You are reading the 4th chapter of We Are The Survivors. Last chapter, Vlaak and Wulpett had their first children, and now they will live through the joys of parenthood!

Hooray! On with the show

"Daddy? What are all those sparkly dots in the sky?"

"Those are stars, son. There are billions of them out there."

It was 18 months later. Vlaak was telling his hybrid son, Lavi, about the universe as the two sat beside eachother on the rock. The others were all asleep. Colmox and his group were slumbering on their ground, all except for Wooly cirrelphont. She was contently snuggled up with her mate, Saber-toothed octopus. Their would soon be more hybrid young of this generation, as Wooly cirrelphont was now 11 months pregnant, and Purple fruit snake had given Triclops-toucan two more eggs, with Loopeir bird's permission of course.

"What's beyond the stars, dad?" Lavi asked his father.

"More stars, son, lots more." Vlaak responded.

"What's beyond them?" Lavi asked again.

"Galaxies, son. Huge galaxies."

"And what's beyond the galaxies?"

"More galaxies. Millions more."

"Is there anything beyond them?"

"I don't know, son. I don't know." Vlaak and Lavi kept staring out into the heavens in silence, until Lavi asked,

"Dad?"

"What is it now, son? You're always asking questions." Vlaak said back.

"Where did you come from?" Lavi asked innocently. Vlaak was confused.

"What?" He said. Lavi asked again.

"I mean you, and mommy, and uncle octo, and Mr. Colmox, and aunt Triclops and everyone else." He stated. "Where did you all live before you came to the rock?" Vlaak was stunned for a moment at his son's question, but answered anyway. Vlaak took a deep breath, and said,

"Well, son, a long time ago, before you, your sister, and your cousins Buffy, Cubert, and Lili were born, the rest of us lived on a big, wild planet." Lavi listened intently to his father's recallation.

"The planet was named Vergon 6, and it was one of the most beutiful places I had ever known. It had a warm climate, plenty of food to eat and water to drink, and the most beutiful sunsets you could imagine. I grew up there. It was paradise. Their were many other creatures like me, your mother, and everyone else here."

"Where are they now?" Lavi curiously asked. Vlaak let out a painful sigh.

"They're all gone, son. We're each the last of our kind."

"What happened, dad?" Vlaak closed his eyes, remembering the terrible fate of his home.

"Lavi, our homeworld was destroyed. We were lucky." He said. A frown appeared on Lavi's face. "Greedy, selfish monsters called humans invaded our world and dug out the inside, leaving our home planet a hollow shell that collapsed into itself, destroying everything."

"But you survived, didn't you?" Lavi said.

"Yes, son. Yes I did, and so did all of our friends." Vlaak responded, a smile forming on his face. He then had a thought.

"Lavi, go wake your sister. Ther's something I want to tell you both." He said. Lavi obeyed and scuttled over to where his sister, Leena, was sleeping with their mother. He nudged her and she awoke and yawned cutely.

"What is it, Lavi?" She asked her twin brother.

"Dad wants to tell us something." Her brother answered. The two then scuttled over to their father and sat beside him.

"Alright kids," Vlaak said. "I told Lavi about my old planet and that it was destroyed, but there is another part of the story." Lavi and Leena leaned in to listen. Vlaak spoke again.

"When I was running away, when the planet was imploding, I saw a spaceship on the ground. I tried to get in it to escape, but they flew away without me. That's when I found this boulder, which saved my life, and your mother's."

"Really?" Leena asked.

"Yes." Vlaak replied. "And when we were in space, I saw the ship again, but it left us behind on purpose."

"That's not nice." Lavi said.

"No it's not. Now this is where it gets important." He leaned in close to his children. "If you two ever get the chance, I want you to give the crew of that ship what they deserve." Leena and Lavi nodded to their father.

"Don't worry dad. We will." Leena said.

"That's my girl." Vlaak said as he nuzzled his daughter.

"Wait, what did the crew look like?" Lavi asked.

"I only got a quick glimpse, but I remember very clearly." Vlaak answered. "There were 3 of them. One was a human male with orange fur and a red and white pelt." The two younglings imagined a dumb-looking, scrawny, red white and orange-haired creature. Vlaak said more.

"The second was a machine of some kind, with arms and leggs like a human, but made of metal."

"Weird." Lavi said.

"And the last one was by far the most hideus." Vlaak continued. "It was female, and had long hair the same color as Colmox's skin. Its pelt was white and black, but the most hideus part was that this creature had only ONE EYE." Lavi and Leena gasped in horror. A creature with only one eye? It must have looked horrific!

"Don't worry, dad. We promise that we will find this monster and make her pay." Leena said.

"Alright, alright. I think that's enough for now." Vlaak said. "It's getting late. You two should get some sleep." Reluctantly, the two little hybrids crawled back to their slumbering mother and snuggled up to each other and nodded off. Vlaak smiled and laid down beside them, and soon fell asleep as well.

"Look! Can you see it?"

"Yeah! It looks like a rock and a piece of land out in space."

"Yeah! I see it too! Maybe more animals survived the explosion!"

"We can't be sure, but it's worth checking out. Foreward!"

The landmass was quickly propelled foreward by some unknown force, speeding through space towards the other planetary remains.

"Maybe, just maybe." An unkown speaker said. "We aren't the only survivors.

Cliffhanger! R&R