Supernatural: Chronicles of the Order 9

Chapter 24: Minara's Sense of Uncertainty

(DISCLAIMER: No, I don't own Supernatural because it belongs to Eric Kripke and Warner Bros. So, enjoy the show! Rated M for graphic violence, adult content, and adult language.)

It had been ten days since Eldrad and Gerda's wedding as I was back home in the castle on Skald Island. With a whirlwind of events that kept me on my toes, I had to continue to focus on my recovery as I was mainly taking care of what was going on all over the place. As usual, I received letters from the Foxworth family as I was glad that the new occupants of the Aldercapt house settled in well, for it was well worth the wait into finding the stash of weapons that were forged in the time between the Middle Days and the Elder Days. Even with Minara back home with his family in New Capua on Claudius, I wanted to know how he was doing after he was suffering from nausea last week. Still, I had to worry about him as something wasn't right with him in which he feared the worst just to be an Incubator once more.

When I went into the sitting room, I looked at the letters carefully as I later saw Reuben enter the moment he was here on one of his visits. He was mainly here to give me another assessment as I was mainly the Order's resident guinea pig anyway. Still, I had my fair share of assessments as I also had to abide by them, for they were necessary to monitor the raw power that I had in me.

"You seem occupied, Sam," he said to me.

"I just officiated a wedding ten days ago and I'm still reading letters," I said.

"When I went to the citadel in the Inland District, I was mainly giving everyone here checkups in which I heard Dean telling me about how Minara kept being nauseated."

"He's fearing the worst…"

"What are you talking about?"

"While I was on Cordell Island officiating a wedding, I saw a pregnancy test that Minara used in which it came up negative. After the festivities and discovering a weapons stash in the Aldercapt house, he decided to examine himself in which I bore witness to what I saw the moment it was a bit of indigestion stemming from the shakshouka he made and it gave him a sour stomach."

"I hear that you're gonna visit him in New Capua. For the record, the Praetorian Guard is on high alert after that terrorist attack, so I suggest that you tread lightly. As for Minara's predicament if you see him again, I suggest that you get a second opinion before jumping into conclusions."

"I'll see what I can do, but I can't sit by and let him go sideways. Minara was by my side when I was with child, but I also want to be there for him in which he's scared to death about something. He's been on guard with himself ever since the war ended. He even fears becoming an Incubator after what he went through."

I was concerned about what was happening to Minara as I had to know what he was doing in which I also wanted to visit New Capua. When I went towards the room with the red rubber ball, I closed the door behind me as I was ready to go towards my destination. With the ball glowing, I was mainly in the room until I was there on time the moment I opened up the door and stepped out into a busy street of where I wanted to go. I was on Claudius as I was in New Capua in which it was a place that had so many public bathhouses than any other city I visited. Everyone was going about their daily lives as I also noticed a demolished building in which I spotted some of the Claudian Emperor's Praetorian Guards patrolling the area after what happened when the Zenith Vectors attacked a week ago.

When I walked past the remains of the building, I was on my way to where Minara's homestead was as I wanted to know how he was doing. When I saw a pull-cart with some donkeys attached to it coming by, I spotted Minara in it as he was a wreck the moment he was shaking from what he went through. By the time I followed the pull-cart, I tracked it to the homestead where Minara's family were as they were worried about his well-being. When I made my way to the homestead, I was stopped by a Praetorian Guard as he was on duty patrolling the streets, for he didn't want any trouble here.

"You shouldn't be out and about like that, My Lord," he said to me.

"What's going on so far?" I asked.

"One of our patrol units found him near one of the waterways a few days ago in which he looked as if he'd been drugged."

"Drugged?"

"When we found him, he'd been puking up what he ate in which his family was worried about him after all he went through. He was even sent some harassing text messages from someone by the name of Chuck."

"I'm a friend of Minara's, for I need to know what happened to him."

"I'll let it slide, My Lord, but you can't leave the homestead right now."

