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At the Zoo!

Part One: Crsh! Gulp!

Vishal was happily working the rattle that he was holding in his hands, gumming at the thing hadn't seemed to help when it came to getting into it, he couldn't get at the red beads that were inside of the thing. It seemed like a task doomed to failure, or at least that was how it seemed to be when he first started to try. There was something else though, something had been happening of late that Vishal couldn't describe but was very pleased with, he was teething. The teeth as they came in were much more useful then anything a person or Godling could have hoped for. He was able to use them to leave marks in the surface of his rattle, he was sure that if he bit at it enough he would be able to get through the plastic outside and to those red, yummy looking beads that were on the inside. He just had to work at the task at hand until he suceeded. His eyes lifted up to watch as his favorite person cooked, his red eyes were watching the blue stripped wings that were fluttering about. Such pretty looking wings, rather mesmerizing to watch as they moved. They even dropped a feather now and again, one of which he had tried to eat but wasn't allowed to. No fun at all honestly, they thought him so young and weak tha he couldn't even eat something as small and weak as a feather? Hmph.

Keiji turned to look over his head at Vishal, maybe to make sure that he was still within his pen instead of running off again. He felt bad having to lock him up but the rolling was a skill that he was starting to become to good at, it worried the angel. He didn't want for him to get hurt or get into things that weren't his to play with. The last thing that Keiji wanted was for the Godling to get into something of Shin's or even worse something of Yoko's. He gave the boy a smile when he saw that all Vishal was doing was attacking his rattle as usual. There was a look of curiousity in Keiji's eyes, he wondered what it was about that particular toy that held the boy's interest. What was it that made him want only to play with that toy in particular and nothing else for most of the time, "Is that a good rattle?" He asked, kneeling down in front of the pen.

Vishal looked up at him, rattle stuffed into his mouth, the stick of it hanging out of his mouth. He tilted his head to the side then gave a grummbling sound from around what was in his mouth. Keiji couldn't help but laugh, he looked rather amusing and sounded it to trying to talk like that, "Your an odd little thing aren't you Vishal?" The angel pushed up to his feet once more, "Food is almost done which of course means that they are gonna be showing up."

Almost as if summoned by his words the twins suddenly burst through the door, then slammed it closed giggling, "Ah! Hey? Angel. Is the food done yet?" Yoko demanded of the angel as he walked over to look in the pots that were sitting on the stove, lifting up the covers from them to look inside to see what was there to be had. He set it down then peeked into the over, "Huh, doesn't look half bad now does it?"

Tsukiko shook his head then walked over to the pen, looking inside and waved at the little boy inside of the pen. He gave him a grin then looked over to Keiji.

"Can you and Yoko set the table? Shin sent word that he isn't going to be home tonight so its just the four of us." He told them.

Yoko and Tsu looked at one another before they nodded and set to work on gathering the needed dishes and laid them out on the table. Places for the three of them were set out, a plate, a cup, and a fork each. Tsu looked over at the baby God before going over to Keiji, tugging on the angel's sleeve before he pointed over at the little one as if to ask what it was that he was to do. The angel looked over at Vishal then tilted his head in thought, "If you can get him a plastic up, a spoon, and a bowl and set it at my place he can sit on my lap while he eats." He said. He moved to start to dish up the food onto the plates and into the bowl after Tsukiko got the baby's dishes set out on the table.

"Does everything look good?" Keiji asked, looking the table over. He then turned around and went over to where the Godling was sitting. The little one gaze up at him then there was suddenly a crackling sound and then a loud CRUNCH. Keiji's eyes went huge as the Vishal leaned forward, spitting out the shards of plastic from the rattle and some spots of blood and starred down at the pieces in front of him. Keiji moved but not fast enough as suddenly the Godling picked up two handfuls of the red spheres and stuffed them in his mouth... and swallowed.

"VISHAL!" Keiji shreiked, scooping him up into his arms and instantly reached into the baby's mouth to see if he could fish anything out that he had put in his mouth, no such luck... he eaten those red spheres. Not only that but he had cut up his mouth when he bit through the rattle, how had he bitten through it he thought frantically. Vishal gave an angry sound when Keiji put his fingers in his mouth, warning him that he wasn't going to have this and to move them. He didn't though, kept fishing around trying to... do something? So Vishal did what came to mind first, he bit down.

