Turnip was shocked. "Thou'rt going-eth to seed?"
"I'm aphraid so." NeoFio sighed. "Are we ready to raise a young plant?"
"I shall always be with you to help."
"Thank you." NeoFio kissed Turnip (if that's how plants show affection).
Over the days, NeoFio lost
more petals and her head turned into a pink berry.
One morning, after breakfast,
Starky announced, "Everyoone! Fargo said hee would coome to visit!" Everyone
in Hermit's Hideout- NeoFio,
Turnip, Starky, Draggy,
Razzly, and Leah- went outside to say hello.
"It's been a fairy long
time since I last saw Fargo," said Razzly.
"I hope he's pillaged that
Inferrrno element I wanted," said Draggy.
"AHOY, MATEYS!" The giant
shadow of Polly covered the hideout, and Fargo jumped off his back. "Yarrr
all doing fine? I see NeoFio's a fruit
now."
"Yes, and it's ripe now,"
replied NeoFio.
"Arrrr, you're almost ready
for a baby."
Polly walked over to NeoFio
and took a bite of her head.
"Polly! Thou shall not eat-eth
my wife!" shouted Turnip. He drew his sword.
"Don't worry. It's time,
anywayyyyyyy......." said NeoFio, as Polly finished eating.
"NeoFio!" shouted Turnip.
He ran up to her and hugged her. "Art thou all right?"
NeoFio signed to him that
she was all right.
"Yes, thy beautiful flower
shall return-eth in springtime."
"Arrrrrr, where should Polly
spit out the seed?" interrupted Fargo.
NeoFio pointed to the field
Turnip had been plowing. Fargo directed Polly to it, where Polly spit NeoFio's
seed out.
"Well, mateys, me and Polly
are gonna go pillage some elements now." He jumped onto Polly and flew
off, fading into the distance.
Several long months passed.
NeoFio, unable to speak without a mouth, learned sign language. And then
in early March, her flower started to grow
back.
Looking in the mirror, NeoFio
shouted, "Turnip! Look at my phlower! My petals are growing back!"
Turnip rushed in. "Thou
look-eth beautiful, NeoFio."
NeoFio paused, and changed
the subject. "Our baby will sprout soon. What should we name him?"
"How does NeoNip sound-eth?"
"Perphect."
A week passed. NeoFio noticed
that her flower had grown to the point where the petals were almost the
size they had been before they started to fall.
She woke up early in the
morning and walked outside to check on NeoNip. A tiny green shoot, about
a quarter of an inch high, had come up during
the night.
She rushed back to her bed,
where Turnip still lie sleeping. She shook him. "Turnip! Turnip! Wake up!"
Turnip blinked. "Go-eth
back to bed, dear," he said sleepily, and turned over.
"WAKE UP! NeoNip has sprouted!"
Turnip realized what was
going on now. "NeoNip?!" He rushed throughout the hideout. "Wake-eth up!
NeoNip hath sprouted!"
In minutes, the whole group
was outside.
"He is-um already starting-um
to look-um like his father," Leah said.
"I will cook a fairy, fairy
special meal in honor of NeoNip," said Razzly as she walked back inside
to start breakfast.
Ten minutes later, Razzly
called, "I cooked bluefairy waffles! Come eat them before they get cold!"
"Blueberry waphphles?! Yum!"
NeoFio shouted, running inside to eat.
Over the next few weeks,
NeoNip grew taller and got its first leaves.
While NeoFio was admiring
her baby, Starky came out. "When will youu get Poshuul to pull him ouut?"
he asked.
"Maybe in a phew days. He's
been growing well," she replied.
"Let's maake a raaft!" Starky
decided. "Starky will caall Draggy to help buuild it."
He went inside, and came
back out a few minutes later with Draggy. The three of them quickly got
to work and finished the raft within a few hours.
The next morning, NeoFio
and Turnip set off for Arni. When they got there, they went to Leena's
house to look for Poshul.
"NeoFio! Turnip! I haven't
seen you since your wedding! Hello!" greeted Leena. When Poshul heard Leena,
she came out of her doghouse.
"We have-eth a baby," Turnip
said. "We need-eth Poshul to pull him out."
"PO-SHU-SHU! Can me go and
help them?" Poshul asked Leena.
"Of course!"
"Ret's go!"
They got back to Hermit's
Hideaway that afternoon. NeoFio called everyone outside to meet NeoNip.
"PO-SHU-SHU!!!!" Poshul
dug, and a little turnip-like plant popped out of the ground.
"Thank thou phor pulling
me out!" said NeoNip in a high voice.
"He's........ beautiphul!"
exclaimed NeoFio, tears of happiness pouring out of her eyes.
"He is fairy, fairy cute!"
said Razzly.
NeoNip walked up to Turnip
and smiled at him. "Art thou my phather?"
"Yes, I am-eth thy father."
Turnip gestured towards NeoFio. "And this is thy mother."
NeoNip smiled at NeoFio.
"Hello, mother."
NeoFio hugged NeoNip. "My
phirst son..."
"I know-eth that we will
have many phun adventures together."