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Far away on another plane of existence, Byakko, White Tiger of the West and god of autumn, looked down from the Celestial Plane via the Pool of Seeing, a sad expression on her beautiful white furred features.

She was stunning, a radiant white furred coat with long fur that streamed around her ankles, face and head like a long flowing mane. And adorning her body was the divine, golden armour of her station as a Divine Spirit.

"These days no one believes in the gods, the mortals have no need of us any more," she said quietly to herself. The rest of the celestial gods had moved on, having cut ties with this mortal realm to focus their attention on less developed worlds. But Byakko still held onto ties, of days she had been worshipped and Falls with festivals held in her name whilst she secretly visited and wove the odd miracle and helped make the harvests bountiful.

Seiryuu, Azure Dragon of the East had told her she was a fool, that they were no longer needed and that they served a greater purpose elsewhere.

The only problem was, after they had moved on, their forms had changed. She didn't want to lose the form tied to this world, there were still things she wanted to experience from Earth and, vain as it was, she enjoyed this form.

Talin stepped through the shrine arch, her stub of a tail twitched slightly as her nose flared at the scents of nature and time on the shrine. It was obvious that it'd all but been abandoned by the monks that used to pray here.

Walking up to the altar, the snow white hare could see foliage tangling up a stone statue of the Tiger god: Byakko. She bit her lip with her prominent front teeth and sank to her knees in front of the altar and began to carefully clear away the plants, careful to not tear the stalks. When she managed to clear off the statue and plate that sat at the tiger's feet, she reached into her pocket of her deep violet kimono and pulled out a stick of incense and a half used candle.

Putting everything into place, the candle sat at the centre of the plate and the incense standing just over it, she pulled out some matches and lit each before snuffing the stick and putting her hands together.

"Hmm?" She roused from her thoughts as the pool of seeing suddenly shimmered, and a figure came into view. Could it be?

The pool was only maintained now by her own presence so the image was unfocussed, but Byakko could see a figure praying at a shrine. Her shrine!

The hare sat in silence, her long ears twitching as they stood up straight. It's not that she was praying yet...but she was hesitant and unsure what to even do. Eventually she managed to stammer something into the empty hall. "Byakko...forgive me if...I have a favour...to ask of the gods." she spoke shyly, like she was under some sort of test.

Surging to her four paws, she leaped like a cub into the pool of seeing and let her magic whisk her towards her shrine.

"I am Talin Yuji. I call on you for my partner and I are having trouble conceiving a child. We've tried everything. You are our last hope." She said quietly, her cheeks turning pink at the talk of a lepus having trouble bearing children. After her last word though, she closed her eyes and sat in silence, repeating the words quietly in her head.

A faint glow emitted from the shrine, a series of gentle sparks floating upwards towards the sky as Byakko streamed towards the figure, the hare's prayer echoing towards her as if she was in a cavern.

Opening her eyes, Talin saw the glittering lights floating up from the altar, large ears twitching as she heard wind beginning to pick up all around her, crescendoing until a large ball of light about the size of her head appeared.

The ball of light spiralled around the large altar, whipping around the hare with a breeze following in its wake before settling atop the altar. A flash of gold and white, and there stood Byakko, putting on her best majestic pose as the sun glinted off her golden armour, the wind whipping her streaming fur behind her and her blue eyes glowed.

"You have summoned me mortal, it has been a millenia or two since someone sought out one of my shrine-oh bother, this is awkward," Byakko paused in her booming, dramatic speech, her form enveloping in a cloud before she shrunk from 16 foot to just 7, leaping off the altar and inspected the hare.

Talin's eyes were wide as she stared up at the majestic tigress in front of her as she stood on top of the altar before hopping down and making her fall back onto her backside in surprise. She blinked as Byakko spoke to her, her long ears twitching nervously.

"I'd assumed it would have been another feline seeking out my help, as was the norm in the days but, Byakko isn't one to turn down a mortal in need, even if I am the last," she said, circling around Talin with her tail trailing around the awed little hare. "I am not sure if I can do a lot to help you, my powers are not what they once were since mortals have no need of gods, and as loath as I am to admit you'd have been better asking Azure Dragon for he presides over spring and new growth. But I will do what I can."

She tried to speak, but couldn't find any words coming as her jaw flapped open and shut multiple times, bright red eyes watching as the white furred, armoured tiger moved around her, the hare's head rotating to follow the feline.

"Cat got your tongue?" Byakko smiled down at the hare.

Swallowing the lump in her throat, she shifted to sit on her knees once more. "T-There is no shrine to...the Azure Dragon," she paused. "Not anywhere close by." She managed to stammer out as she looked up at the nearly two foot taller tigress.

"Well that doesn't surprise me since he is not around any more, but please, continue," Byakko bade the flustered hare.

"We've done everything we can think of; doctors, witch doctors, herbs and..." she paused, her blush growing darker still. "They've amounted to nothing..." She then bowed, placing her paws on the floor and nearly touched her nose to the back of them.

"Please, we've no one else to turn to."

Byakko's playfulness quickly dissolved at the poor hare's plight, sighing inwardly and cursing under her breath. But, if she was going to hang onto this world and this form, she may as well make the most of actually having a mortal seeking her help.

"I can promise nothing, but what I can do is promise that I will do my utmost to help you," she said, using a paw to nudge the hare's head up, giving her a reassuring wink with those dazzling blue eyes. Pulling back, she gently inclined her head to her altar, "Please, lay down and I will do what I can. I have dealt with enough mortals to know how they function," she said, chuffing in good humour.

Talin looked up with her bright pink eyes, meeting Byakko's, her ears standing up as the tigress gave her instruction. "O-on the altar?" She gave her kind's gentle squeak as she stood up and was in turn guided to do just as she was told.

"I promise you will be perfectly safe with me, I will not let any harm come to you," Byakko said in a soothing tone, gently nuzzling her giant head over the hare.

The hare was hesitant, but did as instructed to lay on the altar, her dainty forepaws twisted together slightly as she laid face up, her head still turned towards Byakko. She suddenly felt very exposed to the tigress, her kimono doing well to keep her covered. But the feeling of being belly up in front of a predator couldn't help activate something primal in the back of her mind. She gave a gentle swallow before nodding, "W-what do I do now?"

"Please, I need you to just trust me," Byakko said, putting as much patience in her voice as she could muster. "I know this is strange for you, but I would never harm someone who has called upon my aid. You have the word of a goddess."

