"I really want to be an Amazon, Queen Hera, and be like all my family. I know man's world is strange and foreign, but I want to help it out like Mother did with Father. And I know I have some of Father's traits, but I don't want to hurt people like bad men do. Mother said that Father was a good man, having honorable morals that even my grandmother had to admit in respecting him.", Tessa declared.
"Oh, how nice to hear that Hippolyta's finally come around on me.", a man's voice chuckled as Hera smiled, "You truly are your mother, Tessa, and like your father as well, which I think it might be best to let you meet him for a few moments...".
Tessa widened her eyes as she got up, turning around, and saw a man from both her mother and aunt's descriptions, and Steve Trevor's eyes teared up with a proud smile, "Look at you...You got your mother's eyes, and you got my hair, and of course, along with other traits from either your mother or me...You are a beautiful, incredible, and determined daughter I'd be proud of...Can you manage a hug with me, Tessa Melody Prince-Trevor? That is, if you don't mind having Melody for a middle name, as it means feeling of harmony, and well, it's an American name of sorts, and since you're half me and half Diana, you are a harmony of Themyscira and Man's World.", with a patient nod, looking slightly nervously sheepish to hear his daughter's reaction, realizing that he was rattling on for a moment there.
He has truly watched over his daughter, and had fallen in love with her, becoming proud and awed of his daughter, happy to see Diana finding joy again through having something to live for next to her beloved home and community.
"Father!", Tessa cried out as she ran over to hug him tightly. "Hey, easy!", Steve laughed. "You've already got quite a bit of your mother's strength already in you to begin with!", he teased her as she tried to wipe her eyes. "It really is you... Mother told me so much...", Tessa sniffled.
"Aww, don't cry, my little warrior-princess.", Steve smiled bittersweetly as he gently helped with her tears, "I'm happy in the heavens, and I'm literally best friends with your aunt's folks, and heck, I'm even a friend with Hera occasionally. I love you, Tessa, and I have watched over you ever since you were created and born. Believe me, I wanted to be down there, but I knew your mother got you...".
Tessa sniffled, "You're not mad that I really want to be an Amazon like Mother?", and Steve shook his head, "No way. Being an Amazon makes your mother happy, and with you being like her, I'd be relieved if you knew so many ways to defend yourself when I can't be there to protect you from anything bad. You truly are determined like me as well, and I am only happy to encourage you to try at anything you'd want to do, strong like a lioness...Oh, which reminds me...", taking out a beautiful, strong barrette of a lioness's head in the center of the barrette.
"Oh, is that for me?!", Tessa gasped, and Steve nodded, "Yep. It's your birthday, and next to giving you your middle name, well, I had to spoil you a bit, don't I? As I know, all Amazons makes sure that their hair is up and whatever all out of battle's way, so, you can wear this in your hair to help with that, and when you wear it, you can remember me...So, may I?".
Tessa nodded as Steve moved her hair a bit to place it in her locks. "Just a moment, not really used to this sort of thing.", he chuckled before he finished. "There we go, looks perfect on you.".
Tessa smiled warmly at her father, "Thank you, Father...I love you.", hugging her daddy again, and he rubbed her back, kissing her forehead, "I love you too, little lioness. Now, you can't be mad if your mother meets someone else in true love...she deserves to be loved, and I can't be replaced, but there's room in her heart, and in yours too.", gently smiling and softly pressing a finger to Tessa's heart.
"Wait... you mean...?", Tessa's eyes widened as Steve chuckled, "Sorry, uh, keep this between us, could you? I could be in quite a bit of hot water with Hera if I say anymore...".
Hera's voice replied, "I'm not deaf, Steve!", and Steve blushes red in embarrassment, and Tessa giggled, and smiled, "Don't worry, Father, I can keep a little secret as I want Mother to be happy too.".
Steve looks relieved and smiled, "Show them the best Tessa you can be. No matter where you are, I will be there. This isn't goodbye forever as we will see each other in an awfully long time.".
She gave a small nod, wondering what he meant by that at least before she hugged him one last time, "I love you, Father...", whispering. Steve whispered back, "I love you too, Tessa...".
Steve then kissed Tessa's cheek, "And that you can pass to your mother. Never forget who you are, Tessa Melody Prince-Trevor.", tapping her nose.
Tessa smiled softly, "I won't forget...", and Steve smiled warmly before stepping back and standing up and then vanished in a white beam.
"How do you feel?", Hera asked as Tessa sighed. "Alright. A bit sad, but I'm glad I could finally meet Father.", she said as Hera smiled with a nod, "I'm happy that I was able to give you that time... now then, are you ready for my gift?".
Tessa nodded, "Yes, I am, Queen Hera.", and Hera smiled, "Good. Take my hands, young Tessa.", holding her hands out.
