One year later
Hiel POV
I smile as I see my kids playing together and with their mother too. Tony and HJ are playing together. The twins are playing together. Cullen is watching curiously at Serenity as she feeds his baby brother Bak. I love my family, I smile and putting my work away I sit up.
-Cullen, come here.
Cullen-Sure dad.
He climbs up in my lap with a bit of my help and I hold him steady.
-What are you doing?
Cu-Just a bit bored. I'm too little to play with Tony and HJ. The twins play games just for two and Bak can't play anything yet so I have no one to play with.
-You have me. I can play with you. What do you want to do?
Cu-You can teach me that board game you always play with mom.
-You want to show me wich one?
He gets off from me and he runs towards my study, he comes back with a game and when he shows me I see is my game of chess.
Cu-Can you play this one with me?
-You know how to play?
Cu-I think I get it. Enough to play it, I think.
-Let's see how much you know.
With that I open the board and going on the floor I see how he sets the pieces in place in the correct order.
-Alright then, you have the white pieces, you start.
Cu-Alright.
And so we start playing and he is quite good, he makes a few mistakes but he knows the basics pretty well. I'm having fun and he is too.

Valentine POV
I am travelling by the world with my wife and our six month old daughter Veronica. Well, at least we started travelling until her fourth month pregnant when we settled to rest in Paris until our daughter was born and very slowly we moved towards the country and now we're in Rome about to board a cruise that will take us to Greece. I get the cards and everything we need on the cruise and so I turn to her.
-Alright then, these are our cards for anything we do on the cruise. You have one, I have one and Veronica has one.
Jc-She has one?
-Is a spare in case we lose ours or anything happens or in case we leave her with a nanny then the nanny uses it for wathever Veronica needs.
Jc-What about the luggage?
-They will take it on board and leave it in our rooms for us. We just have to get on board and enjoy the cruise.
She smiles excited and taking the cards we go on board.
Once in our cabin with our luggage and after the boat is way out in the sea we turn to have a bit of fun.
-Hey, how are you handling?
Jc-Well, the smell of the ocean is nice, the water looks majestic. You're with me, we have our daughter with us, I am happy.
-Me too. I'm happy with you.
Jc-I love you so much.
-I love you too. Hmm, do you mind if I take her with me for a bit?
Jc-No, she has to be with her dad too and she wants to be with you. Enjoy her company.
I laugh and giving her a kiss I take the baby with me.
-I will go and walk a bit. You can come with or stay here.
Jc-I will stay, take a bath and then I'm going down to the spa to relax a bit.
-Good idea. See you later then.
With one last kiss I take my card and go out with my daughter in arms. I go to the lounge and sitting down I hold my daughter in my lap putting her in a sitting position.
-What a cutie you are. You're cute, very cute.
I bounce her softly in my lap and she laughs softly and happy. I laugh and lying back with her on my chest I get up and walk by the boat just walking without direction. After a bit I see a store for multiple things and curious I go in. I look around at the stuff they have. After a few minutes I end up taking a dress for my wife, a bit of sexy lingerie too and some blankets and toys for my daughter. I turn to pay them and the cashier smiles knowingly.
?-Desperate for a bit of fun?
-Not tonight but if it happens tonight I won't complain.
?-She is lucky.
-I think I'm the lucky one. Why you think is her?
?-Well, you're handsome, you seem like a good father and you look like a good man. She is lucky to have you.
-Thanks for the compliment.
?-You're welcome. What's the baby's name? And yours?
-My name is Valentine, this is my daughter Veronica, she's sleeping.
?-Oh, alright. She's cute and quite small.
-Six months only.
?-Oh my, she's practically a newborn, I am sure she is going to grow up into a beautiful and proper lady.
-I know that but until that happens, she will stay as my baby girl.
She laughs and giving me the bag she smiles.
?-I'm sure of that. Do have a nice time on the cruise. Here are your things.
-Thanks, keep working hard.
With a wave and a smile I take my things and leave to go to the cabin. I get there and Jiro already left so I leave the things down and I go get my daughter on the crib. Still asleep, I tuck her warm and once she's fine I order some room service food, a beautiful prepared pasta with vegetables and sauce for me and my wife. Once they're here I set them on the table on the balcony and setting the lingerie I just bought on the bed with the dress at it's side I sit down with a book and my blankie to wait for her to arrive.

