Chapter 197 - 196 – Progress

Wolf and Claw were sent off on an exotic honeymoon – that was their wedding gift from Ren and Fang – a super luxurious trip around the world for three months.

In absence of Wolf and Claw, Pax's workload increased a bit – because usually, when Wolf was busy, Claw was his second in command for all the work related to the Blue Wolves. Now that both of them had gone off, Pax had to help out a bit – although, thankfully, the Blue Wolves were quite well organised in general and took care of their own affairs.

Ren go very busy, working closely with Rudy and helping the AI child prepare his corporeal body. Fang, too, became busy with building up Zephyr – now that they had more children to bring up and protect, he understood that both he and Ren needed to become really powerful people at a global scale, so that no one would dare to lay a finger or any of their children, even if their identity was accidentally revealed some day.

Ironically, Prince Uno, who was setting up a new branch studio in Cosmopolis, was the least busy out of all of them, and he was happily living in Ren and Fang's home on the pretext that he was unfamiliar with Cosmopolis and he was too lonely to live alone – and he had also somehow managed to convince Pax to stay with them most of the time as well.

And the most surprising thing was that it was Prince Uno who was spending the most time with the babies these days. He even took them to his new studio to play around pretty often, and he loved to dress them up in cute little outfits every day. It was thanks to the babies that Prince Uno's line of designer wear for human babies as well as felines and canines suddenly took the markets by storm. Prince Uno was so happy that he gave each of the babies a share of the profits.

Perhaps motivated by the presence of Ray and with Rudy working so hard to make a body for himself, Snow, Smoke and Shadow, too, managed to shape shift into a human form – about the same age as Ray. Rudy, too, successfully created a human body that he liked, and which was so natural that no one would be able to tell that it was artificially created unless they cut it open.

It was a good thing that Pax had long been prepared with backstories – and thus, Snow and Rudy were introduced as biological children of Fang, and Smoke and Shadow were introduced as biological children of Ren. Unlike Sylvia, Rudy and Ray, though, the three furballs were public personalities even in their canine and feline forms, so they had to choose a name for their human forms as well. They ended up simply translating their names into another language – and the family continued to refer to them as Snow, Smoke and Shadow.

Pax set up trust funds for each of the babies, and since Sylvia and Snow had both shown an interest in business, he started teaching them the basics as well, much to Prince Uno's amusement. Ren and Fang were very happy with this, though, and Ren even made special dumplings for the babies to celebrate.

So, when Wolf and Claw came back from their honeymoon, they were met with six adorable human shaped children – three looking like Fang, and three looking like Ren.

"Oh, heavens! How did you get so cute?!" Claw cried, picking up Smoke and Shadow. "I used to think that nothing could be cuter than your puppy form, but even your human form is so cute! You look just like Ren!"

Smoke and Shadow preened happily.

"And Snow – you are so pretty already! You will have people mooning over you everywhere you go! And Rudy! What a dashing little fellow!" Claw cried excitedly, handing Smoke and Shadow to Wolf and picking up Snow and Rudy next.

"Uncle Wolf, Auntie Claw, have you worked on giving us a cousin?" Rudy asked cheekily, rubbing Claw's cheek with his own.

Claw blushed prettily. Surprisingly, Wolf blushed as well.

Pax's eyes widened in shock. "No way! Wolf, Claw – really? So fast?!" he cried.

Claw put down Snow and Rudy, and Wolf slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close.

"Well, it kind of happened – we weren't really planning for it," Wolf murmured, caressing Claw's face. "But we are really very happy to say that we would be having twins in a few months."

"Twins!" Prince Uno cried. "That's nice! Congratulations!"

"It's a hereditary thing," Pax mumbled. "Brother, Sister in Law, congratulations," he said. He stood up and walked to Wolf and Claw and gave them a hug.

"Thank you, Brother," Wolf said emotionally.

"Why don't you stay over for dinner?" Prince Uno suggested. "Ren and Fang should be back soon, and they will be happy to see you."

Wolf and Claw were all too happy to do that – and the moment Steward Paul and Chef Jules heard that Claw was pregnant, all sorts of nourishing food and beverages starting appearing next to her every fifteen minutes or so.

"You may as well move in with us," Prince Uno said generously, offering Ren and Fang's home to Wolf and Claw. "It would be easier to take care of your Claw, and Steward Paul and Chef Jules won't have to pack and send you stuff every single day. It's not like this place is short of rooms anyway."

Pax rolled his eyes and swatted Prince Uno on the arm. "At least ask the masters of this household before making these offers," he scolded.

Prince Uno blinked innocently at Pax. "But Wolf and Claw are family, right? Ren and Fang have always thought of both Wolf and you as their big brothers," he said. "Naturally I wouldn't invite strangers into the house."

The babies were also very excited and gathered around Wolf and Claw, asking about their twin cousins and when they would be born and many, many details that gave the adults a headache. Finally, Claw successfully distracted them by offering the treats she and Wolf had bought for all the babies during their travels. Pax and Prince Uno also got small gifts, and there were also things for Ren, Fang and the members of the Blue Wolves.

Prince Uno glanced at Pax and took his hand. "Do you want to tell your brother, or should I?" he asked softly.

Wolf narrowed his eyes at them. "Tell me what?" he demanded.

Pax flushed and cleared his throat awkwardly.

"Uncle Pax and Uncle Uno are dating," Rudy announced. "Last week, Uncle Uno took Uncle Pax on a romantic date and asked him out, and Uncle Pax agreed. Daddy even made a celebration dinner himself and Papa made a cake."

"It wasn't as big as the dinner and the cake Daddy and Papa made to celebrate us being able to successfully shape shift, though," Snow added quickly with a superior smirk on her face.

"Daddy promised to cook again tomorrow," Ray said, drooling. He had officially taken over the position of the biggest glutton in the family these days. Ren and Fang had been quite worried, initially, but after several conversations with the Dragon Queen and Princess Una and Prince Uno, they were finally convinced that it was quite normal for dragons to eat a lot of food (and a lot of magic) and it wouldn't make Ray sick if he continued to eat that much.

The other babies were actually quite envious of Ray when it came to this matter – especially when Ren cooked personally. They all wanted to eat more and more and more of Daddy's delicious cooking – but after some time, they were too full and couldn't eat any more without feeling sick, but Ray could go on eating and eating and eating to his heart's content! And he never got a tummy ache from eating so much, and he didn't fat, either. They were all a little chubby in their human baby forms – but not fat. They were just the perfect proportion of chubbiness, making them the cutest babies in the world. They were so adorable that there were many, many people hounding Ren and Fang to let the babies shoot some advertisement videos for their products – which were politely but very firmly turned down by Pax on behalf of Ren and Fang. They didn't want to risk the babies being exposed to the media and being in the hands of strangers at all.

Zephyr had also grown by leaps and bounds in the last few months, thanks to Fang's hard work (of course, if one were to ask Ren, he would smugly say that Fang was the Male Lead of this world and the entire world depended on him, so it was natural that he would succeed at whatever he did, especially when he was working so hard for it).. These days, CEO Prince Fang was considered to be at par with Chairman Ren.