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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Enchantment: Chapter 7: I Do
Romance: Yubel x Juudai x Johan
Word Count: chapter: 1,667||story: 11,731
Genre: Romance, SupernaturalRated: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, section I, #12, a multichap with exactly 10 chapters; Written for the Valentine's to White Day Advent, day 24, write about a brainwashing/trickery.
Summary: On Johan's wedding day, he goes for a breath of fresh air in the forest, and encounters a creature he's never seen before. He will still marry this day. But not who he expected. For who would expect to marry the King of the Fae?


Johan struggled to get air into his lungs. Somehow, the day had flown past, and now the sun teetered on the horizon. He stood outside of a doorway, the Gem Beasts standing with him, and tried once more to wrap his mind around the fact he was about to get married.

To the King of the Fae and his current consort. Every part of him shivered. He knew that he cared for Juudai and for Yubel as well. Memories he'd only begun to touch on told him that. Yet knowing that and the stark reality of binding himself to them were two different things.

Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if Juudai had brought him here when he was a child. He would've grown up expecting this moment, perhaps even anticipating it. He tried to imagine how that would be, to stand here and look forward to what was about to happen, to even know what was expected of him aside from saying yes at given moments… and did he even know that he would have to do that? He hadn't heard anything about how the ceremony was conducted.

Amethyst Cat nudged him. "It's time." Johan forgot how to breathe all over again as the door in front of him slid open in slow majesty, revealing what lay beyond it.

Rows of marble benches, softened by thick cushions, stretched out before him, each bench filled with people. 'People' might've been an odd use of the word, but he didn't know what else to call everyone that he saw there. Some looked very human, perhaps with unusual hair colors, while others, such as the bouncy hairball with wings, looked nothing like one at all.

Soft music filled the air; not the melody that he'd heard at the few weddings he'd attended in the past, but something deeper, richer, wilder, and more regal. Fitting for the wedding of a king, he guessed, as with another nudge from Amethyst Cat, he began to walk down the aisle.

He carried nothing in his hands and he wished that he did in order to know what to do with them. He spied Misawa on one of the benches close to the front, seated next to a tall and imposing woman with violet hair pulled back in a ponytail. Her pointed ears revealed her Fae origins, and he guessed this was the woman that the other had spoken of.

Johan didn't have time to look over everyone as he made his way to the end of the aisle. Juudai and Yubel stood there, and the moment he laid eyes on them, every other thought vanished out of his head. The Gem Beasts fell back as he approached the first of the three steps that led to the small dais where the Fae King awaited his new consort.

"We welcome our consort to be," Juudai spoke as Johan stepped onto the first step. "We have waited so very long for you."

"And now the waiting has finished," Yubel joined in at the moment Johan's foot touched the second step. "Welcome, Johan Andersen."

On the third step, Johan himself spoke, though he hadn't meant to. The words rose up from his throat without his knowledge. "I come as I was meant to, giving myself to my king and consort, with all of my heart and all of my soul and all of my body, from now until the end of my existence, be it in this form or in another."

With each word that he spoke, he could feel something wrapping around him, and realized in a sort of vague way that what he felt were strands of magic. He didn't feel any kind of threat or worry, only a rising bliss that coated all of his anxiety and swept it away.

Now he stood on the dais with Juudai and Yubel and held his hands out to them. Juudai took his right hand, Yubel the left, and the three of them stood together, linked together. Johan had only a moment or two to wonder if that was all there was to the ceremony before the music played once more, rising a little higher and with more anticipation running through it.

Juudai released their hands and turned to the altar that they all stood before. No one in the audience so much as took a breath. The Gem Beasts stood quietly to the side, watching. On the altar there burned a single pure black candle, the flame the same gold as Juudai's eyes. Before the candle there rested a single goblet crafted of gold and set with topaz. Juudai picked the goblet up and touched the rim with the tip of his fingers.

