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The hunter

Curled up in a coil, Ninicco watches a shrew feast upon something meaty. She waits for a moment, then steadily inches closer as it blissfully continues to chew and nom on its gathering.

She then strikes the shrew. It squirms for a good minute, only causing Ninicco to clamp harder around its neck until she hears a distinct *snap*.

She swallows the rodent in a massive bite and continues on her day. She knew she was small now, but she had been eating more snakes, so she knew she was bigger than she had been. She continues along a path she had found and stumbles upon a great plains. There she eats plants of grass, grains, different herbs, and bushes. The mimic transforms into a bush briefly, curious to what it would feel like. And its boring. She walks around using her roots and plants them firmly into the ground where she now waits.

Patience is something Ninicco has developed over the months she spent in the cave doing practically nothing. What she is waiting for she does not know, but she does so anyway for she has nothing to do.

After nearly 3 months, she has grown flowers and berries that she didn't know she could. She realized that sunlight was one of the few things she could absorb that made her less hungry rather than more.

Finally she knew what she was waiting for as she spots it, an Elk that has come from the forest to graze. It spots her and comes over to eat her berries.

With every berry the Elk eats, more pain is brought to Ninicco. She decides it it time to feast herself. She steadily grows a wall around herself and the elk as it blissfully eats. And then grows a ceiling above to make sure it cant get away.

The elk notices the ceiling and stops to look around. It walks around the bush and steps on the dirt connected to it. Ninicco turns into her true form, for it is the largest one she currently has. This frightens the elk and it attempts to pummel her with it's hooves. Though the density of the mimic form is so hard that it doesn't leave a single scratch. She bites into the flesh of the Elk, causing it to screech in pain. She bites again and again, causing blood to gush all over her. This annoys the mimic. She unhinges her jaw and expands her mouth so that she can wrap it around the elk and swallow it whole, causing an end to its existence.

Something in Ninicco's mind clicks into place and she transforms into the elk. This was now her largest form. She had some ideas to make it into more of a predator, so she tests it out. She gives it tubes for antlers structured similar to the mosquito's mouth and adds in butterfly tongues to make it more effective. She gives it claws like the dragon and scales for better armor. She then gives it her own teeth in multiple rows. This was better.

Ninicco transforms back into the elk for better camouflage and wanders around the woods again. She was honestly sick of the plains after being rooted there for so long. In the woods she sees animals that normally wouldn't be in this climate, such as small lizards. She eats a few of them on her journey, as she didn't feel worried about eating too many now that she knew photosynthesis could fight against her hunger. She always stays close to the path. For she knows she might find civilization.

Suddenly she hears a rustling in a nearby bush and feels something hit her in the side. It was a crossbow bolt. It penetrated her skin, but she always has her dense mimic skin underneath for added protection, so it only lodged itself there. It didn't exactly hurt, but it felt annoying.

She feels another one. This one placed where an elk's heart would normally be. At this point she plays dead and flops to the ground. She creates 2 legs that she can use to launch herself off the ground and a mouth on her other side that she can better eat with.

She hears steps coming towards her and then hears them stop,

"What the...", the human crouches down and looks at the bolts lodged in the skin of the elk. He examines it closely and feels its side. He feels the lips and lifts one of them up to see the teeth. He immediately falls to the ground in fear,

The mouth opens and speaks, "you wanted to hunt me didn't you? Thats too bad. For you anyway", an eye grows in on the entire side of the Elk's face and it just stares at the man.

The man screams and reaches for his crossbow when Ninicco lunges at him and chomps his arm off. The man yells loudly in pain until his head is bitten off, then the rest of his body is eaten in three bites.

Ninicco transforms into the hunter, with short blonde hair, green eyes, and a barbershop mustache. "Hmm, this is different", she had not yet been a male yet. It was definitely something to adjust to, she changes herself into a mix of her mimic form and gives it human skin and a fewfeatures from this man. Now this was the most inconspicuous form she had.