Demon was resting against the rough cobble river rocks by the lake as he tired himself out from the pain and frustration leaving his body, to the point it was too much for him to handle leaving his body to shut down and rest. "You seem troubled," Lucina noted, taking a seat next to him. "I'm guessing you cut something from your past?"

"What do you want Princess?" Demon asked Lucina as he sat on the rocky surface by the lake.

"I saw our leader leave the Dragon Realms, decided to make sure he was okay." Her cobalt blue eyes stared him down for a moment before she sighed. "I... I know how you feel, Damon. You might not believe me, but it's the truth."

"I don't care what I want right now... I just want to help everyone, save everyone...and make sure they're all alive by the time I'm through...even if it kills me." Demon said to the woman, as he threw a stone across the river bouncing against the water's surface ten times.

"Heh... seems we're more alike than we thought then," she chuckled, resting her chin on her knees.

"I don't believe that you just followed me out here, without having to tell me something... whatever it is say it now, or may you hold your piece..." Demon told Lucina.

Lucina remained silent for a moment before letting out a sigh. "… We're here for you. Even in your darkest times, we'll be there to help you, so long as you let us. Well... that's not true." She gave him a cheerful, reassuring smile. "We'd help you even if you don't want us to!"

Demon patted Lucina on the head. "You're a good woman Lucina, and I hope that when you meet that special someone... he'll treat you right." Demon sighed as he looked out to the crystal clear lake.

"Heh... yeah," she blushed, her mind on Shad. "So... you wanna get back to the Dragon Realms soon? We have a lot of preparation ahead of us in the coming months."

"You... go on ahead...I need to clear my head before I head back there..." Demon said patting her on the back.

"Okay..." Lucina patted his shoulder as she stood up. "Hey, Damon? You're a good man too. Don't you forget that." She took a stone out of her pocket and opened a portal to the Dragon Realms, walking through it and leaving the Prince to his thoughts.

You know... she's right, boy. Despite how torn up we both feel, that was an act only someone who truly loves another would have commited... well, in that situation at least.

I'm over it.

Demon's eyes returned as pain sunk down and rage built up.

You're getting angry... may I ask why?

Demon walked over to his helmet and putting it on locking its seals in to place.

Because some assholes took away my happy ending... I'm going to get it back and make them pay for it...

That's the spirit, boy! However, I do question something the Phantom did during his... visit. He almost seemed reluctant to hurt Felicia. I can't for the life of me imagine why though.

I am a King of a Renegade nation... I wanted to stop this madness, but I walked in to madness! But madness no more, only fire and fury!

Those who attempt to avoid their fate often find it, Damon. However, there is a saying among dragons. The strong survive, the imaginative endure, the persistent flourish, but in the end, madness prevails.

I don't accept it... I'll never accept fate, fate is how I choose it to be and how I develop it... these...fuckers bent fate to their whim!

Ah, but that's the point of the saying. Those with the means can accept their fates, but it takes a madman to challenge it and come out on top. But, keep in mind, you're attempting to do the same thing now. So now, it applies to you as well. You've started to bend fate by going back to save them, even brought a new face along to help you. Well, faces thanks to him. The question is, can you follow the first three to follow through?

Damon returned to the dragon realm as he moved towards the armory, he quickly disrobed all his armor and set it on the working bench as he summoned his dragon flame to start the forge.

Hmph... shame it isn't magic like at home yet. We'll need to fix that if we wish to save time. Forging takes days otherwise.

Demon began to smash the steel bits together mending the armor, reinforcing each plate to provide the absolute comfort-mobility-protection on the field of battle. Sparks began to fly from every hit as his eyes ignited like a raging inferno.

Hm... mind if I put a schematic in your mind to follow? I think you might appreciate it.

Demon stopped for a moment letting the instinctive dragon interfered.

Here.

The image of the armor and how to optimally forge it was burned into Demon's mind. As Demon began to mend the armor together piece by piece, he fixed his tattered sigil on his tabbard, then his helmet reinforcing the plate on it. The last to be fitted was his chainmail, which would provide the brace for enemy weapons.

Hm... perhaps we should look for materials with elemental properties later, give us a bit more defense from their magic.

Later... right now the necessities...

Do what you must, Whelp. I'll be taking a nap. The dragon's voice went silent, leaving Demon to his work.

Demon got redressed and refitted as he sheathed his Yato blade on his left hip, while marching out with the helmet on his head.

"Hey, Red," Gaius waved to him before stopping dead. "Nice armor. Just make it in the forge?" His armor looked a bit regal despite looking like it's knightly origins. Three plates adorned his shoulders, attached to his arms by chains instead of leather, his helmet having a pair of crosses on either side of the lower part. He forwent his leg plating in favor of leather and chainmail, allowing slightly more mobility, though he did keep his full metal boots. His usual gauntlets were still on, since he couldn't exactly reforge those. He also wore the pauldron he received on his birthday, but it was hidden beneath the plating.

"Yes I did, I fixed it up and gave it some upgrades." Demon replied.

"Looks good," the thief nodded, tossing his leader a lollipop. "Fits your role. I'm heading to bed myself, how bout you?"

"I got stuff to do, but you should get some rest.." Demon ordered patting him on the back. Demon made his way to his quarters seeing Flora reorganize his inventory, humming and trying to keep her mind occupied.

"Damon!" She gasped, feeling his hands on her shoulders. The maid turned to see her lover, looking over his new set of armor. "You reforged your armor? It looks nice."

Demon smiled grabbing his lover-maid, pulling her in to an embrace. "It does? I didn't notice my attention was distracted by something else." Demon teased.

"Oh you..." She smiled, hugging him. "You trying to get me to bear another son this early into a war? Naughty, naughty, Demon..."

"You wound me Flora...after all, you are mine... and I wouldn't dare see you hurt under my watch..." Demon smiled taking off his helmet.

"Well... vice versa, big guy," the maid smiled at him, giving him a small kiss.

"So you wouldn't... deny me would you?" Demon teased kissing her on the lips, while the loss of Scarlet seemed to be having less and less of an effect on him.

Flora cocked her head to the side. "Uh... of course I wouldn't. Why?"

Demon had a wicked smile. "It's all I needed to hear!" Demon exclaimed as he scooped her up in his arms passionately kissing her and placing his left gauntlet on her rear end.

"Mmm?!" Flora gasped in the kiss before melting into her lover's embrace. She parted after a couple seconds before resting her head on her lover's. "Damon... you've always been a more passionate soul, but this... not that I mind of course, but still... is something wrong, my love?"

Demon paused hearing that, as a cold cross of fear bellowed in his chest."….I...was just afraid I'd never see you again..." Demon said holding her in his arms, not wanting to dwell on the past.

"Damon..." Flora kissed his forehead lightly. "I'd never doubt that you would save me, even if I was caught by Garon."

"…. Yeah but...after what happened the past few days, it just... I learned something, that I have to live life to the fullest... I don't want a painful long battle... I want a happy life, even if it has to be short." Demon confessed to Flora.

The blue haired maid sighed and pulled him into a tighter embrace. "Damon, stop talking crazy. Long war or not, you're living until time takes us both to the beyond. I'll make sure of it, and so will everyone else here."

"I don't want to talk about how that stuff works, it never works the way I don't want it to, so I'll just ignore it and move on to more important tasks." Demon said with a hot headed tone.

"Heh... that's fair, love," Flora smiled.

"Now do I have permission to ravage you?" Demon asked Flora, with a sly expression.

"I suppose," she replied with a mischievous look. "But then again... why should I, my lord? After all, isn't it improper to be courting the help?"

"Because I'm going to literally spank you until your ass glows, if you don't obey my command..." Demon retorted, as he didn't care for the social norms of royalty.

"Well... when you put it that way..." She poked his armor. "This might get in the way though, darling."

"Oh, afraid the armor might pinch you?" Demon teased as he held her close and tight to his chest piece.

"Well, I'd much rather prefer... something else doing that honor," she smiled at him seductively.

"…...really now?" Demon said as he began to disrobe and dismantle his armor.

"I mean... it's nothing you won't be doing anyway," she blushed, continuing to look at him. Demon turned to Flora as he flinched seeing a face of a dead woman...the burning scar on her face, followed by blood dripping from her mouth. Demon quickly recovered as he just stared at her for a few moments. "Are you alright, my love?"

"…. No...I'm sorry, I'm just dealing with some... issues right now..." Demon explained before looking back at Flora again.

"Are you sure?" She asked, practically feeling his energy and excitement drain from him.

Flora looked like she did in the present as his heart beat receded back to normal levels. "Yeah... maybe you could strip tease and see if that'll do something if not...well, I'll have to sleep on it..." Demon sighed, knowing he was failing tonight.

"Uh... okay," she smiled, taking a few steps back and started to take off her apron, doing her best to appear attractive to him. Flora followed up by stripping off her shoes and socks, showing off her long, flawless legs for him.

No...I'm not letting the past dictate this... I have her back! Things are going to be set right! I'll...I'll get them all back!

