Ch. 29 Egg Parenthood

Well now we get to see Marius's reaction to Alduin's shocking reveal and lets see how this goes since they have a war to fight on top of that. How will Lucia and Sofie take the news that they will have dragon brothers and sisters?

I apologize that this is late but it's getting to be that time of the year where Exams are coming so I have to study when I can. Still, I promised to give you all stories so I will deliver on that.

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It took a few minutes for Marius's brain to fully restart after what he just heard. "Could you repeat that?"

"I said, I am carrying your eggs you poor excuse for a mortal sire." Alduin repeated before a loud crack of thunder was heard very close to where they were.

"How? How is that possible?" Marius questioned in desperation as he prayed to whoever that she was lying.

"You don't remember? You don't remember a few days ago?" Alduin questioned with some form of hurt.

"I remember being a dragon and...oh gods." Marius finally realized after a moment. "I was a dragon and we..."

"And this is the result." Alduin finished smugly. "Your eggs are forming as we speak."

"That Shout changed more than I thought." Marius muttered to himself as he attempted to salvage the situation. "So is this something to lord over me? To hold over my head?"

"If you think I am using this as an excuse to get to you then you are mistaken. I am more concerned with how YOU would react to this." Alduin replied simply as Marius gave her a strange look.

"So now you care about what I feel." he shot back as she growled.

"I have always cared you pitiful mortal!" Alduin roared back as Marius scoffed.

"You never show it, just once I wanted to hear something nice or even something decent but no you always got to have some sort of attitude or treat everything like some sort of joke. Maybe I am asking too much to hear something nice but something as small as how are you would go a long way." Marius growled out as Alduin snarled.

"You joor and your emotions. If you wanted some mushy stuff then you should have had a mortal woman." Alduin said as Marius balled his fists. "But that is no longer in the cards is it?"

"No thanks to you." Marius muttered as Alduin shook her head.

"So you would willingly leave your own future children because of your own hatred." Alduin mused as Marius shot her a glare.

"I didn't say that at all." Marius growled out as his own dragon half roared in anger at her even thinking he would do that. It also didn't help that he was raised the right way by his parents and that meant taking care of any consequences of his actions which meant that he had to be a father.

"You were thinking it." Alduin retorted as Marius frowned and crossed his arms.

"At first." he finally relented as she settled down again.

"Then you couldn't call yourself a true dov if you did. A male dov would never abandon his own children or his mate for any reason." Alduin remarked with a yawn.

"Are you alright?" Marius questioned, if only to distract himself from the thought that he was now a father of dragons.

"During the early stages the majority of a female's energy will be used to form and protect their eggs until they are ready to lay them." Paarthurnax explained while Alduin shuffled her position a bit. "They will sleep most of the time and awaken to eat until it is time to lay."

"And I have to keep her fed am I right?" Marius asked simply as Paarthurnax nodded while Alduin felt her eyelids droop. "How the hell am I gonna do that while keeping my own kids safe and fighting in a war?"

"It is a challenge but one you must rise to for the life of a male isn't an easy one." Paarthurnax replied calmly as Marius looked at the now sleeping Alduin. "She flew here for you but will you leave her or go with her?"

"You should already know that answer." Marius said simply as he went over to the Word Wall and sat down. "I'll tolerate her and that's the extent of it."

"All it takes is one chance." Paarthurnax said as Marius snorted before settling into a wait.

-Scene Change-

"The first sets have been delivered on time and are being tested right now." Beirand said as he looked at the paper in his hands. "New orders have been placed and are about to be started as we speak."

"So that's 14 complete sets delivered but it's still not enough for what we need." Tullius said with a frown as he looked over a map of Tamriel.

"That's all we have on hand." Beirand countered as Tullius sighed. "Most likely all the units will require adjustments since the job was rushed as it is."

"So that's even more time wasted, time we don't have anymore." Tullius mused as he stood straighter. "Do what you can to get them all ready to go. The first battalions march in two weeks time and I want to have at least one squad with them."

"We will do what we can but we aren't miracle workers." Beirand replied before he left to inspect the armor fitting.

"General, we need to know just how many dragons will be going with what Army. In order to fully cover all operations we need at least 10 with each invasion force and I'm not sure we'll even get half of that number." Rikke said as she finished tallying her numbers.

"We need to get in contact with Legate Marius, he might be able to find out for us." Tullius said as he went to write a message. "Rikke, finish getting the figures then inform Elisif that we are progressing on track."

"Yes General, may Talos guard us all." Rikke said as she went back to her duties.

"I'm not sure even the Daedra will help us through this." Tullius said under his breath.

-With Odahviing-

Odahviing will never understand joor and their fascination with skulls but who was he to judge how they acted when he delivered the dead mortals head to the cesspool city of Riften? If they wanted to cheer a dead mortal then that was their right though judging by the state of the city he could correctly guess that the woman had something to do with that. All around the city there was cheering as Maven's head was adorned on a pike in the center of the market and garbage being tossed towards it.

"Dovah will never understand joor and their ways." Odahviing said to himself as the pike was taken away and the town started to set up some sort of celebration. "They celebrate one dieing with such joy."

He would never understand how they acted.

Good thing he had Elk bound into his vision and he took off.

Ah, we get to see some nice banter between Marius and Alduin and before you ask, no he hasn't forgiven her and she will still need to work for it but that is too come. We still have a war after all.

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