The new Seraph's

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row.

Caroline squared on the building corner, rain hammering down, this was her city... Her watch.... Oh gods this was so boring! How the fuck did Batman do this?


She shivers slightly, it wasn't a cold rain, but she was soaking when she heard someone approach. "What do you want?" She said in her gruffest voice.

Gir stepped up, in full costume and chuckles. "Dad sent me to look for you, it is a horrid night for patrol."

Caroline grumped. "Crime doesn't sleep."

Gir smirked. "But crime also does not want to catch a cold.... Come on, let's go get Up up and away burgers."

Caroline would refuse, but her gut made an audible growl. "Fine." She muttered embarrassed.

Up up and away burgers.

The two stepped in, dripping water everywhere. "Sorry." Gir said. "Wrought night."

The cashier just sighed. "Jerry, mop." He said as another teen came out and started cleaning up after the heroes as Gir and Caroline approached the counter, Gir pulling off her helmet. "I'll pay."

Caroline gasped. "Your secret identity!"

Gir looks over her shoulder. "It's okay Car- er, Knight Saber, I have a public ID, like dad and Neph, any way." She turns back to the clerk. "Um, two up burger meals, one large with Dr Pepper as the drinks?"

The clerk muttered out the payment and went to work the grill as Gir swiped her card, waiting for their food. Eventually they got it, taking their tray to a booth and sitting down.

Gir smiled and took a fry, munching happily. "You know, we haven't really just sat and talked, the two of us, wanna?"

Caroline sipped her soda. "Talk about what?"

"Well, if we keep quite, we can talk about our lives, I hear you have an admirer."

Caroline blushed. "I don't know what you see talking about."

"Well Alica told me a certain head of track and field joined your self defence classes, a Jessica Holt?"

"What? How she see that? She to busy making goo goo eyes at Seiji!"

Gir waves a hand. "Hush hush... Want to talk about her?"

Caroline burried her head in her hands. "Jessica is indeed the head of track and field and a goth and amazing and cute and she would want nothing to do with a comic nerd like me."

Gir bit her burger. "So she joined your extra curricular class out of the blue for no reason?"

Caroline chewed her lip. "Maybe?"

Gir laughed. "And Neph says I'm bad at social cues."

[Dark Seraph]

Been a while, brain has been meh for ideas, but here we go.

King's Row
Seraph's House

Seraph sat at his table, tonight was a study session night, both Caroline and Alicia had asked over someone to help with home work... But even Seraph's dull social senses could pick up a little more was going on.

Caroline had invited over some girl named Jessica... Who looked nothing like Seraph expected, he was told she was head of track and field, but he did not expect the pale completion, face full of piercings and a mop of black hair that hung over her eyes.

Alicia on the other hand had invited a cat boy named Seiji, who looked like a typical cat boy, down to the strange hair colour cat people tend to have.

Sera had asked him to watch over them, she was running late due to a staff meeting and in her own words. "I do not trust teens to study, roaming hands and all that." But so far, besides the pair huddling up, he had seen no sign of hanky and/or panky.

Caroline swore and laid her head down on her books. "I can't do it! I don't know how to write my working out, I see maths, my brain gives me answers."

Jessica pats her back. "Come on red, just do what I show you, Kay?"

Caroline snorted. "Why do I even need to show my working out if the answer is correct?"

Jessica sighed. "To make sure you didn't cheat, I know it is hard, but let's try?"

Seraph turned to look at Seiji and Alicia, the two hunched together as they muttered, Alicia's pen dancing across the paper, the demoness was lapping up what the cat boy said, if Seraph had any problem, it was the fact the girl was all but sitting on Seiji's lap as she worked.

Seraph chuckles and turns away, getting w cup of coffee as he listened to the teens chatter, it was nice they had a flourishing civilian life, they can't be heroes 24/7... Wasn't healthy in his mind.

Turning back, he sighed as Alicia was now fully on Seiji's lap, blushing hard as he rested his head on her shoulder, talking softly to her.

Seraph coughed and the two seperated, both blushing hard, he looked at the other side of the table, to notice the chairs where empty. "Where did they go?" He asks.

Alicia coughed. "To see Caroline's pets?"

Shaking his headed to Caroline's room, looking in the open door..... To see Caroline lecturing Jessica about her iguana Goji.

Which was a relief, he wasn't sure if he could handle walking in on his daughter making out... He also made a mental note to tell Sera about Alicia and Seiji, she might want to talk to her daughter about relationships.

[Dark Seraph]

Another long stint without writing, been to busy with the RP and AUs on my Tumblr.
But here is a short that I feel needs to be written.

King's Row 
Seraph's House.

Sera knocked on Alicia's door, the tiffling looking up from her switch. "Moshi Moshi." The teen says with a grin.

Sera steps in and takes a breath. "Alicia... I want to talk to you about that cat boy."

Alicia moves from laying on her belly into a sitting position. "Seiji? Why? What's wrong?"

"Look, I don't want to come off as racist... But back in Preatoria, cat people had a reputation... A bad one... Okay it was mainly Bobcat, but they where all tarred and feathered with the same brush."

Alicia looks confused as her mother continues. "He... He hasn't tried to get you to do anything? Has he?"

