Note: I am going back to updating a chapter for each story I work on versus a two chapter update. I found pretty hard to do, because I was trying to do two stories at a time, and I kept on wanting to go to my other stories. I have had this chapter done for almost a month, and I am posting it now.
Yuuri and Wolfram's babies are faster than their age group; they are both a little over a year old. My excuse is that in canon there has never been a full-demon and half-demon pairing. Instead of developing behind their peers or with their peers, they are developing a bit faster than normal. Also, Yuuri is a half-demon from Earth, and the demons on Earth appear to age like normal humans. The 'rapid' aging is pretty much a genetic defect.
Babies and Revelations
Yuuri stared at Wolfram in shock; he was not the only one. Everyone except Murata stared in shock too.
"How can I be the father of those babies?" Yuuri asked. "We've never been together like that!"
Wolfram looked away, a blush stained his cheeks.
"You never wanted to be with me like that, but the Maoh did." Wolfram replied.
"What?!" Yuuri exclaimed.
Murata cut in.
"Let's find a private place, so young Lord Bielefeld can tell us his story." Murata said.
Wolfram stood up.
"We can go to my room to talk." Wolfram said.
Wolfram left his youngest son with Conrad. He picked up his daughter and handed her over to Gwendal to hold. Gwendal's cheeks turned red at the sight of his cute niece. Wolfram picked up the oldest son, and game him to Yuuri to hold. Yuuri was not quite sure what to do with the toddler.
"Conrad, Yozak, Murata, help!" Yuuri pleaded.
Conrad handed the baby over to Wolfram, and went over to Yuuri. He helped Yuuri adjust his hold, so that he was holding the toddler properly. After that, he took the baby back from Wolfram, and held the baby close to his chest. Wolfram led him to his room.
The room had a single bed, with three cribs surrounding it. There was a small table next to the bed, and a window was on the same wall that the bed leaned up against. There was a small closet, and near it was a door that led to a bathroom. Everything was neat and tidy.
"Sorry, the room is kind of small." Wolfram told them, as they entered the room.
Conrad was in first; he made a beeline to one of the cribs, and gently laid the now sleeping baby in it. Gwendal entered next, and waited until everyone entered the room, before shutting the door. He wanted privacy. He was still holding his niece when he was joined by Yozak. Conrad stood by the window; he had the best vantage point of the room and everyone in it. Wolfram sat on the bed, and Murata plopped down next to him. Yuuri and his son sat on the other side of Wolfram. Yuuri looked down, and noticed that the toddler in his arms was staring at him.
This baby is adorable. Yuuri thought. Is something this cute really mine?
"Do your children have names?" Murata asked, breaking the silence.
Yuuri noticed that Wolfram jumped slightly, the blonde seemed distracted.
"Yes." Wolfram replied. "Yuuri is holding Yuu, Gwendal is holding Jennifer-Celi, and the baby in the crib is Wolf."
Murata nodded.
"So, do you mind telling us what happened since you went missing?" Murata asked.
Wolfram flinched, while both his brothers tensed. Yozak looked at everyone warily, not sure what he should do. Yuuri wanted to punch Murata for being so insensitive, and asking the blonde to relive what happened to him. Murata did not seem fazed.
"I'll keep guard outside." Yozak said.
Yuuri watched Yozak leave; it seemed that the redhead did not feel that he should be around for such a sensitive issue. Once he was gone, Wolfram started his story. He spoke about his encounter with the Maoh, which caused Yuuri to turn bright red in embarrassment. He also told them that he did not know he was pregnant right away. He told them about the book he read, and how there was a rare line on his father's side that enabled males to give birth. He also told them how scared he was, and that he did not want to ruin Yuuri's life, so he fled.
He did not want to ruin my life? Yuuri thought.
Wolfram continued.
"I didn't fully know where I was going. I didn't want to go to my Uncle Waltorana's home, because he would have given away my secret. Uncle Stoffel was not an option at all! So, I fled in a direction I have never taken before. After riding without rest, I ended up in this village. I planned to continue through it, but I had collapsed. When I woke up again, I was in this room; the Innkeeper was keeping watch over me. While he took care of me, he told me that the village I was in was where people fled to escape their previous lives. Most people living here are members of the Demon tribe that have human spouses. They fled so that their half-breed children would not be prosecuted against.
The Innkeeper said that the village has demons, humans, and half-breeds that migrated as well, because they did not want to live life hating each other. The Innkeeper himself is a half-demon, his mother was a demon, and his father was a human. They were among the few that founded the village. So, he was born here, and he grew up here.
