Chapter 29
He only laid in his room.
It was nearing a full month since the passing of Angela, and Drax being taken from him. Snek returned home but kept to his quarters. Every so often the family would peer in a check on him, but he had no will to do anything. "Snek, wanna go hunting? You haven't eaten in three weeks," said Garou.
"No."
"You got to be hungry."
"I'm not."
Garou would then creep into the room. "You've been calling the association every day for a progress report, has anything come up?"
"No."
"Then how about we go see in person. You and me, we'll get some answers!"
"No"
It was a new level of depression for Snek. He didn't even want to go to headquarters to get answers? "What's happened?"
"I called child services… Drax got adopted."
Garou froze to the news. "What? I thought the association…"
"They don't do a damn thing if the child is adopted! I thought… I thought they would have held off on putting him up. But they didn't. Garou… I may never see my son again!" Snek wept to the notion. "I just got to know him and now, he's gone!"
Garou tried to speak, but he had no words. He didn't know this feeling, he has been grateful his children are still with him. And yet, how does one comfort another in a loss they haven't felt? He merely sat on the floor. "I can find who has him." He said. "I am good at tracking people…"
"Then they will know I am looking for him… if something happens to him, they will come looking at me. Garou, I can't risk it. I tried to find out who adopted him too but they said it's confidential. He's my son and I can't even be allow to know where he is, who adopted him or even if the parents are worthy of being parents!"
"I think we can take whoever has him, not to mention what the hell would child services do to the likes of us huh? How would they stop this family!?"
It brought only a brief smile to his lip, but it quickly faded. "Thanks for the offer, but we can't go and break the rules like this, not to mention it won't put us in a good light."
Garou blew off the idea. "We're M Class Dragons, we don't give a damn to what the world thinks of us! I say we find him and bring him home!"
"Don't tempt me anymore with the idea." Snek pleaded. "I just can't take much more of this."
Garou sighed. "Okay, if you feel like hunting later. I'll be ready to go when you are. You should eat something, you look terrible."
Snek peered down at himself. His once shiny scales have dulled, he lost weight from not eating, but he felt no urge to. There was no purpose anymore for himself. He lost everything that mattered to him. Not to mention despite being a hero, he had no right to adopt his own son?
Nothing in this world was fair to him anymore. It was all a big joke.
Snek closed his eyes and tried to sleep it off once more, but he couldn't help but think of his son, and where he was…