Alicia reeled back like she had been punched. "What? No! He's a good boy, I sat on his lap and he didn't even get hard! He is the only kid at school that looks me in the eyes instead of at these!" She cups herself and hefts her bust. "If anything I'm the one probing for more."

Sera was taken a back, her daughter was the one leading here. "Well... I didn't need to hear about him not getting hard.... But can I ask why?"

Alicia runs a hand through her hair. "Maybe it's my teenage hormones... Or DNA from dead beat mum.... But he makes me feel safe, respected... He treats me more than my looks... He treats me as if I'm normal."

Sera steps forward and rests a hand on Alicia's shoulder. "That's... That's all I need to hear... Just... If you get active-"

"Muuuuuuuuum."

"Just saying, if you do, use protection, I'm not ready to be a grandmother, okay?"

Alicia blushes. "I will.... Now get out, I got gaming to do, gonna get me a shiny Duskull,"

Sera laughs. "I have no idea what that means, but thanks for talking to me."

[Dark Seraph]

5000! Wooooot

[Dark Seraph]

Steel Canyon 
Vanguard Safe House.

Laying in bed, Neph sighs and lightly elbows Katie. "Is that normal?" She asks softly.

The seer puts down her book and looks over. "That? No, that unneves me honestly." She points to Neph's lap, where Spike the bull dog was laying on his back, legs in the air letting out a honking wheeze as he sleeps.

Neph looked at her dog and chuckled. "I was referring to that." She points to the foot of the bed, where Briar is curled into a fetal position with a blanket over herself, sleeping peacefully.

Katie taps her chin. "Well, not really, I have seen stranger amongst my girls, refusing to sleep laying down, floating and huddling together for warmth, they take some explaining to get used to the idea they can use beds."

Neph raises an eyebrow, but waves a hand. "Yeah, but why my our bed?"

The seer smiles and taps the cyborgs nose. "Weather you want to admit it or not, she has imprinted on you, she sees you as like a mother figure and there for safe."

Neph moans and drags her fingers down her face. "I'm 18, to young to be a mum... And Tish would kill me if I made her a grand mother."

Katie shrugs. "A Primal saying I have found I like, Shit Happens."

Neph lightly punches her girlfriends arm. "You are not helping."

She laughs. "Cuz I am a mother to like... Twenty odd seeres, some older than me.... Not that any of us really know our age... Hell, I think I'm in my mid twenties? Being part of the seer network prematurely ages you, making it harder to figure out."

Neph hugs her. "Sorry for snapping then."

"S'kay, you can make up with snuggles."

"Just as long as your hands stay outside my PJs."

"Spoil sport."

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row 
Seraph's House.

Caroline was walking down the hall when she heated some muffled swearing, curiously, she followed it to Alicia's room, perking in the door where Alicia was trying to stuff herself into a binder. "Stupid fucking flesh bags! Get in!" The Tiffling swore as she struggled.

Stepping in, Caroline chuckled. "You know, you are ment yo test the size before you buy." She said as Alicia spun around, face flushed.

Quickly stepping past her cousin, Alicia slammed the door shut. "It's not what it looks like." She said hurriedly.

Caroline crosses her arms. "No, it's cool, your trans right."

Alicia waved her arms. "What? No! I just want something to keep my tits under control."

"So you bought a binder?"

"A guy in my class, he swears by his binder... I just thought if I wore one, it help."

Caroline smirks. "You know most buy a sports bra."

Alicia sighed. "You know how much a double D sports bra cost? And... It be embarrassing to ask mum."

Caroline shrugs. "I don't see the problem, you are blessed with genes that gave you honk donkongals.... Wish I was that big."

Alicia sighed. "No you don't, everyone but Seiji looks at me like a slut, call me names behind my back, refuse to look me in the eyes, I hate them." She huffs.

Caroline steps up and gives her cousin a hug. "Well, maybe next time, actually try before you buy? ... We can try one of Neph's sport bras, she is like a D I think."

Alicia nodded. "Just keep this secret from mum, please?"

"My lips are sealed."

[Dark Seraph]

King's Row 
Seraph's House.

Seraph was laying on the bed, reading a book when the door was kicked in a d Tish stomped in, visibly steaming as she yanked her jacket off and threw it across the room.

"Hard day?" He asked softly, placing a book mark and putting the book to one side.

"Hard day? Hard day!" She snarled, flames running along her arms as she threw them up in the air. "I am used to baby sitting, playing brood mother to younger heroes, but today? Fuck!"

He slowly sat up, reaching a hand towards her and pulling back as another wave of flame rolled off her. "That bad?" He asked.

Tish pulled her hands down her face. "Goooooods, fucking idiots, running off, getting them selves koed... Called me old woman! Me? I'm in the prime of my fucking thirties, stupid pig headed idiots!"

He swallowed. "Is there anything I can do to help?" He offered.

Tish looked him over, a impish smile tugging her lips as she walked up to him, fingers digging into the cloth of his pants as they started to smoulder. "Strip."

He shifts under her gaze. "I... What?"

Tish growls, his pants part burning, part tearing as she pulls them off. "Do, not, make, me, repeat, myself." She said coldly.

"Yes ma'am." Seraph managed weakly before she pounced on him.

