Notes: Did not expect this to get 250+ views with 3 2k-word chapters, so thanks. I'm happy with this.

Notes: Between this and work it took a little while longer. Sorry.

Notes: Time-wise, chapter one started when the DL just took over. Lescatie, Calice's hometown isn't corrupted yet, so I have roughly 19 years of story time to play around with(depending on Druella's age when she uproots it) before I take this in whatever major turn is on my mind

Calice woke up in the cave the next morning the first thing he sees is a grizzly snuggling him, his pants off and something wet on his crotch. He tried moving but the grizzly simply hugged harder, also moving up and down a little, trying to snuggle him with her whole body. "Morning stranger...welcome to my cave..." she said, sound half asleep. She started moving a lot, barrel rolling with Calice and herself but never breaking the hug. He tried wiggling out again but the bear was simply just too strong. "You're making me so wet stranger...would you like to help me get dry?" She said with a lewd look on her face. At that point, he kicked into a desperate overdrive and started to use the hug to his advantage to get out. Holding her tightly, he started rolling both of them out of the cave, and over the ledge, sending them screaming(yet still hugging tightly, just now in fear) as they roll/fell as the fell down the mountainside. At that moment, the slowly fading out of range noise woke Bella up. She stretched and yawned, then trotted around the cave, looking for her soon to be husband. "Calice? hmm...wonder where he went..." she said then noticing the trail of honey and lewd fluid leading out the cave and cover the steep dropoff that is the mountainside...

2 hours later...

Calice and the bear laid at the bottom of the mountain, getting lucky and landing in a particularly tall pine tree on their way down. Then a shorter tree, then a shorter one, over and over again until landing in a bush and rolling out, both groaning with pain. They both had bloody gashes all over their body, caused by both the branches and rough cliffside. Calice's hair and the Grizzly's fur both had their fair share of leaves and small bits of chipped off rock and wood in it. Any clothes they were wearing were now in tatters and/or ripped. As the laid there, the Grizzly started sobbing, still hugging him. "It h-hurt's so much..." she managed to weakly force out through her crying. Calice started patting her, apologizing for basically almost killing them over the implication of sex. It seemed to work, as she stopped crying and went back to snuggling him. "I know you are hurt and all, but are you able to get up?" he asked her. She shook her head.

"Hmm...ok I need to you let go for a second." Once the grizzly let go, Calice then tried getting up himself, just barely able to stand on his own feet at first. He then picked her up and put her on his back, the bear wrapping her legs around his waist and holding on to her shoulders immediately. "Hey, what's your name?" Calice asked, starting to walk slowly back to the path. "Cherry," she said before going back to nuzzling his neck. "Cherry...nice name. So when did you err...find me Cherry?"

She looked away to the side as if embarrassed to tell. "It was the middle of the night, and I had just come back from the local bar. I was going to fall asleep but then I saw you and another sleeping in my cave. So I..." she suddenly went quiet, just burying her head into his neck as if you hide.

"Cherry, what did you do?"

No answer

"It's ok, I won't be mad at you," he reassured.

"I um...had sex with you while you were asleep. I'm sorry it's just that I was drunk and I was licking my favorite honey a-"

"Ssssh," Calice said, causing Cherry to stop rambling on. He then found a particularly large and flat boulder for them to sit and wait for help, as he was nearing his limit of moving. "I forgive you Cherry. Besides, I think we both got our fair share of punishment," he joked, as he heard galloping coming from down the path. They both turned their head to see Bella charging full speed to them, but stopping just in time and hugging Calice. "Oh my god, you had me so worried!" She exclaimed, holding onto him like they have been apart for a long time. She then pulled away and looked at both their wounds. "When I saw the honey trail go straight off the cliff, I got so afraid! I'm just glad that...that..." she couldn't bear to finish the sentence, so she just went back to hugging them. Then she put both on her back and started trotting back. "Do either of you know where we could find medical supplies?"

"There are some at the bar I went to. Just a little further up the mountain path from the cave," Cherry said, her coat of fur starting to look stained with blood as she rested on Calice's shoulders. Bella nodded and traveled past the cave, going until she started to smell the scent of alcohol. Soon, the bar Cherry was referring to came into view, with Red and Blue oni milling around and enjoying themselves. Bella walked in, trying not to attract too much attention as she went up to the Ogre bartender. "Would you have any medical supplies?" Bella asked as the Ogre ducked under the table. A few moments later, she reappeared, wearing a nurses hat. "Hello. I'm the nurse!"

