(( Brief warning, this chapter is fucked up. Some graphic body horror and not sexy sex-related topics ahead. ))
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It had been a long time since Nosedive had felt any need to check in on Kendra and Sal as they slept, so it was quite a shock and definitely confusing to be woken up one night to his daughter screaming like murder for help. Well, specifically she screamed for her mother, but Nosedive of course came too, and didn't hold it against her, especially with what else he was hearing and what he saw when he got there.
And she wasn't the only one screaming either, Sal was letting out all kinds of ungodly shrieks. Incoherently, so terrified that nothing intelligent could be found in those primal, pained screams. Whatever was going on, Nosedive couldn't help but wonder if Sal was going to survive it...
As soon as he made it to Kendra's shared bedroom and kicked down the door, he realized why. To his complete shock and horror, Sal was laying on her back on the bed, writhing in a panic, flailing her tiny arms uselessly. She was being attacked, by none other than Queen Chameleon. To be specific, the top -half- of Queen Chameleon. She was trying to climb and claw her way out of a portal, a portal that had opened up right on Sal's own body, specifically, between her legs...
Kendra had been trying to help her, but Chameleon was holding her back with a powerful magic, another clawing hand made of magic that she was battling against. And as soon as she saw Nosedive and Karen open the door, she sent a powerful field of dark magic energy that pushed them back and sealed off the doorway, then went back to mercilessly scratching the girl, who was concentrating on covering her eyes as tightly as she could, even using magic to hold her hands down across her eyes, for obvious reasons...
Kendra was finally getting the upper hand against, well, the hand, but by then the girl was already covered in multiple scratches. Even still, Kendra wouldn't let her put on a single more. She suddenly turned her arm and hand into a magical sword, and cut down the Chameleon's claw, then ran after the one trying to come out of her best friend.
Turning her hand back to normal, Kendra snarled at the demon, grabbing her by the head, and with all her might, magical and otherwise, she began to push, force the queen's body back into her daughter, like some sick reverse-birth, which clearly was every bit as painful as that sounded to Sal, who half-screamed, half-roared, and altogether sobbed through the ungodly pain. Since she apparently couldn't manage to talk with the pain she was under, Kendra thankfully vocalized for her, whilst also struggling herself - But not struggling to control Chameleon, no... To control the enormous power surging up in her, the power of her namesake... "How... DARE YOU?! HOW -DARE- YOU DO THIS TO YOUR OWN DAUGHTER?! TO ANYONE?! How DARE you relish in this horrible pain, you disgusting fucking MONSTER - BEGONE! I BANISH YOU, BACK, BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! Your daughter WILL banish you for good in short time but for now -I- banish you and I do so with THIS PARTING GIFT-!"
The 'gift' was actually a gamble, for even with Puckworld's greatest goddess on her side, she was up against the Saurian's worst curse and their darkest demon. Just as Chameleon had been trying to claw out Sally's eyes, Kendra proceeded to do her best to not just push the Chameleon back through the portal, but dig her thumbs into the Queen's eyes as she did so. She managed to get the right one right away, but after the experiencing the torture of losing the first eye, Chameleon fought back hellishly, almost pushing Kendra back. But by then, Karen had finally gotten her magic to break down the barrier, and she rushed over, about to aid her daughter.
But she didn't need her to, and in fact, Karen felt herself being pushed back by magic and a bright, blinding light. Kendra was now completely in sync with the goddess possessing her, and she proceeded to shove Chameleon back through on the spot, without even gauging out the other eye, because she realized, it wasn't worth dirtying the hand that she had to use to touch her lover with the disgusting demon's blood, and besides that, she realized something else suddenly - Chameleon had played a rather steep gamble herself. To make not just a psychic attack, but a physical one, she not only had to sacrifice a son this time, but her own lord and master, quickly and in his sleep of course, but naturally his remaining sons would still be extremely displeased by her treachery against their father. Even though Kendra sparing her remaining eye might in fact have brought out greater powers in Chameleon than if she had plucked out both eyes, the fact was that Chameleon would now desperately need that power to fend off her remaining sons, who without their father to fear and her to hate for it, would give her a much harder time getting that final showdown against the wretches that banished them...
