Being small can have its complications, but it also has its perks. This whole "not having to walk under my own power" thing is pretty neat. I mean sure being able to fly's cool and all, but not having to fly because someone else is taking you places is even cooler.

  The Me that is Small, henceforth referred to as Mini-Me if and when convenient, was almost identical to myself. In order to have a proper sympathetic link to it and make it work better, I gave it a circulatory system complete with a replica of my heart and filled it with my blood, it actually was more of a hydraulic system that would help its movements appear more natural.

  It was a small statuette that resembled myself, not a real living being, and it was more difficult than you'd think to remote control something to move even remotely naturally.

  But I managed to make it work, so I hunkered down Big Me's body and then focused most of my consciousness on Mini-Me, draping myself over Aqua's shoulders like a very scaly scarf and cape combo.

  So we went into the festival. It was surprisingly nice actually to be able to attend without causing a huge panic.

  "Hello! Yes, I've returned- this is the Lady Aqua of Argentum!"

  Some very old dude, with a Fu Man Chu or whatever the name was, that thin mustache that's like hairy limp noodles with the pointy goatee, and what I suppose is this world's equivalent for central European or perhaps Eurasian features though that could just be the weird choice for mustache making me see things.

  I don't want to say all humans look the same because it sounds kinda bad, but all humans start looking the same when you meet as many as I do.

  "Ahh, yes - Priestess of the Dragon, we are honored that you would bring such august personage to this our village... Auspicious omen indeed! Being of great power, Big Bad Reptile-"

  Wait, what the hell? Was that what their word for dragon meant? That was actually really funny for some reason, it was so stupid and silly that my real self actually laughed, even if Mini-Me remained mostly serious.

  Oh right they were talking, I had to focus again.

  "... to placate the Goddess of the Moon whose fury is coming down upon us!"

  Huh?

  The hell was he talking about? Oh, maybe they've got some advanced astronomical knowledge and they've been looking at the sky, so they've seen the meteor coming, but that's okay, I handled that.

  "Please, follow us to the main plaza!"

  Aqua carried me on her shoulders and the Dragon Priestess stepped forward.

  "Lady Aqua, please remember that if you wish to have any food, you must finish it all, they tell me that leaving food leftovers is the biggest insult in their culture!" the Priestess explained.

  The elder showed us to the plaza, and there was already a raised platform, set up with some wooden constructions that looked quite shitty. To be honest I've seen better from much less developed tribes than this. Guess there's always a hole in everyone's tech tree.

  I really want to play some videogames actually.

  Mini-Me's tail whipped and I prodded Aqua. "Ah, you want food then?"

  I made the small me nod.

  "We'll pick you up some then," she then turned around. All around us were, well, not stalls, it was more like tents without walls, gazebos but not quite, usually just a couple of long wooden or bronze sticks holding up a tarp and under it someone cooking over an open fire, or a pit, or a collection of very hot rocks.

  There was a lot of fish, river fish, and I was quite looking forward to trying out a bunch of them.

  "Alright, then we'll make sure to pick you up plenty of that," she said. "Priestess, ask them to prepare us as much of their fish as they can so that we may take it to the less adorable version of my husband."

  "Alright!" she then turned to the Elder and approached him, telling him about it.

  "You find me adorable?" I asked through the doll.

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  "I find you adorable in the way a dumb animal can be adorable and frustrating simultaneously," she corrected. "I believe some people find idiot children adorable in the same fashion. In this form I suppose you offend my senses less."

  "Aww..."

  "Alright! " the priestess called as she came back. "We can pay them when we do the exchange, we can take everything that's leftover and we can discuss the price later, I believe there is no price the Great Silver One cannot meet!" she said, putting her hands on her hips and nodding. "And if we can't then we can just beat them up and take it."

  "No we can't that's not good!" I rapidly interrupted.

  "But it's their own rules, they host a tournament! Winner may have their wish granted, I can use the wish to get the food!"

  Oh.

  "Well then I will support you and cheer for you," I said.

  "I could actually just take it you know, I am a Dragon, I do what I want when I want," Aqua pointed out. "I'm only going along with this charade because I know it would upset you if I didn't."

  "Aw, you're taking my feelings into account, you really do like me," I nudged her with my Mini-Me's head, bumping it against her cheek.

  "Ah, please, find a good seat, the spectacle will begin soon!"

