"You're doing great Eva! The contractions have properly been reached…now I need you to push for me." The doctor calmly encourages and instructs the woman in labor.
"I'm trying!" Eva irritably screams at the top of her lungs as the pain in her lower region was absolutely unbearable.
Aikka mentally registers that his wife's energy rapidly drains as large beads of sweat eventually begins to perspire around her forehead.
"Oh my god, get this thing out of me now!" She angrily hollers at the top of her lungs while she simultaneously tries to steady her sharp breathes.
"It's crowning. Give me one good strong push!" The doctor calmly issues out another set of instructions to the woman.
"You're almost there honey. Just give me this one good push!" He composedly encourages his wife to give another hard push.
The raven haired with crimson tips was evening out her breathing while squinting her eyes before feeling something sliding right out of her body.
The sounds of a newborn baby's cries erupt as the nurses quickly wipe the liquids off of the child's body.
The orange haired man proudly snipped the umbilical cord with a pair of surgical scissies.
"It's another boy!" The midwife, who now gently wraps the child in the blanket, declares the sex of the infant in her arms.
"See…I gave you three boys." The young woman voices in a hush tone as she attempts to catch her breath.
The Noursaian leans over and places a kiss on his wife's forehead and utters, "I'm definitely one lucky father then."
"Rick," He addressses his close friend and personal guard to his family, who leans his back against the wall of the infirmary room.
"What is it Aikka?" Rick politely poses to the younger man while he dutifully remains in his position as he cordially addresses him.
"When either Minato or Natalie arrive send them to retrieve my mother and father." The king issues out the order to the raven-haired man.
"Understood." He consents before he departs from the infirmary to locate and retrieve both Minato and Natalie for King Aikka.
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"I can't believe it!" Kiera cheerfully announces before giggles of happiness emits from her mouth along with a wide smile present on her face.
"I wonder how many brothers we will have?" Kieran curiously poses to his twin.
"Or sisters…either way it goes we're older siblings!" She happily jeers with the same smile on her face.
"You know that means that we're going to have to babysit them once we get older." He predicts about the future role they will play in their siblings' lives.
"Oh wouldn't that just be fun!"
"We could teach them all the little games that we played when we were younger." The girl cheerfully suggests to her twin with a daze expression now on her face.
"That means we will have to be the best role models for them." The boy suddenly mentions to his twin.
The princess abruptly stares at her twin's face and was completely surprise that it did not reveal his emotions about the arrival of their brothers or sisters or maybe even both.
He feels a hand on his shoulders and a voice of comfort, "We will take being an older sibling within stride."
"Besides, you aren't the only one nervous about leading our siblings down the wrong path."
Kiera notices a smile that rivals her own materializes on his face once he glances up in her direction when he mutters, "In this thing together?"
She merely nods her in an up and down manner and poses, "Hey, do you want to go see if mommy had them yet?"
"I was just waiting for you to say something. Let's go!" The prince eagerly declares right before he nimbly hops off of his bed and gracefully lands on to the floor.
The twins exit their personal bedroom and bolt at top speed in the direction of the family's infirmary.
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'When it gets quiet here…it's definitely quiet!' Princess Mai inwardly determined since she grown particularly fond of the rowdy Noursaia's Royal Family.
'When Natalie left…it was deathly quiet as if they were mourning the lost of a love one.' She notes while she heads in the direction of the family's garden.
The princess suddenly spots the blonde man, who Jordan visibly hates, faces away from her.
'I wonder what he's looking at?' The young woman curiously wonders to herself.
She was stealthily creeping closer to him before instantly concealing her presence.
The princess narrows her sights until she could make out another head that is directly in front of the male.
'That looks like…' Mai mentally registers the identity of the person.
She hastily covers her mouth to prevent a loud gasp before she decides to continue in the direction of her original destination.
'Uh oh… the Avatar isn't going to like this…' The Noursaian surmises as her cheeks were now stain with a bright pink tint.
Once Princess Mai approaches the garden, she could not help but giggle to herself when she reasserts, 'I knew that they would make a cute couple!'
"I wonder where everyone is?" The sound of the Avatar's voice catches her attention after she unconsciously hides behind a brush to conceal her presence once again.
"I know what I can do. I can go find Natalie!" He happily declares to himself as he increases his pace.
Once the coast is clear, the princess leisurely emerges from her hidden spot.
Her sights suddenly spot the golden light of the Jordan down the hall where Natalie and the blonde male are.
'I don't think this will end well.' Mai assumed, as her interest shifted from the garden and on to the drama that was about to occur.
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"I told you that I wasn't going to run away!" Natalie adamantly declares after she eventually breaks the silence between the two of them.
"Thank you for keeping your word." Minato honestly thanks her with a small smile present on his face.
"So where do we go from here?" She nervously probes to him after she casually glances up at his face only to see a small smile.
"I told you my feelings. It's up to you whether or not you accept them."
"After you explained it to me, is it either a yes or a no?" He needles as his right hand gently presses against her cheek.
'This undescribable feeling…' The raven haired woman immediately considers after the skin-to-skin contact with his hand.
