Tristan quickly severed the umbilical cords before letting Susan keep holding onto the children for a few minutes while Tristan was focused on allowing Esme to recover.
"So, how are you feeling now, love? A bit better now that it's over?", Tristan asked her as he squeezed her hand again.
Esme nodded with a small smile, "Apparently, triplets really take more out of someone than twins or a single. The Quantonium's back, yet I'm slowly getting better and stronger. Mama, major respect for having me and Phillippe, and oh, Papa, super respect for him.".
"Thank you, sweetie.", Susan smiled. "Just between you and me, if we have any more in the future, Esme, we're sticking with one... better make sure the Quantonium knows all that.", Tristan whispered to her.
Esme chuckled softly and whispered to him, "You remember the game next week? Here's the bet. If Dawn's team wins, by the next mating ceremony, you get pregnant if you want to be, but if Calvin's team wins, we can look into adoption. After all, even with the world healing 50% at best, there's still plenty of orphans in other places.".
"I'll take you up on that.", Tristan smiled as he kissed her again. "Just try to get some rest right now though, you've been through a lot.". Esme smiled as she laid back, and the triplets cried out to her, looking hungry as they squirmed in Susan's arms.
Susan chuckled softly, "Ah, looks like they want to have their first meal.", and walked to Esme's side, gently giving the triplets to Esme, glad that Esme is only dressed in a robe. Doc chuckled lightly, "I'll give you a half hour before the others come in, alright?".
Esme nodded, "That's fine. Go ahead.", watching Doc crack the door open, and walked out before Tristan removed the bindings and loosened the robe out to where Esme's breasts are shown in full sight, with little Gabriel immediately latching into one nipple while Gloria and Taylor took turns to share the other nipple.
"I think Gabriel is a little greedy.", Tristan chuckled as he gently caressed his son's partially bald head. "Still, at least the three of them appear to be all good." Susan nodded, "That's for sure.", smiling as she finally noted the features of the triplets.
The triplets have platinum silver hair like their parents, yet their skin colors and eye colors differ. Gabriel has dark tan skin, and bright hazel eyes while Taylor has chocolate skin like Tristan, having amber brown eyes, and Gloria, she has light tan skin and to the parents and grandmother's shock, her eyes are violet.
"Looks like Gloria has quite a unique Quantonium mutation there.", Tristan observed as he got a better look for his eldest's violet eyes. "They look right on her though. Same as the others... they all look so perfect.", he now moved his hands to gently brush the short hairs his two daughters had.
Esme smiled softly, "And they're Murphys through and through.", lovingly remembering that when she and Tristan got married years ago, Tristan decided to take upon the Murphy name.
Susan laughed warmly, "Indeed. Speaking of which, how about middle names? For some reason, I like the sound of Esperanza for Gloria.".
"Sounds very exotic for her, then again, I guess you can say the same for this entire family.", Tristan pointed out. "Any others come to mind, you two? I think I'm tapped out on names since my brain was so focused on worrying about you four during the birthing.", Tristian pointed out to Esme and the babies.
Esme smiled softly, "I know, love. Gloria Esperanza Murphy, it's perfect. Now, what about you, Gabriel? Oh, I know, I got it. Tomek. Gabriel Tomek Murphy since he's technically the second twin out of the triplets.".
Susan nodded in approval, "That works excellently. And for Taylor, I was thinking that her middle name should be 'Aida' since it means hope.".
"Perfect, just absolutely perfect for the three of them.", Tristan nearly cried as he just kept looking over the three babies. "Sorry, just, today's been a wave of emotions and all.".
Esme kissed him on the cheek as their triplets kept suckling, "Oh, it sure was...But don't worry, love, it's all over now. We can now focus on raising our beautiful triplets, and oh, life will be even more crazy than usual, but hey, it's our norm, anyway.".
"Certainly, a crazy family I've entered into.", Tristan admitted. "But I've loved every moment I've been in it.".
Chuckles fill the air as the women agreed, and eventually, the awaiting others of the family met the triplets officially after the meal break. And the couple was half surprised to find out that they were first to give birth.
