Chapter 66: Scuba Suits

When I woke up, I was alone in bed, which was strange, but I felt a warmth from Nina inside me; she must be reading. I got up and out of bed, stretching; as I did, I walked over to my stand that had my clothes in and grabbed my sunglasses. Time to go and try to get myself and then people ready for war; I think it might come sooner than I will want, so we need a plan.

I turned to leave my room and seen Buddy and Breth waiting outside of my room.

"Hey, you two, just the Goblin and Bear I was coming to find!"

"It's good to see you're better Great Master."

"Dammit, Buddy, you only dropped my name! Now it sounds worse!"

"Just call him, Boss!"

Cable pushed past the two that hovered at the doorway and came in with his hand out. This guy; I got a huge smile and slapped hands, griping hands and then sliding to the finger grip, then fist bump. Both of us laughed; god, it was nice to have someone with some back home personality. Maybe having Cable around would help loosen the others up some, god only knew how bad all my Generals needed it.

"So, let's get out of this stuffy room and go up top. Can someone get Mesh up top with us?"

I walked out of the room as Buddy ran off to find Mesh. I looked over at Breth, who had been silent this entire time; he looked to be stuck in a thought that was bugging him. I leaned over and nudged him, jolting him out of his brood.

"What's buzzing around in that honey pot of yours, Mr. Bear?"

We turned to walk up the stairs, and Cable muffled his laugh at my Winnie the Pooh reference, which was not good, but Breth didn't notice but stayed silent until we got to the top of the patio. I was starting to breathe hard and was glad to take a seat a the table where someone had set up some fruit on platters in the center. I grabbed some mandarin orange size grapes and bit into the juicy flesh as the others sat down.

I wiped the juice that had trickled down my mouth off on my sleeve and then flicked my sleeve in a vain attempt to rid my self of the mess I had just made. I was surprised when the grape juice flew off my coat arm and onto the floorboard, leaving no stain or mark. I looked up, and Mesh had just arrived, but everyone was staring at me like I had done magic for the first time, except for Cable.

He was already standing up and zipping his Hoodie up and over his face. I watched and could feel all the attention shift from me to Cable as he grabbed the pitcher of water off the table. Next, he laid down on the deck beside my chair, still holding the pitcher, and looked up at me; I could tell he had a big stupid smile on his face as he poured the pitcher all over his body in the face-up prone position.

What happened was odd, to say the least; the water slid off him like it didn't touch him at all. Any remaining water that was trapped in folds or creases sat a quarter-inch above the fabric but didn't touch it. Cable stayed still, so I reached down with my right hand and tried to push the water into his chest.

The water pushed and splashed off him, but I could feel some trapped under my hand. I mumbled sorry, and I pushed down, trying to squish the water into the fabric and let go. Cable grabbed his zipper and ripped it down to gasp for air, but as he did, I watch the water I had pressed down. 

It had sealed on to the fabric, but the part I had cupped my hand around was still a bubble of water. Slowly, as I watched it, the water began to push up and off the fabric and then soon floated in a puddle again. I sat back and let Cable get up; he dusted himself off, sat back down, rubbing his chest.

"Sorry about that, I just wanted to test what kind of resistance it had to water."

"What for? You damn near squeezed the beans right out of me!"

"Don't be such a sissy Cable. Now I know that we can use my ability with a couple of others to make scuba suits for the future, dipshit."

"Oh? Well, I guess that makes sense, but squeeze the gut outta someone else next time."

"Don't be so quick to volunteer yourself next time, hehe," Buddy said with a chuckle.

"Listen, as enlightening as this talk is, we have bigger problems to deal with right now."

Everyone got quiet, and I looked around the table at the four gathered here, and I found it remarkable that not one of my wives had set foot up here. Regardless, we needed a plan, or I wanted to hear what they have worked out so far. I looked over to Breth, who seemed to have something to say before, and I motioned for him to speak.

"We have been training with weapons on the field now, but I am worried."

"About the numbers, right?"

"That is one of the problems, but the biggest is that our entire arm of maybe one-hundred and thirty has no magic users, besides your wives and Harmonie. Do you really want to put your wives on the battlefield?"

I burst out laughing, thinking about how some of the girls would react like Kadence, Krya, and Mishka. While the first two had obvious power, Mishka had a secret ability that shouldn't be possible, and it was part of the thing that worried her about evolution. Luckily, now, having Marly here has broken the main block between Mishka and Mesh.

"I don't think I will have a choice there, Breth, but I see your point. So, let's talk about what we can do to change that.