Frozen Quetzalcoatl

I had just completed another CYOA for the Worm web serial, when I was pulled in! Now, I transform up to and into a higher-than-S-class threat, another Endbringer, in the form of the Deity Quetzalcoatl from Aztec legends, with domain over Ice!

Chapter 1

A crack rang through the room I was in, having cracked my neck. I was sitting in front of my computer, just now having completed the CYOA I was working on. I had chosen to use the Gimel version, due to wanting to make a literal Endbringer without having to choose that as a path, and still have something else, while keeping it somewhat balanced. It came out like this-

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Worm CYOA, Version 5 Update Gimel

Points Remaining- +0/0

Character-

Gestation +15/15

Vigilante
(Endbringer-Beast-150 feet
Telekinesis-Gravity-Sandbox-Elementalism
Sibling Rivalry-Worthy Opponent)

Drop-In +3/3

Budget +2/0

Foreign Element -3/3

Perks/Flaws-

Rough Start +2/0

Case 53 +0/2 (Swan Wings, slitted emerald eyes, and draconic claws instead of fingernails)

Memory Death +4/0

Endbringer Target +3/ 4

S9 +4/2

Power Slot(refund) +0/1

Psychic Nosebleed +0/3 (tied to Final Form)

Worst Day Ever x2 +2/1

Second Trigger -4/3

Secret Lair -2/0

Plot Convenience -1/0

Gift-

Metaknowledge

Powers-

Final Form -25/25 (Second Trigger) (Psychic Nosebleed)

Stark Winter -5/5

Path-

Ambivalent +4/4
PRT Info -5/0
Blade -1/0

For Want of a Nail -25/0 (Scion quietly committed suicide a few years ago)

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'So, this time it will be a large snake of an Endbringer, about 150 feet long, with a pair wings every so often along it's back. It'll carry itself with its Telekinesis instead of the five pairs of wings themselves, and can shrink to around 5 feet long, and anything proportionally from its max to min length. It will be in various shades of dark and light blue, with emerald eyes and the wings looking like those of a giant swan's would, making it look somewhat like a living ice sculpture. My god, Lung is going to hate him!' I laughed for a moment. 'Of course, his Endbringer powers scale to his size, and Stark Winter will allow him to use ice while still in human form, and up to the point where he is a 100 feet long.'

While I was thinking on how I wanted my story to go this time, which I saw as being pretty much Lung's opposite while still being reptilian, it had finished printing. I had been planning on showing this to several people and see what they thought of it. Of course, that was never going to happen, due to the words on the piece of paper I had picked up shuddering, before ghostly copies drifted off the page and up into the air. The spectral words then shot into my chest, and I dropped the paper. A moment later, I was sucked into the same spot those words disappeared into.

That piece of paper wouldn't be found until several days later, when his previous place of work got tired of calling his phone those past few days and called the police to find him. The case eventually went cold with no evidence of anything except that one piece of paper.

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The first thing that I noticed as soon as I came out from that portal, was that I was falling. And that I was the smallest version of the Endbringer I had designed, but that was irrelevant. I wondered how it was that I was as calm as I was, but I didn't care all that much. Right now, I had several ways I could get down. One of which was just to use my Telekinesis and fly, but that would be boring. As would just falling, even at this length I wouldn't be hurt all that much. I was, after all, an Endbringer and even now I was tougher than any normal human, not to mention the completely different body structure. I decided to create a slide of ice. That was fun, and I chirped my little head off. Of course, due to Worst Day Ever, my slide went right into ABB territory, and I could hear Lung somewhere around. That wasn't so fun.

Worse still, I was now at the feet of Lung. Who was already ramped up decently. With a bunch of bugs surrounding and trying to bit him. This was ultimately futile, what with all the fire on him. I now knew that this is the point where Taylor fights Lung. Of course, she doesn't much like attention, so I would be fine fighting him myself. However, I didn't care much for it either, so I just grew to twenty feet and wrapped myself around him. I then trapped us both in a pillar of ice. I left my head out as well so I could speak. Of course, I didn't have great control over these powers, and all I did have was going into freezing and shattering the poison/venom in him, so the pillar grew to the size of the Med-Hall building. This meant that everyone in the city could see it. I thought better of saying in my pillar, and shrunk myself and slithered out. I also created ice in the space left behind when I left it. I was now back to 5feet. I started looking around for… there! There Taylor is, she smelled funny, a bit surprised? But, I'm so tired- I flew towards her and wrapped myself around her neck. I could smell her bemusement just before I fell asleep. This was warm.