  "Alright," the priestess responded to the elder, "come over, when I was here earlier I saw a place to sit, over there," she gestured to a big tree in the big plaza, which had huge roots, actually it was more roots than anything else, and people were using its massive over-the-ground roots as seats.

  The priestess grabbed us some food from the tents and then both she and Aqua went to sit on the tree roots, as a ceremony began, with much pomp and looking very self important and self absorbed.

  There were a couple people singing terrible, there were some primitive music instruments that were mostly just people breathing into big cones with weird shapes, ringing bells and banging drums.

  The son of the elder, some prince guy that wasn't really a prince and certainly wasn't named Ali, but certainly had the ego accompanying someone who would have their own song and dance number in a village festival, put on a performance. I gave it a six out of ten, music was ass, singing was okay, the dance was absolutely terrible, if I brought my people here these people'd have their minds blown by actual coordinated dancing.

  Either way, it seemed like slowly but surely the festival was getting into swing.

  At least, until the Elder took to the stage. He had a big cone, sort of like a megaphone, wheeled in front of him.

  "People of Village In The Middle Of The Big Canyon!" he called, "we are the children of the Sun, beloved by the Moon, the Gods Above watch over us as we struggle on land!"

  Aqua set me down on her lap while she was eating some fruit that the Priestess brought us, and I listened attentively.

  "But we've erred! We've failed to uphold our principles! We become complacent and we face punishment for it! Look! Look up to the sky! Can you see the Glare of the Moon!?"

  Looking up, I wondered if they were seeing patterns that weren't there... but-

  Huh.

  Didn't I blow that up?

  I blew that up. I know I blew that up. So why's there a huge meteor, nay, a whole ass meteor shower was coming down, hundreds if not thousands of massive meteors... I blew it up! I swear I did!

  "The Sky Shine was an omen, the punishment comes! I've seen it, these aged eyes I possess have seen the rocks coming from the sky! The furious tears of the Moon Mother come to punish us!"

  Right, well, there was still time, I'd have to fix that. I suppose with all the physics I've been ignoring, I've sort of forgotten that breaking up a big rock is only really going to create a bunch of smaller rocks. I won't accept blame for blinding myself with my own attack when I missed this happening, it was totally unavoidable and not something I could've prevented at all.

  As far as anyone other than me knew anyway.

  I think the meteors are too big to burn up on entry, especially with this world's super thick atmosphere and its humongous size meant that I had no idea where any of these would land, part of me was curious to see how they would interact, but I knew that if any of them were to land, anywhere, it'd be a gigantic problem so-

  Wait what was happening while I was thinking about fixing my own mess?

  Why're there people in burlap sack like clothing?

  "Oi oi oi, what's going on?" I asked.

  "I'm not sure, suddenly some people were brought up to the stage," the Priestess spoke. "My human sacrifice senses are tingling!"

  "Of course it'd end this way," Aqua muttered.

  "... to calm the rage of the Moon Goddess, we offer her these unspoiled, pure and untouched children, as sacrifices to her magnificence, as our apology and-"

  Mini-Me wasn't quite so useful anymore, because...

  "No human sacrifices," my voice boomed from the far distance.

  "W-what? What was that voice?!"

  There were murmurs, there were panicked shouts, there was fear, there was panic, there were people getting up and running.

  Then I landed, and it was quite neat to see myself do the cool superhero landing, throwing a shockwave, using my Mini-Me's eyes as a camera. Seeing the same thing from two perspectives at once was trippy but neat too.

  "I said," I stomped my claw on the ground, "no human sacrifices, dammit!" I roared, spreading my wings. There was a part of me that delighted in causing terror in these people.

  However, before I could actually go through with my intent to stop this senseless act of violence...

  The moonlight seemed to coalesce into a humanoid form, and what appeared to be a woman with silver hair and dressed in a white and gray shift formed from it.

  That must be the Moon Goddess they worshipped.

  "Okay which one of you motherfucking shitsucking turdsmoking sons of bitches BLEW UP MY HOUSE!?"

  And that was absolutely not what I expected to hear from her.

  Seemingly instinctively, every human present pointed their finger right at me. They probably didn't even know. I wasn't sure if it'd been me, really. What mattered, however, was that the weird woman seemed to manifest a huge two handed sword out of her sheer anger at me.

  "Imma fucking kill you!" she screamed, as she jumped at me swinging her weapon wildly.

  Battle was joined.