The Myriad: Chapter 3

Chapter 3: School and a Big Breasted Bear

"Well I guess its feeding time anyway, come bring em all over. Let's see what kinda of vigor they have at eating."

The husband shuffled over, who was almost a head height less than her. He gave the two of their sons over and she whipped out her breasts like potato sacks out of a farm cart.

The two sons were already used to the thick milk of their mother. They even as babies had the face of a child eating vegetables but drank away anyway. After about 3 minutes they stopped, with full little bellies they looked content. "Alright let them nap, bring the other 3."

The husband nodded gently, bringing his two boys over to a small house set amongst a grassy knoll. Although this land was known as the sea of trees, of course other vegetation existed here. Those two swiftly fell asleep, he smiled as he walked back out and looked at the 3 small lads on petals still in front of the path to the house.

Welp.

He picked up Yuki first since he was the smallest and brought him over to the big chested woman with her left breast still out. Lifting it up, Yuki opened his eyes and looked at this insurmountable mountain in front of him with the new eyes of a being.

He looked at the giant eye in front of him and poked at it. "What the hel…" Helga stammered under her breathe. He went forward to go to it, but stretched his little head and ate at the grass necklace she had on and chewed it slowly into a paste, before swallowing it. He pulled with what strength he could before it broke apart, holding with his hands what he could before slipping a couple grass blades into his mouth and sucking on them. "You little wierdo, do you plan on eating plants? How will you ever grow?"

However, he showed no sign of opening his eyes and played with the grass in his hands that was still freshly braided.

"Well uh… okay. Bring the next one" The husband could understand why even a baby would rather eat grass then drink from her…mountains. He laughed on the inside but carried on to get Spectre, who before he even approached opened his eyes causing the man to slow down. He felt this baby was strange. He picked him up and repeated the process to bring Spectre over and propped him up, Spectre unlike Yuki however looked around more.

He sized the woman up and down, and looked around with his little head. Almost understanding what was in front of him. He saw no other form of food but this massive utter in front of him and so grasped down on it.

Apollo opened his eyes too, and looked over at the other baby getting food. A little crease mark appearing on his soft baby skin. He lifted his arms and the husband looked over with exasperation. He lifted Apollo up, and brought him over.

Unlike Spectre who soaked in what was around him, Apollo was straight minded for the eye in front of him. Grabbing a good 1/4th portion of her breast and sticking her nipple into his mouth before squeezing with his arms to speed up the process. "You little fatty glutton! I like this one's spirit, see Husband he knows just how delicious it is." Apollo however was starving and could probably care less, his instincts are what he followed. So if he was hungry, he would eat.

After a total of 5 minutes Spectre stopped. After 20 minutes Apollo stopped, which was nye inconceivable.

"My gods that took the spirit out of me. I think this big one even tried gnawing on it! Thank god they don't have teeth yet…."

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Five years slowly passed.

Apollo was the most tenacious of the trio, climbing everything he could by the age of 4. Almost every tree in a half mile radius was covered by him. Yuki not once during these years ate anything but plants. somehow he still grew normally like his brothers. Spectre was the most mild mannered of them.

As well as the most intelligent, this was shown with how we would build forts for his brothers out of scrap wood. He created an intricate little hut in a tree they deemed "King fortress indestructible!" a naïve name, but one they all loved none the less. It was 30 feet above the ground at Apollos favorite climbing tree which he could scale in almost a mere 5 breaths. It had dense foliage of fruit that Yuki would just reach out the window for to eat. This as well was his favorite fruit, so it could be called the perfect hideout for them.

Helga called out to them. Spectre peaked out a Window as Yuki and Apollo joined him making a stack of heads that was beyond comical to those gazing at it. Yuki jumped out like a spider monkey onto a branch that bent until he was just a couple feet from the ground before letting go sending it flying up and a fruit on the edge of a branch with it.

Spectre used a rope he wove to shimmy down, whereas Apollo simply climbed back down the large shaft of the tree trunk until landing and making a dust cloud. Spectre and Apollo waited as Yuki stood there. He lifted up his hand, and in a couple seconds the fruit that had flown up came spiraling down landing perfectly into his hand.

''You seem to be showing off today hahaha" Apollo laughed, Spectre joined him merrily as if watching a circus performance the distant lands held.

Yuki wiped his nose with his thumb, "it's not like you could jump onto a hog and make a steak fly up!" Laughing they ran in competition with each other to the hut they lived at for 5 years now. Helga was waving a dining table blanket that only she would call 'an apron'.

"Today is a big day, well tomorrow is! It's your birthdays."

The trio looked at each other puzzled, Spectre spoke for the three. "But don't we always have birthdays each year; do you plan on making that berry broot crumble???" Apollo looked over to him with his mouth watering.

"You skamps, fine I'll make that too"

"uh…too? What's the other thing were getting?" asked Yuki hesitantly.

"Oh…Well your now getting berry broot crumble, as well as…" She purposefully slowed her speech to create tension. "A job!" "A job!...a Job!....A job!...." Rang into the distance with her deep bellow.

"But whyyyyyy, were so young!" Yeah were young!" Spectre noted his brothers feelings but asked anyway "But what exactly is the job we shall be receiving?" as if considering the idea. Yuki and Apollo were curious too even at the dismay of labor.

"Don't worry, you each in your own way will enjoy what you'll be doing? Spectre will go work at the forge, Yuki will work at the botany house and Apollo will go work under the martial to strengthen him."