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Taylor looked at the- snake? Dragon? Something else? -that was around her neck with a sense of confused amusement. She heard three sounds, that of something large hitting the ground hard. The sounds immediately woke up the snake around her neck, which flew into the air and stated at the kids sitting on what looked like giant, monstrous dogs. The snake chose that point to shift into a human, a blue-haired boy who looked around fifteen years old. With wings. And claws. The strange thing was his transformation from a small snake to a gigantic to small again then back to human didn't either make his clothes fall off, or rip them to shreds. However, as many people have been known to say, powers are bullshit at the best of times. Then; he spoke.

"The Undersiders, correct?" He asked in a strange voice, with a tinge of amusement. His voice was mostly normal, a bit deeper than most his age, however there was a slight hissing undertone.

One of the kids on the dogs was shaking, a girl in a purple bodysuit, was shaking even as she spoke up. "He knows all of us. Both our Cape identities and civilian. But he doesn't know how. A Thinker? No. He's-" She stopped there, eyes wide, and had the one controlling those dogs take them away as fast as they could.

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I had a good guess on two reasons they left. One, that Lisa girl found out my 'ratings' and got scared. The other, Armsmaster, who will be here in about two seconds, or some combination of the two. I went back to being a tiny flying snake and wrapped around Taylor's neck again, keeping one eye open. Soon enough, Armsmaster arrived on his motorcycle. He was, almost exactly as described in the story.

"You gonna fight me?"

Before she could answer, I flew up to and about two feet away from him. I shook my head and transformed back. He looked a bit startled, or at least what I could see of his face did, but that went away quickly. I guess he's met all sorts of people working for the PRT.

"Neither of us have any wish to fight you." I told him. "As far as I know, she is trying to be a hero, and thought she was saving a couple of kids from getting killed. I have no interest in either Heroics or Villainy. Both can be as bad as the other."

His face hardened. "Explain." He commanded. I know I don't have to oblige him, but I might as well.

"Politics and quotes. Collateral damage and human nature. 'You either die as a Hero, or live to see yourself become the Villain.' 'The path to hell is paved with good intentions.' Heroes often cause as much damage in their fights as the one their fighting, but are never punished for it. Humans always fear the unknown, that power is often used for their own ends." I could see I had given him something to think about, but he put it aside for now in order to do his job. I could respect that much, at least. I don't know what my personality was like before, but now it is a combination of the bird and the snake.

"She doesn't look like a Hero." I could see her wince at that.

"Neither does Shadow Stalker." I retorted.

"Point." He let it go at that. "You got a name?" For the first time this conversation he addressed her directly.

"No. Do you know how hard it is to find a bug-themed name that doesn't make me sound like a supervillain or a complete dork?"

He chuckled, showing real emotion for the first time this meeting. "I wouldn't know. I got into the game early enough that I didn't have to worry about missing out on all the good names."

"Suggestions; Skitter, Weaver, Ladybug, Firefly, Honeybee, Wasp, Dragonfly, etc." I spoke up. "You could just name yourself after a certain species of bug, something related to bugs, it doesn't even have to be bug-themed, your superhero name doesn't have to describe you."

"More questions for you so Armsmaster knows more about what you can do, what is your range, do you have a limit on the number of bugs you can control in your range, is it just bugs or is there more creatures you can control?"

"Um, no limit on the number, as long as it's within a block or two, and any bug along with arachnids, worms, things like that."

I nodded and turned back to Armsmaster, who looked a small bit impressed. "That should allow you to get a better handle on her powers, and what to focus on testing for. Makes it a bit more efficient." He nodded and looked approving. "I believe you have power testing, which would be beneficial for all of us. Lung needs to be brought in as well, and I'm the only one who has a certain chance of freeing him safely, seeing as how I was the one to put him there in the first place. You have one almost-certain recruit, and I have no problem working with you even if I don't join." I finished.

He started walking away and gestured for us to follow him. Both me and Taylor did so. I grew to thirty feet this time, and melted all of the ice pillar except a vaguely square-shaped area that held Lung, before Telekinetically carrying it and putting Taylor on one of the dips on my back, just behind one of my pairs of wings. This sequence of events stalled Armsmaster for a moment, before he continued on. At this length, I was roughly the height and width of a small car. He drove away and I continued to follow him.

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The force-field road was interesting, and Lung is now in one of the cells in the Rig. Specifically, one meant for holding high-level Brutes. The testing room that they had was simply a large, mostly empty space. Sure, it had several specifically designed areas to test those types of powers needing them, but they were few and far between. It looked large enough to hold my full size, but I wasn't entirely sure. The empty space was large and/or area of effect powers. My abilities fit into both.

