After Beijing and Shanghai, China’s largest city is Guangzhou, in the southern part of the country. Guangzhou was one of the first Chinese cities to embrace foreign cultures and modernism, and its architecture reflects that, intertwining its rich history with avant-garde styles.
The result is a collection of buildings that stand out as unusual even among the eclectic architecture throughout China’s big cities.
And, for macros, there’s nothing more enticing than some unusual architecture.
And so, when a giant dragoness appeared in southern China, the gleaming skyline of Guangzhou was naturally an appealing destination to have some fun.
Veroxyde stood more than 2,000 feet tall, towering over every single skyscraper of the Cantonese skyline as she surveyed the city below. The dragoness was primarily dark gray, with white fur giving the impression of spiky hair along her head and down her back, accented with bright teal.
Already, the many smaller buildings that crumbled under her feet had brought her so much pleasure on her inexorable march through the suburbs and outskirts of Guangzhou. But the built-up parts of the city — the business and financial districts, the areas of art and culture — that’s where she knew she’d get the most enjoyment.
It was still early in the morning and most of the city’s 18 million inhabitants were only just learning of the impending threat to their city. While they began to flee for their lives, Vero simply scanned the skyline — most of it well below waist-level — as she approached downtown.
A glimmer of gold on the banks of the Pearl River soon caught her eye, and she headed directly for it, flattening countless buildings beneath her teal pawpads along the way.
Her target was the Guangzhou Circle, an office building that, for some reason, had been constructed to look exactly like a large disc, complete with a hole in the middle. To Vero, it looked like breakfast: a bagel or donut, perhaps.
She plucked the structure off the ground with ease, raising the 450-foot building to her mouth as if it were nothing. Then, she sank her sharp fangs into it, tearing a chunk of metal — and the hundreds of office workers inside — straight out of the building. Onlookers watched, horrified, as the dragoness methodically chewed and swallowed her “meal,” the unusual structure vanishing into her stomach in a matter of minutes.
“Ah, what an excellent breakfast you made for me,” Vero teased the city’s inhabitants as she finished it off. “I’ve got a big day ahead, and that’ll give me plenty of energy.”
She already knew where she was headed next. Off in the distance, roughly five miles away, was the Canton Tower, the tallest building in Guangzhou. The tallest anything made a natural target for macros, and Vero was eager to show off her dominance over the city.
A five-mile walk, including a detour to cross the river, would’ve taken hours for a normal fur. For Vero, it took less than a minute walking at a casual pace, smirking along the way as she stomped on and kicked over lesser buildings.
The dragoness circled the tower once she arrived, looking at it from different perspectives and giving hope to those inside that maybe — maybe — she’d let it stand. They watched as another piece of unusual architecture, the Guangzhou Opera House, momentarily distracted Vero.
She raised her paw high above it, then brought it down with a thunderous boom. The glass exterior of the building shattered into enormous shards as Vero laughed. “See? You don’t need to sing really high notes to destroy glass. It’s easy!”
Vero moved back toward the Canton Tower, away from where the wrecked opera house lay covered in sharp glass. A grin curled across the dragoness’s snout as she looked up and down the bow-shaped tower and began to walk past it.
For a brief moment, onlookers were relieved, thinking the giantess was going to ignore the building and leave it be.
Then Vero swung her hips. Thousands of tons of draconic thigh connected solidly with the tall, thin building. The tower never stood a chance. It exploded outward, showering the city below with chunks of metal and debris.
Veroxyde watched her handiwork with pride, then turned and began walking to another part of the city. In a city this big, after all, there’s plenty of fun buildings to crush and destroy… and the dragoness planned to enjoy as many as possible.
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