So uh, what started as a sketch based on a song I was listening to ended up this full-blown artwork along with an accompanying story. I hadn't planned on writing stories for my artwork again let alone this particular piece, but it seems like I couldn't help it this time. I wrote the story in one sitting around the pic as I uploaded this and it's now the morning, so I'm tired and it's probably a bit of a mess but whatever. Consider it a bonus to the pic.

As for the pic, I don't think I've ever drawn Oregene truly large before and so I wanted to make him so. Everything else just came about as I was drawing.

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"A green one"

The whispering startled Oregene as he bolted up, mouth full of strawberries freshly picked them from the bushes he was crouching over. As far as he knew there wasn't a living creature in these forests for miles. To hear someone speaking took him completely by surprise.

"Who's there!?" Oregene spluttered, strawberries still stuffed in his cheeks.

The green and amber dragon looked around the dense forest and brambles looking for the source of the voice. He didn't want any trouble, which is why he took this trail in particular. It was a longer path between each town but no one took it for that reason. He wouldn't be bothered.

"And a large one at that..."

The whispers surrounded him again. Oregene frowned as he looked down at his ample body. Even without all the extra weight he had there was no denying he was bigger than the average drake but he preferred that. He was a strong believer in healthy meals and the benefits gained from leading a life that revolved around extra helpings at mealtimes and extended rests during the day. He had even brought four days worth of food with him on a two-day hike so that he would always have a full stomach. Although the weight stretched the straps around his belt and shirts never quite covered his belly at times, he usually didn't take his size as an insult. Usually.

"He's already eating them."

Oregene focused over his belly back down at the bushes that grew the bright red strawberries he had just finished swallowing, presuming they were what the whispering was referring to. Of course he was going to eat wild fruit that he came across out here. No self-respecting traveler would miss the opportunity to do the same, and he knew they were safe to eat. Besides, he was hungry. He was always hungry, but that was besides the point. It's not like these belonged to anyone.

"He's perfect."

The taste of the strawberries were still strong in his mouth, sweet and almost warming. His initial shock had worn off and was turning to slight irritation. He didn't know who had happened to follow him here, but he wasn't about to be made fun of by some smart-ass stranger. He bent down over the bushes again and with one swoop of his hands he scooped as many berries as his thick fingers could hold. A grin fell over his face as he stood back up and looked into the darkness surrounding him. Oregene was rarely violent, but he knew his size was intimidating. He was surely the biggest thing in this forest and he was going to use that to his advantage.

"So" Oregene said addressing the forest. He picked a single strawberry from his left hand and placed it slowly in his mouth, making a spectacle with his maw opening wide in the process. "Are these berries yours?"

Wind rustled through the trees in response. He could still feel someone's presence.

"I take it these aren't yours then?" He said, tossing two berries into the air and catching them in his mouth. A new confidence had started to grow. He was having fun throwing his weight around and started pacing slowly up and down. "So you'll have no issue-" He stuffed the rest of the strawberries in his mouth "If I eat them, right?"

He gazed out at the forest chewing the strawberries, the sly grin still on his face. It slowly fell from his face as he was once again met with no response.

"Well I guess I'll just have to eat all them, then!" He shouted defiantly. Swishing his tail around he flew back to the cluster of strawberry bushes. With no hesitation he was crouching down and frantically plucking at as many strawberries as he could and shoving them into his maw. He wasn't going to let whoever it was get the better of him. He was determined to eat as many strawberries as he could to piss them off. Plus the berries were exquisite; juicy and bursting with sweetness. He could the warmth of them flow down his throat as he continued to place them within his mouth. In the heat of the moment he had forgotten how hungry he was too. His stomach groaned as it made room for the sudden influx of sugary fruit.

All around him he could hear faint giggling between the treetops, but that just steeled his determination. He shuffled from the bush he had cleaned of berries to the next one and continued to gorge on fruit, failing to notice the first bush had regrown it's berries almost instantaneously. The more he ate the more he felt great. The tenseness he had was fading as he satisfied his hunger. Already a hefty guy with a belly, the fruit was only making him wider. His gut swelled forward and bulged out of his shirt while his pants grew tight from thickening thighs.

"Eat them up, eat them up"

Soft chanting was wafting through the leaves and tickling Oregene, but it wasn't enough to distract him from his task. He went from bush to bush stripping them bare, eating them faster as his desire forced him into a rhythm. His stomach bowed out in front of him swelling with the constraining shirt. He had forgotten about his surroundings and the presence around him, all that mattered was gorging his hunger and the euphoria that accompanied it.

Moments later Oregene was wobbling between bush, shirt stretched skin tight over the top of his fat belly as the lower half hung down over his belt. His legging of his pants, fairing no better, were now riding up as his thighs expanded. Still, he ate and he ate with no care. He could feel his chest and rump expanding as his belly started struggling to fill the constant calories entering. The threads on all his clothes creaked from the strain and his belt bulged dangerously.

