OH YEA! Finally the flashback/dream chapter!! XD
Hum.. I didn't really liked chapter14, so I hope this one'll be better...
The Bug. Chapter 15.
[Narrator's PoV]
Peorth landed on a blood red cushion. 'Where the hell...?' She thought as she looked around. Judging by the brick walls and the medieval decoration, she seemed to be in a particulary large room of a castle... a bed room to be more precise.
She heard laughs coming from the door. "Slow down, honey." A woman said laughingly.
"Faster, faster!!" A child yelled. The door swung opened and Peorth reflexively hid behind the bed. 'Oh yeah, they can't see me.' She got up, walked to a chair, and sat down to observe the scene.
A little girl about four years old ran around the room and began jumping on the bed. "Where, where?!?!" She laughed looking around the room. 'Urd?' Peorth recognized the small girl. 'I've never seen her that young... that was even before she began her visits to the heavens to see her sisters.... Skuld wasn't even born at that time...'
"Stop jumping around and be still." The woman laughed, entering the scene. 'Hild?!!?' The queen of Hell looked around perplexed. "She's supposed to be here.... where is she?" She started looking around the room.
"YAY!! Hide and seek!!" Urd started looking around the room too. Finally, she flung the curtains open. "I found you!!!" She squealed.
A blond girl had been hidding behind them. Peorth looked at the small girl. 'That's Mara...' Then she noted the child had a black, leather neckband with a small silver and gold lock hanging from it. Her eyes widened. 'She's wearing a binding collar?!?'
Mara was obviously scared since her whole body was trembeling. Urd observed the little girl closely. "Wow!! Your eyes are RED!!!" The demon nodded. "What's your name?" Urd asked.
"I'm..." Mara glanced at Hild who glared at her but motionned to go on. "I'm Mara, your highness."
"I'm Urd!" She took Mara's hand. "Let's go and play!!!"
Mara recluantly nodded. But before they exited, Urd ran to her mother. "Thanks mom, you're the best!!!" She hugged her then ran out.
The memory stoped playing and switched to another.
Thunder rolled in the background and heavy rain was falling on the two kid as they ran for cover. They made it to a huge tree and sat down under it. Urd, who looked about eight, curled in a ball.
"You shouldn't be afraid of thunder, it can't hurt you, you know...." Mara sighed.
"But it's scary!" She burried her head in her hands, trembeling.
Peorth snickered. 'So Urd was afraid of thunder?' She took a mental note to tease her about it.
"Is it?" Mara asked septicaly. Urd nodded and hesitantly rested her head on her friend's shoulder. She started to play with the small lock hanging from Mara's neck.
"What if I die, now?" She asked.
The demon straightened. "You won't die. And if you *were* in danger, then I'm here and I'd protect you with my life." She stated firmly.
Urd sighed. "I know that. But would you still protect me if you weren't forced?"
"Even if I wasn't what I am, I'd choose to protect you."
She looked up at Mara. "Really?"
She nodded. "If you die..... Then I'd die. "
Urd smiled. "And if you die, I die."
Mara shook her head. "You can't die with me. You have to succeed to your mother."
Urd frowned. "I don't care about mom. I like you better."
It was Mara's turn to frown. "You shouldn't."
Urd glared at her, but then her eyes softened quickly. She took Mara's hand. "I know that I'd die without you. I would be too sad to keep on." She spoke softly.
Mara squeezed her hand a little. "Then let's not die. Neither of us." She smiled.
"But what if...." Urd began but was cut off by Mara.
"*IF* that happens... then, we'll go together." She said quietly. Urd simply nodded and rested her head back on Mara's shoulder.
Peorth sighed but smiled. 'How sickeningly cute...'
There was another lapsus as the scene changed once again. They seemed to be about sixteen, now.
Urd was lying in the grass, near the same tree they had climbed in the last souvenir, she was on her stomach and her head rested in her right hand. Her straight hair was shoulder lenght and with her left hand, she was playing with a short strand. She was reading a book.
Peorth sat under the tree, observing the soon to be goddess. 'She made her choice when she was about that old.... She looks gorgeous, even that young...' She then looked around to try and find the demon. She was nowhere to be seen. 'Strange..'
