Rise Of The Black Ranger

As soon as Shade reappeared in the castle he lifted Marie in his magic placing her onto the empty bed in the room they had appeared in, carefully pulling the covers over her body before leaning in kissing her on the forehead, before slowly pulling his head back away from her.

Marie squirmed under the covers before gently grabbing onto him and hugging Shade before he could move away as he saw her nuzzle against him “Thank you…for helping me...” he heard the girl quietly mutter.

“Don’t worry little one. I was glad to help, I just wish I could have found you before this and stopped them from doing this,” Shade responds, his free hand rubbing her head.

“It wasn’t your fault you didn’t know, I'm just glad you helped now than later” Marie replied before grabbing onto his hand, “If it weren’t for you I probably wouldn’t have seen Jason again I wouldn’t be here right now”.

Shade looked away for a moment, “and yet the people that did this to you all did so in my name. By all rights, I’m the one responsible for their actions.”

“Your not, the ones responsible are the ones who decided to use your name for those acts, they are responsible you don’t need to blame yourself for something that was out of your control” Marie replied.

“Say that to everyone who looks at me like a monster at the mere sound of my name. In most of their eyes if it wasn’t for the fact in most cases that they are too young to know what happened I bet they would all despise me.”

“Then look in my head to see how I feel about you if your so sure about that” Marie said in response.

“Are you sure your fine with me doing that after everything you’ve been through?”

“Yes, yes I am” Marie responded without hesitation as she felt Shade place his hand on her head and after a moment he then saw her thoughts of him “if it weren’t for you the people you helped wouldn’t be here I wouldn’t be here freed from those monsters control and if other’s knew of the good you had done to stop those monsters from hurting innocents than they already have I believe they wouldn’t consider you a monster”.

“I don’t believe that people’s perception of you defines who you are, it’s your actions and the ones you took today with helping me it shows that you are kind and are willing to help others I feel like you're capable of inspiring hope in people” as she said this Shade then saw an image of himself kneeling down and reaching his arm out to people reaching out for help.

Shade then began to slowly pull his hand away from her head before hearing her speak again, “Wait…there’s one more thing”

“What do you mean?” Shade asks pausing with a confused look on his face.

“Can you look again?” she requested, Shade noticing that she had sheepish look while she looked toward him.

“Okay,” Shade asked with a nervous tone in his voice as he placed his hand back on her head before seeing an image of her suddenly hugging him before he heard speak in a stutter, “W-would you be willing to be my…” she attempted to say but stumbled over her words, Shade realizing what she was asking before smiling to her pulling back from her mind to see that she was hugging him physically.

After a moment he then heard her speak again she was still stuttering but she was able to actually ask this time, “W-would y-you be willing to be my…dad?” and once she was done speaking she used some of her hair to hide her face out of embarrassment.

Shade didn’t respond at first only smiling at her before lifting the other girl with his magic and pulling Marie into his chest whose eyes widened in response before she tightened her hug, “is there a reason you want me to become your father?”

“You remind me of mine before he… passed” Marie quietly replied, adding, “And because you make me feel like I can have hope again after so long being without it” as she looked up at him, giving him a sad smile.

Shade paused for a moment before rubbing his hand through Marie’s hair, “still… it wasn’t me that made it so you could hope again… that was whoever stopped you before I came back.”

Her eyes just narrowed slightly as she processed what he had just said before saying, “It was her, that doctor” Marie said with disdain before saying, ”But I know that you helped me afterwards I heard you and Jason talking faintly when I was unconscious if you didn’t do that I would be dead”.

“...How much do you remember of what was said?” Shade asks as he looked down at her.

“Not a lot just something to do with stopping something that was happening and Jason asking if you can do the same for me, anything else was just silence or too faint for me to hear” Marie responded placing her hand to where her heart is.

“Okay then,” Shade calmly responds his hand rubbing the back of her head, “if you're sure about this I can act like your father, but you should know it means you have a lot of siblings… this happens a lot more often than you would think it would.”

Marie let out a giggle in response to what he had said before responding, “I believe you, honestly I'm kinda glad I have siblings now since I never had any I think the closest to a brother I had was Jason back at the lab”.

“You do realise that his other personality right now is my adopted son right… so technically he kind of falls into the same category as you do.” Shade states as he looks down at Maria.

“Jason has another personality?” Marie asked as she looked up to Shade with a confused look.

“Yeah… supposedly it formed after he escaped the lab,” Shade responds before removing his hands from Maria and resting her back down on the bed.

“I’ll ask him about the next time I see him then” Marie replied.

“This is a warning for you. Do not mention anything about the lab when near him. We don’t know how he would handle learning about all that.”

“I..ok I won’t say anything about it when around him” Marie responded with hesitance in her voice before asking, “If Jason told you about the lab what did he tell you exactly from his experience?”.

“He didn’t tell me. He showed me what he was forced to do,” Shade responds with a sombre tone in his voice before adding, “Now. You need to get some sleep.”

“O-ok” Marie replied as the bed covers were placed over her before she laid on her side, the girl then closed her eyes and after a moment Shade could hear low snores coming from her before he placed the other girl back into his arms before silently teleporting out the room.

As Shade appeared in the next room he walked towards the bed beginning to place the girl down as he had previously with Marie and she didn’t move at all but after a moment of nothing but silence, her eyes shot open as she lurched forward with a fearful scream seemingly waking up from a nightmare.

Shade then quickly picked her back up in his wings slowly rocking her side to side while rubbing her neck, “don’t worry little one. Your okay, it was just a nightmare. Your safe here.”

“Wh-where a-am I, who are you?” the girl asked in stutter clearly shaken from the nightmare.

“You are as far away from the cult as you can be right now, and they won’t be able to harm you. As for who I am… well… that's dangerous ground for me to tread for you right now. But for the easiest, you can call me Alex.” Shade respond as he sat down on the bed continuing to rock her in his wings.

“My name-my name is N-nadine” the girl stuttered out as she continued to shake in place.

“It's a pleasure to meet you, Nadine. How are you feeling?”

“I-i feel scared” she responded as her eyes glanced around the room her breathing still fast before she finally was able to take a deep breath which calmed her down a little bit.

“Take as long as you need okay.” Shade responds lifting Nadine so she could rest his head on his shoulder, “get everything off your chest.”

Nadine quietly nodded in response and after a moment her eyes began to well up with tears before sobbing into his shoulder her tears running down her face as Shade noticed faint scars near her neck.

“I…I thought I would die in that place….I was so scared” She choked out in a sob her vision going blurry from her crying as she shakily brought up her hands and grabbed onto Shade in a tight hug.

From what he could tell out of the three Nadine seemed to come out the most worse for wear as he could feel that she was still shaking including from her hands which had tremors that went nonstop, after a minute or two she had stopped crying as he gently pushed her away from his shoulder to see her face.

Tears were still stinging her eyes as she could be heard letting out low gasps before she felt Shade wipe her eyes of the tears, “Feeling any better?”

She just quietly nodded in response, “Y-yeah I'm feeling better” she spoke as wiped any of the remaining tears from her cheeks.

“That's good. Anything else you want to get off your mind?” Shade asked as he continued rubbing her neck.

Nadine shook her head in response, “N-no” Shade could tell that she didn’t want to go any deeper into what she was thinking, especially with the way she woke up.

