My seedlings 'fruit' was delicious… I ate it all… "Now that's what I call an Appetite."
“I can’t help it...I need some comfort food damn it…” I whined, burping rather loudly. “Excuse me…” I said sheepishly, my cheeks reddening in embarrassment.
"Well a pass is a pass." He said, snapping his fingers as my now tree vanished. "Planted in your castle garden, seeds already picked and in a bag to plant." He said, walking me to the doors. "Have to say I'll miss the company."
“Well...why don’t you spend time with other people than?” I asked honestly. “You can literally make people to hang out with.” I brought up. “Or are you stuck here?”
"I am free to leave as I choose, but I swore an oath to protect our Mother, so I stay. Besides, the plants help."
“Alright.” I nodded. “I understand, so where is the next door?”
"Past my door is Carth, admin of water." Shinsu said, reaching his now opened doors, showing what looked like a vast ocean on the other side. "Hope you like swimming, or can make a boat."
“Or I can fly.” I said while floating up. “Or I can just use this.” I said while bringing out Arpeggio. “Cause that’ll help, playing a water based instrument with a person that literally invented water.”
"Heh, he's going to like you."
“Cool.” I said while strumming Arpeggio as I started to play my sitar as I started to glide across the water straight into the new circle. “Wonder what Carth will be like here…” I wondered to myself.
As I flew around I noticed as I played… the water was dancing, not like how Arpeggio normally makes it dance, this was different. "Ah haha!" Suddenly, a figure emerged from the water, Carth, looking like nothing more than Water In a humanoid shape. "Such rhythm and vibration! I feel it in every droplet!" They said happily.
“Well you sound very happy.” I said honestly. “And glad you like it, I’ve been practicing with Arpeggio for a long time.”
"Sound and song go along with water more than people realize. My simple creation is a base foundation to over 76% of life existing in any realm, even the void and all it's tainted horrors uses my masterpiece simple, effective, useful, and above all," They said, splashing a large bunch of water into the air, making a rainbow. "Multi purpose!"
“Yep.” I nodded with a smile. “So, what’s my trial going to be Carth?” I asked curiously.
"Trial? Oh right." He said, stopping his and the waters dancing. "I see you use a tool to control my creation very fine tuned. But how much do you know about water?"
“As much as a person who didn’t invent the thing would know.” I said honestly.
"Water, like what drinks and thrives from it, is alive, each drop of it a unique identity and personality co-existing with the bigger picture. One can be deadly." He said, suddenly a small cut on my arm that was not there before was bleeding a little, floating around Carth was a single drop of water. "And in large numbers, devastating heavy force." Massive wave appeared behind him, and held in place. "Your trip young wolf is to find the drop of water that sliced you." He said, the drop floating around him joining the standing wave, and then it all fell back into the ocean below us.
“Well...that’s gonna take a while.” I said before taking a deep breath and strummed Arpeggio, a long ripple flowing through the water. “Dance Water Dance!” I chanted as I started to play with vigor, closing my eyes as I focused on all the water droplets that started to dance to my will. “Even with trying to find a specific grain of sand in a desert...there’s always that one special rhythm…” I muttered while focusing hard, trying to find the one that cut me that would have a different rhythm from all the other droplets.
As I began playing, feeling the rhythm of each, Code slipped in and in each drop I could see each line of code running along, making them them… now which of you is not like the other?
I focused, trying to find any small bit of myself on the droplet, no matter how small to try and get to it. “Come on...I know your here.” I muttered, focusing hard to find the thing.
I found something. A microscopic line of code… me. Using Arpeggio I made the single droplet rise from.the ocean. Carth clapped. "Well done! Smart using code to locate it. Same way Cript did."
“Oh really?” I asked curiously. “Didn’t think he did that.”
"Oh yeah. Cript found out that tiny bits of code stick to anything that hits or even touches one another, like bacteria and germs traveling. This was fun."
“Cool.” I nodded. “Good thing I had Arpeggio to help here...kinda doubt I would have figured that out by myself to be honest.”
"To each their own." He said, a set of large double doors rising from the ocean and opening. "Onto the next."
“Thank you.” I nodded while flying off. “Have a nice day.”
The next area was simple grass field. Haru, Admin of Childhood, was playing with a kickball against the next area door.
“Howdy.” I said politely...before my motherly instincts started shouting at me to pick up and hug the crap out of the adorable child in front of me.
"How long?" He asked.
“How long?” I asked curiously. “What do you mean?”
"I'm the Admin of Childhood, it's nothing like the others. It's more like I can tell when someone still has that wonder and innocence from childhood. You haven't had it for a long time, longer than what's normal. How long ago did you lose it?"
“Maybe the day when I died and came back without my light half?” I said honestly. “Either that or when my life started to spiral out of control after that.”
