Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"Mother?". Layla said as she walked closer to Audrey who was facing away from the group. All of them suddenly felt like the air around her had changed. And not in a "evolution is done" kind of way, but a sinister way they couldn't understand.

"Growl!"

As soon as she heard Layla's voice, Audrey's nails grew long enough to match her fingers in length. Her canine teeth elongated into vampire teeth. She then turned around and pounced towards the approaching Layla who was caught off guard. As Audrey was about to reach Layla and bite down. Muku who had reacted just in time appeared right in-between them. His arm held out in front of him to stop Audrey. In the heat of the moment he forgot he could just stop her with his telekinesis.

(A/N: That or author-san is just trying to advance the plot. Well whichever it is, I'm sure we can all agree that we're all interested to see where it's going right?)

And so Audrey bit down on his arm. Teeth sinking in, into his flesh. If he hadn't felt the evolution pain, he might have screamed out in pain.

"Ahh!". The girls screamed in shock at this sudden and completely unexpected turn of events. Especially when they noticed Audrey's sinister blood red eyes that lacked intelligence only filled with brutality.

"Wait!". Muku said, raising his free hand when he noticed the girls about to act, likely to attack Audrey. Although he felt warm that they wouldn't mind attacking her for him, he felt that the situation could be controlled with bloodshed..other than his arm's of course. Not to mention Layla who just stood there unmoving with a shocked look on her face, her brain seemed to have crushed or something. The other girls stopped but it could be observed that they were ready to attack at any moment's notice if they sensed anything wrong even if they had to go against Muku's order.

[Lesser vampire venom detected in the bloodstream aiming to turn the individual into a lesser vampire. Unawakened bloodline has been roused. Unawakened bloodline attacking venom source]

The prompt from the IA is the reason why Muku stopped the girls. Since he didn't seem to be in any immediate danger and Hope could heal him easily enough, he took the "wait and see" approach. At the same time wondering what unawakened bloodline the IA was talking about. But then remembered the reward he got for being the first evolver, something about Nihility. Which he had almost forgotten since unlike his telekinesis and metal element, he couldn't sense it. So with this sudden unawakened bloodline he got from nowhere, he assumed they were related in some way.

In Audrey's now empty head a prompt also rang out at the same time.

[Failed to infect target. Unknown blood force attacking individual. Individual's blood is being taken over. Unable to resist. Individual's blood is being mutated.

All this was happening unbeknownst to anyone, Audrey included. If she was conscious to it, she might have panicked.

[Lesser vampire class nullified. New class, influenced by foreign blood force generating. Unique class, Grey-eyed Vampire Queen (Subdued) awakening...]

As soon as the Lesser vampire class was erased. Audrey's consciousness was awakened and put back in control, so she heard what was said after that. She was surprised and confused until the memories from her brief berserk mode hit her. She was distraught by what she did, especially how she was still biting down on Muku's hand even though she was now back in control.

Om Muku's side, here's what he got....

[Lesser vampire successfully subdued and converted. First servant gained. Grey-eyed Vampire Queen (Audrey). Completely unable to disobey Individua. Will die when individual dies. Cannot betray Individual. Unable to to attack individual]

Hearing the prompt Muku's eyes widened in shock. Inside thinking...

{How TF am I supposed to tell my student that I accidentally enslaved her mother!?}

Then a more surprising thing happened. Audrey's blood red eyes suddenly turned grey like his own. Even more, her hair also turned grey. Even more exaggeratedly, when she finally let go of her grip on Muku's arm, her body started to age... backwards!?. She went from looking like a pretty 30 year old lady to a seemingly gorgeous 20 year old girl!. Her fangs still present but seemed more perfect for some reason and her long nails turned a metallic silver looking a lot stronger.

Layla's brain that was about to recover, short-circuited again from seeing this scene. Her mother now looked barely older than her and freakin looked even better than a super model!.

(A/N: Well who knew it was going to get to this!?. I certainly didn't, sigh, kinda wish somebody else was writing it and I was just a reader now. And I'm tooootally not going to create an oyakodon moment^_^)

"Ah, big brother!" Hope who was also marvelling in Audrey's change suddenly noticed a shadow from the corner of her eye and called out to Muku". A LR1 giant python seemed to have been drawn over by either the spider blood or the constant screaming by the girls.