“Okay. But if you ever want to ask or tell me anything I’ll be here for you.” Shade responds looking at Nadine with a kind smile on his face.

“I-do have a q-question though,” Nadine then said before adding, “What happened to me, how am I here?”.

“How much do you remember about what happened to you before you woke up,” Shade asked sitting Nadine in his lap.
“I remember being wheeled into a room with bright lights and doctors above me they were speaking but I couldn’t make out what they were saying, after that, I felt something being drilled into my head, and someone saying something with numbers and letters before everything went black and then I woke up…here.”

“Does the name. The Cult of Shade. Mean anything to you?”

Nadine in response just stiffened up in place the girl started to shake again which gave Shade all the information he needed as he wrapped his wings around her again, “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you.”

She let out a low whimper before she took a deep breath, “No, it’s fine”, It took her a moment but she continued, “It does, they held me captive along with others for who knows how long in that place but it wasn’t the first place we were held in”

Nadine then took another breath before continuing, “The first place was compromised and some of the others who were there got free but they were gunned down by the guards but one got away it was a kid with black hair he somehow got his hands on some weapons and used them to fight back, and after they relocated some of the others who didn’t get free to the new place they decided to make an example of one of us, to scare us so we wouldn’t try to run”.

She wanted to continue but she began to stumble over her words from remembering what had gone back then and she began to cry her composure from before completely shattered,

“Don’t worry I'm still here,” Shade calmly responds wrapping his arms and wings around her again holding her against his chest, “let it all out. Okay.”

She held onto him tightly and let out gut-wrenching sobs that tore through her chest her eyes red and her tears stinging her cheeks, what they did to her in that place affected her more gravely than Marie or Luz they almost broke her entirely.

“Nadine… Do you want to show me the memory of what happened so you don’t need to say anything else?” Shade offered still holding her close.

The girl didn’t say anything only letting out another choked sob before slowly giving Shade a nod.

“Okay,” Shade responded as he moved one of his hands from around her placing it on the side of her head slowly rubbing it, “You ready?”

He only got another quiet nod from her in response as she held onto him tightly like she didn’t want to let go before she felt his hand rest against her head as he closed his eyes.

Shade then opened his eyes to see the lab that Nadine was talking about, as he saw her being wheeled in on a wheelchair the next moment the girl thrashing around trying to get free out of pure terror before they brought out a screen similar to what Jason was put in front of from his memory.

After a moment of silence, he could see a scientist placing a speculum in her eyes to keep them open before the room went dark and they turned the screen on showing the girl horrible acts of violence being done to people she continued to try and break free but to no avail and after a while of being forced to watch she had a heart attack.

But the memory didn’t end there one of the doctors came in and injected her with something in her neck and at first, nothing happened but after another second passes her body immediately lurched forward as she let out a scream of agony, they brought her back and they continued to have her watch the video, but this wasn’t the first time they did this.

Over and over anytime that she died during a test they would inject her with that fluid that brought her back from the brink they didn’t want another failure and they would bring her back as many times as they needed to and from each test they did, the more scar’s that she gained especially from one test that a familiar girl with pink hair was apart of, but again they refused to let her die.

At one instance he could see her in her cell just shaking in place her breathing ragged and tears just going down her face, once she saw one of the guards walk in she attempted to get away but to no avail as she was wheeled into the lab again on a stretcher before being locked onto a metal table by the doctors whose face’s were obscured by the light.

But what can be seen were a drill in their hands and a mechanical chip that they placed on the side of her head before they motioned the drill towards it and the last thing Shade heard was her screaming in pain as the memory went dark.

Shade then reopened his eyes bringing his hand away from Nadine’s head before pulling her close again, “I’m so sorry for what happened to you. I wish that I could have stopped them before this even started.”

She didn’t speak she just held onto him tightly as if her life depended on it, the girl just attempting to do deep breaths before she slowly went quiet he could still feel her breathing which would hitch every few moments but she wasn’t sobbing anymore.

“There you go. Are you feeling any better?”

He could feel her pull away slightly before seeing her wipe her eyes as she stuttered out, “Y-yeah” before she then looked up to him her eyes still red from the crying before she hugged him, “Thank you….”.

“It was no problem,” Shade replied, “Anything else I can do for you?”

She shook her head in response, “No” she said before pulling away from Shade a look on her face saying that she had a question, “...Did you find a girl with pink hair when you helped me?”.

“Well… not when I helped you but… I did find a pink-haired girl, a bit before I helped you through. Her name was Knila if that helps you.”

“How is she…. is she faring any better than I did?” Nadine then asked.

“I don’t think you’ll want the answer to that question,” Shade responds.

“Why, was something wrong with her?” Nadine said confused.

“When I found her. She was almost completely under the influence of the cult even after the chip they used to control you all was removed she was still forced to work for them. They affected her mind so much to the point she was barely able to keep herself sane.”

“They…broke her?” Nadine said as her eyes widened.

“Near enough to it. She’s okay now and is recovering but…” Shade then paused for a moment, “She heard something that deeply affected her. And it stemmed from something she was ordered to do when I first saw her.”

“What did she have to do..?” Nadine said hesitance in her voice.

“She was ordered to either capture or kill someone… someone important to her.”

“It was her… brother wasn’t it” Nadine quietly asked.

“Yes… he was the boy who escaped from the cult, and they had her try and get him back under their control.”

“Oh, is her brother ok at least?” Nadine then asked curiously.

“He’s mostly okay but… she really isn’t coping very well with what happened to her and he said about the one who attacked him.”

“He didn’t have anything good to say I take it?” Nadine replied.

“Would you if a cloaked figure covered with the cult’s marking grabbed you by the throat and tried to choke you?” Shade responded.

“No I wouldn’t I probably would have done the same thing given the circumstances” Nadine admitted before adding, “I just hope his sister ends up being ok”.

“How well did you know Knila?” Shade asked rubbing Nadine’s head.

“She was my cellmate back at that lab I met her after they transferred us to the new place, when we weren’t doing those test’s we would be in our cell just talking to one another she always talked about her brother seemed like he was the only thing that kept her going we talked a good amount of times to the point I think we considered each other friends” Nadine answered.

Nadine then let out a breath before speaking again with venom in her tone, “They’d always taunt her about him too, just to get a reaction out of her, just for their own amusement….sadistic monsters”.

“I already know that much… I’ve seen what they do to newborn creatures as well… way too many of them to count,” Shade responds with an annoyed sigh, “But… if you know Knila well… maybe you could help her right now.”

“If me helping mean’s there’s a possibility of her being ok then I’ll do it,” She said in reply before she pulled away from him jumping up from where she was and onto the bed and saw her appearance in a nearby mirror, the girl seeing her scars from her neck to her arms and metal plates on her forearm and the back of her neck and where her heart was.

“So this is what they did to me….” Nadine muttered placing her hands on the metal plates her fingers gently touching the cold metal before she clenched her fist.

Nadine then turned her attention back to the scars on her arms and hands a memory immediately flashing through her mind prompting her to take a deep breath through her nose, “Where is she?” she asked Shade as she turned towards him.

“She was sleeping in what was my room,” Shade responds, “but… you sure your okay with going to see her as you are?”

“What do you mean, I can’t change how I look” Nadine replied before asking, “Wait can I?”.

“I don’t actually know. I don’t know what changes they actually made to your body.” Shade responded, “But I more meant walking to see her, though the castle… showing off well… everything.”

