Me: ok, this is it, the last chapter! I hope you enjoy!
"So, you think she's gonna be ok?" Binka asked, having gotten here a little bit ago.
"She will be, she just-" the was a loud scream from her, followed by a, "Crap, I'm losing feeling in my hand!" from Mushra. "She just has to go through a little pain for now…"
She nodded.
"Man…Are you sure she's going to be ok?" Ookami asked, sitting like a dog kinda, beside Hana. He flinched when he heard her screams. "…It sounds pretty bad…"
"It always does, honey. But she's going to be ok." I told him and ruffled his hair. He's so much older now, so much bigger then that little half-wolf you could fit in your hand-more mature, that it could sometimes surprise me when I realize he is still that little child sometimes. That same little kid we met while traveling. The one who was always by Mushra and Heather's side, the one who hadn't given up on his bubu, even if he had lied. The one who was becoming a great general.
He nodded. Hana rubbed her head against his shoulder soothingly, like a dog or wolf. He laid his head on hers for a second in thanks.
"Well…what do we do while we wait?" Yakumo asked, Xavier scooting closer to her and putting his arm around her.
"Well, I don't know. It'd be hard to relax and have a nice, calm game of anything with the screams being heard." Carly said and, right on cue, Heather screamed again. I tried to ignore it, knowing this is just a part of childbirth, but her screams of pain-hearing any of these people-my family, like that, just freaks me out.
~Mushra~
Dear Guardians, I'm not going to be able to use this hand after this! "Ok, Heather, I think you breathing will do more then you breaking the bones in my fingers!"
She took those deep, quick, weird, pregnant woman breaths and pushed when the doctor told her to and she called out in pain a little again. I bit down on my lip so hard, I think it could've started bleeding.
"Come on Heather, you can do this. Just keep pushing." My mother-in-law said, dabbing her sweating forehead. "And Mushra, I've always tried to tolerate you and I do well, but I have to say this- You are not the one giving birth, so stop complaining!"
"Seriousl-Gaaaah!" Heather said and squeezed my hand again.
I have no idea what the heck kinda of noise came out of me, but it was a pained, muffled noise. Man, that hurt!
"Come on, push!" the doctor said and that's when I saw the red. Ok, yeah, I'd been in here for Mashura and Carrie's birth, but I always kept my eyes on Heather I never…saw…that…stuff…
~Heather~
Oh, great! I'm having a freaking baby and her father faints! Ok, heather, breath! I took deep and quick breaths repeatively. "Oh, he's so going to be the first one on baby watch after this, the little wimp!"
"Push!"
And I pushed as hard as I could. Dear god and guardians, I hope this would be over soon! "Aaah!" I let another yelp out and began breathing again.
One of the nerses woke Mushra, who looked around, wondering what was going on, realized immediately, but stupidly looked back at what had made him faint before and then he was onconcious again.
"Stupid baka!"
"Push!"
~Jaden~
There was another yell then and it sounded more annoyed then pained, and no Mushra complaints followed…I wonder why.
"What the…" I heard some random enterran nurse gasped and turned to see two people hurrying toward us. Why did these two people surprise the enterran's and a few humans? Because, they were guardians, their golden wings shining behind them.
"Neushra?" Ookami said, surprised, before I could.
I kinda felt a tiny bit of jealousy when I saw her, only because neither her, nor Saru had aged a day sicne we'd last seen them. Guardian's don't age, apparently. But I shook it off and hugged her and then asked, "What're you doin ehre! I thought you guys weren't allowed on planet's that much, it's against the rules isn't it?"
"Well, yeah, it is." Saru said with a smile. "But not all guardians follow them."
"I heard there was another one coming." Neushra said with a smile. "Who's…being named after me?" she asked.
I smiled. "She sure is."
"And who decided that?"
"Heather."
She looked down at the ground with a strange smile and I couldn't tell if she was about to laugh or cry. "Hmm. Why is that surprising, yet not?"
I laughed.
"How's she doing?" Saru asked.
"The usual pain. We haven't had to chance to see how she's doing. It'll probably be a little while longer. You might as well get confortable." I told them and they nodded, sitting on the ground since there weren't any seats left.
~Heather~
"Mushra, if you don't get up, so help me…!" I began and he began waking then, keeping his eyes away from the blood and keeping his eyes on me as he asked, "H-h-how you doing, honey?"
"Are you really going to ask me that right now…?" I asked, taking deep quick breaths.
"Man, you girl's can be so freaking grum-" I grabbed his shirt and pulled him forward before he could finish.
"You'd feel murderous, believe me, if you were in my place right now." I told him, though I was feeling the tiniest of guilt for being mean. But, you know what, I'm having a baby. I won't go into the gory details, but it's painful and I don't really want to give a crap until this is over!
