She knocked on my door early Saturday afternoon. She was dressed in a white tee shirt and jeans. Her ankle healed fairly quickly. Too quick really since there was no bandage or swelling. Her fingernails and toenails were painted as well as wearing makeup.  Guess she wanted to impress me. "So what should we do first?" she asked smiling. "Why not see a movie. Haven't seen one since...well I haven't seen one in a while" I said. We went to the movies and ended up seeing Avengers 2. It was popular enough to still be there. As a kid, I saw this when it dropped so it was freaky for me to see it again as it was still on the big screen. Not to mention with a possible megalomaniacal killer hugging my arm. We ate out soon afterwards and started talking.

"So I noticed there was no dad at your house" I said. "Yeah, he...left soon after I was born. Mom rarely talks about him. And you?" she asked. "Dad died when I was two. He was a cop. Killed in the line of duty" I said. "Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to upset you" she said. "S'okay. I was too young to remember him and mom...mom made sure I knew I was loved" I said. "My mom...well you've met her. She a bit high strung around the opposite sex" she said smirking. "I saw. Has she ever hurt anyone?" I asked. "No! She's hot tempered but not a killer!" she said panicking. I know I lie when I hear it. Clarissa was a terrible liar. I asked her if her mom hurt anyone not killed anyone. "I still can't believe you're from the future" she said. "Today's the 21st right?" I asked. She nodded. "Come with me" I said. We hopped on a bus and rode it to an old neighborhood of mine. We got off and walked down the street till I had her sit on a bench across from a house.

"How cute! They're having a birthday party!" Clarissa said. "Look closely at the boy sitting at the front of the picnic table" I said. She looked harder and gasped. She looked at me. "Yeah that's me there. Today is my birthday. I turned 10 on this day. Oh I remember this part. Watch this. Mom is going to come out and drop the cake on my head" I said. She watched my mother come out for the front door and stumble. Sure enough that chocolate cake landed right on my head. Clarissa burst out laughing. That laugh was pretty. I liked seeing her smile. I looked at mom trying to clean me up. Mom...I miss you so much. "Let's go" I said abruptly. Clarissa wondered why I was so quiet now. I was reminded today of what I had lost and may lose again. My gamble was risking everything.

By the time we got to her house it was 7. "I had a great time today" she said. I said nothing. "Nathan. I'm not going to become that person" she said hugging me. I looked into her eyes. I kissed her once more but more forceful. My tongue was in her mouth as we frenched. I broke the kiss for air. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. Her curtains shut closed. "Goodnight Nathan" she said opening her door. I waved bye as she closed it. I walked away from her house and heard footsteps behind me. I turned around to see her mother looking at me with cold eyes. Her eyes glowed intensely green and all of a sudden the world grew all around me. "Little shit. Think you can fool me? I know your kind. A quick fuck and you're gone. Well, you're not going to do that to my little girl" she said picking me up. Jesus, her hand enclosed my entire body! I was maybe 2 inches tall! "Look, I love Clarissa. I know this now. I'm not going to hurt her" I said. "Yeah, heard that before. Clarissa's dad said the same thing until he decided to split. All men are the same. Think with your dicks instead of your heart" she said angrily. She shoved me into her pocket. I could smell her cheap perfume and fabric softener. The world bounced up and down as she strode back to her house.

I yelled for Clarissa but I was too small for her to hear me upstairs. I could hear her though. She was happily humming to herself. She must have enjoyed our date. I didn't see light until she pulled me out of her pocket. She ripped the clothes right off of me. "I see why my daughter likes you. You are cute" she said. I cringed when her moist breath hit my naked body. "Lady please! I'm not going to hurt Clarissa! I really love her! Just let me go!" I yelled. Her fingers stroked my dick and I shuttered. "Let you go? Not a chance. Even if I believed you wouldn't tell anyone I shrank you I'm not giving you the chance to defile my daughter with that now very tiny dick of yours" she said smiling. She opened her mouth. Oh god! She's going to eat me! She didn't though. She sucked my cock into her mouth and sucked.

"...stop it. Stop it goddammit" I hissed. She just kept up the suction on my dick. God it felt like she was sucking the life out of me! "AHHHGH!" I yelled cumming. She vacuumed out every drop of semen that shot out of me. She released her lips and I weakly lay in her palm. "Hmmm....was it good for you? I was for me tasting your yummy cum" she said licking the inside of her mouth. "Fuck you. I'm willing to bet you're behind those disappearances" I said panting. "Oh! So you know about those? Yeah, I admit it. I'm behind them. I find it amusing to shrink cute men and boys. Girls too on occasion. Helps pass the time living in suburbia hell" she smirked. "What did you do to them?" I asked not seeing any of her victims. "Ate them of course. Can't risk dumping them and somebody finding a tiny skeleton. Sure some animal might eat the corpse but why risk it? It's hot as fuck feeling a tiny human being in your tummy dying slowly and then knowing they nourish you. Wonder how many contributed to my physique by now. Wanna bet where you end up after I digest you? My ass or maybe my right breast?" she said grinning. "You fucking monster!" I yelled.

