A/N: This is set after the "My Kingdom" ending (although having romanced Sam the most of all the guys up to Malix's defeat). For those who don't know about it, you make a deal with Diana after the boys leave, your memories for power. She agrees, turns you into a demon (a succubus) and sends you to her castle in the Abyssal Plains. By the way, I renamed Mika "Kathy" (short for "Katheryn").

My Kingdom

1 – My End Is My Beginning

"What if I traded them to you instead? You seem like a reasonable business woman. A trade is better than forcing me to give in, right?"

Kathy was desperate, her mind shifting quickly through everything she had been able to read about Demon Magic since that fateful morning at her grandfather's study. It wasn't much, she knew, and everything more or less counted on Diana being willing to listen in the first place... Seeing as she was currently being hanged over a pit of death, Kathy could see serious faults on said guess, and yet, her only hope was betting in Diana being forgiving enough to listen to reason. Demon Magic worked better with consent, after all.

"... Well? Speak your terms. What do you want in exchange?"

It took every bit of the supposedly-future-CEO in Kathy to keep her face neutral, and her relieved sigh trapped on her throat. Diana was willing to listen, and that was already a huge advance. But she was still dangling over a beast ready to devour her, so Kathy couldn't allow herself the luxury to relax yet.

"Well, what can you give me in return for them"?

It was a stalling question, or maybe it would be better to call it "testing the grounds", because Kathy knew already exactly what she wanted. Power. Power to be able to defend herself, better than with taekwondo or the few spells she had managed to memorize from her grandfather's journals. Power so no one would ever again be able to dangle her over her death. And yet, she was negotiating, so she knew it would be better to act with care around the issue, unless Diana herself proposed it.

"I'm a demon. I can give you anything within reason: money, men, women, power. Name it. Just make it worth the price."

Kathy was almost giddy. She had! Diana had actually proposed it herself! Now the trick would be to try to sound as neutral as possible. Her desperation would only leave her vulnerable, and in her current situation, that could prove fatal.

A part of her mind breezed through the other proposals, an automatic instinct on her telling to always consider all the options, and yet it was easy to discard them. Money? She had more than enough on royalties for Anderson's Toys' products alone, without even taking into account the fortune her grandfather had been saving into an account for her alone since her birth. Men? After Sam and his brothers, she sincerely doubted that anyone else could be enough.

Sam and her had only made out, yes, and yet even that was enough to show her that no one could ever make her feel like he had made her feel. Even before, when he took her first kiss and Erik her second, a part of her had already known that after them, there could be no one else. Everyone would pale, mere shadows to the magnificence she had experienced already. Even if she lost her memories of the Incubi brothers, Kathy knew that her body, at the very least, would always note the paleness.

"Power."

She kept it simple. She also felt slightly proud at the fact that her voice hadn't wavered at all.

"What kind of power?"

"Anything. I just want to have it."

It was easier to say than to admit how blank her mind had become, seeing the safety so near. Diana seemed agreeable, so... Maybe...?

"Hahaha... you want power, but don't know what kind of power you want... interesting human..."

Kathy wanted to retort, something like What I really want is for that beast at my feet to disappear and you to leave me the hell alone, but her self-preservation instinct kept her from doing so. Being so close to salvation, jeopardizing their negotiations in any way that might push Diana to simply throw her into her beast's waiting throat would be beyond foolish. Certainly not something her mind would allow.

Of course, Diana walking over her and gripping her chin put an extra level of stress on Kathy, for she had noticed Diana's examining glance, and was fairly unsure of what, exactly, did the succubus think she would find. Her eyes seemed to almost glow as her demonic stare looked Kathy's, which both scared her and made her feel warm and fuzzy, which made her internally curse the enthrallment she was still so very vulnerable to.

Just when Kathy was starting to wonder if Diana wasn't just toying with her hopes for fun, the succubus nodded her head, a small smirk painting her face. It was almost foreboding. Which wasn't really soothed by her next words.

