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The dragon from betweenChapter nine: Party poppers
Morning. Or whatever it is that passes for morning in Nifihelm. Hiryuu slowly opened his eyes to look at the ceiling mirror. Up there was his reflection laying in an oversized mattress, besides him stood the demon queen, Hild.
Widening even more his eyes in recognition, Hiryuu decided that it would be a nice hour to leave the place. It was really wonderful to do all that stuff, but if Hild awakes now, she would want more and then he wasn't sure if he could survive.
However, as the muscles required for getting away from there were requested to move, they complained really badly. Hiryuu had to make a Herculean effort to not groan in pain and awake the ravaging queen. Well, since he was in for a quick moment of stillness, might as well enjoy the ride.
First, he concentrated in the bed sheets. A wonderful silk maroon sheet was wrapping and caressing his body, along with Hild. Talking about her, just feel the warmth of her body near his, while she embraced his arm in her sleep. Turning his head to the left, Hiryuu looked at the peaceful face of the woman. It felt so good at her side. Unconsciously, he started to gently caress her left cheek with the back of his fingers.
Usually, girls tend to have mixed emotions when involved in sex, it has exceptions, but that is the normal way it goes. The boys for their turn go the same way when you're talking about their first experience, and Hiryuu was not different. Right now, he was having pleasant thoughts of a relationship with Hild. He wanted to look at her marvelous eyes once again, hear her voice, so, even if she wanted to go for another killing round under the covers, it was worth continuing to caress her until she awakes.
Stirring in her slumber, the demon queen felt such gentleness and care poured over her that she would puke if it wasn't so rarely that some one does bother to give her that. Opening her eyes, the first thing that she saw was the smiling face of her nephew. Moaning slightly, she just looked more at Hiryuu and smiled. "Good morning Hiryuu Chan..."
"Good morning Hild Chan." Hiryuu was so lost in her eyes that he got startled when Hild unceremoniously disengaged from his arm, stood up and proceeded to dress herself. "Oh my! Look at the time! I should go to a meeting with the council. Hiryuu dear, I believe that you were going away now right? Then I guess its farewell." The disbelief stare that Hiryuu gave her was unnerving. "What?"
"After the so special moments that we've shared you just dismiss me like this?"
Hild blinked a few times before realization downed on her. "What special moments? I must admit, you're one of the best man in bed that I've ever crossed paths with. And saying that of a virgin in talking a lot! But it wasn't so special after all. I've had a couple of better persons. Now, excuse me but I can't waste my time here anymore." With a poof of smoke, she was gone.
Hiryuu was stunned. How could she dismiss it like that? Was she just toying with his heart? Didn't she have a heart of her own?
"Duh! Of course she doesn't, she is a demon after all. Although demons can feel for others and engage in a relationship, sex doesn't mean anything. Lust rules here. And I knew it before last night. Damn! And I even felt bad for the ditch! There never had anything for a ditching to take place. What an idiot." Hiryuu realized the true. It was nothing but a little lust round and no more. Still, his feelings were somewhat confused. Better not think about it. "Well, better take my stuff and go back to home."
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There was a little celebration on the Morisato temple. Well, it was not for Hiryuu since no one knew that he would come back today. Right now, Keiichi, Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, Sayaka and even Thor were enjoying a nice birthday party for Sayaka. It was her sweet sixteen.
The outsides of the temple were not adorned; after all, it was not a public event, just a family occasion. On the inside however, balloons and ribbons flooded everywhere. Loud music, not the favorite of everyone but, hey it was Sayaka's party, boomed from the stereo. A nice karaoke machine was attached to it and everyone took turns into it. Both Keiichi and Thor were a little awkward but all in all passed.
Everybody was happy, it wasn't like they weren't missing Hiryuu, well Thor didn't mind at all and Skuld couldn't care less if he was not there, anyway, the majority was missing him but this party was also a special moment. Sayaka was as important as him.
A swirling vortex appeared in a dark room. From inside it, came the form of Hiryuu. Standing in the middle of his bedroom, the demon inhaled the scent of the place. The nice smell of a clean and sterilized room. Belldandy had done a wonderful job keeping his bedroom clean. Then, something reached his ears. "Ugh, it's Anvril Lavigne. I hate this sort of music. But why would mom and dad hear it? They also aren't very fond of it." Suddenly, his senses kicked in. "Hmm... aside from them there's four more gods down there... aunt Urd, Sayaka, Thor and Skuld... why would everyone be here?" Wondered Hiryuu as he had the good idea of looking at a calendar. "Hey, it's Sayaka's bday! How lucky am I to come back just today!"
In the living room, every one was having fun. Suddenly, all divine beings tensed and stood quiet. "What's wrong?" Asked Keiichi, AKA the clueless mortal.
"Shhhh... there's a demon on the temple." Replied Thor.