A sound of pain escaped from the angel's lips as sharp Vishal teeth sank into his fingers, cutting into them, "Vishal! Let go!" He ordered, had it been anyone else he would have ignored them, maybe even bit down harder but since it was the angel... he found himself letting go. Keiji pulled his fingers free from the boy's mouth, red streaming from the wounds, "Ow..." He murmured, wincing in pain.

Tsukiko ran over, looking rather in show over all that had happened in such a short time.

"Tsu, here." He said, handing off Vishal while he went to the kitchen to fetch a towel, holding it out to Yoko, "Tie this around my fingers for me?"

The demon pup nodded and instantly complied, mostly because he wasn't sure what else to do at the moment. The moment it was done though he hurried over to grab hold of Vishal by his shirt, snarling at him, "You little b*****d! You stay away from my brother!" He said moving to drop him into his pen, "You stay there!" He didn't trust him, if he would bite open Keiji who babied him who was to say he wouldn't eat his brother?! He wouldn't allow it.

"Don't, its not his fault. Just need the first aid kit is all." He said, motioning to where it was kept in Shin's room." He said, sitting down in his seat, "I will wrap it and then I will take Vishal to the hospital." He was worried, less about his own wounds as he had many scars on his person though they were always hidden by his clothing, and more for the boy. He'd swallowed those beads! He needed to be looked at, to get them out! What if they made his sick? What if they hurt him? And his mouth! He'd bitten down on plastic and shattered it, what if he cut up his mouth real bad? Keiji's blue eyes got teary just from the thought that the baby could be hurt.

Tsukiko gave the angel a worried look before he nodded and ran ahead to get the first aid kit.

Part Three: Hospital Room Four

"...and thats about all that I can do for him. Really it will be best if you just wait for the beads that he ate to pass." The doctor was saying, they were looking over an x-ray and there were no sign of any plastic shards being in the boy's belly. All it would seem he had eaten were the red beads that had been inside of the rattle and nothing else much to the relief of the angel. He had known what he was doing when he ate them, as for his mouth it would seem that any cuts that were inside of them were already closed up and not bleeding anymore from what the doctor had said. The man had done the looking the smart way using a metal tool to open Vishal's mouth with so he could see inside. The baby had been snarling and yowling at them the entire time but not fighting all that much with them, "Now as for those teeth of his... I would see about taking him to a dentist." The man said. They were rather sharp and like nothing he'd seen in a baby before.

"Let them pass?" Keiji asked, tilting his head to the side.

Tsu and Yoko looked over at each other then started to giggle, apparently the angel was a little lost but the two of them knew exactly what the doctor had met, "It means going to the bathroom." Tsu whispered to the angel, though saying it only had him and his twin giggling that much more.

Keiji looked at them as if he didn't quite believe what they were saying, then upon looking at the doctor who nodded his cheeks pinked, "And... that won't hurt him?"

"I doubt it. The sphere aren't sharp or anything, they should pass just fine." He assured him.

Keiji looked over to where the boy was sitting on the bed, playing with the blankets on the bed seeming to be oblivious to the fact that anything was wrong or could have gone wrong. After all he'd gotten what he wanted which was to break open and eat what was inside. They didn't taste all that good though did they? Not at all like the candy that they looked like, just... tasteless. It was a disapointment. The other stuff was good, the red goo that the doctor had brought to him. He reached over to the bowl to pick up another cube of wobbling Jell-O and popped into his mouth.

He was chewing on it when he realized that eyes were on him, he lifted his gaze over to look at the twins. His eyes narrowed and he gave a growl, what in the world were they starring at? Yoko stuck his tongue out at the little Godling then made a face at him before laughing in amusement. Tsu lifted a hand to rub his forehead, shaking his head, "Yoko... Stop teasing Vishal." He said, there were days his twin could be so childish. Not that it would seem that Tsu was really paying attention to the fact that Yoko WAS a child as it wasn't important to the thought process.

"Now, I will need to call you parents so that I can get any insurance information." The doctor was saying.

"Huh? We don't have parents." Tsu pipped up.

The doctor turned around to look at him, "Excuse me?" He asked.

Tsu opened his mouth to say it again but got elbowed in the side by his twin, "Umph, what was that for?"