"Wait aren't you the same p-"

"Boo!" the bartender ogre goes from behind her, causing her to jump back afraid. "Ahh! oh...you are twins?" They nodded and chuckled, the nurse tapping her shoulder. She then turned and went in the back, Bella following her. She stopped and opened the door to a medical room, which is weird being that the place is a bar. They both laid the now sleeping Calice and Cherry onto the bed and started tending to their wounds, cleaning them and pour sake onto their bodies to help them heal faster. After a few hours of this, they were both healed complete, showing no sign of any damage done to them. Bella kissed both of them and placed the sleeping Calice on her back. "Please tell Cherry that we left and that I thank her for keeping Calice company while he was hurt," With that, she left the bar and continues their journey in the middle of the night, determined to get through this mountain range...

Bella kept going, trying not to stop despite the snow getting more frequent and the temperature dropping more. She was starting to feel glad she was a Whitehorn as she rounded a corner, finding a hotel built into the mountain, made mostly of ice. She walked up to it and went inside, deciding to wait out till morning where she could see. She went inside to the lobby, to see a Yuki-onna at the front desk. "Welcome to the Moutain Ice hotel. How may I help you?" She said, giving Bella a nice warm smile. "I would like to have a room for me and my..., my husband," she said, turning to show Calice sleeping on her back. 'Maybe if I pretend that we are already together, we can get together faster!' she thought to herself as a glacies came to take them to their room. They walked down the hallway to their bedroom. the walls and floors were made out of ice, and so was the closet and table. In fact, most of the things in the room aside from the bed were made of ice, or cold.

"We designed this place to promote close intimacy as much as possible," she said. "It is a little passively devious, but effective. The husband or wife is cold, and the other comes in, cuddles and then..." The glacies giggled for half a second before returning to her normal placid facial expression. She then bowed and turned around and left, leaving Bella and the sleeping Calice to their own devices. Now able to finally sleep, she placed him on the cool bed and flopped next to him, cuddling and wholesomely spooning him until she herself fell asleep.

Bella woke up to the sound of water being used in the bathroom. While she was yawning and stretching, Calice came out, naked, without a towel, and cold. "W-ho ev-ver p-painted the towel on t-the wall was s-so evil," he said, shivering. "They weren't lying about the design..." she noted under her breath, blushing from his crotch in plain view. Calice simply went to his suitcase and reached for the towel he packed, wrapping it around his waist before Bella pulled it down, suddenly in front of him. "You know, there is another way we could heat you up~" she said, blushing as she immediately went in to kiss with him. They both wrapped the arms around each other, flopping onto the bed and enjoying their closeness, both of them heating up. Now fully awake and warm, they ate breakfast and checked out, continuing their journey through the range. The elevation started going down as they approached the other side, able to now see the mist continent on the horizon. "We are getting close," Bella noted as they saw a market beside the trail. Unanimously deciding for one last thing before they leave the mountainside, they walked through the market, looking at all the stuff that was available for sale.

"Wait, that's the harpy that wanted me to make armor for her earlier!" Calice exclaimed, seeing the black harpy selling clothing and weapons made by yours truly, and making a profit off it too. The duo went over to her, waving and saying hi. She looked up and said hi before noticing the familiar craftsman looking at her. She went silent, blushing from embarrassment. "I see, so this is why you paid for so much stuff," Calice said, looking at all his creations being resold for a higher price. Weirdly, none of them were shiny, since the harpy kept paying for mostly shiny belt buckles and rings made from jewels and diamonds. "I'm not mad, don't worry. Besides, you paid me so much that I don't think I have to worry about being poor for a while." He took out a gold coin as proof.

The harpy exhaled relieved, worried she might have finally got her karma. "Thank you for not doing anything, thank you!" she said quickly, bowing far enough that her head touched the table.

"No problem once again. May we take one thing for free?"

"Be my guest."

"Already found what 'we' wanted." Bella was holding two necklaces in her hand, each with half a heart. "Please, can we have it?" She asked, nuzzling his chest more like a Neko rather than a centaur.

"Sure," Calice said taking one half and putting it around his neck, the demonic taint causing the heart to glow purple. Bella put her's around her neck, her heart glowing yellow. The held their's together as a test, the now full heart glowing a rainbow of colors before they separated their shiny hearts. Happy, Bella picked him up and put him on her back once more, galloping back onto the path with glee and continuing their trip. In her excited state, they covered the rest distance through the mountain range in an hour, going at full pace until she got tired right before reaching the mist. By now, the spell from the deities had worn off, and she was back to being a Bicorn as they set up camp and ate lunch in the field, looking at their clear view of the mist that defined the continent.