"There, that should do it!" Anna said, setting down her brush and looking over the Whimsicott's mass of silver-gray fluff. It had taken her the better part of an hour, but at long last, the Pokemon breeder had succeeded in getting the grass type fully cleaned and neatened up, a fact which was in stark contrast to her own deep brown hair, which was done up in a braid so messy it hardly counted as a hairdo at all. "Go on out and play, alright? Just don't get messy again."
The whimsicott nodded and squeaked before bounding off, its tiny body carried in the breeze.
Anna watched it go with a smile. As an up-and-coming Pokemon breeder, she had to put most of her effort into grooming her team and helping them grow. That was the only way she would ever win any contests, after all, and that was much more important to her than battling. And now, after a full day of pampering her team, she had just one Pokemon left: the most important partner of all.
"Come on out, Margerita," she said, tossing the pokeball into the air before her. In a flash, a lilligant wearing an emerald necklace and a ruby pendant about its waist appeared and stretched, pleased to be in the fresh air and sunshine.
"You're looking as lovely as ever," Anna said with a broad smile. Humming softly to herself, she rummaged through her gear until she found a delicate copper watering can. Bending by a nearby spring, she filled it with sweet water and began to sprinkle the grass type, the shower sending tiny flecks of prismatic light dancing across the grass in the process.
Margerita hummed happily as she turned side to side, taking in the delightful water with her whole body. Of all Anna's Pokemon, her lilligant had been with her longest and loved pampering the most. If the trainer wasn't careful, she would be doting on her partner for the rest of the day.
After emptying the watering can, Anna set it aside and pulled out a bag of food. "Here you go," she said, handing a few berries to the grass type. "But not too much, okay?"
Margerita eagerly devoured the treats and looked up with shining eyes at her trainer, clearly begging for more.
Anna laughed and patted the beautiful flower atop Margerita's head. "Sorry, but you know the rules. I can't over-indulge you no matter how much you want me to. Besides, you'll be getting dinner in just a few hours. You wouldn't want to spoil your appetite, right?"
Margerita drooped in disappointment.
"Oh, come on. It's not the end of the world. I'll even give you another round of watering to make up for it. How does that sound?"
Anna returned to the spring to refill the watering can, but before she could start, her attention was caught by her whimsicott bounding through the meadow and heading straight for a muddy riverbank in the distance.
"Hey!" the Pokemon breeder shouted, dropping the can with a clatter and chasing after the fleeing grass type. "What did I just tell you? No getting dirty again!"
Margerita was still sulking as she watched her trainer run into the distance. It was her turn to be groomed and even if she wasn't going to be given as much food as she wanted, she should at least be given the proper amount of attention. But every time it was her turn, one of the other Pokemon invariably ended up stealing the show in some way. If it wasn't whimsicott getting up to mischief, it was snivy getting stuck somewhere or herdier getting into a fight with some wild Pokemon. Sometimes, even the wild Pokemon themselves took attention away from Margerita!
This time, however, things were going to be different. That whimsicott wasn't the only member of the team capable of getting up to mischief, and if Margerita wasn't going to get the attention she deserved, then she was going to help herself to whatever she wanted from Anna's pack. She deserved an extra treat at the very least: She was Anna's strongest and most beautiful Pokemon, after all.
Glancing over her shoulder to make sure Anna was still busy with whimsicott, Margerita knelt and began digging through the discarded back. After only a second, she found the treats she had wanted and ate the entire bag's contents in one giant gulp. Almost immediately, she felt her body grow warm and strong as nutrients coursed through her. On a whim, she stepped back and spread her leaf-like arms, glowing softly as she used growth. She wasn't sure why she chose to use that move at that moment. Anna hardly ever had her use growth and had been considering teaching her something more useful for contests, something like petal dance. But at that moment, the move felt right in ways Margerita had never felt before.
To her surprise, she ended up growing a full head taller. Looking down at herself, she realized that wasn't the only change. Her leafy dress had grown thicker as if the food had gone straight to her thighs. It was an unexpected turn of events, to be sure, but not an unwelcome one. Slowly, a thought began to form in her mind. If she absorbed more nutrients, would that make her growth even bigger? There was only one way to find out...
