Chapter 62: Fatherhood

Hogwarts Castle, Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands

July 22nd, 1993, 03:21 PM

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Erik was inside the Headmistress' office with her and her new Deputy. He had already passed all the necessary stuff to them weeks ago, like the feedback from the warning and locator wards of the castle. Erik had, too, introduced Fawkes to her and he had to explain, again, how the phoenix was not Dumbledore's phoenix. He explained how the Fawkes came to like the ambience of the castle and decided to make it his territory, and Erik, as the true owner of it, had made a deal with it. Headmistress McGonagall, together with her Deputy, Fillius Flitwick, and Erik, were now setting up the letter that the students would receive with the material list for the next year. The Deputy-Headmaster Flitwick had accepted the invite from the new Headmistress, but he was sad to have to step down from the position of Head of House Ravenclaw.

Together with the material list, Erik was annexing a letter of indicated material reading for all first-generation and non-magical raised wizards and witches. The list of indicated materials contained things like books and booklets on first steps of what to do now that you had a wizard/witch in the family, how the government worked, laws, customs, etc. The list was a compilation of all the stuff that the Professors had noticed this group of students lacked during their years teaching. The good thing was that they wanted to send the list to all students that entered that profile, not only the first year ones.

The trio stood there, talking about the letters and their content for some time more, until they had decided everything needed. They put the letters' content in their respective places to be automatically copied and sent to all the students and when they were done, Minerva McGonagall called for a house-elf.

"A house-elf, please."

She said to the 'air' and, with a soft pop sound, a house-elf appeared by her side.

*pop*

"How can Misty help the Headmistress?"

The house-elf asked Headmistress McGonagall.

"Can you prepare and bring us some tea please, Misty?"

The Headmistress asked the house-elf, who nodded its big head in confirmation and disappeared with another soft pop sound.

*pop*

The trio walked to the lounge area and took a seat each when a tea set together with a plate of mini-pastries appeared on top of the low center table. The two still Professors looked strangely at the mini-pastries and started to serve their tea cups.

"That's odd."

Fillius Flitwick commented. Minerca McGonagall nodded with her head at his comment and continued to serve her tea. Erik just chuckled at them and took one of the mini-pastries and put it in his mouth. He chewed the delicacy slowly, savoring it completely. It was a semi-circular pastry covered with candy sugar and filled with some kind of apple jelly with small slices of cooked apples.

"Odd would not be the right word to use here. The right word would be delicious."

Erik said after swallowing it. He took a sip from his tea and addressed them.

"I had bought some more modern cooking books for the house-elves, and it seems that they are already putting it to good use. The black coffee that they made me last week has been improving drastically, and I think that soon they will have developed a way to make one of the best coffee in the British Isles."

Erik said to them and sipped his tea again while taking another mini-pastry to his mouth. Minerva McGonagall and Fillius Flitwick too had taken a mini-pastry each and were now savoring the delicacy slowly.

"I think that we can expect a very good variety in the next meals that the house-elves prepare–"

Erik was saying to them when a special alert that he had linked to him went off. He then put down his unfinished cup of tea and got up abruptly from his seat.

"I have to go."

Erik said and walked to the center of the office, already preparing the transportation magic circle.

"Did something happen, Erik?"

Minerva McGonagall asked Erik, who had just reached the center of the magic circle. He turned to the Headmistress and smiled at her.

"My wife is going into labor, Minerva."

He said just before disappearing in motes of blue light. Minerva McGonagall smiled at that and turned back to enjoy her small break together with Fillius Flitwick.

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Ravenclaw's Nest, The Nexus

July 22nd, 1993, 03:25 PM (English Time)

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Erik appeared in the middle of motes of blue light inside the entry hall of his house. The motes had not even faded when he found himself being jumped on by Calypso.

"Where is Musashi?"

Erik asked his goddess wife while hugging her back.

"She just got transported to the hospital with the rest of the girls. I stayed behind to tell you."