Woosh!

Before anyone could move, Audrey had already disappeared from where she was standing. Most of the group could only see a blurry image of her as she rushed towards the approaching snake.

"Mother!". By the time Layla called out, she was already closer to the beast than them. Her speed was surprisingly around the same as Jade's when she just evolve into a Rank One and used "high quick"!.

Slash!

The next moment, Audrey appeared a bit of distance away from the giant python. Everyone was wondering if she had missed since she hadn't gotten used to the power yet. Well accept for Muku and Jade who had actually seen what had happened, but they were too shocked to say anything.

That's when the rest noticed her right hand she was raising at a ninety degrees angle. Her nails on the hand were now surprisingly at least a metre and a half long, looking like long, thin and sharp metal blades than nails. Then...

Bang!

The snakes large head fell to the ground with a bang, blood cascading out of its neck that had been cleanly divorced from its head.

"Anything that dares threatens my master will be killed". Audrey's cold voice rang out then....

[98 kills left....]

"Ahhh!, what am I saying, so embarrassing!". The same Audrey who looked so cool the moment lost all that cool air when her long nails that didn't have even a single stain of blood on them returned to normal and she she covered her face with her hands screaming in embarrassment. As she squatted down.

"Well....that was". Muku said but didn't know how to finish.

"An epic fail?". Jade finished for him while the others nodded.

Layla smacked her own forehead, embarrassed for her mother who ruined her one moment of being cool. She then smiled and walked to her. She heaved a sigh of relief knowing that despite her exaggerated transformation, her mother had returned back to normal and was still the same from before.

"Mother?" Layla asked, this time she stood a bit of distance away, having learned her lesson from before. Though she no longer sensed the ominous aura from before.

"Y-yes?". Audrey replied, she remembered how she had tried to attack Layla before. If Muku hadn't been there, she might have really hurt her daughter. And for that she couldn't forgive herself and couldn't even bring herself to face her. Not to mention she even bit the hand that fed her, literally, without Muku who knew if they would all be there at that moment and she bit him.

"Don't worry, I know it wasn't your fault, nor was it really you who attacked me before. I'm sure even Sir knows it" Layla knowing her mother immediately said. Over the years she had long figured out Audrey's act due to Audrey's shitty acting skills. So knowing what was going through her head at this moment was easy enough for her.

"R-really?". Audrey asked for confirmation. At this time the others couldn't help but wonder which one of them was the mother. Not to mention Audrey's unmotherly look at the moment.

"Definitely, now lets go back to the stadium and talk. It's not safe here". Layla affirmed with a soft voice.

"Okay". Hearing that, Audrey finally got up and walked toward the group. Her eyes daring not, to look in Muku's direction.

Muku who remembered the prompts left her alone for the moment. He knew that she had gone through a lot in these few minutes so needed time to think to herself without him adding to the trouble.

And so they walked back mostly in silence. Though due to the noise they made before, they encountered a few more LR1s that managed to get Hope, Emily and Chloe's Kill count down to 80 KP needed.

They only managed to reach the stadium late after due to all the battles. But when they did, everyone that saw them was looking their way from a distance. You'd think that it was because of Muku's presence due to what he had done the previous day, but it was actually due to Audrey.

The girl...no, the woman was now so beautiful that all the men were enchanted. She looked like an angel descended down from the heavens above. She was so beautiful that the women didn't even feel jealous, some even wanted her for themselves!.

In fact, if it wasn't because of Muku's deterrent effect, a large crowd would have long formed around her. Her now baggy clothes were just adding to her allure to these people. Hell, if it wasn't because of their newly formed bond, Muku might have also fallen for her newly acquired beauty and charm.

Seeing all those hungry looks on her, Audrey couldn't help feel a bit afraid. And without noticing it, she had moved closer to Muku.

"Hey!, stop there!". Suddenly a male voice was heard from behind them.

When they turned around, they were all surprised to see who it was.