Shattering Humanity-Chapter 399: The Power Of Love
"Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, God’s wrath is coming upon the disobedient,and you once walked in these things when you were living in them. But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.
In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all." -Colossians 3:5-11
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[Tristan & Stephanie’s Home]
{6 A.M.}
Icythis wakes up, her red eye and heterochromic IceEye slowly blink. They shift left to right and as she gets up, the large, physically gifted woman wearing tight pajamas, realizes someone is cuddling her abdomen tightly.
Ichythis: "What the-?"
She looks down and there is Bethany, half naked, sound asleep, but her body instinctively clingy to the strongest in the bed.
Ichythis let’s out a defeated sigh and leans over to the side table for her smokes and lighter. She lights one and exhales a long puff of smoke.
Still half asleep, the woman with no personal boundaries mumbles while tightly holding onto Icythis.
Bethany: "Mmm. You smell so gooood."
She nuzzles her face into Icythis’ ribs and the smoking house guest allows it. She pets Bethany on the head while she continues waking up with the help of nicotine.
There is the sound of the door opening and the cigarette smoking woman looks over to see Isfet poking her head through.
Ichythis: "So, you’re already awake?"
Isfet takes a step into the room and notices what Bethany is (barely) wearing. One of the permisciuous woman’s bra straps hanging off her shoulder. The sight makes the shy but tough looking young woman blush.
Isfet: "Uh, Y--Yea... For the last two hours I’ve been..."
Suddenly, Bethany wakes up, leaning up against Icythis in the bed. The sleepy moaning woman leaves the strap hanging off her slim shoulder as she rubs her blue human eye. Then the green and black haired woman notices nervous Isfet standing next to the doorway.
Holding an arm out, opening and closing her hand, Bethany beckons the fully dressed, one eyed woman.
Bethany: "Mmm, Izzyyyyy! Come join us! It’ll be super warm if we combine all of our body heat togetherrr!"
Isfet: "I-Well...Um-Behh-Bethany your um sh-shoulder..."
Isfet’s IceEye dashes back and forth, she’s sweating nervously at the proposition, but saving her, Icythis slides out of the bed. Boy shorts expose her long, tone muscled legs.
Taking another drag from her cig, Icythis moves over to the dresser. On top, her neatly folded clothes and the blood stained, orange floral bandana rest exactly where she left them the night before.
Bethany finally fixed her bra and she exits the bed by bouncing on her behind to the foot of the mattress.
Isfet, with her symbiote reliant vision, can’t help but watch Bethany’s bobbing chest as the seductive woman gets to her feet and stretches.
Icythis, already close to finishing her first cigarette of the day, notices Isfet’s continuous line of sight and chuckles softly.
Icythis: "Is everyone else awake?
I can’t believe it was you and not those rugrats who gave us a wake up call."
Giving Isfet an opportunity to look away from stretching Bethany bending over, hugging her own legs. As she removes lactic acid from her leg muscles, Bethany lets out soft, pleasured moans.
Isfet: "Mhm!
That man, Mr. Nephilim is here and he says there is an emergency meeting.
He wanted me to wake the two of you so he could start.
The little ones are eating their breakfast and watching their cartoons. "
Her symbiote eye slowly drifts over to Bethany as the overly sexually charged young woman finally starts to get dressed, wiggling into her pants.
Bethany: "An emergency, huh?
Can’t imagine it being that serious if an evacuation alarm hasn’t gone off."
As if on queue, there is the sound of a fire alarm that comes from the hallway of the apartment.
Everyone in the room is surprised by the impeccable timing. Bethany and Icythis quickly finish getting ready, then head directly for the dining room.
Once there, Tristan, Stephanie, and everyone else staying with the family are standing up from the sound of the set off alarm. Along with them, Nephilim stands calm and smiles at the three women joining the group.
Nephilim: "Ah! Glad you could join us, ladies!
I hope you’re well rested because today is going to be one Hell of a doozy."
Stephanie runs into the living room and can be heard rounding up the quadruplets.
Stephanie: "Okay girls! Finish your cereal and then get your shoes on. Grab a book. We don’t know how long this will be."
Tristan, his camera ready and hanging from his neck, looks at his worried commander. The Student Captain EyeEngages with the General of all Erinyes territory.
Tristan: "Are you sure it’s okay to leave citizens in the mountains, General Nephilim?
What’s going on anyway?
Is it giant Icemen, or..."
He nervously swallows his spit and prepares himself.
Tristan: "Or is it, Katsu and Shelly?"
The question draws all the attention towards the General. Jay and Peyton are standing together. The newest addition to the group leans over to Jay, whispering.
Peyton(whispers): "Who?"
Jay, knowing all too well the individuals Tristan is rightfully concerned about, also swallows his spit. Nervous of having to face his academy friends as enemies.
Jay: "You wouldn’t know them, but there was this ’couple’ who attended the training academy here with us.
The dude, Katsu, I had always seen him as a funny, uplifting, and charismatic guy.
In the short time I got to know him, he would make dark moments brighter, and supported everyone, especially his adopted sister."
Peyton, not fully understanding the danger of the Katsu/Shelly tag team, raises an eyebrow in skepticism.
Stephanie continues to get her younger sisters ready. Helping Timothea wiggle into a sweatshirt that matches her other three siblings.
Peyton: "He doesn’t sound too tough.
Then what’s the problem?"
Overhearing the conversation, Nephilim continues the debriefing of the possible dangers to his territory.
Nephilim: "You are not fully aware of the power that dangerous duo holds...’Peyton’ was it?"
The ex-lookout to Roronora City nods.
Peyton: "Yes sir.
I’m still not completely sure what is going on with this all this magic, but I’m willing to help those who have aided me in my own time of need."
Nephilim smiles and scans the man’s security uniform.
Nephilim: "That security uniform is not from here, are you also one of the individuals Queen MamMon saved from Roronora City?"
With the muffled alarm still chiming outside the door, Isfet and Ichythis share a newly lit cigarette as the other two who were also saved from the Iceman ambush. Peyton nods again and looks at his attire.
Peyton: "Yes sir.
My eye ability is ’Telescopic Vision’, so I was part of the lookout security unit for Don Laban DaeMon and her city.
The other day, when I was on duty, my older coworker had taken a nap while I went to get us some coffee to get ready for the night shift.
When I returned, as we scouted the dusk settling city, my coworker and I had noticed the surrounding swarm of giant aliens closing in. By the time we set off the sirens, it was too late.
All those people, dead... because of me..."
The guilty realization is taken over by surprise from a hand grabbing Peyton’s shoulder. Nephilim EyeEngages with the new member and the two men lock their vision.
Nephilim: "A drastic mistake was made on your surveillance, and you are going to have to live with it, but the blood of the innocent is not on your hands, young Peyton.
Those terrorists, Katsu and Shelly, are the two who orchestrated the demolition of Roronora City."
Off to the side, Tristan remembers seeing Katsu looking up at the helicopter with an ominous look of disregard.
Nephilim: "The boy, Katsu, he is a sociopath who used false positivity and hid his true intentions so well, he deceived an entire class of his peers.
From what we know, his eye ability allows him to control those aliens, and he is the one to blame for your city being attacked two nights ago."
His hand falls from Peyton’s shoulder, and the two eye users disengage.
Nephilim turns and looks at the rest of the young men and women in the dining room.
Nephilim: "Unfortunately for us, his control on those Icemen is the least of our concerns.
Everyone who is aware of the pair, knows the true threat, the incredibly more powerful ’weapon’ that boy is in control of, is stronger than any alien symbiote any human possesses.
The power of love."