While I was recovering, he told me about the Ice Demon Tribe. The Ice Demons were a small genetic group that broke off from the Water Demons years ago. Most Ice Demon tribes consisted of at least tem members, sometimes more, and sometimes less. He told me that Ice Demons are very pale, with white hair and blue eyes. The tribe near this village has twenty members, and each summer a few would enter the village to gather food for the winter, and them they would return home.
The Innkeeper offered me a place here, because he figured out I was pregnant, and didn't want a scared young demon out on his own. When I was getting heavier with my children, the locals went out of their way to provide me with the things I would need. They made sure I saw a doctor, and that I was well-fed. The doctor found out I would be having twins, and the locals built cribs for them. They taught me about taking care of children, and asked me what I would name them. They even got scared when the doctor told them that I would get a C-section, they also made sure to get a nursemaid when it was revealed that I would be unable to nurse my babies.
During that time, the blonde man and his lackeys were still considered locals. He made me really uncomfortable, so I avoided him when I could. The problem was that everywhere I went; he seemed to be there before me. He always asked me questions like, 'do you know the gender of the children you'll have,' 'when is the C-section,' and 'who could abandon someone as beautiful as you?' I didn't like those questions, but I didn't think too much of it at the time.
When it got closer to me C-section, I started to get scared. The doctor decided to reduce my stress, and decided that I would be given a drug to help me sleep. Usually, people would not be drugged at all, but since I was deemed a risk to myself that procedure was decided. The night before my C-section, I was only allowed to drink water. The next day I was taken to the doctor's place where he would perform the surgery. The last thing I remember about the C-section was the doctor giving me a cup with the sleeping drugs in it to drink and beginning the countdown from ten.
When I woke up again, I was no longer in the doctor's office. I was in a dingy cabin tied to a pole with houseki stones. I was still wearing my nightgown that I wore for the C-section, so I was pretty cold. I was only awake for about five minutes when the blonde man came into the room. He force fed me a potion, and put a houseki stone around my neck. He released my hands from the pole, but rebound them behind my back. After that, he led me to a bedroom, and tied me to the bed, and…and…"
Wolfram stopped talking, and wrapped his arms around himself. Murata and Yuuri moved off the bed, when Conrad and Gwendal went to comfort him. Gwendal handed Jennifer-Celi to Murata, so he could join Conrad in giving their brother a hug.
"You don't have to say anything more." Conrad said.
"No..no, I do, I need you to know how I got Wolf." Wolfram replied.
He took a shaky breath, before he continued his story.
"The man forced himself on me, and the stones and the after effects of the surgery, prevented me from fighting back. I don't know how long it really was, because I was in so much pain. Eventually, he stopped and left me there. Everything hurt. I heard the man leave the house, he was overconfident, and thought I was too weak to be a problem. While he was gone, I heard some of the local men calling my name. It took all of my remaining strength to call out to them. Before I blacked out, they had broken into the cabin to save me.
When I woke up again, I was back in the doctor's office. The doctor was in the room, and after I woke up, he explained what happened to me. According to him, Yuu and Jennifer-Celi were safely delivered, and had been taken to the chosen nursemaid to be nursed. After they had been left with the nursemaid, he returned to see how I was doing, but he ended up being distracted by the man's lackeys. During the time, the doctor did not realize that I was being kidnapped. The lackeys left when the doctor was approached by a local, who needed medicine for his daughter. When that was finished, he went to check on me, and saw that I was gone. He immediately alerted the locals, and everyone began the search for me.
My wounds were treated at the doctor's office. It was then he found out that I had gotten pregnant again. The potion I was force fed was the cause for such an immediate pregnancy. Since it had not even been a full day since getting my C-section, I almost died."
"You almost died?" Gwendal asked, looking sick.
"Yes, my body couldn't take the stress, and it was touch and go for a while. The nursemaid who took care of Yuu and Jennifer-Celi visited me every day. I spent most of my pregnancy with Wolf bedridden, the potion had a side effect as well, it made the baby inside of me develop faster. Before I knew it, I was getting another C-section not even eight months after giving birth to Yuu and Jennifer-Celi. I was given guards to watch out for that man, so I wouldn't be abducted again. I was put under again for the C-section, and when I woke up, I saw another nursemaid. She was going to take care of Wolf, and she was the sister of the nursemaid for Yuu and Jennifer-Celi.
