The Drake and the Dryad

Sam ran up to me a second later. "Mason! What did you see?"

"I saw Zoey, or at least, her outline. She was mostly invisible, I could see a shimmer when she moved too quickly."

"The bitch followed us!?" Sam's eyes flared and the hair on my forearms stood on end. She growled like a cat and began stomping into the brush.

"Whoa, whoa!" I pulled her into a hug, grimacing at the painful tingles and spasms from her shocking me. "I'm not even completely sure it was Zoey, herself. Weird shit is going on. What if it's just an illusion leading us to a trap?"

She sagged in my grip and the high-pitched buzzing I'd barely heard wound down. "Right. You're right. Sorry, didn't mean to shock you." She shoved her face deeper into my chest.

"It's no problem, it was kinda hot honestly. Seeing you like that, a step away from being wreathed by lightning. Super cool." I stroked her back, earning myself a giggle when I palmed an ass cheek.

"Hmm, I think you charging like that was hotter. How fast d'you think you were going? That was definitely superhuman." What?

"I was just running normally. It... wasn't that...fast?" I looked back at the meadow. There was a line of divots in the ground, spaced a couple meters apart, and a small crater at where I started.

"Dude, you took like three steps to cross fifty feet. I don't even know how you didn't send me flying." She hopped up to peck my slack jaw. "Congrats, you're a superhero, Mason."

I nodded slowly. I kinda liked the sound of that.

A burst of light bathed the meadow.

Gemma was... Hatching?

Hanako—

Mason blurred from one side of the clearing to the other, covering more than a dozen meters in less than a second. Curiously, there was almost no sound to his movements, despite the clouds of broken earth and shredded flora in his wake. I filed away the information to be considered later. Gemma was more important.

Oh! Brave, beautiful, brilliant, Gemma. My heart soared at your forgiveness! I never should have denied you. Curse my prideful nature! Three long years apart and I can feel my aching heart finally beginning to heal.

"The camera is recording the transformation Ms.Tanaka!" My favorite student reported. Such a diligent girl, even despite her new flighty demeanor. As she said on Monday, Annie was far happier and more confident— much better than that timid waif she once was!

"Thank you, Annie. You know I'd prefer to be called Hanako." I brushed a ringlet of hair from Gemma's forehead, my former-and-hopefully-future lover was soon enveloped by an aura of light, roughly faceted like a gemstone. Ha, fitting. Before she decided to follow her passion for reptiles, Gemma was an avid student of geology and collector of precious stones.

Annie knocked me out of my musing. "Sorry, Ms— Hanako. It doesn't feel right to be so informal, especially when I'm recording like this."

I shook my head fondly. "I understand, I just..." Familiar bitterness rose up. "This is not an admonishment of you, to be clear, I feel a blow to my pride every time I'm called miss or Ms instead of Doctor." I bit out the words.

Annie's fascinating eyes widened. "I'm so sorry Hanako, I should have—"

"It's fine. You had no way to know until I told you. I shouldn't—" Gemma's aura began to pulse and condense, derailing any further discussion.

Annie sucked in a breath. "What's happening?"

I had no answer besides the obvious, and I wouldn't belittle her the way a younger, more abrasive Hanako would have. Gemma was shrinking and changing shape within her radiant gemstone. No, not a gemstone...

An Egg.

With a sharp crack the luminous egg shattered like cheap glass. Inside, a small form was uncurling from a fetal position. Large, inquisitive eyes the color of liquid gold and slitted like a snake's took in the surroundings. Bits of shell clattered to the ground, trailing motes of light as they dissolved into nothing.

Gemma rose on a pair of uncertain legs, her digitigrade claws digging into the soft soil. A long, whip-like tail armored in shiny red scales helped her balance. She felt at the stubby horns at her temples with blunt talons and a forked tongue flicked out to taste the air. My heart raced when she smiled up at me, the fangs somehow cute instead of threatening.

