Diane: Bigger, Longer and Awkward: Chapter 16

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Diane was still wrapping her head around everything that had just happened. Just a few moments ago, she had been by far the tallest living being in Britannia. Now she found herself not only much smaller than she had been before but was also trapped in what seemed to be an unbreakable prison made out of glass.

The now former giantess began to slam her fists against the glass but her efforts were for naught. As she looked up, she thought that she might be able to reach the cork that had sealed the bottle, she could push it up and then squeeze through the top. But much to her dismay, she wasn't tall enough to reach it. This was something that was very ironic considering her former status and her long arms and legs in comparison to the rest of her body.

As Diane looked outside of the bottle, she could see the woman who had successfully captured her. The purple outfit that she was wearing was unfamiliar to her. Even though a few weeks earlier, Nadine had been held by the elongated giantess. Not only was the change in scale a factor into this but simply that Diane's own memories wasn't what it had been. Her mind now seemed to be wired differently in comparison to what it had before.

"We got her!" shouted Nadine in excitement as she lifted the bottle up into the air. To her, it was as if she was holding a trophy of great value. In a manner of speaking, that was exactly what she had.

"We did?" replied Natasha as she began to step towards her colleague. Her own great size allowed her to make the distance in a very short amount of time and there were even a few thuds in the ground as she walked. There was also some disbelief in her voice as she couldn't believe that everything had actually gone to plan. "We did!

Both women jumped up in joy over their accomplishment and in a way, it did look somewhat bizarre for anyone who might be observing them. The motions also caused Diane to be thrown around inside of the bottle as Nadine jumped. Not only was this a little painful but also made her very dizzy.

Once Nadine had stopped jumping, she saw a massive hand come down and grab onto the bottle. Immediately it was thrust out of her hands and lifted up to her level. The fifteen foot giantess had a huge smile on her face as she thought that the great threat that Britannia had ever known might had just been stopped in her tracks.

"Not so big and tough now are you!" said Natasha in a very jovial tone. Her voice was loud thanks to her own great size but at this moment in time she didn't care. She even shook the bottle just to cause Diane even further discomfort.

"Careful Natasha!" stated a somewhat panicked Nadine. Although she was only around a third of the height of her colleague, she had to get her attention immediately. "If that bottle breaks, then she'll be free again!"

"Oh right." She did stop shaking the bottle and she could see the dazed elongated but tiny figure within. "How long is she going to be trapped in there anyway?"

"As long as the bottle isn't damaged and the cork remains in place. She'll be trapped inside forever. She wouldn't be able to hurt anyone again."

"You hear that, Diane?" Her focus was now on the tiny figure within the bottle who was getting back up to her feet but was still trying to regain her balance. "Your days of terror are over." She then looked down at Nadine once again and she imagined that her colleague was getting a neck strain. "We're heroes, the both of us!"

"Y-Yeah we are." She felt as though she had done most of the work. But she wasn't prepared to argue with someone who was so much larger than herself. Also, it was likely that she couldn't have succeeded without Natasha.

Their focus was immediately distracted as they heard the loudest moo that they had ever heard. As they looked over to the still gigantic cow, she hadn't been able to free herself from her chains. To the farm animal, she was in a state of confusion and panic. She had found the world that she lived in far smaller than she was used to and she was being held down against her will. All of these combined to make her act out in the way that she was.

"Nadine, you better shrink Bessy back down to normal," said Natasha as she looked at the huge cow. Although she was gigantic in her own right, in comparison she couldn't help but feel tiny. "We promised her owner that we'd have her back by the end of the day."

"Yeah sure," replied Nadine. Although a gigantic cow roaming around Britannia wouldn't be as great of a threat as Diane had been. But it was still best to nip this problem in the bud before it became a bigger one later on.

Even though she had already used her magic a couple of times that day Nadine still had enough within her for another spell. Immediately she pointed her staff towards the gigantic cow and spoke the shrinking spell. A sphere of magical energy was fired out of the staff and struck the bounded cow immediately.

There were a few moments where nothing seemed to happen. At first the two Holy Knights thought that the spell hadn't worked at all. That was until they saw the enormous farm animal beginning to become smaller. The chains that had been holding her down were loosening around her and both Holy Knights gave a sigh of relief.

From bottle prison, Diane was able to see shrinking cow and but there was another abnormal feeling that she could feel within her. It was a sensation that wasn't what she felt when she had changed size, this was different in some way. Although she couldn't put her finger on what the sensation was, it still caused her some concern.

With every passing moment, the cow continued to shrink smaller and smaller and when she was loose enough from the chains, she was able to get back up to her feet. Natasha passed the bottle containing Diane down to Nadine so that she could step over to the still shrinking cow. If she tried to run away, it meant that the fifteen-foot Holy Knight would have to chase her down which was something that would be annoying for her.

By the time that Natasha reached the shrinking cow, there was something that she couldn't help but notice. Thanks to her own increased size, her sense of scale was sometimes off. Mostly, things that seemed smaller than she would have been. Because of this, as she looked at the cow, she thought that she was particularly small. This wasn't the only fact that caused her concern as she could see the cow was continuing to shrink smaller still.

Nadine stepped forward as well and could see just how small the cow had become. She was around half of her original size and this was the time when the women realised that she was indeed shrinking below normal. Nadine realised this and knew that she was going to get into trouble with the farmer that they had borrowed the cow from.

Eventually she became no bigger than a child's plaything and by this point in time, Natasha went down to one knee and scooped up the still shrinking cow. As both women looked at the very large palm of the giant human's hand, they could see her shrinking smaller and smaller with every passing moment.

Only a few seconds later, the cow was nothing more than a speck in Natasha's hand but before anyone could say a word, she disappeared from view completely. Both women simply looked at where the cow had been. Nadine felt that guilt as she knew that the spell that she had used was too powerful.

"I can't see her anymore," said Natasha as she simply thought that her own size made it impossible to view the tiny cow. "Can you see her?"

"No, she's gone," replied Nadine. In a way, she couldn't help but be impressed by what she had done but also annoyed. "She's shrunk into your hand. Most likely right now, the mere grooves in your skin are like canyons to her."

Natasha said nothing about this as she could imagine the cow now walking on her hand but being like a completely different world. In a way, she was also very glad that she was now immune to Nadine's magic. If her friend and colleague had tried to shrink her back to normal size, there was a good chance that she too would have ended up disappearing from view. Just like the cow had.

"I'm sorry," said Nadine as she was accepting responsibility for what had happened. "I didn't mean to shrink her that small."

"Don't worry about it," replied Natasha. She could have stood back up to her full height but thought that it was best to remain crouching for the moment. This was also so that her colleague didn't have to look up to her as much. "With the fame and fortune that we're going to be receiving, we can afford to pay that farmer back ten-fold." She looked at the still trapped Diane inside of the glass bottle and smiled at her. "Now we have Diane Long Legs here."

There was a sense of dread and worry that went through the body of Diane. But for the life of her, she couldn't think why these two women were so angry towards her. As far as she was concerned, she hadn't done anything to harm them or anyone else. Not realising the sheer anarchy that her mere actions had caused in the kingdom.

She had no idea that she was now considered to be public enemy number one in Britannia and that there was a king's ransom out on her capture. To her, all she had been done was eating and sleeping. There hadn't been too much to her actions as she had simply been doing what she needed to survive.

In a short amount of time, Diane had gone from being amongst the greatest heroes that Britannia had ever seen, to one of its greatest terrors. The fact that she was only awake for around four hours a day only made it seem that her view of others and time itself was relatively limited.

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