6 Planting the seeds (ch6)

In the wide basement, Lady Jessica was fiddling with bottles field with viscous liquids. Her creepy smile created the weird vibe of the crazy scientist's lab. Time to time she was stupidly giggling and saying: "excellent, excellent!" - while shaking the glasses.

"Oh, the Lady has some skills" The creature inside the boy talked to itself.

"To distill and blend that many blood essences of different demonic beasts! We are quite lucky, little fella. With such good care, you would be able to awaken me quite fast. Gosh just imagining all these years I'll have to spend talking to myself and just observing drives me crazy already! " Black mass wriggled inside Paul.

"These essences will be added to the everyday ration." She said with a satisfied tone.

"Now for the bathing routine" After putting the glasses with green and red liquids aside, she went for the next item on the menu.

"Hm, improving his skin toughness now will decrease the absorption speed in the future, so that's a no go. Boy, let's increase elasticity first, I bet our boy will grow very fast and we don't want to leave scars on his body." Lifting the bottles she kept mumbling something incomprehensible.

"Speaking of scars, let's improve cell sustainability. He'll get a hard time being ripped if he will get those cells packed up with energy, but who cares if he will be strong and have demonic stamina." She lifted some package and frowned.

"Great mother of gods! Huh, why I didn't think of it? We can alter his genes a bit so he would be able to absorb more nutrients and if we are at that, maybe let him absorb some of them through his skin?" She laughed crazily.

"But what about toxins? He will bypass the liver and kidneys this way. Why not alter him the way he could store toxins away and use them? Or absorb them directly?" Jessica started speaking faster and faster and her speech was becoming less and less coherent. Then she froze and turned silent for a minute.

"Why is it so hard to make a decision when it comes to my own child? Too many ways to go and so hard to chose. Should I make him a humanoid monster or shall I let him live a more normal life?" as Bene put the ingredients down she sat directly on the table.

"I want my child to live a wonderful carefree life, but how can he get it without enough strength? I want him to love and be loved, but how can he attain love while being a monster? But what is the exact definition of monstrosity? " As Jessica was speaking the resolve in her eyes was hardening and temperature in the room dropped. Finally, icy needles formed in her irises and she sat properly on the chair, taking a lot of papers from under the table.

"My child deserves to be the best, let's take the blood skin and bone samples first. After checking his affinities we'll develop the best plan to push forward." She covered her hand and scalpel with thin ice layer, then she added an extra sharp edge to the scalpel. Then she cooled down the portion of skin on Pauls' chest.

"Sorry, boy, it may hurt a bit." She smiled apologetically, as the thin cut was made on kids chest, then she made two more cuts and took the portion of skin and muscle out, afterward she landed her eyes on now visible bones.

"God, I swear, this would hurt like hell, but my child shall be accustomed to this feeling cause pain is the only way to the true strength." As she firmed her resolve, Jessica hastily froze the rib, and cut the portion of it out, then she took the bone marrow out. Only then Paul started screaming.

"Believe me, little Paul, mom loves you the most. After your daddy ofcourse." Bene Jessica smiled wryly as she was patching the cut up. She poured some liquids directly into the wound, then pushed some mushy thing into the bone, afterwards she added a few more layers of strange ingredients onto the lesion, before pulling Pauls skin a bit and creating ice clips holding everything together.

"See? It's all good now." She muttered with obvious satisfaction.

"Oh Great Budha and seven sluts, your mother is goddamn crazy!" Black mass in the boys' soul was moving erratically

"To put demonic marrow inside the little child's body? What is she trying to create? Now I really wonder if we are blessed or cursed with this Franky's bride of a mother." The creature sounded very nervous but no one could hear it.

"Now that demonic wolverines bone marrow is in, Paul will get improved regeneration powers. Not something to monstrous so, just about two times of a normal human boost. It could be improved so, but I wonder if anyone would be crazy enough to damage themselves time after time again." As if answering Jessica chuckled.