I went into Minara's homestead as it was a calming and pleasant place complete with a fountain and an orchard. It was a beautiful place as I saw everyone going about their daily lives in which I also noticed several chickens and other fowl walking in the grass. When I walked to where the pull-cart was, I saw Minara being carted into the house as he was led into the atrium. The sound of birds chirping in a large tree calmed him as he sat down on a bench. Still, he didn't want to think about it as he took off his jacket and shirt the moment I noticed a red puncture mark below his abdomen that was swollen. Even though it wasn't my business to pry further, but I had to know about what happened to him, for he was in dire need of consoling as soon as possible.

"You look like a wreck," I said.

"Sorry, but it's a little complicated right now," said Minara.

"Something happened to you, hasn't it?"

"After the wedding with Eldrad and Gerda ten days ago, I examined myself thoroughly about my nausea in which I ate a little bit of shakshouka that didn't agree with me. Luckily, it wasn't food poisoning or I would've been toast, but whoever made it, must have overspiced it."

"I'm so glad that you're okay… With Zenichiro here with you and the other family members in your homestead, there's no stress. As for what the Praetor at the gate told me, you got some harassing text messages from Chuck again, didn't you?"

My words made Minara shake in fear as he rushed out of the atrium and into the bathroom in which he was shaking with fear. With a pregnancy test taken out of a drawer near the sink, he opened it up as he stood in front of the toilet with the seat lifted up. With the cap removed, he relieved onto the strip of it as he placed it back onto the test the moment he zipped up his pants and flushed the toilet. With the seat down, he sat down as he waited patiently in which he was dreading the outcome. After waiting for the results, he noticed two lines on the pregnancy test as he feared the worst, for he never expected to be put through the ringer in the first place. By the time I opened the door, I saw him on the floor in a fetal position as he had tears in his eyes, for he bore the full brunt of a cruel joke that was pulled on him.

"Why? Why did this have to happen to me?" he said as he wept.

"I never knew until now," I said as I saw the pregnancy test on the sink.

"Damn you, Chuck! Why did you force this on me?!"

"And I thought that I was high maintenance…" I sat Minara up as I comforted him until I noticed a slight bump on his head. "Someone got you there…"

"I don't remember what happened next, but I know that Chuck planned this!"

Without warning, I saw Ryosuke burst into the bathroom as he noticed me with Minara. He was aware of my presence as I was also on light duty and away from field work as he also didn't expect me to be here, for I was also at high risk due to the sightings of the Zenith Vectors. Even though I came here to check up on Minara, I didn't expect to get an earful from Ryosuke as he was also there to make sure that nothing else bad happened here. Still, I was concerned about Minara's mental health as I also had to make sure that he didn't suffer much worse, for the cruel joke that was played on him had just gotten worse in the long run.

"I thought you were supposed to be resting in your furlough," said Ryosuke as he stared at me.

"I was here for a visit," I said as I was standing up.

"I've got the Claudian Emperor breathing down my neck after he lost one of the federal buildings here in New Capua in which he wants to castrate the prick with the scar on his face."

"He's all yours, Ryosuke," said Minara as he was up on his feet.

"What the hell's that?" Ryosuke sees the pregnancy test on the sink. "Are you telling me that you're with child again after Mizuwa gave birth to your son ten days prior?"

"It wasn't his fault," I said. "He may not remember anything else, but he wasn't doing too well when the Praetors found him."

"I'll alert the Medical Corps, but I advise you to stay put in your home, Minara."

We saw Ryosuke leave as we followed him out of the bathroom. When we made our way to the atrium, we saw Minara faint onto the floor as he couldn't take the stress, for it was too much for him. What I saw concerned me as I had to console Minara as much as I could, for he was caught in this cruel merry-go-round that pinned him to the ground…

Ten days earlier…

Minara returned to his homestead as he was happy that everyone was safe after the terrorist attack that hit New Capua yesterday. After bringing Mizuwa and Zenichiro home, they were adjusting as they were in the atrium sitting on the bench. When Minara went to check on them, he was noticing Mizuwa nursing their newborn son as she was happy to be home. Life in the homestead here in New Capua was returning to normal as everyone was going about their business. Even Minara was happy to be home as he was blessed to see his family here, for his support system was the one that kept him grounded in the first place.

