Blessed by Night

Even the side affects of pregnancy like morning sickness and various bodily aches didn\'t seem to bother her one single bit, and instead only made her more joyful.

There was also a small air of curiosity that surrounded her as questions over what exactly their child would be like started to circulate.

After all, what exactly was supposed to become of a hybrid between an unknown alien creature and a vampire from another world?

Would the baby come out humanoid, or would her features be more unnatural?

Would it subsist on regular breast milk and formula, or would it require blood and flesh to be satisfied?

These questions were in the back of Luna\'s mind as well, but she wasn\'t much worried about trivial things like how her baby looked.

She would love them no matter what they turned out to be, and her only hope was that her child remained healthy above all else and she had a safe delivery.

While Luna was in the middle of her new motherly bliss, Malachi was dealing with new additions to his class schedule.

"No, honey, don\'t hold it like that."

"Rest it\'s back gently on your forearms and support it\'s head with the crease of your arm."

"A-Alright, I got it... Like this?"

"Exactly!"

"You\'re doing well, Daddy~"

"You know exactly what you are doing and I\'m going to get you back for it later."

Nyx and Sei laughed as Malachi sighed and looked down at the small bundle in his arms.

"Aga!"

Moving as if it were alive was a small mass of darkness that resembled and behaved like a real baby; courtesy of his mother Nyx.

It could coo, squirm, anreven laugh just like a real baby; giving Mal the practical experience necessary to be a father during the infant stage.

"Think I\'m getting the hang of this." he said somewhat confidently.

"We\'re still taking it easy on you, honey." Sei reminded with a smile.

"There is still more you have to learn and more that you need to be prepared for." Nyx confirmed.

"Alright, like what?"

In a rare moment of synchronicity, Nyx and Sei looked at each other evilly as if they had decided on next steps in an instant.

A silver power coated Sei\'s hands and she touched her fiancé directly on the face; imbuing him with terrible drowsiness.

A moment later, Nyx snapped her fingers and the shadow baby produced a mound of thick mud-like waste all over Malachi\'s arm; ruining it\'s diaper and his shirt.

As if that weren\'t bad enough, the child started to cry loud enough to wake the dead, causing the already exhausted Malachi to become even more weary.

"W-Wha... this.."

"You can do it, honey! This is nothing compared to fighting monsters!" Sei said cheerfully.

"And remember to wipe him well, or he\'ll get a rash. Also, I made him hungry." Nyx handed Malachi a fake bottle and told him to get to work before the baby woke up the imaginary neighbors.

"Is there... Any chance my baby will come out fully grown like one of my siblings?" He asked exhaustedly.

""No.""

-

Malachi had to endure three more hours of baby lessons before Nyx and Sei finally let him head upstairs to rest.

The lesson likely would have continued for longer, but Nyx said it was time for her to attend the gathering of the highers that was about to occur.

Apparently, time works a bit differently in the space they inhabit for these meetings, making it so that the gods only had to see each other every so often instead of on a consistent basis.

But Malachi only heard about 1 / 3 of his mother\'s explanation, because Sei\'s sleep inducement ability was no joke by this point.

It was a miracle that he never dropped the shadow baby on it\'s head from fatigue.

He was so tired that he didn\'t even bother to walk upstairs and instead floated upwards like he was in some kind of old timey cartoon.

Upon entering his bedroom, he found that the bed was already occupied, with Luna lying directly in the center while propped up on some pillows and surrounded by Anna, Bianca, and Nadine as they patted her stomach sand attended to her every need.

"Are you sure you don\'t want anything?"

"It wouldn\'t be any trouble for us to get whatever you ask."

"Let me rub your belly some more!"

Luna smiled wryly as she tried to think up a way to politely refuse the kind offers of the girls.

It was nice that they cared about her, but honestly she was starting to feel more than a little bit smothered.

When she saw Malachi float through the bedroom door with Sei in tow, she felt like all of her problems had miraculously been solved.

"Darling, please save me from them!"

"Ha. I\'ll try my best."

Malachi started to peel off his own clothes as he walked towards the bed.

Without even waving his hand, the three girls who were plaguing Luna in bed all came floating up to the cieling before he crawled into bed in their place.

"Hey!"

"No fair!"

Ignoring them for a moment, Malachi climbed into bed lazily and pulled the covers over himself and Luna.

"Someone seems tired." She laughed. "What did they do to you?"

"Baby trainin... Not for the weak..." Mal said sleepily.

"Fufufu, Having second thoughts already?"

"Never that... I\'ll go through this as many times as it takes for my wife and child.. I am real sleepy though."

Luna felt her body tense up and she looked at Mal strangely underneath the covers.

"I.. think you may be more tired than I realized. We aren\'t married yet, love."

"You\'re right…. Let\'s get married then." Mal said as he closed his eyes.

"I.. W-What?"

Suddenly, the girls who were suspended in the air came drifting back into bed, and Mal took that moment to wrap his arms around as many of them as possible.

"I love you all so much... I want you all to marry me... It\'s not like I will ever let any of you get away anyway, so you have to say yes.."

The air with the room became deadly silent as the girls stared at Malachi while he dozed off.

Their heartbeats were thumping so strongly that the combined vibrations could be felt throughout every inch of the bedsheets like the booming of a car speaker.

Anna: "H-Hey, what are you saying right now..?"

Bianca: "Y-You can\'t just drop something like this on us as you\'re about to go to sleep!"

Luna: "Yea!"

Nadine: "Of course I\'ll marry you, darling! We belong together!"

Nadine was the only one who seemed overly joyful as she kissed Malachi on the lips despite his exhaustion.

"I know it\'s real shitty of me to do it like this, but it seem like I can\'t wait any longer... I\'ll think of something real romantic... as soon... as I wake... up.."

With the weight of all five women crushing him, a chorus of soft snoring sounds started to play within the room as Malachi fell into the deepest and most peaceful sleep of his life.

Because he was in dreamland, he missed the unique moment where all five of them looked at each other before laughing.

Their were tears, smiles, and small kisses being shared with him as they whispered their acceptance softly into his unconscious ears.

-

Nyx arose from a mass of dark shadows on the ground and took her seat amidst the highest pantheon of the greek gods.

As she sat down and crossed her legs sensually, she maintained her same distant and cold demeanor that was like the boundless night given flesh.

As she watched the various thrones in the colosseum fill up, she began to get a strange feeling.

Whenever a higher appeared, they were stealing secret glances at her and whispering something indiscriminately to whoever was beside them.

"It seems that we can finally begin."

The eyes of everyone within the colosseum were drawn to the blue god of destruction, Shiva.

With the meeting officially underway, the first thing that everyone did was turn their eyes to Nyx; no longer hiding their inquisitive gazes.

"It has come to our attention that the avatar you have accepted as your child has somehow become a nightmare. Is this true?"

Nyx\'s face didn\'t show it, but her heart immediately dropped to her heels.

Two seats down, a woman with blonde hair and sky blue eyes easily recognized the look on her mother\'s face, and she quickly had to cover her own lips to prevent a fit of laughter from spilling out.

A gesture that Nyx did not miss in the slightest.

"Seeing as you aren\'t saying anything, it must be true." Shiva realized.

"We have no choice. Bring the boy here now."