Chapter 114: Fleeting Warmth [Illustration]

"Ah, love!"

The bed creaks.

Breaths exchange.

Daniel thrusts forward, pressed against the fusion mother, Mavi, whose slime-enhanced skin allows her to take her baby's desires with ease. That's nothing to say of the pleasure crashing over her as she tightens her hold against his cock, both the underlying Mary and Viviane working in perfect unison against him.

Indeed, he shudders to their warm, squishy body, his mouth collapsed over Mavi's even softer breast as she holds him. She gently brushes the back of his head in contrast to his unending drag against her inner walls below. With each push, his tongue swirls against the maternal milk that ejects for him in rhythm.

It's strange. Even though he nursed from Mary earlier, the milk does taste a little different with Viviane lining her; a little fruity, perhaps.

"Oh, love, you're so deep... so close, I can feel it~"

Mavi can literally feel him, her vaginal walls extending out with slime and connecting to the nerves of his cock, almost like a taste each time he hits close to her base. Of course, this cycles backs to him, increasing his momentum.

Yet, despite being lost in pleasure, somehow Anne's troubling words come to mind.

"Besides, I'm pretty sure neither Viviane nor I can have kids, so it's up to you two humans to paint some kids of your own so we can have grandkids!"

He pauses suddenly, sweating more than before. Besides Mary's decision, how can Anne be sure about themselves? He's cum in them many times, and although wanting to assure himself of their dissolving nature, can it be guaranteed?

"A-aanh!"

Mavi's sweet moan pierces through his doubts while her walls tighten around him. Knowing it's too late to second-guess his actions so far, he unlatches weakly, moaning. "Mum, I'm...!"

"Yes, I know! Cum in Mummy!"

She presses his face back into her breast and wraps her legs around, gripping with such vice. Daniel stands no chance, his eyes blanking as he stares into Mavi's warm, needy brown eyes.

Splurt... Splurt...

'God, I can't even hold it back...' Daniel groans, his body twitching as he pumps into her.

Quivering and whimpering, Mavi breathes out shakily as the cum dissolves thanks to the slime layer. Slowly, she eases into bliss with her son, leaning her head forward to plant kisses across his forehead.

Daniel closes his eyes to the affection.

"Muah, good boy... muah. I love you so much, Daniel."

"I...love you too."

For a few minutes, they relax into each other's hold. Mavi helps with Daniel's sweat along his back, spreading her hand and extending slime from her fingertips to absorb all the moisture while he suckles more gently, hydrating away his exertions.

"Love?" Mavi calls as she finishes. She slides her hand to his side. "I've thought of something."

"Hm?"

"The cabin that Viviane found herself in, I think that might be the same one Mary saw in the forest of her dream."

Daniel snaps his eyes open at her, raising his brows. He was synced up with what Mary saw during their fusion transfer, so he understands exactly what his hybrid mother is talking about.

"Are you sure?" he asks, unlatching.

"No, but it is a feeling," Mavi answers, moving her hand back to her baby's head and shuffling her digits through his hair.

"Then it's probably correct," Daniel supports. "It's unfortunate Mother didn't get to see outside."

"Did you feel weird? Unlike before, where we saw memories as one, it was just Viviane."

"It is strange how that memory didn't involve us as Vida, but maybe we weren't completely connected during the merge...or..."

"Or...?"

"Well, this was after she lost her human form. I don't know how she 'died' in the fight against the Saxons, but that could be related. In any case, I'd rather not look into it deeply before we see what she has in store when we sleep."

Mavi leans back and hums, staring at the ceiling. "Sorry, but her whole situation makes me wonder. Mary's clone is right now at the studio, and she's a copy that was produced by Anne. If she and Mary were to be joined while real Mary died while joined, do you think... that's what happened with your Mother?"

Daniel blinks, finding a hint of tremor in Mavi's eyes. It becomes clear that most of this hypothetical comes from an influence to his elder slime mother. Mary also probably shares some worry as the closest case to continue after death.

If there's no way to reabsorb the clone, then theoretically, Mary would live forever as a remnant.

And they know, according to Merlin, that being a remnant implies a connection to Isis, which in turn becomes a key to this Flood or "sea of flames", as the wizard called it.

Currently, Daniel doesn't want to think about any of those things. He squeezes her, smiling. "Mum, I know what you're thinking. To me, though, you're... you. That goes for Mary, Mother, and Mom. If Mother died and came back as a slime, it doesn't make her any less to me. The same goes if Mary's clone is here to stay and beyond, then... she's no less Mary either."

Tears well inside Mavi's eyes, emotions shared by the two that make up her. Cupping her son's cheeks, she gazes warmly.

"Love, thank you."

Daniel spills out of the nest to meet her, locking lips and breathing in between kisses.

After several exchanges, Mavi sighs and allows the tears to dry up. "You can be so good with words, you know?"

"I'm just saying what I feel," Daniel excuses, looking away.

"Hehe, and I appreciate it," Mavi whispers, patting his head. "Before we sleep together into this potential realm, can we... try something?"

Daniel flinches, his eyes locked away.

'Oh... oh no.'

Mavi pulls up a little and waves her hands, recognizing the horror on her baby's face. "It's something that you and Anne have already done! While we've enveloped you many times, I want to do a proper hold of you as my baby."

