Protagonist Prep
Ch. 6 Growing Gains
Only thing I own are my own characters. Also the quotations is Drooler breaking the fourth wall, I told him to stop but he didn't care. 'word' = letter.
It was a day after the mishaps and things started to go semi-smoothly, apart from a few mishaps with a couple students, and some of the kids even payed attentions to the classes. However, this enjoyable time was shattered when Droolers' arcane arts class started.
"All right kids today we're going to learn about potions." He told the class with excitement bubbling in his voice. Which confused the students considering he rarely shows excitement, rage and disappointment plenty but excitement would be considered an endangered species.
"What's the big whoop? Potions aren't that exciting." Star asked with hostility in voice.
"That's because those are Mewman potions. My kinds potion can turn the tide of battle, cure all aliments and make the user irresistible." Told/burned Star. Now this excited the class especially a certain blonde haired and blue eyed Parisain.
"So what kind of potions are we going to learn about?" Chloe asked in perfect English.
"Before you guys rage we fixed it before this chapter came out. Anyway, to answer your question Chloe there are a plethora of different potions but this week we're learning about body modification potions. Specifically, the growth potion varieties which numbers into the 20s." That's all Chloe heard after she began to fantasize. When the class was over Chloe waited beside the door as mostly everyone walked out of the room and when Marinette and Alya walked out she grabbed them by their shoulders and pulled them away.
"So why do you need our help?" Alya asked her tone harsh and her voice full of doubt. While Marinette just glared at the blond with enough hatred to melt both poles.
"All I need is you two to distract that beast long for me to grab a potion that'll make Adrien fall in love with me!" Chloe exclaimed her plan a bit too loudly and if it was the plan of the century. The two friends just looked at her with a mix of hatred and disbelief for many reasons.
"Chloe, that is a terrible idea! Wouldn't it be easier to just to ask him?" Marinette asked slightly angry at Chole's idea and highly afraid stealing from a creature that can cause earthquakes.
"Puh-lease that monster would probably eat us first!" Chloe insulted not knowing that the one she insulted was right behind them.
"Actually, I don't like how humans taste a bit too gamey. Also, yes it would be it easier to ask." The girls screamed in surprise and nearly jumped into the air. Drooler just looked down at the girls and tilted his head in confusion.
"So why are you three trying to steal potions?" He asked with suspicion and his face hardening into something close to granite. All three of the girls went into a panic wondering what to tell the fire being. After twenty long agonizing seconds of silence Marinette thought of something.
"We wanted to learn more about more about potions and how to make them." Alya and Chloe quickly nodded, then something extremely odd happened. Droolers' muzzle broke out into a huge grin and his tail actually wagged a little.
"Well why didn't you say so?! Come on I'll show my potion lab!" The girls were confused and slightly scared at the mood change but decided not to press their luck. They followed Drooler through the hall while he rapid fired them with questions.
"So what kind of potion do you want to make, a fire potion, animal transformation oh are you going to make an invisibility potion?!" Drooler asked with excitement, almost hopping towards his potion lab. The girls just tried to stay quiet and tried not to freak out at the fact their teacher just went from grizzled detective to happy pup. When Drooler stopped at flame pattern door with a bull/dragon creature above the flames. When he opened it Alya finally answered his question to calm him down, she can handle kids but a fire being that can earthquakes is something else entirely.
"Um, just a simple growth potion." The girls began to sweat and pray that he didn't ask anything else.
"Which one?" And the girls started to internally panicking, and when Drooler walked towards a huge cabinet with strange symbols on it they whispered asking Marinette what kinds of growth potions there were, since she mostly paid attention in their classes. Unfortunately, they only covered it today, they only went over the basics and who made it.
"Uh, the first one please." That answer caused Droolers' entire body stiffened and his arms stopped moving, he slowly turned his head towards the girls.
"Are you sure?" His voice showing actual concern and worry in his voice. This confused the girls but they nodded anyway. He opened the ingredient cabinet and pulled out three first grader sized jars, the first one was filled with a grey powder, second was filled with neon purple petals with black spikes and the final one had a viscous aqua green liquid. He then walked over towards one of the tables, he used his tail to grab a bathtub sized bowl and pour the ingredients.