Mara dropped herself from the twing she had been sitting on and landed silently on the ground. Peorth nearly had a heart attack when the demon passed through her, but quickly took a hold of herself. 'What the??' She looked up, from where Mara came. 'She was up there? There's no way... with a fall like that, she should've broke both of her legs. And she can't fly or anything, doesn't have powers yet...' Peorth observed Mara, fear begining to build in her. 'What is she?'
Unknown to Urd, Mara aproached and heavily let herself fall on the girl's back, knocking the air out of her.
"Get off me!" Urd cried playfully.
"No way." Mara smirked as she sat on Urd's back and started ruffling her friend's hair.
"No way, huh?" Urd repeated closing her book. She unsuccesfuly tried to wrestle Mara off her and ended up with her friend sitting on her stomach instead of her back. "Get off me, you moron!" She laughed.
"Nope." Mara stuck out her tongue. "I like having you between my thighs." She grinned.
Urd blushed. "Don't say things like that."
"Why? It's true, you know." Mara grinned even more. "Urd, my love! Give in to your lust and take me!" She spread her arms dramatically wide, embraced herself and moaned deeply.
Urd sighed but her cheeks burned more and more. "Oh, please..." She tried to get up but Mara pushed her back on the ground and kept her hands on Urd's shoulders. "Let me go, stupid!" She tried to glare at her. But she felt herself melt as her friend caressed her cheek.
Mara bent over. "I know you love it when I'm on top." She pressed her body against Urd's, she was now lying on top of her. Urd reddened even more. "Red suits you." Mara's grin widened as their noses touched.
Urd gulped. "S...stop it." She whispered, witout conviction in her voice.
"You don't seem real sure you want me to stop..." Mara whispered back, a mischievous smile playing on her lips.
Urd didn't answered.
Peorth observed the scene. 'Mara's obviously playing around. But Urd.... Urd's in love with her.' The goddess bit her lip. 'She couldn't have loved Mara for that long, could she?....' Peorth scrarched her head, replaying in her head all the events staring from the day Mara came and cathed the bug. 'Okay, she did loved her for that long. It just took a hell of a long time for her to admit it to herself.'
Urd closed her eyes, sighed and pinched Mara's butt.
Mara shot up, taken aback, and Urd took the oportunity to push her off.
"Damit, that was unfair!!" She giggled, rubbing the sore spot.
"Unfair?" Urd snorted. "I had to do it, who knows what you could've done..." She blushed.
Mara raised her eyebrows. "You say that as if you didn't liked it."
"I didn't!!" Urd cried.
"Liar!" Mara kept giggling. "Look, your nipples are hard." She pointed at the girl's chest.
Urd folded her arms over her breasts. "Pfft, nonsense."
Mara laughed harder. When she calmed herself, she looked back at her friend, whipping away the tears. "You can't deny it, you know. You're damn horny, I can *smell* it."
Urd immediately realised what Mara meant. "Argh! Damn you and your stupid dog senses!" She got up, red beyond what she could've tought possible.
The demon kept grinning as she threw herself at her friend again, making her fall back to the ground. "Leaving, already?" She pinned Urd's hands right above her head, using only one hand. "Hehe. I'm stronger."
Urd struggled to get free, but to no avail. Mara held her there without effort. "Well, that's because you're fat." She stuck out her tongue.
Peorth sweat dropped. 'I don't think that's the reason... With that strenght she's can't be a demon, there's just no way. She's got to be something else... That would explain the collar.'
"Hey, I'm not!!" Mara released her, chuckling.
"Of course you're not!!" Urd finaly laughed, she sat up.
They stayed silent for a bit, looking up at the sky. But Urd's eyes quickly found their way to Mara's neck. "The collar dosen't bother you, sometimes?" She wondered aloud.
"It's binding me to you, how could it bother me?" She answered absently, still observing the blue sky.
Urd shook her head. "Stop it, already... I meant, seriously.... "
Mara turned and looked staight into the other girl's eyes. "I am serious."
Urd held her stare, searching for any sings that she was joking, but ended up concluding that for once, Mara was being serious. Urd smiled softly. "Don't you feel like.... a pet or something?"
