"Wait... you're serious?" Keira asked along with the others in different ways. Marionette herself told them everything the moment we were outside of town and on the way to the Bad Cave.
"Marion is dead... and this girl is actually her doll, Marionette?" Dillon asked.
"And she's a full blown mortal after a combo attack of a Fygg and your Celestrian feathers?" Stella gawked. "Now I've heard it all... a piece of wood bein' turned mortal... quite the shocker."
"But this is to remain a secret among our group and must not be mentioned to anyone else outside of our group, got it?" I said, them looking at me in either confusion or understanding.
"Why keep it hidden?" Keira asked.
"Because I promised Marionette and Marion that I'd keep it a secret. Think about it, Marion is one of the richest folks in Bloomingdale, even to the point of having a mansion. If she were to be found to have died back then and her doll had been given life by Fygg number 4, you think they'd be too keen on it? Because I feel they might be either furious or terrified," I explained, them sighing afterwards.
"You aren't wrong, and I hate that," Pavo said... but Veronica looked confused.
"Wait... If you're a mortal now... what about the Fygg?" she asked. I then produced the Fygg from my bag and the group then looked even more confused.
"After I became mortal, the Fygg just... came out of me. I'm still getting used to all of these feelings... the grass brushing my ankles, the wind against my hair,.. it's so beautiful to be a mortal instead of a doll!" she smiled at us.
"My question is something more pressing," Keira said, me then looking at her with a smile.
"Yes? What is it?" I asked her.
"Is Marionette going to be another one of your girlfriends?" I groaned at this, before Marionette then responded with her oddball brain.
"Girl... friend? You mean me being a girl and being his friend?" the former doll asked with a confused smile.
"Um... well, it's... oh god, am I going to need to give the talk to her?" I asked, that making the others smile at me widely and smugly. "I'm gonna have to give her the talk, aren't I?..."
"What kind of talk is it? Will it be nice?" Marionette asked as I then facepalmed myself... luckily, we were now at the cave proper and were proceeding towards the door that led to the LOSE gang (League of Super Evil reference) and we saw that the door was locked up tight.
"How about, if you, Marionette, can get this door open with your strength alone, I'll tell you on the way?" I said, blushing regardless. Marionette then opened the door... by grabbing the doorknob and, with just a simple shoulder push, smashed it to splintered pieces!
"Wow! You're even stronger than I am, and I've been training for over a year!" Dillon smiled widely.
"Ahem... anyways... you see, Marionette..." I said, the girl looking at me with a smile as I then explained. "When a boy and a girl... love each other very much... they end up doing something called sex... the boy part goes in the girl part and then, if god is on your side, you'll get pregnant with a little version of you. And after 9 months, you give birth to a baby," I said, Marionette's face progressively blushing more and more as I explained it before she then opened her mouth after I got to the end.
"W-Wow... u-u-um... so uh... oh my, it's getting quite hot here, isn't it?" Marionette gasped as I noted that her blush was even deeper than mine.
"Embarrassed? Or are you feeling... ahem... 'horny'?" Stella asked with a smile, Marionette looking at her with a gulp.
"H-Horny? I'm growing horns?" she asked, that making Stella smack her face.
"It's another way of saying that you're feeling the hormones... you feel like doing naughty things... you know, like how Drake explained?" the fairy smiled.
"O-Oh... y-yes... I feel something happening down... uh... down below... some kind of wetness..." she said, me then smirking.
"Well, how about you try to get it under control? Because we've found monsters now," Keira said, pointing to the area we were at being the one where the Metal Medleys could spawn. As well as the Hunter Mechs and Riptides.
"M-Monsters?... Okay, I'll help if any of them try to hurt us," Marionette said as we then proceeded to go through the area and attack any monsters that attacked us, which included the Hunter Mechs, Riptides, Raving Lunaticks, and the Medislimes. The only ones that didn't attack where the Metal Medleys, but I did know that I would attack one of their group if they wanted to attack us. After a bit, we eventually got to an area with more poisonous waters, and we could tell that Marionette was extremely good at punching things. So good, in fact, that she managed to completely obliterate a Hunter Mech into scrap metal with a single chop of her hands!