"Ok…" He replied, sound all small.
I looked at him as I was sweating and began feeling weak and tired and sorry. "Oh, I'm sorry Mushra. I'm just tired. Please don't be mad or hurt!"
He grabbed my hand soothingly and rubbing it, making me smile. "I'm not mad, why would I-"
"Push!"
"Gaaaaah!" the scream came from me, as well as Mushra and I felt bad for him. He'd tried to comfort me, but now his other hand was being broken…he should've just used the other one, at least one of them would have been usable later.
~Mushra~
Ok, now my lip was bleeding because I was biting it so hard, trying to keep from calling out. Man, I never realized the grip she had!
~Jaden~
"So…how have you two been…?" I asked awkwardly.
"Good." Saru said when Neushra said with a smile, "Happy."
"Good. It's nice it's been ok with everyone." I said with a smile.
"You know who I miss?" Irayna said all of a sudden.
"Who?" Shadow asked, curious.
"Those twins, Kage and Kurai." She said with a smug, playful smile.
"Why would you miss them?" I asked, surprised and confused.
"Because they were fun to fight, of course." Shadow said, on the same page with Irayna.
I shook my head.
"Aw, come on, you gotta admit they were fun!" Irayna said.
"Only you two would have enjoyed a fight when our lives were on the line." Sago said.
"Hey, don't hate because we're better fighters!" Shadow said and Irayna nodded. Everyone did little "Psshaa" laughs, disbelieving, though deep down, I knew that they were both pretty good.
It was quiet for a while, everyone bored and not sure what to talk about. I had become so bore,d I hadn't notice the screams had stopped. So I was surprised when I heard a, "Ahem!" I turned to see it was heather's mother.
She was glowing with happiness. She smiled a little bit and looked at everyone. "So, who wants to see the baby first?"
We all stood and looked at each other. The one's closest to her here, was me, Winter and Carly. But then I saw Neushra…I could tell she wanted to talk to her old 'rival' and I knew we could wait and she couldn't, she didn't have as much time as us, so I told the girls. They nodded, then I went up to Neushra, who was watched the door to Heather's room.
"Go." I said. "I can see you want to."
She seemed surprised. "What? No! one of you go, your more like her sister's, I can't take up your time!"
"Neushra, we have the rest of the kids life, you only have an hour, at max. Go."
"You sure?" she asked hesitantly. I nodded. Then she nodded and heading in, pulling her wings in so she didn't hit anything and then we were waiting again. Saru just stood there awkwardly.
"So…Saru….how's Guardian life treating ya?" I asked, not knowing what else to say.
…..I could clearly hear the cricket in the background.
~Heather~
I looked up when I heard the door open and was surprised, yet not, to see the woman my new, beautiful little girl was named after. Though, no offence to Neushra…kinda, but my Neushra was so much more beautiful, even in sleep. She had her father's face, with little bit's of me here and there. She had mushra's hair, of course, and his blue eyes.
"Um….Hello…" She said nervously. She still looked as young as when we met.
"Hiya, Neushra…you came to see little Neushra?" I asked with a laugh.
"Yes." She said, her eyes locked on my daughter's beauty. But then, curiosity covered her face and she looked at me and asked, "…Why?"
"Why what?" I asked her.
"Why would you name her after me…?" She asked.
"Simple…whether you meant to or not, you…you brought me and Mushra closer together. You meant a lot to our relationship, even if I wouldn't want to admit it back then." I laughed. "So, I thought I'd name our last child after the person who completely linked us together."
She smiled surprisingly. I was kinda glad she had Saru now, or else that would have killed her, since she'd still have had feelings for Mushra. "Well, happy to help." She laughed and I did as well. Mushra was a little late, laughing stiffly.
"You wanna hold her…?" I asked Neushra, seeing her eyeing my little baby.
"…Yes…" she said quietly and I carefully hand her to Neushra, who carefully took her in her arms and softly bounced and swayed back and forth. "My….you are…you're just a breath-taking little thing, aren't you?" she said. "You take it from your mother, you know."
I blushed at that. "Yeah, sure."
"She's right." Mushra said in my ear and kissed me.
Once Neushra had her fill, she handed my daughter back to me and even gave me a hug goodbye, then Mushra and a little kiss that I let her have, for old times' sake. We both laughed at Mushra, who wasn't sure if he should except it or get mad at her for doing it.
Saru came in, to say hi and goodbye to Mushra, even if the Mushra he knew wasn't there, there was still a bit of a connection. He gave my little Neushra a kiss on the forehead and said goodbye. They let Jaden and the other's (meaning Winter and Carly) in to see her and me, but then they said visiting hours were over and that we'd be staying overnight and tomorrow we could go home.