"How old were you?"
“I..don’t remember..maybe like eight or something?” I said nervously, barely remembering that whole event and I would rather not remember it to be honest.
"And you still blame yourself?"
“I mean...if I actually listened to my mom and not gone into the ocean, or made sure my dad was watching me so yes, my death technically was my fault.” I said honestly.
"You didn't drown accidentally." Haru said, snapping his fingers. Suddenly we were… this beach?
"Mom! Dad I found a crab!" I bolted around, seeing little eight year old me messing with this angry crab.
"Don't let it pinch you!" Dad said, picking me up and using a stick to toss the crab away.
“Okay seriously, this is now the second time I’m being told ‘hey, your original traumatic event was a lie, here’s how it actually happened’.” I frowned.
"This cycle is different, too much so." Haru said, looking rather… serious, for a kid. "The others haven't noticed. I have."
“So I was right…” I muttered. “You must know who caused this sudden event’s right?” I asked curiously.
"About to see who." Haro said, pointing behind me.
"Be careful in the water Ben." Mom said.
"I'll be watching him him." Dad said, watching me splash the water around.
As I was splashing the water around, I noticed the sand behind him was… moving a little… footprints? “That’s...not right.” I said. “I was hit my some douche surfer that made me drown...who the fuck is that?”
Dad looked as his arm suddenly, looking like he was trying to see if someone touched him… then went still, not quite paralyzed, more like dazed. The invisible person walked passed him and into the water. From how the water moved they walked over to me. I looked around a bit, then suddenly I was pulled under.
“Okay who the fuck is this guy…” I muttered, casting a True Sight spell on myself to see if I can see whoever the hell is doing this crap.
"Ben!" I heard my mom shout as Dad snapped out of whatever he was under. He rushed into the water, doing CPR and panicking at my lack of response.
The invisible figure left the water, the spell working til… what the? Me… Psychopath me? "Objective complete boss. Onto the next one."
“Oi, the fuck.” I frowned. “Psychopath me shouldn’t be here yet...and who’s his boss?”
"Don't know, but how he got here could be part of many things that went wrong. Far as I can tell, Everything that went wrong with your life, wasn't even your fault." Haru said, those words hitting me in the chest like a bullet.
“But...what about everything else?” I asked, putting a hand over my heart. “I caused my parents so much problems...and even though I later figured out they were murdered...it still sucked…”
"One way to find out." Haru said, snapping his fingers as we were in my families old apartment. I was sneaking out for that party… the day the cops brought me back and a bunch of fines.
“Ah yes, this memory where I snuck out during a ‘mugger’ sighting and then immediately blamed for it for no reason.” I frowned.
As young me was walking the route to the party, someone ran past me wearing… my exact clothing… I remember that, but didn't think much of it. "Stop!" A cop yelled at me, then grabbing me and tossine against the wall. The double was around the corner with a purse, them tossed it.
They then grew… taller. Him again?! "Second objective complete." He said into an earpiece.
“What the actual hell…” I frowned. “Is all this just ‘hey, let’s fuck with me for some reason’?” I frowned. “Oh I’m going to ask that bastard so many questions.” I growled, thankfully having the book to summon him whenever I want as it was basically his leash.
"As I was suspecting. Someone knew who and when to alter specific events to some ulterior desire? Who though?" Haro asked aloud.
“Either someone that can time travel, or someone’s doing a Xehanort.” I frowned. “And...the only person I can think of that might have been able to do this just from what I’ve heard died off screen like a bitch.” I said, remembering being told Vincent was the Fact of Evil or some crap so it would make sense but Cript killed the bastard. “So either there’s some fourth dimensional chess going on...or someone’s doing a Xehanort here…”
"Whatever the case, this is something you should speak to the mother about when you reach her."
“I should.” I nodded. “So, what’s my trial besides fighting off the urge to hug you?” I asked honestly. “Den mother instincts...always a wonder.”
"Your trip is actually pretty easy." Haru said, Everything shifting back to the grass field it was at first. He walked up to me, poked me. "Tag you're it!" He yelled before rushing off with incredible speed
“Oh you cheeky bastard.” I chuckled before running off after him with my own incredible speed. “Just going to play tag?”
"Yup. I am a kid, and it's pretty boring here."
“Well I am a Den Mother and I have been trying my best not to just hug you and act like a mother for like...ten seconds.” I said honestly. “So just play tag for how long?”
"Til you tag me."
“Alright.” I nodded, shifting into my feral form and running even faster after him.
"Wooo." Haru said, dodging my swipes and tackles with expert skill.
I chuckled, glad he was having fun...but my own actions were being bogged down by thoughts of actually having fun with my own kids…”Damn it…” I muttered bitterly as I pounced at the kid again, thinking more about Haru’s fun than being run down by my own failures.