"You're actually very good at fighting, Marionette," Carly said with a smile.
"Thanks! By the way, I feel I didn't get your names yet. What are they?" she asked with a smirk.
"Well, I'm Carly, my cousin here is Drake, the fairy is Stella, and the winged girl is Pavo," Carly smirked.
"And as for us, I'm Keira, this is Veronica, and that's Dillon. We're actually all cousins to each other," Keira smirked widely.
"Nice to meet all of you. And what's the name of the voice I hear in my head?" she asked, me then being confused and tilting my head.
"A... a voice in your head?" I asked.
"Yeah, I can hear a little girl in my head. She sounds... adorable," Marionette said. And then, we finally reached the deepest parts of the cave, where we saw that there were tons of giant egg sacks that contained the babies of the Tyrantula. And when Marionette saw them, she then did a twitch with her head and her eye color went from blue... to hazel.
"E-E-EEEK! Kill it! Kill them with fire! Kill all of them before they hatch, please big brother!" Marionette said... in a voice that I knew personally, especially the big brother part.
"Firkle!... Okay, let's flame 'em up!" I shouted as I then proceeded to use Hot Lick on each of the different egg sacks until the entire place was ablaze with the silk catching fire! And we then heard something else.
"OI! Oi guv! We could use a little help!" shouted a very burly voice... and when I looked up, I gawked at how the voice belonged to one of the two kidnapper thieves from the LOSE club I mentioned earlier! And he was also tied up at the ceiling alongside his partner. And guess who else was up there and descended to us with a look of fury on its face?
"EEEEEKKK! KILL IT! FUCKIN' KILL IT!" Firkle shouted loudly, me then gasping at how she used that word! Why? She was only 6! Firkle then rushed the giant spider and forced Marionette's hand to attack the giant spider, the punch that came afterwards managing to knock the spider off of her thread and into the poison behind her. And afterwards? The spider hissed as it started to have its body melt! And then, it curled its legs up to its abdomen and finally died... and it was only then that Firkle twitched Marionette's head and the living doll then reappeared to speak.
"U-Um... that was an experience..." Marionette said with a gulp.
"Don't worry, we're okay, just hangin' from aboot 40 feet in the air on spider webs, ehehe," the other of them said, me looking at Stella and Pavo with a smile.
"You want us to free them, huh?" Pavo asked, me nodding.
'In the meantime, I'm going to need to ask Marionette if she can let Firkle back in control," I smiled.
"Um... okay..." Marionette said as my little sister then took control again and she looked at me with a smile.
"Oh, big brother! I'm so scared! Why am I in this g-" she was about to say before I pulled on her ear, which made her gasp. "Ow! Ow! Leggo!" she shouted as I then smirked.
"Not until you apologize for saying the big f word. You know how I feel about that," I smiled at her.
"Okay, fine... sorry," Firkle frowned... and it was only then that Pavo and Stella got the two thieves off of the ceiling and freeing them with some knives to the webbing they were wrapped up in.
"Thanks for that... wing girl... we thought we were goners," the buff one of the duo said as I smiled.
"We were just coming down here to get rid of the Tyrantula and her babies, since it wouldn't be good to have giant spiders attacking Bloomingdale every day. You're lucky we came around when we did," I smiled at them.
"We're grateful regardless, guvs! We'll walk the straight'n narrow from now on. No boozin', no thievin', just doin' good by society," the one in the green outfit said as Marionette then looked at them with a smile.
"Then maybe you could help by being among my mansion staff? I need to make sure the place is neat and tidy while I'm on my journey. I'll be sure you get a good pay for the help," Marionette said, me smirking at how the duo of dumb gawked at her.
"Workin' for Marion Bloom?! That sounds like a right dandy! Thank ya, miss! We won't disappoint!" the duo smirked as they were about to rush off before I grabbed them.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. There are still a couple monsters in the cave, those being the Hunter Mechs and the Metal Medleys. How about we do the safer action and Evac out, then I cast Zoom to get us to Bloomingdale faster?" I suggested, that making the duo sigh.
