Stuck on the ground in a sitting position, Tim's eyes twitched, seeing the giant's face in front of him; bigger than his whole body. To the eye he seemed a menacing creature. It terrified Kou who slipped away in instant.
"Tim! Do something about that 'thing'! He's going to eat one of our friends!"
Kou pressed his back on the tree's trunk, while Tim looked at him from ahead. He cocked his head left and right, then slowly stood up. "What am I supposed to do about it?! I've never had to deal with a giant!"
Kou stuttered in the next sentence, he shouted, "I don't know, do something," then looked back up at the giant. "Kick his ass! That's your motto anyway!" Tim hurled around. He looked impressed and irritated.
"I'd be kicking his ass for eternity before I'd be able to knock him down!" he finished, and continued to point his fingers at Kou's posture. "Then burn him! I-I dunno, just do something, hurry!" Tim immediately grabbed his chin and then received a eureka.
"Got it!" he spun on the ground and set himself on fire. In the next moment he transformed into a girl. "There you go!" Kou's eyes twitched from embarrassment. "..." he couldn't even speak for a whole moment. "How's that supposed to help?!"
Tem stood still awkwardly and became tense. "I don't know! Maybe he'd run away if he saw me transform as a girl!" before long, Kou slapped his own forehead and soon observed the giant's wholesome face glowing with sparkles.
"Watch out!" shouted Kou, causing Tem to look at the giant. Her heartbeat stopped for a moment until she realized that the giant arm had been slowly nearing her. "Stay away you big monkey!" she shouted. Unable to prevent any movement, she felt her whole body be grasped by the giant's massive arm.
She heard him laugh and then felt how she was lifted higher into the air. "Let me go!"
Natan, standing far back, too, felt a bit surprised, along with Kou. Tomomi still unfazed by the event happening before their eyes.
Tem's palms were practically grasping the tip of the giant hand as she was slowly pulled closer in front of giant's face. "It's over! She's going to get swallowed whole!" Kou covered his eyes as he screamed.
They heard the giant's deep laugh. "You look fun! I take you! You be my toy!" Tem's whole face had been dripping wet with sweat. "Huh? I'm not a toy! Let me go! I'm a human being, just smaller!" because her entire body was trapped in the hand, she had no chance of setting herself on fire or to turn back into a boy.
Then the giant hopped with excitement into the opposite direction away from everybody else. They all heard Tem screaming for help and fear. "Let go of me, come on! Somebody, help me I don't wanna become a toy!"
Tomomi's calm body bounced up from the giant's massive feet thumping the ground before Kou immediately uncovered his eyes. He noticed Tem waving her arms and his eyes nearly bulged out from their sockets.
Only to then detect the giant's loud call. "Mommy! Mommy! I found friend!!" Natan felt uncomfortable. His forehead turned purple with a sweat slowly slipping down his cheek. "This is not what I expected from a big scary human..."
"I'll save you, Tim!" Kou screamed rushing after the giant, crying from fear as he tried to acted brave. He zigzagged as he followed with his arms lifted overhead.
"Looks like we'll have to follow them..." added Tomomi, who was peered at by Natan with a response. "You do know you kind of got us into this mess, right?"
Tomomi nodded and then hurried on after the giant, alongside Natan. Both of them ran at normal pace to not grow tired too quickly.
Some time later...
The giant that caught Tem arrived at the massive skull and called out. "Mommy! Look!" as his deeper voice sounded outside, three other giants exited. They seemed to have been smaller than the one holding Tem, while one of them seemed to be a taller woman; mother of these children.
Her sweet but deep voice exclaimed, "Oh, Gogo? What have you got there? A new friend?"
"Gogo? That's a weird name..." wondered Tem, forgetting that she was trapped in his hand. "Hey! Let me go-"
She was interrupted by Gogo who extended his arm in front of his mom. "I found a toy. In woods." The mother giant's face leaned in closer and scared Tem, who was uncomfortable, able to smell the warm breath from the mother giant's mouth.
"Oh, sweet little Gogo. That toy is a living human."
She chuckled. Gogo closed one of his eyes closer to Tem's body and looked her closer. "A human? But... mommy. Aren't we humans?"
"Let's just say that they are just like us, but much smaller." Tem blinked her head around and quickly shivered. "How old are you?! You're telling me that this giant is young but has already grown a beard?!"
"Big, Gogo! Please, let us see this human, pleaaasee..." Gogo nodded and agreed as he slowly lowered Tem's body onto the ground. She was put in front of the two younger giants and backstepped the instant they leaned closer.
"They look funny." The child slowly reached forward with his finger and gently poked Tem's chest,
*poke* *poke* *poke*
"Hey!" she felt uncomfortable and immediately embarrassed. "Do all humans have those bouncy bubbles?" The giant asked and looked up at his mother.
"Can we splash them?" they asked. Tem shouted out loud and screamed at them from anger. "They aren't bubbles! Do you children have any manners?!" Gogo then closed in and poked her chest again. "I said stop!!"
He laughed out loud and then continued to poke her chest, until she finally had enough and slap the top of his finger. "That's enough! You shouldn't be touching those! Especially not for your age!"
Gogo ignored Tem at first but then wondered why. "But, why? They are fun to poke on." Tem's face turned unamused. "It's very inappropriate and very uncomfortable..." Gogo reached with his fingertip onto his lips and tilted his head to the side in confusion.
"If they are like us, mommy, does that mean I be able to get bubbles too?" The mother giant gently patted the top of his head and chuckled. "Sadly that is impossible. You're a boy and this human you found is a girl."
"Aww... they fun..." Tem soon whirled on the ground and instantly set herself ablaze. Once it ended she transformed back into a boy. "You guys are crazy!"
They immediately backed away as they screamed out from fear. They fell on their bottoms and Tim soon looked at them pointing their palms in front of them. "They scary, mommy! They don't got bubbles anymore!!"
Soon Tim became nervous as he turned around to notice mother giant's rage in her eyes. "How dare you scare my children!" she reached for the bone club and then swung it over her head. "You tricked us into thinking you're a girl!"
She roared loudly and them dragged the bone club from behind over Tim's body who shrieked in surprise. "Wait-" he leaped to the side and rolled out of the way before feeling the massive club striking the ground and causing a quake to vibrate beneath him.
"I didn't mean to scare them, I promise!"
For him it felt almost useless to try to talk his way out of it, and then immediately noticed the club quickly swinging over the ground. "Wait, I'll transform back!"
He spun around once again and changed back into a girl. The young giants started to smile and laugh in an instant.
Tem froze as she felt the club stop just in front of her face before it slammed into her entire body. A powerful wind surged before it gradually opened her eyes. The mother giant was moving the club away from her.
Soon the children giants crawled back to Tem and grabbed her and began to squish her. "They squishy!"
*squish* squish* squish*
Tem's body shivered every time she was squished and in the next moment, she felt relieved as it finally stopped.
"I wash you." Gogo and the children slowly crawled toward the water as Tem immediately became terrified. "Wait! No, stop! Anything but water! I can't swim, please!" Luckily Gogo stopped his hand before Tem would be soaked. "Why that?" he asked.
"It's something I don't enjoy, so, please, don't make me wet." Gogo nodded and accepted her request. "We play throw instead!"
Tem's eyes immediately bulged out from their sockets as she squeaked from fear. "Toto, catch!" he called and then in an instant Tem felt Gogo letting go of her body and flinging her across the room.
"Whaaaaaaaa'" Toto caught her and chuckled. For a while they continued to play handball without being able to help it.
The longer the game went on, the more sick she started to feel and soon felt dizzy.
"This is the worst day of my life..."
To be continued...