Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Eighteen Blast from The Past

It had been three-weeks since I had given birth to the cubs, they were almost four now and they caused a lot of trouble.

For the first 5 weeks, they grow fast and then after that they slow down and grow at the normal growth rate. It was to make sure that they were safe and could look after each other.

It was a lot to get used to and it was hard watching them grow up so fast but I had Luca by my side the whole time. Even if I told him that he could leave and go do what a Star God does, he would still say by my side.

He wouldn't leave mine or the cubs side. Right now, we were trying to give them their bath and it wasn't going over so well. Who knew this could be so hard.

We had the stone tub brought in and Luca was chasing down the boys and I was trying to keep Hope in the tub but she really wanted to get out and run around with her brothers. She was always trying to do whatever they did.

She was the smaller then her brothers and they looked like they were six when they were only four and they even talked like they were ten. I knew that I was going to have my hands full with them.

"Leo! Lucio! Get back here!" The boys were running as fast as they could, trying to get away from Luca. It was his idea to have the boy's names start with L's, I got to pick our daughters name and after finding out she was the one we almost lost with her other brother and not one of the other boys, everyone became more protective of her. We almost lost her at birth but Jade saved her just in time.

But her middle name was Lea, Luca didn't take no for an answer, so I gave in.

I knew that I needed to do something or me and Luca would be late for training and this was the first day that I was going back and I was not going to miss it. Not even for my cubs.

"Leo, Lucio, get in this tub now or I will take your powers for a week!" Both of them stopped and quickly changed directions and ran right over to me and jumped up into the tub and splashed me with water.

Luca turned to look at me with his mouth hanging open, "How did you do that?"

"You just have to be firm with them." I laughed to myself.

Luca looked at me like I was crazy. Sometimes I felt like it but I think that my mom is with me, I just know how to be a mom and it's more than just knowing those things, it's the feeling that I get inside, like somebody is helping me, driving me, pushing me to do what is right.

After me and Luca got the kids finished with their bath and ready for bed we had aunt Jewale and aunt Jade come take care of them so we could go train.

Yes, we were training at night. We find it's the easiest time to get away from everything. We tried training before during the day but the kids were always getting into trouble and the only ones that could handle them were Luca and me.

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We were out on the battlefield training together. But I had a surprise for him, I thought that it would be a good idea to have others come and attack us to see what it would be like in an actual battle.

Because I know Luca, if I'm in danger he's not going to have a clear head and he is going to try to protect me which could cause him to get killed.

He's not the only one, I know I would do the same thing, but we needed to learn that we come first. One of us had to get back to our cubs, so that meant we needed to look after ourselves first not worrying about our mate, our other half.