-Break-

Sometime later

Location: Path towards the campsite

As Mariana runs forward towards the campsite, Nero chases after her struggling to keep pace.

“MARIANA WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!?”

“LEAVE ME ALONE!”

“DO YOU REALLY HATE ME THAT MUCH.”

“NOT IN THE SLIGHEST!”

“THEN WHY!?”

“I JUST CAN’T STAND BEING AROUND YOU, OR SEEING YOUR FACE, OR HEARING YOU BREATH!”

“IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HATE ME!”

“YOU DON’T GET IT YOU IDIOT!”

“YOU’RE AN IDIOT!”

“NO, YOU ARE.”

“YOU’RE THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR ALMOST AN HOUR, THAT’S WHAT A FOOL WOULD DO?”

“SAYS THE ONE WHO IS CHASING AFTER ME!”

“I DO THIS BECAUSE I CARE!”

“THAT IS WHY I CAN’T BE NEAR YOU IDIOT!!!!”

With a panicked voice, I hear Nero scream, “MARIANA A MERARK’S IS OVER COMING TOWARDS YOU.”

I instantly stop and look around my surroundings to see the Merark, but nowhere in my surroundings do I see one. Then from behind I am tackled by Nero and brought to the ground.

While on the ground, I say, “You bastard you tricked me.”

“You should have known all the Merarks’ are always on the outer perimeter of the plantation nowadays.”

“I only stopped because I thought I could trust you, but it seems I can’t so get off of me,” I say as I push him away.

“No,” Nero says as he fights back against me.

On the ground, we struggle against each other but with his strength, Nero pins me down and towers over me, after which he scream’s “STOP!”

Hearing his loud voice and seeing him tower over me makes me scared, but then moments later Nero makes a shocked face and then lets go of me.

Nero then falls over to my right side and says, “Please if just for a moment listen to me, and if you don’t care for what I say you can run as far as you want and I won’t chase.”

Looking away from his face, I say, “Go ahead.”

“Mariana I truly have no idea what’s wrong. I explained earlier why I did what I did but it seems I still have found some other way to annoy you, and whatever it is I apologize for it, and if it is my presence that causes pain then I will remove it from you’re life.”

“Nero you’ve done nothing wrong.”

“Still you’re in pain, and I made a promise not to hurt you or Charles anymore. Because to me you and Charles are my suns, my hope in this world. So if I make you sad I will just leave,” Nero says as tries to get up.

Grabbing him, I pull him next to me and say, “Don’t leave.”

“So what do you want from me?”

I trip over my words as I try to speak, but as I look at his saddened yet serious face and as I do my mind clears, and I say, “Nero I lo-.”

A scream all the way from the campsite reaches both our ears which causes, me to scream, “REALLY!?”

But Nero gets up and with a face of terror, he says, “The only person at the campsite right now should be Sandra.”

“You’re right,” I say as I come to the same realization he has.

Instantly both me and Nero start to run towards the campsite, and mere moments later we see near the entrance that Sandra has collapsed with her hands on her stomach.

Running over towards her, I ask, “Sandra, what’s wrong?”

“My stomach started to hurt so I decided to wait by the gate to see if anyone was nearby.”

Sandra screams in pain again, so Nero says, “Let’s get her to her hut.”

“Yeah,” I say nodding my head.

Picking her up by her shoulder me and Nero slowly walk her back to her hut.

A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

Since Sandra is pregnant she was given quite a few different things to help her deliver her baby. At first, I thought it was weird why the beastkin would care at all about a human pregnancy, but it seems they plan to use it as a method of increasing our numbers.

As we prepare to lay Sandra down on the ground she lets out another scream, and then beneath us, I hear something make a sound on the ground, almost as if water splashed.

Slowly looking at her, I say, “Sandra what was that I just felt?”

“I think my water just broke, the baby is coming.”

I look at Sandra, then I look at Nero who has a face of terror and shock, one that mirrors my expression at this moment. Then a few seconds later me and Nero start to scream until all of the air leaves our lungs.

With both of us still holding Sandra we start to panic.

“What are we going to do, what are we going to do?”

“The baby is coming, the baby is coming, the baby is coming?”

Sandra lets out another scream of pain, so Nero says, “We have no choice then, Mariana get one of the blankets over there and lay it down.”

“Nero you don’t mean.”

“I do we need to deliver this baby.”

-Break-

As Sandra lays down screaming in front of us, Nero turns to me and says, “We need to get ready for when the baby appears don’t we?”

Looking at him confused, I say, “What are you on about?”

Sandra screams, and says, “It hurts.”

“Mariana we don’t have time for this, you know I am talking about the fact that babies appear on top of a woman’s stomach after a few hours of screaming.”

Coming to a realization, I say, “You do realize babies don’t magically appear after a few hours?”

“Well then since you’re so smart, why don’t you tell me how they appear.”

“They come for the hole underneath you idiot!”

“WHAT! No wait it would actually make a lot of sense if babies came out of a woman’s butt.”

