The twisted minions followed Jennifer back to Miranda's classroom-turned-hellish-incubation chamber. On the floor, unconscious and naked was petite blonde senior, Heidi Smith, two-time homecoming queen. Beside her, also unconscious, were seven males of varying age. Only one looked young enough to have been a student, the rest had probably been snatched off the street.
"Heidi," Jennifer called sweetly, brushing the girl with a tentacle.
Heidi awoke groggily, eyes going wide with terror as she saw the demons. She screamed, backpedaling away from them.
"Help!" Heidi screamed.
"But I am helping, Heidi." Jennifer sneered. "Helping you awaken from your meaningless life. Soon, you'll be able to apply yourself to something more meaningful than impressing empty-headed boys and wondering what shoes you're going to wear today."
A look of recognition came over Heidi's face. "Oh god, Jen, is that you? What happened to you?"
A fleshy sac sprang like a bear trap from the ground, enveloping Heidi. She struggled against it from inside to no avail. "Let me out of here, Jen! Please!"
"All in good time," Jennifer asserted her will over the room and the sac began to fill with translucent red amniotic fluid. Soon, Heid was submerged, floating inside and holding her breath.
Jennifer commanded the room again and a tentacle rose from the bottom of the sac, slithering its way between Heidi's legs. When it finally plunged inside her womb, Heidi struggled briefly before entering a limp, trance-like state.
Tentacles also ruptured each of the unconscious men. Though the tentacles seemed to merely rend flesh, they were each grappling with the victims' souls.
When a tentacle had claimed that of one of the victims'--a middle-aged man--his body shrank to a husk and the energy was sent into the room. Jennifer immediately redirected it to Heidi's tentacle.
The perverse umbilicus between her legs throbbed as it pumped the man's spiritual energy inside her. Heidi thrashed about, seemingly conscious again, as black lines began to work their way through her pale flesh.
A second burst of soul energy hit her as the second victim was claimed and Heidi's eyes opened wide, revealing two pools of inky blackness, no iris.
Jennifer turned away from the sac to her minions. "When the ritual is complete, we will have a nearly invincible dark dragon capable of leveling entire cities at our disposal. When she's complete, she will be at your disposal, Yuriko. In the meantime, I think you all have work to do."