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Midterm Mating

Much time had passed since Yzma did her counseling session with Lavender, Fay, and Parvati and sent the Gods of Olympus to go check on her relatives. Currently the school was now in the second week of October and the middle of the First term. A lot had happened since Casual Dress Friday and the attack on France and America and while that was depressing the good news was that the Americans were able to start working on a cure to the virus and Amelia and Alaric were able to get the Department of Magical Covert Operations up and running with funding coming from the Great Alliance in the form of newly created products. Casual Friday had also helped the students unwind and thanks to the newly created love hotel rooms the teenagers were able to find places to do what teenagers do and had maps leading to said love hotel rooms inside the castle. Needless to say, the event was so successful that the staff all agreed that every Friday was officially designated to be Casual Dress Friday. Yzma Milano had woken up to go check on her Grandchildren which meant that it would include visiting Ravenclaw Tower and Gryffindor Tower before making the trek down to the Slytherin Dungeons since she was using Professor Merrythought's office which happened to be on the sixth floor so she decided to visit Gryffindor Tower first. Unfortunately, even though she was the Deputy Headmistress she wasn't a Gryffindor which meant she had to get Minerva the Head of Gryffindor House to let her in.

By the time Minerva and Yzma arrived at Gryffindor Tower it was almost dawn which meant soon it would be time for the students to wake up. Before they took the first step into the common room voices could be heard and the two professors could see the Third year Gryffindor boys in various states of dress.

"Who'd believe it?" Kasiya Bones the eldest of Alaric and Minako's children, first-born son and one of the two reserve Beaters for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team spoke. "HIM of all guys?"

"I thought he was scared to death of spiders?" Kasiya's cousin Nevin Bones first born son of Eric Bones and his wife Haruna and eldest child asked.

"Well, he must be cured now!" Cormac McLaggen spoke with a chuckle. "I would be to if SHE was my nurse!"

"All I know is that I for one am glad that he's not going to be screaming about Spiders anymore after Monster Girl Culture Class," said Davis Shiba newly minted reserve Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

"Gentlemen! What are you doing down here without being properly dressed?!" Minerva barked. The third-year boys 'eep'-ed as they turned to her and Yzma in surprise. "And what are you talking about?!"

"Well...uh...Professors...um...," Nevin stammered. "You might want to go to our dorm and see what we all woke up to see a few minutes ago."

Taking Nevin's advice both Minerva and Yzma headed to the Third Year Boys Dormitory but what they found was the biggest shock of their life.

The Boys' Dormitory had arachne silk threaded into a hammock but that wasn't the shocking part the hammock in question was hanging from the roof of the dorm room and inside the Hammock was Craig Bennett, currently a third year Gryffindor Student and the son of Charlotte Bennett the younger sister of Apolline Delacour and aunt of Pierre Delacour currently a Third Year Ravenclaw.

The Gryffindor in question was sleeping in the hammock next to Raquel an Arachne Monster girl with long white hair that was currently messy and wild, purple legs, a nice rack, and a curvy body but the surprise came from the fact that both of them were butt naked and Raquel had her arms wrapped around Craig's back and her eight legs wrapped around Craig's waist and his head in her large chest as she was allowing her husband to use it as his pillow.

"Well Minerva at least you can tell Craig's relatives why he may not be afraid of spiders anymore and why he's got himself a mate," Yzma said to Minerva.

"Another one?" Minerva sighed with exasperation after facepalming herself. "I swear, Yzma, more married quarters will be getting filled this year than there have been in over a century! I knew some of our new monster girl students would choose husbands from among their peers, but I'd hoped it would only be upper-year students and monster girls and by that I meant the students and monster girls in fifth year and above. This will need to be addressed at once. WAKE UP, YOU TWO!"

"*Yawn*Good morning, Professor," Raquel cooed with a grin of satisfaction as she opened her large red eyes.

"Professor?" Craig yawned blurrily, then "YEEP!"ed awake tumbling out of the web-hammock trying desperately to cover himself with his new wife's webs, blushing furiously. "P-P-Professor McGonagall! I...we...oh bollocks."

"You asked Miss Rachnera to make you some clothes; didn't you, Mr. Bennet?" Minerva asked sternly.

