Dinner had been an exciting event. Kimba was asleep, half on his mothers lap. He'd grown so big without her noticing. "Key, can you take Kimba to bed?"

"Sure." The lion male said as he easily picked up his large cub and transported him to the pile of dry grass and furs in the room adjacent to the main family room.

"Oi! I'm so full." Skye said as he slumped backwards on the wooden floor.

"You ate so much you look like a pregnant female!" Jiu Ruan teased.

"You do too!" Skye countered.

Chiaki laughed at their good-natured bickering. With Curtis and Bai Di helping they got all the plates and bowls and cups into the kitchen. There wasn't a spot to wash them or any form of running water though, so they'd be left until the next morning and washed in a stream.

"What has you in such a good mood?" Curtis asked.

Chiaki hummed. "I'm happy. Happy that the plans for Winter have come together without much problems. Happy that I don't need to feel pressured about getting the Beast God revived as quickly as possible."

Curtis came up behind her and pulled her back against him. "With such a good mood, perhaps we should enjoy it." He said suggestively in her ear.

"Another night, I'm as stuffed with food as Skye and Jiu Ruan!"

Curtis chuckled, letting her go. "Let's check on the egg then."

"Okay!"

Curtis pulled the sand jar from the highest shelf in the Kitchen. He sat the lid on a small wooden table Bai Di had made and added to the room. With a smile he pushed the sand away from the edge of the single snake egg.

Chiaki looked at the egg, sure it had stretched a little bigger. The blood from birth had long been softly scrubbed away by the sand as Curtis made sure to rotate the egg as needed. "Will it hatch soon?"

"It will be at least another month, but the snakeling inside is growing well, look how he's filled out the egg and pushed the dents away."

So it wasn't her imagination, the egg really was a little bigger!

Curtis smiled softly as his mate studied the egg. Even with it being the main point of her attention, she was talking to him. It soothed his natural tendency to be jealous. She was just curious, as any female would be of their offspring. He carefully turned the egg until the sandy side was up, pushed the warm sand back into place around it and covered the clay pot with it's lid.

"Thank you, for giving this a chance." Chiaki said as Curtis placed the pot back on the top shelf out of the reach of half of those living in the house.

"Hm." Curtis hummed in response.

o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o

Half the household were out collecting the foods that had to go through their first frost before they were ready for harvest. Chiaki giggled as she sneaked up on Kimba, giving the cub a chance to dodge.

~Missed me!~ "MAMA!" The cub shouted the word in the common language. The first word he'd learned to say.

"Run!" Chiaki said. "Or I'll catch you!"

Kimba laughed and rushed from the room. ~No you wont!~

Chiaki waited, giving the cub time before she started looking for him again in the house. The game of hide-and-seek would last until Kimba grew tired. Chiaki paced herself, letting the cub get away again before chasing him down. Winston watched as the female played with her cub. Wistfully he imagined her doing the same with white tiger cubs. The laughter of both filled the home.

He caught her as she ran passed. He blinked as he looked into her confused eyes. He'd moved without thought. "S-Sorry."

Chiaki blushed, pressed against the chest of the silver-eyed male. "Guess you caught me..." She said softly.

"Yeah." He said as he leaned forward and bushed his lips against hers.

~Awe.~ Kimba pouted as he realized his mother had been distracted from their game.

Chiaki pulled back from the kiss. "Oh, Kimba!"

The cub trotted to the door leading outside. ~I'll go play with the other cubs for a while.~ He said as he pushed the door open with a paw and slipped outside.

"Oh, I didn't want to make him upset."

"He'll be fine. Cubs learn quickly that they can't always be the center of attention." Jiu Ruan said as he sipped some of the warming tea.

"There were five other cubs in the same litter as me." Skye said. "I never got to play with my mom alone! He's lucky!"

Chiaki looked sadly at the door again. "Yeah, but-" She couldn't help but feel bad for Kimba. He'd gone from just three adults in his family to seven in just a few short months. While he got to play with the adult males of the family, it also limited the time he got his mother just to himself.

"He'll be happier once he has some other cubs in the house to play with."

Chiaki noticed the lusty glow in the eyes of the males. She knew it was getting close to her fertile time, were they picking up on that?

Winston shifted how he was holding her and she felt his hardness press against her belly. Well that answered that question. Damn, she'd only had to deal with one courting male at a time until now. How did she pick? The guy who's arms she was wrapped in? The guy who started courting her first? Eenie-meenie-minie-moe?

"Winston?"

"Can we?" He asked as he buried his nose in her hair and breather her scent in deeply.

Somehow while she'd been debating, the other two males has joined them and she found herself surrounded. Hands were running over her body, the heat of their bodies on all sides of her.

"Hn~" She whimpered as one male slid a hand up between her thighs. This was happening. The thought flitted through her mind.

"Not down here!" She managed to tell them. "Up in the bedroom."

In a blink Chiaki found herself on her back in the sleeping furs. Winston covered her body with his own, leaning over her. His face was flushed and she could see tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. She used her thumbs to wipe them away.

Winston pulled the clothes off Chiaki, nearly overwhelmed as he realized she was about to become his mate! When she touched his face he realized he must have teared up. The wetness was hot on his cheeks, but she didn't seemed to think less of him for his weakness.

Jiu Ruan was sucking on one of her breasts, his hand curled between her thighs spreading the wetness over her entrance. He'd seen his mother mate with several of her males at once, so the situation seemed normal to him. He ignored Winston hovering overhead. Skye was trying to copy the wolf male from the other side, but there wasn't enough room. Aggravated he pushed Winston by the ass up higher on Chiaki's body. He let his hands grip her thighs and lifted them away from her hidden center. That spot that such a wonderful intoxicating scent was coming from.

Chaiki bucked her hips when she felt a tongue replace the fingers inside her body. Her sudden moan caused Winston to look back to see what the panther male had done. All he got was a view of the top of the other males head between the females thighs.

Jiu Ruan paused to suck his fingers dry of her juices, getting a nose full of the scent that was driving him wild. Instead of returning to what he'd been doing he pushed up to kiss her, causing Winston to sit up.

Winston found himself straddling Chiaki as the two younger males forced their lead. He cupped the pair of soft breasts he was straddling and realized that they were soft and malleable. He pushed them together, letting his hardness be trapped between them and giving a small thrust to test the feeling. It felt nice, but was nothing compared to the memory of when she'd used her mouth to bring him to climax during the feast.

Skye found himself pushed away as Winston used his foot to shove the other male away by the shoulder. He watched as the older male slid his hardness along the outside of Chiaki's opening, she was much wetter and with a small thrust the white-tiger male was fully inside of her! Damn it, bigger males always got everything first.

Winston froze up at how hot wet and tight the female below him was. It was more intense than the feeling of her mouth! He pushed the wolf from her lips and pulled Chiaki up into his lap, wrapping her legs around his waste and bouncing her on his length. She moaned louder and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Winston!" Chiaki cried out as she found herself impaled by him. Gone was the unsure male she'd been living with, replaced by the one she'd seen during the festival. His arms were wrapped around her, lifting her and bringing her down with the timing of his thrusts. She felt a hot burst deep inside her, as he shuddered and held her still tightly against himself.

Winston panted as he felt his body shudder in release. He could feel a pull on not only his physical form but his beast spirit. He held her until he had fully emptied his seed into her and began to soften. As he loosened his hold on her and let her lay on the furs again, his eyes caught sight of the new mark on her body. Right above her bellybutton was a still glowing tiger mark with silver eyes.