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Surviving Zombies Was Easier Than Raising Beast Cubs

Chapter 174: Can we see Mama? · Oct 31, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: Four Sisters 2026-10-31
152 Chapter 152: There. See? You found something worse than the Rot 2026-10-31
153 Chapter 153: We leaving you with your bad face (Guess what cub said that) 2026-10-31
154 Chapter 154: Oh my God 2026-10-31
155 Chapter 155: Ugh. Ugh. Baby heavy. Miko tired 2026-10-31
156 Chapter 156: The Babies Moved 2026-10-31
157 Chapter 157: Blood Ritual 2026-10-31
158 Chapter 158: The giant just courted your female 2026-10-31
159 Chapter 159: My babies are getting too heavy 2026-10-31
160 Chapter 160: Someone Is Watching Ironwood 2026-10-31
161 Chapter 161: I’m also your baby 2026-10-31
162 Chapter 162: Why is everyone attacking me today? 2026-10-31
163 Chapter 163: If you behave like a lone survivor again, I will tie you to your sleeping mat 2026-10-31
164 Chapter 164: Twin daughters 2026-10-31
165 Chapter 165: Mama says we were cuter when we could not talk 2026-10-31
166 Chapter 166: Ancient subterranean mimic species 2026-10-31
167 Chapter 167: The Water Broke 2026-10-31
168 Chapter 168: I’m having babies 2026-10-31
169 Chapter 169: SOREN, YOU WHITE-SCALED BASTARD! 2026-10-31
170 Chapter 170: I liked that rack 2026-10-31
171 Chapter 171: Mama is going to be angry 2026-10-31
172 Chapter 172: Snake babies 2026-10-31
173 Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone? 2026-10-31
174 Chapter 174: Can we see Mama? 2026-10-31
175 Chapter 175: Tiny Sisters, Tiny Fangs 2026-10-31
176 Chapter 176: Three Minutes to Live 2026-10-31
177 Chapter 177: Why do you always start with me? 2026-10-31
178 Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people 2026-10-31
179 Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking 2026-10-31
180 Chapter 180: What exactly are you talking about? 2026-10-31
181 Chapter 181: The Night Swanly Lost Her Innocence 2026-10-31
182 Chapter 182: You made your males hurt me because you knew I wouldn’t speak 2026-10-31
183 Chapter 183: Hello 2026-10-31
184 Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow! 2026-10-31
185 Chapter 185: Her Last Three Gifts 2026-10-31
186 Chapter 186: Although I remain available for future children 2026-10-31
187 Chapter 187: Talkative prince 2026-10-31
188 Chapter 188: Ancient creatures have terrible eating habits 2026-10-31
189 Chapter 189: What did he do? 2026-10-31
190 Chapter 190: I want a daughter too 2026-10-31
191 Chapter 191: hide-and-feed-the-postpartum-fox 2026-10-31
192 Chapter 192: A missing toof 2026-10-31
193 Chapter 193: DEER PAPA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
194 Chapter 194: Snake Papa Is A Bully 1 2026-10-31
195 Chapter 195: Snake Papa Is A Bully 2 2026-10-31
196 Chapter 196: DEER PAPAAAA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
197 Chapter 197: Miko made it fall out! 2026-10-31
198 Chapter 198: Snake babies were monsters 2026-10-31
199 Chapter 199: Did you just copy me? 2026-10-31
200 Chapter 200: She poisoned someone 2026-10-31

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Can we see Mama?

Wrapped them in whatever soft hide he could find.

Selka lay exhausted against the wall.

Three tiny cubs cried against her.

Brann stared at them.

His face crumpled.

For one moment, neither remembered the cage.

The betrayal.

The hatred.

The future.

He touched one tiny head.

”They’re alive.”

Selka closed her eyes.

”Yes.”

Brann stayed beside her.

Even after everything.

And that somehow hurt more than if he had left.

...

Swanly was alone.

Not truly.

Her daughters were with her.

That made her more terrified.

The battle had shifted farther away.

Then closer.

Then farther again.

She could hear gunfire now.

Her weapons.

Good.

