"He will be blessed with child on his coming of age," the monk told my parents.
I know what everyone's thinking - wait, did the monk just say "he"? Guys can get pregnant? Well for me, I can. When I was born, I was born with a penis but instead of having balls, I had an extra flower hole behind my penis. Which is to say - I have female and male organs, just that my male organs aren't entirely developed but neither are my female organs. Or so I thought, until I heard the monk of me utter that sentence.
"What?!" I heard my mum shriek, her usual calm composure lost. "But he's turning 18 years old next week!"
The monk bowed and repeated, "And so he will be blessed with child."
The main reason why I was here with my mum was because she wanted us as a family to pray at one of the famous temples before my coming of age. A coming of age ceremony was a big event where we lived. In China, where magic breathed rampant, it was also a testament to our magic skill.
I was a healer and a good one at that. I could figure out what was wrong with a patient within seconds, sometimes even healing diseases the patient himself didn't know was present. As for my stepbrother, Lan Ting, he was a warrior and could control the element of air. I'd grown up with him and we were very close. We would share with each other what had happened during the day, the good and the bad, the mundane and interesting.
On this fateful day, Lan Ting happened to not have come with us and my mum decided to keep this secret to only among the three of us: my dad, her and myself. The mum's game plan was that since the monk had said that I would become pregnant on my coming of age, that meant that during those 24 hours of my birthday, someone would be with me all the time to prevent some random guy from having sex with me.
It was a great plan, just that my mum never thought of protecting my pussy from my stepbrother's cock. But to be fair, most people wouldn't have thought of that. Heck, even I didn't think of it.
Anyway, as the story goes, Lan Ting only knew that security for me had ramped up during my birthday period and that he was my personal guard for this duration. No one knew how happy I was about this, because I'd always had a crush on him. It was hard to say when I had first started to develop feelings for him, but I just knew that one fine day, I looked at him and my heart started running a marathon in my chest. On top of that, I woke up with slippery folds between my legs that only served to remind me of the hot dream I had about him.
On the eve of my 18th birthday, my mum made Lan Ting keep guard outside of my room. On the day itself, she made sure to stay by my side until my birthday celebration was over. She heaved a sigh of relief the moment we reached home in the late afternoon because to her, it meant that I would be kept safe from being knocked up. Lan Ting was, of course, still my personal guard, so he followed me to my courtyard (our family was rich enough such that each of us could have our own courtyards and rooms).
It was still early and I was a little bored. I decided to open some of the gifts I had received. The most interesting one I had seen so far was a piece of warm jade. It was elongated with multiple runes on it and I couldn't make out what they were. I wasn't even sure who had given it to me.
Just then, Lan Ting entered my room and saw me sprawled on my bed. "What's that?" he asked, gesturing to the warm jade in my hand.
"Not sure. Want to see?" I shrugged, handing over the warm jade to him.
That's when it happened. Just as his fingers touched the warm jade and just as my fingers were about to release it, we could feel an eruption of magic happen, trapping us in my courtyard.
Lan Ting leapt up and attempted to smash the magic barrier but to no avail. This gave the both of us a shock, because Lan Ting was one of the strongest warriors in the empire and if he couldn't break the barrier then...well, we were screwed.
Just then, multiple images appeared around us. Translucent, glowing drawings floated around us in a circle. I leaned in to see what they were and flushed red. They were basically sex positions in various forms! Lan Ting, who had formed a protective stance the moment the drawings flashed in front of us, also stiffened and I could see his ears turn beet red.
"What're we supposed to do?" I asked, trying to break the awkwardness. "I'll try to break us out of this circle," Lan Ting said, and pulled me into the crook of his arm while taking out a dagger. He pressed on the circle at a random spot and the next moment I knew, the words "The Clasp" shone above our heads.
