A/N: Nowi and Henry... which leads to the twins, Nah and Yeah.
"Daddy! Daddy!" A childlike adult ran into his father's arms, "I got you something!" The half-Manakete handed him a… hand. "A guard sliced it off a pickpocketer and I took it!" He is nearly one-for-one when compared to his father, literally the only difference is that he can use a Dragonstone. Both Henry, his father, and Nowi, his mother, believe he is the only Manakete who also uses Dark Magic. Even Robin cannot find a record of such a combination.
"Oh, cool!" The white-haired Grimleal Dark Mage giddily accepted it like it is a toy, rather than a severed limb, "Nyaa haa haa, awesome, it is still dripping blood." He turned it around and observed it, even as some of the blood dropped on his Grimleal robe.
"Ugh, Yeah." A female childlike adult entered the room, looking disgusted at her brother's antics. "That is so… gross." Nah, on the other hand, is exactly like her mother, except she is much more mellowed out, preferring a book to running around and playing. She swears on Naga that she is the only true 'adult' here.
"Give me a break, Nah. You just don't know a good gift when you see one." Yeah stuck his forked tongue out.
"A good gift is a captivating book."
"I don't know Nah and Yeah." Nowi cheerfully enters, "I think a good gift is going out and spending time with your family." She is holding a reinforced rope, "Who's up for some tug-of-war?"
"How about tag?" Yeah offers.
"Sharing a book." Nah counters.
"I got some cool hexes that I made recently, if you want to see them." Henry suggests.
A short tense silence follows as each family member tries to outdo the other, "If you and your brother spend some actual time together, than I suppose I could wait another day to play with you two." Nowi finally speaks up, a slightly sorrowful tone to her voice.
"Deal." Yeah states without a second's hesitation. "Come on Nah, I got something to share with you!"
He attempts to pull her along, but she stands her ground, "What is it, exactly?"
His eyes shine, "A story!" With those two words, Nah eagerly let herself be lead by Yeah.
"Ooo, and what shall we do, love?" Henry asks.
She flushes, "How about we work on the next set? We still have at least ten more to go!" She grabs him, and unlike Yeah and Nah, he cannot even offer resistance, "And you can name the next ones."
"A story, huh, Yeah?" Nah asks as he brings her to her favorite reading spot, "You finally found a book?"
He guides her to her favorite chair, a high-priced leather recliner, courtesy of Robin. The best compliment to a good book is a good chair, he told her. "No, but it is something you want to hear." He proudly proclaims.
She scoffs, "Like how you got your ridiculous attitude, leaving me as the only mature one in this family?" Future Henry… well, the Henry that they grew up with is a true terror, for some reason he is deadly serious, Nah always thought it was because of the threat of Grima.
"Yeah… wait, that's my name!" He laughs at the irony. Why Nowi named them Yeah and Nah is a mystery that even Naga can't solve, "You're right, actually. You do know that father used be like he is now, right?"
She raises an eyebrow, "No, he wasn't… mother never mentioned it."
He giggles, despite the seriousness of the next statement, "Of course he was! I wasn't supposed to exist in the first place!"
The statement hit Nah in a way she never would have expected, "What? We are twins, Yeah. Did… wait, did Nowi tell you? Henry?"
He shook his head, "Nope! See, it all started when Nowi…"
"If they didn't tell you, then how do you know?" Honesty is pouring off of her brother like waves, and as such her curiosity is at its highest.
"Hold on, it's in the story, now then…"
Henry paced the outside of his and Nowi's house, he wore a grin despite the thoughts that raced through his mind. While the bubbly Manakete was ecstatic to finally get pregnant, her mood dropped ever so slightly when she learned that there was only one…
And he had a plan to fix that. Dark Magic is dangerous, but if it means the happiness of his wife is set in concrete, then he would do whatever it takes. He would bet his status as the most feared Sorcerer on the line for this. The biggest problem was getting the materials… and going behind her back.
Several pints of his blood? Check. A handful of his hair? Got it. A cup of his semen? It took a while, but he has it. A cup of his wife's vaginal secretions? By Grima that was difficult, but he got it. Several pints of her blood? It's next to his.
The plan is simple, but dangerous, maybe even life-threatening… and it made his skin crawl in excitement of having the opportunity of casting such a potent hex. With his goal set, he walked back into the house, where his sleep hex has taken hold of Nowi. All of his materials in the room.
The plan? He is going to make two children out of one…
"What? No way." Nah couldn't believe what she was hearing, but she had to, since Manaketes can smell emotions, and other things, such as lying.
"Yes way." Just like their current father, his smile never left his face. "Ooo, but it gets better…"
She shivered, she despised it when Yeah or Henry say things like that. Taking a breath to calm herself for whatever gruesome scene he is about to describe, she nods, "Okay, I'm ready. What happened next?"
Henry went over his checklist once last time, double-checked to see if everything is there… and it is, time to work. He popped open the various containers, mixing both his and Nowi's blood into each of the other materials, before combining it all into one bloodied, semen, vaginal, hair… mess. Crouching next to his slumbering wife, he started his hex.
And in an anti-climatic manner, went off without a hitch… but the after effects were immediate. Nowi now had twins, and Henry felt… empty. His cheerful demeanor vanished, and he became hollow, a mere shadow of his former self. It was an unexpected side effect and one he needed to amend before she wakes. With a straight face, he mixes some more blood… Tharja offered this hex to Lon'qu once, but after learning the side effects, he declined.
But Henry, in his own honest opinion, is a superior Dark Mage compared to her, and besides, Nowi can't object. He calls upon his Dark Magic once more, and carefully, one by one, changes each of Nowi's memories of him, replacing a happy, cheerful, and giddy Henry with a solemn, deadly, and seemingly uncaring Henry.
It was for the best.
"Naga…" Nah slumped into her chair. "Father did that so mother could have more children sooner…" She felt drained at the revelation. "But… how do you know this?"
"Nyaa haa haa," He laughs in Henry's signature way, "Because, another side effect is that I have a copy of all of his memories. Everything! Even as Robin succ…"
"Stop!" Nah nearly yells. "I get it."
"There is also one more thing, Nah." He approaches her.
"I heard enough."
He shakes his head, "No, it doesn't have anything to do with that." He pauses, waits until she nods, then hands her a flower, "Happy birthday."
"This flower, it's…" She gently grabs it, "It's the same one Naga requested for my prayers… you. Oh, Yeah. I… This is…" She starts openly crying. "This is the best birthday present ever!" She gets up and pulls him into a hug. "Despite anything I say, I wouldn't want anyone else to be my brother."
"The same goes for you, you are the only one I want for a sister." He pauses and returns the hug, "I keep feeling bad, because you always get me the best birthday presents ever… and I get you sub-par things. I wanted to make it up."
They break the hug and she smiles, "Yeah… having you here with our family… that is best thing I can ask for." She pauses, "Hey, want to go play with mother and father?"
"You bet, Nah. Race you there… uh, after you place your flower somewhere?"
She nods, puts the flower in a small case, "Let's go!"