Anasani got out of her bath, dripping with warm water. The dragon shivered from the cold air touching her wet body.
She shook herself off, like a wet dog, and slipped into an outfit very similar to the one she was wearing before.
Anasani looked into the mirror over her dresser, observing her features. She lowered her head and gave her reflection a menacing look.
"You're not going to make your reflection go away by glaring at it, beautiful." Came a a familiar male voice behind her.
Anasani spun around, coming nose to nose with Shendu, his glowing ruby red eyes burning into her.
"What do you want?" She asked him, only semi-harshly.
"You mostly." Shendu said, smirking. "Actually, your father sent me up here to escort you down to dinner."
"Oh really, Shendu?" Anasani said, crossing her arms and raising a spiked eyebrow.
"Yes, really. Now, come on!" He said, grabbing her arm and pulling her out of the room.
The big green dragon stopped pulling on her when the two reached the top of the stairs.
Shendu let go of her and held out his elbow, looking down at her in an expectant manner.
Anasani took his arm, hesitantly, and let him lead them both down the stairs.
Anasani noticed both of the demon families at the bottom of the stairs, the females giggling madly about the grin Shendu had on his face.
The males, from Shendu's family, except for Tso Lan and Hsi Wu, on the other hand, were cat-calling Anasani and it was making her mad. Shendu was getting pretty mad, too, considering he thought she was his and his alone.
Anasani got Shendu to sit down at the dinner table without him trying to kill everyone and sighed, sitting down herself.
Anasani laid her head down on the large table and closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down.
'Man, I hate males!' She thought irritably, reaching up and rubbing her temples.
"Ah, I see you persuaded my daughter to, finally, come down. Thank you Shendu." Shinaso said as he entered the room with Lakanisan, the other demon bretheren's mother.
"Your welcome, sir." Shendu said, taking a sideways glance at Anasani, who growled in reply to her father's words.
"What I want to know is, why are dragons so hot-tempered?" Jade, or Nekana, said as she walked into the room and sat directly beside Anasani, on the opposite side the Shendu was sitting.
"I'm not hot-tempered!" Anasani said, lifting her head and looking at the demon girl.
"No, that's an understatement!" Knacack said as he walked in and sat down opposite Anasani.
Anasani flexed her clawed toes and. . .
"Ow!" Knacack yelled, grabbing his leg, where you could clearly see four claw-marks and blood dripping from them.
"Anasani!" Shinaso said, and Anasani looked at him, trying to look innocent, but failing as her anger tried to push that aside. "What did I tell you about attacking you brother at the dinner table?"
"Don't do it until after dinner when we have time to clean up the blood." Anasani said, looking down and Shinaso shook his head.
"Why do I even bother?" Shinaso asked the air and Lakanisan sighed.
"Just like my children. Always attacking one another." Lakanisan said and Shendu looked at her.
"Not all the time." He said and his mother rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. I just know it happens a lot." She replied and the two parents sat down at the table, followed by the other demon children.
The servants came in and sat different plates of food and stuff on the table, none of it really catching Anasani's great interest. The servants poured the drinks for the demons and they began eating.
Jade ate so much food she thought she was going to explode, and Anasani laughed as her head hit the table.
"You do realize that there's more to come, don't you?" Anasani asked, leaning over to Jade's pointed ear.
"More!" Jade squeaked and all the demons looked at her strangely, and seeing Anasani's smirk, they knew she said something to her.
Anasani went back to finish tearing the meat off a bone and licked her claws when she was finished.
A fork clanged up against a glass and everyone looked at the parents, one of which was standing up. Shinaso was the one standing and he looked pleased with himself.
"I have an announcement to make. We all know how you kids hate to choose anything in life unless it's which kind of food you want. So, I have arranged for a marriage to take place a week from today." The demon father stated and Anasani nearly choked, as did the other demon children.
"Marriage!" Bai Tsa screeched.
"Of who!" Xiao Fung asked, near passing out, dreading his name would be said.
"I was about to explain that, Xiao Fung." Shinaso said, smiling softly.
He, then, looked at each of the other demon children, his own and Lakanisan's. Shinaso was drawing it out, making the tension of the demon children worse.
"It will be between. . .Anasani and Shendu." He, finally, said and Anasani stared at him wide-eyed, opening and closing her mouth like a fish.
Jade burst out laughing at the reaction and so did Hsi Wu, afterward, followed by the other demons.
"This can't be happening!" Anasani screeched and Shendu looked down at her, slightly offended. "You can't do this!"
"Yes, I can, Anasani, and you have no choice. The only way you could possibly get out of it is if Shendu didn't want you, but we all know that is not true." Shinaso stated, sitting back down.
"If you were going to marry someone off, why couldn't have been Nekana to Hsi Wu!" Anasani said and Jade gasped, as did Hsi Wu, at the statement.
"No whining, Anasani. Our minds are made up." Shinaso replied, taking a drink.
"You mean she was in on it, too!" Anasani screeched.
"Yes, dear. We both know that you and Shendu are right for each other, whether you see it or not." Lakanisan told the hysterical dragon.
"The only reason she's arguing is because she loves to aruge and talk back, and it's always a bonus that she doesn't want to reveal how she truly feels about Shendu." Tsa Nei said, matter-of-factly, taking a bite of meat off his fork.
Anasani bared her fangs and perched herself on the chair she was originally sitting in. She growled at the ice demon and he just smirked at her.
Anasani's tail whipped around furiously behind her and she pounced on her older brother, making the both of them fall to the ground.
Tsa Nei used nearly all the energy and strength he had trying to kept the temperamental dragon away from his throat and face. Her fangs were coming dangerously close.
Suddenly, a surge of water hit Anasani in the side and she flew off her brother and hit the floor. Anasani groaned and spat out a bit of the heated water that had come in contact with the inside of her mouth.
The dragon was picked up and carried to her room, where she was placed in bed, but was asleep before she got there.