"Eat them up, eat them up"

With a snap that echoed out over the place, his belt finally gave way and opened out with more layers of fat desperately filling the new found space. His entire frame continued to balloon wider and wider the more his fat fingers grabbed at the fruit. His looming belly was the size of a table and jiggled in time with the leaves in the branches. He was finding it difficult to continue his personal buffet with his globular arms and immense weight, but the stretched material that was once his shirt and pants conceded their battle with the bulge and ripped wide open, allowing for his expansive frame to finally be free.

"Eat them up, eat them up"

Soon Oregene was as wide as a boulder, his belly swelling out, around him and touching the ground in a mass of soft fat. His chest rested ontop of his enormous belly and sloshed at eye-level while his rump wobbled between his thick tail. His immense weight was finally getting the better of him. With one sway of the wrecking-ball his stomach had become, his weight shifted behind him and came crashing down on his ballooned behind that thundered through the surroundings with a booming bass. The fall shook him out of the food obsessed trance he was in. He round cheeks began to blush a deep maroon as the realization set in; he had eaten himself to the size of an immobile elephant.

Rustling came from all around him. then footsteps towards his direction. He tried moving to see who was approaching but all he could do was wobble his arms around and rotate the flabs of fat that was his neck.

"Why has he stopped eating?"

Yellow eyes were focusing on him from the darkness. Outwards stepped a quadrupedal lime green dragon-like creature with a thick, unkempt mane and green as the undergrowth in the forest and delicate yellow wings. As the creature came closer a long slender tail whipped behind them, ending in a spear of more unkempt green fur that matched the mane. The creature stared up at the mass lump of lard, barely containing giggling fits.

"I believe he's unable to"

Another creature stepped forward, revealing similar features to the first one and fighting back laughter as well.

"Well we can't have that, now, can we?"

More and more of the creatures emerged from the forest, joining in the spectacle of this beached dragon.

"If he wants to eat all the strawberries then what kind of hosts would we be to deny him?"

Oregene could do nothing but watch as the creatures grabbed buckets from the darkness and smirked as they filled them with strawberries. In no time they had buckets full of the ripe berries, and the bushes grew their fruit back just as fast. The first creature grabbed two buckets and with effortless, quick flutters of it's yellow wings flew up to meet the towering drake at his swollen face.

"Open wide!"

He couldn't fight back against the wily creature as it swiftly opened his mouth for him and shoveled the bucket into his mouth, cheeks bulging and barely containing the fruit. For fear of choking, Oregene had no choice but to chew and swallow the bucket-load of fattening fruit. His head swam as he felt his body struggle to expand further than it already was. Before he had even collected his thoughts there was a second bucket finding it's way inside his mouth.

Time stretched out and seemed like eternity. The creatures were relentless with their stuffing, all taking turns flying buckets of strawberries to him and making him capable of only one thing; growing larger and larger. Each swallow he made his stomach groaned and widened out to meet the surrounding trees. Rolls upon rolls of fat piled upon all of his limbs and spread down over the surrounding land.

"Eat them up, eat them up"

The creatures had begun their chanting again just as his head poked out through the tallest canopy of trees. His mass was starting to clear the surrounding forest and plants. He was the size of a city building and still growing. All around his body the creatures were darting to and fro like flies, poking at his sides and massaging the rippling rolls. Oregene could barely feel the pokes between each new bulge of supple fat expanding out of him. Juice from the berries flowed down his massive face and collected like lakes in the many folds of fat in his neck.

If Oregene was aware of his own size he wouldn't have believed his own body was capable of growing so large, but his entire conscience was taken up by the consistent need to swallow the backlog of strawberries piling up in his mouth. His entire existence had been reduced to increasing his mass as much as possible. His hands and feet were swallowed inside their engorged limbs as his circumference took up a mile, then two, then four. The surrounding trees were like toothpicks as his belly steamrolled over them in it's task to expand wider.

An hour later and Oregene was unrecognizable as anything else than a mountain. From over his vast rolls he could see the skyline of jagged rock and forest than rivaled him in size. He had no idea how many strawberries he had consumed or how it was even possible for him to do so, but he now spanned the entire length of his two day trip he was making. He figured he could be seen from all the surrounding towns too. The thought embarrassed him.

The creatures, finally growing exhausted from their efforts, retired to enjoying the massive girth they had created, either jumping on and massaging the pillowy rolls while others were resting on his behemoth behind. Two of them flew up to meet him eye-to-eye.

"How did you enjoy our strawberries?"

"Mmmph" Oregene could do nothing but growl, his swollen cheeks were beyond speech.

"Atta boy. We were just thinking what we could do with you now. A few of us were thinking about opening up a tourist attraction around you. People would come all around the world to climb 'The Living Mountain' and to gawk at the fattest living thing in the world. Some were thinking about keeping you as our own personal fatzilla, use you to scare off threats or even blackmail cities or we'll squash them. That kinda thing, y'know."

"Or..." said the other creature, picking up a stray strawberry that had rolled away and placing it within it's mouth. "We could show you our raspberry fields. See how big a guy like you can reeeeally get."

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