As Haru ran around, myself chasing him, suddenly, he was tackled. Stopping I saw… a little girl? Blond hair, blue eyes, easily ten or so.
“Excuse me who?” I blinked, wondering who that was.
"So you are the Admin of Childhood? Wonder how such a thing was made, and by you." She spoke, sounding her age but… mature… cruel.
I immediately grabbed the girl and got her off of Haru. “Yeah how about no.” I frowned. “So who the hell are you?” I frowned.
"You're Ben, Admin and King of Nothingness. How redundant." She said, yanking herself free from me. What? How did she? "Either way you're not of my concern. Oh, and pardon the rudeness, but my name is Tanya. Tanya Digurachaf."
“Okay so two things...what are you and how did you get here?” I asked with a frown, preparing for a fight. “Haru...you might need to run.”
"I was sent here by Nexus. I'm one of the… special new recruits. We are made and recruited specifically to deal with you."
“Okay so basically this place isn’t fucking special anymore.” I said.
"Oh it is, took longer than I thought." She said. "Those other admins were a lot more challenging than I was informed. But I only needed to reach you."
“Why did you need to reach me?” I asked honestly. “And...really? Their sending children after me?”
"Children we may be, but we have our strengths. For example, against normal admins this tactic would be ineffective, but against you specifically it's effective."
I summoned my Lexicon. “So, they send children...ruining their lives just to fight me…” I muttered while my book glowed. “Here...let me just show you a little something.” I said while the little girl felt something pull her in. “In my Book World…”
"Ruining our lives? Surely you're joking." She said, a twisted, monsters smile cloaked her face, scaring me actually. "I chose this without hesitation, and without regrets. I was already a general in my world's military, over five hundred confirmed kills."
“So...what? You were reborn into a ten year old?” I asked, the girl looking like...how she was before. “I don’t know where your from, but your Soul shows me something completely different. Cause right now, you look more like a boring salaryman.”
"I'm impressed, you discovered that quickly but then again beings like you can sense these things easily. My original goal in life was to climb the latter's placed before me until I could live leisurely, but things don't always go as planned. In my new life, this new form, that Being X kept getting in my way, then Jericho showed up, and showed me even God's can die. It was then I realized, do all God's and beings above them die? I really want to find out."
“Alright, so let me ask...the fuck are you doing here?” I asked honestly.
"Under orders from the top. I'm here to inform you of our existence is all."
“So...what...you weaponized...children?” I asked. “Even though you are not a child by any standard...am I getting that right?”
"Mentality Wise I'll admit I'm no child, but physically, age wise, biologically, I am. And to use that against your Den Mother Biology is all that it takes."
“Oh...so that is a thing…” I said, Tanya sensing way too much power spike way too fucking high, and the look of someone so pissed it would even scare them.
She backed up a bit, looking scared before laughing. "Just as I thought. No difference between you and Being X. You both use fear and suffering to impose your opinions and way of thinking. As impressive as a scare as that was… it just proved my point. All God like beings are the same. They all need to die."
“Okay, first up that is literally not why I’m mad.” I started. “You said you wanted to fight me as a child because my Den Mother instincts would stop me, well my Den Mother instincts are making me Absolutely fucking Livid because Jericho is low enough to weaponize fucking children!” I shouted in anger. “You, your not a child, even if you try to pull biology shit, but other kids! They were innocent! But no! Just gotta put them through shit that they shouldn’t!”
"Hm. I don't know what's more hysterical. Your lack of leadership and sense of communication, of the fact you think Jericho made this idea? He picked me up, yes, but this group… was all my idea." She said with that twisted smile, vanishing in a puff of code.
“The fuck does leadership and commincation have to do with anything?” I asked, honestly confused about that. “But I’m probably going to figure out who else is behind this cause jack wipe couldn’t have just done it all by themselves…” I grumbled while looking over at Haru, wondering why he didn’t say or do anything.
He was backed up against the wall, fear filled his eyes and he was hyperventilating.
“So what...your afraid of me?” I asked honestly. “Even though you’ve probably seen scarier?” I asked, even though my motherly instincts are telling me to make him feel better and not be scared I had a feeling it wouldn’t help given how scared he was.
"Y-your anger. I felt it." Haru said, shaking. "I've only ever seen anger that pure once before…"
“Oh? Mind if I ask what that was?” I asked while sitting down, wanting to hear what the child had to say.
"The… the Delete Hunter…"
“The...who?” I asked honestly.