"Technically I asked the Fashion Club to make some clothes for me," Craig pointed out remembering that Yzma had allowed Raquel to create a Fashion club with some of her fellow students, "I had no idea that Raquel would be the one to make them for me and that she'd wind up becoming my wife."

"Obviously, you did not pay enough attention in Monster Girl Culture Class when Professor Lisa Beifong covered Arachne family monsters," The Head of Gryffindor House said mentioning the Hakutaku that was brought in to teach about Monster Girl Culture, "Otherwise you would have remembered that an Arachne such as Miss Rachnera takes such a question from a male as a marriage proposal! Now, both of you get dressed, then come to my office after breakfast."

"Yes professor," Craig and Raquel said as the Professors left on that note.

"As you can see Minerva this is what I was talking about. This is why I was trying to get the charms that kept human boys out of the Girls Dormitories to do the equal and opposite effect to keep the monster girls out of the boys' dormitories. The founders originally wanted to keep the girls' dorms protected from the boys but during my challenge the Arkeyans revealed that they put charms to keep the girls out of the boys' dorms when Hogwarts was created without the founders knowing. Unfortunately, the charms only work on human boys and human girls so I needed to get those upgraded. Unfortunately, I was only able to do this in Slytherin House but not for the other three houses," Yzma said to Minerva, "I had this same conversation with Pomona after the first day of classes and if I recall correct it was also the day one of your Lion cubs a mister Raymond Wolpert showed why the Sorting hat considered him for Ravenclaw and why his robes are Gryffindor red with Ravenclaw blue lining. His exact words to Severus during potions class were as followed and I quote. 'Funny my dad's a muggle fireman and he runs gung-ho into disasters and burning buildings while guys like you are running away screaming like little girls at the top of your lungs.' Unquote."

"It seems I'm going to have to teach my cubs to think before they speak," Minerva sighed. "And talk to Albus about that."

"Perhaps but here's the real question. What are you going to do about Mr. Bennett and Miss Rachnera?" Yzma asked, "Abigail Bones stripped you, Filius, Pomona, Aurora, and Severus of the power to give and take points and assign detentions for the duration of this school year as punishment for the mistakes you lot made in the previous school year."

"As their Head of House, I will be assigning them their married quarters, Yzma," Minerva told her. "As well as informing them of the guidelines on keeping public displays of affection to a minimum; especially in classes. I will also tell them that they are responsible for writing their families to inform them of the 'happy event' so they can plan an actual wedding if they so desire."

"Well, that makes sense but right now I need to go check on my granddaughter Isolt and her dormmates," said Yzma, "I still can't believe she was sorted into Ravenclaw of all houses. I was hoping she'd be in Slytherin but at least it's better than having half of Gryffindor treat her like the black plague despite the lessons of the Power Team."

"I'll go get Filius and have him let you in," said Minerva, "Though I will say one thing. You're being a lot more hands on than Albus had been and promoting you as Head of Slytherin House was the best decision that Abigail Bones has made. I only wish that she did so earlier."

"That makes two of us but as you know I didn't want the job at first because I didn't want to play favorite or let people think that my grandchildren were going to get an easy ride," Yzma said, "The point I want to make is that to get anywhere in life they have to earn it based on their own merits and their own merits only."

"And you've already done a good job of making that point clear," said Minerva, "It seems Abigail Bones had the right idea promoting you after all. Even if the two of you do go way back."

"And that in turn is the main Reason why Abigail Bones didn't promote me to Head of Slytherin House at first despite Lucius and Silas insisting she do so," said Yzma, "She was hoping to wait at least until Mister Potter was at least a 4th year or higher. But unfortunately, circumstances forced her to demote Severus and unfortunately that meant she had to demote you as well and transfer the deputy headmistress position to me. But then again it's probably for the best considering I always was the only member of staff who wasn't afraid to call the headmaster out whenever they made foolish decisions that could come back to haunt them later."

"Perhaps but regardless, I will say one thing Yzma," said Minerva, "You are a true Slytherin much like my sister Olivia."

"That we can confirm but seriously I gotta go check on my granddaughter Isolt," said Yzma, "I have a feeling she may have gotten herself in way over her head as of late considering she's sharing a dorm room with Ursa Malfoy. I still can't believe Ursa Malfoy was sorted into Ravenclaw. I thought all the Malfoys were going to be Slytherins."