"As many times I hear that I still don't see that in the mirror. Even when Clarissa's father called us that, I still didn't see that. Oh, that's right. Clarissa has the same power I do" she said trying to psych me out. "I know. She told me. Still love her though" I said.  You should have seen her face. That rage and spite could burn the very air if it could. "YOU THINK YOU'RE SPECIAL?! YOU'RE NOT!" she screamed. She griped me tightly to the point I could breathe. "All you men are good for is amusement. The way you fawn over a woman and after fucking them you move on is amusing if it wasn't so fucking disgusting. God gave me power to lord over all of you! This power exists solely to kill those I deem fit!" she yelled. "And what about those teens? What could they have done to deserve your raping and eating them?!" I gasped. "Every teen your age thinks with his dick. You'd be hard-pressed to find one who hasn't done dirty shit to a girl" she said. "That’s called growing up! Even I know that! You just use that as an excuse for your perverse pleasures!" I yelled.

"Maybe but come this time tomorrow you will not be alive to care" she said putting me in a cage. I rattled the bars as she left the room. I sat down and looked at my temporal anchor. Three weeks were left on it. There was no way to know if I had changed history. Was it possible that I changed it for one even worse? I thought about that as I drifted off to sleep. I awoke the next day to the sound of a slamming door. I heard the basement door open and a creak of stairs. "Now that she's off to find you...hehe...we can have some fun" she said. "Find me?" I asked. "Yes, she wants to see you again. I've never seen her so fixated on a boy before. Not that you will get the chance to fuck her. Instead you're going to fuck me" she said. She reached in and pulled me out of her cage and took me upstairs.

She dropped me on the living room floor and began stripping in front of me. I hated to admit it but she was hot for a middle aged woman. You couldn't tell she had given birth to a kid. She got on her hand and knees and grinned. "Suggest you run little prey" she said. I took off running for the sofa. Maybe if I got to it I could hide underneath it. She growled like some animal. She moved too fast for me. She bent down and seized me in her mouth T-Rex style. My legs kicked in the air while my upper body was being sucked on. With a loud slurp I was in her mouth completely. "I know you won't eat me bitch! You still wanna rape me!" I yelled. I think she hear me because I heard a delighted hum. She pinned me to the roof of her mouth as she sucked on me.

It was getting hard to breathe in there. Then I felt a cool breeze and saw light. She had spat me out on the carpet. "Look at this! You got me so horny I'm soaking the carpet! You need to do something about that" she said parting her pussy lips. That cavernous twat oozed her secretions. To think such a sweet girl came out of something so deadly. She pushed me into her crotch. My cock was actually between her lips. Jesus, it was bigger than I was! I had to look up just to see her clit! Maybe if I did well enough she wouldn't kill me just yet. I began fucking that giantess pussy will all I had. "Haha! Yes that's it! Fuck me you tiny boy! Fuck my giant pussy!" she yelled. I fucked her a good five minutes before I came. My minuscule load shot into her. At least I couldn't get this giant bitch pregnant. "Dammit! Useless fuck!" she said annoyed. She grabbed me and shoved me into her feet first. "Much better! Should have done this sooner! God it's like my pussy was made for shrunken men! I want more!" she screamed.  She began to piston me in and out of her faster and faster until she shoved me all the way in. It was hot and sticky inside her. A felt fluid buildup around my legs. This was how I was going to die. I was going to die by giant pussy. I was going to drown or suffocate inside this evil giantess bitch and nobody will ever know; not even Clarissa. Oh god Clarissa...

The walls contracted tightly and painfully around me and then I felt a breeze. I landed on the carpet with a thud. She orgasmed so hard I shot out of her like a cork. She just lay there panting. She looked at the clock. "Still some time left. Let me clean you up" she said. She rinsed me off and held me in her hand. "Maybe I'll keep you around for a few more days. You are a good toy" she said licking my chest and then kissing me. She put me back in the cage before Clarissa got home. "I'm back. Mom you okay? You look flushed" I heard Clarissa say. "I was having fun" her mom replied. "Oh god mom. You have to stop this! This isn't right!" Clarissa said. "Don't you use that tone with me young lady or you will be punished" her mother said. "Please not the box!" Clarissa screamed. "Oh honey. I didn't mean to scare you. You mother is under more stress that usual. If it helps I'll cut back on my...activities" her mother said. "Promise?" Clarissa asked. "Yes, so did you find your friend?" her mother asked changing the subject.

"Boyfriend and no I didn't. He wasn't at his place.  I can't find him anywhere. I really wanted to see him today" Clarissa said upset. "I've told you before not to get your hopes up when it comes to men" her mother said. "Nathan isn't like that. He...he like me for who I am" Clarissa said. "Like your father?" her mother said. There was a silence. "Honey I didn't mean..."

"Just leave me alone!" Clarissa yelled. I heard a loud thumping above. Clarissa must have run up the stairs. I wondered what she meant by her father. Her mother didn't bother me for the rest of the day except to throw a bit of bread and a bottle cap of water my way. Apparently both women struck nerves.

I awoke to a door slamming again. It was earlier this time. It was Monday and I guess Clarissa went off to school. "Ready to die today? Oh don't worry. You get to pleasure my body before I wipe you from existence" she said coldly. She wasn't playful like yesterday. I think she blamed me for why Clarissa had a different opinion when it came to men. She sat me on the carpet and she sat on the sofa. Her bare feet were just a couple feet from me. My god they were big. She could crush me into the next world if she wanted. No, she told me what she prefers. She plans to eat me.