*BACKSTORY:  Allie Brady was in high school when she fell in love with her best friend, Jen Macintyre.  Convinced her friend would never return her affections, Allie was astonished to discover that Jen grew a fully operational set of male genitals on the night of the full moon!  After various sexual misadventures, which included Allie being consistently pumped so full of Jen's cum she looked permanently pregnant, the women met a strange and powerful man who called himself Max.  Max unlocked a terrible force inside Allie's womb, transforming her and everyone around them, including himself.  Now the deadly and power-crazy Maxxine, she sought to use Allie's recently discovered connection to the goddess of the moon to bring unspeakable horror to life.  Jen, with the help of her ever-hungry friend Kate, saved the day, defeating Maxxine by feeding her to the very power she attempted to control, and Jen and Allie were together an safe at last.

Some months later, Kate's wedding was at hand, and an experimental energy gel is mistakenly grabbed at her bachelorette party.  Much expansion followed, effecting almost every bridesmaid, but luckily a wedding crasher stepped forth and used powerful magic to save the day!  Amazingly it turned out to be Max's father, a remorseful man named August.  Not wanting to interfere in their lives, he left the women with the promise to return if ever they needed him.*

STICKY AND SKETCHY

It looked like the weather was going to be hot and muggy... AGAIN.  Allie fanned herself at the window and tried to feel any kind of breeze, but to no avail.  The air was just gross and still, and her skin felt almost slimy it was so humid.

At least I have a day off, she thought, and stretched back onto her bed.  The ceiling fan above the bed pushed air down at her, but it was hot and thick air that moved sluggishly.  She yanked at the collar of her sleeveless shirt to get some space between her sweaty skin and the cotton material.  The fabric made a slapping sound when it hit the top of her stomach.

Allie shifted herself to look down at her body.  Apart from her shirt she wore only her panties.  She'd come a long way from the skinny, awkward high-schooler she'd been once upon a time.  She crossed and uncrossed her ankles, admiring the shape of her legs.  They were long and slender now, though she was always gonna be shorter than Jen.  Allie's hips were curved nicely around what she considered her most attractive feature: her full, stretched womb.  Atop her round belly sat her breasts, once nothing more than a couple of handfuls, now fat, firm and proud.  She wiggled her torso and enjoyed the jiggling it set in motion on her front.  I'll never get tired of this, she thought to herself.  Hell, I don't care if I'm eighty years old!  I'll still love my belly.  She caressed the bulge affectionately.

The light caught her wedding ring and made it glow.  Her smile grew wider.  What a life! she reflected.  And unlike poor Kate's, Jen and Allie's wedding had gone off without a hitch or unexpected guest.  There hadn't been any expansion either... at least not at the wedding, Allie thought with sexy glee as she recalled the night AFTER.  Tahiti!  What a place!  Toplessness was kind of a cultural thing there, and Jen had decided (much to Allie's satisfaction) that she wasn't going to wear a top until they had to leave.  That had been a nice weekend.

Jen entered the apartment, and Allie pushed herself into a sitting position.  "What's up?" she asked.

Jen had her long black hair in a ponytail to keep herself as cool as possible.  She wore sunglasses, but had them resting on top of her head.  Her green shirt buttoned across her sizable bust, and her shorts were tight and made the most of her long, tan legs.  She tossed her rolled up prints and some wrapped canvases beside the door and slipped her shoes off her feet, sticking out her tongue and making a face as she said, "It's so disgusting outside I'm calling it.  Nobody's stopping by the booth.  I'd rather just sit here in the dark."

Allie held out her arms hopefully.  "With me?" she grinned.

Jen shook her head.  "Sorry babe, it's too hot for snuggles.  I'm gonna sit at my table.  Maybe sketch some more."

"Awww!" Allie's lip trembled in faux heartbreak, and she crinkled her eyebrows up.  Her big, bright eyes shone in the dim light.

Jen looked at her.  "Don't do that."

Allie's lip just trembled even more.  Tears welled in her eyes.

Jen sighed, then leaned in and gave Allie a smooch, which Allie was quick to turn into a much deeper kiss.  She tasted Jen's tongue with her own, sucked on her lip, and caressed Jen's face lightly.  Jen stood back up with a goofy grin now on her face.  "You love being married to me," Allie reassured her.

Jen almost walked into the doorframe.  "Whoops!  Haha, I'm all discombobulated now!"  She sat at her desk, slid a pad of paper from her supply cubby underneath, and then stared at the blank page.  Allie looked back out the window and watched cars driving by.  She wondered if maybe she should go for a drive... at least her car had AC.  Their apartment, unfortunately, did not.

"Arrrgh!" Jen groaned.  "There's nothing worse than a blank page!"

Allie sat back up, her stomach settling into her lap, and assumed what Jen called the "Buddha squat".  She saw Jen scribbling in anger, making some kind of mark, ANY kind of mark, even if it was a mess.  The heat was getting to the both of them, it seemed.  Allie shifted her weight to get off the bed and took a deep breath.  Being so round and full was terrific, and it felt great, but it was a bit more work than being light and thin.

"Don't... MOVE." Jen's voice cut through the hot, humid air.

For a second, she'd sounded so serious that Allie thought there was a poisonous snake under her foot or something.  But casting her eyes to the tall brunette she saw Jen sketching, a creative fire in her eyes as she looked up at Allie sitting on the bed and back down at her pad.

Allie felt flattered and excited.  "Are you drawing me?"

Jen nodded, the tip of her tongue sticking out of her lips in concentration.  "The way the light's coming through the window behind you, the shadows on the bed... just hold still a little longer."

It was tougher than she thought it would be.  After a few seconds her nose began to itch, her legs started to ache in the position she'd frozen them in... plus she was actually thrilled Jen was drawing her.  It was a strange, wonderful feeling.  She became acutely aware of her own body, of her wife's eyes roaming over her, in a way that wasn't associated with sex at all but just a deep understanding.  Jen needed to KNOW Allie's form, and Allie had to stay still for it to happen.

Minutes went by, Jen drawing with quick, nonstop strokes.  She glanced up and down constantly, and reminded Allie of a bird pecking for food.  Up she'd look, down she'd go to draw some more, up and down.  Neither spoke.

The air was still oppressively humid, but as the minutes stretched on and went into double-digits, Allie felt something else as well.  Maybe it was being stared at so intently.  Maybe it was the fact that Jen obviously liked how Allie looked enough to capture it in pencil.  Or just that she loved Jen to bits and always seemed to want to jump her bones.  Maybe it was a combination of all those things.  The air was growing electric between them, an unspoken charge growing, waiting to become a spark.

Jen's eyes were lit from within, that creative fire that Allie admired so much burning away inside, and Allie recalled the giant, silver wolf from her dreams.  The wolf that Kate said was some kind of extension of Jen's persona.  As Jen sketched, and held Allie in her gaze, Allie could see that golden light, the eyes of that massive she-wolf.

Jen whispered, "Allllllllmost... done..."

Allie chuckled, and tried not to move her lips as she said, "Good... first thing I'm gonna do is crack my back, and then you are SO gonna get lucky."

Jen smirked, her eyes on the page as she finished the details.  "Better crack it fast then."  She turned the pad over and showed the drawing to Allie, who gasped in awe.

"It's beautiful!" she whispered.

"You're beautiful," Jen said, standing and moving over to her.

"You love being married to me," Allie reminded her, as Jen slid next to her on the bed and pulled her down.  Jen answered with a quick, "Sure do," right before they started to make out like teenagers.  No sex, no moonlight transformation.  Just kisses and nibbles and licks across earlobes, Allie's hands gripping Jen's shoulders, Jen's hands tracing the rounded sides of Allie's middle up to her ribs and back down to her hips, tugging her closer, as close as possible.  The heat, it seemed, was no longer an issue, had in fact become a part of the whole thing.  Allie pulled back as Jen trailed kisses down her throat, across her shoulder, back around her collarbone.  She stroked Jen's hair, her shoulders, as Jen moved lower.

Jen pulled at Allie's shirt and nuzzled her round stomach, cradling Allie's hips in her arms.  Allie giggled and cooed at the feeling, and wiggled beneath Jen's caress, pushing her belly out as far as it would go.  Jen scooted back up to her face and gave her another kiss.  Allie's bare skin rubbed against Jen's middle, and Allie gasped as her bellybutton was squished in by the pressure.  "Oh man... I just can't get enough of you!"

Jen snuggled in, unbuttoning her shirt to fan her chest, and said, "Good!  I can't stop giving myself to you."  She rolled onto her back beside Allie.  Together they watched the fan spin, the muggy warmth all around them lulling them both into a premature sleep.  Allie felt her eyelids, heavy and lazy, drooping closed, heard Jen's breathing slow down, and then she felt and heard nothing.

Nothing.  Not the flow of energy through her body.  Not the cooling of the air around them.  Not even the sparks of electricity that popped across the metal surfaces in the room, arced painlessly across her skin before settling inside Allie's stomach.  She shifted as a pleasant shifting took place in her womb, and unconsciously rubbed her hand over its huge, domed surface.

In response to her touch came a gentle kick.

