I grinned like an idiot as I cleaned the blood and birth fluids from
our baby girl. She was very beautiful; lovely bright green eyes, in
contrast to my aqua and Minty's black, and she somewhat resembled a half-
elf, light, fair elven features but human energy.
She uttered a wail of hunger and I took her over to Minty, who began feeding her. She purred as I held her and she fed our little one.
Then, she looked up at me, "What d'ya think we should name'er?"
"How 'bout Mia, after your grandmamma?"
She nodded, "Our little Mia."
Over the next few years, we discovered that Mia aged as slowly as, possibly even slower than, we were now, and that, with a bit of shape shifting, I could feed her as well. It was an odd feeling, not one I particularly enjoy, not like Minty, but it lets Minty rest a bit more as I take up some of the duties.
Despite our little one, we still had an active love life. Minty was amazed that I still found her attractive at all.
Just a few days after we celebrated Mia's fifth birthday (her actual birthday not the birthday of her apparent age) Minty and I decided to take her on a little sightseeing trip. It took a lot of bargaining, but my father allowed me to take a vacation, he only gave me nine days (the tight ass).
We were viewing the system near one of the stars in the Fornax constellation, Minty and Mia had special space re-breathers on, when a familiar voice spoke to us, "Well, well ,well, if it isn't my wimpy-ass brother and his little abomination."
Minty and I turned to see my brother, Coveter he called himself, floating behind us with a huge, apparently handcrafted, sword pointed at us.
"What do YOU want?" I asked, ready to blast his brains out.
"I just wanted to see the abomination that would be my niece," he said as he looked at Mia. "Ew, she really is an abomination, by the gods, Minty, I could have made a much more beautiful child."
I lost my temper, then and there, and summoned my own hand-forged weapon; a battle staff covered in magical runes and markings, and lunged at him. He blocked my advance easily and retaliated by thrusting his sword through my gut.
He yanked it out and blood flew everywhere. I turned to Minty, "GO, GET MIA OUT OF HERE-" but I never finished, for Coveter rammed his blade through my mouth and out the back of my head.
Minty left and I started to pull at my full power. My wounds healed up and I began a new assault with my staff. He stabbed me several more times and he had a few broken bones where I had cracked him with my staff.
Moments later our wounds were gone and we began another assault. It was apparent that I was by far outmatched in melee combat, so I resorted to my magic. I enveloped my staff in demon flames and lunged again.
It took me several advances to finally hit him, but where I did, the bone shattered and burned over, that would take longer to heal. Before he could recover from my attack, I pointed my palm at him and unleashed a scatter- blast. I held the scatter-blast for a full five minutes, and when the light and smoke cleared, Coveter stood there with several holes in his body.
He laughed as they healed over, "Aw, come now my weak little sib, you can do better than that." At that, he lunged and brought his sword down on my head. I brought my staff up just in time, but he shattered it with apparent ease.
I shifted my shape back to my true form, what looked to be a human with huge dragon wings and wicked-looking three inch claws, and lunged at him again. I dodged his slow attacks and brought my claws across his chest, easily slicing through the one-inch-thick titanium vest he wore. Then I slashed again, cutting deep ruts in his flesh.
Suddenly he doubled over, grunting in pain, "What did you do to me?"
"So," I said in a condescending tone, "My 'big' 'strong' brother can't take a little venom?"
I had discovered my venomous claws only recently, when I had been in the training chamber with Minty. I had barely nicked her and she was put in the hospital wing for weeks.
He lunged again, but I easily dodged his sword and got in several more claw-slashes. I was amazed that he was resisting my natural venom as well as he was, but it was still taking its toll, he was slowing down.
He dropped his sword, which evaporated, and began an unarmed assault. Now, even as fast as I was, I was having difficulty dodging his blows. Then, he finally landed one, then another, and another. He hit me several times and now I was taking the toll, the more damage there is, the harder it would be to regenerate.
When he finally stopped, due to my venom, I was in a bad shape; several broken bones, hundreds of bleeding wounds, and I had lost a finger somewhere.
He suddenly started laughing, I knew something was wrong, he rarely laughed unless definite of something, "What're you laughin' 'bout-" but I never finished, I felt fear in the mind of Minty.
My brother laughed again, "You sense your little mate and your abomination, don'tcha? They're being attacked by Dendrak. You'd better hurry if you wanna try to save them."
I launched myself in the direction that Minty and Mia were in, my power and myself no longer under my control, but being controlled by my panic, my fear, my hatred.
I arrived to see Dendrak approaching Minty, who was bloodied and beaten. I launched myself at Dendrak, knocking him several meters further away from Minty. I rushed over to Minty just as she collapsed. I caught Mia, then her, Mia was fine, but Minty had the stench of disease on her, disease and Dendrak. What was worse was that she was dying.
Again I lost control, my rage and hatred for Dendrak, fueled by blood- lust, caused me to begin an assault. Within moments I had him by the throat, and he was begging for his life.
