Hey, My loyal fans! It's me! Vividoll! I've been gone awhile, So I wrote TWO Chapters to make up for leaving ya'll hanging! Oh, and If you like Manga or Comedy, Check out my website at a website of my new series, Kono Sono. The pages are put up at least twice a week, and I draw about three pages a week! I also have a rambling feature, where I go off on irrelevant tangents about this and that, but then again, you don't have to read the ramblings.

Chapter 4: Unsolved Mystery

Our Antihero was sitting in her throne giving out quests to her customers that hot, hazy day. There were flying Petpetpets all over the place, the mosquitoes were biting like Anna Nicole Smith on a buffet table, and she was sweating like a Moehog. (The fact that she was four months pregnant didn't really help, either)

A lot of her customers were glancing at her round belly, but no one said anything. This was getting Jhudora just a little bit irritated. I mean, heat, a very tight dress, and having a little brat in your belly making you sick and bloated is a VERY bad combination. One of them was taking a big fat look at her stomach the whole time she was talking to him.

"Where is my- HEY, DUMBASS! IS THERE SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT MY STOMACH?"

"N-n-no, M'lady......... I was just... Um... You've got something on your dress!"

Jhudora sighed.

"Just bring me ANYTHING pickled, I have got the biggest craving for a REALLY BIG PICKLE!!!"

"Y-yes, Ma'am." And the boy ran off with his pet kougra at his heels.

The next kid was trying not to let his eyes to wander down to her midriff.

"You can bring me some ice cream! And bring it fast, wretch!"

"Um, yes. About your... Um, 'condition'..."

"WHAT THE F ABOUT IT?!?!"

The boy recapitulated. "Never mind." And darted away with his Shoyru following.

"Grrrrrrrrr... All these jackasses... They just won't stop looking at my big fat cow gut!" Jhudora thought. "It doesn't help me AT ALL since I feel like I weigh 50 million pounds as well as look like it!"

The next customer, a little boy with a blue grundo, walked up. There was a long pause for both Jhudora and the kid. Jhudora looked like a thunder cloud. The boy looked like a frightened Babaa.

"Um... Ma'am... I wanna ask you...... Are you pregnant?"

Jhudora quickly closed her eyes and counted to ten to keep from killing the little pissant. It worked, although with a temper like hers, she had to count to ten about eleven times.

"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6, 7,8,9,10; 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ,8,9,10; 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!"

She swallowed when she was sure she was, to some extent, calmed down. And spoke through her teeth at the inconsiderate brat, saliva hissing through her white fangs.

"Yes I am! But you did NOT; I repeat, and I quote; DID NOT need to bring it up in front of all these people! So GET THE F OUT OF HERE, BEFORE I TURN YOU INTO A PICKLE AND EAT YOUR SALTY LITTLE CANDYASS!"

Thunder crashed and lightning cracked as she screamed. The boy stood frozen with fear. Jhudora, seeing that the boy was properly scared out of his wits, calmed down enough that she stopped talking (and spitting) through her teeth.

"I MIGHT give you another quest tomorrow. But if you ever have the slightest inkling that I could be pregnant, DON'T MENTION IT!!!"

At the moment Grundoboy bolted away, Jhudora realized one little, bitty, teensy, weens- Okay, one REALLY BIG, REALLY EMBARRASSING thing. While she was yelling at the brat that she had announced it to all of her customers that she was expecting. She sank back into her throne.

"Ugh... I need some ice cream..."

LATER THAT NIGHT...

Jhudora was lying in her bed. She was just staring at the little butthead in her oven doing something to make her stomach twitch occasionally. She put her clawed hand on her middle.

"YOU are SUCH a butthead. A BUTT... HEAD. Butthead with a capital 'B'. Butthead with three exclamation points. Butthead-with-three-exclamation- points-written-in-neon-letters-all-caps-forty-five-centimeters-high- decorated-with-snazzy-little-sparkles-and-lines-around-the-text-and-at- least-seventeen-glowing-red-arrows-pointing-to-the-magnificently-rendered- 'Butthead'-text-on-the-dark-background-so-that-you-can–see-it-from-across- Neopia."

Jhudora turned to Satoru. "Sato, what is it doing? It keeps making my belly twitch!"

Satoru felt her stomach right under her belly button, which was protruding slightly.

"I think our baby has hiccups."

"Hiccups?"

"Yeah, they can get hiccups even while in the womb. She should stop soon."

Jhudora lay awake a long time that night feeling her baby hiccup. It felt kind of weird, kind of like her stomach was chuckling to itself. After it stopped, her last thought before she fell asleep was, "I can't believe I actually created this little miracle of nature inside of me!"

NEXT MORNING...

Gulp

Jhudora waited for the wave of nausea to pass. She was eating her breakfast, and felt like throwing up. That's when the phone rang.

"I'll get it!" Satoru called from his bedroom.

"Urp That's okay, satoru, Burp... I'll get it."

She got up, swallowing back the recycled food that threatened to make a guest appearance in the kitchen floor. She picked up.

"Wurrrp! Hello?..."

"Hi, Jhudora gulp It's Illusen. Have you-"

She had to stop to let out a very long, very loud belch.

"Damn, my stomach!"

"Tell me about it! Said Jhudora. I- Gurrrp! feel like I swallowed one of my Caustic Potions!"

"As I was saying, I found a pile of gifts on my doorstep. I just got back to reading on volcanoes and I-"A pause.

"And what?"

"And mount Illusen is about to erupt... BIG TIME! I gotta go, Bye!" Illusen hung up the phone before Jhudora could hear her throw up.

Jhudora got up and walked, not ran to the door.

"No one likes me. I probably got NO-"

On the doorstep was an assortment of gifts for both her and the baby, including a maternity version of her own dress. For a while, she was silent. Then she ran to the edge of her cloud.

"THAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU, WHOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!!!", She yelled over the edge.

Then she finally lost the battle with her stomach, leaned over the east side of her cloud, and- Well, I'm not gonna put you through that by describing what happened. All I will say is that I feel VERY sorry for The Healing Springs Faerie.

End Chapter 4