Tessa nodded before she closed her eyes, remembering what Carrie said before she put her hands into Hera's and a moment later, felt that warm feeling starting to flow through her body as she slowly felt her father's traits being overshadowed by pure Amazonian ones.
She can slightly feel the change of her nose, her ears, becoming Amazonian tan like her mother, yet her eye shape and her hair remained the same, keeping a bit still of her father, as many Amazons came from different sides of Greece for the eye shape and the hair, and no one from the outside world wouldn't really tell the difference until personally close to see it, like Carrie in a way too.
Tessa kept breathing steadily as she felt the strength and beauty of an Amazon flowing through her veins, the gift of immortality and youth before finally the feeling came to an end. She opened her eyes before she saw herself and smiled.
"Like your sisters, you are now a true Amazon...", Hera whispered. Tessa nodded, "It feels amazing...Thank you...", and Hera smiled, "Excellent. Do you promise to be the best Amazon you can be?".
"I do, Hera.", Tessa declared, and Hera chuckled, "Then join your sisters, my brand-new daughter of Themyscira, Princess Tessa Melody Prince-Trevor. Live well, Tessa, and farewell.", leaning her head in and touching foreheads and noses together as Tessa smiled, closing her eyes, "Farewell, Queen Hera.".
Tessa woke up a moment later as she was pulled out of the fountain, taking a deep breath as she felt so different. "How do you feel?" Chrysis asked her as Tessa smiled, "Good.", as she then nodded, "It felt amazing...".
Chrysis smiled warmly, "That's very good news. And look at you, you're even more like your mother, yet you kept a bit from your father still. Let's take you out of here.".
Tessa smiled even brighter as she stood up and walked, hearing the Amazons cheer loudly, seeing them support for her, and she made it out of the fountain, the sun drying her off quickly as she skipped over to hug her mother as Diana kneeled down to embrace her.
"Oh, I am so happy and proud of you, my daughter!", Diana smiled brightly, kissing her forehead and stroking over her before she pulled back slightly and saw the lioness barrette, "Oh, my, such a gift. Were you given that?".
"Father thought it was a good gift to give.", Tessa smiled as she took a deep breath. "He really misses you, Mother... and there's something I want to tell you that he wanted me to say...".
"What is it?", Diana asked as everyone started to slowly scatter, considering that there was no crowning/adoption ceremony like it was with Carrie since that sort of thing had been done only days before Tessa was born.
Tessa smiled widely, "Father named me, Mother. He named me Tessa Melody Prince-Trevor. He thought it would be fitting for me in case someday I go to Man's World with you.".
Diana chuckled as she kissed her forehead, "Then let it be so... I'm glad he was able to give you at least a little name... he deserved to have had something.".
"He also told me to keep my heart open for someone else... just in case you found love again...", Tessa whispered. Diana widened her eyes, "He did?", and Tessa nodded, "Yes, but telling nobody else. Just between us and Father. Hera isn't deaf.", with a little smirk.
"Okay, well, I'm guessing too that he didn't exactly say who?", Diana asked Tessa nodded, "Yeah. Hopefully, we'll know someday, probably someone in the world of men.".
"Maybe there's someone for you too.", Diana teased as Tessa shook her head, "Mother, please, I'm not ready or old enough to think about that... I want to be more like my big sister right now!", as she then laughed. Even though they were aunt/niece; Carrie and Tessa had a bond more like that of true blood siblings.
Diana laughed warmly, "Very well. Come, let's have a feast with our sisters and our family. After all, it's still your birthday!", and Tessa cheered, "Let's go!".
(End of Carrie's first story)
"And it was true that my dear little niece surpassed me in some things. Tessa never grew out in wearing her father's gift of the lioness barrette. And it was funny when some shipwrecked men occasionally were shocked to find out that when his theory was dashed about us. They truly thought that Diana was my mother, and that Tessa was my younger sister before they met Queen Hippolyta, discovering that it was twisted back on them, finding out that Diana is the Queen's daughter, and I being the Queen's second daughter by adoption and aunt to Tessa, with her being the daughter of Diana and granddaughter of the Queen.", Carrie smirked with a snicker.
It was perhaps an hour and a half of telling her origins and her first arc of her life, faintly hearing the labor cries of Barbara increase on the other side of the manor, but not yet immediate latter active labor pains, as Carrie had heard quite a few over her life on the island, depending on either Hera's blessing on Amazon couples or the occasional fling with one or two shipwrecked bachelor men for some of her sisters.
"Kinda jealous to hear all that…", Tim admitted. "Compared to Jason and myself, our lives were so boring by comparison!", he chuckled.
"Eh, maybe the best at times, I mean, the pressure at times with what some in this family does, I'm perfectly fine just kicking back and living a more normal life some days.", Jason smirked.
