CHAPTER 207
CHAPTER 207
\[Lexi\]
"Nix's water just broke." Someone shouted from the crowd, and I rushed over to her immediately.
The wolves had won the sparring contest, though only by a tiny margin, and I realized that the panthers were particularly powerful too.
I was surprised when Paige decided to up against Axle, but when they started fighting, I realized why, girl was mad strong, and when she shifted, she completely blew my mind away.
She wasn't black, she had golden fur and black spots like a jaguar or a leopard. I wasn't really sure which one she was, but she sure as hell was strong.
Pierce jumped straight into the crowd and picked Nix into his arms, my heart melted to see how he cared for his pregnant wife.
"Take her to the hospital," Paige advised behind me, and I got out of my stunned state. Elric stayed to keep everyone calm, and Mina stayed with baby Dine while I, Axle, and Brandon followed Pierce and Nix to the hospital.
When we got there, the doctor said she hadn't dilated enough, so we had to wait. She kept screaming in pain when the contractions hit her. Pierce was by her side, holding her hand and telling her just how strong she was and just giving her the support she needed.
"Axle held me in his arms as we watched from the other side of the room, only three people were allowed in, so Pierce, Paige, and her brother Brandon went in with her while Axle and I watched from the glass window outside.
We waited for hours for her to dilate completely so that she could start pushing.
Axle and I strolled the corridors and tried not to panic as we waited, and finally she was ready to give birth. We raced back to the other side of the theater room, and we saw a glimpse of the expectant mother.
Brandon was so white, he looked like he might fall over in fear. Paige had no expression on her face, but she held her sister-in-law's hand in a firm grip. Pierce was a wreck as he struggled to keep his emotions in check, his hair looked disheveled, and he was sweating badly. He looked so helpless, but he did his best to keep the fear out of his face, and he gave her a tight smile on the bed.
"Push." We heard the doctors and the nurses encouraging her as her screams echoed throughout the halls.
She kept pushing, but it did not seem like the baby was ready to come out. She dropped to the bed, sweat and tears pouring down her face, but she had a brave smile on.
The nurses began to dab her face with a cloth and show their support for her as she kept on pushing.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the doctor screamed in joy, and everybody rushed to see the baby.
"You're almost there, I can see the head. Your baby has a full head of hair."
At this point, Brandon had already started crying, and Pierce was failing at keeping the emotion from his face. Paige was also feeling very emotional, and she let one tear slip.
"Push, keep pushing." The doctor encouraged her.
Nix smiled and then started pushing again, she was a really strong woman.
Axle's hand tightened around me as I cried my eyes out, it was a very emotional experience, even more so than Mina's giving birth had been.
Mina giving birth had wasted no time, and in less time than anyone had imagined, she had given birth to baby Dine, it was like she had just gone in and come out with a baby almost immediately.
"There's the baby," the doctor announced shortly, followed by the loud cry of a child.
"Everyone cheered happily as the baby was born, and he was given to his mother. The mother took her child in her hands even though she was exhausted, and she cried tears of joy.
Almost immediately though, she began to scream again, and the baby was immediately snatched from her hands.
"What is it, what is going on?" Pierce asked frantically, but the nurses tried to hold him down.
The doctor checked, and after a second, he looked up again.
"She's having another baby, she's having twins." The doctor announced excitedly.
The second baby wasn't hard to birth, and she pushed it out almost immediately, but something was terribly wrong, the first child was still crying, but there wasn't any sound coming from the second baby.
Everyone began to panic, and we began to fear for the worse. Nix began to wail as the doctor struggled to get the child to breathe.
He held the baby's legs and swung it sideways in the air, tapped the baby's back, and even used suction to clear its nasal regions.
I began to cry sadly as the doctor tried one last attempt to get the baby to cry. The doctor swatted the bottom of the baby two times, and all of a sudden a soft cry filled the air.
The child was alive, a miracle the doctor said, because it had been dead for about twelve minutes.
The nurses took the babies, cleaned them up, wrapped them in a swaddle, and then placed them in a single cot.
Everyone thought Nix had been expecting one child, but it turned out she had twins, and both of them were males. Everyone started to rejoice, and Axle and I rushed into the room to congratulate the new parents.
Here's what I took away, the birth of a child was a real miracle, nobody, not even Nix cared about the pain she had just gone through. All we all cared about now was the new babies.
"Hello, babies." I peaked at them in the cot.
One had really dark hair, while the other had a lighter hair color. I could not really get their features since they were newborns, and they would probably change over the course of the next few months.