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Chapter 13: Chiropteran King
Everyone looked over at Mariano but Vincent; he had already left the room. He felt a deep, sickening jealousy in him. Him, of all people, would be allowed children with Evelyn? Vincent had long learned that life was unfair, but this was outrageous. Still, above all those negative feelings towards Mariano, Vincent was happy, because Evelyn could have children now. He would protect those children, too.
Nathan leaned his elbow on Mariano's shoulder. He looked at Evelyn, who was staring at the door. "If you're worried about his feelings, don't be. Vincent will be happy to know you're happy."
This reassured Evelyn a little, but not much. Vincent would still feel horrible, he just wouldn't show it.
Nathan made a movement with his hand, indicating everyone else to leave. He started for the door and Mariano was stupidly following him. Nathan stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked. Mariano looked confused.
"I thought you wanted everyone to leave."
"Everyone but you and Evelyn," Nathan said, pushing Mariano by the shoulders, making him stumble on the bed, almost falling on top of Evelyn's legs. Nathan shut the door, but not before muttering something with a grin.
Mariano sat up. Him and Evelyn, alone in a room, and to top it all off, they were on a bed. A nice, big soft bed, but still a bed. Sure he liked her and all, really liked her, in fact loved her, but he didn't even know where to start. Would it even be right? It wouldn't be fair to Vincent, but Mariano had no choice in the matter when he felt Evelyn's hands on his shoulders. He looked up and saw Evelyn's eyes glowing and her face passive. She was pushing him down onto the bed. It seems Mariano didn't need to make the first move.
Vincent was pacing about the living room. Saya was lying on the couch sleeping and Hagi was sitting on the arm of the couch keeping close watch on her. Nathan was looking around the apartment. It wasn't even half as nice as his home. Julia was looking at a computer screen and Mao was quietly watching. Kai looked up from the kitchen table at Lewis.
"Who is that guy?" Kai whispered Lewis didn't stop eating the roll he was chewing on. He looked at Vincent and raised eyebrow.
"That would be Vincent, Evelyn's first Chevalier." Kai jumped when he heard Nathan's voice. He could've sworn Nathan had been standing on the other end of the room by the window. Nathan grinned and leaned away from Kai's ear. He looked up and his grin faded.
"Why are you so anxious, Vincent?" Nathan sighed. Vincent looked at Nathan as if that question was the dumbest thing he heard in the world.
There were humans everywhere in the apartment, not to mention the dirt Queen and her dirt Chevalier. Vincent wasn't used to being this cramped with humans; he tended to stay away from them unless he needed blood. This place made him feel claustrophobic. He couldn't stand it, but he had to go through with it, until Evelyn's babies were born.
It was well past three in the morning, but the city lights still shown brightly through the curtains. Vincent was awoken by the sound of painful screaming. It couldn't even be described as screaming, it was eerie and other-worldly. When Vincent opened the door he saw Mariano in boxers lying against the wall with a large portion of flesh missing from his neck. He was a bloody mess. Evelyn was in her underwear as well, lying sideways on the bed, blood spilling everywhere out of a gaping hole in her stomach. Clutched in her pale, bloody arms were two perfect cocoons, sucking up the blood. Vincent quickly walked over to Evelyn and held her hand. Evelyn looked up at him with tired eyes and smiled faintly. Vincent looked at the hole in her stomach.
She must've torn at her own stomach to get those cocoons out. And with the shock of blood loss, she attacked Mariano… Vincent glanced at Mariano, who was just beginning to recover. He bit into his wrist and held it up to Evelyn. She licked Mariano's wrist, and her stomach began to heal.
Nathan gazed at the two cocoons from the doorframe. He smirked and disappeared with a blue flash.
"Where have you been, Nathan?" Dive asked, sounding irritated. Amshel was in the room as well. Nathan shrugged.
"Just observing something," he answered. Amshel raised an eyebrow and Diva tilted her head, blue eyes shining.
"Observing what?" Amshel asked, somehow becoming suspicious. Nathan grinned.
"The Omega's children." Nathan watched Amshel's face for his answer, and he got it. Confusion.
"So the experiment was a success?" Diva asked sounding excited.
"Nope, it was a complete failure." Nathan said it like it was nothing important, which to him, was true.
"Then how were the babies born?" Diva's expression was angry. She didn't like this. Nathan relaxed his shoulders.
"Her own Chevalier gave her those children, Diva sweet."
It had been two days since their birth, and Evelyn's babies had not hatched, yet she waited patiently, keeping them by her so her face will be the one they look upon first, so they'll know what their mother looks like.
Mariano had noticed Vincent seemed a little sad ever since Evelyn's daughters' birth. He didn't think Mariano would be this affected by their birth, he always thought he was the type of guy to never show sadness or anything of the sort.
"I wonder when they'll hatch," Saya said, sitting next to Evelyn. She looked at her nieces. Evelyn smiled. "I wonder what color the hair will be, or their eyes. Which one will be the trouble maker while the other is the tattle-tale?" Evelyn and Saya laughed.