With that said, she jumped onto the altar herself, a mist surrounding her form started to shift, becoming more humanoid. As the mist dissipated, she was more like the mortals, only her armour had adapted to her humanoid shape. Her body was perfection itself, her chest begging for attention; Her face, a picture of beauty and a long, flowing mane of hair, looking like fluffy, drifting clouds.

She looked down and could see she was clearly nervous, and with an audible sigh, she placed her hand on her body, an energy extending from her that enveloped the timid hare before she would feel a sensation akin to being drowsy overcome her, enveloping her mind in a fog.

"I need you to be calm, otherwise I could end up hurting you," she said before her claws glowed and with a double quick swipe, she opened her womb up. Only it wasn't sliced open, more she opened a portal into Talim's body.

Looking down with her eyes only, the spell keeping her from doing much else, much of her energy felt drained. The hare's head was unable to move, so all she could see was the tiger goddess working her magic. Her glazed eyes watched Byakko as the portal was opened, feeling nothing but an odd chill as Byakko looked into her body.

"Hmm, I see, you are infertile," she said, her eyes able to see what mortal eyes could not. Where the glow of life should be surrounding the tools of reproduction, there was just a dull greyness. "Poor thing," Byakko said in a tone akin to a mother. She reached a hand inside her, extending a slender, perfect finger before circling her ovaries, infusing them with a goddess's energy to try and kickstart their proper function before pulling back and closing the portal and releasing the hare from the spell. She only hoped Talim wouldn't hate her for being violated in such a manner.

The entire time she had breathed slowly, watching as though she was in a dream as the tiger goddess worked her magic into her body. The cold feeling dissipated as her finger traced around her ovaries, being replaced with a rather comforting warmth.The portal closed and energy began to flood her body.

Talin blinked a few times as she waited for her mind to clear of the fog, her hands free of the paralysis she stroked her hands where the rift had been just moments ago. Then a smile stretched across her muzzle. Byakko's hope was confirmed as the hare gave an aura of wanting to hug the goddess tightly around the middle. But the hare refrained from doing so. "Th-Thank you, Byakko. I-I-" she was at a loss of words, but the aura of joy and gratitude would be more than enough for the goddess to know what she felt.

"It is no problem at all my dear," Byakko laughed before stretching her hands upwards, her joints popping. "It is good to finally flex my magic after so long, if anything I have you to thank. I was contemplating maybe doing as the rest had done and moving on but you have given me renewed appreciation for your world," she said before realising she may have said too much.

"I am...glad I could help too," she said softly.The warmth continued to radiate from her womb, and suddenly her scent began to permeate the air of the shrine. A dark blush returning to her muzzle, she tucked her knees close in order to futilely dampen the scent of her heat. "I-I'm sorry, my goddess." She said hushedly.

"You have a very pretty scent, although I wouldn't walk home in this state. You are likely to get jumped by some horny male looking to sow their seed."

With that she grew back to her 16 ft size but in her anthro form, making her form loom all the more as she picked Talin up with one hand and held her to her giant chest and gently peered into her mind. "Hold tight," she said before giant clouds enveloped them, whisking the hare to her home.

She gasped as she was picked up easily, her arms instinctively wrapped gently around Byakko's neck before she felt a light brush against her fur as the clouds enveloped her. Talin felt a wonderful sense of comfort being held against the goddess' chest, like a cub in their mother's arms.

"And if you think people will see a 16 foot tigress, I am only visible to the one who summons me," Byakko said as she gently deposited Talim.

Feeling her paws touch the ground as she was let down, her little tail twitching as she continued to hold herself to hide the growing heat as best as she could.

"Now, go show your husband some love," she said, turning as if making to whisk herself away, though she was unable to fully conceal the sad tone underlying her voice.

"Thank you again, Byakko." She said, though she heard the tone in her voice. "If there's anything I can do...to repay you." Talin called out to the white tigress, reaching out to touch her arm. But without another word, the goddess vanished in front of her. Talin's heart beat in her chest as she stood there for a few moments before she turned to disappear into her small house, shutting the door with a click as she called out for her husband.

***

The pair had gone at it like, well, rabbits. Several times a day for a week until Talin felt her heat dissipating and a glow enveloped her. She'd become pregnant, just as she'd asked. Just as Byakko promised and blessed with the hare.

The weeks turned to months, Talin had grown gravid with her offspring. Gorgeously round, her chest filling out as she began to produce milk.

Time seemed to lose meaning for the poor goddess, and loneliness once again gripped at her heart with icy claws. She'd waited, and wondered if the hare would get back in touch at the altar but there was only silence.

The words of Azure rung through her mind, 'Mortals only care about what they can get. They leave us as soon as they have no more need of our services. Join us, we are shaping a new world with new forms, we are powerful once again. Share in it with us and relinquish your old ties.'

Byakko looked around at the old celestial plane, how sparse it had grown with her own faltering power. She didn't want to but she had to admit that damn dragons words had a ring of truth to them.

Just when she was about to set her plan in motion and leave to let the celestial plane collapse though, the pool of seeing began to bubble and hope welled in her chest.

Eventually the hare returned to the shrine, a wide smile on her face. Setting everything up as before, she knelt down in front of the altar, albeit with a bit of difficulty.

She began to pray. "Byakko...Goddess of the West." She began, much more confident than previously. "I wanted to thank you again. For giving me the chance to bear my children and continue my bloodline with my husband." she whispered to the empty temple. "And...I apologise for not returning...more often to give my thanks." She then bowed as best as she could to finish her prayer in silence, her belly gently touching the floor.

As Byakko heard her voice, she considered ignoring the lepus to pray on deaf ears. But...she had apologised. She could least see the last spark of life she had granted before departing this realm.

Turning into mist, she travelled through the pool, appearing once again atop the altar, her visage looking somehow more diminished than last time. Less radiant and about the size of a regular mortal.

"And there I thought you had abandoned me once you got what you wanted as the rest have," Byakko said with a sad smile.

Talin's heart dropped into her stomach at the sad words and smile to go along with them. Twitching her tail, "I-I'm sorry, I know I should have returned as soon as I got the news. My husband and I are..."

She crouched down and bid the hare to rise with Byakko supporting the pregnant hare, cutting Talin off mid-speech and placing a hand to her pregnant bulge. "It feels like you are going to give birth any day now, congratulations," she said, this time the mix of joy and sadness in her voice was impossible to miss. "Have you both found out if it is a boy or girl yet?"

