( Jason )

  Suddenly raising three newborns is… not exactly a fun experience. More like a roller coaster of emotions between anger, happiness, and dread. When one cries loudly during one of my experiments, ruining an extremely important project, that’s anger.

  Yet when they cuddle up next to me, yearning for my love and attention, fuck me is that happiness. However, when they cry for the 15th time that very day and I know pain is coming in dealing with them, that’s dread.

  Despite it all, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Spending time with my three munchkins has probably been some of the best moments of my life. My personal favorite, who I’d never say aloud, is Raven. My adorable spiderling has only cried a single time when I gave too much attention to Dante. In hindsight, I realize she bamboozled me. Little shithead tricked me! Now that’s papa’s girl.

  Certainly though she is the creepiest. Whenever she met someone, even the three wives, she only stares at them with that eerie gaze of hers. Pitch bck and beady eyes thanks to her mother. A complete loser would find that creepy or strange. But to me, it just makes her cuter.

  Besides that, she seemed the most intelligent out of the three with Dante clearly being the dumbest. This goofball just can’t stop trying to strangle things. Whether it be my hand or a piece of metal, he just needs to bend it. And if I dare fight back? He gets angry and turns it into a competition. Of course he loses and cries, bringing Lily over to smack me for being harsh. Seeing that brings a goofy smile to his face and he cheers loudly, so I guess it’s fine.

  Elizabeth was through and through, a miniature Alice in every way. Two weeks after her birth, this girl was able to subconsciously use her power and control two common infected to fight. Just like Alice likes to do, though she tries to hide it. Something I’ve noticed is how close she is with Raven. The two are almost inseparable sometimes, always pying with each other. Dante wanted to join in on the fun, until Raven scared him off. Just by staring at him.

  The wives have been enjoying the new additions. Lily, as predicted, is pampering the tiny Elizabeth like no one’s business. She swoons and squeals over every action she takes, praising her as a great genius. At the end of the day though, she makes sure Dante receives just as much love and care.

  Speaking of which, Athena has taken a real liking to him. Apparently she sees his potential as a great fighter and wants to act like a proper aunt in training him. And Dante adores his auntie Athena, following after her everywhere on his two stubby legs. Two weeks in and they can already walk. Is this how infected grow? Scary. Well it does make sense after I checked their brain. Even the 'dumb' Dante has an advanced web of incredibly complex nerves in his brain, far above anything a human can even comprehend. Elizabeth and Raven? Forget about it.

  Based on this level of growth, they’ll speak in maybe a month, and be fully grown in a year or two. Sounds ridiculous, until I realized they were actually the slow ones. Most infected are done and grown by two to five months, able to be thrown into the battlefield with full combat prowess. Geez, the Gaxy doesn’t stand a chance if we can properly get going.

  As for Alice, she equally cares for each one, showing no favoritism. Even with her own daughter. According to her, she’s taking the Harem Wife and Mother position. I have seen a drastic change in her after giving birth to Elizabeth. Like way more reliable and motherly. Could’ve sworn her body changed just a bit too. Wider hips and bigger breasts. Odd, but appreciated to be sure. Everyone loves a milf. Or rather, two milfs when including Lily.

  Queenie gives zero shits for my other children and only pays attention to Raven. That’s not completely true, but she doesn’t really like spending time with them. I’m not offended since I can understand her point of view. Not only does she have to take care of Raven, but the next Queen is about to hatch. She’ll have two newborns on her hands shortly and has no time to pay attention to the others. However, I've made sure they interact occasionally.

  Killgore, like Lily, absolutely loves Elizabeth and is always with her. Even when sleeping, she cuddles with my daughter and never wants to leave her side. I personally find it adorable.

  Currently though, I want to take a little vacation / field trip with the girls. To visit those chains once more and search for clues like the Scooby Gang. When I brought this up to them…

  “You’re bringing them along, right?” Lily’s eyes bore into my own and narrowed dangerously. As if begging me to decline so she has an excuse to whoop me.

  At the same time, she angled the goofy Dante in her hands to stare at me with those green eyes of his. Gah! He looks so innocent and cute, begging me to come for the ride!

  “Despicable. Do you get off on this sort of thing you evil wench?” She grinned, as if saying ‘Of course!’. Alice giggled, both Raven and Elizabeth on either side of her, holding her hands.

  My spiderling walked up to me and put a hand on my new, awesome pants. She tugged at them, looking into my eyes with her creepy ones. Ah, this girl is way too smart for her own good. Knows damn well how to py on my emotions. How diabolical.

  “Alright alright. Fucking treating me like the bad guy here. Just give me a few minutes to make a… sort of submarine for them.” Raven smiled at me, revealing her underdeveloped fangs. Oh dear. My daughter is way too cute.

  As for any sort of danger in this trip? What a joke. The vast majority of the pnet is under my control, with the Infestation controlling 76% of it and growing more each passing hour. Craxis himself has destroyed Asia and refuses to come back or even stop. Not until everything was infected. He might not like his current status, but one can’t deny his work ethic. Currently, he was in Africa and taking down an usually strong and rge pride of lions, all led by a powerful Alpha.

