Chapter 2: He said NO?!
Ingrid Sorveig Sorgríms, the greatest mage in the kingdom of Ygvarland, is in her study monitoring the magic of the World Tree. It's said that the World Tree is a gateway to the different nine dimensions. It was once thought that the tree no longer worked as a gateway, but recently that was discovered to be false and therefore with some studying Ingrid had made a portal to allow free dimensional travel to each of the nine realms that the tree is connected too. But only the human realm has been traveled to in the past year.
Ingrid blushes as she thinks of the cute human male that lives with Princess Lotte.
Hehe… Naoya is so cute…., thinks the small young mage.
Thump… thump… Thump… thump…. The mage's head pounds as she senses strong ripples in the magic. Looking at her instruments she sees an anomaly in dimensional magic, but it's not coming from the world tree. It's in the direction of the queen's castle.
"What can this be?" says Ingrid aloud. The ripples end as quickly as they started.
Ingrid rushes out of the room to inform the princess; after all, the queen is Lotte's mother.
Light pours into the windows of the Queen's castle, and many rush to the window to look out at the hill in the distance. After all, it's strange for it to be bright in the middle of the night. The light fades as quickly as it came, but it was enough to stir a commotion. Isold, one of the Queen's harem managers, and 100 men of the Queen's Harem go out, on the orders of the Queen herself, to the scene of the light to see what caused it. When they arrive they find a brown-haired human sleeping leaning against a tree, with his arms crossed.
"How strange, for a human to be here is completely unusual. Take him back to the castle," states Isold.
A few men pick the sleeping human up and carry him back to the castle, sulking all the way there, since they couldn't explain what the light was from.
Arriving at the castle, the human wakes up and jumps out of the men's arms.
"What the heck, I was trying to sleep you…. What the heck are you?" says Rich as he looks at the vast people around him with different body features. They look like all sorts of different demons, from men with dog ears to men bull heads.
"ummm…it's not October already, is it?" states Rich dumbfounded.
"Stop looking stupid and just walk into the hall of the castle, human," states Isold annoyed at slow progression of the situation.
"The queen wants to ask you questions how you got here, and pertaining to the light that happened where we found you. You look like your around 24 so be respectful to the queen and you may get lucky," says Isold.
"Um.. Lucky? I'm 19.. and Queen?" replies Rich trying to answer fast, but was unable to get a response when Isold puts a hand on his back and nudges him into a vast room. The room was eccentrically designed with nude statues holding the ceiling up with their hands. Rich looks around and sees two people, a woman that looked like a bodyguard and another woman, in an outfit that was very flattering on her body. The other men wait outside the room as Isold closes the doors behind her and explains that this human was found on the scene of the light disturbance.
Rich thinks to himself, if I use the dimensional gate I don't have to explain myself… No, I can't do that, Kotomi told me not to go back until I relaxed. Why is that lady in the chair looking at me and licking her lips? Do I have food on my face or something? It looks like she's important, that must be the queen, but to be dressed like that… well, here we go.
"You there, come closer," says Mercelida, the Queen.
"What's your name, and why are you here? Are you a human?" asks the Queen as she eyes Rich up and down at the chance to have some nighttime fun; after all she recognizes that the person in front of her has an unprecedented amount of magical energy.
"Rich, no reason in particular, Yes," announces Rich as he stands before Mercelida.
"May I leave now? I just wish to find a nice tree to lean on, and take a nap," states Rich.
The Queen gets up and approaches Rich, her bodyguard behind her. Walking up to Rich, the Queen looks into his eyes and slides her index finger down from his collar bone to his chest and begins to go lower as she says, "Wouldn't you like to sleep in a nice warm bed instead?" The queen giggles.
A memory races through Rich's mind and his face turns white for a second. Rich pushes her hand away, and steps back and says, "No, stop that."
He said no, thinks the queen, shocked. No one had ever said no to her up front and direct like that, after all she's a succubus. Succubi have an ability that charms men into liking them, as well as having an attractive physique.
"What?!" states voices from behind the door, as it falls open and the men who were pressing their ears against the door fall face first into the floor.
Rich turns around, as 7 of the queen's harem rush him yelling, "How dare you tell our queen, no."
"Move back my queen," says her bodyguard as she gets in front of Mercelida.
The men draw their weapons and rush at Rich, before anything else could be said.
Author's Note: Mercelida is a very promiscuous Succubus. A bunch of the Queen's harem men are muscles and no brain. Rich is exhausted from lack of sleep.
Next chapter, a fight and the queen's promise.