"Everyone these days thinks Cript was the first to kill Deletes. He isn't. Not long after the war, when Deletes began popping up, one Admin lost everything to them, his wife, his child, his realm. He was the first to kill Deletes, and they feared him. His anger and rage could be felt all the way here when he spotted a Delete. For nine million years I… we would sense that pure rage and anger just about every day, for hours if not years in itself."
“Well...that’ll do it yeah.” I said honestly while gently getting closer to the child while he was too focused on talking. “Is the person still alive?”
"Don't know. Their… aura, if you can call it that, stopped appearing a long time ago. Don't know their name either all I know is that they wore this… armor."
“What kind of armor?” I asked curiously, wanting to make sure it didn’t involve me.
"I don't know what it looked like, but I've heard… it was forged from Delete corpses. Immune to their attacks and void. A perfect defense against them."
“Well that’s...rather concerning.” I said nervously, before leaning over and gently poking his nose. “Boop.”
"Heh." Haru said, leaning over on me.
“Tag.” I said gently. “Your it.” I said gently.
"Heh… I had hoped to never feel that level of rage ever again… and… you showed it to me at point blank…"
I gently picked up Haru and cradled him. “Am I really that scary?” I asked gently. “Does this fluffy good looking lady look scary?”
"An angry adult is always scary, especially to kids. Doesn't matter how well you know them, anger has a way of changing you."
“Oh yeah?” I asked while starting to sneakily tickle the child.
Haru started laughing, trying to get me to stop. After a bit I did and he calmed down some. "Heh. I wonder if this is what it's like to have a mom?"
“I mean, go spend time with Mother I’m sure that’ll help.” I said honestly. “But mother’s can be scary sometimes...but they...should always love their children.” I said gently, nuzzling Haru caringly.
"I know Mother is, well, the one who made us, but she doesn't spend a lot of time with us. Visits every now and then but I think that's because of what she is."
“Well she should spend more time with people, she can make clones of herself she can make it work.” I said honestly. “So anyways, want me to spend some more time with you or should I get going to the next trial?”
"You should move on. The quicker you get this done the quicker you can go home."
“I am also at home cause I have Starfish clones.” I said honestly. “But alright Haru...maybe I’ll come and visit.” I said gently while putting down the child. “So, where’s the door?”
"Just over there." He pointed, a tall tree with a single door was against this wall in the back. "Fann is next. He's weird, but nice."
“Well I’m used to weird all things considered.” I said honestly. “Take care Haru.” I said while heading off into the next room. “So...what is Fann’s whole thing…”
Entering the next room… is this a… dirt bike race track…. Combo… what? Any sport involving anything fast moving is all mashed together in this… track?
“Gee, I wonder what this guy’s all about.” I rolled my eyes. “Hello? Fann? Are you going to burn some physics books like they did in Fast and the Furious or what?”
"Shhh!" I heard someone tell/ shush me from… somewhere? Huh, deja Vu.
“Okay so where are you?” I frowned while looking around.
Looking around I saw… these stands set up on the side and he was watching a TV. Huh…
“Okay...hi.” I said to the admin. “What’s up?”
"Watching Nascar." Fann said.
“I wonder, are they making a left turn?” I asked.
"No this is zero G Nascar, it's like a mix of normal Nascar and a demolition derby."
“So F-Zero.” I stated.
"Eh." Fann said, taking a swig of… wait Duff beer… tempting.
“So anyways, what’s my test here? Or can I just pass on by while...I get too many red neck vibes here…” I muttered.
He tossed me a Duff, then sighed. "I am the Admin of Speed. And I am bored…"
I grabbed the beer. “Well than what do you want to do? Cause I doubt you want to actively do Speed.” I said, bringing up the drug actually named Speed.
"Har har. I've done and seen a lot. Frankly I wish I could leave this place."
“You do know you can right?” I brought up. “There is literally nothing stopping you from taking a vacation. You are on guard duty sure, but you can just as easily go out, do your own thing, and be back before anyone noticed. You invented Speed so literally nothing can be faster than you.”
"I would know. Frankly I'd… hmm…"
“What?” I asked curiously.
"Nah you won't go for it."
“Well at the moment I have to do a trial to proceed to the next room.” I brought up.
"Well there is one thing I have never done…"
“And that would be?” I asked, getting a little nervous as to what this guy wanted.
"I'm a… sure you can take a guess given you're...figure."
“You just wanted to get laid?” I frowned.
"Well my normal thing is an obstacle race, normally for my own amusement but that got old fast. No pun intended there. And hey, sex sounds interesting. Or so I hear."
“Even though I’m a perv, no.” I frowned. “Your an admin, you can literally make yourself a woman to plow.”
"It's not just sex." He said, standing up. "I've envied the beings we create. Short life spans, families, real passion for what they do. We admins don't have that privilege. We'll outlive all of them sooner or later and death for us is borderline non existence, at least they can be reincarnated."