Nahla had made it.

Kael had not returned.

Soren had not returned.

The system was still gone.

Fantastic timing.

Swanly adjusted herself against the wall.

Pain immediately shot through her lower body.

”Fuck.”

One daughter whimpered.

Swanly softened.

”No, no.”

She reached over.

Touched the tiny cheek.

”Mama is here.”

The word hit differently now.

Mama.

Not because cubs had adopted her.

Not because she had inherited someone else’s children and then fallen hopelessly in love with them.

These two had grown beneath her heart.

She had felt every kick.

Every movement.

She had pushed them into the world.

Another crash sounded outside.

Swanly raised the gun.

The entrance darkened.

A Veilkin appeared.

Blood coated its mouth.

Swanly aimed.

”Try it.”

It lunged.

BANG!

The bullet caught it in the chest.

It stumbled.

Kept coming.

Swanly fired again.

It hit the floor.

Another appeared behind it.

”You have got to be fucking kidding me.”

BANG!

Swanly’s wrist hurt from recoil.

Her body was exhausted.

Her thighs shook.

She was still bleeding.

She should have been sleeping.

Instead, she was shooting subterranean mimic monsters while two newborns screamed beside her.

Zombie apocalypse Swanly would have laughed until she died.

The second Veilkin ducked.

Smart.

It came low.

Swanly missed.

”Shit.”

It rushed the babies.

Something inside her snapped.

She dragged the basket toward her with one arm.

The creature grabbed the edge.

Swanly grabbed it too.

”No.”

It pulled.

Her body screamed.

She refused.

”NO!”

Its claws reached toward the crying infant.

Swanly slammed the gun into its hand.

The creature hissed.

She fired point-blank into its shoulder.

BANG!

Blood sprayed her bedding.

Still it fought.

Swanly bared her fox fangs.

”You want my baby?”

She kicked it directly in the face.

Pain ripped through her.

She screamed.

The Veilkin fell backward.

Swanly raised the weapon.

”You can fucking die for her.”

BANG!

The creature dropped.

Swanly collapsed back.

Her chest heaved.

One daughter started crying louder.

Swanly looked at her.

”Yeah.”

WAAAAAAAH!

”I know.”

WAAAAAAAH!

”This night is terrible.”

The baby screamed harder.

Swanly laughed weakly.

”At least we agree.”

...

Kael fought his way back.

He had chased one Veilkin.

Killed it.

Then found three more.

Killed one.

Got clawed across the side by another.

Broke the third’s leg.

Finished both.

Then heard gunfire from Swanly’s shelter.

His blood went cold.

He ran.

He reached the entrance.

Stopped.

Bodies.

Three of them.

Swanly sat against the wall.

White hair wild.

Face exhausted.

Blood on her clothing.

Gun in one hand.

Two tiny bundled babies beside her.

Alive.

She looked up.

Saw him.

Smiled.

Kael nearly collapsed.

”You took your time.”

He crossed the space in seconds.

Dropped beside her.

His hands hovered.

Afraid to touch.

Afraid she might break.

”Swanly.”

”I’m okay.”

His eyes found the blood.

”You are not okay.”

”I’m alive.”

He looked at the daughters.

One yawned.

Kael’s face broke.

Swanly touched his cheek.

”You came back.”

”Always.”

Then Soren appeared.

He was bleeding from his side.

White hair stained dark.

Silver eyes furious.

He entered.

Saw Swanly.

Saw Kael.

Saw the babies.

Stopped.

Everything vanished from his face.

Swanly watched the terrifying ruler of Ironwood become completely still.

”Soren.”

His eyes lowered to the newborns.

”My...”

His voice failed.

Swanly smiled tiredly.

”Your daughters.”

One baby moved.

Tiny face scrunched.

Soren crouched.

Slowly.

Almost afraid.

He touched one little hand.

Her fingers curled around his claw.

Soren stopped breathing.

Kael looked away.

Giving him the moment.

Swanly noticed that too.

Soren’s throat moved.

”They are small.”

Swanly laughed weakly.

”They came out of me. Be grateful.”

His eyes flicked toward her.

