DoomPet

Chapter 81

Marty teleported to and fro through the dilapidated buildings outside of the walls. The greenery and destruction flying past his face. The way he teleported was far different from those dingy, disgusting portals. His mass folded in on itself and for a split second he could see what felt like everything, helping him to avoid teleporting into walls and whatnot. Then he would spring out of his own folded mass in the location of his choosing, with no portal sickness.

He was in control and that's what he loved more than anything, but recently that had been changing.

His dearest daughter Ruth chased after him through the buildings, letting out happy yells. Mez

was somewhere close behind her claws scraping against the ground, gaining on her husband.

Marty was beginning to understand how to function with his family, embarrassed it had taken him so long to figure it out. Things were getting a lot better now. They even occasionally hung out on date nights with the Slayer and Crüe.

His daughter finally caught up with him and tackled him to the floor of the skyscraper they were running through. He yielded and surrendered to her, breathing heavily as he sat up.

Mez crawled up as well and sat down, letting Ruth sit in between them.

"It's nice to be outside without having to worry about being attacked," Ruth leaned back, enjoying the sun on her face.

"The Slayer had done his job well." Mez nodded, agreeing with her daughter.

Six months had passed with the Slayer killing demons all around the city, making the populations dwindle so much that it was now allowed for unarmed civilians to walk outside the walls. The temperatures had also cooled rapidly, but the little demon family was told that was mostly due to the beginning of "Autumn" not entirely from the Slayer's sheer wrath absorbing the heat.

"Why did you bring us out here?" Ruth looked up at her father. "You said you wanted to talk about something?"

Mez smiled and Marty, "It's about time we told her."

"Well, the Slayer is going to be leaving soon. He's continuing to fight demons to protect Urdak. I want to go. Your mother doesn't, and you're our deciding factor."

"Will we be fighting?!" She gave him a shocked look.

"No, no. We will just be tagging along on this big boat to help out where we can." Marty laughed, "Don't worry no one from this family will be actually fighting."

"Why don't you want to go?" She looked to her mother, concerned about this situation. Why did she have to be the deciding vote?

"I never liked the water so I'm a little apprehensive of going on a boat." She admitted to her daughter.

"I mean it sounds cool..." She looked a little nervous and turned away from her parents. "Who else is going?"

"Samuel, Elena, the Slayer and Crüe obviously, Daisy and her babes, Haru, a dozen interns, an army of operators and military personnel, also half of the biology division." Marty rambled on about other divisions but she wasn't paying attention.

She looked out over the city, her eyes darted to a faded, half broken ad for a cruise ship. In all honesty she didn't want to go, their family had already moved so many times, but she had a bad feeling about going. "I think it sounds like they have it covered."

Mez nodded, accepting the decision, "It's probably best to stay. It's not like we need the Slayer to protect us."

While they relaxed outside the city the Slayer and Crüe were getting ready. "Ok you'll have to take Haru to his check up and go take Daisy's kids to the biology department for their check up. I'm going to get everything on our final list and start packing the supplies."