Plan Execution (Part II)

Blaze was running in his beast form, with Jessica riding on him inside the dense forest. He was making big leaps from time to time to avoid hurdles like tree roots or plant vines lying on the ground while ensuring that Jessica was comfortable, but he didn't know that she was getting even more excited. Jessica learned to ride horses from her grandfather, who had some good-quality horses on his farm, and because she spent her childhood playing with them, she became a pro at horseback riding, even winning many equestrian tournaments in college, which added another honour to her record.

Today she was suddenly getting reminded about each and every memory she created with her family, even when she was riding a tiger instead of a horse, which suddenly made her giggle. She was enjoying her ride when she suddenly noticed that Blaze started to slow down and, in the end, stopped. He suddenly turned into his beastman form, and Jessica, who was sitting on him earlier, was now hanging on him while grabbing his neck from behind. She instantly let go of him and stood on the ground while looking here and there.

Blaze took her hand and said, "I'll show you the stone tree, it's right here" and dragged her in the right direction. Just after crossing a big bush, Jessica saw some trees with amber-colored barks and green leaves. She went near them to carefully observe the shiny gem-looking bark when Blaze explained to her, "This colourful thing is the tree resin, which becomes unbreakable after drying, and when these trees mature, they will cover themselves in their resin and become like stone." Jessica touched one of the trees whose surface looked hard and dry; she couldn't believe that it literally felt like a smooth rock, just like Blaze told her.

For showing Jessica, Blaze went toward a normal tree having girth more than a meter and suddenly punched it with a lot force which broke the tree instantly. Jessica was stunned after seeing the act because if someone tried to cut the tree using a chainsaw it will at least take more than ten minutes but blaze did the deed with his hands alone and that to with a single punch, she was in awe about how strong he was when he went toward the stone resin tree and punched it with the same force but surprisingly it only cracked on its surface, then he said " Normal beastmen can't break it even if they try like this, but not for us-" and punched another stone tree which was twice the thickness of the first one, this time his punch was covered in green light and the thrust was so strong that the surrounding felt the gust of the wind and because Jessica was also standing nearby she had to stabalise herself and when she opened her eyes she saw that the whole tree was turned into fragments and wood dust.

Jessica, who was standing open-mouthed and didn't know how to react, clapped in reverence. This kind of scene she only saw in movies, which were created by special effects, but today she witnessed that something like this can happen in reality too. "Just how strong is he? This kind of power is just inhumane, wait a minute; he is really not a human," she thought.

Looking at her face full of admiration, Blaze smiled and scratched his forehead while saying "it was nothing." When Jessica noticed his hand was red and blue on the knuckles, which made her smile disappear, she rushed toward him and grabbed his hand to get a proper look at the injury. She slowly and carefully blew on his beautiful hand and was about to say something reprimanding when Blaze took her in an embrace by pulling her by the waist using his other hand and slowly asking, "Are you worried about me?"

"Why won't I be worried? Why did you do that when you knew that you could get injured? What if it leaves a scar on your hand?" She chided him in a worried tone, still holding his hand "Oh right, you can heal it back yourself, right? Heal this now," she added as she recalled another ability of his.

Hearing her worry Blaze smile and slowly replied "Of-course I can heal back myself but…." He looked into her eyes and continued, "Will I be getting any other chance when you'll be this worried for me? If not, then I don't mind leaving it like this."

His words made Jessica petrified on her spot because she still couldn't process his words in her mind, "Is this supposed to mean what I am thinking? "Isn't he trying to flirt with me right now?' she thought, and when she looked at the flirtatious look in his eyes, she became even more sure.

Jessica abruptly let go of his hand and removed the other one from her waist, grinning as she backed up a step and said, "You should try something else because I won't fall for this kind of trick after all, it's your hand... "and moved toward him when she noticed his surprised face as if caught red handed, she continued "and don't worry I can always worry about you since you already look like a 'younger brother' to me" while rubbing his head.

Her words 'younger brother' made Blaze stupefied and his reaction made Jessica laugh out loud, she noticed that he was about to fall into agony because of her words so she said while turning around to hide her laughing face "Don't worry, I don't have any intension on making you one though so heal back yourself". It wasn't hard for Jessica to notice his feelings or intentions and it was really fun teasing him too as she never did try doing something like this ever, but she still knew when to stop because taking a joke much far will definitely hurt him specially when she isn't sure about accepting those feelings herself, not only this there was Levi too who already confessed his so she thought 'let's wait till he decides to open up about this, I will think of something then' .

Blaze took a relieving breath, and with a single flick, his hand healed back without leaving any scar. He looked toward her figure and grinned while thinking, 'No matter what, you will become my mate, and I will make this sure'.

He hurriedly followed her and took her hand to lead the way, They walked for some time and reached a place surrounded with white and pink berry bushes. Jessica identified them at first sight as the berries that Levi fed her yesterday, so she asked Blaze to stop as she wanted to collect some to bring back. Looking at her collecting and eating the berries, Blaze couldn't help but admire her while helping her. He looked in their direction forward and couldn't help but smile because the amorous flower field wasn't that far.

Yes, that was the plan that Ell had. Yesterday, when they were both alone in the cave, Ell asked Blaze to take Jessica with him to the amorous flower field that they once found in the dark forest. Because it was an extremely strong and effective aphrosidic, "amarous flowers," which were rare and could only be found in a group of one to two plants at random places, were usually picked up by males to approach their favourite females, or males bring them to their mates for inducing the false heat effect so that they could mate even if it was not mating season. When Ell found the whole field of such a flower in the Dark Forest, which was surprising, he was not happy but was extra vigilant because these flowers affect males too, as they will make them get into ruts and lose their senses. After being one of the males who became victims of these flowers, Ell told his experience along with instructions to those guys, and because of that, none of the guys went toward that place.

But when Ell noticed Jessica, who was in heat, wasn't acting like a female in heat, he couldn't think of anything else but these flowers, so they planned to take her there, and when those flowers started working, she would crave mating with someone. Using this opportunity, Blaze will mate with her, and Ell, who will be coming behind them, will also take this golden chance.

On his plan, Blaze questioned him with a worried face, "What if she starts saying later that we forced ourselves on her?"

"Then we will just tell her that it was she who forced us to do so, and I know that she will accept it, thinking of it as a sense of responsibility," replied Ell to his worry in a leisurely tone as if there was nothing to worry about.

"But what if she cancels our spousal marks? Won't we become stray?" Blaze again stated his concern.

Ell looked straight in his eyes and said, "Have you told her how to cancel a spousal mark? Does she know anything about stray beasts? If not, then aren't your concerns useless?" When he saw that Blaze wasn't in a state to refute, he said while patting his shoulder, "Don't stress out, my plan is full proof. You just have to ensure that you just do your part carefully because I will take care of the rest." This convinced Blaze upto some extent.