Boy, there's no shame in not being in the mood. You're still copeing what's happened to them on top of giving up Scarlet. In all honestly, I'm not really feeling it either.

Quiet! I don't need to be reminded of the past...it's gone... I'm trying to set things right, and I'm failing by her by not living up to her.

… Damon, forgive the crassness of this, but this is coming from the man who literally just saw her corpse when looking at her. Look, she only wants you to be happy. If you don't want to have sex for once, don't. You're the one who initiated it anyway. It's not like she came onto you. She'll understand.

Demon paused for a moment, looking at Flora."…..Flora...I can't...not tonight.." Demon sighed as he looked down at his feet.

Flora frowned at him and sighed, tilting his head up to meet her gaze. "Damon... I'd usually understand if you just weren't in the mood for a roll in the hay, but you were the one coming onto me a moment a go with full intentions to have your way with me. I'll ask again. Is something wrong?"

You flying fuck...I hate you..

In my own defense, I'm a dragon. I'm not all knowing.

"Damn it... no Flora it's not like that, it's just I have had my mind in other places, like Max being taken away from us, us hiding and—"

Her frown turned into a more sympathetic look as she embraced him. "Damon... I miss him too," she sobbed. "I miss him so, so much... and I know you do too. So, I don't blame you for not wanting to make the beast with two backs tonight. I'm honestly feeling a little hesitant myself..."

Demon was about to retort when he felt a pang in his chest. Part of him wanted to, but so much more of him was screaming not to as his mind flashed back to some of the more pivotal moments of their relationship. The Resort, a few interactions here and there. Being in a war deprived him of time to actually build their relationship outside of sex, making those moments all the more special to him. It was, however, a glaring regret he still had with all of his women.

"I...just need some time to think is all..." Demon said as he kissed Flora on the lips, before redressing. Demon left the room in somewhat of a hurry, as he went in to the pantry grabbing a wine bottle, sitting down he grabbed a wooden cup, and poured himself a drink with shaky hands, as faint whispers of the damned cry out to him. Soon corpses of the damned, barely visible appeared before him. "….Leave me be... leave me to suffer in agony alone..." Demon quietly demanded, drinking.

Demon knew this wasn't him, he was out of motion, not in his true form... given the rest of his previous time he had with all his friends and family, he had to move on... move on or his pain and regret would repeat...to an endless mad cycle of sorrow. He was brought from his silence when a plate of freshly cooked peach glazed meat was placed in front of him. "Uh... hey, bro," Shad smiled awkwardly, handing him a bottle of hard whiskey. "Looks like you need a pick me up." The younger brother took a seat across from his brother, munching on a small bun.

"I'm fine..."

"No." Shad's retort was quick and vicious. "No, you're not. I'm no fool, Damon. You're hurting on the inside."

Demon's eyes looked at his brother. "Shad, what do you want? I assumed you sent Lucina after me... " Demon asked his brother.

Shad had a confused look as he shook his head. "I didn't even know she left. Though I assume it's the same reason I'm here now."

"Now back to my original question, what can I do for you?" Demon asked in a nicer way.

"Was about to ask the same thing." Silver flecked green eyes bore into Demon, not wavering or hesitating.

"Nothing, I don't need anything...not from you at least." Demon took a swig from the wine, basking in the flavor.

Shad didn't let the comment hurt him. He'd heard worse. "No, I think you do."

"Really? What could I possibly want from my little brother?" Demon asked Shad standing up from the table.

"Hmm... I guess you've a point." Shad sighed and stood up. "I have a magic lesson with Tharja soon anyway. I'll uh... see you later, Big Bro." The younger prince left the room, leaving out the fact he had yet to make up with Scarlet and was going to do that first. But the memory of both of those women and the lewder moments with him burned in his memory, forcing him to his knees as his dragon instincts flared. "Damn it... call down, Shad... keep it down, don't give in..." His claws scratched the cobble ground, leaving ugly, corroding scars in the stonework that soon repaired themselves thanks to the powers of the Dragon Realm. But, with the appearance of his scales, Shad knew he had to do something. "D-Damon... help..." His teeth started to form, along with the tattoos that took the place of his eyes while in his half dragon form. "I-I-I don't know if I c-can control it..."

Demon's eyes stop looking at his glass, as he moved over to Shad. "What's the problem?" He asked putting down his bottle and glass.

"Instincts... Can't keep them down..." The younger brother panted out.

"Sit." Demon pointed at the chair, pulling it out for him. Shad took his orders, sitting on the wooden construct. It suddenly creaked as his four feathery wings formed, adding a bit more weight to it.

Demon sighed as he grabbed his bottle of wine with his left hand and used his right to yank Shad's hair and head back, causing him to gasp in shock, before finding the wine being poured down his throat. "First rule... in dealing with the flying fuck within you... drown it out, numb it out... or let it out, the instinct wants to bend and manipulate you….deny it of that and it calms the ever loving fuck down. Get your mind off it, think of something else, anything but your current situation." Demon ordered his brother.

Shad hiccupped as the alcohol numbed his mind slightly. "R-Right..." He nodded. "I'll keep that in mind."

"Pain is not a deterrent, the more you get hurt, the more it becomes tempting, so actively avoid doing so." Demon added.

The younger prince remembered that for later with another nod. "Got it... no more hurting myself in any way." As Shad sat there, he stopped focusing on lewd memories with Scarlet and Tharja and more on the purer side of the relationship with them. His features began to recede as he breathed slowly.

"Your instincts is an indominable force of nature... it will prove you wrong if you give it the chance...you deny it every time and don't let it assume control..." Demon ordered his brother.

"Right." Shad finished his breathing, his body normalizing and leaving him with a slight buzz in his head. "Thanks, Damon. I needed that."

"Now... if you don't vent once in a while, drain it... you will let it rot and fester in you as your emotions get out of order... I can see it has already happened in your life, you holding it up, it's a poisonous vile."

"… I'm assuming Azura told you of my other 'incidents' then?" Shad asked, knowing exactly where Demon was getting that feeling.

"Yes, she did, and I know you're a loose cannon... that's a very poor, and stupid traits you shouldn't have on you." Demon advised to get a control on himself.

"Ninja training helped, but I still get the... urge to lash out," the Fell Prince admitted. "It's also the reason I've held out as long as I have. We're taught to keep calm, how to control our emotions before making the kill."

Demon just gave Shad a thousand yard stare, hearing that from his brother."…. Oh great you're one of those..."

The younger brother looked confused. "One of those what?" Asked Shad, cocking his head to the side in confusion.

"Are you a fucking pacifist?" Demon asked his brother, being completely blunt.

Shad's look turned blank in a second. "Damon... I may regret it, but I was definitely out to kill you when we first met. I literally butchered an army before moving out to Hoshiod. Does that seem like something a pacifist would do?"

"…. I meant the Hoshidan value of Pacifism, like... peace and no wars?" Demon asked.

"Hell no!" Shad laughed. "I mean, ideally, that's the life we should strive for."

"You fought like a coward, the way you moved, it was full of trickery, and guile." Demon snapped.

"… You've never fought a ninja before outside of Kaze, have you?"

"Beruka,.. If you met her, she has very... particular skills as an Assassin."

"Sounds like a fun girl."

"Yeah, yeah, you stay away from her you little monster..." Demon said in a stern voice.

While Shad would have been hurt in any other moment, there was light hint of a joking tone in Demon's voice. One that a brother would use on another in jest. It made Shad grin and laugh for a moment before smiling at his brother. "Damon, I would never try to actively take your lovers from you. If I talk to Beruka, it's over tactics and technic. Nothing more.

"…..." Demon just gave him a dead glare knowing he already succeeded in doing so, with Scarlet.

Shad was about to rebuke the glare he got by pointing out he was trying to get his brother and Scarlet together, but decided it wasn't the time for that particular argument and hid it behind a wince. "Sorry... poor choice of words." He sat in silence for a few moments before letting out a sigh. "Damon... I don't care what the cost is or what I'll have to do. I'm making sure you and your loved ones are coming out of this alive and well." There was a look of seriousness and determination in his brother's eyes that actually gave him a small amount of hope for that future.

Demon either didn't care, or didn't want to talk about it, as he cleared his throat. "Next topic... sex... Yeah, I know what you're thinking, why sex? We dragons and wyrms have a breeding period... it lasts about a week where our instincts are deafening from the build up... meaning we seek out females and copulate... breed, fuck...how ever you want to puti t.." Demon informed Shad of the information he had on hand.

Shad blushed as he put the pieces together. "So in other words... we're going into rut for the sake of building our race back up."

"Yes, apparently Dragons have long wars, since their long lifespans, I assume they get sick of each other and their ideals and kill each other like we do..." Demon said as he then took a swig of his wine.

Shad's eyes widened as a few of the Fell Dragon's memories flickered in his head. "Uh... yeah... I can confirm that personally..." He shifted uncomfortably as fights against his 'sister' and her followers played out in his head, along with a vision of a much younger looking Tiki. "Dragons fight... a lot..."

