"Alright... I feel really tired and exhausted... but alright.", Adam gave a small smile as she grinned before she moved to patch him up as best as she could before Haku would probably have to come to truly take care of it.
After patching him up, Pippa picked up their second son, scooting over as she leaned their son into suckling one of the higher teats, with Sydney and Ethan next to her, now sleeping in a little huddle.
"Look, Adam, look at him, is he beautiful?", Pippa smiled softly, and Adam leaned his chin on her shoulder, sighing softly, "He sure is...And he's bigger than the cubs...Should have known that the magic worked faster on him...", seeing that his second son is a healthy tan with auburn hair and wide sky-blue eyes.
Suddenly, the doors opened, causing Adam to growl, covering Pippa and the cubs from sight, staring at Haku, and Haku held up his hands, "Whoa, whoa, Adam! It's me, Haku!", and Adam blinked before relaxing slightly, "Sorry, instincts...".
Haku replied, "What's the SOS?", and Pippa replied, "I had to perform an incision into the birth canal.", as Adam laid down, and Pippa held their second son up into view, "This boy was the reason behind it...", with a chuckle.
"I see. And I guess Adam's still being very protective... the others warned me before I came in.", Haku said as he walked up to Adam.
"Just stay back from the children and he should be alright.", Pippa smiled as Haku nodded before quickly checking what needed to be done.
Haku nodded in approval, "You clearly did what my medical books said. Minimal loss of blood, little tearing, and helped encourage your husband along. No stitches needed.", smiling as his hands glowed, healing the incisions, and Adam is then as good as new.
Pippa exhaled in relief, "I was actually nervous for some moments there, but kept my cool.", and Haku chuckled, "I would never blame you there, Pippa. And oh, here's something for ya.", smiling as he pulled out a photo, "Turns out one of Zuri's brothers snuck in a Polaroid Instant-Print camera. Congratulations, you two.", handing the photo to Pippa before leaving the room with a wave, and closed the doors.
Adam then relaxed fully, sighing deeply as he looked at the photo next to Pippa. In the photo is the trio of Ariel, Eric, and Zuri, with a baby in Eric's arms, and a baby in Zuri's arms, and under the photo is the names of the babies with arrows.
In Eric's arms is a dark-skinned baby with dark red hair, and ice blue eyes, and in Zuri's arms, is a tanned baby with straight black hair and dark brown eyes. The dark baby is Harmony, and the light baby is Kojo.
"Hopefully no one thought their soul was being stolen by it.", Pippa joked as Adam looked at her. "Early times when the camera was first invented, some superstitious folks believed that.".
"Ah, I see.", Adam nodded as the two of them looked back at the photo. "They look so peaceful with them.".
Pippa smiled, "They sure are...I bet Zuri was shocked to see that one of them is dark-skinned like her when it was Eric's seed to Ariel, but I think the magic allowed Zuri to be involved deeper than any of us would ever think...After all, true love is the strongest force in the world.".
Adam nodded, "That certainly makes sense. Still, the twins look quite adorable in their own right. Speaking of which, we haven't named our final child yet...", and Pippa laughed softly, "You're right.", looking down at their second son, "Hmm, you certainly gave your Papa a bit of trouble, though I am sure you didn't mean to hurt him that way. After all, not everyone grows the same size.".
Adam chuckled, "Indeed. There are different people in shapes, sizes, and colors...", and Pippa blinked softly, "Ben Zacharias Fox.", with a glance at Adam, smiling.
"Perfect names for all three of them.", Adam leaned over as he licked her cheek. "Any idea how much longer you're going to be like that?", Pippa asked in terms of his Beast form.
Adam hummed lightly, "Probably for a couple weeks until the cubs can hear and open their eyes. Little Ben would be fine, though he would still need milk like his siblings.".
Pippa nodded, "That makes sense as the cubs need to be bigger, not be helpless anymore. Still, you did great, dear husband.", with a smile before she teased him, "Do you think you can do it again?".
Adam snorted, "Let's raise those three, along with Sura for several years, and then I'll think about it, deal?", and Pippa chuckled, "That's reasonably fair. After all, you're my king.".
"Of course, the others might think we're a bit crazy to go even further than that. Aslan knows that Emma and John have quite a handful with their five." He chuckled.
Pippa laughed heartily, "True, but you have to admit that all of us has help from our other friends and families besides the rest of the United Talons. After all, you heard several people mention that we are going to live a long time. 600 years at best.".
Adam whistled, "We are going to see quite many generations come and go.", and Pippa smiled, squeezing his paw, "Yes, but everything can't last forever. It's like the Circle of Life.".
"When you explained that to me, it explains so much why you hum that song at times.", Adam chuckled, and Pippa chuckled, "I can't help it when a song's catchy, and it gets stuck in my head.", sharing laughter with him as they watched their brood of children with adoring eyes.
March passed through with much peace yet chaotic noise, with one big piece of news. Haku had proposed to Pocahontas, and she accepted happily. They're planning to get married later in the summer. April was full of showers and plenty of crops growing, and it was past the due date for Mulan and Jason's daughter, Dove.