Anna trudged back from the river, pokeball gripped tightly in one hand and mud splattered along her entire lower half. "Next time, I'm putting this darn whimsicott on a leash," she grumbled to herself. Then, calling out in a louder voice in the direction of her camp, said, "Sorry for the delay, Margerita! I'm back now!"
The breeder's greeting trailed off as she crested the hill and saw what was unfolding in her absence. Margerita had grown to double her normal size in both height and girth. The grass type's head was buried in a bag of plant nutrients on the ground, her verdant rear swaying side to side happily as she absorbed the potent mix.
"Goodness, Margerita, what's gotten into you?" exclaimed the breeder. She hadn't even been aware that her Pokemon could grow that large.
The lilligant beamed and turned from side to side, showing off her new figure and height. Anna still had no idea how she had gotten so large, but it was clear this was no accident. Margerita was far too pleased with herself for this to be anything but intentional.
"Alright, you little troublemaker. Show me exactly what you did to get so big."
The lilligant tilted her head and held a leafy hand to her face, giving her trainer her best look of innocent confusion.
Anna crossed her arms and glared sternly at her Pokemon. "You know what I mean. Now hop to it!" Anna didn't like being so firm with her Pokemon, least of all her signature Lilligant. But she knew Margerita well enough to know that anything less wouldn't work on her. Margerita was as much of a troublemaker as she was a diva; if the opportunity to cause mischief presented itself, she knew the grass type wouldn't be able to resist.
Slowly, Margerita shuffled over to the half-empty bag of loam and pile of berries she had been working her way through and pointed.
"You aren't fooling me," Anna said, tapping her foot. "I feed you berries all the time and you don't grow from them. What else did you do?"
In response, Margerita again buried her feet in the rich soil and began eating berries. At the same time, she used Growth, her entire body glowing with the light of vitality as nutrients surged through her. Then, much to Anna's surprise, the grass type began growing again!
Her growth was more horizontal than vertical this time around. She gained perhaps a foot or two in height, but her weight was far more dramatic. Margerita's waist swelled out rapidly, her chest beginning to balloon into proper breasts as the move easily increased her weight fivefold from what it had been before.
"Incredible!" Anna exclaimed, forgetting for the moment that she was supposed to be unhappy with her lilligant for getting into trouble. "I knew Growth was going to be a useful move, but I didn't realize it could be this powerful! Just think of the advantage this will give us in battle."
Beaming, Lilligant turned from one side to the other, once more showing off her growing curves to her trainer and looking more pleased with herself than ever before. Before Anna could comment, however, Margerita started to rummage through the trainer's pack once more, clearly on the hunt for more treats.
"Well wait just a minute, Margerita. You can't just go and eat all of the food I brought in one sitting! It will go straight to your... um, straight to your..." Anna trailed off as her Lilligant glanced over her shoulder and regarded her with mild curiosity. The comment about the food going straight to Margerita's thighs seemed to be a moot point; in fact, the grass type would probably have only seen that as encouragement given how pleased she was with her growing figure.
As before, the Lilligant began to glow as she used Growth fueled by the food and rich nutrients. The expansion was exactly as her trainer had warned and within seconds, the grass type's leafy dress was ballooning out to reach truly impressive proportions, her thighs thicker than any Anna had ever seen or even imagined in her life. They weren't the only aspect of Margerita to enlarge, however. Her belly rounded out to match, her burgeoning breasts curving out as well to fill out her massive figure.
"Okay, I get the point. You're big and that's... um, that's great, Margerita. But you don't have to use Growth anymore, alright? The size you're at now is perfect." In truth, Anna was beginning to worry, although she couldn't help but be impressed with the proportions her favorite Pokemon had reached. If Margerita grew much larger, it might not be possible to get her back in her Pokeball. And if that came to pass, who knew what mischief she would get up to?
Margerita ignored her trainer and upended the bag of treats, eating all that remained in a single greedy bite. Immediately, she used Growth and looked down to watch as her figure expanded to even more pleasing proportions. This time, however, the growth was much less noticeable. A bit of girth on her stomach, perhaps, and a bit more cushion in her rear, but hardly any height at all and what expansion there had been seemed to finally be slowing down.
"That's enough, right?" Anna said, patting her Lilligant but only succeeding in reaching up to her hips. "You're the center of attention now. And besides, the food's all gone. You got what you wanted, so you can stop growing."