Something suspiciously soft entered them.

Then he saw the dead Veilkin.

Three.

His expression changed.

”You killed these?”

Swanly lifted the gun slightly.

”I was busy.”

Soren stared at her.

Kael stared at her.

Swanly sighed.

”Do not start.”

Both males said:

”You just gave birth.”

She closed her eyes.

”Wonderful. Now there are two of you.”

...

The retreat began before dawn.

The Veilkin realized it first.

Ironwood had not broken.

The old sealed ground remained protected.

Druun still stood.

Thalara still had roots beneath the soil.

Soren was alive.

Raku was alive.

Arion’s fighters had not collapsed.

And now the beastmen had weapons that punched holes through bodies from a distance.

One Veilkin screamed something in a language nobody understood.

Another answered.

Then they began diving back toward the damaged tunnels.

Raku roared:

”THEY’RE RETREATING!”

”DO NOT FOLLOW BELOW!” Soren shouted.

That order saved lives.

Ironwood held.

Barely.

The settlement looked ruined.

Broken shelters.

Blood-dark soil.

Collapsed racks.

Cracked paths.

Bodies covered in hides.

Wounded everywhere.

Some crying.

Some staring silently.

Some calling names that would never answer.

But Ironwood still stood.

...

Inside the cub shelter, nobody celebrated.

Mora sat against the wall with her shoulder wrapped.

Tilla had blood dried beside her mouth and a swelling bruise across one side.

Ena held Lumi tightly.

Sari’s back had been bandaged after she returned from helping outside.

Two additional females guarded the broken floor opening.

The cubs were alive.

All of them.

Kairo sat beside Nilo.

His brave little posture was gone.

Nilo had both arms around his knees.

Tavi was pressed against Tilla.

Lumi clung to Ena’s side.

Miko sat quietly.

That was how everyone knew he was scared.

No jokes.

No climbing.

No declarations about bravery.

His dirty little hands rested in his lap.

Eventually he looked at Tilla.

His voice came small.

”Can we see Mama?”

Silence.

Tilla looked at him.

”You...”

She stopped.

Miko’s ears lowered.

”I just want Mama.”

That was it.

Nilo started crying first.

Quietly.

His face crumpled and he hid it against Kairo.

Kairo tried to stay strong.

He lasted three seconds.

”I want Papa.”

Lumi heard him.

Then she started.

”I want Mama.”

Ena immediately pulled her close.

Tavi buried his face against Tilla.

Other cubs heard.

One cried for her father.

Another for his mother.

Then another.

Within seconds the entire room became one enormous wave of frightened children finally allowing themselves to break down.

Miko stared.

His bottom lip trembled.

”Oh.”

Tilla looked at him.

He lowered his head.

”I made everyone cry.”

She wanted to scold him.

Really.

She did.

Instead, she reached out.

Miko immediately crawled into her lap.

Kairo and Nilo followed.

Tilla had no idea how her bruised body ended up holding three panther cubs, her own mink cub, and half of Lumi.

But she held them.

”Your mama is alive.”

Miko sniffed.

”Really?”

”Yes.”

”Papa?”

”Alive.”

”Snake Papa?”

Tilla sighed.

”Unfortunately, yes.”

Miko gave one watery laugh.

There.

Better.

Tilla kissed the top of his dusty head.

”You are all going to see them.”

”When?”

”When the healers say.”

Miko looked miserable.

”That takes forever.”

”It has been ten breaths.”

”Forever.”

Tilla closed her eyes.

Her shoulder hurt.

Her ribs hurt.

Her head hurt.

She had nearly died three times.

And somehow this was still the hardest job in Ironwood.

...

In Swanly’s shelter, dawn had barely begun touching the entrance.

Kael sat beside her.

Soren sat on the other side.

For once, neither argued.

Between them lay two newborn girls.

Tiny.

Warm.

Alive.

Swanly could barely keep her eyes open.

The battle was over.

Her family was alive.

Ironwood still stood.

Then one of the newborns scrunched her tiny face.

Opened her mouth.

And screamed.

WAAAAAAAAAH!

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