Chapter 8: The Waiting

As a few days go by after the conversation Destiny had with her father,she and Na are sitting outside. They each drink a cool glass of lemonade and watch Luna further advance her own training. Destiny smirks and makes a sly comment distracting the already warmed up purple girl. Luna throws more precise strikes through the air and ignores it at first. She rolls her light blue eyes and remember what it felt all those years ago.

"That's right..so weak..so helpless..I often needed helped because I was born being ocular impaired. In a way I have wondered..if I ever lost the ability to see again. Would I really be okay? Hmm...I did get used to seeing some really pretty things,attractive things even, but the best was...seeing my own family. My grandparents, my mother, my father,Azou my older sister,my friends and even all the people I fought with along the way. I guess..I'd miss it." Luna thought as she throw several fierce kicks in the air. She stopped for a brief moment and plopped down to the ground.

Destiny brought her a towel and a bottle of water. "Ya don't have to push yourself this hard ya know that right? My pops may be the utter scum of all Neotic Kind,butttt. He's sorta busy worrying about..um..other things." Destiny said confusing Luna. "Oh? Is that so huh? Well I guess maybe we'll get the drop on the old bastard now won't we? Unlike you Dest,everyone has been training also. We all have a part here. So whatever else we need to be ready for..I hope we are at least a bit prepared for it." Luna says as she wipes the sweat from her chest and brow.

Destiny looked at her taller purple friend go back to her physical training, with each strike,kick,swing and even her stance. Destiny noticed Luna was slowly improving. Especially from their sparring session. "Hmm..cute leotard ya got on there Lu. Does those cheeks good hehe. I bet those transformations further..accentuate those curves. Am I right?" Destiny said with a smug. Luna stopped again as she was caught off guard. She blushed a beet red and covered her wedgie the leotard seemed to give her. "My..ahem..derriere..is not a billboard ya know..I admit. Momma's genetics did a number on me and Azou for sure,but..can you not look at it please I'm really trying to train here." Luna says as she looks to the side. Her voice was shaky when Destiny mentioned her butt. Destiny put her hands up,smiled and walked away giggling. She and Na left Luna to her training. The lone girl transformed into her Blue Aether form and continued training for two more hours.

After her training was done. Luna went to her room and peeled off the sweaty leotard. She took a long shower and noticed it messily placed on the floor. "Silvia..That was the first one she ever bought for me. Man..I messed up big time." The girl regretted. Tears began to stream down her face as she sat in the shower. Her knees to her chest the girl cried for a long time.

Fifteen minutes pass and Luna pulled herself together. She turned the water off after finishing cleaning herself. Her hair drooped across her face to her shoulder's and back. She could see some muscle development and slight definition. Luna gently smiled in the mirror and grabbed an fresh clean towel. She wrapped it around her head and laid in the bed naked. There she looked up at the blank ceiling and wonder if what Silvia said would one day come to pass.

"I wanted to be a family,get married and even have a kid with you?" Silvia's voice echoed into the guilty girl's subconscious mind. "Seriously..A kid..with me. I already have Gala thinking I'm her Momma and I stupidly agreed,but..a REAL child that came from..us. I..I'd be a horrible mother. I..I accidentally murdered a woman for crying out loud. I willingly allowed Fafir to doddle my lady cave plenty of times and yet..she thinks I'D be a perfect MOTHER. Pfft..I wish. I'd hate to even be my own daughter. Such a waste of time. If I say so myself." Luna angrily said to herself. She laid in the darkness on her bed in the nude. One hand behind her head and the other on her belly.

"Then again..I don't really mean that..I just want a perfect world for them. Not a world filled with hate,death,lies and all other evil things." The girl mumbled to herself as she covered her body up. She drifted off to sleep peacefully. The next day early in the morning everyone was already up and sitting in the living room as Destiny was revealing what she saw in her little rendezvous with her father.

"So he already had a palace in the works being built and I can tell is gonna be far bigger than the last one. Not only that,but this dude has either charisma outta the wazoo or people were brainwash by this fictional delusion of "Bringing them into a NeW WoRLD." Destiny mocked. Luna soon joined and sat next to Gala who was on her left and Azou who was on her right. The others listened to the things Destiny said. The icing of the cake that caught everyone's attention was the mention of Fafir's second born child.