“Okay...so should I just...go to the next trial then?” I asked. “Sorry that I don’t understand your pain...but what, your just lonely or something?” I asked honestly.
"Honestly? I just want a family."
“And you...didn’t start one way before this?” I asked honestly. “You still have time to go out and find a girl, just ask Mother or Belief for some time off, I’m sure someone would be happy to be with you.”
"... If only it was that easy."
“It...actually is.” I said honestly. “Your an Admin, if you can’t find your special someone...than you can just literally make your special someone. Relationships are difficult yes, but dating and finding someone you can honestly love, through the good and bad, isn’t that hard...but who am I to talk given that I have over two thousand plus wives.” I rolled my eyes. “And counting…” I added.
"Heh. And yet here you stand before me, both genders and the clear worry of when you will have kids of your own to birth and if you will be able to care for them."
“I mean...it’s just more kids to the millions I have...fucking Cript Curse…” I grumbled. “But that’s mostly just me being a pessimist. You on the other hand are probably an optimist.”
"And pray tell, what keeps this fear inside of you of convicting children of your own? The gender you were born as? The life you lived? The worry you won't be good enough? Hmm… no, it's not that you fear having them, you fear the one, or perhaps ones you want to father these children, you think you are not worthy of their time nor love."
“Gonna have to be more specific cause I don’t think I’m worthy of anyone even after all the shit I’ve done.” I shrugged. “But why are you pointing this towards me when you could have gotten a girl a long while ago?” I asked honestly.
“Personal interest. Some entertainment at least. In the end, once you’ve lived as long as I have, anything at all to break the never ending silence of eternity is welcome.”
“Well sometimes you have to break that silence yourself.” I said honestly. “Can’t have others breaking the silence for you, that’s just boring.”
“Either way, this is my trial then.” He said, taking a seat again. “Tell me, why you believe you don’t deserve anyone? If I think you are lying, then you won’t be allowed to proceed.”
“Funnily enough, from an outside perspective, I have literally no right to believe I don’t deserve anyone.” I said honestly. “I have saved worlds, saved lives, and done so many great things as a hero...but on the inside I’m just a mess.” I sighed out. “A depressed mess that doesn’t even know his own past, feels like he can do so much more but everyone tells them to stop doing things and relax, and so many other things that I’d basically spend an hour going off on too many fucking tangents that I completely missed the central point.” I frowned. “But truly?” I asked while looking at my big fluffy paws. “I’m a failure...even if people tell me I’m not supposed to do everything and not be perfect...I failed the people I cared about so many times…”
“And you see yourself as a failure, no matter what, is that correct?”
“I have several pieces of evidence to prove it if you want.” I said honestly. “But I doubt that’ll mean much when you can already guess I shouldn’t be complaining.”
“The path of the king, you walk blind, the path of a knight, you walk with too much worry and fear of failure. Are you sure you ever wanted to fight? To become king? You were placed on this path, yes, but is it the path YOU wanted to walk?”
“As an optimistic Pessimist once said, when going into things you are either proven right, or pleasantly surprised.” I said honestly. “But what path do I want to walk? Well it’s a little late for that to be perfectly honest, but I just go where the road takes me, it’s not like the authors have fought over which way I should go ever.” I joked. “Okay seriously I think Eclipsa’s starting to rub off on me...damn it that sounded wrong…” I groaned while facepalming.
“If you can’t change your path, then change your purpose.” Fann said, taking another beer. “If you can’t handle the stress of a king, pass along the crown, if you can’t stand the fear of a warrior, put down your sword, if you want to keep both, but fear the stress, then become what you already are, or rather, what you are afraid of being, despite it’s a natural fit for you.”
“Little late on just dropping things at the moment, and become what?” I asked curiously.
“Isn’t your specific type of Dire wolf you are known as a Den Mother? You can still fight, still rule, but rule where you are needed, and fight when your family is threatened before you. A simple, but still noble purpose to fit the path you have walked so blindly.”
“So basically what I’ve been doing?” I asked honestly.
“Are you with your children now? Nursing the young and carrying unborns? No, I can tell, one in another realm, one out drinking in sorrow, one here.”
“One is actually doing just that.” I said honestly. “Cause while you sense three, I have five selves out and about. One is with my family, one is spending time with one of my daughters, and the other two are correct.”
“Then tell me, where are your Unborns?”
“Unborns?” I asked honestly. “Also the hell are you talking about?”
“Oh, you have not remembered yet. My mistake then.”
“Oh no, your not dodging that, you’re going to explain what you mean.” I frowned. “Am I pregnant or something and I didn’t notice?”
“Not my place to tell, and if you can’t smell or feel your own pregnancy, you are one crippled wolf, but no, you aren’t. Not now, befo-” A hand covered Fann’s mouth.