Keiji rolled his eyes, "We left a note for our guardian so when he gets home from work he would be here." He said, not wanting for the guy to get the wrong idea. Leave it to little kids to try to make things sound worse then they were, "I am sure he will be here at anytime now." He gave the twins a look that made both of them sit quietly not wanting to get in trouble. They listened well enough when Shin wasn't around to see it, they didn't want to weak around him maybe?

The doctor looked back and forth between the twins and the angel before he finally nodded his head, "Alright. I will keep an eye out for him. What does he look like?"

"Rather like him." Tsu said, then him and Yoko started to giggle. Only for a moment though as the Hunter came into the room looking rather pissed off. So both went utterly silent.

Keiji pushed up to his feet, "Ah! Shin... your here." He murmured.

"Yeah. I'm here." He said, sounding as angry as he looked.

Late Night Shift

It had been a quiet night after getting home, Keiji was curled up on the sofa with Vishal laying on his chest. The little one seemed to have no idea of the trouble that he had been in or about the trouble he had gotten out of with the help of Keiji and Tsukiko. The twins had been in charge of cleaning up the uneaten food as instead they had ended up eating out for dinner after leaving the hospital. Pizza and Vishal had been grouchy until he had gotten what he wanted, some of the delicious food tha teveryone else was having. Shin decided that since he had teeth and could bite through a rattle he could surely eat solid food. And eat he had.

It wasn't long before the pair had been sleeping deeply on the couch and moved them, laying Vishal in his pen after it was all cleaned up and laid a blanket over him, Keiji was then put in the bed in the bedroom to get some sleep. Shin had then found himself watching the sleeping Godling for a while, it was odd that he got such loyalty from Keiji and Tsu, he wondered if it were true emotions from them or if somehow the Godling had bewitched them, he would of course keep his eye on the boy. While a small part of him wanted to trust him and believe that he would grow up better then the things he was the God to he still wasn't all that sure despite what Keiji thought. He supposed that was why he was the one that was the 'father' and Keiji was the 'mother'. The mother got to see only the good in the kids while the father had to deal with their bratty sides, have to hand out punishment and the like. It was just part of life.

Shin had gone to crash on the floor in the bedroom on a pile of sleeping bags, finding it as rather easy to do being used to sleeping outside while on various jobs.

*****

Vishal woke up before the sun did the next morning, he was instantly in a bad mood upon his waking to as he found himself not only along in his pen without his Keiji but he was also sore all over, he shifted a bit but his muscles protested. It was the feeling as if he had been doing a lot of strenuous exercise which as he was just a baby wasn't possible. At the same time there were three points in his body that hurt more, sharper pains as if his skin were beings stretched out from the inside out. He didn't understand it, why he was hurting so much or how to stop it. So he did what he could, rolling over onto his stomach to get off on the painful points. Two of them were located on his back near to his shoulder blades while the third was near to his tailbone. He gave a growling, whining sound reaching out to the bars of his pen and started to squirm forward out from under his blankets to look around. It was dark still so he couldn't call for Keiji, he would be in the bedroom which was to far away and the door was closed too... where then...

He shifted more, rolling despite not wanting to do so and gave a loud, angry sound as he had to press the aching points on his back and backside down but he got to the otherside to look over at the twins. They were curled up on the bed that came out of their sofa, he looked them over then started to yell at them, calling for their help to come and get him out of the pen. Or better yet one of them could go and get Keiji!

Tsukiko shifted in his sleep hearing the sounds and he opened up his eyes, "Huh...?" He murmured. He blinked a couple times and then sat up, he still had the voice so it couldn't be that late... or early. He looked around then over to where Vishal was laying on his belly, yelling at him. He turned his ears forward then crawled out of the bed, towards him, "Vishy? What is it?" He asked, kneeling down in front of the pen to look him over. He then lifted his hands up to rub at his eyes, "Hrm? You look bigger Vishy." He told him.

Vishal didn't much care, instead he made grabby hands at Tsukiko demanding that he be picked up and out of the pen he was in so that he could be brought to Keiji.

"Supposed to be sleep Vishy, its still dark out." He told him, reaching down into the pen to lift him up. Vishal gave a howl of pain hands lifting up to catch hold of Tsu's shoulders and pulled himself up and into a more comfortable position where the boy's hands were touching those points on his back. He then leaned into him and pointed at Keiji's door. He wanted the one with the wings!