She paused in her thoughts as she stood up, with some help by Byakko, and blushed as she felt the goddess' paw running gently over her belly, her ears standing tall.

"We haven't found out, no. But we know that we're having twins and we both are so grateful!" She said with a squeak as she put her hand on top of Byakko's, her ears falling back once again. "My Goddess..." Talin said as she let her hand rest on top of Byakko's on top of her pregnant belly. "What's the matter?" She whispered in concern, her heart dropping as she looked up into the tigress' sad face.

Byakko tried to banish the sadness and grief but she just hadn't the strength. "Mortals no longer need us in this realm...the rest of the celestial gods and spirits have moved on. There is just myself left and without anyone to pray and believe, my powers are fading," she said, sitting down on the altar. Even her once shining golden armour looked to have faded on her, looking as though it was going to turn to rust at any moment. "I have to leave and join where your kind can not follow, light years away where a new civilisation needs our guidance. I will cease to be as you see and be...something else," she said, the sadness evident in her voice.

"If there is anything that my husband and I can do for you, we'd be more than honoured to help...after all you did for us, it's the least we could do." The hare stepped a bit closer to the goddess, taking her large paws into her own, looking Byakko in the eyes, the hare's bright red eyes sparkling with sincerity.

Byakko looked into Talin's eyes, how sincere she was with her words. But there was nothing a mortal could do to help her now as tears gathered.

She shook her head, her smokey mane flailing about before wiping at her eyes. "This is ridiculous, a goddess isn't supposed to cry," she said before regaining what composure she could and knelt to her. "Rejoice, you will bring new life into the world. Sometimes I wish I had been born a mortal so I could also share in the joy of bringing life into the world," she said in a gentle tone before rising up and taking a step to the altar as if to part before pausing.

"If it is a girl...will you name it after me? I know it is a silly request but...it will give me some peace of mind to know the name of Byakko is not fully forgotten."

Talin's heart broke more and more for the goddess as she listened to her words, her tail stilled as she looked down at the armour, and altar. Spiders had made webs and dust had covered it, she felt terrible for not noticing before. But the armour that had shone so brightly before now made Byakko look sickly.

As she knelt down in front of her, they were able to stare eye to eye this way. She could see the sadness in her eyes despite having wiped the tears from them. She opened her mouth over and over, trying to speak to Byakko's comment, but couldn't muster the words as the goddess stood up and turned to the altar.

"I-I will, my Goddess. I will teach them your ways." She said before she reached out to gently touch her shoulder, her ears fell back once again. "W-Wait, Byakko. If you'd not been here...my husband and I would never have offspring to speak of..." the hare paused and stepped forward. "If there is anything...that I could do for you, I will do it." Talin then walked around to look up into her eyes with a gentle smile. "These children are as much yours as they are ours." She commented and brought the tall tiger's paw back down to her belly to feel the pair of cubs once again.

Byakko for her part was touched at Talin's sentiment, holding her hand on her chest over her heart. "You are too kind, mortals and gods would learn a lot from people like you," she said, turning around from the altar and clenched her fists. She knew there wasn't a lot to be done, even if this lovely hare became her follower, all it would do is stave off the rot claiming hold of herself and her domain.

"I don't want to see you light fade further..." Talin whispered and looked into the tigress' tired, but still beautiful face.

At the hare's emotionally choked voice, Byakko found herself muted, standing there knowing she should go, leave this world and save herself. But not like this, she enjoyed the form that being tied to this world gave her, she wanted to instil the belief the people once had in her, that Talin showed. Then an idea hit her.

"Talin...I do have an idea to save myself, to keep me from fading and having to adopt another form in another world. But it is risky. I am still a goddess and can't be harmed by normal means, but it could pose a risk to yourself and your unborn child. That said if at any point I think you are in danger I will stop and just leave."

She stood there with her ears flickering, long tail lashing side to side before she spoke her mind. "Talin...if I take you into my womb, both you and your unborn, it will form a connection between us and this world. I will get to experience what you mortals get to experience and I will infuse some of my own DNA with you and your child. That way, I won't ever fade and for as long as I live, so will you and your young. All that I ask is you dedicate one day a month into spreading my word about, to help revive the belief. Maybe then, the spirit plane can be saved."

With ears standing tall once again, she listened to Byakko's words, she could feel her heartbeat strongly in her chest. Hearing the risk, she felt a slight hesitation, but was comforted by her concern for their safety. Rubbing her belly gently, she looked up and down at the goddess before she continued.

Listening, Talin nodded gently, taking in what she was told before the goddess finished her request. "I-I will do it..." She said with her usual gentle whisper as she considered the feeling alone of being brought back into the womb. The hare couldn't deny that it brought a strong warmth to her body at the very notion.

"I will do all that you request...and I'll do it once a week, if it'll help." She said with a kind smile as she stepped closer, her ears half stood up. "S-So...how do we do...this?" Talin asked softly as she glanced at Byakko's navel for a brief moment before she locked eyes once more with the goddess.

At the hare's sincerity, Byakko felt something she had not for a long, long time as a warmth and hope filled her heart up.

"Well, you can't yet step foot in my world since you are still just a mortal, and out in the open is a bit revealing, even if this shrine is deserted and no one can see you. If someone sees a hare vanishing it might raise questions."

Waving her hand at the altar, the twin stone tigers guarding it seemed to come alive and stepped aside before the huge, smooth slab scraped to one side to reveal a hole in the floor and stairs leading down.

Talin's blush was apparent, her cheeks bright pink under her white fur. Nodding before Byakko waved her hand, revealing a hidden staircase underneath the shrine.

"This leads to the old ritual and tribute room, it serves as a bridge connecting your world with the celestial realm. We won't get interrupted and I should be able to keep you and your young one safe, if you will trust me?" She said, holding her hand out to Talin, her elegant fingers extended towards her.

Her red eyes widened as she looked into the dimly lit staircase. She gave a small swallow and turned back towards the goddess, with a nervous smile, she nodded. "I trust you." She said with determination as she took the tigress' hand before they moved down the staircase.

She looked at the walls, seeing stripes like the tiger's, faded, but still visible on the stone walls. As they neared the bottom, her eyes opened widely to take in every detail of the tribute room. Designs that depicted the goddess before her, but also had things that showed the other gods from the other directions of the winds.

There was only one room, but it was more of a cavern that would allow Byakko to grow. The room was dusty, but not as dusty as one might expect having been empty for the last fifty years.

