As Maxine slowly woke up, she felt weight on her breasts and someone's very soft snore. She opened her eyes and saw that Emily's head was resting on top of them. So, that part wasn't a dream. I wonder why General McKenzy didn't come to get her, but I am really happy that he didn't. Maxine lifted up her right arm and started to brush Emily's hair with her fingers. She thorougly enjoyed this situation. Unfortunately this experience was short lived as Emily started to stir after only a few moments.
Right before Emily's eyes opened, Maxine decided to tease her, "I didn't think my boobs were big enough to be considered pillows." At hearing that, Emily bolted upright while blushing fiercely. However after Emily recovered, Maxine saw a mischievous sparkle in Emily's eye as she smiled.
"You're right, they are too small. Now I have a crick in my neck," Emily said teasingly. Maxine smiled wickedly as she laughed lightly. She is finally teasing me back. This is great! Emily started laughing as well a moment following Maxine.
"Now if you two are done flirting, come to the table. Breakfast is ready," Maxine's mother said from the bedroom door with a smile on her face. Maxine joined Emily in blushing. She hadn't been aware her mother had heard what Maxine had said. After Maxine's mother left, Silky poked her head into the doorway and had a smile on her face before she scurried off towards the kitchen.
"Grandma Claudia, I am gonna have two mamas," Silky announced happily from down the hall, which caused Maxine and Emily to blush an even deeper red.
"Well, unless you want to see me change clothes, you best give me some privacy," Maxine said to Emily.
"Alright, but you better tell me what is really going on," Emily said while smiling, but paused a moment later with a confused look on her face, "Maxine, did you always have those golden specks in your eyes?" At hearing Emily's question, Maxine became too alarmed to answer as she quickly got out of bed. She looked at her eyes in the mirror attached to her dresser. Her eyes did have golden specks in them and in the same pattern as in Poison Emperor Guan's eyes. FUCK ME! It lookes like my bloodline mutated, but why did only affect my eyes? It doesn't matter. What does matter is that my eyes have that pattern and it basically marks me as Guan's daughter. Even though her eyes effectively marked her, Maxine couldn't help admire the inheirent beauty of her eyes.
"Maxine?!" Emily asked while sounding alarmed, "Did your genes really mutate?"
"Yes, but not in the way that you think," Maxine said while trying to figure out the best way to tell Emily that she is an alien while simultaneously fending off her own fears at revealing everything.
"Then explain it to me," Emily demanded.
"Emily, I don't know how to tell you gently so I will just say it," Maxine said with her spiritual sense and hesitated for an instant while confronting her fears before continuing, "I am an alien with a wierd bloodline."
"What?!" Emily exclaimed in surprise.
"I didn't take it that well either when I found out," Maxine admitted, "Although I was more angry at my real dad for not saving me from that child-abusing asshole, but I could never be mad at my real mom."
"What do you mean your real mom and dad?" Emily asked with a confused look on her face, "And why don't you hate your real mother? She abandoned you on Earth didn't she?"
"She didn't have much a of a choice in the matter. She died protecting me," Maxine said, "My real dad is the one that put me here on Earth. He is the one that abandoned me." Maxine still felt angry over that. If he hadn't meddled with Earth, she would still be in her original body and would have lived a peaceful life. It was even possible that she could have met up with Emily and had a family. However that isn't what had happened.
Maxine noticed that Emily wasn't as surprised as she should have been by Maxine's confession. "You knew," Maxine said softly.
"Grandpa told me that it was likely that you weren't from Earth," Emily said softly, "I just never thought it would be true. Do you at least know the names of your biological parents?"
"Yes," Maxine smiled as she said that and held up her right arm with the golden bracelet on it, "You have already met mom. You and her have already talked. As for my biological father, his name is Guan and I do not want to talk about him."
Emily's eyes locked onto the golden bracelet on Maxine's wrist before she asked, "Your mom is Hellen? I thought she was an ancient essence cultivator whose soul got bound to that bracelet."
"Yes, and you are partly right. However she is definitely older than any person on Earth," Maxine said as calmly as she could, "So am I for that matter."
"What?" Emily asked in a confused tone, "I don't understand. Your mom has baby pictures of you and said that your birth had been a rough one. How is that possible?"
"I hadn't technically been born yet. I was a one month old fetus when I was put into stasis by my real mother until Guan could find me. Afterwards, he waited nearly a hundred years before coming to Earth and implanting me into my mother's womb," Maxine answered, "Don't ask me how. I don't know myself."
"That's alot to take in," Emily said.
"Tell me about it," Maxine agreed with Emily, "But can you keep this to yourself? It would cause alot of trouble for me and everyone close to me if you didn't."
"I can try, Maxine," Emily responded, "But I can't guarantee that I won't slip up by accident." With your essence enhanced brain, that is unlikely.
