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A few days later after the kids pool day and Murray had a chance to restock his restaurant, a plane landed in the Oak City airport, and it was a very large plane to boot too. Seems like a lot of people that were on the plane came back to Oak City having come back from long business trips. However they did have one passenger who was their just for the sights of Oak City, his name was Claude Lucano. Large muscle gut red wolf with a black torso and purple paw print tattoos, built just like a Gurume but 21 feet and around 15,000lbs. After he and the other passengers left for their vehicles, the large wolf grabbed his duffle bag from the baggage area. He stepped out and started walking to the nearest hotel which was about a few blocks down as everyone knew Gurume as he had a reputation, people couldn’t believe that there was wolf as massive as he was. However lurking in the shadows was a belly goat about to pounce. “Oh my wolf…someone bigger than Gurume….HERE!? I have to feed that belly!!!” Just as Claude got to the hotel, checked in and got up to his room he ordered room service to which Grif answered the call posing as a chef. “How’s your day sir?” He wheeled in a couple hundred carts into the room with Claude looking surprised as ever. “Thank you, whoever you are, but I didn’t order all of this…” Grif couldn’t help but touch that belly making Claude feel somewhat uncomfortable. “Oh don’t you worry sir, I’ll make sure your belly is filled and this is on the house.” Claude went to the table but Grif led him back into his bed. He pulled out the first dish which was full of Steak, veggie burgers, smoked tilapia and chicken parmesan. He was really working on stuffing the wolf but couldn’t really sate him since the wolf had an appetite as big as Gurume’s which only made Grif’s feeding frenzy go into overdrive for the next couple of minutes until the wolf was moaning in his bed and full. “I couldn’t eat another bite…” Grif took off his disguised and started to hug on the side of the belly. “That’s right! Because I stuff you full and gave a nice huge cute belly. Grif couldn’t help himself but lay there for a while until the Red Meteor digested his food while he was asleep. Grif left a note, “You’ve just been fed by Oak’s belly goat: GRIF! You are another one of my people on the list of bellies I must feed. We’ll see each other again!” Claude shook his head and started to roll out of his bed and went to the bathroom and saw that his belly was twice as big. Trying to get out of the hotel room, he got stuck between the doorway; his cheeks turned a deep shade of blue, blushing as he got stuck through the door. People was gawking and laughing a bit as he tried to get out of the door. But then he got an idea, grabbing his bag with his tail and getting his shampoo out. He squirted some on the sides of the door so he can get out. He shut the door and went down the stairs and went through the loading bay doors in the back since he couldn’t fit through the regular doors right now.

Meanwhile, since Melody took the kids to go shopping for next school year, Gurume stayed behind and figures that he had to work off a belly of food that he had eaten a few days ago from Murray’s since he has been stuck in the house while the kids used him as a trampoline. After he got to the Oak City Rec-Cen, he works on his upper body strength on the stronger, more durable pull up bar. However, every time Gurume comes up on the pull up bar, his belly hits the bar too. He kept going until he was able to pull himself up 50 times in a row. At the same time he finished, Claude came into the gym and paid the full $10 for the whole day’s activity, he looks around and even sees Gurume pulling up for the final time and went over to the weight bench press area and starts slamming on 10 tons of top of the line steel for him to lift. Gurume looked over with a glimpse and then a complete stare as he couldn’t believe that there was someone bigger than he was. The Blue Mountain started to put his 10 tons of weight on the bar next to the red wolf and lifts with him. “So there, partner. How’s life?” Claude grunts as he really tries to push on those weights. “Going great, one minute in this city, I get ambushed by a goat.” Gurume puts up his bar and goes over to spot the red wolf. “Was this goat in disguise and wore a white short sleeved shirt with red shorts?” Claude puts up his rack after 10 pushes. “Yeah, why?” Gurume took off his glasses and uses a cloth to clean them while shaking his head. “Oh boy, you sir got yourself a belly goat problem. His name is Grif; his goal is to feed the biggest bellies he sees so he can get in good company with them. But in all truth, he feeds everyone until they are completely immobile. Happened to me more times than I can count. Name’s Gurume, Gurume Gattsu!” Claude stands up and looks at Gurume. “Well I’m normally not this heavy gutted. But my name is Claude Lucano.” Gurume shook his hand, “Sounds like you in from here, are ya pilgrim? I can tell because I know almost everyone here in Oak City. Seems like you know how to eat as well. I’m champion of the eating contest going 30 years in the row. But there is one person that I have yet to out eat! But mark my words; I will have that day come sooner than people think!” Claude rubbed the back of his head and looked at Gurume. “May I ask who’s this person of which you are trying to beat?”Gurume pulled out his wallet and showed a picture of a very large and fatty wolf. “My grandfather, Nature Lord of the Wind, Papawolf Azure.” Claude’s eyes went wide as that was a giant belly. “THAT’S YOUR GRANDFATHER!? He’s as big as a house! No offense, Mr. Gattsu.” Gurume gave a hearty laugh and went to the largest treadmill so he can get his cardio running on all fours. “None taken, in fact it would be such a wild dream just to get my belly as big as his and still be able to carry it around. But besides being fed nearly immobile by that sneaky goat. What brings you to the nice Oak City?” Gurume kept running faster, he may not look it, but he is faster than a cheetah. “Well I’m actually here on vacation to this place; I heard there is one restaurant that gets lots of attention because it serves the best food. I think it was called um….Murray’s I heard they served the best dear meat and I wanted to try on like a burger or something. Maybe even use it as meat in lasagna.” Gurume’s ears perked up when he heard that little experience he wanted to try. “Oh I go there my entire life, Murray and I go way back. I haven’t had anything of his that wasn’t tasty. It is more gratifying when I stuff myself full instead of having that goat do overkill. In fact, why don’t you join me there? I get really hungry after I eat.” Claude able to do a few sit ups and crunches on the floor even though his belly was huge; he managed to bring it down a couple of notches. Gurume when to the weight benches to do curls and squats and accord to his little stats chart that Harriet left for him in his pocket, he grew his muscle mass by about 6 inches since he originally started. Gurume and Claude left the gym together as people started at the biggest wolves that had ever hit the city; Murray was going to be in for a huge surprise.