As I had accused, Jaden did that annoying but amusing baby-voice, can't-understand-what-the-heck-you're-saying thing with the baby until I messed with her, saying she'd scare the baby to death if she didn't stop. She nudged my shoulder before hugging my shoulders and kissing my baby's head and saying goodnight.
The other two were just the same, despite themselves and their attempts to resist Neushra's cuteness. In the end, every said bye and left. My mom almost stayed, sayin she'd sleep in a chair, but I told her I'd be fine, no need to break her back. And she left as well. But, of course, Mushra didn't. he stayed right by the bed with me and lil Neushra as we slept, his arm around one of mine that cradled Neushra. I slept happily.
~Jaden~
I almost couldn't sleep last night. I wondered how Heather and lil Neushra were doing. I had to rock Mizuka to sleep which took a little while, they Sago stayed up and helped me. I'd be humming random lullaby's, we'd both rock her back and forth and he'd rub her cheek soothingly. The second she finally started snoring, I stopped rocking, now tired as well. That's when Sago began humming and rubbing my cheek and I smiled, happy he was trying to help me get to sleep. And I fell asleep faster then Mizuka.
The next morning, I climbed out of bed, leaving Mizuka in her father's cradling arms. I stood there for a moment, smiling at the site and then went to see if heather had been brought back yet or not.
"Hello?" I called, amazed I didn't hear anyone awake. "Hey, guys, are the other's back yet?" no answers. Weird. "Guys, it's not funny…Shadow, you're not going to scare me." I said, wondering where he was hiding, but no one came out and I got a little worried. "Come on, guys! It's not funny!"
Complete silence…ok, getting worried now. "Hey, gu-ooof!"
Once again, someone tackled/landed on my back, hurting me. That person covered my mouth and I saw it was, of course, Shadow.
"God, you have a big mouth, you know that?" he whispered.
I pushed him off. "What was th-" he covered my mouth again and I lowered my voice when he moved his hand away. "What did you do that for?" I whispered.
"Well, a certain little baby is sleeping and your big mouth would have woke her up!" he said.
"Wow, you do have a fatherly side!" I said in mock amazement.
"Shut up." He said.
"So, where's the baby?" I asked.
"In Mushra and Heather's room, of course. Almost half the house is in there, just watching her as she sleeps." He laughed.
"Aw! I wanna go see her too!" I said and started heading to their room.
"Yeah, as long as you're not loud as heck, I'm sure they'd be ok with that."
"Shut up!"
When I entered the room, I did it quietly. Only a few heads turned towards me and Shadow as we entered. Winter saw me and waved me in and I tiptoed over. I stopped beside her and Carly to see Heather half awake, half asleep, her eyes on her daughter. Mushra had his arms lovingly around her and lil Neushra and he watched the both of them none-stop.
It was just-it was a moment I wouldn't want to give up, just a peaceful, precious moment. We've been through so much, but, I'm so glad we have our happiness now. But hey…
Everything happened for a reason.
Me: *has tissue* aw, I'm crying here! It's over!
Mushra: what? Does that mean I'll never be back? Noooooooo!
Me: there's other stories, dude, like my 'Sago's Assasinator's' story.
Mushra: what, did you have a bad fight with your boyfriend when you came up with that story?
Me: no! I just randomly thought of a different storyline and decided to make it a fanfic! Man, you're so annoying!
Mushra: ^^it's my calling^^
Me: ok, well, I have a question to ask a question again, just for the heck of it, and Mushra, don't be cocky again and say you and heather only!
Mushra: what? We're the cutest and coolest couple, it's the truth!
Me: anyways, to all reading, tell me in a review who's your favorite couple from throughout the whole series of stories (and to 'Heather', 'Witner' and 'Carly', if you and your guy are your favorite, pick a second favorite then!) well, yeah, ok, I think that's it, except, to say goodbye for good.
Jaden, Heather, Winter and Carly: Goodbye, readers!^^
Sago, Mushra, Zen and Shadow: Adios!
Irayna, Hitoshi, Xavier and Yakumo: bye!
Binka, Kutaal, the kittens and the robots: bye everyone!
The whole wolf pack: *howls in goodbye*
All four girls parents: bye!
Kage and Kurai: Bye! You know you'll miss us!^^
Neushra and Saru: bye!
Maliki and Akumai: see ya.
Lanuncurus: I shall take over the world!
Eilis: I shall help my master revive himself again!
Ryuma: I will have my bride!
*hits all three of them* the three of them: Bye!
Me: I hope you enjoyed the story^^ please review!
