The Omegas that have given birth to the hybrid pups decided to throw one huge party for them all. They were all about a day or two apart from one another, and felt it would just be easier than having separate birthday parties for all five hybrid pups.

The party was being held at the waterfall, and due to the rain they have had for the past few days it was a little muddy and a little flooded. No matter, the babies and the children still got to enjoy a swim and play in the mud. Some of the parents weren't too keen on their babies playing in the mud, with the fear of bacteria, but Kihyun and Mark and Hansol could care less.

"Just don't eat it and we'll be alright," Mark pleads to his daughter as he sits Sumi down in the mud, she squeals and splashes along in it with the other kids.

Kihyun just sits Minjun with Sumi, both babies babbling to one another as they were being watched carefully. Minjae refuses to let his son down near the mud and water edge, not wanting to risk the chance of him crawling to the water and trying to take a swim but drown. He was a bit of an overprotective parent.

He held his baby close, his son wanting to wiggle out of his grip and play with the other babies but Minjae wasn't having it. He instead hands the baby over to his mother who coos and tickles the baby, only for the baby to start crying and reaching for the other babies to play. She checks to see if her son was looking before walking over to the babies who were being watched by Changkyun and Youngjae.

She hands Hyunki to Youngjae, the baby instantly calms down and splashes in the water happily when Youngjae sets him down. She smiles, blowing the baby a kiss before walking away. Mark wasn't as protective as Minjae, he let Sumi be independent when she wants to, to an extent of course. He just didn't want his baby getting sick from eating mud.

Hansol on the other hand let his babies do whatever they want. If they ate mud, they ate mud. If they wanted to swim, he'd ask one of the Betas in the water if they'll watch them or hold onto the twins to swim. Kihyun was the same way considering this was his second baby, but he still had issues with mud eating or his baby getting too close to the waterline. He knows Youngjae or Changkyun is watching them well, but he didn't quite trust his son's split second decisions.

Minjae.....

Minjae didn't like Hyunki being alone, didn't like letting him out of his sight, and didn't like him getting dirty and was a high class germaphobe when it came to his son. When they go somewhere, he holds his son the entire time and after someone's handled (which he barely lets anyone hold him but his mom's an exception) he wipes him clean with a baby wipe.

So, when he turned back to see his mother sitting in a lawn chair sun bathing... without his son.... with a beer in her hand... he nearly had a heart attack. He walks over to her, his heart racing, "Where's Hyunki?"

She removes her sunglasses, pointing to the mud pile where the babies were having fun, including the said baby boy he loved so much. Minjae gasps, "Mom! Why!?"

He was about to march over there and snatch his son up in his arms, but his mother grabs his hand, "Babe, he's a year old. He just wanted to play-"

"Mom! Germs!" Minjae tried getting through to her, "He'll get sick! I don't want my baby getting sick!"

"If he gets sick, his body will build immunity to germs," she points out, "If you wrap your baby in bubble wrap, they'll still get hurt honey. Same goes for keeping him clean and away from sick people, if you don't let him build immunity to germs he can get really, really sick."

Minjae frowns, looking over at his baby to see him squealing and splashing. He was just so happy, his happy little baby was enjoying being dirty and playing with the other babies. Minjae sighs, feeling a cold bottle in his hands and looks down to see an unopened beer bottle handed to him by his mother, "Sit down and relax a little. You have free time to enjoy before they have cake. Besides, do you want to rip your baby away from what's making him so happy?"

Minjae pouts, thinking about the bath he'll have to give his son later, "No."

"Loosen the reigns a little and chill," she chuckles, "sit down and drink a beer with me."

"Changkyun! Don't let her put that in her hair!" Mark cries, running over Sumi and not making it in time as the baby girl smears mud all in her hair. Mark sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. Luckily for him, Jackson picks the baby girl up, carry her to the water and bathed all the mud off of her.

Minjae makes a face, looking to see that even though his son has been stripped down to his diaper and sitting in the mud, he's made no effort to smear it on himself or his head. He's thankful for that. Pretty soon, they all set up the cake and candles for all babies to share, and one by one all babies get bathed off from their mud fest.

They had one huge cake for the babies to tear into, Areum and Munhee tore into it like champs. Sumi pokes it a couple times and eats the icing off of her fingers before grabbing a handful of cake and eating it for herself. Minjun was spoon fed cake by Kihyun, already giving him a few baths from the mud he really didn't want to do it again with cake. As for Hyunki, instead of Minjae feeding him, he let his baby feed himself and tear into his first birthday cake.

Hyunki lays his head on the cake, Minjae cringing as Hyunki buries his face in the icing and eats it with no hands. Minjae gets a pat on his back by Mark, the mother knowing how protective Minjae is and how clean he prefers to have his son. Minjae just watches as his son covers himself in icing and cake, knowing good and well he's getting a bath first thing when they all get back to the pack house.

This wasn't a bad day for the hybrid babies first birthday.

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