Beastmen Love

"So.. What will happen to her when we.." Zin asks, worried.

"Have you ever noticed other female’s spousal marks?" Claud asks.

"They have different colors. Astri’s are all red. And when we touch it reacts." Wayde answers. Claud nods.

"That means her energy is connected to yours. She shares her energy with you, so you are also immortal like her." They get shocked, with mouths wide open." That’s another reason she can never be caught by monsters, they will not kill her, but they will take her life energy as long as she lives." Claud says.

They even feel a cold touch on their hearts by hearing that. They can’t let anything happen to her ever.

"That’s why I’ll teach everything I can for her to be capable of using all her capacity. This way getting her will be harder." Claud says. All of them nod." I don’t need to say you shouldn’t say that to anyone. Right?"

"Of course." They answer together.

"But one day people will notice." Cyprian says.

"Until then, this castle will grow bigger and safer. We will have more guards like mine and we will build better security." Claud speaks and they nod again." Any more rules?" He asks, curious.

"Keep other males away from her and also bad females like Ana. Astri doesn’t fear them, but she accepts everything quiet until they try to bully one of us or Zin specifically. She goes crazy. It’s hot watching her beating people, but we need to think about her safety." Lee says.

"Of course. Can I sleep close to her today?" Claud asks.

"Why not? It would be Zin and Wayde’s turn today. So you two decide who will stay with her first." Lee tells Wayde and Zin.

"You can go, Wayde. Tomorrow is my day with her." Zin speaks. Wayde nods.

Claud is impressed that they can work well together.

Normally males just fight each other to have the place near the female, but since Astri is different and doesn’t accept that, they learned a way so all of them can stay with her without fighting.

Astri was asleep already, like most of them imagined. Breastfeeding takes a lot of her energy. Claud sees the huge bed, Astri looks like a child in the middle of it with the cubs.

Zin takes the cubs with his tail and puts them on their little bed next to their bed. Claud cleans his feet and goes to Astri.

Her scent is delicious and warmth too. Wayde lays down behind her and spoons her. Cyprian lays down behind Claud. Zin and Lee lay behind Wayde. Claud sees Zin’s tail coiling Astri’s foot, then he focuses on Astri’s sleeping face.

Everyday he tried to imagine that face, he smiles brushing her hair away from her face. He holds one of her hands in his, the kisses her forehead.

"I have loved you for so long. I just feared admitting it. I’ll always be with you and I’ll love you for eternity." Claud tells her in her mind, but since she’s asleep she doesn’t answer.

He falls asleep as he watches her. But then he wakes up again with everyone to help Astri breastfeeding the cubs.

All of them feel a burning passion watching her taking care of the cubs, that sight fills them with the desire of having more and give her more.

She got hungry after a long breastfeeding. The cubs are having more and more milk from her, she always want to have milk for them, but breastfeeding three tiger cubs requires more milk than normal.

Wayde goes take something for her to eat, and after she ate, she lays down again. Wayde keeps giving her head and hair affection so she goes back to sleep faster. She looks to Claud in front of her and holds his hands near her face.

Her smile to him is the most beautiful thing he ever saw. He smiles too and kisses her forehead. She falls asleep again, then the others finally go back to sleep too.

In the morning, everyone wakes up but they leave Astri sleep more.

Zin shows Claud how to make some dishes and later Lee shows Claud how to prepare her bath. That day Claud spent time with Wayde so he learns how to take care of Astri. Astri is actually loving seeing all her spouses helping Claud.

Some cubs from the village come to visit Astri to play. Claud watches the children playing happily with Astri.

"She has a renovating energy." Galion says to Claud, who was watching Astri with loving eyes and smile.

"Yes. Without even knowing she’s doing so much for the world." Claud speaks.

"When we will start training her?"

"As soon as possible. The king already noticed I’m not at the temple anymore and I can feel evil energies starting to aim in this direction."

"Did you tell her about your feelings? You two look closer."

"Yes. She accepted me as her male."

"Well, look at that. I thought you would take longer, but I was mistaken. Congratulations." Galion answers, happy for his friend.

"She wrote a book with everything she learned from me and gave it to me as a gift. Inside there was a letter, where she told me her feelings for me. I couldn’t wait anymore, even if I wasn’t sure what kind of feelings she was telling me in that letter."

"I see. So she made the move first. Did you mate?" Claud denies with his head." You better take the first step on that then."

"What do you mean?"

"Exactly what you heard. Take the first step. Don’t wait for her to say" I want to mate". She already said that." Claud blushes a little, making Galion laugh." You’re the strongest beast in this world, but in the matter of love you’re a kid, my friend."

