Chapter 2 Dad?: "So you want me to take this young stallion in?" Old Rahul asked, her green hair flomping into her eyes. "Yes sir, he needs a mother and we need you to take him in as your son." Yushiro said for the fith time. Rahul nodded and turned to the young stallion named Giro. "Are you Jakens boy?" Rahul asked softly, her eyes locked with Giro's. Giro swallowed and nodded. Rahul's face cracked into a large grin. "Well, well guess you have a mother and an older brother." Rahul said, Giro raced forward and tackled the woman in a hug. "Mother, I'm home!" Giro cried and buried his face in the woman's chest. Rahul smiled and dismissed Yushiro by saying "I'm sure the chief would like to see his son." Yushiro had left quickly after that.  He had just barely left the house on the far side of the camp and had made it to the middle of the camp when he heard a familliar voice cry "YU!" before he was tackled. Mowanza sat on his middle without even wondering if she hurt him. "Sorry I hurt yah." She said timidly as she felt the waves of pain and anger. "Ah no I'll be fine, it's more or less the shock of you tackling me." Yushiro said quickly picking her up. "Mowanza! Where the hell did you go?!" Rollo cried as he himself came charging down the path. Other rouges had stopped in the middle of town to watch the transaction. "Who's that girl?" "Isn't Delilah the only one who can tackle prince Yu?" "Why the hell is Rollo out here in town?" "Whats going on?" , the  majority of it came from the female gossip mongers. "Whats the matter Yu?" Mowanza asked softly, she was shaking and she was scared. "Shh, sweety it's okay." Yushiro said quitely, picking himself up and pulling her up into his arms. "Wonder what Delilah will think now that she's got competition?" One of the older gossip mongers said all to loud enough for Rollo to hear. He snarled at the woman "That is an insolent question considering they are only 3-7 moons old. How dare you speak of my daughter like she was some kind of whore when she is 5 moons old!" Rollo yelled, the woman shrunk and Mowanza stared at  her father. "Why are you so angry daddy?" She asked quietly, Rollo turned a loving smile on her and told her something in a language no one but them could understand. "Simply I am just being overprotective, I don't want them saying funny things about you just yet." Rollo said in Mowanza's native tongue. Mowanza smiled "Alright, I love you loads daddy!" She said wrapping her arms around his large frame. Yushiro watched the exchange and listened to even more gossip break out between the woman. "I'm sure you all need to get back to your huts to fix dinner or take care of your foals. Please leave now." Yushiro said to the crowd, the woman left quickly. Most blushing at their insensitivity. "YU!" another familliar voice cried and all too soon he was engulfed by Delilah's soft body. He fell to the ground a second time with a female on his chest. "Your back! How was the trip, did you find any other new children?" Delilah asked excitedly, her violet hair fell in a slight wall to the left side of her face, keeping Mowanza's peering gaze away. "Actually I found two,a girl that's five moons and a boy that's four or three moons. The girl is over there, her name is Mowanza." Yushiro ground out as it was getting harder to breath. Yushiro was home! Delilah thought to herself happily. The little girl over there was a pretty little thing, she would need to let one of the dangerous Sharklings rough her up a bit. Noticing Yu's discomfort, Delilah lifted herself up and walked over to Mowanza and stuck her manicured hand out to the little girl. Mowanza and stared at the girl. "What am I  supposed to do with her weird hand?" Mowanza asked her father in her native tongue, Rollo laughed and pulled Mowanza's hand towards the other girls. "I'm Delilah, Yu's fiance." Delilah said with a strange purr, Mowanza raised her eyebrows at her. "Yu said he'd marry me when we're older." Delilah explained, Mowanza glared at the older girl and pulled her hand back. "I'm supposed to marry Yu and Gi." Mowanza said pridefully, Rollo snorted behind his hand at the transaction between the two girls. "No, you can only marry one." "I can marry both, just you see!" "Prove it!" "I will!" "We'll see!" "Daddy, can I marry both?!" Mowanza asked hurriedly of her father. "I think our queen had two husbands." Rollo said, Mowanza grinned and turned to Delilah." I told you so!" She said with a prideful grin, Delilah poked Mowanza's shoulder and  Mowanza repeated the action, soon they were in an all out war with the poking. Yushiro watched while shoving a hand through his hair roughly. "Come along Mowanza, we need to go see the cheif. Yushiro, you come along too." Rollo said, pulling his daughter out of the fight. She pouted in his arms before turning to look at what one of the shops were selling. "I want one! I want one!" Mowanza pointed to a young cow and a ring that resembled one that the female cattle centaurs wore in their nose's. "Can I get both, please daddy?" Mowanza begged. Rollo sighed, how could he deny her anything? As they entered the shop for the items, Yushiro looked at Delilah. "Hey, I want to show you something later, kay?" He called to her, she smiled and galloped back up the slope to her mother's home on top of the flowery hill. Yushiro looked to the window and watched at the shop owner helped hold Mowanza's head while the ring was pierced into her nose. He winced, then gagged at the pain of the piercing but felt no tears from Mowanza since she had received the tiny calf. "Yu! Looky, I have a ring like mama!" Mowanza cried as the shop door was opened, the gold ring swung up and down. "Thank you daddy, I love