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Chapter eight: Sairaorg and Tiamut

A month and a half had passed since Nicole reunited with her birth family and the death of her dear grandmother. During this time period, she greived for her grandma, got reaquainted with her family, and learned more about being a devil.

This afternoon she was practicing the martial arts taught to her by her adoptive father. In the middle of a practice spar with a dummy, she heard a voice that came from behind her she had never heard before said, "What a magnificent martial arts performanc going on. Would you like to have a living spar partner?"

Nicole turned around and studied the boy behind her. He was a young man about 5 years older than her. So he would be about 17. He was extremely tall and well built; he practically raidiated a strong presence but that presence did not come from magic but sheer physical power. He had black hair, purple eyes, and a nice smile.

"Sure, but how do you want to fight..I..I...I mean what rules do you want to use?" Stammered Nicole, who was nervous and in awe of this person.

"The head and groin areas are off limits and no serious injuries are permited. This is a three minutes battle and in order to win you have to have landed the most hits by the end of the time or get the other person to surrender or render the person unconcious." He said.

"May I get the name of the person I am fighting?" Nicole asked.

"Of course, I am Sairaorg Bael, the next head of the Bael family, But you can call me Sai."

Why did that name sound so familiar? Nicole thought.

"Okay, lets gets started!" Sairaorg shouted.

Nicole prayed that she would make it out from this spar alive. She and Sai took opposite sides of the room and then bowed to each other. Then they both assumed their fighting forms and fought for almost three whole minutes before Sai took her out with a strong punch to the gut. Sai was an exceptionally strong opponet while she landed several strong blows that would have taken almost anyone else out, Sai just shook them off. Sai on the other hand, managed to take her out on the first blow he managed to land on her and that blow was exceptionaly strong and caused her to have a black out (and that was two minutes and 30 seconds into the three minute battle). Sai waited with her while she was unconcious.

When Nicole regained concious about ten minutes after the spar, Sai asked her, "Why didn't use magic? It's not like the rules forbade you from using it."

"For multiple reasons. One is that this was a martial arts fight, not a magic fight and thus it feels to me like it would be cheating. A second reason is that I thought it would be fun to fight you with martial arts because I sensed that you had exceptional martial arts skill and it would be an excellent time to measure my skill level against a strong fighter. Three, I sense that your power abilities are based on your physical skills not your magical ones." Nicole answered.

"You are right that I don't have alot of magic. In fact, I only have enough magic to use teleportation circles and to resurect or make peerage members. I did not inherit my family's power of destruction. I only recently became the heir after defeating my younger brother about a month or more ago. I like the reasons you didn't use magic and I thank you for fighting fairly during your fight. It was fun fighting you as well, you moved so fast that I had a hard time landing a hit."

"But you are the one who was awe inspiring! You had amazing endurance and strength!"

"Thank you, would you like to be my friend?" asked Sai.

"Sure. I am curious though, what are you doing in the Gremory Castle?"

"I am here to meet my cousins and to finaly meet my newly returned betrothed." said Sai. "I forgot to ask, but what is your name?"

"Oh, I am so sorry that I forgot to give you mine, I am Nicole Gremory."

"WHAT! That means your my betrothed!"

"What!" Nicole gasped before she fainted from shock.

...

Once they got over the shock, they got to know each other and found that they liked each other a lot. A week after they met they took a trip to visit his mother who was in a coma in the hospital. It was a sad visit but a seriou move forward in their relationship after all, Nicole met his mother. On their way to Nicole's home via a public train they ran into a devil named Kuisha Abaddon. Sai recruited Kuisha to become his queen with Nicole's help.

Another week later, on the night of the full moon, Nicole, Rias and Akeno went to the forest of the Familiars.

"Sis, Akeno," said Nicole, "There is someone I need to go meet here in this forest. So while I am going to meet this person, why don't you guys find your familiars?"

"Nicole, it can be dangerous to go on your own!" said Akeno and Rias nodded her head in agreement with Akeno.

"I'll be fine, and if I get hurt because I went against your advice, you can lecture me all you want when I get back, OKAY?" said Nicole as she headed in a different direction and waving a hand as in goodbye.

She then used the bracelet she was given by Tiamut to comunicate with Tiamut. Tiamut quickly arrived and took Nicole to her nest which had an egg the size of a soccer ball in it. Tiamut shifted to her human form. They spent an hour catching up and finaly Nicole asked, "I did not know you were expecting a baby! When is it due?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean?" asked Nicole.

"Dragons need both of their parents in order to hatch, we dragons, do not understand why it is this way but just that is so. There is another way to make the baby hatch but it has lasting consequences for the baby hatch. A baby can stay in its egg for almost a thousand years or so before dying, my baby is running out of time." Said Tiamut.

"What is this way? Where and whom is the baby's father? Is there anyway that I can help?" Asked Nicole.

"Yes, I think you can help that is why I brought you here. The baby's father is the dragon named Ddraig and he ran off with another woman, breaking my heart and dumping his responsibilities. Then he gets himself killed and sealed away. When I last heard from him he said he didn't know why I was so angry and that he forgot. The only way for the baby to be born is if I find a good master for it so it can be born as a familiar so it can survive. I chose you because you have a great heart and you will treat my baby well. But I am not about to have you do it for nothing. If you help my child be born into this world and allow it to be your familiar, I will become a member of your peerage." Said Tiamut.

Nicole thought about it for a moment and accepted the offer.

"Here is what will happen, first, I will feed my baby some of my magical energy. When a normal hatching is done one parent starts off feeding the baby some of it's magical energy and the spouse a minute later adds their own magical energy. In this case, after I start to give magical energy, you will initiate and seal the familiar contract and then give it a name, once that is done the baby will hatch. But if anything goes wrong the baby will die." Said Tiamut.

They then iniated the procedure which went off with out a problem. And soon a male dragon familiar was born named Tanner. He had blue eyes and red scales.

Then it came for Tiamut to pay her side of the deal.

Nicole held up her Queen, Mutated Rook, and Mutated pawn piece while Tanner curled his body around her neck and slept. "Tiamut, you have a choice of being a pawn, a rook or a queen; which would you like to be? Oh! that's right I want to call you Tia-chan, in order to keep your identity a secret until the right moment."

"That's fine, I like the nickname. I would like to be a pawn," answered Tiamut.

"A pawn, I am surprised, I am sure you would have wanted to be a queen. Why do you want to be a Pawn?" asked Nicole.

"Because I like the promotion ability of a pawn and the fact that it is not as much of a responsabilty as the queen piece and I also have to raise a son on top of my duties to you and I can not thank you enough in helping me." answered Tia-chan. A few minutes later she became my pawn and we returned to my surprised sister and friend.