Later

Seraph panted as Tish rolled of him, both slick with sweat, whether from the sex or the intense heat Tish put out, he wasn't sure... But holy hell that was something, reminded him of their honeymoon.

Tish exhaled a plume of smoke and smiled. "Fuck I need that.... You okay there Seraph?" She turned to face him, propping herself on one elbow.

Seraph nodded slowly. "Some minor burns, but nothing new with you.... Fell less stressed?"

She gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Much, I'm gonna grab a drink, you want anything?"

"Tea please." He says and slowly sits up, sore but in a good way.

She laughed and got up, pulling on a bath robe. "How you can drink that British crap is beyond me." She says, swaying out of the room and humming.

Seraph meanwhile checked to see if Tish had done any fire damage, the down side of sex with her, her powers tended to manifest. Looking at his bed side table, he picks up his slightly scorched book, looks like they got off lightly this time.

[Norgarth]

Hey Seraph? first line after the 'later'

the word you want is 'whether' (you got caught by a homophone)

[Dark Seraph]

Thanks... Also good to know people read this besides the bots.

Was tempted to make a little spicyer.... But it's been over a decade and I can't remember if spice is allowed on the forums.

[Dark Seraph]

I will admit, I am mixing CoH lore with shit I ripped from Arcane Season two for this.
Enjoy.

Boomtown.
Neph tapped her head set. "Vanguard HQ, this is Nephilim Blade, another dead end." She says over the com, the tinny reply coming in her ear.

"Some one has been collecting and stockpiling Preatorian clockwork besides us agent Blade, we have tracked them down to the Boomtown area, we have called in reinforcements to aid you."

Neph snorted as she bent at the knee, cybernetics legs putting before she bounded over the street, landing with a crack of pavement, she didn't need help, this was Preat clocks, she was breathing them into scrap when she was just a lowbie, looking around she brought up her mini map and looked it over, still some abandoned buildings to check out before it got dark, she could hit them up easily.

Reaching her next search location, she looked at a battered Wearhouse, looked like it had been hit by a hammer, the building leaning to one side as she walks up, finding the padlock on the door melted to slag. "Come in HQ, think I found something, a busted door that looks to high tech for the locals."

"Proceed with caution." The voice crackled back as Neph pushed the door open, looking into the gloom, only illuminated by shafts of light from the sky light, Neph cracks her knuckles, energy flickering into life around them as she steps in.

Walking in, she squinted into the gloom, her eyes adjusting to the dark as she saw figures piled up like fire wood, clock works. "HQ, I found the place... HQ?" She tapped her coms, only getting a squeal of feedback.

"No no, we can't have you talking to medelsom outsiders, Neph Seraph." A voice echoed from the dark, accented, but familiar, hauntingly so.

Neph slowly turns around, looking for the source of the voice. "Who's there?" She called out.

"Oh my dear Neph, we are not strangers you and I, our paths crossed before." Metal foot steps echoed as a figure stepped into the light, it was a clockwork, but not like any she had seen before, it's body more elegant, more streamlined, a make shift cloak hangs from its back, a metal plate fastened over its face, a violette glow coming through the eye holes.

Neph squinted. "Who the fuck are you tin man?"

The clockwork laughed. "Tin man, yes.... I am the tin man, lacking a heart... I have lacked a heart for a long time Neph, but you might know me as a King."

Neph blinked. "The...the clock work king? But you are in the Zig."

He chuckled. "Ah my primal counterpart languishing in prison, for he still has some of his mortal form, I have transcended the need for flesh, I am purely of the mind."

Rolling her shoulders, Neph glares. "And this is the part where you tell me your evil plan?"

The Clockwork king stops. "My plan? Continue what you stopped in Preatoria my dear, my glorious evoluation."

"Your evolution? You ripped people's minds from their bodies and shoved them into clockwork, how is that evolution?"

Woodkids To ash and blood

He clapped his hands, clockwork around the warehouse starting to stir, all eyes glowing violet as the started towards Neph. "To be free of death, of hunger, of aging, of sickness, I will create a new race, and my princess will be the pinnacle of them, my perfect creation... And you will not stop me this time."

Neph growled and leaped for him, glowing fist swinging as a clockwork throws itself in the way, shattering it's torso and more ran up, mechanical bodies twitching like puppets on strings, she was quickly surrounded, her fists slamming out in empowered hammer blows, but more and more ran up, swarming her, grabbing her and punning her to the ground.

She snarled and struggled as the King walked up, his hand glowing with psychic energy. "Maybe you just need to see things from my point of view." He says as he leans in, energy starting to probe her mind as she gritted her teeth. "Soon you will awaken to your eternal firm Neph, do not resist."

There was a shatter of glass as a red and gold blur slammed into the floor, scattering clock work before bounding over and ripping clock work off Neph with an impressive display of strength.

"Gir?" Neph blinked, looking up at her sister in full costume.

"Hey sis, HQ sent me in the second your radio went down, lucky you." Gir said, Neph could tell she was smiling under that helm. "What's the situation?"

The Clockwork king staggered back, the glow of his eyes flaring. "One of Cole's puppets, I'm shocked there are any of you left after the war.... But your kind had one weakness." He holds out a hand as a wave of psychic energy slammed into Gir, staggering her. "For all your might, your mind is weak."