Pictures depicted of worshippers from across the ages, of rituals, and of exploits that were less sincere and more bloody, to which Byakko twisted her head to one side in shame.

"It isn't just mortals that had to grow up and learn from mistakes," she said softly as her form emitted a gentle light that paled in comparison to the radiant glow shown in the murals, although her own images were faint, as though with her waning power she too was being expunged from history. The rest showed people bowing, but nothing where the other three gods had been.

Looking at the panels of pictures that lined the walls, her eyes taking in every single picture, a few rather more descriptive than they probably should have. She reached out to touch them, seeing how faded they were, and while some practices were best left to history, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.

It all gave an eerie and foreboding message that time was short. But among the grim reminders were tributes that lightened the place up. Some gifts of gold and jewellery, of art and tributes of thanks when a war had been won, an injustice had been avenged after a prayer and even exotic weapons and artefacts.

"You will need to take your clothes off Talin, I don't think wearing them would be a very good idea for what is to come," Byakko said with a soft chuckle, her armour fading away to reveal her round, soft E cup breasts. The pink nipples standing out against the cool air, poking out from her white fur coat.

"Mmh yes, I think death would be preferable to what the other three have become. I'm far too attached to this form," she chuckled, running a hand through her soft fur coat before going down to her pussy and rubbed.

Nodding, she was much more hesitant to remove her clothes, the only one apart from her husband to see her naked was her parents when she was a cub. Fidgeting with the sash around her waist, Talin turned her head to the side, her cheeks growing hot with blush. "I-I mean," her speech was quiet and nervous as she watched the goddess playing with herself rather unashamedly.

Byakko stopped what she was doing, "Oh I do forget how modest you mortals have grown. At one point in your short history you were all for open sex and unashamed of showing your bodies off in pursuit of a mate. Gosh has a millennium really passed so quickly?" She mused seemingly to herself before shaking her head and knelt down, helping encourage the hare. "Trust me, you have nothing at all to be ashamed of; you should learn to embrace your body more," she said with a soft wink.

Listening to Byakko, the hare couldn't help a small chuckle. "I suppose you're right, Byakko, it's just..." Talin looked into the tigress' eyes and felt a calming air about the both of them. Without another word, she undid the sash and gently pulled the kimono off, slipping the garment from her shoulders. She was, as one could easily guess, pure white from head to toe. Her breasts were larger than when she had first arrived months prior. The reddish-pink nipples were perky, even more so because of the cold. showing slightly in the dim light was small dribbles of milk from the tips.

Talin's stomach was gorgeous and round, better showing that she was in fact quite close to term, her skin stretched and light pink. Her hands instinctively kept her own pussy covered, but the scent of her arousal apparent to both of the sensitive noses.

Moaning as she gently teased herself in front of a bashful hare, she warned her to stand back a bit as her body grew in size, going from seven foot to ten foot before sighing as the faint glow ceased, plunging them nearly in complete darkness if not for some wall mounted torches that had magically flared into life with their presence, giving off a dim illumination.

"This is about all I can manage now my power is nearly exhausted. But it should be enough," she panted, sweat dampening her fur coat as she spread her legs, revealing her now larger folds nestled between her powerful thighs.

She blushed brightly as she watched her goddess grow while she played with herself, and then spread her legs, showing the glistening labia, her juices coating the petals of her folds. Talin's nose twitched as she walked forward. "Th-This is the first time...I've ever done anything with another female." she admitted as she stepped forward to the giantess, ears standing up.

"Don't worry, I will guide you as best as I can," Byakko panted slightly, not just from fatigue but also from her own building arousal as her labia moistened, the scent emanating from her passage a lot different to a mortals. She smelled like a sweet spice one would find in a drink.

The hare's nose was twitching more and more as she got closer to Byakko's slit, the scent far more alluring than anything she'd ever could imagine. Inching forward, her tongue gently brushed Byakko's lips, tasting her juices as she worked her over, her inexperience obvious, but she did the best she could.

She shivered gently at the exotic flavour of another female, her paws gently moving to rub the inside of her thighs gently as she ate the feline out, her little tail twitching above her round butt.

Eventually Byakko sighed and gently pushed the hare off of her, "Here, let ME show you how it is done," the tiger goddess said as she gently pushed Talin into a lying position. "You start like this," she said, her voice gaining a husky undertone and inserted just one finger inside her, the size difference too great to allow much else. "And then," she trailed off before hooking her finger to gently rub the roof of her passage and grind against the clitoris. "Mmh normally you need to work up to this, but you seem to already have a head start there," Byakko said in a teasing tone, a bit of humour creeping into her voice.

Talin gave a whine as she was pushed away at first, blushing as she exposed herself to Byakko as she began guiding. The hare had little ability to say anything as the goddess showed quite a bit of expertise in the acts. She rolled her hips gently as she was complimented, she figured, and bit her lip. "M-My elder suggested...I prepare for the cubs."

Moaning out, Talin felt her finger stretch her pussy, pleasurably. She couldn't help but squeeze her own bust as inhibitions faded as arousal grew. Milk dribbled from her nipples, soaking and slightly darkening the fur around her areola. She panted and rolled her hips against Byakko's paw, gentle squirts of juices soaked into the tigress' palm as the feline used her thumb to tease at her clit.

She fingered Talin a bit longer, going slowly deeper with every thrust as she felt the hare squirm. And then she leaned down to spread the hares thighs to their limit, inhaling Talin's scent and slipped just the tip of her large, pink tongue into her passage, wriggling it on the floor of her passage as she kept on fingering her, slowly wriggling and sliding more tongue in as she got wetter and more worked up.

Her nose twitched as Byakko's scent overpowered her own easily, the unique flavour lingering on her tongue from before. After a brief moment of pure pleasure in her climax, she felt the world coming back...and Byakko still ate her out, growing more vigorous as the female felt the pad of her large digit continue to attack her walls, stretching her.

Suddenly she felt a pang ripple through her body, making her gasp as she curled up gently around her stomach as her water broke. "A-Ah Byakko..." She groaned lightly. "I-I think..." She couldn't help but clench her legs tightly around the tigress' wrist to keep her still, the large finger still pressing deep into her.

As soon as Talin said that, Byakko withdrew her hand carefully, coated in the smelly solution.

"Looks like we ran out of time," the goddess breathed. She too felt like she was running out of time, if she didn't make this bond with them both now, she might not even have the strength to return to the celestial plane, never mind journey to a new world

"We need to do this now, Talin, before your young is born!" she said as she tried to keep her voice calm but trembled at the feeling of time slipping through her hands.