"Shad...have you ever did the deed?" Demon asked his brother.

"… Does it say something about my constitution if I say 'no' having known Kagero and the fact she's my teacher?"

"You don't let it out once in a while it consumes you and hunts for someone on its own, while you play back seat driver..." Demon joked.

"… I don't think you understand." Shad took a picture out of his pocket and slid it to his brother. It was a perfect portrait of Kagero, complete with all of her perfect hourglass curves in her ninja outfit. "This is Kagero."

"She's your girlfriend?!" Demon snapped at him, remembering Kagero.

"No. She's been my teacher. For over a decade."

"Uh huh! Right, and I'm sure you jerk off behind a door spying on her in the bath!" Demon snapped.

"… I was afraid she'd find me with good reason. Others have tried before." Shad shivered. "It did not end well for them."

"Oh my Gods... you're a fucking virgin... " Demon groaned slamming his head down on the table.

Shad nodded with a slight blush. "Yep..."

"Great... looking at a Max two point 'O' here..." Demon sighed as he got up from the table.

"… I'm totally screwed, aren't I?" Shad asked.

I'll give the boy credit. He has far more willpower than anyone I've ever seen.

Demon sighed locking on his helmet. "Come on pussy, we're getting you laid..." Demon groaned, as he yanked his left arm roughly out the door.

Shad's eyes widened and he pulled out of the grip, shaking his head furiously. "No no no no no! I am not going to a whore house!"

"Oh quiet down I took my son to a whore house and he came out better than he was!" Demon growled.

"Wasn't that with a virgin kitsune?" Shad asked in retaliation.

"You want someone with fucking experience or do you want someone who doesn't even know what the fuck she's doing?" Demon asked as he got his portal ready.

"I'd rather whoever wouldn't get me sick."

"….Dragons don't get sick you buffoon. " Demon said as he stopped .

"… I'm very new to this being a dragon thing..." Shad admitted with a blush. "Look, there's... a woman in camp who'd be willing..."

"Tharja, I know... I kept her safe all these years." Demon said to Shad.

"And I will never be able to repay you for that. Point being... maybe I should... pick up where I left off earlier in the day..." His blush turned mad as he thought back to that little 'episode' earlier.

"Or maybe you go apologize to Scarlet for being a little monster-scumbag..." Demon offered a rebuttal.

"… You know, I won't lie. I'm surprise you were the one to say that," Shad confessed. "Look... either works, I'll... I'll figure it out."

"Either?! EITHER?!" Demon snapped, as he put both his hands on his throat throttling him.

Oh shit...

"You little scum sucking, leech, pathetic excuse for a man! You shattered her feelings and say EITHER?!" Demon growled still throttling him by his neck.

"Look man, you got me drunk, I'm tired, and I'm completely and utterly out of it from talking about... well..." Shad blushed harder.

The grip seemed to get tighter after hearing that. "I'M FUCKING DRUNK AND TIRED AND EVEN MORE PERCEPTIVE THEN YOU ARE YOU LITTLE MONSTER!" Demon kept throttling him by the neck.

Shad sighed and put a pair of hands on Demon's arms, stopping them. "You're right. I'll go apologize to Scarlet and well... put the offer out to her. Okay?"

Demon sighed letting go of his brother's neck as he was turning blue. "Good..." Demon replied, huffing out.

The young prince picked himself off the ground and dusted off his coat. "I'll... I'll get moving then. I'll see you later, Damon." Shad headed for the barracks, planning out what to say to Scarlet when he got there, as well as who he would actually lay with that night.

Damn it... I go with Scarlet, Tharja is going to be out for blood, but if I pick Tharja then Scarlet will feel heartbroken again... how the ever-loving fuck did Big Brother start and maintain a harem!?

Demon let out a sigh, deciding it best for Shad to sort this out himself before heading into the mess hall.

You know... that food Shad offered us did smell pretty good...

I rather eat Felicia's cooking before she knew how to cook...I ain't falling for poison..

Since when did you start becoming Peri?

Since I miss fucking her... I got to do it like once before I died.

Fair point... though that doesn't explain why you think Shad of all people would poison you.

I have my reasons...let's just leave it at that...

Fine... I'll leave you to the Devil's Drink then.

Shad sighed as he knocked on Scarlet's door, a bundle in his hand along with some pearls and onyx stones. "Scarlet? You still awake?" It was clear he was waiting well over a minute, as no reply could be heard from the door, she was obviously giving him the silent treatment. "… Fine then. I guess I'll just toss these pearls back into the pool and give the onyx to someone else." The door opened up with a tear-stricken knight as she grabbed the pearls roughly from his hand and putting it in a small satchel. In that moment, Shad lunged at her and scooped her into a tight hug. "I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry for doing that to you, my angel... I was being a stupid, selfish, cowardly man in rejecting you like that..."

"Yes, you were... twice." She said to him, in a saddened tone.

"I uh..." Shad was about to offer the cookies he made for her but decided against it for now. "I... oh fuck it." He pulled Scarlet into a deep kiss, pouring all of his feelings for her into it. "I know I messed up, Scarlet," he whispered between kisses. "I know I said some pretty odd things and left you hanging like that, but I want you to know I mean it when I say I'm sorry."

Scarlet took a moment for herself. "…...Apology accepted." Scarlet sighed, knowing staying angry at him wasn't going to change anything or help in anyway.

"I uh... I brought you cookies," he attempted to lighten the mood, offering the bundle to her. "They're your favorite." Scarlet moved over to the platter grabbing a few for herself as she quickly ate. Shad took a deep breath before continuing. "Scarlet? Are you uh... willing to follow up on that offer you made me in Hoshido?"

"Shad...I tried twice...what's going to stop you from running off the third time?" She asked Shad, seriousness in her tone of voice.

Without hesitation, he pulled her into a deep kiss again, cusping her rear with his right hand as he put her on his lap. "Because this time, you're already on top of me," he teased her with a coy yet seductive grin. "Unless you want me to run. Then by all means, get off." He laid out his challenge to her.

"What are you offering?" She asked in a seductive like voice.

He pulled her a bit closer, love and lust deep in his eyes as he started to take his jacket off, the navy blue and dull gold armored coat hitting the ground with a light thud, followed by this shirt and leather armor. "What will you take?"

She moved her palm of her hands on his chest pushing him back, until he hit the surface of the bed. "You know you can be a real coward sometimes..." Scarlet sighed as she kissed him on the neck.

Shad sighed and started to take his pants off, quickly sneaking a quick pinch on her rear end. "It's called foreplay, love. I was expecting you to say 'everything.'" He explained, slapping her still clothed butt. "Bad girl. Learn to read the ques."

"Excuuuuseee me... I wasn't taught this... foreplay as I am new to this...if someone maybe did this years back, I'd have some more experience..." She argued.

Shad gave her a dangerous look as he tore away her pants, leaving her in her panties, shirt and bra. "How about I fix that then? One virgin to another?" He gripped her freckled ass roughly. She sighed as she mounted his hips and kissed him on the lips roughly, her nails digging in to his shoulders. He panted into her kiss, taking off her shirt and leaving them both half naked. "Heh... what's the matter, my angel? Was all that talk about wanting to do the deed with me all talk? Or do I have to hold your hand through it?" He let his challenge sit as he slipped a hand under her bra and pinched her nipple teasingly.

While Demon stood by, he managed to catch Tharja before she could be with in hearing distance. "Tharja... just the woman I wanted to talk to... I need your help..." Demon said to her.

"I'm going to hex the blonde harlot to oblivion," she growled, her tome crackling with power.

"Mmm-mm..."Demon said grabbing her left arm, dragging her away.

"Let me go!" The dark mage roared, struggling uselessly against his grip. "That bitch needs to pay for stealing my beloved from me!"

"You can be angry about it later..." Demon said dragging her to the messhall.

Shad kissed Scarlet hungrily, his erection teasing her through the thin layers they still had on.

Her ass landed and nearly sandwiched his length in between her cheeks. "You look more than ready..." She teased, nipping his nose.

The younger prince panted heavily as he brushed her lower lips with his hand through the fabric of her panties. "And you, despite wanting this as much as I do, aren't. So," He took off her bra and pinched her right nipple, twisting it just enough to get a reaction without being painful, "I'm going to keep up our games until you are." He leaned up and clasped his mouth to her left teat, sucking on her boob as her other was tortured by pure pleasure.

Scarlet moaned out as she buried his face in between her breasts, hugging his head tightly and kissing the top of his head. With expert coordination, Shad maneuvered his hands to her back and pressed in just the right way to make her spine reset slightly, as well as hitting a particularly sensitive cluster of muscles. On top of all of that, he vibrated his lips in between her breasts for a moment before removing his head.