Bea's lovers; Thorncrow and Cloudtangle, between an hour, gave birth on the next day, a boy and girl each respectively. The boys, their names are Ironpaw and Steelpaw, and the girls' names are Cloverpaw and Rosepaw.
That night later on, Crystalmoon gave birth to a daughter, calling her Nightpaw. The next day, it was Echohawk and Rabbitspring's turns, in between lunch, giving birth to two girls, and their names are Pearlpaw and Creampaw.
All was happy, but they soon realized that Silvergrace and Lionheart is still pregnant, close to the line of being overdue, and on the weekend, on a Sunday, during the game down in the court in the underworld with Dawn and Calvin's teams playing against each other, their wishes finally came true.
The game was stopped, of course, as was the normal procedure when the chief and chiefess gave birth to their two new babies: giving Crystalmoon some long awaited siblings.
It was two boys, and their names are Tigerpaw, by Lionheart's suggestion for the one he gave birth to, and for Silvergrace's son she gave birth to, his name is Copperpaw.
Like their niece and the whole family, they got platinum silver hair, but yet their eyes differ, along with skin color somewhat.
While Nightpaw, Crystalmoon's daughter got sky blue eyes and medium tan skin, Tigerpaw got honey golden eyes and dark skin, and Copperpaw, he got bi-colored eyes; the right one a light blue and the left one a dark green while his skin is tan.
-Epilogue-
It seemed so long ago now, the time when the Murphy family had so many of its children at all around the same time during that period.
As Doc had foreseen, the Quantonium had indeed truly extended the lifespans of all those who were truly embedded with its power; Susan and Robert certainly could agree with that.
Nearly five centuries had now passed when the couple had first been struck by the asteroid. Of course, age was starting to show a bit on them these days. Both of them still looked fairly young as they had been before, but the slow signs of wrinkles were beginning to make them look much more middle aged.
The world is 100% healed, with Susan and Robert as Monarch Queen and King, with many of the Murphy family and friends as emperors, duchesses, lords, princesses, princes, and even a pharaoh, taking up several countries.
Susan and Robert look like in they're in their 40s, very much in their prime, and the world is pretty much populated with size-shifting people, thanks to slowly integrating plenty of Eternals into the world, growing from the idea of sending a generation of warriors to the surface to find their mates much like Bea's children had done, and sending orphans from the surface to the underworld, finding families and mates which came from an idea that Esme suggested after adopting a few children a couple of decades after the triplets' birth.
It was truly a world they had long dreamed that was close to being realized after such a long and hard road, but one that was well worth it by all.
"Hey, how are you feeling, my Queen?", Robert asked as the two of them were relaxing for the day from their central palace.
Susan smiled softly, "Happy that I'm free today from attending court. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud that many of our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces, and their mates are doing quite well in their chosen countries, but dang, talking about the few issues of trade and living conditions, it was exhausting yesterday!".
"Well, we kinda knew what we were getting into with all this when we started. We made sure not to fool ourselves there.", Robert chuckled as he sat down next to her. "At least today, barring any sort of emergency, we have things mostly to ourselves.".
Susan smiled lightly, "True, and it's hard to believe that we are actually living in Paris! Oh, we can teleport back to any place back in the US easily enough, but I don't think I could get fully used to the fact that we have been living in Paris for over 30 years now.", cuddling up to Robert as they sat on their sofa, the tv on with the local news report.
"It's really hard to believe a lot of things, love. Certainly, could never imagine any of it when we first were growing up.", Robert admitted as the two of them snuggled up to one another.
Susan smiled softly, "It was a dream, and now, look at us.", before sighing lightly with a resigned smile, "Do you think our parents and our old friends would be proud? About everything?".
"I'm sure they would.", Robert sighed. "Still, hard to believe they're gone... even after all this time. I suppose we should at least consider ourselves a bit lucky in the case that our family for the most part is still intact and will be that way for even more years."