“That’s enough Fann.” Cript said. “My part and yours was already done, let Ben remember on their own.”
“No, I want answers.” I frowned. “I’m already having a bitch of a time remembering what actually caused my past to happen, I don’t need more cryptic bullshit!” I barked. “But considering your here, the fuck did you do to me Cript?”
“Nothing you didn’t ask me to do.” They said. “You’ll remember, in time.” They finished, vanishing.
“No, get back here and answer me cause I didn’t ask you jack shit.” I growled, not knowing what he’s talking about, what I needed to remember, and just really hating this sudden new bout of cryptic bullshit. “Jesus, Marcy and Zeke weren’t thi-” I blinked. “Wait...what?” I muttered, wondering why I said ‘Marcy’ like that when I should have said Eclipsa.
“Well this became ever the more interesting.” Fann said.
“What the hell’s going on?” I frowned.
“You’ll remember. Sooner or later. Til then I’ve been entertained, go on. Door is always over there.” Fann said, motioning to a finish line at the end of this track.
“Thank you.” I nodded slowly , still confused on things as I headed off to the next trial.
Entering the next area this place… is this a Lab? “Sample?” I jumped, seeing a woman in a lab coat, large glasses and holding a cup was next to me.
“Uh...hi?” I asked nervously.
“Sample. Now.” She said, shoving the cup in my face.
“Sample of what?” I asked with a frown while pushing the cup out of my face. “Also rude.”
“Spit, urni, fees, blood, any of that.”
“Alright.” I nodded while I took the cup and spat in it to give them a sample for whatever reason.
She took the sample I gave her and walked over to a machine she placed a little bit into a machine and began looking over a screen.
”Ugh, this is worse than when Dad tried to prove that…”
“Wait what?” I blinked, confused on what I just thought. “I mean...dad tried to prove something but...I feel like...that’s something completely different…” I muttered worriedly.
“I see.” The lady, the Admin of Biology I believe said, snapping me out of my stuper. “Fascinating. Complete genetic immunity to it, such a rare trait in a race.”
“Complete immunity to what?” I asked curiously.
“Genetic inbreeding.” She said so casually I actually fell over. “You could screw your kids and then their kids/siblings when they are old enough and no genetic abnormalities. Amazing.”
“Well...thank Cript for that little chestnut.” I said sheepishly, even though I wouldn’t do such a thing...and for some reason I thought of ‘if they actually consented’ which kind of surprised myself. ”Okay...that’s a little worrying...but at least it was with consent and if there isn’t any complications…” I thought to myself.
Shaking my head, I walked up to this Admin. “Yes?” She asked, still reading over the screen.
“So, what’s going to be my trial here?” I asked her. “Given that I’ve had one for every one else so far.”
“Trial? Oh yeah, that...hmm… Samples.” She said simply.
“Well you already got one…” I started. “What? Do you want…’others’?”
“According to this I can get at least six more samples from you. Just one of each will do. And if you wait until my research is done, I can tell you the results.”
“And how long would the results take and...what other samples do you need?” I asked nervously.
“A sperm cell, an egg cell, feces, urin and breast milk. Oh, and a blood sample.” She said.
“Okay, two of those are a bit gross…” I said. “But the other three are fine...breast milk...sperm and an egg cell.”
“Bathroom is over there.” She said, pointing to a door in the corner. “The egg cell I’ll have to remove myself.”
“You sure that’s safe?” I asked nervously. “The...taking one of my eggs part.”
“I’ve done it lots of times, besides, I’ll be putting it back.”
“Well...if you insist.” I said sheepishly while heading into the bathroom.
I provided the… samples. A cup of urine, some...shit, and a little too much sperm… Once I was out and she took out some blood it was time for the egg… I was on a...special table for this, legs wide open as she… was looking directly into my womb...
“Yeah...this isn’t weird at all…” I said sheepishly. “So...what? Have to go elbow deep or something?” I asked before I blinked and found it a little weird I said that.
“No, simply put I’m going to put a very small vacuum tube with a camera in your vagina, through the cervix, into the uterus, through the fallopian tube and into the ovaries where I will extract one Egg Cell, it will flow through the tube, into the machine then once it’s analyzed I will reverse the tubes flow and place it back, just as I first took it.”
“Well...that’ll definitely feel weird.” I said honestly.
“You will feel a ticklish sensation.” She said, placing it in.
I tensed up. It felt like when Twilight did...stuff but… a lot deeper and...not as stretching things. It reached my womb...and once it went in I about orgasemed, and I did make a scream of pleasure. “Okay...that...shouldn’t...have happened…” I groaned.