"But, how can any demon enter this place if not invited?" This came from the inexperienced Sayaka.
"It would have to live here or be strong enough to break trough the enchantments. And judging for it's power it's safe to assume the last alternative." Replied Urd.
"Couldn't it be Hiryuu? You know, he went to Nifihelm to some demon training."
"No Keiichi, it's too powerful to be him." Replied Urd.
"Hiryuu doing demon training? Why would she, I mean, he do that?"
"It's a long story dad. We'll tell you other time." Said Sayaka.
"Humph. I don't know about you but I'm not gonna let a filthy demon waste my niece's party!" Said Skuld as she rocketed trough the wall targeting the offending demon.
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"Well, might as well go there and give her my congratulations." Thought Hiryuu as he was heading to the door. Suddenly, someone busted from the wall and immediately started to attack him with swings of some blunt weapon. Just coming out from a place where fights were picked without thoughts and they usually were very brutal, the conditional response for such things kicked in. Hiryuu lashed back with a vicious roundhouse kick that sent the intruder flying trough the walls and crashing against a tree outside. Being a little hotheaded, he didn't wait for any explanations and dashed out to kick some ass.
Everybody else was stunned. After Sentaro was killed by a demon some years ago, Skuld got obsessed with hurting every demon that she finds. That was why she had argued with the family when Hiryuu was born. Now, a demon had invaded the temple and Skuld rushed to intercept it. Being a second-class goddess and daughter of Kami-Sama himself, no one was worried for her well-being. But after seeing she sailing backwards faster than when she went forward and being followed by a blur at the same speed, worries were a good call.
"OUCH!" Cried Skuld as her body impacted with the three. How could that demon be so fast that it had catch her so easily? Shrugging off her doubts, the goddess assaulted once again the damned hellspaw with some Skuld bombs.
Hiryuu dodged each one of the bombs, but something was wrong here. It was definitely a divine being that was attacking him and the only deity that used bombs was...
"Aunt Skuld?!"
"Skuld Stop! It's Hiryuu who you're shooting at!!" Yelled everyone as they got out of the temple.
"NO! You can't see trough his disguise! It might appear like Hiryuu but then he wouldn't be that strong." Denied Skuld.
Hiryuu also stopped. After all, it wasn't an invader. Just the aunt that didn't like him that much. Thinking about it, he remembered the last time she chased him, the results this time were quite different. "Am I really that strong?"
Being around Hiryuu longer, Belldandy could surely tell it was her son, and if Belldandy said something, then that was it. "Yes Skuld, I'm positive that it's him."
"Hn... I'm sorry for trying to kill you." Apologized not so wiling the goddess.
"Well, it was not like you really was out to kill me. Well, for me it didn't appear anyway. No harm is done, don't need to be sorry!" Said Hiryuu.
Everyone rushed Hiryuu and started to flood him with questions of his stay in Nifihelm, how he was able to take Skuld like that, why his aura was so strong and stuff. "Guys, calm down. I'm sure every one is curious about this and that but there will be time to answer that later. Let's focus on the more pressing matters!" Said Hiryuu.
"And what would this more pressing matters be?" Asked Keiichi.
"The birthday of my cousin Sayaka of course! Why do you think I'm back so early?" On true, Hiryuu didn't have a clue of Sayaka's birthday since moments ago, but a small white lie could save the day. Besides, he might have just returned from hell, but his demon's antics needed exercises.
"Hiryuu! You've remembered, I'm so happy!" Squealed Sayaka as she bear hugged the boy.
"I'm good...Well, it's not like I can forget my favorite's cousin birthday! Hiryuu received a playful smack upside head. "Silly! I'm your only cousin." Unnoticed to everyone, Skuld got a little sad with that. She really missed Sentaro.
Hiryuu unstuck himself from Sayaka and was going back inside the temple when something clicked in his mind. "Actually Sayaka, I won't be able to do this joke with you anymore. I do have another cousin."
Everybody blinked in confusion. "Hiryuu my son, what do you mean?" Asked his father.
"Well dad, this might sound weird, but as you recall, I've went to Nifihelm primary to learn about my demon father."
"Demon father? What are you talking about Hiryuu?" Interrupted Thor.
Glaring at Thor because of the interruption, Hiryuu sweated a little as Thor flicked a small electrical spark in his thumb. "Err... We will tell you everything uncle Thor, just wait some more. Continuing, well, as the majority of you know, my demon father was called Genryu. What happens is that Genryu is Hild's youngest brother. So, her daughter is my cousin too!"
"Well, and did you find out who is her daughter?" Asked said daughter.
"Nope."
"He he he... so, prepare yourself, as from now on I'm not only your aunt Urd, but also your cousin Urd." Said her striking a dramatic pose.
Hiryuu's eyes bulged. "YOU?!"