Calypso replied to Erik. As soon as Musashi's contractions had started, she had been taken by her sister-wives to the Nexus hospital. They knew that Erik had put a warning on her to alert him, and so, Calypso had volunteered to stay behind waiting for Erik inside the house.

"Let's go to them."

Erik said back to Calypso, and activated another transportation magic circle, disappearing in motes of blue light again while hugging his wife.

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Nexus' Hospital, The Nexus

July 22nd, 1993, 03:26 PM (English Time)

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Erik appeared together with Calypso in the welcoming hall of the hospital in the middle of motes of blue light. The place that they had teleported to was a special one designed exclusevely for incoming transportation. If any one tried to transport themselves to the hospital, they would be forcibly transported to that specific place. Same thing if you wanted to be transported out of the hospital, you would need to go to the 'exit' point. He walked to the reception with Calypso and the receptionist didn't even need to be asked for Musashi's room.

"Mr. Ravenclaw, she is in the maternity ward, on the third floor."

The receptionist said to Erik and Calypso.

"Thank you!"

He replied to the woman and turned to the elevators of the place.

Arriving at the third floor, he met the rest of his wives and some of his lovers talking between them in the waiting room. When they saw him, the girls all smiled at him.

"She was already sent inside."

Selena said to Erik, who nodded with his head.

"Thank you, Selena."

Erik said and walked to talk with one of the nurses. Soon, he was being guided through the doors by the nurse to a changing room. Erik quickly took out his jacket and put on the vests designated to him by the nurse. With all ready, he got out of the changing room and was guided, again by the nurse, to the room where Musashi was in labor. Entering the room, he saw her there, laying in the hospital bed with her legs being held up and apart by some equipment. She was making a face of who was in pain, and had some strands of her deep purple hair caked to her face because of the sweat. For some, she would have been looking awful, but for him, she couldn't have been more beautiful than now. Erik then walked to the bed's head

"Hey honey."

Erik said sweetly to his laboring wife while taking one of her hands in his own.

"ARRRRRRGHHHH"

Musashi yelled and started to squeeze Erik's hand. After the yelling was done, she looked at Erik and gave him a tentative smile. Erik smiled back at her and gave her a kiss on the top of her head.

"I'm here with you, dear."

Erik said to Musashi, who nodded her head at him in understanding before she started to yell in pain again.

"ARGGGGGGGHHHH"

An hour later, in the waiting room, Erik's wives and lovers were waiting when they heard the cry of a baby being muffled by the walls of the hospital. The woman immediately went into celebration mode.

Half an hour later, Erik walked through the door of the waiting room with a pink bundle in his arms. The Women in the waiting room immediately surrounded him and started cooing at the baby in his arms.

"Hey girls. Say hello to Suyen, the new member of our family."

Erik said, introducing the little baby girl in his arms to their second mothers. The girls continued cooing at Suyen. The baby girl opened her eyes and looked at all the women around her and gave them a toothless smile. The women seemed to have melted at that.

"She has your eyes, Erik."

Said Calypso after observing the storm gray and blue eyes of the little baby girl.

"But she has Musashi's hair."

Said Ching, pointing at the tuft of deep purple hair on Suyen's head.

"Yes, she is perfect."

Erik said sweetly while looking at his daughter.

"Look at you, grinning like a loon."

Serafall said. Erik looked at her and took in her very pregnant shape.

"I don't care."

Erik said to her while still smiling.

"And I suppose that I will be grinning like a loon again in less than a month."

Erik said to Serafall, teasing the Satan that was in her last weeks of pregnancy. Serafall did not even blush, she just smiled widely back at Erik. Both of them then looked back at Suyen, and saw that the little baby girl let out a yawn and winked her eyes slowly.

"Better take her back to mommy."

Erik said and walked back to the room where Musashi was resting. He entered the room and saw that Musashi was sleeping soundly in the bed. Erik then waited for Suyen to fall asleep and put her in the high crib by the bed's side. He then took a seat in the armchair inside the room. His mind was already running a thousand kilometers per hour thinking of safety over safety measures to put around his baby girl. If what he felt was right, she had inherited his magic together with, possibly, a sacred gear.