"After being in a haunted house, there's no rest for the wicked," he said as he sat down next to Mizuwa. "What was also down there was a weapon stash with what was used in the time of the Elder Days."

"We're home, but the Emperor issued his Praetorian Guards to patrol the city," she said as she felt Zenichiro unlatching. "As for the terrorists, they were afraid of what the soldiers bore when they fled."

"It's because their suits are susceptible to getting punctured by diamond. After the Emperor chastising the mayor of this city for not doing enough, he sent his Praetorian Guards to patrol the city so that no other terrorist attack will happen again."

"I hope that those people are found and gone. I heard the news about how they caused a terrorist attack in the Alecrian capital last month."

"And they already took lives in our ranks…"

Minara heard his vidphone ringing as he took it out of his pocket. When he saw the same annoying text message, "it's baby time," with a stork emoji next to it again, he was getting angry as he spotted Chuck fleeing the atrium. When he ran after Him, he chased Him to one of the storehouses in which he confronted Him near a few produce crates. Minara was getting fed up with Chuck as he wanted to more than just wring His neck, for he was getting tired of the harassment he was bombarded with after the war ended.

"You never quit, do you?!" he yelled.

"No, I never and won't quit until you resume your duty as an Incubator," said Chuck.

"You're making this difficult for me!"

"I'm touched that your wife welcomed your newborn bundle of joy, but that doesn't mean that you can shirk your purpose as an Incubator just to put the damper on the Arbiter."

"I'm not a commodity just to spend the remainder of my life being a baby machine, for it is the women that have that job! Men are only there for spare parts just to craft what the women bear in the bodies to term. That is what is deemed natural for all of us and yet You continue to harass me to no end."

"You can't back down on this, Minara. It's your duty to bear a baby for a damn good—"

"Shut up! Don't say another word! Do us all a favor, Chuck; leave me alone!"

"Sorry, Minara…, but you leave me no choice…"

Minara left the storehouse as he didn't want to hear any more of Chuck's words. What he didn't expect was that he was knocked unconscious as he fell to the floor. What happened next would soon impact his life as a cruel joke would soon become a reality, for that was Chuck's wish after all…

Minara found himself blindfolded and naked as he was strapped on a table. He wanted to wring Chuck's neck as he also found himself trying to stay awake. He was drugged as he felt a needle being inserted in which it was mainly an anesthetic with a sedative mixed into it. What he didn't expect was he was hearing voices surrounding him as he fell asleep again. It wasn't long until Neville arrived into the room he was fully dressed in surgical garb as he observed Minara who was strapped onto the table naked with a sheet covering the lower part of him. He was ready to do the unthinkable as he was armed with a stroker and catheter needle. When his accomplice entered in surgical garb, he was shady as he was carrying a cooling capsule that was designated to be used for something, for it was a very unethical operation indeed.

"You outdid yourself, Neville," he said as he walked toward an unconscious Minara. "It seems that our mysterious client gave us the go-ahead to make him do his duty as an Incubator."

"It's the will of the man who demanded him to be an Incubator to begin with," he said. "Minara has continued to resist the demands of the Terran God, but our friend in frumpy clothing has won this battle."

"He'll carry a fine specimen of an ovum in which it was from one of the Claudian archers who fought in the resistance to overthrow Emperor Caedrios a thousand years ago. Her line may be extinct, but will find a new lease on life once it is preserved in an Incubator's womb."