"I can cure her, I made the disease and I can destroy-" he began.
"LIAR!" I screamed at him, "Liar, I smell the lies in your breath, truly, and I can feel the lie in your mind. You will pay for what you have done, I'm not gonna kill you, though, no that'd be to good for you. I'm gonna make sure that you're in pain for eternity, no, longer than eternity."
I opened my door to my demi-plane, and dragged him in, still holding him by his throat. I hurtled through the corridors for a full half hour before stopping at a large black steel door, studded with black diamonds, and an onyx door knob.
"Here is your eternal prison. The world past this door is one of immortality, of pain, a world of pure suffering."
At that I opened the door. The power of the dimension was strong enough to cause pain even without being inside. I hurled Dendrak in as hard as I could an sent a blast in after him, then I shut the door. I stepped back and destroyed the door, now he would never get out.
Now my thoughts turned to Minty and Mia. I opened the portal and returned to Minty. I held her and Mia tightly and I teleported towards my fathers base. When I arrived I went straight for him.
"Please cure her, I'll do anything, ANYTHING, if you do. Just, please don't let her die," I begged.
My father picked up her limp body and took her over to his scanner. It only took moments to scan her, she had Tritheria Syphis, the most deadly and painful disease in existence. It was also one of the few that there was no cure for.
I fell to my knees at the news, crying, "There must be SOMETHING that you can do? She can't die, she just CAN"T!"
My father looked thoughtful for a moment, "I could cryogenically freeze her, then release her when we find a cure."
"Please do it. Hurry, before she succumbs to death. If she dies, I will follow her across the void and bring her soul back if I have to, I will, and you know it!"
He nodded his head, picked up Minty and walked to the cryogenics room. He gently put her in a cryo-tube, shut and locked it, then activated it.
The last thing I felt from Minty was her crying, then nothing as she was frozen. The nothingness I felt was awful, I had never been alone in my life. I had always been able to sense her, to feel her in and with my mind, but now nothing.
I picked up Mia and took her to my room; I had to feed her by myself now. But, it no longer bothered me, I no longer cared about anything other than Mia, nothing else was important. After she ate, I put her in her crib. It was then that Minty's being gone hit me hard, again. I went into the demi-plane, and came out halfway across the universe. There I let the truth about Minty hit me, and it did, hard. I wailed out in anger, sadness, hatred, depression, rage. My power exploded, decimating the entire galaxy that I was in, and leaving me with no power.
Now all I could do, was wait, wallowing in my sadness, until enough of my power came back to go back home . . .
She uttered a wail of hunger and I took her over to Minty, who began feeding her. She purred as I held her and she fed our little one.
Then, she looked up at me, "What d'ya think we should name'er?"
"How 'bout Mia, after your grandmamma?"
She nodded, "Our little Mia."
Over the next few years, we discovered that Mia aged as slowly as, possibly even slower than, we were now, and that, with a bit of shape shifting, I could feed her as well. It was an odd feeling, not one I particularly enjoy, not like Minty, but it lets Minty rest a bit more as I take up some of the duties.
Despite our little one, we still had an active love life. Minty was amazed that I still found her attractive at all.
Just a few days after we celebrated Mia's fifth birthday (her actual birthday not the birthday of her apparent age) Minty and I decided to take her on a little sightseeing trip. It took a lot of bargaining, but my father allowed me to take a vacation, he only gave me nine days (the tight ass).
We were viewing the system near one of the stars in the Fornax constellation, Minty and Mia had special space re-breathers on, when a familiar voice spoke to us, "Well, well ,well, if it isn't my wimpy-ass brother and his little abomination."
Minty and I turned to see my brother, Coveter he called himself, floating behind us with a huge, apparently handcrafted, sword pointed at us.
"What do YOU want?" I asked, ready to blast his brains out.
"I just wanted to see the abomination that would be my niece," he said as he looked at Mia. "Ew, she really is an abomination, by the gods, Minty, I could have made a much more beautiful child."
I lost my temper, then and there, and summoned my own hand-forged weapon; a battle staff covered in magical runes and markings, and lunged at him. He blocked my advance easily and retaliated by thrusting his sword through my gut.
He yanked it out and blood flew everywhere. I turned to Minty, "GO, GET MIA OUT OF HERE-" but I never finished, for Coveter rammed his blade through my mouth and out the back of my head.
Minty left and I started to pull at my full power. My wounds healed up and I began a new assault with my staff. He stabbed me several more times and he had a few broken bones where I had cracked him with my staff.
Moments later our wounds were gone and we began another assault. It was apparent that I was by far outmatched in melee combat, so I resorted to my magic. I enveloped my staff in demon flames and lunged again.
It took me several advances to finally hit him, but where I did, the bone shattered and burned over, that would take longer to heal. Before he could recover from my attack, I pointed my palm at him and unleashed a scatter- blast. I held the scatter-blast for a full five minutes, and when the light and smoke cleared, Coveter stood there with several holes in his body.