Neph pounced, at him, knocking him to the floor as struggling with him. "Get the fuck out of my sister's head!" She shouted.

The King clucked his fingers and more clockwork poured in, hundreds of them, metal hands grasping as he tried to buck Neph off himself.

Gir recovers, looking at the oncoming hoard. "Wanted to try this." She said softly, the eye holes of her helm glowing before twin laser beams lash out, cutting through the mechanical bodies like a hot knife through butter.

The king struggles under Neph, before going limp. "Destroy this hold out, I have many more hidden around your city, you can not stop my quest, I will free, perfect Penelope Yin." He hisses before the light leaves his eyes, the surrounding clockwork dropping like puppets with their strings cut. "This is but the beginning." His voice echoed in their mind.

Neph slowly got to her feet, Gir walking up and patting her back. "You okay sis?" Gir asked, pulling off her helm and shaking out her green/grey hair.

"No... I think I just gained a nemesis... And not the steam powered one." Neph admits, looking around. "You realise we have to make it so her can't use these things again?"

Gir sighed. "So we are busting them up?"

"Safer that way."

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row.
Seraph's house.

Gir sat at the table and looked on in awe, there was so much food!

Caroline elbowed her. "You okay sis, you are spacing out."

She blinked. "Just.... Wow, to some one that used to live on nutrient paste and protein blocks, this is a lot to take in."

Caroline smiles. "Never had a Thanksgiving?"

"Caroline, I'm like five months old."

"Oh yeah, keep forgetting you are baby sister." The Red head chuckles as Seraph starts carving the turkey. "This must be new to auntie Sera and her kids, Pretoria had Thanksgiving?"

Sera leans over from down the table. "We did.... But it was soy birds, not that giant thing." She points at the turkey. "Real meat was rich people food, because it had to be raised in such a way to prevent Hamidon infestation." She explains as Lief bounces in her seat.

Caroline pulled a face. "That sucks so much... Welcome to the free world and our gluttony!"

As Seraph dished out the food, Gir stared at the turkey leg on her plate, before leaning to whisper to Caroline. "How do i eat this thing?" She asked.

Caroline looks over. "Well, you are with family, so use your hands, but wait." She grabbed the gravy boat and poured some gravy on the leg.

Gir blinks. "You put brown slime on my food."

"Try it, it's good."

Looking around for approval, Seraph nods at her as she picks up the key and gingerly bites.... The flavour... Oh the flavour, it was juicy!

Gir looked at the rest of her family... This was nice. "And there are more holidays like this?"

Seraph nods. "Next big one is Christmas, another feast and presents."

Gir looks in awe.

[Dark Seraph]

King's Row 
Seraph's workshop.

Seraph was carefully pumping the forge, heat filling the room as he looks at his new apprentice. "Okay Aura, we got the heat up, now we just need to get the metal to the right temp."

The oni nodded, watching the flames carefully, she was an odd one Seraph had to admit, with her powers she could easily be a hero, but instead she wanted to learn metal working.... Not that he minded, the extra help was welcome.

He was about to speak again when he heated the door bell of his work shop jiggle. "Keep an eye on it, I'll bee back in a moment." He says, heading out of the sweltering forge into the much cooler shop front. "How can I be of assistance?" He asked the new comer.

Dressed in some sort of business wear, a red dress shirt with black vest, demon tail and a shock of white hair with little... Dog ears? The woman walks up to the counter with a large grin on her face. "Hi mister." She holds out a torn newspaper, a familiar add on it. "Room for rent?"

Seraph looked over the scrap of paper, yes that was his add. "Okay, first things first." He reaches under the counter and pulls out a ledger. "Name and occupation?"

She smiles again, a slightly vacant look on her face for a moment before she fishes in her pocket, pulling out a wallet and showing him a hero id.

He squints at it. "Okay, miss... Cerb Urus? Like the hell hound?"

She nods. "That's me."

To be honest, with a name like that, Seraph was expecting her to be Greek... More dog like and with at least two more heads.... But this was Paragon and stranger things where about. "Okay, I need a security deposit, rent is due every second Thursday, about $400 give or take electricity, water and gas bills."

She blinks. "That... Er... That sounds too cheep."

Seraph laughed. "I'm not in the landlording business to make a buck, cheep affordable housing here."

She reaches into her wallet and pulls out a wad of bills, Seraph noting some had blood stains on them.... She wouldn't be the first hero to pad their wallet with stolen funds and it was better than druggies, rapists and killers having it.

He takes the bills, putting them in a lock box and hands her a key. "Stairs are out side, second floor, room five."

She nods and heads out side, almost skipping. Shaking his head, seraph stepped back into the forge, Aura looking slightly sad as she held up a drooping bit of metal. "I over heated it sir." She said sadly.

"Ahh that's the magic of forging, we wait for it to cool a bit and hammer it back into shape." He explains.

Up stairs.

Cerb stepped into her apartment and sighed, a roof over her head at last, sniffing around, she looked it over... No furniture... But people left perfectly good stuff on the street all the time, so she could just grab that.... But more important, she had a base to search for her sisters from.... Where ever they are.