Her head tilted to the side then down at herself. "Did I shrink?" A sibilant soprano voice asked. "Ooh, not all of me did!" Gemma grinned when she hefted her proportionally much larger breasts and angled her very wide hips in a provocative manner. My throat went dry as my eyes drank in the view of her shapely body. Gemma had always been gorgeous to me, but this...

"Ahh! You're so adorable~" Annie squealed to the side. I sent a tangle of roots to hold her in place when she made moves to pick Gemma up.

I coughed when the pink girl thumped to the ground with a yelp. "We'll need to measure you, but yes, I'd say you are now just over four and a half feet tall." It was strange and exciting to be so much taller than her.

"Holy shit, you're a giant now, Hana!" The coppery skin of the diminutive woman shouldn't have been able to visibly blush, but she did anyway. She hugged me around the waist and shoved her head into my breasts. "I think I like it!"

My cheeks warmed at her ministrations. I wrapped my arms around her, pressing her head deeper into my bosom, the almost metallic texture of her hair tickling my sensitive skin. "I'm enjoying your new stature as well." This close, I could see that what appeared to be human skin is actually a collection of very small scales.

The newly reptilian woman bit gently at my nipple. Grinning wickedly at my moan, her tail coiled around my legs, which reflexively melded back into a stem and roots system to keep us from falling. My vines tightened to pin her in place. She gasped, the tiny scales that made up her skin went through a rainbow of color.

Gemma wiggled in my restraints, her chromatic scales settled on a warm pink and red. "Making up for lost time, eh Hana?"

It was like nothing in the world existed but for her. I lifted her into a passionate kiss, an apology and a promise. My petals closed us off, hiding us from the noise outside and coating us in violet light.

Our mouths separated and I rested my head between her horns. "I never should have driven you away, Gemma. I was an idiot, I don't deserve your forgiveness."

She licked her lips clean of nectar. "Enough, I knew what you were doing, we were both stupid." She ran kisses along my cheek and up to my ear. "I could have kept my temper better, talked sense into you." Her tail brushed the petals of my second flower. "All that's behind us." She pressed her own heated petals into my abdomen. Whispering, "Now, are you gonna help me test out this new pussy I got, or do I have to play by myself?"

New, thicker vines bound her in place. Then, a particularly special one, dripping with nectar, began to tease her entrance. "Oh? Do you mean this tiny pussy?" At my mercy, she could only make a guttural groan that didn't fit her new size. "Hmm, was that a no?"

She whined when I loosened her bindings and retracted my special vine. "Stop teasing and just fuck me!"

I smirked. "Are you suuurre?" The broad head popped into place. "I might be too big for you!"

"Yesyesyes! Fuc—guhhmmmphfmm~" I kissed her silent. Savoring her squirms and squeaks as my vines explored, her scales shimmered and rippled in an array of mesmerizing color.

I chuckled into our kiss. Oh! I'm so glad my Gemma is back with me!

Mason—

The three of us sat awkwardly around the trembling flower bud. Faint noises of pleasure occasionally escaping it.

I scratched the back of my head. "It's been an hour, I don't think they're gonna stop anytime soon."

Annie shivered in my lap, a dazed smile pulling at her lips. "We-hah!- can't leave them he-here!"

"We can't stay much longer either." Sam said. "Didn't your mom ground you? She'll call Mason's dad or the cops if we spend the night."

"She's right, Annie. We have all the notes and video. What are we accomplishing by staying here?" I asked.

She huffed into my shoulder. "What if Zoey or some other person comes by?"

"I'm pretty sure she's working alone. If she isn't, and brings an army— how will we be able to help? If she's following me we might be drawing danger down on them!"

Annie groaned in frustration. "Fine! But, we wait one more hour!" She crossed her arms over her huge breasts, daring us to argue.

Sam shrugged at my glance and I sighed into Annie's hair. "Alright, another hour."

So, we waited. The beams of light from the setting sun highlighting the purple flower bud.