Susan nodded lightly, "As Phillippe would put it, we're going with the flow.", before kissing Robert softly, "And to think, every day, my love grows for you, my king.".
"It must have the power of the sun now in there if it keeps growing after all these years.", Robert teased her as he gave her a kiss on the cheek.
Susan giggled softly, "Power of the sun, huh? I like the sound of eternal love better.", humming lightly as she leaned her head on Robert's shoulder, "This is nice.", not noticing Robert's thoughtful, slightly mischievous smile.
"Certainly, is very comfortable.", Robert commented as his hands gently caressed her body. "How does that feel now?".
Susan sighed softly, "Oh, that feels good. Any more of that, and I'd be in the mood for some private time.", glancing at him with a slight smirk, glad that she had passed the law for all households to have frosted windows, and that she also passed the law that everyone can do free love anywhere, thanks to the world choosing to be nude in many places, for the Quantonium made everyone able to bear the weather easier, through a layer of clothes couldn't hurt either.
"Well, it has been quite a number of weeks since we last really had time to ourselves.", Robert smirked before he picked her right up bridal style. "So, why don't we just get right to it then and not beat around the bush today?".
Susan purred softly, "Taking charge, my love?", kissing him on the lips, slightly disappointed that she's wearing a layer of clothes, but that was in case if one of their staff alerts them to a state emergency or something equally the same.
"Well, I thought maybe I should take charge at least for once in a while.", Robert chuckled before giving her a kiss and taking her up to their bedroom.
Susan smiled warmly, "I'm at your service, my king, my love, my Robbie.", before pulling off her shirt, throwing it offside.
"As am I, my queen.", Robert kissed her once again before the two of them got into the room before he placed her on the bed. "Shall I just take care of our clothes myself then?", he asked her as he already started to undo his pants.
Susan smiled softly, "Yep, and you're in charge, my love. I'm just enjoying the view.", purring softly as she can see the tent in his boxers.
"I bet you are.", Robert chuckled as he finished removing his clothes before he got on the bed and started to help her out of hers.
Susan caressed his chest as she lifted her hips for Robert to remove her pants/underwear and purred lightly as she removed her bra with her other hand, grateful that it's only a clip-on, "What do you want me to do?".
"Just lay back and let me do all the work, love.", Robert kissed her on the lips before his kisses started to move lower on her body.
Susan sighed and gasped softly as she laid back on the bed, her head on the pillow, "Oh, Robert.", enjoying the pleasure from the kisses.
"Just doing what I can for your love, you know.", Robert chuckled as he kept kissing different parts of her body.
Susan smiled as she closed her eyes, the sensation of his kisses increasing the pleasure within her, and she knew she's already getting wet down there.
"Shall I get to it?", Robert asked it as he positioned himself to the point where he was about to penetrate her once more.
Susan opened her eyes and purred as she craftily wrapped her legs around Robert's waist, "I ain't stopping you, love.".
"Good.", Robert kissed her once more on the lips before he slowly pushed his manhood back inside of her. The two of them moaned with pleasure as they began their all so familiar ritual.
Susan gasped and cried out in pleasure as Robert slowly ravaged her, wanting to make it last as long as it could, "Oh, yes, my king!", hearing Robert chuckle as he then grabbed into her hips, lifting them up slightly as he pushed deeper, hitting her g-spot, making Susan moan loudly.
Suddenly, a ring sounded out, and pausing in mid-thrust, Robert glanced at Susan who sighed deeply as she reached out to push a button for the voice-wall speakers, "Who is speaking?".
"Sean speaking. Apologizes, your majesty, but Lord Calvin just had teleported, and he has very good news to say.", said the voice of Sean aka Seadrift. He's the grandson of Susan and Robert's friends in the underworld, and he decided to be the head of the staff for his godmother who is ironically Susan.
Susan blinked, "This better be good. Put him on.", with a half-annoyed, half concerned frown. Calvin's voice called out, "Hey, Mama. I was just informed by Doc that the world population is finally counted. As you remember, the world was full of normal-sized people back in 2020, just over 7 billion.".
