《World of Dungeons (Cancelled.)》Chapter 21 - I love Eggs!!
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Author's note:-
Have fun with Minie. You all will finally know, why she is so sweet. Comment if you like the reason, actually her story is much deeper than just this.
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Enjoy.
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Rocky's P.O.V:-
I came running towards the room, and the first thing I entered in; my eyes met with queen's.
I saw our queen who had recovered from her injuries, squatting down with her face turned towards me and something round coming out of her bottom.
NO, it was not anything lewd, but a bit disgusting. There was a lot of mucus like stuff sticking out of it.
And just as I entered the room it came gushing out of her bottom and spilled on the ground. It covered a large area of the room with that mushy-gushy stuff. I would have liked to help her out, but its grayish yellow color and the “Splush” ”Splush” sound that it made when it came in contacting with the ground, converted this brave soul into a runaway.
I shouldn’t say this, but I was really welcomed by the queen by shitting something slimy and disgusting from her behind.
Moreover, her translucent yellow colored back was of no help in covering the movement of liquid which was taking place inside it. It was possible to see that slimy mucus squirming inside her, while she was pushing the round thing out of her bottom.
I looked around and saw Minie with her face and neck turning beet red with each passing moment. Watching her changing colors made me remember that chameleon, but I shook my head before asking her what happened.
“What happened? Why are you so red?”
I didn’t know what happened, but when I said red, she let out a ‘kya-Kya’ sound and the redness of her face increased to a new height. But to my question she also haphazardly replied saying, “It’s stuck and is not coming out.”
I don’t know why, but I felt my illusionary heart go *Thump* Thump* when I heard her say it’s stuck.
Maybe the memories of the first person who died by my hands had something to do with it, but well, no time to think about the cause and effect of something that was out of my hand.
I once again turned around to look at the queen and carefully saw that something which was stuck in her bottom.
I don’t know if I should have felt happy or not, but when I saw that the thing which was stuck inside her behind was nothing other than an egg, my soul went straight to heaven with bliss.
And just at that moment, when my tension lightened, like she was tickled by something, the queen gave a low pitched roar and lifted her bottom and started trying to push the egg out of there, even harder.
But the egg also stood its ground and resisted the force which was trying to push it out, but then I saw the liquid inside her back drawing back.
I thought that it had ended and the egg also went back inside, but then the liquid came back down like a rushing tide and it pushed the egg out, which came out flying like a missile.
I heard two notification sounds in my head and their respective message boxes appeared. I quickly glanced at them before turning my sight at the queen again.
Ant egg Lv(0)
Time left till birth: 8 hours.
Queen learned "Slime Spit (F)"
The egg came flying out from the queen’s bottom and it crashed on the ground with so much force that it pulverized the broken down ground and created a crater in it. I felt my body loosing energy when I saw that much destruction happening in front of me.
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I feared the egg might have smashed because the impact was anything but soft.
But when the dust settled and I got a clear view of the situation, I saw the egg safe and not cracked lying inside the crater. When I saw that its condition was fine, I finally took a breath of relief.
It turned out that, because of all the spells used in the room the ground had already started giving in and when the egg made contact with it at high speed, it finally gave in and caved. It provided a cushion for the egg to land safely on the ground.
At the same time when the egg came out unscathed and safe, I felt Minies mind getting calm again.
But the tension broke for just a single second, because now our not so fine queen was again gushing something out of her bottom.
Sweat came tinkling down from Minie’s forehead and her breathing got tensed, but unlike what I feared, this time the egg came out without any complications. Though because of the slippery and slime filled floor it slide a bit before stopping right in front of Minie. Other than that everything was all right.
*Grwan* *Grouu*
Unlike the previous one its delivery was very, very refined. To me it felt like she was not able to convey the pushing force to the previous egg properly and that’s why she had so much difficulty getting it out of her body.
I was going to go check on the two eggs when the tired looking and groaning queen, pushed another egg out. This one took no time and simply slipped out of her bottom.
‘Maybe, the slime helped it come out so easily.’ I thought.
My thoughts stopped, Minie breathing stopped, and the sound also stopped. Even though the silence occurred for just a moment, but the atmosphere turned heavy and the situation changed.
“Didn’t the information box say that she could only lay 3 eggs/day and they even have a cool down of 8 hours between too? Then why is she shitting them out like she is suffering from constipation?”
My murmur was heard by Minie and I felt her staring daggers at me. Well, not for the content of my not so proper speech, but cause of my choice of words and its execution.