************

"HLOOOORGHHH," Allie retched.  She wiped her mouth with a thin square of office toilet paper.  "Ugh... cream cheese and bagel."

"Poor thing," boomed Gwen, who loomed above her in the bathroom.  Allie lifted her head to thank her for her sympathy when another wave of nausea passed over her, collecting in her chest and rumbling up her throat until she was forced to bow her head again and squeeze her stomach for mass it simply did not contain any more.  "Hurrrrk! Huuuur-ACK!"

Gwen crouched beside her assistant, who was on her knees, belly squished between her body and the toilet.  Gwen herself was a little squished too.  Although corporate had been more than accommodating in redecorating her office for her new size (and Gwen suspected it had everything to do with receiving government funding for catering to the needs of "special" employees) the bathrooms were still the same size.  She had to bend at the waist just to enter anywhere, had been forced to purchase a whole wardrobe specialy-made.  Luckily she mostly wore suits anyway, and her outfits could easily be repurposed from men's big and tall outfits.

She certainly was big and tall.  Just shy of eight feet tall, her proportions had remained much the same.  Every part of her had just become LARGER.  And she was... she was fine with it.  No, she liked it.  Scratch that, she was loving it.  She'd worked hard as a short, slim, attractive woman to be taken seriously in a scientific field (which wasn't as forward-thinking as one might assume) by being as inhospitable as possible, as cold and deadly as a Russian winter.  But now her sheer SIZE did the work for her, and she could actually express how she felt inside without appearing weak!  Nobody could think a giantess was weak, after all.  Gwen even suspected her boss was afraid she'd crush him or eat him.

She'd envied Allie's ability to be so feminine and cute.  After all, what was more feminine than being pregnant?  But watching Allie forcing her breakfast back out made her reconsider her envy.  She rubbed her huge hand across Allie's back and made soft "Shhhhh" noises.

"Uuuuuuugh GOD," Allie croaked.

"Poor thing," Gwen repeated.  "I heard sometimes women keep getting sick all through the pregnancy, but it's supposed to be rare.  Did you get a lot early on?"

"Nuuuh," Allie groaned, shaking her head weakly.  She struggled to stand, but Gwen kept her down easily.

"Oh no you don't honey, you're going straight home.  Make sure you ask your doctor about this, if it just came out of nowhere it can't be a good sign!  I'll call someone for you."

Allie reached for her purse, rummaged and brought out her cell, tapping Jen's number in quickly and holding it out to Gwen (who took care not to crush it like she had the office coffeepot).  Jen, she prayed weakly, come save me.

**********

Instead, it was Kate who came.  Allie, still green in the face and totally exhausted, could only grunt, "Jen?"

"Sorry, sweetie, she was actually making a big sale!  I'll let her tell you about it, but in the meantime we'll take you to the doctor."

I just need to suck Jen off and I'll be right as rain, Allie thought, but that might have been too much information for their friend.  She'd obviously come straight away after dropping Scott off at Gramma Tank's.  Suddenly, Allie felt the strangest surge of love for Kate.  She stepped forward, her lips trembling and eyes welling with tears, and wrapped her arms around her round friend.

Kate hugged back, pleasantly surprised.  And waited.  And waited.  "Umm, honey?  I love ya and all, but you've still got sick on your breath..."

Allie released her.  "I'm suh-sorry!  I d-don't know w-what's happening to muh-me!  Yuh-you're just suh-such a good fuh-friend!" she blubbered.

Kate had an inkling, but dismissed the thought.  Jen and Allie have been doing it like clockwork since high school.  If they were gonna make a baby, it would have happened a LONG time ago, she thought to herself.  Still, it looked remarkably similar to the rapid mood swings she'd experienced when she'd been pregnant, only... BIGGER.

Which, since it was Allie, made sense.  Worry growing in her mind, Kate hustled Allie into the car and drove quickly to the doctor's office.

**********

The doctor began with a stern lecture about putting off a visit when Allie was obviously pregnant, and it suddenly dawned on the both of them what a dumb idea it was to go to the office.  They'd KNOW she wasn't pregnant!  All they needed to do was test her blood!  Then they'd want to take a sample of the fluid in her uterus, then there'd be more tests, and before you knew it there'd be bridesmaids popping out of their clothes EVERYWHERE!  Well, maybe not bridesmaids exactly, but Kate couldn't get that particular mental image out of her head.

They asked Kate to leave for the exam, so she busied herself reading the magazines.  She noticed with some amusement there was an INTERROGATOR, one of those cheesy tabloid newspapers, stuffed into a celebrity gossip rag, and she thumbed through it.  Some girl claimed she'd been visited by a vampire lover who never called her back... another had been impregnated by a DVD?  What will they think of next? Kate wondered.

Time actually flew by quick.  Kate remembered doctor visits being torturously slow, but it seemed they assumed whatever Allie needed to know about her pregnancy, she already knew.  They also had a ready collection of pamphlets and booklets for new moms they shoved into her hands as they ushered her out the door.

Kate smiled at Allie.  "Feeling any better?"

Allie just stared at her, then waved a hand and made a noise like "Ummawha?"

"Haha, what?" Kate laughed, and then noticed what Allie was holding out to her.

An ultrasound.

********

Jen shut the door behind her, dropped her things in a hurry and rushed to Allie's side, searching for the printout she and Kate had described to her.  Allie held it up with trembling hands.

"A baby?" Jen breathed.  "I mean... I just didn't think we could... you'd think..."

"It would have happened already!" Kate finished.  "That's what I thought!"

"How far along are you?  I mean, you're always this big, so how long until you give birth?"

Allie opened her mouth to speak when her eyes bugged out and she shoved Jen away so forcefully that Jen crashed down on her ass painfully.  "OW!" she cried, shocked, but Allie was a redhaired blur headed for the toilet.  "Oh... oh my God..."

"Morning sickness," Kate nodded sagely.  "At two in the afternoon."

Allie waved a hand out the bathroom door and the two women approached her.  "Auuuugh," she groaned.  Jen lifted Allie's hair away from the toilet seat and rubbed her shoulder, feeling concern for her wife... and incredibly, a surge of such unexpected happiness she thought she'd burst into tears of pride!  Pregnant! she thought, and lowered her lips to kiss Allie's shoulder.  She's having my baby!

"AUUUGHST!" Allie blurted.

"August!" Kate realized Allie was trying to communicate.  "She wants us to call August!  Where did you put his number?"

Jen pointed at the drawer under the phone, and Kate slid it open to find the card.  Jen stayed with Allie, rubbing her shoulders and kissing her cheek.  "This is..."

She was going to say "amazing", but Allie cut her off and screamed "HORRIBLE!"

Jen realized Allie was probably not in a great place right now, and tried to keep from letting her disappointment show.  Getting pregnant seemed like something Allie would want!  But now that it looked like it had actually happened, it wasn't all it cracked up to be.

Kate walked back to the bathroom with the cordless handset.  "Yeah.  Yeah just like a normal pregnancy.  Yeah I have a little guy of my own, so I know.  Thanks!  Oh, she's stopped throwing up again.  Okay.  Okay I'll tell them.  Are you leaving right now or... okay.  Okay.  I know.  Well you don't have to yell at me!"  She hit the power on the phone and tapped it against her hip.  "He was kinda rude."

Allie spat and looked up from the toilet.  "What'd he say?"

Kate fidgeted and looked around the room.  Desperately, she rubbed a handtowel between her fingers.  "I love this material..." she said lamely.

"Kate!" Jen said.

Kate sighed.  "He said it shouldn't be possible.  He's on his way and he sounded... freaked out."  She grimaced.  "Girls, I wanna stay and help, but I really have to get back to work.  Plus if I leave Scott at Gramma Tank's too long she'll come for me."

Allie wiped her mouth with toilet paper and waved her hand at Kate without thanking or saying goodbye to her.  Jen waved and mouthed, "Thanks! Sorry!" before returning her attention to her miserable wife.

After Kate left, Allie groaned and tried to sit up, and Jen had to grasp her by the wrists and pull hard to get her off the floor.  "Oof!" Jen said.  "That's usually easier.  Did you get..." before she realized what she was saying.

Huge tears welled in Allie's eyes as she glared at Jen.  Finally, Allie finished the sentence, "HEAVIER? Really, Jen?  You think I should hit the fucking GYM or something?"

Jen stepped back.  "Okay, I'm sorry, you know I don't feel that way.  Of course I don't."

Allie waddled over to the couch and eased herself down, hissing as a brittle pain stabbed up her ankles.  "I'm sorry!" she moaned.  "I know you don't feel that way either, it's just... it's like the worst hormones I ever got.  I just feel like CRAP.  I wanna enjoy it, you know?  It's no FAIR."

Well you're a goddess incarnate, Jen thought, wisely keeping it to herself.  That kind of balances the karma a bit.

********

It was an hour before August arrived, and Jen and Allie gasped when they opened the door to see him.

The man had obviously been beaten to within an inch of his life.  His eyes were bruised and swollen, and cuts lined his handsome face.  He had bandages all over, and a cast on one arm.

"Oh my God, August what happened to you?" Jen gasped.

August did his best to smile at her and said, "Your country is not as hospitable to gay men as one is led to believe.  I simply said the wrong thing at the wrong time, and this," he gestured to his face, "was my reward."