"Let's begin the procedure…"

Neville saw his shady accomplice insert the catheter needle with a tube and storage bag attached into Minara's member as the stroker was placed around it earlier. Turning it on, it vibrated as it sent a wave of pleasure directly to Minara's body while he was strapped to the table. He was being used against his wishes as he was forced to enjoy the pleasure coming from the stroker that was wrapped around his member. Neville and his accomplice were seeing him jerking on the table as he continued to be engulfed by the orgasmic arousal that he was forced to endure. By the time he reached his climax, he let out a cry of excitement as he felt his seed being extracted from his member and into a storage bag attached to the catheter. By the time it was over, the accomplice removed the catheter and stroker from Minara's member as he collected the storage bag and placed his seed into a petri dish on a counter with a microscope, for the next step was about to begin.

When the accomplice opened up the capsule, he took out the single ovum from its nitrogen preservation as he placed into the petri dish with Minara's seed. When he looked into the microscope, he saw the seed doing its work as it instantly fertilized the egg in which he got out a hypodermic syringe and collected it. With Neville swathing the lower part of Minara's abdomen with iodine and alcohol, the accomplice was ready to complete what was started as he injected him with the ovum that was fertilized by his seed, for his crafted womb was ready to be claimed against his wishes.

"It is done," he said.

"At least the Terran God is pleased that we contributed into forcing Minara to do his duty as an Incubator," said Neville. "As for your expertise, it's well worth it since you lost your license as a fertility doctor."

"I had a divine presence with the one who wrote those books that often give hunters an insight to do their best in 'saving people, hunting things, and upholding the family business.' He was demanding it for a while until he tasked us to seeing it through."

"We'll take him back home as if nothing happened but seeing the injury where our Benefactor knocked him unconscious, for it is His will after all."

Neville and his accomplice unstrapped the unconscious Minara as they dressed him in a hospital gown and robe. Whatever happened next would change his life forever as the damage was already done, for what he now carried was ancient and made to be born against his wishes…

Meanwhile, back in the present…

Minara was in the infirmary wing of his homestead as he was laying in a hospital bed. After being examined by the Medical Corps earlier, he was contemplating on getting rid of the problem that he had as he didn't want it to ruin his life. Sitting up, he noticed me here as I didn't want to leave him alone right now. He never asked to be pregnant after he saw Mizuwa give birth as the cruel joke was more than enough to get rid of what he had, for this wasn't what he wanted to begin with.

"You've been through the ringer, haven't you?" I said.

"I want it gone," said Minara as he was clutching at his stomach.

"Whatever happened to you, Chuck kept pressuring you to be an Incubator again against your wishes."

"Well, Chuck should've put consent in His holy vocabulary. As for this parasite I have, I will have it terminated just to put that prick in his place. I don't want this child, Sam! I went through the throes of pregnancy after the Spillway mission in which I nearly lost my life. And yet, I'm traumatized all over again with a burden that was put into me!"

It wasn't long until a Praetorian Guard entered into the hospital room as he was carrying a tablet in his hand. I knew that the guard meant business as he was also concerned about Minara's well-being after all that has happened, for this would soon change everything in the process.

"You need to take a look at this, Sam," he said to me as he gave me the tablet.

"Do I know you?" I asked.

"I know what happened to Lord Minara and you need to see the damage that was done."

The Praetorian Guard removed his helmet as it was a familiar face that I haven't seen in a long time. It was Gadreel as he was concerned about what was happening to Minara. Even though the war ended, he wasn't about to shirk his duty as he was no stranger to deception and redemption, for he had his reasons to aid us.

"It's been three years since we parted ways and you were at the Cerulean Palace on Targaryen," I said. "I should've been there…"

"Nathan and his forces held sway against the Executive Division in which they never set foot on Targaryen again. Our new enemies caused hell for everyone in which no one is safe from their wrath. As for what happened to Lord Minara, you should see what was done to him."