"No, no Vishy. Keiji and Shin are sleeping. We can go and see them in the morning though. Come sleep with me and Yoko." He said walking over to the couch and crawled up onto it laying the baby between himself and his twin. Tsu curled up with the boy and while he wanted nothing more then to yell until he got what he wanted he supposed that laying with the twins wasn't as bad as sleeping alone... he gave a grummbling sound and looked at Tsu, scooting so that he was closer to him then to Yoko. He let his eyes close and after getting comfortable on his belly he was sleeping again though a bit restlessly.

Keiji's Confusion

Vishal was sitting upright, something that he had just figured out to do and was quite proud of himself for the accomplishment, and leaning slightly forward so as not to be sitting on the lump that he had on his tailbone as it was aching something fierce. His large, red eyes watched the twins as they slept but he made no move to wake them, in fact it would seem as if he were doing his best NOT to wake them... instead he was being very quiet, very careful as he went about his motions of dragging over to him one of the bags that had been rest on his lumps. He looked it over, unable to read but the picture on the front was of something familiar. Peas! He shook the bag until he realized that the bag wasn't going to give them up that easily he then bit into the back, tugging back. There was a stretching and tearing of the thin plastic bag and then the peas were all his for the taking, and take he did. A massive handful was stuffed into his mouth and he set to chewing, food was so much better when he got it by himself he decided. His gaze went over to the other bag, the one with the yellow picture on the front. Corn he knew that one to be. The same thing was done to the second bag so that he could get into that as well, munching away at the treasures that were all his for the taking. After all there was nobody around to stop him! The corn and peas belonged to Vishal!

Keiji was... confused. No... confused wasn't enough to explain what he was feeling at the moment. He was looking at Vishal, at least he was pretty sure it was him after all who else in the family had skin and hair like that? But it wasn't the same Vishal that he had put to bed earlier he was bigger! The angel took a couple steps forward so that he could get a better look at him, looking him over closely. Even passed the fact that he was bigger there were many other things that had thrown the poor angel's mind a whirling. First off how was it that he had gone from his pen to the couch bed when the twins were asleep? Did that mean that he was climbing already? Well it would have to be climbing, crawling, and... No! No even if he could do all of that it wouldn't explain how in the world he had gotten into the freezer so that could ahold the vegetables that he was currently making a meal of... and if he could get into the freezer why would he table corn and peas when he could get at the meat that was stored in there? He scratched the back of his head, nevermind. The thinking was doing nothing but causing his head to start to ache.

He knelt down next to the bed, "Hello there Vishal, you look like you were very hungry." He said, looking over the torn open bags of vegetables they both looked to be about half gone which meant that he had been eating on them for a while... or taking massive bites. Either way he was pretty sure that he had enough, "Here, give me those you don't want to make yourself sick do you? How about I make you something better? Some bread would be good." He said, it would help to settle the boy's stomach if the vegetables made it ache from eating so many of them at once.

Vishal blinked at the arrival of the angel, the one that he had been waiting SO LONG for, he was little so any time seemed liked forever so a few hours was awful! Complete Hell! He gave a pointy toothed smile and gave a wave, "Kyaa!" He said, patting the bags of veggies, managing to grab a last handful of the peas before they were taken away, stuffing them into his mouth so that they couldn't be taken away. He followed the angel with his eyes as Keiji made his way over to the freezer and replaced the bags into it. He then was making grabbing hand, demanding of the angel that he be picked up off the bed. Once Keiji picked him up the angel was sure to see his lumps and he would then make them all better! Vishal was quite sure of it, was waiting all night just for the angel because he always made things better!

Keiji scooped up the little Godling, giving him a snuggle... and sure enough as he looked down at the boy he was the odd lumps on his back, "What in the world...? Vishal what did you do to your back?" He carefully turned the boy around in his grasp to look them over, tilting his head to the side a thoughtful sort of look filling his eyes. His wings gave a flutter and it was on the tip of his tongue to ask Vishal of he were getting wings just from the placement of the lumps, then the thought was pushed aside. No, that didn't make any sense, animals when they were born had wings and Angels were the same way. There was no way a God would be born without their wings only to have them come in later like teeth did... Right?