And when she did come, her daughter would be ready, for Kendra, both of them, had also prepared a true 'gift' for the last true Saurian witch, after everything she had to endure. After sealing the portal with a bright light, a strange sudden gasp and a helpless mewling sound came from the small reptilian female, a sound indicating that Kendra had allowed her to feel if for just one instant, the only instant she ever could in her cursed life, the pleasure of physical release. For her horrid mother hadn't just put her through the most inhumane of torture - She had cursed her from ever being able to have sex with anyone, of either gender. Stimulating her sexually at all could damage the seal, letting either the remaining Saurian sons or some other monster from that dimension able to come through. It was Chameleon's way of ensuring that if she truly wanted to be the last, that she damn well would be...
But to hell with her, to hell with everything else, and to hell with what it cost her, Kendra would give her at least one. One to remember for the rest of her life...
The pitiful and petty curse that Chameleon tried to leave in her hand when she pulled it back was easily taken care of. Pulling out the weird baseball-sized chunk of formless sludge-fetus, which was slowly but steadily growing bigger, Kendra took it with her to the corner of the room. Reshaping it with magic, she transformed the dark formless sludge into an oddly adorable orange capybara baby, like the kind you see in South America. She even added a really sweet little golden crown with ruby and pink diamond hearts around it on top of it's head, making it extra super adorable.
Then she brought the baby rodent over to Sally, explaining the odd situation to her, "Hey, Sally... Listen, I know you've already been through a lot, but just one more thing and then you can take a long rest, okay? Remember how when we were in South America for a few months, and one time someone offered to butcher a capybara for us to eat, but the capybara was so cute to you, you couldn't bear to eat it, even though you're normally okay with eating meat? So instead we paid to free it? Well, your mother tried to leave us a curse to try and kill you. We can't destroy it, so instead I kind of turned it into this cute capybara pet that will never die until we do. The curse will make you REALLY want to eat it, but since I made it look like that adorable capybara, I know you won't. It's too cute to eat, right? And you'd much rather have an adorable pet that will live as long as you instead of poisoning yourself with cursed, poisoned meat, right? Plus we can't get a dog because Cornelius' kneazle would freak out. So, yeah, basically this little bugger is kind of like our baby now! My special little fuck you too to your mother, and the whole Saurian race~"
Sally's eyes went wide, and indeed her mouth started to water at the sight of the adorable thing. Instantly a million recipes entered her head. BBQ, chili, and curry-Oh my! But... It was SO CUTE. There was no way she was going to kill something that cute! Yes, it was not exactly noble, but it was what was going to keep the world spinning this time, dang it, because the absolute LOVE Sally felt for that capybara, and Kendra, especially in this moment after she had simultaneously healed her body of all the horrors her mother inflicted upon it, and given her something that no Saurian female had had in probably at least centuries, if ever...? It was no contest which she would be faithful to. And with powers like that on her side, her mother didn't stand a chance if or when she came back for her, either...
"So, um." Nosedive finally spoke up, after Kendra three a blanket over the Saurian, allowing her some privacy and a chance to rest after what she had just been through. Taking the cursed little capybara with her, for Sally would be too weak to resist it's powers just yet, Kendra went back with it to her parents, who she understandably realized would have some questions. Namely, "What the HECK just happened...?"
Kendra stroked the adorable little harbinger of doom in her arms. "Basically? The Saurian race just doomed itself to extinction, but then, they already did that a long, long time ago. Basically what you just saw was the final nails in their coffin..."
It took Nosedive a moment to muster the will to shrug, not hiding his confusion but too relieved by the news to be bothered by that. "I mean... Sounds good to me? But what do you mean?"