I looked at the tablet as I saw the incriminating evidence that was on a surveillance camera. I saw it to be an operating room as I spotted Neville and his accomplice hovering over Minara while they were milking his seed. What I didn't expect was that the accomplice had an unknown ovum fertilized by Minara's seed the moment he injected him with it, for it was too late to get rid of it. With Minara dressed in hospital clothing, he was being brought back as the accomplice took off his surgical garb to reveal a man with light brown hair and blue eyes with glasses and a scar on his face, for he would soon be a target of possible manhunt in the future. Even Minara saw the evidence of what took place as he was horrified at what happened to him, for he now hated Neville more than ever.

"Damn him," he said as he wept. "He was in on Chuck's plan from the start! He knew that I didn't want to be an Incubator again and the harassment continued until this shit happened!"

"Neville really did screw the pooch on this one," I said. "As for his shady accomplice, he can't hide from the law forever. Sooner or later, he'll find himself cornered and will end up being tried and sent to prison for what he did to you."

"Neville's accomplice has a name," said Gadreel. "His name is Abraham Sloane and he was a fertility doctor who lost his license ten years ago. As for his obsession to 'bring back extinct lines from the dead,' it led to him being arrested in which no other hospital would ever work with him again, not even the Medical Corps."

"So I'm carrying a child with my seed and another woman's ovum," said Minara. "No! I won't have it! All I want is to terminate it and everything will go back to normal just to have Chuck getting his balls busted."

"You mustn't terminate that child, Lord Minara. Her future depends on you to carry her to term in which the ovum you carry was part of an extinct bloodline from a thousand years ago. Don't turn her away, for it is vital for you to accept her in the end."

It wasn't long until we saw the Medical Corps burst into Minara's room as they carted him out of his room and into a different one. I never expected him to be scared out of his mind as I noticed Mizuwa rushing to his aid to see what was happening. She saw him to be a nervous wreck as he was clutching at his stomach in which she had a gut feeling that the unwanted purpose he was trying to fight against came true without his consent, for she wanted him to stay strong for what he carried in his body.

"Minara will be fine, Mizuwa," I said. "I just hope that he doesn't think about getting rid of the baby he has."

"It was Chuck that did this to him," she said. "Ever since the war ended and when I became pregnant after receiving the Tabata vaccine, Minara kept getting bombarded by text messages by that man who dressed up in his pajamas. He continued to pressure him to endure another pregnancy in which he told him off when he said that I was with child."

"And Chuck didn't take no for an answer, did he?"

"He kept reminding Minara not to shirk his duty as an Incubator to bear children with what he had in his body. Minara didn't want to endure what happened to him again after the ambush in our old homestead in Meros two years ago."

"The baby that has his seed isn't yours, but the ovum came from someone who donated it a thousand years ago."

"So, he's carrying an Ancient. No…, I can't abandon what he has in his body, for I will care for it in which the presence of it is an omen that most priests cling to. The Claudian priests here believe in prophecy in which an Ancient will be born again and if it is killed in the womb, then a disaster will happen in the four phases that were akin to what happened in the Elder Days. It's what I heard and we can't back out on this one."

"I'll tell Minara not to terminate it. Averting disaster is what I was made for in which I also didn't want to repeat my past self's mistakes."

I went to where the Medical Corps carted Minara as I went towards the doors of an examination room. What I saw in there was Minara being examined as he was being scanned. The image of the unborn baby turned out to be twins as I never expected it to happen like that. No…, I had something like that when I bore Kazuko and Giles as I endured it with both scrutiny and wonder, for I had to do the comforting when I was needed the most…

Chuck was back at His humdrum home as He was sitting at His table with a beer and t.v. dinner. With the radio blaring The Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane," all over the kitchen, Chuck was raising His beer bottle high as He was pleased that He did His meddling on Minara. With the High Elf with child, there was nothing to do about it as the damage was already done in which a prophecy was fulfilled against his wishes. When Chuck was still eating his t.v. dinner that consisted of Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, corn, and a brownie, He heard the door open from the front as He was dreading the backlash that would occur next. What he anticipated was that Ferdinand burst into the kitchen as he was ready to wring Chuck's neck for His meddling, for He literally screwed the pooch when it came to causing chaos against Minara's wishes.