Meanwhile, in Mercy island 

The Arachnos agent looked through the window at the woman strapped to the bench. "Care to explain to me again?" He asked.

The Widow next to him looked over her tablet. "As I said, she is extra dimensional, but her mind is the most fascinating part, it is like she is missing something, I believe she might be part of a hive mind like Praetorian seerers, that along with the Mu confirming her infernal nature, I feel we could sculpt her into a potential weapon."

The agent sighed. "Fuck it, we have thrown cash at stupider shit, she is all yours, but... If this blows up, it is all on your head, understand?"

She saluted. "Yes sir."

[Dark Seraph]

Gir has yet to do this mission.... But my brain spat out this fic idea months ago, so here we go.

Praetoria?

Gir had agreed to help with a temporal tear, the invasion of Paragon from Praetoria, but during all the running around and time hopping, Positron had been kidnapped, so Gir and her team dove into the rift to right things.

As they pushed deeper into the cave, she could feel a heat rising as they fought through IDF troops, seerers and Military grade clockwork, the deeper they got, the harder the resistance.... But they could just abandon Positron, who knew what damage that could do to the time line?

Eventually they pushed into a regal chamber, magma pooled in troughs either side of the room, surrounded by troops, while a red carpet lead up to a throne, lounging on it and Olympiad Guard. Cracking her knuckles. "The Olympiad is mine." she said as the team scattered.

You say Run - My Hero Acidemia OST

Slowly he got to his feet and clapped. "The error... You know many thought you died after you turned your back on our Emperor, they shall smile as I bring you back to him in chains." There was a flicker and suddenly he was in front of Gir, his first punch deflected, but the second one cannoned into her gut. "What good do you think you can do here? I was trained by the best, tested against the devouring earth, I am your greater!" His fist whipped out and clipped her helm, armour denting slightly as she staggered back.

Shaking her self, she looked up, green eyes glaring through her eye helms eye slits. "You talk big, but I learned in Primal Earth, I learnt that we are invulnerable, not invincible, there is a limit to what we can take. I just have to push beyond that limit!" She lept back, their blows lashing out like miniature explosions, each blow enough to cripple a mortal man. 

Back and forth they went, the ground crumbling beneath them as the Olympiad spat. "You are a deviant, a failed experiment of Berry's, you are nothing compared to me." He snarled.

Gir dug into her reserves. "I learnt, I grew, I over came my weaknesses to become something better!" She started pushing him back, each blow perfectly timed, perfectly aimed. "I am a protector of the weak and scared, I am a HERO!" She shouted delivering a bone braking blow to his jaw, his helm shattering as he staggered back, blood flowing from his broken mouth, hate in his eyes as he lept at her.

"And this..." She drew back her right fist. "Is over!" Lunging forward, she delivered a blow to his chest, her whole arm going numb from the impact as she felt his ribs break, his body rocketing back across the chamber, smashing the throne to shards as he impacted into the wall behind it, leaving a crater.

Panting, she looked around the room to see her team and the IDF had frozen, watching her fight. Taking a deep breath, she stood tall. "I am Centurion Rex and unless you want a beat down like that, surrender." She shouted.... And much to her shock, the IDF knelt down, hands behind their head.

"Oh I hope I bought enough Zig porters." She muttered as her team cheered her on.

[Dark Seraph]

Because she will likely pop up more, better explain who Aura is.

Another OC of Echo of Light, Aura is an Oni, born on one of the million of fictitious uncharted islands that surround Japan, born of the Oni Ray'je, Aura failed to live up to her people's ways, an Oni shortly after being born will fight their parent until the kill them and take their land.... Aura was not like that, she was shy and gentle.... So her mother tried to kill this shameful example of an Oni.

Aura spent her early years running and hiding from her mother, until a fishing boat came to the island, Aura was rescued by the fishermen who fled Ray'je's wrath and was brought to mainland Japan where she was adopted out.... But the spectre of Ray'je haunted Aura, causing her to shift from family to family until she was old enough to support her self and flee Japan to America.

She felt safe in America, even if she stuck out like a sore thumb and for a while, she was happy..... But Gir convinced her to get a heroes licence, putting her name in the computer system and someone that wanted to cause trouble leaked this info to Ray'je.

The Oni mother came to Paragon to kill her daughter and erase the shame of her, but Gir fought back with a team of Heroes. Leading Ray'je to Boomtown where they finally knocked her out and shoved her in Richesman's old prison.

Aura stayed in Paragon... But fears Ray'je escaping and killing her new friends... Gir goes and talks to Ray'je semi regularly to try and convince the Oni that there is no shame in Aura, who is strong in her own way.

[Dark Seraph]

8,000 views in one year?
Okay I know bots are pumping that number..... But still, that's a lot.

[Dark Seraph]

Happy new years!
Here's a little fic.

Seraph smiled as he untangled himself from Tish's sleeping form, another year over, time to check on the kids he mused as he got up and got dressed, yawning slightly as he made it out into the hallway.

First stop was Neph, poking his head in her room, he saw her crowded bed, Neph, Katie, Briar and Spike all curled up... Briar was an odd one, sort of like a grand daughter at this point, much to Tish's annoyance. He smiled and carefully closed the door, checking on the next kid.