Closing the door behind her, Kendra explained it to them in the hall, letting the other girl have peace and quiet for her well-deserved rest. "Sally told me she once had a dream, a dream of the far past of her people... In it, a Saurian sage and dark wizard told his king that he had been given a prophecy - That a Saurian female would someday be responsible for dooming the Saurian race to extinction. In response to this, the King decided to enslave all Saurian females. Not that they had ever treated their females like queens or goddesses the way most Puckling men do, but the Saurians became especially cruel. Their females were imprisoned in tiny rooms, and forced to wear robes that identified them as females, the slave class, and nothing more... The females started dying out, alarmingly fast. They were either murdered by males who now felt they had a right to abuse the females, died of exposure or starvation in their cells, or they just outright committed suicide to spare themselves any future pain... After a while, there were none left. And when blessed with the rare opportunity to right their wrongs, they instead foolishly cursed the very last Saurian witch with forced celibacy, because she would not give her life again in service the way so many poor Saurian females had tried, or died trying to escape... So while it may be true that the Saurian race will end with Sally, it was not her fault. It was in fact the Saurian males themselves, and their treatment of their females, their hatred and mistrust, that doomed them to vanish... Chameleon may have changed her body, but her hatred and her jealousy came from the fact that she still strongly bore the sentiments and spirit of her forefathers, of her time when she was male. Their own hate is what ultimately doomed them, just as they had doomed others. What goes around, comes around... So Sally knew, that's why the cycle had to end with her..."
Nosedive rubbed his forehead, pensive. "...I guess I'll let Wildwing and the others know that my baby and her beloved have officially earned my absolute and total trust."
Kendra ran up to him, and kissed him quickly on the cheek. "I already knew I always had it, Daddy. But thank you for finally believing in her too."
Dive smiled, and nodded. How could he not?
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With Nosedive's earnest approval, the others softened up a bit to Sal, even Mallory. And it was in fact, the first time that they allowed Sal to enter the Pond, that Queen Chameleon predictably tried to make her last stand. They all prepared for it, but it turned out they didn't even need to. It was always destined to be done by Sal's hand, and for how much the girl had feared it, it turns out she didn't need to either. The 'queen' didn't even look like a pauper when she arrived, she was barely more than a skeleton. She had either run out of sons to sacrifice or they were keeping far away from her and attacking on sight. So instead she had to use her own magical reserves, the very last of them. She had pushed herself too far this time, and it had finally taken it's toll on her...
She was trembling underneath the veil, which was now much too big on her shriveled-up self, crumpled up on the ground. She lacked any strength, even enough just to raise her head or a hand.
Sal didn't pity her, but she decided to give her a mercy killing anyways. If only to get it over with quicker. Duke handed her his sword, and without any hesitation, she did away with her...
She was silent for a few moments after. Not sad in the least, but shocked. The demon who hunted her as a child, who haunted her nightmares for years, was finally gone...
"So..." Kendra finally spoke up, "What do you want to do now, my darling?"
Sally turned back and gave her a smile. "...You know what? I think I wanna watch Ducktales."
"Oooh, totally!" Nosedive cried out in agreement. "I LOVE Ducktales! Both the old and the new! But pft yeah lets watch the new one, haha. Lets just, uh... Clean that whole mess up first, and then we'll totally watch some."
Sally and Kendra nodded, and then strangely, in unison, they announced together, "Mother Earth says she wants to consume Queen Chameleon's body, and absorb her remaining magical nutrients. We shall bury her in Earth to rot, and then we shall partake of cartoons. And popcorn."
"Kettle corn?" Kendra broke away to suggest.
Sally just shrugged, happy to oblige her. "Sure. I'm just going to burn half of it anyways."
He paused, then Nosedive shrugged too, flipped on a pair of shades, and moonwalked out of there. "And another one bites the dust~"
After spelling up a few shovels for the girls, Karen then walked like an Egyptian out of there as well.
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Sally only ever asked her lover once, a bit later and in private. "If it... Bothers you, us not being able to physically come together, well... I'd understand if you didn't want to continue as lovers, or see another who can-"
Kendra understood her suggestion. But she rejected it all the same. "I don't want either of those things. But thank you for your blessing. And anyways, well... I understand you can't be touched, or touch anyone else, but... Well, -I- can still touch me, and you can just happen to be in the same room, right...?"
The light bulb over Sally's head lit up, and she hissed with delight, internally cackling at her bitch mother's vengeful spirit and that of all her Saurian forefathers. Both technically virgins for life, and yet what a sex life it seemed there was still in store for them. "Loooooooophoooole~!"
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