"Yep! Me. And as they say, it's better your cousin than your aunt."
"URD!" Outrageously shouted Keiichi, Skuld, Thor and Belldandy as the innuendo sank down. Sayaka just shouted "Mom!"
Hiryuu for his part, face faulted HARD. "GREAT! Like mother, like daughter."
"Well, anyway, you know that you do have one more cousin then, don't you?" Asked Urd, as she ignored the situation which she herself created.
"Do I have?"
"Of course! There's another demon that is my cousin, from my mother's part, of course. She's called Mara."
"Mara? You mean, Ms. Mara, Hild's right hand? The one with breasts this size?" Hiryuu put his hands over his chest to imitate the demons sizes.
"Yeah, it's exactly this big. Hey, do you know Mara?"
"Yes, she was my private demonic tutor."
Keiichi and Belldandy started to feel a little fear. Hiryuu already was a troublemaker before Nifihelm. If his teachings were given by Mara, then how bad would he be now? Suddenly, both realized their son's methods to identify her. "Now Hiryuu dear, it is very improper to use such things as reference material. You naughty boy." If said by any other woman, this last sentence would be a great flirt, but being Belldandy who said it, Hiryuu got really embarrassed with his mother's scold. "Hun... sorry mom."
"My, my! Look at my nephew, or would it be my cousin? Anyway, look at him! What a perverted boy we have here! If my memory doesn't fail me, you used to peek at the girls locker room. After a vacation in the land of the sin what are you doing now? Bet you're not a virgin any more, are you? If not we could fix that!" Teased (?) Urd.
Hiryuu just make a tomato impersonation and wildly waiving his hands in front of him sputtered incoherently. "Well, no...yes! Wait, no...I mean..."
Another collective URD was shouted by the present adults. "What? Can't I make a little fun at the expense of my nephew?"
By now, Hiryuu had enough. If she wanted to play that line, well, two could play it. "Well aunt Urd, why don't you come here and discover by yourself?"
"Hiryuu!" Now, it was his turn to outrage everyone. Everyone but Urd, she decided to play along. No brat would make her back down on her own game. So, she smiled seductively at Hiryuu and advanced to his personal space, starting to unbutton his shirt. "Oh my! Took you long enough to get the guts to call aunty to play."
Let justice be done by telling that Hiryuu would normally back off at this level. For starters, he wouldn't even enter in this kind of a game with a woman that he knew had the reputation of Urd. But after queen Hild sort of cured him of his shyness and family reservations, Hiryuu was up to take this gut's game wherever it was necessary. "But now that I've called we could have a lot of fun." Retorted him, expertly wrapping his hands at the small of her back.
"What? He's still in game? Well, I won't back off." Urd was dead sure to win. And if he didn't back off too, well, it wouldn't hurt to play that other game with this hunk. "Um hmm... and what will we do?" Said her, slowly nodding her head and than titling her head downwards to his level.
Hiryuu was nervous. By now, he had realized that Urd wouldn't retreat, but something that he decided to live by from his demonic teachings was the fact that demons should stood their ground in whatever challenge they're up to, no matter the consequences. "We could start with this..." Trailed him as his face approached Urd's for a kiss.
SPLASH.
Both blinked a couple of times before looking at Skuld who was standing aside with an empty but wet bucket. "YOU SICK PERVETS! IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE DOGS IN HEAT, AT LEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO NOT DO IT IN FRONT OF US! WHAT A SLUT IS MY SISTER! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD DO IT WITH YOUR OWN NEPHEW! AND YOU BOY! YOU'RE REALLY THE F#ING DEMON THAT YOU'VE BORN AS! THE World would be much better without you!" Then Skuld realized the weight of her words as she saw the pained expression on the faces of Urd and Belldandy. Looking at Thor and Sayaka she only received reproval looks. Moving her head a bit more, she came in eye contact with Keiichi, who also held a reproval look, along with the pained one.
"I really blew it this time didn't I?" Asked her. Keiichi just nodded his head. Damn, she spent years away from Belldandy and Urd because of her demon intolerance, and now that she was finally getting together with then she had to go and say all that. Looking at Hiryuu, she only saw anger in his eyes. Both him and Urd didn't ask to be born with demon blood. What she said really hurt Urd. For Hiryuu she couldn't care less, after all she barely knew him, but hurting him she had also hurt Belldandy. And that was something that she couldn't stand.
Hiryuu looked at his aunt, barely suppressing the urge to go and force her to apologize. For him it wasn't such an insult, but both his mother and aunt really felt that. However, attacking her would just do nothing good. So, he just watched as she started to shed some tears before running in search on some water body to get away from there.
