Chapter 414 – Helping Zarzi

*** Alzi, Third body ***

Zarzi is extremely weak. Just another reason that she needed to stay behind. She's just some sticks stuck to an oversized torso, which is mostly just stretched out skin.

"You need food," I say. "Plenty of food."

"Baby, you just want me to cook for you again," Mommy says.

"There should be someone who cooks for the priestesses," I say. "She is just so skinny. I don't want my wife to be starved. I didn't think you would cook."

"I'm just messing with you," Mommy says. "She needs to fatten up healthily this time. I'll look for the kitchen. She's getting some food in that belly."

"Thank you," I say. I hope my main body doesn't have any more problems getting married. I don't like how odd it feels to be with Zarzi in this body. It should accept my mates as wives.

"I would be happy to show you to a kitchen," a Priestess says. "We did our best to keep her fed, but the kids needed a lot of nutrition. We are almost done with lunch already. If you want, you can cook dinner later instead of us, but you can let us handle the food for your stay. You're the future Queen, and Zarzi is a High Priestess."

"She's a High Priestess?" I ask. "How did that happen?"

"She had to be given something for gifting our realm with so many children, and our Goddess decided that was a fitting gift for her. She has served well in the position," the Priestess says. "I will admit, we weren't happy when she jumped to that position. But we would be stupid to continue being mad at her after all she's done for the temple. I'm not sure if she will continue to be a Priestess after getting married, but we would accept her if she wishes to. Just need to ask our Goddess."

"I'm sure I'll find time to figure that out," I say. "They love to pull me up into their realm."

"Yes, we can all see that the Goddesses love you," the Priestess says. "The food should be on its way."

"Well, that's nice," I say. "I guess it is lunch time."

"And your pregnant body just ran off without getting any food," Mommy says. "You used to be so good about eating."

"I've had a decade of terrible food. I'm used to running off," I say, and now I know I'm hungry. My next stop after the marriage will have to be a kitchen.

"I'll have the castle start cooking for you and your wives," the Priestess says. "I'll give you all some space. The food will be here shortly."

The Priestesses bringing the food must've been waiting for her to leave or something because they come in right after she leaves. Plate after plate, they set it all down for us. Most of it is meat and going right in front of Zarzi.

"Do I still need to eat all of this?" Zarzi asks.

"Yes," the Priestess says. "We want you to put some meat on those bones. Our Queen, we need to help her walk after her lunch. Would you like to join us?"

"I'll handle it," I say.

"We'll have one of us come with you to make sure she doesn't go too far. Regrowing her muscles will take time."

"I'll fill her with life mana, and it'll go faster," I say. "I want her healthy quickly." That was probably a little rude, but she has to be tired of lying here. I'll love getting the chance to fix her body up. The list of issues she's had has not been the normal level for a pregnancy. So many organs have been squished and moved around. Esiyae was even worse, so Dragon must have been doing something to help her, but relying on just that won't do for me.

"Just be careful," the Priestess says.

"I will be," I say. "Thanks."

"No choice for the adult you're talking about?" Zarzi asks.

"No," I say. "Sorry, I just wanted to say that. We can do what you want."

"A walk with you would be nice," Zarzi says. "We just can't go too far. We can look at some of the other temples around here. They're all pretty."

"That settles it, then," I say. "We can have a Priestess join us if they want."

"It would be best," Zarzi says. "Golden dragons don't normally walk around down here, so some extra protection would be nice."

Maybe I should've kept Victoria or Geta with us. "Ok," I say. "Sounds like a date."

"Your Mother is coming along," Zarzi says, grabbing a plate of food. "Sure, she's your wife and mate, but I can't call that a date."

"What if I pin you against a wall and fuck you afterward?" I ask, taking a bite of food so we don't break any rules. Or are the rules different for the higher realms? That would be a pain with me having to worry about four different realms. Dragons are probably more relaxed, or they could be more serious with all their power dynamics. Please, be easier.

"Rainbow," Mommy says. "Don't go speaking like that at lunch. I know Eterna put the thought in your head, but you shouldn't talk like that with food in your mouth."

"Mother has you there," Zarzi says.

"Shut up and eat your food," I say. "You have a pile to eat, and I expect those plates to be licked clean."

"First Victoria, and now this," Mommy says. "Aurora is going to have a lot of work dealing with you all, and even more in training our kids to be respectful. I expect the same behavior from you, dear. Clean off that plate. You have a lot of kids to feed, and I don't care which body they are in, or how that works. Eat up."

"You're also pregnant," I say.

"Don't make me come over there and spank you," Mommy says. "It wouldn't be good if word got out that the Queen had to be spanked by her mother."

"I'll just have to make sure everyone knows I liked it," I say. "Everyone already thinks I'm a bit crazy. Why not give them a bit more to think about?"

"Troublesome kid," Zarzi says. "And I just gave us a hundred more like her."