Nadine just looked at her body muttering, “True….” she looked at her forearm where one of the metal plates was before she saw it disappear in a blue flame that covered that area before it dissipated just showing the skin of her arm causing her to flinch, “What the….” she muttered in shock looking like she about to panic, “What did those monsters do to me?” she gasped out with a shaky breath.

Nadine then felt two wings wrap around her, “it’s okay. I’m still here take some deep breaths and calm down okay.”

She did what she was told and took deep breaths her shaky breathing slowly reverting back to normal but still felt quick, “The metal plate on my arm it’s gone I saw blue fire cover it and then it was gone, What did they do to me?” Nadine said confused as she looked up to Shade.

“I can only hazard a guess from what I saw from the others. But I would say modified your DNA with that of other creatures… I would say Changeling DNA from what I can see.”

“How does that even work?” Nadine said as she looked back to her arm.

“You said they injected you each time you passed out correct,” Shade asked as Nadine just nodded back to him, “Well… I would assume the tests went beyond just bringing you back… I would say they did other experiments on your body after you well…” Shade stopped again looking at Nadine.

“Yeah…” Nadine quietly said, “Guess they couldn’t pass up a test subject who couldn’t do anything about it,”.

She grabbed her arm that had the metal plate as she asked, “My question is how do I even use it, I didn’t even know about this til now” after she stopped speaking Shade noticed a small spark of flame appear on the back of the girl’s neck which targetted the metal plate that was there as well but it didn’t stop there the blue flames progressively spread around her before completely setting her body alight causing her to scream out of fear, “What’s happening to me!”.

Shade didn’t respond to begin with, his hand making contact with the mark on her shoulder his own spark moving into it as the flames surrounding began to flicker some of the sparks changing from blue to red and black before fading revealing Nadine who was ok as she looked around her out of fear before Shade motioned her to look to the mirror.

From what she saw her body changed she no longer had the metal plates on her body and her auburn hair now had a red and black in it but the scars she had on her neck and arms could still be seen except for one’s that were on her hands those were absent, any other changes of note that could be seen as the color of her eyes were yellow and her skin color wasn’t as pale before, “Is that…me?” she muttered out of shock as she looked over her body especially the area’s that had the metal plates.

“Right now it is,” Shade responds rubbing Nadine’s shoulders, “Changelings can change how they look and disguise themselves as anyone they like. Though some of the others that they did this to could change their limbs into weapons.”

“I can’t imagine how that feel’s….” Nadine replied as she looked to her arms imagining them turning into blades, “Do the ones that can change their limbs feel pain when they do that?” she then muttered to herself before shaking her head to get the thought off her mind.

“In some cases… yes. But in most cases they are very young children or newborns,” Shade responded, “for most, it just scares them each time when they end up hurting those around them.”

“That’s horrible that they have to go through that…” she replied before looking at her hands and shaking her head again, “Can we go see Knila now?”.

“If you are ready,” Shade responds walking toward the door as Nadine moved away from the mirror to follow behind him, “As ready as I can be” she then said in reply as Shade opened the door and walked out of the room.

Nadine slowly walked out from behind looking around where they were out of hesitance before looking to where he was walking and running towards him to catch up, “Is she far from the room I was in?” she asked.

“Not too far down this hall,” Shade responds as he continues walking Nadine saw multiple creatures of all looks, many of their bodies showing scars like the ones she had covering their bodies or having missing limbs, many of them looking at her with curious looks in their eyes.

She looked to her own scars before giving them a hesitant wave and continuing to walk behind Shade, “Are the creatures here like me when it comes to the cult?”.

“In some cases… though their experiments were different. Their bodies were changed into what you see now,” Shade responds before stopping and turning towards a nearby door.

“Is this the room?” Nadine then asked as she looked to the door in question, as Shade nodded knocking on the door twice before opening it and walking inside. Once he got inside he saw Knila who was under the covers of the bed still asleep. Nadine walked towards the bed her face unreadable before a smile could be seen, “She doesn’t look much different from the last time I saw her”.

Knila just squirmed around under the covers overhearing her before Shade and Nadine open her eyes the woman slowly sat herself up her hair covering her face for a moment before moving it out of the way as she then saw two people her vision slightly blurry but she knew one of them was Shade.

“Who’s there?” she asked in a tired voice.

“It’s me Knila,” Shade responded walking towards her, “also… I think I’ve got someone you might want to see.”

“Who?” she asked before she heard Nadine’s voice, “It’s been a while Knila” causing the woman to rub her eyes allowing her to see the two, “N-Nadine?”.

“Yeah It’s me it’s good to see you” Nadine replied with a smile as she saw Knila’s eyes begin to tear up prompting Nadine to try to calm her down,“H-hey it’s ok I don’t blame you for what they made you do”.

“But I” Knila attempted to reply only to be interrupted by Nadine, “No they did that not you, I know you wouldn’t have done that to me willingly were friends remember?”.

Knila just stammered over her words before she felt Nadine grab her in a hug the woman let out a gasp before slowly reciprocating and crying into Nadine's shoulder, “Im sorry…”.

“Don’t be, it’s not your fault”.

“But I did all those horrible things, especially to you how do you still look the same?”.

“All those things that happened weren’t you, besides from the cult did to me I can make myself look how I did before” which made Knila look to her in confusion.

Shade then looked to Knila before she said, “Do you remember the Changlings that the cult had?”

“Y-yeah I do I only saw them once or twice though” Knila replied.

“Do you remember what they can do to their bodies?”

“Not I don’t” Knila replied with a shake of her head.

“Apparently they are able to change parts of their bodies into weapons, and experimented on me with changeling dna” Nadine responded.

“Were those part of the experiments they put you through?” Knila asked as Nadine just gave her nod.

“Every time they put me through tests, and if my heart gave out they would inject me with something and continue with other tests of something while I wasn’t conscious, I think you can surmise what those tests were” Knila gave her a nod in response before she noticed Nadine’s scar’s on her arms and neck.

Nadine just looked at her confused before realizing where she was looking, “It’s fine Knila these scars are always gonna be part of me im gonna try and live with them even if they're tied with….unpleasant memories”.

“Some of those were from me, I remember that test” Knila said as she gently grabbed onto Nadine’s arm and traced her finger near five specific scars that went up to Nadine’s shoulder.

Nadine gently grasped onto Knilas's hand before moving it away from her arm,“ You don’t have to beat yourself up for my expense were not in the cult’s grasp anymore, so stop blaming yourself…ok?”.

“I’ll try….” Knila replied getting a nod from Nadine who backed away from her, “And that’s all i can ask from you, besides if I want to I can change my appearance, once I figure out how to control it that is…”.

Knila looked toward Nadine in silence before letting out a giggle in response causing the girl to look at her in surprise, “What’s so funny?”.

“It’s just that I missed talking to you, you always found a way to brighten up my day” Knila replied smiling at her.

After a moment Nadine smiled back at her, “I missed you too Knila”.

Knila then turned her attention to Shade, “Thank you for bringing us back together Lord Shade I'm grateful” Shade noticed that the cult version of her was taking over for a moment.

Nadine's eyes widened before she turned to Shade, “Lord Shade?” Nadine muttered to herself for a moment before shouting, “I thought your name was Alex why do have the name of the guy those monsters worship!?” as she backed away from him out of fear.

