DoA - Drawlloween 2020: The Brilliant Professor Pumpkin

Spessartine looked left and right, having been inspired quite immensely by those scientists which she had visited earlier. She had been piling up different specimens, hiding them in broken bottles which she collected, placing them all over the rock shelves that she had in her cave, hidden away from the world, the thick kelp hiding the exit and entrance to her cave rather well. There was a secondary net which was made of various shells strung together, designed to alarm her to any intruders while she was experimenting with this.

Yes! She was experimenting, alone and not with those scientists, yes, but she was experimenting and doing a few things that she was interested in doing and looking at! She was figuring things out for herself, she was looking into a variety of different reactions and interactions and she was ever so excited because of it. Running through her mind was a variety of different questions about this and she had carefully taken a few samples of different species, taking venoms from some, other liquids and magical stones. She carefully transferred a few drops of venom into another larger glass bottle of hers, several of which were scattered around on the dark sand of her.

She looked left and right as she carefully swirled the venom in with the other liquids in that glass vial, eyes narrowing. The liquid slowly shifted from a clear colour, but with the venom placed into it and swirling around, it slowly began to fizzle, bubbling, the glass slowly beginning to heat up again, making her smile that little bit more. She gave a chirp in delight as she noticed that the clear liquid shifted down into a red, making her heart swell a bit. After all this time, she’d finally managed it!

The last component she needed was the venom to tie all of these ingredients together, even if it made very little sense.

Turning to the carved pumpkin that she had officially, brutally destroyed, she gave a small smile. “Here we go, I’ll get you all fixed up…” She said softly, pulling the orange parts together and holding them there with a flipper, carefully pouring the liquids onto the fleshy parts of the pumpkin.

A few moments later, the flesh bubbled gently, before congealing slightly more, the skin knitting together, the pumpkin beginning to heat up… And something began to shift. Start to… Beat?

Moments later, the pumpkin opened its mouth, an orangey tongue sticking out of it, panting happily, making silent barks at her, joyfully and thankful. Spessartine squeaked in alarm, before snatching it up, and cuddling it gently, giggling as it licked her, affectionately, like a pup licking its owner.

“It only took me a few weeks, I know, I’m a brilliant professor!” She laughed gently, smiling widely, knowing that it was true.