Gir was huddled up, curled around a stuffed toy and buried under a weighed blanket... Seraph had spent most of the night with her, the poor girl suffered a panic attack when the new year's fire works went off, Neph said it must of had something to do with her Olympiad Guard training, maybe they used flack cannons on the poor girl.

Next stop was Caroline, who had Jessica over, much to Seraph's relife, the girls slept seperate, Caroline on her bed and Jessica in a sleeping bag on the floor.... But he did spot large black lipstick smears all over Caroline's face, so there was some fooling around.

Stepping back he smiles, a good night in all, looking down the hall, he saw Sera with Lief, looking in at Alicia's room, the elf looking conflicted.

He walked up and whispered. "What's wrong?" He asked, only for Sera to mutely point into the room. Looking in he saw Alicia, curled up with Seiji, clothes scattered across the floor. "Ah... You are... Angry?" He asked.

Sera sighed. "She is six months old!" She hisses.

"In the body of a hormonal teen.... With succubus blood in her veins." He countered.

Sera sighed in defeat. "I... I just don't want her to get hurt, rushing into things like this."

He pats his sister's shoulder. "She has a good ,other to guide her.... Come on, let's get some coffee.... And this little one." He kneels down and lightly taps Lief's nose. "Some breakfast."

Lief looked up at her mother. "Does this mean I have a brother now,"

Sera just fave palms as Seraph chuckles.

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row 
Seraph's Workshop.

Seraph was with Aura in the forge, teaching Aura the art of blacksmithing where the was the ring of a door bell and a voice called out. "Mister Seraph! I'm here for my lessons!"

Seraph swore. "Shit, I double booked, wait here a second Aura." He said as he stepped into the store, curiously Aura poked her head out to see what was going on.

Standing there in a grey shirt and skirt was a thick set woman with wall eyes and a mop of blond hair, chattering happily with Seraph, she spotted Aura and waved as Seraph sighed.

"Aura, this is Diana, my other apprentice, well, technically my government appointed side kick." He explained.

Aura frowned, she thought she was his apprentice.

Diana smiled. "See, mister Seraph has high security clearance, but isn't doing much with it, so the government hooked us up and now he is teaching me."

Aura's frown deepened, the feeling of certainty fleeing.

Seraph rubbed his head. "I must of screwed up and booked both your sessions for today."

"It's okay mister Seraph." Aura said weakly. "You can go train her.... I'll um.... Make nails for that Croatoa order."

He smiles. "I'll be back in a few hours, okay?"

As he leaves with Diana, Aura stepped back into the workshop and pulled out her phone, tapping in a number.

Boomtown.

Gir was holding a girder in place as her co worker Brad the demon used a rivit gun to join in when her phone went off. "You good Brad?" She asked as he nodded, letting go of the girder as the rivits took the weight and fished out her phone.

"Girtrude here, how can I help you?"

"It's Aura.... Can... Can you come home?" The Oni asked nervously.

Gir looked at her watch, then wave to Brad. "Got to clock off, hero stuff."

Brad chuckled. "Make sure to fill out the paper work." He called back.

Gir floated down and filled out her time slip, before rocketing off to King's Row.

King's Row 
Seraph's Workshop.

Aura was slowly pounding out nails when she heard the door bell jingle and sighed in relief.

Gir made her way into the back and hugged the Oni, the shorter woman momentarily lifting Aura off the ground. "What's wrong big sis?"

Aura was not sure why Gir refered to her as sister... But it felt nice, a sense of belonging... Which she needed right now.

"Seraph has another apprentice." The Oni said weakly.

Gir gasped. "But he has you!"

Aura nodded. "This one was sent by the government."

Gir blinked. "Ohhhhh, sort of like Neph and Briar?"

Aura nodded.

Gir gave her another hug. "Well, she may be from the government, but he chose you, so that makes you special! Right?"

The Oni had not thought of it like that, smiling slightly. "Thank you... Lil sis." She says softly.

Gir pats her back. "There we go... How about we get lunch, I flew really fast to get here and am hungry as."

"But... I have to make nails...."

"Nails can wait, I'm sure dad will understand."



Am I retreading old ground with Diana, yes... But here's the thing. I made her on live before the shut down, so never really got to explore her story.... So this is more me picking up a decades old story.

[Dark Seraph]

Steel Canyon.
Vanguard Safehouse.

Katie floated into the lounge to see several Seeres sitting around, watching as Neph and Briar where doing something with their hands, floating over she rests on Neph's broad shoulders. "What are you doing?"

Neph looked back and smiled. "Teaching ASL... Well, the Australian version, I thought if I could give Briar a better way to communicate, maybe I can enrol her in school with Caroline and Alicia."

Watching their hand movement, the tanned part crystal girl copying Neph's, she gasped a thought. "You know... I could just copy and paste the info from your brain to hers, right?"

Neph shook her head. "As nice as that be, this feels better, learning rather than cramming." She turns and kisses Katie's cheek. "But thanks for the idea."

Katie floats over the back of the couch, dropping next to Neph and curling up. "Is it hard to teach?" She asked.

"Nah, it was harder for me to learn as a kid with my fucked up hands, but I got the hang of it."