Shad and Scarlet shared a very passionate kiss getting under the sheets, preparing themselves what was to come. "You ready now, love?" He asked, his breath hot and his face tinted red. "Because I sure as hell am." The tip of his erect mast poked her inner thigh as he removed his undergarments, leaving him the first to be fully nude. He used his legs to toss the offending cloth away from the bed, giving Scarlet a hot and hungry kiss again. The two were rolling around on the bed before rolling off it and knocking in to the table causing her stones to fall on Shad's back and head. The pain was dulled by alcohol and lust as he spoke again. "Scarlet... I'm still waiting~." He nibbled on her neck as he ground his erection into her crotch, still covered by panties.

"Then keep waiting, I'm still as defiant as ever, and hardened by your rejections, you'll have to bring it out..." She said with a click of her tongue.

Shad laughed lowly as he removed her underwear and pushed his legs between her thighs. "Oh? Even to... this?" One perk that being a wyrm that drakes didn't have was their serpentine figure. This included their vibrating tongues when they hissed, which Shad used to lick her pussy slowly and enticingly.

She smiled with vicious eyes, using her legs to lock around his head and thrust forward, pushing him on the ground again. "T-that all you got?" Scarlet asked with a challenging tone.

"Perhapssssss," he hissed, then nibbled on one of her folds, his hand sneaking around to her butt and started to massage the sensitive cheeks. His other hand traveled along her stomach, pressing and prodding until he hit that one sweet spot a little bit above her crotch. He pressed a thumb into her G spot with enough pressure to make the force felt from her outsides, getting a very predictable reaction from her.

"Oh Gods... Gods... Gods~ " Scarlet moaned out in feeling an ecstasy of fire rising in her groin.

"Oh? Issss sssssomething the matter Sssssscarlet?" Shad hissed into her cunt again, continuing to tease and massage her rear end and sweet spot. Her finger massaged his scalp, coaxing him to keep doing that. "Come on. Sssssspeak to me my sssssssweat warrioressssssss."

Scarlet's thighs tickled and tightened around his neck, as she gasped with pleasure, her body about to break and convulse with a splash of ecstasy. "Holy Shit! Holy Shit! Shit! Shit! SHAAAAAAAAAAD!" She reeled her head back letting out a scream that echoed the area, causing Demon to wince as he could hear it from the mess hall.

"I'm going to fucking kill that bitch!" Tharja growled, trying to escape from the chair she was tied to. "That should be me he's pleasuring!"

"Sit..." Demon said as he moved over to the woman, giving her a drink of wine.

Shad licked Scarlet's cunt again, finally tasting lady juices. "You tasssste sssweet, Ssssssscarlet," he hissed with a cocky grin.

She gasped, while moving her fingers around his face. "You beast... stop... with... the damn teasing..." She gasped, begging him to continue.

"Ssssstop? But you ssssaid you her hardened by my rejectionssss," he continued to tease her. "Doessssn't that mean I ssshould try harder then, my sssssweet?" He grabbed the platter of cookies and offered them to her, just to say one line. "Cookiessssssssssss Sssssssssssscarlet?"

"Stopppsss with the hisssesss... you ain't a sssnake!" She gasped out, feeling his tongue work around her folds.

"Technically, I'm a wyrm," Shad smirked at her. "Sssssserpentine. You think thissss tongue is fully human darling?" Sure enough, there was a slight fork that was making it all the more torturous to the woman.

"T-two can play it that game..." She unlocked her legs as she turned around and moved her hands and mouth around his shaft, giving it a peck before licking the shaft, from bottom to tip.

Shad gasped lightly and spanked her freckled derriere. "Naughty girl, Scarlet!" The man moaned slightly, rubbing her hips and breasts with his dexterous hands. "Trying to tease me when I'm already fit to burst..." He tilted her head up, his green and silver eyes meeting her chocolate brown. "You do want to get to the main course already, don't you?" His member throbbed against her.

"Maybe... or maybe I'm getting pay back... " She said playfully biting the side of his shaft, ever so gently.

The Fell Prince convulsed as his instincts banged at the door of his sanity. "… You know what?" He asked her, his face blank, eyes shadowed by his hair. He went very, very still, forcing Scarlet to respond out of shock at how still he went in a matter of seconds while in the throes of passion.

"W-woow..." She gasped, while giving him a slow lick.

Shad suddenly pounced on her, pinning her arms to the floor as his rock-hard member slapped her folds. "I'm about done messing around Scarlet. Why don't we finally get to what we both really want?"

"Y-you're going to knock... me up?" She said with a red blush on her face.

"That depends." He caressed her face with a teasing smirk. "Do you want to be?"

She grabbed his shoulders pulling him downwards to face level. "I wanted to be for years..." She said to Shad, giving him her answer.

"Okay... just uh, fair warning..." Shad gave her an awkward smile as his tip accidentally hit the rim of her cunt at first before lining up right. "I'm pretty sure this is going to hurt." He slowly pushed his length into her folds, stalling when he felt something in his way. "Uh... what's this?" He asked, worried he might actually hurt her if he went further.

"S-Shad didn't they...ah...ever teach you biology?" Scarlet asked as her legs were shaking.

"Only kill points and how people make kids," he confessed with a heavy blush.

"You're putting something, in to my something that makes kids..." She gasped.

"Yeah, I know that!" Shad growled, experimentally pushing on the thing in his way. "I mean what the hell am I feeling right now!? Is it something that will hurt if I go further, is it something that you need?" He asked.

"It's my Hymennnnnnnn!" Scarlet cried out feeling the barrier break, causing blood to leak around his shaft.

"Oh gods, are you okay?!" He asked in worry.

"F-fuck! Yes! Yes! That's completely normal for women!" She gasped clawing at his shoulders.

"Do you uh... need a second?" Shad asked, cupping her face. "I want to do this with you, but I don't want you uncomfortable either, darling." He gave her a chaste kiss, contrary to his actions leading up to this moment.

Scarlet gasped for air, before the Crimson Knight rocked her hips upward, her walls tightening in a vice like grip around his length, bulging as her walls adjusted to her predicament. Shad was near speechless feeling Scarlet's body react in such a way.

"You know... I really do love you, Scarlet," he whispered in her ear as he experimentally thrusted into her.

"I love you~ oh! ~ too!" Scarlet moaned out, feeling him rock in to her body.

Shad thrusted into her again, this time kissing her breast as he did so. "I love your spirit... your intelligence... and being a gorgeous knight certainly helps," he teased her, licking her hardened nipple slowly.

"oH FuCk! BIg so...! BIG! I'm not going to walk straight for a week!" Scarlet screamed out in an orgasmic bliss.

For reasons that Shad wasn't entirely sure of, that only made him go a bit faster and harder. "Oh? Well how about this?!" He grabbed her hips and pulled her onto him as he thrusted.

"Oh Gods! C-~ can't... hold... can't! ~yes! Oh Gods Shad! My body is aching for you! I'm yours! Now...do your duty... and make this knight yours forever!" She gasped with pure bliss.

"Heh... a Wyvern Knight submitting to a former dragon god," Shad chuckled, shoving his cock far into her and pulling back, his next thrust kissing her womb. "Ironic." He kissed her with a pant, feeling his cock twitch in her walls. "Scarlet... I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna cum in your womb and give you our first baby!" The pressure began to mount, his sperm being held back only by the dam of his willpower. A dollop of pre managed to escape, a taste of what was to come.

"AH! YES! DO IT LOVE! " Scarlet screamed out in bliss her eyes widened with pure enjoyment, excited to hold her Prince's child.

Shad's panting got faster as he pumped into her faster, instinctually grabbing her hips as he impaled himself in her one last time before letting loose his seed. "GRAAAAAAH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed out as her juices sprayed out from her walls clenching down and building up with pressure around his shaft, leaving her dam to burst.

Shad, in a display of pure carnal instinct, bit on her shoulder and then her left teat, before clashing lips with her in a furious make out, sending waves of seed into her all the while. "I love you, my angel!" He cried out, holding her close to him.

"MY PRINCE!" She screamed out in bliss, hugging him tightly as their body heats expended, bringing in cool chills on their skin.

Shad panted as he laid on Scarlet, her breasts pressing into his chest with his energy spent. "Hah... hah... hah..." He dragged the platter of cookies over and placed one in his mouth, holding it to her with his teeth. "Chookie?"

"Ch...but...ow..." She winced feeling the tightening throb in her body, followed by the warm sensation in her belly. "…. You...you're stuck..." Scarlet giggled, laughing in to his chest.

Shad blushed slightly before taking the treat from his mouth to reply properly. "… You won't let me go." He embraced her and pulled her into a gentle, loving kiss. "And I hope you never do... my love. Now..." He popped the cookie into her mouth as her stomach growled. "Eat the damn cookie. You're starving."

She leaned up and as she chewed the cookie, smashed her lips to his. "Thank you for loving me Shad..." Scarlet said with true happiness in her voice.

"Heh... shouldn't I be saying that to you?" He teased, for once poking fun at his past. Shad rested his hands on her womb as he started to finally go flaccid. "So... what should we name them?"

"T-them?" She asked shocked, hearing that.

The Fell Prince gave her a shy smile. "I uh... always wanted twins..." He confessed. "But I wouldn't complain with triplets either..."