For dinner, Lewis cooked a stroganoff meal. Evelyn sat down at the table while Vincent and Mariano watched the cocoons. Even though she wasn't far from her children, she always felt they were in danger of anything. This must be how a mother feels.
"May I join you?" Everyone turned to see Nathan standing next to an open window. "My goodness, did I make that much of a startle for everyone to look at me?"
Kai leaned on his hand and looked at Nathan through half-lidded eyes. "Well ya, you kinda did. What's with you and coming in through windows? Can't you be normal and knock on the door?"
Nathan frowned. "Where's the fun in that?" He went over and leaned against David, who was irritated at this and pushed Nathan away.
"Since when have we allowed Diva's Chevalier into our home?" he asked putting his fork down and looking at Lewis. Lewis shrugged and continued eating. David shook his head and got up to use the restroom, Nathan almost falling. Julia sighed at David's bad manners.
"I'm sorry for his rudeness, Nathan," she said. Nathan shrugged.
"No biggie, it's completely understandable." Nathan sat down in David's chair.
There was a crackling noise and Vincent looked down at the cocoons. They were hatching! Mariano smiled and looked at Evelyn.
"Come quickly, Evelyn!" he said smiling. Evelyn rushed over to her hatching babies.
First the right one, then the left ones tiny hands poked through, tearing at the web until little heads shown. Both the babies started to cry. Evelyn was so happy. She looked at her children. The baby on the right had raven black hair and beautiful silver eyes, not blue-gray like most newborns, they were pure silver, as if they came right off a quarter.
The second baby had an exact replica of the others face, except she had wavy chocolate brown hair and deep magenta eyes with hints of gold around the pupil. Evelyn gently tore the cocoon on the left to get her brown-haired baby out. And then the other one. But when Evelyn pulled the web off, she stopped and her smiled faded and was replaced by awe.
"What's wrong?" Vincent asked. He, too, looked down at the silver-eyed baby and was silent. Saya looked and couldn't understand. Nathan was the last to look. He gasped, eyes wide. There was just no way.
A boy, a Chiropteran King, the first of his kind.
"Julia," Evelyn said, picking up both her children. "I thought you said Queens can only be born." Julia's mouth hung stupidly open as she gazed at the baby boy. She took her glasses off, as if not believing what she was seeing. She put them back on after wiping them, still amazed.
"That's what I thought, as well," she replied. This must be the gene of the Omega Queen. Amazing, a Chiropteran boy.
Nathan smiled. This was absolutely a scientific discovery. Too bad he had to ruin the heart warming moment. He had to fulfill what's been passed on for centuries.
He walked to Evelyn and looked at her crying children. They stopped crying and looked at him. The baby Queen giggled and reached her tiny arms to him, but the King did not, he just gazed at him as if studying him. This was interesting to Nathan.
"Miss Julia," Nathan said. "Julia looked at him. "In your opinion, which would be most suitable for science: the King or the Queen?" Julia didn't even need to think about that.
"The King, of course," she responded. Nathan pursed his lips.
"I agree." In an instant, he grabbed the baby Queen out of Evelyn's hand and jumped out the window to the roof of the next building. Evelyn rushed to the window, holding on tight to he son. Mariano and Vincent followed after Nathan, but Mariano was the first to spring forward, his arm already coated with poison. Fatherly instincts told him to get Evelyn's daughter back.
"What are you doing, Nathan??" Evelyn screamed, terrified for her daughter. She could hear her helpless cries. The bustling city below and around didn't even seem to notice what was going on.
"It's just traditional," Nathan cooed, rocking the Queen back and forth.
"What's traditional?" Mariano growled.
"Why, that only one Omega sibling may live."
Evelyn was about ready to jump out the window after Nathan, but both Saya and Hagi had to hold her back, she was still clutching the other baby and she couldn't fly.
The four poisoned bat wings sprung out of Mariano's back as eight spider legs began to creep out of Vincent's. Nathan was able to fight them both with one hand, the other holding onto the baby. Both Mariano and Vincent were bloodied up. Vincent was missing two of his spider legs and one of Mariano's wings had been ripped off while the fractured one on the other side was spraying purple poison. Nathan had only a few scratches on him. He had to admit, they were good Chevaliers, but not good enough to fool Fate.
"Hmm….this is getting rather boring," he said. "So let's end it." He threw the crying baby into the air. Mariano leaped forward in an attempt to catch her, but Nathan was quicker. With his Chiropteran arm, he sliced the baby Queen in two, bits and pieces falling over Mariano and to the bright city street below, turning into dust.
"Ceremony complete," Nathan said and took off. He kept his promise to Natalia, now it was his turn to lead his life, a life not still in the hands of his dead Queen.
All of New York seemed to stand still at that moment. The baby King in Evelyn's arms had begun to wail again. Evelyn tried to put a calm face on as to not scare her son, but she couldn't and the tears escaped as she too, cried uncontroably, rocking back and forth.
She could make that her 86th baby to have been lost.