Although the trio realized they were being split up, each choice seemed tailored to them. Plus they didn't see outside of the cities as much as they saw of the trees where they lived. This caused a stir in spirit as well as the strong deep curiosity each of them were born with inherently.

"I'll do it!"

"I'll do it too!"

"I'll do that thing too!"

Each called out one after another as Spectre broke the ice. He knew his brothers wanted to explore.

Yuki would gain more skill with plants, Apollo would enjoy fighting and training because that's what he practically ate and breathed. For a young boy he was diligent in movement, for anyone his age he could lift two times the size of the logs kids carried. Yuki was adept at finding plants as well as knowing their effects and use. If he was given a broader range of plants he may very well run the store by 12 years of age. He knew they each had good skills….Except….Smithing??? What kinda of concept was this? Although he found the choice strange for Helga to make he too felt a curiosity for craft.

Each of them intrinsically had powerful physiques, they hadn't the knowledge to correlate why but they were always faster than others and were far more intelligent at a younger age then any child they had met. Spectre had felt like an 8 year old mentally by the time he was 4, and Apollo again already had the strength of a 12 year old just a year ago.

"When do we begin?" Spectre asked after some thoughts.

"Heh…you start early in the morning, and sadly this poor old woman can't ferry you anymore. So you'll have to walk the 20 miles each day to get there by noon yourselves. Heh heh"

"WHAAAAATTT" they each called in unison. "20 MILES! For gods sake woman!"

"Did….did you just call me…Woman?"

Apollo instantly paled. He knew the ferocity of her just by the spirit of foul breath she spewed at them for cleaning the house the wrong way. "I uh…I'm sorry…."

"Damn well better be, enjoy your last day of being kids! No berry broot crumble for you three!"

They each sighed and kicked the dirt, they obviously knew she wanted to find every reason to not make that for them. Yuki hit Apollo in the arm. Spectre hit Apollo in the arm. Then Apollo hit both of them in the arm.

Within seconds they started to tussle and fight like they always did. Except now what was at stake was the pride they had in almost achieving something she would merely throw scraps of out once a year.

A rare delicacy! She obviously always had gold for some reason, sadly though she hoarded it too like a fat dragon atop a mountain castle. Yuki reached up and grabbed his wrist, swiveling his body around Apollos waist sending him to the ground. Pinning his arm, Spectre threw himself at his legs pinning them. "Say you're sorry! We want that crumble! " "Yeah! Say it!!"

Helge looked at this and said "Whoever are the champions get it all''

The three looked at each other and sighed, this show was faked and they knew it. If one was to get it, it be nice but she would make them eat it right then and there. So they couldn't take it away and share with the other two. Nor could all three of them currently eat it, they wouldn't deprive there brothers of it that would be against their code!

"Thanks anyway Helga…" "Yeah…" *sigh*

They let go, lying on the grass looking up at the sky.

Helga knew this too, that's why she said it. So that even if one of them could receive it, because they wouldn't deny their brothers, she still didn't have to make it. When she finalized their sadness, she then proceeded to walk back into the house. 'Heh heh….' She thought to herself.

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Spectre, Yuki, and Apollo proceeded back to the fort. The decided to make preparations for tomorrow, as well as speak about what to do once they start working.

"Can you believe this old hag?" Yuki said aloud as he looked dopily out the window in case she heard.

Spectre looked out the window too, except gazing into the sky. Something deep on his mind.

"You guy's ever wonder where we came from?....Its obvious we aren't related even my blood to Helga. I've suspected it for only about 6 months now since we've been growing. But… I just feel it. If we make enough money, should we go try to find our family? They could possibly be from another sect, we might even be from the outer sect legion!'' Spectre thought aloud. Yuki wasn't stunned because he too suspected it with the fact they looked nothing like Helga, her children, or even her husband.

Apollo was slow to react however, he was slow on certain factors of life. He wasn't the best at math or writing like Spectre the intelligent one, or as well rounded and read with the few books on the world the village had like Yuki was. He hadn't actually thought about it till now.

"Really?? You think she's sending us to those jobs because it's related to our family somehow?''

This too was something Spectre thought of, that's why he had asked what jobs they were going to instead of reacting like Yuki and Apollo did to the job proposal.

"I don't think it's that simple…regardless, we should definitely work hard. I feel we were destined for what she's sending us off to somehow... It's a... Inkling I guess. You know how I get that sometimes." The other two brother's definitely knew about how he got those feelings, as if the world was speaking whispers of truth to him. He usually had it when he dreamed though. To have it while awake like a Deja vu was quite strange.

Yuki perked up, "Well what now? You know us two best… when should we leave?" Yuki's slightly high pitched voice asked.

Spectre turned from the window leaving that ethereal feeling behind.

He sighed deeply.

"Before noon…with how fast we can move on foot we should proceed at a regular pace or we will be too tired for the rest of the day with the distance."

Apollo knew he was the strongest of the three, but even he would get tired if he ran. Jogging was better in his opinion anyway as a good way to train conditioning.

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The following morning, they got up just before 8, Yuki packed some fruit in a hide bag Helga gave him. Apollo grabbed a good sized stick that was his favorite. Whereas Spectre grabbed a water sack full of water, each of them carrying a tool to be used for the trip lessening the burden for one another.

"Ready?" Spectre asked the two.

"Hells no!" The two replied in unison. Making the three laugh.

They set off, and began their journey to the outer sect 20 miles away from the village, through the trees.