"Oh Gods... you're going to make me give you so many children aren't you?" Scarlet breathed out as she winced from the exit of her lover.

"I always wanted a big family," he added. "But, regardless of quantity, they'll be ours all the same. Little rebellious bundles of joy... be it one babe or three." Shad kissed her softly. "Besides," He goosed her breasts teasingly, "I'm pretty sure they'll enjoy mommy's pillows as much as I do!" He gave them a playful squeeze and pressed them together.

"You devious snake... you want me to show my children my 'pillows'? " She asked ready to burst in to laughter.

"I mean... they will be drinking from them." Shad kissed her teat. "I might steal a drink from ya too though. Hehe..."

"Yeah of course, but you seem to have the thought that I'd be doing this past the usual age of weening..." Scarlet giggled, slapping his back.

"Of course not!" Shouted the prince in mock offense before kissing her. "They'll need to make room for their little brothers and sisters."

"You ARE!" She gasped, confirming her suspicions.

"I am what?" He asked innocently, toying with her mind and probing for what she thought he was insinuating.

"You want me to breast feed them till they're probably as old as you!" She said to the man.

"… Scarlet... my sweet, sweet angel," Shad sighed, kissing her. "No. Just... no. I'd make you do a lot of things given the chance. But that is not one of them. I give you my word as a prince and a ninja."

"Ninjas always take their words back..." She pointed out.

"No, you're thinking kunoichi. Like Kagero," Shad teased her. "Seriously, do you have any idea what they used to do for their jobs? They were pretty much black widows before one of the older kings had it passed that they be more... combative."

"You...are a very complicated individual... you do know that right?" Scarlet asked Shad, seeing as he liked to go in to the fine details.

"Would you love me otherwise?" He asked her jokingly, caressing her right hip as he laid on top of her, offering her a half of a cookie. The other half was currently in his mouth.

"Yes...yes I would... you silly man." She giggled kissing him, while weakly moving her leg around his body.

"Are you really up for round two?" He asked her cautiously, raking his fingers along her scalp in a soothing manner.

"Fine but... can I lay down on my stomach?" She asked seeing as she couldn't raise her legs over his shoulders while he pounds her in to submission.

"Hm... sure," Shad smiled at her, placing her on the bed with her ass up. He eyed her freckled cheeks and licked his lips, already starting to harden again. Without warning, he placed his slowly raising mast between her butt cheeks. "So... you sure you want a round two? I don't want you crippled for the next month or two," he teased her, spanking her lightly.

"Whatever...~ow!~ You want my...Prince..." She gasped out from the spank of her ass.

Shad was silenced by the reaction he got. "Was... was that a moan?" He slowly started to become more erect at sound of her carnal, lewd sound. "Do... do you get off on me spanking you or something?"

Scarlet gasped out again from the contact of his hand on her rear end. "Only to you... " Scarlet moaned out to her Prince.

"… I'm going to fucking ravage you until you can't walk for a month," he growled in her ear, spanking her with all the force of a paddle on her rear.

"EEK! W-where did you get a paddle!?" Scarlet demanded.

"I didn't," Shad grinned at her, showing her his empty hands before spanking her again.

"T-that's your hand?!" She gasped, as her ass jiggled yet again from the blow to her skin.

"Yeeeeep," he grinned at her, making her ass redden again with another swift strike.

"I... come on, I thought...~ow!` we were going to m-make love...not...spank me till my ass is red!" She cried out again feeling the sting of his hand on her cheeks.

Shad pondered for a moment before agreeing. "Fair point. So..." He pressed his cock between her ass cheeks, "I think I'll just have a little fun."

"w-wait, that's not...not going to f-fit!" Scarlet exclaimed feeling him push onwards until the tip managed to force itself in. "AAAHHHH!" Scarlet let out another cry as she gripped the sheets on the floor tightly.

"Hm..." Shad decided to fight dirty and shove in almost a quarter of his seven and a half length in at once.

"~Hhuuuaaahh!~" Scarlet's eyes widened as she gasped for air, until she began to take the entire length with his balls slapping her folds, jolting her legs to twitch, and her folds to spasm, as it leaked with her juices.

"Still having doubts?" Shad asked teasingly, cupping her boob. Scarlet's only form of revenge was to now squeeze and clench his shaft, putting Shad a quite the disadvantage of pressing forward or pulling out, almost as she was strangling it in a tight embrace. "Oh~?! Fighting dirty then! Okay!" Shad plunged a pair of fingers into her pussy and hooked her G spot, torturing the hard, sensitive part of her insides. In one last act of defiance she sacrificed her standing on the floor by removing her hands from underneath her, and gripped her own ass cheeks squeezing them even tighter and wiggling her ass while Shad was still very much in her nigh-tight asshole. "Y-You know," Shad panted as he licked her neck, "you're on-only gonna make me cum harder, right?" He spanked her with his free hand as he talked.

She only responded with a heavy grunt, and clenched tighter and tighter thrusting back in to his pelvis, refusing to give up the hard struggle of the Prince, as she knew the crusade that was taken place where the sun doesn't shine was about to end, in a sour victory for him. "…" Shad said nothing as he picked her up, seating her on his lap with her back to him and started to lift her up and down, sending a wave of shock and pleasure through her as gravity started to do most of the work for him, rendering making her ass tighter a very poor decision for her. "You like this, Scarlet?" He hissed in her ear.

"~Y-YEs! I love it!" Scarlet cracked out, her body failing to respond to pain anymore, flooded with a new feeling of pure erotic behavior and orgasmic nerve pulses flaring up in the body.

"Do you want me to go harder?" He growled, spanking her as she bounced on his hard cock.

Scarlet was drooling out as she had a smile of care free bliss on her face. "H-harder...Deeper...faster..." Scarlet ordered as she was done waiting for her prize, she worked hard for it...years in fact to take what was hers.

"Heh... as you wish, angel." He raised her higher, almost pulling her off before forcing her back onto his hips, her plush behind softening the blow. The result though, was his cock going even further into her than before, breaching a new boundary. Her ass was providing the ultimate tightness for his enjoyment, every thrust, squeeze, clench and wiggle...was enough to send him to the heavens and then come back down for a second round. He stood and took his cock out, turning her to the bed. "You want this to continue, my dearest?" He asked in a seductive tone.

"T-take me my lord!" She exclaimed out of breath.

"Then bend over and present," he growled into her sex crazed mind. She placed her hands on the bed, with her shaking and wobbly feet barely supporting her, she bowed down on the bed raising her ass as high as they can go while standing on her toes. Shad grinned and kissed her hip before grinding his cock into her pussy again, going in till the base and kissing her womb. "Think you can handle another shot here, love?"

"Do it as many times as you want! I'm yours!" She cried out in her last ditch assault on his mind.

Shad decided to have a small moment with her instead, turning her face to his and kissing her. "And I yours, my darling." The sheer amount of love and care in his eyes was enough to make her legs turn to jelly, especially since they were devoid of lust. Scarlet's legs failing to support her from the strenuous exercise buckled underneath him, as she fell to her knees rather quickly on the floor, causing Shad's length to pop out and slap her back. "You okay, Scarlet?" He asked, stooping down to her level.

"S-sorry...my legs were having trouble..." She gasped, attempting to get back up.

"Hey." He kissed the crown of her head, laying her gently on the bed. "It's okay. I'm honestly starting to cramp up a little myself," he chuckled. She responded by grabbing his shaft, to help his last effort of pleasure, by placing it flat against her folds rubbing her clit against his shaft in a smooth like tickling sensation. Lust built up in his chest again as he kissed her stomach, licking a small amount of sweat from her and kissing her breasts. "How did a guy like me end up with a girl... like..." Lucina and Tharja popped into his mind.

"I don't know, if you didn't come up here to apologize tonight and did it in the morning... I might have never given you that chance..." Scarlet breathed out, seeing as Demon was right about going to apologize to the woman who's heart he nearly smashed to pieces a third time.

"Yeah... I'm uh... I'm sorry about that," he apologized, his mind now racing with worst case scenarios about how his relationships with Lucina and Tharja could go.

Damn it... I love Scarlet, I know that... but why can't I get them out of my head too?

Scarlet's eyes began to weakly shut as her heart rate started to calm down from the adrenaline rush of mating with Shad. "...Scarlet?" Shad asked, no longer in the mood himself.

"…..Hmm...?" Scarlet hummed in a near sleep induced trance.

The Fell Prince took in a large inhale before asking his question. "Say I... I... fuck this isn't easy..." Shad took a moment to collect himself before trying again. "Say other women wanted to be with me later in life. And I held affections for such women as well."

"…..Get in line..." She yawned out hugging his body.

"So... you wouldn't mind sharing then?" Shad asked cautiously.

"Mind... what?" Scarlet asked almost on the edge of dream land.

The younger prince sighed and pinched her, hoping to wake her up a little more. "If a few women were to join our little relationship."