Margerita regarded her trainer with her deep red eyes, a flicker of mischief gleaming in their ruby depths. Anna backed away and frowned slightly at the sight. Whatever her Pokemon was planning, she was sure it was nothing good. Before she had the chance to ask any questions, however, Margerita raised her arms and suddenly, a burst of pink mist spread out from her prodigious body to engulf the surrounding glade in its sweet scent. Anna opened her mouth to protest the use of more moves, but all she got for her troubles was a deep breath of the enticing, pheromone-laced aroma. Suddenly, everything that Margerita had done up to that point seemed trivial, praise-worth even.
Anna shook her head to clear the haze that was beginning to cloud her thoughts. She had to stay strong. She couldn't let her own Pokemon manipulate her this easily. But even as she resisted, she suspected the effort was futile. A part of her wanted to praise the Lilligant, to gladly give her whatever she wanted. And as much as she fought against the feelings, the part of her that wished only to give in was growing by the second.
"You've been very good," Anna said at last as she once more patted her beloved partner and admired her growth with new eyes. "But you need to be even bigger, I think! Let me help you." The pheromones had won over her heart and mind, for the moment at least.
Spurred on by the near-hypnotic state the sweet scent had put her in, Anna hurried to her pack and grabbed the watering can from before. This time, however, she took a small packet of special nutrients she had been saving as a treat for her Lilligant and sprinkled the entire thing into the fresh water. "Here you go," she sang, showering Margerita's lower half with the formula.
Much to her delight, her Pokemon began glowing again as her Growth took effect. Fueled by the new influx of nutrients, her expansion once again took off with a dramatic burst. Her height doubled, now standing easily over twelve feet tall.
Anna stood back and looked at her beloved Pokemon with pride and admiration clear on her face. In her pheromone-addled state, she couldn't think of a more lovely sight than Margerita growing ever larger. "You look amazing," she said, leaning against the grass type's plump form and hugging into the leafy skirt. "But we can make you bigger. Follow me!"
Anna eagerly hurried toward the nearest grove of trees, Margerita lumbering close behind her. The two pushed through some underbrush, a much easier task now that the Lilligant was big enough to flatten it without even trying, and before long, they had reached a crystal-clear spring. The water bubbled over mossy stones and into a wide, circular pool that was large enough for Margerita to bathe in, even at her new size.
"I bet if you used Growth in there, you'd really shoot right up!" Anna exclaimed, her head spinning with the intensity of the pheromones still pumping through her body. "Go ahead and give it a try!"
Margerita nodded, happier than ever before, and waded into the cool waters of the spring. Once she had submerged up to her waist, she closed her eyes and once again used Growth, letting all the purity and strength of the water surrounding her flow into her and strengthen the move's power. In response, she glowed brighter than ever before and a rumbling filled the grove as her height began to shoot upward at a dizzying rate. Waves sloshed out of the spring and across the leaf-littered floor as her girth increased exponentially.
Anna had to take a few steps back as the grass type loomed ever higher, but she never once took her eyes off the incredible sight. "Margerita, you're as big as the trees now!" she cried out happily. It was true; her the flower crowning her head was level with the very tallest branches which had once towered over her.
"I... I am!" Margerita replied, her own surprise mirrored in her trainer's face at the unexpected development.
"And you... You can talk? How long have you been able to do that?"
"I'm not sure. It must be a side-effect of all the growing I've been doing," Margerita laughed, patting her expansive frame with one leafy hand.
"You really have grown a lot," Anna commented, gazing in admiration at the verdant giant looming over her. "I never would have guessed you could get this big before!"
"This is nothing," Margerita replied with a laugh. "I've only just started growing! I'm going to keep on getting bigger and you're going to help me."
"Bigger than this? But you're already the size of a tree!"
"But why stop at just a puny little tree? I could be a mountain! Besides, growing feels incredible, and that just gets better and better the more I do it." Margerita looked down at the spring. Where before it had been the size of a large pool to her, it was now becoming uncomfortably tight. If she grew any larger while standing in it, she feared she might get stuck. "I think I've reached the limits of this place, though," she said. "We need to find somewhere I can absorb even more nutrients in. Maybe the river near town?"