They sat around the table together and Jen poured him a glass of iced tea.  He accepted it gratefully and sipped gingerly, wincing as his face still pained him.  Allie asked him, "But you have magic!  You could have stopped time, could have wiped their memories!  Hell, you could have gone darkside and turned them into women!"

"Could and should are different things, goddess," August replied simply.  If they needed evidence he was a better man than his son, they'd had it by now.  Jen patted his uninjured shoulder lightly and said, "Consider this down payment on a big hug."

August grinned a dazzling smile, despite his beaten face, that reminded them he was quite the looker for an older guy, and said, "I did not come here for sympathy!  Your friend, the  priestess, said on the phone you needed my expertise to learn more about our goddess's condition."

Allie leaned back and yawned simultaneously.  She just seemed to have no energy!  Probably another symptom.  Not only were they all the bad aspects of pregnancy condensed into twenty-four hours, but they seemed to be supercharged.  She pointed at her bulging middle while Jen got the ultrasound.

August stared at both in turn, then placed his palm across Allie's stomach.  He pulled it back slowly, without speaking a word.  Finally, he murmured, "Foolish child."

Jen leaned in to hear him better.  "What?"

He blinked and straightened.  "I'm afraid this is the fault of what my son did to you, goddess.  He opened the way for creatures from the spirit world to enter into you, and I do not know of a way to close it.  Perhaps an exorcism, but such things are rarely performed on unborn children."

"So Allie's carrying a spirit?  But the scan..." Jen looked at the image.  It didn't appear supernatural.

"The scan is a tool of the rational world.  It can be twisted and confused by the less-tangible elements, I'm afraid."  August flexed his shoulder and winced.  "But even with the way open before it, a spirit must be invited in some way.  Otherwise every woman of a fertile age would know your suffering," he soothed Allie's middle as it clenched and rolled from movement within.

Allie was pale.  "So... is it going to hurt me?  More than it has already with the morning sickness from hell?"

August gave her another calming smile.  "Those things are mostly normal.  When I carried my child, I thought I was being punished by the gods for being wicked enough to want a baby in my belly."  He glanced around, saying while he searched the apartment, "Have you encountered anyone you believe may have caused this?  Someone who could curse you?"

Allie wracked her mind.  "No, nobody!  It only just started today!"

Max pointed at the drawing of Allie that Jen had made the day prior.  "When was that drawn?"

Jen felt her ears burning.  "Um... right before it started.  You don't think..."

August looked at them both and smiled widely, setting them at ease.  "Be calm, you two.  This is good!  Jennifer, you have done with instinct that the goddess's consort used to have to train for years to accomplish.  You have made a tribute to her!"  He pointed at the drawing.  "It is beautifully drawn, by the way."

"Thank you!" Jen answered, flattered.  "You mean I invited this spirit into Allie by drawing her?"

August kept smiling widely, looking between the two of them.  "In a fashion, yes.  Normally, such a tribute is made when the goddess wills it is time for another spirit to pass into the physical world.  The spirits themselves are old and loyal to the Light.  So she will choose one and command a tribute be made to her living incarnation, and the spirit will live in our world."

Allie burped loudly and grimaced at the taste of her digestive fluids building in her chest.  "Lucky incarnation," she mumbled.

"But no such demand was made of you.  Instead, you created under your own power and will an image of your love for the goddess!  It's..." he wiped a tear from his eye, "Excuse an old man his emotions.  It's very romantic.  Your LOVE brought this being to you."

Jen beamed at Allie a gaze of such pure love it could have sweetened every cup of coffee in the world, but in her current state it was just more saccharin to Allie.  Still, she reached her hand out and gave her wife's offered hands a squeeze, and did her best to smile without throwing up again.  "You love being married to me, " she reminded Jen.

Jen laughed, and squeezed Allie's hand back.  "Sure do!" she whispered back.

*******

"But we still don't know how much longer Allie can expect to be pregnant!" Jen said.  "It's not like we can go by her size, she's always got this belly."

August held up his hand to quiet Jen and answered, "It should be born in a months time.  It is a lunar goddess, after all."

Again Allie felt the blood drain from her face.  "So I'm getting nine months of pregnancy symptoms condensed into one?"

"That is one way to see it.  Another is that it will be over much sooner," August offered wisely.  He rubbed her injured elbow gingerly as he thought.  He added, "Not everything about being pregnant is suffering.  It's just a change that happens, and changes are rarely smooth."

Allie cradled her womb in her arms, and looked down.  "I don't know how to feel about it!  It's not like it's actually our baby.  It's a whole creature from some other plane.  It's like a million years old actually.  It's just using us like a couple of travel agents."

Jen scooted her chair closer to Allie and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.  "If we made it inside of you, it's ours.  No matter how it happened."

Footsteps pounded up the stairs and Kate popped in the door.  "I'm back!  Gotta head home in a sec, but I wanted to make sure you guys were all okay!"

"We're fine," Allie said, and suddenly put her hand to the side of her rounded middle.  "Oh!"  She blinked, her eyes going wide, her attention drawn inward.  "Oh..." she said again, and pulled Jen's hand to her side.

"Oh my God!" Jen gasped.  Kate and August, both realizing what was going on, just watched, smiles growing on their faces.  Jen rubbed her hand over Allie's womb, then looked up into her wife's eyes.  Any trace of annoyance or discomfort had vanished from Allie's face in that one eventful moment, and Allie beamed back at her.  "I can feel..." she said, but Jen shushed her, and they held each other close.

August cleared his throat, clearly uncomfortable with being present for their intimate moment.  He spoke quickly, "I should get going.  I will remain nearby, but not here.  With my injuries, I'll just get in your way."  So engrossed were the two women in the once-in-a-lifetime event of feeling a kick for the first time, they didn't even hear him.

"C'mon, magic man," Kate said.  "You can stay in the spare bed at my place.  I've gotta grab some groceries, is there anything you need?"

While they headed out the door, closing it gently, August said, "It's so hot out, I would really enjoy some ice cream."  To which Kate replied, "Oh, you and I are gonna get along FINE!"

*********

Jen kissed her cheek, and Allie just stared down at her body.  Her amazing body that let this kind of thing happen.  It's hard to believe this happens to millions of people, all over the world, all the time! she thought.  There's a lot more discomfort and grossness than I ever imagined... but that feeling...  And the look on Jen's face!  She'd never suspected she could love her wife even more, but Allie felt a whole different level of affection for the tall brunette now.

Of course, she reflected, I'm probably gonna blame her just as much for when I have to push this out.  "Oh crap!" she laughed.  "I forgot I'm gonna have to give BIRTH now!"

Jen reached for her bag beside the couch and pulled out her digital camera.  While she searched, she said, "Well, you never know.  It arrived in a different way, maybe it'll just be gone in a month."

Allie leaned back, stroking her belly thoughtfully.  A powerful hiccup shook her body and she covered her mouth.  "Yeep!  That kinda hurt!"  She watched as Jen stood back and held the camera up and checked the viewscreen.  "No!  I'm all sick-looking!  I think I have puke on my shoes!"

"Shut up!" Jen said firmly, smiling.  "I want to remember this moment forever!"  She had no idea that in a second, she wouldn't need a photo for that.  Allie smiled good-naturedly, looking into the camera with her hands on either side of her round middle, and Jen centered her in the frame, and pushed the button.

There was a pause, a beep and a flash, and suddenly the room grew cool.  "Oh, that's a NICE breeze," Allie gasped with relief from the heat.

Jen stared at the camera as static flickered across its screen until it went dead in her hand.  "Um..."

Allie, misinterpreting Jen's confusion, resumed her pose.  "Did I blink?  Try again!"

Jen looked up and saw a little sparks, like pale blue flames, dancing across the metal surface of their countertop in the kitchenette.  The sparks  appeared on the metal doorknobs in the apartment, and suddenly Allie saw them appear on the camera in Jen's hand.  "Whoa!  Watch out!"  Jen dropped it like it was hot, but in truth the feel of the strange blue lights had been nice, tingly, almost like...

Moonlight!  Oh SHIT! Jen thought.  I draw a PICTURE of Allie, she gets pregnant... and I just TOOK a picture of Allie.  "Um, baby, brace yourself!" she tried to warn her wife.

But it was already too late for Allie to brace herself.  The sparks gathered quickly all around her, dancing and flickering, glowing across the round surface of her womb, and Allie recognized the sensation just as Jen did.  "Oh crap!  Wait, wait you guys!  One at... oh..." she stopped in surprise as another familiar sensation hit her, and she recalled why she liked being so full in the first place.

Her belly began to swell in her lap, ever so slowly, stretching her shirt.  Her boobs began to feel very sore and full, and they too started swelling against the ever-tightening fabric of her top.  But Allie had no time to complain about some soreness.  THIS part she liked.  This part she intended to enjoy to the fullest.  She pulled her shirt up, closed her eyes and let the blue lights dance over her and into her.

Jen stared in awe as Allie swelled larger.  The growth in her stomach was nowhere near as dramatic as when it was caused by the multitude of magical forces that converged on their lives in the past.  This time it was very slow and sensual.  Allie's middle pressed larger, pushing her shirt up and filling the space in her lap as it creeped toward her knees before finally stopping at nearly half again the size it had been.