"…...who?" Scarlet asked seeing as she could barely keep awake.

"At the moment? Lucina and Tharja. The latter will definitely be a problem if we don't nip her in the bud one way or another."

"Isn't...Lucina...Prince..Damon's guard captain?" She weakly asked him.

"She uh... she might've fallen for me while I was in Nohr... along with Tharja..." A few more faces popped up as he talked, "And Tiki... and Cherche... and Panne... oh gods..."

"Your...funeral..." Scarlet yawned out before reaching the edge again.

"… Good night, my love," Shad whispered in her ear, kissing her goodnight as he cuddled into her, pulling a sheet over them.

After hearing the moaning and cries subside, Demon sighed as he cut the bindings off of Tharja. "Okay...show's over..." Demon huffed out, clearly irritated of tonight's events.

"… I'm going to hex her now," the dark mage stated. "I'm going to make her regret taking Shad from me."

"Tharja, she knew Shad for years, that's something she has over you by a milestone... I wouldn't attempt at doing something silly..." Demon reminded the witch.

"… What do you suggest?" She asked drunkenly, her natural way of thinking inhibited by alcohol, to Scarlet's favor.

"Win him over in a strategic sense, give things Scarlet can't... win at hearts, not by use of curse and sword... the blow back will be twice as hard." Demon advised her as he finished his flask before pocketing the silver flask.

Tharja remained silent for multiple minutes before sighing. "Fine. I'll try. But if it doesn't work..."

"Good girl..." Demon said patting her on the head. "It will." Demon didn't want her to hex Scarlet, who he was still clearly madly in love for.

"So... what do you suggest?" The dark mage asked, hiccupping slightly.

"Patience is key, do what you do best, watch...then act." Demon suggested to Tharja.

The Pelegian woman sighed as she leafed through her tomes. "Anything else that's more... immediate? You are the one who advised me of this over my usual method. If I'm going to move out of my comfort zone, I need ideas." She closed her book, giving him a harsh look that was severely mellowed by alcohol. "Or I can just go back to plan A."

"Uh plan A?" Demon asked Tharja.

Magic flowed from her tome. "Hexing until I get my man back."

"Hexing doesn't always work you and I both know that, it has its draw backs, one must sacrifice something to have sacrifice..." Demon explained.

"Then you better start talking before I find some prey to use as catalysts. There's plenty of birds and small animals outside of the Dragon Realms."

"You're a sick little minx you know that right?" Demon asked Tharja as he got up from his seat.

"Born and raised that way," the woman replied detachedly. "Fought in three wars this way and spent almost my whole life with these practices."

Demon's head tilted to the left ever so slowly. "That's...good?"

"… I want Shad..." Tharja deadpanned, though her eyes betrayed her pain. "I... I honest to gods love him... just please, give me anything to go off of, Damon."

Demon sighed as he thought of something. "Ever hear of meditation?" Demon asked Tharja as he approached her.

"Do it every night before bed," she informed him, nibbling on the food Shad made that Damon didn't eat. "Why do you ask?"

"Maybe you need a new mediation." Demon said to Tharja.

The Dark Mage gave him a stone-faced look. "What good would that do?"

"Get your mind off Scarlet and Shad... for one." Demon reminded her seeing as he needed to keep her under wraps.

"… I might try it... anything else?"

Demon held out his right gauntlet to Tharja. "Come with me."

The drunken woman hesitantly took his hand. "What are you planning?" Demon lead the drunken Tharja out in to the courtyard until he moved over to the open pace and transformed in to a sizable dragon, he extended his left wing as he laid down for Tharja. "… Do you want me to get on?"

Demon huffed as he grabbed her with his tail and putting her on his back neck. "Hang on..." Demon's voice echoed a bit as he extended his wings outward as he started to flap them to gain speed and strength before taking off of the ground.

Tharja grabbed onto his neck with as much of her merger strength she could muster. "I'm not very strong!" She shouted, starting to feel motion sick. "And I'm not sure the alcohol is agreeing with this!" Demon broke the sound barrier as he went as high as the clouds before gliding through the sky letting her see the bright moon. The light reflected off her pale skin, her hair flying behind her. "It's a nice view... but why are we here!?" She asked over the sound of the wind.

"Shhhhh...watch..." Demon said as he slowed down, blue, red, white, green, and purple lights began to appear glimmering in the sky above the clouds.

Her eyes widened as she looked at the lights. "Wow... what are these lights?" She asked in awe, never seeing anything like this before.

"Beats me, but if I could guess? It's spirits...in this realm, they have this calming charm to them..." He said as he leaned right to glide near them.

Tharja's stomach seemed to relax as the urge to throw up diminished. "Damon... why show me this? Why not Flora or Felicia, or hell even Anor... a..." an orange creature descended and smiled at her. It had spikey, floppy ears and a jewel in its forehead.

"because Flora, Felicia, and even... Anora don't threaten to put Hexes on someone... you need to detach and unwind... the best part of it is simply not giving a care and relaaaaaxxx..." Demon explained to Tharja.

The creature cooed and nuzzled into her, sitting in her lap. "What... what are these things?" The small creature filled her with a warmth that she rarely felt outside of her loved ones, a blue one with wavy ears rested on her head, a green one with leaf like ears squeezing in with the orange, and a yellow one with crescent ears and cute striped horns smiling as it wrapped its arms around her neck in a hug.

"Dragon spirits...I think after they die or before they have to reincarnate, I don't know how dragons life cycles are actually, I know they are nothing like Phoenixes...they're just different. " Demon explained as colorful lights surrounded them.

Tharja actually felt at peace as the cute creatures comforted her. "… Do you think one of these will be you or Shad's children?" She asked, petting the green one. It's deadpan expression faltered as it smiled softly, nuzzling into her hand.

"It's possible...but I have no conception of this realm, I'm still very ignorant to many things here..." Demon confessed.

"… Do you think these creatures could be familiars if they wanted to be?" She asked, noting as the yellow one poked her thunder tome. The orange one flipped through her Elfire tome, acting as if it was reading from it.

Lightning danced across the sky as a silhouette of a giant beast could be seen behind the clouds. "Hold on..." Demon ordered as he was gaining some distance from the cloud seeing six purple eyes. Demon's eyes widened seeing the size of the creature, so he had to immediately go expend his own power to grow in size letting his form increased as he was still gliding back getting distance from the storm cloud. A purple like energy blast from the storm cloud nearly grazing Demon and Tharja. "SON OF A BITCH!" Demon roared swooping down below the clouds, to take evasive measures.

"What the hell is this?!" She asked in a surprised tone.

Though what appeared through the clouds going right across them brought fear of the memories of Grima as it flew over them, dancing across the dark grey clouds. "It's going to be dead that's what it is!" Demon growled out.

Miss me? A telepathic voice asked as darkness formed in its maw.

"DROP IT!" Demon roared evading another strike from Grima. "I thought you said you destroyed this fuck!" Demon roared out.

"We did! Shad should be the only Fell Dragon!"

"Apparently not..." Demon muttered.

Oh, he is... well... sort of. The dragon chuckled.

"Time to get you to the ground, I'll take this flying fuck...where's is the FUCKING GROUND?!" Demon roared seeing a purple like cloud storm below them.

You think I'd let my mate leave me? 'Grima' asked with a light laugh. The girl is coming with me.

"Your mate...? YOU!" Demon growled as he swept forward breathing fire bolt towards Grimma.

Heh... dense as always. Grima finally showed his face from the mist, which would have made Damon pale if he could. This... monster dwarfed him by a significant margin. The Prince barely as tall as this thing's muzzle.

"THARJA I NEED A SPELL! A REALLY POWERFULL ONE! I NEED TO GROW EXPENETIONALLY!" Demon roared diving under Grima avoiding the hooded figure appearing on the beast. Demon began to get angry as he was using that rage as a catalyst to concentrate energy.

Tharja took out her strongest tome, casting it on Damon with all her power. "GOETIA!" Black mist and lightning struck him as the malevolent energy coursed through him, but even that paled in comparison to Grima's breath attacks.

Demon felt the pain surface and began to boil, his eyes watching the Wyrm dance through darkening storm. Demon's dragon form began to grow even more as he dove in to the purple like storm. Demon broke the sound barrier once again by slamming in to Grima taking advantage of his limbless body.

"Heh... so you finally decided to take the fight to me," the cloaked figure goaded him, drawing a Levin sword and a tattered version of Shad's tome. "Ready for round two then?" Demon's eyes widened as he saw the cloak figure jump off of Grima and on to his body landing near Tharja. Demon attempted to do a death spin to throw him off but he was walking on him like normal, moving towards Tharja with perfect balance. "Hello, my Black Witch," the cloaked figure greeted her.

Demon's rage reached peak form, as he growled and allowed his form to be split as a red dragon like knight grabbed the cloaked figure and throwing him back twirling his sword, as he kept distance in between Tharja and him. "Not this time!" The armored Demon roared with glowing red eyes.