"Well, this was a shock to me as well but at least she's in the same house as your granddaughter Isolt Sayre Cooper," said Minerva, "Hard to believe that they and Luna Lovegood have already become the best of friends."

"Which proves that there is something to the classic environment vs biology argument," said Yzma, "Not to mention that Abigail once said something very important to me."

"And what was that?" the Head of Gryffindor House asked.

"The decisions you make and the actions that follow are a reflection of who you are," the Head of Slytherin House replied, "And I admit that not every decision I've made as of late was a good one but I will say one thing at least I took decisive action."

The Transfiguration Professor understood as the Defense Professor went to go and check on her granddaughter.

By the time she reached Ravenclaw tower she found herself in front of the knocker and it was ready to ask her a riddle.

"What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?" the knocker asked.

"I'm gonna say a river," Yzma said giving her answer as the door knocker allowed her entrance into Ravenclaw Tower.

Once inside Yzma saw Isolt Cooper and some of her housemates which included Luna Lovegood, Michelle Bennett, Halinor Abbot, Ursa Malfoy and Sally LeClerc.

"Hello Professor Milano," Luna said, "If you're here to check on your granddaughter then you'll be happy to know she's in good hands."

"How did you know that?" Yzma asked.

"Why else would you be here?" Ursa asked.

"I see your point Miss Malfoy," said Yzma, "You know I don't know what was more surprising. You ending up in Ravenclaw or Mister Patton Black ending up in Hufflepuff."

"And to think that's been the biggest scandal to hit the Black Family yet since his father was the first Black of the family not to be sorted into Slytherin," said Ursa. "Then again Sirius Black was known for scandal following him."

"Very impressive considering you're the first in your family to not wind up in Slytherin," Halinor said.

"Says the girl who's siblings are all in Hufflepuff," Ursa remarked snidely.

"Okay ladies how about we save the wisecracks and our energy for classes," Isolt said stepping in, "Besides we're already black eagles in this house anyway. Well three of us are anyway considering all of us have relatives in the other houses."

"Isolt's right but I will say this," Sally said, "Even though I was sorted into Ravenclaw I feel like I'm more Hufflepuff or Slytherin material because I'm more the hardworking loyal type or the cunning and resourceful type. I'm wondering why the hat placed me here. Either way I'm gonna follow the advice your grandmother gave me and that is to stay true to who I am. Not the perfect fit to my house but a good witch."

Yzma smiled knowing that Isolt was in good hands which meant it was time for her to get to the Dungeons.

By the time she finished the rounds breakfast had already begun and she was at the staff table discussing something with Filius, Pomona, and Minerva and it was about Minerva's cubs.

"Seriously?" Pomona asked, "Mr. Craig Bennet has been made the husband of Miss Rachnera?"

"It's true," said Yzma, "Minerva and I found out and as you've already seen Miss Rachnera was already carrying her mate on her back."

"I do hope you plan to tell them to keep the public displays of affection to a minimum Minerva," Filius spoke.

"Believe me I plan on doing that but we really need to teach the Monster Girls some self-control," Minerva said, "We're just lucky that none of the first-year males have been claimed as husbands."

"For now, anyway," Yzma said, "But who knows how long that will be?"

Minerva, Filius, and Pomona knew that Yzma had a point for there was no telling when and where a Monster Girl would choose her mate and how she'd go about doing so.

Later that afternoon Professor Pomona Sprout was taking her AP Herbology Class though the new greenhouse as she was teaching her students about the new plants that had been brought in.

"This is the first Advance Placement Herbology Class I'm about to teach and as you all know the plants I'm about to teach you can be very dangerous," said Pomona.

"Why may I ask are they so dangerous?" Carden Fortescue of Hufflepuff House asked. "We've studied dangerous plants before so we should be able to handle these."

Pomona Sprout smiled at Carden Fortescue because he was the finest student in Herbology he had ever taught in his year group and perhaps one of the best Herbology Students she ever had. Only Neville Longbottom of Gryffindor House had proven to have the potential to surpass Carden.

"Because these plants are Monster Girls," said Professor Sprout before speaking in a serious tone that made the students think this was Professor McGonagall they were dealing with. "So, I'm giving a fair warning to all of you especially to the boys. DO NOT accept ANYTHING to eat or drink from the monsters themselves. If the Monster Girls offer anything to eat or drink turn them down politely. I assume that you all have paid full attention in Monster Girl Culture Class so you can understand why I say this to you."

