Chapter 252 Let's Go Doggies
Much later, when night fell, everyone gathered at the Maple leaf center as it had been named to cheer on Elroy and his team in a hockey match.
The Su's were all sitting together, wearing winter hats that represented the color of Elroy's team, the doggies as someone named them. These colors were yellow and white, so everyone's winter hat was yellow with white stripes.
The other team, the giants whose colors were blue and white were led by a very unlikely individual, Principal Stash's husband who never said much.
His strategic leadership, despite being a man of few words had led his team to the semi finals and principal Stash had not stopped singing praises of her husband to anyone that cared to listen and unwilling victims who simply greeted her.
At the moment, principal Stash was cheering loudly and waving her hands, flying the giants jersey as high as she could. She was even being shown on the large screens for all to see. Many eyes were on her, including those of the Su's.
"Who needs cheerleaders and mascots when you have her?" Adler asked with a tsk.
"What is wrong with it, she is simply supporting her husband and I think that's a good thing." Scarlet said.
"Does she have to be so loud about it?" Beord asked.
"You want to see loud!!" Scarlet looked at her brothers challengingly and Dorian laughed while Mega groaned.
"I will show you loud." Scarlet said.
She stood up on her feet, got a mega phone from her storage brace let and started chanting.
"Let's go doggies, let's go doggies. woof woof woof."
Adler tugged at her waist and attempted to pull her down while their parents laughed. The cameras had moved away from principal Stash and now they were on Scarlet.
Scarlet waved at the moving drone cameras above she held up the doggies jersey.
Justin the little copy cat who was never too far from his mother jumped up and down, imitating her actions and the cameras moved from Scarlet to Justin who was joined by Halley and Gregor.
"Awww." many people said. Cute children were always loved and welcomed everywhere.
The seats in front of them were occupied by bodyguards and the ones behind them by RGB officers. The two groups were here to protect the governor.
Adler suddenly turned around because someone poked him in the back, and his eyes fell on Amara. She was sitting directly behind him with an ice cream cone in her hands. Whether she would be licking the ice cream or dumping it on Adler's head was yet to be known.
"Oh, this is going to be a long night." Adler groaned.
Whether it was deliberate or not, the cameras stayed on two for a whole minute and Adler longed to break them. Seriously!!! why?
He raised his hands and held his palms up facing upwards as he shrugged in a manner that said, 'What's up?"
Scarlet looked at him and into her megaphone, she said, "Boo."
Adler tried to take the megaphone away and the people laughed.
Suddenly, everyone was booing and Adler bent his head down, and he covered his eyes with his right hand.
"Should we intervene?" Mega asked her husband.
"Why?" Dorian asked.
"He still hasn't told us about her." she said.
"I think Scarlet knows, I saw her waving at Amara. You said that you wanted Adler to get married, maybe this is how." her husband answered.
"But, why are they all acting childish right now?" she asked.
"I think it's fun." Dorian chuckled.
They were having a good time, everyone was smiling and Elroy's team was currently in the lead. All in all, it was a good night so far.
Dorian was right, the match ended with Elroy's team heading to the finals, to face the crushers.
When the family returned to the castle, they all stayed in the common room first, sitting around a large table as a family and talking about the match, the highlights and everything in between.
Elroy was pumped, he was super excited and not even the loose tooth in his mouth could bring him down.
"So is this your thing now Elroy? Getting beat up for sport?" Carolyn asked.
"Hey, I didn't get beat up, I did the beating.' he bragged.
"That game is too rough." Mega complained. She was feeding Illa milk from a bottle and the little one was greedily filling her stomach. "I went through nine months of pregnancy and eleven hours of natural birth just to watch you get beaten up for a small black ball."
She thought watching Scarlet in the mecha fights was hard enough but watching Elroy play hockey was even harder. At least mecha fighters had armor and mechas to shield them from harm but hockey players barely had any usable form of protection.
"It's not a ball ma, it's a puck and it's a black disc, not a ball." Elroy corrected her.
"I don't think that's the point our mother is trying to make." Fey told him.
"Wait till he gets into boxing." Beord said.
Their mother sent a warning glance at Elroy and everyone groaned and glared at Beord. Now, their mother would rant and make herself pitiful while pointing out all the reasons why they were making her age by the day.
"All of you just keep doing whatever you want, nobody cares that I could be staying up all night worried about your futures. The eldest is in an unknown situation with a woman causing gossip all over the empire while the second one stays single, refusing to be set up on dates with respectable young ladies and the eldest daughter dresses like a vagabond and lives in a factory, then their is the married one who went to a pleasure house, the next one is getting beat up black and blue because ordinary jobs just won't do while the one who follows is secretly dating a business man from the capital, while....the young ones are well behaved at least. Did I leave anyone out?" Mega eyed her children one by one while they squirmed and avoided her gaze.
"Well, explain yourselves." Dorian told his children.
"My affairs are not being discussed by the entire empire." Adler mumbled.
"And I want to meet someone and fall in love naturally." Beord said.
"You can't wear long fluffy dresses inside a crafting factory mother, and I do not live in a factory, I have private quarters in only one branch." Carolyn explained.
"I went to the pleasure house for official duties, okay official duties." Scarlet emphasized.
In her case, even her brothers frowned at her and she sighed.
"Ordinary jobs don't suit me, seriously." Elroy shrugged.
"I am not dating Lloyd, I convinced him to open up a branch of Nutri nutrients on the blue star. We are business partners, I am an investor." Fey said shyly.
Mega looked at her adult children, pointed at them and sighed, "I am going to bed, you are making me older by the day, I think I am going to get grey hair."
The young ones went off to bed, while the older siblings remained behind and Scarlet brought some canned beer out of her storage bracelet.
"Let's celebrate Elroy's win." she said.