Armsmaster started. "Now, with what Ms. Bug-controller told us, who we still don't have a name for, there isn't much we can do to test her powers other than finding the largest creatures her ability will allow control of, and finding out if there is a limit to the number she can control. We don't have the capabilities to test those at this point in time, so we'll move on to you." He looked at me when he said this.

I nodded before telling him what I knew about my powers. "Other than what I get out of my Changer form, as a human I can create ice anywhere within my line of sight, or anyplace that I know what is in the area, to the point I could make a castle fully furnished directly behind me. My wings, which are basically indestructible, allow me to fly. All of my senses are enhanced, to the rough equivalence of me being able to track a fly moving twenty feet away, and hearing your heartbeat through your armor from five. My claws can cut through soft-wood with little difficulty." He noted all this down, or rather, had his suit recording all that I said.

"Now, it's with my Changer power that it gets interesting. All powers that form gives me scale exponentially with the size I am at the time, and I have four different powers. Telekinesis, allowing at minimum length, five feet long, to fly, and at maximum the raw power to lift and hold the city in the sky, and the control to move separate molecules in that range." Jaws were dropped at this. "The next is Gravity Manipulation, minimum and I have can increase my weight ten-fold or eliminate it entirely, max and I can either make it to near black hole levels, or have the entire area lose all of it, range is again city-wide." This time I waited until the both of them weren't nearly comatose until continuing, before I was interrupted.

Armsmaster asked a question before I could continue, "How long are you at your limit?"

"200 or so feet long, and I have about the same width/diameter, or whatever the word is, as an average bus." I showed them my full size. "I can even talk in this form, as long as I am more than twenty feet long." I let them think on that for a moment before continuing.

"The next power is best called Matter Reconstruction, and allows me to do exactly that from the size of a childes letter block to two miles in range. The last power is control over all water on earth, with emphasis on ice, and the warmer the water is, the harder it is to control. The ice power I have access to in human form is more effective until fifty feet long, and impossible to use after a hundred."

It took them both almost twenty minutes to get over their sudden terror, and another five to think remotely coherently. They turned towards each-other, and said with a weird synchrony, "Changer/Shaker 12+," it was an absolute statement, as though it were just a fact. Which it most likely was. I turned to walk away, before Armsmaster called out to me.

"I need a name for the report!" He said in a slightly higher than normal pitch tone.

I shrugged before calling back, "As a cape, Frozen Quetzalcoatl. As normal, well, James Greenwood will do."

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Omake: The First Task of The Triwizard Tournament

Harry walked out of the tent, wand in hand, and stood a ways away from the dragon in the center of the Quidditch Pitch. He was scared and shaking, but he had a plan. 'Calm down, you have a plan. All it takes is one Accio,' he told himself in his head.

He raised his wand high into the sky, and shouted out the one spell he would use in this task.
"Accio Familiar!"

Everyone there waited a moment, until as one, they all looked up and saw something covered in feathers falling down to the ground. The, what they now know to be wings, snapped open a few feet from the ground, revealing it to be a boy, a year older than Harry himself, with ice-blue hair, claws, emerald slitted eyes, and the obvious wings. His voice, when he spoke, was strange. Cold, but not unkind, a hissing undertone, but no-one could compare this to how Voldemort spoke.

"What do you wish me to do, sir?" Was the question.

"Your orders are to retrieve the golden egg. Your opponent, the dragon. The dragon is not to be killed, however they wish for a show!" Harry said in a grand voice. The boy with the wings just nodded, then changed.

He was now an absurdly long snake, with five pairs of wings along its back, like the ones it had when it was human. Its eyes were the same, only larger. As it breathed, frost flowed out of its mouth and onto the field. Suddenly, the ground was now ice, and the snake flew into the air. After an amazing show of acrobatics and flexibility from both the flying snake and the dragon, it froze the dragon in a block of ice, and brought the egg over to Harry in one of its clawed arms. The ice all shattered a moment later, and as with the other champions before him, went into the medical tent.

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That's the first chapter of this story complete. If you haven't noticed the pattern yet, most if not all of OC/MC's are going to be called James Greenwood. Also, due to the shard and his lost memories, his personality has changed to what I believe to be some combination of the snake and the bird that make up his Changer form. That is all. Oh yeah! This is also my single longest chapter to date, at nearly three thousand words. It's unlikely that that is going to change anytime soon, so don't expect this to happen often.