The pond loomed larger as the still-changing Jared approached the muddy edges, his webbed feet making sucking, squelching noises as they hopped over the muddy expanse.
His size had dwindled after he left the house, and by the time he leapt the fence and entered the muddy pond water, he had shrunken to the size of a normal frog.
As he traded human form for that of an amphibian, his grasp on the medallion slipped and his tiny webbed limbs no longer held it. As he hopped toward the water, he left the shiny item behind in the mud and aquatic plants at the pond's edge.
His longer back legs kicked and he propelled himself through the water. His amphibian form swam almost as well as a fish.
When he grew tired of swimming, he pulled himself onto a lily pad as big as a raft. The sun warmed his slimy green body. Being a frog wasn't too bad, but he couldn't get the stale taste of that fly out of his mouth.
"Better not eat any more of them," he thought to himself.
Suddenly, Jared and his lily pad were plunged into darkness as a gigantic shape blocked out the sun.
Terrified, he gazed up at the huge figure of his kid brother. "Kevin!" Jared croaked.
He looked at his younger sibling. Kevin looked like a freakin' storybook giant. His brother carried a huge plastic bucket and a long-handled mesh net.