Mara shrugged. "Yea, sometimes... but you know what I am, heh?"
Urd nodded and observed the demon's features. Her eyes lingered on the small fangs that that could be seen at the corner of her mouth. It was one of the only thing that differencied her from the demons. She looked back up at Mara's blood red eyes. "But it's not fair... you should be free too."
Mara shook her head again. "I don't want to be free as long as I'm with you."
Urd blushed. "You sound like you're my girlfriend."
Mara laughed. "Like you don't like me back?" She teased.
"Of course I do. You're my best friend." She answered, lying down to rest her head in Mara's lap.
They stayed silent for sometime before something came back to Mara. "What was it you were reading?"
Urd sighed. "I was looking up to find a job I'd like to do. We need to start our training soon..."
Mara chuckled. "YOU have to start YOUR training soon." She corrected her. "I can't get a job."
Urd nodded. "I always forget about that." She closed her eyes. ".... Do you remember the promise we made, years ago?"
"Of course." The girl answered softly. "What about it?"
Urd shook her head. "No.... nothing...."
The demon frowned, but soon her grin returned and she pushed Urd off her.
"Hey!!" Urd scowled at her as Mara got up.
She walked to the book and picked it up. "Now let's look for a job a lazy ass like you could do."
Peorth's eyes saddened. 'Mara didn't knew Urd's gonna choose to be a goddess.'
The scene then jumped to another one.
The road to the heavens was open and the two of them were standing in front of it. Peorth gulped, aware of what was about to happen and fearing the sight of a heartbreaking scene. Still, she walked up to them to hear what seemed like the end of their conversation.
"Why?" Mara asked, crying.
"Because... because... " Urd looked at the ground, not sure how to answer. She raised her hand and a key materialized in it.
Peorth gasped, knowing full well what it was. 'She didn't....' She brought a hand to her mouth as tears began building in her eyes. 'How could she do that to her best friend?'
Urd walked to her friend and unlocked the collar, letting it fall on the ground. "I'll be going, now." She walked to the path of light and didn't turned back when she whispered "Goodbye."
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to be continued...
The Bug. Chapter 15.
[Narrator's PoV]
Peorth landed on a blood red cushion. 'Where the hell...?' She thought as she looked around. Judging by the brick walls and the medieval decoration, she seemed to be in a particulary large room of a castle... a bed room to be more precise.
She heard laughs coming from the door. "Slow down, honey." A woman said laughingly.
"Faster, faster!!" A child yelled. The door swung opened and Peorth reflexively hid behind the bed. 'Oh yeah, they can't see me.' She got up, walked to a chair, and sat down to observe the scene.
A little girl about four years old ran around the room and began jumping on the bed. "Where, where?!?!" She laughed looking around the room. 'Urd?' Peorth recognized the small girl. 'I've never seen her that young... that was even before she began her visits to the heavens to see her sisters.... Skuld wasn't even born at that time...'
"Stop jumping around and be still." The woman laughed, entering the scene. 'Hild?!!?' The queen of Hell looked around perplexed. "She's supposed to be here.... where is she?" She started looking around the room.
"YAY!! Hide and seek!!" Urd started looking around the room too. Finally, she flung the curtains open. "I found you!!!" She squealed.
A blond girl had been hidding behind them. Peorth looked at the small girl. 'That's Mara...' Then she noted the child had a black, leather neckband with a small silver and gold lock hanging from it. Her eyes widened. 'She's wearing a binding collar?!?'
Mara was obviously scared since her whole body was trembeling. Urd observed the little girl closely. "Wow!! Your eyes are RED!!!" The demon nodded. "What's your name?" Urd asked.
"I'm..." Mara glanced at Hild who glared at her but motionned to go on. "I'm Mara, your highness."
"I'm Urd!" She took Mara's hand. "Let's go and play!!!"
Mara recluantly nodded. But before they exited, Urd ran to her mother. "Thanks mom, you're the best!!!" She hugged her then ran out.
The memory stoped playing and switched to another.
Thunder rolled in the background and heavy rain was falling on the two kid as they ran for cover. They made it to a huge tree and sat down under it. Urd, who looked about eight, curled in a ball.