"Second born child? But I already have you and Psion Destiny. Why would he anything like that let alone tell you?" Nea said a bit concern. Destiny let out a deep sigh and kissed her mother on the cheek. "Because Mommy Dearest. Pops diddle some redheaded harlot and knocked HER up. Now I ain't too concern with that,but I'm worried about the kiddos' environment." Destiny said sounding like a older sibling. Nea said with a shaky voice a few words of her own. "Oh..he..hehe. I see..I suppose I wasn't good enough for that..lowlife. But..I thought I gave your father everything he could ever want..yet..he..he..has INTERCOURSE with another WOMAN!!" Nea angrily says. Understandably so. Skyra calms her down by hugging her. Nea looks to her close friend and thanks her. "Well..I have my own words for that..that monster..but mark my words. I will not let him corrupt that child." Nea declares. The others cheered as Nea closes her eyes for a brief moment. She placed her small gray hands on Destiny's forehead and immediately pulls away. Shocked by her new discovery. Everyone including Luna wonder what it was.

"T..that's impossible..that baby is already on its way as we speak. Soon it will be born and I fear..this kid may be far stronger than me,Destiny and even you Luna put together. I fear under Fafir the child could be endanger!!" Nea worries as she erratically shakes her hands and looks to Luna for a plan.

"Look we can't stop this kid from being born especially if it's a kid of FAFIR outta all people, but we can't kidnap the baby either. We just have to I dunno. Wait and see I guess. " Luna chuckles. "By the way. That IT is a GIRL. Growing inside my father's new wife is a little girl who may just very well shake the foundations sorta like a purple girl I know. Hmmm." Destiny says as she and everyone else looks at Luna again.

"W..what? Your not asking I go and witness the carnage this little demon may cause are you?" Luna panicked. "Not to worry. I'll go with you Luna. After all Pops did invite me to witness the birth of my baby sister. I don't see what inviting you could do. The harm that is." Destiny says as she patted her friend on the back. Nea claps her hands and orders Galastrom to take everyone else to train harder than they ever had before. Nea suddenly prepares a disguise for Luna and a fake name for Destiny to call her when they leave.

"Put these on Luna. I need you to be safe and cautious while your there in Neo. If word gets out Aether herself is among the enemy they may try to kill you all before the appointed time. Now your name will be Vixtra. Answer to ONLY that name while in Fafir's camp. Got it?" Nea instructed. Luna bowed her head and agreed. Nea looked to her daughter next. "Listen you little troublemaker, your jive is to okay nice and get along with your father. Only UNTIL and I cannot stress this enough. UNTIL your baby sister is born. Do NOT risk your or Luna's life ya hear? If any action breaks out only then can you retaliate. Now when do you two leave?" Nea asks in a authoritative matter.

"Um..I would say in a day or so. Seeing as how you basically sense that baby's life force it's only a matter of time before we arrive late." Destiny says. Nea dismissed the two and teleported them their bags. Turns out someone already packed them. Nea hugs the two girls and assures both of them that everyone will be watching from home.

"Seems kinda rush huh Mom? I..We can stay for a day can't we? Mom?" Destiny asked. Nea folded her arms and booped her daughter in the nose. She opened up an portal of sorts and warped the girls on their way. In a instance they were at the campgrounds were Fafir and his army sat up shop. The girls saw that the palace was now on its fourth floor being built what they didn't expect was Fafir standing right behind them. Almost like he anticipated their arrival.

"Welcome daughter and guest? Hmm Destiny who's your friend?" Fafir asked. Destiny scoffed at her father and seemed already annoyed by him. "Her name is Vixtra. She's with me. We came to see the birth of the little one. Is that OKAY with you hmm?" Destiny disrespectfully responded.

Fafir ignored the sass his daughter gave him and escorted them to a large tent. There the two girls rested with their things and talked in the darkness of night.

"You must really hate your dad to talk to him like that? Can't say I blame you..but..you must also hate me for...what I did..right?" Luna asked her best friend. Destiny said nothing. She just embraced Luna in her arms and forgave her. "At least you didn't pop out a baby. That thing might've been diseased if ya did." The girl joked. The two smiled and giggled throughout the night. Soon the arrival of Fafir's second born would be soon upon them.