"Well well!" The man laughed, opening his tome. "Color me impressed, fledgling!" He disappeared, and Demon found himself being shocked badly by the Levin Sword. "You've started taking pages from my book. Clever bastard." The cloaked figure kicked him back with a smug grin. "Even with that absorption gimmick though, you're very new to this style of fighting."

Demon and the hooded figure clashed roughly for several minutes. Demon was thrown back on the Dragon Demon's back, near Tharja. "Heh... even with the rage of a god of war, you still can't beat me. Believe me." The man stabbed Demon again and this time pointed a hand at his face, the tome levitating beside him. "I've beaten one. Thoron." A spear of lightning shot through the armored man and his dragon form, making him gasp as unbridled pain rocked his body.

Demon growled as Tharja was picked up by the hooded man and jumped on to the Grima. Demon's dragon form narrowed down on the two, as a very bright red light illuminated the two separate Demon's conjoining them back to one.

"Hmph... resilient bastard. Fine." The man sighed and released his grip on Tharja. "You have ten seconds before that form starts to fail. I suggest you make them count."

A ball of red light struck the hooded man as a black dragon knight materialized, he quickly grabbed Tharja and ran off towards the tail end of the Grima and dove right off after he flashed a middle finger at the figure. Demon and Tharja were breaking the sound barrier as they fell towards the purple storm energy, Demon held out his right hand in this black Dragon knight form and whished it to the side causing a small hole to open up as they went through that, letting their hide out to be seen.

"That... that was him... wasn't it?" Tharja asked, shaking in fear. "One of the people from that... weird world."

Demon opened a small pair of wings to slow down as he landed on his feet shaking in his armor as he depleted his power level. Demon set Tharja down before going back to his regular form, breathing heavily. "…..he was responsible for... murdering... burning... defiling... and destroying everything...I held dear..." Demon gasped a fresh breath of air.

"But... why me?" She asked, trying to catch her breath, the fear sobering her. "How am I a mate to that... thing?"

"To hurt someone you care about possibly..." Demon fell on his ass, as he was exhausted from the pain he received.

"… We should get back to camp," Tharja shuddered. "I... Damon, I... I don't think I can wait after this. I need to be with Shad now."

"Then go..." Demon sighed waving her off, sitting under the sakura tree.

"Damon, I... I don't know how though," the dark mage gasped, falling to her knees. "That... scarlet woman took him... I don't know how to even approach him like I want to without her getting in the way... please... I need help." For once, she had tears in her eyes, shocking Demon. Tharja was usually so composed and gloomy, seeing her so scared and desparate was... eye opening.

"What do you want me to do? Huh? I have no sense of connection with her here... and I can't tell her to simply back off, She's clung to Shad now..." Demon groaned getting up.

"Then... give me some advice... anything... I want him to be with me..."

"Just go confront him...tell him how you feel and stop being a fucking Pussy!" Demon snapped as he spat out blood from the wound he received. "Or are you too much of a coward, and just be reduced to stalking him till your dying breath?!" Demon barked at Tharja.

"… We're getting you back to base first," she sighed, trying to help him up. "Those wounds need treatment."

Demon swatted her hand away as he stopped her from helping. "Stop... they're cursed wounds... I need a healer Tharja..." Demon said not moving anymore as he laid against the tree.

The dark mage faltered. "… Then we need the twins."

"….Tharja...?" Demon asked taking off his helmet.

"What?" She asked, about to rush to the camp.

Demon's face was scarred in black like veins around his skin and eyes. "I'm dying..." Demon said as now he was on the clock.

"Wh... What?" She asked, shocked by the scars.

"Twenty four hours... that's if I don't move and don't increase my heart rate... it's a neurotoxin venom and a curse... I nearly went insane from this and nearly died twice from it as well..." Demon said calmly.

"… I'm getting the twins now," the dark mage sighed. "Shad as well. He knows poisons better than anyone."

Demon's head slowly tilted down as he closed his eyes, they needed to get Elise, she was proficient at her healing, and helped last time to fight against the curse.

Demon awoke with smoke and darkness around him, Scarlet...the one he knew sat in front of him. "I think this is it for me love..." Demon said to Scarlet.

"Heh... you big lug," she chuckled, punching his shoulder lightly. "This isn't so bad. We've been through worse."

Demon groaned as he crawled over to her, laying his head on her armored lap. "I never wanted this for you...what happened that day...shouldn't have happened." Demon confessed to his long gone lover.

"Ooooh... poor guy," Scarlet smiled at him, rubbing his head. "I want you to listen. It's not too late. Not for any of us. You especially."

"I gave you up... you don't even...like me as much as you did from a time long ago..." Demon struggled to say, as the fire around them slowly rose, in a quiet haze of heat.

Scarlet sighed and kissed his forehead. "I forgive you. That wasn't the me you fell in love with. But I swear, we'll be there with you again soon. You're a good man, Damon. And I'll always love you." The blonde brushed his scalp as he started to drift off.

"I... I watched you burn alive, while I was helpless...while you were still with child...I lost you both..." Demon said in a cracked dried voice.

"It wasn't your fault..." She assured him, kissing his lips as the air started to cool. "You'll see me later, Damon. I love you."

"...mon... D...mon..." Felicia tried to shake him awake, Flora's staff trained on me. "Not... waking up..."

"Stand back!" Shad's voice was faint, but for some reason, Damon clung to it. Magic flowed into Shad's hands as he coated his spell casting hand in electricity. "Thunder!" The shock of the spell forced Damon's heart to pump and his mind to wake up, barely leaving a burn in its wake as the prince was pulled from the brink of death. Demon's eyes widened as he coughed up black blood on his right to his face, as the black marks were still plaguing his veins. "He's awake!" Shad reported, Damon hearing a sigh of relief from pretty much everyone in the army. "Flora, Felicia, get to work! Tharja, how's the counter curse coming?"

"Working on it!" The dark mage growled, trying to put together a spell that would at least help Demon live long enough to get fully healed.

"Damn it..." Demon winced out as he slowly sat up. "How long was I out?" Demon asked them, spitting up more of the black bile.

"A few hours," Shad growled, making thin incisions to draw out the black tar. "Damn it, damn it, damn it! What the fuck happened to you?! This toxin is worse than anything I've ever seen!"

"…. I got this before... It was healed by unnatural means... then fought off by healing magic.." Demon winced standing with his sword supporting him.

"Well, thankfully we have the twins healing you," Shad sighed, pushing him back down so the two maids could keep healing him. "Just stay there. You're not moving until you're better."

"I'm fine... I know of way to keep me...from dying..." Demon said as he concentrate his power. With a quick flash, there were three men... Damon, Demon, and the Instinct Demon. "I separated the curse in to three...it'll buy us a day...maybe two..."

Shad blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes. "That's... trippy..."

"Grrrrrraarrrr... Hello my Ice Queen..." The instinct said to Flora, scooting closer. "Flora keep away from that flying fuck-Libido..." Demon warned Flora.

"He... sounds familiar," Scarlet noted. "Am I the only one thinking that?"

"Not to worry, if you're feeling lonely, you could always hang out with me..." The instinctive Dragon-Demon said to Scarlet.

Shad's eyes turned red as he stood in front of her protectively. "Back off winged lizard, she's mine!" He growled, baring his teeth.

"Jr... put a muzzle on, you don't want to be fucking with a hopped up cursed dragon at the moment...this is final request hours, and if we don't get to Elise or Sakura...within the next two days...the weakest among us will die first."

Shad growled and his wings grew, much to the shock and fear of the Outlanders. "You just need Elise or Sakura, right?"

"Yes but it should probably be done very quietly..." Demon suggested as he regained some of his core strength.

Shad grinned as he flapped his wings. "My specialty."

"Now where is that Rabbit ass Panne, I got a bone to pick with her...Manspawn shit..." The Dragon instinct said, marching towards the camp. Demon sighed as he turned to Flora and Felicia. "I'm sorry, you had to see me like that..." Demon said to the two while Damon stood up to follow the dragon instincts.

"I... Damon, it's okay," Flora assured him, cupping his cheek. "You're alive... that's all that matters."

"uh...actually... that was Damon that went after Flying Libido... I'm a more...aggressive and impassioned Damon... Demon..." Demon informed Flora, holding her hands.

The blue haired maid remained silent for a moment before talking. "This is going to get confusing fast, isn't it?"

"If it pleases you...you can call me Demon... though don't expect us all to be separate for long, soon we'll have to reunite..." Demon sighed as he kissed her hands.

Flora smiled and kissed him. "You'll always be Damon to me. Regardless of form or how many of you there are."

"About earlier Flora...there's a reason why I acted that way..." Demon confessed to his lover, knowing she probably wouldn't understand, or flat out reject the motion that it happened.

"It's fine, love," she giggled, kissing him again. "We're in a bad place and under a lot of stress. You're the last person I blame right now. We can always keep trying until something happens. Unless... there's another reason?" Flora's voice was full of worry as she massaged his back, keeping him in her embrace.

