Mature Content Warning
Yeah sexy-time type of story, underage don't bother reading, etc.
Author's Notes: Contrary to what I said earlier, we're approaching the end, so if you've been saving your applause, this is the time to start clapping (well, not right now, but maybe at the bottom of this page).
Chapter 7
Kara and Gordon sat at the table having lunch, a third spot still vacant and the sandwich there untouched.
"That son of ours," Kara sighed. "I swear in another five minutes I'm going to go out there and drag him back by his ear!"
Gordon chuckled, "He's always a few minutes late sweetheart."
"It's been almost a half-hour," Kara said. "He knows how I get on him about being punctual. I swear if I didn't know better…"
The sound of two bodies falling and a groan made both of them snap their heads up. In seconds, they'd leapt from their chairs and rushed to the back door.
And the sight before them was one they'd never seen before, and hopefully never see again.
There, sprawled onto the ground was an uprooted Alraune, yet there was no hole or dirt near her roots, which were still twitching as though trying to move like legs. And just outside her reach, as though he'd spilled from the plant girl's outstretched arms, was their son.
Barely breathing, with a rather large, swollen puncture wound in his side.
"Oh my God! Calvin!" Kara cried. "Gordon! Get the herb kit!" But Gordon had already vanished from the spot to retrieve the medical herbs.
"Calvin! My baby!" Kara sobbed, rushing forth and falling to her knees to cradle the young lad.
"M… mom?" Calvin said in a haze, his eyes lulling about as he tried to focus.
Kara swallowed hard, trying to fight back even more tears, "No son, it's Kara. What happened?"
"Hornet poison… Kara… mom… same diff-" Calvin gasped, and then his lungs refused to work any longer.
"Please help husband! Help buzzy girl! Cried an unfamiliar voice.
Kara looked up and saw a grizzly running straight at her, carrying a wounded honeybee in her arms. Had her child not been laying there in mortal danger, she wouldn't have believed her eyes.
Gordon nearly ran over his wife as he flew out the back door with a small box under his arm. "Son, just hang in there!" He gently slapped Calvin's cheek, getting a slight groan. "Stay with me boy, no sleep for you just yet." Gordon opened the box and began mixing various herbs together in a mortar & pestle with some water. After mashing them into a paste, he began to rub the compound into the hole in Calvin's side. Within seconds the swelling began to subside and Calvin's breathing began to start up again.
"Dad…"
"Shhh, don't talk son. You're going to be fine. Just keep breathing."
With a brief return of oxygen, Calvin gathered the scraps of his strength and grabbed his father's shirt collar. His eyes were bloodshot and his skin clammy. With his last waking breath, he gasped and pointed at the withered plant girl, "Save… her!"
And then he promptly passed out.
Gordon checked his pulse, then sighed in relief. "He's going to be okay. Looks like the herbs are cleansing his body." He turned to the distraught Grizzly. "Winnie? What are you doing here?"
The grizzly cried, "Please help husband! Help flower girl! Help buzzy lady!"
"Winnie, you need to start digging a hole right now! A deep hole for 'flower girl'. If she's not planted, she'll die." Gordon said. "Kara, would you look over that honeybee?' The kikimora nodded and took the honeybee from the reluctant grizzly. She was unconscious, but alive, save for some rather large bruises and lacerations across her chest and arms.
"'Buzzy lady' will be okay," Kara said, grabbing some bandages from the medical kit, as well as some of the leftover healing herb mix that Gordon had prepared.
"But husband..." Winnie sobbed.
"He's not your husband. His name's Calvin and he'll be fine, but that Alraune sure won't unless we plant her right now!" Gordon barked.
Winnie nodded vigorously and immediately began digging up the fresh earth with her massive paws and incredible strength. Within minutes she'd dug a tree-sized hole that would've taken an ordinary man hours, and began dragging Allie into it. Kara had finished tending to Suebee, then helped stand the Alraune upright in the hole, and balked at what she saw.
The Alraune's face was gaunt and sunken. Her bright green skin was now a sickly gray-brown and wrinkly all over. Her orange hair was the color of rust and brittle, strands of it breaking off with a touch. The numerous vines that were her support had curled into themselves for lack of water.
"She's severely dehydrated," Kara said, holding Allie steady while Winnie quickly packed the dirt around her roots. You need to hold her up while I get some water." Kara hurried off to the well and came back with a couple buckets of water. Working fast, she poured the majority around the dirt, then poured a little on to the Alraune herself. Allie immediately gasped like a fish out of water, and reflexively began drinking all that Kara poured over her. Her skin began to fill out and change back to its vibrant color once the water and soil nutrients were absorbed. Her eyes slowly fluttered open, the energy of the earth returning to her.
"Wh-.. where am I? This isn't my grove... Where's…"
Then she saw him. Laying on the ground, lifeless. And right by him, Suebee lay as well, unmoving.
"Calvin…" She whispered in horror. "Suebee…"
And then she remembered.
"Calvin! Suebee! Oh goddess! I was too late!" Allie cried hysterically, trying to move her vines to bring the lifeless pair closer, but she was still far too weak. "I'm so sorry Calvin!" Allie sobbed shamelessly. "Please… p-please don't l-leave me! I can't… can't go on without you! Y-you're my whole life! I…. I love you…"
Winnie hugged the bawling flower and smiled, "Husband is fine. Just sleeping. Buzzy lady is fine too. Nice feather lady and spanking man help."