Robert called out, "Get to the point, son!", and Calvin's voice chuckled, "Okay, okay, anyway, since the normal-sized people has pretty much either passed on or integrated into the Eternals or the Murphys, the population has decreased to a very healthy population of 3 million, and Doc gave me the good news of the birth of the 3 millionth baby in Africa.".
Susan smiled, "Okay, that's actually good news as the food program of the world can be managed now. Ask Doc if he wants to be in charge of the program.".
Calvin's voice laughed warmly, "Sure thing, Mama! Oh, and Papa?". Robert answered, "Yes, Calvin?".
Calvin's voice was mischievous as he teased, "You better give Mama a darn good time. I wouldn't mind you two going for number five, eh?", before laughing, "Bye, you lovebirds!".
Sean's voice sounded out, "He just left. Again, I apologize, your majesties. I'll tell the staff that you're busy. And for lunch and dinner, I will inform the butler to leave the trays at your door.".
Susan smiled thankfully, "Thank you, Sean.", and the voice-speaker buzzed off, ending the conversation, and she glanced at Robert, "Calvin is officially targeted for a prank on Thanksgiving, agree?".
"Agreed.", Robert shook his head as the two of them went right back to things. "At least we were just getting started; this would've been much more upsetting if we were getting close by the time when he interrupted us.", he said as he made another hard thrust, causing her to cry out and moan once more.
Susan panted and whimpered as his hands soon went to caress her breasts, "Too right. You have to admit that he's right about one thing. We haven't gone for a child for centuries since Calvin and Dawn so long ago. But you're in charge today, love.".
"Well, perhaps it's still not too late for us to have maybe one more...", Robert chuckled as he gave her breasts a soft squeeze before leaning down and kissing them as he kept up his rhythmic thrusts.
Susan smiled as she gasped and moaned, "Let's do it, Robbie. One child would just be perfect.", knowing that the Quantonium is known to sense desires and such.
"As you wish, my queen.", Robert smiled back at her before their lips locked together as Robert was slowly about to reach the end of his limit as his manhood thrusted rapidly, back and forth.
Susan cried out, "Oh, yes, yes!", wrapping her legs tighter around Robert, "Please, Robert, I'm getting there!", clenching her hands into the sheets.
"I'm almost there too!", Robert shouted as he was only seconds away from finally bursting himself. The two of them finally reached it when they both orgasmed and cried out each other's names before Robert collapsed onto the bed with Susan nearly rolling over on top of him at the same moment.
Load after load, the determined group of sperm reached Susan's womb, and there, like the Quantonium had heard, is one single egg resting, and soon enough, a fetus is formed. Susan panted as she recovered, smiling at Robert, "I love you, my king.".
"I love you too, my queen.", Robert kissed her on the lips once more as the two of them decided to take a nap for the time being.
And so, Robert and Susan spent the day with napping, showering, meals, and lovemaking sessions in between, glad to be alone on their own.
The next day, Sean was delighted to tell them at breakfast in the kitchen nook that Susan is pregnant. They decided to keep it a secret until Thanksgiving a month later, intending to prank Calvin so good that he wouldn't be able to live it down for a while.
Everyone laughed good-naturedly at Calvin's expense and congratulated the couple happily after Robert and Susan told them the surprise of the day.
"How are you holding up?", Robert asked Susan as she was taking a few deep breaths once they finally got her into position months later. Her water had just broken a few hours before as their fifth and possibly final child was being born.
Susan smiled softly, "Alright. This feels easier since this is just one.", the contractions sharp and short as she laid back on a comfy cot in the nursery of the family wing in the palace.
"Plus, we've been through this before. I guess it's easier when you've already done it, you know?", Robert admitted as he still kept watch on her. "Hopefully, we're almost at the end already here. Quick birth and all that.".
Susan chuckled lightly, "True.", before gasping when she felt the baby moving down as she pushed, her walls growing to fit the baby as it moves down to the edge of her vagina, "It's coming.", having decided to keep the gender a surprise to the end.