"Of course. I never wanted a female before meeting her. I didn’t have to learn about courting."

"Do you want me to teach you?"

"No, thank you. I’m starting to think you will make me do something strange." Claud answers, and Galion laughs again." I think I have an idea of what I’m going to do." He says, looking at her again.

Astri had to sit to rest after playing too much. Those cubs are unstoppable, some can shift now and they can talk to Astri. Most are males and they want to be useful, so they all fight to get water and fruits for her.

"Did you know that you are the female almost all males want? I want to be your spouse when I become of age." A boy says to Astri.

"Oh really? I don’t actually care about that." Astri answers.

"Why not? You can choose whoever you want."

"Lady Astri likes only strong males. All her spouses are the strongest males." Another boy speaks.

"That’s not true. If my spouses are strong it is a coincidence. I don’t choose my mates just because they can be useful." Astri explains.

"For having cubs then?" A little girl asks.

"No." Astri answer’s giggling.

"Then why are all your males strong?" The little girl asks again.

"I think they liked me. Why? You will have to ask them that. There’s something, my little friends, that is called ’give to receive’. Do you know what that means?"

Claud, Galion and Wayde arrive hearing her talking, carrying Yuki, Elias and Kai.

"No. What is it?" The kids ask.

"Action and reaction. For example, if I pinch you really hard, will it make you mad?" She asks and they nod. "And if I hug you reaaaally hard, will it make you happy?" She asks with a funny voice, making them laugh.

They nod in response.

"If we want good things happening to us. We need to do good things. I don’t think I have the best males because they’re just strong, but because they love me. And what do I give them to love me?" She says.

"Love." They answer together.

"Exactly! You smart cubs!"

"That’s why all males want to be your mates, then. Because you love your males." A boy says.

"Everyone wants to be loved. And it should be natural. When the feelings between the male and female are unbalanced, there’s no love and no happiness too."

They looked at her with confused faces, and she noticed that.

"All right. Let me show you and you will understand." She stands up.

She calls Claud and he goes to her. She holds his hand.

"Claud here is my male. I’m his female." She points at him and then to her." And this is love." She shows them their hands clasped together." When both of us are giving love, this is what happens." She says." Pull my hand and do not let it go." She tells Claud.

Both start pulling their hands and they’re balanced and not falling to the ground.

"See? We didn’t fall. Because we are giving love to this relationship. What happens when I don’t give love?" She says and then she opens her hand.

Claud keeps holding her but he’s working harder to hold her because she’s being threatened to fall all the time.

"Claud is working harder so I don’t fall. I’m forcing him to give more love and I’m not repaying him." She says.

Then she holds his hand again and then calls Wayde. She holds his hand with her other hand.

"Now. If we give love to each other, all of us together, will it be harder or easier to fall?" She asks, as she pulls both of them.

"Harder." They answer together.

"Yes! Harder! What do you choose? Work together and never fall? Or work alone and fall sometimes?" She asks.

"Work together!" They answer.

"Exactly! Everyone wants to be loved. So love to be loved. Action and reaction. So if I want a good spouse, be a..." She says and waits for them to answer.

"Good spouse." They answer.

"Exactly. I know it looks complicated. But once you start treating others doing good things, you will see good things happening. Good males will come to you and good females will want you." She says.

The children understood more. Claud and Wayde are proud of her teaching children how to be good.

"I’ll be good then so I can become your spouse too!" A boy says to Astri.

"Me too!" Another boy speaks.

Astri laughs.

I’ll be too old for you. And I already have five spouses, good enough for me." She says.

She didn’t even expect to have one in the past, now she has five.

"Only five? My mom has 10!"

"My mom has 9."

"Good for them. A lot of love to give and receive. But I’m satisfied with all the love I have. I’m sure you will find a female that will give you love the way you deserve." Astri says to the boys." And you will find great males to love too." She says, rubbing the head of the only little girl there.

The little girl nods happily.

Lee, Zin and Cyprian arrive. The boys run at them asking to be trained because they want to be strong like them.

"I think we should actually open cubs training. We will have strong males at a young age." Lee speaks.

"That’s true." Wayde answers.

"Train me, Wayde! I want to be lady Astri’s spouse." A boy shakes Wayde’s hand.

"What?! You little... Come back here. Only if you defeat me!" Lee runs after the kids that run away laughing.

Astri and her other spouses laugh at the kids running away. Astri says good bye to the children, and goes play with her own children now.