"I hate to interrupt you two, but we may have a serious problem in the future," Hellen announced, "I have found a couple ant queens that are beginning to change into an essence beasts. The good news is that it is a very slow process and should take close to ten years before it can become even a copper stage essence beast. I have no idea how powerful they will be once they do." Maxine imagined what such a thing would be like and instantly began to sweat. The mere thought of a huge swarm of foot-long ants blackening the landscape made her feel terrified.
"Can't we just exterminate them and solve that problem here and now?" Emily asked. Maxine gave her a look as if she thought Emily was being stupid.
"Emily, essence beasts are like cockroaches. If you find one, there are probably ten or more that are out there unseen," Maxine told Emily.
"Then is there no way to stop them from appearing?" Emily asked.
"Not really," Maxine replied, "The only way slow them down is to wipe out each ant colony that is absorbing essence as we find them. It's best to get rid of the ones inside cities first before they gather too much essence. The easiest way is to tell General Cullen about it later on today and let him handle it. But for now, let's get some breakfast. Mom is probably wondering why we haven't come to the table yet."
"Sounds like a decent enough plan to me," Emily said and nodded as she walked out of the room, so that Maxine could get changed.
Maxine quickly got changed and headed to the kitchen table to get breakfast. Breakfast consisted of bacon and eggs. Emily was already finishing up with her plate and Silky was eyeing Maxine's breakfast. Maxine knew that her mother had put enough food on Silky's plate for three people, but Silky seemed to be every bit the glutton that she was from when she was in her arachne form.
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After eating breakfast, Maxine decided it was necessary to talk to General McKenzy today. He knew that she wasn't from Earth and has supressed it. She wanted to know why he did that and she didn't believe it was just an attempt to keep Emily safe by keeping her away from Maxine. He is far too professional for that.
"Emily, let's head over to your place. I bet your grandpa is worried about you," Maxine said, "I also have a few things to talk to him about when we get there."
"That's fine by me," Emily said as she got up and put her plate in the sink. Maxine did the same as well. However she also washed both dishes before she left the sink.
"Mama, can I come with you?" Silky asked innocently.
"Certainly," Maxine said as she ruffled Silky's hair, "Just be sure you wear your panties. I know you are getting used to them, but you need to wear them."
"I know, mama," Silky said with a smile on her face as she ran to her room to put on her shoes. Shoes were another new thing for Silky, but for some reason she understood the need to wear shoes and socks far more easily than the need to maintain her modesty.
Once Silky was ready, the three of them headed to Emily's house at a run. Maxine kept their pace slow, so that Silky could get used to running. However she realized that it was unnecessary after seeing how quickly Silky was adapting to running with two legs. It didn't take them long to reach Emily's house in any case. When they got there, General McKenzy gave Maxine a flat glare. Maxine knew that he wasn't happy.
"Hey, grandpa," Emily said to General McKenzy.
"Welcome home, Emily," General McKenzy said with a smile. Silky smiled back at him while flanking Maxine.
"Hey, Howard," Maxine said to General McKenzy and his face went back to being neutral.
"Maxine," General McKenzy said flatly, "How are you injuries?" Huh? I wasn't injured. Oh, wait. Silky called Emily after realizing that I was in pain. He must have heard a bit of that conversation or Emily told him.
"I am fine now," Maxine said, "Thanks for asking. Umm, can I talk to you about a few things?"
"Oh? About what exactly?" General McKenzy asked with only half-hearted curiosity.
"Well, I was wondering if you knew of a place that I could teach others to be essence cultivators," Maxine said calmly, "But what I want to talk about first with you is my parents." General McKenzy's eyes narrowed. Maxine never talked about her parents around him in the past.
"Very well. We can talk about them, but let's do it in my study," General McKenzy said calmly and turned his head to Emily, "Emily, why don't you go get changed? You were wearing those clothes yesterday and no doubt they need to be cleaned." Maxine knew he was sending Emily away on purpose. He clearly wanted to talk with Maxine in private.
"Silky, why don't you go sit on the couch for a moment while I talk to Emily's grandpa," Maxine told Silky.
"Okay, mama," Silky said as she sat down on the couch.
As a precaution before speaking, Maxine scanned the whole room for any listening devices while Emily walked to her room to get changed. She found twenty different listening devices just in the room they were in. Damn. I didn't think they would be watching General McKenzy.
"Follow me to my study, young lady," General McKenzy said as he walked towards his study. Once they were in his study, Maxine scanned this room as well, but noticed that there were no such listening devices in his study. I wonder how he managed to avoid getting this room bugged.
Maxine got her answer when she found a strange device hidden in a book that appeared to be jamming all radio signals, but it had a very short range. She quickly expanded her spiritual sense to see if anyone was using one of those advanced listening devices that could be used at a distance. Fortunately there were none.
"Why did you send Emily away?" Maxine asked, "I already told her everything that I was going to talk to you about anyways."
"It's not wise to talk about things like that, even in my home," General McKenzy said, "Now how much do you know about your ancestry?"