"One moment my back is turned, you continue to start your shit!" yelled Ferdinand as he seized Chuck by the scruff of His robe. "You knew not to do that and what did you do?! You inspired Neville Schacter and his shady accomplice to have Minara impregnated with his own seed and the ovum of a woman who died a thousand years ago!"

"It was necessary or else Rita would've came back stronger than ever!" He cried.

"Necessary for what, brother?! By having obsessive pricks like Neville Schacter and Abraham Sloane to steal Minara without consent?!"

"It was a means for a purpose in which I had no other choice but to see it through."

"You mean by committing medical rape? This isn't Your first rodeo by doing shit to people without their consent and one of them happened to be your baby mama going to Bethlehem and start the first Christmas carrying Jesus! If Jack saw this, he would've called on our own Father to take Your toys away just like when he forced You to put Your destructive pets into Purgatory."

It wasn't long until Jack arrived as he wasn't too happy with Chuck in which he wanted to put Him in His place. Even though He lost His luster, He was under the microscope of His grandson's wrath as he didn't want Him to get away with what He did, for there was a fitting punishment for Him in mind.

"I heard what you did, Grandfather!" he yelled. "Ferdinand told me everything in which You enticed Neville and his friend to commit medical rape on Lord Minara!"

"Aren't we eager?" said Chuck as He was backed in a corner. "It was necessary or else the Arbiter would've returned to the Ashizoka System sowing chaos if she didn't get her way."

"You forced Lord Minara to be taken away, have his own seed milked from him and later fertilizing an ovum from one of the archers who brought down the Claudian Emperor Caedrios a thousand years ago, only to see it injected into his crafted womb. What You did is intolerable in which Your victim is threatening to terminate what You meddled in."

"Wait! You must stop Minara from doing that," said Ferdinand as he let go of Chuck. "That child in his body is an Ancient and is sacred to the Claudians. If that happened, then all of Claudius will suffer the wrath of what was in the Apocalypse in the Elder Days. I know of this because your own dark father was let out of his cage once. We must protect Minara and his unborn children in which they are vital for protecting the future of Claudius."

Jack saw Ferdinand fish out a a book as he gave it to him. When he looked into it, the book itself was a history of Claudius in which it detailed the life of an Emperor who turned out to be arrogant towards his own people and others who weren't born on his planet. He saw an image of Caedrios as the latter was depicted as a cruel and immoral tyrant in which his reign was short-lived for four years, for they were steeped in the very cruelty that was displayed a thousand years ago. He also saw a picture of a group of female archers who swore fealty to liberate Claudius from Emperor Caedrios as some of them were part of a few bloodlines that went extinct in the years that followed. When he gave the book back to Ferdinand, he had a new purpose to persuade Minara to keep the baby in his crafted womb as it was a sign that shouldn't be ignored, for the Claudians believed in everything more than anything.

"I'll try to persuade Lord Minara not to terminate his unborn children," he said.

"Finally, you now know how My machinations work instead of the usual song and dance of 'free will,'" said Chuck. "At least Minara was suckered in instead of having Rita coming back."

"That doesn't excuse Your behavior or meddling. What You did to Minara was vile and without consent and don't tell me about my dark father because he never cared about me, only his ambitions to rule everything."

"You heard him," said Ferdinand. "Still, You can't just keep jumping the gun just to make up for Your intolerable behavior in the Elder Days, but you also can't be meddling in what won't work, either. Sooner or later, it'll backfire on You and there won't be a way to stop it. After our father and Totsuka separated me from You, I did my best to emasculate You after that kick in the balls in which You've been a very naughty boy. As for Minara's predicament, I hope that Sam persuades him to rescind his decision to do away with his twins or else he'll soon regret it."

