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Xelloss didn't get nervous often, but he was nervous now. He appeared on one knee once again before his mistress, his head bowed, and he had remained this way for a good five minutes, not daring to look up at the Beastmaster. She seemed to be considering him....or more considering what to do with him. He had never disobeyed her before and had no idea what to expect. He was made even more unnerved when Snow, the white wolf, lifted her head as if to come and sit by him as she often did, but then a few of the other Royal Pack growled warning at her and she remained in her place. Finally, Xellas spoke, "You have disobeyed me, Juu Jinkan."

Xelloss felt his heart skip a beat, she had never called him that before, "I did."

"Do you care to explain yourself?" she snapped.

"I..." Xelloss was not prepared to tell his mistress he was in love with a golden dragon... especially in front of the entire Royal Pack. "I didn't think..."

"No, you didn't think, did you?!" Xellas shouted, she was having a hard time coping with the fact that Xelloss - her Xelloss - had disobeyed. "You acted like a first spring pup! Distracted by butterflies and now finding yourself with nothing to eat!"

Finding himself at a loss for words, a feeling very much the pup she had called him all he could do was whimper his apologies.

The leader male of the Royal Pack, a large black wolf with startling red feathers mixed in with his black wings, laughed, " And he apologizes as a pup as well!"

Xelloss lifted his sharp amethyst eyes, which didn't look in anyway puppy-ish to the offending wolf and growled deep in his throat, not a human sound at all, "You are beneath me! You will not mock me."

"Beneath you?" the wolf, Blood Wing, asked condescendingly. "I do not heed to a dragon. You should have cut her throat and spilled the cunt's self-righteous blood all over the dirt, where it belongs"

Xelloss's eyes flashed and in the next instant a large violet wolf was on top of Blood Wing, poised to rip out his throat.

"That is quite enough, pups!" Xellas said, acid clinging to her words. Xelloss backed away from Blood Wing and returned to his human form. Xellas looked at the Royal Pack, "All of you, leave us." They might have argued if they could not sense her anger. The wolves sulked out, all but Snow. She stopped at the door and turned around. She took her seat by Xelloss and looked defiantly up at Xellas. Xelloss was grateful that she would stand up for him, but new it was not a good idea. He petted the wolf and whispered in her ear, "Thank you, Dear Heart, but you should leave, as well. This is not a good time to be rebellious." The young wolf obeyed and walked out. Another silent minute stretched between Mistress and Servant.

"Well?" Xellas inquired. "Why didn't you do as I asked?"

"He is reborn a full dragon, Mistress. You would have to kill him again, and he would have to be willing. You cannot guarantee that he will be. It might be just the waste of life," Xelloss knew this feeble excuse wouldn't get him far, but what he said was true. And as a wolf, mistress of living beasts, she knew better than to throw away a life, no matter how insignificant it seemed. This was wolf law.

"If he came to live here, if he was raised here, you do not think he would be willing?"

"I...I don't know," Xelloss wondered what he would do if he was given the choice to either kill Filia or be killed himself, with the knowledge that someone else would kill the golden.

"I watched you," Xellas said. "You went there with the intention to carry out your orders. What made you escapable to do so?"

"I'm not sure, mistress," Xelloss stuttered. He wasn't exactly sure why he couldn't, either. It was just...Filia. He couldn't hurt her.

"Well, I think I've come up with a solution that will be more beneficial to me anyway," Xellas grinned maliciously and ended the discussion before they hit the sensitive spot concerning that fact that he may actually be in love with the dragon.

"Oh?" Xelloss said, slightly worried. His mistress had that look she got whenever she was about to have someone do something that she would find entertaining, but that the minion would probably not.

"You see, the ancient dragons didn't use white magic, and though a creature with both dragon and mazoku powers would be quite powerful... What I would really like is a someone who can fuse white and black magic," Xellas stated matter-of-factly, all the while her grin spreading into a predatory smile.

"And how do you plan to do this, mistress, if I may ask?"

"It really so simple, I'm surprized no one's thought of it," she sounded far to chipper. "All you would have to do is breed a mazoku and a dragon... of course it may not work the first time or two, allowing that one's characteristics might over shadow the other's, but..."

Xelloss didn't hear anymore of what his mistress was saying, shock and utter disbelief can do that to a person, you know. He stood there with the dread of someone that has seen a death omen. Oh, gods, this would never work.

"Don't you think that it's strange no one has thought of it before, Xelloss-chan?" Xellas smiled.

"Uh...well, dragons and mazoku don't really get along mistress," Xelloss said feebly.

"Which is why I'm going to give you a generous amount of time to see if you can get the dragon to return your feelings and say she'll marry you," Xellas chuckled again. "You have one month."

"You have a very warped sense of generosity, mistress," Xelloss gulped.

"Oh, don't sell yourself short, my priest. You can be awfully charming, when you want to be," she winked at him.

"And you think Filia will let me just give her child away?"

"You mean, of course to say 'our' not 'her'," Xellas was finding this all too funny.

"Uh, yeah... our."

"No, or course not. I'll let you raise them and then they can come work for me."

"Oh, yeah, Filia's just going to hop right on board with that one," Xelloss muttered.

"Well, I'll want to see them while they're growing up - you can tell the dragon I won't try to corrupt them or anything," Xellas giggled. "I just think they'd want to."

"Yeah...Wait - Why do you keep saying 'they'...?" Xelloss asked suspiciously. Xellas only laughed again. "Mistress, I can't just... I mean - seducing her(or trying to) just to make-er-get-whatever a minion for you...it-"

"Look, Xelloss, for some reason beyond my comprehension you obviously care for this dragon. Wouldn't you have tried to get with her anyway? If it turns out that none of your offspring want to follow in your footsteps, just make sure they don't want to kill us, either, okay?" Xellas sounded exasperated and annoyed. She wasn't going to get her way, because her idiot servant had fallen in love with a dragon...what was the world coming to?

"Yes, mistress," Xelloss said, then added, "And if I can't even get her to...marry me?"

"That's a secret," she mocked. "But I promise you won't like it. Now you better hurry...the clock is ticking. Thirty days."

With that Xelloss disappeared.

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Outside of Xellas's thrown room, Snow, the white wolf, sat in disarray. How could her Xelloss love a dragon?! She couldn't let this happen. She couldn't and she wouldn't. And she disappeared too.

RaeTWG: Another fun chapter another fun job for Xelloss. Sorry that one was short but, I'll post soon, I promise. -.^ What will happen next? lol