Yuri: Harbinger of the Otters 9

The next few days were a bit of a blur. A magical child can only be born from two magical parents. My dragonic and demonic natures were enough to qualify me as that and Iggy has likewise had a magical nature as long as I've known him. 

A normal creature drains the mothers stamina over time as its within her womb. It drains her energy over the course of months in average cases. I am not an average case. My body's gestation period, when I am not speeding it up, is roughly 3 days. In that time, I experience the symptoms in a much shorter span of time. Were I not part demon and part dragon, this kind of thing would kill me or leave me near death. 

This however, was not a normal child, this was the child of two dragons, which isn't a simple matter. If Iggy hadn't had so much magic energy it might have been a bit easier. Iggy was on the high end spectrum of magical creatures though. All in all, it could be said that, in this regard, we were a terrible match for each other.

As I came in and out of conciousness, I saw the cave around us. It reminded me of the first time Iggy and I had been alone together. It had happened in a cave just like this. He taught me about hunting when he caught a deer and I taught him to fish. Although technically it wasn't normal fishing since I would go swimming and catch the fish in the water. We laughed so much together.

The others brought me warm towels and various other things to ease the strain that was on my body. Iggy had cast various enchantments on the cave to keep us from being found. He instructed Adamaris and Hagan on what to bring and each time I came to conciousness I could feel his hand gripping mine. He was really warm and soothing.

Suddenly, I woke up and realized that my stomach was swollen. The egg was going to come out before long. Thankfully, it seemed to be reaching the end of the stage where it drained my energy. That means that today was day three and my body was preparing to eject it from inside me, sending it into the world with us. I still wasn't strong enough to stand however.

"Hey there sleepyhead, how are you doing?" Iggy said as he nuzzled my neck, glad to see that I had survived one of the worst parts. He was as affectionate as ever, he didn't even seem that phases that I might have actually died from that. I loved that about him, he was such a pure hearted creature.

"I'm alright." I told him, mustering as much strength as I could to reassure him my words were the truth. Still, I don't quite think I managed to pull that off as well as I would have liked. It was frustrating, admitting that I was in a position of weakness. AS opposed to staying in such a place, I decided to shift the conversation to a better place. I had to put on a façade of strength to avoid demoralizing my subordinates. "Have you guys all prepared a nest for the child? Proper enchantments included?"

"Absolutely mistress, we've done just as master Iggy instructed." Adamaris chimed. 

"Wait, who are you calling master?" Iggy questioned her.

"Why you of course, master." Adamaris replied. "Is there something wrong? Would you like to punish me master?" She said that last part more as a suggestion or a hopeful plea.

Iggy looked like he was going to say something, but I put my hand on his shoulder and shook my head. Something about Adamaris had definitely grown on me. I can't really explain it but somehow I had grown to adore this strange behavior of hers. Our group was starting to feel like a family, it brought a huge grin to my face as I began to laugh. It was quite infectious apparently because we were all laughing in a moment. I don't know that any of them even knew what they were laughing at, but it felt good all the same.

I was hit by a powerful contraction suddenly and the situation dawned on me. I realized that I was about to give birth and I squeezed on Iggy's shoulder, wincing in pain. Dragon eggs are massive compared to what I've become accustomed to laying. I've seen live birth once or twice in my life, a dragon egg was easily two or three times that size. I wasn't great when it came to measuring and I may have been exaggerating a bit. Still though, dragon eggs are nothing to scoff at, they are huge and I felt my insides stretching painfully as it slowly made its decent through my body.

The egg was clearly not in nearly as much of a rush to get out of me as I was to get it out of me, this much was quickly apparent to me. It was clearly enjoying its time inside me to be in any kind of hurry to leave. I couldn't say I enjoyed having it inside me half as much, however, as I struggled and willed it out of me as if doing so would somehow speed up the process. Had I any sort of telekinetic powers, I would have surely been able to shoot that thing outside me like a cannon firing its load. Sadly, this was just a fantasy, it wasn't even a quarter of the way out on its journey out, it hadn't even hit the air.

Iggy and Hagan supported me, holding my arms tightly, supporting me as best as they could and helping me get into a squatting position as Adamaris hugged me from behind and nuzzled me reassuringly. It brought tears to my eyes that my family cared so much about me. The squatting position, with my legs wide open was probably something Iggy researched, I had no idea which method was best, this was hardly something I'd experimented with.

I screamed and gripped them tightly. Childbirth has its ups and downs normally, but this was almost pure pain, the thing inside me was a massive behemoth and I would have probably died from the strain by now if it wasn't for those currently supporting me. I felt it sliding along inside me. It felt like forever but I'm sure it wasn't long before it was halfway through me, three quarters out. Finally, it was hitting the air at last.

The morale boost that I gained when I realized that it was so close to exiting my body was immediately overshadowed by the fact that it was almost out of me. This massive thing which easily felt a dozen times the size of the passage it was being slid through, was stretching me well beyond reasonable limits. Had I still had my magic, I would have been able to easily stretch myself wide enough without much pain.

I screamed and dug my claws into Hagan and Iggy as the pain reached newer and newer heights. It wasn't even a tenth of the way out. I tried to spread my legs wider as my body was hit by waves of pain, this did little if anything to lessen the horrible sensations I was feeling.

With one massive contraction, the egg was suddenly halfway out of me, it was almost at its widest point and Adamaris, realizing the opening, grabbed what she could get a hold of and pulled it. I wondered how she was able to grip something so slippery but the pain quickly drowned out this thought. In a massive flash of pain where I suddenly lost all sense of my surroundings, I felt it leave me...