The students all understood as the lesson began and Professor Sprout had then place clothes pins upon their noses before opening the green house doors.

Once inside they all saw the various types of plants and these were completely different from the ones they had studied in the years before. And they saw that one of the plants in question was a giant pink flower that was giving off a strong scent. Fortunately for them Professor Sprout and the Students had clothes pins on to keep the scent from getting into their noses.

"Professor what kind of plant is that?" a 7th year Gryffindor female asked.

"This right here is an Alraune," Pomona said, "They're forest-dwelling plant Monster Girls that are rooted in the earth as you can see."

"That doesn't sound so bad," a 7th year Ravenclaw male spoke up. "But what properties does this plant have?"

"This plant is known for producing Alraune nectar, it's used in the demon realms as food, as a beauty treatment and as an aphrodisiac," Pomona spoke, "The effects are stronger than the Amortentia love potion."

As Professor Sprout kept explaining the plant began to unfold and in the middle of the flower where the stamen should be was a woman with medium length green hair, green skin, green eyes, and a vine that was wrapping along her naked curvy body.

Carden Fortescue however noticed that the girl had tears in her eyes and considering his mother had raised him to be polite to others moved over to the plant to wipe them with a napkin only it wasn't tears he wiped it was nectar.

"There you go," Carden said to the plant girl, "I'm just gonna go now."

Carden tried to back away only to find that he couldn't move. He looked down and found that his legs were being held by vines that were currently wrapping around him and before he could grab his wand the vines wrapped around his limbs and pulled him closer to the monster girl who was looking at him as the most precious thing in the world to her before she promptly kissed him on the lips and removed the cloths pin on his nose. Before she could do anything else she and Carden were forced apart via a jinx casted by the Head of Hufflepuff House.

"Elora that is not polite! How many times must I tell you and the rest of the plant girls," Pomona said scolding the plant girl, "You cannot grab male students for husbands!"

Elora the Alraune had an innocent pout as she spoke "I'm sorry, Pomona, but you know it's just my nature." She looked seductively at Carden Fortescue as she continued, "I YEARN to be loved. My honey pot is wet and starving for attention."

Elora was already getting giggles from the female AP students and a bright blush from the boy she almost caught.

Pomona sighed as she continued the lesson. By the time class was done Pomona was already giving out homework and it was already time for dinner.

At the same time Professor Yzma Milano had been getting the first year Ravenclaws and Slytherins up to speed on Jinxes in Defense Against the Dark Arts using the theoretical knowledge that her previous assistant Quirinus Quirrell had presented and combined it with her practical knowledge that she taught.

"Alright class listen up," Yzma spoke, "We've covered a lot so far but this only your first year and with all that's happened and that's even with my assistant Gilderoy Lockhart present I have much more to teach you and we have a lot to cover this year."

The class understood as they were learning a lot about Jinxes from Yzma Milano having done her classes with a practical approach. Normally they were worried that the classes would be quite dull and boring with the fiasco Lockhart caused in his first lesson and that was the one where he set Cornish Pixies loose. Fortunately Yzma managed to stop the Pixies and teach the students the freezing charm in the process after that she held the lesson in an empty classroom while Lockhart was getting the ink out off his hair so they were able to learn something.

"Your grandma really knows her stuff," said Flora Carrow a 1st year Slytherin to Isolt Cooper, Yzma's Granddaughter and 1st year Ravenclaw. "Even though my siblings and I have had some training it's nothing next to that."

"Believe me I've had some training before coming to Hogwarts and so did my siblings and cousins but the training we got is nothing compared to what Grandma has faced," Isolt spoke back.

"Then I take it you and all of your siblings are from a magical family," Hestia Carrow, Flora's twin sister said. "So, it's safe to say your parents gave you training?"

"Something like that," the 1st year Ravenclaw said knowing she went to a magical preschool due to being a muggle raised halfblood on an island of Steam Locomotives on active service. "Even so Grandma's gonna teach us something effective."

"Hopefully it's the stinging Jinx or the Jelly legs jinx." Halinor Abbot, Isolt's dormmate said, "I really want to test that out on the bigots for insulting my soon to be sister-in-law Enya Hever."