Sean snorted, "Yeah, right, you can't help yourself practicing moves and all for patrol, Jay!", and Jason blushed, "Sean!".
Daphne giggled, "He got a point. Practicing moves is technically kicking back.", as the others smirked and snickered, and Jason rolled his eyes. Waylon asked softly, "Wow, that's incredible, for you and Tessa to see Steve, and Hera like that...And I guess I shouldn't be surprised...I mean, after all, Dorji had referred to Buddha himself.".
"And don't forget that we often refer to God, and Selina sometimes refer to Bast.", Poppy commented with a nod. The reunited family murmured in agreement, and Dick glanced at Carrie, "Okay, I get that you're cool with magic and all, but how come you didn't freak out, well, about any of us?".
Damien nodded, "Yeah, I get that Pegasi are winged horses, and you probably got some other mystical creatures, and you heard stories of the gods in their ancient stories like the minotaur and all, but you must have still wondered if there's more out here beyond the island and your memories of traveling with Rachel and Daniel.".
"Well...", Carrie took a deep breath. "It actually can be kinda explained a bit more, in relation to why I'm even here right now, how I knew Mom was the She-Hulk and such. It sort of starts when I first met my lover...".
Poppy's eyebrow raised by hearing that before chuckling. "Aw, my little girl met someone?", she teased. Carrie blushed red, smiling wryly, "Yeah...I wouldn't ever forget that day, the day I met Kori...", as Daphne asked, "Kori?", with a grin.
"A girl? Oh, come on, we are older than you, essentially, and you were first?!", Tim groaned, and Jason smirked, "Ooh, la-la, is she an Amazon too?".
"Not exactly. You may say that she had come from somewhere far away, somewhere she and her sister had fled to seek sanctuary, to Earth.", Carrie replied, and Poppy widened her eyes, "Wait, you mean that your lover, this Kori is an alien?", as other eyes widened.
"Not just any alien...A gorgeous, amazing alien princess...It was perhaps a few months later after I turned 16, with four years passing since Tessa's Amazon ceremony, and her being almost to turn 9 years old later on within about a month...It was spring, and of course, it was both spring fever for the animals and the Amazons here and there, and it was high time for fishing and patrolling the island.", Carrie smiled as she began into her second arc of her life, her eyes taking upon a sparkle of reminiscing.
(Beginning of Carrie's second story)
Carrie took a deep breath as she was washing herself in one of the waterfalls in the jungle; one of those little traits she liked to do on occasion compared to how she would normally wash in the bathing halls. Perhaps it was one of those little connections back to her original life that she could never shake; enjoying the feel of water rushing along her body as she bathed; her eyes on her own reflection with how crystal clear the water was at times, it was almost a mirror as she looked over her now truly budding body once she truly began to grow into a woman.
Carrie had experimented affectionately with either gender soon after she turned 14, discovering that she can be friends with the occasional shipwrecked man, but never got attracted to them either romantically or sexually, and yet with the Amazons around her age physically either from regular aging or statically immortal aging, she discovered that she liked to be very affectionate friends with women, yet for some reason, even if they were so attractive sexually, there wasn't any romantic attraction, or even deep emotional attraction, thus she had never found a lover long enough.
She knew that her former parents would have accepted her no matter what as she had never forgotten that wonderful day of their last reunion, remembering their words forever, and of course, Hippolyta absolutely loves her no matter what, like Diana and Tessa.
But as of late, honestly, as now she'd turned recently of 16 years old, she was starting to wonder if she would need to go to Man's World when she will turn 18, as she knew there are more people out there, which technically means more fish in the ocean for her to find the one, and of course, even if she got help occasionally with her needs, it never seemed like it was enough, frustrating her.
Carrie gave a light moan as she saw herself in the watery reflection, already sporting quite a beautiful body worthy of an Amazonian that she was now. Her body was already starting to show its training as she had a sort of middle ground between a runner's body and a female bodybuilder; already being well defined along with some nice curves and strong C-cup breasts, She smiled as she started to strike a pose, recalling her lessons growing up in terms of how sometimes the more dominant Amazonian in an Amazon relationship tended to court by posing and showing off their builds.
She posed further, closing her eyes as she daydreamed about showing off her build to her future lover, sighing and murmuring in light moans as the water ran over her, getting into every crevice including the valley of her budding breasts and her ass crack, relieved for having short-ish hair without needing to flip it over her shoulder or whatever, when she suddenly felt watched.
She knew that sometimes animals stare and watch her out of caution as sometimes Amazons hunt them, and since she's in one of the forests, it'd be as well as a deer coming for water in the best case or in the worst case, a rowdy male bear in search of fish so he can bulk up and attract any non-lactating female bears in heat as it's spring fever.