Allie ran her fingers across her stretched skin with a pleasant purr, and looked up at Jen.  "You just... oooooh..." she played with her bellybutton and moaned in relief from the sickness and soreness as pleasure oozed all over her, "You just knocked me up again, lover."

Jen grinned sheepishly as she sat beside Allie again, and began to rub over the now-doublestuffed womb with her.  "Sorry, I guess I didn't think a simple photo would do that!"

Allie smirked, then groaned at the shifting inside her body.  "Yikes... I dunno if I can forgive you!" she grinned in faux-outrage.

Jen leaned in to kiss her and said to her, "As you're so fond of reminding me, I love being married to you."

CHAPTER 2

Allie's life had a cycle in it that repeated over and over, never varying much.  She chalked it up to being the human incarnation of the goddess Aellinea.  Allie had a very healthy sexual appetite (and one that would have made any mate very satisfied) and her body, it seemed, could never get enough.  Every moon, at the very least, she and Jen would join, and she would expand oh so full.  She loved the feeling!  And there was a part of her, the part she shared with the OTHER goddess, the dark Maexxinae, that never wanted to stop, to consume and take in more and more, to bloat and stuff herself until there was nothing left in all creation but her wonderfully full body.  She would deny this part of her again and again, every month, every moon, and her womb would shrink back down.

But not this month.  With the two spirits sharing her body, Allie's hunger reached entirely new levels.  And no matter what she managed to take in, she never went back down.  Since becoming pregnant, Allie devoured food not by the plate but by the gallon and bucket!  Jen, who had been very busy at her booth this year, couldn't spare the time to keep shuttling back and forth for food, but thankfully they had Kate and August to help out.

It was no cakewalk cramming forty weeks of progression into one month.  Allie's skin was stretched tight, her body was sore and ached in her joints, and she had REALLY weird dreams.  Which for her was saying something.

Jen's artwork had gotten a lot of attention recently.  Whenever she painted something she wasn't sure she wanted to sell, she'd make sure to set the price of it absurdly high, so if an offer WAS made she'd be tempted to consider it.  And the paintings were FLYING off the table.  Jen noticed a certain type of customer always buying her work, people with a light in their eyes, and she wondered how many of them now went through changes in the moonlight.

Kate managed to keep her parlor operational without her actual presence by recruiting good ol' Gramma Tank to keep an eye on the store while Kate would spend a space of three to four hours each day at Allie's side, or preparing food.  And as the days rolled by, August's wounds healed much more quickly than they would have normally.

The full moon approached, and the big day with it.  And every day, Allie grew and grew.

*******

"You've been this big before you know!"  Jen reminded her.

Allie sat on the bed with her legs splayed out, and taking up every inch of space between them was her womb.  As she tapped its surface, the occupants within squirmed and maneuvered around each other, playing with the shadows and pokes that appeared.  "Yeah, but I'd start going back down almost immediately," Allie pointed out.  She stroked her stretched out skin and sighed, and tried to feel if any growth was happening that moment.   Two days ago, she'd learned if she stayed still and listened hard, she could actually hear her own body swelling larger, a low thrumming sound as her flesh expanded and stretched around its supernatural occupants.

"Well try not to beg for too much sympathy.  You're clearly enjoying yourself," Jen admonished.

"What, getting waited on hand and foot?  Technically, we could ALWAYS live like this, I just prefer to pretend like I'm a normal mortal who's perma-preg."  Allie perked up as Kate and August entered the apartment.  "Oh, and they brought FOOD!" she clapped her hands gleefully.

"Good morning!" Kate called out, and August entered the room.  His cast was off and his scratches and bruises were almost invisible if you hadn't known they were there to begin with.

"Hey August," Jen greeted him.  "You're lookin' healthy!"

"Thank you, I could say the same of the both of you!"  He smiled at Allie.  "How are you feeling?"

"I've got heartburn like you wouldn't BELIEVE," Allie complained, earning herself a black look from Jen.  "It's TRUE, I just didn't want to bother you, Jen."

"Before you go," August said to Jen when he noticed she was packing her things, "I think I should tell you what I know about... the birth."

The women froze.  Jen turned slowly.  "Why?  I was under the impression it was going to go like every other birth does.  Are there going to be tentacles?  Because I don't think I can handle that again.  I want to LIKE my wife's vagina, not be afraid it's going to eat me."

Allie also looked extremely perturbed.  "Will it hurt?  How long is it going to be?  Also, ditto what she said about my vagina.  I'd rather not be afraid of it."

August held up his hands in surrender.  "I can only answer one question at a time!  Please, stay calm!  There's NOTHING to worry about."

Allie's stomach chose that moment to utter an enormous growl and shifted dramatically back and forth.  Everyone froze and stared at her belly in awe as what appeared to be a climactic battle between bitter rivals took place in her uterus.  Allie whacked her palms to her flesh and shouted "KNOCK IT OFF!" and the movement abruptly stopped.

"Nice moves, Mom!" Kate said, bringing an armful of breakfast sandwiches into the bedroom with her.  "You lay down the law!"

August began, "You needn't worry about the birth.  It will happen as the moon rises tomorrow, and although it has been many generations since a true incarnation walked among us, I was taught that you have less to fear from the process than a mortal does.  Aellinea is a goddess of fertility as well as sexual desire, remember, and so she brings a sensuality to the process that many of the flesh are denied."

"Oooh, I think I heard about that kind of thing!" Kate added, her eyes sparkling with excitement.  "I actually heard that sometimes women have a huge ORGASM when they give birth!  Too bad I wasn't one of them, but then again I had a really smooth pregnancy, so fair's fair."

Allie blushed.  "Really?  That's... cool, I guess.  Actually, I dunno how I feel about it!" she stammered, and looked at Jen, who just smiled at her an shook her head.

"You have permission to be giddy about cumming while you birth, Allie, I know you too well." Jen said.

"Wait!" August said.  "That is NOT all!  What I need to speak to you most about is the night AFTER the birth.  When the goddess' power wanes, and Allie's is drained from the birth, we will all be most vulnerable, the offspring included!"

"What?  What's going to happen?" Allie asked.

"The Void never rests, never lets an opportunity pass to enter this world.  When the mortal world sleeps and dreams it lives and grows.  It once tried to use you as a gateway, and it will try something similar the night after you give birth, but this time it will be the spirits you carried that it will seek to corrupt."  August continued, gravely adding, "They will be unable to resist its dark call unless you can protect them, Jennifer."

Jen paled.  "Me?  What can I do?  I'm just the consort!  I'm like... a hermaphrodite concubine!  I don't FIGHT."

"Au contraire, lady.  You kicked Maxxine's ass like there was... oh, sorry August!  I forgot!" Kate clapped her hands to her mouth as August's kind face was drawn in pain and sadness.  "Oh jeez, I'm such a moron!"

"It... it's alright.  I hope someday I can be at peace with what my son did to you girls.  I know he deserved whatever you did to stop him."

"I'm really sorry, August!" Kate apologized again.  "If there'd been any other way... heck, it's not like we even had control over those tentacles, really!  It was more like Maxxine killed herself!"

Jen was patting August's arm as Kate said it, and she jerked her hand back.  Without moving, August had stiffened like he'd received an electric shock, and quickly composed himself again.  If she hadn't been touching him, Jen wouldn't have even noticed it.  "Yes, well... I will need to speak with Jennifer about the ways in which she can avoid losing one or both of the spirits to the Void," he said softly.  He turned to her, and Jen felt a chill run through her body at the look of hopelessness she saw in his eyes.  "Will you come speak to me in private, Jen?" he asked.

Allie and Kate didn't seem to notice his distress, so Jen did her best to keep her voice calm and conversational.  "Yeah sure.  Whatever happens, we'll be ready."  They left the room as Kate began to unwrap the breakfast sandwiches and hand them to Allie, one by one.

*******

"You should have told me," August said.  His voice was flat, dead.  His kind, twinkling eyes were blank.  "You should have told me how it happened."

Jen was slow to answer, unsure what was wrong with him.  "I'm... sorry August, but we didn't want to cause you pain.  I assumed you didn't want to know the details of how Max died."

August snapped, and Jen saw for a moment how full of anger and self-hatred he was at failing as a father.  "Damn it, I should have GUESSED!  I should have known!  It's not... it's not your fault.  Any of you.  How could you know?  I didn't even... THINK to ask... DAMN!" He thrust his fists to his face and clenched his teeth, his handsome face screwed in an expression of hate and fear.

"Jesus, August, what's WRONG?" Jen whispered.

August wiped his eyes and looked at her.  "My son is not dead.  He lives now with his Mistress in the Void.  That ritual would have destroyed his physical form, yes, but passing into the belly of the goddess cannot kill one such as we are."  His voice grew softer, and he finished in a low, scared whisper, "It can only strengthen us!"

Jen thought she might pass out.

*******

In the Void there is only darkness and cold.  When one is wrapped in it, consumed by it, the Void is all they become.  They are hollow, and craved being filled, a craving that can never, ever be satisfied.  For they are of the Void, and the Void is always empty.  Never content, always hungry.