  Godfrey conquered all of South America and is in the midst of building his forces on an extremely rge scale for when we leave. Mainly consist of Juggernauts, Marauders, and Behemoths. Including the Alpha variations. Almost seems like he’s going for pure DPS and tanking. Like a shock troop maybe? Also, he’s been raising that big red skinned Solomon. Apparently, he enjoys it a lot more than he thought he would. Fatherhood really changes a man.

  Onto Kraken, he truly is the MVP. North America is ours and he’s already gone out to meet my puppy whale Nox. They’ve done stelr work and brought all the seas under my control, except one. Unfortunately, resistance on the st sea as been particurly rough. The infected there were very powerful and organized. Luckily, I have the reliable Kraken who should clean those losers up soon.

  Back to more important things like spending time with my children. Constructing a submarine for us all to enjoy wasn’t too complicated. I just found a long eel and biologically repurposed it to fit my desires. Make it rger, hollow out the insides, rearrange it’s organs to make furniture. The whole nine yards. Only took an hour to genetically fuck this thing up. I went back to get them and we piled inside it's open mouth.

  “How the fuck did you make all this in an hour?” Lily asked with shock at my amazing abilities.

  The inside was hard as metal and had a darker color to it, giving it a rexing atmosphere. Enough seats for everyone were pced next to the ‘windows’, giving us a nice view of the outside. Though I obviously made sure to have a fleshy, but comfortable couch for us all to sit together on.

  At her question, I dismissively waved my hand.

  “I won’t bore you with the details.” As she nodded and went to find a pce to sit, I grinned.

  “Not like you’d understand it even if I did.” She paused in pce. Sensing the familiar atmosphere between us, Dante in her arms bounced up and down with a happy grin. Little shithead loves watching us bicker. He'll definitely be a battle maniac when he grows up.

  I could practically hear Lily grinding her teeth as she turned her head towards me.

  “I’m not going to stoop down to ‘your’ level. Especially not with our child here.” She shook her head at my immaturity, taking the high road. I cpped and spoke sarcastically.

  “Oh wow! One might think you’re not a fiery witch based on your words! How noble of you!” Those eyes of hers gred into me with the fury of a thousand suns. I know damn well she’s itching to rip my asshole apart. Before she could do so, Alice butt in and saved me.

  “Enough. You really shouldn’t be fighting in front of the children.” She took a seat on the couch, beckoning Elizabeth and Raven to join her. The former sat on her p with a content face, while Athena was on Alice's left and in general, looked bored.

  Raven on the other hand stared at me, waiting for my choice. When I sat in the middle of the couch, she climbed onto my p and snuggled into my chest. Dear God above or below, I might die from sweetness from this adorable thing.

  Lily took a seat on my right with an annoyed face, gncing my way with mock anger. Dante stared at me with a pitiful face and lightly bit his lips. Did he want to join papa, but was too scared of his younger sister? Looking down, Raven was emotionlessly staring at him with those beady eyes. Almost like warning him. He made a small, sad sound and turned his head away out of fear. Gosh, what a bully.

  With a mental command from me, the Submarine Eel began it’s journey through the ocean. Despite the water turning bck and the Infestation running rampant on the ocean floor, we could still clearly see the bustling life. Due to my reproduction pn, no longer were the seas this empty barren wastend. Now filled with countless beings who will be dumped on other Water Worlds.

  All my children, and even the wives, were fascinated by the fishes and ‘coral’. Doesn’t look anything simir to before and was fully infested, but they still held a unique charm. Dante was beside himself in joy and ripped himself out of Lily’s grasp.

  “Haha!” I couldn’t help it and bust out ughing. The way he pressed that goofy and mean looking face into the window was hirious. Smushed up cheeks are adorable.

  Feeling some movement below me made me realize Raven wanted some attention. So I softly caressed her head and miniscule amount of hair. She purred lightly at my touch, closing her eyes in satisfaction. A few minutes ter, a finger tapped my arm.

  “Jason.” Alice whispered to my left. Looking over, she had a caring smile on her face and motioned towards her p. Elizabeth was staring at Raven with undisguised jealousy. Yet didn’t make a peep.

  What an asshole I’ve been. Caring for one while neglecting the other. When Alice handed her over to me, the joy that spread across her face nearly made me snuggle her to death. Unlike Dante, Raven was completely fine with her older sister sharing me. Now I was feeling bad for the mean looking bastard.

  My right arm transformed into a tendril and wrapped around my son’s waist. He yelped in fear and shock as I brought him into my p, between his two sisters. Raven bared her fangs at him, scaring him so deeply he shivered. Until I intervened.

  “Enough Raven.” She looked my way sadly, yet I didn’t budge. Some light bullying was fine, but they needed to get along. Family should always look out for one another and trust between them should be unbreakable.