She then backed into Knila who gently grabbed onto her shoulders, “The shade that they worship is a fake he took his name and used it to further his cult and ambitions, and Shade is trying to stop him whatever you think of the Shade you’ve heard of, that doesn’t apply to the real one he’s kind, he helped you and me and many other’s”.

“I…but” Nadine attempted to speak but couldn’t get the words out, “I know it’s a lot to take in but believe me if he was like the fake we wouldn’t be here right now”.

“Besides if I was the cult's version of me, I doubt you would be freely walking around? From what I saw of your memories you were all either kept in cells, bound in rooms, drugged or all three” Shade points out.

“True…” Nadine mumbled placing her hand on her face in a groan, “this is driving me nuts….”.
Shade then stopped lost in thought before saying, “Nadine… do you remember anything about the creatures who did the tests on you? Any of their features or attitudes?”

“I think…one, it was this robot I think that always had a creepy smile on his face especially when it came to viewing or participating in tests” Nadine replied before adding, “He had some glowing bit’s too, don't remember where though but I can always remember that creep's smile”.

Knila's eyes harden at the moment Nadine mentioned the robot as she then spoke with venom in her tone, “I remember him he’s the bastard that told me my brother was dead when I was still in the cell with Nadine I wanted to rip him apart every time he spoke to me”.

“What would you say if I told you the roles between him and you two are currently flipped… and that I could allow you both the chance to give him a taste of his own medicine… a test of his own so to say.” Shade offers as he looks at the two of them.

Knila and Nadine exchange a look before turning back to Shade, “Let’s do it” he heard them say in unison.

“But first I should probably get a change of clothes too cause I'm still…you know” Knila then said before also pointing to Nadine, “Maybe for Nadine too”.

Nadine in response just looked down at her body, “Huh…didn’t notice”.

“I forgot that you basically have no shame….” Knila muttered.

“I don’t see the issue i'm ok with going to pay back that a-hole in kind like this” Nadine replied with a smile before Knila grabbed her by the ear, “Ow what's the big idea!?”.

“You're wearing clothes and not walking there naked, am I understood?” Knila gritted out.

“Yes, I understand, just let me go!” Nadine whined out prompting Knila to let her go, “Ow…”.

“Oh lighten up you, baby, it didn’t hurt that much” Knila then said in response as she saw Nadine rub her ear.

“It's cute that you think there's shame in her showing off her natural form,” a feminine voice calmly said that echoes around the room as a large bug-like creature appeared beside Shade. The figure's body looked at a first glance to be covered by black and red armour, but upon a second look, it became clear that the armoured parts were no more than bare skin, as she moved slightly her features became clearly visible to them.

“See she gets it” Nadine commented before shutting up once she saw Knila frowning, “Not helping…got it I’ll shut up now”.

“You act like it's wrong to use every asset you have to feed yourself. Besides, it is what Changeling do to survive daily, after taking the form of a male deepest desire that is,” the figure responds before being covered in black flames before her form changed to look like Dillon, “I mean, with practice, we can become anyone we want.”

Knila just went completely silent as she looked towards the figure, “Why did you change into my little brother and how do you know what he looks like?”.

“I can go younger if you want!” the figure responds before repeating the process again now looking like a toddler, her voice having changed to sound much more childlike, as she smiled at Knila, “I mean. It is what Changelings like myself do, and I may have learned some spells to scan the minds of less aware creatures around me to make it easier to get a full meal.”

“Don’t lose your cool” Knila thought to herself before saying to the figure, “As much as that sounds interesting please don’t do that again…”.

“Why not? I could go to the moment you cherish most of the little one,” the figure responds with an innocent smile, “let you carry him around like you missed the chance to.” The figure's body then started to be covered in flames again, shrinking more as Knila saw a small baby sucking its thumb infront of her eyes.

Knila in response just looked away from the figure as Nadine just looked at the two in awkward silence.

After the moment of silence, she looked back at the baby in silence and slowly her vision focused on it before her eyes began to tear up she slowly picked it up and hugged it against her chest.

She then cradled the baby in her arms as she looked at its face which had small freckles and green eyes that looks back to her in innocent curiosity that made her tear up with a melancholic smile as the baby grabbed onto her hand causing her tears to run down her cheek, “It feels nice to…see my child again from before all this…thank you”.

“Not a problem,” the figure responded in her normal voice, before saying, “but maybe put me don’t. You don’t want to feed me too much love to start with.”

Letting out a sigh Knila nodded as she put the figure down as she then wiped her eyes of any tears, as the figure returned to normal.

“You ok?” Nadine asked Knila who nodded, “Yeah Im ok, probably better even, again thank you for doing that” Knila said to the figure with a smile.

“Not a problem. I needed to show the little on there how the Changeling part of her should work. I need to take care of them afterall.” The figure responds with a smirk, before looking to Nadine, “now if you need someone to try and teach you how to control that side of you just find me and ask.”

“I wouldn’t mind learning to control it, cause I don’t want to involuntarily just change out of nowhere” Nadine replied as she looked at her hands before looking towards the figure.

“And I assume you want to… expand on a few things,” the figure responded with a smirk before walking back beside Shade.

“You are correct in that assumption” Nadine replied with her own smirk.

“Your unbelievable….” Knila muttered to herself.

“What, if im gonna learn to control it I might as well use it to my advantage,” Nadine said with a nervous smile while raising her hands up defensively.

“I feel like your planning something very perverted once you learn to control it,” Knila said as she narrowed her eyes towards her who looked away.

“Considering the fact the more visabbly appealing she is the better she gets fed it’s to be expected,” the figure responds before she seemed to turn into a green light which quickly shifted before jumping to a metal band on Shade’s arm.

Knila and Nadine just look at the metal band on Shade’s arm before looking at him in confused silence, “What was that, why did she jump into that?”” Nadine then asked.

Shade paused for a moment, tapping his chin, “whats the best way to explain this. The simple answer is that she is serving multiple life sentences that cover way beyond her lifetime. So instead of serving it in a cell never seing the light of day. The band on may arm is essentially a prison cell or a room she uses to rest… or to use to summon the weapon she’s bound to.”

“Oh well that makes-” Nadine slowly said, “You didn’t understand a thing he just said didn’t you,” Knila said with a deadpan.

“I mean some of it I did, but the rest no, no I did not” Nadine replied with a nervous chuckle.

“She’s facing multiple life sentences and from what I understand the band allows her to live far past her normal life if she faced those life sentences normally and the band basically being her residence,” Knila said to Nadine in an attempt to explain it to her.

“Oh I get it now, thank you” Nadine then said to Knila who just nodded to her, “No problem”.

Nadine eyes then widened for a moment before saying, “Can I ask her a question before we head out?’.

“I suppose you can,” Shade responds Shade turned the band as the figure reappeared from the band.

“Do you have any tips on how I can control how I change because I Invonluntarly did it earlier and almost gave myself a heart attack” Nadine asked.

“Considering the fact I don’t think your a pure Changeling or naturally have magic. It would take time a practice with someone to guide the magic inside you though your body until you get a feel for it,” the figure responds, “It would need to be someone with a bond to you in some way, who can control magic.”

Nadine mulled it over before nodding to herself, “Thank you i’ll try my best to figure it out with whoever is willing to help me”.

“Just be careful when you do,” the figure responds with a smile

“What did you do…. if you don’t mind me asking?” Knila asked.