Briar looks at them, them signs. [Hello mother's]

Neph blushed as Katie looked over. "What did she say?" The seer asked.

Coughing, the cyborg looked embarrassed. "Hello mother's."

Katie squealed in glee and hugged Neph. "I'm a mom! We are mom's!"

Neph slumped. "Tish will fucking kill me."

[Dark Seraph]

The legendary base, location unknown.

Seraph was taking Diana for a tour, the younger woman in awe at the base. "Yeah so to the left if the workstations and storage racks, up ahead is the The fancy council chamber where the leaders sit."

Diana raised a hand. "Do you have a seat there mister Seraph?"

He chuckles and shakes his head. "No, but my wife does, you can tell her place by all the coffee mug rings in the desk." He waves. "I think it is a few more years before I get a seat."

Diana nods in great interests as he continues the tour.

"Telaportation bays for quick access across the city." He explains. "We can go everywhere pretty much.... And through here is the med bay, believe me, you will get well acquainted with them." He explains.

Diana pointed at a figure on one of the med bay bunks. "Um.... Is she okay?"

Seraph walked up and checked her chart. "Ah, this is Sister's Grim, our resident vampire... Says here she is detoxing... After drinking Rikti blood? Damn."

The redhead vampire slowly raised, her glowing  red eyes looking over them. "Hii.... Are you real? Or am I hallucinating again?"

Diana leans into Seraph and whispers. "She sounds.... Young, like really young, too young to be a hero."

He sighs and whispers back. "Records says she suffers spilt personality, one is a simple child... The other.... Well let's just say her other side would be more at home in the Isle's."

Sister waves. "I can heeeeeear yoooooooou."

Seraph cursed. "Also vampiric super powers, she can face from sight, dodge bullets, even mess with you min- Hey!"

Diana walked up to Sister's and offered her hand. "Hi, I'm Diana, nice to meet you!" She says with a walled eyed grin.

Sister's takes the offered hand.... And sniffs it. "You smell of magic, nice to meet you!"

Seraph sighs, he some how felt letting these two interact would end poorly....

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row 
Seraph's house.

Laying in bed, Tish chewed her lip and looked at Seraph as he read a book. "Um... Seraph.... Is it bad we don't have a kid?" She asked.

He put a book mark in his novel and put it on the bedside table. "What do you mean? We have three daughters?"

Tish sighed. "Not what I meant, I mean a baby between you and me."

He rests a hand on her shoulder. "What brought this up?"

She took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "I was talking to some friends and they all have kids and one brough up biological clocks and I was thinking we have been together for eleven years, but we never had a kid..."

He pulls her onto his lap and strokes her back. "Do you want a kid?"

"Yes? No... Maybe? I don't know... I don't have the time to be out of work for nine months plus, but I kinda want one."

Seraph thinks. "Well, we live in an age of science, there are ways to have kids with out you being up the duff."

"Go on."

"Well, the most obvious is a surrogate, we find a woman we trust to carry our child to term... Then there is science, we can use gene splicing and grow them in a tube or finally magic, like Alicia."

Tish chews her lip. "I.... I need to think on this, but how do you know all this?"

He laughs. "Three daughters, all gay, so they need options if they want to give me grand kids."

She punched him. "I am not ready to be a granny, I'm still in my thirties."

"Just covering my bases."

She gave him another light punch. "But thanks hun, you have given me some things to think about..." She slides off his lap, stroking his cheek as she kisses him tenderly. "But now, after all this talk of making a baby..." She trails her fingers to the waist band of his boxers.

He smirked. "Woman you will kill me, as you wish."

[Dark Seraph]

Second story... And will reference some stuff from the late Ran-San.

Croatoa.
Croatoa high school.

Sera sat with the gym teacher, watching her daughter Alicia spar with Seiji and turned to the teacher. "You know.... I thought Alicia said her sensei was a man."

The woman smiled and waves a hand. "I normally am, long story short, I have a curse where if I lose, I turn into a woman until I win something of equal value, names Namoru." She offered a hand.

Sera took her hand and shook it. "Well, I guess that explains that... And you are Seiji's father, right?"

Namoru smiled. "Yup, that's my pride and joy, he seems quite taken with your daughter."

Sera sighed. "More than that, new years day I found them in the same bed... Naked."

Namoru burst out laughing. "In my wife's culture, that is the equivalent of getting married." She raises a hand as Sera looked ready to blow. "But I'm not enforcing that, they are young and free to fool around.... But I will have words with the boys." She looks over to where Seiji had pinned Alicia to the mat, the two teens flush in the face, staring at each other

"Hey you two, you sparing or not?" Namoru called out. The two teens jumping apart as if burnt, trying not to look guilty.

Sera sighed. "I think that's enough for today.... It was nice meeting you Namoru. Alicia, get changed."

The tiffling teen bows to Seiji, the Nomaru before skipping to the changing room, Sera shaking her head, damn teens

[Dark Seraph]

Kings Row 
Seraph's house.

Seraph and Tish had gathered the three girls around the table, Seraph clearing his throat. "Girls, your mother and I.... Might be having a baby."

Gir and Caroline looked excited, while Neph growled. "Wait, you said I couldn't have Briar live here, but you are planing on a baby?"