"Otual Varosh Sctial Redak Poratana!" He chanted as he stirred the ingredients. There was small poof of violet smoke and the ingredients became a dark purple green syrup like concoction. After that display he used his tail to grab three vials and filled them with the potion.
"Take these to the dorms and drink these." Drooler told the girls. They left his lab and started the walk back towards the dorms. After tapping the wall in the order they were given and entered the dorms, when they entered the dorms some noticed the vials.
"What did you steal from Fire Hazard?" Sashi asked her tone suspicious and her face colder than Antarctic ice.
"Relax he gave us these." Sashi's cold facade melted a little and she turned her attention away from them and went back to her, thankfully it wasn't bigger than them, homework. The three girls went to the kitchen to drink it, hey they had enough crazy today and wanted a little normalcy. After drinking all of the bittersweet tasting potion the good twenty minutes they started to get impatient, mainly just Chloe.
"What's taking so long!?" As soon as she said a small wispy flame entered the dorms and stopped right in front of the. If that wasn't strange enough the flame then turned into some sort of floating paper with something even stranger.
'Hey girls I forgot to mention that it can take a few hours to take effect, so sorry for forgetting about that detail.
-Sincerely Your Teacher Drooler'
After the girls the finished reading the letter it turned back into a wispy flame and sped back to its master.
"That was kind of awesome, not going to lie." Alya said with what could only be described as pure amazement at what just happened. While Chloe had a different feeling.
"Are you kidding me !?" She yelled at the top of her lungs, which caused some of the other students to either glare at her or wanted to do extreme bodily harm to her. After a good 15 minutes of calming down Chloe, Adrien helped a lot, the girls went their semi-separate separate ways. Marinette and Gaz had a videogame battle with each other, Alya and Connie were talking about the freaky stuff that happened where they live, and Chloe she tried to hang out with Adrien, she didn't succeed. At curfew the girls went to the dorms and slept unaware that their bodies were changing and growing. Chloe woke up early to do her hair and to see if the potion made her even more amazing, but as she walked towards the bathroom she felt heavier than before. As she turned on the lights she saw and walked towards the sinks, something in the mirror that she never wanted to see. Her face was chubbier than normal, looking like Mylene, she looked down at her body and she saw that certain things were blocking her view of the floor.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" A loud piercing scream erupted from Chloes' lips and woke up the entire girls dorms.
"Ugh, will someone go shut up that prissy little queen bee!?" Sashi yelled.
"She probably just forgot to comb hair a hundred times. Also, who turned on the heat, it's a thousand degrees in here?!" Alya yelled, she then threw off her covers and then saw something unexpected, her lower half was expanded greatly in fact it was close to the edge of the bed.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Alya let loose a surprised scream and it woke up the final one.
"Ugh guys could you keep it down?" Marinette grumbled from her covers, however she then bolted awake after she what happened to Alya.
"What happened to you?!" Marinette asked with worry and fear.
"Umm, girl." At that comment Marinette looked down at her body and she sees that her body had more padding than usual.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" That third scream caused two things to happen, one it woke up the boys and caused them to run towards the door of the girls dorm. Two it awoke someone who hated to hear someone messing with his students. Anyways, back to how the boys are handling the situation, it was a bit chaotic. Nino and Adrien were at the door worried for their friends, well Nino was mainly worried about Alya but don't worry Adrien had enough worry for both Chloe and Marinette.
"Chloe, Marinette are you okay?!" Adrien yelled through the door.
"Alya what happened?!" Nino asked his voice shaking with worry.
The others tried to contact their friends/siblings to see that if something wrong happened in there. Their fears weren't diminished by the fact they felt the ground shake and it was getting more intense, then the wall entrance blew apart causing dust and small cubes to fill the student area. From the dust the kids saw glowing red dots and they were getting closer to them, when the dust cleared they saw Drooler on his knuckles stomping towards the door with his eyes pure red and glowing. He stopped in front Nino and Adrien, he looked down at the two boys and growled two words.
"Move now." The two boys wanted to stand their ground and say no to him. However, Drooler's entire body language screamed that if they didn't move they would probably pay for it. When they did move the three-clawed hand at the end of his tail latched onto the door and ripped it of the hinges, he put the door down next to him. He tried to fit his body through the door, but he only got his head and part of his shoulder through. He looked in room and didn't see the vengeful foe he was expecting, instead he saw Chloe crying and the others trying to comfort her.