"I'll talk to him," said Jack. "He needs insight and comfort, not scolding and reproach."

Jack left the house as Chuck and Ferdinand were left stunned with the concern that was bit in the posterior. As for what happened next, the worst (or best) was yet to come as Minara's fate was decided against his wishes, but with a possible outcome, for it was a fate that aligned with the Claudian people he lived with…

Minara was in his study as he was still touching at his stomach. He was stunned and angry at what happened to him as he was also looking at the history book that detailed a battle against Emperor Caedrios a thousand years ago. The battle that the resistance had was brutal as he saw an image of a human girl with a bow and arrow in her hands. The image of her piqued his interest as he was clutching at his stomach where his unborn children were nestling in, for it was her own ovum he was carrying inside of him.

"Forgive me, Mizuwa…," he said as he wept.

"You're still dead-set on terminating your unborn, aren't you?" I said as I entered into the study.

"No…, but I have to live with the same trauma I experienced when Dean cut me open to let out Sayoko."

"You've been looking at the history of Claudius, weren't you?"

"I've been steeped in looking into medicine, not history."

"I was more of a bookworm when it comes to reading history. According to Ryosuke, Claudius had a tyrant who showed his subjects no mercy in which a resistance of rebels went to the capital of Skara Brae to overthrow him, but there were many sacrifices that weren't in vain. Some of them were part of a few bloodlines that went extinct, but their seed and ovum remain among the gene bank of the Fallen."

"And I carry an Ancient in my body with my seed crafting it…"

"And I will be on hand into adopting it," said Mizuwa as she entered into the study. "Our children will protect what you carry, Minara. Even the Claudian people are overjoyed than an Ancient will emerge from the ashes just to be born into the world."

Minara was torn between keeping his unborn and terminating it as he was stuck in a corner. He wanted to fade away, but was afraid to abandon his family as all he did was weep after all that has happened to him. All I did for him was to comfort him as he was scared to death about the outcome that was put in front of him. Both of us are now Incubators as we also had to steer away from those who would abuse us to no end. I knew of what I bore just as much as he did as we both had to deal with what was thrown at us, for we had our fair share of mishaps and misadventures…

Ryosuke was in his hotel room as he was busy looking at the evidence of what happened earlier. The incriminating incident of Minara being kidnapped and forced to be an Incubator was the final straw in which he was not having it with Neville's behavior. The images of Minara being strapped down and milked for his seed alarmed him in which he saw what was used in the form of fertilizing an Ancient's ovum and later injected into his body. With his fists clenched, he was ready to put a gag order on Neville as he couldn't allow him to walk free. What also irked him was that the accomplice who assisted Neville was someone that should've been locked up in the first place, for Abraham Sloane was someone that became a bad stain in the medical community. When he was about to leave his hotel room, he heard the door open as he saw a man dressed in priestly robes come here. The man himself was part of a group that was loyal to the gods as he was there on business, for he was an important person who foresaw signs of what is yet to come.

"I have read the signs, Lord Ryosuke," he said. "An Ancient has been conceived for the first time in a long time. It is said that the extinct bloodline will thrive with the Elven blood from the sire who was forced to carry it against his wishes, for it is the will of God that pushed it to begin with."

"If you're talking about Minara being forced to endure a pregnancy that he doesn't want, he's torn between keeping it and terminating it," he said.

"No…; terminating an Ancient's child, whether it's from one's seed or ovum, is blasphemy. Do you know what happened when the last Ancient was born? He was driven out of Claudius and lives in exile with his Elven husband on Valinor. After his departure, everything fell into disarray in which this planet never recovered from the shortage of olives that crippled the economy. The child that is nestling in the man you worry about must be born here on Claudius or else it will suffer a plague of locusts."

