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Chapter Twenty

"Now this is what I call security."

Marion couldn't hide her amazement from seeing the amount of soldiers that were standing at the ready to escort her young family back to their home in the jungle and be prepared to keep them from being harmed in the process. It surprised her that in such a short amount of time that the Elder had went out of his way to get together a number of his guards to shield them if they were to encounter human soldiers. She never thought that he would be going out of his way to do this. Her surprise of what she was seeing while he carried her down the ramp was met by her mate chuckling somewhat as he spoke up in response.

"I have to say I agree with you on that, Marion." Cohra replied, faintly chuckling in his voice, as he moved them closer to where the soldiers were waiting with Mariah at one of his sides. "It does surprise me to see that the leader had managed to find this number of guards on short notice to walk us back to our home."

"I can see it."

"Why do you say that?'

"Well, our son is the first of the human/yautja breeding that is taking place at the moment, and he doesn't want anything to happen to him in hopes that he can show the strengths of our species being with one another in this way."

"There will be more to come in the coming months to give birth to their children and the numbers of our kind will grow over a short amount of time with one another. It will not be long now and the planet you call home will be a place where our species will be mingling with one another."

"And it won't be long before the governments of the world will be looking to see about coming after us for the being the first to make this decision to become mates with each other and give birth to a child that was of both human and yautja DNA."

She couldn't help but be nervous at the idea of more human soldiers with increased deathly lethal forces at their disposal for them to use in order to take her and other mates of yautjas into custody, as well as their mates in the process. There was a fear growing inside of her body that she couldn't shake off, and it had to deal with the uncertain future that would be heading their way when it came to the idea of soldiers and the governments of the area and around the world trying to come after them to stop what they were doing before their numbers grew larger to take over the population of Earth as a whole. What if the government came to just capture them but to wipe every one of them out as a whole in order to stop the invasion from infecting society and having the chain of dominance being rattled by the yautja taking their place back as being at the top of the food chain, replacing humans in that area? Could they truly be able to thrive without the soldiers trying to stop them from what they were doing or would their happiness be short lived?

Her nervousness about what was to happen in the future was met by her mate rubbing his head against hers. His gentle gesture caused her to turn her head and look up to his face. She looked up at the mask that now covered his face while her ears listened to the sound of his voice working to help sooth the worries from her mind.

"Don't stress yourself over something that is not clear yet in our future to come, Marion." Cohra whispered. "Worrying over something that has yet to come to pass will only harm you more than anything else."

"I can't help but worry about it, Cohra. There are forces that indeed are working to come and take me from you, and, possibly, do something to you and to our children because of our decision to be with one another."

"If anyone is stupid enough to come to our family's home and take you from me, they will be met with a wave of fury that they have never seen in any of the wars that these soldiers had served in."

She picked up on the determination in his voice that was growing, and how his body language was giving off a similar message to her. Cohra was not someone to mess with when it came to Autou, their newborn son, Mariah, their adopted daughter, herself, or him. He was not going to let anyone or anything threaten the safety of his family, and would do anything necessary in order to see about making those who had come to take them from him or vice versa that they would not live long from the instance that they chose to make their decision. Seeing this from him had her concerns to leave her mind for a little while and allowed her to relax there in his arms.

Once they reached the end of the ramp, her attention shifted to the guards issuing them a salute before turning at the ready with their weapons already on hand if they had to use them on the dangerous trek to her family's home. Her eyes glanced to where Mariah was standing to find her showing her a little concerned expression. She showed her a kind smile to try and chase away the same fears that she herself were feeling before Cohra spoke to her before speaking to her.

"Everything will be all right, Mariah. I promise."

As nervous as she truly was, Marion did her very best to keep calm and relaxed despite her own feelings burning inside of herself from the prospect of them traveling across the jungle back to the house. Her attempt to help her daughter feel not as scared as she was seemed to work. She watched her give a nod of her head towards her from where she was nestled before her focus went back onto the guards who were standing in two lines of four, having a total of eight of them to be prepared to make sure that they would be ready at all cost. Her eyes glanced down to her newborn son to see him sleeping away in her arms close to her chest, making soft purring sounds. The sight had her to lean down and kiss the top of the black hair that was already upon his head while she listened to the guards making a call out to the others before her attention moved back to look ahead as they started the trek back to her family's home.