The pink haze of pheromones clouding Anna's mind made the suggestion sound like the greatest idea in the world. "How perfect," she agreed with a bright smile. "Then all the townsfolk can admire you, too." At that moment, there was nothing she would have loved more than to spread the admiration of her beloved Lilligant to the town, indeed to the whole world if possible. And the longer she was exposed to the constant mist of pheromones drifting about the grass type's body, the stronger that desire became. Yes, she thought with a smile that would have made her hypnotized state obvious to any bystanders, Margerita would become a celebrity before the day was done. There was no doubt about that anymore.
II
The closest town to the meadow in which Anna and her team had been relaxing was Village Bridge, a small town to be sure, but a bustling one nonetheless. Anna had been given the honor of riding atop her Lilligant's head as the two made their way toward the slow-moving river over which the bulk of the village was constructed and from her perch, she could already make out the tiny shapes of people going about their business.
"This must be what we all look like to Margerita now," she murmured to herself, eyes widening in awe at the power that her Pokemon must now possess. Then, speaking up and patting the gigantic bloom that grew from her Lilligant's head, she said, "That's the river! Let's wade in and see how much bigger you can get!"
Margerita didn't need to be told twice. Humming happily, she entered the river with a mighty splash, her bulky body's movements through the water causing waves that lapped at the opposite bank. People on the bridge stopped what they were doing to stare in shock and awe at the gigantic Pokemon which had seemingly appeared out of nowhere, impossibly large for all but the largest Pokemon, never mind a mere Lilligant. And yet, here she was, undeniable in her stature. Margerita waved happily at the onlookers and as she did so, the pink mist of pheromones grew even thicker around her. The breeze blowing along the river carried the sweet scent to the people closest to the bridge's railing and within seconds, they were blinking in slow, pleasant confusion and regarding the Pokemon with a newfound admiration mirrored in her own trainer's doting gaze.
"Go and find me nutrients," Margerita commanded, her booming voice carrying all the weight and regal grace of a queen. "Fertilizer, vitamins, anything will do. But go quickly and pour it into the water near me! I must get even bigger!"
"R-Right away!" the pheromone-addled townsfolk replied, hurrying off in all directions to obey her command.
"Wow, Margerita, you have your own fan club now," Anna laughed. "Coming here was a good idea, after all."
"Yes, it was," agreed the grass type. "And soon, you'll all see just how good of an idea it was! I'll grow bigger than a Pokemon has ever grown before!"
"How big do you think you can get?" Anna asked.
Margerita tilted her head in thought, gazing down at her already-incredible girth and height. "I think I have a lot more growing to do before I hit my maximum," she said at last. "Hundreds of feet, maybe even thousands. And maybe, just maybe, there won't be a maximum size I can reach. With enough energy, I could become the biggest thing ever!"
"Whatever the case may be, it's going to be an honor to see you reach your full potential. I couldn't be happier as a trainer!"
Moments later, the initial wave of onlookers returned carrying buckets of fertilizer, plant food, vitamins, and anything else that looked like it might be useful to the gigantic Lilligant which had so unexpectedly graced their little town with her presence. The water at her feet grew thick with dumped goods and, once she deemed enough had been offered up to her, she spread her arms and used Growth once more.
As had happened so many times before already, her body was illuminated with a soft white light as the nutrients were absorbed into her, suffusing her entire, massive body. This time, however, the response was immediate and dramatic. Her form began to balloon outward, her breasts truly becoming titanic and her hips even more so. Most dramatic of all, however, was the change in her height. Her eyes had been level with the lower supports holding up Village Bridge when she had first waded into the river. Now, however, she shot well past even the tallest roofs of the buildings on the bridge's surface. Anna held onto the enlarging flower with all her strength, her heart fluttering with excitement as her beloved Pokemon shot up past a hundred feet or more in height. The waves in the river grew even more intense, washing against the pillars holding up the town like a storm-tossed ocean.
A cheer erupted from the stunned onlookers at the bridge's railing. The enthusiasm in the air had grown to become as palpable as the pheromones still surrounding the oversized Lilligant like a rosy mist. As Anna looked out at the crowd of people, she noticed several had broken away from the view and were running back into the town proper. Whether to get their friends or more food for the ever-growing grass Pokemon, she didn't know.
"Thank you, everyone!" Margerita said, her ruby eyes shining with pride at the attention she was receiving. "Keep on giving me whatever you have to make me grow and soon the whole region will love me just as much as you do."
