Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

The next morning, around 7 AM. The group was already up and were walking out of the stadium....

"Okay, I've had it with this stadium, it has no working shower!". Jade complained with a frown on her face as she sniffed herself. Being an evolver she didn't sweat as much as a normal person would. Hell, she barely sweated at all, but because of her hypersensitive sense of smell, she could still smell the faint scent of sweat on her.

The others nodded in agreement, while Audrey felt quite embarrassed, she hadn't bathed since the day of the apocalypse. Luckily for her, her sweat didn't stink or she would have had no face to be so close to the others.

(A/N: Apparently, some people, especially in South Korea, don't have stinky sweat)

"If that's the case, lets rap up here and continue with our journey. Your house is next if I'm correct, right?" Muku replied

"Y-yeah". Jade didn't sound too happy about the prospect of going to her house next actually.

The others all understood what she was thinking though. There was a high chance that she will likely end up in the same situation as Hope and she didn't know if she could take it. No one said anything about her mother being fine, as they felt promising her anything in such an uncertain time period could only lead to greater pain for her in the future. And so they continued their hunt in silence. Though Audrey had walked closer to Jade and held her hand as they walked. Jade accepted the gesture and they continued walking forward in silence. Having Audrey around really had a calming effect on all the girls...of course her new appearance still made them feel a bit awkward.

....

Around an hour later....

They had realised that although they couldn't go too far, Jade's house was actually close enough for them to reach on that very day. So they chose to go seeing that since it was mentioned, Jade had been really down, which dulled the moral of the whole group as she was their fire cracker. Even if they couldn't manage to return in time, they were strong enough to sleep outside anyway. And they all knew that there was basically no chance of finding Jade's mother home, what they hoped for was a letter like the one Layla got which would give them a clue of where to look.

(A/N: Kills Left= KL)

They had met a few MR1s which managed to get Emily, Chloe, Layla and Hope's KL to an even 80. The girls gave each other opportunities to kill the enemies so that they could all equally benefit. As for Audrey, she.... couldn't remember how she got her nails so long before and so with embarrassment, could only stand at the side lines trying to make her ability work. Jade said she will kill the later ones and no one could force her to kill after all. Muku was just a bystander considering he had 64 KL so felt that it was best to give the others this chance.

"Well, this is new". Muku said looking at the twenty one metre tall giant rats in front of them, squeaking at them and seemingly readying to attack. He and his group had walked in on their meal on a dead giant python.

"Yeah, I was starting to think that there were only snakes, spiders and lizards here....now that I think about it, it only makes sense for there to be giant rats here". Layla replied to him also suprised.

"What do you mean it makes sense?". Hope asked, she didn't get it.

"Probably that, since there are lizards and spiders, then snakes should also have their opposite around, hence the rats" Chloe replied to her first before anyone else could.

"Oh, that does make sense, but how come we didn't see them now though?". She asked confused again.

"I'm not sure, probably usually stay in hidden spots or the author just thought to add them just now, well either way, they are here now. And they don't look happy to be interrupted". Chloe answered her again with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Ah, you're probably right...wait did you just say the au..."

"No time they are are coming!"

Before she could finish her sentence, Hope was interrupted by Muku's shout. As for why they were being taken seriously, well...all of them were LR1. Although relatively easy foes for their current selves, the rats were a new kind of enemy so didn't know what tricks they could suddenly pull out, so extra caution was needed.

"Ice walls!". Layla called out and two thick, two metres tall ice walls rose from the ground on both their sides leaving a narrow two metres wide gap in-between for the rats to attack them from.

"Mom, this is your chance!". That's right, Layla was doing this to make things easier for her mother, who felt like digging a hole right there and then and hide for needing her daughter to take care of her like this.

"But I still can't..."

"Here". Before Audrey could finish talking and say that she still couldn't elongate her nails like before. Muku interrupted her and handed her a silver rapier.

"Sigh, fine". She could only take it with a sigh, honestly she really didn't like killing. Especially now when her life was no longer in danger. Which was why her nails weren't elongating, she was stopping herself subconsciously, but wasn't aware of it yet.

"Jade, you join her". Muku said while looking at Jade with a smile.

"Sigh, fine". Also like Audrey, she wasn't willing, though for a different reason, her mood was just out of it. But seeing Muku's smile she couldn't bring herself to refuse.

And with that, the two close combatants of the team sped forward, their speeds neck and neck. Seeing this, Jade's competitive nature was stimulated and her speed increased. She had only been half hearting it before. She used her high quick and I'm less than a thirty seconds, ten rats were dead. If the rats had some form of secret weapon, they definitely didn't get a chance to use it before they died. She then ran back to the group. leaving the rest for Audrey, her mood her visibly improved too.

[78 kills left....]

(A/N: Take the KL with a grain of salt, I don't know if I remember correctly)

Audrey seeing Jade's feat that she knew she couldn't do also felt her blood boiling and in her long baggy black dress ran forward. She wanted to kill them all as fast as possible and see how close to Jade's strength she was. Though quite frankly even if they were equally strong, she probably wouldn't stand a chance against Jade who had quite a decent amount of experience on her side.

And so, the end result of Audrey's boiling blood was taking around three minutes to kill the ten rats. It appeared the rats didn't have any special skills after all. But still, Audrey couldn't help but mope afterwards.

She had realised the gap between her and Jade, both in strength and experience, Jade made it look so easy, while she ended up getting scratched left and right before she got the job done. Though the scratches were shallow, they were still embarrassing, an old lady like her showing such a pathetic display in front of children, how shameful!.

(A/N: The above is basically Audrey's thoughts, and a lot of people who aren't actually that old call themselves old, so don't read too much into it)

[88 kills left....]

"Umm Hope dear, could you please he.." Audrey was speaking as she walked toward the group, wanting ask Hope to heal her wounds. When suddenly her fangs made a sudden appearance as she passed a rat Jade killed and before she knew it she was already biting into it. And a shocking scene happened, all the scratches on her skin miraculously started disappearing.

"Is that safe?". Jade asked while looking at Audrey like the rest.

"Well, it seems to be healing her body so I'd say yeah... maybe. A bit unsavoury maybe but, as long as it works I guess." Muku replied also looking at Audrey who was now getting up with horrified look in her eyes, also shocked by what she had done.

"What, what was that?, am I still a monster?" Audrey asked no one in particular.

"No I don't think you are a monster, more of because of your lack of control on your abilities they are basically doing whatever they want with your body...I suspect that you're subconsciously rejecting them. Which, with your special class that seems to have basically altered your race, might be quite bad". Muku replied her.

Hearing him, Audrey calmed down a bit at least she now had an idea of what was going on. Like he said, she had been internally feeling quite disgusted by her vampire class. Though, because of Muku's interference, her class no longer needed her to consume blood to survive and would only need it under certain circumstances like now, she still felt disgusted with being a vampire. But now seeing how it was causing her problems, she knew she had to find a way to accept her new self, after all, if she didn't become it, she would have definitely died in a little while.

Squeak! Squeak!

Bang! Bang!

Just as Audrey was still stuck in thought and the others were waiting for her to collect herself. Two loud squeaks were heard from outside the walls of ice. And before the group could make sense of it, the walls were both broken through a distance away from Audrey and two large rat heads could be seen coming through, one on each side.

"Well damn!, two PR1s here!?". Muku voice cried out.