"There is... Flora, I'm from...another...another time, where events are similar to this but with added detail and more faces... I died in that time line...only after watching everyone I ever loved...die before my eyes... you and Max both... when I wanted to make love to you...I saw your bloody mangled corpse... watching me..." Demon confessed to the ice maid.

"… Forgive me if I'm a little skeptical, but... it makes sense in an odd way," Flora sighed. "You started acting strange after we had Max and Felicia gave birth to Anora. And it only got worse after the Outrealmers came in."

"Yes, panic flooded my mind that I wasn't prepared enough to face the oncoming nightmares... challenges... part of me wanted to run... seeing the new faces, told me everything was changing... and I couldn't tell if it was in a good way or in a really bad way... I was afraid that the cycle of defeat would repeat again." Demon said to her fearing the worse.

Flora shushed him as she held his head close to her breast. "Damon... we have an apparently reborn dragon god, a squad of war veterans, two Yuki Onnas, and a berserker Demon. And that's just us on our left foot," she joked. "When we start picking up steam, I promise you, we'll get everything you lost back and then some."

If you only knew...

Demon just embraced her tightly, holding her close.

Shad touched down on Nohrian soil, dispelling his wings as he looked at the Capital. "Well... guess it's time for my coup de grace as a ninja," he smiled, pulling up his hood and tying a length of cloth over his mouth. "After this... well... I guess I'll keep my training in mind for the future." He rushed to the castle, making sure to keep in the night sky and out of the moonlight as he snuck over the castle's border wall.

He let out a breath as he grabbed a man off the wall and stabbed a dagger into his throat. "Rest in peace..." Shad laid the guard in a brush, out of sight as he snuck in the castle.

Quick in and out. Grab Elise, get out, don't draw attention.

That thought went out the window as he spotted a large bag of loot in one of the living quarters.

… We need the money. Yeah. That's what I'll go with.

Shad swiped the bag of gold and treasure and smiled as he stashed it in his coat before heading to Elise's room, remembering that hers was at the end of the hall. Of course, that is until he found himself dodging an axe blade that tried to take his neck off.

Annnnnd this is what I get for being greedy.

"FILTHY LITTLE THIEF!" A noisy blond screeched as she brought her axe down again splintering the floor.

Shad tossed up a barrier that kept the noise from escaping the hallway and jumped back, holding his dagger tightly. "Great... of course it's fucking Charlotte," Shad sighed as he kept his guard up. "Look, I'll return the money if that's what you want! Just let me get what I came her for and I'll be on my way."

"BLOODY LITTLE THIEVES STEALING MY GOLD! MY GOLD!" Charlotte brought down her axe again.

Shad dodged again and threw the bag at her, hitting the ground with a thunk. "There! Happy now?!"

The angry blonde quickly got to her feet and made a mad dash towards Shad. "GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE THIEF!" Charlotte screamed.

The tactician sighed, knowing she wouldn't let up until she was beaten down or he lost her, and she'd raise an alarm in the latter. "Fine then..."

Charlotte tripped forward causing her to fly right at Shad like a flaming projectile.

*SMMMOOOOSH...*

Charlotte's armor became undone around her chest, as her breasts were now out in the open smashing against Shad's face. Shad blushed as the blonde's breasts were firmly pressed into his face.

Oh dear gods... I'm so fucking dead now.

Shad shoved her off, making sure his mask was still on. "… In my own defense... you fell. I did nothing to instigate that at all." The prince made an effort block her breasts from sight, keeping an eye on her at the same time.

… But gods damn it did those feel nice...

Charlotte gasped as her face shot upwards her left breast navigated and popped her nipple in Shad's mouth. "Nyyyaaaahahhhhhhh! B-Bad! Thief!" Charlotte cried out.

… I feel like the gods are trying to tell me something... but hey, they've been screwing me over so far so...

Shad pushed her off and resisted the urge to lick his lips. "If I didn't know any better, you're trying to do this on purpose..."

"P-pervert thief! CREEP!" Charlotte, screeched as her left arm concealed her nipples and her right hand swung her axe.

Shad smirked as he remembered his research on the woman and blocked her attack with his sword. "Scratch that... I know you are." He gazed into her light blue eyes menacingly. Charlotte screamed and charged at him with Shad quickly in a fast motion navigating out of her charge, as his hands went around her white tight...panties. At that moment, Shad decided to use his 'taunting' tactics. "… Were you just going to bed or something? I mean it'd explain why I ended up getting caught by you returning to your room buuut..." He ripped off her underwear and moved his hands to her breasts, giving them a squeeze quickly. "With these in the way, I'm surprised you saw me at all." He laughed tauntingly as he jumped back while spanking her lightly, intending to bring out the real her.

Charlotte gasped as she fell on her breasts breaking her fall with her ass sticking up in the air, as she slid across the floor. "And I heard you were the strongest person in the army bar Damon and Garon," Shad teased her with a smile. "Turns out you're just a ditzy klutz who's hungry for a husband. I've seen street walkers with more clothing on than you." Shad immediately pinned her as she tried to attack him. "Sadly though, I'm on a mission, so I'm going to have to kindly ask you to go to fucking sleep. That or I take you back to base with me. Your call."

"You perverted thief! You're going to steal the ultimate treasure of mine... my innocence!" Charlotte cried out with her hands covering her pussy.

"… Cut it with the girly attitude already, I'm not buying it," Shad deadpanned. "And if I wanted it that badly, I'd break your limbs to make sure you don't turn my spine into a broken twig."

"EEEHHH?! Y-you monster! You're a thieving monster! You cruel monster! " Charlotte cried out.

"Oh my fucking..." Shad growled, showing off some of his dragon features as he looked into her eyes. "Yes! I'm a fucking monster! I have been for years! Now would you kindly fuck off with acting like a damn flower?!"

Charollte submitted before the beast as she gripped her cheeks and spread them. "Then take what you want! I give! You earned it!" She protested.

Shad's eye twitched and he let out a long sigh. "Uhhhh... what the hell are you doing?" He asked, deactivating Dragon Fang.

"Y-You came here for my treasure and innocence..." Charlotte stated.

"… No. No I didn't. I came here for Elise because my brother is fucking dying and need a decent healer. And frankly? The twin maids are gone so... yeah. She's all that's left." Shad left out that the 'brother' was Demon who was dying of a nasty curse. "Now then, if you are quite down making a literal ass of yourself, I have a princess to kidnap and a brother to save. Besides, I'm poor as shit. You'd be sending your parents pennies if you tried to hire on my crew."

Mainly because most of what we get will be going to the war fund, but still.

"Eh? COME BACK AND FINISH WHAT YOU WERE ROBBING!" Charlotte screamed out.

Shad's eye twitched as he turned on her. "Okay, seriously! I'm a poor as hell thief! I'm here to kidnap Elise and all you can care about is me shoving my cock in you?! What the actual-" The prince paused, realizing something.

I reveal who I really am, she'll be all over me. Granted, I don't usually do relationships like that, but she's literally the strongest woman in the army, contesting Damon for that spot. I literally have an opportunity to get us another ace early.

"… You know what? Fine." Shad pulled down his hood and face mask. "Recognize me at all?" For the first time, he gave Charlotte a good look. She kept her hair tied up with a white ribbon, and her curves were only beaten by Camilla and maybe Tharja. And, despite being a warrior, she had few scars on her body.

"…..PRINCE SHAAAAAADD?!" Charlotte screamed out in shock.

"Shhh!" Shad growled, clasping a hand over her mouth. "Yes, I'm prince Shad. Damon is dying and needs Elise to save him, so I'll cut to the chase. I'll hire you on as my soldier, grab Elise, and I'll pay you a thousand gold a week. Does that work for you?" Charlotte collapsed in shock her face going pale white as her coffers dropped out of her satchel around her waist. Shad sighed and took out his tome. "Thunder." He sent a spark of electricity into her, not really hurting but doing more than enough to bring her back to reality. "Come on honey trap. I haven't gotten all night."

Shad offered his hand to her. "Make your choice; join me or stay here," he ordered, using his other hand to pull his hood and mask back up. Subtly though, it went for a toxin he made that gave the victim slight amnesia, in case she should stay in Garon's army.

Cut! Cliffhanger for not one of the princes, but Charlotte this time! Yes, she's getting Shad. A more brutish girl to balance out Shad's quick and clean methods... well, outside of his brother. Outside of that, a bit of bond building between the brothers and the rest of the cast.

The curse has returned and has afflicted Demon, luckily his past experience with it has taught him a way to slow it down, Shad has time, but not much time to spare as the venom works fast. I also like to tell you we have pushed ourselves in to overdrive for the week, Real life situations have come up and we will be forced to randomly drop in a chapter for a fic, until we handle this... that being said Co-writers are needed, so if you enjoy writing, contact me or LyokoDragon15, and we'll vet you through and see how you handle.

Yeah, life's been rough… But back to story matters, you gave him three days and Shad can teleport back to the Dragon Realm. He has plenty of time by those standards.

Demon...not so much XD even if he has a big heart...

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