Haku told them if Dove hasn't decided to come by the end of the third day, he will have to induce a labor-starter potion, and the couple agreed, knowing that stress isn't good for the baby, and waited patiently if not frustratedly, knowing that babies can surprise anyone on their own schedule.
But as it turns out, Dove decided to surprise them on Jason's birthday only a day before the inducing time. Not wanting to have a birthday party, Jason just wanted to work in the orchard, and have a quiet celebration with his family by evening.
Mulan hummed lightly as she woke up from a nap, and went to the kitchen, hearing Ping play outside in the gardens, smiling as she saw him through the window, and turned her attention to look through the cabinets, thinking about making apple dumplings.
Suddenly, she nearly collapsed into her knees, crying out in pain, feeling water slosh under her as she clutched into the counter, hearing Ping's voice, "Mama? Mama, are you okay?".
Mulan heard the door opening and saw Ping coming around the corner of the peninsula island, with wide eyes, "Mama!", coming up to her. Mulan panted heavily, looking at him straight, "Ping, go get your father. He's in the far orchard. Straight to him, understand?", squeezing his shoulder firmly yet gently.
Ping nodded, "Dove coming?". He was smart enough to figure that out at least as Mulan smiled through the pain and nodded. "Looks that way... now come on, hurry and get him!", Mulan shouted as Ping ran as fast as he could to get Jason.
In the far orchard, Jason hummed to himself as he flicked his dragon tail to shake a tree while he moved back and forth with a huge trough that's lined up in cloth to catch the apples, and shifted back to human, smiling as he then grabbed the ladder to rest on the tree to climb and pluck the remaining apples that's stubborn to stay on.
As he danced his way across the branches, plucking the apples and threw them into the trough, with a couple to Khan and Buck who's standing by the cart, grazing. He then heard a distant voice, and the horses neighed, nickering, and Jason looked out to see Ping running up to his tree, "Daddy, Daddy! Dove coming!".
Jason widened his eyes, and jumped down, sliding down the ladder, and looked at Ping, "You sure?", and Ping nodded, "Mama scare me! Mama say I get you home!".
Jason nodded, "Okay, okay. Ping, you want to do something for me?", and Ping nodded, "Ping wanna help, Daddy!".
"Will you take the horses to the pasture, okay? I'll be with Mama. Khan and Buck would like your company.", Jason smiled warmly, and Ping blinked, "But Mama scared. I make her happy.".
Jason smiled reassuringly, "I know, but she doesn't want to scare you again. If you help take the boys home to the pasture, that will make Mama happy.", and Ping blinked, "Promise?".
"Promise. Boys, keep an eye on Ping, understand?", Jason looked at the horses, and Khan nodded, flicking his hoof while Buck neighed, nodding. Jason kissed Ping on the forehead, "Stay close to the boys, Ping.", before running and shifting into his dragon form, flying straight to the house, landing in the front gardens, hearing Mulan's cries as he went into the house after shifting back to human.
"Mulan?!", Jason shouted before he found her. "There you are...", Jason said as he saw her on the floor. "Little help to the bed? I don't want Dove to plop out onto the floor.", Mulan chuckled before clutching herself in pain.
"No problem. Just hold her in for a bit longer... then quickly push her out when I get you on the bed.", Jason smiled reassuringly as he got down on his knees, kissing her lips, and went to do what she asked.
With a couple of grunts, Jason got Mulan's arm over his back and neck as he supported Mulan with his arm behind her back, and his other arm holding into Mulan's other arm under the belly bump that has gone rigid and hard, a sure sign that Mulan's in labor.
They went to their master bedroom in the back of the 1st floor, glad that they had the bassinet in the room while upstairs is Ping's room, Dove's nursery, and a guest room as well. Mulan cried out in pain every few minutes on the slow walk as Jason kissed her temple repeatedly.
With much careful configuration, Jason helped Mulan lay back on top of the sheets, with a pillar of pillows behind her back, and got her trousers and underwear off, checking, "You're only a quarter dilated, Mulan...Will you be okay while I get towels and warm water?".
"If it's only a quarter, then Dove isn't in any hurry to being born.", Mulan sighed as she clutched her belly once more.
"She's clearly a shy one then.", Jason joked as Mulan then nodded to his previous question. "Yeah, I'll be alright, just don't take too long there.", Mulan replied.
Jason kissed her warmly, "I won't.", and left to the bathroom to grab towels, warm water in a bowl, and then headed to the kitchen, opening up the fridge to grab Mulan's favorite tea, and when he was about to leave, he took a double look at the calendar on the door. He didn't bother to check this morning as he was too focused on the chores.
Tears came to his eyes as he saw the date, and he returned to the bedroom, smiling, and Mulan looked at him as he put all the things down, "What is it that has gotten you looking so happy?".
Jason looked at her, "Today's my birthday...Dove's coming on my birthday...", with a sob as he rested a gentle hand on the baby bump.