"Enough. And why is it not wise to talk about those things? There are no listening devices in this room, nor is anyone aiming an antena listening device at this room," Maxine said.
General McKenzy looked surprised for a moment before he smiled to himself and shook his head before saying, "I forgot that you could scan your surroundings like that. It appears that my age is catching up with me."
"Doesn't that catch up with everyone?" Maxine asked without expecting an answer as she continued, "Now for my real question. Who else beside me, you and Emily know that I am an alien?"
"The scientist that ran the DNA testing does, but I made certain he would retain his silence. Other than that no one else knows," General McKenzy said calmly, "I am quite surprised that you are so calm after finding out your origins. May I ask how long you have known?"
"A bit more than a month," Maxine responded.
"May I ask how you found out?" General McKenzy said with a hint of anger in his voice. So he thinks that scientist told me.
"I met both of my biological parents. That's how," Maxine said.
General McKenzy looked shocked for a moment and something seemed to dawn on him as he asked, "Was it during the event that you battled that Tempest Weasel?"
"I met my real father during that, but I met my real mom much sooner than that," Maxine admitted.
"Interesting," General McKenzy said while rubbing his chin, "May I talk to either one of them?"
"Technically, my real mom has been listening in this whole time," Maxine said with a smile.
"Oh? In that case, madam, do you mind joining our conversation?" General McKenzy said while looking around, "I would appreciate seeing you in the flesh as well."
"That may be a problem," Hellen announced with her spiritual sense, "My body has long since perished. However in a way, I am still physically present. Just look at the golden bracelet on my daughter's wrist. That is where my soul resides. Don't bother trying to damage it. Your race doesn't have the means to." General McKenzy's face slackened in disbelief as he stared at the golden bracelet on Maxine's wrist. This was the first time that Maxine has seen him have such an expression.
After waiting a few moments, Maxine realized that General McKenzy was speechless. "Mom, I think you broke him," Maxine said to Hellen. She couldn't blame General McKenzy for being struck speechless. It's not every day that an inaminate object starts talking to you with a beautiful feminine voice.
"It seems so," Hellen said after chuckling and those words seemed to snap General McKenzy out of his stupor.
"How is this possible?" General McKenzy asked while looking at Maxine's golden bracelet.
"It is too difficult to explain to a non-cultivator. Let's just say that my soul was bound to this bracelet a moment before my death," Hellen said calmly.
"Can oridnary people have their souls bound in a similar fashion?" General McKenzy asked with a hint of avarice in his eyes. Maxine didn't blame him for asking. Having your soul bound to an object would essentially guarantee eternal life as long as the conditions were right.
"No," Hellen said flatly, "The souls of non-cultivators are too weak to withstand it. Even my daughter would require the assistance of a half-step immortal essence cultivator in order to bind her soul to an object. It's just not possible for an ordinary person to have their soul imbued into an object."
"I see," General McKenzy said in a disappointed tone, but quickly recovered as he seemed to remember the other reason Maxine had come here as he changed the subject, "Maxine, there are several places that are suitable to teach people to cultivate. I can help you arrange for you to be able to rent one of those locations, but you will have to pay for it yourself."
"That's fine. I already knew that would be the case," Maxine said and knew that she would be able to pay for it herself. She still had that one hundred thousand dollars that she was going to be awarded for assisting in fending off the essence beasts.
"Good," General McKenzy said, "If there is nothing else, we should go back to the living room. Emily will no doubt be finishing up any moment."
"There isn't," Maxine said, "Let's go." Maxine turned and left General McKenzy's study. When she opened the door, she saw that Emily was walking towards General McKenzy's study.
"So, did you two finish up your talk?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, we did," Maxine said, "Let's go watch some TV." Maxine really enjoyed watching television with Emily. Mostly because she got to sit next to Emily and cuddle. She had never really appreciated cuddling in the past when she was still a man, but now she absolutely loved it.
"Sure," Emily said as she walked with Maxine and both of them sat down next to the very patient Silky.
As they sat down, Maxine remembered that the Four-Tailed Fox was still in the shadow world and sent one of her shadow clones at a run towards the area that she captured the Four-Tailed Fox in. She felt annoyed with herself that she hadn't thought that she would need to release it later. However she knew that the Four-Tailed Fox couldn't be happy about loosing one of it's tails.
Maxine got a single dose of Troll's Blood Sap out of her dimensional pouch. She created a tiny portal to the shadow world and dropped it into it. She had the shadow clone that was watching the Four-Tailed Fox administer the Troll's Blood Sap to it. "Take this. It will help your tail regrow," Maxine said through her shadow clone. The Four-Tailed Fox looked at it skeptically before wolfing it down.
Maxine brought her mind back to her surroundings and began to enjoy her time with Emily and Silky. She had no idea how much longer she can enjoy such things with the threat of essence beasts looming, so she wanted to take advantage of it as much as possible. Unfortunately she knew she would eventually have to go home with Silky and give General Cullen a call to let him know about the ants absorbing essence.