With the first few days of celebration having finished, Shurry and his wives finally joined in with the rest of everyone else to party. Toasts were made, and fun was had. Then half way through the fourth day, he stood up to announce to everyone good news.
"Friends, family, allies, familia… I'd like to share some good news with all of you!" He paused, then with a proud expression he continued. "My pack grows larger still! My queens are all with child once more!"
Cheers went all around, and everyone started going back to their partying when Bokhoir stood up next, this time with a familiar looking woman standing beside him.
"I Bokhoir too have good news! After much time, I am announcing my engagement to Mia Grande, she has willingly committed to joining my familia, and making me a happy man!" Bokhoir and Mia raised their mugs to the air for a toast.
"I'm still working at my shop, that won't change. Running that restaurant is my dream. And now, I've found a dream within Bokhoir." Mia Grande continued.
Everyone looked at Hathor, then to Shurry, and back to Hathor. Then waited for the confirmation that it would be okay. Hathor's brow raised under her mask, and she put her hands upon her hips.
"So, you want to be in my familia, do you know what that means?"
"Yes, I'm prepared for it." Mia answered, then smirked. "I'm already working on it." She added.
Hathor's expression changed as she spread her arms wide open, in a welcoming gesture. "Then welcome to my familia, Mia."
Cheers once again rang out as the party's joy kept rising. The kids, most of them being some kind of demi human, ran around excitedly playing tag with each other. There were a lot… It was obvious to anyone that these parties had produced a ton of happy intentional accidents.
Following the last two major announcements, many other members went for it and announced their own good news, whatever it may have been. Some stood in front of everyone just to drunkenly profess their feelings. Some others wanted to tell the story of their level up, of course adding in quite a bit of embellishments here and there, all of them induced by drunkenness of course. Others simply wanted to be the center of attention, dancing on the tables, this went doubly so for some of the loosely dressed dancers showing off their perfect figures so impressive it was impossible to tell they'd born children already.
It was a free spirited party, one where people said things they truly felt without any inhibitions… this caused a few issues here and there due to the crazy things that were said. For instance Alise now finally a true level 7, stood up and proudly admitted something…
"I love this! The parties, and Shurry! I'm fine with being an aunt, but I sure wouldn't mind a wild night, and perhaps having a little pup call me mama too?" Alise said with zero inhibitions, and then fell back into a drunken sleep.
Many people laughed though what she said were her true feelings, it pulled at some heart strings, so Shurry made a mental note to address them properly. Not to accept those feelings, but to reinforce the fact he would never take another woman to his harem, even if he wanted to, which he didn't, he couldn't lest Hathor ordered him to do so, but then it wouldn't be love, it would be business.
In any case the party began to spread throughout the city until basically everyone was celebrating. Causing a rather unique scene throughout, especially to the people newly arriving in the city.
"Wow, it's beautiful. There's so much love in the air." A picturesque beautiful woman sat flanked by two picture perfect men, with three women sat across from them in a rather nice looking carriage.
"Lady Aphrodite, you say that wherever we go, can't you say something different for a change?" One of the beautiful women asked.
"Why, it's true? I can sense many men and women locked in a warming embrace. It's a good feeling, knowing they aren't missing out on 90% of life."
"There you go again with your 90% of life. It's not that much is it? Otherwise we wouldn't be here now would we? You want the hero to give his seed to us."
"Oh, you caught on to me." Aphrodite snickered slightly. "I want him. If I can't have him, I want his baby. But I can't take either, so the next best thing is to have his seed and get his baby that way."
"And you brought the three of us because one of us would be nearly guaranteed to have a boy, a girl, and another of either or, right?" She and the other two women started playing with their hair, the thought of it was nothing short of thrilling, to bear the hero's child… while not everyone would have the same desire to do that, those who had that mindset were incredibly enthralled by it.
Aphrodite smiled, and tried to refute the plan but decided there was one more part of it. "You're mostly right, I also want to see if he can give me a child too."
"You're a goddess, of course he can't! You could have a never ending supply and it still wouldn't take."
"That has nothing to do with me, and more to do with the weakness of the children in the lower realm. However, in Shurry's case- even though he was pathetically weak by comparison to his full power- managed to kill a god in single combat. He might be strong enough to impregnate a goddess. If anyone can, it would be him." She explained, though it didn't take a deity to see the hopeful lies beneath her elaboration. Even the two men sighed, at the hopeless idea.
"Will they even let you see him? If you charmed him that could cause problems."
"True, I don't believe Freya has stronger charms than I do. So I might be able to make it work unlike her failed attempt. But we're going to play the sexy card first." She replied with a wink. And then went on to sit on one of the men's laps, clearly taking something inside herself to take the edge off of her anticipation for a hero's thrust. "Surely a hero's thrust is a whole new level of feeling good."
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