Yzma sensed her granddaughter Isolt was discussing with her friends about jinxes which considering the circumstances Professor Milano knew they had to be ready but she also knew that she had to step up as a leader.

"Miss. Cooper, Miss. Abbot, Miss Carrow and Miss Carrow," the Defense Professor spoke, "Is there something you'd like to share with the class?"

Isolt, Halinor, Flora, and Hestia blushed at being caught by Professor Yzma Milano before Halinor spoke.

"We were discussing Jinxes Professor," Halinor spoke, "Namely the Jelly Lex Jinx and the Stinging Jinx."

"It's funny you should mention those," said Professor Milano, "I was planning on covering the shield charm to protect the caster against such jinxes. Even so you four really need to pay attention when I'm speaking and take notes."

The girls understood as Yzma demonstrated the Shield Charm and explained what it could do and had each of the students practice casting the charm and building their confidence in the process as they casted minor jinxes to test the defense of the shield charm.

Once Class was done Yzma released the students knowing that she had at least done her part to make sure Defense Against the Dark Arts was being taught properly and it was fortunate she assigned them the homework on practicing the jinxes they covered so far and the Shield Charm.

'So far so good,' the Head of Slytherin House thought, 'Defense is moving in a competent direction since Lockhart suddenly got a ton of fan mail he had to answer. Still I'll need to speak with her in the Owlery soon enough considering I'll need her help on Halloween.'

Yzma decided to go over the paperwork of her students to keep her mind occupied knowing that she'd be doing something productive to help focus her mind on normal duties and not on her challenge.

Just past midnight, and Carden Fortescue couldn't sleep, tossing and turning fitfully. Ever since the incident in the AP greenhouse, he couldn't get Elora out of his mind, his heart fluttering. In all his remaining classes of the day, his thoughts constantly drifted back to the lovely alraune girl. And the more time passed, the more he felt the tug on his heart, a pull on his soul.

Grunting softly in frustration, he got up, and threw a bathrobe on over his PJs and stepped into his slippers. His breathing heavy, his eyes glazed, he walked almost mechanically toward the 'secret' passage in the Hufflepuff Common Room to the Greenhouses.

The other plant-girls were all asleep, but Elora exhaled a forlorn sigh. True, she had upset Pomona, but when she saw such a handsome lad among the students she couldn't help herself! And his lips tasted ssssoooo sweet for the few seconds she was able to kiss him! She sighed again, wishing with all her heart that...The door opened, and her heart leaped when she saw it was him entering.

"You came back!" she squealed joyfully as he walked toward her, disrobing on the way, his eyes burning with desire. He walked right into her arms and kissed her passionately. She sighed happily as she melted into the kiss, orally sharing her nectar with him. "I'm so happy you came back to me!"

"I just couldn't stay away, Elora," he breathed as he climbed, naked, into her nectar-filled flower. The sweet, syrupy, red-orange liquid came up nearly to his crotch. "I can't stop thinking about you. I ache for your touch. My blood burns for you. It was like my heart and soul were pulling me to you and just could not be denied. What in Merlin's name is happening to me?!"

"Shhhhhh...my love," she soothed, kissing him again as she pulled his face into her deep cleavage with no resistance. "Nothing is wrong with you. You are my perfect love. Love me, lick me, kiss me, Carden! Aaaaaaaaahh!"

Carden dove into licking and sucking her hard nipples as he lovingly groped her huge breasts, his mind too clouded with passion to remember from class that an alraune's nipples are primarily for their pleasure and that of their husband, but they are also one of the sources of their alluring scent and secrete nectar when sucked. Elora moaned with pleasure, kissed him again, then slid down his body to take his painfully hard cock in her mouth. It had been quite some time since he'd 'relieved' himself; so he was so pent up that it didn't take long for her passionate, sexy sucking to release a big load of his essence into her eager mouth. She swallowed earnestly, relishing the sweet, creamy flavor of his seed. Wrapping her sexy legs around his waist; "I need you inside me now, my love! I'm yours! TAKE ME!"
Spurred by her words, he kissed her fiercely as he thrust into her tight, soaking-wet womanhood, making her scream with pleasure. The nectar in the flower sloshed violently as they fucked. Elora was blissfully happy. She finally had a husband! He was eagerly filling her pussy with his cock, which was filling her heart with sublime joy! Now if he would only fill her womb with...