“No, the other one!”

“What other one! Are you trying to tell me women just have a giant hole that baby can fit through? I might not know everything but that is utter nonsense.”

I put my hands against my head and rub them against it in utter rage, then say, “WHY DO I HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO EXPLAIN THIS!”

Sandra lets out another scream in pain.

Looking at Nero, I ask, “Haven't you seen any of your horses give birth before?”

“No, I haven’t, because unlike your whore pigs my horse know not to keep bursting out babies.”

Enraged I walk over to Nero and say, “What did you just call my pigs!”

“WHORES!”

“HOW DARE YOU!”

“They have multiplied way too much over these last three years, now they are an infestation. My horses are getting less food because of them.”

“Your horses are too fat anyway, maybe some reduction in their food will actually make them able to run.”

Angered, Nero says, “What did you just say, about my gallant babies!”

“You heard me!”

“My children are just like me, gallant, intelligent and are great eaters. Unlike yours which are just whores, who can’t stop popping out babies, dirty pigs always hugging each other.”

“That’s not how babies are made! By that logic, I should have had countless babies with you.”

“You need to be in love to make babies by hugging.”

I start to blush, and say, “I mean with Charles, not you!”

Suddenly Nero looks at me with a face of shock, then says, “You and Charles haven’t been making babies have you.”

I smack him right on the top of his empty head and say, “We are literally together all the damn time when would I have had a chance to get pregnant and give birth!”

As me and Nero scowl at each other, Sandra screams, “HELP ME!”

Suddenly we both snap out of our confusion and I say, “Nero go support her back I will stare at the baby.”

As Nero runs over to her front side, and kneels beside her while saying, “Just breathe Sandra I am sure everything will be fine.”

Sandra screams, “NO IT WON’T IT FEELS LIKE I AM GOING TO EXPLODE FROM THE INSIDE!”

Nero with a polite smile on his face, says, “Sandra don’t you think you’re overreacting a little bit, it can’t hurt that muc-.”

Sandra bites Nero which cuts off his words as he shouts, “Please stop, please stop, please stop!”

Letting go of him, she says, “I am feeling that pain several times over every single second, so just-.” Sandra's sentence is ended as she starts to scream in pain while holding Nero.

Nero screams, “Too tight, too tight, too tight.” Then he stares at me and says, “Please get the baby out already.”

“I can’t just take it out it will take hours!”

Sandra lets out another scream, and says, “PLUSO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO HAVE SUCH A GIANT HEAD!”

As Sandra screams, and Nero is driven to tears by the tightness of her grip, I start to look down towards her nether regions, and their I see her privates expand.

What the hell is going on? Why have they gotten so big? I didn’t even know it was possible for them to expand this much, how in the messiah’s name is this ever going to go back to normal? Could this happen to me, could my privates become this big? Wait, is that a head I see? It is coming out of Sandra, an entire human is coming out of Sandra.

Putting my hand over my mouth, I say, “I am getting a bit woozy.” Then moments later I fall over to the floor.

-Break-

Opening my eyes, I see Nero’s face close to my mind, and he says, “Mariana you’re awake. You just suddenly passed out, and I was super worried.” Bringing me close to his chest, he hugs me and says, “I am so glad you’re ok.”

His close proximity to me causes me to blush, so I push him away and say, “GO AWAY!”

“But.”

“I don’t care just scram.”

“Not until I make sure you’re ok.”

Φ Seeing the two kids fight while she is struggling to even exist causes a memory to arise in Sandra’s mind.

Two years ago

Looking at Mariana and Nero flirt in front of them, Sandra says to the other adults, “Don’t you think we should help these two love birds along.”

Edward beside her says, “No way, because if we do that I lose my daily entertainment.”

“I see.”

Present day

Φ Sandra screams, “You’re dead Edward!”

Pushing Nero, away I say, “Sandra needs a hand to hold.”

With a begrudging face, he runs over to her and says, “Alright but you be safe.”

As Nero returns to his position, I look at Sandra’s nether regions again and feel sick.

I need to focus, but I can’t because this is all too much for me. At this rate, I might mess up and even damage the baby.

The thought of this sends shivers down my spine and causes my hands to shake.

Focus, focus, focus, focus, focus!

Suddenly Nero and Sandra in front of me take all of my attention. While holding Sandra, Nero says, “I know it must really hurt, but please bear through it. The Sandra I know is bare and smart and won’t let any big-headed baby beat her.

And I know for a fact that any baby made between you and Pluso will want to be greeted with a smile. I can already imagine it’s pudgy, cute little face. I can already imagine how much I am going to love my little sibling.”

Sandra smiles, and says, “You’re right that little one will definitely be an adorable baby, just like me.”

“Exactly so make sure to bear through it and allow it the opportunity to one day be hugged by its amazing mother, and father.”

Seeing Nero it is like all the doubt’s in my mind disappear as one thought appears; I love him, truly I do love him.

Slapping both of my face cheeks, I let out a roar of passion and say, “Let’s bring this little one into this world!”