Jiro Castle POV
After a nice relaxing session on the spa I go back to the cabin completely relaxed. I feel a breeze from the room and going in I see the balcony open and Valentine asleep on the bed. I smile and checking Veronica I see she's sleeping peacefully on her crib and so I go back to my room.
-Val, hey Valentine, wake up darling.
I shake him softly and he wakes up slowly.
Va-Hmm, what? Who? Jiro.
He smiles sleepy and I sit at his side.
-Hey, tired?
Va-Maybe. Not sure. How was the spa?
-It was very relaxing. I enjoyed it. Did you enjoyed your walk?
Va-I did. It felt nice.
-Let's sleep now. Is late already and we need all the rest we can get.
He nods and sharing a quick kiss we cuddle to sleep together.

Aukai POV
Fighting, helping healing
I punch my opponent and we have a grab and punch in the sky as we fly when I feel a sharp pain in my left wing. He kicks me away from him and I start falling, I try to flap my wings but I can't fly with one wing. As the ground gets closer I try to shift back into myself and a cat to land standing but I can't shift if that thing is still stuck in my wing so I take a desperate measure and surrounding my entire body with my good wing I protect myself from any real harm as I crash into the ground. When I stop moving I get up. I hear my kid calling me.
Tesla-Daddy.
I turn to see her coming towards me and raising a hand I speak.
-No, stay there Tesla, stay back with mommy. I'm fine.
She looks at me for a bit before she runs back with her mother and her baby brother. I sigh and taking the stick out of my wing I groan softly from the pain. I look at my wife and sharing a look she takes the kids inside. I sigh relieved and hearing laughter I turn to see my opponent flying above me just out of reach.
?-What will you do now? You can't reach me up here now.
I try to flap my wings to no avail and so I take a knife from my belt and calculating my chances I hold, aim and throw it to him. The hit is direct and flawless and he falls to the ground right in front of me. I whistle and with a few cats coming they take him away. I try to shift back to my human form but again is useless and I'm stuck in my bird form. I scoff and going inside I try a bit more but I only manage to shift my hands and my head and neck.
-Raven, where are you?
Rk-Kitchen.
Just as she says that I see how my daughter comes out from the kitchen door and I smile.
Te-Daddy.
-Tesla, baby girl.
I take her up in my arms and I kiss her as I turn to go to the kitchen. I find that Raven is cooking something while our son is with my dad.
-What are you cooking?
Rk-Just warming milk for Sora before I start cooking pasta for us. And you, did you finish him?
-Hmm, I guess you could say that. But let's forget him. Just going to clean this up. Alright Tesla, down you go for now.
Te-Aww.
She pouts as I put her down on her cheek and I kiss her cheek softly before I go get the first aid kit for myself. I sit on the floor against the wall.
Vl-Aukai, do you need any help?
-No.
Jinx-Are you sure you don't need any help?
-I'm fine.
Te-Can I help you?
-I said no.
I look angrily at them but I stop when I realize it was my daughter who asked me. She seems hurt by my words and I instantly try to fix it.
-No, I'm sorry, come here.
I pull her to me and she sniffs as she speaks softly.
Te-You yelled at me.
-Yes I know, I'm sorry. Forgive me. You can still help me if you want to.
Te-Can I really?
-Sure. But first let's clean those tears away and replace them with a smile.
I clean her tears with my fingers and holding her hands I smile at her. She sniffs a bit before she smiles at me and hugs me.
-That's better.
Te-Can I help you clean your wing now?
-Sure. We just have to clean it. Easy enough.
I adjust myself with her and giving her the stuff I help her at the beginning as she cleans me up until she can do it by herself.
Te-Dad.
-Yes?
Te-Will your wing be broken for a long time?
-Not really, once is clean is going to heal faster than is already doing. Give it one day maybe two.
Te-I like your wings. The color is............I like it.
I laugh at that and taking her back I take her again.
-Tesla step back, let me try something really fast.
She steps back and moving my wings I stretch them out and fold them in and out a few times before I'm satisfied.
-Hmm, Raven, should I speed up the healing process or just wait it out?
Rk-If you can do it then do it but I would prefer you don't do it.
-Alright. I'll wait it out.
I look at my son still with dad. Both my kids look alike, Tesla has dark purple hair and amber eyes while Sora has light purple hair and amber eyes. She's four and he's one. I stand up and sitting down I take my daughter up in my lap again and we play and eat and spend the rest of the day together having fun.

To be continued........................