Before the soldier could verbalize her answer the sound of a familiar masculine voice calls her name. "Oh Natalie,"
The young man felt her body stiffen, dropped her head down, and broke contact once she removed his hand from her cheek.
'He has such a lousy sense of timing!' The knight angrily deemed once he realized that she remained in her current position.
"Ah, now what do we have down here?" Jordan teasingly questions himself right before he about faces and sees the bright aura of the Avatar.
"You aren't who I am looking for." He dejectedly announces with a smug expression on his face once he came face to face with him.
"What do you want?!" The blonde irritably requests of the intergalactic dignitary with a rather calm expression on his face.
Golden pupils stare him down until he notes that the blonde twit did not budge, so he decides to play a little mind game.
"Minato, right? You want to know something interesting about the wind?" The young man poses to him while he lifts his right hand in front of him.
"I could careless for your so called wisdom." The blonde solemnly states with an equally grave expression on his face.
"What's with you and this standoffish attitude?! I merely asked you a question." He belittles his participation to answer his question.
"And as I have said previously, I could careless of your so called wisdom. It seems as if you don't heed them yourself." Minato retorts.
"That you do have a point but even people in my position make mistakes. It should be human nature to at least offer a chance of redemption."
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Yours obviously got you no where except for an increase in your stubbornness."
"No wonder you like this young lad standing in front of you Natalie!" The Avatar jokingly declares as he begins to dramatically clap his hands.
"...but it's rather sad that you didn't allow me to properly introduce myself to you. I'm sure that your thoughts would be far from him."
"She never wanted you in the first place but your idiotic resilience continues to prove a bother to her."
The golden figure begins to chuckle before he chimes in with, "Smart and funny too?"
"Gosh, Natalie those are all the same qualities that I have but you don't know that, now do you?"
"Even the Avatar can't always have what he wants at his beck and call." Minato adds in as he remains in his protective stance in front of Natalie.
"What's going on here?" Rick's voice registers in their brains as they direct their attention toward the raven haired man with dark black sunglasses that covers his eyes.
Jordan huffs before he responds to his question, "We're just having a friendly conversation among friends."
"Wouldn't you two agree, Minato and Natalie?"
There was no answer from the pair before he speaks up again, "See what I tell you."
"You two," Rick calls and points out Minato and Natalie, who continue to maintain their attention on their superior officer.
"I have a mission."
The blonde robotically steps out of the way so the woman could easily travel in front of him in case the Avatar would try something.
"Humph," The two exchange intense glares at each other before the intergalatic dignitary watches the backs of Natalie, Minato and Rick like a hawk.
"Good luck on your mission." Jordan annoyingly announces with a wave until the trio disappear behind the castle's hallway wall.
'Well no one can say that I wasn't being polite…' He inwardly concludes as he proceeds to stroll through the halls of the castle.
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"It seems as if the third one isn't quite ready to come out just yet." The doctor announces to the queen after he completes a thorough examination of the queen.
Eva slowly leans her head back until it collides against the pillow and rotates her head in the direction of her husband.
"How you feeling?" Aikka softly queries with a small smile on his face once he shifts his seat closer to her bed.
"If I had the strength to punch you right now...I would so totally do it!" She tirelessly asserts while she slowly closes both of her eyes.
He already knew from experience that his wife acted like this whenever she would be in labor. "You seem to be taking this one like a trooper."
The raven head with crimson tips lazily opens her eyes to see the same smile still on his face.
"Well…" The young woman releases a sigh before she shifts her head to stare at the ceiling, "when you pop out a set of twins and two other children, you start to get the hang of it."
"I do recall our promise." The orange haired man purposely mentions to her, which earns a smile on her face after she turns her head in his direction again.
"Thanks." His wife utters whil she reaches her hand out of for his hand since she silently desires some skin-to-skin contact.
His sights watch his wife's arm reaches out in his direction before he happily obliges to her request and grasps her hand.
The pregnant woman immediately relaxes her nerves after she delivers boys back to back. "Something's telling me that the last one is a girl."
"Are you sure about that?" Aikka poses to his wife along with a raise of his eyebrow.
"She wanted her brothers to go before her so you could spoil her and Kiera." Eva alleges with her eyes now close and a smile on her face.
"So tell her that her father would like to add another princess so he could love and spoil her just like her big sister and her mommy." The orange haired male whispers to his wife.
The young woman lifts her head so that she could look at her swollen stomach. The woman then guides the hand that holds his to her stomach.
"You saved yourself for us now. We're just waiting for you to come out so we can shower you with love, little one." His wife coaxes in a gentle manner.
"Your father really can't wait to get back with your mother."
"He has been patiently waiting for you and her long enough." Aikka coyly encourages to the baby, which causes his wife's face to turn a bright red color.
"Aikka, you aren't supposed to say that to a newborn!" She jokingly reprimands him.
He uses his puppy dog face at his wife as a means to justify his comment, "I swear what I am going to do with…"
Pain abruptly begins to course throughout her body before she utters, "See what I told you! I knew it would work!"
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Author's Note:
12.12.16 Major editing revision
06.27.17 Major cleaning edits