Queen had had a busy day, Snake and Frog had gotten to their newest escapade and had tried to tame a warp hare, they captured the poor thing and brought it inside where it proceeded to make a mess of the house as it teleported randomly trying to escape finally ending up caught in one of the traps on the stairs and dying freezing after getting hit by one of the snow lizard teeth traps set up by the twins. After the incident she had to calm down the twins as they got upset that their newest pet died, while also putting Pawn back to sleep whom had woken up due to the noise. She then had to take the hare and process it so that they could eat it before it turned into an ice-block, fortunately the Snow Lizard venom acted slowly if the tooth it came from was not attached to the animal.
As she got done cooking almost as if perfectly timed came a knock on the door, as it rung through the apartment everyone fell silent, she readied herself gathering her power looking at the large brown door, then a second knock came a few seconds later and the tension in the apartment dissolved, the twins quickly opened the large door and jumped on king who caught them mid air ready for their assault. The young man had snow stuck in his wavy red hair that barely surpassed his shoulders, his face was reddened a bit sunburnt from being outside probably, he was wearing a large jacket and some sturdy pants, his bow and arrows tied on his back, his eyes darted between the twins and then met hers, they always reminded her of spring, green as the first sprouts and buds. She watched as he wrestled the twins onto the ground where they quickly overtook him as he played the role of a loosing monster, quickly the twins were victorious and snow covered the entire living room. "God why can't you ever brush yourself off downstairs." She scoffed jokingly at King who had been released by the twins and had started to unclothed himself of the heavy winter garments. " Ooooo Mom is mad" Replied the teen jokingly crouching near the twins who started laughing at the comment. "Quick get to the table its time to eat" she said taking the pot filled with hare stew off the stove. Most appliances had stopped working, all of those who required a connection to a network or to electricity, thankfully Tower had a knack for tinkering and managed to have the stone be powered by the gems.
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The gems were the hearths of the monsters, all of them had on or multiple and if you destroyed them they died, thankfully all the monsters could also be killed by normal means as most of them resembled animals.
Soon the entire family was at the table eating King sat at one end with the twins sat one at each of his sides as he took care of them so that they did not make a mess at the table, tower sat next to snake and pawn next to him, the brothers were always together and even during meals tower took expert care of pawn who rarely caused a ruckus even in his young age, Queen sat opposite Tower and started eating last after serving everyone a portion. "So how was it outside today?" Asked tower whit his deep voice and African accent. "Good" replied King as he gulped down a large piece of hare followed by a swig of water "Clean, no clouds, looks like it wont snow for a bit, the wolves are moving through the east side of town following the deer" he continued "I tried to get one but they are on high alert" King was an adept hunter, he had learned young from his father and had become only better since the doom, his senses had heightened to superhuman levels along with his strength and speed "I should go with you" said tower who had already finished his meal "We can get on if we work together, even with the wolves around" King shook his head "Wolves are not a problem, the big guy is walking around, he scares all the prey"
The big guy Queen thought to herself, it was the only real monster that inhabited the area, a large lizard like animal with a stocky body and six legs, it was two times taller than a man and it could breathe frost, in reality it was just a large snow lizard but its size made it formidable, it scales where thick and hard to pierce and even at his size it was very fast it was not something to be underestimated "you should not go out tomorrow" she told king who was cleaning the faces of the twins with a cloth "I have a meeting with the Abbot, gems for firewood remember ?" He replied calmly "I wonder what he does with them, I mean he probably has someone like tower who can build stuff with them but still he keeps asking for more and more" the young man said getting up from the table. " I do not like him " she replied also getting up and clearing the table of the plates and silverware, "I know" king said embracing her from behind and kissing the back of her head softly "I know"