Allura and Beacon had a lot of weight to lose after their gorging at Thanksgiving. Though thanks to their Animalian metabolism, that wasn't an impossible challenge. Though they were pushing themselves to lose that weight before Christmas. Some people would make this a New Year's resolution, but Beacon had a good reason to lose that weight before the New Year: hir parents were coming over for Christmas.
Fortunately, Beacon was able to motivate hir mate and hirself to slim down. Well, not completely slim down. That extra mass had to go somewhere. Beacon lifted up hir shirt to look at hir rock-hard abs. Shi was glad shi didn't have a hanging belly, but shi hadn't fully expected hir body image to reverse so much. Already well-toned after hir conversion, shi now had some serious muscles. Shi also gained several inches to her breasts and ass, in the right ways. It made hir feel like a real amazon.
Just then, shi heard a knock at the door. "Beacon, I think that's your parents," called Allura.
Beacon pulled hir shirt back down and asked, "Ok, are you presentable?"
"We don't have to wear the itchy sweater, do we?" asked Allura.
"Not as long as you don't look flashy," said Beacon as shi headed for the door.
"But we're always flashy," said Allura, hir angler glowing.
"Very funny," said Beacon, "Just make sure that's the only light you're shining. I don't want to make my folks crosser than they are."
"Why would they be cross?" asked Allura with concern.
But Beacon had already opened the door. Shi had to remind hirself to look down, considering how much taller shi was after converting. "Hi Mom, hi Dad," shi said.
Hir parents were on the short side, much like Beacon was when shi was human. Clearly she took a lot after hir mother, who looked nearly identical to hir human form, minus the goth accessories. Actually, Beacon may have inherited more of hir size from hir father, considering hir mother was only slightly shorter than average, but hir father was shorter than her.
"Beatrice! Oh my goodness, you're bigger than I thought," said Mr. Deacon.
"You haven't been taking steroids, have you?" asked Mrs. Deacon.
"No, I haven't," said Beacon, "I don't need steroids. It comes with being an Animalian.
"Well, are you going to show us in?" asked Mr. Deacon.
Beacon stepped aside to let hir parents in. "Allura, these are my parents. Mom, Dad, this is my mate, Allura."
"Ah, so you're our..." Mrs. Beacon hesitated before saying uncertainly, "Son-in-law? Or is it daughter-in-law?"
Allura thought it over before saying, "We're not sure. Beacon, what do you think we are to your parents?"
"Beacon?" asked Mr. Deacon.
"Yeah, I shortened my name. Didn't I tell you guys?" asked Beacon.
"So, you're not carrying the Deacon name?" asked Mrs. Deacon.
"It's only a nickname, I didn't legally change my name," said Beacon, "Also, Allura, I'd probably call you the spawn-in-law."
"Spawn-in-law. Ha, sounds like something you keep behind a barbed wire fence," said Mr. Deacon jokingly.
"Dad..." said Beacon, sounding embarrassed.
Allura was really confused. An anglerfish in the deep didn't have complicated relationships. The male attached itself to a female, became her gonads, and she'd lay eggs that will hatch and swim off on their own. Allura wasn't quite sure what the interaction shi was seeing was. "Aren't you supposed to be cross?" shi asked.
Beacon sighed and said, "Excuse hir bluntness. There isn't much socializing in the ocean depths."
Mr. Deacon turned to Allura and said, "Our daughter has turned herself into a dual-sexed wrestler from the abyss. If we had a problem with that, we wouldn't be here."
"Dad, I'm not a wrestler," said Beacon.
"You aren't? You're big enough to be one," said Mr. Deacon.
"Then what is the problem?" asked Allura.
"The problem is that our daughter had gotten married and didn't think to invite us to the wedding," said Mrs. Deacon.
"I didn't think you'd like the theme," said Beacon.
"It doesn't matter that you had a zombie wedding," said Mrs. Deacon.
"Actually, it was more of a drowned revenant wedding," said Allura.
"What matters is our little girl was getting married," said Mr. Deacon, "Even if she wasn't little anymore."
"Or completely a girl either," said Beacon.
"Beatrice, I don't think you're going to be able to fully convince to think of you in anything but the feminine pronouns, even if you have a... whatever," said Mrs. Deacon.
"We also want to know our grandkids," said Mr. Deacon before looking between the two anglerfish, "No matter who's carrying them."
"We do want Beacon to be the mother first," said Allura, "Though we wouldn't mind being pregnant when it's our season."
"What's all this 'we' and 'our' stuff?" asked Mr. Deacon.
"Allura is technically two fish fused into one," said Beacon, "Shi tends to think of hirself in plural."
"Will all your children be like this?" asked Mrs. Deacon.
Beacon and Allura exchanged glances before Beacon said, "We don't think so. I mean, I think the odds for them all being herms will be very high. I wouldn't want our sons and daughters to have the sexual dimorphism of true anglerfish."
"But we don't think our spawn will speak and think like we do," said Allura, "We were hatched as two. They will be hatched as one."
"Hatched? You're going to lay eggs?" asked Mr. Deacon.
"Maybe. I don't know. We're trying to figure it out as we go along," said Beacon.
"Well, you better not leave us out of it," said Mrs. Deacon, "We want to be in the loop when our grandchildren are born. Even if they won't look like us at all."
"You could always join us," offered Allura.
"Allura, my parents are willing to accept me and you as we are. I don't think we'll convince them to become Animalians like us," said Beacon.
"You got that right," said Mr. Deacon, "Now, you have cooked food here? Or do you prefer sushi?"
"Who doesn't like sushi?" asked Allura.
"Not after a long road trip," said Mrs. Deacon, "I think I better cook. Beatrice, you don't have special diet needs, do you?"
"I think my Thanksgiving feeding frenzy showed I can eat just about anything, except maybe sugary desserts," said Beacon.
"Feeding frenzy?" asked Mrs. Deacon.
"Later," said Beacon quickly. Allura chuckled. This was going to be more entertaining than shi thought.