"Not all of them will be as troublesome as this one is," Mommy says. "But yes, we have our work cut out for us over the next century."

"Century?!"

"Yes, century," Mommy says. "Do you think you're about to stop getting us pregnant any time soon?"

"Well, we need to eat," I say. "We can't delay Zarzi's exercise too much. Love just dragged me up for our talk, so we'll be married soon as well. Eat up."

"That's what I thought," Mommy says. "Blessed with kids from our little rainbow."

"I'm taller than all my wives!"

"Little rainbow."

"Hmph," I let out. I really do have to figure out how to cut back on the kids. I don't know if Dragon will take me up on my wish. But if she does, limiting the number of kids I have will be impossible. Most of the world will have to be employed just to raise my kids if she gets her wish.

But no more bad marriages, I'm finished with those. No one can touch me anymore, right? I'm a Queen. But Geta is pregnant, so Victoria can't get pregnant for a while. I have to work on her strength. Elora's as well. I can give her a longer break and only have one of the three pregnant. Nanoka, as well.

Safety will have to be the limiting factor for my kids. I'll have to have Aurora and Shyla stuck in my bed as I force everyone to grow that way. I just have to keep myself from getting everyone pregnant.

Maybe I can ask Fertility for help in that regard.

For now, I can just eat and go on a walk with Zarzi.

...

Eating with three bodies at once is kind of funny, especially when none of them have the same meal. My second body has the standard sandwich they love to serve for lunch. The two in the dragon realm are a lot more similar, though. Both had plenty of meat; the castle just put it in a salad for some variety, while the temple just served the meat portion.

Zarzi showed she was practiced at eating a large meal, making her four plates disappear in just a few minutes more than it took for me and Mommy to eat.

"Ready for the walk?" I ask. None of us licked our plates clean. Mommy gave me a good stare when I started to do it, and I think Zarzi learned from that to just ignore my command. I'm a Queen, yet one wife is ignoring me while the other is bossing me around. How sad. And they're both supposed to be my submissive mates, too!

"What are you thinking, baby?" Mommy asks.

"Nothing, just about how my mates don't respect me," I say.

"You didn't honestly think you should lick the plate," Mommy says. "Don't play around like that. Who knows what the kids pick up while they're in their eggs? We need to be on our best behavior."

"Can they really tell what is happening from inside their eggs and under lava?" I ask.

"I doubt it," Zarzi says. "But you would have to ask the Priestess, or our Goddess."

"I'll ask later," I say. "It would be interesting. But are we all ready to stretch out our legs?"

"That would be nice," Zarzi says. "I haven't walked in months. I got so big so fast. I'm surprised I wasn't bigger when I went into labor."

"I'm guessing Dragon got some help from Space for that part," I say. "You did not have enough space in your womb for all those eggs."

"Probably," Zarzi says. She slowly moves her legs around to get them under her, but her body refuses to stand up on its own.

I move behind Zarzi, lift her by the armpits, and then shift to her side. Mommy goes on her other side, and the three of us slowly move through the temple. I start sending my mana through Zarzi's body, looking for anything and everything I can heal.

It won't be long before we have to come back and add some more lava. There are small drains to keep the lava moving and keep it from hardening around the eggs, which is important, but it ties us to the eggs until they hatch.

"Which way do we go?" I ask.

"Left," Zarzi says. "Dragons don't care much for the sea, but we still have a temple to her. A small one, but I like the look of it. Hers is a bit different from our normal temples. And then there's a temple to the Goddess of Power that was just opened next door to it."

"Maybe I should go in that one," I say. "Yzzorres is the other one who Power has marked with the three-circle thing. I'm sure she wants to talk about that or something. I should probably thank her somewhat for the classes as well."

"Power is the reason the great dragon has the mark?" Zarzi asks. "The Priestesses were always wondering why. Apparently, she never said where she got the mark from."

"You shouldn't tell anyone then," I say. "Power told me that Yzzorres ate the others who got the three-circle mark. There's no need to risk her coming back for the ones that shared her secret."

"I can do that. But it should be spreading already with how famous you are," Zarzi says. It's going to take us a while to get anywhere with how slowly we're walking.

"Plus, you forgot I'm back here," the Priestess says. "We were starting to connect the dots. Don't worry, we won't be saying that you spread the secret. It isn't your fault the Goddess of Power likes her mark to be visible, instead of hiding them under your wings like Space does."

"So it wouldn't matter where she put them."

"Not when we've seen you naked."

"I'm naked a lot."

"Most people are. Just not as publicly as you. Normally, only the Goddess of Fertility's Priestesses get that honor."

"It is a problem I've developed."

"You're a beautiful woman, so it is hardly a problem. It's a blessing for us, really, to see our beautiful Queen so completely like that. Don't change on our account."

What about on my own? I should try to keep my clothing on a bit more for the kids.

"Let's go visit the Goddess of Power and see what she thinks," I say.