Guaridans Of The Northern City: Chapter 126

It was almost an hour later before Elizabeth was able to get anywhere close being where she wanted to be. Since she had been incarcerated, it meant that being able to get there without any more legal trouble was quite tiring. Thankfully, the Mayor had given her permission to be there, under the circumstances that when everything was said and done, she would return to her cell.

A part of her still thought that what she was seeing was impossible. Especially since on the way, she hadn’t actually seen Louise over the horizon. Before she had disappeared, she had been by far the tallest thing in the area. But she had seen nothing and it made her quite worried. Even if Louise was still around a hundred feet in height, she should be easily seen nonetheless.

Instead, all she could do was wait to see things for herself. Elizabeth sighed at this as the car that was taking her was far from comfortable. The roads were bumpy along with the car’s less than stellar suspension. Not only that but the legroom within was quite cramped to say the least. It didn’t help that her seven foot frame was ill suited for such a space and so she had to endure.

Even when the car travelled over a pothole, she is found her head striking the ceiling. It caused her no pain, but dented the roof which would likely never be put right again. Just what she wanted was for the journey to come to an end and then seeing her apprentice once again. A moment that couldn’t come too soon.

Eventually, the car did come to an end and Elizabeth had to wait for the door of the car to be opened. It was something that simply took too long and once she had, she was more than happy to get up and stand up to her full height. Her hands were not cuffed, simply because such a thing would be redundant. Any cuffs would be like paper mâché to her and simply break with minimal effort.

All the problems that Elizabeth had experienced seemed to melt away as she could see the figure of Louise standing a short distance away. For a moment she hadn’t noticed her mentor as she instead was speaking to a man who was standing close by. He was writing down something on a clipboard and he was a French speaking Canadian citizen.

There was something odd that she noticed about her apprentice. The fact that she was both smaller and bigger than she was supposed to be. Rather than being a regular size woman, she was still around eight feet in height. But she wasn’t a towering giantess like she had been before, in a way it was in the realm of normalcy.

It only took several moments for Louise to look over to where Elizabeth was standing. Anything else was forgotten as the smile that was on her face was more than evident. She did quickly move towards her mentor but she couldn’t run like a regular person could.

Instead, she seemed to be moving in a way that was definitely odd. It was slower and quite methodical, almost like she was learning to run for the first time.

“Lizzie!” stated Louise as she moved towards the tall Englishwoman who seemed to be a little dumbfounded. But before anything else could happen, she felt herself be wrapped in the arms of the gentle Frenchwoman.

“Louise,” replied Elizabeth who seemed to be quite confused in her own right. But she did find a smile appearing on her face. She did pick up Louise as she was still more than happy with what had happened.

However, there was something that she couldn’t help but feel was odd. She was definitely lifting Louise up and yet she still felt as though she was anchored to the ground. This made her look down and she could see that the Frenchwoman’s feet were indeed still touching the ground.

There was great confusion that Elizabeth could feel as she looked up at Louise once again. But her legs were now longer than they had been before. It seemed as though they had stretched as she had been picked up. After a few moments, she didn’t know what she was actually seeing. As she let go, she could see Louise’s legs revert back until they were in proportion to the rest of her body.

“What was that?” asked Elizabeth with confusion still on her face. She looked up at her apprentice.

“What was what?” replied Louise. Her French accent could be clearly heard and she smiled nervously.

“Your legs just got longer then. You weren’t able to do that before.”

“Well, maybe my powers have developed.” She chuckled nervously and she saw the blank expression on her mentor’s face.

“Then you wouldn’t mind if I do this then?”

Before Louise could say another word, she felt herself get thrown up hundreds of feet in the air. However, her feet were still firmly on the ground on the ground as this happened. Due to this her legs stretched up and up as her upper body went skyward. However, eventually, she did stop going up and her body did look quite comical.

It was only a few moments after her body had stopped going up before her legs began to contract themselves. Causing her to begin to get shorter which was something that she was glad about.

However, as she became shorter, she could see that Elizabeth had her hands on her hips and was looking up at her with a stern expression on her face.

Even when Louise became eight feet in height, she continued to become shorter until she once again became her normal size. It was definitely bizarre seeing her this small since everyone in New Cardiff was used to seeing her as a giantess.

“Did you have to do that?” asked Louise who was a little annoyed but tried to down play things.

“Apparently so,” replied Elizabeth who was looking down at her apprentice for the very first time. “Care to explain what just happened there? You know that you can’t lie to me, are you even the real Louise? Or some kind of cruel trick that is being played on me?”

Louise couldn’t help but stay silent as she felt that she couldn’t exactly speak at that moment in time. There was so much that she wanted to say, but didn’t know exactly how to tell her. She knew herself that it was more than bizarre and she was trying to fully process the information herself.

“It’s not a trick, it’s more like this is the new me in a way,” stated Louise who was still trying to think of exactly what she was going to say.

“New you how?” Her arms were still crossed and she stood firm. All of her worries about her legal problems seemed to be forgotten. Instead, she was completely in mentor mode as she looked down at the shorter woman.

“Well, I think it’s best to demonstrate it like this. Lizzie, punch me in the head.”

“What? I’m not going to punch you in the head!” She was more than shocked by what she had heard.

“I promise you, it’ll be alright. I wouldn’t ask something like that if it wasn’t completely safe.”

There was a sigh from Elizabeth as she couldn’t believe what she was about to do. But she tried to do her best to pull her upcoming punch. Even if it did mean that she was going to be striking her apprentice.

With a swift action, Elizabeth did strike Louise with a punch that she thought would be just a very light jab. However, the punch came much stronger than she expected and the head of the Frenchwoman went flying off of her shoulders. As it did it seemed to be disappearing into dirt and Elizabeth couldn’t help but scream as she had thought that she had just killed her apprentice.

However, rather than falling to the ground, Louise seemed to stay on her feet and her arms did begin to move. However rather than simply twitching or sudden movements like that. Instead, her hands seemed to be trying to feel the air where her head had just been. It almost looked like something that would be seen in a cartoon. But it was real life and almost seemed quite scary.

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