“Multiple murders, kidnapping, stealing the bodies of anyone I wanted and taking their lives,” the figure responds counting on her fingers, “my last attempt was Lord Shade’s body but… well you can’t take a body of a being who doesn’t have a purely physical form to being with.”

Nadine and Knila just looked towards her with wide eyes, Nadine in particular with her mouth agape.

“What do you mean no physical form” Knila asked before closing Nadine’s mouth.

“You don’t know? Lord Shade isn’t technically alive for the most part.” the figure responds, “I mean the form you see him in now isn’t his real one either.”

“....What!?” Nadine shouted in pure shock as Knila was left speechless, “How does that even work!?”.

“Simple… I died a long time ago. Before I even arrived in this world to be exact,” Shade responds before changing into his Eyecon for as it hovered infront of them in the air for a moment before Shade reappeared standing infornt of the two of them, this time in his human form, “That object holds what is left of my soul, and is allowing me to remain mostly alive.”

“Im sorry you had an experience that” Knila muttered.

“How long have you been here?” Nadine asked.

“In this world… a bit over 1000 years by now I think. Though most of that was spent on the moon,” Shade responds.

“You were on the moon?” Nadine then asked with a tilt of her head.

“Yes I was there for those 1000 years and was on the planet for only 3 weeks before that.”

“You weren’t alone up there were you?” Knila asked.

“No, I was there with two others creatures, in all honestly we ended up viewing eachother as a little family, technically still are.”

“That’s good at least your not stuck up there anymore” Knila replied.

‘What happened to the three of you to cause you to be stuck in the moon in the first place?” Nadine asked curiosity in her tone.

“Well the other two were sealed there as a last resort to stop them from harming a lot of creatures, I held them in place so it could happen, but it sent all three of us up there until the spell wore off,” Shade responds.

“And after the spell wore off after a 1000 years the three of you were brought back, but what happened after you came back?” Knila then asked.

“Well, they put on an act at her sister's request which ended with me moving them away from a spell similar to that of the one used to send us to the moon and well now they have gone back to living in the capital with their lives. One of them is one of the two Princesses after all.”

“Huh, that’s interesting to know,” Knila said with a nod, “Doesn’t that mean your royalty as well since you said you basically became family?”.

“Well we see eachother as such… but the people see me as it regardless, with being an Alicorn and all that,” Shade responds before turning back into his Alicorn form again.

“Fair enough” Knila replied.

“As much as I find this interesting to talk about can we go and take care of the robot now?” Nadine asked.

“Again I would rather be wearing clothes before we do that” Knila commented, “If I get could some new ones I’d appreciate it since my old ones were shredded”.

“There is only one person I know who could make them for you both. But you’d need to talk to her room to do so.” Shade responds before looking at Knila, “Which either means walking through the castle as you are to the room, or me carrying you in my arms.”

“I’ll let you carry me..” Knila muttered as she stood up from the bed, as Shade held his hands out to her. She let out a sigh before walking toward Shade and once she was in front of him before she felt him pick her up in his arms.

Knila let out a low gasp out of surprise before Shade and her heard Nadine speak, “Heh I wonder when’s the wedding” Knila’s reaction was her cheeks went bright red blush as she muttered, “Shut up Nadine…”.

“What, you look cute like that, what do you expect?” Nadine replied with a chuckle.

“He already has someone else…” Knila then quietly said.

“Really wouldn’t make a difference if I was married to another person,” Shade responds, “From what Luna told me, it’s not strange for a single stallion to have multiple wives at the same time.”

“See that solves that” Nadine commented with a smirk prompting Knila to cover up her face with her hair.

“Shut up Nadine!” Knila shouted towards Nadine who continued, “Look at your face, you don’t seem that opposed to the idea the blush ain’t helping your case either!”.

Knila in turn couldn’t help but just groan out of embarrassment as Nadine let out an amused chuckle in response.

Shade didn’t say another word before he brought his wings around Knila and walked towards the door using his magic to open it.

Once Nadine was done chuckling to herself she saw that Shade was already out of the room with Knila and decided to jog out to catch up, “Hey wait up!” she then said as she went behind Shade who continued to walk.

Knila meanwhile spoke in an embarrassed mumble towards Shade, “Sorry about her she tends to not have a filter sometimes…”.

“Or any sense of shame,” Shade said into Knila’s mind so Nadine wouldn’t hear.

Knila just nodded towards him as she saw Nadine just walking behind them her smirk still on her face before Knila replied to Shade in her head, “I don’t know why she’s like this, and even if I did I don’t think I would get it”.

“You are the one who knows her best, if you don’t know what hope would I have?”

“I know her well enough to get her to stop sometimes but when it comes to how she became like that…I never got to ask that question”.

“I get the feeling there are a lot of questions you want to ask about but are too fearful to do so,” Shade responds continuing to walk down the hall as Knila saw multiple creatures walking down the hall beside her, their eyes staring at Nadines naked form lustfully.

“I won’t dispute that…” Knila responded as she glanced at Nadine again before looking around the creatures in the hall and asking, “What’s with them their looking at Nadine like she’s a treat”.

However, before Shade could answer he and Knila heard Nadine shout toward the creatures, “Hey eye’s to yourselves!” causing them to look away from her.

“Well the reason is definitely not due to the fact that she’s parading herself around like a prostitute,” Shade responded back to Knila.

“Fair enough…” Knila replied before they heard Nadine ask, “how much longer until we're at the place we're heading to?”

“Shouldn’t be too long,” Shade responded, before he added with a smirk on his face “Why don’t you show off a bit more, I’m sure everyone around us is loving the show your putting on for them.”

Nadine was about to retort but Shade’s reply left her speechless before she looked away with an embarrassed huff covering her chest and crotch prompting Knila to let out an amused chuckle.

“Oh so now you're embarrassed huh?” Knila said towards Nadine who continued to look away embarrassed unable to give a retort, as the group walked on in silence.

Meanwhile, in one of the other rooms in the castle, Alexis sat on a bed with Luz in her lap, a towel wrapped around Luz’s body, as Alexis combed a brush through Luz’s hair. “So you feeling any better now?”

Luz gave her a quiet nod in response, “Y-yeah I feel better” as she tilted her head so Alexis could the other side of her head before letting out a hiss of pain in response when the brush Alexis was using caught a knot in her hair, “O-ow,” as she then said “T-thanks for helping me wash up,”.

“It’s not a problem,” Alexis responds softly rubbing her hand against Luz’s neck as she continued slowly brushing her hair, “have you decided what kind of outfit you want yet?”

Luz went silent for a moment as she thought it over before answering, “A gray and black dress with a waist strap, a zipper on the top and…two pockets on the skirt segment.

“I should be able to do that for you.” Alexis responded with a smile, “Is there anything else you need before I start on it for you?”

“No, I'm fine” Luz replied with a shake of her head.

“Okay then,” Alexis responded before moving Luz from her lap to sit her on the bed. Her arm then began to glow before two things appeared in her hands. These two things were a medium bra and some underwear which were in a light blue color, which she passed over to Luz, “These should do to help cover things if anyone comes in unannounced.”

Luz nodded to her before putting on the underwear but she showed some sign of struggling when putting on the bra before she felt Alexis help with the clip on the back, “Thank you”.

Alexis didn’t respond as she once again rubbed Luz’s head before walking to a nearby desk, “two more questions. Do you want me to add a personal touch of some kind, and what are you planning to do once you’ve recovered fully?”