"Is it really?", Mulan chuckled. "I'm sorry, I totally forgot.", she admitted. "It's alright, it's been sort of strange ever since coming here, the dates seem off sometimes and I nearly have forgotten myself.", Jason said.
Mulan chuckled, "True, but the calendars you made with help of Mickey is a great boon, far better than tracking agriculture seasons.", with a smile before gasping upon another contraction as she clutched into the sheets.
Jason murmured to her, "Breathe, Mulan.", checking once again, "Still the same as before. She's sure taking her sweet time...". Mulan smiled, "It's like Baba said. Things take time to grow and show up.".
"Your father is one of the best wisest men I know, and he is never wrong when he knows it.", Jason smiled, kissing her lips softly, and sighed, "And just you know, the horses are keeping Ping distracted. He said that you scared him...He was worried about you...".
"Can't imagine why not... his mother collapsing and all. At least he knows that it's because of Dove and nothing too serious.", Mulan said. "Let's be careful with that at the moment, things could go wrong.", Jason reminded.
"True, but, Haku said it should be good. Though, I think it might be a good idea for us to get him as soon as we can.", Mulan sighed. "Don't worry, Mulan. I'll get word to him.", Jason kissed her cheek as he continued to help get her prepared on the bed.
Mulan smiled at her husband, glad that he's here to help her, and kept breathing through the contractions for the next hour, and Jason gave her tea, and went to resupply it, along with getting some cookies from the jar while he whistled for their house messenger bird, and wrote a letter, telling the bird to use the arch portal chain to fly through kingdoms to Haku's island.
With the bird understanding and leaving, Jason returned back to Mulan, checking again, "You're now halfway dilated.", and Mulan groaned lightly, "Make that stubborn next to shy for our daughter.".
"So, it would seem.", Jason smirked as he sighed. "Well, nothing for it at the moment, but just to wait... keep breathing and you should be fine.".
Mulan nodded, and asked Jason to read a book to her, and Jason obliged happily, plucking a book out of the bookcase, and went to sit beside Mulan, and read out loud to her as she slowly dozed on and off, listening to his voice while breathing through the contractions.
This lasted for 30 minutes before Mulan cried out at a particularly hard contraction, "Oh, that was a hard one!", clutching in pain. Jason checked again, and smiled widely, "She is clearly a sucker for stories. Apparently, reading out loud works for labor too, next to helping her go to sleep for your sake the last few months. You're fully dilated. It's time to push.".
"Should we wait? At least for Haku?", Mulan asked as she felt another contraction. "We could, but I don't think Dove is waiting any longer!", Jason shouted. "Now push!".
Mulan took a deep breath, and pushed repeatedly, clutching her hands into the sheets as Jason gently wiped her face, hearing her cries as the contractions quickened.
A few minutes later, Jason saw the head peeking, "I see her! She's peeking!", looking up at Mulan with a smile, and Mulan sobbed, smiling tiredly, "Thank Aslan!", feeling the burn of her vagina stretching to accommodate the head, taking a deep breath and pushed, her cries turning into shouts.
"Just a bit more, Mulan, she's coming out fast!", Jason advised as he tried to keep her calm by holding her hand tight for a moment.
Mulan heard him, and pushed again, and Jason laughed, catching their daughter's head in his other hand, "Oh, look at you, Dove! You got my brown hair!", tears in his eyes, helping clean her nose and mouth.
Dove blinked, and whimpered, and Jason smiled softly, "I know, I know, it's a big world for you, my little Dove.", before looking at Mulan, "She got your eyes.", with a chuckle.
Mulan sobbed happily, smiling at him, "Happy birthday, Jason.", before taking a deep breath, pushing to get the shoulders out, the pain intensifying as she moaned and grunted.
Dove gave a wail, and Jason shushed her, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just your mother. She's pushing the rest of you out.", before hearing Mulan shout out in pain as she felt something tighten and then rip off.
Jason looked at her in concern, "Mulan! What is it?", and Mulan sobbed, "I don't know!".
Jason checked deeper, hearing Dove crying, and widened his eyes, "The cord, it's wrapped over her shoulder!", looking back at Mulan. "What do we do?", Mulan cried.
"I don't know...", Jason admitted. "Can't push her back to untangle her...", with a frown. "Can you cut it!?", Mulan shouted.
Jason blinked, and looked down, seeing Dove wailing and crying, and nodded to himself as he gently and carefully grabbed the cord, lifting it up slightly, and kissed Dove on the temple, "It's okay. I am gonna help you.", and shifted his front teeth slightly into dragon teeth, knowing that his dragon claws are too sharp, but teeth are somewhat duller in a way, for he didn't want to cut Dove's skin accidently.
He carefully bit down on the cord, sending a bit of fire to cauterize the cut, not wanting infection to come to his daughter all the way through the cord, and released, pulling back, hearing Dove's wails decrease, and kept holding her, looking up at Mulan, "It's cut. Keep pushing.".