After sorting the samples Jessica raised the now calmed boy and put him into some kind of child' bathtub. Gently laying the kid down, she first poured in warm water, waited a bit and then added red smelly liquid. Bubbles started to appear on the Pauls skin, scar on the chest was closing up so fast it could be seen by the eye. Noting that everything went well and there were no abruptions or rejections of foreign matter, she added some pale green jelly, which melted upon the contact with the water, creating some greyish smoke. Not waiting a second she sprinkled greenish-black powder inside the tube, instantly the smoke curled down and started to flow into the boy through his viscera.

As if feeling that this smoke would be highly beneficial, Paul inhaled deeply and held his breath. Truth to be told it was not Pauls natural reaction, but the mixture of drugs that made him do it. Inside Pauls' lungs, black smoke billowed. Some strange blackish red mushrooms with white spots started to grow. Jessica started to cool the kid down, to slow his blood flow and let him better fight the asphyxia.

After half an hour pinkish white and yellow sprouts began to grow on the mushrooms heads like a reversed umbrella they grew upside each forming some tall goblet like figures out of the tissue. At first, the black smoke started to faint, but it was just the black color in it, the smoke started to stratify into red, orange and pale cyan stripes. When the smoke fully reformed red layer touched the goblet like tissue as if waiting for it great suction force started to gush out of the mushroom heads, greedily absorbing red layer. As the Red smoke entered the tissue it started to grow wider, previously thin threads started to grow into fat wires.

Finally, red smoke was exhausted and the layer of yellow touched the mushrooms, in the moment of contact previous goblet shape of mushroom heads started to change into the shape of plates. The smoke itself was not absorbed in the process it just was descending, pushing the wires down. When all "goblets" opened as they formed the layer which resembled the original lung but without skin.

At last the yellow smoke came into contact with newly formed lung frame, and it didn't act like gas at all. It was like thick syrup or honey spreading on the branches of the frame, slowly flowing and soaking the tissue, while enveloping it. Time flew and yellow liquid was exhausted, as pale cyan gas came down on the tissue veins and arteries started to form, while the second layer shrunk and formed some holes on it. Cyan gas started to flow through this halls, touching the mushroom legs and then the original lung, slowly forming uniform nets of arteries and veins that were interconnected with the original net.

At first, everything went smoothly, but when the leftover gases came in contact with the original layer of lung tissue, where there was no mushroom, the tissue started to bubble and burst. Unexpectedly the blood that came through this burst was dark blue, and when it came into contact with the gasses they got absorbed into the blood. This blood then started to slowly rise down the Pauls' throat, were ever it passed the tissue seemed to get more firm and compact, creating more resilient cells that could absorb air before the lungs did.

"God this child is created to accept useful modifications and reject harmful once. I wonder if it is my Bene Monturosu blood that makes him such a scary man." It was evident that Jessica was extremely happy, as she watched how some black goo was oozing out of Pauls mouth and nose.

"Here, here, let me help you." Jess murmured as she pushed her hand onto the boy's stomach and poured her magic inside, guiding the excesses out of the body.

"Now you have a good push in your development. Having nearly double the regeneration power and lung capacity you should grow strong and healthy, be able to digest more modifications without having much stress. Oh, this thought needs to be noted down. Let's ask your father to hunt some Croco toads, iron stomach proteases and essence sucking leeches. With these, we will improve your digestive ability. Mother wants you to be able to it everything she cooks and be happy after all." The ice on Jessicas hands broke into a fine mist, and her crazy laugher made it spread in weird shapes. Surprisingly, little Paul started laughing too.

"Such a sweet child you are. See here, you accept my gifts with such grace and didn't even cry! You know what? If we started to upgrade your basic sustainability functions, then lets max them out!" As Lady Jessica pulled her little child out of the bathtub, she changed into being a doting and loving mother again.

"This woman is definitely crazy, but your true body is so lucky to have her as your mother." The Black creature was Head over hills with happiness.

"I wonder how high can we rise, little monster, with such crazy parents you have!" It seemed that even this entity got tired along with the boy, as it drifted down and curled inside the boy's soul.

"Goodnight little monster. Goodnight crazy demones!" It uttered excitedly and closed its eyes.