you!" She said as she hugged his leg. Rollo smiled and looked at the brown calf, it looked happy staying with Mowanza. "Okay we need to get to the Inn." Rollo said while watching the two children. Yushiro was watching the ring flop while he wiped his mouth hurriedly, the pain must have made him puke up his breakfast. "Alright off we go!" Rollo said galloping towards the chief's home. Yushiro and Mowanza were right behind him. "Ansel! I have a daughter!" "Ansel I have a son!" Rollo and Rahul said simultaneously breaking into the hut with their children from either door. The children, and Ansel laughed while Rollo and Rahul battled it out. "GI!" Mowanza cried while tackling the boy to the ground. Yushiro rolled his eyes as Mowanza helped Giro up. "So who's this pretty little lady?" Ansel asked, Mowanza stared up at the giant man, he had to be more than 8ft tall! "I'm not little, you're just a giant." Mowanza mumbled. Ansel let a loud guffaw of laughter and picked up the girl. "You're small, you got to admit that much Mowanza." Giro said with a giggle. "And men shouldn't giggle." Mowanza said glaring at Giro, he snorted in reply. "So you're Rollo's baby huh?" Ansel said watching the young children. His own son looked like he was enjoying himself. "She's Melina's baby too." Mowanza said, making Ansel laugh. "Then you're part Clydeian?" Ansel asked, Rollo nodded. "Watch out boys, soon she'll be big enough to stomp you into the ground." Rahul said with a laugh. Mowanza looked to the woman with green hair like Giro. "Are you Giro's mommy?" Mowanza asked as she reached for Rahul. Rahul smiled and took her into her arms. "I am sweets. How bout I take you back to my hut and give you a little something, huh?" "Yay! more gifts!" Mowanza cried, throwing her arms around Rahul's neck while placing a sloppy kiss on the woman's mouth. "Can I keep her?" Rahul asked, holding the girl close, for a minute Mowanza thought Rahul was her mother and let tears leak. "Shh sweets its okay, I know you miss her. She told you to be strong didn't she? Well when we get to my house you can cry all you want, alright?" Rahul whispered to the sweet little girl, Mowanza nodded. "I'll bring her around your place when the sunsets. I'll send Giro ahead of us with her things." Rahul yelled as she exited the building with both boys in tow. "Guess we can talk in private now, huh Ansel?" Rollo said with a lusty pur. "Oh no, not today, I'm on top this time!" Ansel yelled as he was assaulted by one of his lovers.  Rahul's house was pretty and it was big, Large trees surrounded a walkway towards the door. The porch to the hut was surrounded by flowers, the flowers were large and had pointy thorns on them they smelled good though. "Those are roses, they smell good right? Do you want to take some home to put in your room?" Rahul said, seeming to read her mind.  "I'd like that alot!" Mowanza said and watched as the door to the hut swung open, incense hit her nose strongly. She blinked and had to look away for a moment before looking back. There was a large doe laying on her side with three small fawns on either side of her. "Mowanza, I want you to pick one out. They're old enough for you to raise." Rahul said, looking at the girl. Her finger was pointing to the smallest one the, the runt. Rahul bit her lip before lifting the runt up to the girl. "Now Mu, will have a friend!" Mowanza said, holding the runt in her arms. Giro rolled his eyes as his mother grabbed yet another fawn. "Here you are Yushiro, take this fawn and raise her well." Rahul said cheerily. Yushiro nodded and took the fawn in an honorable way. Rahul laughed as the little doe took to Yushiro right away and situated herself closer to him, bleating to her mother. Mowanza's face turned red, "He's mine!" she cried out suddenly, all but the little female does were silent. Mowanza was yelling at them about something while Yushiro finally figured it out. "Ah hell." he ground out when he realized who they were fighting over. Rahul laughed and Giro snorted. Mowanza  glared at them and turned her rump around and away from the group to play with her runt, Nara. "Nara, I love you so grow up to be big and strong, Mowanza will to." She said quietly. Nara puffed out his small chest and slid his two toed hoof across the floor. Rahul watched the two boys argue about something trivial while Mowanza played with Nara, she would be able to slip out of the room and grab the box for the girl. "Can I come?" Mowanza asked without turning around to face Rahul, though she was trying to stand on stiff legs. "You can come, but you boys have to stay out here, alright?" Rahul, motioned for Mowanza to follow her up the stairs to a room, most likely her own. The boys nodded and played with the two little female dos while Mowanza and Rahul made their way up the stairs to the storage room. Upon entering the room, candle flickered while their whisks began to flame. Mowanza stared at the candles transfixed on the orange glow. Rahul had stood on her hind legs to reach the box shoved up at the top of the closet. "Come here sweets, I need you to look at these." Rahul said, mowanza looked at her then at the box, it was old and dusty and was carved out of a weird type of wood. "These were handed down to me by my grandmother, and I will hand them down to you now. You may look at what's inside once you are home, but I'm sure there are more things that I can scrounge up for you." Rahul said proudly, Mowanza nodded and tried to take the box from Rahul, it was too heavy for her though. "Follow me sweets, those poor boys won't know whats hit them when we're done!" Rahul yelled over her shoulder with a laugh, Mowanza giggled and followed close behind the woman.