  Raven seemed to somehow understand me… I think? Maybe I’m praising her intelligence way too much. Anyway, I wrapped my arms around them and pulled them into my embrace. Their eyes were glued to the outside ocean, watching the new sights go by with curious eyes.

  A sudden head arrived at my left shoulder, revealing it to be a happy, smiling Alice. Nearly instantly, the same thing happened on the right. All annoyance from Lily had faded completely, repced with a sense of peace and love.

  “Hmph.” Athena snorted and stood up. She came from behind me and wrapped her arms around my neck, pcing her chin on top of my head.

  And thus we spent out time in silence. Despite that, it didn’t feel boring. Being with those I loved most was far more satisfying than anything else. Fights, experiments, sex. None can match up to this. Holding my adorable monster children in my arms. Three beautiful wives all around me, all who deeply love and care for me.

  Truly, nothing could be better.

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  We didn’t rush our journey in the slightest, making sure to take in all the unique sights. The Infestation truly reformed the ocean into it’s own environment to suit it’s needs. Strange how it seems alive and conscious in a way, yet actually cks the defining features which makes up a personality or person in general.

  The previous sea floor is now this bck and spiky goop, always slowly moving up and down as if alive. Anything it touched, no matter how big or small, and it would try to consume it. To keep growing further and further endlessly. On top of this gunk were new species of pnts, each one infected beyond measure.

  Underwater tendril trees which used it’s branches to hunt for nearby prey. Harmless looking coral and other bckish pnts would wait until something passed, then opened their fang filled mouths. Occasionally, rge worms reaching up to twenty feet would burst out of the bckened ‘sand’ to attack anything nearby.

  Despite the vast amount of death and despair, it was also filled with a strange amount of life. My children were extremely interested because this was all new to them, and the wives were fascinated seeing the changes.

  “Hey Jason.” Lily suddenly spoke up with an intrigued tone.

  “Yeah?"

  “When you were st here, did you find any Megalodons?” What an odd question to ask. Completely out of left field.

  “Uh, no? If you mean super rge sharks then yes, but that was after the virus transformed them. However, I did find some unique creatures never seen before.”

  This time Alice made herself known. Raised her head off my shoulder and looked at me curiously.

  “Really? Like what?”

  “During my descent into the depths, I found a new species of extra rge salmon. On average they were about seven feet long and had a single fin which was very muscur. It was their one and only weapon, using it as a close rang shotgun."

  Interested, they asked me more about my underwater travels previously I neglected to mention beforehand. It was a good way to spend time together as the Submarine Eel dove deeper into the ocean.

  Wasn’t long before light faded, repced by an eerie and silent darkness. The children started becoming afraid and Elizabeth was even shaking. Seems she shares her mother’s fear of the dark. I consoled her as best I could and she grabbed onto my arm for support.

  Despite our enhanced eyes, there was nothing around. Just a creepy and empty bckness. Dante didn’t even try to act tough and held his big sister, burying himself into her arms. Raven on the other hand was fascinated by the dark and hopped off my p, pressing her face to the window. Turning my head towards Alice, I could see how uncomfortable she was. Even though her strength was enough to ftten a vilge, she still got scared.

  I didn’t say a word. Mocking her in such a vulnerable moment is the epitome of being an awful partner and a true piece of worthless shit. Instead, I gently took her hand in mine, interlocking our fingers. She smiled gratefully, tension easing from her face.

  “Is there anything out there?” Athena whispered lowly, her words bouncing off the fleshy walls. This whole time she hadn't moved her chin from my head.

  “Probably. When I visited before, a lot of creatures would silently watch me from afar. They’re a lot different from the infected on nd. Less active. But this didn't mean they were weaker.” I gnced at Alice and noticed her head turning from side to side.

  Since she was some Esper thing, she could most likely sense them around us. I could too, just observing us as we passed by. Elizabeth was simir, but her abilities were currently weaker than her mother.

  “The fuck is that?” Lily shifted and sat upright, pointing into the distance.

  A shining bright light, a complete contrast to the overwhelming darkness surrounding it. Looked so lonely out there, begging for someone to hug it. Noticing the Eel begin moving towards it, I forcibly woke it up and commanded it to close in but keep some distance.

  “That’s a mutated Angler Fish. It uses that light to ensnare it’s victims, drawing them in closer and closer. Watch.” As we approached, everyone could see a thin piece of flesh connected to the light. It went off into the darkness, the creature’s true form hidden.

  Nearby fish and other creatures could be seen making their way to it. There was a cloudiness to their eyes, their bodies swaying hypnotically.

  Sensing the power I contained, it wisely chose to fuck directly off. But this shook my children, scaring them a fair bit. Especially when they were able to glimpse on the Angler's gigantic body for a brief instance. Even Raven was frightened and returned to my p, hugging me tightly in a rare showcase of fear.

  “Christ that was fucking creepy.” Lily shivered and continued.

  “Let’s just hurry up and get going yeah? This pce is spooky.” Smiling, I worked the Eel into overdrive, swiftly taking us to the chains.