Corruption of Souls

Ch.91

“Let’s look at the start!” Hermais chuckled as a scroll-like screen appeared on the far wall as the rubber shackles on our wrists and ankles turned into more comfy fluffy pink shackles and pulled, causing us to yelp when We were pulled spread-eagle on the wall, which became oddly soft. On the scroll/screen was Berserker’s team with his cubs and Hunter’s at the front of the keep, our other kids looking like evil minions. Especially Spinel, Lapis and the other kirins.

“What’s going on?” Berserker asked in surprise as he looked around in confusion.

“Princess in the Castle! Your group has to save the princess from the evil king Hermais!” Called out Myst, one of our first pups with Svartr, who despite only being at best 2 years old seemed old enough to be 8, her black and gray foxy wolf body wearing a cute purple battle tunic and wielding a massive greatsword made of foam.

“Okay…?” Berserker scratched his head in bemusement. Don’t worry Bryan, the others before you were all just as confused when they were first dragged into this silly and inconvenient game.

“You have to fight us to open the door and get to the next room!” Myst said before the five kids started firing practice ‘toy’ spells or charging the group with toy weapons while Hermais made some shadow wolf constructs to beef up his side.

Valkyr and Marcus were the first to take the toy weapons and began fighting with their siblings while Rex looked on in worry since he hasn’t played before. Berserker was completely lost, he didn’t even know what to do. We guess pretend war isn’t his strong suit. “Don’t worry dad! If we hit them it won’t hurt! If they are defeated they poof back to Mama!” Valkyr told her father.

“Okay then. Seriously, Hermais, we’re going to have a fucking talk about springing this sort of thing on us, you Chaotic little shitlord.” He muttered and Hermais just cackled.

“Dad, we play like this all the time.” Revix chuckled. “Usually Auntie Cocoa, Sabrina, or Honey play the Princess when mama's away. Also, you swore!” At The boy’s accusation, a large glass jar labeled ‘Cuss Jar’ appeared in front of him and Berserker raised his brow, only for Revix to look at him disapprovingly.

“Son, don’t test me.” Berserker warned him with a stern look.

“If I can’t say what I want to say, then you can’t say what you want to say.” Revix reasonably shot back and jingled the heavy jar full of bits. “It’s just one bit dad, Auntie Cocoa uses it to buy us snacks anyway.” Huh? That isn’t...isn’t that reinforcing their bad behavior?

“That’s because you’re a child, not yet old enough to use swear words.” Berserker countered, rolling his eyes as he tipped the jar and it vanished.

“Yes! Now there should be enough to buy moon pies!” Hermais cackled evilly and the other ‘minions’ in the dungeon joined him in glee while Berserker accepted a toy gun and sword from the equipment box. Each weapon had a rating of one from what came up on the scroll, most of the kids had higher numbers, Marcus having a fifteen while Myst had a sixteen.

“Hermais, are you and Eris the only ones swearing?” We asked disapprovingly at our womb-invading son.

“Oh gosh no! We’re not even home enough for that to be a problem. It’s mostly Valkyr and Revix who have the most trouble watching their mouths. Aunt Cocoa washed their mouths out real good the first time, but that obviously wasn’t enough.” Hermais snickered and floated up to us with a lustful purr in his throat. “I do all my cursing in bed.” He rubbed our stomach and We blushed hotly at his insinuation.

“Hermais, I can walk through this castle and beat your ass at any given time. Be thankful that the children here are preventing me from doing so.” Berserker threatened, making us sigh as Hermais gave a nervous chuckle and Revix tried to con another bit out of his dad only for him to sternly shake his head this time. “No. Fuck off with that damn thing before I discipline you with a jandel.” Oh no, please don’t bring that sort of thing in. Even Hermais is sweating a little from the notion!

Of course, Marcus stopped as he heard this and went up to his father. “Dad, is this not working for you?” He asked him, making Berserker sigh.

“I’m sorry, Marcus. I just don’t know what to do and I have to look after your brother, Rex.” Berserker replied and gestured to the still nervous kirin-wolf who clung to his father’s pant leg.

“Hm, want me to lead?” Marcus asked after a moment of consideration.

“Lead?” Berserker tilted his head to one side with interest.

“Yeah! I mean, we’ve played this so many times, we know what to do! This is your first time and you don’t know how to play. That’s unfair!” Marcus pointed out, which made sense, seeing as Berserker isn’t around to spend time with his children. Ow. Our ears wilted at realizing We’ve been absent a lot too. As soon as possible, We need to spend more quality time with the family.

“That makes sense.” Berserker nodded his head in agreement, but We could tell he was a little sad inside. “Alright Marcus, lead the way.”