Reaching a hand out into the world was the thing once called Matthias, the man who renamed himself after the Mistress of the Void, the one who would have given his very soul to hold the void in his OWN womb.  But that power would have destroyed him well before the glorious birth of a new, Dark God.

Would have.

And now the Goddess prepared to birth new spirits.  The noble and kind warriors of the Light stood prepared to enter the physical world, pushed to the edge of the veil by their mother's power, the call of her warm flesh, the pumping of her blood and lifeforce through their veins.

Max/xine wrapped iron fingers around the throat of the spirit, felt it bite and lash against him/her.  S/he was both at once in this place, more than one gender, both and neither.  And s/he was stronger than the soldier of the Light.  While his sibling watched helplessly, s/he dragged him into the Void and he was lost.

S/he slithered out of the Void again, and took the spirit's place near the spot where the veil shimmered, so dangerously close to the world of flesh.

"Hello sister," s/he hissed, and the other spirit could only wait and watch.

CHAPTER 3

Allie gripped the blanket bunched up around her and laughed nervously.  "I'd feel a lot better about this whole thing if you could, I dunno, let me know what I'm in for.  Just how big are these spirits gonna be?"

August brushed her hair from her face.  He looked into her eyes and said, "I told you already.  I do not know.  The last time an incarnation brought forth spirits in this manner was thousands of years ago."

"And?" Allie asked.  Her eyes were wide, and though she was smiling, clearly excited the big day was finally here, her lip shivered just a fraction.  "What happened to the last incarnation?"

"She lived for many more years and died an old woman, surrounded by those who loved her," August assured her.  Allie leaned back against the headboard and looked out the window.

"Almost time," Jen whispered.  She held Allie's right hand tightly.  August took her left.  Together, the three of them watched the sunset and the moonrise.

*******

Kate honked her horn frantically.  "C'MONNN!  It's not everyday a damn GODDESS GIVES BIRTH, YOU KNOW!"  The cars all around her honked in response, and many of the drivers flipped her off.  Tempers were flared, with it being the full moon and all.  Many folks were getting really wired, either horny or pissed, or both.

Kate was no exception.  She was PISSED.  "C'mon!  I don't wanna MISS IT!"

*******

"Oh WOW," Allie gasped, and she bucked her massive, round body up off the bed as a convulsion ran through her body.  She didn't think she was still capable of lifting her own body, but lift she did, and fell back with a floor-shaking WHUMP.  "Oh, it feels weird... like there's... something pouring out of me!"

August stayed by her head and directed Jen, who knelt between Allie's knees.  "That's because there is stuff coming out!" Jen told her.  "I think your water broke, but I don't think it's supposed to..." Evaporate, she wanted to finish, but August shook his head at her.  They'd agreed to keep the otherworldly nature of whatever happened to Allie down to try and keep her as calm as possible.

If Allie was too exhausted when the birth was over, August reasoned, the Void could take possession more easily.  So best to make sure Allie stayed nice and calm for as long as possible.  "You're doing great, honey!" Jen added, feeling a bit cliche.  What else could you say to someone doing something way more hardcore than you had ever dreamed of doing?  Allie was making PEOPLE.Or perhaps not.  The closer it got the birth, the more certain Jen became that Allie would be birthing a lightning bug or something.  Maybe a flock of faeries.

Jen watched Allie carefully the whole time, so she noticed immediately when the massive, stretched womb shuddered and began to expand before her astonished eyes!  "August!  Is something wrong?"

August just held on to Allie's hand as she gripped him tighter and tighter and shook his head.  "No.  These are strong spirits.  They remain as small as possible for as long as possible, but they must grow now or they will not be strong enough to resist the Void."

Allie felt torn in two directions.  On one hand, her body felt like it was going to split in half!  She only dimly recalled the horror of the night on the beach, when Maxxine had almost completely summoned a Dark God into her body, probably a mercy.  But her muscle memory recalled being filled beyond capacity, so bloated with otherworldly power that her flesh had been stretched to near-transparency.  Shivers ran up her sides as her belly ballooned outwards, and her muscles struggled to hold their shape.

On the other hand, of course, Allie reveled in the feeling.  She latched on to that pleasure, tried to ride it, make it grow, to blot out the impossible power of the force that was taking hold of her body.  Stronger even than the Void itself, this was the act of Birth, old as the universe, and it would force her to bring her offspring into the world or die trying.  She opened her mouth to speak, but all that came out was a hoarse sound that wavered between a scream and a laugh.  "Ahhh-uhhhh!  Oh Goddddd..." she groaned, still holding onto that small pleasure.

Jen rubbed Allie's knee as the flesh of Allie's stomach bloomed over it, swelling towards the ceiling.  Allie's breasts were pushed up under her chin as her middle became completely dominated by her oh so full belly, so close to delivery...

"Oh... GOD they're STRONG!" Allie shrieked as the power of the spirits grew and swelled her with it.  "So strong... so BIG!"

Jen wanted desperately to help, but she had no idea what to do.  Instead she just rubbed up and down Allie's trembling thigh, whispering soothing words she was certain ALlie couldn't even hear.  She got a shock when Allie's eyes opened wide, and they glowed from within.

The light grew stronger and stronger, until Allie was no longer visible.  It hurt to look at her, to touch her!  She opened her mouth and roared something so ancient and primal it stirred the bones of long extinct beasts beneath the earth, it parted clouds and shook the stars in the heavens.

*********

Kate saw something that looked like a mushroom cloud of pure light appear just down the street.  All the beeping and cursing on the road stopped abruptly as the assembled mortals beheld the birth pains of a goddess.

Not all was silent, however.  Kate jumped out of her car, slamming the door loudly and began to haul ass down the road.  "I'm coming, guys!"

*********

Jen stared in open-mouthed awe.  The apartment seemed to no longer have a ceiling.  Stars littered the sky above them, streaming thick and bright like bubbles in a waterfall.  Massive spheres rolled through the black space, glowing brightly, and Jen could see they were planets!  Collections of stars twirled and coiled, danced and spun, in the shapes of mythical creatures and lost legends.  The constellations came alive!

August still gripped Allie's hand, and managed to tear his gaze from the sight of the assembled stellar pantheon to whisper in Allie's ear.  Allie's hair was slick with sweat, plastered around her face.  Her lips were bright red, her face flushed as her blood pumped strongly through her body.  Her eyes glowed brightly still, and she gazed beyond the veil to bring her young spirits alive!

"You are strong, Goddess," he reminded her.  "Don't forget!  You are STRONG.  This is when you prove how strong you are!  You cannot abandon them!  Bring them!"  He tried to coach her through an otherworld landscape he'd only glimpsed briefly in deep meditation or dreams, but even August was out of his depth.  This journey was only for the mother to make.

Both Jen and August felt their blood go cold when Allie gazed sightless into the Void, and said in a monotone, "She took my son."

*********

Kate slammed into the door, scrabbled for the handle, jerked it open and barreled up the stairs.  Sweat poured off her body, and she thought she'd faint in exhaustion, but she pulled herself up the stairs two at a time.

"I'm HERE!" she screamed, rushing through the door, only to see August and Jen standing over the bed with shocked, desperate expressions.  The bed was empty!

Jen held something to her chest, and looked up at Kate with tears in her eyes.  Kate felt her heart breaking just looking at the poor woman.

"Sh-she just... disappeared!  I-I dunno wh-what happened!" Jen cried, then peered into the bundle of clothes and sniffed back her tears.  "They're here... she did it..."

Kate gasped for her breath, looked at August for some sign things weren't as bleak as they looked, and received a shock!  Of course, she thought.  August transforms too!  The woman Kate saw looked like an older Maxxine, only without the cruel twist of her eyes and curled lips.  Augustina(?) had her eyes closed and was holding her hand out above the bed, murmuring softly to herself.

Jen shifted the bundle and moved closer to Kate.  "Look!"  Two ribbons of glowing smoke curled and wavered, filling the bundle with light.  One was much dimmer than the other.  As Kate stared, she could almost see a wolflike snout on one end of them, and the shimmer of pearlescent scales.  Glowing at the head of each spirit were two golden eyes, much older and wiser than a newborn warranted.

"They're amazing!  They look kinda like dragons!"  Kate breathed, and she brushed a finger across the nose of the dimmer one.  It mewled weakly.

"August says that's the boy.  He... he came last.  Allie saw something, said 'she took my son', and then sh-she... she was GONE!" Jen struggled to keep from weeping.

"HEY!" Kate shouted, and Jen stopped crying immediately.  Augustina looked up from her meditation in surprise.  "You've got a responsibility now!  You've GOT to pull yourself together!  We'll find out what happened to Allie, and we'll get her back just FINE, but until then you're gonna be THE BEST DAD EVER, YOU HEAR ME?"

Jen sniffed back her tears, and none came to replace them.  She nodded wordlessly.

"Good!  Let's ask the medicine woman how we fetch Allie from the Void."

*********

Jen spent the day with the newborns, watching them closely.  They squirmed and twisted over each other, writhed and wriggled, did everything but just sit still and rest, which was what August said they were supposed to do.  Kate had tried rocking and singing to them, but they just starting zipping in circles around her, floating in midair like ribbons spun on a stick.