“Your nerve endings in here as a Den mother make this area the most pleasurable area interact with. I mean seriously, just breathing in here can give you an orgasm after a few hard breaths.” She said, I felt that thing enter deeper and...woah… hurts but also feels good… damn biology… wait...
“Okay seriously no, this is not okay. I should not be getting off to this. Also ow.” I groaned.
“Just a bit more. Reaching the ovaries and here we are. Check them out.” She said, the screen on her machine nearby flashing to an image of a reddark place…. My ovaries, and countless clear round orbs. “Each one of those is an infant yet to be conceived. One thing’s just about every sexual reproducing species has of the female gender is this. Not all of them get to be born though, few races can have that happen.”
“Okay...cool.” I said. “But seriously, I should not be getting off to this, even if Den Mother biology makes me more...sensitive.”
“Discovering new kinks?” She asked, I heard her flip a switch and after a bit flip it again, then began pulling out the tube… that feels WAY too good~ “And done. Results for all will take some minutes. Put your pants back on and clean up.”
“Seriously, that’s not right.” I shook my head. “And no, that’s not a ‘new kink’...I at least hope...and even if it’s new, I’m not doing it again.” I frowned while putting my pant’s back on. “Seriously, that was not okay…”
“Look your body your pleasure areas, just wait somewhere and I’ll give you the data in about three minutes. Till then, I dunno, think or something.”
“Alrighty then…” I muttered while walking off and immediately doing some code magic and making myself not have that weird pleasure thing anymore cause that was not okay. “I don’t care...shouldn’t have found it that good when it was weird…” I grumbled. “Seriously...the hell…” I muttered, before sitting down and waiting for the three minutes.
As time passed I was wondering what was going on with my memories, and what was this thing Cript said I asked them to do, but I don’t remember doing anything… Fuck I hate when nothing gets explained right away.
“Even if it’s not right away I’d like some idea what’s going on instead of ‘you’ll figure it out’...” I grumbled.
"Okay, results are in." She said, gaining my attention.
“Oh? What are the results?” I asked.
"Regarding your breast milk, in short you're a walking health potion factory."
“That I already knew about.” I said honestly. “Knew that a long time ago, both from my mother, and from…personal experience.” I said sheepishly. “Anything else?”
"It accelerates the growth rate dramatically to maturity and even helps.slow down if not stop the aging process afterwards. While it's still in their system mind you."
“So...my girls are literally the fountain of youth?” I asked honestly. “Wow...that’s something.”
"In a sense, while it does halt the physical aging process, or slow it depending on the drinkers metabolism. Their life span clock will still be ticking."
“Alrighty then. That is good to know.” I said honestly. “So, anything else after my breast milk?”
"Your sperm seems to not only immediately fertilize an egg cell but also will actually wait for an egg to be available. Rather… rather odd. Your eggs are actually very fascinating."
“And...what’s special about my eggs?” I asked.
"They seek out sperm cells. Like a sperm seeking an egg they do the same! Not only that but it seems yours compared to other dire wolves I have on record actually will Multiply itself unfertilized to allow excess sperm cells to fertilize! If your blood work was right then your body not only could hold and support over a million infants but also CHOOSE when to birth them!"
“Oh that? That would be the Curse Cript and his entire family has...which I am apart of.” I said honestly. “Weird hearing something you already know way too much about from someone that didn’t know about it.”
"Lastly is a more… concerning matter. This involves your Den Mother Biology. It's a match for others so you might know this already."
“Might not, what about my Den Mother Biology?” I asked curiously.
"First off, I'm not sure how accurate this might be given you are both genders but here it is. Normal Den Mothers of your race go into heat at maturity and are, well, impregnated. And stay that way. If they are not knocked up immediately within a year of giving birth well… they die, their bodies overflow constantly after a first conception and stay that way with needed magics and essentials for the infants. But a Den Mother who is not impregnated after first heat, will still live, but will become infertile. Their inborn magic having not become active by an impregnation leaves them… unable to conceive."
I...wasn’t sure I heard that right. “But...I’m an Admin...right? I can just...forgo that part right?” I asked in a rising bout of panic.
"Yes, you are, but not like I am or the others here. You were a creation first. You can change your looks, gender, but at your core you can not change the rules you were built and born into to follow. This is part of why many Admins see creation born Admins as you as… inferior. You can't change your own code like we can, doing so for you leads to instability in it's flow and structure. Best case scenario you end up not being an Admin… worst… is worst."
I wanted to say so many things about how being an Admin and all this code crap was a fuck ton worse than magic, but held it at bay. “So...what? I...I can’t have kids anymore?” I asked sadly.
"Noticed from your bloodworks you are taking a special potion to hold your first heat away, this gives you time but your body is adjusting to them. Another month, month and a half and they won't work anymore, shortly after that your heat will kick in and… either choose to always be with and have kids… or never again, it's likely your male parts will be affected also so… I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but better than finding out when it's too late."
