What appears like a drunken hanged over male is seemingly peacefully sleeping on the back of a rather large fluffy skunk beast. Interestingly enough, no matter how high or how edgy the beast moves, the male with the black colored fur cloth placed securely around his eyes has never fallen off... nor did he ever wake up from all those bumps... well at least during the day.

Beside them runs an envious looking pale white hair male who also secretly wishes to be sleeping while on this journey, instead of constantly running every day.. Croc beasts aren't meant for so much stamina. (Author's note: Anyone remembering having to run during gym class?)

In front of the upset skunk beast and the tired croc beastmen runs a happy Adan in his wolf beast form.  He's been in this mood since he became aware that the almost four marked male would probably never become the alpha head male. Why? Tadaaa the answer is... daylight!! That male's complete and utter weakness is the day. Day for the Bat Beasts means sleep and blindness, while night for them is their territory.

And so while daytime means happiness, nighttime is the polar opposite for Adan.

On top of this early morning running wolf lies a drowsy Suki currently held securely by Leo, for the nights always seem to be filled with excitement and thrills from a certain black bellied male. (Author's note: In asian novels 'black bellied peeps' are those that are usually villains or the main male lead because they're, I quote, 'secretly quite evil/sly/manipulative').

For those curious in wanting to know about the oolalah moment. Well, during the mating ritual that happened between the visibly nervous Suki and the smirking just out of the river bathed Badrick, he conveniently placed, ugh, bite her on the neck. Where he directly sucked just a tad bit of her previous life giving blood, a terrifying flying bat tattoo slowly appeared while Suki went through the feelings and emotions of shock, horror (she actually thought she'd be his meal in a literal sense), pain, and finally ecstasy. An amazing fact that Suki is now aware of about these blood sucking beasts is that since there are so but so many males born in their clan, they have developed the ability to place their mark wherever they wish when sucking.. Err mating with their chosen female.

Now, back to Suki's family. They have been traveling about two weeks since they left the Baturri Tribe. During that time, they have met other tribes on their journey further down south and have found these tribes to decline in joining the war. One of their reasons was that they conveniently thought that the Ape King wouldn't reach them. That half-hearted excuse, along with Suki's new darkingly sexy handsome family member threatening appearance has stopped several of these tribe's leaders from asking her to take in some of their single males.

The latter's appearance and personality toward other single males have made Radu and Leo rejoice in that Suki would be able to take some rest from adding another family member. However, they still took turns at night to make sure that the mosquito wouldn't feed on them! For the rest of their lives they would never forget how some of those warriors' faces morphed into ugly deadly starving beasts!

(Insert image of Morbius when he literally goes bat hungry -look him up).

In one of their last stops, they have finally come across the land of the famous merchant horse beasts and of the sky warriors known as the raptor beasts. In other words, at this place the Yellow Meadow Tribe rules both land and sky.

"Please join us," politely says a young female with wavy sun kissed hair toward the curious and dirty looking black wavy hair female. 

"Yes!" cough, "I mean, yes, I'd love to come where you and the others bathe," responds Suki as she scratches the tip of her nose to hide her embarrassment.

Finally I can truly bathe again without the worry of my males trying to hide my body from other beastmens!!

Giddily and somewhat shy, I walk over to the group of gorgeous females while behind growls in joy Tikvah as he passes us in a blur heading straight to the closest river. Getting near he soon then morphs into his beast and dives into the river, scaring a few horse beasts that were drinking water from there. After the body of water calmed down, even from here we witnessed how some of Tikvah's happy bubbles floated up.

Throughout this scene I couldn't help but blush and laugh loudly, "it hasn't rained for a while in our journey so my male really wanted to soak it in."

The group of females just blinked their eyes in astonishment. Not sure if it was because my male was a crocodile beast or because I didn't reprimand him. Either way, Radu and Leo chose this moment to walk toward the same river while muttering, "we might as well get ourselves clean too."

Wondering why Adan didn't go with them, looking behind I see him trying to hold in a scowl while trying to push off a clingy yet miraculously sleeping Badrick from his back. Mmm, I see, my nice head male decided to help Radu take off our new family member from his back and ended up like this.

Oh well, time for my bath!

Smiling in happiness I waved him off as I finally walked away with the now laughing group of females.

—------------- change of scenery —-------------

Now I'm smelling wonderful and my hair finally smells fresh! Ahhh and my cloths, oh my gosh, they smell like new! Well, kidding on the last part. My cloths are tearing up and looking pretty bad but hey at least they're clean.

Wait a minute.

I'm in merchant land!! Buahahahhaa, time for shopping!!

"Arina, can you show me where your tribe sells female cloths?"

"Most certainly," smiles the sun-kissed hair female as she signals to the direction of their village.

"Thank you," I smiled back as my eyes began to glitter with what clothe styles they might have.

As we left the other females behind who chose to sunbathe, Arina asked simple questions such as if I wanted a one piece or two piece and described how some of their cloths are decorated with shiny stones, clams, or patches of other fur.

Nice.

Walking closer to the village, we came across what appears like a stone stadium filled with the villagers pointing and exclaiming at what looks like a show of stallions and large bird beasts.

Noticing where I was looking, Arina gently laughed, "it's mating season for the horse beastmen, in this place the single males would show off their beauty, promising skills, and crafts to us females. Would you like to look?"

Crafts? Heck yeah, I may not be choosing a male today (as far as I know I won't have to choose one) but maybe I can buy their innovative products, hehehe.

Nodding my head in agreement, we chose to sit in the middle section of the left side of the stadium while giggling at the poses some of the males did and at how some of the females fought for their attention. You know, the whole booty out posture and flipping of hair.

"So, in your tribe if there's more than one female that's interested in said male and said male can't decide with which female he wants to follow, then the females have to battle each other?" I asked in surprise as I saw how two half-female raptors screeched in warning at each other.

That screeching went to a full on fight filled with sharp talons as the male just stood to the side smiling serenely as he watched who would win him.

Arina nods her head as she takes another bite of a fruit, "I haven't had my estrus yet but I can't wait to fight for my chosen male."

Noticing my astonished face, she then points her chin to a reddish brown stallion beast with black long hair and black legs.

"You see him.. He's one of our four marked males."

"Four marks!" I yell with my mouth wide open. "Ha, how?" Oh gosh, could this be the tribe where Sheila might've come across if she wasn't pregnant? If so... I should try fighting for him!

"Well, one of the reasons our males travel a lot is to also get stronger," she winks as she completely ignores my now rising fighting spirit.

"Anyway, back to him, he's been there every mating season but no winning female has gotten his attention. That's how the rest of the four marked males are or were... ". Now, I'm deflated and my stomach seems to be hurting, is this the jitters of about what I'm going to stupidly do?

Well, there's no better place than to find my future head male! Fight!

Chapter originally written and published on December 30, 2021 in Watt p ad. Time: 15:41