Hova's Duty
Chapter 5 Responsibility Argument
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Hova and Lucas made there way out of the ant hill. Lucas was adjusting to his four new legs, with a bit of help from Hova. At first the two walked side by side, with Hova holding Lucas's hand to help keep him steady. A few passing ants gave the two an odd glance, but then went about their business. Lucas began to get adjusted to his legs and let go of Hova's hand and began to take a few careful steps of his own, before he began walking. Hova smiled at this and congratulated Lucas, who smiled back. The two made it to the outside and took a breath of fresh air as they watched some other ants go about their business.
"Wonderful morning isn't it?" Asked Zoc as he walked up to the two.
"Morning Zoc." Said Hova in a friendly tone.
"I see our little human guest finally came out and is trying to pass himself as an ant." Said Zoc as he scowled at Lucas.
"How do you know its me?" Asked Lucas.
"Because I've never seen you before in the colony and you still have the scent of a human, though I will admit its faint." Said Zoc.
Lucas lifted his right arm up and sniffed his armpit. He honestly didn't smell that different, but he supposed he was still adjusting to his new senses.
"Zoc be nice. Both Lucas and I recently went through a rough process of release. Lucas now has the body of an ant and now we can start training him." Said Hova.
"He should be dissected or be a bunch of digested muss that should have been released from your body and used to fertilize our land for the colony." Said Zoc.
"Gross." Said Lucas with a shiver at the thought of being digested.
"Well neither of those things happened. Lucas entered my body as a human and he exited it as an ant, which technically makes him my son." Said Hova putting a hand on Lucas's shoulder.
"His not your son! Having a child doesn't work that way!" Complained Zoc.
"Well Lucas wouldn't be here if you haven't shrunken him in the first place. I agreed to look after him and teach him, which included taking him into my body and letting a magic potion and my stomach juices give Lucas an ant body, while he was inside me. Then I had to release him and I won't lie, the process was quit painful for both me and Lucas. So when you really get into it Lucas is my child and he is also yours. After all he entered our little world because of you. Your a part of this Zoc, which makes Lucas your responsibility." Said Hova as she crossed her arms.
"That thing is not my child!" Said Zoc glaring at Lucas.
"His not my parent!" Said Lucas glaring at Zoc.
"Look lets try to get along and work together, it'll make things easier for all of us. Think as this as practice, when we decided to have kids of our own Zoc." Said Hova trying to make peace.
"Fine. I'll tolerate the kid." Grumbled Zoc with one last glare at Lucas before walking off.
"He really doesn't like me." Said Lucas.
"He'll come around eventually. Now come on. There's a forging class nearby that's run by a friend of mine and I'm sure you'll learn a lot about colony life from it. It'll be fun." Said Hova as she lead Lucas through some grass to the class.
To be continued.