He laughed as they healed over, "Aw, come now my weak little sib, you can do better than that." At that, he lunged and brought his sword down on my head. I brought my staff up just in time, but he shattered it with apparent ease.
I shifted my shape back to my true form, what looked to be a human with huge dragon wings and wicked-looking three inch claws, and lunged at him again. I dodged his slow attacks and brought my claws across his chest, easily slicing through the one-inch-thick titanium vest he wore. Then I slashed again, cutting deep ruts in his flesh.
Suddenly he doubled over, grunting in pain, "What did you do to me?"
"So," I said in a condescending tone, "My 'big' 'strong' brother can't take a little venom?"
I had discovered my venomous claws only recently, when I had been in the training chamber with Minty. I had barely nicked her and she was put in the hospital wing for weeks.
He lunged again, but I easily dodged his sword and got in several more claw-slashes. I was amazed that he was resisting my natural venom as well as he was, but it was still taking its toll, he was slowing down.
He dropped his sword, which evaporated, and began an unarmed assault. Now, even as fast as I was, I was having difficulty dodging his blows. Then, he finally landed one, then another, and another. He hit me several times and now I was taking the toll, the more damage there is, the harder it would be to regenerate.
When he finally stopped, due to my venom, I was in a bad shape; several broken bones, hundreds of bleeding wounds, and I had lost a finger somewhere.
He suddenly started laughing, I knew something was wrong, he rarely laughed unless definite of something, "What're you laughin' 'bout-" but I never finished, I felt fear in the mind of Minty.
My brother laughed again, "You sense your little mate and your abomination, don'tcha? They're being attacked by Dendrak. You'd better hurry if you wanna try to save them."
I launched myself in the direction that Minty and Mia were in, my power and myself no longer under my control, but being controlled by my panic, my fear, my hatred.
I arrived to see Dendrak approaching Minty, who was bloodied and beaten. I launched myself at Dendrak, knocking him several meters further away from Minty. I rushed over to Minty just as she collapsed. I caught Mia, then her, Mia was fine, but Minty had the stench of disease on her, disease and Dendrak. What was worse was that she was dying.
Again I lost control, my rage and hatred for Dendrak, fueled by blood- lust, caused me to begin an assault. Within moments I had him by the throat, and he was begging for his life.
"I can cure her, I made the disease and I can destroy-" he began.
"LIAR!" I screamed at him, "Liar, I smell the lies in your breath, truly, and I can feel the lie in your mind. You will pay for what you have done, I'm not gonna kill you, though, no that'd be to good for you. I'm gonna make sure that you're in pain for eternity, no, longer than eternity."
I opened my door to my demi-plane, and dragged him in, still holding him by his throat. I hurtled through the corridors for a full half hour before stopping at a large black steel door, studded with black diamonds, and an onyx door knob.
"Here is your eternal prison. The world past this door is one of immortality, of pain, a world of pure suffering."
At that I opened the door. The power of the dimension was strong enough to cause pain even without being inside. I hurled Dendrak in as hard as I could an sent a blast in after him, then I shut the door. I stepped back and destroyed the door, now he would never get out.
Now my thoughts turned to Minty and Mia. I opened the portal and returned to Minty. I held her and Mia tightly and I teleported towards my fathers base. When I arrived I went straight for him.
"Please cure her, I'll do anything, ANYTHING, if you do. Just, please don't let her die," I begged.
My father picked up her limp body and took her over to his scanner. It only took moments to scan her, she had Tritheria Syphis, the most deadly and painful disease in existence. It was also one of the few that there was no cure for.
I fell to my knees at the news, crying, "There must be SOMETHING that you can do? She can't die, she just CAN"T!"
My father looked thoughtful for a moment, "I could cryogenically freeze her, then release her when we find a cure."
"Please do it. Hurry, before she succumbs to death. If she dies, I will follow her across the void and bring her soul back if I have to, I will, and you know it!"
He nodded his head, picked up Minty and walked to the cryogenics room. He gently put her in a cryo-tube, shut and locked it, then activated it.
The last thing I felt from Minty was her crying, then nothing as she was frozen. The nothingness I felt was awful, I had never been alone in my life. I had always been able to sense her, to feel her in and with my mind, but now nothing.
I picked up Mia and took her to my room; I had to feed her by myself now. But, it no longer bothered me, I no longer cared about anything other than Mia, nothing else was important. After she ate, I put her in her crib. It was then that Minty's being gone hit me hard, again. I went into the demi-plane, and came out halfway across the universe. There I let the truth about Minty hit me, and it did, hard. I wailed out in anger, sadness, hatred, depression, rage. My power exploded, decimating the entire galaxy that I was in, and leaving me with no power.
Now all I could do, was wait, wallowing in my sadness, until enough of my power came back to go back home . . .