Tish sighed. "There is a difference Neph, your father didn't want a rep for surrounding himself with teenage girls."

Neph stewed on this. "Okay, but what about birth defects? I came out with fucked up club limbs, what's stopping this from happening again?"

Seraph took Tish's hand. "Well, we have options, we can generically scan for defects and eliminate them before the child is born."

Tish spoke up. "Also, not carrying. We are looking into other options, our biggest contenders are a surogout or grow in a.... What you call it Seraph?"

He coughed. "A vita womb, it's an artificial womb similar to what Cery grows its Paragon Protectors in, the speed is adjustable, so we can take the full nine months or a month to have a baby."

Tish side eyes him. "Not sure about that..... But the list of surrogates is kinda low, I don't many who aren't heroes, so it's iffy on what path we take."

Gir leans forward. "I am so happy for you two, for us I never saw a baby outside of propaganda reals of Emperor Marcus kissing them, they never let me near one."

Neph lets out a snerk. "Gir you can crush a bowling bowl in your bare hands, who the fuck would trust you with a baby?"

Gir snaps back. "I can be soft! Plenty soft!"

Caroline, sitting between the two arguing girls smiles. "Mom, dad, do I need to get rid of any of my animals?"

Tish laughs. "Nah, not unless the baby some how breaks open the enclosure and tries to eat them.... So no kiddo, you can keep your mini zoo."

Seraph hugs his wife, his daughters where taking this well.... Well, at least better than he feared.

[Dark Seraph]

Founders Falls.
Gentech solutions


Seraph and Tish sat in the office of one Dr Floyd as he went over their paperwork, tapping his pen to it occasionally as he read. "Thank you for making time for this, I know you both have very busy lives, as do most that chose this path of procreation." He says looking over them. "Now we have found some troublesome genetic markers in your DNA Mr Seraph, but they are easy enough to work around. All we need is for you to sign off on this and provide samples."

Tish chewed her lip. "I know how Seraph does it, just him jerking it into a dixy cup, but how do I... Give you a sample?"

Dr Floyd took a breath. "Well, we can create a child from just blood samples, but for the highest chance of success, we need a egg and sperm, meaning IVF."

Tish blinks. "And IVF is?"

Dr Floyd explained.

Tish pales. "You are going to shove an ultrasound wand up my pussy, then a needle?"

The doctor nodded. "You will be anethitised, so you won't feel a thing, but in the days following you will experience abdominal cramping."

Seraph grabbed his wife's shoulder. "Not to late to back out."

Tish took a deep breath. "No, I want this, I will get probed.... But you are not hearing the end of this Mr Dixy cup."

Seraph chuckled as Dr Floyd coughed. "Mr Seraph, Miss Fuego, we also need to talk gestation speed, do you want to wait the traditional nine months or four months?"

Seraph's brow wrinkled. "Four? But Paragon Protectors are grown a lot faster than that."

Dr Floyd nods. "While we use the same technology as Crey, such an accelerated grow is detrimental to the growth of a healthy brain, it's why Protectors are for lack of a better word, simple."

Seraph looks to Tish, then Dr Floyd. "Anything else you need from us?"

Floyd taps his paperwork. "For the child, we need a recording of your wife's heart beat and voice, aural stimulus is very important to fetal growth."

Seraph looks at his wife, holding her hand. "This is a lot to go through... You up to it?"

Tish fishes out her phone. "Give me dates, I will have to cancel some hero shit to do this, but I'm in."

Dr Floyd hands over a sheet of paper. "Fine, just sign here and we can get started."

The two of them put down their signatures, Dr Floyd taking the paperwork. "We can book you in for egg harvesting and recording tomorrow if that's good for you?"

They nods as Tish starts cancelling appointments.

The next day
Kings Row medical.

Seraph waited in the hallway, his part was over and done, even if it was a little embarrassing to have a nurse offer him material to help him get a sample. The door opened and a towering black skinned woman with red eyes smiled at him. "Your wife is recovering Mr Seraph, you can see her now."

He nodded his thanks and stepped into the hospital room, Tish sitting up in a hospital bed, still wearing a gown. "So... You okay?" He asked, stepping up to the bed side and noticing some device under her gown attached to her chest.

"Well mister Dixy cup, I am numb below the waist and now know what an alien abductee feels like, right now they are just recording my heart beat."

He rests a hand on her shoulder. "So... Four months?"

She nods. "They also gave me a script for something, lact something or other.... Any idea what the fuck that's for?"

He chuckles. "Tish, they gave you a script to lactate."

She gives him a confused look. "Lac what?"

"For milk to feed the baby... You are going to feed the baby right?"

She blinks. "Fuck I did not even think a out that, how the fuck am I feeding the baby if I'm out heroing?"

He rubs her arm. "Well, you can use a pump to collect for later use?"

She eyes him. "How are you some much more collected about this than me?"

He bends down and kisses her brow. "Because I rose Neph as a baby all by myself, I know what I am doing.... But for Neph I gave her formula and boy did she hate it."

Tish sighed. "Thank fuck I got you by my side." She took his hand.... Then punched him in the arm.

"What was that for?"

She grinned. "Pay back for you getting the easy route Dixy cup boy."

[Dark Seraph]

Caroline was a tricky teen.