"Naw." He said, then cuddled Vishal back to him, "How about we get your some more breakfast and then we will talk to Shin about what he thinks we should do about the lumps." Maybe he was having an allergic reaction to the plastic that he had swallowed and because of it he had gotten hives? It made more sense then his first guess. He carried the boy into the kitchen, sitting him down on the counter while he made them some toast, it should be fine for Vishal to sit there since the toaster was right next to him after all. Keiji started coffee as well knowing that Shin would want some when he woke up, cereal was dished up as well. The pups would smell the toast and be up and wanting food as well, best to have their breakfast waiting and ready or he would have to hear it from Yoko. NOT how he wanted to start the morning especially with as grumpy as the silver pup could be.

Angry Angel

Vishal was sitting on the table back at their place he had a cracker in hand and was gnawing at it as all around sat the siblings of the house, the twins were starring at him openly but as it was it was the snack that currently most interested him. In fact he didn't seem to even notice the fact that he had new appendages, he was just glad that all of the aching pain was gone the reason for why it was gone had yet to dawn upon him, "Nya?" He asked, looking between the two pups who were starring with wide eyed wonderment.

If was Yoko that finally said something, "Sooo... What did you do to it?" He turned to look at Keiji accusingly, as if the angel had some part in what had happened, "How did you mutate the little brat? Tell me? I want wings and a stinging tail too." His voice was quite demanding and the angel crossed his arms over his chest and gave a snort.

"Believe me, if you had to go through what poor Vishal did you wouldn't be saying that." The angel told him in a matter of fact sort of way.

"What did Vishal have to go through?" The door to the room opened up and Shin was coming through it, rubbing a hand against his eyes in a sleepy manner.

The angel gave a little jump, "Ah! It was nothing! Well... no, not nothing but nothing bad. At least I don't think it was bad he..."

Shin walked over to look Vishal over, taking in first the wings that was flapping out of synce from one another, and then the tail that was swishing back and forth awkwardly, "Huh... where have I see that before?" He murmured before picking Vishal up and looked him over as if studying him, "Hmm... no extra legs yet."

Keiji's eyes went HUGE at that, "What! You know? You knew! You could have told me what was going on instead of worrying me when he go those lumps on his back!" The angel all but shreiked at him causing the two pups to take in that much more avid interest. Mostly due to the fact that they figure they were going to get to see a cool fight in all of this. Their gazes went to Shin instantly, waiting for his come back.

"Knew of what he looked like in his passed life but NOT that he was going to suddenly manifest those features. When did this happen? Why didn't you wake me?" He demanded back of the angel.

"Well... thats the thing, I wasn't sure what to do so I called the lady from the number on the fridge." Keiji said.

"Your calling up people you don't know for advice when I was right in the other room? You left me to sleep and then what?" He asked, giving a huff.

The twins' tails set to wagging wildly, oh but this was better then anything that they could have hoped for, come on! More, more both were thinking as they rose up from their chairs as if to get a better view.

"It wasn't as if I asked to whisked away!" Keiji cried, wings fluffing up and stretching out wide as if he were trying to look bigger in his anger, "I told her about the lumps then a moment later I was somewhere else! Then a blonde and a hunter woman with big hair were telling me all of this stuff, showed me a picture of how he looked when was Deveus... and then the wings and the tail came in... It was... It wasn't planned!"

"None the less you still didn't tell me!"

"And you didn't warn me either! I take care of Vishal far more then you do but it seems like you have the information that is the most important! You knew that he had wings and a tail in his other life while I didn't! Did you know that he had a bunch of legs too? That he had horns!"

"Horns?" Shin looked a little confused and tried to think on that but couldn't recall seeing horns in his dream."

"Yes, horns. He had horns but he lost them in a fight. What happens when he gets his legs? His horns? What else will he be getting? I was told that I have to keep a good eye on him, to take good care of him since I have wings like he does and he will need to know how to use them." Keiji said, eyes narrowing, "I love Vishal as I love Yoko, Tsu, and even you! So next time something happens don't you go off barking at me when I do what is best for them!"

Shin looked a bit unsure now, silent too as he wasn't certain what to do when facing off against a rightceous angel...

Said angel walked over to pluck Vishal out of Shin's arms and stalked away from him, "We are going to get a nap." He said, the tone in his voice giving no room for arguement as he stalked off and slammed the door behind him. Right before he did Shin and the twins could hear Vishal give a sound that no doubt meant 'so there!' as then there was nothing else from them.

The twins though were rolling in laughter.

Shin gave them a glare then stalked off to plopped down on the couch, damn kids...