"You shouldn't be afraid of thunder, it can't hurt you, you know...." Mara sighed.
"But it's scary!" She burried her head in her hands, trembeling.
Peorth snickered. 'So Urd was afraid of thunder?' She took a mental note to tease her about it.
"Is it?" Mara asked septicaly. Urd nodded and hesitantly rested her head on her friend's shoulder. She started to play with the small lock hanging from Mara's neck.
"What if I die, now?" She asked.
The demon straightened. "You won't die. And if you *were* in danger, then I'm here and I'd protect you with my life." She stated firmly.
Urd sighed. "I know that. But would you still protect me if you weren't forced?"
"Even if I wasn't what I am, I'd choose to protect you."
She looked up at Mara. "Really?"
She nodded. "If you die..... Then I'd die. "
Urd smiled. "And if you die, I die."
Mara shook her head. "You can't die with me. You have to succeed to your mother."
Urd frowned. "I don't care about mom. I like you better."
It was Mara's turn to frown. "You shouldn't."
Urd glared at her, but then her eyes softened quickly. She took Mara's hand. "I know that I'd die without you. I would be too sad to keep on." She spoke softly.
Mara squeezed her hand a little. "Then let's not die. Neither of us." She smiled.
"But what if...." Urd began but was cut off by Mara.
"*IF* that happens... then, we'll go together." She said quietly. Urd simply nodded and rested her head back on Mara's shoulder.
Peorth sighed but smiled. 'How sickeningly cute...'
There was another lapsus as the scene changed once again. They seemed to be about sixteen, now.
Urd was lying in the grass, near the same tree they had climbed in the last souvenir, she was on her stomach and her head rested in her right hand. Her straight hair was shoulder lenght and with her left hand, she was playing with a short strand. She was reading a book.
Peorth sat under the tree, observing the soon to be goddess. 'She made her choice when she was about that old.... She looks gorgeous, even that young...' She then looked around to try and find the demon. She was nowhere to be seen. 'Strange..'
Mara dropped herself from the twing she had been sitting on and landed silently on the ground. Peorth nearly had a heart attack when the demon passed through her, but quickly took a hold of herself. 'What the??' She looked up, from where Mara came. 'She was up there? There's no way... with a fall like that, she should've broke both of her legs. And she can't fly or anything, doesn't have powers yet...' Peorth observed Mara, fear begining to build in her. 'What is she?'
Unknown to Urd, Mara aproached and heavily let herself fall on the girl's back, knocking the air out of her.
"Get off me!" Urd cried playfully.
"No way." Mara smirked as she sat on Urd's back and started ruffling her friend's hair.
"No way, huh?" Urd repeated closing her book. She unsuccesfuly tried to wrestle Mara off her and ended up with her friend sitting on her stomach instead of her back. "Get off me, you moron!" She laughed.
"Nope." Mara stuck out her tongue. "I like having you between my thighs." She grinned.
Urd blushed. "Don't say things like that."
"Why? It's true, you know." Mara grinned even more. "Urd, my love! Give in to your lust and take me!" She spread her arms dramatically wide, embraced herself and moaned deeply.
Urd sighed but her cheeks burned more and more. "Oh, please..." She tried to get up but Mara pushed her back on the ground and kept her hands on Urd's shoulders. "Let me go, stupid!" She tried to glare at her. But she felt herself melt as her friend caressed her cheek.
Mara bent over. "I know you love it when I'm on top." She pressed her body against Urd's, she was now lying on top of her. Urd reddened even more. "Red suits you." Mara's grin widened as their noses touched.
Urd gulped. "S...stop it." She whispered, witout conviction in her voice.
"You don't seem real sure you want me to stop..." Mara whispered back, a mischievous smile playing on her lips.
Urd didn't answered.
Peorth observed the scene. 'Mara's obviously playing around. But Urd.... Urd's in love with her.' The goddess bit her lip. 'She couldn't have loved Mara for that long, could she?....' Peorth scrarched her head, replaying in her head all the events staring from the day Mara came and cathed the bug. 'Okay, she did loved her for that long. It just took a hell of a long time for her to admit it to herself.'
