Chapter 1

He woke up uncomfortable.

Snek had been sleeping, for how long, he didn't know. But when he did finally wake again, he wasn't happy about it. "Damn it… everything chaffs!" he muttered. His whole body felt as if the skin wanted to be torn off, everything itched and couldn't be relieved. Worst still, his room began to feel smaller!

He could coil up in the space given to him with ease before, the floor was nothing more than a massive memory foam mattress to ensure his comfort, but now it felt crowded. He decided to get out of the room and stretch himself out, as he move, he heard the snap and crackle of something odd. As he turned his head, he saw it, the scales that were chaffing him were dry and translucent! "What the hell is this!?" he demanded.

Slithering out, he got to the kitchen. "What's happening to me!" he demanded.

Garou was standing there, looking over Snek and then smiled. "You're shedding." He said without an ounce of concern.

"WHY!" Snek demanded. "Why the hell am I shedding!?"

"You grew."

Snek froze to the news, he shook his head to it all. "No! No, no, no, no!" he protested. "I can't grow anymore, that serum stopped the monsterfication! I can't be!"

"Snek, relax, you aren't growing more INTO a monster… you merely grew. Snakes grow, when they get too big for their old skin, they shed. Which is what you're doing. Come on, even you know that!"

Snek refused to believe a word of it. He didn't think he could get any longer. With a roll of his eyes, Garou found a measuring tape, he placed the end at Snek's tail and then pulled out the tape. "You were what, twenty feet when you left the hospital? According to this, you're nearly twenty two feet now."

Snek pulled away in disgust with himself. "No… I can't have grown two feet!"

"Well, you have, you did. Now quite complaining about it! Shed your skin and you will feel better, I suggest a nice tree or jagged rock."

"Shut up!" he snapped but slithered outside anyways. The chaffing was getting to him, Snek would scratch himself up and down his body, when he finally felt the scales breaking off, relief soon followed. "Oh God, that's it!" he moaned, he then began brushing himself up along the sides of rocks and trees until he felt something snag. Yet once it did, he could feel the relief follow, slowly he dragged himself across a tree and then felt the cool air against his body once more. The itch was gone except for a small bit on his face. Snek was reluctant yet he found an end and tore loose scales off. But he was finally relieved of the discomfort. Turning around, he froze at the trail he made with the discarded skin. It made him shutter at the sight. "That all… came off of me?"

"Clean up after yourself too!" Garou called from the kitchen window. "We ain't decorating for Halloween yet!"

Snek sneered at the comment, but he cleaned up his own shedding and threw them out before anyone else saw them. He slithered back inside without a word, he just grabbed a coffee and drank. Garou on the other hand was grinning from ear to ear. "You think you got it bad… Remember…" Garou uncoiled one of his arms and revealed the creatures that bound themselves to it. "I got God knows how many of these bastards!"

It started the A Class hero, but was quick to settle as Garou recoiled his serpents. "Damn it! Warn me when you are going to do that!"

"I don't think I will, it's half my fun!" Garou said with a smirk. "Besides, we're going to do a good sparring session today. We are helping Alley test out a new part of her lab. It absorbed kinetic energy."

"How are we going to test that?" demanded Snek.