*Ahem*
Well, I needed to do something so I asked her the question which I had no idea about. It was asked to kill two birds with one stone, but it didn’t go so well.
“So, this time, why has she given birth to three of them simultaneously?”
I asked Minie who was murmuring something and chewing her nails like a rat, while her bloody red eyes were stars… Looking towards me.
She foolishly smiled, before nodding her head and I kindled myself for thinking that she was mad at me. Then she straightened her back and took a deep breath, and when her mind calmed, she answered to my question, while I was getting restless from the wait.
“I think it happened because of you possessing her body. Though you couldn’t completely control her and could only commend her, but because she had no real control over her own body and its functions, she couldn’t give birth to the eggs at their specified time and...”
‘Oh shit!’ I thought. I understood what she wanted to say. So, I helped her complete her sentence.
“And because she couldn’t lay those eggs at their predestined time, they kept on getting stored inside her body and that is the reason why she just gave birth to three of them, one after another. It is also the reason why she had so much difficulty getting the first one out of her system. The difficulty decreased as the number of eggs inside her reduced.”
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I was smiling at Minie while talking as if asking her to praise me for figuring it out, but then a thought came and it left me flabbergasted.
“Yes, you are right.” She said as if telling me the reason, why she couldn’t praise me.
“This really happened because you had taken control over her for a long period of time and she couldn’t do anything and you are right about her dying too. It is possible. If someday you lost consciousness while being inside her, then not only would the extending period of no control over her body kill her, but it would also kill you because then you wouldn’t have a source of mana to sustain your spirit and it would also vanish.”
I couldn’t look back into her eyes after she explained the reason. All of my happiness over getting a body to stroll and scroll around was washed away, and the tension that I had over queen’s health came back.
“I understand, I’ll never use or take possession of queen for longer duration's of time, ever again. But you also told me nothing about this problem, you said nothing about it. If I knew something like this would happen with me sleeping inside her, then I never ever would have done it.”
I said that and I waited for her to talk balk and get hot and angry, but instead the redness of her face that had reduced to being normal, trickled back again.
While her unnatural glowing face was making me confused, she reacted unlike her character and for the first time in my lifetime, she apologized.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know something like this would happen if you take possession of her body for longer durations. I thought, because they are your monsters, therefore nothing would happen to them, no matter what you did.” Her voice was shaking, her body was shaking and she kept her head down while giving me her reason.
“So, does this mean even your school or organization don’t teach you everything.”
What happened after that? Her mood changed, the depressing atmosphere went away like it was never there. Those eyes which just a minute ago were full of tears and looking down on earth were once again back in glow. Her face, which was full of fear and tension, once again adorned her same sweet smile. Her shaking voice became cheerful and she replied vibrantly; making me think that maybe the apologizing Minie was just a dream.
“No, they do teach us. They teach us a lot of things, but all the information they give is about how to take care of a wild master and…”
“What do you mean wild? I’m not wild. You are wild, your…”
I went into a little frenzy there when I heard her calling me wild, but her swift response held me back and helped me come back from the land of the crazies.
“NO, you are not. From wild I mean, those normal dungeon masters who are not born with a sentience, but just a simple will. I meant those newborn masters who have no knowledge or wisdom and have only the will to kill, eat and then going back to dream world and slumber off.”
Ha-ha, and here I was getting mad over nothing. She continued,
“What I mean to say is, they don’t teach us anything regarding a sentinel master. Most of such cases are handled by much mature fairies, usually those who have already experienced training three or four normal dungeon masters. You know the skills and things, which I have already taught you; a normal master would have taken centuries, if not decades to learn.”
I didn’t hear what she said at the end. Actually, I didn’t follow her at all. There was only one line playing again and again in my head ‘Don’t know what to teach you.’ and it was giving me a headache.
“So, what the hell do they even teach you all in your organization?”
My mood had gotten a bit… No, a lot depressing after learning that my helper was an incompetent one, someone who was an illiterate in my subjects. Moreover, she had no prior experience to boost.
“They teach us students to have the spirit to talk back to angry and wild dungeon master. To refuse their requests most of the time and to accept when needed. Because if we listen to their every request and let them do whatever they want to do, then those wild masters would create destruction everywhere and would go berserk. Now, we don’t want that to happen, right?”
She is right, I think. If I remember correctly, I had also done something like that before gaining wisdom and knowledge thanks to my precious title.
“They don’t usually listen, therefore we are taught to give them the stick before giving the carrot and here the carrot or reward for taking orders is information about skills and the world. Actually, it is easy to control a slightly older normal dungeon master because they understand what danger is and that we fairies could help them survive. So it’s possible to put a leash on them.”