"Just take a deep breath and let me do the work," Byakko said as she straddled her pussy over her feet, gently pulling them up to line with her own folds before pushing the toes in.

The initial pain of her contraction faded as she nodded. "I-I'm ready." She blushed and moaned as she felt the ripple of another contraction creeping on her as Byakko took hold of her feet and pressed them into her passage. Wiggling her digits, as she felt the heat wrap around them, Talin watched as she was swallowed up, inch by inch by the tigress.

A low moan of pleasure escaped her muzzle as her vaginal walls contracted and pulled her into the tiger's hot, moist passage.

Byakko moaned as her pussy spread and wrapped around Talin's feet and ankles, next her legs were slowly drawn into her hungry, wet depths, the feet penetrating her cervix. "A-ahh, this feels incredible!" She cried out, trying to keep herself in control in fear of hurting the hare, but it was hard when another living person was filling her up, touching every sensitive nerve in her soft depths with more and more of her juices drooling to cover and lube Talin's soft furred body for easier passage.

Watching with extreme fascination as the giantess pulled her easily up to her knees, and then her thighs, the wide build of her hare body helped to stretch her...that was until they got to her belly. She was held in place for a while, another contraction hitting her as her fur was soaked with the goddess' juices.

Slowly lowering herself into a lying position on the floor, her vaginal muscles contracted, pulling Talin up to her swollen belly. "I-I'll try to be as careful with you as I can, trust me dear one," she said as her thick, stretched lips slowly worked over her gravid form. Her large hands reached up to grasp and squeeze at her own furred breasts as she lost herself to the feeling more and more.

"I-I trust you, Byakko," her paws twitching and pressing against every sensitive nerve in the tigress' passage as she felt a tighter ring enclose around her ankles, feeling the entrance of her womb trying to pull the smaller hare in her large belly was the most concerning part for a few short minutes, "with every fibre." She finished as her contraction faded and smiled up at Byakko, knees gently grinding her g-spot as they paused, the ring massaging her hips gently.

Byakko felt her face flush with the trust the hare had in her, she could feel that trust and faith actually helping fuel her own body, helping to stave off her own deterioration. That was shoved out of her mind when she felt the nerve wracking pleasure of being spread so wide; in all her life Byakko had never experienced anything like this, feeling not just one life, but multiple lives, new lives, entering her own body.

Feeling the hare's baby bulge proving too much resistance, she reached her hands down and stretched her own labia as wide as she could, aiding Talin and her cubs in as she could feel through her own skin the first of the kits moving down.

Talin's cubs were being shifted by her own womb, the first cub's head beginning to push through her own cervix. She did what she could to stave off the birth of the young ones, at least until she was fully within Byakko. Her belly was massaged by the feline's passage, being pulled gently deeper and deeper into the goddess. She was soon drawn into her shoulders, another strong contraction hitting her, begging her to push.

She could feel it as Talin began to give birth inside of her womb, feeling the last of the birthing fluid run back down and out of her body before leaning down over her huge swelling stomach.

"Thank you Talin...thank you, my daughter," she said in the most motherly tone she had ever managed. All her goddess life she had been heralded for wars won and enemies conquered. But no more, she was going to rebirth her image anew as one of kindness and compassion, thanks to this hare.

Leaning further still, she kissed the hare's muzzle, her tongue pushing inside her muzzle to taste before pulling back with a sharp gasp as a final, strong contraction pulled her head through her spread lips, the ears vanishing last as she felt her birth the last inside her womb and curl to join them inside her.

She returned the kiss, giving a low, moan as she felt their tongues brush against each other before she was pulled into her with a lewd squelch of juices. Fully inside Byakko, she curled around her own belly, adopting a fetal position while she was still being massaged by the goddess. Talin cried out in a mix of surprise and pleasure as she felt the first cub descend into her canal, being birthed with help from the gentle squeezes from Byakko's womb.

As Talin was helped into her womb via her vaginal muscles, Byakko couldn't help having one of the most powerful climaxes in all her thousands of years, cumming repeatedly as the hare was finally pulled fully into her womb, panting hard and weakly caressing her huge swollen stomach.

Reaching down Talin moaned as she helped the cub fully out, "she's a girl!" Talin called out, muffled by the tigress' walls as she shifted slightly and pulled the cub to her chest. "Byakko..." She said quieter, to her cub as the little hare found her nipple and began drinking the milk that beaded on her nipple.

They weren't done yet. Feeling another contraction, Talin groaned as her second child, a boy, was born in a few long, and pleasurable moments. She wriggled and unconsciously pressed against the goddess' walls, teasing her further and giving her every bit of pleasure she felt in turn.

With each cub Talin birthed into her, Byakko felt a physical and mental connection forming between them, their mother and herself. She couldn't hear her voice, but she could sense what was going on as first a girl and then a boy was born within her womb.

And with their addition, she felt something awaken at her core. A surge of power not derived from worship, but from an intimate bond of love and admiration.

The cubs drank softly as she held them to her chest, tears of joy streaming down her face. She curled in around them gently as the warmth from Byakko's womb grew and pulled her into a gentle slumber. Talin felt something attaching to her belly, an umbilical cord pressed into her belly button and filled her body with a mix of pleasure and comfort. She mumbled incoherently to her cubs and then to Byakko as she fell fully to sleep. The newborns continued to drink with gentle squeaks, Talin rubbing their little backs gently in her lull.

Her body began to glow, soft to start with, then brighter, and brighter as she filled up the large ritual room with her white glow.

"Y-yes, it's working, it's WORKING!" She roared as power flooded every cell of the once dying goddess before her brightly glowing eyes flew wide open in realisation. In a puff of smoke, she vanished to deliver a message to Talin's husband.

***

The deep brown Hare was ploughing the small field that sat next to the house, wiping his brow as he looked to the west, the sun starting to set. His wife had been away for quite some time, his heart thumped quickly, sudden worry filling his mind.

He shook his head.

I don't know what you're thinking, Weis...She'd been gone like this before, and she'd returned. They'd been able to breed successfully when she did. She'll be back soon.

The words had barely finished in his mind when an explosion of smoke appeared in front of him, making him jump and draw the hoe once again, brandishing it like a polearm. Then the smoke cleared and there stood the Goddess of the West, standing in front of him; bare, and with a heavy belly. He blinked quickly, his mind taking a few moments to realise it was in fact Byakko. He quickly lowered the tool and bowed quickly to her. "M-My goddess, I apologise!"

