Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 570: A father and son.

Chapter 570: A father and son.

Severus was in the underworld, doing something which he rarely did. Something that would send his mother into shock if she saw it with her very own eyes.

He was having a conversation with the father he hated so much or claimed to hate. In the words of Severus to his mother Ruby, male hounds and deities were no different when it came fatherhood. They didn’t deserve it and they sucked at it and his father Argos was a cold cruel bastard.

But, times had changed and there was a lot at stake so he bit his pride, lowered his tail and consulted with the most powerful hound he knew.

It took for a while for his father to accept to meet him, which didn’t surprise Severus. He was the busiest hound in the underworld after all, the Lord of hounds who once guarded the gates of hell himself. He was training other hounds.

The ones that were desperate for his approval, in Severus’s opinion.

When his father did show up outside the path to the lonely tree village, it was after three hours of waiting, for Severus. And when he did show up, he spoke to him in a tone which displeased him immediately.

"You have finally come to your senses pup. Will you be returning to your duties as a gatekeeper of the demon bone mountain?"

Severus snorted. Just as expected, his father started off arrogantly, and with authority in his voice. The way he moved and looked at Severus annoyed him.

He could not help thinking of young Elroy Su and what the man would say. Probably something along the lines of; this motherfucker did not even say hello.

"Greetings father." Severus responded and he lowered his head respectively.

"Come with me pup." His father said.

They teleported away and appeared inside the village, on the roof of Nyx’s house. His father stood at the highest point like an overlord in the village watching over its residents.

Severus had to find a spot closer but at a lower place. No hound could stand above the hound lord. You had to be be below him and maintain a respectful distance. It was not because the hounds revered him, it was because he was violent when angered. In a moment of blind rage, his claws and fangs could do much worse than any demon or monster.

They claimed that his father had been tamed by Nyx but Severus did not think so. Their situation was probably similar to his and Scarlet’s, a relationship which had evolved into mutual respect and dependence.

Severus sometimes wondered if his father probably loved Nyx more than his hound children. He certainly expressed more emotions when he was with the reaper than around everyone else.

"Look down at them, so valiant and proud. They are waking up in anticipation of what is to come. Do you feel it pup? It’s the smell of blood in the air. When did your claws last rip the wings of a life angel apart? Once upon a time, we used to do it for entertainment. After so may centuries, our chance has come at last."

Severus looked down where his father was looking. On top of the lonely river, reapers, hundreds of thousands of them were training, fighting undead creatures in deadly combat.

Many of them were wearing the cloaks with the colors preferred by natural born reapers. They always liked black, red and gold, three colors always.

"You should stop eating like a pig in the human realm and come home for training more often. War is coming and we must all be ready." His father ordered___, not advised, requested or said but ordered.

He always hated it when his father did this, treated him as if he had no mind of his own. When would it end? Why did every conversation with his father feel make him feel small. It always brought him back to his days as a young pup with no sense of direction. But gone were those days.

"You don’t tell me what to do." Severus spat out through gritted teeth.

"I am your lord, not just your sire. My words are a command pup." His father told him. It was not just telling but growling of a command.

His father’s red eyes bore into the side of Severus’s head but the head continued to stare at thr training reapers and refused to look at his father.

If he did, he might be compelled to do as ordered.

"Look at me pup." His father ordered.

"Fuck you." Severus replied.

Severus felt the air move and sensed his father’s claws swiping at his body before they even arrived.

He turned around and roared angrily, as he avoided them. His body suddenly lit up, turning green like Scarlet’s flame.

It shocked his father who was preparing to lunge at him, fangs out ready to bite his own son’s neck and rip him apart for disrespecting him.

Severus stood confidently with his head raised high. It was the second time he was defying his father since his birth. The first was when he resigned as a guard of the demon bone mountain and decided to live as a wandering hound who offered his services for pay.

The second was this very moment, looking into his father’s eyes with pride and unbending will.

Both hounds stared at each other intently as they grew to their true sizes, becoming bigger and more monstrous.

His father, of course was bigger than he was but that didn’t frighten Severus.

"If you want to lose your position as lord hound, I will be glad to help you out father. But as as we both know, the one who dethrones the Lord hound must become the new lord hound and I have no interest in taking over those duties" he said.

"As expected of you pup, duty is meaningless to you. You brought shame on me once by abandoning your duties and again when you refused to take a wife and grow our bloodline by having pups. You don’t know what duty is."

As his father spoke, the two circled around each other. Threatening growls escaped from their throats but none pounced.

"My duty is to protect my reaper. There is a lot more going on in the human realm than you can ever imagine." Severus replied.

It was his assumption that his father was not aware of Scarlet’s present condition. The possibility of his father having this knowledge did not once occur to Severus. After all, how could the lord hound know of such a private matter?

"What kind of power is this pup?" His father asked.

"It’s the special power my reaper has. You should know by now that a reaper that is bonded to a grim reaper gets to share the power of his or her hound and vice versa." Severus replied, quite smug about it.

He flexed his muscles and prepared to lunge. Which hound in the underworld could stop his father from pouncing when he had made up his mind? The flame had simply paused his movement but it was an advantage for him. He had long stopped wondering what Scarlet’s green flame was but now, the curiosity was born again. How powerful was it if it could make his father wary? Maybe it was time to pick up on that research again.