Shattering Humanity-Chapter 351: Homecoming

"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

This is why it is said: "Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." -Ephesians 5:8-14

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Nephilim: "Well, if I’m going to make it outside to Erebus I’ll have to be at the foot traffic through the shuttle system."

He gets up, quickly moving his way to the washing Silpheed.

He pats his most trusted colleague on the head, not seeing that the kind gesture is making Silph blush.

Nephilim: "You did good last night, Silpheed.

I entrust you not to disappoint me again."

With a silent nod, Silpheed continues and Nephilim makes his way towards the front door of his lovely home.

Nephilim: "When I get back Eden, maybe I can take you shopping.

I know how much the office supply store tickles your fancy, haha!"

Eden blushes.

Nephilim: "I’ll be back, you two be good for Silpheed!"

...

Once outside, Nephilim notices the night sky and takes a peek at his watch. His eyes grow wide seeing the time "7:17PM".

Nephilim: "Oh my!

I’m sorry to do this, but I must abandon you all. I have to get back home. Silpheed and the rest of the gang are going to be waiting for me to get back home for them to start eating dinner."

Tristan takes a look at his watch and also remembers his and Stephanie’s family back home.

Tristan: "Oh shoot he’s right Steph!

We’ve left the girls with Jay and a hungover Peyton all day!"

Steph: "And I have to start making everyone else dinner!"

The DæMon walks over to the vehicle that the escaped party arrived had in.

MamMon DæMon: "It is fine, General.

Our newest members are the only ones necessary and I will take them and ’the others’ to the apartments I had created."

...

Thudding footsteps can be heard and Maniae’s overexcited attitude makes Eden fall back on her butt.

Maniae: "Big Sis!

Is everything okay!?"

As before, the reliable assistant nods quickly then speeds up their scrubbing.

Maniae notices Eden rubbing her backside and he puts out a hand to help her up, which she shakingly does.

The noise of a creaking bed can be heard coming from upstairs and Maniae runs up to his and Arai’s room where the blonde captive is breathing heavily but pretending to not have been struggling to break his restraints.

Arai: "Is...diner...done?"

[Mount Decima Military Residential District]

Walking down the sidewalk, inside of the hollowed out mountain, General Nephilim, Tristan, Stephanie, Bethany, an always smoking Icythis and Isfet walk in two groups of three.

In the front of the pack, Nephilim, Tristan, and Stephanie talk to the General, following close behind them the always flirtatious, heart eyed is Bethany in between her two new roommates.

Isfet: "I guess that small quake we felt in Erebus City impacted the mountains a lot more than it was felt down there."

Icythis removes her cig from her lips and blows out smoke. Always horny Bethany drools while staring at the grown woman’s soft, wet lips.

Icythis: "It must have been an underwater quake closer to the south county.

There is one thing certain, those damn public railways were a mess.

That wait time looked crazy."

She takes a quick drag, completing the smoke stick before finishing her remark.

Icythis: "Even to get to the military residence was a hassle."

She crushes the filter in her hand and tosses it in a garbage can they walk passed.

Isfet: "Apparently someone pushed the emergency stop on one of the shuttles a few hours ago, so they had to restart the system."

Uninterested in their actual discussion, Bethany has her gitty hips twisting left to right while moving her heterospecies stare back and forth between her new friends.

She leans up and rubs her face on Isfet’s cheek while Icythis pulls out a new fag from her one of her many new packs.

Bethany: "Ohhh, Izzy!

I’m so happy you decided to come back with meeee!"

The bashful but still remaining cool Isfet allows the unnecessary close physical contact but embarrassingly side eyes the real reason she stayed...Icythis.

Isfet: "N-No problem, Bethany."

The insatiable woman switches to clinging on Ichythis’ strong and sturdy body. The smoker turns her head to puff out smoke, while easily keeping stride with the nuisance hanging on her.

Bethany: "So, after we get back home, we should probably settle in while Steph makes dinner.

So I was thinking, to save waterrrr, mayyyyybe all three of us should shower together."

Isfet glows a slightly brighter pink, but at this point Icythis is unfazed.

Icythis: "Sure."

All three of Bethany and Isfet’s eyes widen in surprise to the nonchalant response to the perverse suggestion.

Bethany: "Wait...really."

The unintimidated woman doubles down and EyeEngages with the blushing, caught off guard, young lady.

Icythis: "Yea, my back is hard to reach because my shoulders are so broad.

You can get your kicks while helping me out, I guess."

