Playing With Death

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It had been almost two months since Axel decided to take on the role of being a mother and a father to a little girl, Axel sat on the table as a hound human (a dog monster) examined his newly formed eco stomach, it gave off almost a neon pink hue and the child's soul had somehow transferred to his stomach, The hound human put a jelly like substance on his stomach and looked on the monitor as he placed what looked like a scanner in the centre of his belly, “mr reaper? This child, she looks extraordinary yet” he paused and looked at Axel, raising a brow, “who is the father or mother of such a child” Axel, his tired eyes looked at the dog creature standing before him, quietly quavered “nobody, i found her broken soul behind a bin” 

The doctor looked at Axel then grabbed a small wipe and cleaned off his stomach, “well, the child was gonna be a devil, but due to your soul taking hers in when hers was still extremely young she was technically be named your daughter, she will look like you but.. Mr Reaper, do you have a growth problem?” Axel looked offended yet confused as he sat up, “err no? I don't think so, i probably do since i was created in a lab with my parents DNA but i was supposed to be a girl until mother wanted a boy, i think dad might have just stopped at my body and didn't bother to change it”

The doctor's face pulled into what can only be described as sympathy, he looked at Axel, “are you male?” Axel nodded, “yes. I am but I have a functioning womb but i don't necessarily get periods like girls.” The doctor nodded, a small part understanding, “well you're going to have a delightful, healthy daughter. Congrats” Axel smiled and got up off the operating table.

It's 4 months in, and Axel was starting to experience a lot of mood swings, spine ache, soul burn and indigestion, shortness of breath and constipation. He got up out of bed and went in the shower. Slowly turning on the tap and feeling the water on his spine, he felt tears rolling down his cheek bones, his breath was short and he was feeling his soul ache, “the water is cold” he whined, slowly breaking down “ALPHA! CONNOR!” he sobbed, dropping to his knees. As both his henchmen ran in with their weapons in hand, Connor stopped as he saw Axel on the floor crying, “Axel?” he asked, dropping his mallet as Alpha went to the cupboard to get a towel, “the water is cold..” he squeaked. 

With a sigh, Connor picked Axel up bridal style and set him carefully on the bed, he walked over to Alpha and not too forcefully took the towel off him and wrapped it around the youngest, Alpha sat next to Axel, wrapping his arms around his towel covered body, “its okay boss, Connor will fix it” as Axel nodded he looked at his teammate. Alpha was the middle of the trio. He was a witch yet he didn't look like one; he always wore this blue and yellow witch hat with a blue hoodie with a purple hood, long, dark blue, denim, ripped jeans, Brown slip-on shoes and a dark blue, magic staff with a bright blue pearl inside. Just like Axel he was a skeleton; he had Blue and yellow star shaped Pupils.

Around 15 minutes later, Connor walked in with a female skeleton, she spoke with a very soft British accent. She was a tall, skinny woman with very odd coloured pupils, as if pink and green were mixed together, it looked like a greyish brown colour. She wore a brown leather jacket and brown trousers tucked into some black decker boots, he had a spanner in her hand and her brown goggles were over her eyes. 

She smiled softly and walked over to Axel, “how is my favourite gay teamate doing? And our special little princess?” she asked, rubbing her hand on Axel’s stomach. Axel growled and slapped her hand off him then teared up and hugged her “I'm so sorry Victoria '' Axel started sobbing again. Victoria laughed and hugged him back, “it's okay Axel, i know you didn't mean it- those mood swings are really bad huh?” Axel nodded quickly and tried catching his breath. 

6 months later, It was already november and Axel had been experiencing more sickness and feeling kicks from the baby, he starts talking to her more knowing the baby was listening to the sound of his voice, Axel sat in the living room of the Villains league castle, the villains all sat near him happily listening to him singing and talking to her, “hello sugar, its mommy” he spoke happily, he chosen to call her sugar cause she's gonna be the “sweetest thing that's ever happened to him” Hades and his brother Pluton were busy in the next door room arguing about what to do about Sugar; Hades struck his brother harshly across the skull, “We are not selling her!” Hades boomed, his voice so rough and deep it was like drums with rocks hitting against it. Pluton growled, he was Hades almost identical twin, except his bone structure made the illusion of a shorter, wider skeleton and instead of one blue pupil and flame he had a green pupil and a green flame representing his greed for money, “why not dear brother” he said dusting off his tacky coat from the thrift shop, “a demon skeleton could cost us millions of macaroons” he said rubbing his hands together cunningly, looking up at his brother, his golden teeth showing and his one hook hand showing off his true greed. 