Byakko smiled at his reaction, not a cruel one but a gentle, humoured smile, "Rise Weis," she said in a gentle but firm tone, "I did not come here to demand anything of you. In fact, you should be congratulated," she said, gently grabbing his arm as she knelt so he could reach her bulge.

"Uh-" He sounded a bit nervous being in the presence of the goddess. "Th-Thank you...But-" Weis said quietly, but was cut off when she knelt down and took his hand and guided it towards her belly. He looked around but none of the other villagers had even noticed her appearance.

As she touched him, he would be able to feel the heat and sheer power radiating off from her in waves before his hand touched her gravid belly. "Your dear wife and kittens are safe, they bonded with me inside of my womb to keep me from fading from existence. Your wife and your young helped save me," she said before letting go of his arm, no longer forcing him to touch her warm, soft fur. "Do you understand?" she said in a quiet voice.

"I-I think...Talin is?" He said quietly as he shifted his paw and felt as if she almost reacted to his motion and placed a paw against the other side of Byakko's skin. His eyes widened and then he looked up. "Sh-She and my-our cubs are...?" Weis's ears twitched as they stood tall.

Though he was let go, he kept his paw on her hot belly and gently rubbed his thumb over the fur, a blush growing on his cheeks as he looked over her form. "So-So what will happen to Talin, to our cubs. What will happen to you?" He asked rapid fire, his bright blue eyes coming up slowly from his hand, over her round belly and bare breasts before venturing fully up and he met her eyes.

"You are very bold, mortal, for exploring a goddess's body so brazenly," Byakko said though the humour behind her tone showed she was playing with him.

The brown furred hare blushed darkly and turned his head to the side at her comment, embarrassed, but understood she was being playful with him. He only looked at her again when he felt the large paw on his.

She gently took both of his hands in her own giant palm and smiled one of comfort and reassurance. "What happens now is your lover, and your young will be born in a short while. They will be changed and yet the same. They will be infused with a goddess's essence, normal to everyone but, to each other and other beings of higher power they will bear my markings. In time they will join me on the Celestial Plane, only once they have no more ties to this world. You can grow old and, should they decide to in time, they can discard their god lineage and choose to be mortal again. All that will be in due time though."

She rose from her cross legged position and rose up, to any onlookers all they would see would be a brief shimmering and a rabbit staring up at nothing. "I will be back in exactly one month, Weis, your wife and young ones will be delivered back to you." She said before her gentle smile turned sad. "I am sorry I had to take the birth of your kits away from you, I know you both wanted kids so badly. Your wife did a noble and brave thing, and from the bottom of my heart I thank her, and you, for keeping a goddess tied to this wonderful world of yours."

His ears fell down against his back as she spoke, a small knot forming in his stomach as he was apologised to about the birth. Giving a small shake of his head, and a smile, albeit a slightly sad one. "You saved us; our marriage...It's only fair that we helped to save you." He couldn't help but rub over Byakko's belly as he looked into her beautiful eyes.

"I will count the days till I can see you again, my love." he said to Talin within the tigress' belly as he rubbed it.

With a final bow, she turned into mist, a sparkling trail flying off into the blue sky, the tail of the mist wrapping around the hare, filling him with a warm, comforting sense.

Weis stood there, his hand still held out as Byakko flew off into the wind as a cloud of mist, rather than feeling cool, he felt the warmth that made him smile as he gazed up into the sky for several long minutes before he returned his attention to the vegetable patch.

***

Talin shifted slightly, her cubs drifted away from her, the umbilical cords keeping them 'fed' and able to breathe within Byakko. Stripes had begun to appear on the young Byakko's fur, though very faintly. While her brother showed no signs of the colouration, though he was brown furred.

Shifting only occasionally, Talin would give Byakko a tiny kick as any child would inside the womb. Opening her eyes every now and again between the deeper sleep, she smiled down at the pair as they nestled against her chest to drink, she gave them a gentle rub before returning to slumber.

The cubs were left to swim around in Byakko's womb, the cords merely keeping them from suffocating. What they had they fed on their mother's breast milk, allowing them proper nourishment with her womb walls proving to be able to deal with whatever the week old pups could dish out. Her body meanwhile kept the mother vitalised so she didn't end up perishing within her body.

The hare had lost track of how long she'd been one with the goddess, how long since she'd given birth to her first children. But she didn't care. She felt safe. Warm. Unbelievably happy. She wished she could stay like this as long as possible, giving the inner walls of her 'mother' a nuzzle.

A month passed before the first contraction woke Byakko from her slumber, waking up from her giant cloud bed, her hand whipped to her bulging womb. "Oh my, looks like having you as 'guests' has had a knock on effect of growing you a little," she chuckled to herself. "Well, far be it for me to deny your husband from the birthing and rebirthing of his wife and kids," she said, standing up, wincing and clutching her stomach as another contraction hit her before turning once again into mist, though this time tinged with pink.

Her descent to Earth was slower and more laboured, even travelling in this form the strains of labour took its toll on her as she made her way to Weis house, the mist turning steadily pinker as the contractions became more violent and urgent.

Weis had been doing his best to live from day today, but it was obvious he'd never spent this much time away from his wife, exhaustion apparent as he worked on making dinner when he noticed the thin pink mist coming through an open window...that grew thicker until Byakko's shape began to form in front of him.

Her form materialised not with her usual grace, but more in a pain-wracked sprawling mass as her ten foot form was crammed into the small room and her powerful hind legs shoved chairs and tables to the side, writhing in pain.

"G-Goddess!" He said, a smile breaking across his muzzle when he saw her double over as contractions continued to wrack her body. A nervous pang crossed his heart as he went over to her. "Goddess, a-are...is everything okay?" Weis asked as he put a gentle hand on the tigress' belly.

"DOES IT LOOK OKAY?!" Byakko thundered, her aura blazing and voice causing the clouds to rumble and darken before taking some calming breaths.

"S-sorry, this is something I am...not used to," Byakko gasped as another contraction rippled through her, her huge form taking up most of the available space.

"Q-quick! If you have anything to keep your floor clean grab it nooooW!" she roared, her claws flexing and doing her best not to tear at the carpets.