When I fully recovered from everything, the Innkeeper gave me a place in the inn to stay. The Innkeeper and the locals helped me take care of all three of my children. That man never showed his face, but the Innkeeper kept watch anyway. The Innkeeper told me about him. The Innkeeper and that man are both half-demons, and like the Innkeeper, that man had a demon mother and a human father. The Innkeeper told me that he was about twenty years old when he met that man, who had been an infant at that time. That man was born the same year as Lord Weller."
Yuuri looked over at Conrad, and saw the half-demon frown at the revelation.
"That man's mother was an Ice Demon. The year that the man was conceived started during winter. A young Ice Demon came from her tribe in search of medicine. The tribe had come down with an illness, and she was sent to retrieve medicine for them. The man's father saw her, and since she was so beautiful, he decided to make her his own."
Gwendal and Conrad looked like they did not like where the story was going again.
"The man's father tried to woo the young Ice Demon with his wealth and status, but she rejected him. Not taking the rejection well, the man kidnapped her one night, and forced her to be intimate with him. He tried to keep her as his prisoner, but she escaped and fled to her tribe. Nine months later, the man as a baby, was abandoned on his father's doorstep. The man's father abandoned him to an orphanage. While the man grew up, the Innkeeper became his friend. The village knew about how he was born, and had kicked his father out of the village long ago. They hoped that the man, who was surrounded by love and support, would not turn out like his father. Unfortunately, the man followed in his father's footsteps, and did what he did to me."
"It looks like the Ice Demon heritage skipped a generation." Murata observed.
"Yes, Wolf takes after his Ice Demon grandmother in power, but looks like me. If he looked like that man, I would have rejected him." Wolfram admitted.
Gwendal and Conrad wrapped their arms around him once more.
"I'm getting tired, with Wolf crying, I did not get much sleep." Wolfram said, eyes slowly closing.
Conrad gathered his sleepy brother in his arms, while Gwendal unmade the bed. The two brothers tucked their baby brother in, and Yuuri watched as Wolfram fell fully asleep. Yuu and Jennifer-Celi were placed in their cribs, and all three children were tucked in. All three children had fallen asleep. Murata and Yuuri left the room to give Conrad and Gwendal time with their brother, nephews, and niece.
"OUCH!" Yuuri cried, once they entered the dim hall.
Murata had just slapped him upside the head.
"What was that for?" Yuuri demanded, rubbing the back of his head.
"That was for earlier." Murata replied.
Yuuri noticed that Murata's glasses glinted.
"What did I do?" Yuuri asked.
That seemed to set Murata off.
"You had the audacity to imply the Wolfram was unfaithful to you! I would kill to have such a loyal partner!" Murata shouted. "You really do not deserve him! One day he may stop chasing you, and I will only feel bad for him!"
"We're both guys! We can't be together!" Yuuri exclaimed.
Murata glared at him.
"There you are." Yozak said. "I've never heard Genki so angry before."
"What do you want Yozak?" Murata asked.
"Well, I just wanted to let His Majesty know about a certain tradition." Yozak replied.
Murata scowled at him.
"Don't worry, our king is merciful, so even if I tell him he won't go through with it." Yozak said.
"Go through with what?" Yuuri asked.
Yozak looked at him.
"Well, the Maohs before you were very possessive over their partners, and by extension, their kids. One Maoh had a partner that was abducted and forced to get pregnant by an enemy." Yozak explained. "The Maoh murdered the child that came from that union."
"Where are you going with this?" Yuuri asked.
"Wolf isn't your kid, so by law, you can kill him and Wolfram can't do anything about it." Yozak replied.
Yuuri stared at Yozak in horror, he felt sick to his stomach over what Yozak said.
"Wolf is mine! Along with his siblings!"The Maoh within him growled.
Yozak smiled.
"Glad to hear it, if you had decided to kill him, I would have hidden him from you." Yozak said.
Yozak left, while Murata and Yuuri went back to Yuuri's room. Murata went to read a book about male demon reproduction, while Yuuri mulled over everything. He was linked together with Wolfram forever now through Yuu and Jennifer-Celi. The Maoh claimed Wolf as well.
It's time for me to stop acting like a kid, and start acting like a man! Yuuri thought.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Note: I know the characters are a bit OOC(out of character), especially Wolfram, but my reasoning that someone that went through what Wolfram went through would not be the same afterwards. Plus, he is exhausted from having to take care of Wolf. See you in the next chapter!