*Gulp*
‘Put a leash on them? I don’t understand who the master is and who is the servant here? From the way she is explaining it’s more like normal dungeons are the pets of these fairies. Whom they feed, help to grow and survive; while they enjoy the show?’ I thought
“SO, you mean, your organization teaches you to be a Tyrant, a brainwashing, heart breaking hypocrites?”
“Heeehehhe!”
She laughed! She laughed at my seriously asked the question! What kind of an organization is this? Do they even care about us dungeons or not? Are normal dungeons just a play for them, a game for their enjoyment? Maybe my worst decision was not taken after we became partners, but right after getting born. Maybe I shouldn’t have accepted the help of their race and become partners with a fairy.
Ah! I don’t know. Even though she is a real handful and a mind-boggier, but she is also really helpful. Though her organization has brainwashed her and all of her other little friends to believe that all the problems has only one solution and that is violence.
That they shouldn’t waste any energy on fighting us master's requests with reason, and simply do whatever they want and control us, as they see fit. I don’t know what really goes inside their organization, but I just hope that things won’t take a bad turn and they start pressuring her to put a collar on my neck.
I believe in her. I can see that she is fighting with something and her behavior and character is changing with that. I can only hope that she won’t turn her back on me, but I still need to get rid of this frustration.
“You dictators! You all have been giving hell to my brother and sister cores. How do you even live with yourself after behaving with such atrocity? Do you have no humanity? No, sorry, how could you, you are a fairy after all!”
“Come on, it’s not so bad. It’s what is best for everyone. Now you wouldn’t want there to be any myth about destroying dungeons as soon as one finds them because of some older or dungeon of the past that had at some time not listened to their partners advice and had corrupted lands and polluted the environment, and killed cities upon cities and villages upon villages, Right.”
Now, if I think about her reason calmly, then what she said holds a lot of meaning than it should and matter how absurd and bad this talk sounds, I have no way to counter her with.
“Okay, forget it, we have got nothing to do with others, we have a dungeon of our own to take care of. Let me tell you about some of the competitions that I had won, while I was still studying.”
“Okay, let’s hear them.” Yeah, nothing bad with getting my mood up by seeing her smiles, while she tells me about her past glory.
I thought she would say something like, I won the prettiest fairy competition or the all knowing or something else like that, but no it was the worst kind of competitions. I guess, I should have expected this much, keeping in mind the place she studied at, and her initial attitude.
It started with something which was kind of dubious, so I didn’t understand where she was going with it, as she said, “The first competition I won was called ‘The Controller’” see, its dubious and no matter how you look at it sounds fishy, but as she continued her tale, all of my expectations of her were blown away.
“Then I won the Filthy mouth, then the fighter and then the shameless, crocked weaver, most bashful, trouble maker, badass girl…” and her list went on and on and on.
It wasn’t a list of her won prizes, but her character certificate and all her won competitions suggested only one thing about her, that she was a bad girl. No, even devil is better than her in character I think.
I also have an inkling that maybe they were not actual competitions, but were more like titles and stars given to her because of her horrible character. I just hope her changing character is true, otherwise…Rip me.
I think I understand now, why she is like that. I mean, That.
Is this also why I was allotted to her, even though I am a super dungeon master? Maybe those titles of her were real and because she was such an excellent student, her organization decided to give her a chance, to test the waters?
*Gulp* This shit is scary. Not her, she used to be like that, but I hope, hope that other dungeon masters are saved from helpers like her otherwise, even if they didn’t want to, they would probably go crazy from these little monkeys mental attacks.
“Well, let’s forget about that. What are we going to do, now, that we have ‘endured’ our first test?”
Again, it happened again. Whenever I talk or somehow our talks end up going around our fight, she always starts shaking. I understand that it was dangerous and we could have died, if not for that Earth mage and her partners help, but it’s over now. This is what I don’t understand, why does she behave like that when it has already become a thing of the past.
Let’s just hope whatever it is she will be able to get over it, or hopefully talk to me about it. Otherwise I’ll have to lay the cards in front of her and that is what I don’t want to do.
“Firstly, let’s check our gains… From our recent Endeavor.” She said, while visibly shaking, but she had enough control over herself to answer me back.
Though I wanted to really ask her know what she was sulking about, but I couldn’t do so after watching how hard she was trying to not let her mindset affect her duty.
I opened the dungeon interface and what I saw left me flabbergasted and mad. No, nothing bad, it was bliss all over again.
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