I took a deep breath. “Good to know now...cause I wasn’t told that yet…”
"It likely was forgotten. From what I remember Den Mother's on your races homeworld went extinct long ago, so they made due with designated ones. Worked but was not the same. You are tied to children, bringing them into existence. Heh, I remember the day Haru suggested females be the ones to do that. Everyone laughed but he made a point about it being easier than us having to make new kids for them every time a couple wanted one. He single handedly convinced us all to create reproduction, and, well, sex. "
“Well he had a good idea.” I said honestly. “So...gonna have to get pregnant...or else...I’ll never have a kid again…”
"I know it's a lot to think over, but I feel there is another thing I should bring up while we are on that topic…"
“Yes?” I asked honestly. “What would that be?”
"While examining your blood and everything I see you have the Starfish Cloning Ability. You don't by chance have clones out currently do you?"
“Four others yes.” I nodded. “And I’ve had this ability for a long ass time, and if suddenly there’s some mystical draw back…” I grumbled.
"Your inborn magic is all shared between them. Meaning once one of you gets pregnant… so will all the others, and any others you make from that point onward."
“Oh...well that’s gonna be a hell of a thing.” I said honestly.
"Other than that all your urine and feces samples told me was that you have a hell of a good set of Kidneys and liver."
“Good, I’d be upset if either of them weren’t good.” I said honestly.
"Other than that everything physical is alright."
“Alrighty then.” I nodded. “So...just head on through then?” I asked, already knowing the clone that’s with all my family has probably told them about...my new condition.
"Yes. That was all. Any new data is always welcome. My specialty is researching biology, not making it really."
“Alrighty then. So where’s the door?” I asked, not knowing if it’s hidden behind something or if it’s just out in the open.
"Of it's behind my research vault." She said, walking us over to a rather fair sized floor mounted safe. "Now… how do I move this thing?"
"You...forgot how to move it?" I asked.
“Well I put it here since the only ever person to make it this far was Cript and that was about forever ago. So… I didn’t actually think I’d even need to keep the door open…”
“Wonders.” I rolled my eyes as I grabbed the thing. “You don’t mind if I just rip it out of the ground right?”
“And activate the self destruct? No. The tools are around here somewhere.”
“And this is why you need an assistant to help you make sure everything is where it is.” I rolled my eyes. “Need some help finding it?”
“Check the underside cupboards, I’ll look at the top ones.”
“Alright.” I nodded while heading around to look for the thing to get the safe out of the way.
After about an hour of looking we found them and got the safe unhooked. Moved it elsewhere and rebolted it.
WIth that I continued on. The next place was… heaven… a giant library!
“Am...am I in heaven?” I asked, looking around at everything as my inner nerd and bookworm just went insane.
“No, just my Library.” Said a… wow. This is new. He was tall, very thin, like how people draw some aliens, eyes were like looking into the stars at night and he wore a long blue cloak. “My name is Bensu, Admin of Language. As impressive as my library is all these books hold is the alphabet of every language and how to say each and every word from their vocabulary. Many languages here in these texts do not even exist anymore. Sad really, they sounded so beautiful, but simple english is by far the most flexible and expanding.”
“Even though English as a whole makes absolutely no fucking sense when you think about it.” I shrugged. “But understandable, so what? Do I need to learn some really hard language to pass your trial or something?”
“Not exactly. This trial is more for your education than to prove anything. Tomb one, two, three and four, all volumes.” He said, four sets of five books floated from out of sight over to me. “These texts hold the lost language of your race, every vowel, word, spell, everything. Your race spoke a very complex language, simple sounding noises holding vast and deep meanings behind each. But most importantly, they hold history and power. For example, the difference between one type of howl of power and another is something as small as a note of volume or the emotion behind it.”
“Uh...that is...rather interesting.” I said. “I...wonder what the wolves back home will think if I use this…” I wondered while taking a book. “So...I just read and learn this ancient language?”
“It should come naturally to you, like the hunt.”
“Now that works.” I nodded while opening up the first book to read. “How ancient is this language?”
“Until the end of Den Mothers was this language spoken. They primarily spoke these words, especially from Tomb fours volumes.”
“It’s gonna be hilarious when I start breeding god knows how many den mothers because of my fertility curse…” I chuckled while reading the book with invested interest.
I started with tomb ones volume. It went over basic communication, pronouncing, as a book on another language should, but also went behind how each word came to exist in the language. Who first spoke it and how it got popularized… this is a history lesson for each word. Is every book here like this? If so cool.
“This is gonna take me a while...and I am perfectly okay with this.” I smiled.
To Be continued...