Lana took a deep breath and followed her brother into the dome to see some of her closest friends. To say she was nervous was an understatement. She needed to fold back her wings to fit through the door. She could already see these things were going to be a huge adjustment. Caser could sense her coming and met her just inside the doorway with concern in his eyes.
Lana heard Sil enter and close the door behind himself as she surveyed the faces in front of her that had a mixture of concern, amazement and shock on their faces. She put on a cheerful face.
"Surprise!" as she gave everyone a small wave. Sil placed his hand at the small of her back to help her calm her nerves. Mandy and Fiza brought the twins over. Lana had a bad feeling but she would know soon enough as she took Olivia and Sil took Owen.
Addressing everyone, "as you all know, the sword I'm using was my mother's. When I took it to Alex to have a scabbard made, he said it was dangerous because of all the buttons on it. I found one in training where the end flew off to attack a target. Today, I found one which took my blood, analyzed it and then filled the sword with it."
"Sorry, but no one is going to be borrowing this weapon because it played a message for me when it did this. It evolved me into what I am now, a Fae. It also stated those who are not of her blood would be killed so…"
Lana looked to the girls, "apparently my plant ability is a species thing which means I turned you into a fae when I taught you three. I think for now it's best if I just train you three until I figure out what this even means."
The girls had a mixture of horrified, proud, and sort of pleased expressions.
"Are we going to get wings?" Dawn asked.
"That is something I cannot know yet. I need to find my mother's lab. That is part of what this mission was about. We'll get to that in a few minutes. I just wanted to discuss this new form so everyone knows what happened out there. One thing I do know is I cannot touch "beast" anything. I had to have Sil remove my beast clothing because it caused intense pain."
"Isn't your sword a beast weapon?" Duff asked.
"Not according to Alex. He's never seen this material nor this workmanship before."
The room was suddenly quiet as everyone realized just how little they knew about the Plantwell's background. Based on her personality, no one ever really cared but now they realized things could get interesting.
"Have the babies been fed recently? Or was the last feeding before we went out?"
"It was before," Fiza stated, "the combat woke them up and we decided to play with them for a while."
Lana nodded. She looked at Sil who followed her to the couch as the lab was not put up. Dobin told everyone to stay in the kitchen area. He had a feeling he knew what was coming next and she needed privacy.
In the living area, Lana lowered her plant armor and exposed herself so the Olivia could eat. She ate for about 5 minutes then stopped, crying. Lana frowned then allowed Owen to have the other one. The same thing happened.
"Dobin, bring a bottle, please…" as a tear drifted down her cheek. She would no longer be able to breastfeed the twins. Her DNA altered to where the milk had changed just so and they no longer wanted it.
Sil and Lana finished feeding the twins then passed them back to Fiza and Mandy after she covered herself back up. She would stop her milk supply as soon as she could to stop the leakage.
"Let's get to work on creating an access to the area below."
Sil copied Dobin's ability and Dawn held the scanner. The team all took up defensive positions while Lana hovered at the tree line to observe the distance. The volume of earth being moved at the rate it was moving caused the ground to rumble. Lana was concerned about subterranean beasts… sort of. She figured they would be able to handle them as a team but didn't want her husband and brother to be attacked while working.
At the same time, she didn't want beasts to feel the tremors and come across the desert as well. Monitoring both was integral to the safety of this operation. Max, do you mind keeping an eye on the area they are digging to? They could attract the wrong attention.
Black smoke was seen and Max appeared. He headed straight to the opening the two men were creating.
Lana was scanning the horizon for any sign of movement.
"Hey, Butterfly!" Lana heard from below. She looked down to see her beautiful husband below her. She knew others thought it strange to call a man beautiful but she didn't care. He was to her.
"Yes, My Love?"
"Did you bring any of those energy bars?"
She nodded, "in my bag that Caser is carrying."
Sil practically skipped away to go find Caser. Lana got a bit concerned and decided to descend and find out what kind of plan her husband had.
She could see they created a small hill that had a shape like an outcropping. It had a hollow portion at the bottom so they could descend but it wasn't visible from above. Special instruments would be able to identify there was something there, though. The terrain seemed obvious someone had built something.
Lana noticed Sil not far away raising bits of earth to create a more textured landscape with an energy bar hanging out of his mouth. She noticed Dobin had one as well. She had to chuckle. That was fast.
At the same time, she understood they were doing strenuous work at her request. She would make it up to them at dinner, for sure. Lana noticed sweat on Dobin's brow as he appeared to be nearing completion. He sank to his knees, "done."
Max reported there was movement then a roar echoed from below. The entrance Dobin and Sil created was only big enough for a large human to go through but Lana took that as an invitation.
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