The artist remains solid before furrowing his brows, returning to her. "You mean the false pregnancy?"

"Y-yes, can we do it? I have to cover you anyway, so does it really matter how?"

Daniel exhales slowly and takes a few seconds for his heart to calm down. "I get it's symbolic, but it's just going to be like how I woke up inside Marianne."

Mavi pouts. "Hey, don't try to downplay! Honestly, representing your second and third mother here, I say it's downright awful that none of us has carried you like your Mama has."

"Haa... Yes, sorry," Daniel says, raising his hands lightly as he sits up. "So, what do you want me to do?"

Appreciating the flexibility, the hybrid slime mother also sits up straight across from Daniel, her eyes glowing with love and anticipation. She extends her arms out, and then...

Splick!

Her slimy layer that comes from Viviane opens up below her chest, revealing Mary's darker skin. The goo around wiggles in excitement while Mavi motions with her fingers.

NSFW Illustration: https://itaku.ee/images/1133795

"Obviously, you have to come to Mummy and cuddle in with her~"

"This is so cursed," Daniel flatly remarks. Yet, it could be worse, so he doesn't complain further as he draws closer.

Mavi harrumphs. "Hey, it's the end result that matter! You'll be all tucked in and rounded about in no time!"

Daniel snorts, sliding between her arms. She hugs him close to her chest, allowing her slime to wrap around him.

"Curl up a bit, love," she whispers.

He hums, closing his eyes as he shuffles into a fetal position. The slime wraps neatly flows around him, pulling his head in until his forehead is up against the upper part of Mary's stomach.

Before everything goes darker for him, he slides a few kisses against Mary's skin.

"A-ah! He...hehe, n-none of that! It tickles~"

The slime around him ripples in protest, so Daniel chuckles, retreating. "Just don't make any sudden movements, okay?"

Mavi hums. Soon, the surrounding layer completes, and when the slime dyes itself, light ceases to reach Daniel's eyes.

Outside, Mavi rubs her ridiculous "belly" as she slumps down the headboard. Her eyes narrow with immense joy, recalling Amy's actual pregnancy with him. It would never be real like that, but it also doesn't have to be.

"Love, do you want to know something interesting?"

"Hm?"

"As I am right now, Viviane is extending Mary. If her mass pulls too far, then I stop feeling anything."

"Are you saying you can't feel me?" Daniel asks, his voice muffled but clear enough to make out.

"No, quite the opposite!" Mavi giggles, smoothing out the bulges, almost giving her baby a back massage. "I can feel you, your heartbeat, your breath."

"I think that's because I'm literally pressed against Mary's stomach."

Mavi thins her lips, shutting her eyes as the immersion is broken. "Well...okay, yes, but I can feel your back and my rubs. I'm not connecting to any part of you, yet it feels like you're within me. It's... difficult to describe."

"No worries. Not like I can see anything that can be described."

Sighing, Mavi shakes her head. "Babies really shouldn't be so witty early on."

They remain together like this in near harmony. It takes only a few minutes before Daniel feels his eyes droop being so close to his fusion mother, his body cushioned by gel, hearing Mary's heartbeat.

"Ah, wait! I just had an idea! Love, what if we brought the books with us?"

Daniel blinks a few times, trying to stay awake. "Huh?"

"Both you and I happen to discover we could actually sleep into a dream world with our clothes on, right? What about magical items?"

Daniel considers for a few seconds. "I don't know if we should, but... maybe the books will make better sense there?"

Or better trouble.

"Are you sure?"

Groaning, Daniel bites the bullet. "Sure, before I change my mind."

Straightening, Mavi grins. "Guess it's time to test my balance then!"

"Oh, no, you don't! Not this time!" Daniel firmly rejects, rustling within his slimy containment. "Either extend your arms with your slime to grab the damn books or let me out so you, or I can get them. It's one thing to be a slime, but I don't want to see Mary with her back broken for something as trivial as this!"

"Oh, come on!" Mavi whines. "It won't be a problem if I reinforce—"

"Please, Mum. I just don't want to see you, your parts, or I get hurt just so you can carry me around."

"Ugh... alright," Mavi gives, going with the former option. The slime around her left hand detaches from Mary's wrist, extending out the bedroom into the living room, where she's familiar enough with the placements of the room to maneuver blindly.

Sure enough, her goo appendage retracts with the books. As soon as they are in her hands, her rounded "belly" softens so she can stuff them in with her passenger.

Daniel finds the books lining his sides as he's cradled closer. Sighing, he shuts his eyes amid the darkness and heartbeat that reverberates around him.

Click!

Mavi nestles downward and extends another arm of goo to turn off the lights. She purrs, rubbing her baby with a rise of her lips.

"Let me know if you feel uncomfortable, love."

"Mmm..."

Taking his sleepy moan as a good sign, the fusion mother's eyes soften across the darkened outline of her form before her eyes drag down. She hugs her love closely as they draw into the night's sleep together.

The world slowly drifts into...

...

..

.

Nothing.

Viviane's eyes snap open, the warmth she shared with Mary and Daniel having disappeared. Instead, the air chills around her as a familiar fog spreads.

Her pupils shake, the mist choking her as she catches a vast lake still by her feet. With it, the gray waters carry an empty basket.

A basket that has haunted her for centuries.

She's back.

She's back to where it started.

And she screams.