"Well, well if it isn't Fire Hazard here to finish the job?" Sashi harshly asked Drooler with a hateful glare sent to him. Drooler let out something like a dog's whine and outside his wings slightly drooped.
"I'm sorry for what happened, I should've told you what happened, but I was an idiot for thinking that this could be avoided. I'm not asking for forgiveness nor do I deserve it." He told the girls, who just looked at him with a mix of faces filled with awe and faces of trying to keep in laughter.
"What anime did you get that from?" Gaz asked trying to hold in laughter. Realizing and processing what he said Drooler just inwardly facepalmed and groaned.
"Okay, just forget that last part I tend to go a little carried away sometimes. I am sorry though for what happened." Drooler said trying to cover up his embarrassment. While Chloe was getting angry with this unwanted change.
"Well sorry isn't enough to restore my good looks!"
"I know the cure and how to make it, but it has to be made in my lab, before you ask why can't I make it here it's due to the lack of equipment and the cure could be contaminated." He told not only the girls but the readers as well. Chloe's face changed from anger to complete fear and worry.
"NO! I can't let anyone see me like this!" Drooler just looked like someone punched him in chest. He then got himself out of the door and looked at the boys.
"Okay everyone close your eyes, I have to take them to my lab to cure them but one of them doesn't want to be seen. Before you guys ask why you should do it." His tail then grabbed the door and crushed it into a ball. After that they closed eyes and Drooler then the three girls to his lab. When he opened the door, the girls noticed that there was an old style, human sized, weighing scale. The girls just looked at Drooler and backed away from him slowly.
"It's to see how much weight I have to take off to return you guys to normal." He told them, the girls believed but kept an eye on him. After they were weighed Drooler then took their blood and started to run tests on it, when that was done he turned to the girls with his face carrying a mix of a smile and a frown.
"What's with the smile?" Alya asked a little creeped but amazed how his the smile was on his left and frown on the right.
"Well I have no idea what facial expression mortals make when they deliver news. So, I mixed the two most common when giving people news." All that did was cause the girls even more nervous.
"So the news?" All three of the girls asked their voices filled with worry.
"The good news is that I can get rid of 50% of the weight but the rest you guys are going to lose it on your own." At this Chloe began to cry.
"Great now no one will love me now!" Drooler then became angry.
"So, what if it's their loss you know why? Because you are a beautiful young girl and if anyone tells you otherwise-"
"Ignore them?" Marinette suggested, Drooler just looked a little sheepish and finished his sentence his voice having an embarrassed tone.
"Actually, I was going to kick them in the crotch but that also works. Causes less legal troubles too so win win." The three girls just deadpanned at what he said, though they smirk at his antics cheering up Chloe a little. It took 2 hours for him to create the antidote and for him to find a proper way to administer it. When he did administer the antidote the girls then glowed and began to lose weight until the glow faded away. The girls were still chubby but skinnier than this morning, Drooler gave them some new clothes which raised suspicions but the clothes fit and they were nice, and sent them back to the dorms. There were no class that day, later at night Behemoth was taking a walk through the school when he noticed that Drooler's door was open and the lights were on. As he got closer he could hear small explosions and then a string of curses, Behemoth took a peak in the room and saw Drooler hunched over his potion table with a mountain of crumbled up scrolls behind him.
"Sir, what troubles you?" Behemoth asked, worried for him.
"Oh, hey Behemoth I'm just doing some late experimenting." Drooler answered his voice sounding tired and defeated, Behemoth frowned at the answer knowing that he was lying. He then looked for a chair and when he did find one he pulled it close to the table, sat down and began to help with the experiments.
"What are you doing?"
"Sir, you're going to need help if you want to make a better cure for those girls." Drooler just smiled and patted Behemoth on the back.
"Thank you old friend."
The end
Author's notes, now before you guys go grab the pitchforks and torches consider two things. One I have a giant monstrous being that controls fire, and two this could actually have some character building for Chloe. Now if you're wondering how Chloe convinced Marinette and Alya, well Alya is curious reporter and thrives on new information also think about there could be a potion that would make Marinette irresistible to Adrien.