"Well... since you didn't specify what kind of power... Very well, human. Power you want, so power you shall have."

Diana snapped her fingers, which caused a large beam of purple and black light to shoot up from the pit beast below Kathy. She became consumed by it, shutting her eyes tightly. The world around her became dark and she didn't want to open her eyes for any reason, fearing her impending death via pit beast.

And yet... She couldn't feel herself fall. She couldn't even feel her own body. Darkness surrounded her and she felt weightless in its embrace.

Was that her wish? Where was she? Was she dead? But no, it couldn't be. That couldn't be what death was. What was going to happen to her? Why was she in darkness? Her feeling were a chaotic maelstrom and Kathy couldn't think. Couldn't scream. In the darkness, would anyone even hear her?

"DIANA! WHERE ARE YOU?"

She could hear her voice empty into the darkness, no echo at all. She was in an abyss, left alone with no one to turn to. Was that freedom? Power? Had Diana purposely twisted her wish?

"You're too chaotic for the world of humans, little girl. I'm going to give you something very valuable, so you best not squander the chance. You are to be reborn~ into a powerful creature. So powerful, the Demon Lord himself will learn fear. And I'm going to give you the power to defeat him."

Before Kathy could ever try to formulate an answer, she felt her body quake in pain, forcing her to curl over herself and finally tearing a cry from her lips. Her clothes burnt off her skin, and she watched in fright as her hands and feet began to darken into an inky and dangerous purple tint. The colour travelled through her skin, making her body twitch in both pain and fear.

Her composure shattered, the pain rushing through her too much to even think of holding back her agonized scream. It felt as if her skin was burning away, being replaced by a new shell. All in all, it was a torturous mutation.

She could feel marks burn themselves into her flesh, marking her body in a purple tattoo gallery. As her head began to feel heavy, Kathy gripped onto the sides of her head, only to feel something growing from each side. She gripped onto the new additions to her head and gasped. Horns.

Was I becoming a devil?... No. A demon?... Yes. I was a demon.

Her life flashed before her eyes and burnt away like flowers in a wildfire. Each memory she held dear ceased to exist, for her mind could now only accept darkness.

She was a demon. The name Ezaeur reverberated in her head. Was that her name? Was it the name of someone close to her? She couldn't place the name, so she placed it into the darkness of her mind as her first memory. She then closed her eyes and breathed. When she opened them, she was staring into a castle hall, seated on a throne. She could hear shouts and pleadings for help from the servants around her. They were scared of the threat that was coming her their way. One even approached her and asked what they should do. She stared at the demon servant, recognizing him as her underling. Another new memory.

She crossed her legs and thought briefly. The Demon Lord was a powerful demon, willing to kill for territory. New memory. She smirked.

"Let him come. I'm ready."

She could feel new memories of the world around her draw up from the darkness in her mind, telling her everything she needed to know about her situation.

She was a succubus, and the new ruler of a territory the Demon King wanted. She wasn't going to let him take it easily. She wouldn't allow it. Watching as her underlings scrambled under her command, she instructed them specifically on what to do and how to prepare her new land for its intruder.

She then remembered: Ezaeur had given her the power to defeat the Demon Lord while she was out on some mission or another. She would take it and become a new being.

Would she return? Not likely. She was too weak to return after ripping open a tear to the human world. She would be on her little mission forever, leaving her with Ezaeur's kingdom unless she found a powerful enough human to grant her access back. Ezaeur wouldn't know that though, not until the very last minute.

Too bad~

Her mind allowed her to see all the power she had, and she smirked at the thought of each spell in her mind being powerful enough to wipe out kingdoms.

Yes. This is what I wanted. This is my calling. I'm free to carve y own path. I have the power to do it.

And I was surely going to enjoy every minute of it.

A/N: There's that. This was mostly the end "My Kingdom". Call it an introduction. I'll upload this chapter and the second at the same time to compensate (since this was mostly Michaela's work with very minor changes). Let's see if my muse doesn't leave me hanging!