“Can you add a white flower on the back of it and for the other part of your question, I don’t know yet haven’t really thought that far ahead” Luz replied.

“I should be able to add that,” Alexis responds as Luz sees an outfit close to that which she asked for being pulled from Alexis’s skin as she laid it out on the desk, “but still you kinda need to work out what you want to do. I mean chances are if you just go out the group that did this to you will try and capture you again.”

“I know, I don’t really have a reason to leave here in the first place, well none that I know of at least” Luz replied.

“Do you have any friends or family you remember?” Alexis asks as she begins to embroid a white flower into the back of the dress.

“No I don’t when I was little I lived in an orphanage other than that I remember being on my own for a long time” Luz responded as she rubbed her hands together, her left hand shaking slightly, as she then muttered “Guess the people who were my family didn’t want me if they left me at that place..” a pained tone in her voice.

After a moment she stood up and walked behind Alexis to see what she was doing, as she saw the start of a white flower beginning to appear on the back of the dress. Seeing this Luz gave a small smile the flower embroidery gave her a sense of comfort and happiness, “this reminds me of the flowers that were in the orphanage I was in, they were my only comfort there”.

“Hopefully this will come out like the ones you remember then,” Alexis responds before saying, “Still you make it sound like you never had a mother-like figure in your life before.”

“I didn’t, the nuns that worked there were only in it for the money they got from the government they’d feed us and clothe us but we would be treated like trash” Luz replied before adding, “But once the money started to come in less and less they would have some of us be thrown into the street’s to fend for ourselves me being the first of them after that I was alone for a very long time.”

Alexis stopped what she was doing and spun her chair around holding her arms open to Luz before gesturing for her to come towards her, which she did before feeling Alexis sit her on her lap and hug her, “there, there. I’m here for you. Let it all out.”

Luz couldn’t understand it but she felt comfortable around her she felt safe and cared for and once she wrapped her arms around Alexis she felt tears beginning to form in her eyes before a low sob came from her mouth as she broke down and cried, tears running down her face as her breath hiccuped each time she took a breath.

After a moment Luz felt Alexis pull away for a moment as she looked at the girl's face, her eyes were red from her crying and her tears continued to run down her face as she heard her say in a sob “Why didn’t they want me?” before she felt Alexis pulled her close again comforting her.

“I can’t answer that for you. I can only assume they were young and foolish children, who could not handle the responsibility of caring for you,” Alexis responds as she rubs her hand though Luz’s hair again.

Luz continued to cry into Alexis as she held on to her for dear life not wanting to let go of her feeling as if she did Alexis would disappear from her grasp before she felt Alexis’s hand cup her face before feeling her wipe her eyes as Luz let out a hiccup from each breath she took.

“It’s okay. Take as long as you need,” Alexis responded before lifting Luz up and walking over to the bed again lying down on it holding Luz against her chest as they lay down, Luz’s head resting on one of Alexis’s breasts.

After a few moments, Luz’s crying slowly came to a stop to the point where Alexis could only hear the hiccups that came out, as she then felt Luz curl up against her as she heard her quietly say through her hiccups, “T-thank y-you,”.

Alexis just smiled to her before placing her head on the back of her head and rubbing it gently as Luz’s hiccups slowly began to go silent like her crying until they weren’t heard at all, the only thing Alexis was able to hear being Luz’s breathing which was shaky but was slowly starting to go back to normal again while Luz kept the same vice grip as before not wanting to let her go.

“Is that better?” Alexis asked turning to sit up to get off the bed, Luz quietly just nodded to Alexis, her eyes still red from the crying as she looked up at her, as Alexis began to stand up, but she felt something hold her back slightly as she turned to see Luz still holding onto her for dear life refusing to let go of her clinging onto her like a lost child. “Luz, I need to go back to my desk to finish your dress.”

“No!” she heard Luz shout with a quick shake of her head as she refused to let go of Alexis the girl holding onto her tightly Alexis felt Luz’s hands shaking in place as she then shouted in a childish manner, “I don’t want you to leave mom!”.

“Don’t leave me alone” She heard Luz whimper out, “Please don’t leave me alone….”.

Alexis sighed shaking her head at Luz’s actions as she sat back down placing Luz’s head onto her lap as she softly rubbed the girls head, “now since when did you become my daughter?”

Luz's eyes widened for a moment as she realized what she had said before quietly saying, “S-sorry” her voice meek while she lay in place.

“Don’t worry sweetie. Just explain why you said it okay,” Alexis responds still rubbing her head.

“I-its… because this is the first time that it actually felt like someone cared… like they actually cared about me. It reminds me of the comfort I had around when it came to the flowers back at the orphanage it gave a warm feeling inside, and when I look at that you the word mom is the only thing that pop’s up in my head” Luz responded in a timid tone.

“I swear you make me sound like my big brother does for so many other,” Alexis responds, “the amount of people who want him to be there father is getting out of hand.”

Luz was quiet she didn’t know what to say at all as her voice was caught in her throat before finding her voice again, “I-im sorry for calling you mom”.

“Don’t be. It sounds to me like you’ve never had anything close to that… or a real family either,” Alexis respond moving her hand away from Luz’s head.

“Y-you can go and finish up with the dress if you want, I’ll just lay down for a little bit” Alexis heard the girl quietly say.

“No you don’t.” Alex says before picking Luz back up and sitting the girl in her lap facing her, “I want you to say what you want to ask me first. I can it in your eyes you want to ask me something.”

Luz looked away from her for a moment before feeling Alexis turning her head to face her, Luz did not say a word just struggled to actually get herself to say anything before working up the confidence to ask “Can..can you be my mom?” hope in her eyes as she looked at Alexis directly.

“Depends… Do you want to end up being known as Luz Shade?” Alexis asks.

One thought that immediately came into her mind as she thought to herself, “Wait if I end being called Luz Shade does that mean that Shade is her brother and would technically be…my uncle?”.

Her thought then went toward who Jason was, “then who Is Jason, is he Shade’s son, would he be my cousin I don’t know how to think about this, it’s making my head hurt…” the girl clearly had no qualms with the surname before deciding to toss the thought aside, as she looked back up towards Alexis and nodding, “Y-yes im ok with being known as Luz Shade”.

“DIdn’t take you too long to accept that last name… not sure if your old family name meant much to you if you wanted to keep it in any capacity,” Alexis responds once again rubbing Luz’s head.

“I was never told my last name, everyone just called me Luz” Luz replied before adding, “the most they call me other than my name was a number which was 12 it wasn’t any different than what the cult did when addressing us”.

Alexis didn’t respond at first as she placed Luz’s head on her chest before saying, “Okay then, my little one. If you really want it I can adopt you, but to need to promise to behave yourself when with the others.”

“I promise…mom” Luz said with a nod before giving Alexis a smile her innocence showing through it.

“Thats a good girl,” Alexis responds rubbing her hand through Luz’s hair again.

Luz nuzzled against Alexis’s hand with that same smile on her face before she hugged her Luz felt warm on the inside as she continued to smile.

“Now, can I go and finish your dress,” Alexis asked as she removes her hand from Luz’s head.

Luz moved away from Alexis’s allowing her to go to her desk as she sat herself on the bed waiting for her to finish.

“If you want to pull the other seat up beside me, you can rest your head on my legs while I work that way,” Alexis offers pointing to the other chair in the room.