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Nexus' Hospital, The Nexus

August 28th, 1993, 07:33 PM (English Time)

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Erik, again, appeared in the welcoming hall of the Nexus' Hospital in the middle of motes of blue light. Again the one accompanying him was Calypso and the one going into labor was Serafall. They both walked to the receptionist who just said to him the same thing as the last time without any prompt.

"Third floor, Lord Ravenclaw."

Erik nodded at the woman and turned to the elevators. As they were waiting for the elevator, they were joined by Serafall's mother, Elleonor Sitri, and little sister, Sona Sitri. Both were accompanied by two of serafall's paws, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Anne Bonny was an Irish woman with fiery red-orange hair and wild dark blue eyes. Mary Read was an English woman with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Both women were recruited for Serafall's peerage by Erik's indication, and the Satan had not regretted the choice. Both were extremely loyal to Serafall and to each other. Their already deep friendship developed during their human lives had evolved into something even more deep during the years as Devils, and they were now lovers. And they were very kinky if Erik had any say. They would often drag Serafall and him to the bed with them.

"Big brother!"

Sona said and ran to hug Erik, who quickly hugged the little devil and pulled her to his arms, receiving a kiss on the cheek from her.

"Sona, how are you?"

Erik asked Sona and after that mouthed a silent 'hi' to his mother-in-law, Elleonore.

"I'm good, brother."

Sona replied to Erik, and all of them entered the elevator that had arrived. Some small was traded between the adults while inside the elevator, with Mary and Anne teasing Erik for his second child. Arriving on the desired floor, everyone got out and Erik went directly to talk with a nurse. After having his talk with the nurse Erik brought Sona to where some of his wives were waiting together with Sona's mother and handed the little girl to Mary. He then followed the nurse to a changing room and put on the designed clothes. With the clothes on, Erik was guided to the room where Serafall was in labor. He could feel it in his bones before entering the room. Serafall's situation was affecting her magical power which was being released from her in waves. Erik quickly entered the room to find the medical team standing with difficulty in front of the raw magic power coming from his wife. He, again, quickly retrieved a bracelet from his pocket and attached it to Serafall's wrist. The waves of raw magical power halved instantly, relieving the medical team and allowing them to go back to work. Erik took another identical bracelet and attached it to Serafall's other wrist, and the waves of raw magic power were almost nullified. Lucky for them that these medical rooms were already prepared to not allow energy leaks from inside, or Serafall's immense magical power could have affected other patients.

Erik then finally looked at Serafall's face and smiled at her while taking one of her hands in his own hand. And it was just in time, because it began to be squeezed into mulch while Serafall started to yell in pain.

Two hours later, Erik entered the waiting room with a blue bundle in his arms. Again, he was surrounded by the women who started cooing at the little baby boy in his arms.

"Hey girls, say hello to Roney, the new member of our family."

Erik said, introducing the little baby boy to the women. Elleanor was the most emotional of them.

"My grandson, Roney!"

Elleonor said with tears of happiness moistening her eyes. She then observed that Roney had got Erik's hair and Serafall's eyes.

"Oh, he is going to be a looker, just like his daddy!"

Anne said while looking at the baby's deep purple eyes and dark blonde tuft of hair. The women cooed a little at the baby boy and his mother got to hold him too. But soon, Roney let out a yawn and started to wink his eyes slowly. Erik took him from Elleanor and quickly brought him to the room where Serafall was staying. Entering the room, he saw that his wife was sleeping soundly, just like Roney in his arms. Erik then put the baby in the high crib by serafall's bedside and took a seat in the armchair present in the room.

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a/n: Suyen is a Japanese name that means 'precious jewel'. Choosen by Musashi.

a/n2: Roney is a nordic name that means 'the descendant of the champion', or 'powerful', or 'my happiness', or 'who governs with advice'. Choosen by Erik.