Bethany starts to babble nonsense while imagining the lewd and majestic vision of the strong womanly figure,sitting in a steamy bathroom only being covered by a towel.

Icythis chuckles and take another drag from her cig.

Icythis: "There, that’ll shut her up until we get home."

Isfet: "Are you really going to let her do that?"

Icythis(chuckles): "We’ll see.."

In front Tristan is in the middle of Stephanie to his left and his General to his right.

Tristan: "Well General, what do you expect from our new allies?"

Stephanie: "That Buzz girl is really cute and funny. Her ability sounds quite useful too.

Along with Ms. Nomad and Mr. Wilson, they seem like good people who escaped a really bad situation."

The General of all Erinyes territory nods as his home is in the visible distance down the street. The highly respected man’s red eye looks up at the projected moon on the inner dome of the mountain.

Nephilim: "They indeed seem to have the different qualities of personalities you want in a group.

All that comes down to it is whether or not they can stay that way."

Both units from the happy couple give confused head tilts to the second remark from the co-leader.

Tristan: "Wh-What do you mean sir?"

Stephanie: "They didn’t give me any type of negative vibes...but I wasn’t sitting with them for that long..."

Nephilim chuckles and shakes his head in jest.

Nephilim: "No...no... there was nothing they said or did during our inaugural meeting that rose suspicion to me, but it’s what Queen MamMon said before we patted ways."

Again, in adorable simultaneous fashion, Tristan and Stephanie tilt their heads. Confused by the ambiguity of the inconspicuous wording.

Nephilim: "Knowing her, she has already concocted and divised a plan to save their caught friends who failed to escape with them."

Tristan: "Well that’s great, isn’t it?"

The occasionally hard nosed General stares forward with conviction in his eyes.

Nephilim: "It is, but who are the people she save?"

Before the conversation can go any further, the two groups stop at the walkway to the General’s beautiful two story home.

He smiles and the occasional hard nosedness disappears once he rubs the back of his head while trying to release the tension to his thought process.

Nephilim: "But that’s just my General brain talking.

I’m sure they are all lovely people."

He holds out his hand for Tristan which the two connect with a nod.

He looks at the ladies with a slight bow.

Nephilim: "Well, it has been fun, but we all have homes to get to now."

Icythis and Isfet smile.

Nephilim: "I shall see you all tomorrow. Bright and early."

He strolls down his walkway to his front door while the five housemates continue down the sidewalk.

Nephilim opens up his home to the smells of tomato sauce and garlic bread.

The house has been cleaned up, and it is quiet inside.

Nephilim: "Sorry I’m late everyone!

Let’s eat!"

Silpheed’s head pokes from the kitchen door frame and they run to the front door.

Nephilim: "Ah, Silpheed, it smells phenomen-"

Silpheed falls to hands and knees, pressing their forehead against the floor, hard.

Silpheed: "Mm- zrry-, Nef-ah-um Zr!"

Confused, Nephilim looks up to see Maniae standing on the stairs with a regretful look on his face.

Almost as if knowing what happened while he was gone, Nephilim relaxed expression turn to a disappointed frown.

Nephilim: "Where is he?"

[Tristan and Stephanie’s Home]

The front door to the large apartment opens and Stephanie is the first to rush in with the rest of the returning gang following close behind.

Tristan: "We’re home!"

Stephanie: "I’ll get started on dinner right ..."

The scents of cooked foods, spices and sounds of sizzling can be heard coming from their kitchen.

Pitter pattering of two sets of bare feet can be heard getting closer.

Jamie & Pauline: "TRITTY!"

The two jump on their beloved "brother", taking him to the ground.

Icythis and Isfet make their way down the hall Peyton and Jay had fought in. They both stop and stare, puzzled by the small hole left in the wallfrom the two men’s short misunderstanding.

Icythis: "Waaas that there this morning?"

Meanwhile, Stephanie makes her way to the kitchen and turns into the doorway to see Peyton and Petra, both with aprons on, cooking together with Timothea waiting impatiently in the corner.

Stephanie: "What is all this?"

The responsible quadruplet turns and her face glows with a smile.

Petra: "Stephhyyyy!"

Peyton finishes putting a few chopped carrots in a large pot and turns to face his hostess.

Peyton: "Well, truth is, Jay and I had an awkward first encounter.

While he went to the shopping district to find supplies to fix our damage, I figured I’d start an appetizer so you didn’t have to rush dinner."

Stephanie smiles while embracing her two present little sisters.

Stephanie: "Thank you, Mr. Peyton.

You’re too kind."