Kate smiled at the happy creatures.  "Are they gonna stick around?  I kinda thought they'd be bigger, honestly."

August shook his head.  "Believe it or not, they are resting now.  They have a long journey across the stars to begin when they regain their strength.  They go to war with the Void at the Goddess's side."

"You mean where Allie is now?" Kate asked.

August shook his head.  "No," he said sadly, "She is beyond the veil, in the spirit world.  There too, the divine powers struggle against the Void, but that battle happens all around us, every day, not far across the stars.  And right now, Allison is fighting the Void itself."

"But why?" Kate hissed, trying not to disturb Jen and the newborns.  "Why did she go fight the Void?  She had the twins!  They're here!"

"Are they?" August asked her darkly.  "One of them may very well contain the soul of my lost son."

Kate looked as if he'd slapped her across the face.  "Wait, WHAT?"

********

Jen held out her finger, and the lighter dragon curled around it, wrapping its lips around her fingertip and suckling.  It was warm and soft, and really damn cute.  It opened its mouth wide and mewled at Jen, who couldn't keep herself from giggling.

The other seemed more disquiet.  It coiled and hissed (and still managed to be cute as hell) at every sound, every sudden movement.  When it wasn't wrinkling its snout in anger, it stared with wide, golden eyes at everything, as if marking what order it would destroy the world in.

"Oh Allie," Jen sighed.  "I wish you were here.  I wish you could see them.  You did so good."  The brighter one coiled around her arm and cawed enthusiastically, and Jen laughed again.

Behind her, she could hear August and Kate discussing what to do... but August had already told Jen what part she would play in getting Allie back.  Jen just tried to steel herself, and played with the dragons.

It might be the last time she could see them.

********

"You crazy old bastard!" Kate hissed.  "How could you keep Allie in the dark like that?  She had a right to know she might be reincarnating her worst enemy!"

"You think so?" August asked.  "How well do you think the other spirit would have fared if she had refused to birth them?  Simply keep them inside forever after?"

Kate's eyes boggled.  "She could DO that?"

"Perhaps not consciously, but do you really doubt our Allie's capacity for holding things inside of her womb?  The Void seeks her for a reason.  She could stuff the whole world inside herself if she were to turn to evil."  August rubbed his eyes sleepily.  "God, I'm tired.  I'm so tired of it."

"Tired of what?" Kate asked.

"Regretting I ever had a son," August answered.

********

Morning became day, day became evening.  They watched the dragons in shifts.  Jen first, then Kate (who watched them very closely, trying to decide which one could be Maxxine reborn), then August.

They didn't seem to like him very much.  Both dragons snapped at him when he got too close.  August looked at each in turn.  Like Kate, he was trying to decide which one could hold his son's spirit.  He couldn't decide.

He spoke to the both of them softly.  "I am a friend to your mother, a servant to the Goddess Aellinea.  I stand with her against the Void and its Mistress Maexxinae.  I will do my best to protect you both from the Void's corruption when the time comes."

He leaned closer, and the two small dragons curled into balls, hiding from his gaze as it became dark and terrible.

"And I promise if either of you shows signs of possession by my son's spirit, I will kill you rather than let you pollute this world for one more second.  I should have killed you the second you were pulled screaming from my body."

Two pairs of golden eyes stared at him, but in fear or anger?  August simply could not decide.

********

The sun set, and the moon rose.  To Kate, it looked pretty full, but it wasn't quite complete.  August and Jen kept their normal bodies, after all.

Jen held her arm out to the dragons and they curled around it, mewling loudly.  "Bye guys," she said, and wiped a tear from her eye.  Then she turned to August and said, "I'm ready."

"We should go into the living room... away from the twins." August suggested.

"Okay, watch them please, Kate?"  Kate nodded to her, and Jen smiled.  Kate got the feeling Jen was about to say goodbye or something so she stopped her.

"Just stop it!  Nothing bad is going to happen!  You're going into that Void, you're gonna find Allie and pull her out!  And everyone's going to be together... and nothing... SHIT..." she cried, and wiped her eyes in frustration.  "Go kick some ass, Jen, okay?  For us."

Jen nodded wordlessly, and she and August left the room and closed the door.

And that was when the dragons spoke.

********

"I'm sorry the only way I know to cross your physical body to the Void is so... intimate," August offered.

Jen shrugged.  "So we'll skip this part when we tell Allie how we got her out.  If I have to, I'll screw every guy in the country to get her back."

Light shimmered around the both of them as August began to transform them.  "You won't have to screw any men..." a sexy voice answered.

Jen was conflicted.  On one hand, Augustine looked so much like Maxxine it was hard to be attracted to her.  On the other hand, she looked so fantastic it was also pretty hard not to be attracted to her.  It was only when she did something only August did that Jen felt better and went along with the whole ritual easily.  Augustine glanced at herself and looked down at the floor in embarrassment.

"I... I need strength from you to bring you over," Augustine whispered as she began to peel off her clothes.  Jen felt blood pumping, throbbing, screaming down below as her cock appeared and began to engorge.  "Okay..." she replied.  "I assume you need to, uh, drink from me?"

Augustine slid her hand up to Jen's breast and caressed a nipple.  "This will do," she said, and Jen felt herself respond to the sweet, hesitant touch of the older woman.  Augustine leaned forward and kissed Jen's nipple reverently, then wrapped her lips around it and began to suck.  Nothing came for a few moments, but Jen felt a hot glow deep in her belly that grew, and grew.  "Ohhhhh... oh shit... th-that's... oh God that's nice..." she moaned.

Augustine murmured against her tit and rubbed the other hand all up and down Jen's body, stroking her shoulder down across her chest and her flat belly to her hip, curving across her knee and up the inside of her thigh... Jen felt her legs twitch and tremble at the sensation.  DAMN Augustine was good!

Finally Jen felt a firm grip on her erection that tugged and stroked wonderfully slow.  She hunched her back and thrust her hips against the feeling, eyes closed, enjoying the sensations while they lasted.

Augustine pulled free of her embrace and laid back on the rug.  She spread her legs and tugged at Jen to lie on top of her.  "Here..." she whispered, and Jen obeyed.  She slipped her cock inside and pushed until she could push no more, filling Augustine completely.

As they fucked, Jen noticed Augustine had gone up a few bra sizes.  Probably from drinking the milk, she thought.  "When... when i-is it going to... UNH!" Jen struggled to complete her sentence as a tight pussy milked her cock for every drop, but Augustine answered in a normal voice, only ever so slightly out of breath, "Any moment.  Don't try to drag it out... go quickly!  Be inside me!  This is not about pleasure!"

Jen felt Augustine's strong hands caressing her face, running over her breasts, felt a strange sensation like she was being filled with energy the closer she came to cumming inside the exotic woman.  She quickened her pace as Augustine looked her in the eye.

"Bring her BACK, Jennifer," Augustine implored her just as Jen came inside... and began to come apart.

In the past Jen had cum so hard she'd felt as if her entire body was pouring through her cock... only this time it actually happened.  A shimmering, blue light enveloped her from head to toe, and starting at the farthest extremities Jen seemed to dissolve in the air and get pulled towards Augustine's folds.  Augustine spread her legs wide and moaned at the feeling of being filled so much, the power in Jen's milk giving her strength not to burst from being filled so much.  She gasped and groaned as her womb swelled fat and heavy, not just to the size of a pregnancy but of holding a full grown woman inside!  Her belly expanded up and out, her flesh stretching and sending a delicious sensation up Augustine's spine.  She grabbed at handfuls of her flesh as it grew, pulling it out where it pinched and rolled, growing so fast it nearly bubbled under her hands.  Her ass was squashed into the rug by the sheer weight of it, her knees spread by its girth.  She couldn't reach around herself anymore, couldn't even touch her bellybutton...

"G-goddess that's good.." Augustine gasped as her growth slowed, then stopped.  She was massive, large enough to lift her legs off the ground and stay airborne atop her swollen middle.  Her brown skin stretched so thin it lightened across her belly, and Augustine rubbed across its surface.  "Good luck Jen!"

********

THE MAN IS A TRAITOR one of them beamed into her thoughts.  But which?  They both stared at Kate intently, their golden eyes wide and unreadable.  Their tails lashed about like an excited cat's about to pounce.

PAY NO HEED TO THE ABOMINATION PRIESTESS the other answered.  ALLOW THE RITUAL TO COMPLETE.

Kate stammered.  "Wow, you guys were holding back, huh?  They grow up so fast!"  Indeed, both dragons had tripled in size since they'd been "born".  They now stood almost as high as her waist, and as she watched their forms rippled and grew again.

OUR RESTING IS NEARLY COMPLETE.  WE CAN ONLY LEAVE ONCE THE ENEMY IS DEAD, said one voice.

THE OTHER IS THE ENEMY.  YOU ARE IN DANGER.  HE HAS SUCCUMBED TO THE VOID, said the other.

YOU MUST STOP THE MAN.  HE IS DESTROYING THE ONLY CHANCE WE HAVE.  HE IS ABSORBING THE CONSORT AS WE SPEAK, the first one said.  Kate couldn't tell which once was saying what!  Their mouths never moved!