"With the drinking of this wine, I bind myself to Johan and to Yubel, for now and forever. We are one, as was meant to be, and will always be. Nothing at all will shatter this bond."

He offered the goblet first to Yubel. Before accepting it, Yubel spoke as well, touching the tips of clawed fingers to the rim. "With the drinking of this wine, I bind myself to Juudai and to Johan, for now and forever. We are one, as was meant to be, and will always be. Nothing can shatter this bond."

Now Juudai turned the goblet toward Johan. Johan did not have time to panic as once more words he did not know poured from him. In the back of his thoughts he supposed hearing them speak first helped in this case. "With the drinking of this wine, I bind myself to Juudai and to Yubel, for now and forever. We are one, as was meant to be, and will always be. This bond is eternal."

While he spoke, his attention had all been on the goblet. He looked up as Juudai pulled it back toward him and thought he caught a glimpse of a triumphant smile on Juudai's lips. If he had, the smile vanished as the Fae King raised the goblet to his lips and took a careful ceremonial sip before passing it to Yubel, who did the same. Johan took it in his own turn, the wine far richer and more powerful than anything he'd tasted in his life.

As he handed the goblet back to Juudai, Juudai took it in his left hand, while taking Johan's hand in his right. Once he set the goblet down, he turned his hand, revealing a gleaming ring of gold. "With the accepting of this ring, I name Johan as my consort and companion, second in power and authority only to myself and Yubel." Now his eyes met Johan's dead on. "Do you accept this ring and all that comes with it?"

If ever he had a moment when he could've backed out and at least considered fleeing back to the mortal world, Johan knew this was it. But he could not. He would not.

"I do," he said, staring into those marvelous eyes of molten gold.

Juudai smiled, and Johan knew that he'd seen it this time. The ring slid onto his finger, and Juudai pulled him closer, wrapping his arms around him in a warm and loving embrace. The fae king, his husband now, pressed his lips to Johan's in deep passion. There was still an element of ceremony and ritual here, but Johan looked forward to what would happen afterward now.

Juudai pulled back for a single step, his arms still around Johan's, and now turned him so he could trade kisses with Yubel. Yubel's lips burned a little hotter than Juudai's, and the feeling of those talon-like fingers on his head a little strange, but Johan thought he could get used to it.

"From this moment on, we are the rulers of the Fae," Juudai declared, turning Johan once more, this time to face the crowd. All three hand in hand, they stood before their people, who now cast of all silence and cheered at the top of their lungs. The Gem Beasts joined in, though some tiny part of Johan thought they sounded a bit restrained.

Well, I'll be busy with Juudai and Yubel for a while, he recalled. Consummation of the marriage. His cheeks flared bright red at the thought. He would talk to them later. They had forever, after all.

Once the cheers died down, a line formed up, and all of the assembled fae - which were only the nobles and important folk for the castle, Johan learned – knelt one at a time before Johan, pledging to serve him as they would Juudai and Yubel, acknowledging him as their liege on equal with their king. Throughout the whole time, Juudai remained beside Johan, whispering names here and there, and when there was time, promises of what would happen once the three of them retired for the evening. Johan had no idea of how he managed to keep himself from blushing at some of the descriptions. Was Juudai's imagination that good?

And what if it wasn't imagination?

That alone kept Johan going the whole time, throughout the pledging of allegiance and the feast that followed, where Juudai fed him pieces of food and all three shared more wine, and Johan's head spun in the most pleasant of ways. Soon enough he leaned into Juudai's embrace and murmured silly words of his own, whispering of his hopes for the evening and for the future to come. Juudai stroked the back of his neck and traced his tongue along Johan's ear.

"You'll have all of that and more," he promised, the words searing themselves into Johan's ears and mind. "I promise you that. We both do. Now get a little rest. It'll be soon."

When Johan's head cleared, he wasn't certain how much time had passed and not entirely where he was. He stood in between Juudai and Yubel, and in front of the three of them he saw a bed fit for a king: or a king and his two consorts.

To Be Continued