"E-Ellorrra! I'm g-g-gonna...!" he panted, and she could feel his cock starting to twitch inside her.

"Cum inside me, my love!" she squealed. "Let out ALL of your creamy love INSIDE ME!"

Carden didn't hesitate as he filled Elora's pussy and womb up with his cum and nutted in her while holding her tightly in his arms and kissed her on the lips which in turn prompted Elora to cum.

The two panted as they held each other in the afterglow before they continued mating even as the moon was about to fall before they fell asleep in each other's arms with Elora's flower wrapping around them.

Professor Pomona Sprout was ready to begin the next day's Herbology Class. She had woken up early to go tend to the greenhouse where the plant monster girls were kept. She opened the door and could see that the plant monster girls were currently dozing away but one plant monster girl had their flower closed.

The Head of Hufflepuff house made her way closer to the plant and when she cased a nonverbal charm to get it to open she found that inside was Elora in all her glory but she also found that she was currently hugging Carden Fortescue and leaning her weight upon him as they were butt naked and sleeping in her flower having mated with him through the night.

Carden's clothes were on the ground next to the flower Elora was in and needless to say he had his arms wrapped around Elora and looked pretty content with his new wife.

Pomona sighed again as she recalled what Yzma had mentioned the evening before.

(Hogwarts, the great hall, yesterday evening)

Yzma and Pomona were having a word after classes were over for the day and needless to say, Yzma wasn't really surprised.

"Seems the plant girls are getting more and more restless," Yzma spoke.

"I know. I had a close call today with one of them. Elora actually grabbed Mr. Carden Fortescue with her vines and pulled him close to her," Pomona responded, "Fortunately, I was able to separate them before they made it past first base as the muggles say."

"Is that all?" the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor asked.

"I won't deny there's more," the Head of Hufflepuff spoke before she continued, "Before I managed to separate them Elora actually kissed Mr. Fortescue on the lips and knocked the nose clip off.

"Then don't be too shocked if you find Mr. Fortescue in the greenhouse tomorrow morning," The Dragon Priestess and Head of Slytherin House said, "You of all people should know what Alraune Nectar does to a male. You are the Herbology Professor after all."

"Let's hope for once you're wrong about Mr. Fortescue," The Herbology Professor said. "He's one of my best badgers and I'm sure he's got plenty of willpower."

Yzma said nothing else knowing how this was going to end.

(now)

'I really should've listened to Yzma's warning,' the Herbology Professor thought before yelling "WAKE UP!"

Elora and Carden woke up but Elora still had her limbs wrapped around her husband and she looked like she wasn't going to let him go anytime soon.

"P-P-Professor!" Carden stammered when he woke with a start. "This isn't...! I just couldn't...! We..,.uhmm. I'm in deep soft-serve, aren't I?"

"I would say so!" Sprout huffed; the shouting having awakened the other plant girls. They giggled knowingly. The Professor sighed heavily in resignation. "However, I too carry the blame. As your professor and Head of House I should have protected you better. And don't think I've forgotten YOUR part in this, young lady! I told ALL you girls repeatedly since you arrived that you could not take male students as husbands!"

Elora smiled and shrugged sheepishly, still embracing her new husband and looking very satisfied. "I did TRY to resist, Pomona. But my love here was just too irresistible. The moment I saw him, I just knew he was my perfect husband."

Pomona swore under her breath for a moment. "All right. Out of that flower and into a hot shower, Mr. Fortescue. You still have breakfast and classes to go to."

"But...!" Elora began to cry, keeping her hold on him.

"Don't worry," the Professor interrupted with a sigh, "I won't separate a married couple. However, there WILL be concessions on BOTH your parts. Elora, you MUST allow him to eat and attend classes with his classmates. You may spend your nights and any free time you wish here together. But you, Mr. Fortescue, will have to leave early enough every morning to return to your dorm to shower and change clothes."

"Thank you, Professor/Pomona!" they both replied gratefully.

"And YOU, Mr. Fortescue, will write to your family explaining your new marital status," Pomona said. "TODAY."

Carden groaned but nodded.

"This is going to be a long year," Pomona groaned silently as the other plant girls giggled. "Even more so considering the circumstances."

Author's Note: Two chapters in the same day. How about that? Either way please read and review thank you that is all.