"R-really?" Allie sniffled.
Suebee opened her eyes, one was swollen almost completely shut. "Calvin… is he...?" She turned her head to see Calvin laying beside her.
"He's going to be okay." Kara said, stroking her antennae comfortingly.
"I… hate… hornets," Suebee sighed.
"Yeah, I'm not fond of them either," Kara said.
"A-allie… what are you doing here?" Suebee asked with a rasp.
"Suebee, thank goddess you're alright," Allie sighed.
With his son's condition normalizing, Gordon couldn't help but smile at the docile grizzly. "I'm surprised you remembered me, Winnie."
The bear blushed, "I know you. You father-in-law man who spank Winnie."
Kara's fang bared and her eye twitched as she turned to her husband, "Sweetheart…", she said, her voice dripping with venom, "just what is the nice, dopey teddy bear talking about?"
Gordon's face flushed, but he quickly shook his head as if to clear his mind. "It was before you and I met, but I'll explain later."
Kara growled at her husband for a moment, then returned her attention to her son, holding his hand in hers. He stirred, and looked like he was going to wake up.
"Oh, thank the great dryad goddess he's okay," Allie sighed. "If I'd lost him, I don't know what I'd have done. And thank you for helping me," she said to the grizzly who gave her a big smile.
"Plant lady helped husband. Winnie help plant lady."
In a mirror imitation of Kara just moments ago, both Suebee and Allie's eyes twitched. "Hu- husband? Who are you talking about?" They said in unison.
"Husband!" Winnie cried. But before Allie could even think about setting the grizzly straight, the bear rushed over to Calvin, who was now sitting up weakly, with a half-smile on his face. The only thing keeping the grizzly from glomping the young man in a hug was the stern gaze from his father.
"I... knew… it... " Calvin croaked, but still mustering enough strength to give Allie that classic smirk she'd come to love and hate at the same time.
"You… you heard that?" Allie asked, hiding her face in her hands.
"Yeah," Calvin said as he tried to stand. Suebee's wings buzzed haphazardly as she tried to help him, but she too was far from okay. Kara helped her up while Gordon helped Calvin stand, the venom having almost completely left his system. He walked over to Allie on shaky legs with Suebee holding his arm. The honeybee pulled the plant girl's hands away, and Calvin cupped her cheek to face him.
"So…" she said expectantly. Those enchanting orange eyes filled with tears.
"So?" Calvin asked playfully, a little of his snarky personality showing.
Suebee pinched Calvin's arm. "Quit teasing her."
The human blushed as the Alraune stared at him, on the edge of an emotional cliff.
"I… love you Allie." Calvin said, taking her hands in his. "I've always loved you. But..."
Allie trembled, "But…?"
"But I love Suebee too. We've been friends for a long time and I… I told her how I felt about you, but she made me promise to keep it to myself because she had a big surprise for you and that's why I went back out there today and-"
Calvin's rambling was cut off when Allie sobbed happily and pulled the startled young man into her arms, kissing him without an ounce of embarrassment or regret. Calvin stood stunned, but noticed his arms were already wrapped around his green goddess tightly. Their kiss was sweet and, coupled with her scent, was pure heaven. He felt her tears wet his cheeks, mixing with his own.
"Oh…" Kara sighed romantically, grabbing her husband roughly by his arm and yanking the huge man to her side as if he were nothing more than a ragdoll. Her pupils looked like little pink hearts. "Look honey, our baby's first kiss."
"Not really…" Suebee mumbled to herself.
"Waaah! Huusssbaaaannnnd!" Winnie whined. "No kissy plant! Kissy Winnie!"
Allie groaned and reluctantly broke the kiss, "He's NOT your husband! And- HEY!"
In the blink of an eye, Winnie had already pulled him into her arms, kissing him tenderly. Their kiss broke with a thin trail of saliva, leaving Calvin with an even more confused and dopey expression than the grizzly. "Mmm…," she sighed, "Winnie like husb- Calvin kissy."
"Hey hey! What about meee!" Suebee whined, grabbing the stunned young man away from the furry interloper. "I love you too, you baka! And how can you turn away the girl who gave you your first kiss?"
Calvin blushed beet red. "I… I… Wha-?"
"You don't remember that time when I escorted you home?" Suebee said pleadingly, although all she'd done back then was give Calvin a very quick peck on the cheek before taking off like a bat out of the demon queen's castle.
Calvin made to say something but felt his words get stuck.
"Oh bother," Winnie sighed, rolling her eyes. "Fine. Winnie share husband with buzzy lady and plant girl."
"WHAT!?" Allie shouted, finding the strength to bring at least one of her vines to pull on Suebee's arm. "When were you going to tell me about that first kiss? After he was our husband?"
"'Our' husband? Since when am I anyone's husband?" Calvin interjected, finding his voice.
The glare he received from the three ladies promptly muted him.
Gordon laughed, "Ordinary men don't get more than one wife at a time son."
Kara just shook her head as the three monster girls argued over her boy, who was looking more and more flustered as they all struggled to hold him.
"That's our son alright," she said to her husband as their hands found each other.
"Extraordinary."
A/N: Is this the end? Could be...