"Way to think on your feet, cousin," Carly smiled at me as she then surprised me by casting the spell on her own, me then using Zoom to get us to Bloomingdale, where it was only then that we saw that the smoke from the egg fires in the Bad Cave was starting to pour out of the entrance.
"I-I see smoke coming from the Bad Cave! They must've done it, the right bastards!" the mayor said in surprise as we walked into town... he was too distracted to notice us I guess... so I decided to spook him.
"Boo!" I shouted, that making the mayor jump like he was on the moon before he looked at me and then sighed in relief.
"Oogh, don't do that, my boy! I almost had a heart attack... you must tell me, is the Tyrantula and her spawn all gone?" he asked, me seeing that there was also a crowd of people starting to gather around.
"The giant spider is, indeed, dead. And all her unhatched babies are burned to a golden crisp. And we happened to save a couple of blokes that were set to be the youngling's first meal," I smirked, the duo of dumb smiling awkwardly and giving a small wave.
"And what are you going to do with them? After all, they've been caught stealing things in the past," asked the one in charge of the bakery as Marionette smiled.
"They're going to be working at my mansion along with the staff I'd gotten fired... they are now in my services again and are to keep the mansion tidy for my return," Marionette said as the flock of people looked confused at her statement. "I'm going to be traveling with my new friends in my father's ship. I don't know when I'll come back, but I will one day. I need to see the world and see new sights, learn new things. I do hope that's okay with all of you," Marionette said with a smile and a bow.
"I see... we shall respect your wishes, Ms. Bloom. We'll go and tell your mansion staff that you've rehired them. But we are going to keep close tabs on these two to make sure they don't do anything bad," said none other than Randolph the toy maker.
"Be courteous to them, would you? They said they'd walk the straight and narrow, so only scold them if they do anything warranted. Don't make stuff up to get them in trouble just because of their background. Seriously, that's just a jerk move," I said, the group of people then dispersing with slight murmurings among the lot of them.
"Thanks, guvs! We won't disappoint ye!" the two smirked before then going off to the mansion as Marionette then sighed and looked at me with a smile.
"Thanks for everything, mister Drake... I want to know if we can have some spare time together," Marionette smiled, me blushing again and her simply giggling.
"Um... h-how about when we get going on the sailing and stuff? We'll have the others man the helm while we go below deck?" I asked, her giggling as Stella then went to my ear and started to whisper a warning.
"Oi, mortal boy! I don't think it's right for Celestrians to be havin' sex with dolls that became mortal by eating the Celestrian's feathers. What does Crux think in all this? 'Ell, what does Pavo think?" Stella whispered to me in her tiny form... before then being picked up by her wings by Pavo.
"I think that it's okay, since we're only part Celestrian. Also, Crux and I are having a break until this mortal leaves his body. But I have no sodding clue when that'll be," Pavo frowned as Stella then simply folded her arms up and got placed on the big-breasted Celestrian's head (not joking).
"As for what I think, I'm fine, so long as it's just Drake who's in the relationship and not anyone else. Besides, I can turn my eyes and ears off if you make love with her," Crux said, me then doing another pinch to myself for one reason only.
"Hehe, so I'm gonna have sex with my big brother? That's pretty weird," Firkle smiled from Marionette's mouth as I then facepalmed, since I didn't wake up.
"Please tell me that you can turn your eyes and ears off as well, sis? I'd be REALLY uncomfortable if you had any part in this, considering you're, like, 6," I frowned.
"Actually, I'm 7. This whole warping thing happened a week before my birthday, and I turned 7 yesterday," Firkle said, me gasping at that.
"Looks like you're going to need to get her a present, huh?" Keira smiled at me smugly.
"How about we get some food in you two? So Marion can have the energy to do that on the ship?" I asked, the puppet girl taking control again with a smile.
"My first meal? That sounds like fun!"