“Ok mom” Luz replied as she stood up from the bed and went to grab the chair pulling it to where Alexis was before sitting herself down and laying her head on Alexis’s lap, as she once again felt Alexis’s hand rub her neck.

Luz just gave a smile in response before closing her eyes Alexis heard the girl's breathing as she continued to rub her neck and after a few moments, Alexis noticed that Luz had gone quiet for a moment before looking down to see that the girl was falling in and out of sleep.

Alexis only smiled at her before taking her hand away finishing up the dress, her eyes moving down to the girl as a smirk appears on her face, as a second outfit appears from her skin.

As soon as she was sure that Luz was asleep she carefully moved her before dressing her in the second outfit. The outfit being a onesie that had the colors of a penguin with white on the stomach and black on the sides and the top of it had the eyes and beak of one on the head which looked at act as a hood of sorts before Alexis gently picked the girl up and began to put her into the said onesie making sure not to stir the girl awake as she then zipped it closed. Once she was finished she carefully sat back down resting Luz’s head back where she was.

After a couple of seconds she carefully folded up the other dress she had made moving it to the side before hearing a knock on her door, turning her head towards its, “Who’s there?”

“Sorry Alexis, it’s me. I know your busy but I need your help with something. Are we safe to come in?” She hears Shade’s voice say from behind the door.

“Just give me a minute,” Alexis responds once again picking Luz up and carrying her over to the bed before placing her under the covers and walking towards the door before opening it finding Shade, Knila and Nadine standing behind it. “Need I ask who the other two are?”

“Hello, Im Knila and this is Nadine” Knila said as motioned towards Nadine who just gave a casual wave, “Hi,” Nadine said with a wave as stopped covering her chest as she then noticed Alexis’s outfit, “That's a nice outfit you got there”.

“Don’t mind her she just doesn’t have a sense of shame…” Knila then muttered averting her eyes after what Nadine said.

“You could say the same for me, Tthough in my case there’s a reason,” Alexis responds with a smirk before looking at Knila, “and I would say the same you. Do you like showing yourself off to people?”

“N-no, my clothes were shredded after an altercation and I have nothing else” Knila quickly responded her face going red.

Her eyes then look between Shade and Knila, “Say are you trying to start a haram now. She’s not too bad on the eyes if that is the case.”

“W-what!?” Knila said out of shock and embarrassment before Nadine laughed, “I knew I wasn’t the only one thinking it!”.

Alexis then walks up towards Knila rubbing her hand up against her chest, “And I assume you want a outfit making. It it just the basics or the whole kit, bra’s and the like aswell?”

Knila gave her a quiet nod in response a blush still on her face before she let out a gasp from Alexis giving her chest a slight squeeze.

Alexis then saw that Knila’s legs were shaking slightly before looking to her face and seeing that blush intensified and that she let out little squeaks every time Alexis moved her hand before giving her the same smirk as before, as she stopped taking her hands away from Knila’s body

Knila just crossed her legs together and covered her chest with her left arm, what Alexis did clearly had an effect on her, causing Alexis to chuckle at her.

She then knelt down infront of Nadine a similar smirk as she had with Knila before saying, “Same questions to you as I ask her, what are you after?”

“Same reason as Knila but I'm not opposed to being naked or showing skin to be honest” Nadine replied with a smirk of her own.

“Well then I suppose I need to sort you both out then,” Alexis responded patting Nadine on the head, “I’ll just need to get some measurements for you both then I can get started.”

Nadine and Knila give her a nod before Knila asked, “Anywhere you need to stand specifically?”.

“Just away from the door with enough space for me to move around you,” Alexis replies calmly as the skin on her breasts begins to glow as a tape measure appears in her hands.

“How did you do that?” Nadine asked with a tilt of her head as Knila walked into the room and into the more open area of it.

“Well the character I was Displaced has a quirk called creation. It allows me to create objects from my body by breaking down my fat to do it,” Alexis responds calmly walking toward Knila and standing behind her, “Oh and Alex, think you can leave us alone while I sort them out.”

“Not an issue, I’ll come back in around half an hour,” Shade responds before teleporting away without another word.

Once Shade was gone Alexis focused back on Knila before wrapping the tape measure around her, before pulling it away getting a measurement before her hands moved to squeeze her breast again as she leaned in toward her ear before whispering, “So… what do you like about my big brother so much to get you like this?”

Knila let out another gasp, her leg’s beginning to shake again as she quietly replied, “It’s not like that, it's just that my clothes were shredded after a fight with him…”.

“And yet you're blushing like a teenager embarrassed to ask their crush to prom” Nadine commented.

“Shut up Nadine…”

“What I'm not wrong, look at you, look at how red your cheeks are” Nadine then said.

“You not very good and hiding your feelings,” Alexis responds one hand still rubbing her beasts while the other began to move further down her body, rubbing up against the inside of her leg, his hand brushing up against her groin for a moment, “You're really not good at hiding it.”

“She really isn’t” Nadine then said with a smirk as she saw Knila panting out unable to say anything before she and Alexis noticed a white fluid beading from one of her breasts before they saw her cover it with one of her arms instinctually.

“Was that?” Nadine was going to ask but was immediately interrupted by Knila who was completely beet red at this point, “No…it wasn’t”.

“Are they uncomfortable,” Alexis responds applying more pressure to Knila’s breasts.

Knila just covered her mouth as she let out a low moan, her breast beginning to leak more of the fluid into Alexis’s hands.

“I didn’t know you could lactate Knila” Nadine commented looking towards her in curiosity, Knila meanwhile just bit her lip in an attempt to keep herself quiet, it didn’t work of course since when Alexis squeezed her breast again she let out another moan before Alexis stopped applying more pressure and let go.

Knila meanwhile just stood in place her legs crossed together and her eyes half lidded as they heard her let out a shuddering breath.

“Do you feel any better now?” Alexis asked as she seemed to write something on a piece of paper on her desk.

She got a meek nod in response from Knila, “Y-yes” she then said as Nadine just looked at the state her friend was in, “Never seen you like this before…I like it”.

Knila looked like she was about to tell Nadine to shut up again but nothing came out of her mouth this time she just shook her head as she covered up her chest and crotch again.

Alexis then walked over to Nadine before wrapping the tape measure around her, “you know. Maybe you should learn to be quiet at times. Otherwise, you're going to get in a lot of trouble around here.”

Nadine just went into deep thought for a moment before shrugging, “Fair point, I should probably work on that”.

“And you think that now?” Knila muttered before getting another shrug from Nadine, “Didn’t really cross my mind”.

“Of course it didn’t…” Knila muttered with a scoff.

“I would recommend it. You really don’t want to get on my brother's bad side. It was terrifying before he was Displaced, never mind now.”

“N-noted,” Nadine replied thinking about what Alexis said before saying, “Yeah I’ll try to keep stuff to myself just so I don’t cause issues”.

“At least you're actually aware of it now” Knila commented as Alexis continued to use the tape measure on Nadine who tried to stay as still as possible just so It wouldn’t mess up the measurement.

After a minute of Alexis trying to get Nadine's measurements, she stepped away moving back to the desk again before looking back at the two, “Anything specific you want for your outfits?”

Nadine then spoke up, “Can you make me a hooded top with long sleeves that’s see through at the chest with a fishnet material and chains that connect to tight black pants?” Knila looked at her with a twitch as she commented, “Why are you like this?” getting another shrug from Nadine.

