Chapter 28

SMASH

Suiryu finished off the last monster. He did one more fly around before called it in. "City B is clear" he said and got the confirmation from the Association. With a sigh he sat down to catch his breath a little. Fighting was all the more challenging since he had to be careful with the twins. But by the look and feel of it, they slept through it.

"Suiryu?"

He paused to the voice. She came from behind him but not dressed in her Neo Hero gear. "Suiko?" but then his back was up. "You aren't out to make a name for yourself, taking out your own brother are you?" he asked.

Her head shook no. In fact, she appeared a lot meeker than she should. Suiko isn't one to back down from her beliefs, but he feels something must have happened to her. "I… I wanted to apologize." She said. "I didn't… I didn't understand what you went through and how you endured… Emp showed me how you became… what you did."

He merely nodded to her as he slowly stood up. He towered over his own sister now, before he had a good height to him, but now. It's dominating. "Do you still see me as your brother?" he asked gently. "You can be honest, I know this is a lot to take in… It took me a while to accept it to. I was stuck in a hospital for six months doing dick all."

"I should have kept in touch with you a lot better than I did…"

"Same here."

They fell silent to one another. He wanted to speak but didn't know how to go about talking to her. Did she just come to realize this now? Or was this a Neo Hero trap? His mind had to be safe than sorry, after all. His kids are at stake. "Little sis… would you want to have lunch or dinner with Alley and I sometime? We can talk this out a lot better than out in the open like this. I mean, I got A LOT to explain here…"

"I would like that," she said and smiled. "I never realized how much you matured Suiryu."

He forced a small laugh. "Not easy, especially when I live at someone's house who is younger than me… I think that's what made me grow up… not to mention Snek consistently lecturing me…"

"Snek…" she paused and then nodded. "Well, I better go… oh…" she took a small bit of paper from her pocket. It was her cell number. "Let me know when you and Alley want to do dinner,"

He nodded as she ran off after getting the call to go to City D.

Suiryu figured he better get home before Alley hunts him down!

#

"Oh dear God…"

Those were the first words out of Melee's mouth as she saw her kids and close friend stuck on their backs, moaning from overeating. She sighed aloud as Alley followed suit. "The only ones not affected are Angie, Conna and Titan, according to Bang, unless Titan is going to eat on the way here…"

"I don't even know at this point…" Melee said with a sigh. The drone just dropped off Garou, despite Bang's claim that he was stuffed, he didn't appear anything out of the ordinary! He just laid there unable to move. Melee stood over him and peered down as he lazily opened his eyes.

"Hey babe…" he said and forced a smile.

"Since when the hell do you get full?" she demanded.

"Well…" he began to say but paused. "It's not like I had much of a choice. I mean, there were monsters everywhere, and I had to take them out fast… so many of those bastards…" he moaned and then burped aloud.

Melee was glad she saw it coming and was certain to step back and away out of the sudden belch. She sighed aloud. "You are a terrible influence on the kids…"

Garou looked about lazily and saw the boys not too far. "Hey dad…" moaned Yuuma. "Tempest is out like a light…"

He turned and saw Tempest, his eyes even widened in shock on his appearance. "Shit, kid over did himself. I knew he was hungry…"

"Wait, he was that hungry? Why didn't he say anything!?"

Garou snickered. "I've noticed the look on his face when he eats in human form, he is enough to be content, but not enough to satisfy his needs. When he's serpent, he can eat to his heart's desire… apparently his heart had the urge to really pork it in!"

"Not… funny… dad…" came the voice of a very tired Tempest.

"Oh sweetheart are you okay?" Melee asked.

"Green tea… please… lots of it."

"I am working on that, I got to make enough for everyone here," said Alley.

"You're going to make a great mom," Melee said.

"I learn from the best. Okay you guys, rest up for now, the tea will be ready soon. I better go check on Snek and the others…" Alley excused herself as Melee turned to Garou who was now giving her puppy eyes.

"Turn over…" she sighed.

He smiled as slowly he turned himself on to his stomach, from there, she began to rub his back. He purred oddly to it all but it relaxed him. "Seriously, what the hell was up with today?" she muttered.

"Dunno, it's been a while since we had an all out surge of monsters."

It worried her, not to mention, not all the kids are back yet.

It would be an hour before Hunter and Jag returned. Pac came shortly after. Draven with Shadow and Goliath with the Fubuki group.

The triplets then came in but there was something odd. Akira paused before he declared. "I still smell it!"

Melee stood up as Akira looked to her oddly. "Mom, do you smell that?"

She took in the air but couldn't smell anything odd. "No…" she said with worry.

"I don't smell it either." Said Eclipsa.

"No it stinks," came Tempest. "It's odd, it just got in the room… ugh. What is that?"

Akira began to follow his nose until it came to his sister Eclipsa. He took one sniff of her and was repelled. "UGH! It's you!"

"What? I showered!" she protested.

"Oh shit…" muttered Garou as he slowly rolled himself up. He picked himself off the ground before looking about. "Stay with them," he asked of her.

Melee merely nodded as he slowly shuffled himself out of the docking bay and down the hall. "Mom… is it me that smells?" Eclipsa asked with worry.

She nodded. "You only smell bad to your brothers, other males think this is intoxicating. Good thing you came here first and not to the first docking bay. Snek's sons would pick up on it… no doubt they already have…"

"Why… why do I smell!?"

"You just became a young woman, and it's indicating to others that you are old enough to reproduce." Melee said and sighed. "Your sister went through the same thing, we have measures put into place now…"

"Ow! Hey! Let me go! OW"

Melee paused as Garou began to drag Jason into the room, when he let him go, he glared at him. "What the hell Garou! What did I do!?" he demanded. Yet as he sighed, Jason paused.

The look of anger vanished on his face, he took deep breaths of the room before his eyes came upon Eclipsa. Before he took another step. Garou cut him off. "I am not a fan of this the least bit. But my daughter cares for you deeply, and apparently in this family, when they are transfixed on someone, they don't tend to sway away from them. So… that being said. You are going to be my new son in law… you don't get to cash that cheques soon either… got it!" he said in a warning tone.

Jason didn't appear to be all there, he was too transfixed on Eclipsa. "Dad, what are you doing?" she asked.

"Sorry hon, it's to save us all a headache later…"

"Garou, Alley worked on…" Melee was about to say, but he shook his head.

"Her scent is WAY too strong to be masked. Eclipsa… Jason is going to take you as his mate."

"Wait, what! Dad! We just went on our second date! We're trying to take it slow!" she protested. "We can't… I can't… not yet…" she muttered.

"Garou…" Melee said in a warning tone. Just as Alley came back with drones carrying large containers of green tea for her brothers. Yet as she entered the room, she paused.

"Oh shit, let me guess…" she said.

"How did you…"

"Mom, Jason has the same look Max and Suiryu did." She was so fast no one stopped as Alley's serpent bit into Jason. His eyes rolled back as he passed out!

"ALLEY!"

"For your own good sis, I heard you through the door. Come on, let's go see Genus before we get Pythan and Bo after you." She picked Jason off the ground. Eclipsa was quick to follow them out of the docking bay as Yuuma sighed.

"We won't go through that, will we?"

"Depends on the girl and how far you are willing to fight for her," said Garou. "I need to lie down after that…" He took to the foam floor once more and got comfortable. Melee sighed aloud as she check on the boys. Their stomachs were settling down and the green tea helped.

"Looks like the family is staying over tonight…"