Even as she spoke, however, the Lilligant looked down at the churning water and frowned. She was growing so large that even the deepest part of the river, which had previously reached her waist, was now only half as deep as it had been. Her growth was slowing down again and soon, it would stop. "This can't be the limit of what I can achieve," she rumbled, moving her great bulk from side to side and watching the waves crash against the shores of the river with the slight movement. "Even if they gave me all the fertilizer and food in the whole village, I don't know if I could manage another hundred feet on that."
"What are you going to do?" Anna asked. Seized as she was in the grip of the potent pheromones, the thought of Lilligant no longer growing was a terrible tragedy that sent a chill into her heart. "There has to be something we can do to keep you growing bigger and bigger!"
The Lilligant glanced upward, a thought suddenly coming to her. "Yes, I think there may be something I haven't thought of before. It's worth a try, at least!" Margerita spread her arms again, her shadow falling over the adoring crowd on the bridge far below. This time, however, she focused on the sunlight shining across her gargantuan body. As a grass type, she could get energy from the sun if she desired, and with her newfound size, she had far more surface area to absorb it through. Food and nutrients were undoubtedly best when at more normal scales, but now, who was to say what would work and what wouldn't?
Margerita's next wave of growth was slow at first. Her shadow cast over Village Bridge gradually deepened and, to everyone's delight, her expansion soon began to pick up the pace. In fact, the growth was starting to become exponential. The bigger she got, the more quickly she grew even larger. The river sloshed and churned beneath her until at last, it couldn't hold her any longer and she stepped out onto dry land.
"This is incredible!" Anna exclaimed, holding on with all her strength to the flower which was rapidly becoming the size of an island to her. "Forget about the biggest Pokemon in the world. You're going to be the biggest thing in the world, Margerita! Bigger than the tallest mountain!"
"And all the world will love me and pamper me," Margerita agreed, her voice now booming across the diminishing landscape.
The grass type shot past two hundred feet in the blink of an eye. Five hundred feet soon followed and still her growth showed no signs of stopping. By the time she had surpassed a thousand feet in height, Anna could see distant Nimbasa City from her perch on her beloved Pokemon's head. It was only a matter of time before the people in Nimbasa saw Margerita, too. Indeed, all of Unova would soon be aware of their new favorite Lilligant, growing as she was in the remote corner of the landscape.
Anna laughed as she looked down and saw a flock of Pidoves flying beneath the level of Margerita's head. The grass type had gotten so large that it was hard to say for sure just how large she had grown, but a look toward the distant mountains suggested she had passed two thousand feet. Soon, those mountains would be mere bumps in the road to her.
"If you keep going like this, you'll be as big as Unova itself!" Anna shouted. As dramatic of a claim as it was, it was also undoubtedly true. Already, the whole of Village Bridge could have been fit within the protective petals of the flower atop Margerita's head.
In response, Margerita patted her titanic form and looked down to admire her curves dramatically eclipsing the land below. Anyone standing in the Village Bridge would have had a hard time seeing the Lilligant's face, so great had her body become. "This is as it should be," she said, her voice rumbling across the land like sweet music carried by thunder. "Now everyone will see me and love me as they should! Not just all of Unova, but the whole world! I'll be the most famous Pokemon to have ever lived!"
Anna's heart swelled with admiration and pride at the thought. Her own partner had outgrown the tallest mountains in Unova. Entire towns could live on the hilly landscape of her body if she chose to allow them on. And through it all, Anna had the honor of riding atop her Lilligant's head. It was more than she could have ever hoped for.
Looking up, she saw the clouds starting to take on a pinkish hue that had little to do with the afternoon sun. Margerita's pheromones had drifted into the upper atmosphere and become clouds of their own, her size finally altering the very weather of the region itself. It wouldn't be long before those glittering clouds rained down their contents on the rest of Unova, bringing everyone from far and wide under Margerita's spell.
Anna laid down in the strange meadow of Margerita's flower and watched the beautiful clouds pass them by, far closer than they had ever looked before. Yes, she thought to herself, this was the life. She could no longer remember her old self who had scolded her Lilligant for getting into the nutrients without permission. The very thought of stopping Margerita's growth was unconscionable.
Margerita had become a queen, after all, and queens should be allowed to grow as much as they wanted.
Lambent-North, link to his submission here: https://www.deviantart.com/lambent-north/art/Lilligant-...
