Chapter 10
At the Dragon's keep.
Garou took Melee deep into the woods, he wanted to be certain that the kids didn't hear what they had to speak about. Not to mention just in case the conversation got heated. Melee kept silent, as Garou looked her dead in the eyes. She could never look away as his glare bore into her. "Why… didn't you say anything?" he demanded. "Melee… Why…"
She began to bring her arms up to her chest and embraced herself. "What could I say?" she questioned. "You wanted another daughter so badly… if I refused… I didn't think you would want to be with me anymore."
He snorted in disgust. "I wouldn't want to be with you anymore? For something so petty!" he demanded. "Melee… Look at me! Who would want to be with this!" he demanded of her.
"Don't sell yourself short…"
"That's not the point!" he snapped back. "No one… NO ONE knows what I have been through, the hell I have put up with time and time again… the pain I endured, what I could have become… No one knows but you… Where the hell would I have found another like you?" he demanded of her.
"Do you really think, there is another soul out there who would give a damn to my struggles, my attempts at redemption or encourage me to try and be better ever single day?"
She froze to his words, despite how angrily he said them, she felt his passion, his emotion. "Garou…"
"I wouldn't be like this if it weren't for you." He whispered. "I would be a faceless monster on the brink of insanity… or dead for that matter. You do know that, right?"
Melee began to feel the tears wield up in her eyes. "I never meant… It's just that… I want a family… I've always wanted a family… I knew the risks of it all, but I wasn't about to let it stop me either. I wanted another daughter too…" she couldn't speak anymore, Melee got too choked up.
Garou no longer appeared angry with her, instead he pulled Melee into his arms, wrapped his wings around and held her close to him. "I can't lose you, Melee… God, I don't even know what I would do if I did…" he whispered.
Her arms coiled around him, she clenched onto to him tightly, not wanting to let go. "I'm sorry I never told you…"
"I never asked either." He sighed aloud. "Even if we don't have a daughter in this brood, I won't make you have more children… I'm perfectly content with Alley…"
"What if I want more though…"
"Seriously?" he asked, his voice instantly dropped to nearly that of an annoyed tone. "8 kids aren't enough for you?"
She snickered. Melee settled herself down and sighed. "We're still young…"
"Yeah, yeah, and our kids age fast… shit, that means we can be grandparents sooner than later… Goddamn it. I'm going to feel older than Bang!"
Melee only laughed and squeezed him tighter. "Whoa, easy there. I got three kids in me, don't crush them!" he warned.
"Sorry!" but then she felt them. The kids were moving about under Garou's coil. She could felt the squirm, the kicks and even a sigh. "Whoa. They weren't this active before!"
As she pulled away, Garou peered down and saw the three moving about. "Perhaps they are getting stronger? Huh… You three nearly done in there? I want my bod back!" yet they stopped moving once more. Garou sighed. "I just can't catch a break in this family, not for one day…"
He rolled his eyes, but then, he stared back at Melee. He began to appear a little playful in a sense. "You do know, I am not the emotional kind… the mushy emotion…"
"No unless you're pregnant."
"Yeah, yeah…" he muttered. "But please, Melee. Tell me these things!" he insisted. "No secrets, no going behind my back, no waiting to tell me last minute either!" he warned.
"I promise," she said.
"Good… now, let's go home before the house wonders where the hell we went to!"
#
Snek was the first one home. With a relatively full stomach, he slithered into the house but found it oddly empty. "Huh… first one back… that ain't normal," he muttered.
He drifted deeper into the house, not a soul to be found. He shrugged to it all and decided to watch some TV. Yet, as fate would have it, the moment he gets control of it, someone comes home. Hunter was the next one through the door, red in the face and yet froze at the sight of Snek. "Hey… you okay?"
Hunter was silent, his face continued to turn red until he rushed to his room rather abruptly. "Odd, that's not like him either… what the hell is going on today?" he asked himself.
Pac was the next to return home, he appeared flustered to say the least, but like his brother, refused to speak of it. Alley and Suiryu came back, but were a lot more cheerful and chatty. "Hey Snek, did you know Metal Knight hid the alien ship that attacked Earth a few years back?" Suiryu asked.
"Who didn't know? It took City A off the map!"
"Well, Alley thinks she found the ship!"
He appeared intrigued. "You don't say… so, what does that mean?"
"We're going to explore it!" Alley said proudly. "We just have to ensure we get rid of all of Metal Knight's traps and stuff. He rigged one section up pretty tight, despite his notes claiming that there was of no use to him, and yet it is fortified!"
"Something worth hiding, yet not worth scrapping? That doesn't make sense."
"So, we're going to check it out!" Suiryu said with great excitement. "I've always wanted to go into a spaceship."
"Sounds like fun, let me know how it goes." Snek then turned back to the TV, the Neo Heroes were in the news once more. Snek got a good look at their top hero named Raiden, a massive man and former yokozuna. He took out a monster on his own strength and power with relative ease. He was rather impressed. "Huh, I heard about this guy. The Heroes Association tried to recruit him at one point."
Suiryu turned to the TV. "Oh, yeah Raiden! He was one of the guys who tried to recruit me after the super fight tournament!"
Alley took a look for herself, she was rather stunned to the size of him but could understand why the association tried to get him to join. "Impressive, but I doubt we have seen anything yet from him. Then again, he's fighting monsters barefoot… that takes confidence and power!"
The door opened. Max walked in with the twins. "All I am saying is that I don't know if he will take you on. No offence, he never expressed interest in training you…"
"Damn it…" muttered Draven. "First Zombieman said no, and now Flash too?"
"Trying to get trained up?" asked Suiryu. "I can help you on that!"
"Thanks but no thanks Suiryu. It's the power we got from mom that I want to improve upon, she got that from the S Class, so better learn from the source right?" asked Draven.
"I think we're doing fine on our own," muttered Goliath. "It's not like many of them are willing to train with us anyway. Mom had to force Amai to help me control my power. I'm still getting use to it… I mean, for some reason I think I am getting stronger every day."
"You just might be," said Alley. "Consider your training, if you are challenging yourself every day to something new and different, it will increase your strength too," she explained.
"That, or it's all the stuff I did with the Fubuki group…" he paused at the thought. "Oh… I just remembered I got to be somewhere tomorrow…"
"Oh? Do you have a date?" teased Snek. "I can feel your heart racing from here."
A small smirk came over Goliath. "If you can call it that, I still train a member of the Fubuki group. Lilly. She's a great sparring partner."
"It's a date…" teased Draven.
"Shut up!" snapped Goliath.