"Try telling him that. Everything will be fine in which Sam's intervention will ease Minara's worries. As for the bastards who committed medical rape towards him, they will be arrested if they even set foot here on Claudius again. Neville Schacter is skating on thin ice in which I'll bust his balls for what he did along with Abraham Sloane who aided and abetted in the actions they committed. Medical rape is a very serious crime and is punishable up to a life sentence in prison. Next time I confront Neville, he will be arrested for what he did, for I won't condone medical rape that forces unwilling women or men to have their seed milked or ovum preserved nor will I deal with the forced fertilization without consent. Minara will have to stay put in his home for now, but I won't put his life or the unborn he carries in danger. That is my wish to do so."

Ryosuke clenched his fist as he bore a grudge against Neville Schacter and all he stood for. As for the predicament he witnessed towards Minara, he vowed to protect the Ancient as its role on Claudius was crucial to what it stood for in which the omen was vital for a possible future…

I was at a hotel near Minara's homestead as I was in my room getting ready to leave for the morning. After offering support for his predicament, I was hoping for the best and worst as I also thought about how the twins he carried became vital for the future. When I sat down on my bed, I was staring at the clear sky outside throughout the infrastructure of New Capua as I was also thinking about going back to Skald Island on Valinor, for I was ready to return to Reiko again. Just as I was about to prepare to return home, I saw the door to my hotel room open as I saw Minara enter in which I never expected him to show up here, for his homestead was next door to this hotel after all.

"I want to get something off of my chest," he said to me.

"You're torn between keeping and terminating the baby, aren't you?" I said.

"After all that I went through, I can't bring myself to get rid of it, Sam."

"And you're keeping it?"

"I made my choice, for I didn't want to cause the ire of the priests who have viewed the conception of what I have in me, for it is an omen that must be protected."

"You mean they. You're carrying twins and they will be a blessing for all Claudius because of the fact that their ovum donor was a warrior who went up to overthrow Emperor Caedrios a thousand years ago. We both went through pregnancy not only as Incubators, but members of the Order who care about our families and friends."

"If only I had your resilience, Sam…" Minara started to weep again as he couldn't hold back the tears running down his face. "If you see Neville, don't let him get to you. Don't let him use you like he did me."

"And Neville won't stop his claim towards me in which he's trying to force me to be an Incubator once again… Sooner or later, he'll overstep his ethics and have his homestead confiscated if he continues to harass us to no end."

Minara continued to weep as he couldn't contain his anguish any longer. All I did was to comfort him as I didn't want to leave him alone after what he went through. The evidence of Neville and his accomplice committing medical rape was something that I didn't condone as I also studied ethical laws during my years living on the fort on Gehenna. As for the sentence for those who commit medical rape? It was mainly a life sentence without a possibility for parole as most of them who commit unethical crimes against anyone in the form of conception end up rotting in Ironhelm Prison on Westeros. When I continued to console Minara, I saw Jack appear out of nowhere as he was concerned about what was going on, for he was also not too happy with his grandfather for instigating this crime without consent on his part.

"I won't let you get rid of your twins, Lord Minara," he said.

"I have to keep them anyway despite the fact that my uncle and his shitty accomplice forced me to carry an ovum that wasn't Mizuwa's," he said.

"I'm not too thrilled with what Grandfather did by harassing you while He called for the assistance of the ones who violated your body and injected an Ancient's ovum that was fertilized by your seed. Even Ferdinand wanted to kick His ass after he found out about what He did to you. Your unborn daughters weren't the only ones who were once deemed bad omens, for I was one myself until I proved myself worthy in the end as King of the Grey Havens. There is a future for you, Lord Minara, for you will also love and nurture what you have."

"He's right about that," I said. "I learned the hard way in which the things that we don't want are the ones that make us more stronger and resilient than we think. There is nothing to fear, Minara, for we all have to deal with what we have."

Minara stopped weeping as he was relieved to hear such talk from Jack and me. Clutching at his stomach, he vowed to protect the Ancients in his crafted womb as they had a purpose of their own here on Claudius, for the future was neither set in stone nor made by choice in the end…

To be continued...