"Okay, let's get ready then." Robert moved into position for him to catch their baby. "Boy, this one really is impatient, I think I can already see the head, Sue." He told her.
Susan smiled, "Good.", before taking a deep breath, and pushed hard, yelling as the head and shoulders came through her vagina, stretching the walls beyond the limit as Robert caught the baby as it finally exited, giving out a loud cry, unused to the new world it came into.
"Got it.", Robert took a sigh of relief as he held the baby in his hands as he gently cleaned it off before taking care of the needed details before it was all said and done. "Would you like to see our new one, love?", he asked Susan moments after he severed the umbilical cord.
Susan nodded as she quickly recovered, the Quantonium back to normal, "Yes, please.", and Robert handed the baby to her, and she looked at her baby, "Oh, it's a beautiful girl! Oh, look at you, my little darling!".
Like everybody of the world, she has platinum silver hair in tufts, having bright teal eyes and tan skin, appearing to have Jonathan's smile. She gurgled softly at her mother with a gummy smile.
Susan spoke softly, "She actually looks a bit like your father, Robert...", smiling in awe as she caressed her daughter's tufts of hair.
"Yeah, I think so too...", Robert sighed as he smiled at his little daughter. "She's got a bit of your side of the family too, but yeah, she's got quite a bit of Dad to her.".
Susan sighed softly, "Yeah...You know what, let's honor him...I mean, this is his fifth grandchild..I was thinking we could call her Joanna, Joanna Willow Murphy...Mom used to like to take pictures of Willow trees when I used to climb them...".
"That sounds perfect to me...", Robert smiled as he kissed Joanna's forehead. "Of course, I used to climb those Willow trees a few times, remember?", he chuckled as he gave Susan a kiss.
Susan laughed softly, "Oh, yeah, though I beat you two out of five times we did.", and Joanna whimpered softly before Susan adjusted her closer to her breast, almost instantly suckling from the nipple.
A knock was heard on the door, and Susan called out, "Come in.", and the door opened to reveal Sean who smiled at the sight, "Congratulations, your majesties.".
Susan laughed softly, "It's just us, Seadrift.", and Sean chuckled, "I know, Godmother. Do we have a new princess or prince?".
Robert replied, "We have a daughter. Her name is Joanna Willow Murphy.", and Sean smiled warmly, "Oh, what a perfect full name for a beautiful daughter. Do I have your permission to tell the staff to announce the coronation on the day after tomorrow?".
Susan nodded, "Yes, that's perfect. And inform the family that they're invited for dinner tonight to meet Joanna officially.".
Sean bowed his head, "Yes, your majesty. I'll do that." and smiled at Joanna who let go of her lunch, "Welcome home, Princess Joanna.", before turning around and leaving the nursery, closing the door.
"Sometimes I think he's a bit too preoccupied with the job.", Robert smirked as he shook his head. "Well, you're certainly hungry, Joanna.", he noticed as Susan quickly moved her to her other breast.
Susan laughed softly, "She had a big day of waiting to be born and all.", smiling at her daughter with love.
"Makes sense then.", Robert gently rubbed the hair on their daughter's head. "Really, so much has changed... and yet, some things never do.", he admitted as he kept watching his two girls.
Susan kissed him lovingly, "Indeed. We may have changed on the outside, but I would never change for I love you eternally.".
"I love you too.", Robert kissed her on the cheek. Soon, it was the day of the coronation and of course, the two of them were nervous since there would be quite a bit of a crowd for this and concerned about how Joanna would react.
The couple wished Monger was there to present Joanna as they thought he'd be delighted with the honor, but in place of him, the couple would have to present her.
Dressed for the occasion, the Monarch King and Queen made their way to one of the balconies that faces the front courtyard and beyond, with Joanna in Susan's arms, looking curious and excited at the same time.
Sean announced, "Approaching the balcony, Monarch King Robert Murphy and Monarch Queen Susan Murphy, with their new daughter!", and the crowd murmured, twittering and chatting. Joanna tilted her head as she saw the sun and clouds on a perfect summery day, and Susan whispered to her, "You're doing good, darling.".