“Yeah!” Marcus cheered before he headbutt one of the wolves that were waiting to attack them. His siblings took that as the cue to attack and started the fight with Berserker acting as the rear guard. Our brood of children were using abilities they’d learned to fight the group holding us hostage. In the case of Myst, she hardened herself and acted like a battering ram. It seems she’s taken after her sire with her body being at least partially armor-slime!

“Dad, on your left!” Nolix called out when one of my Chaos Spawn slashed at my mate with a toy scythe. Berserker used his chained arm to block the attack as Nolix came in to defeat his half-sibling with his hammer.

“Thanks, Nolix.” Berserker replied cheerfully, quickly getting into a familiar mood.

“Ah!” One of Hunter’s cubs yelped before she poofed out and appeared in our cell. The deer-like spawn had turned on her after he had been blocked by Berserker.

“Wait, if we get hit, where do we end up?” Berserker asked and We rolled our eyes at him for having forgotten already.

“In the Cell with Mama. If we make it there, we’ll meet up with them and then fight with Hermais until we rescue mama or he defeats us all.” Valkyr explained.

“Hm.” Berserker hummed in thought. “Marcus?”

“Yes?” Our son asked before moving to the door and beginning to open it.

“Wait.” Berserker stopped him and closed the door. This confused everyone, including Hermais. “Kick the doors off their hinges.” Smiling, Marcus obeyed and kicked the doors off their hinges with his adorable little paw. Holy crap our kids are strong. “Good boy.” Berserker gave his son a thumbs up.

“Hey~!” One of our Chaos Spawn with a rhino head whined. “Visilia’s going to make me replace that now~!” He groaned before he threw a spear at Marcus while my now ‘evil’ daughter from Hunter snuck up on the group.

“Shut up.” Berserker snarled as he used his tail to knock the spear away. “You don’t get to bitch about trivial things you can obviously fix with the snap of your fingers.”

“Not all of us can. I specialize in destructive magics.” Our son growled before he summoned a firecracker and tossed it. “Just like mama Eris is the only one able to really travel time without screwing it up.” Oh! He’s one of our grandchildren! It’s always hard to tell who among all of them were transferred to us from Eris’ womb.

Berserker rolled his eyes before he caught the firecracker and removed the fuse before handing it to Revix. “Hold on to this.”

“Yeh!” Revix chuckled before they defeated the last of the enemies who all poofed into the ‘cell’ and began to eat popcorn summoned by chaos.

With that room completed, they entered the next room and found armor and weapons in crates.

“Yes, a loot room!” Revix cheered and they ransacked it. The room was mostly filled with toy pistols and some armor that looked like it was Fallout and somewhat Mad Max style.

“Everybody get some armor and a weapon if you feel like it.” Marcus declared after he put on leather armor and approached the next door.

“Kinda wish it was Gears of War.” Berserker complained as he put on leather bracers.

“That was last week!” Arith chuckled.

“...Goddammit.” Berserker muttered before putting the rest of the armor on.

“Hm, who should be next?” Hermais muttered as he looked at a map of the temporarily altered Keep.

“Cocoa!” Cocoa giggled and We jumped in our comfy if awkward restraints against the wall for forgetting that there was still an adult around. “We only doing few rooms yes? Loot rooms always in middle?”

“Yes, though they have a trap hall to get through right now. Go ahead and set up your boss room Auntie Cocoa. I’ll have some of my siblings slow them down.” Hermais declared and then gave an exaggerated evil laugh as several of his minions teleported to the trap hall.

“Not slow Berserker down.” Cocoa teased as she pretended to crack her knuckles. Silly cocoa, slimes don’t have knuckles.

“Bah, I wasn’t really expecting them too.” Hermais waved it off.

“Then what is plan?” Cocoa asked him.

“For him to bond with his kids. He’s barely been here to do so, not as much as you, our other aunties or Mama.” Hermais replied and Cocoa looked at him disapprovingly in triplicate.

“He and brothers busy saving world. Of course they’re away from home.” Cocoa sternly declared with a huff.

“I know they’re saving the world. I never said he was a bad parent, but I’m showing him how they play and giving them a chance to bond.” Hermais gently rebutted when We went back to looking at the screen. At this dismissal our wife howled lowly and a gaggle of the pups We had with her all around a year or older though they looked six or seven followed her. Oh~ they’re so cute in their little medieval spy and bandit outfits~! Unf. Wow. Our breeding urges just got such a kick in the ovaries. Damn it body, We just gave birth several days ago, stop being greedy.

“Okay, where to now?” Berserker asked Marcus.

“Through this trap hall. It will be full of Chaos and maybe a few Shadow beasts. We just need to get past that for the next boss room!” Marcus cheered eagerly.

“Hopefully it’s the final boss room!” Novalix chuckled before entering the door, only to poof away when a plate from the roof fell on her after she stepped on a tile.

“Kids, get back now.” Berserker ordered them as he went forward, stopping near the edge of where the first trap was sprung.