The hare's ears stood up as the sky rumbled with Byakko's growling causing thunder. "R-Right!" His breathing quickened, his chest rising and falling rapidly as he ran to a small cupboard and pulled out a few old sheets. Spreading them down in front of the tigress' spread legs, doubling them up to try and prevent the inevitable mess.

As Byakko roared, the sky thundered, causing many citizens to look out of their windows at the quickly darkening sky or to quickly hurry in as the sky and clouds flashed with lightning.

He'd just managed to finish when a gush of fluids soaked the layered sheets as her water broke properly, splashing and wetting his front.

A torrent of smelly fluids gushed from her pussy as with a silent roar that caused the sky to go ballistic as she pushed, the bulge in her stomach slowly travelling down towards her groin as it bulged and spread her labia wide.

His ears were turned up towards her. "Wh-What can I do to help? I-I've never..." Weis spoke quickly and nervously, reaching almost a squeak at times with his voice. Weis couldn't move from his spot between the feline's legs, but he did his best to avoid staring at her twitching labia, looking instead over her belly as best as he could. He could see her belly visibly clench with each contraction, helping to push the children and his wife from her womb.

"YES!" Byakko thundered, "GET YOUR HANDS IN THERE AND PULL!" She lost all control as her body thrashed on the ground, knocking furniture and appliances over as birthing fluid splashed onto the floor, soaking the sheets.

The hare didn't hesitate as she commanded him, the wooden furniture knocked over by Byakko's large legs made him jolt. Shifting closer, kneeling in the mess that the birthing tigress was making, and did just as she told him. Pushing his paws into her widening labia, he found his wife's ears and head. Moving his arms deeper, he eventually found her shoulders and gripped Talin there to help pull her out of Byakko.

His wife's head slipped free with a lewd squelch, her shoulders slipping free, Byakko's size making the birthing a slight bit easier. Other than the stripes that appeared on her fur, Talin was now taller, and larger than Wies was, having grown within the goddess over the month she'd had the lepus.

Recovering from her birthing ordeal, she silently cursed whichever god thought it would be funny for women to experience pain during birth and wondered why it had been so much more painful than the unbirthing.

"T-Talin?" He said, gazing at his love's face.

Byakko leaned tiredly over, using her tongue to clean the worst of the gunk from Talin's face so she could open her eyes and help rouse the now hybrid bunny.

She stirred and opened her eyes, quickly closing them and blinking as the bright light. "W-Weis, are our children okay?"

"Byakko's still got to birth them." He said and hugged the larger hare gingerly before with another loud noise from Byakko, he returned his attention to her, and waited to help to rebirth the twins.

"That is okay Weis," Byakko panted, the two newly reborn kits soon following, their original mother having stretched her, making the birthing of the kits a lot easier.

First one popped out, a cute, tiny brown bundle of sticky fluff followed by another gush of birthing fluid as the second popped out with a final squeeze, a final contraction and a white, sticky bundle lay beside her brother, muzzle opening and emitting a high keening sound

Panting heavily from the ordeal, Byakko looked at the mess she made with some guilt, vowing to help tidy things up before she left back for the celestial plane.

Tongue bathing the other two squirming bundles, she winced at the taste of yet more birthing fluid before using her sharp teeth to sever the three birthing cords poking out from her depths and then gently picked up both kits in her giant hands to show Weis.

"Congratulations, you have a beautiful boy and girl," she panted, smiling at him as her form radiated a gentle light.

His heart skipped a beat as he was handed the brown boy and pale white female, they gave soft chirps as they wiggled in his arms. They had looked tiny in the goddess' hand but each one was as big as nearly long as his forearm.

The cubs' eyes opened and gazed at their father curiously. Their small hands grabbing at his soaked shirt, he kissed each of them on the head, not bothered about the taste of the lingering birthing fluid. Weis was just too happy to see his children. He smiled up at the exhausted goddess, Talin had shifted over to lean against her in an equally tired hug.

"Thank you...so very much, Byakko." Talin said softly,

"You have our gratitude, without you, we never would have been able to do more than dream about this moment..." Weis said as he held his cubs, gently rubbing their backs as Talin rejoined him to see her cubs with him, the female hare cooing softly at them.

Byakko just laid there in a puddle of her own fluid, smiling at the couple. The place stunk of birthing but the scene couldn't have been more wholesome as Talin cuddled with her husband and their kits.

The storm that had gathered outside dissipated as Byakko calmed down, sun breaching through the disappearing clouds, the last rumble of thunder soft in the summer air.

"No, it is I who should thank you Talin, and your husband. Had you never come to me for help and aided in my selfish desire to stay tied to this world and form, then I would have ceased to be. So it is I, Byakko of the West, who is grateful. Consider all of you, even Weis, as an extension of my family. Know that my protection so long as I am around will always be yours," she said before her nude form slowly shrunk back down to a more manageable six foot, stretching out finally.

"Mmh it is good to be a more practical size," she said before her smile faded at the mess she had made. "It would not do for me to leave you in such a mess though."

With that said, she bade the pair to clear space and with flicks and sweeps of her hands, lifted the contents up, repaired what was broken with mystic energy and commanded the stinking fluid out of the carpet and anywhere else to channel it down their toilet.

Talin and Weis did as instructed, holding their cubs close, rubbing their backs. They watched in amazement while Byakko worked her magic, cleaning up the mess rather efficiently, leaving only a faint scent of what had happened today.

"There, it will need a good shampoo but bone dry now," she smiled, feeling better than she had in a long while. Turning round as if seeming intent on leaving the happy family to catch up, her golden armour materialising to cover her nude form up.

"B-Byakko." Talin said and reached forward to gently hold the goddess' paw. "Do you have to go so soon? We'd like to repay you... maybe stay with us at least for some dinner?" The hare, now a couple shorter than Byakko's current size, offered the tiger goddess. Ears standing tall and a soft, warm smile spread over her muzzle. "You are as much part of our family as a mother."

Byakko gave her a warm smile and bent over to gently hold her hands in her own.

"I am sorry Talin, but I can't. With the birth of you three and the powerful ties it has created, the celestial plane is coming back from the brink, spirits that had faded have returned and I need to go and look after the Celestial Plane as the only remaining Celestial being, maybe the remaining three will return as well," she said before giving the hare a kiss on her cheek. "I will take you both up on that offer another time though," she said before going to Weis.

The female gave a gentle nod, her ears falling back, but her smile remained at the prospect of a later visit, providing the Celestial Plane and the other gods were restored. Talin took the fussy children from Weis and sat down in a chair to let them feed, the soft sound of their nursing filled the quiet between conversation.