Robert smiled softly as he stood next to her and their daughter, and at Sean's approach with two bowls of pink paint and purple powder dust, Robert dabbed a finger, and gently smeared a crown shape on Joanna's forehead, before grabbing a pinch of powder, sprinkling it carefully as Joanna closed her eyes, and squinted her nose before giving out a cute sneeze.
"Gesundheit.", Robert chuckled at their daughter's sneeze. He then grabbed her and gently held her up. "Please welcome, Princess Joanna!", Robert declared, though he wasn't too loud because his daughter was right near his mouth, and he didn't want to hurt or scare her.
The crowd went nuts, cheering and whistling, and Joanna blinked in amazement as a sunbeam landed on her, and she giggled as she saw smiles all around.
Susan smiled widely, beaming proudly, happy that Joanna is taking well to the atmosphere, and the crowd bowed before the balcony, size-shifting and shapeshifting everywhere as they chanted, "Princess Joanna!".
Robert soon handed Joanna back to Susan, and announced, "Thank you all for welcoming our daughter, Monarch Princess Joanna Willow Murphy!".
The crowd continued to cheer as the two monarchs kept their eyes on Joanna as she seemed to continue to keep her cool. Both of her parents were relieved with that.
Susan gently covered Joanna's ears as she leaned against her mother's chest, "People of Paris and the world, I decree that on this day, you are free to party anywhere, on Joanna's behalf, and on my orders, keep it at a respectable volume, understand?".
The crowd echoed as one, smiling earnestly, "Yes, our queen!", while news cameras and other technology brought the scene to the world.
Joanna quickly yawned upon hearing that which meant that Robert and Susan knew it was time to put her to bed for a nap. "Already a long day, dear?", Robert teased her.
Joanna snuffled with a sleepy glance at her daddy and nuzzled deeper into Susan's shoulder. Sean patted Robert's shoulder with a nod and a smile, and Robert smiled back before he went to walk Susan back into the palace, with Joanna sleeping deeply.
Sean called out, "Alright, that's it, everyone. Joanna's in for a nap, so head back home, Parisians, and world," looking up at the cameras, "Thank you for tuning in. Happy Coronation Day!", before leaving the balcony and closing the doors.
Like their four children before, Joanna's growth was much of the same as her siblings' centuries before. A proper upbringing and all, with nothing but love from the family around her to help with her healthy upbringing. As were pretty much all humans now, Joanna would soon find a mate herself right around the time she was about 14 before waiting a few years before the two of them would finally consummate their love.
Of course, the couple and the family were shocked to find out the identity of Joanna's mate who is Sean aka Seadrift. Apparently, with the longevity of the humans now, Sean had been physically in his 20s for a long time, he was able to fall in love with Joanna when she blossomed into a young woman.
Joanna was fierce in standing up for Sean, and the family soon saw that they were suited for each other, especially Susan and Robert. After a deep conversation, it was decided that Robert and Susan would retire within two centuries, giving the throne to Joanna and Sean.
The abdication would allow Susan and Robert to enjoy some of their last few centuries before they would probably eventually pass; despite their extreme longevity, age was still showing every day even if it wouldn't be noticeable for decades. But neither of them complained; all the more reason to enjoy the time they had left together.
And so, in all, Susan and Robert had five children, 10 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, 12 nieces/nephews and their descendants, and counting. The world can say that if it wasn't for Susan and Robert, it wouldn't have been paradise.
On the day of their retirement, the world surprised them by voting to rename Earth 'Eden', and the couple was overjoyed, and so, they gave one last law to pass on that day, that Earth is forever kept in the history books while the world is now called Eden.
The first day of their retirement, Susan and Robert mostly just spent the day sitting on a nearby beach, watching the sun slowly start to set as they truly took in the wonderment of a sunset; a fitting sign of their lives soon reaching the twilight of their lives, but lives they both would agree was very well spent.
The End.