“What is it dad?” Valkyr asked as she held onto Rex. “We normally lose three of us here.”

“Hold on to something.” Berserker said, clutching a fist before raising it up to the air. Doing what he said, they hid around the doorframe before Berserker slammed his fist on the floor, shaking the place and triggering all of the traps. Once done, they waited for a moment before Berserker got back up. “Alright guys, it’s clear. No more traps.”

“Ah, thanks dad.” Valkyr cheerfully said before they continued down the hall. “You’re strong.”

“How did you know that would work, dad?” Arith asked him.

“Pressure or motion. Traps were mostly built around those concepts and have been improved upon ever since. It was easy enough to figure out, since they’ll all trigger when everything is shaking around.” Berserker informed his children in a very educational way, even if he was rather casual about it.

“I’ll make a note of it for next time.” Marcus declared as they approached the door.

Inside was a feral pink bunny with creepy blue eyes?

“Hello.” The bunny said in a deep demonic voice that was dripping with ‘love’. “Have you all been doing well? I’m here to give some tough love.”

“Seriously? A Grim Adventures reference?” Berserker demanded of Cocoa who was standing off to the side.

“Cocoa not know. She had different plans and it was here.” Cocoa said in confusion and Hermais was also confused. The Bunny jumped and kicked at Valkyr, poofing her and Rex as it sent her flying into her brother.

“Why didn’t you get rid of him?!” Berserker questioned Cocoa as he went to fight the Bunny.

“Cocoa tried! He poofed pups before you arrived!” Cocoa yelped, causing us to notice the scared children around us. Wow, We fell into ‘TV’ mode there, losing track of our surroundings. The boob tube drains the brain kids. We’d better impart that lesson before TV becomes mainstream here.

“Hermais, where are the children?!” Berserker demanded while he and the Bunny went at it. It was incredibly brutal, the pink monstrosity delivering strikes that looked powerful enough to kill most people and it barely seemed affected by Berserker’s punches and kicks.

“They’re here.” Hermais responded via magic intercom while petting the scared pups.

“Okay, asshole, what is it you want?” Berserker growled at the Bunny. “Speak up!”

“I’m here to give tough love.” The bunny repeated.

“Mister whiskers!” One of Hunters pups whined. “You're being a bad pet!”

Then the bunny poofed her by kicking a rock at her with ridiculous power and she landed on our head, sniffling before bursting into tears.

“Hermais can’t you get rid of it?!” Berserker further demanded.

“Hold on.” Hermais growled before the Bunny poofed. “Sent it to another world.”

“What was that?” Berserker demanded.

“Bunny one of Hunter’s pups brought home as pet. Cocoa not know where she got it.” Cocoa replied with an exasperated huff.

“Well, that sort of ruined this for me.” Berserker grumbled.

“I didn’t put it there.” Hermais sighed before snapping his fingers, bringing us all into the dining room, back at our seats. Aw, the fluffy shackles and the soft wall were surprisingly comfy. “I keep most things like that out of the game for fairness and to keep the rules the adults set. Visilia made most of them.”

“We may need to find out where Hunter’s pup found that bunny.” Berserker said as he leaned back in his chair. “Honestly, we can’t afford to let that happen again.”

“Sorry.” Said pup sniffled just as Hunter walked in. He saw her sniffling and immediately started marching at Hermais.

“Whoa, hey! I didn’t make her upset!” Hermais said in his defense.

“Her bunny started acting all scary. Ruined the game too.” Marcus huffed indignantly.

Hunter stopped and looked towards Berserker, who nodded his head as silent words passed between them.

“What’s up Hunter? Did something happen in Tartarus?” We questioned our other future husband as our core ached needily. Holy fuck, our ovaries are ringing like church bells! At least it isn’t overwhelming us to the point of trying to breed right on the spot.

“Nothing much, I just came back to see if everything is alright. Also to give our children their names.” Hunter answered.

“Papa!” All his pups yelled as they rushed him to hug his legs, the one whose pet betrayed her was still sniffling.

“We’re doing good, we just had a scare from a playful game.” We sighed as We rubbed our aching lower tummy. Hnng~ We’re so primed for some reason! Hopefully We can still find Spike after this.

“I see. So, do you have any names for the girls?” Hunter asked us as he idly scratched ears and patted heads.

“Lucy, Niobe and Bria?” We suggested while trying and failing not to imagine Hunter and Berserker naked, bending us over this table and-.

“Those are pretty good names.” Hunter smiled as he looked at his boys. “Dominic, Nicholas and Benjamin. Dom, Nick and Ben for short.” He named them, as the boys climbed up on their father.

“Wonderful names! Especially since We can call them DomBenNick to call them all at once!” At our declaration, the boys groaned, but accepted their new names. How Cocoa went this whole time without accidentally naming them We’ll never know.