Kneeling down to the much shorter hare, she looked him in the eye with a perfect sapphire iris, "You take good care of them, all three of them. You are their sole father and I hold you responsible. Help to raise your kits strong and well."

She bade him to turn his hand palm up with her own hands glowing a soft, white light. A crystal orb appeared in his palm bearing a yin/yang symbol and a gentle white light from within. "The three have power now, I will return one day to teach them how to harness said power but until then they are as vulnerable as any mortal. If you need help and are in danger, smash this orb and I will be summoned," she said, her expression turning more motherly before also cuddling the male hare.

Weis watched as the orb appeared in his hand, and he gently grasped his paw around the orb as he was held by Byakko, hugging her in a return, a small content chirp sounded from his throat as they embraced. "I promise, Byakko. I hope that we won't have a need to summon you." He said with a smile. "We don't want any emergencies." Weis added with a slight chuckle.

Raising back up from the ground, her form became cloaked in white mist before standing there in her feral form, her cloud mane billowing and radiating light. "Until we meet again, my extended family," she smiled and launched herself out the window before seemingly running on air out of the window and into the sky until she puffed out of sight.

Standing once again, the cubs lulling to sleep in her arms as they drank, Talin watched as Byakko transformed in front of their eyes. "I can't wait, Byakko," she gave a soft squeak as the goddess bounded out of the window, dissolving into the clouds high in the sky.

The hare family stood together, looking out the window, their hearts a mixture of emotions. Weis looked down at the glowing orb in his hand before he looked at his wife. "Have you thought of names for our children?" the brown furred hare asked.

Looking down, she smiled. "Well...I wanted to call him Jasper...and her Byakko..." She said in slight thought, her large ears standing up tall as she gazed back up to the sky, smiling as she looked into the sky where the tiger goddess disappeared, a longing look in her eyes. "As an honour to our goddess, and the promise I made to her."

Weis smiled and hugged her shoulders with one arm, gently petting over both of his cubs' heads. "I wonder when she'll visit again...until then, I hope she's well." The male looked into the clouds where Byakko had vanished.

Epilogue, a few years later...

Five long years had passed, five years where Byakko was having to be both supervisor and warden to the spirits in the Celestial realm which was no mean feat given some of the returning spirits had a thing for mischief.

But after two years, it seemed like the new world the other gods had migrated to had turned on their teachings and seemed more violent and homicidal than the mortals they had been tending to on Earth.

Byakko pretended to mull it over about granting them access back to their home celestial plane and their old forms back, but she only did so to punish and teach them a lesson before trying to help each of the former gods regain some ground back into the hearts of the people.

She first of all aided Suzaku, former guardian of the South since she was closest with the Vermillion bird. Then she helped out Genbu, Black Tortoise of the North. She found him a bit irritating at times but the same could be said for the Tortoise and lastly she teased Seriyuu, Azure Dragon of the east saying she would think about it and he knew he had no power to try and challenge her. They had a long standing rivalry that had been the cause of many a war but that was something she vowed to change from her new perspective and teach, she just wanted her fun whilst she could.

After another year and the other three gods had been re-established, Byakko held up on her promise to visit Talin, Weis and their kits, donning a disguise as a regular white tiger citizen that only Talin could see through as she knocked on the door of their house.

Talin answered the door and gasped. Without hesitation or mindfulness to who was standing there, she gripped around Byakko's middle in a tight hug. "Byakko!" The hare exclaimed. "We were just talking about you." She said quietly and stepped back. She'd grown a bit, the almost invisible stripes had grown darker with time on her white fur. Not to the point of being black, but a dulled grey. Her ears stood tall, her belly seemingly once again rounded, she blushed as she invited the goddess in.

"I'm glad I am remembered, and to be truthful I have yearned to see you all again in the flesh and fur, but it seems you have had a busy time extending the family huh?" She said playfully with her hands stroking Talin's rounded belly.

Blushing, she nodded and gave a satisfied sound as the tigress gently rubbed her belly. "Weis had to keep me from breaking the orb you gave us...I so badly wanted to see you," she admitted as the door closed and from the back of the small house came a loud squeak and two cubs came rushing out of the back room.

"And I wanted to see you all so much, I...did check up on you all from time to time between trying to get the other three gods back up to speed with things," Byakko said, keeping to her own counsel that she did catch them once or twice making more kits.

"Mom!" The pale furred female cried out and ducked behind her legs. "Jasper's being mean!" She looked just like a miniature version of her mother, stripes and everything seemed to match.

"She wouldn't let me play alone!" The boy said before he saw Byakko and lifted his ears. "Who's she?" Jasper asked bluntly, his right hand that had been glowing a dull orange fizzled out.

Both had grown up to about a third the height of their mother already in the few years Byakko had been on the celestial plane. Their jaws were more square and bodies more thickly built than either of their biological parents.

"My my, look at you both, you have grown so much," Byakko said as she picked both of them up onto her shoulders as though they wore as much as a bag of rice. "I'm...a friend of your mother's," Byakko said, deciding to keep it hush for now. No good telling them she was also their mother and having them spreading it round the school and neighbourhood they were the son and daughter to a god.

Weis stepped out from the back room, he'd started to get a bit of grey to his muzzle, but he couldn't look happier. Every now and again, he'd see a shimmering around her as she picked up their children. He passed it off as something playing in the corner of his eye. At least at first. "It's good to see you again." he said just as Byakko leaned in to whisper to the cubs.

"Now you two, remember that family is important. There is no bond stronger than love and family, so you look after each other and behave for your parents okay?" She then whispered into their ears, "and be gentle with your pop, I think one day you might run the poor thing into the ground."

The pair of them gave squeaks as they were spoken to, being lifted so high off the ground they naturally gripped around her neck to support themselves. At the mention of their father, they giggled and nodded. "Okay." Byakko, the female hare said quietly while her brother said nothing before they were put down.

She gently placed them down and greeted Weis, bringing him in for a hug, "Don't worry, I'll train them once they are 10 and get their powers under control," she said before smiling to the group. "Right then, time for home cooking!"

"I would...appreciate that." He gave her a hug in turn, ears twitching, only coming halfway up. He smiled and took the cubs by the hand. "On both offers." He said as he took them towards the back. "Let's get you kids cleaned up. Let the ladies have some time to catch up," he spoke cheerfully to them as both groaned at the prospect of a bath.