“Do you want me to add a spiked dog collar to that with my brothers name on and his logo?” Alexis asked with a smirk.

“Don’t say yes Nadine, please don’t say yes” Knila thought to herself before she and Alexis heard her say, “Yes please!”.

“Goddammit Nadine…” Knila then muttered.

“Maybe add a leas-” Nadine was about to suggest before getting slapped in the back of the head by Knila, “No”.

“Ow what’s the big idea!” Nadine whined as she saw the look in her eyes, “Whatever your thinking of suggesting, no”.

“But” Nadine attempted to speak but was interrupted again.

“No!” Knila repeated as Alexis and Nadine saw her hair start floating up, “Your gonna get what you asked for prior and what you agreed to and add nothing else understood?”.

Nadine gave a fearful nod and chuckle, “Yeah loud and clear” as she held up her hands defensively.

“Good” Knila then said with a sigh before her hair went back to normal, “Barely into my twentys and I feel like a nagging mom…”.

After a moment Knila heard Alexis speak towards her, “And do you have any ideas for your own outfit?”

Knila thought it over for a moment but let out a sigh before saying in a shaky tone, “I-im not sure what to go with”.

Alexis then pauses for a moment before taking Knila by the hand before leading her to another room, “Come with me.”

“O-ok” Knila stuttered out as she followed behind her as they walked into the other room, where upon entering she found it to be a bathroom.

“If I may ask, why are we in a bathroom?” Knila asked as she glanced around for a moment before putting her attention back to Alexis, as she found that she was beginning to remove her outfit.

“Just wait a minute okay,” Alexis responds before turning on the shower, “step under it.”

Knila’s face went red for a moment when she saw Alexis doing this before she stuttered out, “O-ok then” before slowly stepping under the shower, shortly being followed by Alexis who stood behind her.

“Okay now. Tell me everything.” Alexis ordered as her hands wrapped around Knila from behind, her breasts pushing into Knila’s back.

“W-What?” Knila stuttered out confused her blush returning.

“Simple. Speak your mind instead of bottling up your feeling. Get them out in the open and we can talk them though.” Alexis responds, “The first is your reaction each time my brother is mentioned. You like him a lot don’t you.”

Knila stuttered in attempt to refuse but gave up in a defeated sigh, “Y-yeah I do, he saved me, he put my mind back together when it was broken, and when I was talking to him I felt warm on the inside alongside my heart beating like a drum, but I’m afraid…”.

“Keep going,” Alexis responds as Knila’s feeling something soft running over her body as she looked down to see Alexis carefully cleaning up the dirt from around her cuts and scars with a sponge

“Back before all this, back when me and my little brother were still in our world, I was in a relationship with this guy his name was Parker, we had a rocky relationship but we went pretty far along to the point of me getting pregnant with his kid, but once I told him, he didn’t say anything to me for days he didn’t even yell at me, and after a while one of my friends told me he left the city leaving me to raise the kid on my own, after that In spite of me knowing not everyone’s gonna be like him, it’s just that fear, that anxiety, it just makes me afriad of actually pursuing a relationship with anyone else…”.

“And you think my brother may do the same?” Alexis responds carefully cleaning the remaining liquid up from around her breasts, “If you’ve seen how many abandoned and misreated children he’s cared for you would know he doesn’t do it… he’d put you before himself most of the time to be fair.”

“It’s just that fear of it happening again it just overtakes any bit of rationality in my mind even if I know he isn’t like Parker” Knila quietly replied.

“So you fear the thought that he may disappear from your sight, and you’ll lose him,” Alexis responds as Knila feeling the sponge rub against her breasts softly.

“Y-yeah I do” she replied with with a whisper.

“Have you told him how you feel,” Alexis asks.

“No I haven’t, wouldn’t be surprised if he probably already know’s though from how i’ve acted around him”.

“He may do,” Alexis responds with a chuckle, “but he’ll stay quiet until you say something, and knowing him if you say you wanted to be his wife, he would likely take you as his wife in a heartbeat.”

Knila glanced back at Alexis, “Really?” she asked.

“Really. Since he disappeared and came to this world he no longer puts his wishes first, he seems to always put others happiness before his own. So if you wanted to start a family with him, if you desired it he would do everything in his powers to help you do so.”

Alexis then saw Knila’s blush from before deepen in color before she heard her say, “If that’s the case I may ask him given the chance” as she then felt Alexis wiping the sponge around the scars around her back.

“I might just ask once were done with the clothes if I don’t stumble over myself that is” Knila said before placing her hand on her chest, “My hearts beating like a drum just thinking about it”.

“You’ll just need to calm yourself down so you can say it to him,” Alexis responds, “But you may need to deal with your current issue,” She adds gesturing to Knila’s breasts that were once again leaking.

She just let out a sigh in response, “Their so hard to manage when their like this” Alexis heard her say in a mutter before seeing her press one of her hands to her breast hearing her then let out a whimper as more milk began to leak out.

“You really need someone to release all the pressure on a constant basis now don’t you,” Alexis calmly responded as she kept squeezing them almost seeming to milk them like you would a cows udders.

Knila just bit her lip before replying, “Y-yeah but even then they were still bad when i was still captured and had to get a machine for it so It wouldn’t get in the way of things and don’t get me started to how sensitive they get…”.

“Still it’s strange they haven’t stopped, how long ago was it that you had a child for this to happen?” Alexis asked not stopping in her actions as she spoke, milk constantly dripping from Knila’s breasts.

“Since I ended up in this world but even then it didn’t get this bad before I got captured but afterword there were times I would wake up in my cell and they would be doing this where I don’t remember what happened in the test”.

“Suprised you didn’t have someone drain them when you were in the cells,” Alexis responds pulling one hand away from her, “Or did someone do that?”

“One decided to be too handsy with me and ended up with a severed arm after that anytime It needed to be done they just brought a machine to relive the pressure because they didn’t want to end up like him” Knila replied.

“I do remember one thing from those tests is at the beginning was that I was strapped into something don’t really remember what and after that they called something in and I heard multiple footsteps and afterword everything went black and I woke up in my cell like usual” Knila continued before adding,”Sometimes or sometimes every part of my bed sensitive to the touch even at my chest and…other regions”.

Knila then rubbed her hands on her face before letting out a sigh, “Im so glad im not with those monsters anymore..” she said in a mutter before gathered some of the water in her hand and used it to rinse her chest afterwords she then used used the showerhead to rinse off any lingering dirt from her skin.

Alexis then walked out of the shower turning her head back to Knila, “take as long as you need i’m going to get started on some outfits for you and your friend outside. You have any ideas for it or should I go with what I fancy?”

“Go ahead with what you fancy, ive never been good with outfits anyway” She heard Knila respond.

“You may live to regret that choice,” Alexis responds with a chuckle before adding, “theres some Shampoo and Hair conditioner on the side. Use it it you want,” She then walked out the room with a towel wrapped around her.

“Thank you” Knila the said before looking to the shampoo and hair conditioner as she heard the door close behind Alexis.

Knila the grabbed the shampoo bottle and deposited some of in her hand before she rubbed it into her hair for a few moments afterword she then rinsed it out also doing the same with the conditioner, once she was done she stepped out of the shower almost slipping on small puddle of water while she slowly stepped to a towel rack and grabbed one using it to dry her hair before wrapping it around her waist.