Thor didn't like at all this exchange. It was supposed to be his daughter's birthday party and turned out a total failure after the arrival of Hiryuu. However, he didn't hold anything against the boy. Skuld really had to work on that insane intolerance of hers. And the little episode of the boy and Urd is something that he really expected to happen when it begun. Urd might be the mother of Thor's daughter but he knew very well how she was. And it was not his concern her behavior, it was not like they were together or something. "Hun... guess I'm going too. Farewell everybody, Sayaka dear, could you come with me? I wish to talk with you a little."
"Yes dad. Well, I guess then it's good bye." Said her as she followed her father to the inside and teleported back to heaven.
"Oh my! Urd my sister, could you help me with the party's leftovers?" Said Belldandy as she too entered the temple. Her request was more of an order.
Hiryuu zoned out for a while as he recalled this entire incident in his mind. Snapping out of it only when Keiichi called him to help to repair the temple's walls. Last thing he thought was. "I still can't believe that I would do it with aunt Urd. In what kind of being has Hild-Sama transformed me?"
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Later that night, Hiryuu was looking at the city lights down the temple hill. Keiichi gave him a major ass chew while they worked. The real one at fault was Skuld but he could have avoided all that. And to go and almost make out with his own aunt right in front of everybody? Well, very soon he would have to talk to his father about what being a demon means. Not that he would live by that but some things do enter your head and for more accurate that the gods were about demon ways, if still was wrong in several places.
But what was really eating him from inside was the feeling that he was the responsible for blowing Sayaka's party. Hiryuu sulked a little more before remembering something. "Hey! As long as I'm a girl I still can go to Yggdrasil. Might as well go and apologize to her." Then, he poured himself some hot water and headed to the living room's mirror.
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Sayaka was laying on her bed listening to some music. She was not sad for the failed party but still she was not happy. She had talked with Thor about why Skuld seemed to hate Hiryuu so much (which is not true. She just can't cope with the fact that he's part demon.) and for that matter what was going on about Hiryuu and Nifihelm. After all that, she went to sleep at her mother's house, after all, Urd should be upset after aunt Skuld's harsh words. Suddenly, a knock sound got her out of her musings. Looking at the source of the noise, she saw the feminine form of Hiryuu's head poking out of her mirror. "Can I come in?" Asked the now goddess.
Receiving permission to enter, Hiryuu completely teleported, for once, doing it right. "Well Sayaka, I came here to say that I'm really sorry about your party. I know that it's not an excuse but if I had known that it would end like that, I wouldn't behave in that way."
Sayaka looked at Hiryuu and smiled. "Do you really think that I'm upset about it? Forget it, it's not like I'm happy but it was just a party. It was worth to see you today after all."
Smiling herself, Hiryuu realized that Sayaka really wasn't sad. "Well, I came back from hell just to congratulate you ..." The girl mentally congratulated herself seeing the smile on the other girls face wider. "Speaking of it, where is that?" Fumbling a little in her pockets, Hiryuu didn't come out with anything and to save the moment conjured a wasted piece of sweet loaf. "Here, happy birthday!"
Sayaka looked at the wasted food and asked. "Hiryuu, you know that I don't like sweet loaf. Also, it's already wasted. What am I supposed to do with it?"
Smiling sheepishly, Hiryuu replied. "Well, it saves you the work of keeping it until it goes bad!"
Laughing, Sayaka lightly punched Hiryuu's shoulder. "You don't exist!"
"Well, I try. Anyway, I came here to apologize and congratulate you. As I've already done it, I must be going. Tomorrow my life at Midgard resumes. Se you later Say-Chan!"
"See you later Ryuu-Chan." Sayaka watched her cousin teleport back to his/her home. When the teleport vortex in the mirror vanished, her bedroom's door opened. "Sayaka dear, I heard a laud laughter from here. Is everything alright?" Asked Urd peering her head inside the room."
She just smiled and lift the junk in her hand to her mother to see. "Yes mom, it was only Hiryuu and his twisted sense of humor."
Laughing a bit after Sayaka explained why Hiryuu gave her wasted food, Urd sobered a little and said. "Well, good that everything didn't stain your mood dear. But I still have to talk with Hiryuu about what happened down there."
"Mom, would you really do it with him that time?"
Urd sighed, this was not something that she liked to talk about with her daughter, but she had brought the subject up. "Unfortunately yes dear. Sometimes I lose my mind when it comes to bets and games like that." Now, don't think that Urd didn't talk with Sayaka about the facts of life, but discussing her personal misleadings was another thing.
Urd got out of her daughter's bedroom. Going back to her own room, she decided that it wasn't so bad after all. "Hot as he is it might not be that bad of an idea..."
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At the Morisato temple, we see Hiryuu standing from the ground. "Damn, one of this days I'll brake my nose."
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Author's notes: Well, I could get one more chapter, even during tests. Anyway, This is it. And Player0, I would really appreciate those tips you offered about popularity with readers, could you give them?