She hesitated opening the door to the living room.  Behind her, the dragons waited.

NOW, one said.

STOP, replied the other.

Kate opened the door and saw Augustine suck Jen into herself.  WIth a scream of shock and outrage, she grabbed for a weapon, something, ANYTHING to strike the female version of the nice man they'd come to trust so much... who now looked exactly like Maxxine had, bloated with power and smiling.

DO NOT HARM HIM, begged one of the dragons, but Kate was seeing red, and with another angry yell she threw herself at the traitor.

*******

Jen blinked, her mouth still hanging open as her climax swelled inside her, and suddenly stopped.  She was someplace new.  Someplace dark and cold.

A howling wind rushed past her, ruffling her... fur?  Jen looked down and saw she was gliding through the air, and she had paws!  Twisting around, she saw a wolf's tail, and her hindlegs pawed at the cold air in a doglike paddle.

I'm a WOLF, Jen boggled at the thought.  Her huge golden eyes blinked slowly, and she licked her chops, feeling the fangs in her mouth, the points and rows of wickedly sharp teeth.

August's warning from earlier, before the ritual, echoed in her mind:  You will be tempted to stay, to take in as much as possible, to grow and to consume.  It will feel GOOD, better than any earthly pleasure, but you MUST resist.  For her sake.  For the sake of your soul.

Wiggling her nose, Jen found that she could smell something warm and delicious.  But it wasn't food!  Allie, she thought, and her tail wagged furiously, a strange sensation to be sure.  I'm coming! she thought, unable to speak as a wolf, and she bounded through the dark, following her nose.

*******

Augustine was not completely unprepared for Kate's attack.  The power of the Void grew with each passing second, and one of the dragons had been corrupted in the womb.  But which?  She still couldn't be sure.

She could stop Kate from attacking her, however, and she did in the best way she had available to her at the moment.  Immobile with the weight of her womb, Augustine grabbed Kate's hand, blocking her furious punches, and sent a wave of pure lust into the round blond.

Kate's expression was almost comical.  Her eyes went from being screwed up in fury to lidded with pleasure.  Her mouth went from bared teeth to a lazy tongue hanging out.  She groaned and threw her arms around Augustine, rubbing her body against the witch's massive bulk.  Augustine felt her skin creaking at the pressure.

Kate kept trying to kiss her now, of course, but at least she'd stopped trying to kill her.  "Oh man... I'm sorry," whined Kate, rubbing and fondling every inch of Augustine she could reach.  "Let me make it up to you..."

"Katherine, you are a married woman.  Control yourself," Augustine chastised.  Perhaps I used too strong a spell, she reflected.

The light from the bedroom grew, and the two dragons floated into the room, spiraling each other.

YOU HAVE FAILED US, one cried.

WELL DONE AUGUST, the other said.

Kate was having a devil of a time keeping herself from humping the shit out of Augustine.  "What did you d-do to meeee?" she groaned, grinding her hips against one brown, smooth thigh.

"Well I had hoped to snap you from the influence of the Void, but I think... oh Goddess," Augustine moaned as Kate began to kiss her earlobe, "I th-think... I overdid... oh hell," she gave up and submitted to Kate's seeking lips and probing tongue, sliding back until she lay on the floor.  Augustine's belly rose as high as she was tall up into the air, and Kate knelt beside her and rubbed her hands across its surface, kneading and stroking every inch of it.

The dragons circled each other, no longer watching the women ravage each other but staring dangerously into the eyes of the other.

YOU WILL FAIL, one said.  But which?

WE SHALL SEE, the other answered.

***********

Jen felt the wind rushing past her, but she could see nothing.  All was grey and dark, and with no frame of reference she had no way of telling exactly how fast she moved through the empty space.  And always the wind howled in her ears, caressed her fur... poured down her throat... slid over her limbs...  Jen's huge golden eyes snapped open and she realized she could hear voices in the wind.  Thousands of voices.  All of them screaming.

Some screamed in wordless rage.  Some screamed in pain.  Some just screamed to be heard over the other screams.  The terrible unifying factor in all the strained voices was NEED.  They were so empty, so hollow... they had all been lost to Void.

Jen whirled to find the source of the voices, but it seemed they were all around her.  Only one night ago she'd witnessed the glory of a goddess giving birth, all the light and warmth in the universe collected in one place... and now she was surrounded by the other side of that coin.  Here there was nothing but pain and death.

Jen heard that maddening shrieking piercing her, felt the gentle, slimy caress of the wind grow cold and the darkness coalesce around her, and suddenly she was hungry.  Hungrier than she'd ever been.  Black liquid pooled around her and she slurped at it... ribbons of cold, squirming flesh oozed over her, and she didn't even react to their sudden appearance, just tore into them and ate, and ate... and swelled with the Void.

She'd entered through the veil and emerged a massive wolf, but a wolf only.  Now her skull warped and shifted.  Her skeleton ground against itself as she transformed.  Her muscles surged under her skin, pumped cold blood through her veins, and inside her belly the Void urged her on: MORE.

The cold slime seeped into her skin, turned the silver fur black.  Her paws crackled and extended, became fingers again.  Her head crunched inward, her long snout assuming the shape of her human face.  As she  felt the cld pour into her, she regained her human form... and then some.  Jen's breasts throbbed, and she moaned to feel them swelling larger.  They hung low as she knelt, dangling and swinging with her movements, with each jiggle pulsing larger and larger.

Jen's hips swelled out as well, fat curves that flowed over her bone structure, hiding her muscle and stretching her skin tight, then slackening, then tightening again as she swelled even further.  She gasped at the feeling, sparks of pleasure coursing through her skin, across her chest, down into her belly.

Her middle swelled to hold the Void she swallowed hungrily, pushing larger and tighter with every bite.  It made a rubbery stretching sound, and her bellybutton popped out as her skin tightened around her girth.  And still... it was not enough.  The Void took form around her, and she devoured it, and grew.

Her cock erupted from her then, spilling in a long, loose coil across the ground, pulsing and swelling larger with each passing second.  Jen's balls churned and stretched behind it, and as Jen's ass filed out bigger and fatter they were squashed down until they lay heavily against her widening calves.

Nobody who knew her would have recognized Jen now.  She was quickly becoming a huge blob of flesh, and as she swallowed, guzzled the slime that pooled around her gigantic body she moaned "More!"

*******

As Jen grew beyond the veil, she stretched and swelled out Augustine's womb.  Kate watched fascinated as Augustine's brown middle stretched larger and larger, pushing up towards the ceiling.  Beneath it, the older woman writhed and wriggled, gripping her limbs to the surface of her abdomen and squeezing just to feel that pressure grow.

"I... I need... to drink!" Augustine gasped,  Her over-stressed flesh made a creaking sound.  "It's too much!  She's... ooooohhh GODDESS YES... she's grown too much!"  She was torn between concern and fear for the success of Jen's endeavor and the wonderful feeling of expansion.

The paler of the two dragons, which had taken a greenish hue as it grew, took its eyes off the other and flew over to Kate.  This time, she could actually hear it whisper in her ear instead of speak directly into her mind.

"Milk!" he said, as the other dragon, now a purplish color, bared her teeth.

"Here goes nothing," Kate breathed, slipping her shirt up under her chin and unclasping her bra.  She lifted a nipple to Augustine's lips.  "I'm not even lacta... oh, I guess I am!" she gasped as Augustine sucked thirstily at her breast.  The older woman's eyes looked up at her in gratitude, and as Kate watched, the violent contractions of her flesh grew smaller and less noticeable, though she continued to expand slowly.  She gasped and released her suction on Kate's breast.  Kate winced and massaged her nipple.  "Yowie.  That killed the mood."

"I... released the spell..." Augustine breathed.  "You should feel normal now."

Kate shrugged, doing her best to keep the situation cheery.  With a rubbery, wet sound, Augustine's bellybutton pushed against the ceiling and her body began to swell outwards as it ran out of room.  A shadow fell across Augustine's face and she struggled to sit up.

"She's failing... she's taking the Void into her," Augustine moaned, and tried to soothe her sore muscles.  "If she... Goddess, but it's cold... if she cannot resist..."

Kate whispered, "You're going to explode!"

Behind her, the purple dragon began to laugh, a strange sound from its musical voice.  Kate spun in surprise and saw that it stood now on two legs, like a human.  Meeting its eyes, she recognized its cold stare at last.

"Maxxine!"

*******

Allie floated through the void, lighter than air, her skin glowing softly in the darkness.  Tendrils of coldness reached out to her but withdrew in pain, for though the light that came from her was soft and pleasant, it was also strong and burned the dark.  She approached a floating orb of light, and held out her hand.

The orb was softly twinkling, like a star, and gave off a purplish light.  She held it to her chest and tried to strengthen its glow, to no avail.  Its spirit had been damaged.

MOTHER, it thought to her.  IT COMES.  But the Void was already there, and as the light spread from Allie's skin she could finally see it.

It was Jen.

********

Kate stood between the purple dragon and Augustine, her arms stretched out, defiant.  As she watched, the dragon changed its form, growing taller, slimmer, its skeleton rearranging and dislocating until finally it ended up looking a lot like Maxxine had, only... purple.