Hades glared at Pluton with such a look only death itself can manifest, “you lay a finger on Axel or that child and i will strike you so badly only my flames shall show mercy!” he roared, it seemed to pluton that every furious word spoken his blue flames seemed to get worse; he stepped back in case the older and taller was gonna strike him again. Behind Pluton he could sense the two souls of children. Envy and Want. Envy was a green person; she seemed to be stronger and half her face looked as if a mask had been welded on her dark tanned face, the green mouth seemed to be smiling almost menacingly. However, her twin brother seemed to be quite the opposite yet equally as troubling. He was blue, he wore a lot of blue. He had blue hair -unlike envy who had green- and a blue mask like object, that seemed to have a saddened frown. 

Hades looked at the children and rolled his eye. Sighing as Pluton smirked, “come on bro” he grinned tauntingly, “why are you so protective of the reaper anyway, he's not very interesting” Hades rolled his eye again and walked to the window with velvet red curtains drooping down over, the window hadn't been cleaned in 15 years so light was barely coming forth. The only light that shone was the flicker of fire from the fireplace- giving almost a golden yet orange glow to the room, “Axel is special..” he sighed. Pluton stared vigorously at the taller brother. Hades liked Axel a lot. He hated seeing such a “delicate” creature upset. He loved Axel so much that if cupid had him in a chokehold, he would choose nobody else but Axel to save him. That's what he loved about the kid, he was tough and a good person…deep down. But he had the feeling of rejection. Axel was only 18… he was thousands of years older than him. He'd thought Axel would be disgusted. 

It's February and the year 2000,  and Axel was in the hospital, Hades stood outside waiting for him. He held a small pink box and a small but longer box by his side. Victoria had nothing more than a small toy duck she made in her workshop with some spare wood; she took care of how she painted it, yellow with a pink beak and pink polka dots covering the body and head; connor had his son bring a flower with him and twitch had a dress he made from his casino table cloth; Boom -Axel’s ex wife- was there with two lawyers and a huge stack of papers, meanwhile… Pluton was nowhere to be found.

Suddenly, a doctor walked in and looked at Hades, “are you the father?” Hades felt his cheek bones get a little warmer as the two girls in the room “oooo” him. He coughed and looked at the doctor, “n-no im his boss” he said trying to sound professional; the doctor nodded and opened the door for him. Reluctantly, the god of death walked into the room, he put the small boxes on the table next to Axel and crouched down next to him, “hey kid, how's the new mother of the team? And his fantastic baby girl” he chuckles and cooed at the baby and smiled listening to her excited giggles. Axel yawned and looked up at the dark boned skeleton, “tired and you just got her hyper” he groaned.

Hades smiles, he loves hearing Axel’s voice, in all his thousands to million years of existence he had never seen true beauty, he had met Jack -Axel’s dad- before, he works for him on his side job, and he had also met Toxic drop -Axel’s mother- he's really nice and incredibly beautiful. As if he had been dabbed with the paintbrush of aphrodite and been dropped in the purest waters of life. From his knowledge Toxic and Jack are married and Toxic was once a WW2 soldier when humans and monsters still got along and united as one. Toxic was, by the words of Jack, “an angel of war”. 

Jack and Toxic met when Toxic was shot with an acid bomb melting his skull -the reason he wears a gas mask that only covers his right eye, his mouth and nose hole- Jack was supposed to reap him and send him to death but Toxic refused to die. Obviously Jack had been watching over his green gas mask angel but didnt wanna kill him fully, so he kept the man alived and woad him into his arms, but obviously Toxic knew Jack was watching, he loved Jack since the beginning of Jack’s little stalking facade; he was madly in love with him, he was so desperate to be with Jack he paid a soldier on the opposite side to kill him. Hades knew all of this because he was incharge of the gates to hell; he was quite mad but didn't want to stop their happiness.

Hades opened the door as the others all walked in; Victoria and Twitch and Boom walked in, Connor and Alpha waited till last.