Urd closed her eyes, sighed and pinched Mara's butt.
Mara shot up, taken aback, and Urd took the oportunity to push her off.
"Damit, that was unfair!!" She giggled, rubbing the sore spot.
"Unfair?" Urd snorted. "I had to do it, who knows what you could've done..." She blushed.
Mara raised her eyebrows. "You say that as if you didn't liked it."
"I didn't!!" Urd cried.
"Liar!" Mara kept giggling. "Look, your nipples are hard." She pointed at the girl's chest.
Urd folded her arms over her breasts. "Pfft, nonsense."
Mara laughed harder. When she calmed herself, she looked back at her friend, whipping away the tears. "You can't deny it, you know. You're damn horny, I can *smell* it."
Urd immediately realised what Mara meant. "Argh! Damn you and your stupid dog senses!" She got up, red beyond what she could've tought possible.
The demon kept grinning as she threw herself at her friend again, making her fall back to the ground. "Leaving, already?" She pinned Urd's hands right above her head, using only one hand. "Hehe. I'm stronger."
Urd struggled to get free, but to no avail. Mara held her there without effort. "Well, that's because you're fat." She stuck out her tongue.
Peorth sweat dropped. 'I don't think that's the reason... With that strenght she's can't be a demon, there's just no way. She's got to be something else... That would explain the collar.'
"Hey, I'm not!!" Mara released her, chuckling.
"Of course you're not!!" Urd finaly laughed, she sat up.
They stayed silent for a bit, looking up at the sky. But Urd's eyes quickly found their way to Mara's neck. "The collar dosen't bother you, sometimes?" She wondered aloud.
"It's binding me to you, how could it bother me?" She answered absently, still observing the blue sky.
Urd shook her head. "Stop it, already... I meant, seriously.... "
Mara turned and looked staight into the other girl's eyes. "I am serious."
Urd held her stare, searching for any sings that she was joking, but ended up concluding that for once, Mara was being serious. Urd smiled softly. "Don't you feel like.... a pet or something?"
Mara shrugged. "Yea, sometimes... but you know what I am, heh?"
Urd nodded and observed the demon's features. Her eyes lingered on the small fangs that that could be seen at the corner of her mouth. It was one of the only thing that differencied her from the demons. She looked back up at Mara's blood red eyes. "But it's not fair... you should be free too."
Mara shook her head again. "I don't want to be free as long as I'm with you."
Urd blushed. "You sound like you're my girlfriend."
Mara laughed. "Like you don't like me back?" She teased.
"Of course I do. You're my best friend." She answered, lying down to rest her head in Mara's lap.
They stayed silent for sometime before something came back to Mara. "What was it you were reading?"
Urd sighed. "I was looking up to find a job I'd like to do. We need to start our training soon..."
Mara chuckled. "YOU have to start YOUR training soon." She corrected her. "I can't get a job."
Urd nodded. "I always forget about that." She closed her eyes. ".... Do you remember the promise we made, years ago?"
"Of course." The girl answered softly. "What about it?"
Urd shook her head. "No.... nothing...."
The demon frowned, but soon her grin returned and she pushed Urd off her.
"Hey!!" Urd scowled at her as Mara got up.
She walked to the book and picked it up. "Now let's look for a job a lazy ass like you could do."
Peorth's eyes saddened. 'Mara didn't knew Urd's gonna choose to be a goddess.'
The scene then jumped to another one.
The road to the heavens was open and the two of them were standing in front of it. Peorth gulped, aware of what was about to happen and fearing the sight of a heartbreaking scene. Still, she walked up to them to hear what seemed like the end of their conversation.
"Why?" Mara asked, crying.
"Because... because... " Urd looked at the ground, not sure how to answer. She raised her hand and a key materialized in it.
Peorth gasped, knowing full well what it was. 'She didn't....' She brought a hand to her mouth as tears began building in her eyes. 'How could she do that to her best friend?'
Urd walked to her friend and unlocked the collar, letting it fall on the ground. "I'll be going, now." She walked to the path of light and didn't turned back when she whispered "Goodbye."
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to be continued...