Golden eyes flashed wickedly at the two women, and Maxxine laughed.  "Oh, this is too fitting.  My 'father' is helpless."

Augustine tried to sit up, but it took every ounce of energy not to just fall to the floor, exhausted.  Her stretched belly shuddered and bulged farther, and she moaned.  "I'm... sorry..."

"Sorry to die like a dog?" Maxxine snarled.

Augustine's eyes were filled with pain and regret.  "I'm sorry I ever had you," she whispered.

Maxxine flinched as if she'd been struck by a physical blow, the smile vanishing from her face... and Kate chose that moment to strike!

"SIC EM BOY!" she screamed at the other dragon, who crouched low and pounced at Maxxine, snarling and snapping at her throat.  Kate grabbed the only thing in reach she could use as a weapon: an umbrella from beside the front door.  Maxxine's confusion only grew as she was whacked across the face by a tiny, blond Mary Poppins.  The green dragon was like mercury, twisting and sliding over her, biting and clawing...

There was a deep, concussive THOOM, and Kate and the dragon were thrown back by a wave of cold void energy.  Maxxine stood at the door for only a second, naked and bleeding, her hands clenched in fists as if to cast more dark magic at them, to twist and corrupt their flesh as she had before.

Instead she glared at Augustine and hissed, "Soon!  Soon you will be ripped apart from the inside and you will know your precious goddess is lost forever!  Soon you will wish I HAD killed you both!" And with that, she turned the doorknob and vanished into the night.

Kate brushed herself off and patted the green dragon.  "Good boy!" she cheered at him, and he nuzzled her.  "We did it!  We fought back Maxxine... August?"  She peered over the massive, swollen womb to see the older woman wiping her eyes.

"I-indeed we did.  Thank you for your bravery, both of you," she said, sniffing.  The tears kept flowing, and Kate brushed Augustine's hair aside to rub her shoulder affectionately.  Augustine grasped Kate's hand tightly.  "Let us hope our friends can be brave too."

*********

"Jen... Jen, no!"  Allie gasped.

Jen was contorted in ecstasy, shuddering and climaxing again and again.  Her body was bulging and swollen, almost inhuman.  Her flesh wobbled and flopped.  "Allie..." she managed to moan.  "I... I can't get it out... out of me..."

Allie stepped forward, heedless of the whirling Void around her wife, and her light burned it away.  She stretched out her hand and touched Jen's face... and the corruption began to melt away!  Jen's cheek shrank down, her chins vanished until she had just the one... her arms thinned and toned, her thighs tightening, her ass shrank and firmed up.

But as the mass left her frame, it collected someplace else... inside her already massive balls!  Jen groaned in both relief from the cold, evil voice that urged her to grow larger and larger, and in pain as she felt herself stretching to contain more mass than an entire person would have been.  "I can't!" she croaked.  "I can't cum!  It... it won't let me!"

As Jen shrank down, she came closer and closer to Allie's height, until the redhaired goddess could hold her in her arms.  Jen felt her hands caress her skin, her lips on her cheek, on the line of her jaw... and Allie whispered, "Let me worry about that."

"N-no... it'll... it can't go inside you!" Jen's mind boggled at the thought.  "You'll... you'll be HUGE!"

Allie purred into her ear, her hand still running over Jen's body, touching and teasing every inch of skin, every line and hollow, every curve.  "Well, I AM supposed to pregnant right now."

"A-Allie..."

"Jen," Allie said firmly, and began to rub her body up and down against Jen's, "shut up and fuck me already. Fuck your wife."

Jen entered her and almost wept at the relief.  The cold vanished, the hold of the Void was gone from her completely... and she felt it flowing into Allie!  "No!  Wait!"

Allie had her eyes closed in concentration, she spine straight as Jen filled her, and Jen heard the Void laughing as it poured into Allie's womb.  Suddenly Allie opened her eyes and gave Jen a satisfied smile.  When she spoke, however, it wasn't to Jen.

"Alright, you want to be in me?  I just gave BIRTH.  I know what this body is capable of," she said as she began to thrust against Jen's huge pole.  Her flesh rippled around Jen's cock, and Jen could feel actual suction from the tip as it was dragged in and out of Allie's womb.  Allie was flushed with the exertion but filled with power, and she began to pick up speed, pushing her hips down and sliding them up, dragging Jen's member across every inner inch of herself.

"FffffUCK," Jen gasped at the sensation, and stared down at where their hips met.  Allie's now-empty stomach bore a lump inside, where Jen's hardness thrust deep.  "Oh God, I'm so deep in you..." she moaned.

Allie wrapped her arms around Jen's shoulders and began to fuck her in earnest, sweat pouring off them despite the wind and cold of the Void.  The sheer passion of their sex was driving away the dark, and Allie's skin began to glow with the strength she felt inside her.  She'd carried life inside her!  I held them inside, I nurtured them, I bore them out of me... there's NOTHING I can't do, she thought, and the light brightened, once glowing but now SHINING from her.

Jen did her best to match Allie's movements, to time her own thrusts, but for once Allie was the one steering the boat.  Jen just felt herself going limp as all her strength funneled into her legs, to keep them both upright.

The Void obviously had not expected Allie to fuck her own brains out after being invaded.  Allie could feel it trying to swell her body, to expand her, but she was too strong.  I get to decide what grows inside me, she thought at it, and grinned as she felt her orgasm approaching, building.  She slowed her thrusts then, dragging it out and eliciting a cry of pleasure from Jen.

I want you to remember this, she thought at the Void as it snarled and coiled, giving up and trying to escape her body.  She finished out loud, "I want you to remember the next time you want to use me or my family.  When you fuck with us, you walk funny for MONTHS, ASSHOLE!"

Jen laughed with her, and they felt the Void inside them both shrivel and disappear.  "D-damn straight!" she moaned, "Unnnngh!" and she grabbed Allie's hips and buried herself as deep as she could go.

Allie's hands roamed over her body as she came down from the climax, the both of them breathing hard.  Running on pure instinct now, Allie held her hand out to the purple orb of light that hovered nearby.  It floated closer, rested on her palm, and she drew it close to the pair of them as they felt the veil being drawn across them.

Allie and Jen opened their eyes.

********

Augustine was recuperating on the couch, her massive stretched out stomach making her look like she was six months gone.  Unlike Allie, who had birthed the spirits as energy, Augustine had actually PUSHED them out of her womb, fully sized.  Kate still looked like she might faint when she recounted it to them.  "Guys, August is HARDCORE for a guy, you know, when he's not a girl."

"What happened to the other spirit?" Jen asked Allie.  "I thought we were taking it with us back to this world."

Allie smiled at her.  "I guess we're having another baby!  It's here, I can feel it... just gonna have to wait to know for sure!"

Augustine groaned, and they turned their attention to her to see the green dragon was nuzzling her.  As it licked her face, Augustine's form rippled and blurred until she was August again.  Waking up, he kneaded his middle gingerly.  "Ow..."  Kate pushed him back onto the couch.

"No way, buddy.  YOU need your rest.  I guarantee you need to recoup more than a couple hours, no matter how fast you heal."

"M... Matthias..." he whispered, and fell asleep again.

They all fell silent at the name.  Finally Kate said simply, "He got away.  She, I mean.  Maxxine.  She'd possessed the purple guy."

Allie kissed Jen.  "It doesn't matter.  There's nothing she can do to us without the Void to back her up.  And I doubt it wants to tangle with us again!"  Jen squeezed her back, and together they thought about the future.

***************

EPILOGUE

***************

August shouldered his bags and clapped a hand to his hat to keep it from blowing off. He looked very dashing in his fedora and travel gear.  Allie kissed him on the cheek.

"Don't go far!  We'll need to keep in touch!" she reminded him.

August smiled warmly at them all.  "I wouldn't dream of going far from you now.  We're family, after all."

Kate chuckled.  "Well, yeah I suppose anyone you push out of your hoo-hah is family, alright."

"Watch the little one.  In time it will feel the call across the stars, but until then you must take care it is not discovered.  Our world has made many adjustments to the moon's power..." August added, "... but dragons make things complicated."

He then turned to Jen.  She grabbed him in a big hug and squeezed hard.  "Thank you for helping us," she whispered. August patted her back, then pulled away abruptly.  "Did you...?"

Jen looked down at the gentle curve of her belly in surprise.  "I... I felt it!  Oh my God!"  They clustered around her and touched where she rubbed her side.  The spirit in her womb was growing slowly, much more slowly than when Allie carried them.  August had said it was because Allie was a goddess and Jen wasn't.

Whatever the reason, Jen had almost five months of pregnancy left to experience.  The moon, it seemed, no longer changed her shape to allow her to carry her otherwordly passenger.  But that didn't mean she and Allie didn't get to enjoy each other's bodies.  In fact, Jen was loving the thought of getting bigger and bigger for once, while Allie was the thin one.

Maxxine was still out there, true, but she was cut off from the Void's power.  August told them what they'd done had struck a mighty blow against it, and thrown a big wrench into whatever Maxxine had planned.  They had no doubts she'd be back, of course.

But when she did they'd be ready.